June 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- the Big DC military parade...
- CA Governor Gavin Newsom has his moment...
- A Bingo Bango Bongo of stories.
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, I'm Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Getty and he I'm strong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
From the National Mall here in Washington, d C. And
a big event happening here on Saturday, the White House
not too far from where I'm standing. Lots of preparations
already in place for this big celebration to mark the
occasion celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the US Army.
Organizers say hundreds of thousands of people can attend this parade,
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and we'll see tanks rolling through the streets near the
White House and aircraft flying overhead. Thousands of troops as well,
roughly sixty six hundred will also take part in this
big military display marking the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
which also falls on President Trump's birthday as well.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Wow, I didn't realize that that more helps justify it
more the fact that it's the Army's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. But let's roll on with another report about
the big military parade that Trump's going to have.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
The President has longed for this parade, a show of
military might like he's seen from other countries. Sources toel
ABC News, mounted rocket launchers will be on display, as
well as a precision guided missile. This in addition to
those tanks and an assortment of fighting vehicles, the event
will also feature sixty seven hundred soldiers and a fifty
aircraft flyover. Trump getting a bit of a preview today
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in a visit to Fort Bragg. Saturday is going to
be a big day in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know, a lot of people said, we don't want
to do that, as ao we do. We want to
show off a little bit.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
The parade, which is built as a celebration of the
Army's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, also falls on Trump's
seventy ninth birthday. Sources tell us it could cost up
to forty five million.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Dollars whatever it could thrown in the cost like, that's
what bothers you now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
A Democratic reporter at is a fiscal conservative welcome.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
NPR had a surprisingly even handed report on this earlier today.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'll talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But Rand Paul was the first Senate Republican to criticize
Trump's upcoming military parade. If you'll remember, Trump wanted to
do a parade like this back in his first term,
but sect deaf mad Dog Mattis talked him out of it,
saying basically what Rand Paul says here, I wouldn't have
done it. I'm not sure what the actual expense of
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it is. But we're always different than you know, the
images that you sawved the Soviet Union in North Korea.
We were proud not to be that. That was the
argument of mad Dog Mattis. We don't do what the
Soviet Union in North Korea and China do, you know,
kind of in a threatening sort of way with our
missiles in the rolling through the street and that sort
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of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Legions of goose stepping soldiers. Sure right now.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Like the NPR version of it that I heard, which
I thought was kind of interesting, was you know, maybe
seeing all the army and cool equipment is a helps recruit.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, from that standpoint, maybe that could be good.
You could make that argument.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And also reporters said, and this is true because I
think I lean against the idea of having a Soviet
style showing off our wares in the street thing. I'm
not hardcore on this. But if I was in charge,
i'd say no rather than yes.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But dud lost my vote. Do we with your blather?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Do we not?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
For instance, at the super Bowl have stealth bombers fly
over and everybody gets excited about that and thinks is
cool af right? What's the different the stealth bomber flying
over the super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Look at the coolest plane on earth that we happen
to have world?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I would say the whole Soviet style dot dot
dot is an interesting point. That is not the devastating argument.
I think some people think it is, and my reaction
to it is, and I am sensitive to that idea.
I'm not ignoring it. But the more I think about it, Hey,
it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary or birthday of the Army.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, I think that's a convenient excuse because he wanted
to do it first term, and now he's got okay,
this will be a good reason, and he'd put it
on his birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, but you know, Trump, Trump is Trump. What his
motivation is really, that can't be the deciding factor either.
What I'm picturing is the unbelievable men and women of
our armed forces are mind boggling. Technology are crazy cool machines,
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are fantastic planes, your tax dollars, the armed forces of
the United States getting the spotlight for a minute. I
don't have any problem with that. Well, you saw goose
stepping soldiers. Not really.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You said it's not a devastating argument, But apparently it
was a devastating enough argument for Ronald Reagan not to
feel like he wanted to do it in the height
of the Cold War for eight years, or Nixon or
whoever else was president all these years, because we've never
done it other than thirty years ago after we won
the Gulf War, we did it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I fully admit I might be argued off this point
of view because I haven't thought about it a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But I'm like fifty three forty seven on this. Though
I'm not hardcore, it doesn't really bother me. I'm not
going to lose any sleepover it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I also think we are living in a time where
a huge percentage, a shocking percentage of young people say no,
it's not worth fighting for your country. There's no point.
It's pretty good the army is invisible to so many
people because it's a very narrow percentage of a Americans
that are military families. I just I like the idea
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of proud, shiny, impressive being in front of the American people.
And if there are things we can do now, Trump
I'm sure would like full on missile as substitute for
Penis Freudian, North Korean, you know, displays of look how
tough we are. I get that that's maybe his point
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of view.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Is like the hundred and first Airborne gonna march past
the Trump turn turn their heads toward him and salute,
and then he salutes them like they.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Do in Kim Jong Lun.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's entirely possible that would at least be requested. But
the Marine band, for God's sake, some of the musical groups,
you know, the Army band for that matter. Just I
would actually a lot to like in the idea.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I would actually like to hear more about why we
haven't done it in the past.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know, you want to know what kind of guy.
When you said tanks rolling by, I thought, oh my god,
what's that going to do to the pavement?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
A lot of people have thought practical man.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, and that's a lot of the costs that they're
discussing is it will absolutely destroy the road.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
They'll have to repave it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But I mean, good God, with the amount of money
we spend, that shouldn't be part of the discussion on this.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And then the secret plan is to roll all those
tanks into Fairfax County and take over the schools where
they're indoctrinating the kids into Marxism and sexual perversion. Why fantasy?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Why didn't we do it at the height of the
Cold War, when every year they would parade their best
missiles through Red Square in front of whoever the current
alive leader the Communist Party was.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, barely alive. I did not know Ronald Reagan, but
I suspect very strongly his answer would be, I prefer
to speak softly and carry an unimaginably large stick, right.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
We're we were wanting to win the world with our ideas.
The rockets are a last resort.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I also think it's a principle that I've learned through life,
where you got a handful of guys playing the tough
guy in a bar, you know, chesting up. You want
to bring it you on, piece of me, you want
a piece of me, And the guy who's just looking
with a calm smile on his face, got nothing to say,
not posturing at all. That's the guy you gotta watch.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I like that vibe. As the United States of America.
I think that's a pretty cool vibe. Yeah, we don't
need to we don't need to show you our rockets.
I mean, it's like when when Matt Doug Mattis would
be asking, you know what keeps you up at night?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Nothing? I keep other people up at night. You know,
just that sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Addit of that Yeah, tough guy. Well you want to
talk about a guy who's not a tough one.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, I just I don't think that lands the way
he thinks it lands.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, that's that's why it's so enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So Gavin, what's our favorite Gavin Newsom? The little Gavin Newsom?
