August 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, what's the point of history & loss in Russia/Ukraine war
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Caned for chewing gum & WNBA drama
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Armsrong live from the studio scene Slay Sor.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's midweek. We're in a dimly lit room deep with
on the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
The atomic bomb is our general manager? Who it is?
That's a rough one at serious times. August sixth, eighty
years ago, we dropped it on Japan. It off? Will
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YOUA We were saying to of them, knock it off,
will you? But they wouldn't knock it off? Yeah, not
to turn the opening segment overly serious, but you're a screege.
Yesterday if you missed it, grabbed the podcast Armstrong and
getting on demand About the rating you've been doing about
the war in the Pacific and the bigger context of
the dropping of the bomb. I found very interesting and
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did a little more rating myself. And yeah, the the
body count generated by Japan across Asia was mind boggling.
Why is it not talked about? Imperial Japan was a
human slaughtering machine that devoured tens of millions, and they
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had to be stopped, and they believed as one of
the most racist groups of people that have ever lived.
They believed they were the only people that should live
and were superior to all those or everyone should else
be enslaved. The right, they were killing the depth total
per day at the time we dropped the bomb eighty
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years ago to day, I forget it was, but something
like seven fourteen thousand something like that people a day
were dying at the hands of the Japanese and various
conflicts in countries in other countries, right, right, And as
you were talking about yesterday, the Howard Zinnen like change
in the narrative which happened when we were kids, that
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we shouldn't have dropped the bombs. It was immoral and
indefensible and buy in America is a bad country and
you should hate your country, blah blah blah, because it's
all part of the same thing. What it takes to
get to that conclusion is you've just kind of isolate
the conflict in Japan versus the US, right, and those
casualties even in the even to me, that analysis doesn't
make any sense, but you've got to ignore the unspeakable
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horror of the Japanese war machine. And it's just it's
another false narrative pushed by the global far left to
try to bring down the big dog for free markets
and liberty, the United States. And you know what, they
can go to hell. Yeah. This guy named Frank who
wrote Downfall, he gets on a lot of podcasts standing
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up for the dropping the bomb, but he always people
leave out the then what would we have done, because
we weren't going to just say, okay, we'll leave you
in place with your military, which is very very powerful,
killing people as fast as you can. So that was
at an option. The backup plan was to surround the country
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and starve them out. That was the backup plan, and
that would have killed way more people. And it is
believed that just like Hamas, the Japanese military would have
kept the food for themselves and been perfectly fine with
starving the population, including many of our prisoners by the way,
which they were doing at the time, starving them, if
not just killing them so that they wouldn't have to
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eat anything. Right, So that was the backup plan, which
was going to be worse in terms of a number
of people dying. Yeah, yep, it's again I get as
a guy who loves history, it weirds me out sometimes
that I think, what's the point of even reading about
it because nobody else does. Narratives get formed and they
last for decades or centuries regardless of what's true. Right, Well,
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I guess all you can do is chip away at
the colossus of you know, left wing consensus and spread
the word best you can. I suppose. I don't know.
It's it's a battle for hearts and minds. You just,
you know, do you do your part as a person
with a conscience. We had only you know, if you've
seen the movie Oppenheimer, you know this. We'd only tested
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that nuclear weapon like in July, and here it is
today that we dropped it. I mean, we had just
tested the dang thing. So will it work? Is it
going to suck the plane out of the sky and
kill the crew that dropped it? I mean, nobody knew
what was going to happen, with a variety of different things,
and then it wasn't the greatest thing on the ground
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there either. Oh no, lands on your head. No. Indeed,
Although as Frank and others have pointed out if you
look at the deaths from the dropping of the atomic
bombs in the context of the Greater conflict, I mean
it was a tiny A tiny number. Is two hundred
thousand people an unspeakable horror, Yeah, which begins to give
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you an idea of the scope of the horror of
the Japanese wars of conquest. Yeah, wars are horrible. So
we've got a war going on right now between Russia
and Ukraine that is absolutely horrible. The things that are
happening on the ground and the way people are dying
and maimed and just absolutely horrible. And Trump said his
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peace dude over there Witkoff Again. He's talking to Putin
right now in Russia as we speak, and the belief
is that he's delivering a much different message than he
has delivered in the past from Trump. When Trump thought,
we're a couple of smart guys that run the world.
