September 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The family confronted by the Phillies' Karen speaks out...
- Charlie Sheen's memoir...
- Israel bombs Hamas leadership...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and show Getty Armstrong
and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. We got this text.
(00:23):
I'm one hundred and fifty pounds and I eat six
prunes with my breakfast cereal every morning. Yeah, clearly I'm
not enough. I started at one. I've upped at one
per day to try to get to where I want
to be. I'll leave it unsaid, and I'm going to
get three yesterday no results, So I'll go to four today.
But I'm way one ninety, so it's probably gonna require
more than that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm not an expert in prunes and their curative powers,
but yeah, one seems like a paltry dosage.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They are so disgusting. No wonder they get mocked in sitcoms.
My Whole life Crazy tried prune juice? Would that work
the same? Well, yes, it works. I don't know if
it works as well.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just know when I was afflicted with a similar
situation post surgery because of the damned drugs. Yeah, they
had me swinging down prune juice and eating prunes, and yeah,
because they are kind of gross. Yeah, apples an alternative.
Could you eat two three apples a day? Yeah, easily
as well. Prunes They just they they they seem like
(01:28):
one of those Depression era of foods, like one of
those things people ate when they were so poor you
just needed food.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
There were no apples exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's like pig's eyes. No, I don't want to eat
any I've got. It's like behind end to juice from
that was back when people were starving. Right, I tell
you what you eat A couple apples and a bowlful
of raisins.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Every day place, please, I'm telling you that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So earlier in the show were discussing the case of
the so called Phillies game Karen, the aggressive lunatic woman
who screeched at a dad because he had grabbed a
home run ball that she wanted and given it to
his son, And then when she yelled at him for
(02:18):
a minute or two, he, in a cowardly and man
card losing fashion, handed the ball over to the lunatic
and disappointed his lad who will probably need counseling for
the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, for anybody who hasn't seen the video, is there
any did she did the woman, the crazy woman, have
any claim to this baseball?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So they're scrambling for a home run ball, as people
do every single stinking home run since three fingers McGhee
was playing in the dead ball era, and he got
it and she didn't and declared that because it was
near her it was rightfully her ball, and screeched at
him until he gave it to her in a disgustingly
(03:01):
cowardly fashion. I may have suggested earlier in the show
that the little boy should go to a baseball game
with a real man.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And dad can attend a fashion show. Well did you also?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Did you mention Marius about the mystery of who actually
impregnated the boy's mother, because surely it wasn't that limprist.
So perhaps I've been too harsh.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Perhaps did we mention this time that it was the
kid's birthday too. It's a kid's birthday. Dad gets a
home run ball, gives his this ball on his birthday,
and they've.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Never gotten a ball at a ball game before. It
was the first. It was the miracle.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Crazy woman comes yells at him. He recoils with his
hands shaking from this woman yelling at him like a
sitcom character and just says, all right, take the ball,
leave us long. God, I don't know, I'd have to
move to a different country and change my name. I
feel like if this was me and that was a
viral video.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We played some cliffs of Fox News Bill Malugin talking
to the guy earlier, in which Mallugiin was very, very
gentle and understanding and granted this guy was not the
bad guy who initiated the ugliness. I just don't appreciate
his response, but I'm curious how CBS News approached it.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We'll start with the first clip there.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Michael Blincoln Feltwell has been a Philadelphia Phillies super fan
since he was bored. He's celebrating an unforgettable tenth birthday
for all the.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right and wrong reasons. Sometimes you need that resimple.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Vader just on it's Friday night watching in the stance,
his now favorite player on his favorite teams had just
hit a hole and Andrew, his dad got that baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
When I put that ball on his glove, I felt
like I accomplished something great.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
The magic lasted just a few seconds. A woman started
berating Feltwell cleaning the ball was hurt.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Just screaming in my face, like vulgar curse words in
front of my kids. So I just decided to give
her the ball and get it over with.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
She's a lunatic. So not only was his birthday his
favorite player on his favorite team, Wow, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And in the you know, I'll just let him speak
for himself. Let's skip to thirty four Michael, then we'll
go back to the clips in order.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Yeah, you ultimately decided to give her that ball back.
And I've been reading some of the interviews you've done.
You want to, you know, teach your son a lesson
on de escalation, which I think is a great lesson
to teach these days. Do you have any regrets about
giving it back to word though, No, I think the
world could use a little extra de escalation.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Everything so tense. The world is pretty crazy, and I
didn't want to do anything like that in front of
my son or on camera. It was tough giving the
ball back, but it ended that situation.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, that's enough. So yanking the ball
out of your kids, mit and giving it to the bully,
That's how you're going to make the world a better
place ethic, And it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Did end it, Yes, if the bully says, give me
your lunch money and you give it to him, it
does end it. You're right until the next time, obviously.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, all right, let's let's get back to CBS because
it takes a nice turn.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's what happened next that made a bad situation beautiful Lincoln.
Lincoln and his dad were invited to meet Harrison Bader,
who sunning.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The bat for him. What was it like for you
to get the bat? It was really really cool, just
even me and him. And then the final flip, Michael.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I kind of refuse to take any involvement in bashing her.
The internet is taking care of that situation by itself.
I don't want to be that person in front of
my kids.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I appreciate that. Yeah, that's an interesting thing. Uh. Like
I've said, I could see if I was by myself,
because I don't really give a crap if I got
a baseball or not. If I'm by myself, Hey, cool,
I got a ball and this crazy idiot comes over
and just keeps screaming. I hear go. I might do that,
but setting an example for my son, No way I
(07:05):
would be rolling around on the steps with her in
a fight before I'm gonna give her the ball back
just because she says I should.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What hell, I rarely go to a game. I don't
end up in a fight with a middle aged woman
and he's nothing to me. Yeah, I know, And you
know you could argue I'm trying to. I always like to,
you know, test my arguments. If I were gonna argue
against me, I would say Jesus probably would have told
(07:38):
him give her the ball. Then doctor Keith, who is
that what Jesus said? And docs her on the internet exactly,
call her employer no, and trust in.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The Lord.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And then the result of all this is the kid
gets to meet his favorite player, he gets the bat.
There's some company that's given the boy in Camping World
Impressed Dad. Camping Worlds has given the boy in his
quasi Dad World series tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So you could make the argument, oh jeez, that that
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I feel like drop us a note mail bag at
Armstrong in giddy dot com. You will be the jury,
or if you'd like to text, that's more your speed
four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I feel like you saying who actually impregnated your wife?
