April 10, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Wednesday edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Inflation is coming in hot!....
- Mailbag...
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty live from Studio C.
(00:35):
It's a dimly lit room, deeput from the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, today Tuesday,
we're under the tutelage of our general manager. I think
we know it. Jackson Lee. Who is Sheila Jackson Lee?
Perhaps the nation's dopiest congresswoman. She doesn't know anything as
(00:59):
far as as I can tell. Where's she from? Houston?
I think there are too many congress people. I'm believing
we can look that up. Let me ask my uncle Google,
or perhaps the fabulous Katie Green would do that for me.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Where Sheila Jackson Lee is from?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah? Who she represents?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
She said, Texas eighteenth Congressional District. Yes, most of central Houston.
And she said something hilarious. I am assuming you guys
were talking about it in the pre show meeting. Yes,
we have a meeting before the show, and it still
turns out like this. This this I do not want
to overseew this, but this audio will lift the spirits
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of all Americans. Oh, that's fantastic, until you consider the
fact that this woman is a congress person. Then it
will plunge your spirits into dark despair. So first lift
your spirits, then plunge them into dark despair.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, that's what we're going for, right.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So we do have some somewhat breaking news and breaking news,
you know, we try to be careful with that because
we're on a lot of different markets at different times,
and a lot of people listen to this in podcast form,
and so, but the inflation numbers just came out, and
here's your Wall Street Journal headline on that. Inflation comes
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in hotter than expected at three point five percent in March.
Stubborn inflation persisted in March, seriously weakening the case for
the Feds to begin cutting interest rates in June.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it virtually eliminates that possibility.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I think it does two. And if you're looking at
it from the standpoint of what it costs to buy stuff,
it sucks. If you're looking at it from the standpoint
of our presidential election, definitely helps Trump hurts Biden.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This news, Uh yeah, true enough. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I was just thinking in terms of paying bills and
and interest rates and that sort of thing. But yeah,
I only think about presidential politics. Jack. Inflation is actually
down from two years ago. You will hill that argument
because it is down from two years ago, but it
is up from recent months and that's not good. Right,
Prices are up from yesterday, So this is interesting. So
(03:18):
Ron Klaine, who is the former chief of staff for
President Biden, got caught on a hot mic yesterday talking
about what his old boss, President Biden needs to be
doing on the campaign trail. And it gets to this,
and this is before the inflation numbers came out, and
he was saying, I think the President's out there too
much talking about bridges. He does two or three events
(03:39):
a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge,
and here's a bridge. Like I tell you, if you
go into a grocery store, you go to a grocery store,
and you know eggs and milk are expensive. The fact
that there's an effing bridge is not something something inaudible.
The fact that there's an effing bridge somewhere that is
very true. You can do all the ribbon cuttings the
(04:00):
fifteen hundred miles from where I live on some bridge.
Don't mean nothing to me. When God, what was it yesterday?
I bought something and I was like, you've got to
be kidding me. Oh yeah, Oh, this was a California thing,
So I don't know how much of this was inflation.
I was at the Jamba Juice and they no longer
have a person who takes your order. You have to
do it on some sort of computer pad because they're
(04:21):
part of the twenty dollars minimum wage thing, so there's
nobody to help you. So there's an impossible at least
for me as an old person to use computer pad.
When I used to say to the nice lady, I'll
take a large protein berry pizaz or whatever, they got
to go through these screens on the computer pad or
whateverything like that.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And then I got my medium Jama juice one and
it was.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Eleven dollars, so I had to order it through a
computer and it was eleven bucks for one Jama juice,
a medium, And there was an old lady there with me,
and she said, I don't know if I can keep
coming here at these prices. I said, I know, that's ridiculous. Yeah,
how's her utopia? Coming along there. But that eleven dollars
amba juice or you're bacon or your gas or whatever,
(05:02):
as Ron Klain, his former chief of staff, says, matters
a lot more to you than some effing bridge somewhere.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Honey, no bacon with the eggs this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, but there is a new bridge in Pittsburgh. Well
shines a different light on it. I do care about
federal infrastructure. I can't eat it, but I do appreciate it. Can't. Kids,
We've got to move out of our house and know
it's your Oh, stop crying. There's a brand new bridge
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in Galvaston, Texas. Shoe strings boiled in hot water again tonight.
But let me tell you about some infrastructure steps the
nation has taken.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Have you seen the new off ramps around Des Moines?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kids? The Quad City off ramps are amazing right now,
be quiet in each you, Gruel. Yeah, that's pretty interesting
and pretty accurate from his former chief of staff. Yet,
so I'm not happy that I'd rather. I've never been
a person who roots for a bad economy when it
(06:08):
helps my side an election. Never, I'm always rooten for
a good economy, and I'm not happy to see inflation
is hanging around. No, not at all. Speaking of the parsident,
his recent appearance on televis slash univisione. Why are you
not speaking English? Show? You know that's a good question,
was and we will play you audio of it. It
(06:30):
reminds me very much of various interactions I've had with
both my relatives and friends, relatives who are very old
and prone to saying about anything. You take it all
with a grain of salt. You handle them gently. It's fine.
But they're they're obviously not really together anymore. Biden gives
(06:50):
that vibe off everything he does. And it's only April.
We should start the show officially so I can hear
this fun audio you say we have from some woman
in from Texas, a snippet of her her Symphony of Stupidity,
A snippet. Okay, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getti on this.
(07:13):
It is Wednesday, April tenth, here twenty twenty four. Life
will not be a board twenty four where Armstrong and
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Speaker 3 (07:25):
Full moon is that complete rounded circle which is made
up mostly of gases, and that's why the question, the
question is why or how could we as humans live
on the moon.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, that that snippet was intriguing.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's a congress person. Yes, yes, yes, uh yeah, we
gotta we'll just we'll play the whole thing in just
a few minutes. It's astounding, especially given the context. She's
speaking in a high school graduation about the moon and
the eclipse and that sort of thing, and she gets
(08:05):
everything rolling and the kids are all looking at each
other like is this for real?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Wow? Yeah, I've spoken a number of times on the
show about how this woman is an idiot, and she
is it will be on full displaced. Well, we may
have the empirical evidence coming up. That's fantastic. I find
that entertaining. How does mail bag look? Oh, it's actually
(08:33):
very good. Lots of fine insight from the folks. Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's all on the way. And our text line is,
there's a man.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How about Arizona coming out with an abortion ruling yesterday
that didn't do trumpety favors? Certainly, the day after Trump
says let's leave it to the States, Arizona goes back
to a Civil War era abortion law. Oh, boy, talk
about a topic I don't want to discuss. But that's
a Kamala Harris is headed there right now. I just
(09:02):
saw an MSNBC to start giving speeches there and it'll
get tremendous mainstream media coverage. Oh yeah, they're.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Firing up the demagoguery machine and setting it on high.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Brace yourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, they stepped in it there.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
All right, So all that's on the way. Did I
say the text line? Yeah, the text line four one
five two nine five k FDC. I feel horrible, by
the way. So if we can come up with a
topic that really angers me, I think I could say
some really really untoward things today. Wow wow, okay, yeah,
(09:39):
little frightening, but an opportunity. Okay, well look for that,
an opportunity for entertainment or to lose my job both.
