July 9, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour Two features...
- Our guest, RedSeattle 770am's Jason Rantz, on Platner & the character issue.
- the problems with Kratom...
- A very special guest checks-in from Alaska...
- Something we learned from our previous guest!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jetty,
and now he armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think as money. If you know, over the past
couple of days, I have faced some very serious allegations,
and I just want to make it clear this was
all false. The things that have been claimed did not happen.
It's not real.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
If you're going to fight these kind of allegations and
say I didn't do this, all of these are false.
The first place you should be running to is to
sue those responsible for the claims for defamation. But of course,
one of the things that Graham Plattner's trying to avoid
here likely is a series of discovery investigations into his communications,
mainly on kick Messenger, the application known for being a
(00:59):
haven for adults and miners to communicate anonymously. And we
know that of course, as mocked by Democrat Senator Fetterman
in Pennsylvania, he's known for having that profile picture of
him wearing a towel where he used that platform to
cheat on his wife back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I thought that was an interesting analysis there from this guy.
Tony Kennedaho was on News Nation today about Graham Plattner,
the Democrat up in Maine, who it was just a
matter of time before he had to get out of
the race, right with all the different things that kept coming,
starting way back when with the Nazi tattoo, going through
the very solid rape allegation from just a couple of
days ago. But he might not want he might not
(01:37):
wanted to stay in and sue and have discovery and.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
More information come out and all that sort of thing.
You may.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We'll discuss that and other things with Jason Rant, who
joins us on the Armstrong and Getty Show. Jason Rants
was our boss for a while in Seattle and was
a task master man. He was difficult to work for.
He had his scrubing and toilets and all kinds of things.
But anyway, you probably see Jason Rants on CNN Fox
on a regular basis, and he also hosts a show
on Seattle Red seven to seventy am.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Hi you, Jason, I'm doing well. The toilet scrubbing, I
will say, builds character to.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What you're trying to do. You're trying to take exactly
teach us some lessons about you for your own good
exactly exactly. My dad used to say that about everything
builds character every time I complain about anything, and he
was probably right. I don't know where you want to
go with the Platiner thing. I thought that was an
interesting angle because some of my favorite pundits thought he
(02:30):
might stay in the race and then what were the
Democrats going to do to face him out?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
But he might not have wanted more shoes to drop
on this thing.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Yeah, I mean, so I think he's a degenerate.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'm disgusted that it got this far, but looking at
this objectively, there are some legitimate reasons why you don't
just jump in and sue, and what that expert said
is one of them.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
The other issue is it's also really.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Expensive and embarrassing, and even if you did nothing wrong,
it could still be embarrassing, and then all of that
becomes public, and if your intent was to stay in
the race, you most definitely don't want to go through
that because it just keeps the story front and center. So,
I mean, in theory, we'll see what he does in
the coming weeks. Is it possible that he ends up
pursuing some sort of legal action if he truly didn't
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do this and he doesn't want to just sort.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Of let this lay.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
It's possible, but I think it's less likely, mostly because
again I think that expert is mostly correct, and it's
also possible, like pretty much most of the country probably
thinks at this point he is in fact guilty, and
he doesn't want to bring that up, right.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I think he's probably going to disappear from national consciousness
in forty eight hours and never be heard from again
except for when people bring up stories about not vetting candidates.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Well enough, Well, you know the one thing about his
video last night. He is a sociopath. He seems like
a narcissist, and I don't know if he'll just disappear
for the long term. Short term for sure, I don't
think we're going to hear of him in the next
several months. He'll probably sit out there. He's wise, he'll
probably sit out this race. Hopefully he does not endorse
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whomever the main Democrats decide to go with, because that
would be the because of death. But I do think
he's going to try to come back, because what you
heard in that video was just this reluctance to take
any responsibility at all for any of the reason why
he's in this mess, not even just this most recent
rape story, but anything in the past. He's always said
that was behind me. I had a rough life and
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that's why that was there. But I'm a good person
now and I'm part of this movement. He still seems
to want to leave that movement, and I do think
he's got a base of people who.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Are willing to go with him.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
They were willing to overlook a Nazi tattoo, They were
willing to overlook every other allegation against him that was credible,
even if one of the alleged victims happens to be
a conservative operative. So I do think he still probably
has a base. And that's the sad and scary part
about the Democratic Party and what it's become, is that
they're willing to accept that.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm willing to put it
only on the Democratic Party. I think we have a
problem nationwide. The Democrats have definitely seem to be worse
at it of not caring about character anymore with candidates
at all, just as a nation. I don't know what
happened there. You know, you're younger than me. But I
remember back in the day God, any sniff of ethical
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impropriety of all kinds of different things, and you were done.
Your candidacy was over and you were out of the race.
And we seem to be willing to overlook anything now
as long as they're on our team.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
So I don't know if I completely agree with that anymore.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
In retrospect.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
There are obviously some cases, and I think the people
who didn't want to be dragged through news cycles because
of how embarrassing whatever it was that they were accused
of doing was just too much.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
But I mean, Bill Clinton was able.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
To survive horrible scandals before becoming president, and of course
scandals while he was president. You had rumors, of course
going around with JFK. It's true that both sides engage
in this kind of behavior. I just think that social
media has changed the culture enough where we are willing
to accept to a.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Degree these character flaws.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Because most people say we all have individual character flaws,
they can maybe relate to them. They can say, look,
I'm willing to push aside up until a point because
I believe in the vision that they have or ideologically
we're aligned all of us. Do that all the time.
I mean, even just at the lowest level, where we
choose to date someone who maybe has a character flaw
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that we don't like, but we like everything else around them.
I just think people justified in that way. And I'm
generally okay if you set your own bar, I might
disagree with the bar that you said as to what character.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Flaws you're willing to accept.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
But I mean, we all do that every single day,
and I don't know if politics is.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Going to be able to escape that.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
The reality is, if everyone is flawed, we're going to
get flawed candidates. We just have to pick the one
with the least amount of flaws.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Obviously, the mainstream media would have not been as accepting
of a Republican with a Nazi tattoo on their chest
their entire adult life.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yeah, and that's the other thing.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I mean, people over the course of the last couple
of days all of a sudden doing about face.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Oh this is just too much. I can't believe it.
