June 5, 2026 • 37 mins
Hour Two of A&G features...
- An extended Mailbag...
- The World Cup is coming...
- Kamala & Gavin really hate one another...
- He didn't notice the signs!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty arm Strong, and
Jetty and He Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, guys, New York City is buzzing right now because
last night the New York Knicks one.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Game on Who.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, everywhere you look there's blue and orange.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's like seeing President Trump's swimming in the new reflecting pool.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a pretty good joke. That's a pretty good joke
right there. Game two tonight. I like it when rarely
the NBA playoff games land on like a Friday or
Saturday night. I've always been amazed that they don't work
harder at that they're big on Mondays and Wednesday and
stuff like that for their games. And I don't know.
They must have data that shows that people are more
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likely to watch them. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I do know why, and it's always surprised me and
I thought, I don't go by that that The idea
is people watch TV on weeknights. On weekend nights, they're
out and about the partying. They're bowling alleys, their restaurants,
out with friends.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm much more likely to take in an NBA Finals
game on a Friday night than I am on a
Tuesday night when I gotta work. But that's just me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, You're not the everyman though, Jack, You're very special.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, let's get a little mail bag in.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Off was a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty
dot com. Our freedom loving quotes of the day last
hour probably gave this away. But what did former US
Attorney General Elliott Richardson? He was a Nixon era right,
I don't know Hall of Fame catcher, Yogi bera in
General of the Army Omar Bradley have in common.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They all participated in D Day.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yogi Berra, Yogi Berra was a gunner's mate in the
Navy during the invasion.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Elliot Richardson an officer in the fourth Infantry on date
D Day, he won a bronze Star and two purple Hearts,
and Omar Bradley commanded the American ground forces during the
D Day Invasion, as the anniversary of which, of course
is tomorrow. Moving along, we're talking about how Congress doesn't
congress anymore. They just are Instagram stars and fundraisers and clowns.
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Ran from Houston, Rice, dear cold Warrior, an old fancy jack.
Here's the problem. Majority of voters don't want hard nosed
legislators working to make our country better. They are voting
for ritual sacrifices for when their god emperor ascends to
mount Whitehouse so they have enough power that the god
emperor can smite their enemies.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, you left out and give them stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I think that's the key that animates politics. And you know,
it's always been true, Hey give me stuff, but now
it's just shameless and they don't even have to worry
about if they have the money to give you.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They'll borrow it if they don't have it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So yeah, moving along. I thought this was so interesting,
and I know you will too. Got this note from Rebecca.
You guys were talking about men who don't work but
instead mooch off women and the taxpayer. I worked for
years in a police department in the San Francisco Bay area.
Other than for DUI, when a car was towed from
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a mail driver, the release fee was rarely paid by
that mail More often than not, a woman would show
up to pay. If it wasn't his girlfriend, it was
usually a mom or worse, a grandmother. It was a
theme so common that the few times a male came
to get their own car back without a woman were
surprising to us. Wow, but generally I would be embarrassed
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to that. But often those loan males would have to
call a woman because they were the registered owner, didn't
have a license which was usually the reason for the toe,
and could not afford the fees. No one following directions
on a map should be surprised where they end up.
And we are exactly where we let ourselves. Men who
don't work, well, I hear women talking about that sort
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of thing, finding adult men out there that like have
jobs and all that sort of stuff. And you know,
I can only hear their anecdotal evidence because I only
know my life and the people I hang around.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But that is quite the story. Yeah, yeah, how much? Wow?
If I was got pulled over driving drunk, the idea
of calling you know, some woman to bail me out
or my mom or whatever, Good Lord, have some dignity.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, she's talking about getting cars back that got told
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The fellas never showed up. Wow yeah wow.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Simple Mitch in Plasterville writes on a totally different topic, Guys,
anytime you don't understand life, are questioning the ways world
or your life decisions.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Know this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'm a fifty year old bald man who until just
now thought that the book Jack Mentions Ulysses was about
the Civil War and the general and future president of
the United States. I've instructed my wife to surrender my
license and put me on the appropriate medication. Yes, it's
it's it's old Irish book about a bartender name ulyss Uh.
Cracked wise, it's a lot like Sam Malone from.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Shirs told my son, I really want to go see
the Odyssey, which is what the book Ulysses is named
after and kind of based on. But the Odyssey comes
out here in the next few days with Matt Damon
and the old Homer story which I've never read the Odyssey,
so I kind of look forward to saying, not at Homer, Okay,
(05:45):
let's see. Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I love this from Dennis and Lincoln. The slow LA
vote counting is a feature, not a bug. He says,
this is a national story in national embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
As a former manager at the California DMV, a government
agency not known for efficiency, I will tell you the
pace of work at the La County Elections Office is
not the exception, but the rule. My experience with public
employees is that they will take all the time you
give them, and if they have thirty days to complete
a task, they will take thirty days. The DMV's budget
for processing vehicle registrations was based on a formula that
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determines the staffing required. That formula was developed around a
specific process, and if reducing the time for that process
to be completed would reduce the number of staff and
the number of supervisors and managers needed, then voila, an
agency's budget would go down. Oh MG, that cannot happen.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh all right, now, that is so freaking maddening. So
if it takes three weeks to eat your car registration
in the mail, it's because they could do it faster,
but they would lose some of their budgets. So they're
going to go ahead and use the whole three weeks
or they're very jobs awful.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Dennis continues, Since the La County Register of Voters makes
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and has
this halff of eleven hundred with a budget of three
hundred and fifty million dollars. He's not going to improve
the process. Welcome to California government.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Is there any way around that? I'm sure it's that
way in the government all across the country and at
every level. Is there any way to get around that?
I mean, I've been hearing that my entire adult life.
I knew people that worked in various government levels where
they they had to they'd be at the end of
the year scrambling to buy laptops or different crap TVs.
They didn't need to spend their budget otherwise they get
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their budget cut. That is obviously a horrible system. Oh yeah, yeah,
absolutely terrible.
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Speaker 1 (08:40):
I had a friend who worked at a university and
at the end of the budget year, he would be
buying all kinds of electronics and stuff like that expensive
stuff on purpose because you had to use up that
budget otherwise you get your budget cut. And then there's
someone I know close to me who was in the
military that often would just get all kinds of like
sung Oakley sunglasses and all clothing and all the different
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sort of stuff because they'd come to the end of
the year and they had to buy a bunch of
crap that Okay, I just got my tenth pair of
two hundred dollars Oakly sunglasses because they had to spend
their money. Wow, that's just not good on any level.
There's there Surely there's a way to break through that
that conundrum.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And I think it's worth observing that if you're talking
about the military, there's life and death involved there.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And if they're behaving that way, what's the Department of.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The Interior whatever that is, But what are they doing
or the Registrar of voters like Dennis was writing about,
No kidding, Oh my lord, it's out of control. Now.