This is from his speech last night, that that little clip, Michael.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Gavin Newsom gave a speech last night. It was clearly
his biggest effort yet. I mean you could call that
the opening salvo of running for president. I mean it wash,
it looked great, well lit, hair was perfect and grayer
than I've ever seen it. That's not an accident. See,
either it's either that gray and he's been dying it
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or he grated.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't know which. Sometimes politicians do both.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In the care of carefully written teleprompter speech.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, with the US flag behind him, and it just
had a very presidential look to it. And then he
was trying to make the point that whatever everything we
had feared Trump making the authoritarian turn has happened, We're
now living in a in a Nazi healscape.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He didn't, he didn't say that, but that's what he
was a plant.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh, by the way, on the round, self think doesn't
seem very Nazi. Hills goes on with Day on the whole,
on the whole, opening salvo of the presidential election for Democrats,
Mark Alpern was pointing this out about uh Ram Emmanuel.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Ram Emmanuel, who's got such game. I just saw him
on CNN this morning. He's so freaking good. I mean,
as a Democrat, he'd be my guy. But so he
is making the rounds and doing a number of podcasts.
He's the opposite of Gavin Newsom. He didn't hire anybody
or put any thought into how it looked. He's in
a room with completely bare bookshelves, like are you did
(10:38):
you move out?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Or are you a squat in someplace?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
He's in this room with bare bookshelves, poorly lit, camera
down low, looking up his nostrils, wearing a full set
of headphones so he can hear the podcaster as opposed
to like an earpiece with your head turned or something.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And I mean it was the opposite of Kevin's.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like Mark Calprin could not believe that he didn't have
a team that got him a better look than that
for kind of his debut on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
As part of the conversation for being the nominee.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, every sixteen year old with an Instagram account does
better than that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh yeah, absolutely it was weak man. Wow, you know
that really bad room lighting.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Where you're all washed out and the camera from below
and then shooting up your nose.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Just empty shelves and an empty desk.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Find him like he you know, had run into a
hallway to take the zoom call, which it looks like
he probably.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Did, right. Yeah, that is funny, he laughed.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Laugh. This is the question of the day. Did Gavin
Gray his air? Did he have it professionally grade? No,
his advisors just told him to ease up on the show.
So you think he eased up on dying. He was
dyeing his hair and then is eased up on that.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Wow, oh some men, you used to soften the gray,
You monster, your cube ball headed, judgmental monster.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
This moment we have feared has arrived, arrived.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Good Lord, Nazi hellscape, stay June.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh, shut up. Some entertainment news.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I've read that CNN's live airing of George Clooney's good
Night and good Luck pulled it over seven million viewers.
It's odd people will watch a play about the news
on CNN, but they won't watch the news on CNN.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
CNN in our joke, CNN is.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Going to try to recapture the magic next weekend by
airing a live production of Annie starring Wolf Blitzer.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He why is that funny? That's funny?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
CNN aired a live Broadway play and got higher ratings
than any of their news shows that had to get
the attention of somebody thinking what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They're going to have to go the way of like
the History Channel and the Learning Channel, which went from
their core MTV went from doing what it did to
just shows about pregnant teens and dwarfs and hoarders and
pregnant dwarf for.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The Learning Channel went away from here's how electricity works
to my six hundred pound life as soon as they
got my ratings.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, speaking at TV shows, I thought you might
want to comment on this, Jack. I found it interesting.
I was reading something that who what's this guy's name?
I like his writing, Peter Heck for not thebe dot com,
which is the Babylon Bees, not parody site. It's just
news and analysis, and it's actually pretty good. And Peter's
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getting into the whole Gavey newsom trying to capitalize on
the unrest and call Trumpet dictator and how the moment
we feared would come is here and I am your
hope and salvation and the rest of it. And then
Peter gets into just the utter chaos and waste in
California and the crime and the bullet train and the
rest of it. But here's the part I found really interesting.
(14:12):
Gavy tweeted, the Secretary of Defense is now threatening to
deploy active duty marines on American soil against its own citizens.
This is deranged behavior, and Peter writes, the problem for
Newsom and the reason I thought you'd want to comment,
Jack is when you would watch the Sunday talk shows,
which I cannot force myself to watch. It's like giving
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myself some sort of injection into my private parts. I
just can't do it doing your own vasectomy. Yeah exactly.
But you have the discipline and I admire it. But
you commented on something like this many many times. And
I'll read what he wrote and let you go out.
But the problem for Newsom is that progressives are no
longer dealing with a political opposition that rolls over for
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this type of absurdity. Gone are the days of the
right attempting to lower the temperature or participate in the
correct caricature drawn up by the Democratic Party propagandists in
mainstream media. Hegxeth fired back immediately. Deranged equals allowing your
city to burn, law enforcement to be attacked. There's plenty
(15:16):
of room for peaceful protest, but zero tolerance for attacking
federal agents who are doing their jobs. The National Guarden Marines,
if need be, stand with ice. Yeah, I remember you
used to talk about this all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, complained that when Republicans were on the Sunday talk shows,
they would never push back on the liberal bent of
all those shows that faces the nation, that meets the press.
And I always wondered why, And I guess because they
wanted to be happy warriors, or because they were on
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enemy turf and they are going along together.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I don't know what it was, but like I wanted
to preserve their access, or they want to be back
on the show again.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Some easy examples they would not push back on, you know,
convert whatever you conflating illegal immigration with immigration.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
They would let hosts get away with that all the time.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And never say, are we talking about illegal immigration or immigration?
They're two different things here, and you know that they
would never ever do that. Of just endless examples of
that sort of thing where the Republicans have never pushed
back and now they.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Are, they would argue the premise on the progressives ground.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna fight it on your turf for some reason.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Right, this is deranged behavior. Sending in the National Guard. Well,
we're going to make sure that the National Guard is
restrained in what they do and that all rights are protected.
Margaret and no, no, So what's deranged is letting riots
happen with impunity, Let your cops get their heads smashed
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and federal buildings be attacked without inadequate response. That's deranged.
Defend that, Margaret, Yes, Saucy Little almost said something I
shouldn't have.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Wow, you know I've got something semi misogynists to go
along with that. But we have some time since that
where we're looking for. I had a weird experience getting
ready for the show today. I'll tell you about it,
and that's a misogynist. No, it's fair.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
But dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were freed in
an exchange with Russia. They were greeted to a hero's
welcome at a hospital north of Kiev, but they looked
like the living dead, gaunt, heads shaven, their bodies broken,
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and some said beaten. Alexandro Kohlkoff told me he was
a prisoner for over three years and that the Russians
broke his ribs. If nothing was already broken, they would
break it, he said.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Jeez, Prutin and his military, they're animals. You want to
let them win. I don't get it anyway. Pete Hagzeth
who we were just applauding for something. He was asked
under oath yesterday by Senate lawmakers. He's doing three appearances
before Congress this weekend, being grilled about a whole bunch
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of different things. Senator McConnell, former Majority Leader, asked the
question of Hegxeth who is the aggressor in Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And Hegzeth said Russia is the aggressor.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Now. Steve Hayes of the Dispatch said, should we be
encouraged that Hegzeth gave the obvious and accurate answer to
that question, or discourage that McConnell felt the need to
ask it. But yeah, it's good. It's good good news
as far as I'm concerned. Man oh Man, that's that's something.
