May 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- the future of weight loss drugs & their use...
- The Big Beautiful Bill is not beautiful...
- A groom ditches his wedding...
- More insight on the Big Biden Cover-up...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and Gatty,
and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Chapotle has announced that it plans to open a restaurant
in Mexico next year. Meanwhile, the Olive Garden in Italy
was just burned to the ground.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Is snata Basta?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mentioned taking my son to Kentucky Fried Chicken and
how incredibly expensive it was the other night, and we
have had some stuff on people pulling back on those
kind of purchases as combination of inflation and people maxing
out credit cards and consumer confidence and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I was shocked. It's not cheap. Yeah, yeah, it's it
is shocking.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I was just thinking about my experience of Olive Garden
is almost entirely through pop culture. I think I've eaten
at them twice, but twenty five years ago was the most.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Recent trip I made.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Probably I don't know, quite a few times at the OG,
but not not for decades.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So yeah, I could be way off in what it's like. Well,
in my memory of it is it was like Arby's
undeserving of the never ending mockery. That was perfectly fine.
I mean it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Wasn't like authentic Italian fair like you were in Tuscany.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, if you were expecting that, you're an idiot exactly.
That's what I'm thinking. It's good enough grub.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
If you're looking to get obese for a reasonable amount
of money, they'll serve you three thousand calories and pretend
it's just one meal.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
If you're looking to get obese for a reasonable amount
of money.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's what we usually are doing back.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, honestly, yeah, Oh that's you know, why didn't I
save this?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was reading over.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The weekend about how the GP one drugs whatever, the
brand new weight loss drugs everybody's talking about how Munjaro
and zep bound uh. But they're they're going to be
more and more and more in common as they turn
out to be like good for all sorts of different
(02:27):
conditions really anything related to weight obviously, from sleep apnea
to cancer, to heart disease to just a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wow. Also some surprising things.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Seem to be responding to it because because they reduce inflammation.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, viager it was a blood pressure medicine, so that's
you know, these are the way things can work with
these medicines.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But that would be something.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So it's all about whether the insurance company covers it, right,
because it's pretty damned expensive. But if the insurance company
thinks I gotta buy your seapack machine and treat your
for sleep apnear or replace a knee or whatever, it is,
all the different things that could cost or I can
pay for this drug.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I wonder if I wonder if like it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It's actually a lovely little listicle. You're right, because all
of the thing's directly affected by weight, including a joint replacement.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I wonder if like eighty percent of us are going
to be on you know, some dosage of that soon. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well I got fat as hell over the weekend by
my standards. Yes, so nice job I was. I was
really particularly receptive to that article. Yeah, just ate like
a hog back. I got on the scale yesterday. I
was like, wait, what.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's what's always funny to me is when there's the
it's like spending. It's like when I feel like I've
been buying a lot lately, then you look at your
credit card bill.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Nah, there's a cost effect. The same thing with the weight.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's like, you know, I like I I often feel
like I'm slipping it past my body, or like sneaking
it in there and my body won't notice, or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's all hilarious the way the mind does that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like, you know, it's late at night, maybe my body
didn't notice me eat that or something.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But then you get on a scale, think, yeah, I
crap all week and guess what I'm up a couple
of pounds.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Are you watching me eat a slice of lemon merangue
pie at eleven o'clock at night Saturday night?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Nice job, lemon meringue. Yes, my love, lemon coming up.
Woman gets married.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
At the reception, everybody's saying, jeez, where's your uh, where's
your new husband?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He takes off. Wow, she doesn't see him for months.
Good stories?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Wow, Wow, this is not a good story. Can I
just say it out loud? The big beautiful bill is terrible.
It's it's a it's a I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Know, it's a horrible, horrendous.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You apparently did not watch Mike Johnson Speaker of the
House on whichever show I was watching.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Oh, it was a.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Shannon Breem on Fox First She had ran Paul on
bad Mouth and the bill and saying this is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Then she had Mike Johnson on the Speaker of the
House saying, look, Rand and I are both fiscal conservatives.
This is good for the country. I'm a fyscal conservative
to my bones, said Mike Johnson.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I thought, Doki, I.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Will absolutely grant him, because he is a skilled cat herder.
To get this passed at all was quite the act
of of you know, legislative whatever he does. But it's
it's it's a horror. Oh that's right. I was gonna
I will grant him that this is as good as
he can get. Yes, is as good as the fiscal
conservatives can get.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I think that's what he was leaving out of the conversation.
It would be I am a physcal conservative to my bones.
This is fiscally as conservative a thing we can get through.
And I hate it, but it's the best we can do.
So what would you like?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I just I think it's important for the American people,
including ourselves, to recognize whether it is raining or our
legs are being peed upon, which is back to the
freak off. Really, too many references to that sort of
thing in a single show today, if you've been listening
the whole show, and I apologize.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I really really do.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
It shouldn't come up once an hour, But understand whether
what Mike Johnson said, and he's still in the sales
part of the sales process because the Senate's going to
weigh in with their version of it, then the real
work begins. And so I get why he would say
what he's saying, but I don't want anybody to believe it.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well, Ramza know there are at least a couple of
no's and they can only lose two or three. I
think corninsa known in Texas, and so then it goes
back to the house. Whatever do they take out of it? Well,
I know you're about to get into the details. But
one thing that happens in all these bills that they
pointed out on the I think the National Review podcast
the other day, they always put the spending is always
(07:00):
the beginning. The paying for it is always like ten
years later, and that part never happens. The rice gets
changed by a different you know, the Congress or president
right right, And there's plenty to say about this, the
fiscal incontinence I'm gonna quote Gerard Baker now from Wall
Street Journal that will see the addition of three trillion
(07:20):
dollars to the government's thirty six trillion dollars in the
next ten years.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It grows the deficit.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The failure to produce anything more than a cosmetic reversal
of the spending extravaganza over the past five years, with
cuts of less than two percent of the projected outlays
over the next decade. He also mentions there's the recomplexification
of the tax code that the twenty seventeen Tax Cut
(07:45):
Act had admirably simplified. There's a smorgas board of new
deductions and exemptions that in the quadrupling of the state
and local tax deduction, the infamoussault deduction absolutely terrible and
like the one of the most egregious parts to me.
And I'm not going to drawn on on about this
(08:06):
because it's not in its final form yet. I just
want people to know is that the very very modest
cuts to Medicare, and remember Medicare is the one that
was supposed to be for the very poorest and most
needy Americans, that disabled, the blind, the extremely poor, poverty
stricken woman and her baby. It now covers like forty
(08:29):
percent of Americans, including millions of able bodied young men
who just don't want to work. I mean, it's it's
it's a it's giveaways to freeloader, lazy bastards, lazy bad lbs. Anyway,
the cuts, the incredibly modest cuts to it phase in
in like the year twenty thirty or something like that,
(08:49):
what at twenty twenty eight, maybe three years from now,
and those will be rescinded.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It won't happen the.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Best the Republican Party, with both houses in the White
House can do.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
God help us. And these bills.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Always, if there is any savings, you have to pay
attention because the spending happens immediately. The cutting happens at
the end. And as we've pointed out, the cutting always
gets cut by the time you get there by a
different president or Congress.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Right right.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
So that's enough of that, But I want to hit
you this go ahead on that topic, because I got
Rand boiled this down pretty simply. He said that this
should be said. All the time, we take in about
five trillion a year, we spend seven trillion a year.
