July 7, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jettie
and no Hee Armstrong. And yet.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Big Beautiful Show is back live from Studio c
Armstrong Ingetty compounds surrounded by razor wire and barking dogs
to keep us protected. And today we're under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Ah C and Gee tanned, rested and ready back from
vacation also well theoretically, And the poor people of Texas,
good God.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The flooding, what a horror. I'm tan, I'm way too tan.
Probably be paying the price for that with skin doctors
years from now. Uh ready, yes, very ready rested? No,
definitely not rested.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You are dark enough to get away with railing against
white people in a public place and people thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh, I bet he's what is he on his pannica?
You're very dark. I couldn't pull that off exactly. All
you care about is white people. We white people. One
people are thinking, hmm, I wonder what is he? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Uh he has no accent, I don't Uh. Yeah, I
went too hard on vacation, as I usually do I
go hard on vacations. I always have always, well it's
this way I'm built. But I wore me and the
kids out. We probably vacationed one to two days too long.
Probably should have ended it just a dad earlier. It
was a a I think, have we reached our maximum
(01:43):
uh moment of three people being together, you know, all
the time? Uh forty eight hours before we finished, I'd say,
oh boy, you know, it sets a long time to
do everything together all the time and work out where
we're gonna go, where we were gonna eat, you know,
blah blah, just everything you do on vacation.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It was enough. It was enough by the end.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, have you thought about like scheduling it? Well, of
course scheduling and take some of the fun out of him,
but scheduling in you know, solo times. Isn't people go
off and do their own thing for a while. Did
you do that at all?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
One kid? I can, with the other kid I can't.
So yeah, all right, yeah, so that's not really an
option yet. I What we basically did is I would
go with one kid and then the other one would
take a break and I would go with the other kid.
The one the person that never took a break was
the oldest person, although I didn't notice. They can't keep
up with me. I kept saying to him, I'm sixty.
(02:39):
Why can't you guys keep up? My legs are tired. Yeah,
well why why?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Wow, it's because there's not in school anymore. There's no
p in school anymore. Michael, You're right, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, it's because there's no pe in school anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's exactly right. Michael's shaming your own children.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh yes, we left the met where we probably stayed
for too long in New York City. Ended up going
to New York Off. Talk about that later. That was
completely Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Me, that's not in the South Florida pulled.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
A complete audible in the middle of vacation when we
decided we were tired of being hot, and I booked
flights to.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
New York and then we went to New York and
did stuff there for a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But because that's the way I roll on vacation, everything's
completely random in the seat of the pants, and I
love it that way. But we are at the museum
for probably too long. My sophomore in high school said,
when I get older, I'm never going to a museum.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Wow, it's like digging a ditch in the mid Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It was like I was punishing them for some reason.
Glad he had a good time, never going to a
museum again. AnyWho are you rested?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, more or less? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And and and fed, good Lord of my fed, and watered,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There was no shortage of excess over the week.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It was big fun, very laid back by your standards,
as we had folks in visiting, a folk and my daughter,
so it was a lot of good family time, played golf,
eight drank that sort of thing. I'm not going to
say staycation, except in making clear that I'm not saying it,
but I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's what it was. I came back lighter than I left.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's how much walking we did, so I'm happy about that,
even though there was a tremendous amount of eating. It
was so freaking hot in Florida, good freaking God. And
I know it was going to be in and kind
of went down here on purpose because it's not near
as crowded, but it was hot. We were in the Everglades, like,
not very far from where Trump was for the whole
unveiling of the Alligator Alcatraz, Like I was just not
too many miles away, but it really disrupted traffic and everything.
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We did a fifteen mile bike ride through the Everglades
in the heat, and that was that was pretty grueling.
That was pretty grueling because it was ninety with seventy
percent humidity, and it was just oppressive fifteen miles and
Henry wanted to turn around. I called him weak, He
got angry, and then he finished. So I consider that
(05:11):
a win. I'm sure he'll be talking to therapist about
that the rest of his life. But he went ahead
and finished the fifteen mile ride. And he's not dead.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
He'll become some sort of superachieving navy seal type and
he'll never stop hating you. All Right.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We finished the fifteen miles, and I mean we were gassed,
I mean just beat red and so tired, and there
was no water on it. You could only the water
he took, which we ran through very quickly. And but
I got back and I was talking to the what
are you a park ranger? Park rangers? And he said
to one of the girls, I said, man, has anybody
ever died on that? She said, yeah, last week a
guy he had a heart attack and died. Okay, I
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just kind of kidding. But anyway, what are you gonna do.
It's all lots of alligators. That alligator alcatraze. That's a
good idea. They escaped from prison or I guess they're
illegal immigrants. That's where housing illegal immigrant in the Everglades.
And the idea is that if you try to escape,
you'll be eaten by alligators. I don't know if that's
cruel and unusual. I usually that unsad. It seems like
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it seems rude to actually say that out loud.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We are going to accommodate you here while the paperwork
is being processed, and we suggest you stay on campus.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, I would present it this way. People come from
all over the world to vacation here the Everglades. I
mean people a to come here. That's how desirable a
spot we have put you. And by the way, I
wouldn't try to leave.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
The place is surrounded by fifteen foot lizards will rip
your head off. Just thought you'd want to know. Anyway,
get comfy and enjoy your stack and.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Bugs that are like from the prehistoric era, just like
the size of a baseball, Like, what the hell is
that thing?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Cocker you could ride to town. I don't even know
what the bugs were. I couldn't test saddle on that thing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Grasshoppers that should have you know, individual names and be
able to vote.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean they were like.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Gee, you should have numbers on the back so the
FAA can identify that exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yes, AnyWho.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I feel really bad that we missed out on a
week of talking about the big, beautiful bills that passed,
although we will get to talk about tariff switch kick
in on Wednesday, so lucky us. Let's start the show
officially before we get to some of the news of
the day, some of it awful. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this that it is Monday, July seventh,
the year twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong and getting We
(07:23):
approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Let's leap into action then officially now, according to FCC rules,
Regg's show starts at mark.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
The American Revolution is the most important event since the
birth of Christ in all of world history.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Love it. How was your fourth of July?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Did you spend a little time thinking about the whole
independence from Great Britain forming a new nation in a
way that had never been done before. As ken Burns
the documentarian, Just to point it out there, I just
watched that whole interview that Ken Burns. He's got a
documentary coming out in November about the revolution and the
importance of it, and it was refreshingly old school boosterism
(08:02):
for the idea of the United States of America and
our creation and what we're trying to accomplish in a
way that I haven't seen in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Wow. Color me slightly surprised.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I know Ken has been a bit of a liberal,
what an annoying one in recent years, but good for him.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I've always loved his documentaries though, and I think I'm
gonna talk about this more or later as it fits
into my vacation and going around and seeing different things.