Oh boy. And it was going so well. Here's your
freedom loving quote of today. I'm continuing to dip into
some of the quotes from our forgotten founding fathers. For instance,
John Dickinson, who is a Pennsylvania and he was known
(10:01):
as the Penman of the Revolution for his twelve Letters
from a Farmer in Pennsylvania published in nineteen sixty I'm
sorry seventeen sixty nineteen sixty seven. Well, he didn't get
around to it. He is a bit of a procrastinator.
But they were very influential back in the day. I
have not read them, at least recently.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Not sure i'd ever heard of them.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Here's his freedom loving quota today, which would probably make
him spin in the grave like a cordless drill.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Let our government be like, oh.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
This is so appropriate in the wake of the eclipse.
Let our government be like that of the solar system.
Let the central government be like the Sun, and the
states of the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole
moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits. You know, what's
the idea. What's interesting to me is that you know
(10:53):
yet another example of how much democracy we had going
for decades. In decades are like a couple of centuries,
starting with the Mayflower Compact that allowed us to get
up and running, as opposed to when we show up
in Afghanistan or someplace and try to get democracy started
from scratch. It takes a long time of thinking about
(11:16):
these things and being part of the culture before you
can get it to work. I would agree even in
the accelerated timetable of the twenty first century. The idea
that you could impose it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
From outside on a culture that it's foreign to.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's ridiculous. It's almost laughable. Mailbag, Whooo would you like
to communicate with us? One of the ways is via email.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Mail Bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. JT and
Livermore frequent correspondent, invaluable contributor in the company.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Of bad words. Secretions is the crude brother in laws
of the word moist. Neither are welcome and mixed company. Yes, yes,
around a cocktail party, you should never say secretions or moist.
Moist is a terrible word. I'm feeling moist, are you, honey?
Oh I've been secreting all that long? Oh wow, I
(12:11):
see that would be no good for anyone. She money
that it was off putting. H Adam writes, So the
government will stop me from looking at trees in a
national park during a government shutdown, and Joe Biden needs
bipartisan support and Congress to act to fund the border.
(12:32):
Yet they can take my tax dollars for student loan
bailouts at the drop of a hat. Blue collar guy
living the pay by cash in full or don't buy
it rule all my life, only long I have to
my name is one hundred thousand left on a house.
I'm thirty four and could be set up with money
in my pocket for the rest of my life instead
of paying down a mortgage. Do I expect the government
to help? Do I want it?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And no one else should either. What an embarrassing country.
We've allowed ourselves to be shame And as Tim Sanderfer
pointed out the other day, we got into this discussion
of we were actually talking about gambling. I was asking Tim,
as a libertarian, is he okay with the government legalizing gambling?
And he said, of course I am. And I said, okay,
what about people that ruin their lives? And I got
(13:12):
to pick up the dime, and he said, well, there's
the problem. We do have a system where people are
going to ruin their lives and we are required to
take care of him in their old age. Okay, Well,
then I'm not so cool with legalized gamma. So that's
the problem with all this stuff. But anyway, as he
pointed out, you bail people out, you're gonna get more irresponsibility.
You hurt the people who saved and did it the
(13:35):
right way, and you're gonna get less of that. I mean,
that's so obvious. That is the poison. The corrosive cancero
is poison. That is socialism. It crushes the good and
grows the bad inevitably by It's very nature. That's so good.
I'm gonna have to listen to my own show via
(13:56):
podcast because I really want to hear that conversation. I
wasn't here on money as I was participating in Druid
eclipse festivities, right including that's a funny narrative, human sacrifice
and ritual fornication.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yes, Joe was a Druid and had to take a
day off work for the eclipse.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Moving along John from Santa Cruz, whose entire life makes
me envious. Our discussion of population. I think that was
an hour four of the show, and if you missed it,
you can grab it ya podcast. But the populations of
different countries around the world, it was more interesting than
it sounds on it. Yeah, next week I'll do heights. Yeah, anyway,
it just so happens. I've known for years that Indonesia
(14:39):
is the fourth most popular nation on Earth as a
surfer I've been there many times, as Indonesia has the
best waves on Earth by far, so Number one John
serfs in Indonesia when he's not living in Santa Cruz. Anyway,
I love the place and the people. I also know
it's the world's largest Muslim population. Yesterday on your show,
I learned that Pakistan, Pakistan is also I'm sorry, I
(15:01):
learned that Pakistan, also a Muslim nation, is the world's
fifth most populoust nation. Remember Trump's Muslim ban. I was
screaming at my TV at the time that not adding
Indonesia to the list proves that there was no motive
on Trump's part to band Muslims. What because it's the
most popular Muslim country on Earth. I don't get it.
(15:21):
And now I can add Pakistan. Two of the five
most popular countries on Earth are Muslim. Neither was on
the list of countries as passports we would not accept
because they were issuing official passports to known terrorists under
false names. The other countries were Oh, you want to
talk about misreported statements, quotes, etc. In presidential election, we
(15:42):
got a doozy for you coming up as Kamala and
her boss Joe did a Univision interview over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh my god, stay tuned for.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That utterly shameless anyway, John Rice, I hope your listeners
remember these facts when a family member a friend brings
up the Muslim band hoax. Ah. Let's see, this is
from Jeff pro practically nothing in case Jack is still
looking for a monkey. This really did occur, and it
is a full page newspaper ad. You get a free
(16:10):
monkey if you buy a month's television set. It is,
if not the worst idea in human history, it is
in the top tier. A real live monkey free with
the months is giving away a real live monkey with
the purchase of it any new months TV set. The
(16:32):
whole family will enjoy one of these cute live monkeys.
Here's a pet every family has always wanted, and Months
giving it to you free of charge. Can you imagine
I've never heard of this TV, but they just hand
me the monkey with them, because you know, hooking up
a TV's not am I sow. I got to hook
up my new TV whilst figure out how to handle
my new monkey pet. This was in nineteen sixty two.
(16:55):
It's gonna be climbing on my basis while I'm trying
to hook up the TV people are victimized in their
sleep because they can't. Hey, we can get a free
monkey with the How much trouble could a monkey be?