If we make the government bigger, it'll look out for
the little person.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Say idiots.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It iss Finally this Jeff and SoCal. He's talking about
how the stuff AI is already doing makes the Terminator
movie a reality minus the time travel show obviously. He
says there are number of facets to at the medical
advancements are encouraging already. M you have computer nerds hiding
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in basements all over the world, ripping people off or
breaking into police departments and holding them hostage for millions
of dollars before they'll let them have their computers back.
With these scumbags so computer savvy, Now, what are they
going to do with AI assistance, With the amount of
power they'll have with their fingertips, it'll be truly terrifying.
Then there's the what if AI takes over itself and
there's no way to stop it, although there is a
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way to stop it, but that would put us back
in the stone age and have to cut all the
power somehow and blow up the power plants to shut
it down.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Ah bah bah buh. Well, China, now what happens? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
What if it happens here first and we have to
go to those measures to stop it, We'll China fly
over and say thank you for our new country and
take us over. What if it's the other way around,
We sit back and watch China be taken over by
whomever because their system gets shut down by AI. Then
he goes into all sorts of bizarre and troubling possibilities
involving somebody hacks into your are, drives it down the street,
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and won't give it back to you until you give
it money in the infrastructure, sewer, water treatment, power plants,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Isn't it more likely than that, AIS, rather than seeing
the geopolitical world in terms of countries, looks at it
in terms of AIS. Like anthropop anthrope, the claud chat
Bot AI world anthropic looks at chat GPT and sees
that is the threat as opposed to China or whatever
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we need to take out. Are we we want to
be the dominant AI and they start blowing up each
other's or sabotaging or put a virus in there or whatever.
I don't know why that wouldn't happen. That's a super
interesting thought. I mean, that's the history of mankind. Although
we're not exactly talking about mankind. We're talking about mankind's
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on the Holy computer Baby. What threat would they perceive
from the other systems? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm not saying there aren't, It's just, yeah, what would
dominance do for an AI system?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Why do they want that? Well, if there's heavy competitiveness
at the level of Elon Musk and sam Altman, which
obviously there is, their AIS are certainly going to feel
that or notice that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
And perhaps the most shocking and chilling development so far
in the history of AI was when that one researcher
wrote the memo about hey, we're gonna have to shut
down this system and pull the plug on it, and
it said, yeah, he's cheating on his wife, he's a shoplifter,
he's he's a closeted Nazi.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, yeah, you got a fire this guy quick. Yeah.
I mean that was crazy. God. I'd say. We're a
week away from World Cup soccer matches in the United States.
I can give you a little primer on that, say
you kind of know what you're talking about, if anybody
brings it up or if you care. I don't care
about soccer early, but this is a big, big worldwide
event among other things on the way stay here. Interesting
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not to talk about this more later. I don't know
how into this story as people are on the whole. Hello, Hello,
echo echo. I consider myself the luckiest man. Okay, there
we a bit of a technical issue.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Mike Lingslow is off today and Mike Hanson bravely filling
in there at the control desk.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It requires like eight arms to do that job. Speaking
of Joe Demagio, one of the many, many star superstar
athletes who participated in World War Two. Since we were
just talking about D Day earlier and you mentioned Yogi Berra.
I just did a little look up on that and
just can you imagine a calamity so large that that
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would ever happen again? Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Bera.
I mean, some of the biggest names on planet Earth
for sports. When in the Militari and went over and
fought in World War Two? Can you imagine a situation
where you'd have you know, who are the big stars
that are going to play tonight, Jalen Brunson and uh
and well Wemby'd be fighting for the Friends. So I
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suppose he'd be laying down his arms under the trees
waiting for the Germans to take over. But oh my,
all the biggest athletes in America, well go go with baseball.
I'll show he a Tony Bee fighting for the Japanese
on our side, now open borders.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Biden and our movie stars as well, little uh Tim
Shallomey would be tote a rifle as big as him.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, so he got Tim Tim Shallomy fighting in the
in the whatever battle. And who's the giant for the
Yankees that hits all the home runs of Aaron Judge.
Aaron Judge, it's almost impossible to picture, isn't it right.
That's how big a calamity World War two was. Holy cow, AnyWho,
I'm not going to get off on this. Speaking of sports, uh,
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a week from today, on a Friday, it'd be kind
of exciting. The United States plays their first soccer match
in the World Cup. It's at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles,
and we take on the hated Paraguayans. Oh my god,
Oh the ancient rivalry. Oh we've always you know, Oh
my god, the memories I have of root and against Paraguay.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, ever since the Paraguayan American War of eighteen fifty
three through fifty four, you know, passions have run high.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So nine Eastern six Pacific next Friday, so at Sofi Stadium.
I didn't realize there were so many matches at all
of these different places. They're playing at hard Rock Stadium
in Miami. They're playing at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts, where
the Patriots play. Eleven different stadiums, the big stadiums we
watch all our favorite football teams in Lincoln Financial Field
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in Philadelphia, where the Eagles play, but close by seventy
miles from my own house, Levi Stadium, where the forty
nine ers play. I don't know if I'll be going
to this match next Saturday, Katar versus Switzerland. I don't
know if I can name a lot of players in
either team.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Have you ever met a leader of Hamas You might
run into one at the Cutter game, as they are
famously Shelter is longests of all sorts.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, so the United States is likely to beat Paraguay
in that first game next Friday. We're ranked sixteenth, I believe,
and Paraguay's ranked forty something, so we're supposed to win
that and then don't know who would play next when
you get into the knockout round. But that'll be fun
and people will be excited for a little while. And
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my guess would be the US population in general is
going to be interested exactly as long as the US
team is in it, and then as soon as they're out,
there are going to be a bunch of foreigners going
to soccer matches at your local stadium and you're watching
something else, if you're watching anything, you know, if there
was a.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Good matchup, I would go, of course, I like soccer.
Would you go to Bell Jim Ran?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh yeah, how's Iran going to be received at various games. Well,
and the poor players, who knows how they stand on
all of this. Yeah, hey, we'll execute your mother if
you don't go play and play hard.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh god, that's right. We already went through the whole
thing with the women Iranian soccer team, right, And are
these dudes gonna feel compelled? I'm sure they will to
put their hands over their hearts for the Iranian national
anthem and wave the flag proudly? I suppose?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Are they're not games in America's hat Canada and America's
boxer shorts Mexico.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Mexico's a box all of North America's hosting. I got Seattle,
I got Houston, I got Santa Clara, I got Kansas City.
Maybe this is just a list of the American ones.
I don't know. It could be. I don't watch soccer.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You go to a big time match with a couple
of countries and their fans and the chants and the
banners and stuff like that, it's most amos.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Drink please. Of course, of some serious fights.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Blacks some people's eyes exactly, Yeah, little hooliganism.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Speaking of blacking and blackening eyes, Gavin Newsom versus Kamala
Harris is supposed to be a knockdown drag out if
they both run for President. Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
The New World screw worm, which eats animals from the
inside out, has been finally found in America inside a cow.
