July 22, 2025 • 12 mins
The Tuesday July 22, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast features...
- Voices From the Left, including actor Jeff Daniels on Kamala Harris...
- A woman-on-the-street embraces another form of government...
- A wonderful parody.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Voices of the Left. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm one more thing. My wife is asking me, thinking chicken, breast, spinach,
salad and bread for dinner?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good? Yeah, that's fine. I'm gonna give her the thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Sounds like a nice balanced meal. We're both trying to
lose weight.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have you ever responded with leaf?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Are you kidding? Is this a joke decked?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, I have not.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So we have a number of pieces of audio here
that happened to be the Voices of the Left that
we couldn't squeeze into the radio show for the last
couple of days, so we thought we'd do them here.
I'm trying to decide what order is best. Let's start
with famous actor, beloved actor Jeff Daniels.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's a big lebowski, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He's an avowed left. Now that's Jeff Bridges. Yeah, it's funny.
I've had a mental block with Bridges and Daniels since
the eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Interesting. Jeff Daniels is the other half of Dumb and Dumbers.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah right. He also played Jtar of many fine films.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh yeah, he also played George Washington in that movie
where he was great.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, gifted actor. But he's why don't
we go just go ahead and play Michael fifteen.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I still think about Kamala and how I think she
would have been a good choice. I don't care what
they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did.
Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State. Yeah, Teama rivals.
Doris Kerns, a good one, wrote the book about it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Less.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
What Lincoln did surrounded himself with the people who would
disagree with him, not the people who would, you know,
take a knee and go Yeah, more, tariffs are more.
It's the madness of King George and If and just
the deterioration of the Republican Party. I mean, look, I'm
just an actor.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What do I know?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Yes, but when Mitch started Stack in the Courts twenty
five years ago, I said it on your show. Once
it's they can see it coming, the new America that
is diverse and treats everyone with equality and respect and dignity,
what you know, kind of like Jesus did. Jesus and
(02:26):
Lincoln we're ready for given good and the Mitch and
Company could see it coming. They were going to be
the minority, so they just started and then here we
are and now you got it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
What a powerful metaphor. Wow, self hating white male, like
so many liberals are that what he actually believes that
that the politics are driven by Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, there's so much there. I will just focus on
the fact that Abraham Lincoln was one of the towering
intellects of his time or any other Kamala Harris is
a half wit, Jeff, I would suggest, I mean, she
might assemble a team of rivals, but they would be
(03:10):
rival dopes.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, he had the right answer at one point.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
What do I know?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm just an actor. Why is anybody asking you? Why
is Nicole Wallace asking you? Why is anybody listening to it?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That is just one of the voices of the left
we're featuring today. This is a Mom Donnie supporter answering
questions on the streets of New York sixteen.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Michael also has socialism work.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That you want to emulate Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
You think New York City if it.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Was more like Vietnam, is it actually a communist country?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I would say Vietnam China. See, New York is a
very dense city. Therefore, we have to look at Asia,
who is doing better at density than we are here.
These roads are horrible, the train's not that great here.
All of those things are so much better in most
Asian countries.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's funny she goes with Vietnam and China completely ignoring
free market or capitalist if you prefer Japan free market,
Singapore free market, South Korea.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And his luck with you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And aside about Vietnam. One of the kids that I
picked up from scout camp is from Vietnam. His mom's
from Vietnam. Very interesting woman genius had a perfect on
her SAT scores, which she said was demanded of everyone
(04:37):
in the special school. She went to, Wow, and then
went to some special things.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I spelled my name correctly on mine, I mean one
hundred percent correctly.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Then she went to some special school for the super
brilliant in China where all the super smart people would
get sent from Vietnam, where people would regularly kill themselves
because the pressure was so great. Anyway, Wow, that's not
what I meant to talk about. Her son got in
my truck. He said, you know what I like about
when we're in Vietnam, because he's in Vietnam, like capt
you don't have to wear seat belts there. They have
no seat belt laws. That's interesting. We talked about freedom
(05:07):
and government making you do stuff and whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The communist regime of Vietnam let you make your own
decisions about seat belts.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I didn't know Vietnam was a communist country currently. Oh yeah,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, you remember the whole Vietnam War thing.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm familiar with that. I didn't know it still was.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know, like a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Quote unquote communist regimes right now, and China was a
great example of this, like a dozen years ago especially,
But they've mixed in a fair amount of free market
capitalism because you need it. And every regime is a hybrid.
Forget political theory. In the real world, everything's a hybrid.