Let's do it? Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Trump bass for the case involving a hush money payment
to pornstar Stormy Daniels to be moved out of Manhattan,
arguing he can't get a fair shake here because of
pre trial publicity, but an Appella judge ruling the trial
must go on, so jury's election is set to begin Monday.
Prospective jurors will fill out a seven page questionnaire asking
whether they've ever attended a Trump rally, follow him on
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social media, or belong to an array of extremist groups
like Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, or Antifa. Potential jurors will also
be asked if they have strong opinions about Trump or
firmly held beliefs about whether a former president can be
charged with a crime.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's going to happen starting Monday, the Trump so called
hush money trial, which is really more of a federal
election funds mismanagement trial. But theyrosecuted by a local DA huh.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Anyway, is it televised? Do we know that, Katie? Is
anybody know?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I do not know that, although I read some analysis
of what they're going to sorry, go ahead. Is the
trial televised, Katie? Can you look that up? Because if
it's on TV? I've heard the stormy to Anniels saying
the jury selection a bunch of pundits have said could
be epic. So yeah, I was just starting to say.
(18:30):
I was reading about what each side is going to
be looking for, and it's I'm always amused in troubled
when reading that sort of analysis of juries because it's
so obvious the process and the result can be manipulated
by smart lawyers knowing who to pick and who not
to pick. But it gives it kind of a feel
(18:53):
of this is not a jury of my peers looking
at the evidence and saying, as a community, this guy
clearly did it, or no, they haven't proved. It's like
a I.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Don't know, it's just it's untoward to me.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, if it's gonna be his peers, it'd have to
be billionaires who blink porn stars, right.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I suppose. So in the context of this case, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Main thing, Well, first of all, even if he's convicted
this particular trial, is there anybody gonna I was gonna
vote for him, but he got convicted of not filing
the money he spent to have the porn star and
not talk about their sex because it would make his
wife look bad. I can't fill it from a man
who lists an NDA fee is a legal fee, I
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just can't.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Right, Yeah, so it's hard to knowbody.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Ever, even if he's found guilty, does anybody care about that?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
But the main thing is that he's got to be there.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
This isn't like the other trials where he can show
up if he wanted or not show up. He's This
is a regular criminal trial where he's got to be
there every day the whole time. And that's a heck
of a thing. When you're one running a multi billion
dollar empire and two running for president of the United States,
I'd say either one would make that rather inconvenient. There
is going to be some epic eye rolling and harumphing
(20:11):
during this trial. Man, Oh my god, it a porn
star is gonna take the stand at some point.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh good god, talking about a.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Brief just just exchange of you know, just a tawdry
physical coupling many years ago, the words moist and secretions
came into play. All right, I'm gonna ask you to
stop with that seriously, so we'll be everybody, the whole
(20:42):
world to be following that starting Monday, that trial, and
it's gonna get crazy attention.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The big story right now is inflation hotter than expected.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The numbers just came out.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The New York Times headline even is consumer prices rose
three point five percent in the year through March, an
unexpectedly sharp pickup in the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That's even from the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The Wall Street Journal analysis of it is so uh.
They're making the argument though, while inflation was up, it
just started going up again in January and February. The
argument was, well, that was just kind of a you know,
I'll just read what it says in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Wednesday's report had been hotly anticipated.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Because FED leaders had been willing to downplay the firmer
then anticipated inflation readings. Firmer in January and February is
reflecting potential seasonal quirks. You know, it's holidays, it's Christmas,
all that sort of stuff. But a third straight month
of above expectations. Inflation erodes that story and could lead
(21:47):
FED officials to postpone, and he anticipated great cuts and
the whole soft landing, no recession cool off the economy
without a recession thing that we all thought they'd pulled off.
Maybe they haven't pulled off, so recessions back on the table. Yeah,
I'm not sure I'm seeing a hard landing at this point,
(22:08):
as if I would know, But it's unquestionable a FED
is taking their finger off the lower rates button, and
the rates continue to be the highest they've been in
twenty three years and will be for a while. Yeah,
that's rough. Well. Luckily, since wage growth is a significant
(22:29):
factor in inflationary cycles, we're keeping that down by importing
millions of military age young men from other countries, including
hundreds of thousands probably of gang members. If you hear
out of the President, his people, or any mainstream media
outlook inflation is actually down, I would beat them with
(22:55):
the incredibly expensive bacon you just paid for at the
grocery store. I'd slap them upside the head with your
pound of bacon. Metaphorically, it's one way to king. Of course,
we have horror violence here at the Armstrong and Getty show.
I'm reminded of the clip of vivekrom Oswami that we
didn't get to yesterday. Maybe we'll get to that. He
(23:16):
was making the point that if ninety nine percent of
the folks who have come across the border illegally are
fine and upstanding citizens and only one percent are the
criminal element, that's hundreds of thousands of people, and that's
an excellent point. DNL immigrants actually commit crimes that lower
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rates the native barred people. Again a bacon slapping huh.
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The context the congresswoman of the district speaking at a
high school graduation, Sarah or some big ceremony. Anyway, this
is the inimitable Shila Jackson Lee discussing the eclipse.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you
need to take the opportunity just to come out and
see a full moon. Is that complete rounded circle which
is made up mostly of gases. And that's why the
the question is why or how could we as humans
live on the moon, are the gases such that we
(25:29):
could do that. The Sun is a mighty powerful heat
and it's almost impossible to go near the Sun.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
The Moon is more manageable.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And you will see in a moment, or not a moment,
you'll see in a couple of years that NASA is
going back to the Moon.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
She is seventy four years old.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Congress person from Texas has been serving, So it's nineteen
ninety five. So how many terms is that dang near
thirty years? Fourteen fifteen terms? And she's an idiot, it
would appear, oh, at least is now. I don't know
if she was when she was younger, but she's round
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the bend. She would to Yale.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
She's got a bachelor's from Yale.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh yeah, I'd like to see that transcript. Let's start
with you need to take a moment and look at
the full moon and realize it's round. And then her
statement that the moon is mostly gas when it's pretty
much entirely rock, and then gets into the whole us
(26:45):
living on the moon, as if that was the point
of her being brought there to speak. I don't know
why she was brought there to speak, but I doubt
it was to talk about.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Moon life in the future. The delightful statement that the
Sun is a mighty powerful heat, but it's almost impossible.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
To go near the Sun. The moon is more manageable.
That's good. But it went on from there, and I
wish we had more audio. In one statement, she told
students the moon not only reflects the Sun's light but
also emits unique light and energy. You have the energy
of the Moon at night, as if it puts out
its own light. In another statement, she misstated how solar
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eclipses happen, and I quote what you will see today
will be the closest distance that the Moon has ever
been in the last twenty years, which means that's why
they will shut the light down, because they will be
close to the Earth, which is an amazing experience. She
will be able to tell because there will be complete darkness.