Because it couldn't have been you is too far? That
was too far. I'll reconsider my words. Uh so the
internet has gone after her though, like the ruin in
her life, which good. She's a bad person or she's
(08:55):
probably nuts, but.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, probably nuts and utterly unf familiar with the dynamics
of when a ball is in the stands well, the
first person to get a firm grasp.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
On it owns it. Until then it's anybody's ball. Well,
and that aside. Again, I'm by myself. I might give
the ball, probably would to the ten year old on
his birthday, because I'm a grown up. I don't need
a ball.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, actually, that's that's always my plan. I'm gonna
find some cute little kid near me and give them ball.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
God, that's weak. So she's there yelling at dad in
front of his kids. I mean, she's a lunatic, a
complete lune, which I guess is part of his argument.
She is demonstrating that she's a loon. So I was
just trying to get it to go away. I would
not have done what he did. But all right, again,
I'm gonna test my argument.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
If she had the eyes of the maniac, and it
would have been an ugly situation where dad is forced
to put a woman's lights out to protect himself and
his son.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Would that be traumatizing enough for the boy? Hmmm? Now,
I couldn't have made myself. I couldn't have made myself
give the ball back in front of my son. I
just couldn't have It's too emasculating. Take it out of
his mint, wow, and give it back to her. Wow. Again.
We're gonna need your man card, Philly Karen. Sorry, she
(10:19):
might actually have to change your name all, but it's
been pretty rough for her.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I assume people have figured out who yes, yes, because
they've gone after employer and friends of it at all.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah. The world is so crazy right now and we'll
be forever. Oh good thing, checking out, goodbye. If you
ever end up in one of these situations, you just
gotta like go stay at a holiday inn under an
assumed name for forty eight hours, maybe seventy two in
(10:52):
rare cases, and then it'll be over and nobody will
ever remember it that it ever happened. You just got
to weather that couple of days of this is our
entertainment for the next few days. You just gotta get
past that till Trump does something or Israel bomb something
or whatever, and uh and then you're off the hook. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, check into one of those places that's a little
sweet for a week.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Be good to yourself. Hide out from the internet. Yeah,
check in fuel it, check in under e Presley, keep
your head down and well that's.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Another aspect of the modern era that sucks. You can't
check in under a funny assumed name anymore. I know,
unless you're a celeb. Then they'll do it as a
courtesy for you. But you gotta show them your ID
because you might be what Osama bin Laden or something.
What is it with hotels? How do you care who
I am? I'm gonna sleep here, I'm gonna leave you
(11:46):
got my credit card number.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
By the way, we will tease this or what are
one more thing? Podcast is going to be interesting today?
Will tell you about that among other things. On the
way stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Actor Charlie Sheen has set to release his new memoir,
though there's a good chance that what you already know
about Charlie Sheen is more than he remembers.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, Charlie Sheen wrote a memoir And there's a Netflix
special documentary interview thingy. We've got some clips from an
interview he did with Good Morning America that we'll use
in the One More Thing podcast that I thought was
actually kind of interesting about how his dad intervened and
how off the rails he was, and EA sne pretty
(12:36):
off the rails. I thought, I distinctly remember a Friday
where I predicted Charlie Sheen will be dead when we
come back on Monday, because I thought that's what was
gonna happen. If you don't remember that whole crazy period
CBS pull out about Trump's tariffs. It's all about how
you ask the question. I don't know exactly how they
(12:56):
worded the question, but I don't think it's probably far
off of this sixty one percent of people oppose new tariffs.
Of course, if you barely pay attention to you ha
to take in through mainstream media, it's all negative reporting,
So how would you come to any other conclusion. Seventy
one percent say tariffs increase prices. That's because they do,
(13:17):
and about two thirds say Trump's policy is increasing US
grocery prices. That's two thirds. Overall. It's only thirty one
percent of Republicans that say that, although that's a fairly
high number given the fact that he has a about
a ninety percent approval riting among Republicans. It'll be one
(13:39):
little indication, maybe today when Apple has their big always
in September unveiling of new products, the new iPhone seventeen.
If there's a big jumpin price because of tariffs, that
will be the new story out of the Apple thing.
That will that will obliterate anything about the new camera
or anything on the iPhone, if it's all about look
(14:00):
what the tariffs did to the cost of an iPhone.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, groceries is interesting. I would think most of that
would be indirect costs rising, although I guess we import
the fair amount of produce from Mexico. But I think
it'll show itself in consumer goods more than groceries.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But I'd rather sick.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I've continued to predict that we will really feel this
in October and November.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Whatever is going to happen. It's right before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, yeah, well, and the soups are going to take
a look at it too. Amy Coney Barrett's making the
rounds these days, but she didn't even as I recall,
she's not even sure it's on the schedule yet. But
they'll be dealing with it at some point, speaking of
governments and finance and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I was just we talked a great deal earlier.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
About France, how the government is a parliamentary system, but
the government has collapsed and they're kicking out yet another
prime minister because the guy said, look, we're spending ourselves
to death. We've got to roll back programs. We've got
to cut our or just keep our spending at the
current level. We can't grow it anymore. We are going
to go completely broke. And for that he was heaved
(15:17):
out on his.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Ear and his speech he said, you can get rid
of me, but you can't. You can change me, but
you can't change reality, which is a great parting shot. Meanwhile,
in formerly socialist peronas to Argentina, where Javier and Milat
has been working such miracles by using the free market
(15:38):
all the people who are benefiting from the socialism, whether
it's the fat cats or just the people who'd gotten
used to the government handouts. In spite of the incredible
success of that, some.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
There was a big like the off year election and
the Kirchnerist Party, that's the old socialist guys, did really
well in some of their provincial elections, and the market
has gone into a free fall. In Argentina, the Argentine
currency collapsed against the dollar. Investors are panicking because they
(16:14):
fear the win means a return to heavy government spending,
money printing, less market friendly policies. Uh, the economy might
just plots because the economy and people who like our
free market guys see the return of the socialist guys
as just an utter disaster. It is so hard once
(16:37):
you get people addicted to the heroine of socialism.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Man, well, they shake and they sweat.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And they and they crap themselves and they puke a lot.
To get them off of the heroin of socialism. It's
amazing and troubling. Crap themselves, it happens. Maybe one less prune. Yeah,
don't do drugs, kids, and don't do socialism either.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But the kids slap it up.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
When you know, Mamdani the Kami makes his lovely promises.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
They got a focus group of Trump supporters going on
on CNN right now around the whole Epstein thing. Oh goodness,
what a couple of them said, are kind of interesting.
Among other things, on the way Armstrong and Getty, the
internet doesn't always get it right, but sometimes it does.
The karma on this Philadelphia Karen woman Woo, that is
(17:35):
a heap and helping dose of internet karma. I mean,
all of the mean goodness that can exist in the
world is directed at that woman, and she deserves it.
She's a horrible human being or nuts or something. She's
clearly crazy. So a couple updates on a few things
(17:56):
before we get to the latest polling on Mamdani the Kami,
which is soon per interesting just out like the last hour. So,
Israel targeted Hamasa's senior leadership in a strike in Katar.