Those stories about the hostages are prisoners coming back.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
He had the utter disregard for human life, whether there's
or other peoples. That is part of Russian military history
is amazing. I was just reading and listening about World
War Two, some of the major victories that Russia had
and the incredible sacrifices they made, and the point was
made that some of those horrific numbers are because of
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their techniques. They're just utterly heedless of wasting men.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It doesn't matter to AMO never has.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, and US casualties were much much lower in similar encounters,
just because we go about warfare in a very different
way we did back in the forties. Anyway, back culturetion
continues to today. Obviously back closer to home.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I thought this was a pretty good point from Jim
Garrity the National Review. Do California elected officials realize how
ridiculous they sound when they spend several days insisting that
local law enforcement had it handled, the streets were quiet,
and local law enforcement resources are sufficient to maintain order,
and then a day or two later, last night, the
mayor is forced to declare a curfew.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Okay, you had it under control, you still.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Got you had to have a curfew last night with
the National Guard troops.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Mmm, what would have been like without them?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You know? The metaphor I keep using and I'm sticking
with it is demark the leaders in California are like
a sports team that has not yet played a real game.
They just scrimmage. They have an inter squad scrimmage over
and over and over again, and they never come up
against an opponent that's really really trying to win, and
they think they have game. Gavin Newsom thinks he has
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national level game.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Two suspects of It's just been charged with throwing molotov
cocktails at police during the LA riots. This happened moments ago.
That doesn't sound very peaceful to me.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Firebombs. Just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Just a bunch of people enjoying watching cars burn.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh wait a minute, give me seventy, Michael seventy again,
the Great Maxine.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Don't think that somehow, because they called out the National
Guard there was violence.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
There was no violence. I was on the street.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, those chunks of concrete being hurled over and over
again at the cops. I guess that video is AI
or something.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Okay, we live in a post truth universe.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Oh and inflation lower than expected, So I don't understand
what's going on. Why after a liberation day in the
tariffs on the turmoil and this and that, and of
course the endless mainstream coverage of how Trump's Hitler with
a bad economic policy, his poll numbers are up in
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inflations basically flat.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, bing bing bang bang bing bing bing bing bing
bong bong granted, but it's a complicated stew of the economy.
It could be argued that increased fears of economic woes
to come have caused a suppression of consumer spending.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I would have to again to that economic stew.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh hey, speaking of AI, which I mentioned a second ago.
Tens of thousands of people now believe AI or chat
GPT is God. What seems to be a religion is
forming up around AI. Quasi religious posts would fill up
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entire AI forums if moderators didn't censor them. Just five
days ago, the moderator of a pro AI reddit announced
that they are now banning these fanatics. Two days earlier,
another redditor warned of thousands of people online with spiritual
delusions about AI.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I need to look into this. That I hadn't heard
a word about nor anticipated a lot of this stuff.
I had anticipated a lot of us, did I hadn't
anticipated that. That's kooky. Now I did get ye, I
did get sent this the other day. It was an ad.
I don't know where the ads showed up. I won't
(23:09):
replace him, but I'll be here when you can't sleep.
Here are ten AI boyfriends who help you, heal, distract you,
and remind you of your worth, and it's got a
picture of a young handsome man. Where in the hell
are we headed.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Planet of the beavers? Nobody's getting together anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I won't replace him, but I'll be here when you
can't sleep. Here are ten AI boyfriends who help you, heal,
distract you, and remind you of your worth. That is
so freaking crazy. That is so freaking crazy. How did
it happen so fast? I mean we thought maybe someday,
if AI gets good enough and robots look exactly like humans,
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possibly the most deranged among us could develop.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, no, just the middle of that sentence that happened,
just just just words on a screen with no voice, yeah,
and no image whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
And no robot is making people stay at home and
feel like they're in a relationship.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That is so crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You yourself have mentioned that uh chat, GPT or whatever
is a better counselor than most counselors.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Freaking right, if you have that in using that that biggest.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Stretch that it's a better friend too.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, but an emotional like love relationship, really, even a
friend relationship is sick because it's you.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I haven't felt that at all any like friendship or
anything like that. The the ability to distill a tremendous
amount of information down to the best very quickly and
put it in like conversational terms.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yes, but man is so nuts.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean, I don't know where we're going, man, down
this road lies Matt, You're right, Jonathan Turley. Maybe this
stat that I across doesn't matter since everybody's going to
be in love with a chatbot.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You can't have a kid with a chatbot.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
The average cost of raising a child in the US
is now twenty six thousand dollars per year. Okay, I
think most parents listening right now are saying, how in
the heck are you raising a kid for twenty six.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Really?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I mean, I don't know what they factor into raising
a kid or whatnot, but seems low to me. Everything
everything in, food, clothes, schooling, everything.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Every time I hear those numbers, whether they are low
or high, I think, how'd you come up with that?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It's true? Yeah, cause what are you?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And who asked?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Band?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Rental, travel, sports, vacation. Then again, to my point, who
asked you? Since I've never heard a parent, good point
say you know, my kid's costing more than I thought.
(26:06):
I'm a good point considering a change in this relationship.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
No parent has like on their spreadsheet or whatever. If
you're the sort of person that does this, I don't
probably should Where you put all your expenses, I don't.
I don't know if anybody who like has things that
they put in the what it cost me to have
a kid column to keep track?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, right, yeah, yeah, I've never Having raised three kids,
I had a minor child under my roof for twenty
five straight years. At no point did Judy and I
ever say, all right, we need to total up all
these expenses so we can what and then we'll grant
credits for lawns mode and bathrooms cleaned or whatever chores
(26:47):
were done, and then we'll I mean, it's just it
wasn't anything we ever thought about.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah'll knock off five thousand dollars for the most satisfying
thing I've ever done in life.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'll give you that, But the rest of it is
just a cost.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It's right, and the whole I'm just it's funny. Maybe
I lacked imagination as a youngster, but Judy and I
knew we wanted to have kids. At one point and
so we went ahead. There was no like, long, careful,
can we afford to or what? No, you just do
it and figure it out and it goes fine. Were
we poor? Yes? Was it fine?