Scientists say this is just the latest of many reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
To avoid sex with Joy bay Are. Wow, I do
not approve that joke for air, Do not hear that one?
I feel like me and the crowd, they're all cow.
Who's the target of this? Well, here it comes. Who's
the target?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
He goes Joy bail in sex with jol.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Wow. We got to keep that in mind. The that's
the old conservative Fox crowd watching that, and he's got
the strated show of any of your late.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Night talk shows making jokes like that, I will not
traffic and sich I will myself.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I will every day all day.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So the prospect of utterly unprincipled Gavin Newsom squaring off
against his co Californian lunkhead Kamala Harris and vying for
the White Houses has excited and titillated us for a
very long time because they're both completely unprincipled and vicious
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When necessary.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Let me set it up with this because I think
it's really interesting. I read the was it the Bob
Woodward book? I think it was pretty sure. It was
actually the reason Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris, though he
had already made it clear he was going to pick
a black woman, so that narrowed it down to a
certain extent. Joe Biden, having been around the political game
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for a long time, notice that when anybody's name popped
up in the media as a different black woman that
could be the vice presidential nominee, all of a sudden,
some negative story would come out about that woman and
she'd get piled on and driven out of the conversation.
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And Biden suspected correctly that it was Kamala Harris. She
was out there kneecapping anybody who got any headway as
like a little momentum in the media. She had an
operation for taking them out, and he liked her sharp elbows.
He really appreciated she knows how the game is played,
she knows how to fight back. So if that's true,
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Gavin better be prepared.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh yeah, And you could see the lodging in it,
and that the candidate often will pick a VP whose
tack dog and they get to float above the frame.
I say, listen, I'm here to talk about the issues.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, you want somebody who can play that game, and
he felt like she could.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So let's frame this this way. Do these people hate
each other or not? First of though, it was widely
thought Kamala was done because of the humiliation of the
last presidential race.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
But she's been making I assumed she was a non entity.
I really did, I thought, but I thought that about
Trump and he's president again.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But in appearances, like in April, she was at a
big gathering of New York black activists who chanted run again,
run again? What she said, I might, I'm still thinking
about it, run right, right. And then they compare the
book sales for the two books. The Wall Street Journal
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reporting with a straight face that Harris's book one hundred
and seven Days her tour sold out event spaces around
the US more than six months after its publication. I
can't imagine paying money to go see Kamala harrisby Well,
you know I would, though I would, but I ironically.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm suspicious of that. I know they kept
making the venue smaller. They would book a big haul,
and then they would shrink it down, put up curtains,
all that sort of thing, you know, like bands do
sometimes because you're not selling many tickets. And then how
many tickets did they give away to various activists and
stuff like that to fill it up?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And they claim her fascinating book, which was widely hooted at,
sold more than three hundred and eighty five thousand copies.
But all right, let's get into the two. These people
hate each other, not a lot. I'd be pleased with it,
but you know, I'm not a national political figure, so.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Gavin Newsom told Axios he'd only read excerpts of Harris's
book but heard it sold unbelievably well. Harris has said
nothing publicly about Gavin Newsom's book, but the governor gavey
did cite a dig in Harris's book. Harris wrote that
she called Newsom to secure his support after Biden dropped
out from the twenty twenty four race, and the governor texted,
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hiking will call back, according to Harris's account, but he
never did call back. Now Newsom said he did text Harris,
saying he had already put out a statement supporting her
and that he was the last person she needed to
talk to, hinting implying I'm behind you.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm so obviously on your side, you don't even need
to talk to me.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The governor said in an interview last year with a
video streamer that he messaged Harris why, asking why she
wrote in her book that he never answered her. Harris replied,
he said on book tour, get back to you later. Ah, anyway,
that's the relationship.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Newsom said to the interviewer, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
I like that he was middle aged man, not in
a hurry in terms of returning her phone call. Eah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And then, a month after the alleged text snub, Harris
was getting ready to accept the hastily arranged Democratic nomination
for president at the party convention in Chicago, where we were.
She was surprised to see Newsom was not on the
roster of speakers. Advisors told her that Newsom had declined
a speaking slot because of a scheduling conflict. According to
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people familiar with the discussion, Newsom considered the convention appearance
on behalf of Harris about his appealing as giving a
speech at the wedding of an ex said people close
to them, and he was happy to have an excuse
to bow out gracefully. He told the La Times that
he was going to take his children to school orientation
that day and then fly to Chicago later, and he
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appeared at the convention's high point later that week.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What's that thing they say, if you want a friend
in Washington, get a dog. Yes, at any point your
friends can turn against you, or you'll turn against them
if it's politically advantageous to you, and all kinds of
different circumstances can change all the time I'm thinking about.
For whatever reason, this popped into my head reading one
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of those LBJ books that I like so much. When
JFK picked LBJ to be his running mate, his younger brother,
Bobby Kennedy hated LBJ so much, I mean, just with
a fire. And he didn't even tell his own brother
that he was going to pick LBJ. He just did it.
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Didn't have a conversation with him or anything like that.
I mean, so it can be that tight of relationship,
you'll still just do whatever you want to do. Wow,
that may be the all time exactly, you know, gidding,
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Speaker 1 (26:44):
You know what's exciting about this to me is Kamala
Harris being in California and San Francisco all those years.
She probably knows a lot about Gavin Newsom's personal life
if she wants to go that hardcore in terms of
bringing down well, And what I can picture as I
start to say, is all right, say I'm a moderate Republican,
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you're a moderate Republican. Somebody's got to have the moderate
Republican lane. And we know each other, We've got a
friendly relationship, and you know, we might even go to
each other and say, hey, it could get a little rough,
but that's the business we're in. Yeah, I understand, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
These two actually ate each other to start with, right, Yes,
I believe that to be true. Yes, or even worse
or just as bad. They have contempt for each other.
Each one sees themselves as clearly the superior political talent
and resents the fact that the other one thinks the
opposite is true.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, I bet they both think the other one is
a lightweight who just kind of, through luck of circumstances,
ended up where they are. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, I've had a couple of those relationships in my
life where either I've been involved in it or I've
observed it that there was a real question, excuse me,
a real question of who would be the alpha between
like two guys and man, they circled each other warily
like fighters, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The Gavin and Kamala are doing. So this could be fun.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Just just hold nothing back, guys, that's all ask Hold
nothing back.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Right, Well, they don't think they will, because, I mean,
mistakes are so high.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I'm reminded of a great nursery rhyme. Let me see
if I can get this right. There once were two
cats of Kilkenny. Each thought there was one cat too many,
so they fought and they fit and they scratched and
they bit till instead of two cats, there weren't any.