And he fooled us. He fooled us into.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Thinking we always knew he was a fraud, right, this
was not an oyster man, whatever the hell that even is, Like,
no one talked about that ever, it was a scam
from the beginning. Everyone could with two functioning brain cells
could have known how this was going to end. And
I do believe that a lot of this was spurred
by the latest polling Siena College New York Times poll
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showing him down like twenty one points. I think it
was with working class voters in name, the exact demographic
he was supposed to crush it with, and they panicked,
and they realized that they only had about a week
to figure this out. And I do think that they
put on this pressure campaign. Doesn't mean that the underlying
claims are faull or contrived in any way, but I
(08:02):
do think there was a little bit of a panic
from the Democrats at the last moment.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I hate any of the comparisons, again from the mainstream
media and then the left wack of doos between Platner
and Kavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Kavanaugh completely different story.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That guy didn't have a whiff of anything bad in
his history at all, and then this whack job woman
comes along who couldn't substantiate anything and no friends had
ever heard anything of This is the opposite with everything
about this guy everybody ever dated, and you know, the
woman sounds incredibly believable, she told her boy or her
next boyfriend at the time, she told her therapist at
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the time.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
So they're apples and oranges a hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And you know, in any real like scenario, real world scenario,
if they try to pull something like that again, you
would expect that they would feel at least great shame
in doing so, maybe not even do it because of
how much they've backed this guy, grand Platner. But the
funny thing is, I think they'll do it again. They
would do it again. They have no they'll do it again,
and they probably won't even get called out for it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
So how concerned are you with this whole They're a
couple more socialists doing well in primaries.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You had the one in Colorado the other day. You
got this guy up.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
In Michigan who's challenging a mainstream Democrat.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Are is this for real?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I mean they're really organized, the socialists when there's low
turnout elections, and these are low turnout elections that every
single one of them has been low turnout. Now it
has been low turnout if you look at just the Democrats,
but these are also deeply blue cities and counties in
which they're winning, they're not picking up seats from conservatives,
they're picking up seats from more quote unquote mainstream Democrats,
(09:43):
and I believe that the House is almost certainly going
to go to the Democrats. History tells us that's going
to happen, and in a world in which the Republicans
are in the minority, I suppose Politically, I'm not all
that upset that a bunch of socialists might end up
getting elected, because that will ensure that the Democrats don't
actually do anything unless they're totally willing to throw their
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entire principles and you know, political beliefs out the window,
which I don't think most of them will on some
of the big issues. So I think they'll be more
mired in just a lot of chaos and disruption and
they won't be able to get anything done. So in
a scenario which the Democrats are in charge, I'm okay
if they can't get anything done.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
That's not a guarantee. So there's a little bit of
risks to that.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
And I do think that the more of these lunatics
who win, the larger the spotlight is on some of
these other races that are maybe on the verge of
going to the left, and Republicans will be able to
pull some of those out. Certainly, I think this helps
us on the Senate side, and as long as we
keep the Senate I am certainly more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
We just can't lose both, right, which is why this
main race was so important. David French at New York Times.
I don't know if he wrote this in the New
York Times, you just tweeted it out, But I though
it was interesting that mainstream Democrats need to catch on
to the fact that these socialists hate them more than
they hate the Republican Party.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, but it's a grand Platinum effect, right. They're saying
we're willing to compromise for power, and they just are
blinded I guess by that power graph desire. But I
mean he's writer, whoever wrote that article is right. These
are not Democrats. I've been saying this for a long
time in Seattle, because you have people like former Sales
City councilman Shamasanwan who ran as a Democrat. All she's
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doing and all any of these people are doing, Clare
Valdez Chevalier, they are using the infrastructure of the Democratic Party.
They're getting access to their lists, their voter data, and
the money that's coming in also from the establishment Democrats
to take over the party. Their interest is to destroy it.
(11:50):
They've told us this about institutions very loudly since the
BLM movement, right, what was the language that they were using.
We need to dismantle and rebuild. That is the end goal.
They want to dismantle our institutions. And then also includes
the Democratic Party, right, and so the Democrats are so
silly for embracing this, but they're doing it because they
(12:10):
think they're going to be able to get the power.
And then suddenly all these socialists are going to turn
around and say, oh, okay, yeah, we're grateful that you
allowed us into your party. We will now do whatever
you wish. That's not going to happen. That's not who
these people are.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
He's the host of the Jason Rant Show, which is
handy because that's his name, on Seattle Red seven seventy
am weekdays from noon to four.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Jason, always appreciate your time. You're a smart guy.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, he's good and he lives in Seattle where they
got the socialist mayor, which I'm hoping to a certain extent.
The socialists that do get power, like the mayor in Seattle,
like the mayor in New York, they do their thing
for a while and people realize, oh, this doesn't work. Again,
we have to realize again, oh this doesn't work, and
then that maybe that puts the bed for a while.
(12:55):
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Speaker 5 (13:38):
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Speaker 4 (13:41):
I got a little more information on this Kratum seven
to zero that probably your teenager could or maybe already
has bought at the convenience store. And the next thing
you know, they're hooked on morphine or heroin or something
awful and it's ruined their lives. And the DEA has
caught onto it, but a little two late for some people.
(14:02):
Want you to be aware of it, stay tuned, armshat.
I can't believe I didn't know about this. I told
my friend, so I mentioned this last hour. I've got
a friend, their family, their lives have been turned upside
down in a horrifying way because of this product you
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can buy at the convenience store sitting right next to
the slim gyms and the five hour energies. It's called
Kratum seven to zero. The DEA announced it to schedule
one drug as of seven days ago on July first,
but it's too late for some people, and it's still
on the shelves at lots of convenience stores. Know this exists,
Talk to your teenagers about it or your twenty somethings,
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or be aware of it yourself. We started to get
some texts about this. It reacts like an opioid in
your body, and you immediately get hooked and need more
and more of it, and you end up on morphine
or heroin or meth or whatever trying to satisfy this craving.
I'm an inpatient nurse at a major hospital. I've seen
people getting car crashes go to rehabit cent because of
creatum from a smoke shop.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, vape shops sell it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
The crazy part is how much pushback the general publics
thinks there is no problem with cretem, that this is
a manufactured problem by the media.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
We take in media all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
We'd heard about the seven to eleven heroin and everything
like that, but not I've never seen a big story
on like the CBS Evening News about kretum. Got another
text about this. I stumbled onto cretum as a tea,
not knowing anything about it. I was one tenth of
a cup into it and started feeling way too good.
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All my chronic pain had dissolved. I decided to look
it up and discovered it was banned by countries like
Denmark that have liberal drug policies, but they didn't want cretem.
I immediately tossed the rest, knowing I was at risk.
My pain relief lasted for days. I still think about it,
even though knowing the dangers. Here's somebody tried a little
bit of it once. It felt so good and did
(16:03):
so much for their pain that they still think about
it on a daily basis. That's how easily you can
get hooked on this stuff, and then you want it
so bad and then you're needing heroin or morphine or
something stronger to satisfy your itch. Here's a different take
on it. And again, this might be the convenience store
your kid goes in to buy a monster drink today.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I know you're what you're gonna say about credem and
blah blah blah blah blah buth. They go on about
how in Portland their kid was a heroin addict and
they were able to buy kretom at the convenience store,
which helped their kid who was having horrible withdrawal symptoms
and the cretum was a help. Okay, I'm glad the
cretem helped your kid, but we can't be selling starter
(16:46):
heroin at the convenience store super cheap to teenagers because
every once in a while it helps a heroin addict
get off their drug. I'm really glad it helped your
kid get off a heroin and I'm sorry that happened
in your family. But yeah, we can't have this stuff
out there. I can't believe it's slipped under the radar.
We're so careful with the stuff that we approve, and
(17:07):
we have so many regulations around food and drink, and
every bottle of everything you've got has got the little
plastic thing on top of you have to peel off
to make sure nobody's tampered with it. And you're selling
starter heroin kits at the vape shop and the convenience store,
I mean, what the hell. Thank god the government is
on to it now, but check it out. Look today,
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if you go into a convenience sort of buy your
lottery tickets and your energy drinks and your packet cigarettes,
because I know that's what a lot of you do.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
If you go into a.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Convenience store and you see anything that's got crative on
it or seven to zero in particular, tell the clerk, hey,
this is outlawed. Probably in this county or the state.
Different states, different counties have different laws. Now the federal
government's on very soon, it's going to be illegal to
manufacture or sell anywhere, thank god, but a lot of
it's still on the shelf. Here my buddy, who's son.