But okay, moving along, another voice of the left. This
(05:53):
woman's name is Sharia Smith or Sharia. She was on
CNN as a I believe if she's an employee of
the Department of Education, was moaning about the layoffs there
and how unjustified they were.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I would recommend you listen.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
In particular, it's twenty six Michael for her justification of
the important work they do.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
First one is disappointment. I'm a lawyer by trade and
live for Supreme Court decisions at least to have reasoning,
so you know, to have the six justices just allow
this to happen without even explaining their decision as extremely disappointing.
Then I go into anger, anger since the beginning of
(06:38):
this administration by the misrepresentation about what we actually do.
There's so many statements about returning education to the States.
But well, if I was a teacher, education curriculum, teacher
quality testing has always been with the States. What our
department does and did was fund school districts, fund colleges,
(07:02):
fund schools, and fund American citizens who are pursuing their education.
And it is extremely anger inducing that this misrepresentation of
what we do and how important our work is is
perpetuating and is not being corrected even by the highest
court of our land. And then.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, and she goes on at some length there her
entire defense of the Department of Education is that it
doles out funding that comes through the state from the states,
federal government keeps their cut, gives some of it back
with enormous strings attached. That's your defense, that's my prosecution.
(07:48):
Did she say she is an attorney, you can't my
prosecution can't.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Be your defense.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's not the way it works. Before we wrap this up,
I got another story about those wacky Asians. Another one
of the kids I picked up from the boy Scout
camp is three Asian kids and my son. All of
his friends are at camp are Alasian kids. And the
one kid kept winning at this card game they were
(08:18):
playing because he was counting cards. He's a mass genius.
He's like many grades ahead in the math that he takes.
Oh wow, And he said he can't help it. It's
just like the way brain work. He just watches the
game and he knows how many queens have already gone
out or whatever. He just knows it in his head. Yeah,
It's like, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Man, a way different brains work.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Have you listened to?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I've got a podcast I want to listen to.
But this new premise that I think is coming from
the left, that the very concept of genius is a
right wing plot to convince us of something or other,
and I haven't really dug into it reminds me of
that idiotic Gladwell book that said there's nothing about talent,
you just have to spend ten thousand hours or whatever
(09:05):
it was. I've got to listen to that because it
just stretch me as looney tunes. That kid was born
with a brain that works very differently than mine does.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean it's just why can people not accept.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That I don't know or people that I accepted it
a long damn time ago. I'm just not that good
at some things, including some I wish I was really
good at.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But that's okay, that's what life is.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, It's like, yeah, I tried to pick up Spanish once.
I took a class for like two weeks and thought
that I can't do this. I'm just not built for
picking up languages or you know. You know some people
have no eight languages. It's because their brain works in
a different way for language than mine. Man, did I
try hard to get good at German? I tried so hard.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That was part of my whole life plan was to
learn German, go to law school and do business between
Germany and the US and blah blah blah. And then
I realized, I'm trying as hard as I can at this,
and I suck at learning a new language as a
young adult.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So I thought, man, that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
But I don't think it was in cities plot against me,
that some people were great in that class.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I don't know. I'll have to look into that, all right.
One final bit of audio.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It is humor number fourteen Michael Enjoy.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
She calls America evil from her iPhone while sipping Starbucks
on an airplane with Wi Fi while watching TV. She
drinks oat milk because regular milk makes her feel colonial.
She got eight COVID shots, still caught it and blamed
(10:38):
the unvaccinated waiter. She has a Ukraine flag in her biome.
She thinks Ukraine is a clothing brand. She says black
lives matter, but still clutches her bag in certain neighborhoods.
She used to be vegan, Now she's carnivore, depends on
(11:00):
who she's dating. She thinks all cops are bad, then
called the cops because someone wasn't wearing a mask. She
says she's a feminist until she needs a jar opened.
She says trust the science, but thinks there's more than
two genders. She got the booster, then posted a selfie
(11:21):
with doing my part while spreading COVID in Tulum, she
drinks ayahuasca for trauma she invented last year. She says
she hates capitalism but charges four hundred and ninety nine
dollars for zoom breath work. She posts about toxic masculinity
from her ex's apartment. She is the most conformist woman
(11:44):
in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't always drink, but when I do, it's from
an organic coconut with a biodegradable straw.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Stay obedient, my.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Friends, I love it. That was the voice's of the left.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Reminds me of I heard a blast yesterday of what
was wrong with how NPR got so off track. The
problem with NPR, they said, is they think everybody listening
lives in Vermont and is pulling into a used bookstore
parking lot in a super ruing.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
You know what I don't like about PBS is that
they always assume I need a tote bag.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I don't need a tote bag.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I got plenty of Well, I guess that's it.