So I'm hoping those two go at it until they're
both reduced dis you committed that to memory. I used
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to read nursery rhymes to my kids all the time,
and some of my favorites, yes, stuck in my mind.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Interesting. It's interesting what things stick in your mind and
what don't.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, oh, I know, so I can. I cannot
hear a song for twenty years. I remember the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh, I was doing that the other day. There was
some like I don't know, seventies or eighties or whatever,
like Spotify one hundred Great Hits or whatever, and I
was just scrolling through it as I was driving, and
songs I hadn't heard in honest to god, four decades. Wow,
word for word, I could sing them, and I thought,
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how do I possibly know what the next line is
going to be in this song that I haven't heard
in forty years? Some one hit Wonder that I didn't
even remember existing.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Word for word. That's it's it's stunning. And I'm sure
there are scholarly studies about this. But I remember at
least two of my kids, the elementary school they went to,
they would learn a song that had all the states,
the American states in alphabetical order, and so they always
had all the states memorized because it was set to music.
And I've always wanted to memorize the Gettysburg address, but
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I'm lazy, so I haven't put music.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Man put it to a beak? Do I have to
go that feat?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
How about something John Denver esque with a nice acoustic guitar.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah? The state say Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas. It makes
a big difference if you put it two. Yeah? Oh anyway, Connecticut.
Quick follow up to our scintillating uh soccer conversation? Yes,
eleven US venues three in Mexico, two in Canada. Boy,
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if that matters to you at all, We've got other
stuff on the way. Stay here. How it sings with you? Good?
Glad to hear it. I'm trying to decide whether to
do this story or not later? Have you ever heard
of the Shining Path? Oh? From Yeah, the Gorilla Group.
(30:51):
I hadn't, or if I had, I forgot it? Uh?
Where's that peace out? About the history of the Shining Path,
one of history's worst mass murder movements, and some of
the details are I'll never forget them. Is that the
sort of thing you want to hear? Probably not, especially
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on a Friday. I don't know. I have to think
about that over.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
But that's rough Man's Inhumanity to Man God, I would
say medieval Holy cramp.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I was reading this. This is a story the I'm sorry,
very very quick aside.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
See, I used to read a lot of stuff like
that in college, but even before that, whether it was
about the killing fields in Cambodia, the one I know,
Maror Rouge and Shining Paths and the mause China, the Nazis,
blah blah blah, and it formed my worldview that you
have to have strong institutions that ensure liberty or it
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will go away. The default of humanity is oppression and brutality,
and so you don't give away civilization easily.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Anyway, Well, do you want to hear it? It's up
to you, coin flip. It's kicking communists, right, Oh yeah, yeah,
Jack is contemplating. He's reviewing. If you don't want to
hear this sort of thing on a Friday, And I
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don't blame you. Oh boy, uh, I'll just give you
a little bit. This book that's out. The Communist Party
of Peru did not quote boiled children alive, as has
often been reporting. I've seen nothing like this written anywhere,
said this historian. They did apparently use scalding water as
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a method of execution, though it's a small distinction along
with stones and machetes. They did also engage in the
act of killing infants, elderly people, and pregnant women at
the village of I can't pronounce a name in nineteen
eighty three, blah blah blah blah blah goes on like that.
That is amazing. Communist regimes over and over again have
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gotten to that level of just barely human violence against
other humans. It's weird and hard to explain how you
end up there, but they they often often often do the.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Utter conviction that one no doubt conviction that you are right,
the other side is evil, and your vision of history
must come true. I read an account of a twentieth
century communist who was asked if it had cost a
million lives for the Soviet experiment to succeed, would you
still have endorsed it? And he said, yeah, how about
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five million? Hmm, yeah, he said, And this was an
American communist.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, Soviet Union. To make your whole plan of communism work, okay,
I have to jail people. Why do you have to
starve them and work them to death with no shoes
or socks on in the freezing cold. Why do you
have to do that as part of getting your communism going?
But it ends that way all the time. Er gets
always all the time, and that's why you don't.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It's a call for a violent revolution in a system
that just needs a tweak or two.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And then you got like may Day may first in
towns like I live in in the park where you
had the hammer and sickle on flags because people are
ignoring that history. Well that's an outlier. Okay, it's not.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Actually, they just didn't get it quite right. It's not
like they were Nazis. Yeah, it's very very much like
they were Nazis. Okay, different story.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Clickbait. A California Post and New York Post are really
good at clickbait, and this one got me Survivor star. Okay,
that's a bit of a we could argue about that term.
I don't know if you can be a star of Survivor.
At this point, one of the stars of season thirty
three of so any who doesn't matter if you know
who this star is or not, reveals he has cancer
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and the three symptoms he ignored. Gotta admit that made
me click on it. I clicked on it too. If
you ignored these symptoms, you're an idiot. You don't deserve cancer.
I don't suppose anybody does, but you are a moron.
He had, he had a lump that got ridiculously large,
and he didn't he didn't go to the doctor. I mean,
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I can't even imagine just overlooking that head, blood in
his stool for like a year, and like every day
for months. It'll get better, And so okay, I don't
I don't know what you do with people like that.
I mean, there's the and the and now he's blaming it.
And this is why it's getting traction on. He grew
up with toxic masculinity. That's why he grew up a
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toxic moronitude. You idiots.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Well, and he says, look, I'm speaking out now in
case he can help somebody else. So it's a one
idiot speaking to other idiots. Maybe he can help idiots
to be less idiotic.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I don't know, can you help anybody who ignores some
of those symptoms, blood in their stool every day for months?
Oh yeah, big, excuse me, you have a colon cancer? Yeah? Yeah,
he said. It was practically tearing his skin.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, okay, yeah, again, nobody deserves cancer.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
But jeez, Loise, I was hoping to learn something. I'm
not sure I learned anything there. I learned that the
stars of reality shows are often morons. That's what I
learned there.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, I've got to go to the dock in the
box today. I've got this idiotic problem. It's like an
infection in my finger. There's no trauma, no nothing. It's
fairly common sancrew worm. You were in Texas recently, weren't you.
I was too, with all my orifices available. As you know,
I'm avowed nudist and no. But it struck me that
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because it seems to be getting worse, not better. And
so I'm going to go see the doc gets some
antibiotics that should take care of it. But it's the
sort of thing that could have killed me on the prairie.
Oh absolutely, and or you know, the only treatment was Joe's.
Looks like it's spread and we got to take the finger.
I'm like, oh man, my guitar playing, damn it. Yeah,
I'll play slide.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
We gotta check in on Ukraine. That is becoming a
pretty darn interesting story, Zelensky announced, today. He wants to
meet face to face with Putin. For one thing, punch
him in his balls, and as you can see, the
two leaders are shaking. Oh, Zelensky just punched him in
the testicles, right with us Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty arm Strong, and
Jetty and He Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, guys, New York City is buzzing right now because
last night the New York Knicks one.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Game on Who.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, everywhere you look there's blue and orange.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's like seeing President Trump's swimming in the new reflecting pool.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a pretty good joke. That's a pretty good joke
right there. Game two tonight. I like it when rarely
the NBA playoff games land on like a Friday or
Saturday night. I've always been amazed that they don't work
harder at that they're big on Mondays and Wednesday and
stuff like that for their games. And I don't know.