(18:01):
Unfortunately his rehab over this founded in a local convenience store,
even though it is illegal in that county. Horrifying. We
have a guest coming up. He's uh one half of
the show, Joe Getty as an Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He's coming up next. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
You may remember a guy named Joe. He works so
on this year's show. Buddy left us in a time
of need and I'm the war with Iran his back hone,
it's bad.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You can see Joe, Joe, where did you go?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Tell tell Joe, Oh yeah, you're on a cruise man.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Ask him mos, Joe, Jojo. That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty Show because he's
on vacation celebrating his fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
It's Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The heck that was it? That was good by to
pick him up at the that's actually.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Hey, Michael, can we put him on hold and see
if we can figure out a way to get the
phone to where we could understand any words. Since we
couldn't understand any words there, that's very disappointing. Well, he's
in Alaska. They barely have phones in Alaska. You have
to climb a pole and turn a crank or something.
(19:23):
It's barely a state. We could trade it for Greenland.
Is how's it looking. Don't look like we haven't so
far so good. Oh, dang it, that's disappointing. We'll get
back to Joe Getdi in just a little bit. So,
we bombed Iran last night, hit ninety different locations, as
Trump had sort of promised. We got a text a
little bit ago that said three B two bombers just
(19:47):
left the Air Force base here in wherever they live.
I don't know where it is, some air Force base,
US air Force base. It's a fourteen hour flight to Iran.
Should be an exciting night. So three B two bombers
that took off and does necessarily mean they're going to Iran.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But there's a decent chance.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
There is.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Eighty strikes on Iran night before last, ninety last night,
and decent chants. According to sources close to the Pentagon
that we do even more Tonight. Trump specifically said that
the war is not back on, but that might just
be a classic misdirection, as you're allowed to do in war,
(20:28):
and the Wall Street Journal editorial board today with a
we need to force the straight open and end this war.
There are others that think we need to go back
to the economic pressure, bring back the blockade, and just
wait them out until they inevitably fall out of financial distress.
(20:53):
But we'll have more on that in a little bit.
Let's try Joe Getdie again. See if we have a
good connection.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Joe speaking of hostile foreign life. Can you hear me now?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
We can hear you now.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I assume you're calling in because Bonnie Tyler, at the
age of seventy five, had a total eclipse of the
heart and is no.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Longer with us.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I admissed that I've not really been following the news.
I did want to, and it was such a beautiful
introduction to me, and I'm heartbroken that it didn't work out,
because hey, that song is very funny, and b Eskimo's
is not an acceptable term. That is a derogatory term.
One group of Native people had for another. It is
a slur, and I will not have it on our air.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, it's it's I can't remember all the different tribes.
I've been going to various you know, speeches and seminars
and exhibits and stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
But there are a lot of them, Hanson said, But
it rhymes.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Hey, you know what the ruling goes to? Hanson?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, Leon, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
My whole life, I did not know eskimo was a
racial slur of one tribe against another.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I think it translates roughly to raw meat eaters.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Have you eaten? Have you eaten much?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
First of all, have you harpooned a whale? Any of
you eaten any blubber?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
No? But I could be hartpooned. Good lord. What they
say about cruises is true. Do you want any big
gourmet breakfast chair? You want a nice snack before lunch?
You want a big heap and lunch that's delicious, dinner, Sarah,
Sure you're hungry, sir, you're you're We had a butler. Finally,
I had a sleeve boy for two beautiful weeks. But yeah,
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they'd like, bring cannapays to your room because it's been
two and a half hours since you've eaten lunch.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
And that's all part of the cost. Oh yeah, see
that's what would get me.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's what would get me more than the availability if
it's available, but I got to pay.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
For it at least have some restraint.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
But if I've already paid for it and like it's
making it more financially reasonable my trip before I eat,
if you want to do the math that way, that
would be tough to turn down.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah. Now this this is a fairly spendee cruise experience. There,
you know, various different levels, but.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Like you just mentioned, you had a butler, so I
would assume, yes, that is not the entry level bargain basement.
You hid in the wheel well to get their sort
of trip.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Did you have a human footstool?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Did you have a human footstool?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Good question, Michael.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He did what I told him to do, Michael. Day one,
day one, they're like, what do you like to sip
on in the evening? I said, well, I'd really like,
you know, I enjoy scotch in the evening. And they
gave me several choices and brought me a bottle of
twelve year old Scotch for the voyage. Wow, in addition
to all the other bars. And this is not even
(23:39):
a big ship. So anyway, Yeah, it's been a debauchery
and over indulgence and also worth mentioning a absolutely fascinating
tour around well, mostly the Coastalarias, but of Alaska, which
is just unspeakably gorgeous and vast and amazing.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Do you find this lifestyle of endless gourmet food and
exquisite booze the sort of thing that you could continue
on a daily basis the rest of your life or
the oppos Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I absolutely could, but my life would be two
more years and then i'd be dead of like gout
and heart disease. No, it's funny because we're chatting with
various folks and Judy and I are agreeing that it's
been great, but oh my god, we've got to get
back to our regular life and the regular rhythm of it.
I guess if you'd do a lot of cruising on boats,
(24:32):
not looking for gay fellows to hook up with, cruising
and boats.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Boats, not cruising the park, that's what you mean.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Right, Yes, I just want to for people just tuning
in missed the premise of the interview. Yes, yeah, I
guess you learn to practice greater restraint. I mean we
would see people at breakfast with just a smallish cup
of yogurt and a touch of granola, right like you pansies.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You realize you paid for this, get your money's worth.
You gotta win, and you only win if you eat
more than you paid for.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And the people in the gym every day, Boy, did
they make me sick.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Right, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I was in uh Sam and I were in Vegas
for three days and we were staying at the Venetian,
and I brought my gym clothes. I did not ever
put them on or go to the gym, which is
and I'm a regular gym goer, but I never made it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
He said, Yeah. As we were packing last night, I
definitely said, well, there's the gym gear. What percentage of
I rolled from my bride, what.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Percentage of gymnasium shoes packed on trips?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Ever? Get out of the bag? I wonder one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, there was a walking track unlike the second to
the top deck, and we would do that. We'd like
walk our general our usual mile in the morning. So
that was nice. And the scenery was great.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So I've never been on it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Much more about the cruise next week, certainly.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yes, I've never been on a cruise, and I get
motion sickness really easy. Is there any problem with that?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's crazy because you were I was enjoying some of
your motorcycling pictures. No. I I tend to like feel
bad for twenty seconds and then like somebody flipped the switch,
it goes away and I'm fine. I just don't really
get affected by seasickness. And it's crazy rough and it
never was. But part of the you know, you do
the inside passage from Vancouver where you're kind of sheltered.