In the video, she tells these students not to look
(27:41):
at the sun directly, warning them that the eclipse is
a serious matter and that looking directly into the sun
could mean students not being able to leave on their own,
but instead being walked out while holding their arm. What
a good description of what happens. If you stare at
the sun, you won't be able to leave on your own.
Someone will I have to take you by the arm.
(28:02):
How about you'll be blinded. I don't know about you,
She said. I want to be first in line to
know how to live and to be able to survive
on the Moon. That's another planet which we're going to see,
shortly stating that the Moon is a planet. Ah wow,
And did everybody just sit there not along with her
(28:23):
as she said a bunch of weird crap. Well? Yeah,
According to one account, the poor high school kids were
looking at each other as she got scientific fact after
fact wrong, and we're like, what did she just say?
Imagine the coverage if Marjorie Taylor Green said the same stuff.
In nineteen ninety seven, Jackson Lee visited NASA and demanded
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to see the flag that astronauts planted on Mars. She
was gently advised that no human being had ever been
to Mars because it was so far away. She then
went into a rage and accused the Space Agency of racism,
before pointing out her membership on the House Science Committee.
She also claimed during a floor speech in twenty fourteen
that the US Constitution was four hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
If I wasn't black, you'd show me the Mars flag.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Do we have any other archival Sheila Jackson Lee stuff, Michael,
what do you have for Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
She is just a nasty woman.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hare just listen to his phone call.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yes call, I don't want you really damn thing. I
want you to have a strain and uh you know it.
Google did it, dam did it. And nobody knows what
damn thing in my office? Great nothing. So when I
called Jerome, hent me up there like a fat ass
(29:39):
to an idiot talking about what he doesn't know. Drank
both y'all. Fuck camp is the worst that I could
have a hand book again, damn big ass, n the idiot.
We have no damp foot James.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That's talking to her staff. That's an argument for term limits. Obviously,
of course people should get to decide whether or not
that's who they want to have represent them.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And apparently the voters vote for her.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
It's the classic thing like the Congress has like an
eighteen percent approval rating, but ninety eight percent of them
get reelected every two years. She is the poster child
for urban machine politics and what that yields.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow, that's something. That moon stuff is really wild.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the full moon is, in her defense, very round
and entirely round. Did anybody in her staff when they
got back in the limo say, yeah, oh that moon stuff.
You said every single word of it was crap, you
know that? Yeah? Yeah, she claims that she meant the
sun is a planet made of gases mostly. Okay, So anyway,
(30:50):
there you go. There's your Congress folks, there's the founding
father's vision being carried out to the modern day. Son's
a star, just like Katie Green is a star, and
she's got our headlines coming up next. So the Stormy
(31:11):
Daniels trial is I'm sure it will be called just
like Clinton's impeachment was called the Monica Lewinsky impeachment, even
though that wasn't really what it was about. Is not
going to be on television, We've determined, so, which is good.
It shouldn't be. I mean, it would be such a circus.
It's gonna be a circus anyway. Yeah, it would have
(31:34):
made the OJ trial look sedate. I mean, it would
have been insane, utterly unmissible too. I am both pleased
and heartbroken it will not be televised. He got Stormy Daniels.
You got Michael Cohen, Trump himself right right?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Damn?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I mean just a cast of clowns from New York City.
And so how are they going to select a jury?
What is each team looking? Force? Kind of interesting. We'll
get to that next hour. Well, then, of course you
would have the if it were televised, you would have
the judge becoming a star like a house old name,
along with various lawyers like happened during OJ and they,
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because they're human beings, would not be able to start
reacting to that in the way that they dress, act, talk, whatever.
And it would be so much fun. Oh boy, Oh,
let's dive right into the headlines. Who's reporting what it's
the lead's story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Katie thank you guys from the Wall Street Journal. Inflation
comes in hotter than expected at three point five percent
in March.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, this could be This could be the determining factor
in the presidential election.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
From ABC News.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Foreign terrorists targeting US quote increasingly concerning according to the
FBI director.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, I have no doubt anybody can come in that
wants to. I mean, obviously that's one issue.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
From Fox News, Biden hints at possible executive order to
effectively shut down the border.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, he's hinted at it a couple of times. Is
he going to actually do it? Is he trying to
time it for political reasons? Is he trying to avoid
having to do it at all? For political reasons? Does
anybody have any idea? I don't know. They're probably doing
polling on how much mileage are we getting out of
the whole. The Republicans are at fault for the border
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narrative since they turned down that compromise deal, and at
the point that that kind of runs out of gas
and people are back to blame in the administration, and
he'll do something, never mind national security and the good
of the people of the United States. Screw y'all.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
From the New York Times.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
To counter China's rising power, Biden looks to strengthen ties
with Japan. The United States and Japan are expected to
further integrate their militaries and announce new agreements on technology
and defense later today.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, oh got it. I tell you what the flashpoint
is with China right now is the Philippines, because they're
in a dispute over various tiny little islands and China's
getting increasingly violent and belligerent. They've injured a couple of
Philippine soldiers or sailors pretty significantly, and we're bound by
treaty to back the Philippines. So it's been looking many
(34:28):
decades since Japan has tried to be any sort of
a military power, but historically they've been pretty good at it.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
From MarketWatch, some Apple Vision pro users suffer black eyes, headaches,
and neck pain.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
How do you get a black eye?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Things? Too tight? Y sen it up? You put the
strap on too tight, you mol ron, I'm with him,
stupid idiot. From The New.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
York Post flight diverted after dog poops on board.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Quote smell never quite went away. How does that not
happen more often? It's a sick enough, I don't know.
One of the great challenges of being a dog owner is.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
If you're like out of the usual scene that your
dog is used to. You're thinking, yeah, we'll just take
him for a quick walk and then will well your
dog is like, I'm not real comfortable here. I think
I'm gonna hold it in. Yes, there I am, And
then you know, you get on an airplane.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Please.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
The New York Times they made a movie.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
About a pack of sasquatches.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
What's this movie?
Speaker 6 (35:36):
It's called Sasquatch Sunset and it follows the creatures as
they go about their lives. All right, a little from
the man who I picked that headline for anyway, Moving
on Babylon Bee, NASA sends a rover to search for
intelligent life on the view.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh oh oh, that reminds me of speending of people
saying dopey stuff funny host and held forth on the
topic or two I guess yesterday or something, and is
being widely mocked for it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Uh, we'll get you that audio as well. So you
have some details on the Trump trial for us, Yeah,
particularly or specifically the jury selection, which which sort of
person each side is going to look for. First time
a former president's ever been in a courtroom situation like
this ever in our nation's history. Of course, everything is
unprecedented in the modern world.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty live from Studio C.
