May 15, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- What the heck did NYC Mayor Eric Adams mean by "good swimmers"...
- The CEO of a dating app says Ai is here to help!...
- Antony Blinken is rockin' out, while Ukranians are dying...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How do we have a large body of people that
are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time we need lifeguards? What and
the only obstacle is that we won't give them the
right to work to become a lifeguard.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
What doesn't make sense is you tying those two things together.
You have a shortage of lifeguards. That's what he was
talking about. That's the mayor of New York. He's talking
about the shortage of lifeguards they've got in New York City,
and he says, how do we have all of these
illegal immigrants who are good swimmers? We're not filling those
lifeguards up? Wait a second, why are people from south
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of the border good swimmers?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I mean? Is that?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Aw? What is thinking back to recent Summer Olympics, I
don't remember the Guada mullins exactly dominating the metal platform
north of Venezuelans.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Did anybody follow up with a question on what indication
do you have that the illegal immigrants are better swimmers
than anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Else and are trained as lifeguards. I mean, I think.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
He's I honestly think this might be the case. I
think he's not paid much attention to this story, and
he thinks everybody swam across the Rio Grant.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think, really, well, you can't come up with another answer. No,
I don't. I have no idea what he was talking about.
Or they swam from Cuba or whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I mean, the thousands of so called migrants, they are
legal immigrants applying for fake asylum. Have they even like
seen in the East River in New York, I mean,
skillfully swimming from bank to bank and back or what
the hell is he talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Okay, couple of things we got to catch you up
on that are very important. First of all, Stormy Daniels
has just announced that if Trump is acquitted.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
She will leave the country. Okay, go ahead, hilarious.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The actual important thing is Trump and Biden have agreed
to two debates, details still to be worked out. First
one is June twenty seventh on CNN, and now they
have agreed to the second one, which is going to
be in September, September tenth on ABC. So September tenth
on ABC, June twenty seventh on CNN, earlier than we
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ever have presidential debates, the June twenty seventh one, with
our theory, our working theory now being what on why
why Joe Biden wants it so early?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I think Joe Biden wants it early to change the
trajectory of the race, to kind of cut off the
growing narrative that he's a loser and is going to lose. Secondly,
I think the there are plenty of Democrats who think, look,
if Biden's going to fall on his face, let's do
it in June when we still have two months to
the convention and we can figure out what we're going
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to do instead.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, obviously we've never had debates this early before. Why
would you have the candidate's debate before the convention?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's weird, It seems crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
The Biden camp is claiming they want to have the
debates before voting begins, which we have talked about for years.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Haven't you have a debate?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And you see the statistics all the time, like fifty
million people have already voted.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That's ridiculous, right, that is ridiculous. But you know, first
week in September, third week in September. Surely that's early enough.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, well, that's kind of what the schedule was from
the Debate Commission. But Joe Biden wants to bypass the
Debate Commission, saying that they have turned these into entertainment
spectacles and they don't enforce the rules. Absolutely, one hundred
percent true. They are right about that.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, I suspect you're right. They will jab Joe
Biden full of whatever he takes to sharpen him up.
Various listeners have named the drug for us. But I
still think there's at least a reasonable chance of a
real crackup. I mean, the guy, he just he keeps
making stuff up. And if he makes stuff up in
the debate, and Trump has a working list of the
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fanciful stories he tells and can nail him on it
during a debate, because I mean, the most you ever
get from a leading media figure is to say, mister President,
there is some question about that. And he said, oh no, no,
he said, Joey Baby, you've gone two million miles on Amtrak.
And it just it rests there because the journalist thinks,
(04:33):
probably appropriately I called him on it. He persisted We'll
let the viewer decide, but Biden won't, or I'm sorry,
but Trump won't.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He shouldn't. He should nail him on it. Right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Ian Bremmer with a good and fair tweet about this,
Joe Biden laying out the terms for the debates, refusing
the nonpartisan Commission and the format that's been what the
debates have been for thirty years. If that were Trump's idea,
the left wood riot and that's ad really true. If
Trump and con come out and said I'm gonna I'll
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do debates, but only if we bypass the Presidential Commission,
they would be going nuts about how he's a norm
breaker and doesn't play by the rules and blah blah.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I'm a little disappointed by CNN and ABC. I would
just like, all right, have a moderator for every moderator
who is clearly a validly left of center and you
get to be in America, that's fine. Have somebody who's
clearly avowedly a conservative. There is absolutely that is a
one hundred percent defensible position. I think, in fact, it's
(05:34):
so defensible I hate to even have to say it's defensible.
Every damn journalist in America save a few, is liberal.
We've got to be able to have a balanced moderating panel. Well,
the problem I voiced nobody from friggin Telemundo either.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Even the Fox terrible people. Even the Fox people ask
the questions from the liberal perspective.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So I don't I don't know how you fix that, right.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
It's like I'm always tweeting that the special Report with
Brett bher still uses terms like gender affirming care, which
is obsceney.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How do conservatives win anything?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The question on the border would be something, to give
you an example, would be something like, how do you
sure ensure that migrants that have come here from other
countries aren't going to be deported under your administration?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They'll ask a question like that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
They never turn it around, how do you make sure
the taxpayer isn't paying for all of the illegals that
have crossed the border, even though that's what half the
country wonders. They never ask questions from that perspective. Yeah,
they always ask questions from the pro choice perspective on abortion,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
There are a couple of headlines out about immigration that
you're not going to hear anywhere but here on conservative media.
Kinney County, Texas, one of several American border communities, has
seen criminal prosecutions grow by five thousand percent on Biden's watch.
That's a big numb five thousand percent, among other figures
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available on that topic.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, by the way, Donald Trump did respond to the
not only agreed to the dates and everything like that.
He talked to one journalist and said, I'm ready to go.
The dates they proposed are fine. Let's see if Joe
can make it to the stand up podium. The proposed
June and early September dates are fully acceptable to me.
I will provide my own transportation. I have no idea
why he said that. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I don't know to say.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I know.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I'll be weigh in on immigrants and lifeguarding at all.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'll wear my own suit. I don't know what are
you talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He also said crooked Joe Biden is the worst debater
I've ever faced. He can't put two sentences together and
is the worst president in the history.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Of the United States by far.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I like the other day when he said he's the
worst president of this country or any other country in history. Wow,
oh boy, that's gonna be a good time, is it.