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Then you go more out into the open Pacific for
a while as you're heading up toward Alaska, and it
got a kind of rollie h. And there are a
lot of people who are you know really, I think
ginger Ale trying to.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh really, I would I would have been one of them.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
There was some pukeage in one of the hallways, no kidding,
but the butler's jumped right on it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Oh man, God they should, I would laugh. I would
love to have someone buttling buttling for me or whatever
the verb is. Uh, yes, I would keep the butling
all day long. That's what they're that's what they're paid
to do. I think they enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh yeah, Judy was drinking a lot of club soda,
you know, sparkling water, and she'd be like, oh, there
isn't any more in the fridge, and I would what's
app our guy? And it would be there within ninety seconds.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Oh ninety seconds. You're a little slow there, Jeeves. But
I won't say anything to your boss if you're quicker
next time.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh it was ridiculous but lovely. And again, if you've
ever considered doing the Canada, I'm sorry the Alaska Cruz thing,
do it? I mean, good God, the natural beauty, oh,
ice bergs and bears. And we only saw one bear,
but I'm going to pretend like we saw a lot
and just, oh my god, bears riding mooses right exactly,
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of course eating Biorica's right in front of you.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I I sent my parents there once, and I remember
the pictures were quite spectacular. Well, I have no concept
of like what the temperatures are like in Alaska this
time year.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
The highs were usually in the lowish fifties, right, hun, yeah,
GDI's right here and you know, the low's would just
being the forties. So I have spent the last two
weeks being you know, in a hoodie and a sweatshirt
and a jacket rain jacket chili, which is quite a
novelty this time of year. But the weather was just
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we lucked out so much because it's pretty rainy in
south east Alaska. But we just got some sprinkles, and
so did all our kayakings and whale watchings and photo
safaris and stuff pretty much uninterrupted. Got lucky.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
So do most people just like shovel down food at
these rails because I would just again, I would feel
like since I paid for it, would I would have this?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I got to get my money's worth.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Feeling well right, Yeah, it's more.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Like, you know, you're trying to have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Now. On a normal day, I'll have some yogurt and
fruit in the morning. Let maybe a protein bar mid show,
and then like super light lunch, and then we'll have
a dinner, a reasonable dinner. But this is like your
full breakfast. What do you want? You want an omelet?
Do you want fresh locks bagels? You know, the salmon,
smoked salmon on a bagel with some cream, cheese and
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capers and all. Would you like you know, eggs over easy?
Would you like some sausage? How about bacon? How about fruit?
How about pastries? How about donuts? Whatever in front of you?
And then again there's snacks anytime you want them. And
then lunch is the same thing. You know, big delicious hamburger, pastami, sandrich,
just whatever, and then dinners are freaking unbelievable. So yeah,
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I mean, yeah, it's a combination of it's in front
of in I can resist anything but temptation, and you
paid a fair amount for it. You're thinking, I am
a bit packish, so you go ahead and order the
full three course Taste of India menu that they've prepared
that night, for instance. So yeah, it adds up.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
They went all this work.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I say, a bad word, guy went all this work
to give me a taste of India.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
It'd been insulting tonight, he divers thing he offered, it'd.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Be insulting to the people of India. Yeah right, uh yeah,
so yeah, it's it's okay. And just a it turns
out as I did.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
I did.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I text this to the group. I'm I'm pretty good
at a few things, really good at a couple things.
But I'm great at day drinking on boats. I mean,
like the Babe ruth Is and the Geo. The bartender
and I became quite close as I've been sucking down
(30:53):
Cadillac Margarita's at really indisensible late.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
I'm really good at day drinking on boats. Is pretty funny.
That's got to be in the outthrow. They're hands And.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Where were you on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
On the boat? Where were we on the fourth Jude
in Alaska? Somewhere? Yeah, in beautiful Juno, Alaska, the state capitol.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You know what's funny about Alaska? And again more next week.
The full travelogue is all these towns that you've heard of,
You've just heard of them because they're the only towns
with more than like two thousand people in Alaska. They're
all tiny. Right now, we didn't go to Anchorage, which
is the biggest city, but that's still not a big city. So,
like you know, from beautiful Sacramento, California, where the show originates,
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there are multiple suburbs of Sacramento that have more than
one hundred thousand people in them. You've got Juno, Alaska,
the state capital, is what they It's got like seven
thousand people.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh really, I didn't know it was that small.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
In your towns like Haynes and Sword and Sitka that
most people have at least heard of. They're more like
three four five thousand, and a lot more in the
summer than the winter because the winters are you know,
pretty well Alaskan. But yeah, all these towns are really
small and they've got really really interesting histories, but they
kind of are what they are now because of tourism.
(32:24):
So you see the old sawmill and the old salmon
hatchery and the old gold mining, old timey stuff. But really,
you know, a big, big, big chunk of the economy's
tourism now, so they can be a little touristy. But again,
the natural beauty is just your jaw drops everywhere you look.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
I'm sure before we take a break, where mostly foreigners
on the boats or other Americans.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, you say, Jude, the ratio of Americans do international
guests was about two to one Americans international three to
one something like that. It was more Americans, yeah, yeah,
roughly two or three to one. You know, a lot
of Brits, handful of Euros. We've met some really nice
people from Switzerland. Uh, several couples from Great Britain. It's
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all over the US here.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Here's one of the headlines we'll have to discuss when
we get back because we got to take a break.
Is I actually have gotten into soccer for the first
time in my life?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Watching World Cup?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh my yeah? Oh man, what a disappointing end to
their on that one.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Oh but did you watch Argentina? Did you watch Argentina
Egypt the other night? That was one of the greatest
soccer matches in the history of soccer according to people
who follow it, and luckily I happened to watch it.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Is that the one where Messi scored a bunch of
goals at the end and brought them back.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
They Yeah, they were almost lost. Anyway, we're out of time.
Joe will be back next week, which is very exciting.
How are you even calling tomorrow? Do whatever you want?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, I'll try to weigh into we've got a miserable
travel schedule, but yeah, I'll call it tomorrow and then
looking forward to getting going next week and talking about
the crappy, crappy news. I assume your own things settled
for instance.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, exactly, that's over. And I know you spent all
your money on the fancy cruise. You're coming back by greyhounds.
So it is a long, slow trip from Alaska on
a ground bus.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Toilets get clogged, terrible.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Anyway, it'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There's no shame in wearing jogging pants with us.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Do whatever you gotta do, all right, Joe Getty joining
the show. We got more on the way, stay right here.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, you may remember a guy named Joe.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
He works sons here show.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Buddy left us in.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
A time and need and now the war with Iran
his back gone.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
It's bad.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You can see Joe, Joe, Joe, Where did you go, Joe, Joe, Joe.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Oh yeah, you're own a cruise and need a person's Oh.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Joe, Joe, Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Armstrong Getty.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So Joe just called in from Alaska, which is where
he is on is a vacation, his anniversary trip, and
he said, eskimo is a Roger derogatory term that we
shouldn't have had in our song. And I'm reading about
it here and it sounds like it might be crap
to me, like it's woke crap. Possibly, although the eskimo pie,
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which was a delicious ice cream treat of my youth.
They took the word eskimo off of it six years ago.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Uh, but this is what the pushback was.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
The term eskimo is commonly used in Alaska to refer
to all Inuit, and you picked people. Well, it says
right here the term eskimo is commonly used in Alaska.
I can't believe it's like the N word if it's
commonly used in Alaska, but it is considered derogatory by
many who associated with by many, by many college professors,
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or by like lots of people.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
I wonder about it.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Here's how it started with the eskimo pie thing. In
two thousand and nine, a young Inuit woman publicly denounced
the Canyomac, manufacturer of Eskimo pies for appropriating her culture
to sell eskimo marshmallows and other sweets. That's not saying
it's a racist term. That's that completely bullless, crazy cultural
appropriation thing that caught on among the wool crowd. So
(36:15):
I'm not buying this whole Eskimo as a derogatory term thing,
not at least based on this article from the New
York times you don't get to tell me what to say,
woke crazy graduate students.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
If it turns out to be an actual racist term,
I will stop using it.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
More on the way stay here, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jetty,
and now he armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think as money. If you know, over the past
couple of days, I have faced some very serious allegations,
and I just want to make it clear this was
all false. The things that have been claimed did not happen.