Welcome to Voices of the Left. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm one more thing. My wife is asking me, thinking chicken, breast, spinach,
salad and bread for dinner?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good? Yeah, that's fine. I'm gonna give her the thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Sounds like a nice balanced meal. We're both trying to
lose weight.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have you ever responded with leaf?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Are you kidding? Is this a joke decked?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, I have not.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So we have a number of pieces of audio here
that happened to be the Voices of the Left that
we couldn't squeeze into the radio show for the last
couple of days, so we thought we'd do them here.
I'm trying to decide what order is best. Let's start
with famous actor, beloved actor Jeff Daniels.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's a big lebowski, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He's an avowed left. Now that's Jeff Bridges. Yeah, it's funny.
I've had a mental block with Bridges and Daniels since
the eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Interesting. Jeff Daniels is the other half of Dumb and Dumbers.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah right. He also played Jtar of many fine films.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh yeah, he also played George Washington in that movie
where he was great.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, gifted actor. But he's why don't
we go just go ahead and play Michael fifteen.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I still think about Kamala and how I think she
would have been a good choice. I don't care what
they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did.
Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State. Yeah, Teama rivals.
Doris Kerns, a good one, wrote the book about it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Less.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
What Lincoln did surrounded himself with the people who would
disagree with him, not the people who would, you know,
take a knee and go Yeah, more, tariffs are more.
It's the madness of King George and If and just
the deterioration of the Republican Party. I mean, look, I'm
just an actor.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What do I know?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Yes, but when Mitch started Stack in the Courts twenty
five years ago, I said it on your show. Once
it's they can see it coming, the new America that
is diverse and treats everyone with equality and respect and dignity,
what you know, kind of like Jesus did. Jesus and
(02:26):
Lincoln we're ready for given good and the Mitch and
Company could see it coming. They were going to be
the minority, so they just started and then here we
are and now you got it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
What a powerful metaphor. Wow, self hating white male, like
so many liberals are that what he actually believes that
that the politics are driven by Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, there's so much there. I will just focus on
the fact that Abraham Lincoln was one of the towering
intellects of his time or any other Kamala Harris is
a half wit, Jeff, I would suggest, I mean, she
might assemble a team of rivals, but they would be
(03:10):
rival dopes.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, he had the right answer at one point.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
What do I know?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm just an actor. Why is anybody asking you? Why
is Nicole Wallace asking you? Why is anybody listening to it?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That is just one of the voices of the left
we're featuring today. This is a Mom Donnie supporter answering
questions on the streets of New York sixteen.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Michael also has socialism work.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That you want to emulate Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
You think New York City if it.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Was more like Vietnam, is it actually a communist country?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I would say Vietnam China. See, New York is a
very dense city. Therefore, we have to look at Asia,
who is doing better at density than we are here.
These roads are horrible, the train's not that great here.
All of those things are so much better in most
Asian countries.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's funny she goes with Vietnam and China completely ignoring
free market or capitalist if you prefer Japan free market,
Singapore free market, South Korea.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And his luck with you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And aside about Vietnam. One of the kids that I
picked up from scout camp is from Vietnam. His mom's
from Vietnam. Very interesting woman genius had a perfect on
her SAT scores, which she said was demanded of everyone
(04:37):
in the special school. She went to, Wow, and then
went to some special things.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I spelled my name correctly on mine, I mean one
hundred percent correctly.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Then she went to some special school for the super
brilliant in China where all the super smart people would
get sent from Vietnam, where people would regularly kill themselves
because the pressure was so great. Anyway, Wow, that's not
what I meant to talk about. Her son got in
my truck. He said, you know what I like about
when we're in Vietnam, because he's in Vietnam, like capt
you don't have to wear seat belts there. They have
no seat belt laws. That's interesting. We talked about freedom
(05:07):
and government making you do stuff and whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The communist regime of Vietnam let you make your own
decisions about seat belts.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I didn't know Vietnam was a communist country currently. Oh yeah,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, you remember the whole Vietnam War thing.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm familiar with that. I didn't know it still was.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know, like a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Quote unquote communist regimes right now, and China was a
great example of this, like a dozen years ago especially,
But they've mixed in a fair amount of free market
capitalism because you need it. And every regime is a hybrid.
Forget political theory. In the real world, everything's a hybrid.