In Doha, Qatar, a major modern city. They hit with
(18:16):
missiles in a residential building where they believed they took
out some of the leadership of a MAAS and NETANYAHUO
just put out a joint statement saying that he had
full support of the entire Israeli war cabinet. Everybody was
on board with this because of not only do the
(18:37):
leaders of a MOSS still say yeah, we were behind
October seventh, two years ago, and we hope to do
it again. They took responsibility yesterday from that attack two
days ago, and I put it. I thought that might
just be a nut job on his own. But they
took a responsibility for that and said, yeah, we're all
in favor and we hope there's more. And so Netanyah said, okay,
(19:00):
well that's enough of you. And those people who said
that might be dead now.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And it became infinitely clear that the so called peace
process doesn't exist. Saw this headline in the New York Times,
ridiculous Israeli strikes targets, strike targets Moss leadership in Qatar.
The e Gulf nation of Qatar has been trying to
negotiate a ceasefire in the conflict. The attack threatens to
destabilize those peace efforts.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
How much? What a bunch of crap that is? Really?
You know, it's most destabilizing to the effort the fact
that Hamas is still attacking and refusing to give back
it hostages. Good lord, all right, there's that story. CNN
just had a little focused group of hardcore Trump supporters
(19:48):
talking about the Epstein thing, and I just saw a
woman up there saying the biggest disappointment to her of
Trump being reelected is that that he's helping covering up
the Epstein thing. This gets to what you're always talking about.
They are talking about CNN and the person asking the
(20:09):
question are talking about a completely different Epstein story than
that woman is that woman is talking about. I guarantee
I don't know this, but I guarantee you she's talking
about the child trafficking sex ring that she thinks is
in the Epstein files and that Trump isn't releasing because
it doesn't exist. CNN is asking about the Epstein files
(20:30):
that are about who Epstein flew on the plane with
and all that sort of stuff. They're talking about two different.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Things, right and some people are talking about, was Epstein
the only guy who is touching underage girls?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Let's see the list.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It says, you know, they're like eleven different variations, but
everybody just says the Epstein files or the Epstein thing.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Right now, This pulled just out on Zorn Mamdani, the
communist probably going to be mayor of New York City.
Thank you for pronouncing it correctly, Mandani. He continues to
have a giant lead at forty six percent of New
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York City likely voters, almost half in second place scumbag
Andrew Cuomo at twenty four so roughly half the support,
and then it drops way down to single digits for
a bunch of people you probably don't know. But you
break it down by different demographics. Men and women fairly
(21:38):
evenly split. Age, not surprising. The communist has three quarters
of the young people wow, eighteen to twenty nine, but
he has a third of sixty five plus. You are
old enough to know better, and a third of sixty
five plus are willing to vote for the communist. Break
it down by race, it's about forty some percent of white,
(22:02):
forty some percent of black, forty percent of Hispanic, then
seventy percent of other. What do you have left after white,
Black and Hispanic, tion and whoever else? Russian? It's European.
Break down by education bothers me. Thirty percent of people
(22:22):
that no college degree thirty percent, that's his lowest number,
sixty percent of people that went to college. Wanna you
should be smart enough as a college graduate to not
vote for a communist. Of course, you had communist professors
who convince you that communism is a good idea.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well, that's what college is now. It's like, you know,
school exists mostly to indoctrinate the kids into progressive thinking.
In colleges too, they will teach you engineering on the side.
If you're in that program, and you'll probably learn a
little something about whatever topic you're you know, studying, but
you're mostly there to be indoctrinated.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And you break it down by the Burroughs, because you're
a mayor of all of these areas. He gets thirty
six percent in Brooklyn, or fifty percent in Brooklyn, thirty
six percent in the Bronze thirty eight percent Queens, twenty
six percent of an island. None of that matters Manhattan.
It's almost sixty percent. Wow. The most monumental gleaming testament
(23:26):
to free market capitalism that exists on Earth. Really New
York City, where Wall Street is located, sixty percent of
the people who live there want a communist zort run
Mondnie right.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know. For the millionth time, I'll make a reference
to the book The Myth of the Rational Voter, because
the premise of the book is that in economic issues,
topics like rent control is a good one, or greedy
corporations shouldn't make a profit, there wouldn't be crime if
(24:04):
there weren't cops, all right, But in economic discussions people
get it wrong in ways that are far beyond chance.
The misperception of what rent control would do, for instance,
is much more common among the average voter than the
(24:25):
correct perception of what it would do. Again, in a
way that's way beyond the numbers that are way beyond chance.
For some reason, the average person who hasn't thought about
it much, hasn't studied it, hasn't been taught, gets economics
wrong a lot. And that's what we're seeing with Mundani
when mam, dam me me Ni, Sorry, I got your
(24:46):
name wrong, so Ron, And it's troubling that that lie,
that scam can be sold over and over again to
each new generation and to that thirty percent of soft
heads who just never wise up.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
In their zorn man Donie. Now, I did hear a
smart person say I remember it was one of your
smart like a David Axelrod or somebody smart Democrat who
understands this stuff. And he's not a Mum Danny fan.
But his thing was that it's kind of similar to Trump,
and that, like Trump was addressing the issues people cared about,
(25:23):
we gotta do something about the freaking border. And maybe
you thought as a Trump supporter then and now he
goes too far, he says things too strong, But at
least he does something about it that that might be
what's happening with Mom Donny. He's just saying the rent's
too high. Nobody can afford this rent. It's too damn
And he might not like his solutionary you think he
(25:43):
goes too far, but he's the only one that's like
really saying this can't continue. Oh, I would put it
more strongly.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He's offering solutions that are exactly the opposite of the solutions.
But I think Axelrode makes a great point. It's a
really good point.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You gotta you gotta grab people by the issues they
care about, and you know, convince them that you actually
care about them too.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It reminds me of that conspiracy silence in Europe that
we've been talking about on and off, where the major
parties literally in some cases agreed that we won't talk
about immigration, right, let's just pretend it's not at the
root of these problems, and it drove people into the
arms of like the AfD in Germany and Nigel Farag's
party in England and Marine La Penn and her handsome
(26:31):
protege in France. If you don't address people's actual concerns, yeah,
they will go elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
For their solutions. It's breaking news everywhere that Cracker Barrel
is not going to remodel their restaurants. Oh my god,
this story, I know it well. I don't were you
here or not. You might not have been here so
we ate at Cracker Barrel. Did you hear my crack stories?
(27:01):
I've heard some Cracker bears. I don't think you did
from my trip to Kansas and Iowa. Did you hear those?