It's not real.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
If you're going to fight these kind of allegations and
say I didn't do this, all of these are false.
The first place you should be running to is to
sue those responsible for the claims for defamation. But of course,
one of the things that Graham Plattner's trying to avoid
here likely is a series of discovery investigations into his communications,
mainly on kick Messenger, the application known for being a
(00:59):
haven for adults and miners to communicate anonymously. And we
know that of course, as mocked by Democrat Senator Fetterman
in Pennsylvania, he's known for having that profile picture of
him wearing a towel where he used that platform to
cheat on his wife back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I thought that was an interesting analysis there from this guy.
Tony Kennedaho was on News Nation today about Graham Plattner,
the Democrat up in Maine, who it was just a
matter of time before he had to get out of
the race, right with all the different things that kept coming,
starting way back when with the Nazi tattoo, going through
the very solid rape allegation from just a couple of
days ago. But he might not want he might not
(01:37):
wanted to stay in and sue and have discovery and.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
More information come out and all that sort of thing.
You may.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We'll discuss that and other things with Jason Rant, who
joins us on the Armstrong and Getty Show. Jason Rants
was our boss for a while in Seattle and was
a task master man. He was difficult to work for.
He had his scrubing and toilets and all kinds of things.
But anyway, you probably see Jason Rants on CNN Fox
on a regular basis, and he also hosts a show
on Seattle Red seven to seventy am.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Hi you, Jason, I'm doing well. The toilet scrubbing, I
will say, builds character to.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What you're trying to do. You're trying to take exactly
teach us some lessons about you for your own good
exactly exactly. My dad used to say that about everything
builds character every time I complain about anything, and he
was probably right. I don't know where you want to
go with the Platiner thing. I thought that was an
interesting angle because some of my favorite pundits thought he
(02:30):
might stay in the race and then what were the
Democrats going to do to face him out?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
But he might not have wanted more shoes to drop
on this thing.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Yeah, I mean, so I think he's a degenerate.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'm disgusted that it got this far, but looking at
this objectively, there are some legitimate reasons why you don't
just jump in and sue, and what that expert said
is one of them.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
The other issue is it's also really.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Expensive and embarrassing, and even if you did nothing wrong,
it could still be embarrassing, and then all of that
becomes public, and if your intent was to stay in
the race, you most definitely don't want to go through
that because it just keeps the story front and center. So,
I mean, in theory, we'll see what he does in
the coming weeks. Is it possible that he ends up
pursuing some sort of legal action if he truly didn't
(03:16):
do this and he doesn't want to just sort.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Of let this lay.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
It's possible, but I think it's less likely, mostly because
again I think that expert is mostly correct, and it's
also possible, like pretty much most of the country probably
thinks at this point he is in fact guilty, and
he doesn't want to bring that up, right.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I think he's probably going to disappear from national consciousness
in forty eight hours and never be heard from again
except for when people bring up stories about not vetting candidates.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Well enough, Well, you know the one thing about his
video last night. He is a sociopath. He seems like
a narcissist, and I don't know if he'll just disappear
for the long term. Short term for sure, I don't
think we're going to hear of him in the next
several months. He'll probably sit out there. He's wise, he'll
probably sit out this race. Hopefully he does not endorse
(04:04):
whomever the main Democrats decide to go with, because that
would be the because of death. But I do think
he's going to try to come back, because what you
heard in that video was just this reluctance to take
any responsibility at all for any of the reason why
he's in this mess, not even just this most recent
rape story, but anything in the past. He's always said
that was behind me. I had a rough life and
(04:27):
that's why that was there. But I'm a good person
now and I'm part of this movement. He still seems
to want to leave that movement, and I do think
he's got a base of people who.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Are willing to go with him.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
They were willing to overlook a Nazi tattoo, They were
willing to overlook every other allegation against him that was credible,
even if one of the alleged victims happens to be
a conservative operative. So I do think he still probably
has a base. And that's the sad and scary part
about the Democratic Party and what it's become, is that
they're willing to accept that.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm willing to put it
only on the Democratic Party. I think we have a
problem nationwide. The Democrats have definitely seem to be worse
at it of not caring about character anymore with candidates
at all, just as a nation. I don't know what
happened there. You know, you're younger than me. But I
remember back in the day God, any sniff of ethical
(05:22):
impropriety of all kinds of different things, and you were done.
Your candidacy was over and you were out of the race.
And we seem to be willing to overlook anything now
as long as they're on our team.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
So I don't know if I completely agree with that anymore.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
In retrospect.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
There are obviously some cases, and I think the people
who didn't want to be dragged through news cycles because
of how embarrassing whatever it was that they were accused
of doing was just too much.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
But I mean, Bill Clinton was able.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
To survive horrible scandals before becoming president, and of course
scandals while he was president. You had rumors, of course
going around with JFK. It's true that both sides engage
in this kind of behavior. I just think that social
media has changed the culture enough where we are willing
to accept to a.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Degree these character flaws.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Because most people say we all have individual character flaws,
they can maybe relate to them. They can say, look,
I'm willing to push aside up until a point because
I believe in the vision that they have or ideologically
we're aligned all of us. Do that all the time.
I mean, even just at the lowest level, where we
choose to date someone who maybe has a character flaw
(06:34):
that we don't like, but we like everything else around them.
I just think people justified in that way. And I'm
generally okay if you set your own bar, I might
disagree with the bar that you said as to what character.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Flaws you're willing to accept.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
But I mean, we all do that every single day,
and I don't know if politics is.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Going to be able to escape that.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
The reality is, if everyone is flawed, we're going to
get flawed candidates. We just have to pick the one
with the least amount of flaws.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Obviously, the mainstream media would have not been as accepting
of a Republican with a Nazi tattoo on their chest
their entire adult life.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yeah, and that's the other thing.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I mean, people over the course of the last couple
of days all of a sudden doing about face.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Oh this is just too much. I can't believe it.