(00:35):
It's a dimly lit room, deeput from the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, today Tuesday,
we're under the tutelage of our general manager. I think
we know it. Jackson Lee. Who is Sheila Jackson Lee?
Perhaps the nation's dopiest congresswoman. She doesn't know anything as
(00:59):
far as as I can tell. Where's she from? Houston?
I think there are too many congress people. I'm believing
we can look that up. Let me ask my uncle Google,
or perhaps the fabulous Katie Green would do that for me.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Where Sheila Jackson Lee is from?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah? Who she represents?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
She said, Texas eighteenth Congressional District. Yes, most of central Houston.
And she said something hilarious. I am assuming you guys
were talking about it in the pre show meeting. Yes,
we have a meeting before the show, and it still
turns out like this. This this I do not want
to overseew this, but this audio will lift the spirits
(01:43):
of all Americans. Oh, that's fantastic, until you consider the
fact that this woman is a congress person. Then it
will plunge your spirits into dark despair. So first lift
your spirits, then plunge them into dark despair.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, that's what we're going for, right.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So we do have some somewhat breaking news and breaking news,
you know, we try to be careful with that because
we're on a lot of different markets at different times,
and a lot of people listen to this in podcast form,
and so, but the inflation numbers just came out, and
here's your Wall Street Journal headline on that. Inflation comes
(02:21):
in hotter than expected at three point five percent in March.
Stubborn inflation persisted in March, seriously weakening the case for
the Feds to begin cutting interest rates in June.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it virtually eliminates that possibility.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I think it does two. And if you're looking at
it from the standpoint of what it costs to buy stuff,
it sucks. If you're looking at it from the standpoint
of our presidential election, definitely helps Trump hurts Biden.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This news, Uh yeah, true enough. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I was just thinking in terms of paying bills and
and interest rates and that sort of thing. But yeah,
I only think about presidential politics. Jack. Inflation is actually
down from two years ago. You will hill that argument
because it is down from two years ago, but it
is up from recent months and that's not good. Right,
Prices are up from yesterday, So this is interesting. So
(03:18):
Ron Klaine, who is the former chief of staff for
President Biden, got caught on a hot mic yesterday talking
about what his old boss, President Biden needs to be
doing on the campaign trail. And it gets to this,
and this is before the inflation numbers came out, and
he was saying, I think the President's out there too
much talking about bridges. He does two or three events
(03:39):
a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge,
and here's a bridge. Like I tell you, if you
go into a grocery store, you go to a grocery store,
and you know eggs and milk are expensive. The fact
that there's an effing bridge is not something something inaudible.
The fact that there's an effing bridge somewhere that is
very true. You can do all the ribbon cuttings the
(04:00):
fifteen hundred miles from where I live on some bridge.
Don't mean nothing to me. When God, what was it yesterday?
I bought something and I was like, you've got to
be kidding me. Oh yeah, Oh, this was a California thing,
So I don't know how much of this was inflation.
I was at the Jamba Juice and they no longer
have a person who takes your order. You have to
do it on some sort of computer pad because they're
(04:21):
part of the twenty dollars minimum wage thing, so there's
nobody to help you. So there's an impossible at least
for me as an old person to use computer pad.
When I used to say to the nice lady, I'll
take a large protein berry pizaz or whatever, they got
to go through these screens on the computer pad or
whateverything like that.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And then I got my medium Jama juice one and
it was.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Eleven dollars, so I had to order it through a
computer and it was eleven bucks for one Jama juice,
a medium, And there was an old lady there with me,
and she said, I don't know if I can keep
coming here at these prices. I said, I know, that's ridiculous. Yeah,
how's her utopia? Coming along there. But that eleven dollars
amba juice or you're bacon or your gas or whatever,
(05:02):
as Ron Klain, his former chief of staff, says, matters
a lot more to you than some effing bridge somewhere.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Honey, no bacon with the eggs this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, but there is a new bridge in Pittsburgh. Well
shines a different light on it. I do care about
federal infrastructure. I can't eat it, but I do appreciate it. Can't. Kids,
We've got to move out of our house and know
it's your Oh, stop crying. There's a brand new bridge
(05:32):
in Galvaston, Texas. Shoe strings boiled in hot water again tonight.
But let me tell you about some infrastructure steps the
nation has taken.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Have you seen the new off ramps around Des Moines?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kids? The Quad City off ramps are amazing right now,
be quiet in each you, Gruel. Yeah, that's pretty interesting
and pretty accurate from his former chief of staff. Yet,
so I'm not happy that I'd rather. I've never been
a person who roots for a bad economy when it
(06:08):
helps my side an election. Never, I'm always rooten for
a good economy, and I'm not happy to see inflation
is hanging around. No, not at all. Speaking of the parsident,
his recent appearance on televis slash univisione. Why are you
not speaking English? Show? You know that's a good question,
was and we will play you audio of it. It
(06:30):
reminds me very much of various interactions I've had with
both my relatives and friends, relatives who are very old
and prone to saying about anything. You take it all
with a grain of salt. You handle them gently. It's fine.
But they're they're obviously not really together anymore. Biden gives
(06:50):
that vibe off everything he does. And it's only April.
We should start the show officially so I can hear
this fun audio you say we have from some woman
in from Texas, a snippet of her her Symphony of Stupidity,
A snippet. Okay, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getti on this.
(07:13):
It is Wednesday, April tenth, here twenty twenty four. Life
will not be a board twenty four where Armstrong and
getting we approve of this program. Let's begin then officially.
According to FCC rules and regulations, the show comes at
mark A.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Full moon is that complete rounded circle which is made
up mostly of gases, and that's why the question, the
question is why or how could we as humans live
on the moon.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, that that snippet was intriguing.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's a congress person. Yes, yes, yes, uh yeah, we
gotta we'll just we'll play the whole thing in just
a few minutes. It's astounding, especially given the context. She's
speaking in a high school graduation about the moon and
the eclipse and that sort of thing, and she gets
(08:05):
everything rolling and the kids are all looking at each
other like is this for real?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Wow? Yeah, I've spoken a number of times on the
show about how this woman is an idiot, and she
is it will be on full displaced. Well, we may
have the empirical evidence coming up. That's fantastic. I find
that entertaining. How does mail bag look? Oh, it's actually
(08:33):
very good. Lots of fine insight from the folks. Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's all on the way. And our text line is,
there's a man.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How about Arizona coming out with an abortion ruling yesterday
that didn't do trumpety favors? Certainly, the day after Trump
says let's leave it to the States, Arizona goes back
to a Civil War era abortion law. Oh, boy, talk
about a topic I don't want to discuss. But that's
a Kamala Harris is headed there right now. I just
(09:02):
saw an MSNBC to start giving speeches there and it'll
get tremendous mainstream media coverage. Oh yeah, they're.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Firing up the demagoguery machine and setting it on high.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Brace yourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, they stepped in it there.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
All right, So all that's on the way. Did I
say the text line? Yeah, the text line four one
five two nine five k FDC. I feel horrible, by
the way. So if we can come up with a
topic that really angers me, I think I could say
some really really untoward things today. Wow wow, okay, yeah,
(09:39):
little frightening, but an opportunity. Okay, well look for that,
an opportunity for entertainment or to lose my job both.