I don't know if the takeo the key takeaway. I
think I did well. First of all, that we had
to wait so long to get in because clearly they
got like eight billion dollars worth of free advertising. But
none of the people in my group, all of us
who had eaten a Cracker Barrel so many times, could
(27:22):
have told you at all that there was some dude
on the logo.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
None of us, right, Yeah, it's not like he was
a beloved character that meant so much to our childhoods.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
None of us could have told you.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh, there's a guy removing this statue of Lincoln because
he wasn't woken off right.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
All right, we'd all said, all said when we heard
it first. But there's a guy, I'm a logo I
don't know. I've never looked at the logo. It's just
kind of a hard to even tell what it was.
Something there next to the name Cracker bear right, yeah, money,
and it got turned into the you're taking called Jesse
or Harold or whatever his name is off a logo
how dare you?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And well how it evolved is interesting, and you know,
I haven't spent a lot of time on it, but
the perception that it was some sort of woke, politically
correct thing, that they were remodeling the Cracker barrels and
changing the look of the restaurants and you know, the
logo and stuff, and I'm not sure that it was.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I'm not sure it was either. In fact, I think
it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But but there's something going on there that's worth thinking about.
Is it that every other damn institution has fallen, you know,
to the woke acts a little or a lot, and
people are just now a traditional, you know, patriotic Middle
America America is saying no, no, some slick new woman's
(28:45):
ceo is not going to change our beloved Cracker barrel.
It must be more of the woke crap.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
My brother, with his endless jokes about how racist cracker
barrel is. We're playing the little triangle game. Yep, that's
what we used to do while the slaves were in
the field, play this little triangle game. What because it's
also stupid? Yes, okay, we will finish strong next time,
(29:13):
arm strong.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Hey, a dive team trying to solve a cold case
about a missing couple found a whopping ninety.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Seven cars in the Chicago River.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Yeah, they're now trying to identify the ninety seven female drivers.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I gotta admit I kind of like the way Guttfeldt
bates his audience into yelling at him grown No, No,
that's terrible, you d it. Wow. You know we should
have redone the story about the nation's report card that
came out today and how our seniors can't read or
(30:04):
do math, and it's worse. It keeps getting worse, down
ten points since nineteen ninety two in terms of proficiency
for reading. I think it was, but that's just stunning.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
COVID accelerated the decline, but it was declining before and
has continued to decline after.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I mean, look at the chart, and it doesn't look
like it didn't. Wasn't that far out of where we
were at it anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Nope, And everybody knows why. Anybody who's paying attention knows why.
But people aren't willing to do anything about it. We
talked about that at fair length our two of the
show is that right, Yeah, our two. If you missed it,
subscribe you ought to subscribe to Armstrong and getting on demand.
It included a discussion of let's see where is that.
(30:52):
I think I may have closed the window already. Oh no,
there is absolutely brilliant work done by the economist Roland
Fryar literally came up with formula to turn around failing schools,
implemented it, and it was stunningly successful public schools in Houston.
It took a lot of getting rid of administrators and
teachers who were just union hacks, but it worked beautifully
(31:15):
and successfully, and nobody has any interest in it because
schools are now a jobs program. They're not an educational
institution anymore. They're a jobs program.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I want to touch on this before we get done.
Trump met with some of his European counterparts yesterday to
discuss the whole Russia Ukraine thing, and, according to reporting
from someone who was in the meeting and spoke on
condition of anonymity said that Trump is willing to exert
significant actions to end the war, but expects full cooperation
(31:48):
from the European partners in whatever actions are taken. The
meeting was only two hours long. Need for collective action
and whatever is determined on sanctions and how to manage
blah blah. But Trump seems to be all in as
long as you guys are doing it too, not buying oil.
You're gonna have the tariffs like we are. We're all
gonna stick with this. I'm in. That's what this reporting is.
(32:10):
So that is not unreasonable. No, it's not absolutely not,
But man, the heavy hammer of economic samption sanctions might
be coming down soon. Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna call him out.
Is messed up. He's gonna call him out if they
don't stick with it too and not let him slide
back during when we'd put these heavy sanctions on SAT
(32:31):
and was saying before we went in, France would be
behind the back doing all kinds of stuff with a RAQ.
You're so called friend. That's why I call him freedom Fries.
You know that's reasonable. I uh.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I had a conversation the other day with a friend
who we were talking about a mutual friend who speaks
pretty fluent French, and he really enjoyed being in France.
And we are talking the inevitable conversation about how Americans,
most of us are mono lingual and it's a shame.
And you know, look at the Europeans. They know multiple languages.
(33:06):
It's because they have to. And honestly, if Euros lived
in a giant, prosperous country that was surrounded by gigantic oceans,
you know, on both sides, they wouldn't know any languages either. Now,
and you know, it's true, because it's kind of cool
and fun to be able to speak multiple languages. But
the upsides of the Atlantic in the Pacific keeping all
(33:29):
those people away from us dwarf the downsides by about
fifty thousand to one.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
All Right, that whole you know, multiple languages, good for you.
I mean, it's necessity, the fact that it's an immediate
sign of sophistication and intelligence.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Whatever, Go away, admit me chorus to this history, Yes, prologue,
like your humble patients, prey gently to hear, kindly, to
judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Add some class craft there, here's your host for final thoughts,
Joe getting look at. A final thought from everybody on
the crew.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
To wrap up the show, Michael Angelow, our technical director,
will lead the way.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Michael, what's your final thoughts? Okay, if I'm the dad
of that kid with the baseball, I go out and
I start taking up martial arts training. I buy a
big truck. I uh, I fight somebody just to make
myself look like and look like a man.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Borrow some balls from somebody. Yes, a good plan. Katie
Green is off. She will be back soon, and we
can't wake Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
A final thought for us, I don't think Apple's announcing
any new products today, but updates to their old products,
including a new lighter iPhone, because we all had been
struggling to hold our iPhones in our hands well sound.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That was most of my back problems. The weight of
the iPhone just crank my spine out of out of shape.
My final thought is I will be going through the
emails about the infamous Philly Karen Lady and the dad
who gave the ball up and collecting your points of view,
and we will share them with you tomorrow on the program.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I'm curious to see which way the sentiments run. I
like the memes where she's gollam with her precious baseball.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You know, I gotta tweet what the Savannah Bananas did.
They did a skit mocking the whole thing. It is
laugh out loud funny. Oh that's great. I'm strong in
Getty wrapping. I'bout other grueling four hour workday. So many
people think so little time good Armstrong and getdy dot com.
Follow us on Twitter slash act. You don't have to
look at the rest of the crap.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
It will depress you, no kidding. See tomorrow. God bless America.
I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
We jam so much changed day edish well they Armstrong,
get issue.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Francis government goes into plastral bombo. We try to the
Epstein story because come on, didn't know they are out
of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
That really is par.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
She stole the show. Five proced pronounce today. We'll show
open the man my pronus today. Do it from Walt
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Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and show Getty Armstrong
and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. We got this text.