We're going to work this out. It's a misunderstanding. Now
Trump realizes that's not the case, that Putin is a
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power hungry nut job, And so the assumption is that
the message is completely different. What it is, I don't know,
but hopefully it's something along the lines of sanctions hit
Friday and we are going to arm Ukraine like you
can't even believe. So what do you think? I have
heard almost nobody thinking, talking, speculating about what I find
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the most intriguing question in this of for recent weeks,
That is, how did Putin decide and what was his
purpose in responding to some of Trump's entreaties, not with
promises or negotiation, but with contempt, open, insulting contempt of Trump.
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Because Putin's a calculator, he does not go off half cocked.
What was he trying to get or accomplish? I don't know.
I don't know. That's what I've wanted all along too.
I find that, you know, if I was writing a
novel or just speculating. Hell, I am speculating. I'm frightened
by the possible answers to that question. I don't get it.
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Why are you trying to provoke a known hot head
at the head of the greatest military in the history
of the Earth. Why are you playing the hard ass
when you've been playing the Hey, I'm sure we can
find an agreement guy for so long. Psychologically, does he
think Trump will back down? Or is like you said,
(07:36):
you are a concerned. Is your concern that he's not rational,
oh Putin? Yeah, yeah, or that he's trying to provoke
some gigantic conflict. He and Shijin Pang have gotten together
and decided, Look, the only way to turn the global
order against the US, because we're making progress is to
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provoke the US into some serious military action that kills
I don't know, half a million people, And Putin said, yeah,
I don't mind sacrificing that many people and chesi and
things like place I eat that for breakfast. I don't know.
You got two countries that if they lost a million
people between them, that wouldn't blink an eye. I mean,
it wouldn't mean anything to him. Where in the where
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in Western societies obviously be just as horrific as anything
we can imagine they might be. They might be calculating
that's that was part. That was the calculation eighty years
ago today by the Japanese right exactly. And though it
sounds unthinkable, that sort of thing has been decided over
and over again in history, including WW two, and I
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just I'm surprised nobody is. I'm not hearing any punditry
on that question. Yeah, it is shocking that more atomic
bombs have not been dropped since eighty years ago this week.
I mean, it's just shocking. Nobody would have expected that.
I've got it crappy as human beings are. Yes, I
would agree we've got to Kennedy's yesses that he was
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making in his administration for where the world would be,
and we're way short of that, thank god, in terms
of countries having and using nuclear weapons. Someday it will happen, though,
and then who knows what's going to occur after that.
But uh, it's a little heavy for right at this moment.
We should start to show. We should start to show
officially on this August six sixth. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
(09:23):
Joe Getty Wednesday, August sixth of the year twenty twenty five,
or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. Oh,
I should probably mention that the Chinese are establishing baby
factories in Los Angeles. More on that story to come.
What is bizarre? Story? Bizarre? All right, let's begin the
show officially now according to FCC rules regulations, here we
go at Mark, I would like to know what your
(09:45):
solution would be for gun violence.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Great question, I believe in a mix of stronger gun
control laws, mental health support.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And community engagement.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections,
making sure everyone feel seen and heard. It's about building
a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think
about that?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I think that's a great idea, Joaquin, So what was that?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That was somebody who doesn't exist being interviewed one of
the kids who died in the Parkland school shooting, one
of the worst school shootings in US history. An a
I creation of in theory how you would answer or
something I don't know exactly. That was a grand standing
(10:32):
former CNN lefty Jim Acosta interviewing the AI manifestation of
one of the victims of the Parkland shooting, with the
blessing of the parents, who are gun control activists as well.
Is that supposed to be deep? Or I think so
touching and moving and powerful? Because you programmed a robot
(10:55):
to say what you wanted it to say, I assume,
And it looks like the lad talking kind of accept
the words are out of sync with the lips. Well,
even if they were in sync with ellips, how significant
would that be? Do I have a soft head. In
this scenario, I think, to the pliable skulled among us,
that's very powerful. Oh my god, that was so moving.