And he fooled us. He fooled us into.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Thinking we always knew he was a fraud, right, this
was not an oyster man, whatever the hell that even is, Like,
no one talked about that ever, it was a scam
from the beginning. Everyone could with two functioning brain cells
could have known how this was going to end. And
I do believe that a lot of this was spurred
by the latest polling Siena College New York Times poll
(07:42):
showing him down like twenty one points. I think it
was with working class voters in name, the exact demographic
he was supposed to crush it with, and they panicked,
and they realized that they only had about a week
to figure this out. And I do think that they
put on this pressure campaign. Doesn't mean that the underlying
claims are faull or contrived in any way, but I
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do think there was a little bit of a panic
from the Democrats at the last moment.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I hate any of the comparisons, again from the mainstream
media and then the left wack of doos between Platner
and Kavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Kavanaugh completely different story.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That guy didn't have a whiff of anything bad in
his history at all, and then this whack job woman
comes along who couldn't substantiate anything and no friends had
ever heard anything of This is the opposite with everything
about this guy everybody ever dated, and you know, the
woman sounds incredibly believable, she told her boy or her
next boyfriend at the time, she told her therapist at
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the time.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
So they're apples and oranges a hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And you know, in any real like scenario, real world scenario,
if they try to pull something like that again, you
would expect that they would feel at least great shame
in doing so, maybe not even do it because of
how much they've backed this guy, grand Platner. But the
funny thing is, I think they'll do it again. They
would do it again. They have no they'll do it again,
and they probably won't even get called out for it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
So how concerned are you with this whole They're a
couple more socialists doing well in primaries.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You had the one in Colorado the other day. You
got this guy up.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
In Michigan who's challenging a mainstream Democrat.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Are is this for real?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I mean they're really organized, the socialists when there's low
turnout elections, and these are low turnout elections that every
single one of them has been low turnout. Now it
has been low turnout if you look at just the Democrats,
but these are also deeply blue cities and counties in
which they're winning, they're not picking up seats from conservatives,
they're picking up seats from more quote unquote mainstream Democrats,
(09:43):
and I believe that the House is almost certainly going
to go to the Democrats. History tells us that's going
to happen, and in a world in which the Republicans
are in the minority, I suppose Politically, I'm not all
that upset that a bunch of socialists might end up
getting elected, because that will ensure that the Democrats don't
actually do anything unless they're totally willing to throw their
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entire principles and you know, political beliefs out the window,
which I don't think most of them will on some
of the big issues. So I think they'll be more
mired in just a lot of chaos and disruption and
they won't be able to get anything done. So in
a scenario which the Democrats are in charge, I'm okay
if they can't get anything done.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
That's not a guarantee. So there's a little bit of
risks to that.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
And I do think that the more of these lunatics
who win, the larger the spotlight is on some of
these other races that are maybe on the verge of
going to the left, and Republicans will be able to
pull some of those out. Certainly, I think this helps
us on the Senate side, and as long as we
keep the Senate I am certainly more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
We just can't lose both, right, which is why this
main race was so important. David French at New York Times.
I don't know if he wrote this in the New
York Times, you just tweeted it out, But I though
it was interesting that mainstream Democrats need to catch on
to the fact that these socialists hate them more than
they hate the Republican Party.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, but it's a grand Platinum effect, right. They're saying
we're willing to compromise for power, and they just are
blinded I guess by that power graph desire. But I
mean he's writer, whoever wrote that article is right. These
are not Democrats. I've been saying this for a long
time in Seattle, because you have people like former Sales
City councilman Shamasanwan who ran as a Democrat. All she's
(11:29):
doing and all any of these people are doing, Clare
Valdez Chevalier, they are using the infrastructure of the Democratic Party.
They're getting access to their lists, their voter data, and
the money that's coming in also from the establishment Democrats
to take over the party. Their interest is to destroy it.
(11:50):
They've told us this about institutions very loudly since the
BLM movement, right, what was the language that they were using.
We need to dismantle and rebuild. That is the end goal.
They want to dismantle our institutions. And then also includes
the Democratic Party, right, and so the Democrats are so
silly for embracing this, but they're doing it because they
(12:10):
think they're going to be able to get the power.
And then suddenly all these socialists are going to turn
around and say, oh, okay, yeah, we're grateful that you
allowed us into your party. We will now do whatever
you wish. That's not going to happen. That's not who
these people are.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
He's the host of the Jason Rant Show, which is
handy because that's his name, on Seattle Red seven seventy
am weekdays from noon to four.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Jason, always appreciate your time. You're a smart guy.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, he's good and he lives in Seattle where they
got the socialist mayor, which I'm hoping to a certain extent.
The socialists that do get power, like the mayor in Seattle,
like the mayor in New York, they do their thing
for a while and people realize, oh, this doesn't work. Again,
we have to realize again, oh this doesn't work, and
then that maybe that puts the bed for a while.
(12:55):
I want to tell you about rough Greens real quick,
because I got more to say about that addictive drug
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Speaker 5 (13:38):
Make any dog food better I'll tell you what. We'll
take a break and i'll come back.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I got a little more information on this Kratum seven
to zero that probably your teenager could or maybe already
has bought at the convenience store. And the next thing
you know, they're hooked on morphine or heroin or something
awful and it's ruined their lives. And the DEA has
caught onto it, but a little two late for some people.
(14:02):
Want you to be aware of it, stay tuned, armshat.
I can't believe I didn't know about this. I told
my friend, so I mentioned this last hour. I've got
a friend, their family, their lives have been turned upside
down in a horrifying way because of this product you
(14:23):
can buy at the convenience store sitting right next to
the slim gyms and the five hour energies. It's called
Kratum seven to zero. The DEA announced it to schedule
one drug as of seven days ago on July first,
but it's too late for some people, and it's still
on the shelves at lots of convenience stores. Know this exists,
Talk to your teenagers about it or your twenty somethings,
(14:45):
or be aware of it yourself. We started to get
some texts about this. It reacts like an opioid in
your body, and you immediately get hooked and need more
and more of it, and you end up on morphine
or heroin or meth or whatever trying to satisfy this craving.
I'm an inpatient nurse at a major hospital. I've seen
people getting car crashes go to rehabit cent because of
creatum from a smoke shop.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, vape shops sell it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
The crazy part is how much pushback the general publics
thinks there is no problem with cretem, that this is
a manufactured problem by the media.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
We take in media all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
We'd heard about the seven to eleven heroin and everything
like that, but not I've never seen a big story
on like the CBS Evening News about kretum. Got another
text about this. I stumbled onto cretum as a tea,
not knowing anything about it. I was one tenth of
a cup into it and started feeling way too good.
(15:42):
All my chronic pain had dissolved. I decided to look
it up and discovered it was banned by countries like
Denmark that have liberal drug policies, but they didn't want cretem.
I immediately tossed the rest, knowing I was at risk.
My pain relief lasted for days. I still think about it,
even though knowing the dangers. Here's somebody tried a little
bit of it once. It felt so good and did
(16:03):
so much for their pain that they still think about
it on a daily basis. That's how easily you can
get hooked on this stuff, and then you want it
so bad and then you're needing heroin or morphine or
something stronger to satisfy your itch. Here's a different take
on it. And again, this might be the convenience store
your kid goes in to buy a monster drink today.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I know you're what you're gonna say about credem and
blah blah blah blah blah buth. They go on about
how in Portland their kid was a heroin addict and
they were able to buy kretom at the convenience store,
which helped their kid who was having horrible withdrawal symptoms
and the cretum was a help. Okay, I'm glad the
cretem helped your kid, but we can't be selling starter
(16:46):
heroin at the convenience store super cheap to teenagers because
every once in a while it helps a heroin addict
get off their drug. I'm really glad it helped your
kid get off a heroin and I'm sorry that happened
in your family. But yeah, we can't have this stuff
out there. I can't believe it's slipped under the radar.
We're so careful with the stuff that we approve, and
(17:07):
we have so many regulations around food and drink, and
every bottle of everything you've got has got the little
plastic thing on top of you have to peel off
to make sure nobody's tampered with it. And you're selling
starter heroin kits at the vape shop and the convenience store,
I mean, what the hell. Thank god the government is
on to it now, but check it out. Look today,
(17:30):
if you go into a convenience sort of buy your
lottery tickets and your energy drinks and your packet cigarettes,
because I know that's what a lot of you do.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
If you go into a.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Convenience store and you see anything that's got crative on
it or seven to zero in particular, tell the clerk, hey,
this is outlawed. Probably in this county or the state.
Different states, different counties have different laws. Now the federal
government's on very soon, it's going to be illegal to
manufacture or sell anywhere, thank god, but a lot of
it's still on the shelf. Here my buddy, who's son.