(00:23):
I'm one hundred and fifty pounds and I eat six
prunes with my breakfast cereal every morning. Yeah, clearly I'm
not enough. I started at one. I've upped at one
per day to try to get to where I want
to be. I'll leave it unsaid, and I'm going to
get three yesterday no results, So I'll go to four today.
But I'm way one ninety, so it's probably gonna require
more than that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm not an expert in prunes and their curative powers,
but yeah, one seems like a paltry dosage.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They are so disgusting. No wonder they get mocked in sitcoms.
My Whole life Crazy tried prune juice? Would that work
the same? Well, yes, it works. I don't know if
it works as well.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just know when I was afflicted with a similar
situation post surgery because of the damned drugs. Yeah, they
had me swinging down prune juice and eating prunes, and yeah,
because they are kind of gross. Yeah, apples an alternative.
Could you eat two three apples a day? Yeah, easily
as well. Prunes They just they they they seem like
(01:28):
one of those Depression era of foods, like one of
those things people ate when they were so poor you
just needed food.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
There were no apples exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's like pig's eyes. No, I don't want to eat
any I've got. It's like behind end to juice from
that was back when people were starving. Right, I tell
you what you eat A couple apples and a bowlful
of raisins.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Every day place, please, I'm telling you that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So earlier in the show were discussing the case of
the so called Phillies game Karen, the aggressive lunatic woman
who screeched at a dad because he had grabbed a
home run ball that she wanted and given it to
his son, And then when she yelled at him for
(02:18):
a minute or two, he, in a cowardly and man
card losing fashion, handed the ball over to the lunatic
and disappointed his lad who will probably need counseling for
the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, for anybody who hasn't seen the video, is there
any did she did the woman, the crazy woman, have
any claim to this baseball?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So they're scrambling for a home run ball, as people
do every single stinking home run since three fingers McGhee
was playing in the dead ball era, and he got
it and she didn't and declared that because it was
near her it was rightfully her ball, and screeched at
him until he gave it to her in a disgustingly
(03:01):
cowardly fashion. I may have suggested earlier in the show
that the little boy should go to a baseball game
with a real man.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And dad can attend a fashion show. Well did you also?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Did you mention Marius about the mystery of who actually
impregnated the boy's mother, because surely it wasn't that limprist.
So perhaps I've been too harsh.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Perhaps did we mention this time that it was the
kid's birthday too. It's a kid's birthday. Dad gets a
home run ball, gives his this ball on his birthday,
and they've.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Never gotten a ball at a ball game before. It
was the first. It was the miracle.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Crazy woman comes yells at him. He recoils with his
hands shaking from this woman yelling at him like a
sitcom character and just says, all right, take the ball,
leave us long. God, I don't know, I'd have to
move to a different country and change my name. I
feel like if this was me and that was a
viral video.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We played some cliffs of Fox News Bill Malugin talking
to the guy earlier, in which Mallugiin was very, very
gentle and understanding and granted this guy was not the
bad guy who initiated the ugliness. I just don't appreciate
his response, but I'm curious how CBS News approached it.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We'll start with the first clip there.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Michael Blincoln Feltwell has been a Philadelphia Phillies super fan
since he was bored. He's celebrating an unforgettable tenth birthday
for all the.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right and wrong reasons. Sometimes you need that resimple.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Vader just on it's Friday night watching in the stance,
his now favorite player on his favorite teams had just
hit a hole and Andrew, his dad got that baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
When I put that ball on his glove, I felt
like I accomplished something great.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
The magic lasted just a few seconds. A woman started
berating Feltwell cleaning the ball was hurt.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Just screaming in my face, like vulgar curse words in
front of my kids. So I just decided to give
her the ball and get it over with.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
She's a lunatic. So not only was his birthday his
favorite player on his favorite team, Wow, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And in the you know, I'll just let him speak
for himself. Let's skip to thirty four Michael, then we'll
go back to the clips in order.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Yeah, you ultimately decided to give her that ball back.
And I've been reading some of the interviews you've done.
You want to, you know, teach your son a lesson
on de escalation, which I think is a great lesson
to teach these days. Do you have any regrets about
giving it back to word though, No, I think the
world could use a little extra de escalation.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Everything so tense. The world is pretty crazy, and I
didn't want to do anything like that in front of
my son or on camera. It was tough giving the
ball back, but it ended that situation.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, that's enough. So yanking the ball
out of your kids, mit and giving it to the bully,
That's how you're going to make the world a better
place ethic, And it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Did end it, Yes, if the bully says, give me
your lunch money and you give it to him, it
does end it. You're right until the next time, obviously.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, all right, let's let's get back to CBS because
it takes a nice turn.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's what happened next that made a bad situation beautiful Lincoln.
Lincoln and his dad were invited to meet Harrison Bader,
who sunning.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The bat for him. What was it like for you
to get the bat? It was really really cool, just
even me and him. And then the final flip, Michael.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I kind of refuse to take any involvement in bashing her.
The internet is taking care of that situation by itself.
I don't want to be that person in front of
my kids.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I appreciate that. Yeah, that's an interesting thing. Uh. Like
I've said, I could see if I was by myself,
because I don't really give a crap if I got
a baseball or not. If I'm by myself, Hey, cool,
I got a ball and this crazy idiot comes over
and just keeps screaming. I hear go. I might do that,
but setting an example for my son, No way I
(07:05):
would be rolling around on the steps with her in
a fight before I'm gonna give her the ball back
just because she says I should.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What hell, I rarely go to a game. I don't
end up in a fight with a middle aged woman
and he's nothing to me. Yeah, I know, And you
know you could argue I'm trying to. I always like to,
you know, test my arguments. If I were gonna argue
against me, I would say Jesus probably would have told
(07:38):
him give her the ball. Then doctor Keith, who is
that what Jesus said? And docs her on the internet exactly,
call her employer no, and trust in.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The Lord.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And then the result of all this is the kid
gets to meet his favorite player, he gets the bat.
There's some company that's given the boy in Camping World
Impressed Dad. Camping Worlds has given the boy in his
quasi Dad World series tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So you could make the argument, oh jeez, that that
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I feel like drop us a note mail bag at
Armstrong in giddy dot com. You will be the jury,
or if you'd like to text, that's more your speed
four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I feel like you saying who actually impregnated your wife?