They must have data that shows that people are more
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likely to watch them. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I do know why, and it's always surprised me and
I thought, I don't go by that that The idea
is people watch TV on weeknights. On weekend nights, they're
out and about the partying. They're bowling alleys, their restaurants,
out with friends.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm much more likely to take in an NBA Finals
game on a Friday night than I am on a
Tuesday night when I gotta work. But that's just me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, You're not the everyman though, Jack, You're very special.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, let's get a little mail bag in.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Off was a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty
dot com. Our freedom loving quotes of the day last
hour probably gave this away. But what did former US
Attorney General Elliott Richardson? He was a Nixon era right,
I don't know Hall of Fame catcher, Yogi bera in
General of the Army Omar Bradley have in common.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They all participated in D Day.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yogi Berra, Yogi Berra was a gunner's mate in the
Navy during the invasion.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Elliot Richardson an officer in the fourth Infantry on date
D Day, he won a bronze Star and two purple Hearts,
and Omar Bradley commanded the American ground forces during the
D Day Invasion, as the anniversary of which, of course
is tomorrow. Moving along, we're talking about how Congress doesn't
congress anymore. They just are Instagram stars and fundraisers and clowns.
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Ran from Houston, Rice, dear cold Warrior, an old fancy jack.
Here's the problem. Majority of voters don't want hard nosed
legislators working to make our country better. They are voting
for ritual sacrifices for when their god emperor ascends to
mount Whitehouse so they have enough power that the god
emperor can smite their enemies.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, you left out and give them stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I think that's the key that animates politics. And you know,
it's always been true, Hey give me stuff, but now
it's just shameless and they don't even have to worry
about if they have the money to give you.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They'll borrow it if they don't have it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So yeah, moving along. I thought this was so interesting,
and I know you will too. Got this note from Rebecca.
You guys were talking about men who don't work but
instead mooch off women and the taxpayer. I worked for
years in a police department in the San Francisco Bay area.
Other than for DUI, when a car was towed from
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a mail driver, the release fee was rarely paid by
that mail More often than not, a woman would show
up to pay. If it wasn't his girlfriend, it was
usually a mom or worse, a grandmother. It was a
theme so common that the few times a male came
to get their own car back without a woman were
surprising to us. Wow, but generally I would be embarrassed
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to that. But often those loan males would have to
call a woman because they were the registered owner, didn't
have a license which was usually the reason for the toe,
and could not afford the fees. No one following directions
on a map should be surprised where they end up.
And we are exactly where we let ourselves. Men who
don't work, well, I hear women talking about that sort
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of thing, finding adult men out there that like have
jobs and all that sort of stuff. And you know,
I can only hear their anecdotal evidence because I only
know my life and the people I hang around.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But that is quite the story. Yeah, yeah, how much? Wow?
If I was got pulled over driving drunk, the idea
of calling you know, some woman to bail me out
or my mom or whatever, Good Lord, have some dignity.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, she's talking about getting cars back that got told
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The fellas never showed up. Wow yeah wow.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Simple Mitch in Plasterville writes on a totally different topic, Guys,
anytime you don't understand life, are questioning the ways world
or your life decisions.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Know this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'm a fifty year old bald man who until just
now thought that the book Jack Mentions Ulysses was about
the Civil War and the general and future president of
the United States. I've instructed my wife to surrender my
license and put me on the appropriate medication. Yes, it's
it's it's old Irish book about a bartender name ulyss Uh.
Cracked wise, it's a lot like Sam Malone from.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Shirs told my son, I really want to go see
the Odyssey, which is what the book Ulysses is named
after and kind of based on. But the Odyssey comes
out here in the next few days with Matt Damon
and the old Homer story which I've never read the Odyssey,
so I kind of look forward to saying, not at Homer, Okay,
(05:45):
let's see. Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I love this from Dennis and Lincoln. The slow LA
vote counting is a feature, not a bug. He says,
this is a national story in national embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
As a former manager at the California DMV, a government
agency not known for efficiency, I will tell you the
pace of work at the La County Elections Office is
not the exception, but the rule. My experience with public
employees is that they will take all the time you
give them, and if they have thirty days to complete
a task, they will take thirty days. The DMV's budget
for processing vehicle registrations was based on a formula that
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determines the staffing required. That formula was developed around a
specific process, and if reducing the time for that process
to be completed would reduce the number of staff and
the number of supervisors and managers needed, then voila, an
agency's budget would go down. Oh MG, that cannot happen.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh all right, now, that is so freaking maddening. So
if it takes three weeks to eat your car registration
in the mail, it's because they could do it faster,
but they would lose some of their budgets. So they're
going to go ahead and use the whole three weeks
or they're very jobs awful.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Dennis continues, Since the La County Register of Voters makes
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and has
this halff of eleven hundred with a budget of three
hundred and fifty million dollars. He's not going to improve
the process. Welcome to California government.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Is there any way around that? I'm sure it's that
way in the government all across the country and at
every level. Is there any way to get around that?
I mean, I've been hearing that my entire adult life.
I knew people that worked in various government levels where
they they had to they'd be at the end of
the year scrambling to buy laptops or different crap TVs.
They didn't need to spend their budget otherwise they get
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their budget cut. That is obviously a horrible system. Oh yeah, yeah,
absolutely terrible.
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Speaker 1 (08:40):
I had a friend who worked at a university and
at the end of the budget year, he would be
buying all kinds of electronics and stuff like that expensive
stuff on purpose because you had to use up that
budget otherwise you get your budget cut. And then there's
someone I know close to me who was in the
military that often would just get all kinds of like
sung Oakley sunglasses and all clothing and all the different
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sort of stuff because they'd come to the end of
the year and they had to buy a bunch of
crap that Okay, I just got my tenth pair of
two hundred dollars Oakly sunglasses because they had to spend
their money. Wow, that's just not good on any level.
There's there Surely there's a way to break through that
that conundrum.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And I think it's worth observing that if you're talking
about the military, there's life and death involved there.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And if they're behaving that way, what's the Department of.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The Interior whatever that is, But what are they doing
or the Registrar of voters like Dennis was writing about,
No kidding, Oh my lord, it's out of control. Now.
If we make the government bigger, it'll look out for
the little person.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Say idiots.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It iss Finally this Jeff and SoCal. He's talking about
how the stuff AI is already doing makes the Terminator
movie a reality minus the time travel show obviously. He
says there are number of facets to at the medical
advancements are encouraging already. M you have computer nerds hiding
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in basements all over the world, ripping people off or
breaking into police departments and holding them hostage for millions
of dollars before they'll let them have their computers back.
With these scumbags so computer savvy, Now, what are they
going to do with AI assistance, With the amount of
power they'll have with their fingertips, it'll be truly terrifying.