I really really think that whole moment, that weird period
that we have said needs to be named, that we
all just live through is over.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
There's some cleaning up to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Do, plenty plenty of cleaning up to do, but it
is over the fact that CBS had a fifteen minute
interview with ken Burns about the founding of the country
and that they talked about it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
In all positive terms.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Wow, as opposed to the sixteen nineteen project, which looked
like it was going to rule the day a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh my god, it's refreshing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
My concern is an obvious one, the generation of kids
who were indoctrinated into this evil, awful idea that America
is a force for badness and not goodness. They're going
to have to work their way through the system, the
system of governance and culture and the rest of it.
I'm hoping we can sand off some of those edges
because it's not their fault. It really isn't. The people
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we trusted to educate them perverted their minds.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It is still just so incredibly annoying going to a
ton of museums over vacation and museums. Now every plaque
you read has got to include some sort of displaced
people used to live here, or because of climate change,
or Europeans came and wiped out the just every plaque
(09:48):
has to have some sort of woke Western civilization is
bad statement in it, and it's so flipping annoying.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I read that months and months ago that one of
the top priorities Trump and company have to pursue to
turn the culture around, or to continue to help it
turn around, is to root out that sort of stuff
at museums. Specifically, they were talking about the Smithsonian, which
is just rife with that sort of garbage.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And my final note on that.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
We were at the Museum of American Natural History, The
American Museum of Natural History, one of the most famous
museums in the world and famous for some movies that
a lot of kids, including my kids, liked, The Night
at the Museum and All the Things Come Alive, and
those are great movies, but of course it included Robin
Williams as Teddy Roosevelt on the horse the statue from
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in front of the museum rides in and Teddy Roosevelt
runs the whole thing. Very charming movies, except for that
statue of Teddy Roosevelt on the horse no longer exists,
and I'd forgotten about that walking up to the museum.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I hadn't been there since they took that statue down.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And it's just nots It's just nuts that that actually happened.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I know, I know, what a strange strange time. Keep
fighting it. That infection is still there.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I just read a we probably ought to take a break,
but I just read an impassioned piece in Slate, that
awful lefty website, talking about how Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania,
banning big announcement to what we're on vacation that gladden
into my heart, banned dudes from competing in women's sports
and rescinded all the records and apologized to the women
(11:24):
who were abused.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But this piece of Slate was arguing that that was
a horrific thing to do. It was exactly the wrong
thing to do, and we need to stand up more
than ever for dudes pretending to be women.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So that tell you what that thinking is not gone.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Elon Musk wants to start a new party, and that
could be pretty damned interesting because lord knows he's got
the money to throw behind it. Among the many many
things we're going to talk about since we're back, here's
our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
That's giant piece of legislation passing is a pretty big deal,
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and we'll have to talk about that later.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Whether we like it or not.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think it's a lot like life a lot of
great stuff, a lot of pain, tragedy, suffering, occasional vomiting.
It's a metaphor for life, Jack. Yeah, well maybe, but
it's not. It's another step in that we're we're just
broken the way we do things, just completely completely broken.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That is correct, Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh boy, all right, let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Righty's starting.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
With the ABC News Texas flooding. At least eighty killed
across the state.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That is one of the worst stories I can remember
hearing that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Just I think.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
We all asked how in the world could that happen
in the modern world, And the answer is the river
levels rose more rapidly than anyone has ever seen twenty
because this freakish weather phenomena.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Twenty five thirty feet in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, so it's incomprehensible.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're banked along a river like my kid has done
with boy Scouts or lots of camps have been throughout history,
because Campania River is a thing and it starts raining
and you think, holy crap, Well, in forty five minutes,
thirty feet deeper and yeah, there's there's an awful lot
of who's who. You know, what can be done to
prevent this?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I don't know. Sometimes bad things happen. That's horrible, horrible,
horrible story.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
From the Washington Post, Trump posting net and Yahoo at
the White House as US pushes for a ceasefire deal
in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, this could be a very big deal. I would
like to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I am as certain as I've been about anything that
this is.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
This will not happen. It cannot happen. Really. Yeah, it's
as I often say, the math just doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Even with the stick carrot and stick with the carrots
out there of Saudi Arabia other countries signing on historic
deals with Israel. They get all these Arab countries to
sign on the historic agreements if you layoff Gaza.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
The only way it works is if Israel gets incredibly
unprecedentedly strong assurances about keeping Hamas in check from now
till the end of time.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
From the New York Times, Ukraine turns to fishing nets
to catch Russian drones.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Wow, I haven't heard this story off to read that. Yeah,
that horror grinds on.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
By the way, Yeah, the photos are pretty amazing. They
look like tunnels made out of these fishing nets, but
the drones get all caught up in there. So that's
how they're protecting roadways in transportation.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Trump and Putin talked on the phone while we were gone.
We'll have to get into that whole story.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
From USA Today train Wreck.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Trump slams Musk after billionaire announces new.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Political party, the American Party, as Elon.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Says, we're gonna go broke. Something need to change. Both
parties are doing it, which is right. More on that
later from Box News.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Red states consider quote Alligator Alcatraz spinoffs as White House
urges them to follow DeSantis' lead.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I feel like you can't have an Alligator Alcatraz in Kansas.
I just feel like there's a problem there that's insurmountable.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Call it Prairie Dog Levenworth, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I also think that this is getting at least thirty
five percent extra coverage because people like saying alligator Alcatraz,
no doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It is fun to say.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
From the Associated Press, lawyer says Diddy got standing ovation
from inmates after court victory.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh my god, why he's going to prison though?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right, he's still going to prison.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, he's he's still guilty of I think three of
the charges.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I believe a couple.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It'll be interesting to see what he's sentenced to transporting. Wow,
sex workers across state lines.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
How serious a crime is that these days?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And finally, the Babylon b journalist up late trying to
decide whether to compare Trump's bill to Jim Crow or
the Holocaust.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right, right, we have to weigh in some of
the punditry around that, which a lot of what's fairly
flattering about just how dominant Trump is as a political
force in the country right now.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
As a lame duck no less, it's pretty impressive. Yeah,
it really is. We've got so much to get to.
Hope you can stay here the Armstrong in Getty.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Show, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Not one Democrat voted for Trump as a big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
May two Republicans broke ranks.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
The top House Democrat delayed its passage by speaking.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
For a record setting a and a half hours. We're
fighting hard to defend during this extraordinary moment of assault.
All right, whatever directed at the American people, shut up.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yes, as a result of this one ugly bill.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Got it so how we're going to get over the
next election, or a fellow Republicans, let's assault the American people.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
They'll never see it coming.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Cry and shame that we were gone vacation last week
and didn't get to discuss the big, beautiful bill while
it was all.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Coming together in the voting and all that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
But it did pass, and just some overarching views on
the whole thing before we get to some of the details.