You can't keep that up. That's one sentence that should
(09:39):
be said every day, all day.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, I agree, one hundred percent, But I feel like
I'm standing there telling my neighbor, Hey, if you drive
a nail into your hand, it's really gonna hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Whatnot.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
And he's now driven seventeen nails into his hands, feet,
and arms and legs, and he's got another one out.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What am I gonna say? He don't drive that nail
into your hand. It's really going to hurt.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
We can't spend more than we're taking in Lai da,
I just please. The world has gone mad. The most
basic realities are no longer discussed. I'm done good, I
am too. I thought this was speaking of and of
speaking of the Wall Street Journal. Do we have time
(10:25):
for this? We really don't, Andy Kessler. He's talking about
how ridiculous the FAA's technology is.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We've been talking about that, and everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Fum discs, they're exactly and their plan to fix it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And I love this.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The FAA has been working on a modernized next gen
air traffic control system conceived in two thousand and three
that's set out to roll out.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Set the rollout in twenty twenty five. Oops.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Check that twenty thirty, but really more like twenty forty.
And then he describes how the FAA tracks and manages
more than forty five thousand flights every day, almost three
million passengers every day, with analog two D strips of paper.
And the exciting new update is gonna like turn those
(11:14):
strips of paper into essentially a strip of paper on
a video screen, right, and that's like the big update. Well,
he points out almost all commercial and many private planes
already broadcast their GPS location, direction and speed via something
called Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast ad ADSB.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why not harness that data? This is? This is so cool.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I recently saw a video of a passenger playing the
three D multiplayer video game Fortnite on a Qatar Airways
jet equipped with starlink. That's better technology than pilots or
controllers have.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Maybe that's the solution.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Retrofit these three D worlds with live GPS data to
track aircraft with realistic visuals.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
How big a job is this?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And they go into how the FAA system outage grounded
more than eleven thousand US flights the other day. Fortnite's
Battle Royale typically has around one hundred and seventy thousand
concurrent players with a peak of around three million people
playing at once. Running on Amazon Web services, it can
handle ninety two million events a minute. Beyond flight details,
(12:21):
it could track every passenger's drink order. You would have
a three D world of where every plane is at
every second digitally, and just hire some tech bros. Have
Elon Musk headed up because to get tech bros, they
got to be excited about it.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They're not going to sign up for government drudgery.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I bet with the right data feed, the doge bros
could track every US flight in three dimensions and in
living color this year and with weather.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You're right, You're right. That's funny.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
When you compare it to the technology of Fortnite or
a Nintendo switch, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, And it's going to take somebody who just doesn't
give a crap about what is And that's Trump's greatest strength.
He's like, I don't care if this has been going
on for thirty years, it's stupid. We're changing it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Maybe the only thing worse than being left at the
altar would be being left right after the altar.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Weird development than that marriage. Stay tuned, Hetty President Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
He is keeping the pressure up on Apple, warning that
they'll get hit with twenty five percent tariffs if they
don't make the iPhone here in the US, something that
analysts say is unrealistic.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I I'm not going to talk about this. This is uh.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I just played that so I could mention. I don't
know where we are on tariffs now. I saw some
of the headlines. We're off for four days over he
had punted for another couple of months, some tariffs that
I'm not paying any attention.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So, yeah, I don't know. If you run a business,
how you plan. That's got to be difficult. Yeah, it's
really tough.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So back when we used to do this kind of
talk radio show, we would do topics like, you know,
did you get married and want to pull the plug?
Or did you pull the plug right at the altar?
That that sort of thing. When do you pull the
plug if you think it's a bad idea, probably sooner the.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Better, yes, But if you know it's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's the problem, do you know, versus just the cold
feet that can happen with you know, do I really
want to take this job? I mean it's got all
the positives, but on you know, just you know, the
doubt that that can sink in buying a car.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
First big fight. I knew this was a mistake. No,
it's not. You're both human. You had to fight. It's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So and I've known a few people that got divorced
that knew when they're getting married it was a bad
idea and still did it because you just get on
the momentum train. And once the tuxes are rented in,
the honeymoon's booked, and Uncle Ed's flying in from Florida,
that's a hard time to pull the plug. But god,
it's easier than later, trust me. But this one had
(15:14):
I don't think i'd ever heard this one. Before they
get married, they've been dating for six years, because that
was going to be your first question. That was one
of my first questions, like how long did you know
you they'd been dating for six years. Everything was great,
They get married, ceremony is good, they do the pictures.
That goes really good. He's in a really good mood.
They do all the photos. Then she doesn't see him again,
(15:38):
like he doesn't do the dance part or the meal part,
and everybody's asking where he is, and it becomes really weird,
really really fast. She didn't hear from him four months now.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
During the wedding day slash night, she had to be
panic stricken. Did he have a heart attack and he's
lying dead in the bushes? Was he abducted?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
She doesn't say that. But anyway, everything was going good,
you know, yeah, you would. I don't know what I
would think. I think I would first thought would be
they freaked out, But I don't know, just maybe because
I've done so many of these stories in my life,
radio stories.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Are you nnoft? To quote the great old brother? Where
aren't they.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Run off? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Anyway, she found out a couple of months later, and
I wish there were more details of this story. He
just disappeared and had to cancel the honeymoon, very embarrassing.
Family and friends kept asking where the husband was. She
just kept saying, I don't know, not here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's really the operative answer.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Turns out he yet another chick. Oh he went that
far through it, past the pictures. He didn't even pull
the plug prior to the pictures until after the photos.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Before he decided, Nah, I like the other one better.
What the hell? Yeah, that's some weird.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I'd hate to awe fair in love and war, except that,
oh it's not fair.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
God, the emotional turmoil of that on both ends, but
even his end, like what dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
My god, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So I haven't heard this yet, this is a uh.
They took a moment before a w NBA game the
other night.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Thank you guys for taking a.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Minute to honor the life and George Floyd. George was
a father, a brother, and his son, and his life,
like every life called meeting, his dead exposed the holes
that are son our justice in criminal institutions today, and
his five year anniversary reminds us of every one that
gets criminal, racial, and social injustices.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
All Right, take a moment to honor the death of
George Floyd, father, husband, son, lifelong criminal, drug addicts who
fought the cops. I mean, you don't get to kill
a guy for that, don't get to kneel on his
neck and kill him.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But it just seems like an odd choice to me.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah, and we know drug induced whatever it is, delirium
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You're right, that was part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, I know, the turning him into a hero and
building statues and like memorial walls and.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
God, I saw a list. I gotta dig that up.