Do you promise the history of these things now that
I've been paying attention to them closely in my adulthood,
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is whoever's president that first debate? They're not good. George
Bush wasn't He was too angry and too dismissive. Barack
Obama did the same thing. Trump did the same thing,
And people have often explained it away as after four
years of being the man unchallenged, you don't do well
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when all of a sudden you're in a situation where
you've got to take a little heat. And I don't know,
I don't know if that's the reason or not, But Bush, Obama,
and Trump all three had the same demeanor when they
came out for that first debate as the sitting president.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think that's absolutely understandable.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
You are making incredibly impactful, important decisions, the pressure's on,
you're busy, etc. Then all of a sudden you got
some jackass saying you don't even know where Israel is
and you just got off the phone from with baby
nutting yao, and you're thinking.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Who you jackass? Who are you? Shut up? What have
you ever done.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, all right, it's I mean, it's like the little
woke activists dragging the CEO out of the c suite
and lecturing him.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
He'd be like, why am I even listening to this?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But if that trend continues, that could be good, because
Joe Biden's definitely got the ability to lose his temper
and come off poorly.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Listen, Val, you're gonna in for a problem.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Well, I was thinking, there's always the possibility that he
just does a bad job of debating, not because his
brain doesn't work, just because of the You know, the
past three presidents have had that problem their first debate
as president. Too hot, too dismissive, to don't waste my
time with this, I'm above this.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Well, and given the depth of unhappiness among the electorate
over inflation, especially immigration, and a couple other issues, if
he came off as dismissive of those concerns, there'd be
a groundswell of boot the guy out.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, if I'm Trump, I don't answer any question, no
matter what they ask me. I talk about the economy
and the border. And if I'm Joe Biden, I challenge
him at some point. Who won the twenty twenty election.
Are you willing to say that I won the election
and bait him into a long screed about voting machines
or venezuela or something.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
But what's crazy is after that first debate, the next
one's in three months.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Because if I think your theory holds up in that,
they got to have this quick pass fail to get
it out of here. If Joe Biden falls on his face,
they got to get a different candidate. Then they they
need plenty of time to get that person in place,
get them ready to go, and then.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Have it like the real presidential debate. Well, and if
he doesn't fall on his face, they got to go
back to hiding him, right, which was their strategy in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Obviously, Yeah, they don't want him out.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
There Anyway's got to bring out the actuary table and
see if he's gonna make it till September?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Is he likely to live till then? Coin flip?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Do we think okay Ai getting involved in the dating
world with bumble if you've ever used that app in
an interesting way, I don't know if this is good
or not? Among other things on the way, stay here
Armstrong yet.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
For TV News, Amazon Prime is coming out with a
Jeopardy spin off called.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Pop Culture Jeopardy YEP.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Pop Culture Jeopardy, which is nicer than the original name,
not smart enough Jeopardy.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Jeopardy gets way more attention than it ought to.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
What's its audience? It can't be very big.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I forgot so we did. Our podcast was a lot
about online dating yesterday when we do our one More
Thing podcast. If you're not listening to the One More
pit Thing podcast, you should you should start. We do
it after the show every day, and as Joe often
points out, sometimes it has swears exactly, which is very exciting.
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Did you say you ever have online dated or you
never have? Your friends do?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
But I have in the past, But no. This conversation
was regarding a bunch of twenty five year olds who
are anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
The CEO of Bumble, which I guess is supposed to
be a kinder, gentler sort of dating app, like the
opposite of Tinder. It's supposed to be more about finding
love as opposed to hooking up. But I think they
all depending on who you're you know, matching, matching exactly
what they're up to. Bumble's Whitney Wolfherd says you're dating
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AI concierge will soon date hundreds of other people for you.
And I saw that headline, I thought, what the hell
does that mean? Imagine you've dated six hundred people in
San Francisco without having typed a word to any of them. Instead,
a busy little bot has completed the mindless getting to
know you chatter on your behalf and as I told
you which people you should actually get off the couch
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to meet. That's the future of dating, according to the
CEO of Bumble, got to see it in action. Yeah,
while the platform has now changed this aspect of the algorithm,
the company said it will always keep you know our
north starn mind, a safer Kindler Kinder digital platform for
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more healthy and equitable relationships.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, well again, it depends on who say equitable relationships
means shut up? Yeah, no kidding, What the freak is
that language? Shut up, Bumble. If you really want to.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Get out there, there is a world where your AI
dating concierge could go and date for you with other
dating concierge, then you don't have to talk to six
hundred people. It will scan all of San Francisco, for instance,
for you and say these are the three people you
really autumn meet.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Again, the proof is in the pudding. I would I
would like to see what it recommended. This discounts a
couple of things that anthropologists I think could tell you about,
which is there there is often nonverbal and completely unconscious
exchanges between people.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Jack, You've talked about this.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
There's just some way we recognize, oh, genetically speaking. Oh yeah,
you and I could reproduce in a successful way. Absolutely,
that's me talking romance, Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Are you impressed?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Oh yeah, Plus just non nonverbal communication in general.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I guess I'm also failing how to see how this
is different from I mean, they all have you fill
out a questionnaire and then the algorithm within the website says,
oh okay, these people answer. I don't understand what this
AI bot is doing. What I mean, that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It's already taking your questionnaire answers and matching it with
other people.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yeah, so how much more in depth is this thing going?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I don't see now that you say that, this might
sound like just a advertising hype crap.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah yeah, what about the interaction where you make a
little attempt at humor and she rolls her eyes, but
then she smiles shyly and glances at you, saying, all right,
it was a little funny. That's the sort of moment.
It's like, oh, oh, oh, I'm tingling. Why am I tingling?
It's freaking AI's not gonna catch that. No, no, no,
shut up, Bumble, I'm back to that.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Or you're just a little more assertive than the kind
of personality they like, or vice versa, just the I
could never pick up on that anyway. Then this part
from the same Bumble app and forget catchups with friends,
because why would we ever want to talk to friends.
AI can be that metaphorical shoulder to cry on artificial intelligence,
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which has seen massive amounts of investments since Babba, we
all know that can help coach individuals on how to
date and present themselves in the best light to potential partners.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Look at this example. This is from the CEO of Bumble.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So for example, you could in the near future be
talking to your AI dating concierge and you could share
your insecurities. I've just come out of a breakup, I've
got commitment issues and what could I do better in
a first date? And then the AI concierge will help
give you productive tips for communicating with other people now
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that your heart has been broken.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I don't I know.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I find it just sounds like a one of those
advice books from the nineteen fifties or whatever. Ask about
their interests, focus on them, keep the mood light. I mean,
I need AI to tell me ask her about her interests.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh oh thanks Ai. Hey, I've got your back. This
is weird. I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
A lot of the AI hype I buy completely. I
think it's going to happen. I think it's going to
be shocking. This one, I do not. I think it's
way too complex. Here's a dating hint for you. Do
things and meet people while you're doing those things.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, now use that not you sound crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Somebody who's a friend of a friend of yours probably
would like you too.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're not going to meet him unless you do things right.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
You do have to do things, okay, Yes, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Can tell what that is or not.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
That is a barmand singing Neil Young's keep on Rocket
in the Free World, and it's actually Secretary of State
Anthony Blincoln in Kiev, the.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Capital of Ukraine last night. I believe.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I'm not offended as a supporter of Ukraine. I am
offended as a musician.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I'm offended as a supporter of Ukraine. I think it
was tone deaf. I think it was a bad move.