But okay, moving along, another voice of the left. This
(05:53):
woman's name is Sharia Smith or Sharia. She was on
CNN as a I believe if she's an employee of
the Department of Education, was moaning about the layoffs there
and how unjustified they were.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I would recommend you listen.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
In particular, it's twenty six Michael for her justification of
the important work they do.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
First one is disappointment. I'm a lawyer by trade and
live for Supreme Court decisions at least to have reasoning,
so you know, to have the six justices just allow
this to happen without even explaining their decision as extremely disappointing.
Then I go into anger, anger since the beginning of
(06:38):
this administration by the misrepresentation about what we actually do.
There's so many statements about returning education to the States.
But well, if I was a teacher, education curriculum, teacher
quality testing has always been with the States. What our
department does and did was fund school districts, fund colleges,
(07:02):
fund schools, and fund American citizens who are pursuing their education.
And it is extremely anger inducing that this misrepresentation of
what we do and how important our work is is
perpetuating and is not being corrected even by the highest
court of our land. And then.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, and she goes on at some length there her
entire defense of the Department of Education is that it
doles out funding that comes through the state from the states,
federal government keeps their cut, gives some of it back
with enormous strings attached. That's your defense, that's my prosecution.
(07:48):
Did she say she is an attorney, you can't my
prosecution can't.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Be your defense.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's not the way it works. Before we wrap this up,
I got another story about those wacky Asians. Another one
of the kids I picked up from the boy Scout
camp is three Asian kids and my son. All of
his friends are at camp are Alasian kids. And the
one kid kept winning at this card game they were
(08:18):
playing because he was counting cards. He's a mass genius.
He's like many grades ahead in the math that he takes.
Oh wow, And he said he can't help it. It's
just like the way brain work. He just watches the
game and he knows how many queens have already gone
out or whatever. He just knows it in his head. Yeah,
It's like, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Man, a way different brains work.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Have you listened to?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I've got a podcast I want to listen to.
But this new premise that I think is coming from
the left, that the very concept of genius is a
right wing plot to convince us of something or other,
and I haven't really dug into it reminds me of
that idiotic Gladwell book that said there's nothing about talent,
you just have to spend ten thousand hours or whatever
(09:05):
it was. I've got to listen to that because it
just stretch me as looney tunes. That kid was born
with a brain that works very differently than mine does.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean it's just why can people not accept.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That I don't know or people that I accepted it
a long damn time ago. I'm just not that good
at some things, including some I wish I was really
good at.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But that's okay, that's what life is.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, It's like, yeah, I tried to pick up Spanish once.
I took a class for like two weeks and thought
that I can't do this. I'm just not built for
picking up languages or you know. You know some people
have no eight languages. It's because their brain works in
a different way for language than mine. Man, did I
try hard to get good at German? I tried so hard.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That was part of my whole life plan was to
learn German, go to law school and do business between
Germany and the US and blah blah blah. And then
I realized, I'm trying as hard as I can at this,
and I suck at learning a new language as a
young adult.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So I thought, man, that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
But I don't think it was in cities plot against me,
that some people were great in that class.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I don't know. I'll have to look into that, all right.
One final bit of audio.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It is humor number fourteen Michael Enjoy.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
She calls America evil from her iPhone while sipping Starbucks
on an airplane with Wi Fi while watching TV. She
drinks oat milk because regular milk makes her feel colonial.
She got eight COVID shots, still caught it and blamed
(10:38):
the unvaccinated waiter. She has a Ukraine flag in her biome.
She thinks Ukraine is a clothing brand. She says black
lives matter, but still clutches her bag in certain neighborhoods.
She used to be vegan, Now she's carnivore, depends on
(11:00):
who she's dating. She thinks all cops are bad, then
called the cops because someone wasn't wearing a mask. She
says she's a feminist until she needs a jar opened.
She says trust the science, but thinks there's more than
two genders. She got the booster, then posted a selfie
(11:21):
with doing my part while spreading COVID in Tulum, she
drinks ayahuasca for trauma she invented last year. She says
she hates capitalism but charges four hundred and ninety nine
dollars for zoom breath work. She posts about toxic masculinity
from her ex's apartment. She is the most conformist woman
(11:44):
in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't always drink, but when I do, it's from
an organic coconut with a biodegradable straw.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Stay obedient, my.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Friends, I love it. That was the voice's of the left.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Reminds me of I heard a blast yesterday of what
was wrong with how NPR got so off track. The
problem with NPR, they said, is they think everybody listening
lives in Vermont and is pulling into a used bookstore
parking lot in a super ruing.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
You know what I don't like about PBS is that
they always assume I need a tote bag.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I don't need a tote bag.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I got plenty of Well, I guess that's it.
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