I have it on my phone somewhere over the weekend.
It had to do with the why we don't believe
median narratives anymore? But that had a list of them,
hands up, don't shoot. Never happened. Yeah, Trump colluding Withrussia
never happened. There was a list of them. Yeah, And
(19:04):
it was like, yeah, when.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You're reminded by looking at the actual list, because these
things fade from our memory.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, how did the media's trust level get so low? Yeah,
it's obvious.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh and an earlier Fox we haven't talked about this today,
the whole Jake Tapper book, and he's done a bunch
of more interviews, and that topic continues of the.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Media cover up.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's kind of shifted more toward the amazing White House
that we were living with that the media should have
told us about, where you had like five people controlling
everything in the White House.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And the President wasn't one of them. That's the key.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Well, as one of the sources told Alec Thompson on
Shannon Breems Show Sunday, he was like one of the
five or six that were running the White House when
he was capable.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
And one of the people told Alec Thompson, he's the
other one that wrote the book, not Jake. Tapper told
him that, look, the only thing worse than this is
Trump being president. They justified their actions with the idea
that if they didn't protect Biden, Biden would lose and
Trump would end up president.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, I remember one of the sources said he was
like a senior member of the Board of Directors Biden was.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
He wasn't the CEO, he wasn't the CFO or the COO.
He was like an important member of the board.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So you have cabinet, a cabinet at least one cabinet
member that told Tapper and Thompson that they didn't think
Biden was up for a two am emergency. Sure, many
days you can't justify that with you think Trump is hitler.
You can't have a president of the United States. And
(21:01):
by the way, if Biden, if you had twenty fifth Amendment, Biden,
Trump doesn't become president, Kamala becomes president. But maybe he
thought Kamala is worse at two am. So that's where
it gets scary. They thought, we're better off controlling this
ourselves than having Biden stepped down and Kamala airsby president.
So now you're just usurping power. It's practically a coup.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah. I was just gonna say, the only saving grace
that these people had is that something truly horrific didn't happen,
because if that were laid bare, that they thought, hey,
we're the president's advisors. Now the president isn't around. Look,
we'll just advise each other and we'll run the show.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I meant to grab this audio because some of the
stuff Alec Thompson said was horrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm still reading the book.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I gotta make my way through to it, and I
will say, even with everything we know, there are revelations
on practically each page that are interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It's an interesting book.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But Alec Thompson said, one of those advisors told him, hey,
because he pushed back on the idea that you.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Guys are running, we're running the White House.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
When people thought Joe Biden, in one of the the
pullet Bewer Bureau they call him in the book, the
Five running the White House, said well, when you vote
for a president, you're voting for his advisors. Everybody knows
that that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Is not true. Well, that is true, but it's all right.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
He's gonna have advice that he listens to and then
makes his own decisions. If the guy's brain doesn't work,
he's not making the decisions based on input from his advisors.
You were making the decisions. We didn't vote for that, right,
That's well, that's how you end up in really bad places,
(22:46):
you know. Can you Andrew imagine if China had moved
on Taiwan on one of the days where Biden's standing
around with his mouth hanging open, and Jake Sullivan and well, Jake,
I don't think Jake Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I don't even know if he's one of the five.
You know, yeah, I thought, well, you read the book.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
He was listed in the description I saw with with
blancoln But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
If it's Zince science science, then you got and I'm
not good with these names. Off the top of my head,
it'll pop into my head, the other guy, and then
missus Biden, doctor Jill's guy who's turned out to be
quite evil.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But those people, those people.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Were going to decide how we respond to China invading
Taiwan because Biden's standing there with his mouth hanging open.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's horrifying. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
So Andrew Styles in the Free Beacon, who's just great,
what a great writer he is that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
If you know, he's I want to be him when
I grew up.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
He digs into the whole the media, saying, in fact,
his theme is trying to claim at this point that
you were just fooled by the clever.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Dishonest White House the media.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Look at how they fooled us with their lying and
the rest of it, and it does mention, as you
pointed out last week, whenever it is is that.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Their defense is that while we were.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
To I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought, but
the idea that yeah, we had, we didn't have the
inside sources, we couldn't tell, and they lied to us.
Our sources lied to us, and that's our defense. Well,
Styles digs into that. Meanwhile, the reporters who failed to
expose the scandal when the stakes were higher are generally
portrayed as sympathetic, well meaning professionals with poor bull s detectors.
(24:45):
Many reporters took the White House denials at face value.
The author's right and Styles, and finally getting to what
needs to be said or asked, says, yeah, we know,
but why our journalists just lazy and competent? Was there
some other? So many of them were willing to parrot
democratic talking points that defied credulity and Alex Thompson explained
(25:08):
while promoting the book that even the people orchestrating the
cover up were shocked at how easy it was to
manipulate the self appointed guardians of democracy. We are sort
of amazed at some of the stuff we were able
to spend reporters on this source said, you guys should
not have believed us so easily.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But that quote is not in the book, right.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
They're saying that now, and Styles writes that should have
been the opening line in the book.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Correct. Correct, the book is about the media. It just
doesn't know that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
That's a good point. Over the weekend, Jake Tapper told
British guy, popped out of my head. It'll pop back
into my head. Yeah, Piers Morgan, here's Morgan. He told
Piers Morgan. He thinks this is bigger than Watergate. Of
course he's selling a book puts more money in his pocket.
If you believe it's bigger than Watergate, So you think
it's bigger than Watergate. It was going on while you
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had connections that could let you know this was happening,
and you kept it a secret.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Now Woodward and Bernstein in this situation were denying that
there was a break in, right, and that Nixon had
anything to do with it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
So it was driving me crazy.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yesterday I was listening to the Dispatch podcast, which I
really like, and Jonah Goldberg was making an argument I've
seen some places.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Look, you don't get to have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
You can't say everybody knew and the media is all powerful.
So the all powerful media was not telling us this
yet everybody figured it out, and two thirds of Americans
you don't get.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
To have it. And I think that's a crazy way
to look at this.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's insane. No, it's it's you're making your own case.
Two thirds of Americans knew what was actually going on,
while the media told them they were wrong. You don't
think that's a big story, right, that's a huge story.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Well, who claimed that the media is all powerful? They
have a large influence. But it was a straw man.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, what's you Well, I don't know what's your argument
on the other side, So we shouldn't have a media.
You're in the media. You don't think it matters what
the media says. Is that what you're just saying telling me, well.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
That's an idiotic argument by a really bright guy. Jonas
lost his mind. Okay, so you've got I don't know,
roughly a third of America that did believe the media.
Those poll numbers you're talking about, No, and he said
nobody believed that. No, the numbers are known. You don't
have to characterize them. That broadly, roughly two thirds of
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America America thought he no longer had the mental capacity.