Then there's the what if AI takes over itself and
there's no way to stop it, although there is a
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way to stop it, but that would put us back
in the stone age and have to cut all the
power somehow and blow up the power plants to shut
it down.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Ah bah bah buh. Well, China, now what happens? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
What if it happens here first and we have to
go to those measures to stop it, We'll China fly
over and say thank you for our new country and
take us over. What if it's the other way around,
We sit back and watch China be taken over by
whomever because their system gets shut down by AI. Then
he goes into all sorts of bizarre and troubling possibilities
involving somebody hacks into your are, drives it down the street,
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and won't give it back to you until you give
it money in the infrastructure, sewer, water treatment, power plants,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Isn't it more likely than that, AIS, rather than seeing
the geopolitical world in terms of countries, looks at it
in terms of AIS. Like anthropop anthrope, the claud chat
Bot AI world anthropic looks at chat GPT and sees
that is the threat as opposed to China or whatever
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we need to take out. Are we we want to
be the dominant AI and they start blowing up each
other's or sabotaging or put a virus in there or whatever.
I don't know why that wouldn't happen. That's a super
interesting thought. I mean, that's the history of mankind. Although
we're not exactly talking about mankind. We're talking about mankind's
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on the Holy computer Baby. What threat would they perceive
from the other systems? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm not saying there aren't, It's just, yeah, what would
dominance do for an AI system?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Why do they want that? Well, if there's heavy competitiveness
at the level of Elon Musk and sam Altman, which
obviously there is, their AIS are certainly going to feel
that or notice that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
And perhaps the most shocking and chilling development so far
in the history of AI was when that one researcher
wrote the memo about hey, we're gonna have to shut
down this system and pull the plug on it, and
it said, yeah, he's cheating on his wife, he's a shoplifter,
he's he's a closeted Nazi.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, yeah, you got a fire this guy quick. Yeah.
I mean that was crazy. God. I'd say. We're a
week away from World Cup soccer matches in the United States.
I can give you a little primer on that, say
you kind of know what you're talking about, if anybody
brings it up or if you care. I don't care
about soccer early, but this is a big, big worldwide
event among other things on the way stay here. Interesting
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not to talk about this more later. I don't know
how into this story as people are on the whole. Hello, Hello,
echo echo. I consider myself the luckiest man. Okay, there
we a bit of a technical issue.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Mike Lingslow is off today and Mike Hanson bravely filling
in there at the control desk.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It requires like eight arms to do that job. Speaking
of Joe Demagio, one of the many, many star superstar
athletes who participated in World War Two. Since we were
just talking about D Day earlier and you mentioned Yogi Berra.
I just did a little look up on that and
just can you imagine a calamity so large that that
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would ever happen again? Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Bera.
I mean, some of the biggest names on planet Earth
for sports. When in the Militari and went over and
fought in World War Two? Can you imagine a situation
where you'd have you know, who are the big stars
that are going to play tonight, Jalen Brunson and uh
and well Wemby'd be fighting for the Friends. So I
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suppose he'd be laying down his arms under the trees
waiting for the Germans to take over. But oh my,
all the biggest athletes in America, well go go with baseball.
I'll show he a Tony Bee fighting for the Japanese
on our side, now open borders.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Biden and our movie stars as well, little uh Tim
Shallomey would be tote a rifle as big as him.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, so he got Tim Tim Shallomy fighting in the
in the whatever battle. And who's the giant for the
Yankees that hits all the home runs of Aaron Judge.
Aaron Judge, it's almost impossible to picture, isn't it right.
That's how big a calamity World War two was. Holy cow, AnyWho,
I'm not going to get off on this. Speaking of sports, uh,
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a week from today, on a Friday, it'd be kind
of exciting. The United States plays their first soccer match
in the World Cup. It's at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles,
and we take on the hated Paraguayans. Oh my god,
Oh the ancient rivalry. Oh we've always you know, Oh
my god, the memories I have of root and against Paraguay.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, ever since the Paraguayan American War of eighteen fifty
three through fifty four, you know, passions have run high.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So nine Eastern six Pacific next Friday, so at Sofi Stadium.
I didn't realize there were so many matches at all
of these different places. They're playing at hard Rock Stadium
in Miami. They're playing at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts, where
the Patriots play. Eleven different stadiums, the big stadiums we
watch all our favorite football teams in Lincoln Financial Field
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in Philadelphia, where the Eagles play, but close by seventy
miles from my own house, Levi Stadium, where the forty
nine ers play. I don't know if I'll be going
to this match next Saturday, Katar versus Switzerland. I don't
know if I can name a lot of players in
either team.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Have you ever met a leader of Hamas You might
run into one at the Cutter game, as they are
famously Shelter is longests of all sorts.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, so the United States is likely to beat Paraguay
in that first game next Friday. We're ranked sixteenth, I believe,
and Paraguay's ranked forty something, so we're supposed to win
that and then don't know who would play next when
you get into the knockout round. But that'll be fun
and people will be excited for a little while. And
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my guess would be the US population in general is
going to be interested exactly as long as the US
team is in it, and then as soon as they're out,
there are going to be a bunch of foreigners going
to soccer matches at your local stadium and you're watching
something else, if you're watching anything, you know, if there
was a.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Good matchup, I would go, of course, I like soccer.
Would you go to Bell Jim Ran?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh yeah, how's Iran going to be received at various games. Well,
and the poor players, who knows how they stand on
all of this. Yeah, hey, we'll execute your mother if
you don't go play and play hard.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh god, that's right. We already went through the whole
thing with the women Iranian soccer team, right, And are
these dudes gonna feel compelled? I'm sure they will to
put their hands over their hearts for the Iranian national
anthem and wave the flag proudly? I suppose?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Are they're not games in America's hat Canada and America's
boxer shorts Mexico.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Mexico's a box all of North America's hosting. I got Seattle,
I got Houston, I got Santa Clara, I got Kansas City.
Maybe this is just a list of the American ones.
I don't know. It could be. I don't watch soccer.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You go to a big time match with a couple
of countries and their fans and the chants and the
banners and stuff like that, it's most amos.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Drink please. Of course, of some serious fights.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Blacks some people's eyes exactly, Yeah, little hooliganism.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Speaking of blacking and blackening eyes, Gavin Newsom versus Kamala
Harris is supposed to be a knockdown drag out if
they both run for President. Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
The New World screw worm, which eats animals from the
inside out, has been finally found in America inside a cow.
Scientists say this is just the latest of many reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
To avoid sex with Joy bay Are. Wow, I do
not approve that joke for air, Do not hear that one?
I feel like me and the crowd, they're all cow.