I think he thinks he was doing the right thing
by trying to show American support for But man, people
are getting killed left and right. Ukraine's in a bad spot,
as Joe's about to explain to you, And I think
going to a safe bar in the protected city while
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just not very far away people are getting slaughtered, partially
because we don't give them enough help. I just don't
I'm not digging that.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, I'm reading right now about the assassination, the attempt
at assassination, which will probably be successful unless the guy
recovers of Slovakia's prime minister. I happened to have been
in Slovakia last wintertime and found it beautiful and fascinating.
But the Russia leaning prime minister got gunned down. Slovakia
(18:55):
has been a big supplier of arms. They border Ukraine,
and they've been a big supplier of arms and support
for Ukrain. But this guy was trying to pull him
in the other directions. Somebody gunned him down anyway, Uh yeah,
according to the New York Times, and I'm sure they're right.
All of a sudden, Russia's forces are making progress in
many directions at once. In recent days, Russian troops have
surged across the border from the north and opened a
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new line of attack near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city,
capturing settlements and villages and forcing thousands of civilians to flee.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
It's got a bit of the beginning of a route,
look to it. I hope they've got a backstop where.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That can't happen.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, excuse me, Joe's Joe's got the new COVID virus.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The yeah, yeah, the new strain. Anyway, I don't know
what I have. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I've had whatever makes you feel like I feel right
now one hundred and seventy five times in my life
right and and for the longest time was utterly routine
my dad's normally. I never got fevers when I had
a cult, and I had a fever last night, for sure,
But h I don't know. I took a couple of
time on all. I feel fine. I mean, I don't
feel great, But I feel fine here. I am at
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work laboring for you people, and you'll appreciate it. Anyway,
back to Ukraine, where the situation is grim indeed, and
the Secretary of State singing let's go get them song
seems sad and pathetic.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, I mean, if we were really supporting them and
everything like that, that's fine. But the fact that we
held up the help, that Zelensky was practically crying begging
for men, women and children are dying without your help
while Congress argued about should this be tied to the
border or not, and then you get there and go
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play on stage. I don't know, it just makes it
seem like you're making light of it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
SAME's weak.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But getting back to the military situation, the Times points
out the pushing hard around Kharkiv maybe a faint. The
real goal might be to divert already weak in Ukraine
forces from critical battles elsewhere. But one thing is clear.
The map of battle in Ukraine looks a lot different
today than it did only a week ago.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I've been reading a lot of your best Twitter accounts,
open source intel and study a War people and Mike
Lyons and others, and it's a bad time for Ukraine
right now.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yeah, they're so depleted for weapons, which again we've discussed
in men too, and you know, we haven't really discussed
the fact that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men fled
and have not come back. They're of military age and
they just decided now I'm going to save my skin
and not fight for my country, and we'll see how
they are judged going forward.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Putin went to China and visited President She because they
got some supplies, economy problems, but just bringing China and
Russia closer together. And I think you're nut if you
don't think a positive outcome for in Ukraine doesn't influent
influence what she thinks he can get away with in China.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Yeah, it's interesting that Putin, who you know, the Soviet
Union was one of the great polls on Earth for
a very long time. Russia is so weakened, we caned economically, trade,
militarily in so many ways. He's going hat in hand
to his big brother Shieshin Pang in a way that's
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kind of interesting if you've been following Russo Chinese relations
all these years. But yeah, he's Russia doesn't have all
that much to offer China other than energy. In China
can drive whatever deal they want for that energy. Because
Russia doesn't have that many options, I'll do to sell
it to I'll.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Tell you what Russia has to offer China, I think.
And it's the first quote in the latest book by
David Sanger the New Cold Wars were presidents, she said
to Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I'm paraphrasing because I don't have it memorized. I should
memorize it.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Changes are happening that haven't happened in a century, and
you and I can drive those changes. That's why he's
pairing up with Russia. Yep, they're going to displace the
United States as the leader of the world order that
has made the West so wealthy and safe all these years,
and they're having a good goal of it right now.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I'd be curious some people who don't support Ukraine whether
you think that there will now be once this is
the dust settles in some negotiated settlement has reached, assuming
that that's even going to be possible, do you think
there will then be stability in Europe? Or do you
think a new age of conquest has begun. I'm pretty
certain it's the latter. Now what shape that takes exactly,
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I don't know, But there are just way too many
historical grievances, border disputes. This used to be part of
our country, and I don't know how the hell it
became part of yours right after one of the world wars.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
But we resent it and we want it back.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yikes, spicy times, right, And who knows to what extent
it informed Hamas that they could get away with their
attack on Israel. And then will it inform whether or
not China thinks it can take Taiwan, which would be
a huge blow to the economy world.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But you know, it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Occurs to me that one of Trump's main cudgels in
his debate with Biden in June, if indeed that comes
off and it looks like it will, I think, Uh,
it's got to be the whole People called me the
chaos kendidate.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Look around you.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Look at Russia invading Ukraine, Hamas attacked Israel. None of
that happened under my watch because they were afraid of me.
They're not afraid of this old man. Will on president
my bus beIN wet why don't you grow some testicles?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Huh true?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Pressure do you have my bus beIN wet? That's one
of my favorites. Will Trump prepare for the debate. He
has been more disciplined in his speeches than he was
last time around, and in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
He's got a good brain trust round him this time.
Can they reach him?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I hope? So, yeah, he needs to show up prepared.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Anyway, we will finish strong next Worth mentioning and Noah
Rockman of The National Review is one of the best
talkers writers out there in the whole Ukraine war anyway,
This from his Twitter feed. One of the reasons why
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Russia was able to mass forces and then launch a
successful cross border offensive in Kharkiev this month is that
the US has banned Ukraine from using American weapons to
strike Russian troops until after they crossed the border. Similar
situation developing in the south. So we still have these
restrictions on them because we don't want to escalate against
(25:49):
an evil crowd that's abducting hundreds of thousands of children
and murdering people left and right and bombing hospitals in kindergartens.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We don't want to escalate with them.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Well, Ukraine has got these strict rules, same as Israel
against Amas.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
What the hell is that, Neville, Biden, Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
It's weak, it's discouraging speaking of problems on borders.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We have our own issues. This is so precious.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
First of all, you've got to and nobody cares, probably
in the audience, but there's a there's a swing congressional
district in California where the Democrat has held the office.
Susan Wilde has been really out there as a pro immigration.