About eighty percent thought he was too old, whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But anyway, so.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
There were twenty to thirty percent who believed the media,
then there is probably twenty percent that had the gut
feeling that something was wrong. But well, Scott Pelley and
all these other media people and Jake Tapper telling me
that it is okay, So I guess it's okay.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
So right, so those numbers could have been driven up
to what kind of reminds me of Watergate. Is a
guy who's ridden read a lot about Watergate even though
it happened while I was alive.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was a little kid.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
The poll numbers for Nixon were pretty strong up to
the end, when then it just become became completely outed.
They found out about the taping system and they're erasing
the tapes and everything like that. It's because woodwork and
the damning stayed on it. So yeah, in the dam burst.
So this is what would have happened. If the media
pursued this at all, it would have gone from two
thirds of America thinking he's told to be president to
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everybody thinking he had to step down now, which would
be one of the biggest stories in our nation's history.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You don't think that's worth pursuing, or.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You don't think the media should be ashamed of itself
because they didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's a weak ass argument.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah, if the media hadn't been doing that, Jonah, the
sentiment that Biden had to go now would have gone
from follow me now underwhelming to overwhelming.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Not all or nothing as he was phrasing it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
It's the biggest failure of media in our nation's history,
without a doubt, and they and they deserve a tremendous
amount of blame and they'll be paying the price for it. Well,
for the rest of my life for longer.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I haven't gotten into much of the how afraid everybody
was of Jill Biden. Yeah, and Anthony Bernall Bernal, one
person of the book, described as the worst person they
had ever met.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, So I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
So they had Jake Tapper had a quote in there
from Joe Biden saying at one point, and I remember
us covering this, Joe Biden saying, this is my word
is a Biden one rule we got around here. I
hear anybody talk down to anybody, yell at anybody, bad
mouth anybody, They're gone.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Now we do not allow that in the White House.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
So Jake Tapper's got that quote in the book, along
with the information that Bernal, who is doctor Jill's guy,
would scream it people all the time and everybody hated him.
Multiple people said he was the worst person they ever met.
Don't let him come to my funeral, that sort of stuff,
because he was so mean to them. Well, Joe Biden saying,
if anybody talks down to anybody other than you know,
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my wife's guy, who yells at everybody, to keep this
all a secret. Wow, they are one of the more
corrupt off the rails administrations in our entire country's history. Now,
I'm not sure how many people are waking up to
that yet.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
And then finally, Styles mentions another motivating factor was the
general agreement among party elites that Kamala Harris, the most
likely alternative, was even less capable than a walking corpse.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I hate the term perfect storm, but you do have
a lot of elements coming together. The hatred of Trump,
the lack of trust in Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, all at the same time. Okay, we'll finish strong. Next,
let us.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Rededicate ourselves to God and country, to our great republic
two hundred and forty nine years on. We stand on
the shoulders of great men, and on the shoulders of
those great men in those graves, and may we live
worthy of it.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
The families who have lost a son, a daughter, a husband,
or a wife. To every child here who misses your
dad or your mom, know that your loved one to
us is a hero.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
They gave everything and we owe them everything and much
much more.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That was uh sec def Hegzeth, followed by Marine jd
Vance and bone spurs.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Trump. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. Wow, I couldn't know. Wow,
who is that for?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Anyway, there's some beautiful words though spoken there at the
Tomb of the Unknown. Yeah, in Washington, d C. It's fabulous.
So this almost sounds like an opening to a joke.
But Geene Simmons and Kiss of Kiss and a one
hundred year old World War Two veteran walk into a bar.
They didn't actually walk into a bar. They were together
at an event in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
What's that list again?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Gene Simmons of Kiss and a one hundred year old
World War two veteran. Wow, And the reason they were
together is that Hal Urban, wearing the same dress wool
jacket that he wore after liberating a concentration camp eighty
years ago, met Gene Simmons who wanted to thank him
(32:32):
because Gene Simmons' mom was liberated from that concentration camp.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wow, did not know that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
And the famous rocker who is actually a brilliant and
very brilliant thoughtful guy. Not thoughtful like he'll give you
flowers on your birthday, but he thinks a lot. He
said to the guy and thanking him, I would not exist,
my children would not exist, millions of people would not
(33:01):
exist except for the heroism of the troops who defeated
the Nazis and liberated the camps.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And we had quite zero chance of rock and rolling
all night and partying all day.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well right, every day.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
But his mother was in the concentration camp as from
age fourteen to nineteen.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yeah, yeah, it was really quite a beautiful thing, nice event.
This guy was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge
and still bleeding occasionally from his shrapnel wound when he
went back to work in battle manning a fifty caliber
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machine gun.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I got something good to say on that, but we
don't have time. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
As I mentioned earlier, my son and the boy Scouts.
He and his Scout troop planted little flags at the
cemetery yesterday before the big Memorial Day ceremony. Did they
do every Memorial Day? I get Yes, I had never
been before with a band and singers and speeches and stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
It was really good.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, this guy's gonna be one hundred and one in July.
He still has nightmares about the things he saw liberating
in the concentration camps.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Chick Kiss, Tom Sta, Jack and Joe live God go.
And if they don't give candalpbacks in.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
My for an overused expression, and I gotta believe that
guy did not have on his bagical card hanging out
with Gene Simmons of Kiss in nineteen seventy seven. You
know my final thought, I'm gonna lead It was actually
he said, he's the one who sticks his tongue out,
not really my music. I like bing Crosby and Laurisville
(34:44):
as you should, sir. Let's get a final thought from
everybody on the crew. Let's begin with Michael Angelo. Michael
final thought.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
You know, the most troubling thing that I thought of
today was the only fans women that are now texting
guys that are watching him.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I just thought that's gonna be a relationship killer. Oh yeah, yeah,
the few that remained. Katie Green is off this week.
Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I was just watching a video of my brother in
his military fatigues. My brother, who served in a couple
of wars, him and another guy tasing each other to
see what would feel like.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So it wasn't part of training. This was just the
having fun.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
This is freelance dasy, Yes exactly. Wow, Wow, Wow, I've
already given my my final thought. But you know, thanks
to the veterans, and God blessed the families of those
who've lost in wars throughout I never did tell about
my great.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Visit to the fort. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Oh cool, Armstrong and getdy. Wrapping up another grueling four
hour workday.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Like to do something historical every Memorial Day weekend. So
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Speaker 3 (36:00):
Did something historical. I did something hysterical. Me attempting to
grill on Memorial Day did not go well.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
See tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and gatchy. It's Oliver.