First of all, I was listening to one of my
favorite podcasts yesterday when we got back, and one of
the reporters was talking about how you could walk around
Capitol Hill and if you asked Republican Congress people who
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voted on this thing, maybe half of them could tell
you five things that were in it. I mean, the
people don't know for a variety of reasons. It's so giant,
so complicated, comes together so fast, and things get yanked
in and out and whatever, and it just becomes a
tribal are you with us or against this thing at
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the end. And this isn't Trump didn't invent this. This
is the way we've been doing it now for quite
a few administrations. We do these two big to fail
bills that have so much stuff in it that you
gotta have in your party if your party holds power,
that you end up voting for it. And and and
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you know, the president, the various presidents have figured that out.
I guess you just make this giant giant. Yeah, but
you'll be voting against the tax cuts for instance, right,
funding the military, right cetera. Right, if you decide you
don't like the part about this or the part about that.
And uh, and that's just the way we've started doing
things and and it's not gonna work. We're going broke quickly.
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I hate the national conversation we have around it. Almost
almost every single thing you hear is either a flat
out lie or at least a distortion.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, that was the point I was about to make.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
The frustrating part of trying to comprehend this, whether you're
a citizen or a congressman, is that there are wildly
differing narratives about every single aspect of it, and there
are about a million aspects of it. For instance, New
York Times, you know, the minute it passed, had a
very sincere looking woman on their front to, you know,
at the top of their website explaining how it is
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this clearly benefits the rich.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And the cost of the poor. It's a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, say, I'm glad you mentioned that the tax
cuts part the starting list starting with and I always
complain about it. Hey, Republicans work on pushing back. If
you're on one of those Sunday shows and they start
talking to you about tax cuts, say well, let's not
call them tax cuts. Let's call them the tax rate.
They've been the rate for eight years, So this isn't
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a tax cut. It's how long does something have to
be the current rate right before? You're just extending the
current tax rate and you call a tax cut. I mean,
don't allow the left to always create the language that
you then have to dance around. Okay, that that aside, Well,
let me let me just add this to that thought,
just very briefly. And if you can't make this argument,
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resign from public life. Yes, lower taxes help those who
pay taxes more than those who don't pay taxes. I
will concede that point.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So the whole it helps the rich much more than
the Well, of course, a quote unquote tax cut jackal
yell at me.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Of course, a tax cut helps people who pay more taxes.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But doesn't that seem reasonable if it's been the rate
for eight years, how long do you get to call
it Trump's tax cuts before it's just the current tax rate.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
As long as it helps your partisan a jadas.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
But only on Fox yesterday, excuse me, only on Fox
yesterday did Shannon Bream push back against one of the
Democrats who said this is all about helping the rich.
The tax cuts benefit the rich, and Shannon Breems said, well,
the IRS's own data shows that a higher percentage of
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the tax cuts go to lower and middle class taxpayers.
That's the IRS's own data. Well that may be true,
but they had to go. But nobody else even pushed
back on it on any other show. Did I ever
see either the hosts or even the Republicans. They just
sure so bad at baking the argument. That argument happened
eight years ago. These were primarily they helped more lower
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middle class. Maybe against tax cuts, fine, but that you know,
it's just a lie that it's for the rich, so.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Please right right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
A very very brief digest of what's in this thing.
It the legislation, which not a single Democrat voted for,
of course, makes permanent twenty seventeen tax cuts, adds new
temporary tax breaks for overtime income and tips, as well
as for completely unworkable, idiotic, unworkable, a bad idea, pandering
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on the campaign trail in Nevada, purely but temporarily fulfilling
that promised kind of sorta with some carve outs.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's just it's it's politics.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
A massive increase in funding for immigration, customs enforcement, slight
increase in defense spending.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Also major elements of the bill, the work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Requirements for welfare as I heard the shade and snap
as I heard described.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And this is the left is the crying. You know,
millions of people will die in.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
The streets and all that sort of stuff because of this,
even though it's a classic example of you start a
program to help a certain group of people and then
it grows over time and it's so far away from
its initial what it was supposed to do you can't
even recognize it. But you try to carve it back
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a little bit to what it was originally supposed to be.
And you know, people scream and yell people that you
know they're going to be dying in the streets, but
it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I loved how the mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
They in describing that, they would talk about the reform
saying able bodied men, for instance, able bodied adults who
are getting Medicaid, which was originally intended for something very different.
They now have to work at least a little bit
before they get other people's tax money. Right, But they
would always say cuts to Medicaid, the program to provide
(23:38):
medical care for the poor and helpless. Well, the poor
and helpless are untouched by this reform, so we know
what you're doing describing it that way. It was originally that, yeah,
but it's grown, So that's an absolutely dishonest description of
what Medicaid is.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And the fact that it's gonna make able bodied men
work now to get their benefit is a bit of
a stretch, and it becomes just a are you willing
to do the paperwork to pretend that you're looking for
a job. If you are, you get to keep getting
your benefits while you don't work. If you're too lazy
to even go about filling out the paperwork where it
makes it look like you're getting work and you don't.
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First of all, if your kids are under fourteen, you
don't even have to try to get work. And if
you volunteering counts as a work, so you can either
work or be volunteering. So all you got to do
is find any organization or person who's willing to sign
a piece of paper that claims you're volunteering.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So so much for the you know.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, we're running our neighborhood watch. Takes a lot of time,
forty hours a week. I'm always not and I'm always watching, right.
A few more details of this the reform of SNAP
that's your food stamps, in an unholy deal with Satan
who signed the deal in the blood of the innocent
GOP Lawmakers from New York and California held out until
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they got the increase in the state and local tax deductions.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
The salt deductions up.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
To forty grand for the next five years, with some
phaseouts if you're in more than half a million bucks.
Defunds Planned Parenthood for one year, which is lovely. Yeah,
they're gonna sue Planned parenthoods suing. Phases out green energy
tax credits in spite of Republicans who enjoy that delicious
pork screaming about it. Also slightly increases the child tax Credit,
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which you know, there's a history of that too. That's
pretty interesting. It's a perfect example. We'll get into this later,
but there's a plan for this new savings thing, the
Mega Savings Plan for kids. The government will put in
some seed money you can contribute to your kid's private
investment account. It's not a bad idea at all, and
(25:49):
it's a fairly you know, limited expenditure by the taxpayers
at this point, but it is guaranteed to metastasize, guaranteed,
and this lovely little idea for getting kids some seed
money when they're born is going to become another giant
entitlement program.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So sure, And again, the overarching thing is probably the
most important, that we're just continuing down the road of
these giant bills that spend insane amounts of money, and
they throw all this stuff together and the party that's
in power enough people vote for it to push it through.
I heard somebody describe it this way, and it's perfect.
Coming off of vacation, you know, how you go on vacation.