(11:21):
All right. I know. Wait, we've heard about this thing
with funerals across the country. I don't know if this
will become a thing where you ai kind of reanimates
the person that was dead, right, and then they can
they can be up on a screen thanking everybody for
coming and maybe saying what they you know you meant
(11:41):
to me or whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Sniding blame, calling out my enemies, and you did me wrong,
Uncle Aal, you did me wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I would shout from beyond the grave. So it's like
the great Festivus airing of the grievances. That's the way
the funeral would go. Oh yeah, I got stuff to say.
Sit down. I have a lot of problems with you people.
Let's get started. I may be dead, but I'm not
through with you. Uncle Jim, you kissed my wife once
when you were drunk. I've always hated you. Okay, So
(12:18):
we got the Chinese baby making factory or whatever Joe
called that. We got Katie's headlines, we got lots of
news of the day. I hope you can stay here.
I look forward to Katie's headlines because there's a couple
of head spinners. I don't know if they're a really
big deal or just kind of the sound and fury
signifying nothing that goes on in modern politics. Right, Hey,
(12:41):
quick private note to Elon Musk, Elon, get some cookies
or something on X Why are you always making me
re sign in? So the dang Twitter on my laptop?
It's the pain. This is me. It's me. Don't you
recognize me? All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie starting with.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
The three Beata O'Rourke's Political Action Committee funded Texas Democrats
private jet to Illinois.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh really, I know why he needs to get go away? Yeah,
oh please, But it reminds me of why like a
Kamala Harris might run for office again to build a
giant slush fund, true, and to become a king maker
or queen maker. Man, you can play a role that way.
We need to talk more about the whole redistricting thing. Man.
The coverage of this is so unfair. Well, and how
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hilariously jerrymandered Illinois is right, it's I mean the ironies
just too much. It's statistically the most jerrymandered state in
the country, and that's where they ran to to hide.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
For maybe see judge to consider halting operations at Alligator
Alcatraz over environmental concerns.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, okay, all right, environmental concerns. That's always the lefties
technique and getting a better deal free union or not,
you know, having the illegals held or whatever. You don't
care about the environment.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
From NBC House Committee subpoenas the Clintons and several other
former DOJ officials for testimony about Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The whole Epstein thing. Subpoenas for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton,
Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, William Barr, Merrick Garland, Jeff Sessions,
Alberto Gonzales, call me muller. Everybody who can possibly imagine
from like the last entire decade of politics has been
subpoena around the whole Epstein thing. This is either a
really big deal or nothing. I don't have any idea.
(14:41):
This has just become too ridiculous to pay attention to anymore.
In my opinion. You got Democrats going around the country
holding town hall saying we demand transparency of the Epstein thing.
We need the Fosy, well, the Republicans, at least the
Epstein file. But somebody leaked yesterday that Galaine and the
country needs to come up with pronunciation. Let's call her
Gina or Brenda. Let's just pick a name, big Geni,
(15:05):
dog Ja, but every outlet has a different pronunciation. Queen Purvo. Anyway,
she gets moved to the it's like staying at a
resort style prison. And then yesterday the news comes out
that she told when she got interviewed a week or
so ago, she said, I have nothing on Trump. I've
never saw him do anything untoward whatsoever. The timing on
(15:27):
that is not good. I don't I'm not trying to
claim I think Trump did anything, but that's horrible timing.
And it's unprecedented to have a sex offender of her
level in a club fed. It's just what get moved
to that low security prison the same time she announces
Trump didn't do anything wrong. Come on, now, that's just
(15:49):
not a good look. No, it's terrible. From the New
York Post.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
More sex toys get thrown during Liberty Fee games as
one appears to hit Sophie Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh what what sort of sex toys we'll get any
one if we saw before. Okay, we'll get into the
details later. If this becomes a trend, this could get
pretty funny. Well, size matters too. If you're getting you know,
hit by stuff chucked from the stands. Uh yeah, let's uh.
Let's folks listen. It's your sacred right to chuck sex
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toys at the game of your choosing, but make sure
you don't hurt anybody else. Be careful.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
From USA today quote taste it for yourself. Breast milk
flavored ice cream available nationwide.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Stop it? Oh what, I'm not a baby, so you well,
I just what's going on here? What's what's the point?