Oh boy. And it was going so well. Here's your
freedom loving quote of today. I'm continuing to dip into
some of the quotes from our forgotten founding fathers. For instance,
John Dickinson, who is a Pennsylvania and he was known
(10:01):
as the Penman of the Revolution for his twelve Letters
from a Farmer in Pennsylvania published in nineteen sixty I'm
sorry seventeen sixty nineteen sixty seven. Well, he didn't get
around to it. He is a bit of a procrastinator.
But they were very influential back in the day. I
have not read them, at least recently.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Not sure i'd ever heard of them.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Here's his freedom loving quota today, which would probably make
him spin in the grave like a cordless drill.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Let our government be like, oh.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
This is so appropriate in the wake of the eclipse.
Let our government be like that of the solar system.
Let the central government be like the Sun, and the
states of the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole
moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits. You know, what's
the idea. What's interesting to me is that you know
(10:53):
yet another example of how much democracy we had going
for decades. In decades are like a couple of centuries,
starting with the Mayflower Compact that allowed us to get
up and running, as opposed to when we show up
in Afghanistan or someplace and try to get democracy started
from scratch. It takes a long time of thinking about
(11:16):
these things and being part of the culture before you
can get it to work. I would agree even in
the accelerated timetable of the twenty first century. The idea
that you could impose it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
From outside on a culture that it's foreign to.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's ridiculous. It's almost laughable. Mailbag, Whooo would you like
to communicate with us? One of the ways is via email.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Mail Bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. JT and
Livermore frequent correspondent, invaluable contributor in the company.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Of bad words. Secretions is the crude brother in laws
of the word moist. Neither are welcome and mixed company. Yes, yes,
around a cocktail party, you should never say secretions or moist.
Moist is a terrible word. I'm feeling moist, are you, honey?
Oh I've been secreting all that long? Oh wow, I
(12:11):
see that would be no good for anyone. She money
that it was off putting. H Adam writes, So the
government will stop me from looking at trees in a
national park during a government shutdown, and Joe Biden needs
bipartisan support and Congress to act to fund the border.
(12:32):
Yet they can take my tax dollars for student loan
bailouts at the drop of a hat. Blue collar guy
living the pay by cash in full or don't buy
it rule all my life, only long I have to
my name is one hundred thousand left on a house.
I'm thirty four and could be set up with money
in my pocket for the rest of my life instead
of paying down a mortgage. Do I expect the government
to help? Do I want it?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And no one else should either. What an embarrassing country.
We've allowed ourselves to be shame And as Tim Sanderfer
pointed out the other day, we got into this discussion
of we were actually talking about gambling. I was asking Tim,
as a libertarian, is he okay with the government legalizing gambling?
And he said, of course I am. And I said, okay,
what about people that ruin their lives? And I got
(13:12):
to pick up the dime, and he said, well, there's
the problem. We do have a system where people are
going to ruin their lives and we are required to
take care of him in their old age. Okay, Well,
then I'm not so cool with legalized gamma. So that's
the problem with all this stuff. But anyway, as he
pointed out, you bail people out, you're gonna get more irresponsibility.
You hurt the people who saved and did it the
(13:35):
right way, and you're gonna get less of that. I mean,
that's so obvious. That is the poison. The corrosive cancero
is poison. That is socialism. It crushes the good and
grows the bad inevitably by It's very nature. That's so good.
I'm gonna have to listen to my own show via
(13:56):
podcast because I really want to hear that conversation. I
wasn't here on money as I was participating in Druid
eclipse festivities, right including that's a funny narrative, human sacrifice
and ritual fornication.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yes, Joe was a Druid and had to take a
day off work for the eclipse.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Moving along John from Santa Cruz, whose entire life makes
me envious. Our discussion of population. I think that was
an hour four of the show, and if you missed it,
you can grab it ya podcast. But the populations of
different countries around the world, it was more interesting than
it sounds on it. Yeah, next week I'll do heights. Yeah, anyway,
it just so happens. I've known for years that Indonesia
(14:39):
is the fourth most popular nation on Earth as a
surfer I've been there many times, as Indonesia has the
best waves on Earth by far, so Number one John
serfs in Indonesia when he's not living in Santa Cruz. Anyway,
I love the place and the people. I also know
it's the world's largest Muslim population. Yesterday on your show,
I learned that Pakistan, Pakistan is also I'm sorry, I
(15:01):
learned that Pakistan, also a Muslim nation, is the world's
fifth most populoust nation. Remember Trump's Muslim ban. I was
screaming at my TV at the time that not adding
Indonesia to the list proves that there was no motive
on Trump's part to band Muslims. What because it's the
most popular Muslim country on Earth. I don't get it.
(15:21):
And now I can add Pakistan. Two of the five
most popular countries on Earth are Muslim. Neither was on
the list of countries as passports we would not accept
because they were issuing official passports to known terrorists under
false names. The other countries were Oh, you want to
talk about misreported statements, quotes, etc. In presidential election, we
(15:42):
got a doozy for you coming up as Kamala and
her boss Joe did a Univision interview over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh my god, stay tuned for.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That utterly shameless anyway, John Rice, I hope your listeners
remember these facts when a family member a friend brings
up the Muslim band hoax. Ah. Let's see, this is
from Jeff pro practically nothing in case Jack is still
looking for a monkey. This really did occur, and it
is a full page newspaper ad. You get a free
(16:10):
monkey if you buy a month's television set. It is,
if not the worst idea in human history, it is
in the top tier. A real live monkey free with
the months is giving away a real live monkey with
the purchase of it any new months TV set. The
(16:32):
whole family will enjoy one of these cute live monkeys.
Here's a pet every family has always wanted, and Months
giving it to you free of charge. Can you imagine
I've never heard of this TV, but they just hand
me the monkey with them, because you know, hooking up
a TV's not am I sow. I got to hook
up my new TV whilst figure out how to handle
my new monkey pet. This was in nineteen sixty two.
(16:55):
It's gonna be climbing on my basis while I'm trying
to hook up the TV people are victimized in their
sleep because they can't. Hey, we can get a free
monkey with the How much trouble could a monkey be?
Let's do it? Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Trump bass for the case involving a hush money payment
to pornstar Stormy Daniels to be moved out of Manhattan,
arguing he can't get a fair shake here because of
pre trial publicity, but an Appella judge ruling the trial
must go on, so jury's election is set to begin Monday.