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For some reason, you trick your brain into believing that
money and calories don't count while you're on vacation, so
you eat like you wouldn't normally eat, and you spend
like you wouldn't normally spend. Then you get back home
and it's like, all of a sudden, you're not going
to just ninety bucks for this or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Sure, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I heard somebody explain, and I think it's what's happened.
It started with Obama during the financial crisis of two
thousand and eight, and that what seems tiny bill now
seven hundred sum billion dollars that we all freaked out
about and formed the tea party around. It's tiny compared
to what we do now, but anyway, we started acting
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like that's normal.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
We started spending after that, all through the.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
COVID so Financial then COVID and then we just spend
like you we're on vacation. It's like you come home
for vacation and you lock in your vacation spending and
just continue to spend like you're on vacation from that
point forward. That's what we're doing. Is a federal government
doesn't matter which party is in power. That's a great
way to put it. I love that we've got to
keep selling that idea. Speaking of you know, spending, eating
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and drinking on vacation. At one point on vacation, just
a couple of days ago. We had homemade apple crisp
lemon meringue pie and Judy's Banana split cake, which is
a layer of Graham cracker crust with sugar and all
cream cheese, then a pineapple, bananas, strawberries.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Cool whip, etc. Top of just spectacular.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
We had all three of those desserts in the fridge
at one time to be eaten morning, noon, and night.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Man, that's awesome iak.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
For breakfast, never mind cake by the Ocean cake at
eight am.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I was in the Florida Keys for three four days.
I had keelime pie four days in a row. Yes,
and I actually got to the point where I just
couldn't stomach the idea of it.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I can't do it. I'm gonna vomit. And that's our country,
he says, winding back to the main point of the segment.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
But fiscal conservatism, as we have been saying for quite
a while, is completely dead.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It does not exist as a concept in.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Either party, which is why Elon claims he's going to
start something called the America Party to resc us from
rescue us from going bankrupt, which we are going to do.
I mean, that's not like, that is not harm. SCAREM
just trying to get people scared. Whatever, No, we are
(29:01):
going to You can't spend more than you take in forever.
It ends at some point.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Right, agreed. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And when Trump vanishes from the scene, what is the
Republican Party?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I think this idea is a non starter at all. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
We got mailbag on the way, lots of stuff stay here.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Maybe my favorite thing on vacation.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Did you see the video I tweeted out of the
guy balance and the tire on his head as he
rode his bike around Washington Square Park.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Missed it, but it sounds delightful. It is all. Have
to talk about that later. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
You don't see that sort of thing. No every day, No,
you don't. Right, here's your.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Freedom loving quote of the day, in honor of.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
His ninety fifth birthday while we were on vacation, the
great Thomas Sowell this week, maybe every day this month
from my.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Favorite thinkers of all time.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thomas could have been one of the founding Fathers except
for the unfortunate state of race relations in the seventh
but one of the wisest men who's ever strode the earth.
In my opinion, here's today's free will having quote of
the day. Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true,
but many other things are believed simply because they have
been asserted repeatedly, and repetition has been accepted as a
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substitute for evidence. People will just repeat the lie over
and over and over again until you think it must
be true. A man can decide he's a woman, for instance,
what a ridiculous notion?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Mailbag?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I mean, you can decide that which certainly can't become
one mail bag drops a note mail bag at Armstrong
e Geeddy dot com. Kevin the Texas Marine welcoming us back.
Thank you Kevin very much. He says that the very
last show before vacation, when Jack is alright on vacation,
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thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I shouldn't have done that. That's why I'm so tired.
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That may have been the best dowry of radio Oh.
I have ever listened to a full hour with Tim
Sandeffer talking about the revolution and the declaration of independence. Fantastic.
I have listened three times to catch all the details.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I will listen to that. I will listen to it again.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
That would be the twenty seventh June twenty seventh, Armstrong
getting on demand the interview of Tim Sanderfforth terrific, just enjoyable.
Thank you for the kind words, Kevin, And you know,
part of the reason I'm enthusiastic about recommending that it's
not just self aggrandizement to get our numbers up, but
because I am firmly, practically, religiously convinced that we need
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to all go on the war path for liberty, for
the United States, for the founding principles and the great,
great nation that we're so privileged to be citizens of,
with all of its flaws. Of course, we need to
be positive about that, because we've let the forces of
negativity own the battlefield for a very long time. Anyway,
(32:00):
Having said that, Ryan from Houston points out that everything
is political these days, including oh, what's That's the other one,
isn't it? The for instance, the parliamentarian. Oh I'm sorry,
it's funny I conflated two emails in my head. Powell's
talking about how everything is political these days, including the
Senate parliamentarian what the hell is that? Nobody heard? Nobody
(32:23):
knew there was one, and now she's in the crosshairs.
And also in the Scotis. You got Katanji Brown Jackson
calling the Conservatives monsters, and Amy Cony Barrett yelling back
her shame you don't know anything about the law of
the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
We'll get into the.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Details of that high level cat fight later on in
the show.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, I'm glad you're up on that. I just saw
some of the headlines that thought. Man, that's a Armstrong
and Getty story right there.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it. Here's Ryan
from Houston. He points out's a shame our country is doomed.
First off, you got a vocal minority. You believes we're
installing in cinegret incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz, taking immigrants into
cargo planes and throwing them shackled into the oceans.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They've alleged that online.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Luckily, in the face of that most haymous war crime,
all they want to do is TikTok about it. But
with the massive spending bill once again causing the death
of untold millions, we will not survive every news story
being a def con one. Every day we had a
decent run, he says. He's right, the never ending deaf
con one. Let's see another Jay in San Jose has
a couple of points to make. He says, what's a
(33:30):
democratic socialist? Aren't these two different political ideologies? Are these
people by political Do we need to add a letter?
If we had time, I could get into death. You
know what democratic socialism is. It's pretending to reject socialism, sure,
but saying the heretofore recognized limits on government interference, taxation
(33:54):
at all. We're going to wipe those away and just
creep a little bit further and further and further and
further and further. It's just to go up, you know,
beyond the bounds that we all used to accept. And
then the other point he makes is Trump's second term
already seems too good to be true for him and
his supporters, too consequential, too unique, especially for a second term,
probably too transformational not to end in his tragic demise.
(34:17):
I'm not in the business of wishing death on anyone
except mosquitoes. But in history, the immense power Trump seems
to be wielding has often been the beginning of the end.
This doesn't seem like the kind of story that ends
with Trump doing the YMCA from a wheelchair after he retires. Wow,
it's a lighthearted way to say. Trump is so consequential
they'll never stop coming for him.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
There is a long way to go in the second
Trump term, though long while you got three and a
half years left? Wait what No, and that seemed crazy,
Let me check those. It just gets started. What anyway,
We've got so many things to talk about, so many
stories from vacation I can't wait to talk about. If
you missed a segment, or now, or get the podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Big Beautiful Show is back live from Studio c
Armstrong Ingetty compounds surrounded by razor wire and barking dogs
to keep us protected. And today we're under the tutelage
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Ah C and Gee tanned, rested and ready back from
vacation also well theoretically, And the poor people of Texas,
good God.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The flooding, what a horror. I'm tan, I'm way too tan.