Because it couldn't have been you is too far? That
was too far. I'll reconsider my words. Uh so the
internet has gone after her though, like the ruin in
her life, which good. She's a bad person or she's
(08:55):
probably nuts, but.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, probably nuts and utterly unf familiar with the dynamics
of when a ball is in the stands well, the
first person to get a firm grasp.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
On it owns it. Until then it's anybody's ball. Well,
and that aside. Again, I'm by myself. I might give
the ball, probably would to the ten year old on
his birthday, because I'm a grown up. I don't need
a ball.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, actually, that's that's always my plan. I'm gonna
find some cute little kid near me and give them ball.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
God, that's weak. So she's there yelling at dad in
front of his kids. I mean, she's a lunatic, a
complete lune, which I guess is part of his argument.
She is demonstrating that she's a loon. So I was
just trying to get it to go away. I would
not have done what he did. But all right, again,
I'm gonna test my argument.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
If she had the eyes of the maniac, and it
would have been an ugly situation where dad is forced
to put a woman's lights out to protect himself and
his son.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Would that be traumatizing enough for the boy? Hmmm? Now,
I couldn't have made myself. I couldn't have made myself
give the ball back in front of my son. I
just couldn't have It's too emasculating. Take it out of
his mint, wow, and give it back to her. Wow. Again.
We're gonna need your man card, Philly Karen. Sorry, she
(10:19):
might actually have to change your name all, but it's
been pretty rough for her.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I assume people have figured out who yes, yes, because
they've gone after employer and friends of it at all.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah. The world is so crazy right now and we'll
be forever. Oh good thing, checking out, goodbye. If you
ever end up in one of these situations, you just
gotta like go stay at a holiday inn under an
assumed name for forty eight hours, maybe seventy two in
(10:52):
rare cases, and then it'll be over and nobody will
ever remember it that it ever happened. You just got
to weather that couple of days of this is our
entertainment for the next few days. You just gotta get
past that till Trump does something or Israel bomb something
or whatever, and uh and then you're off the hook. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, check into one of those places that's a little
sweet for a week.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Be good to yourself. Hide out from the internet. Yeah,
check in fuel it, check in under e Presley, keep
your head down and well that's.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Another aspect of the modern era that sucks. You can't
check in under a funny assumed name anymore. I know,
unless you're a celeb. Then they'll do it as a
courtesy for you. But you gotta show them your ID
because you might be what Osama bin Laden or something.
What is it with hotels? How do you care who
I am? I'm gonna sleep here, I'm gonna leave you
(11:46):
got my credit card number.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
By the way, we will tease this or what are
one more thing? Podcast is going to be interesting today?
Will tell you about that among other things. On the
way stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Actor Charlie Sheen has set to release his new memoir,
though there's a good chance that what you already know
about Charlie Sheen is more than he remembers.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, Charlie Sheen wrote a memoir And there's a Netflix
special documentary interview thingy. We've got some clips from an
interview he did with Good Morning America that we'll use
in the One More Thing podcast that I thought was
actually kind of interesting about how his dad intervened and
how off the rails he was, and EA sne pretty
(12:36):
off the rails. I thought, I distinctly remember a Friday
where I predicted Charlie Sheen will be dead when we
come back on Monday, because I thought that's what was
gonna happen. If you don't remember that whole crazy period
CBS pull out about Trump's tariffs. It's all about how
you ask the question. I don't know exactly how they
(12:56):
worded the question, but I don't think it's probably far
off of this sixty one percent of people oppose new tariffs.
Of course, if you barely pay attention to you ha
to take in through mainstream media, it's all negative reporting,
So how would you come to any other conclusion. Seventy
one percent say tariffs increase prices. That's because they do,
(13:17):
and about two thirds say Trump's policy is increasing US
grocery prices. That's two thirds. Overall. It's only thirty one
percent of Republicans that say that, although that's a fairly
high number given the fact that he has a about
a ninety percent approval riting among Republicans. It'll be one
(13:39):
little indication, maybe today when Apple has their big always
in September unveiling of new products, the new iPhone seventeen.
If there's a big jumpin price because of tariffs, that
will be the new story out of the Apple thing.
That will that will obliterate anything about the new camera
or anything on the iPhone, if it's all about look
(14:00):
what the tariffs did to the cost of an iPhone.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, groceries is interesting. I would think most of that
would be indirect costs rising, although I guess we import
the fair amount of produce from Mexico. But I think
it'll show itself in consumer goods more than groceries.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But I'd rather sick.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I've continued to predict that we will really feel this
in October and November.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Whatever is going to happen. It's right before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, yeah, well, and the soups are going to take
a look at it too. Amy Coney Barrett's making the
rounds these days, but she didn't even as I recall,
she's not even sure it's on the schedule yet. But
they'll be dealing with it at some point, speaking of
governments and finance and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I was just we talked a great deal earlier.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
About France, how the government is a parliamentary system, but
the government has collapsed and they're kicking out yet another
prime minister because the guy said, look, we're spending ourselves
to death. We've got to roll back programs. We've got
to cut our or just keep our spending at the
current level. We can't grow it anymore. We are going
to go completely broke. And for that he was heaved
(15:17):
out on his.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Ear and his speech he said, you can get rid
of me, but you can't. You can change me, but
you can't change reality, which is a great parting shot. Meanwhile,
in formerly socialist peronas to Argentina, where Javier and Milat
has been working such miracles by using the free market
(15:38):
all the people who are benefiting from the socialism, whether
it's the fat cats or just the people who'd gotten
used to the government handouts. In spite of the incredible
success of that, some.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
There was a big like the off year election and
the Kirchnerist Party, that's the old socialist guys, did really
well in some of their provincial elections, and the market
has gone into a free fall. In Argentina, the Argentine
currency collapsed against the dollar. Investors are panicking because they
(16:14):
fear the win means a return to heavy government spending,
money printing, less market friendly policies. Uh, the economy might
just plots because the economy and people who like our
free market guys see the return of the socialist guys
as just an utter disaster. It is so hard once
(16:37):
you get people addicted to the heroine of socialism.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Man, well, they shake and they sweat.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And they and they crap themselves and they puke a lot.
To get them off of the heroin of socialism. It's
amazing and troubling. Crap themselves, it happens. Maybe one less prune. Yeah,
don't do drugs, kids, and don't do socialism either.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But the kids slap it up.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
When you know, Mamdani the Kami makes his lovely promises.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
They got a focus group of Trump supporters going on
on CNN right now around the whole Epstein thing. Oh goodness,
what a couple of them said, are kind of interesting.
Among other things, on the way Armstrong and Getty, the
internet doesn't always get it right, but sometimes it does.
The karma on this Philadelphia Karen woman Woo, that is
(17:35):
a heap and helping dose of internet karma. I mean,
all of the mean goodness that can exist in the
world is directed at that woman, and she deserves it.
She's a horrible human being or nuts or something. She's
clearly crazy. So a couple updates on a few things
(17:56):
before we get to the latest polling on Mamdani the Kami,
which is soon per interesting just out like the last hour. So,
Israel targeted Hamasa's senior leadership in a strike in Katar.