The wall is stupid. She's on the record is saying,
what a silly idea. We need to put that money
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into education and healthcare instead. And she was asked in
just twenty twenty two on c SPAN, do you agree
that every state is now a border state due to
lacks immigration laws? And she says, I absolutely do not
agree with that statement. There is no crisis. Well, now
she's out saying we may be a long way from
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the US Mexico, but the problems created by a broken
system affect us too, particularly with a regard to the
entry of illegal drugs in our country. Essentially all states
are border states now, including Pennsylvania. So complete turnaround and
then ladies and gentlemen. One of the dopiest, most crooked,
ridiculous figures in American politics, Mayor Brandon Let's go Brandon
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Johnson of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He is going to be.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Presiding over what is almost certainly going to be a
real poop show in August, the Democratic Convention.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Brandon Johnson clip thirty, the governor of Texas and the
determined to create chaos.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
We have brought calm structure to a very volatile situation.
But again, this is unprecedented, unprecedented, never in the history
of America where a local government has been asked to
build a resettlement for migrants.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
But yet here we are.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
He has, for his entire career as a politician in
Chicago been in favor of being sanctuary city, and now
he's trying to blame the immigration crisis on Greg Abbott right,
is crying out for sympathy.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
We've spent so much money to house these people. We
need to help.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
That reminds me, did you happen to see the thread?
This is a media thing, combination media bide administration. This
thread explaining the story if you remember it, when some
illegals tried to come across the river, and in the
story at the time was because the governor of Texas
put up some barriers, they drowned.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, remember that story. Sure, there was a thread.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
On Twitter the other day describing how that none of
that was accurate, but it got put out there and
caught hold on the media and was portrayed that way
for weeks, then just disappeared. None that was even close
to accurate. It was one of the worst, slash best,
depending on how you look at it, examples of the
modern world of fake news or misinformation, whatever you want
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to call it.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It was highly troubling. Yeah, just was. That's just not
what happened. But everybody ran with.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
It, including your evening newscasts, and then Biden talked about it,
and it just and it ever got cleaned up and
just kind of stuck in people's minds.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, I mean, obviously it's Mark Twain's a lie makes
it around the world while the truth is putting on
its shoes. Just supercharged, right a million.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I was texting with a buddy of mine about this yesterday.
That's that's one of my biggest concerns. I think the
the the powerful are gonna catch on even more than
they already have that say, whatever the well you want,
that might be what Biden's doing. Maybe he's not as
dumb as we think. He might understand this in the
way that only Trump does. I'll say, what's to my benefit?
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My crowd, the people I'm trying to convince, won't hear
your follow up. Fox viewers will hear it, but my
crowd won't. So it does.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Inflation was nine percent when you took office. Why not?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, because because you're the people they are going to
vote for, you won't hear the correction.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
So, getting back to Brandon, justin Chicago, it strikes me
that he has completely ignored the incredible resource all of
those immigrants are, specifically in terms of supplying lifeguards. Give
an ECLIPS thirty two. This is Eric Adams. Eric, is
that right in New York?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
How do we have a large body of people that
are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time we need lifeguards and the
only obstacle is that we won't give them the right
to work to become a lifeguard.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Mister Marrack, does it make sense? Mister Mayra a follow up?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Please, where'd you get the idea that there are like
lots and lots of excellent swimmers among the so called migrants.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
If he wants to make the argument of how do
we have all these job vacancies when we've got millions
of people here that in theory want jobs and now
they're on some sort of government paycheck be working these jobs.
That's fine, But where'd the excellent swimmers thing come from?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The only thing I can.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Think is he thinks they swam the Rio Grande and
because they're here, they're excellent swimmers.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I guess I don't. I don't get that at all.
That's funny. I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah, can you imagine I hate to always say this
is like the tenth time today. Imagine if Trump had
called illegals excellent swimmers.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god. Yeah, that's just odd. How
much time to make that?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Like this?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah? What have we got?
Speaker 6 (31:36):
About?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
One minute?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We got one minute. I was gonna say, let's go twelve.
I like this.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is this is fun, this is life affirming. This
is the crack of the bath aroor of the crowd.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I lift the opposite way. MJ.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Melendez is into the corner, and you talk about a
basket catch it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's truest form. I'll start for that guy out there,
the one one. I guess one. They're a little straight
it out, a little bit ball. Let's see into the corner.
Oh we got Jerry, give that man a contract.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
So the same fan caught back to back foul balls
at a major league ball game, that's the Seattle Mariners game.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Did he have a glove?
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yeah, I think so. The reference to a basket cash
I think probably.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, Yeah, that helps. I don't know how people bare
hand those things.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I really do not.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Since I was a kid, I've never understood how you
bare hand one of those fly balls.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, you got to have big hands and
get lucky. Oh well, I don't mean like successfully catching it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I remember catching. I've been catching it without screaming in pain.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Right, good, more slap.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
I'm inspired every single day by the remarkable work that
Jack and Joe perform on behalf of the American public.
They've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.
They have carefully prepared for these final thoughts, and the
fact of the matter is they have final thoughts, and
they have them every single day.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Wow, that's troublingly good.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
our technical director, Michael Angelow. Michael, lead us off.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Listen to this, Joe Biden. He keeps getting really pushy.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
He's got all these demands for what he wants in
his dressing room at the debate. Hard candy walk into
shuffle board, metal detector Mattlocke DVDs. He wants the debate
to be sponsored by a reverse mortgage company.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Here I go, He's home fabulous. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
I've always wanted to be a fan out in the
stands that catches the foul ball inner beer.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Maybe someday can I swig down the beer real quick
before the ball comes and splashes it out?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Come on? I paid good money for that. Jack. A
final thought for us. My favorite fly ball foul ball
into the stands thing is when a dude hides behind
his girlfriend because he's scared of him.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
He's a good one.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Uh yeah, yeah, well, I guess all right, I'll stick
with the same. Remember that I was visiting my friend
Brian the umpire, and I muffed a foul ball watching
a game, and all of the umpires mocked me from
the field. Only I knew it, but yeah, I was
being mocked from the field.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Sad shakes of the head.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
The other good one is when a kid tries to
catch it and miss it, misses it, and then some
grown man snatches it up and won't give it to
the kid.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Oh and on the other side of the coin, there's
the fellow catches it and gives it to a little
kid next him.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
That is always a beautiful moment. That is awesome when
that happens.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Armstrong and Getty rabbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
So many people, thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong
and Geddy dot com. Got a lot of great hot
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Speaker 3 (34:56):
We will see tomorrow. God bless America, ladies and gentleman
of America. Wow, can you believe it? We've made it
to the end. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Down this road lies madness acceptable. I expected more, but
you have to pay attention to the cries that people have.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That just doesn't make sense. Will make my day pass
you gon to make a very obvious point. Absolutely, good
night everybody. On that high note, thank you all very much,
Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How do we have a large body of people that
are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time we need lifeguards? What and
the only obstacle is that we won't give them the
right to work to become a lifeguard.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
What doesn't make sense is you tying those two things together.