Probably be paying the price for that with skin doctors
years from now. Uh ready, yes, very ready rested? No,
definitely not rested.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You are dark enough to get away with railing against
white people in a public place and people thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh, I bet he's what is he on his pannica?
You're very dark. I couldn't pull that off exactly. All
you care about is white people. We white people. One
people are thinking, hmm, I wonder what is he? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Uh he has no accent, I don't Uh. Yeah, I
went too hard on vacation, as I usually do I
go hard on vacations. I always have always, well it's
this way I'm built. But I wore me and the
kids out. We probably vacationed one to two days too long.
Probably should have ended it just a dad earlier. It
was a a I think, have we reached our maximum
(01:43):
uh moment of three people being together, you know, all
the time? Uh forty eight hours before we finished, I'd say,
oh boy, you know, it sets a long time to
do everything together all the time and work out where
we're gonna go, where we were gonna eat, you know,
blah blah, just everything you do on vacation.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It was enough. It was enough by the end.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, have you thought about like scheduling it? Well, of
course scheduling and take some of the fun out of him,
but scheduling in you know, solo times. Isn't people go
off and do their own thing for a while. Did
you do that at all?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
One kid? I can, with the other kid I can't.
So yeah, all right, yeah, so that's not really an
option yet. I What we basically did is I would
go with one kid and then the other one would
take a break and I would go with the other kid.
The one the person that never took a break was
the oldest person, although I didn't notice. They can't keep
up with me. I kept saying to him, I'm sixty.
(02:39):
Why can't you guys keep up? My legs are tired. Yeah,
well why why?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Wow, it's because there's not in school anymore. There's no
p in school anymore. Michael, You're right, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, it's because there's no pe in school anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's exactly right. Michael's shaming your own children.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh yes, we left the met where we probably stayed
for too long in New York City. Ended up going
to New York Off. Talk about that later. That was
completely Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Me, that's not in the South Florida pulled.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
A complete audible in the middle of vacation when we
decided we were tired of being hot, and I booked
flights to.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
New York and then we went to New York and
did stuff there for a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But because that's the way I roll on vacation, everything's
completely random in the seat of the pants, and I
love it that way. But we are at the museum
for probably too long. My sophomore in high school said,
when I get older, I'm never going to a museum.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Wow, it's like digging a ditch in the mid Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It was like I was punishing them for some reason.
Glad he had a good time, never going to a
museum again. AnyWho are you rested?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, more or less? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And and and fed, good Lord of my fed, and watered,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There was no shortage of excess over the week.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It was big fun, very laid back by your standards,
as we had folks in visiting, a folk and my daughter,
so it was a lot of good family time, played golf,
eight drank that sort of thing. I'm not going to
say staycation, except in making clear that I'm not saying it,
but I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's what it was. I came back lighter than I left.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's how much walking we did, so I'm happy about that,
even though there was a tremendous amount of eating. It
was so freaking hot in Florida, good freaking God. And
I know it was going to be in and kind
of went down here on purpose because it's not near
as crowded, but it was hot. We were in the Everglades, like,
not very far from where Trump was for the whole
unveiling of the Alligator Alcatraz, Like I was just not
too many miles away, but it really disrupted traffic and everything.
(04:50):
We did a fifteen mile bike ride through the Everglades
in the heat, and that was that was pretty grueling.
That was pretty grueling because it was ninety with seventy
percent humidity, and it was just oppressive fifteen miles and
Henry wanted to turn around. I called him weak, He
got angry, and then he finished. So I consider that
(05:11):
a win. I'm sure he'll be talking to therapist about
that the rest of his life. But he went ahead
and finished the fifteen mile ride. And he's not dead.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
He'll become some sort of superachieving navy seal type and
he'll never stop hating you. All Right.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We finished the fifteen miles, and I mean we were gassed,
I mean just beat red and so tired, and there
was no water on it. You could only the water
he took, which we ran through very quickly. And but
I got back and I was talking to the what
are you a park ranger? Park rangers? And he said
to one of the girls, I said, man, has anybody
ever died on that? She said, yeah, last week a
guy he had a heart attack and died. Okay, I
(05:49):
just kind of kidding. But anyway, what are you gonna do.
It's all lots of alligators. That alligator alcatraze. That's a
good idea. They escaped from prison or I guess they're
illegal immigrants. That's where housing illegal immigrant in the Everglades.
And the idea is that if you try to escape,
you'll be eaten by alligators. I don't know if that's
cruel and unusual. I usually that unsad. It seems like
(06:09):
it seems rude to actually say that out loud.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We are going to accommodate you here while the paperwork
is being processed, and we suggest you stay on campus.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, I would present it this way. People come from
all over the world to vacation here the Everglades. I
mean people a to come here. That's how desirable a
spot we have put you. And by the way, I
wouldn't try to leave.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
The place is surrounded by fifteen foot lizards will rip
your head off. Just thought you'd want to know. Anyway,
get comfy and enjoy your stack and.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Bugs that are like from the prehistoric era, just like
the size of a baseball, Like, what the hell is
that thing?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Cocker you could ride to town. I don't even know
what the bugs were. I couldn't test saddle on that thing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Grasshoppers that should have you know, individual names and be
able to vote.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean they were like.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Gee, you should have numbers on the back so the
FAA can identify that exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yes, AnyWho.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I feel really bad that we missed out on a
week of talking about the big, beautiful bills that passed,
although we will get to talk about tariff switch kick
in on Wednesday, so lucky us. Let's start the show
officially before we get to some of the news of
the day, some of it awful. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this that it is Monday, July seventh,
the year twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong and getting We
(07:23):
approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Let's leap into action then officially now, according to FCC rules,
Regg's show starts at mark.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
The American Revolution is the most important event since the
birth of Christ in all of world history.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Love it. How was your fourth of July?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Did you spend a little time thinking about the whole
independence from Great Britain forming a new nation in a
way that had never been done before. As ken Burns
the documentarian, Just to point it out there, I just
watched that whole interview that Ken Burns. He's got a
documentary coming out in November about the revolution and the
importance of it, and it was refreshingly old school boosterism
(08:02):
for the idea of the United States of America and
our creation and what we're trying to accomplish in a
way that I haven't seen in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Wow. Color me slightly surprised.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I know Ken has been a bit of a liberal,
what an annoying one in recent years, but good for him.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I've always loved his documentaries though, and I think I'm
gonna talk about this more or later as it fits
into my vacation and going around and seeing different things.