Prospective jurors will fill out a seven page questionnaire asking
whether they've ever attended a Trump rally, follow him on
(17:33):
social media, or belong to an array of extremist groups
like Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, or Antifa. Potential jurors will also
be asked if they have strong opinions about Trump or
firmly held beliefs about whether a former president can be
charged with a crime.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's going to happen starting Monday, the Trump so called
hush money trial, which is really more of a federal
election funds mismanagement trial. But theyrosecuted by a local DA huh.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Anyway, is it televised? Do we know that, Katie? Is
anybody know?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I do not know that, although I read some analysis
of what they're going to sorry, go ahead. Is the
trial televised, Katie? Can you look that up? Because if
it's on TV? I've heard the stormy to Anniels saying
the jury selection a bunch of pundits have said could
be epic. So yeah, I was just starting to say.
(18:30):
I was reading about what each side is going to
be looking for, and it's I'm always amused in troubled
when reading that sort of analysis of juries because it's
so obvious the process and the result can be manipulated
by smart lawyers knowing who to pick and who not
to pick. But it gives it kind of a feel
(18:53):
of this is not a jury of my peers looking
at the evidence and saying, as a community, this guy
clearly did it, or no, they haven't proved. It's like
a I.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Don't know, it's just it's untoward to me.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, if it's gonna be his peers, it'd have to
be billionaires who blink porn stars, right.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I suppose. So in the context of this case, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Main thing, Well, first of all, even if he's convicted
this particular trial, is there anybody gonna I was gonna
vote for him, but he got convicted of not filing
the money he spent to have the porn star and
not talk about their sex because it would make his
wife look bad. I can't fill it from a man
who lists an NDA fee is a legal fee, I
(19:41):
just can't.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Right, Yeah, so it's hard to knowbody.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Ever, even if he's found guilty, does anybody care about that?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
But the main thing is that he's got to be there.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
This isn't like the other trials where he can show
up if he wanted or not show up. He's This
is a regular criminal trial where he's got to be
there every day the whole time. And that's a heck
of a thing. When you're one running a multi billion
dollar empire and two running for president of the United States,
I'd say either one would make that rather inconvenient. There
is going to be some epic eye rolling and harumphing
(20:11):
during this trial. Man, Oh my god, it a porn
star is gonna take the stand at some point.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh good god, talking about a.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Brief just just exchange of you know, just a tawdry
physical coupling many years ago, the words moist and secretions
came into play. All right, I'm gonna ask you to
stop with that seriously, so we'll be everybody, the whole
(20:42):
world to be following that starting Monday, that trial, and
it's gonna get crazy attention.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The big story right now is inflation hotter than expected.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The numbers just came out.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The New York Times headline even is consumer prices rose
three point five percent in the year through March, an
unexpectedly sharp pickup in the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That's even from the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The Wall Street Journal analysis of it is so uh.
They're making the argument though, while inflation was up, it
just started going up again in January and February. The
argument was, well, that was just kind of a you know,
I'll just read what it says in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Wednesday's report had been hotly anticipated.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Because FED leaders had been willing to downplay the firmer
then anticipated inflation readings. Firmer in January and February is
reflecting potential seasonal quirks. You know, it's holidays, it's Christmas,
all that sort of stuff. But a third straight month
of above expectations. Inflation erodes that story and could lead
(21:47):
FED officials to postpone, and he anticipated great cuts and
the whole soft landing, no recession cool off the economy
without a recession thing that we all thought they'd pulled off.
Maybe they haven't pulled off, so recessions back on the table. Yeah,
I'm not sure I'm seeing a hard landing at this point,
(22:08):
as if I would know, But it's unquestionable a FED
is taking their finger off the lower rates button, and
the rates continue to be the highest they've been in
twenty three years and will be for a while. Yeah,
that's rough. Well. Luckily, since wage growth is a significant
(22:29):
factor in inflationary cycles, we're keeping that down by importing
millions of military age young men from other countries, including
hundreds of thousands probably of gang members. If you hear
out of the President, his people, or any mainstream media
outlook inflation is actually down, I would beat them with
(22:55):
the incredibly expensive bacon you just paid for at the
grocery store. I'd slap them upside the head with your
pound of bacon. Metaphorically, it's one way to king. Of course,
we have horror violence here at the Armstrong and Getty show.
I'm reminded of the clip of vivekrom Oswami that we
didn't get to yesterday. Maybe we'll get to that. He
(23:16):
was making the point that if ninety nine percent of
the folks who have come across the border illegally are
fine and upstanding citizens and only one percent are the
criminal element, that's hundreds of thousands of people, and that's
an excellent point. DNL immigrants actually commit crimes that lower
(23:37):
rates the native barred people. Again a bacon slapping huh.
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The context the congresswoman of the district speaking at a
high school graduation, Sarah or some big ceremony. Anyway, this
is the inimitable Shila Jackson Lee discussing the eclipse.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you
need to take the opportunity just to come out and
see a full moon. Is that complete rounded circle which
is made up mostly of gases. And that's why the
the question is why or how could we as humans
live on the moon, are the gases such that we
(25:29):
could do that. The Sun is a mighty powerful heat
and it's almost impossible to go near the Sun.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
The Moon is more manageable.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And you will see in a moment, or not a moment,
you'll see in a couple of years that NASA is
going back to the Moon.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
She is seventy four years old.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Congress person from Texas has been serving, So it's nineteen
ninety five. So how many terms is that dang near
thirty years? Fourteen fifteen terms? And she's an idiot, it
would appear, oh, at least is now. I don't know
if she was when she was younger, but she's round
(26:17):
the bend. She would to Yale.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
She's got a bachelor's from Yale.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh yeah, I'd like to see that transcript. Let's start
with you need to take a moment and look at
the full moon and realize it's round. And then her
statement that the moon is mostly gas when it's pretty
much entirely rock, and then gets into the whole us
(26:45):
living on the moon, as if that was the point
of her being brought there to speak. I don't know
why she was brought there to speak, but I doubt
it was to talk about.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Moon life in the future. The delightful statement that the
Sun is a mighty powerful heat, but it's almost impossible.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
To go near the Sun. The moon is more manageable.
That's good. But it went on from there, and I
wish we had more audio. In one statement, she told
students the moon not only reflects the Sun's light but
also emits unique light and energy. You have the energy
of the Moon at night, as if it puts out
its own light. In another statement, she misstated how solar
(27:21):
eclipses happen, and I quote what you will see today
will be the closest distance that the Moon has ever
been in the last twenty years, which means that's why
they will shut the light down, because they will be
close to the Earth, which is an amazing experience. She
will be able to tell because there will be complete darkness.