You have a shortage of lifeguards. That's what he was
talking about. That's the mayor of New York. He's talking
about the shortage of lifeguards they've got in New York City,
and he says, how do we have all of these
illegal immigrants who are good swimmers? We're not filling those
lifeguards up? Wait a second, why are people from south
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of the border good swimmers?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I mean? Is that?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Aw? What is thinking back to recent Summer Olympics, I
don't remember the Guada mullins exactly dominating the metal platform
north of Venezuelans.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Did anybody follow up with a question on what indication
do you have that the illegal immigrants are better swimmers
than anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Else and are trained as lifeguards. I mean, I think.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
He's I honestly think this might be the case. I
think he's not paid much attention to this story, and
he thinks everybody swam across the Rio Grant.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think, really, well, you can't come up with another answer. No,
I don't. I have no idea what he was talking about.
Or they swam from Cuba or whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I mean, the thousands of so called migrants, they are
legal immigrants applying for fake asylum. Have they even like
seen in the East River in New York, I mean,
skillfully swimming from bank to bank and back or what
the hell is he talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Okay, couple of things we got to catch you up
on that are very important. First of all, Stormy Daniels
has just announced that if Trump is acquitted.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
She will leave the country. Okay, go ahead, hilarious.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The actual important thing is Trump and Biden have agreed
to two debates, details still to be worked out. First
one is June twenty seventh on CNN, and now they
have agreed to the second one, which is going to
be in September, September tenth on ABC. So September tenth
on ABC, June twenty seventh on CNN, earlier than we
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ever have presidential debates, the June twenty seventh one, with
our theory, our working theory now being what on why
why Joe Biden wants it so early?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I think Joe Biden wants it early to change the
trajectory of the race, to kind of cut off the
growing narrative that he's a loser and is going to lose. Secondly,
I think the there are plenty of Democrats who think, look,
if Biden's going to fall on his face, let's do
it in June when we still have two months to
the convention and we can figure out what we're going
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to do instead.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, obviously we've never had debates this early before. Why
would you have the candidate's debate before the convention?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's weird, It seems crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
The Biden camp is claiming they want to have the
debates before voting begins, which we have talked about for years.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Haven't you have a debate?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And you see the statistics all the time, like fifty
million people have already voted.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That's ridiculous, right, that is ridiculous. But you know, first
week in September, third week in September. Surely that's early enough.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, well, that's kind of what the schedule was from
the Debate Commission. But Joe Biden wants to bypass the
Debate Commission, saying that they have turned these into entertainment
spectacles and they don't enforce the rules. Absolutely, one hundred
percent true. They are right about that.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, I suspect you're right. They will jab Joe
Biden full of whatever he takes to sharpen him up.
Various listeners have named the drug for us. But I
still think there's at least a reasonable chance of a
real crackup. I mean, the guy, he just he keeps
making stuff up. And if he makes stuff up in
the debate, and Trump has a working list of the
(04:12):
fanciful stories he tells and can nail him on it
during a debate, because I mean, the most you ever
get from a leading media figure is to say, mister President,
there is some question about that. And he said, oh no, no,
he said, Joey Baby, you've gone two million miles on Amtrak.
And it just it rests there because the journalist thinks,
(04:33):
probably appropriately I called him on it. He persisted We'll
let the viewer decide, but Biden won't, or I'm sorry,
but Trump won't.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He shouldn't. He should nail him on it. Right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Ian Bremmer with a good and fair tweet about this,
Joe Biden laying out the terms for the debates, refusing
the nonpartisan Commission and the format that's been what the
debates have been for thirty years. If that were Trump's idea,
the left wood riot and that's ad really true. If
Trump and con come out and said I'm gonna I'll
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do debates, but only if we bypass the Presidential Commission,
they would be going nuts about how he's a norm
breaker and doesn't play by the rules and blah blah.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I'm a little disappointed by CNN and ABC. I would
just like, all right, have a moderator for every moderator
who is clearly a validly left of center and you
get to be in America, that's fine. Have somebody who's
clearly avowedly a conservative. There is absolutely that is a
one hundred percent defensible position. I think, in fact, it's
(05:34):
so defensible I hate to even have to say it's defensible.
Every damn journalist in America save a few, is liberal.
We've got to be able to have a balanced moderating panel. Well,
the problem I voiced nobody from friggin Telemundo either.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Even the Fox terrible people. Even the Fox people ask
the questions from the liberal perspective.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So I don't I don't know how you fix that, right.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
It's like I'm always tweeting that the special Report with
Brett bher still uses terms like gender affirming care, which
is obsceney.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How do conservatives win anything?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The question on the border would be something, to give
you an example, would be something like, how do you
sure ensure that migrants that have come here from other
countries aren't going to be deported under your administration?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They'll ask a question like that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
They never turn it around, how do you make sure
the taxpayer isn't paying for all of the illegals that
have crossed the border, even though that's what half the
country wonders. They never ask questions from that perspective. Yeah,
they always ask questions from the pro choice perspective on abortion,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
There are a couple of headlines out about immigration that
you're not going to hear anywhere but here on conservative media.
Kinney County, Texas, one of several American border communities, has
seen criminal prosecutions grow by five thousand percent on Biden's watch.
That's a big numb five thousand percent, among other figures
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available on that topic.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, by the way, Donald Trump did respond to the
not only agreed to the dates and everything like that.
He talked to one journalist and said, I'm ready to go.
The dates they proposed are fine. Let's see if Joe
can make it to the stand up podium. The proposed
June and early September dates are fully acceptable to me.
I will provide my own transportation. I have no idea
why he said that. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I don't know to say.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I know.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I'll be weigh in on immigrants and lifeguarding at all.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'll wear my own suit. I don't know what are
you talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He also said crooked Joe Biden is the worst debater
I've ever faced. He can't put two sentences together and
is the worst president in the history.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Of the United States by far.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I like the other day when he said he's the
worst president of this country or any other country in history. Wow,
oh boy, that's gonna be a good time, is it.