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Secret Service in awe, Trump
walks on moderate at least slope roof.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh that's some good sarcassm right there. So back to
the WNBA and not the sex toys part. Did you
hear what Britney Griner said? And she's the one that
we traded one of the worst people in the world
for to get out of that Russian prison. She said
the dumbest thing about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA the
other day. We got a bunch of stuff we got
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to get to. I hope you can stick around Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Nineteen year old former dough staff are known as Big Balls,
was beaten by a violent mob of miners in the
nation's capital and a popular part of town. According to police,
A fifteen year old man and a fifteen year old
woman were arrested in charged with unarmed carjacking. Trump warned
if crime has not dealt with properly, he may be
forced to take over.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Somebody from Dosee was very badly hurt last night.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
You saw that a young man who was beat up
by a bunch of thugs in DC.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And either they're going to straighten their act out. In
the terms of government and in terms of protection, we're
gonna have to federalize and run it the way it's
supposed to be run. That's a terrible story. Could happen
in any city, could certainly happen in any of your
blue cities where they don't prosecute crime. And even if
they catch somebody doing something awful, you let them go
because the system blah blah blah, you're a Marxist. But
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in this case, it was a big balls, one of
your famous doge dudes nineteen years old and saw carjacking
and they're coming toward the car and he pushes his
girlfriend in the car to try to say, to protect
her from this group that was harassing him. Then they
just start beating the crap out of him. Yeah, and
thing you left out of your analysis is that the
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word has gotten around that if you're a teenager you
can commit any crime, and in the Blue Cities they'll say, well,
you're a victim of the system, so we'll do nothing
about it. It's just luck that police happened to roll
up like right as he was getting attacked or quite
possibly would have been killed. I mean, oh yeah, you know,
you can start getting kicked in the head and punched
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in the face or you know, again, there are a
hell of a lot of the fates that are horrible,
that are sure of being killed. Sure, absolutely, Well, just
that alone, you would never be the same. No, he's
in one of the really trendy hot spots of DC
where a restaurant, bars and stuff like that. You would
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never again in your life walk out of a restaurant
wasn't even super late at night. You'd never get in
your life, walk out of a restaurant and not be
nervous about being attacked, and anybody who's had traumatic brain
injury can tell you it changes you pretty much forever. Anyway,
A horrible story. But so now Trump is talking over
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his legal right to take over DC if it's not
being run properly. Putting aside for the moment, the shrieks
of horror that we would hear from the left and
then some on the right as well. If it were
done in the right way and DC became like a
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low crime heavenly, you know, great city to live in.
What effect might that have on the nation's politics, probably
just for about one generation. That would be something. I mean,
if the Feds went in and cleaned up DC made
us safe, Wow, that'd be great. So interesting story here,
(20:22):
that's turn in Singapore cane people for chewing gum. Start
there with the gum Caine grumbles from there, that's pined
for chewing gum. Mark Errick. So a different topic. This
is not actually about the WNBA. It's bigger than that
and more interesting than that. So it starts with the
whole uh we had Katie mentioned possibility it's going to
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become a thing to throw sex toys on the court
at w NBA games. I hear that, Alay has. I
hope that doesn't catch on. It's happened twice. The fact
that I find it hilarious doesn't mean it should continue.
I'm not laughing, I'm coughing. Well it's spread to the NBA. No,
(21:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I suppose very quickly they'll have to start just going
through people's bags and purses to make sure they haven't
brought a you say the word. I don't say the word.
It rhymes with admiral, Admiral Bilbo. I don't say that word.
But they'll just start have to check your bags and
purses to make sure you're not trying to smuggle one in.
But you just strap it to your leg or something.
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It's not like a metal detector is gonna catch it anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Such politically correct times, they can't ask you if you're
wearing it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You know what I mean? Well, right, yeah, exactly. So anyway,
this is different part of the w NBA story. Britney
Griner is maybe.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Pardon me a man, sorry, it's that same cough Joe has.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, so first of all, Katie mentioned that during the commercials,
and I had never really thought about it, and she
says she's got a very low voice, and she's a
very man masculine, masculine woman. So then I just I did.
I searched on Britney Griner. I wasn't searching on that.
I was searching on something else, and then I came
across the story that, well, if I look at news, uh,
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Snopes has a story that's making the round that the
WNBA is doing some sort of investigation as to her
actual sex. But Snope says that isn't true. That's funny.