(18:01):
Unfortunately his rehab over this founded in a local convenience store,
even though it is illegal in that county. Horrifying. We
have a guest coming up. He's uh one half of
the show, Joe Getty as an Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He's coming up next. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
You may remember a guy named Joe. He works so
on this year's show. Buddy left us in a time
of need and I'm the war with Iran his back hone,
it's bad.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You can see Joe, Joe, where did you go?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Tell tell Joe, Oh yeah, you're on a cruise man.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Ask him mos, Joe, Jojo. That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty Show because he's
on vacation celebrating his fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
It's Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The heck that was it? That was good by to
pick him up at the that's actually.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Hey, Michael, can we put him on hold and see
if we can figure out a way to get the
phone to where we could understand any words. Since we
couldn't understand any words there, that's very disappointing. Well, he's
in Alaska. They barely have phones in Alaska. You have
to climb a pole and turn a crank or something.
(19:23):
It's barely a state. We could trade it for Greenland.
Is how's it looking. Don't look like we haven't so
far so good. Oh, dang it, that's disappointing. We'll get
back to Joe Getdi in just a little bit. So,
we bombed Iran last night, hit ninety different locations, as
Trump had sort of promised. We got a text a
little bit ago that said three B two bombers just
(19:47):
left the Air Force base here in wherever they live.
I don't know where it is, some air Force base,
US air Force base. It's a fourteen hour flight to Iran.
Should be an exciting night. So three B two bombers
that took off and does necessarily mean they're going to Iran.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But there's a decent chance.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
There is.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Eighty strikes on Iran night before last, ninety last night,
and decent chants. According to sources close to the Pentagon
that we do even more Tonight. Trump specifically said that
the war is not back on, but that might just
be a classic misdirection, as you're allowed to do in war,
(20:28):
and the Wall Street Journal editorial board today with a
we need to force the straight open and end this war.
There are others that think we need to go back
to the economic pressure, bring back the blockade, and just
wait them out until they inevitably fall out of financial distress.
(20:53):
But we'll have more on that in a little bit.
Let's try Joe Getdie again. See if we have a
good connection.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Joe speaking of hostile foreign life. Can you hear me now?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
We can hear you now.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I assume you're calling in because Bonnie Tyler, at the
age of seventy five, had a total eclipse of the
heart and is no.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Longer with us.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I admissed that I've not really been following the news.
I did want to, and it was such a beautiful
introduction to me, and I'm heartbroken that it didn't work out,
because hey, that song is very funny, and b Eskimo's
is not an acceptable term. That is a derogatory term.
One group of Native people had for another. It is
a slur, and I will not have it on our air.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, it's it's I can't remember all the different tribes.
I've been going to various you know, speeches and seminars
and exhibits and stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
But there are a lot of them, Hanson said, But
it rhymes.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Hey, you know what the ruling goes to? Hanson?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, Leon, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
My whole life, I did not know eskimo was a
racial slur of one tribe against another.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I think it translates roughly to raw meat eaters.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Have you eaten? Have you eaten much?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
First of all, have you harpooned a whale? Any of
you eaten any blubber?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
No? But I could be hartpooned. Good lord. What they
say about cruises is true. Do you want any big
gourmet breakfast chair? You want a nice snack before lunch?
You want a big heap and lunch that's delicious, dinner, Sarah,
Sure you're hungry, sir, you're you're We had a butler. Finally,
I had a sleeve boy for two beautiful weeks. But yeah,
(22:30):
they'd like, bring cannapays to your room because it's been
two and a half hours since you've eaten lunch.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
And that's all part of the cost. Oh yeah, see
that's what would get me.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's what would get me more than the availability if
it's available, but I got to pay.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
For it at least have some restraint.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
But if I've already paid for it and like it's
making it more financially reasonable my trip before I eat,
if you want to do the math that way, that
would be tough to turn down.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah. Now this this is a fairly spendee cruise experience. There,
you know, various different levels, but.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Like you just mentioned, you had a butler, so I
would assume, yes, that is not the entry level bargain basement.
You hid in the wheel well to get their sort
of trip.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Did you have a human footstool?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Did you have a human footstool?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Good question, Michael.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He did what I told him to do, Michael. Day one,
day one, they're like, what do you like to sip
on in the evening? I said, well, I'd really like,
you know, I enjoy scotch in the evening. And they
gave me several choices and brought me a bottle of
twelve year old Scotch for the voyage. Wow, in addition
to all the other bars. And this is not even
(23:39):
a big ship. So anyway, Yeah, it's been a debauchery
and over indulgence and also worth mentioning a absolutely fascinating
tour around well, mostly the Coastalarias, but of Alaska, which
is just unspeakably gorgeous and vast and amazing.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Do you find this lifestyle of endless gourmet food and
exquisite booze the sort of thing that you could continue
on a daily basis the rest of your life or
the oppos Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I absolutely could, but my life would be two
more years and then i'd be dead of like gout
and heart disease. No, it's funny because we're chatting with
various folks and Judy and I are agreeing that it's
been great, but oh my god, we've got to get
back to our regular life and the regular rhythm of it.
I guess if you'd do a lot of cruising on boats,
(24:32):
not looking for gay fellows to hook up with, cruising
and boats.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Boats, not cruising the park, that's what you mean.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Right, Yes, I just want to for people just tuning
in missed the premise of the interview. Yes, yeah, I
guess you learn to practice greater restraint. I mean we
would see people at breakfast with just a smallish cup
of yogurt and a touch of granola, right like you pansies.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You realize you paid for this, get your money's worth.
You gotta win, and you only win if you eat
more than you paid for.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And the people in the gym every day, Boy, did
they make me sick.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Right, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I was in uh Sam and I were in Vegas
for three days and we were staying at the Venetian,
and I brought my gym clothes. I did not ever
put them on or go to the gym, which is
and I'm a regular gym goer, but I never made it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
He said, Yeah. As we were packing last night, I
definitely said, well, there's the gym gear. What percentage of
I rolled from my bride, what.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Percentage of gymnasium shoes packed on trips?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Ever? Get out of the bag? I wonder one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, there was a walking track unlike the second to
the top deck, and we would do that. We'd like
walk our general our usual mile in the morning. So
that was nice. And the scenery was great.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So I've never been on it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Much more about the cruise next week, certainly.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yes, I've never been on a cruise, and I get
motion sickness really easy. Is there any problem with that?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's crazy because you were I was enjoying some of
your motorcycling pictures. No. I I tend to like feel
bad for twenty seconds and then like somebody flipped the switch,
it goes away and I'm fine. I just don't really
get affected by seasickness. And it's crazy rough and it
never was. But part of the you know, you do
the inside passage from Vancouver where you're kind of sheltered.