Do you promise the history of these things now that
I've been paying attention to them closely in my adulthood,
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is whoever's president that first debate? They're not good. George
Bush wasn't He was too angry and too dismissive. Barack
Obama did the same thing. Trump did the same thing,
And people have often explained it away as after four
years of being the man unchallenged, you don't do well
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when all of a sudden you're in a situation where
you've got to take a little heat. And I don't know,
I don't know if that's the reason or not, But Bush, Obama,
and Trump all three had the same demeanor when they
came out for that first debate as the sitting president.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think that's absolutely understandable.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
You are making incredibly impactful, important decisions, the pressure's on,
you're busy, etc. Then all of a sudden you got
some jackass saying you don't even know where Israel is
and you just got off the phone from with baby
nutting yao, and you're thinking.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Who you jackass? Who are you? Shut up? What have
you ever done.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, all right, it's I mean, it's like the little
woke activists dragging the CEO out of the c suite
and lecturing him.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
He'd be like, why am I even listening to this?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But if that trend continues, that could be good, because
Joe Biden's definitely got the ability to lose his temper
and come off poorly.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Listen, Val, you're gonna in for a problem.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Well, I was thinking, there's always the possibility that he
just does a bad job of debating, not because his
brain doesn't work, just because of the You know, the
past three presidents have had that problem their first debate
as president. Too hot, too dismissive, to don't waste my
time with this, I'm above this.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Well, and given the depth of unhappiness among the electorate
over inflation, especially immigration, and a couple other issues, if
he came off as dismissive of those concerns, there'd be
a groundswell of boot the guy out.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, if I'm Trump, I don't answer any question, no
matter what they ask me. I talk about the economy
and the border. And if I'm Joe Biden, I challenge
him at some point. Who won the twenty twenty election.
Are you willing to say that I won the election
and bait him into a long screed about voting machines
or venezuela or something.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
But what's crazy is after that first debate, the next
one's in three months.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Because if I think your theory holds up in that,
they got to have this quick pass fail to get
it out of here. If Joe Biden falls on his face,
they got to get a different candidate. Then they they
need plenty of time to get that person in place,
get them ready to go, and then.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Have it like the real presidential debate. Well, and if
he doesn't fall on his face, they got to go
back to hiding him, right, which was their strategy in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Obviously, Yeah, they don't want him out.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
There Anyway's got to bring out the actuary table and
see if he's gonna make it till September?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Is he likely to live till then? Coin flip?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Do we think okay Ai getting involved in the dating
world with bumble if you've ever used that app in
an interesting way, I don't know if this is good
or not? Among other things on the way, stay here
Armstrong yet.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
For TV News, Amazon Prime is coming out with a
Jeopardy spin off called.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Pop Culture Jeopardy YEP.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Pop Culture Jeopardy, which is nicer than the original name,
not smart enough Jeopardy.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Jeopardy gets way more attention than it ought to.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
What's its audience? It can't be very big.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I forgot so we did. Our podcast was a lot
about online dating yesterday when we do our one More
Thing podcast. If you're not listening to the One More
pit Thing podcast, you should you should start. We do
it after the show every day, and as Joe often
points out, sometimes it has swears exactly, which is very exciting.
(12:08):
Did you say you ever have online dated or you
never have? Your friends do?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
But I have in the past, But no. This conversation
was regarding a bunch of twenty five year olds who
are anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
The CEO of Bumble, which I guess is supposed to
be a kinder, gentler sort of dating app, like the
opposite of Tinder. It's supposed to be more about finding
love as opposed to hooking up. But I think they
all depending on who you're you know, matching, matching exactly
what they're up to. Bumble's Whitney Wolfherd says you're dating
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AI concierge will soon date hundreds of other people for you.
And I saw that headline, I thought, what the hell
does that mean? Imagine you've dated six hundred people in
San Francisco without having typed a word to any of them. Instead,
a busy little bot has completed the mindless getting to
know you chatter on your behalf and as I told
you which people you should actually get off the couch
(13:02):
to meet. That's the future of dating, according to the
CEO of Bumble, got to see it in action. Yeah,
while the platform has now changed this aspect of the algorithm,
the company said it will always keep you know our
north starn mind, a safer Kindler Kinder digital platform for
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more healthy and equitable relationships.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, well again, it depends on who say equitable relationships
means shut up? Yeah, no kidding, What the freak is
that language? Shut up, Bumble. If you really want to.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Get out there, there is a world where your AI
dating concierge could go and date for you with other
dating concierge, then you don't have to talk to six
hundred people. It will scan all of San Francisco, for instance,
for you and say these are the three people you
really autumn meet.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Again, the proof is in the pudding. I would I
would like to see what it recommended. This discounts a
couple of things that anthropologists I think could tell you about,
which is there there is often nonverbal and completely unconscious
exchanges between people.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Jack, You've talked about this.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
There's just some way we recognize, oh, genetically speaking. Oh yeah,
you and I could reproduce in a successful way. Absolutely,
that's me talking romance, Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Are you impressed?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Oh yeah, Plus just non nonverbal communication in general.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I guess I'm also failing how to see how this
is different from I mean, they all have you fill
out a questionnaire and then the algorithm within the website says,
oh okay, these people answer. I don't understand what this
AI bot is doing. What I mean, that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It's already taking your questionnaire answers and matching it with
other people.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yeah, so how much more in depth is this thing going?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I don't see now that you say that, this might
sound like just a advertising hype crap.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah yeah, what about the interaction where you make a
little attempt at humor and she rolls her eyes, but
then she smiles shyly and glances at you, saying, all right,
it was a little funny. That's the sort of moment.
It's like, oh, oh, oh, I'm tingling. Why am I tingling?
It's freaking AI's not gonna catch that. No, no, no,
shut up, Bumble, I'm back to that.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Or you're just a little more assertive than the kind
of personality they like, or vice versa, just the I
could never pick up on that anyway. Then this part
from the same Bumble app and forget catchups with friends,
because why would we ever want to talk to friends.
AI can be that metaphorical shoulder to cry on artificial intelligence,
(15:41):
which has seen massive amounts of investments since Babba, we
all know that can help coach individuals on how to
date and present themselves in the best light to potential partners.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Look at this example. This is from the CEO of Bumble.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So for example, you could in the near future be
talking to your AI dating concierge and you could share
your insecurities. I've just come out of a breakup, I've
got commitment issues and what could I do better in
a first date? And then the AI concierge will help
give you productive tips for communicating with other people now
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that your heart has been broken.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I don't I know.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I find it just sounds like a one of those
advice books from the nineteen fifties or whatever. Ask about
their interests, focus on them, keep the mood light. I mean,
I need AI to tell me ask her about her interests.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh oh thanks Ai. Hey, I've got your back. This
is weird. I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
A lot of the AI hype I buy completely. I
think it's going to happen. I think it's going to
be shocking. This one, I do not. I think it's
way too complex. Here's a dating hint for you. Do
things and meet people while you're doing those things.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, now use that not you sound crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Somebody who's a friend of a friend of yours probably
would like you too.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're not going to meet him unless you do things right.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
You do have to do things, okay, Yes, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Can tell what that is or not.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
That is a barmand singing Neil Young's keep on Rocket
in the Free World, and it's actually Secretary of State
Anthony Blincoln in Kiev, the.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Capital of Ukraine last night. I believe.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I'm not offended as a supporter of Ukraine. I am
offended as a musician.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I'm offended as a supporter of Ukraine. I think it
was tone deaf. I think it was a bad move.