In Doha, Qatar, a major modern city. They hit with
(18:16):
missiles in a residential building where they believed they took
out some of the leadership of a MAAS and NETANYAHUO
just put out a joint statement saying that he had
full support of the entire Israeli war cabinet. Everybody was
on board with this because of not only do the
(18:37):
leaders of a MOSS still say yeah, we were behind
October seventh, two years ago, and we hope to do
it again. They took responsibility yesterday from that attack two
days ago, and I put it. I thought that might
just be a nut job on his own. But they
took a responsibility for that and said, yeah, we're all
in favor and we hope there's more. And so Netanyah said, okay,
(19:00):
well that's enough of you. And those people who said
that might be dead now.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And it became infinitely clear that the so called peace
process doesn't exist. Saw this headline in the New York Times,
ridiculous Israeli strikes targets, strike targets Moss leadership in Qatar.
The e Gulf nation of Qatar has been trying to
negotiate a ceasefire in the conflict. The attack threatens to
destabilize those peace efforts.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
How much? What a bunch of crap that is? Really?
You know, it's most destabilizing to the effort the fact
that Hamas is still attacking and refusing to give back
it hostages. Good lord, all right, there's that story. CNN
just had a little focused group of hardcore Trump supporters
(19:48):
talking about the Epstein thing, and I just saw a
woman up there saying the biggest disappointment to her of
Trump being reelected is that that he's helping covering up
the Epstein thing. This gets to what you're always talking about.
They are talking about CNN and the person asking the
(20:09):
question are talking about a completely different Epstein story than
that woman is that woman is talking about. I guarantee
I don't know this, but I guarantee you she's talking
about the child trafficking sex ring that she thinks is
in the Epstein files and that Trump isn't releasing because
it doesn't exist. CNN is asking about the Epstein files
(20:30):
that are about who Epstein flew on the plane with
and all that sort of stuff. They're talking about two different.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Things, right and some people are talking about, was Epstein
the only guy who is touching underage girls?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Let's see the list.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It says, you know, they're like eleven different variations, but
everybody just says the Epstein files or the Epstein thing.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Right now, This pulled just out on Zorn Mamdani, the
communist probably going to be mayor of New York City.
Thank you for pronouncing it correctly, Mandani. He continues to
have a giant lead at forty six percent of New
(21:17):
York City likely voters, almost half in second place scumbag
Andrew Cuomo at twenty four so roughly half the support,
and then it drops way down to single digits for
a bunch of people you probably don't know. But you
break it down by different demographics. Men and women fairly
(21:38):
evenly split. Age, not surprising. The communist has three quarters
of the young people wow, eighteen to twenty nine, but
he has a third of sixty five plus. You are
old enough to know better, and a third of sixty
five plus are willing to vote for the communist. Break
it down by race, it's about forty some percent of white,
(22:02):
forty some percent of black, forty percent of Hispanic, then
seventy percent of other. What do you have left after white,
Black and Hispanic, tion and whoever else? Russian? It's European.
Break down by education bothers me. Thirty percent of people
(22:22):
that no college degree thirty percent, that's his lowest number,
sixty percent of people that went to college. Wanna you
should be smart enough as a college graduate to not
vote for a communist. Of course, you had communist professors
who convince you that communism is a good idea.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well, that's what college is now. It's like, you know,
school exists mostly to indoctrinate the kids into progressive thinking.
In colleges too, they will teach you engineering on the side.
If you're in that program, and you'll probably learn a
little something about whatever topic you're you know, studying, but
you're mostly there to be indoctrinated.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And you break it down by the Burroughs, because you're
a mayor of all of these areas. He gets thirty
six percent in Brooklyn, or fifty percent in Brooklyn, thirty
six percent in the Bronze thirty eight percent Queens, twenty
six percent of an island. None of that matters Manhattan.
It's almost sixty percent. Wow. The most monumental gleaming testament
(23:26):
to free market capitalism that exists on Earth. Really New
York City, where Wall Street is located, sixty percent of
the people who live there want a communist zort run
Mondnie right.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know. For the millionth time, I'll make a reference
to the book The Myth of the Rational Voter, because
the premise of the book is that in economic issues,
topics like rent control is a good one, or greedy
corporations shouldn't make a profit, there wouldn't be crime if
(24:04):
there weren't cops, all right, But in economic discussions people
get it wrong in ways that are far beyond chance.
The misperception of what rent control would do, for instance,
is much more common among the average voter than the
(24:25):
correct perception of what it would do. Again, in a
way that's way beyond the numbers that are way beyond chance.
For some reason, the average person who hasn't thought about
it much, hasn't studied it, hasn't been taught, gets economics
wrong a lot. And that's what we're seeing with Mundani
when mam, dam me me Ni, Sorry, I got your
(24:46):
name wrong, so Ron, And it's troubling that that lie,
that scam can be sold over and over again to
each new generation and to that thirty percent of soft
heads who just never wise up.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
In their zorn man Donie. Now, I did hear a
smart person say I remember it was one of your
smart like a David Axelrod or somebody smart Democrat who
understands this stuff. And he's not a Mum Danny fan.
But his thing was that it's kind of similar to Trump,
and that, like Trump was addressing the issues people cared about,
(25:23):
we gotta do something about the freaking border. And maybe
you thought as a Trump supporter then and now he
goes too far, he says things too strong, But at
least he does something about it that that might be
what's happening with Mom Donny. He's just saying the rent's
too high. Nobody can afford this rent. It's too damn
And he might not like his solutionary you think he
(25:43):
goes too far, but he's the only one that's like
really saying this can't continue. Oh, I would put it
more strongly.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He's offering solutions that are exactly the opposite of the solutions.
But I think Axelrode makes a great point. It's a
really good point.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You gotta you gotta grab people by the issues they
care about, and you know, convince them that you actually
care about them too.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It reminds me of that conspiracy silence in Europe that
we've been talking about on and off, where the major
parties literally in some cases agreed that we won't talk
about immigration, right, let's just pretend it's not at the
root of these problems, and it drove people into the
arms of like the AfD in Germany and Nigel Farag's
party in England and Marine La Penn and her handsome
(26:31):
protege in France. If you don't address people's actual concerns, yeah,
they will go elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
For their solutions. It's breaking news everywhere that Cracker Barrel
is not going to remodel their restaurants. Oh my god,
this story, I know it well. I don't were you
here or not. You might not have been here so
we ate at Cracker Barrel. Did you hear my crack stories?
(27:01):
I've heard some Cracker bears. I don't think you did
from my trip to Kansas and Iowa. Did you hear those?