We need to adapt our approach. Who do gissy. I
hope you'll stand up and stop this madness. You kind
of damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
My point was mad.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
That's the Also, there's a hole in the sky where
a tree you once stood. Somebody's making money on your
feet there.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Your time has expired. They very much armstrong and getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Chapotle has announced that it plans to open a restaurant
in Mexico next year. Meanwhile, the Olive Garden in Italy
was just burned to the ground.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Is snata Basta?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mentioned taking my son to Kentucky Fried Chicken and
how incredibly expensive it was the other night, and we
have had some stuff on people pulling back on those
kind of purchases as combination of inflation and people maxing
out credit cards and consumer confidence and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I was shocked. It's not cheap. Yeah, yeah, it's it
is shocking.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I was just thinking about my experience of Olive Garden
is almost entirely through pop culture. I think I've eaten
at them twice, but twenty five years ago was the most.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Recent trip I made.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Probably I don't know, quite a few times at the OG,
but not not for decades.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So yeah, I could be way off in what it's like. Well,
in my memory of it is it was like Arby's
undeserving of the never ending mockery. That was perfectly fine.
I mean it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Wasn't like authentic Italian fair like you were in Tuscany.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, if you were expecting that, you're an idiot exactly.
That's what I'm thinking. It's good enough grub.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
If you're looking to get obese for a reasonable amount
of money, they'll serve you three thousand calories and pretend
it's just one meal.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
If you're looking to get obese for a reasonable amount
of money.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's what we usually are doing back.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, honestly, yeah, Oh that's you know, why didn't I
save this?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was reading over.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The weekend about how the GP one drugs whatever, the
brand new weight loss drugs everybody's talking about how Munjaro
and zep bound uh. But they're they're going to be
more and more and more in common as they turn
out to be like good for all sorts of different
(02:27):
conditions really anything related to weight obviously, from sleep apnea
to cancer, to heart disease to just a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wow. Also some surprising things.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Seem to be responding to it because because they reduce inflammation.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, viager it was a blood pressure medicine, so that's
you know, these are the way things can work with
these medicines.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But that would be something.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So it's all about whether the insurance company covers it, right,
because it's pretty damned expensive. But if the insurance company
thinks I gotta buy your seapack machine and treat your
for sleep apnear or replace a knee or whatever, it is,
all the different things that could cost or I can
pay for this drug.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I wonder if I wonder if like it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It's actually a lovely little listicle. You're right, because all
of the thing's directly affected by weight, including a joint replacement.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I wonder if like eighty percent of us are going
to be on you know, some dosage of that soon. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well I got fat as hell over the weekend by
my standards. Yes, so nice job I was. I was
really particularly receptive to that article. Yeah, just ate like
a hog back. I got on the scale yesterday. I
was like, wait, what.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's what's always funny to me is when there's the
it's like spending. It's like when I feel like I've
been buying a lot lately, then you look at your
credit card bill.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Nah, there's a cost effect. The same thing with the weight.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's like, you know, I like I I often feel
like I'm slipping it past my body, or like sneaking
it in there and my body won't notice, or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's all hilarious the way the mind does that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like, you know, it's late at night, maybe my body
didn't notice me eat that or something.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But then you get on a scale, think, yeah, I
crap all week and guess what I'm up a couple
of pounds.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Are you watching me eat a slice of lemon merangue
pie at eleven o'clock at night Saturday night?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Nice job, lemon meringue. Yes, my love, lemon coming up.
Woman gets married.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
At the reception, everybody's saying, jeez, where's your uh, where's
your new husband?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He takes off. Wow, she doesn't see him for months.
Good stories?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Wow, Wow, this is not a good story. Can I
just say it out loud? The big beautiful bill is terrible.
It's it's a it's a I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Know, it's a horrible, horrendous.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You apparently did not watch Mike Johnson Speaker of the
House on whichever show I was watching.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Oh, it was a.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Shannon Breem on Fox First She had ran Paul on
bad Mouth and the bill and saying this is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Then she had Mike Johnson on the Speaker of the
House saying, look, Rand and I are both fiscal conservatives.
This is good for the country. I'm a fyscal conservative
to my bones, said Mike Johnson.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I thought, Doki, I.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Will absolutely grant him, because he is a skilled cat herder.
To get this passed at all was quite the act
of of you know, legislative whatever he does. But it's
it's it's a horror. Oh that's right. I was gonna
I will grant him that this is as good as
he can get. Yes, is as good as the fiscal
conservatives can get.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I think that's what he was leaving out of the conversation.
It would be I am a physcal conservative to my bones.
This is fiscally as conservative a thing we can get through.
And I hate it, but it's the best we can do.
So what would you like?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I just I think it's important for the American people,
including ourselves, to recognize whether it is raining or our
legs are being peed upon, which is back to the
freak off. Really, too many references to that sort of
thing in a single show today, if you've been listening
the whole show, and I apologize.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I really really do.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
It shouldn't come up once an hour, But understand whether
what Mike Johnson said, and he's still in the sales
part of the sales process because the Senate's going to
weigh in with their version of it, then the real
work begins. And so I get why he would say
what he's saying, but I don't want anybody to believe it.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well, Ramza know there are at least a couple of
no's and they can only lose two or three. I
think corninsa known in Texas, and so then it goes
back to the house. Whatever do they take out of it? Well,
I know you're about to get into the details. But
one thing that happens in all these bills that they
pointed out on the I think the National Review podcast
the other day, they always put the spending is always
(07:00):
the beginning. The paying for it is always like ten
years later, and that part never happens. The rice gets
changed by a different you know, the Congress or president
right right, And there's plenty to say about this, the
fiscal incontinence I'm gonna quote Gerard Baker now from Wall
Street Journal that will see the addition of three trillion
(07:20):
dollars to the government's thirty six trillion dollars in the
next ten years.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It grows the deficit.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The failure to produce anything more than a cosmetic reversal
of the spending extravaganza over the past five years, with
cuts of less than two percent of the projected outlays
over the next decade. He also mentions there's the recomplexification
of the tax code that the twenty seventeen Tax Cut
(07:45):
Act had admirably simplified. There's a smorgas board of new
deductions and exemptions that in the quadrupling of the state
and local tax deduction, the infamoussault deduction absolutely terrible and
like the one of the most egregious parts to me.
And I'm not going to drawn on on about this
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because it's not in its final form yet. I just
want people to know is that the very very modest
cuts to Medicare, and remember Medicare is the one that
was supposed to be for the very poorest and most
needy Americans, that disabled, the blind, the extremely poor, poverty
stricken woman and her baby. It now covers like forty
(08:29):
percent of Americans, including millions of able bodied young men
who just don't want to work. I mean, it's it's
it's a it's giveaways to freeloader, lazy bastards, lazy bad lbs. Anyway,
the cuts, the incredibly modest cuts to it phase in
in like the year twenty thirty or something like that,
(08:49):
what at twenty twenty eight, maybe three years from now,
and those will be rescinded.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It won't happen the.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Best the Republican Party, with both houses in the White
House can do.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
God help us. And these bills.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Always, if there is any savings, you have to pay
attention because the spending happens immediately. The cutting happens at
the end. And as we've pointed out, the cutting always
gets cut by the time you get there by a
different president or Congress.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Right right.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
So that's enough of that, But I want to hit
you this go ahead on that topic, because I got
Rand boiled this down pretty simply. He said that this
should be said. All the time, we take in about
five trillion a year, we spend seven trillion a year.