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Well, the expenses just kind of fit in with the
rest of your household expenses. I mean, I suppose you
could make the argument that your house is bigger, so
part of the house payment goes is because of them,
and you have to maybe have a bigger car and
make more trips. You figure out all the gas for
driving to pick them up at school and drop them.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I mean, you're a nut if you do that.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Well, right, yeah, and again, why are we talking about it?
I don't know, so you care exactly? What's the thing exactly? Yeah, well,
I need to put a price on each child. I'll
tell you what. The boy's extra handsome so we'll get
a discount. But yeah, it's an odd bit of analysis.
You play sports. Life is not dollars and cents. You
play sports, so I had to buy you more clothes
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for that.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You don't play sports, but you're in band, so you
have a different cost.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It seems odd. Life is
not dollars and cents. Folks, you can't take it with
you right moving along, I don't want to talk unrest anymore.
I'll tell you this. Here's a great protest for you.
This is really going to get a lot of people
on their side. Hundreds of flowers were vandalized at a
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botanical Michigan garden, and the activists who did it left
pro Palestinian signs behind that said plant lives don't matter,
human lives do.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh my god, glue those people to something, let us
pelp them with rocks or fruit.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'm in favor of all of those things. The garden
director made his heart broken.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's one of the few things that falls under our
strict reading of cruel and unusual. Glue to them to
some thing and throw rocks at them is probably cruel
and unusual, barbar it's.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
A little cruel and certainly unusual.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You've been sentenced to be glued to something in public?
Yeah a year?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
How gian lives? You deserve to be cared for more
than these flowers. Don't waste your tears on the flowers.
They're not even dead, and we'll grow again next spring.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Uh Is it even worth going this far into this conversation.
Do they possibly think they did their cause any help?
I almost feel like if I wanted to discredit the
pro Palestinian crowd, I would do something like that. Is
this like a you know, a noose flag operation, a
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noose in a fraternity to show racism, and it turns
out it's the somebody put it up on purpose to
stop the war, resist imperialism.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
The flowers and crazy people.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
They would like to give you a good thrash.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Glue you to something.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Oh we will finish strong next he quick breaking news,
breaking news, donkey. If you're a music fan of a
certain age. Brian Wilson, really the driving force of the
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Beach Boys, dead.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
At age eighty two.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Wow, huh one of.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That Yeah, as a big one, one of the great
musical geniuses that everybody was chasing back in the day.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And he was actually crazy yep, which is interesting.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Did you see Bob Costa rippin' maga media at some
awards thing?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
M I did not.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I couldn't be a bigger fan of Bob costas his
professional work, not only his sportscaster stuff, but his late
night show he used to have on late at night
whatever that was called, where you later, people later with
Bob Costas one of the best interview shows, maybe the
best interview show that has ever existed. I can still
remember episodes he was it's oh good and get into
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it with musicians and actors and politicians and everybody. Oh
my god, he was good. But like so many people
in the media, you know, underneath it all, he's a
crazy lefty whack job. You wonder how they functioned as
normal as they did with this. But anyway, he won
some sort of an award. In his big speech, he
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talked about Magamedia and how the Magamedia giving both sides
of the story is completely misplaced, like CNN trying to
be middle of the road. He used as an example.
I'm kind of paraphrasing because he has a really long dietribe.
If someone says, and the idea is that you have
to find somebody who will not just defend Donald Trump
(31:43):
but valorize it, even on CNN or whatever else, just
in the name of being balanced. Look, if someone is
contending that the Earth is flat, in order to appear objective,
you are not required to say.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, maybe it might be oblong, No, it's not. Certainly
things some things are just true.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And regard there we have the problem.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
But go ahead and regrettably, something that's true in America
right now is that the President of the United States
is absolutely no regard and in fact, has contempt for
basic American principles and basic common decency.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You have a response to that, I do also.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, yeah, I was actually that last point. I agree.
Sometimes he shows contempt for certain principles and it makes
me uncomfortable. But he revealed the problem there. He believes
his political beliefs are as indisputable as the shape of
planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I do, right.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I mean, that was a sloppy metaphor, but he revealed
himself there. I have very strongly held beliefs. I understand
completely that there are reasonable people who disagree. I would
love the opportunity to try to convince them. I don't
say that they're pitching, you know, something so completely insane
nobody could believe it.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah, that's a good point, because scientific you can have
scientific facts, they can be proven.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
You can't have political facts.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And the other part of it would be if half,
oh if over half the country believes something like uh,
you know, got Donald Trump elected to start with, and
then is around half now agrees with him. If half
the country agrees with something, I think, yeah, you probably should.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Present that point of view, right if you want to
present it, steal manet and knock it down, go ahead,
But Costace's contention that don't even mention it. It's beneath contempt.
Aren't you curious? Bob? How you know half of America
significantly more than half of the voters last time came
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to a completely different conclusion than you.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Did, and they just bamboozled And probably not a lot
of ever thinking hmm, half the country thinks this about
this issue.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I wonder if I'm wrong? Ever occurred to you on that?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (33:55):
It's final though.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Boys, so well your comments and.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Yes closer for the show.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Track four on pet Sounds right there, Written and produced
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap things up for the day. Wouldn't that
be lovely? Let's begin with Michaelangelo and the controller. Michael
final thought.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Yeah, I been a tough show for me today. I've
been pulling up my pants every few minutes here in
the studio, I was the guy that forgot his belt,
and so I'm the guy that's been walking around the
office pulling up his pants constantly.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I hate it when I forget my belt.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, if we weren't so short handed, pager or.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Something, if we weren't so short handed, I probably would
have gone home.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
It's being going to be in shorthanded. Katie is off Jack.
A final thought for us.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I hate to do a serious final thought, but I
wanted to read this from David Ignatius. He's a proud Lefty,
and his piece in the Washington Post today, Democrats have
gotten the border issue so wrong for so long that
it mounts to political malpractice.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
From a Democrat. My final thought.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I was reading the Wall Street Journal, going through it
this morning, as I do most days, and I became
aware that every article that had the feel of Republicans
or Conservatives are mean and people are fighting against them,
or somebody is big and powerful and mean and people
are fighting against them. Every story was written by a
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woman or several women. I began predicting before I clicked
on the story whether the story was written by a
male or female. I was right four times in a
row just by the nature of the story. I don't
know what that means.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Armstrong, Young Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Armstrong and geddy dot com. Got a lot of great
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a note male bag at Armstrong ey Getdi is something
we ought to be talking about.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and get
Our message is clear.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Our beef is beautiful and their's is weak.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Are you sure? Says yes, that's not what I was told.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Wo oh Congressman.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Well, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty asked the same question
of their listeners, and here's their response.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I've still wondered, did he know that she wasn't European?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I'll tell you what. What's the woman grabs who buy
your castanet? See you don't care anymore?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, I'm Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Getty and he I'm strong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
From the National Mall here in Washington, d C. And
a big event happening here on Saturday, the White House
not too far from where I'm standing. Lots of preparations
already in place for this big celebration to mark the
occasion celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the US Army.