I really really think that whole moment, that weird period
that we have said needs to be named, that we
all just live through is over.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
There's some cleaning up to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Do, plenty plenty of cleaning up to do, but it
is over the fact that CBS had a fifteen minute
interview with ken Burns about the founding of the country
and that they talked about it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
In all positive terms.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Wow, as opposed to the sixteen nineteen project, which looked
like it was going to rule the day a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh my god, it's refreshing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
My concern is an obvious one, the generation of kids
who were indoctrinated into this evil, awful idea that America
is a force for badness and not goodness. They're going
to have to work their way through the system, the
system of governance and culture and the rest of it.
I'm hoping we can sand off some of those edges
because it's not their fault. It really isn't. The people
(09:24):
we trusted to educate them perverted their minds.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It is still just so incredibly annoying going to a
ton of museums over vacation and museums. Now every plaque
you read has got to include some sort of displaced
people used to live here, or because of climate change,
or Europeans came and wiped out the just every plaque
(09:48):
has to have some sort of woke Western civilization is
bad statement in it, and it's so flipping annoying.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I read that months and months ago that one of
the top priorities Trump and company have to pursue to
turn the culture around, or to continue to help it
turn around, is to root out that sort of stuff
at museums. Specifically, they were talking about the Smithsonian, which
is just rife with that sort of garbage.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And my final note on that.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
We were at the Museum of American Natural History, The
American Museum of Natural History, one of the most famous
museums in the world and famous for some movies that
a lot of kids, including my kids, liked, The Night
at the Museum and All the Things Come Alive, and
those are great movies, but of course it included Robin
Williams as Teddy Roosevelt on the horse the statue from
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in front of the museum rides in and Teddy Roosevelt
runs the whole thing. Very charming movies, except for that
statue of Teddy Roosevelt on the horse no longer exists,
and I'd forgotten about that walking up to the museum.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I hadn't been there since they took that statue down.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And it's just nots It's just nuts that that actually happened.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I know, I know, what a strange strange time. Keep
fighting it. That infection is still there.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I just read a we probably ought to take a break,
but I just read an impassioned piece in Slate, that
awful lefty website, talking about how Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania,
banning big announcement to what we're on vacation that gladden
into my heart, banned dudes from competing in women's sports
and rescinded all the records and apologized to the women
(11:24):
who were abused.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But this piece of Slate was arguing that that was
a horrific thing to do. It was exactly the wrong
thing to do, and we need to stand up more
than ever for dudes pretending to be women.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So that tell you what that thinking is not gone.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Elon Musk wants to start a new party, and that
could be pretty damned interesting because lord knows he's got
the money to throw behind it. Among the many many
things we're going to talk about since we're back, here's
our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
That's giant piece of legislation passing is a pretty big deal,
(12:02):
and we'll have to talk about that later.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Whether we like it or not.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think it's a lot like life a lot of
great stuff, a lot of pain, tragedy, suffering, occasional vomiting.
It's a metaphor for life, Jack. Yeah, well maybe, but
it's not. It's another step in that we're we're just
broken the way we do things, just completely completely broken.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That is correct, Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh boy, all right, let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Righty's starting.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
With the ABC News Texas flooding. At least eighty killed
across the state.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That is one of the worst stories I can remember
hearing that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Just I think.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
We all asked how in the world could that happen
in the modern world, And the answer is the river
levels rose more rapidly than anyone has ever seen twenty
because this freakish weather phenomena.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Twenty five thirty feet in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, so it's incomprehensible.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're banked along a river like my kid has done
with boy Scouts or lots of camps have been throughout history,
because Campania River is a thing and it starts raining
and you think, holy crap, Well, in forty five minutes,
thirty feet deeper and yeah, there's there's an awful lot
of who's who. You know, what can be done to
prevent this?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I don't know. Sometimes bad things happen. That's horrible, horrible,
horrible story.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
From the Washington Post, Trump posting net and Yahoo at
the White House as US pushes for a ceasefire deal
in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, this could be a very big deal. I would
like to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I am as certain as I've been about anything that
this is.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
This will not happen. It cannot happen. Really. Yeah, it's
as I often say, the math just doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Even with the stick carrot and stick with the carrots
out there of Saudi Arabia other countries signing on historic
deals with Israel. They get all these Arab countries to
sign on the historic agreements if you layoff Gaza.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
The only way it works is if Israel gets incredibly
unprecedentedly strong assurances about keeping Hamas in check from now
till the end of time.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
From the New York Times, Ukraine turns to fishing nets
to catch Russian drones.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Wow, I haven't heard this story off to read that. Yeah,
that horror grinds on.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
By the way, Yeah, the photos are pretty amazing. They
look like tunnels made out of these fishing nets, but
the drones get all caught up in there. So that's
how they're protecting roadways in transportation.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Trump and Putin talked on the phone while we were gone.
We'll have to get into that whole story.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
From USA Today train Wreck.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Trump slams Musk after billionaire announces new.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Political party, the American Party, as Elon.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Says, we're gonna go broke. Something need to change. Both
parties are doing it, which is right. More on that
later from Box News.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Red states consider quote Alligator Alcatraz spinoffs as White House
urges them to follow DeSantis' lead.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I feel like you can't have an Alligator Alcatraz in Kansas.
I just feel like there's a problem there that's insurmountable.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Call it Prairie Dog Levenworth, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I also think that this is getting at least thirty
five percent extra coverage because people like saying alligator Alcatraz,
no doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It is fun to say.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
From the Associated Press, lawyer says Diddy got standing ovation
from inmates after court victory.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh my god, why he's going to prison though?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right, he's still going to prison.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, he's he's still guilty of I think three of
the charges.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I believe a couple.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It'll be interesting to see what he's sentenced to transporting. Wow,
sex workers across state lines.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
How serious a crime is that these days?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And finally, the Babylon b journalist up late trying to
decide whether to compare Trump's bill to Jim Crow or
the Holocaust.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right, right, we have to weigh in some of
the punditry around that, which a lot of what's fairly
flattering about just how dominant Trump is as a political
force in the country right now.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
As a lame duck no less, it's pretty impressive. Yeah,
it really is. We've got so much to get to.
Hope you can stay here the Armstrong in Getty.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Show, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Not one Democrat voted for Trump as a big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
May two Republicans broke ranks.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
The top House Democrat delayed its passage by speaking.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
For a record setting a and a half hours. We're
fighting hard to defend during this extraordinary moment of assault.
All right, whatever directed at the American people, shut up.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yes, as a result of this one ugly bill.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Got it so how we're going to get over the
next election, or a fellow Republicans, let's assault the American people.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
They'll never see it coming.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Cry and shame that we were gone vacation last week
and didn't get to discuss the big, beautiful bill while
it was all.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Coming together in the voting and all that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
But it did pass, and just some overarching views on
the whole thing before we get to some of the details.