I think he thinks he was doing the right thing
by trying to show American support for But man, people
are getting killed left and right. Ukraine's in a bad spot,
as Joe's about to explain to you, And I think
going to a safe bar in the protected city while
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just not very far away people are getting slaughtered, partially
because we don't give them enough help. I just don't
I'm not digging that.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, I'm reading right now about the assassination, the attempt
at assassination, which will probably be successful unless the guy
recovers of Slovakia's prime minister. I happened to have been
in Slovakia last wintertime and found it beautiful and fascinating.
But the Russia leaning prime minister got gunned down. Slovakia
(18:55):
has been a big supplier of arms. They border Ukraine,
and they've been a big supplier of arms and support
for Ukrain. But this guy was trying to pull him
in the other directions. Somebody gunned him down anyway, Uh yeah,
according to the New York Times, and I'm sure they're right.
All of a sudden, Russia's forces are making progress in
many directions at once. In recent days, Russian troops have
surged across the border from the north and opened a
(19:17):
new line of attack near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city,
capturing settlements and villages and forcing thousands of civilians to flee.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
It's got a bit of the beginning of a route,
look to it. I hope they've got a backstop where.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That can't happen.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, excuse me, Joe's Joe's got the new COVID virus.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The yeah, yeah, the new strain. Anyway, I don't know
what I have. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I've had whatever makes you feel like I feel right
now one hundred and seventy five times in my life
right and and for the longest time was utterly routine
my dad's normally. I never got fevers when I had
a cult, and I had a fever last night, for sure,
But h I don't know. I took a couple of
time on all. I feel fine. I mean, I don't
feel great, But I feel fine here. I am at
(20:09):
work laboring for you people, and you'll appreciate it. Anyway,
back to Ukraine, where the situation is grim indeed, and
the Secretary of State singing let's go get them song
seems sad and pathetic.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, I mean, if we were really supporting them and
everything like that, that's fine. But the fact that we
held up the help, that Zelensky was practically crying begging
for men, women and children are dying without your help
while Congress argued about should this be tied to the
border or not, and then you get there and go
(20:45):
play on stage. I don't know, it just makes it
seem like you're making light of it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
SAME's weak.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But getting back to the military situation, the Times points
out the pushing hard around Kharkiv maybe a faint. The
real goal might be to divert already weak in Ukraine
forces from critical battles elsewhere. But one thing is clear.
The map of battle in Ukraine looks a lot different
today than it did only a week ago.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I've been reading a lot of your best Twitter accounts,
open source intel and study a War people and Mike
Lyons and others, and it's a bad time for Ukraine
right now.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yeah, they're so depleted for weapons, which again we've discussed
in men too, and you know, we haven't really discussed
the fact that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men fled
and have not come back. They're of military age and
they just decided now I'm going to save my skin
and not fight for my country, and we'll see how
they are judged going forward.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Putin went to China and visited President She because they
got some supplies, economy problems, but just bringing China and
Russia closer together. And I think you're nut if you
don't think a positive outcome for in Ukraine doesn't influent
influence what she thinks he can get away with in China.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Yeah, it's interesting that Putin, who you know, the Soviet
Union was one of the great polls on Earth for
a very long time. Russia is so weakened, we caned economically, trade,
militarily in so many ways. He's going hat in hand
to his big brother Shieshin Pang in a way that's
(22:27):
kind of interesting if you've been following Russo Chinese relations
all these years. But yeah, he's Russia doesn't have all
that much to offer China other than energy. In China
can drive whatever deal they want for that energy. Because
Russia doesn't have that many options, I'll do to sell
it to I'll.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Tell you what Russia has to offer China, I think.
And it's the first quote in the latest book by
David Sanger the New Cold Wars were presidents, she said
to Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I'm paraphrasing because I don't have it memorized. I should
memorize it.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Changes are happening that haven't happened in a century, and
you and I can drive those changes. That's why he's
pairing up with Russia. Yep, they're going to displace the
United States as the leader of the world order that
has made the West so wealthy and safe all these years,
and they're having a good goal of it right now.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I'd be curious some people who don't support Ukraine whether
you think that there will now be once this is
the dust settles in some negotiated settlement has reached, assuming
that that's even going to be possible, do you think
there will then be stability in Europe? Or do you
think a new age of conquest has begun. I'm pretty
certain it's the latter. Now what shape that takes exactly,
(23:42):
I don't know, But there are just way too many
historical grievances, border disputes. This used to be part of
our country, and I don't know how the hell it
became part of yours right after one of the world wars.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
But we resent it and we want it back.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yikes, spicy times, right, And who knows to what extent
it informed Hamas that they could get away with their
attack on Israel. And then will it inform whether or
not China thinks it can take Taiwan, which would be
a huge blow to the economy world.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But you know, it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Occurs to me that one of Trump's main cudgels in
his debate with Biden in June, if indeed that comes
off and it looks like it will, I think, Uh,
it's got to be the whole People called me the
chaos kendidate.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Look around you.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Look at Russia invading Ukraine, Hamas attacked Israel. None of
that happened under my watch because they were afraid of me.
They're not afraid of this old man. Will on president
my bus beIN wet why don't you grow some testicles?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Huh true?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Pressure do you have my bus beIN wet? That's one
of my favorites. Will Trump prepare for the debate. He
has been more disciplined in his speeches than he was
last time around, and in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
He's got a good brain trust round him this time.
Can they reach him?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I hope? So, yeah, he needs to show up prepared.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Anyway, we will finish strong next Worth mentioning and Noah
Rockman of The National Review is one of the best
talkers writers out there in the whole Ukraine war anyway,
This from his Twitter feed. One of the reasons why
(25:29):
Russia was able to mass forces and then launch a
successful cross border offensive in Kharkiev this month is that
the US has banned Ukraine from using American weapons to
strike Russian troops until after they crossed the border. Similar
situation developing in the south. So we still have these
restrictions on them because we don't want to escalate against
(25:49):
an evil crowd that's abducting hundreds of thousands of children
and murdering people left and right and bombing hospitals in kindergartens.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We don't want to escalate with them.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Well, Ukraine has got these strict rules, same as Israel
against Amas.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
What the hell is that, Neville, Biden, Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
It's weak, it's discouraging speaking of problems on borders.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We have our own issues. This is so precious.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
First of all, you've got to and nobody cares, probably
in the audience, but there's a there's a swing congressional
district in California where the Democrat has held the office.
Susan Wilde has been really out there as a pro immigration.