I haven't heard Snopes referenced in forever. I wasn't even
going to talk about that. I had watched a video
last night on YouTube that featured quotes from Stephen A. Smith,
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clips from his show like the most famous sportscaster in
the world, and a bunch of other people and everything
like that, and got hoodwinked on something that isn't real.
Apparently a whole bunch of organizations have. And then you
can cobble together comments about other things and put them
with your narrative, and it's pretty easy to get fooled
in the modern world. That's really the point of me
(23:09):
bringing this up. It's not the WNBA story. It's just
a It is so damn hard to figure out what's
real and what's not, and it's gonna get way worse anyway.
So Britney Griner, a WNBA player, She's the famous one
that got locked up in Russia by Putin and we
had to trade one of the worst arms merchants in
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the world to get her back out. Yeah, way to go,
way to get to have to, you know, obligate your
country to do that, because you like the gane so much.
She has her she has, thank you, madam. She has
recently been associated with fabricated quotes expressing frustration with crowds
the women's basketball games. I heard these last night and
(23:49):
Stephen A. Smith commenting on him, and I thought, oh,
I can't wait to talk about this tomorrow. This is amazing.
She did not say she was not complaining about current
WNBA crowds, and said w NBA games used to be
a chill, quiet place you could bring your laptop and
relax and enjoy the game. Now there's all this yelling
and chanting and stomping around. You can't even hardly hear
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yourself thinking these stadiums, And of course the blowback was, Okay,
you became a popular sport and now you have a
crowd and you're complaining about it. No, did people actually
take that seriously?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I took it seriously because it had Stephen A. Smith
reacting to it, but apparently he was reacting to other
stories that just got edited in and so I just
got fooled. So she did not say that, just to clarify, No,
and he did not comment on it correct And yet
there it was in utterly convincing form on the interwebs. Yeah,
I mean very convincing. They had recently posted this, and
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then they had what looked like a tweet from her,
and then they Stephen A. Smith thought it was outrageous,
and then they have him going on and on about
the WNBA and not understand blah blah blah, and I
just assumed it was real. Wow, but it was completely phony. Yeah, disturbing.
Now this doesn't matter because it's a sport that only
exists because it's subsidized by the men's league, and you know,
(25:09):
in sports doesn't matter that much period all the way around.
But this sort of thing is happening with politics all
the time. I don't know. I don't know what we're
going to do about this. I don't think there's anything
we can do about it. Hurl a dildo into the
House of Representatives. I don't know. Oh that's your answer
for everything. It's just you've made your planted. What is
(25:30):
one to do? I don't know. Well, I'm reduced to
chucking of marital lie. Well, I can't. I can't do
the homework assignment. Everything I come across to like go
three layers deep to make sure it's real. It's a
little too time consuming, right, And then the other end
of it is you just stop believing anything, which is
what Putin's hoping for with all the bots that he's
(25:52):
got flying her out there in the Chinese. They want
us to just become so discouraged we don't believe anything.
Coming up. By the way, and mail bag highly controversial
and sexist email about the WNBA. Shocking stuff stay with us.
And by the way, as I'm scrolling through, I just
searched on Britney Griner complaints about crowd the number of
(26:13):
sites that say bright Britney Griner complains about how loud
it is not games and blah blah blah. I mean
tons of sites that we're quoting that whole fake thing. Wow, Wow,
these are odd times. I know it, I don't, I don't.
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a question about whether she said Britney Grinder said trash
white girl about Caitlin Clark after a call or something
the other game again getting getting to the Wall Street
Journals article that there might be a legal case that
Caitlin Clark is being discriminated against in the workplace for
(28:04):
being white. Right, But to your previous point, My immediate
instinctive reaction to you suggesting that Britney Grinder said that
was I don't know if she said it or not. Right, Yeah,
I don't know, a little troubling if you do this
for a living, follow the news and want to talk
about the most interesting stuff, and a chunk at the time,
(28:27):
it might not be true speaking of women in the news.
The perfect cap, the exclamation point, the end, the second
parenthesy of the Sydney Sweeney story. Oh boy, I hope
it's the cap in the end. I know, I think
we all do. I don't think the subpoenas on the
(28:48):
Clintons and Komy and Clapper and all these different people
about the Epstein case means that's the cap on that story.