You can't keep that up. That's one sentence that should
(09:39):
be said every day, all day.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, I agree, one hundred percent, But I feel like
I'm standing there telling my neighbor, Hey, if you drive
a nail into your hand, it's really gonna hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Whatnot.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
And he's now driven seventeen nails into his hands, feet,
and arms and legs, and he's got another one out.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What am I gonna say? He don't drive that nail
into your hand. It's really going to hurt.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
We can't spend more than we're taking in Lai da,
I just please. The world has gone mad. The most
basic realities are no longer discussed. I'm done good, I
am too. I thought this was speaking of and of
speaking of the Wall Street Journal. Do we have time
(10:25):
for this? We really don't, Andy Kessler. He's talking about
how ridiculous the FAA's technology is.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We've been talking about that, and everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Fum discs, they're exactly and their plan to fix it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And I love this.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The FAA has been working on a modernized next gen
air traffic control system conceived in two thousand and three
that's set out to roll out.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Set the rollout in twenty twenty five. Oops.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Check that twenty thirty, but really more like twenty forty.
And then he describes how the FAA tracks and manages
more than forty five thousand flights every day, almost three
million passengers every day, with analog two D strips of paper.
And the exciting new update is gonna like turn those
(11:14):
strips of paper into essentially a strip of paper on
a video screen, right, and that's like the big update. Well,
he points out almost all commercial and many private planes
already broadcast their GPS location, direction and speed via something
called Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast ad ADSB.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why not harness that data? This is? This is so cool.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I recently saw a video of a passenger playing the
three D multiplayer video game Fortnite on a Qatar Airways
jet equipped with starlink. That's better technology than pilots or
controllers have.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Maybe that's the solution.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Retrofit these three D worlds with live GPS data to
track aircraft with realistic visuals.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
How big a job is this?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And they go into how the FAA system outage grounded
more than eleven thousand US flights the other day. Fortnite's
Battle Royale typically has around one hundred and seventy thousand
concurrent players with a peak of around three million people
playing at once. Running on Amazon Web services, it can
handle ninety two million events a minute. Beyond flight details,
(12:21):
it could track every passenger's drink order. You would have
a three D world of where every plane is at
every second digitally, and just hire some tech bros. Have
Elon Musk headed up because to get tech bros, they
got to be excited about it.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They're not going to sign up for government drudgery.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I bet with the right data feed, the doge bros
could track every US flight in three dimensions and in
living color this year and with weather.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You're right, You're right. That's funny.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
When you compare it to the technology of Fortnite or
a Nintendo switch, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, And it's going to take somebody who just doesn't
give a crap about what is And that's Trump's greatest strength.
He's like, I don't care if this has been going
on for thirty years, it's stupid. We're changing it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Maybe the only thing worse than being left at the
altar would be being left right after the altar.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Weird development than that marriage. Stay tuned, Hetty President Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
He is keeping the pressure up on Apple, warning that
they'll get hit with twenty five percent tariffs if they
don't make the iPhone here in the US, something that
analysts say is unrealistic.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I I'm not going to talk about this. This is uh.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I just played that so I could mention. I don't
know where we are on tariffs now. I saw some
of the headlines. We're off for four days over he
had punted for another couple of months, some tariffs that
I'm not paying any attention.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So, yeah, I don't know. If you run a business,
how you plan. That's got to be difficult. Yeah, it's
really tough.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So back when we used to do this kind of
talk radio show, we would do topics like, you know,
did you get married and want to pull the plug?
Or did you pull the plug right at the altar?
That that sort of thing. When do you pull the
plug if you think it's a bad idea, probably sooner the.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Better, yes, But if you know it's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's the problem, do you know, versus just the cold
feet that can happen with you know, do I really
want to take this job? I mean it's got all
the positives, but on you know, just you know, the
doubt that that can sink in buying a car.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
First big fight. I knew this was a mistake. No,
it's not. You're both human. You had to fight. It's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So and I've known a few people that got divorced
that knew when they're getting married it was a bad
idea and still did it because you just get on
the momentum train. And once the tuxes are rented in,
the honeymoon's booked, and Uncle Ed's flying in from Florida,
that's a hard time to pull the plug. But god,
it's easier than later, trust me. But this one had
(15:14):
I don't think i'd ever heard this one. Before they
get married, they've been dating for six years, because that
was going to be your first question. That was one
of my first questions, like how long did you know
you they'd been dating for six years. Everything was great,
They get married, ceremony is good, they do the pictures.
That goes really good. He's in a really good mood.
They do all the photos. Then she doesn't see him again,
(15:38):
like he doesn't do the dance part or the meal part,
and everybody's asking where he is, and it becomes really weird,
really really fast. She didn't hear from him four months now.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
During the wedding day slash night, she had to be
panic stricken. Did he have a heart attack and he's
lying dead in the bushes? Was he abducted?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
She doesn't say that. But anyway, everything was going good,
you know, yeah, you would. I don't know what I
would think. I think I would first thought would be
they freaked out, But I don't know, just maybe because
I've done so many of these stories in my life,
radio stories.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Are you nnoft? To quote the great old brother? Where
aren't they.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Run off? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Anyway, she found out a couple of months later, and
I wish there were more details of this story. He
just disappeared and had to cancel the honeymoon, very embarrassing.
Family and friends kept asking where the husband was. She
just kept saying, I don't know, not here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's really the operative answer.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Turns out he yet another chick. Oh he went that
far through it, past the pictures. He didn't even pull
the plug prior to the pictures until after the photos.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Before he decided, Nah, I like the other one better.
What the hell? Yeah, that's some weird.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I'd hate to awe fair in love and war, except that,
oh it's not fair.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
God, the emotional turmoil of that on both ends, but
even his end, like what dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
My god, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So I haven't heard this yet, this is a uh.
They took a moment before a w NBA game the
other night.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Thank you guys for taking a.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Minute to honor the life and George Floyd. George was
a father, a brother, and his son, and his life,
like every life called meeting, his dead exposed the holes
that are son our justice in criminal institutions today, and
his five year anniversary reminds us of every one that
gets criminal, racial, and social injustices.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
All Right, take a moment to honor the death of
George Floyd, father, husband, son, lifelong criminal, drug addicts who
fought the cops. I mean, you don't get to kill
a guy for that, don't get to kneel on his
neck and kill him.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But it just seems like an odd choice to me.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah, and we know drug induced whatever it is, delirium
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You're right, that was part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, I know, the turning him into a hero and
building statues and like memorial walls and.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
God, I saw a list. I gotta dig that up.
I have it on my phone somewhere over the weekend.