First of all, I was listening to one of my
favorite podcasts yesterday when we got back, and one of
the reporters was talking about how you could walk around
Capitol Hill and if you asked Republican Congress people who
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voted on this thing, maybe half of them could tell
you five things that were in it. I mean, the
people don't know for a variety of reasons. It's so giant,
so complicated, comes together so fast, and things get yanked
in and out and whatever, and it just becomes a
tribal are you with us or against this thing at
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the end. And this isn't Trump didn't invent this. This
is the way we've been doing it now for quite
a few administrations. We do these two big to fail
bills that have so much stuff in it that you
gotta have in your party if your party holds power,
that you end up voting for it. And and and
(18:33):
you know, the president, the various presidents have figured that out.
I guess you just make this giant giant. Yeah, but
you'll be voting against the tax cuts for instance, right,
funding the military, right cetera. Right, if you decide you
don't like the part about this or the part about that.
And uh, and that's just the way we've started doing
things and and it's not gonna work. We're going broke quickly.
(18:59):
I hate the national conversation we have around it. Almost
almost every single thing you hear is either a flat
out lie or at least a distortion.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, that was the point I was about to make.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
The frustrating part of trying to comprehend this, whether you're
a citizen or a congressman, is that there are wildly
differing narratives about every single aspect of it, and there
are about a million aspects of it. For instance, New
York Times, you know, the minute it passed, had a
very sincere looking woman on their front to, you know,
at the top of their website explaining how it is
(19:35):
this clearly benefits the rich.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And the cost of the poor. It's a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, say, I'm glad you mentioned that the tax
cuts part the starting list starting with and I always
complain about it. Hey, Republicans work on pushing back. If
you're on one of those Sunday shows and they start
talking to you about tax cuts, say well, let's not
call them tax cuts. Let's call them the tax rate.
They've been the rate for eight years, So this isn't
(20:01):
a tax cut. It's how long does something have to
be the current rate right before? You're just extending the
current tax rate and you call a tax cut. I mean,
don't allow the left to always create the language that
you then have to dance around. Okay, that that aside, Well,
let me let me just add this to that thought,
just very briefly. And if you can't make this argument,
(20:22):
resign from public life. Yes, lower taxes help those who
pay taxes more than those who don't pay taxes. I
will concede that point.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So the whole it helps the rich much more than
the Well, of course, a quote unquote tax cut jackal
yell at me.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Of course, a tax cut helps people who pay more taxes.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But doesn't that seem reasonable if it's been the rate
for eight years, how long do you get to call
it Trump's tax cuts before it's just the current tax rate.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
As long as it helps your partisan a jadas.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
But only on Fox yesterday, excuse me, only on Fox
yesterday did Shannon Bream push back against one of the
Democrats who said this is all about helping the rich.
The tax cuts benefit the rich, and Shannon Breems said, well,
the IRS's own data shows that a higher percentage of
(21:18):
the tax cuts go to lower and middle class taxpayers.
That's the IRS's own data. Well that may be true,
but they had to go. But nobody else even pushed
back on it on any other show. Did I ever
see either the hosts or even the Republicans. They just
sure so bad at baking the argument. That argument happened
eight years ago. These were primarily they helped more lower
(21:40):
middle class. Maybe against tax cuts, fine, but that you know,
it's just a lie that it's for the rich, so.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Please right right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
A very very brief digest of what's in this thing.
It the legislation, which not a single Democrat voted for,
of course, makes permanent twenty seventeen tax cuts, adds new
temporary tax breaks for overtime income and tips, as well
as for completely unworkable, idiotic, unworkable, a bad idea, pandering
(22:13):
on the campaign trail in Nevada, purely but temporarily fulfilling
that promised kind of sorta with some carve outs.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's just it's it's politics.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
A massive increase in funding for immigration, customs enforcement, slight
increase in defense spending.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Also major elements of the bill, the work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Requirements for welfare as I heard the shade and snap
as I heard described.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And this is the left is the crying. You know,
millions of people will die in.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
The streets and all that sort of stuff because of this,
even though it's a classic example of you start a
program to help a certain group of people and then
it grows over time and it's so far away from
its initial what it was supposed to do you can't
even recognize it. But you try to carve it back
(23:04):
a little bit to what it was originally supposed to be.
And you know, people scream and yell people that you
know they're going to be dying in the streets, but
it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I loved how the mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
They in describing that, they would talk about the reform
saying able bodied men, for instance, able bodied adults who
are getting Medicaid, which was originally intended for something very different.
They now have to work at least a little bit
before they get other people's tax money. Right, But they
would always say cuts to Medicaid, the program to provide
(23:38):
medical care for the poor and helpless. Well, the poor
and helpless are untouched by this reform, so we know
what you're doing describing it that way. It was originally that, yeah,
but it's grown, So that's an absolutely dishonest description of
what Medicaid is.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And the fact that it's gonna make able bodied men
work now to get their benefit is a bit of
a stretch, and it becomes just a are you willing
to do the paperwork to pretend that you're looking for
a job. If you are, you get to keep getting
your benefits while you don't work. If you're too lazy
to even go about filling out the paperwork where it
makes it look like you're getting work and you don't.
(24:18):
First of all, if your kids are under fourteen, you
don't even have to try to get work. And if
you volunteering counts as a work, so you can either
work or be volunteering. So all you got to do
is find any organization or person who's willing to sign
a piece of paper that claims you're volunteering.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So so much for the you know.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, we're running our neighborhood watch. Takes a lot of time,
forty hours a week. I'm always not and I'm always watching, right.
A few more details of this the reform of SNAP
that's your food stamps, in an unholy deal with Satan
who signed the deal in the blood of the innocent
GOP Lawmakers from New York and California held out until
(24:57):
they got the increase in the state and local tax deductions.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
The salt deductions up.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
To forty grand for the next five years, with some
phaseouts if you're in more than half a million bucks.
Defunds Planned Parenthood for one year, which is lovely. Yeah,
they're gonna sue Planned parenthoods suing. Phases out green energy
tax credits in spite of Republicans who enjoy that delicious
pork screaming about it. Also slightly increases the child tax Credit,
(25:26):
which you know, there's a history of that too. That's
pretty interesting. It's a perfect example. We'll get into this later,
but there's a plan for this new savings thing, the
Mega Savings Plan for kids. The government will put in
some seed money you can contribute to your kid's private
investment account. It's not a bad idea at all, and
(25:49):
it's a fairly you know, limited expenditure by the taxpayers
at this point, but it is guaranteed to metastasize, guaranteed,
and this lovely little idea for getting kids some seed
money when they're born is going to become another giant
entitlement program.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So sure, And again, the overarching thing is probably the
most important, that we're just continuing down the road of
these giant bills that spend insane amounts of money, and
they throw all this stuff together and the party that's
in power enough people vote for it to push it through.
I heard somebody describe it this way, and it's perfect.
Coming off of vacation, you know, how you go on vacation.