Who's the target of this? Well, here it comes. Who's
the target?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
He goes Joy bail in sex with jol.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Wow. We got to keep that in mind. The that's
the old conservative Fox crowd watching that, and he's got
the strated show of any of your late.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Night talk shows making jokes like that, I will not
traffic and sich I will myself.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I will every day all day.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So the prospect of utterly unprincipled Gavin Newsom squaring off
against his co Californian lunkhead Kamala Harris and vying for
the White Houses has excited and titillated us for a
very long time because they're both completely unprincipled and vicious
(19:41):
When necessary.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Let me set it up with this because I think
it's really interesting. I read the was it the Bob
Woodward book? I think it was pretty sure. It was
actually the reason Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris, though he
had already made it clear he was going to pick
a black woman, so that narrowed it down to a
certain extent. Joe Biden, having been around the political game
(20:03):
for a long time, notice that when anybody's name popped
up in the media as a different black woman that
could be the vice presidential nominee, all of a sudden,
some negative story would come out about that woman and
she'd get piled on and driven out of the conversation.
(20:24):
And Biden suspected correctly that it was Kamala Harris. She
was out there kneecapping anybody who got any headway as
like a little momentum in the media. She had an
operation for taking them out, and he liked her sharp elbows.
He really appreciated she knows how the game is played,
she knows how to fight back. So if that's true,
(20:46):
Gavin better be prepared.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh yeah, And you could see the lodging in it,
and that the candidate often will pick a VP whose
tack dog and they get to float above the frame.
I say, listen, I'm here to talk about the issues.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, you want somebody who can play that game, and
he felt like she could.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So let's frame this this way. Do these people hate
each other or not? First of though, it was widely
thought Kamala was done because of the humiliation of the
last presidential race.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
But she's been making I assumed she was a non entity.
I really did, I thought, but I thought that about
Trump and he's president again.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But in appearances, like in April, she was at a
big gathering of New York black activists who chanted run again,
run again? What she said, I might, I'm still thinking
about it, run right, right. And then they compare the
book sales for the two books. The Wall Street Journal
(21:44):
reporting with a straight face that Harris's book one hundred
and seven Days her tour sold out event spaces around
the US more than six months after its publication. I
can't imagine paying money to go see Kamala harrisby Well,
you know I would, though I would, but I ironically.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm suspicious of that. I know they kept
making the venue smaller. They would book a big haul,
and then they would shrink it down, put up curtains,
all that sort of thing, you know, like bands do
sometimes because you're not selling many tickets. And then how
many tickets did they give away to various activists and
stuff like that to fill it up?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And they claim her fascinating book, which was widely hooted at,
sold more than three hundred and eighty five thousand copies.
But all right, let's get into the two. These people
hate each other, not a lot. I'd be pleased with it,
but you know, I'm not a national political figure, so.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Gavin Newsom told Axios he'd only read excerpts of Harris's
book but heard it sold unbelievably well. Harris has said
nothing publicly about Gavin Newsom's book, but the governor gavey
did cite a dig in Harris's book. Harris wrote that
she called Newsom to secure his support after Biden dropped
out from the twenty twenty four race, and the governor texted,
(23:00):
hiking will call back, according to Harris's account, but he
never did call back. Now Newsom said he did text Harris,
saying he had already put out a statement supporting her
and that he was the last person she needed to
talk to, hinting implying I'm behind you.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm so obviously on your side, you don't even need
to talk to me.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The governor said in an interview last year with a
video streamer that he messaged Harris why, asking why she
wrote in her book that he never answered her. Harris replied,
he said on book tour, get back to you later. Ah, anyway,
that's the relationship.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Newsom said to the interviewer, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
I like that he was middle aged man, not in
a hurry in terms of returning her phone call. Eah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And then, a month after the alleged text snub, Harris
was getting ready to accept the hastily arranged Democratic nomination
for president at the party convention in Chicago, where we were.
She was surprised to see Newsom was not on the
roster of speakers. Advisors told her that Newsom had declined
a speaking slot because of a scheduling conflict. According to
(24:12):
people familiar with the discussion, Newsom considered the convention appearance
on behalf of Harris about his appealing as giving a
speech at the wedding of an ex said people close
to them, and he was happy to have an excuse
to bow out gracefully. He told the La Times that
he was going to take his children to school orientation
that day and then fly to Chicago later, and he
(24:33):
appeared at the convention's high point later that week.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What's that thing they say, if you want a friend
in Washington, get a dog. Yes, at any point your
friends can turn against you, or you'll turn against them
if it's politically advantageous to you, and all kinds of
different circumstances can change all the time I'm thinking about.
For whatever reason, this popped into my head reading one
(24:58):
of those LBJ books that I like so much. When
JFK picked LBJ to be his running mate, his younger brother,
Bobby Kennedy hated LBJ so much, I mean, just with
a fire. And he didn't even tell his own brother
that he was going to pick LBJ. He just did it.
(25:20):
Didn't have a conversation with him or anything like that.
I mean, so it can be that tight of relationship,
you'll still just do whatever you want to do. Wow,
that may be the all time exactly, you know, gidding,
I can picture Well, I'll tell you what I can
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We've talked about these stories on the air.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
You're at work, your phone buzzes, it's your kid, and
your kid panics, says he's been in an accident, needs
money wired right now.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
It's a scam.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
They have cloned your kid's voice from from video online
and criminals buy your phone number and your family details
from data brokers.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Then they grab your kid's voice and make your the call.
It's terrible. Yeah, they only need three seconds of your
mom's voice, your kid's voice or whatever to pull off
one of these calls. Well, anyway, you can't stop them
from cloning the voice, but you can make sure that
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That's a website you can use. We're using to put
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(26:19):
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Speaker 1 (26:44):
You know what's exciting about this to me is Kamala
Harris being in California and San Francisco all those years.
She probably knows a lot about Gavin Newsom's personal life
if she wants to go that hardcore in terms of
bringing down well, And what I can picture as I
start to say, is all right, say I'm a moderate Republican,
(27:05):
you're a moderate Republican. Somebody's got to have the moderate
Republican lane. And we know each other, We've got a
friendly relationship, and you know, we might even go to
each other and say, hey, it could get a little rough,
but that's the business we're in. Yeah, I understand, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
These two actually ate each other to start with, right, Yes,
I believe that to be true. Yes, or even worse
or just as bad. They have contempt for each other.
Each one sees themselves as clearly the superior political talent
and resents the fact that the other one thinks the
opposite is true.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, I bet they both think the other one is
a lightweight who just kind of, through luck of circumstances,
ended up where they are. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, I've had a couple of those relationships in my
life where either I've been involved in it or I've
observed it that there was a real question, excuse me,
a real question of who would be the alpha between
like two guys and man, they circled each other warily
like fighters, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The Gavin and Kamala are doing. So this could be fun.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Just just hold nothing back, guys, that's all ask Hold
nothing back.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Right, Well, they don't think they will, because, I mean,
mistakes are so high.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I'm reminded of a great nursery rhyme. Let me see
if I can get this right. There once were two
cats of Kilkenny. Each thought there was one cat too many,
so they fought and they fit and they scratched and
they bit till instead of two cats, there weren't any.