Organizers say hundreds of thousands of people can attend this parade,
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and we'll see tanks rolling through the streets near the
White House and aircraft flying overhead. Thousands of troops as well,
roughly sixty six hundred will also take part in this
big military display marking the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
which also falls on President Trump's birthday as well.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Wow, I didn't realize that that more helps justify it
more the fact that it's the Army's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. But let's roll on with another report about
the big military parade that Trump's going to have.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
The President has longed for this parade, a show of
military might like he's seen from other countries. Sources toel
ABC News, mounted rocket launchers will be on display, as
well as a precision guided missile. This in addition to
those tanks and an assortment of fighting vehicles, the event
will also feature sixty seven hundred soldiers and a fifty
aircraft flyover. Trump getting a bit of a preview today
(01:37):
in a visit to Fort Bragg. Saturday is going to
be a big day in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know, a lot of people said, we don't want
to do that, as ao we do. We want to
show off a little bit.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
The parade, which is built as a celebration of the
Army's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, also falls on Trump's
seventy ninth birthday. Sources tell us it could cost up
to forty five million.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Dollars whatever it could thrown in the cost like, that's
what bothers you now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
A Democratic reporter at is a fiscal conservative welcome.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
NPR had a surprisingly even handed report on this earlier today.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'll talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But Rand Paul was the first Senate Republican to criticize
Trump's upcoming military parade. If you'll remember, Trump wanted to
do a parade like this back in his first term,
but sect deaf mad Dog Mattis talked him out of it,
saying basically what Rand Paul says here, I wouldn't have
done it. I'm not sure what the actual expense of
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it is. But we're always different than you know, the
images that you sawved the Soviet Union in North Korea.
We were proud not to be that. That was the
argument of mad Dog Mattis. We don't do what the
Soviet Union in North Korea and China do, you know,
kind of in a threatening sort of way with our
missiles in the rolling through the street and that sort
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of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Legions of goose stepping soldiers. Sure right now.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Like the NPR version of it that I heard, which
I thought was kind of interesting, was you know, maybe
seeing all the army and cool equipment is a helps recruit.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, from that standpoint, maybe that could be good.
You could make that argument.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And also reporters said, and this is true because I
think I lean against the idea of having a Soviet
style showing off our wares in the street thing. I'm
not hardcore on this. But if I was in charge,
i'd say no rather than yes.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But dud lost my vote. Do we with your blather?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Do we not?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
For instance, at the super Bowl have stealth bombers fly
over and everybody gets excited about that and thinks is
cool af right? What's the different the stealth bomber flying
over the super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Look at the coolest plane on earth that we happen
to have world?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I would say the whole Soviet style dot dot
dot is an interesting point. That is not the devastating argument.
I think some people think it is, and my reaction
to it is, and I am sensitive to that idea.
I'm not ignoring it. But the more I think about it, Hey,
it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary or birthday of the Army.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, I think that's a convenient excuse because he wanted
to do it first term, and now he's got okay,
this will be a good reason, and he'd put it
on his birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, but you know, Trump, Trump is Trump. What his
motivation is really, that can't be the deciding factor either.
What I'm picturing is the unbelievable men and women of
our armed forces are mind boggling. Technology are crazy cool machines,
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are fantastic planes, your tax dollars, the armed forces of
the United States getting the spotlight for a minute. I
don't have any problem with that. Well, you saw goose
stepping soldiers. Not really.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You said it's not a devastating argument, But apparently it
was a devastating enough argument for Ronald Reagan not to
feel like he wanted to do it in the height
of the Cold War for eight years, or Nixon or
whoever else was president all these years, because we've never
done it other than thirty years ago after we won
the Gulf War, we did it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I fully admit I might be argued off this point
of view because I haven't thought about it a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But I'm like fifty three forty seven on this. Though
I'm not hardcore, it doesn't really bother me. I'm not
going to lose any sleepover it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I also think we are living in a time where
a huge percentage, a shocking percentage of young people say no,
it's not worth fighting for your country. There's no point.
It's pretty good the army is invisible to so many
people because it's a very narrow percentage of a Americans
that are military families. I just I like the idea
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of proud, shiny, impressive being in front of the American people.
And if there are things we can do now, Trump
I'm sure would like full on missile as substitute for
Penis Freudian, North Korean, you know, displays of look how
tough we are. I get that that's maybe his point
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of view.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Is like the hundred and first Airborne gonna march past
the Trump turn turn their heads toward him and salute,
and then he salutes them like they.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Do in Kim Jong Lun.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's entirely possible that would at least be requested. But
the Marine band, for God's sake, some of the musical groups,
you know, the Army band for that matter. Just I
would actually a lot to like in the idea.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I would actually like to hear more about why we
haven't done it in the past.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know, you want to know what kind of guy.
When you said tanks rolling by, I thought, oh my god,
what's that going to do to the pavement?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
A lot of people have thought practical man.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, and that's a lot of the costs that they're
discussing is it will absolutely destroy the road.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
They'll have to repave it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But I mean, good God, with the amount of money
we spend, that shouldn't be part of the discussion on this.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And then the secret plan is to roll all those
tanks into Fairfax County and take over the schools where
they're indoctrinating the kids into Marxism and sexual perversion. Why fantasy?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Why didn't we do it at the height of the
Cold War, when every year they would parade their best
missiles through Red Square in front of whoever the current
alive leader the Communist Party was.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, barely alive. I did not know Ronald Reagan, but
I suspect very strongly his answer would be, I prefer
to speak softly and carry an unimaginably large stick, right.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
We're we were wanting to win the world with our ideas.
The rockets are a last resort.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I also think it's a principle that I've learned through life,
where you got a handful of guys playing the tough
guy in a bar, you know, chesting up. You want
to bring it you on, piece of me, you want
a piece of me, And the guy who's just looking
with a calm smile on his face, got nothing to say,
not posturing at all. That's the guy you gotta watch.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I like that vibe. As the United States of America.
I think that's a pretty cool vibe. Yeah, we don't
need to we don't need to show you our rockets.
I mean, it's like when when Matt Doug Mattis would
be asking, you know what keeps you up at night?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Nothing? I keep other people up at night. You know,
just that sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Addit of that Yeah, tough guy. Well you want to
talk about a guy who's not a tough one.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, I just I don't think that lands the way
he thinks it lands.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, that's that's why it's so enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So Gavin, what's our favorite Gavin Newsom? The little Gavin Newsom?