It had to do with the why we don't believe
median narratives anymore? But that had a list of them,
hands up, don't shoot. Never happened. Yeah, Trump colluding Withrussia
never happened. There was a list of them. Yeah, And
(19:04):
it was like, yeah, when.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You're reminded by looking at the actual list, because these
things fade from our memory.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, how did the media's trust level get so low? Yeah,
it's obvious.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh and an earlier Fox we haven't talked about this today,
the whole Jake Tapper book, and he's done a bunch
of more interviews, and that topic continues of the.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Media cover up.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's kind of shifted more toward the amazing White House
that we were living with that the media should have
told us about, where you had like five people controlling
everything in the White House.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And the President wasn't one of them. That's the key.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Well, as one of the sources told Alec Thompson on
Shannon Breems Show Sunday, he was like one of the
five or six that were running the White House when
he was capable.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
And one of the people told Alec Thompson, he's the
other one that wrote the book, not Jake. Tapper told
him that, look, the only thing worse than this is
Trump being president. They justified their actions with the idea
that if they didn't protect Biden, Biden would lose and
Trump would end up president.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, I remember one of the sources said he was
like a senior member of the Board of Directors Biden was.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
He wasn't the CEO, he wasn't the CFO or the COO.
He was like an important member of the board.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So you have cabinet, a cabinet at least one cabinet
member that told Tapper and Thompson that they didn't think
Biden was up for a two am emergency. Sure, many
days you can't justify that with you think Trump is hitler.
You can't have a president of the United States. And
(21:01):
by the way, if Biden, if you had twenty fifth Amendment, Biden,
Trump doesn't become president, Kamala becomes president. But maybe he
thought Kamala is worse at two am. So that's where
it gets scary. They thought, we're better off controlling this
ourselves than having Biden stepped down and Kamala airsby president.
So now you're just usurping power. It's practically a coup.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah. I was just gonna say, the only saving grace
that these people had is that something truly horrific didn't happen,
because if that were laid bare, that they thought, hey,
we're the president's advisors. Now the president isn't around. Look,
we'll just advise each other and we'll run the show.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I meant to grab this audio because some of the
stuff Alec Thompson said was horrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm still reading the book.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I gotta make my way through to it, and I
will say, even with everything we know, there are revelations
on practically each page that are interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It's an interesting book.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But Alec Thompson said, one of those advisors told him, hey,
because he pushed back on the idea that you.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Guys are running, we're running the White House.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
When people thought Joe Biden, in one of the the
pullet Bewer Bureau they call him in the book, the
Five running the White House, said well, when you vote
for a president, you're voting for his advisors. Everybody knows
that that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Is not true. Well, that is true, but it's all right.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
He's gonna have advice that he listens to and then
makes his own decisions. If the guy's brain doesn't work,
he's not making the decisions based on input from his advisors.
You were making the decisions. We didn't vote for that, right,
That's well, that's how you end up in really bad places,
(22:46):
you know. Can you Andrew imagine if China had moved
on Taiwan on one of the days where Biden's standing
around with his mouth hanging open, and Jake Sullivan and well, Jake,
I don't think Jake Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I don't even know if he's one of the five.
You know, yeah, I thought, well, you read the book.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
He was listed in the description I saw with with
blancoln But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
If it's Zince science science, then you got and I'm
not good with these names. Off the top of my head,
it'll pop into my head, the other guy, and then
missus Biden, doctor Jill's guy who's turned out to be
quite evil.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But those people, those people.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Were going to decide how we respond to China invading
Taiwan because Biden's standing there with his mouth hanging open.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's horrifying. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
So Andrew Styles in the Free Beacon, who's just great,
what a great writer he is that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
If you know, he's I want to be him when
I grew up.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
He digs into the whole the media, saying, in fact,
his theme is trying to claim at this point that
you were just fooled by the clever.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Dishonest White House the media.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Look at how they fooled us with their lying and
the rest of it, and it does mention, as you
pointed out last week, whenever it is is that.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Their defense is that while we were.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
To I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought, but
the idea that yeah, we had, we didn't have the
inside sources, we couldn't tell, and they lied to us.
Our sources lied to us, and that's our defense. Well,
Styles digs into that. Meanwhile, the reporters who failed to
expose the scandal when the stakes were higher are generally
portrayed as sympathetic, well meaning professionals with poor bull s detectors.
(24:45):
Many reporters took the White House denials at face value.
The author's right and Styles, and finally getting to what
needs to be said or asked, says, yeah, we know,
but why our journalists just lazy and competent? Was there
some other? So many of them were willing to parrot
democratic talking points that defied credulity and Alex Thompson explained
(25:08):
while promoting the book that even the people orchestrating the
cover up were shocked at how easy it was to
manipulate the self appointed guardians of democracy. We are sort
of amazed at some of the stuff we were able
to spend reporters on this source said, you guys should
not have believed us so easily.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But that quote is not in the book, right.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
They're saying that now, and Styles writes that should have
been the opening line in the book.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Correct. Correct, the book is about the media. It just
doesn't know that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
That's a good point. Over the weekend, Jake Tapper told
British guy, popped out of my head. It'll pop back
into my head. Yeah, Piers Morgan, here's Morgan. He told
Piers Morgan. He thinks this is bigger than Watergate. Of
course he's selling a book puts more money in his pocket.
If you believe it's bigger than Watergate, So you think
it's bigger than Watergate. It was going on while you
(26:03):
had connections that could let you know this was happening,
and you kept it a secret.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Now Woodward and Bernstein in this situation were denying that
there was a break in, right, and that Nixon had
anything to do with it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
So it was driving me crazy.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yesterday I was listening to the Dispatch podcast, which I
really like, and Jonah Goldberg was making an argument I've
seen some places.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Look, you don't get to have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
You can't say everybody knew and the media is all powerful.
So the all powerful media was not telling us this
yet everybody figured it out, and two thirds of Americans
you don't get.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
To have it. And I think that's a crazy way
to look at this.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's insane. No, it's it's you're making your own case.
Two thirds of Americans knew what was actually going on,
while the media told them they were wrong. You don't
think that's a big story, right, that's a huge story.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Well, who claimed that the media is all powerful? They
have a large influence. But it was a straw man.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, what's you Well, I don't know what's your argument
on the other side, So we shouldn't have a media.
You're in the media. You don't think it matters what
the media says. Is that what you're just saying telling me, well.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
That's an idiotic argument by a really bright guy. Jonas
lost his mind. Okay, so you've got I don't know,
roughly a third of America that did believe the media.
Those poll numbers you're talking about, No, and he said
nobody believed that. No, the numbers are known. You don't
have to characterize them. That broadly, roughly two thirds of
(27:34):
America America thought he no longer had the mental capacity.