(26:35):
Then you go more out into the open Pacific for
a while as you're heading up toward Alaska, and it
got a kind of rollie h. And there are a
lot of people who are you know really, I think
ginger Ale trying to.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh really, I would I would have been one of them.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
There was some pukeage in one of the hallways, no kidding,
but the butler's jumped right on it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Oh man, God they should, I would laugh. I would
love to have someone buttling buttling for me or whatever
the verb is. Uh, yes, I would keep the butling
all day long. That's what they're that's what they're paid
to do. I think they enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh yeah, Judy was drinking a lot of club soda,
you know, sparkling water, and she'd be like, oh, there
isn't any more in the fridge, and I would what's
app our guy? And it would be there within ninety seconds.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Oh ninety seconds. You're a little slow there, Jeeves. But
I won't say anything to your boss if you're quicker
next time.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh it was ridiculous but lovely. And again, if you've
ever considered doing the Canada, I'm sorry the Alaska Cruz thing,
do it? I mean, good God, the natural beauty, oh,
ice bergs and bears. And we only saw one bear,
but I'm going to pretend like we saw a lot
and just, oh my god, bears riding mooses right exactly,
(27:56):
of course eating Biorica's right in front of you.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I I sent my parents there once, and I remember
the pictures were quite spectacular. Well, I have no concept
of like what the temperatures are like in Alaska this
time year.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
The highs were usually in the lowish fifties, right, hun, yeah,
GDI's right here and you know, the low's would just
being the forties. So I have spent the last two
weeks being you know, in a hoodie and a sweatshirt
and a jacket rain jacket chili, which is quite a
novelty this time of year. But the weather was just
(28:31):
we lucked out so much because it's pretty rainy in
south east Alaska. But we just got some sprinkles, and
so did all our kayakings and whale watchings and photo
safaris and stuff pretty much uninterrupted. Got lucky.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
So do most people just like shovel down food at
these rails because I would just again, I would feel
like since I paid for it, would I would have this?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I got to get my money's worth.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Feeling well right, Yeah, it's more.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Like, you know, you're trying to have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Now. On a normal day, I'll have some yogurt and
fruit in the morning. Let maybe a protein bar mid show,
and then like super light lunch, and then we'll have
a dinner, a reasonable dinner. But this is like your
full breakfast. What do you want? You want an omelet?
Do you want fresh locks bagels? You know, the salmon,
smoked salmon on a bagel with some cream, cheese and
(29:32):
capers and all. Would you like you know, eggs over easy?
Would you like some sausage? How about bacon? How about fruit?
How about pastries? How about donuts? Whatever in front of you?
And then again there's snacks anytime you want them. And
then lunch is the same thing. You know, big delicious hamburger, pastami, sandrich,
just whatever, and then dinners are freaking unbelievable. So yeah,
(29:54):
I mean, yeah, it's a combination of it's in front
of in I can resist anything but temptation, and you
paid a fair amount for it. You're thinking, I am
a bit packish, so you go ahead and order the
full three course Taste of India menu that they've prepared
that night, for instance. So yeah, it adds up.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
They went all this work.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I say, a bad word, guy went all this work
to give me a taste of India.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
It'd been insulting tonight, he divers thing he offered, it'd.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Be insulting to the people of India. Yeah right, uh yeah,
so yeah, it's it's okay. And just a it turns
out as I did.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
I did.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I text this to the group. I'm I'm pretty good
at a few things, really good at a couple things.
But I'm great at day drinking on boats. I mean,
like the Babe ruth Is and the Geo. The bartender
and I became quite close as I've been sucking down
(30:53):
Cadillac Margarita's at really indisensible late.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
I'm really good at day drinking on boats. Is pretty funny.
That's got to be in the outthrow. They're hands And.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Where were you on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
On the boat? Where were we on the fourth Jude
in Alaska? Somewhere? Yeah, in beautiful Juno, Alaska, the state capitol.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You know what's funny about Alaska? And again more next week.
The full travelogue is all these towns that you've heard of,
You've just heard of them because they're the only towns
with more than like two thousand people in Alaska. They're
all tiny. Right now, we didn't go to Anchorage, which
is the biggest city, but that's still not a big city. So,
like you know, from beautiful Sacramento, California, where the show originates,
(31:46):
there are multiple suburbs of Sacramento that have more than
one hundred thousand people in them. You've got Juno, Alaska,
the state capital, is what they It's got like seven
thousand people.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh really, I didn't know it was that small.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
In your towns like Haynes and Sword and Sitka that
most people have at least heard of. They're more like
three four five thousand, and a lot more in the
summer than the winter because the winters are you know,
pretty well Alaskan. But yeah, all these towns are really
small and they've got really really interesting histories, but they
kind of are what they are now because of tourism.
(32:24):
So you see the old sawmill and the old salmon
hatchery and the old gold mining, old timey stuff. But really,
you know, a big, big, big chunk of the economy's
tourism now, so they can be a little touristy. But again,
the natural beauty is just your jaw drops everywhere you look.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
I'm sure before we take a break, where mostly foreigners
on the boats or other Americans.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, you say, Jude, the ratio of Americans do international
guests was about two to one Americans international three to
one something like that. It was more Americans, yeah, yeah,
roughly two or three to one. You know, a lot
of Brits, handful of Euros. We've met some really nice
people from Switzerland. Uh, several couples from Great Britain. It's
(33:16):
all over the US here.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Here's one of the headlines we'll have to discuss when
we get back because we got to take a break.
Is I actually have gotten into soccer for the first
time in my life?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Watching World Cup?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh my yeah? Oh man, what a disappointing end to
their on that one.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Oh but did you watch Argentina? Did you watch Argentina
Egypt the other night? That was one of the greatest
soccer matches in the history of soccer according to people
who follow it, and luckily I happened to watch it.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Is that the one where Messi scored a bunch of
goals at the end and brought them back.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
They Yeah, they were almost lost. Anyway, we're out of time.
Joe will be back next week, which is very exciting.
How are you even calling tomorrow? Do whatever you want?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, I'll try to weigh into we've got a miserable
travel schedule, but yeah, I'll call it tomorrow and then
looking forward to getting going next week and talking about
the crappy, crappy news. I assume your own things settled
for instance.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, exactly, that's over. And I know you spent all
your money on the fancy cruise. You're coming back by greyhounds.
So it is a long, slow trip from Alaska on
a ground bus.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Toilets get clogged, terrible.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Anyway, it'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There's no shame in wearing jogging pants with us.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Do whatever you gotta do, all right, Joe Getty joining
the show. We got more on the way, stay right here.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, you may remember a guy named Joe.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
He works sons here show.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Buddy left us in.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
A time and need and now the war with Iran
his back gone.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
It's bad.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You can see Joe, Joe, Joe, Where did you go, Joe, Joe, Joe.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Oh yeah, you're own a cruise and need a person's Oh.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Joe, Joe, Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Armstrong Getty.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So Joe just called in from Alaska, which is where
he is on is a vacation, his anniversary trip, and
he said, eskimo is a Roger derogatory term that we
shouldn't have had in our song. And I'm reading about
it here and it sounds like it might be crap
to me, like it's woke crap. Possibly, although the eskimo pie,
(35:17):
which was a delicious ice cream treat of my youth.
They took the word eskimo off of it six years ago.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Uh, but this is what the pushback was.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
The term eskimo is commonly used in Alaska to refer
to all Inuit, and you picked people. Well, it says
right here the term eskimo is commonly used in Alaska.
I can't believe it's like the N word if it's
commonly used in Alaska, but it is considered derogatory by
many who associated with by many, by many college professors,
(35:50):
or by like lots of people.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
I wonder about it.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Here's how it started with the eskimo pie thing. In
two thousand and nine, a young Inuit woman publicly denounced
the Canyomac, manufacturer of Eskimo pies for appropriating her culture
to sell eskimo marshmallows and other sweets. That's not saying
it's a racist term. That's that completely bullless, crazy cultural
appropriation thing that caught on among the wool crowd. So
(36:15):
I'm not buying this whole Eskimo as a derogatory term thing,
not at least based on this article from the New
York times you don't get to tell me what to say,
woke crazy graduate students.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
If it turns out to be an actual racist term,
I will stop using it.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
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