So I'm hoping those two go at it until they're
both reduced dis you committed that to memory. I used
(28:41):
to read nursery rhymes to my kids all the time,
and some of my favorites, yes, stuck in my mind.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Interesting. It's interesting what things stick in your mind and
what don't.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, oh, I know, so I can. I cannot
hear a song for twenty years. I remember the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh, I was doing that the other day. There was
some like I don't know, seventies or eighties or whatever,
like Spotify one hundred Great Hits or whatever, and I
was just scrolling through it as I was driving, and
songs I hadn't heard in honest to god, four decades. Wow,
word for word, I could sing them, and I thought,
(29:19):
how do I possibly know what the next line is
going to be in this song that I haven't heard
in forty years? Some one hit Wonder that I didn't
even remember existing.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Word for word. That's it's it's stunning. And I'm sure
there are scholarly studies about this. But I remember at
least two of my kids, the elementary school they went to,
they would learn a song that had all the states,
the American states in alphabetical order, and so they always
had all the states memorized because it was set to music.
And I've always wanted to memorize the Gettysburg address, but
(29:52):
I'm lazy, so I haven't put music.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Man put it to a beak? Do I have to
go that feat?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
How about something John Denver esque with a nice acoustic guitar.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah? The state say Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas. It makes
a big difference if you put it two. Yeah? Oh anyway, Connecticut.
Quick follow up to our scintillating uh soccer conversation? Yes,
eleven US venues three in Mexico, two in Canada. Boy,
(30:28):
if that matters to you at all, We've got other
stuff on the way. Stay here. How it sings with you? Good?
Glad to hear it. I'm trying to decide whether to
do this story or not later? Have you ever heard
of the Shining Path? Oh? From Yeah, the Gorilla Group.
(30:51):
I hadn't, or if I had, I forgot it? Uh?
Where's that peace out? About the history of the Shining Path,
one of history's worst mass murder movements, and some of
the details are I'll never forget them. Is that the
sort of thing you want to hear? Probably not, especially
(31:12):
on a Friday. I don't know. I have to think
about that over.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
But that's rough Man's Inhumanity to Man God, I would
say medieval Holy cramp.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I was reading this. This is a story the I'm sorry,
very very quick aside.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
See, I used to read a lot of stuff like
that in college, but even before that, whether it was
about the killing fields in Cambodia, the one I know,
Maror Rouge and Shining Paths and the mause China, the Nazis,
blah blah blah, and it formed my worldview that you
have to have strong institutions that ensure liberty or it
(31:51):
will go away. The default of humanity is oppression and brutality,
and so you don't give away civilization easily.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Anyway, Well, do you want to hear it? It's up
to you, coin flip. It's kicking communists, right, Oh yeah, yeah,
Jack is contemplating. He's reviewing. If you don't want to
hear this sort of thing on a Friday, And I
(32:20):
don't blame you. Oh boy, uh, I'll just give you
a little bit. This book that's out. The Communist Party
of Peru did not quote boiled children alive, as has
often been reporting. I've seen nothing like this written anywhere,
said this historian. They did apparently use scalding water as
(32:43):
a method of execution, though it's a small distinction along
with stones and machetes. They did also engage in the
act of killing infants, elderly people, and pregnant women at
the village of I can't pronounce a name in nineteen
eighty three, blah blah blah blah blah goes on like that.
That is amazing. Communist regimes over and over again have
(33:08):
gotten to that level of just barely human violence against
other humans. It's weird and hard to explain how you
end up there, but they they often often often do the.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Utter conviction that one no doubt conviction that you are right,
the other side is evil, and your vision of history
must come true. I read an account of a twentieth
century communist who was asked if it had cost a
million lives for the Soviet experiment to succeed, would you
still have endorsed it? And he said, yeah, how about
(33:49):
five million? Hmm, yeah, he said, And this was an
American communist.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, Soviet Union. To make your whole plan of communism work, okay,
I have to jail people. Why do you have to
starve them and work them to death with no shoes
or socks on in the freezing cold. Why do you
have to do that as part of getting your communism going?
But it ends that way all the time. Er gets
always all the time, and that's why you don't.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It's a call for a violent revolution in a system
that just needs a tweak or two.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And then you got like may Day may first in
towns like I live in in the park where you
had the hammer and sickle on flags because people are
ignoring that history. Well that's an outlier. Okay, it's not.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Actually, they just didn't get it quite right. It's not
like they were Nazis. Yeah, it's very very much like
they were Nazis. Okay, different story.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Clickbait. A California Post and New York Post are really
good at clickbait, and this one got me Survivor star. Okay,
that's a bit of a we could argue about that term.
I don't know if you can be a star of Survivor.
At this point, one of the stars of season thirty
three of so any who doesn't matter if you know
who this star is or not, reveals he has cancer
(35:06):
and the three symptoms he ignored. Gotta admit that made
me click on it. I clicked on it too. If
you ignored these symptoms, you're an idiot. You don't deserve cancer.
I don't suppose anybody does, but you are a moron.
He had, he had a lump that got ridiculously large,
and he didn't he didn't go to the doctor. I mean,
(35:28):
I can't even imagine just overlooking that head, blood in
his stool for like a year, and like every day
for months. It'll get better, And so okay, I don't
I don't know what you do with people like that.
I mean, there's the and the and now he's blaming it.
And this is why it's getting traction on. He grew
up with toxic masculinity. That's why he grew up a
(35:48):
toxic moronitude. You idiots.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Well, and he says, look, I'm speaking out now in
case he can help somebody else. So it's a one
idiot speaking to other idiots. Maybe he can help idiots
to be less idiotic.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I don't know, can you help anybody who ignores some
of those symptoms, blood in their stool every day for months?
Oh yeah, big, excuse me, you have a colon cancer? Yeah? Yeah,
he said. It was practically tearing his skin.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, okay, yeah, again, nobody deserves cancer.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
But jeez, Loise, I was hoping to learn something. I'm
not sure I learned anything there. I learned that the
stars of reality shows are often morons. That's what I
learned there.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, I've got to go to the dock in the
box today. I've got this idiotic problem. It's like an
infection in my finger. There's no trauma, no nothing. It's
fairly common sancrew worm. You were in Texas recently, weren't you.
I was too, with all my orifices available. As you know,
I'm avowed nudist and no. But it struck me that
(36:52):
because it seems to be getting worse, not better. And
so I'm going to go see the doc gets some
antibiotics that should take care of it. But it's the
sort of thing that could have killed me on the prairie.
Oh absolutely, and or you know, the only treatment was Joe's.
Looks like it's spread and we got to take the finger.
I'm like, oh man, my guitar playing, damn it. Yeah,
I'll play slide.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
We gotta check in on Ukraine. That is becoming a
pretty darn interesting story, Zelensky announced, today. He wants to
meet face to face with Putin. For one thing, punch
him in his balls, and as you can see, the
two leaders are shaking. Oh, Zelensky just punched him in
the testicles, right with us Armstrong and Getty
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