This is from his speech last night, that that little clip, Michael.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Gavin Newsom gave a speech last night. It was clearly
his biggest effort yet. I mean you could call that
the opening salvo of running for president. I mean it wash,
it looked great, well lit, hair was perfect and grayer
than I've ever seen it. That's not an accident. See,
either it's either that gray and he's been dying it
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or he grated.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't know which. Sometimes politicians do both.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In the care of carefully written teleprompter speech.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, with the US flag behind him, and it just
had a very presidential look to it. And then he
was trying to make the point that whatever everything we
had feared Trump making the authoritarian turn has happened, We're
now living in a in a Nazi healscape.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He didn't, he didn't say that, but that's what he
was a plant.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh, by the way, on the round, self think doesn't
seem very Nazi. Hills goes on with Day on the whole,
on the whole, opening salvo of the presidential election for Democrats,
Mark Alpern was pointing this out about uh Ram Emmanuel.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Ram Emmanuel, who's got such game. I just saw him
on CNN this morning. He's so freaking good. I mean,
as a Democrat, he'd be my guy. But so he
is making the rounds and doing a number of podcasts.
He's the opposite of Gavin Newsom. He didn't hire anybody
or put any thought into how it looked. He's in
a room with completely bare bookshelves, like are you did
(10:38):
you move out?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Or are you a squat in someplace?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
He's in this room with bare bookshelves, poorly lit, camera
down low, looking up his nostrils, wearing a full set
of headphones so he can hear the podcaster as opposed
to like an earpiece with your head turned or something.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And I mean it was the opposite of Kevin's.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like Mark Calprin could not believe that he didn't have
a team that got him a better look than that
for kind of his debut on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
As part of the conversation for being the nominee.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, every sixteen year old with an Instagram account does
better than that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh yeah, absolutely it was weak man. Wow, you know
that really bad room lighting.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Where you're all washed out and the camera from below
and then shooting up your nose.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Just empty shelves and an empty desk.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Find him like he you know, had run into a
hallway to take the zoom call, which it looks like
he probably.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Did, right. Yeah, that is funny, he laughed.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Laugh. This is the question of the day. Did Gavin
Gray his air? Did he have it professionally grade? No,
his advisors just told him to ease up on the show.
So you think he eased up on dying. He was
dyeing his hair and then is eased up on that.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Wow, oh some men, you used to soften the gray,
You monster, your cube ball headed, judgmental monster.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
This moment we have feared has arrived, arrived.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Good Lord, Nazi hellscape, stay June.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh, shut up. Some entertainment news.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I've read that CNN's live airing of George Clooney's good
Night and good Luck pulled it over seven million viewers.
It's odd people will watch a play about the news
on CNN, but they won't watch the news on CNN.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
CNN in our joke, CNN is.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Going to try to recapture the magic next weekend by
airing a live production of Annie starring Wolf Blitzer.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He why is that funny? That's funny?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
CNN aired a live Broadway play and got higher ratings
than any of their news shows that had to get
the attention of somebody thinking what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They're going to have to go the way of like
the History Channel and the Learning Channel, which went from
their core MTV went from doing what it did to
just shows about pregnant teens and dwarfs and hoarders and
pregnant dwarf for.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The Learning Channel went away from here's how electricity works
to my six hundred pound life as soon as they
got my ratings.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, speaking at TV shows, I thought you might
want to comment on this, Jack. I found it interesting.
I was reading something that who what's this guy's name?
I like his writing, Peter Heck for not thebe dot com,
which is the Babylon Bees, not parody site. It's just
news and analysis, and it's actually pretty good. And Peter's
(13:52):
getting into the whole Gavey newsom trying to capitalize on
the unrest and call Trumpet dictator and how the moment
we feared would come is here and I am your
hope and salvation and the rest of it. And then
Peter gets into just the utter chaos and waste in
California and the crime and the bullet train and the
rest of it. But here's the part I found really interesting.
(14:12):
Gavy tweeted, the Secretary of Defense is now threatening to
deploy active duty marines on American soil against its own citizens.
This is deranged behavior, and Peter writes, the problem for
Newsom and the reason I thought you'd want to comment,
Jack is when you would watch the Sunday talk shows,
which I cannot force myself to watch. It's like giving
(14:34):
myself some sort of injection into my private parts. I
just can't do it doing your own vasectomy. Yeah exactly.
But you have the discipline and I admire it. But
you commented on something like this many many times. And
I'll read what he wrote and let you go out.
But the problem for Newsom is that progressives are no
longer dealing with a political opposition that rolls over for
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this type of absurdity. Gone are the days of the
right attempting to lower the temperature or participate in the
correct caricature drawn up by the Democratic Party propagandists in
mainstream media. Hegxeth fired back immediately. Deranged equals allowing your
city to burn, law enforcement to be attacked. There's plenty
(15:16):
of room for peaceful protest, but zero tolerance for attacking
federal agents who are doing their jobs. The National Guarden Marines,
if need be, stand with ice. Yeah, I remember you
used to talk about this all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, complained that when Republicans were on the Sunday talk shows,
they would never push back on the liberal bent of
all those shows that faces the nation, that meets the press.
And I always wondered why, And I guess because they
wanted to be happy warriors, or because they were on
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enemy turf and they are going along together.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I don't know what it was, but like I wanted
to preserve their access, or they want to be back
on the show again.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Some easy examples they would not push back on, you know,
convert whatever you conflating illegal immigration with immigration.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
They would let hosts get away with that all the time.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And never say, are we talking about illegal immigration or immigration?
They're two different things here, and you know that they
would never ever do that. Of just endless examples of
that sort of thing where the Republicans have never pushed
back and now they.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Are, they would argue the premise on the progressives ground.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna fight it on your turf for some reason.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Right, this is deranged behavior. Sending in the National Guard. Well,
we're going to make sure that the National Guard is
restrained in what they do and that all rights are protected.
Margaret and no, no, So what's deranged is letting riots
happen with impunity, Let your cops get their heads smashed
(16:49):
and federal buildings be attacked without inadequate response. That's deranged.
Defend that, Margaret, Yes, Saucy Little almost said something I
shouldn't have.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Wow, you know I've got something semi misogynists to go
along with that. But we have some time since that
where we're looking for. I had a weird experience getting
ready for the show today. I'll tell you about it,
and that's a misogynist. No, it's fair.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
But dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were freed in
an exchange with Russia. They were greeted to a hero's
welcome at a hospital north of Kiev, but they looked
like the living dead, gaunt, heads shaven, their bodies broken,
(17:43):
and some said beaten. Alexandro Kohlkoff told me he was
a prisoner for over three years and that the Russians
broke his ribs. If nothing was already broken, they would
break it, he said.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Jeez, Prutin and his military, they're animals. You want to
let them win. I don't get it anyway. Pete Hagzeth
who we were just applauding for something. He was asked
under oath yesterday by Senate lawmakers. He's doing three appearances
before Congress this weekend, being grilled about a whole bunch
(18:16):
of different things. Senator McConnell, former Majority Leader, asked the
question of Hegxeth who is the aggressor in Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And Hegzeth said Russia is the aggressor.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Now. Steve Hayes of the Dispatch said, should we be
encouraged that Hegzeth gave the obvious and accurate answer to
that question, or discourage that McConnell felt the need to
ask it. But yeah, it's good. It's good good news
as far as I'm concerned. Man oh Man, that's that's something.