About eighty percent thought he was too old, whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But anyway, so.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
There were twenty to thirty percent who believed the media,
then there is probably twenty percent that had the gut
feeling that something was wrong. But well, Scott Pelley and
all these other media people and Jake Tapper telling me
that it is okay, So I guess it's okay.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
So right, so those numbers could have been driven up
to what kind of reminds me of Watergate. Is a
guy who's ridden read a lot about Watergate even though
it happened while I was alive.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was a little kid.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
The poll numbers for Nixon were pretty strong up to
the end, when then it just become became completely outed.
They found out about the taping system and they're erasing
the tapes and everything like that. It's because woodwork and
the damning stayed on it. So yeah, in the dam burst.
So this is what would have happened. If the media
pursued this at all, it would have gone from two
thirds of America thinking he's told to be president to
(28:35):
everybody thinking he had to step down now, which would
be one of the biggest stories in our nation's history.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You don't think that's worth pursuing, or.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You don't think the media should be ashamed of itself
because they didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's a weak ass argument.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah, if the media hadn't been doing that, Jonah, the
sentiment that Biden had to go now would have gone
from follow me now underwhelming to overwhelming.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Not all or nothing as he was phrasing it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
It's the biggest failure of media in our nation's history,
without a doubt, and they and they deserve a tremendous
amount of blame and they'll be paying the price for it. Well,
for the rest of my life for longer.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I haven't gotten into much of the how afraid everybody
was of Jill Biden. Yeah, and Anthony Bernall Bernal, one
person of the book, described as the worst person they
had ever met.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, So I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
So they had Jake Tapper had a quote in there
from Joe Biden saying at one point, and I remember
us covering this, Joe Biden saying, this is my word
is a Biden one rule we got around here. I
hear anybody talk down to anybody, yell at anybody, bad
mouth anybody, They're gone.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Now we do not allow that in the White House.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
So Jake Tapper's got that quote in the book, along
with the information that Bernal, who is doctor Jill's guy,
would scream it people all the time and everybody hated him.
Multiple people said he was the worst person they ever met.
Don't let him come to my funeral, that sort of stuff,
because he was so mean to them. Well, Joe Biden saying,
if anybody talks down to anybody other than you know,
(30:14):
my wife's guy, who yells at everybody, to keep this
all a secret. Wow, they are one of the more
corrupt off the rails administrations in our entire country's history. Now,
I'm not sure how many people are waking up to
that yet.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
And then finally, Styles mentions another motivating factor was the
general agreement among party elites that Kamala Harris, the most
likely alternative, was even less capable than a walking corpse.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I hate the term perfect storm, but you do have
a lot of elements coming together. The hatred of Trump,
the lack of trust in Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, all at the same time. Okay, we'll finish strong. Next,
let us.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Rededicate ourselves to God and country, to our great republic
two hundred and forty nine years on. We stand on
the shoulders of great men, and on the shoulders of
those great men in those graves, and may we live
worthy of it.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
The families who have lost a son, a daughter, a husband,
or a wife. To every child here who misses your
dad or your mom, know that your loved one to
us is a hero.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
They gave everything and we owe them everything and much
much more.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That was uh sec def Hegzeth, followed by Marine jd
Vance and bone spurs.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Trump. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. Wow, I couldn't know. Wow,
who is that for?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Anyway, there's some beautiful words though spoken there at the
Tomb of the Unknown. Yeah, in Washington, d C. It's fabulous.
So this almost sounds like an opening to a joke.
But Geene Simmons and Kiss of Kiss and a one
hundred year old World War Two veteran walk into a bar.
They didn't actually walk into a bar. They were together
at an event in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
What's that list again?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Gene Simmons of Kiss and a one hundred year old
World War two veteran. Wow, And the reason they were
together is that Hal Urban, wearing the same dress wool
jacket that he wore after liberating a concentration camp eighty
years ago, met Gene Simmons who wanted to thank him
(32:32):
because Gene Simmons' mom was liberated from that concentration camp.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wow, did not know that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
And the famous rocker who is actually a brilliant and
very brilliant thoughtful guy. Not thoughtful like he'll give you
flowers on your birthday, but he thinks a lot. He
said to the guy and thanking him, I would not exist,
my children would not exist, millions of people would not
(33:01):
exist except for the heroism of the troops who defeated
the Nazis and liberated the camps.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And we had quite zero chance of rock and rolling
all night and partying all day.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well right, every day.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
But his mother was in the concentration camp as from
age fourteen to nineteen.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yeah, yeah, it was really quite a beautiful thing, nice event.
This guy was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge
and still bleeding occasionally from his shrapnel wound when he
went back to work in battle manning a fifty caliber
(33:43):
machine gun.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I got something good to say on that, but we
don't have time. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
As I mentioned earlier, my son and the boy Scouts.
He and his Scout troop planted little flags at the
cemetery yesterday before the big Memorial Day ceremony. Did they
do every Memorial Day? I get Yes, I had never
been before with a band and singers and speeches and stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
It was really good.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, this guy's gonna be one hundred and one in July.
He still has nightmares about the things he saw liberating
in the concentration camps.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Chick Kiss, Tom Sta, Jack and Joe live God go.
And if they don't give candalpbacks in.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
My for an overused expression, and I gotta believe that
guy did not have on his bagical card hanging out
with Gene Simmons of Kiss in nineteen seventy seven. You
know my final thought, I'm gonna lead It was actually
he said, he's the one who sticks his tongue out,
not really my music. I like bing Crosby and Laurisville
(34:44):
as you should, sir. Let's get a final thought from
everybody on the crew. Let's begin with Michael Angelo. Michael
final thought.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
You know, the most troubling thing that I thought of
today was the only fans women that are now texting
guys that are watching him.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I just thought that's gonna be a relationship killer. Oh yeah, yeah,
the few that remained. Katie Green is off this week.
Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I was just watching a video of my brother in
his military fatigues. My brother, who served in a couple
of wars, him and another guy tasing each other to
see what would feel like.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So it wasn't part of training. This was just the
having fun.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
This is freelance dasy, Yes exactly. Wow, Wow, Wow, I've
already given my my final thought. But you know, thanks
to the veterans, and God blessed the families of those
who've lost in wars throughout I never did tell about
my great.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Visit to the fort. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Oh cool, Armstrong and getdy. Wrapping up another grueling four
hour workday.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Like to do something historical every Memorial Day weekend. So
many people, thanks a little time. Good to armstrong Yeddy
dot com got some great hot lengths. Therefore you drop
us not there's something we ought to be talking about.
Sending along mail bag at Armstrongygeddy dot com.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Did something historical. I did something hysterical. Me attempting to
grill on Memorial Day did not go well.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
See tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and gatchy. It's Oliver.
We need to adapt our approach. Who do gissy. I
hope you'll stand up and stop this madness. You kind
of damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
My point was mad.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
That's the Also, there's a hole in the sky where
a tree you once stood. Somebody's making money on your
feet there.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Your time has expired. They very much armstrong and getty
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