I think we're about to go way further on that
whole thing to what end. I have no idea. We'll
get into that an hour two. And we've got mail
Bag next. For instance, we're just talking about the fake
(29:11):
Britney Griner's story WNBA story that went around and got
all kinds of outlets talking about it, and it was
all phony. The whole Epstein thing. How are you supposed
to nail down what's real and what's not on that?
And are now subpoenas for like everybody that's been in
the news and politics in the last ten years have
(29:32):
been subpoenaed around the whole Epstein thing. And I have
no idea what's going to come out of that. It's
become a cottage industry, a significant industry, both in terms
of dollars and cents and also political power going back
and forth. So yeah, I see your point coming up
next hour. Never mind, Puppy Mills the Chinese communists are
running baby mills in the United States. The unbelievable story
(29:56):
coming up. I can't wait. You're not over selling this good.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, wrapping up
a series from the fabulous the fabulous Xavier Milay of Argentina.
And this isn't the quote of the day, but I
liked it. He says, I'm really a rough Bardian libertarian.
The state shouldn't exist. But in the short run, I'm
(30:18):
a menarchist. I've decided that's what I am. He says,
I'm a minarchist. I'll settle for minimal government that provides defense, justice,
and security, with social services left to the private sector.
I want to get back to that quote. Wow, ruminate
on it. That is great. Yeah, yeah, it's terrific. Oh
here's the actual quote. Do not surrender to the advance
(30:38):
of the state. The state is not the solution. The
state is the problem itself. Male state is the problem itself.
It's just a different wording of Ronald Reagan's you know,
amen to that. More more to come. Drum's note mail
bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Wow, this just die.
(31:01):
This email from Drew the millennial WNBA finally receiving enormous
amounts of attention relative to anything it's ever seen. These
women are finally getting what they've been demanding for years,
but they seem more unhappy than ever. This is the
most interesting thing about the WNBA. It's a league of women, obviously,
but the league is, in general Caddy jealous of the
success of other women, unsatisfied with solutions to the league's
(31:23):
problems because they aren't in the form they expected, et cetera.
It's interesting because evidently, if a big group of women
get together, that group of individual women will begin to
collectively behave like one single woman without them even coordinating it.
It just happens. This needs to be studied on the
university level. Truth of millennial That is sexist, that's stereotyping.
(31:46):
You know what, your emails are no longer welcome here.
It's like what's his name the comedian at the SPT
other night when he said, Megan Rappano isn't here good
and everybody we grown and he said, oh, what we're
gonna pretend she is a good time. That's beautiful. Moving along, boy,
(32:06):
We did a segment on parents sneaking candy contraband to
their kids in camp and Kay Rights, I agree with Katie.
The story he told the other day about the kids
that summer campon and the parents sounds like smuggling contraband
into a prison. What are these kids and their parents
going to do next? Suitcase, slim gyms, tutsi rolls, and
three Musketeers bars, perhaps a can of pringles. I doubt that. Well,
(32:31):
if I have to, I'll take the slim gym over
the pringles. You know, it was crazy because these camps
have these rules against candy and food and all because
they have rat problems. But the parents explained, the kid
gets a jolt of Mommy and daddy are thinking of
me and sent me my favorite treat even though I'm
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away at camp. And I look at it the other way.
I think the kid gets a jolt of You're not
going to always have everything you want the way you
want it. This is life. That's what eules follow him.
Let's see Jeff and North Carolina points out, guys, JD.
Vance has been glaringly absent during several big controversies lately.
(33:12):
Smart Trump famously, we ought to get this clip essentially
called jdvans the heir parent yesterday. Yeah, and he has
not been involved in some of the stickier, icky er
stuff like Epstein for instance. What if he's got the
Trump esque qualities that work and but with some restraint,
(33:35):
that might make him pretty powerful. Oh my gosh, don't
don't tempt me place, don't give me that much hope.
Let's see Brandon, right, guys. The whole jerrymandering discussion reminds
me of a great saying voters don't choose their politicians,
politicians choose their voters. I wish I could remember where
(33:55):
I read that, But just like human nature, I don't
think it'll ever change. All we can do is restrain them.