Those stories about the hostages are prisoners coming back.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
He had the utter disregard for human life, whether there's
or other peoples. That is part of Russian military history
is amazing. I was just reading and listening about World
War Two, some of the major victories that Russia had
and the incredible sacrifices they made, and the point was
made that some of those horrific numbers are because of
(19:18):
their techniques. They're just utterly heedless of wasting men.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It doesn't matter to AMO never has.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, and US casualties were much much lower in similar encounters,
just because we go about warfare in a very different
way we did back in the forties. Anyway, back culturetion
continues to today. Obviously back closer to home.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I thought this was a pretty good point from Jim
Garrity the National Review. Do California elected officials realize how
ridiculous they sound when they spend several days insisting that
local law enforcement had it handled, the streets were quiet,
and local law enforcement resources are sufficient to maintain order,
and then a day or two later, last night, the
mayor is forced to declare a curfew.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Okay, you had it under control, you still.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Got you had to have a curfew last night with
the National Guard troops.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Mmm, what would have been like without them?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You know? The metaphor I keep using and I'm sticking
with it is demark the leaders in California are like
a sports team that has not yet played a real game.
They just scrimmage. They have an inter squad scrimmage over
and over and over again, and they never come up
against an opponent that's really really trying to win, and
they think they have game. Gavin Newsom thinks he has
(20:35):
national level game.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Two suspects of It's just been charged with throwing molotov
cocktails at police during the LA riots. This happened moments ago.
That doesn't sound very peaceful to me.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Firebombs. Just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Just a bunch of people enjoying watching cars burn.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh wait a minute, give me seventy, Michael seventy again,
the Great Maxine.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Don't think that somehow, because they called out the National
Guard there was violence.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
There was no violence. I was on the street.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, those chunks of concrete being hurled over and over
again at the cops. I guess that video is AI
or something.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Okay, we live in a post truth universe.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Oh and inflation lower than expected, So I don't understand
what's going on. Why after a liberation day in the
tariffs on the turmoil and this and that, and of
course the endless mainstream coverage of how Trump's Hitler with
a bad economic policy, his poll numbers are up in
(21:39):
inflations basically flat.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, bing bing bang bang bing bing bing bing bing
bong bong granted, but it's a complicated stew of the economy.
It could be argued that increased fears of economic woes
to come have caused a suppression of consumer spending.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I would have to again to that economic stew.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh hey, speaking of AI, which I mentioned a second ago.
Tens of thousands of people now believe AI or chat
GPT is God. What seems to be a religion is
forming up around AI. Quasi religious posts would fill up
(22:29):
entire AI forums if moderators didn't censor them. Just five
days ago, the moderator of a pro AI reddit announced
that they are now banning these fanatics. Two days earlier,
another redditor warned of thousands of people online with spiritual
delusions about AI.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I need to look into this. That I hadn't heard
a word about nor anticipated a lot of this stuff.
I had anticipated a lot of us, did I hadn't
anticipated that. That's kooky. Now I did get ye, I
did get sent this the other day. It was an ad.
I don't know where the ads showed up. I won't
(23:09):
replace him, but I'll be here when you can't sleep.
Here are ten AI boyfriends who help you, heal, distract you,
and remind you of your worth, and it's got a
picture of a young handsome man. Where in the hell
are we headed.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Planet of the beavers? Nobody's getting together anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I won't replace him, but I'll be here when you
can't sleep. Here are ten AI boyfriends who help you, heal,
distract you, and remind you of your worth. That is
so freaking crazy. That is so freaking crazy. How did
it happen so fast? I mean we thought maybe someday,
if AI gets good enough and robots look exactly like humans,
(23:53):
possibly the most deranged among us could develop.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, no, just the middle of that sentence that happened,
just just just words on a screen with no voice, yeah,
and no image whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
And no robot is making people stay at home and
feel like they're in a relationship.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That is so crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You yourself have mentioned that uh chat, GPT or whatever
is a better counselor than most counselors.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Freaking right, if you have that in using that that biggest.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Stretch that it's a better friend too.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, but an emotional like love relationship, really, even a
friend relationship is sick because it's you.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I haven't felt that at all any like friendship or
anything like that. The the ability to distill a tremendous
amount of information down to the best very quickly and
put it in like conversational terms.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yes, but man is so nuts.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean, I don't know where we're going, man, down
this road lies Matt, You're right, Jonathan Turley. Maybe this
stat that I across doesn't matter since everybody's going to
be in love with a chatbot.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You can't have a kid with a chatbot.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
The average cost of raising a child in the US
is now twenty six thousand dollars per year. Okay, I
think most parents listening right now are saying, how in
the heck are you raising a kid for twenty six.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Really?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I mean, I don't know what they factor into raising
a kid or whatnot, but seems low to me. Everything
everything in, food, clothes, schooling, everything.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Every time I hear those numbers, whether they are low
or high, I think, how'd you come up with that?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It's true? Yeah, cause what are you?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And who asked?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Band?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Rental, travel, sports, vacation. Then again, to my point, who
asked you? Since I've never heard a parent, good point
say you know, my kid's costing more than I thought.
(26:06):
I'm a good point considering a change in this relationship.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
No parent has like on their spreadsheet or whatever. If
you're the sort of person that does this, I don't
probably should Where you put all your expenses, I don't.
I don't know if anybody who like has things that
they put in the what it cost me to have
a kid column to keep track?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, right, yeah, yeah, I've never Having raised three kids,
I had a minor child under my roof for twenty
five straight years. At no point did Judy and I
ever say, all right, we need to total up all
these expenses so we can what and then we'll grant
credits for lawns mode and bathrooms cleaned or whatever chores
(26:47):
were done, and then we'll I mean, it's just it
wasn't anything we ever thought about.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah'll knock off five thousand dollars for the most satisfying
thing I've ever done in life.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'll give you that, But the rest of it is
just a cost.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It's right, and the whole I'm just it's funny. Maybe
I lacked imagination as a youngster, but Judy and I
knew we wanted to have kids. At one point and
so we went ahead. There was no like, long, careful,
can we afford to or what? No, you just do
it and figure it out and it goes fine. Were
we poor? Yes? Was it fine?
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Well, the expenses just kind of fit in with the
rest of your household expenses. I mean, I suppose you
could make the argument that your house is bigger, so
part of the house payment goes is because of them,
and you have to maybe have a bigger car and
make more trips. You figure out all the gas for
driving to pick them up at school and drop them.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I mean, you're a nut if you do that.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Well, right, yeah, and again, why are we talking about it?