(26:26):
For some reason, you trick your brain into believing that
money and calories don't count while you're on vacation, so
you eat like you wouldn't normally eat, and you spend
like you wouldn't normally spend. Then you get back home
and it's like, all of a sudden, you're not going
to just ninety bucks for this or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Sure, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I heard somebody explain, and I think it's what's happened.
It started with Obama during the financial crisis of two
thousand and eight, and that what seems tiny bill now
seven hundred sum billion dollars that we all freaked out
about and formed the tea party around. It's tiny compared
to what we do now, but anyway, we started acting
(27:05):
like that's normal.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
We started spending after that, all through the.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
COVID so Financial then COVID and then we just spend
like you we're on vacation. It's like you come home
for vacation and you lock in your vacation spending and
just continue to spend like you're on vacation from that
point forward. That's what we're doing. Is a federal government
doesn't matter which party is in power. That's a great
way to put it. I love that we've got to
keep selling that idea. Speaking of you know, spending, eating
(27:35):
and drinking on vacation. At one point on vacation, just
a couple of days ago. We had homemade apple crisp
lemon meringue pie and Judy's Banana split cake, which is
a layer of Graham cracker crust with sugar and all
cream cheese, then a pineapple, bananas, strawberries.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Cool whip, etc. Top of just spectacular.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
We had all three of those desserts in the fridge
at one time to be eaten morning, noon, and night.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Man, that's awesome iak.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
For breakfast, never mind cake by the Ocean cake at
eight am.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I was in the Florida Keys for three four days.
I had keelime pie four days in a row. Yes,
and I actually got to the point where I just
couldn't stomach the idea of it.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I can't do it. I'm gonna vomit. And that's our country,
he says, winding back to the main point of the segment.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
But fiscal conservatism, as we have been saying for quite
a while, is completely dead.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It does not exist as a concept in.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Either party, which is why Elon claims he's going to
start something called the America Party to resc us from
rescue us from going bankrupt, which we are going to do.
I mean, that's not like, that is not harm. SCAREM
just trying to get people scared. Whatever, No, we are
(29:01):
going to You can't spend more than you take in forever.
It ends at some point.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Right, agreed. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And when Trump vanishes from the scene, what is the
Republican Party?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I think this idea is a non starter at all. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
We got mailbag on the way, lots of stuff stay here.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Maybe my favorite thing on vacation.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Did you see the video I tweeted out of the
guy balance and the tire on his head as he
rode his bike around Washington Square Park.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Missed it, but it sounds delightful. It is all. Have
to talk about that later. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
You don't see that sort of thing. No every day, No,
you don't. Right, here's your.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Freedom loving quote of the day, in honor of.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
His ninety fifth birthday while we were on vacation, the
great Thomas Sowell this week, maybe every day this month
from my.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Favorite thinkers of all time.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thomas could have been one of the founding Fathers except
for the unfortunate state of race relations in the seventh
but one of the wisest men who's ever strode the earth.
In my opinion, here's today's free will having quote of
the day. Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true,
but many other things are believed simply because they have
been asserted repeatedly, and repetition has been accepted as a
(30:16):
substitute for evidence. People will just repeat the lie over
and over and over again until you think it must
be true. A man can decide he's a woman, for instance,
what a ridiculous notion?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Mailbag?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I mean, you can decide that which certainly can't become
one mail bag drops a note mail bag at Armstrong
e Geeddy dot com. Kevin the Texas Marine welcoming us back.
Thank you Kevin very much. He says that the very
last show before vacation, when Jack is alright on vacation,
(30:53):
thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I shouldn't have done that. That's why I'm so tired.
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That may have been the best dowry of radio Oh.
I have ever listened to a full hour with Tim
Sandeffer talking about the revolution and the declaration of independence. Fantastic.
I have listened three times to catch all the details.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I will listen to that. I will listen to it again.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
That would be the twenty seventh June twenty seventh, Armstrong
getting on demand the interview of Tim Sanderfforth terrific, just enjoyable.
Thank you for the kind words, Kevin, And you know,
part of the reason I'm enthusiastic about recommending that it's
not just self aggrandizement to get our numbers up, but
because I am firmly, practically, religiously convinced that we need
(31:35):
to all go on the war path for liberty, for
the United States, for the founding principles and the great,
great nation that we're so privileged to be citizens of,
with all of its flaws. Of course, we need to
be positive about that, because we've let the forces of
negativity own the battlefield for a very long time. Anyway,
(32:00):
Having said that, Ryan from Houston points out that everything
is political these days, including oh, what's That's the other one,
isn't it? The for instance, the parliamentarian. Oh I'm sorry,
it's funny I conflated two emails in my head. Powell's
talking about how everything is political these days, including the
Senate parliamentarian what the hell is that? Nobody heard? Nobody
(32:23):
knew there was one, and now she's in the crosshairs.
And also in the Scotis. You got Katanji Brown Jackson
calling the Conservatives monsters, and Amy Cony Barrett yelling back
her shame you don't know anything about the law of
the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
We'll get into the.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Details of that high level cat fight later on in
the show.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, I'm glad you're up on that. I just saw
some of the headlines that thought. Man, that's a Armstrong
and Getty story right there.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it. Here's Ryan
from Houston. He points out's a shame our country is doomed.
First off, you got a vocal minority. You believes we're
installing in cinegret incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz, taking immigrants into
cargo planes and throwing them shackled into the oceans.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They've alleged that online.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Luckily, in the face of that most haymous war crime,
all they want to do is TikTok about it. But
with the massive spending bill once again causing the death
of untold millions, we will not survive every news story
being a def con one. Every day we had a
decent run, he says. He's right, the never ending deaf
con one. Let's see another Jay in San Jose has
a couple of points to make. He says, what's a
(33:30):
democratic socialist? Aren't these two different political ideologies? Are these
people by political Do we need to add a letter?
If we had time, I could get into death. You
know what democratic socialism is. It's pretending to reject socialism, sure,
but saying the heretofore recognized limits on government interference, taxation
(33:54):
at all. We're going to wipe those away and just
creep a little bit further and further and further and
further and further. It's just to go up, you know,
beyond the bounds that we all used to accept. And
then the other point he makes is Trump's second term
already seems too good to be true for him and
his supporters, too consequential, too unique, especially for a second term,
probably too transformational not to end in his tragic demise.
(34:17):
I'm not in the business of wishing death on anyone
except mosquitoes. But in history, the immense power Trump seems
to be wielding has often been the beginning of the end.
This doesn't seem like the kind of story that ends
with Trump doing the YMCA from a wheelchair after he retires. Wow,
it's a lighthearted way to say. Trump is so consequential
they'll never stop coming for him.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
There is a long way to go in the second
Trump term, though long while you got three and a
half years left? Wait what No, and that seemed crazy,
Let me check those. It just gets started. What anyway,
We've got so many things to talk about, so many
stories from vacation I can't wait to talk about. If
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