I don't know if the takeo the key takeaway. I
think I did well. First of all, that we had
to wait so long to get in because clearly they
got like eight billion dollars worth of free advertising. But
none of the people in my group, all of us
who had eaten a Cracker Barrel so many times, could
(27:22):
have told you at all that there was some dude
on the logo.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
None of us, right, Yeah, it's not like he was
a beloved character that meant so much to our childhoods.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
None of us could have told you.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh, there's a guy removing this statue of Lincoln because
he wasn't woken off right.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
All right, we'd all said, all said when we heard
it first. But there's a guy, I'm a logo I
don't know. I've never looked at the logo. It's just
kind of a hard to even tell what it was.
Something there next to the name Cracker bear right, yeah, money,
and it got turned into the you're taking called Jesse
or Harold or whatever his name is off a logo
how dare you?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And well how it evolved is interesting, and you know,
I haven't spent a lot of time on it, but
the perception that it was some sort of woke, politically
correct thing, that they were remodeling the Cracker barrels and
changing the look of the restaurants and you know, the
logo and stuff, and I'm not sure that it was.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I'm not sure it was either. In fact, I think
it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But but there's something going on there that's worth thinking about.
Is it that every other damn institution has fallen, you know,
to the woke acts a little or a lot, and
people are just now a traditional, you know, patriotic Middle
America America is saying no, no, some slick new woman's
(28:45):
ceo is not going to change our beloved Cracker barrel.
It must be more of the woke crap.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
My brother, with his endless jokes about how racist cracker
barrel is. We're playing the little triangle game. Yep, that's
what we used to do while the slaves were in
the field, play this little triangle game. What because it's
also stupid? Yes, okay, we will finish strong next time,
(29:13):
arm strong.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Hey, a dive team trying to solve a cold case
about a missing couple found a whopping ninety.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Seven cars in the Chicago River.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Yeah, they're now trying to identify the ninety seven female drivers.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I gotta admit I kind of like the way Guttfeldt
bates his audience into yelling at him grown No, No,
that's terrible, you d it. Wow. You know we should
have redone the story about the nation's report card that
came out today and how our seniors can't read or
(30:04):
do math, and it's worse. It keeps getting worse, down
ten points since nineteen ninety two in terms of proficiency
for reading. I think it was, but that's just stunning.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
COVID accelerated the decline, but it was declining before and
has continued to decline after.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I mean, look at the chart, and it doesn't look
like it didn't. Wasn't that far out of where we
were at it anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Nope, And everybody knows why. Anybody who's paying attention knows why.
But people aren't willing to do anything about it. We
talked about that at fair length our two of the
show is that right, Yeah, our two. If you missed it,
subscribe you ought to subscribe to Armstrong and getting on demand.
It included a discussion of let's see where is that.
(30:52):
I think I may have closed the window already. Oh no,
there is absolutely brilliant work done by the economist Roland
Fryar literally came up with formula to turn around failing schools,
implemented it, and it was stunningly successful public schools in Houston.
It took a lot of getting rid of administrators and
teachers who were just union hacks, but it worked beautifully
(31:15):
and successfully, and nobody has any interest in it because
schools are now a jobs program. They're not an educational
institution anymore. They're a jobs program.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I want to touch on this before we get done.
Trump met with some of his European counterparts yesterday to
discuss the whole Russia Ukraine thing, and, according to reporting
from someone who was in the meeting and spoke on
condition of anonymity said that Trump is willing to exert
significant actions to end the war, but expects full cooperation
(31:48):
from the European partners in whatever actions are taken. The
meeting was only two hours long. Need for collective action
and whatever is determined on sanctions and how to manage
blah blah. But Trump seems to be all in as
long as you guys are doing it too, not buying oil.
You're gonna have the tariffs like we are. We're all
gonna stick with this. I'm in. That's what this reporting is.
(32:10):
So that is not unreasonable. No, it's not absolutely not,
But man, the heavy hammer of economic samption sanctions might
be coming down soon. Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna call him out.
Is messed up. He's gonna call him out if they
don't stick with it too and not let him slide
back during when we'd put these heavy sanctions on SAT
(32:31):
and was saying before we went in, France would be
behind the back doing all kinds of stuff with a RAQ.
You're so called friend. That's why I call him freedom Fries.
You know that's reasonable. I uh.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I had a conversation the other day with a friend
who we were talking about a mutual friend who speaks
pretty fluent French, and he really enjoyed being in France.
And we are talking the inevitable conversation about how Americans,
most of us are mono lingual and it's a shame.
And you know, look at the Europeans. They know multiple languages.
(33:06):
It's because they have to. And honestly, if Euros lived
in a giant, prosperous country that was surrounded by gigantic oceans,
you know, on both sides, they wouldn't know any languages either. Now,
and you know, it's true, because it's kind of cool
and fun to be able to speak multiple languages. But
the upsides of the Atlantic in the Pacific keeping all
(33:29):
those people away from us dwarf the downsides by about
fifty thousand to one.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
All Right, that whole you know, multiple languages, good for you.
I mean, it's necessity, the fact that it's an immediate
sign of sophistication and intelligence.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Whatever, Go away, admit me chorus to this history, Yes, prologue,
like your humble patients, prey gently to hear, kindly, to
judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Add some class craft there, here's your host for final thoughts,
Joe getting look at. A final thought from everybody on
the crew.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
To wrap up the show, Michael Angelow, our technical director,
will lead the way.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Michael, what's your final thoughts? Okay, if I'm the dad
of that kid with the baseball, I go out and
I start taking up martial arts training. I buy a
big truck. I uh, I fight somebody just to make
myself look like and look like a man.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Borrow some balls from somebody. Yes, a good plan. Katie
Green is off. She will be back soon, and we
can't wake Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
A final thought for us, I don't think Apple's announcing
any new products today, but updates to their old products,
including a new lighter iPhone, because we all had been
struggling to hold our iPhones in our hands well sound.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That was most of my back problems. The weight of
the iPhone just crank my spine out of out of shape.
My final thought is I will be going through the
emails about the infamous Philly Karen Lady and the dad
who gave the ball up and collecting your points of view,
and we will share them with you tomorrow on the program.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I'm curious to see which way the sentiments run. I
like the memes where she's gollam with her precious baseball.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You know, I gotta tweet what the Savannah Bananas did.
They did a skit mocking the whole thing. It is
laugh out loud funny. Oh that's great. I'm strong in
Getty wrapping. I'bout other grueling four hour workday. So many
people think so little time good Armstrong and getdy dot com.
Follow us on Twitter slash act. You don't have to
look at the rest of the crap.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
It will depress you, no kidding. See tomorrow. God bless America.
I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
We jam so much changed day edish well they Armstrong,
get issue.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Francis government goes into plastral bombo. We try to the
Epstein story because come on, didn't know they are out
of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
That really is par.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
She stole the show. Five proced pronounce today. We'll show
open the man my pronus today. Do it from Walt
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