The wall is stupid. She's on the record is saying,
what a silly idea. We need to put that money
(26:37):
into education and healthcare instead. And she was asked in
just twenty twenty two on c SPAN, do you agree
that every state is now a border state due to
lacks immigration laws? And she says, I absolutely do not
agree with that statement. There is no crisis. Well, now
she's out saying we may be a long way from
(26:58):
the US Mexico, but the problems created by a broken
system affect us too, particularly with a regard to the
entry of illegal drugs in our country. Essentially all states
are border states now, including Pennsylvania. So complete turnaround and
then ladies and gentlemen. One of the dopiest, most crooked,
ridiculous figures in American politics, Mayor Brandon Let's go Brandon
(27:22):
Johnson of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He is going to be.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Presiding over what is almost certainly going to be a
real poop show in August, the Democratic Convention.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Brandon Johnson clip thirty, the governor of Texas and the
determined to create chaos.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
We have brought calm structure to a very volatile situation.
But again, this is unprecedented, unprecedented, never in the history
of America where a local government has been asked to
build a resettlement for migrants.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
But yet here we are.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
He has, for his entire career as a politician in
Chicago been in favor of being sanctuary city, and now
he's trying to blame the immigration crisis on Greg Abbott right,
is crying out for sympathy.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
We've spent so much money to house these people. We
need to help.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
That reminds me, did you happen to see the thread?
This is a media thing, combination media bide administration. This
thread explaining the story if you remember it, when some
illegals tried to come across the river, and in the
story at the time was because the governor of Texas
put up some barriers, they drowned.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, remember that story. Sure, there was a thread.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
On Twitter the other day describing how that none of
that was accurate, but it got put out there and
caught hold on the media and was portrayed that way
for weeks, then just disappeared. None that was even close
to accurate. It was one of the worst, slash best,
depending on how you look at it, examples of the
modern world of fake news or misinformation, whatever you want
(29:01):
to call it.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It was highly troubling. Yeah, just was. That's just not
what happened. But everybody ran with.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
It, including your evening newscasts, and then Biden talked about it,
and it just and it ever got cleaned up and
just kind of stuck in people's minds.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, I mean, obviously it's Mark Twain's a lie makes
it around the world while the truth is putting on
its shoes. Just supercharged, right a million.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I was texting with a buddy of mine about this yesterday.
That's that's one of my biggest concerns. I think the
the the powerful are gonna catch on even more than
they already have that say, whatever the well you want,
that might be what Biden's doing. Maybe he's not as
dumb as we think. He might understand this in the
way that only Trump does. I'll say, what's to my benefit?
(29:46):
My crowd, the people I'm trying to convince, won't hear
your follow up. Fox viewers will hear it, but my
crowd won't. So it does.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Inflation was nine percent when you took office. Why not?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, because because you're the people they are going to
vote for, you won't hear the correction.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
So, getting back to Brandon, justin Chicago, it strikes me
that he has completely ignored the incredible resource all of
those immigrants are, specifically in terms of supplying lifeguards. Give
an ECLIPS thirty two. This is Eric Adams. Eric, is
that right in New York?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
How do we have a large body of people that
are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time we need lifeguards and the
only obstacle is that we won't give them the right
to work to become a lifeguard.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Mister Marrack, does it make sense? Mister Mayra a follow up?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Please, where'd you get the idea that there are like
lots and lots of excellent swimmers among the so called migrants.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
If he wants to make the argument of how do
we have all these job vacancies when we've got millions
of people here that in theory want jobs and now
they're on some sort of government paycheck be working these jobs.
That's fine, But where'd the excellent swimmers thing come from?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The only thing I can.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Think is he thinks they swam the Rio Grande and
because they're here, they're excellent swimmers.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I guess I don't. I don't get that at all.
That's funny. I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah, can you imagine I hate to always say this
is like the tenth time today. Imagine if Trump had
called illegals excellent swimmers.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god. Yeah, that's just odd. How
much time to make that?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Like this?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah? What have we got?
Speaker 6 (31:36):
About?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
One minute?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We got one minute. I was gonna say, let's go twelve.
I like this.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is this is fun, this is life affirming. This
is the crack of the bath aroor of the crowd.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I lift the opposite way. MJ.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Melendez is into the corner, and you talk about a
basket catch it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's truest form. I'll start for that guy out there,
the one one. I guess one. They're a little straight
it out, a little bit ball. Let's see into the corner.
Oh we got Jerry, give that man a contract.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
So the same fan caught back to back foul balls
at a major league ball game, that's the Seattle Mariners game.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Did he have a glove?
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yeah, I think so. The reference to a basket cash
I think probably.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, Yeah, that helps. I don't know how people bare
hand those things.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I really do not.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Since I was a kid, I've never understood how you
bare hand one of those fly balls.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, you got to have big hands and
get lucky. Oh well, I don't mean like successfully catching it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I remember catching. I've been catching it without screaming in pain.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Right, good, more slap.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
I'm inspired every single day by the remarkable work that
Jack and Joe perform on behalf of the American public.
They've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.
They have carefully prepared for these final thoughts, and the
fact of the matter is they have final thoughts, and
they have them every single day.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Wow, that's troublingly good.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
our technical director, Michael Angelow. Michael, lead us off.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Listen to this, Joe Biden. He keeps getting really pushy.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
He's got all these demands for what he wants in
his dressing room at the debate. Hard candy walk into
shuffle board, metal detector Mattlocke DVDs. He wants the debate
to be sponsored by a reverse mortgage company.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Here I go, He's home fabulous. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
I've always wanted to be a fan out in the
stands that catches the foul ball inner beer.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Maybe someday can I swig down the beer real quick
before the ball comes and splashes it out?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Come on? I paid good money for that. Jack. A
final thought for us. My favorite fly ball foul ball
into the stands thing is when a dude hides behind
his girlfriend because he's scared of him.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
He's a good one.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Uh yeah, yeah, well, I guess all right, I'll stick
with the same. Remember that I was visiting my friend
Brian the umpire, and I muffed a foul ball watching
a game, and all of the umpires mocked me from
the field. Only I knew it, but yeah, I was
being mocked from the field.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Sad shakes of the head.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
The other good one is when a kid tries to
catch it and miss it, misses it, and then some
grown man snatches it up and won't give it to
the kid.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Oh and on the other side of the coin, there's
the fellow catches it and gives it to a little
kid next him.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
That is always a beautiful moment. That is awesome when
that happens.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Armstrong and Getty rabbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
So many people, thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong
and Geddy dot com. Got a lot of great hot
lengths for he drops the line. If there's something we
ought to be talking about, send it to mail bag
at Armstrong and Geddy dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
We will see tomorrow. God bless America, ladies and gentleman
of America. Wow, can you believe it? We've made it
to the end. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Down this road lies madness acceptable. I expected more, but
you have to pay attention to the cries that people have.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That just doesn't make sense. Will make my day pass
you gon to make a very obvious point. Absolutely, good
night everybody. On that high note, thank you all very much,
Armstrong and Getty
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