In the video, she tells these students not to look
(27:41):
at the sun directly, warning them that the eclipse is
a serious matter and that looking directly into the sun
could mean students not being able to leave on their own,
but instead being walked out while holding their arm. What
a good description of what happens. If you stare at
the sun, you won't be able to leave on your own.
Someone will I have to take you by the arm.
(28:02):
How about you'll be blinded. I don't know about you,
She said. I want to be first in line to
know how to live and to be able to survive
on the Moon. That's another planet which we're going to see,
shortly stating that the Moon is a planet. Ah wow,
And did everybody just sit there not along with her
(28:23):
as she said a bunch of weird crap. Well? Yeah,
According to one account, the poor high school kids were
looking at each other as she got scientific fact after
fact wrong, and we're like, what did she just say?
Imagine the coverage if Marjorie Taylor Green said the same stuff.
In nineteen ninety seven, Jackson Lee visited NASA and demanded
(28:46):
to see the flag that astronauts planted on Mars. She
was gently advised that no human being had ever been
to Mars because it was so far away. She then
went into a rage and accused the Space Agency of racism,
before pointing out her membership on the House Science Committee.
She also claimed during a floor speech in twenty fourteen
that the US Constitution was four hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
If I wasn't black, you'd show me the Mars flag.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Do we have any other archival Sheila Jackson Lee stuff, Michael,
what do you have for Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
She is just a nasty woman.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hare just listen to his phone call.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yes call, I don't want you really damn thing. I
want you to have a strain and uh you know it.
Google did it, dam did it. And nobody knows what
damn thing in my office? Great nothing. So when I
called Jerome, hent me up there like a fat ass
(29:39):
to an idiot talking about what he doesn't know. Drank
both y'all. Fuck camp is the worst that I could
have a hand book again, damn big ass, n the idiot.
We have no damp foot James.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That's talking to her staff. That's an argument for term limits. Obviously,
of course people should get to decide whether or not
that's who they want to have represent them.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And apparently the voters vote for her.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
It's the classic thing like the Congress has like an
eighteen percent approval rating, but ninety eight percent of them
get reelected every two years. She is the poster child
for urban machine politics and what that yields.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow, that's something. That moon stuff is really wild.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the full moon is, in her defense, very round
and entirely round. Did anybody in her staff when they
got back in the limo say, yeah, oh that moon stuff.
You said every single word of it was crap, you
know that? Yeah? Yeah, she claims that she meant the
sun is a planet made of gases mostly. Okay, So anyway,
(30:50):
there you go. There's your Congress folks, there's the founding
father's vision being carried out to the modern day. Son's
a star, just like Katie Green is a star, and
she's got our headlines coming up next. So the Stormy
(31:11):
Daniels trial is I'm sure it will be called just
like Clinton's impeachment was called the Monica Lewinsky impeachment, even
though that wasn't really what it was about. Is not
going to be on television, We've determined, so, which is good.
It shouldn't be. I mean, it would be such a circus.
It's gonna be a circus anyway. Yeah, it would have
(31:34):
made the OJ trial look sedate. I mean, it would
have been insane, utterly unmissible too. I am both pleased
and heartbroken it will not be televised. He got Stormy Daniels.
You got Michael Cohen, Trump himself right right?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Damn?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I mean just a cast of clowns from New York City.
And so how are they going to select a jury?
What is each team looking? Force? Kind of interesting. We'll
get to that next hour. Well, then, of course you
would have the if it were televised, you would have
the judge becoming a star like a house old name,
along with various lawyers like happened during OJ and they,
(32:18):
because they're human beings, would not be able to start
reacting to that in the way that they dress, act, talk, whatever.
And it would be so much fun. Oh boy, Oh,
let's dive right into the headlines. Who's reporting what it's
the lead's story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Katie thank you guys from the Wall Street Journal. Inflation
comes in hotter than expected at three point five percent
in March.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, this could be This could be the determining factor
in the presidential election.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
From ABC News.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Foreign terrorists targeting US quote increasingly concerning according to the
FBI director.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, I have no doubt anybody can come in that
wants to. I mean, obviously that's one issue.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
From Fox News, Biden hints at possible executive order to
effectively shut down the border.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, he's hinted at it a couple of times. Is
he going to actually do it? Is he trying to
time it for political reasons? Is he trying to avoid
having to do it at all? For political reasons? Does
anybody have any idea? I don't know. They're probably doing
polling on how much mileage are we getting out of
the whole. The Republicans are at fault for the border
(33:34):
narrative since they turned down that compromise deal, and at
the point that that kind of runs out of gas
and people are back to blame in the administration, and
he'll do something, never mind national security and the good
of the people of the United States. Screw y'all.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
From the New York Times.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
To counter China's rising power, Biden looks to strengthen ties
with Japan. The United States and Japan are expected to
further integrate their militaries and announce new agreements on technology
and defense later today.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, oh got it. I tell you what the flashpoint
is with China right now is the Philippines, because they're
in a dispute over various tiny little islands and China's
getting increasingly violent and belligerent. They've injured a couple of
Philippine soldiers or sailors pretty significantly, and we're bound by
treaty to back the Philippines. So it's been looking many
(34:28):
decades since Japan has tried to be any sort of
a military power, but historically they've been pretty good at it.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
From MarketWatch, some Apple Vision pro users suffer black eyes, headaches,
and neck pain.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
How do you get a black eye?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Things? Too tight? Y sen it up? You put the
strap on too tight, you mol ron, I'm with him,
stupid idiot. From The New.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
York Post flight diverted after dog poops on board.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Quote smell never quite went away. How does that not
happen more often? It's a sick enough, I don't know.
One of the great challenges of being a dog owner is.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
If you're like out of the usual scene that your
dog is used to. You're thinking, yeah, we'll just take
him for a quick walk and then will well your
dog is like, I'm not real comfortable here. I think
I'm gonna hold it in. Yes, there I am, And
then you know, you get on an airplane.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Please.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
The New York Times they made a movie.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
About a pack of sasquatches.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
What's this movie?
Speaker 6 (35:36):
It's called Sasquatch Sunset and it follows the creatures as
they go about their lives. All right, a little from
the man who I picked that headline for anyway, Moving
on Babylon Bee, NASA sends a rover to search for
intelligent life on the view.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh oh oh, that reminds me of speending of people
saying dopey stuff funny host and held forth on the
topic or two I guess yesterday or something, and is
being widely mocked for it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Uh, we'll get you that audio as well. So you
have some details on the Trump trial for us, Yeah,
particularly or specifically the jury selection, which which sort of
person each side is going to look for. First time
a former president's ever been in a courtroom situation like
this ever in our nation's history. Of course, everything is
unprecedented in the modern world.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
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