In California, about forty percent of people vote Republican, represented
by seventeen percent of the House members. That's almost exactly
the same number. Is what Texas is trying to pull
off right now. That's being treated as some sort of
(34:16):
Nazi takeover and deceiving hypocrite. Gavin Nooso is all offended.
We've got to protect our democracy. In fact, we're going
to violate our own laws and we're going to redistrict
even harder in California. I must say, though, I think
the Dems are winning the pr battle on this, even
though they jerry mannered their states long before Texas got
around to it. I don't think they will ultimately win it.
(34:39):
I hope you're right, even with the entirety of the
media let's see, Wow, this is heavy. Jacob writing about
our discussion of the Pacific theater in World War Two,
the dropping of the atomic bombs, etc. It reminded me
of a conversation I had with my sister in law,
who was Japanese born and raised in Japan. I forgot
how the subject of the war came up. I was
(35:00):
curious about how it was taught in Japan. After some discussion,
I asked her if she was taught about comfort women,
the rape of Nan King, et cetera. Her reaction was
if she were hearing about these atrocities for the very
first time. Well educated woman too. And it occurred to
me that the more controversial subjects were not taught in
Japanese schools, and why would they be. Only a stupid
country would focus on the horrible things that it did
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in its past. I mean, I'm for a balanced view
of history, but yeah, we have allowed our education system
to be taken over by America haters. It's a bizarre experiment. Well,
but I don't even know if I buy in as
much as people claim they do about looking at your
worst stuff all the time. Did you sit around the
(35:42):
dinner table and talk about the time you lost your
temper over and over and over again? Why? All right?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
No, it would be a perverse and poisonous way of
approaching the totality of whatever you're talking about, right, And
the only possible motivation for promoting demanding that that's the
way the discussion go is because you want to tear
down what it is you are talking about. Absolutely, that's
(36:11):
a good one. Speaking of Joe Getty, cold Warrior, damn
Chinese commies running baby mills in our country in LA specifically,
all the details next hour, I promise. Plus, we have
a new detention center with a cool name, the Speedway
Slammer in Indiana. It's no Alligator Alcatraz, so lots on
(36:33):
the way. If you missed a secondent, get the podcast
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Armsrong live from the studio scene Slay Sor.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's midweek. We're in a dimly lit room deep with
on the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
The atomic bomb is our general manager? Who it is?
That's a rough one at serious times. August sixth, eighty
years ago, we dropped it on Japan. It off? Will
(01:00):
YOUA We were saying to of them, knock it off,
will you? But they wouldn't knock it off? Yeah, not
to turn the opening segment overly serious, but you're a screege.
Yesterday if you missed it, grabbed the podcast Armstrong and
getting on demand About the rating you've been doing about
the war in the Pacific and the bigger context of
the dropping of the bomb. I found very interesting and
(01:21):
did a little more rating myself. And yeah, the the
body count generated by Japan across Asia was mind boggling.
Why is it not talked about? Imperial Japan was a
human slaughtering machine that devoured tens of millions, and they
(01:43):
had to be stopped, and they believed as one of
the most racist groups of people that have ever lived.