I don't know, so you care exactly? What's the thing exactly? Yeah, well,
I need to put a price on each child. I'll
tell you what. The boy's extra handsome so we'll get
a discount. But yeah, it's an odd bit of analysis.
You play sports. Life is not dollars and cents. You
play sports, so I had to buy you more clothes
(28:00):
for that.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You don't play sports, but you're in band, so you
have a different cost.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It seems odd. Life is
not dollars and cents. Folks, you can't take it with
you right moving along, I don't want to talk unrest anymore.
I'll tell you this. Here's a great protest for you.
This is really going to get a lot of people
on their side. Hundreds of flowers were vandalized at a
(28:28):
botanical Michigan garden, and the activists who did it left
pro Palestinian signs behind that said plant lives don't matter,
human lives do.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh my god, glue those people to something, let us
pelp them with rocks or fruit.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'm in favor of all of those things. The garden
director made his heart broken.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's one of the few things that falls under our
strict reading of cruel and unusual. Glue to them to
some thing and throw rocks at them is probably cruel
and unusual, barbar it's.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
A little cruel and certainly unusual.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You've been sentenced to be glued to something in public?
Yeah a year?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
How gian lives? You deserve to be cared for more
than these flowers. Don't waste your tears on the flowers.
They're not even dead, and we'll grow again next spring.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Uh Is it even worth going this far into this conversation.
Do they possibly think they did their cause any help?
I almost feel like if I wanted to discredit the
pro Palestinian crowd, I would do something like that. Is
this like a you know, a noose flag operation, a
(29:45):
noose in a fraternity to show racism, and it turns
out it's the somebody put it up on purpose to
stop the war, resist imperialism.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
The flowers and crazy people.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
They would like to give you a good thrash.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Glue you to something.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Oh we will finish strong next he quick breaking news,
breaking news, donkey. If you're a music fan of a
certain age. Brian Wilson, really the driving force of the
(30:18):
Beach Boys, dead.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
At age eighty two.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Wow, huh one of.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That Yeah, as a big one, one of the great
musical geniuses that everybody was chasing back in the day.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And he was actually crazy yep, which is interesting.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Did you see Bob Costa rippin' maga media at some
awards thing?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
M I did not.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I couldn't be a bigger fan of Bob costas his
professional work, not only his sportscaster stuff, but his late
night show he used to have on late at night
whatever that was called, where you later, people later with
Bob Costas one of the best interview shows, maybe the
best interview show that has ever existed. I can still
remember episodes he was it's oh good and get into
(31:01):
it with musicians and actors and politicians and everybody. Oh
my god, he was good. But like so many people
in the media, you know, underneath it all, he's a
crazy lefty whack job. You wonder how they functioned as
normal as they did with this. But anyway, he won
some sort of an award. In his big speech, he
(31:22):
talked about Magamedia and how the Magamedia giving both sides
of the story is completely misplaced, like CNN trying to
be middle of the road. He used as an example.
I'm kind of paraphrasing because he has a really long dietribe.
If someone says, and the idea is that you have
to find somebody who will not just defend Donald Trump
(31:43):
but valorize it, even on CNN or whatever else, just
in the name of being balanced. Look, if someone is
contending that the Earth is flat, in order to appear objective,
you are not required to say.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, maybe it might be oblong, No, it's not. Certainly
things some things are just true.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And regard there we have the problem.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
But go ahead and regrettably, something that's true in America
right now is that the President of the United States
is absolutely no regard and in fact, has contempt for
basic American principles and basic common decency.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You have a response to that, I do also.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, yeah, I was actually that last point. I agree.
Sometimes he shows contempt for certain principles and it makes
me uncomfortable. But he revealed the problem there. He believes
his political beliefs are as indisputable as the shape of
planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I do, right.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I mean, that was a sloppy metaphor, but he revealed
himself there. I have very strongly held beliefs. I understand
completely that there are reasonable people who disagree. I would
love the opportunity to try to convince them. I don't
say that they're pitching, you know, something so completely insane
nobody could believe it.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah, that's a good point, because scientific you can have
scientific facts, they can be proven.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
You can't have political facts.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And the other part of it would be if half,
oh if over half the country believes something like uh,
you know, got Donald Trump elected to start with, and
then is around half now agrees with him. If half
the country agrees with something, I think, yeah, you probably should.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Present that point of view, right if you want to
present it, steal manet and knock it down, go ahead,
But Costace's contention that don't even mention it. It's beneath contempt.
Aren't you curious? Bob? How you know half of America
significantly more than half of the voters last time came
(33:39):
to a completely different conclusion than you.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Did, and they just bamboozled And probably not a lot
of ever thinking hmm, half the country thinks this about
this issue.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I wonder if I'm wrong? Ever occurred to you on that?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (33:55):
It's final though.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Boys, so well your comments and.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Yes closer for the show.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Track four on pet Sounds right there, Written and produced
by Brian Wilson, the Late Great Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap things up for the day. Wouldn't that
be lovely? Let's begin with Michaelangelo and the controller. Michael
final thought.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Yeah, I been a tough show for me today. I've
been pulling up my pants every few minutes here in
the studio, I was the guy that forgot his belt,
and so I'm the guy that's been walking around the
office pulling up his pants constantly.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I hate it when I forget my belt.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, if we weren't so short handed, pager or.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Something, if we weren't so short handed, I probably would
have gone home.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
It's being going to be in shorthanded. Katie is off Jack.
A final thought for us.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I hate to do a serious final thought, but I
wanted to read this from David Ignatius. He's a proud Lefty,
and his piece in the Washington Post today, Democrats have
gotten the border issue so wrong for so long that
it mounts to political malpractice.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
From a Democrat. My final thought.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I was reading the Wall Street Journal, going through it
this morning, as I do most days, and I became
aware that every article that had the feel of Republicans
or Conservatives are mean and people are fighting against them,
or somebody is big and powerful and mean and people
are fighting against them. Every story was written by a
(35:33):
woman or several women. I began predicting before I clicked
on the story whether the story was written by a
male or female. I was right four times in a
row just by the nature of the story. I don't
know what that means.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Armstrong, Young Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So many people, thanks so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and geddy dot com. Got a lot of great
hot links. Therefore you pick ups Maine geswagg drop us
a note male bag at Armstrong ey Getdi is something
we ought to be talking about.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and get
Our message is clear.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Our beef is beautiful and their's is weak.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Are you sure? Says yes, that's not what I was told.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Wo oh Congressman.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Well, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty asked the same question
of their listeners, and here's their response.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I've still wondered, did he know that she wasn't European?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I'll tell you what. What's the woman grabs who buy
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