They believed they were the only people that should live
and were superior to all those or everyone should else
be enslaved. The right, they were killing the depth total
per day at the time we dropped the bomb eighty
(02:05):
years ago to day, I forget it was, but something
like seven fourteen thousand something like that people a day
were dying at the hands of the Japanese and various
conflicts in countries in other countries, right, right, And as
you were talking about yesterday, the Howard Zinnen like change
in the narrative which happened when we were kids, that
(02:27):
we shouldn't have dropped the bombs. It was immoral and
indefensible and buy in America is a bad country and
you should hate your country, blah blah blah, because it's
all part of the same thing. What it takes to
get to that conclusion is you've just kind of isolate
the conflict in Japan versus the US, right, and those
casualties even in the even to me, that analysis doesn't
make any sense, but you've got to ignore the unspeakable
(02:48):
horror of the Japanese war machine. And it's just it's
another false narrative pushed by the global far left to
try to bring down the big dog for free markets
and liberty, the United States. And you know what, they
can go to hell. Yeah. This guy named Frank who
wrote Downfall, he gets on a lot of podcasts standing
(03:10):
up for the dropping the bomb, but he always people
leave out the then what would we have done, because
we weren't going to just say, okay, we'll leave you
in place with your military, which is very very powerful,
killing people as fast as you can. So that was
at an option. The backup plan was to surround the country
(03:32):
and starve them out. That was the backup plan, and
that would have killed way more people. And it is
believed that just like Hamas, the Japanese military would have
kept the food for themselves and been perfectly fine with
starving the population, including many of our prisoners by the way,
which they were doing at the time, starving them, if
not just killing them so that they wouldn't have to
(03:53):
eat anything. Right, So that was the backup plan, which
was going to be worse in terms of a number
of people dying. Yeah, yep, it's again I get as
a guy who loves history, it weirds me out sometimes
that I think, what's the point of even reading about
it because nobody else does. Narratives get formed and they
last for decades or centuries regardless of what's true. Right, Well,
(04:20):
I guess all you can do is chip away at
the colossus of you know, left wing consensus and spread
the word best you can. I suppose. I don't know.
It's it's a battle for hearts and minds. You just,
you know, do you do your part as a person
with a conscience. We had only you know, if you've
seen the movie Oppenheimer, you know this. We'd only tested
(04:40):
that nuclear weapon like in July, and here it is
today that we dropped it. I mean, we had just
tested the dang thing. So will it work? Is it
going to suck the plane out of the sky and
kill the crew that dropped it? I mean, nobody knew
what was going to happen, with a variety of different things,
and then it wasn't the greatest thing on the ground
(05:02):
there either. Oh no, lands on your head. No. Indeed,
Although as Frank and others have pointed out if you
look at the deaths from the dropping of the atomic
bombs in the context of the Greater conflict, I mean
it was a tiny A tiny number. Is two hundred
thousand people an unspeakable horror, Yeah, which begins to give
(05:24):
you an idea of the scope of the horror of
the Japanese wars of conquest. Yeah, wars are horrible. So
we've got a war going on right now between Russia
and Ukraine that is absolutely horrible. The things that are
happening on the ground and the way people are dying
and maimed and just absolutely horrible. And Trump said his
(05:46):
peace dude over there Witkoff Again. He's talking to Putin
right now in Russia as we speak, and the belief
is that he's delivering a much different message than he
has delivered in the past from Trump. When Trump thought,
we're a couple of smart guys that run the world.
We're going to work this out. It's a misunderstanding. Now
Trump realizes that's not the case, that Putin is a
(06:09):
power hungry nut job, And so the assumption is that
the message is completely different. What it is, I don't know,
but hopefully it's something along the lines of sanctions hit
Friday and we are going to arm Ukraine like you
can't even believe. So what do you think? I have
heard almost nobody thinking, talking, speculating about what I find
(06:29):
the most intriguing question in this of for recent weeks,
That is, how did Putin decide and what was his
purpose in responding to some of Trump's entreaties, not with
promises or negotiation, but with contempt, open, insulting contempt of Trump.
(06:51):
Because Putin's a calculator, he does not go off half cocked.
What was he trying to get or accomplish? I don't know.
I don't know. That's what I've wanted all along too.
I find that, you know, if I was writing a
novel or just speculating. Hell, I am speculating. I'm frightened
by the possible answers to that question. I don't get it.
(07:14):
Why are you trying to provoke a known hot head
at the head of the greatest military in the history
of the Earth. Why are you playing the hard ass
when you've been playing the Hey, I'm sure we can
find an agreement guy for so long. Psychologically, does he
think Trump will back down? Or is like you said,
(07:36):
you are a concerned. Is your concern that he's not rational,
oh Putin? Yeah, yeah, or that he's trying to provoke
some gigantic conflict. He and Shijin Pang have gotten together
and decided, Look, the only way to turn the global
order against the US, because we're making progress is to
(07:58):
provoke the US into some serious military action that kills
I don't know, half a million people, And Putin said, yeah,
I don't mind sacrificing that many people and chesi and
things like place I eat that for breakfast. I don't know.
You got two countries that if they lost a million
people between them, that wouldn't blink an eye. I mean,
it wouldn't mean anything to him. Where in the where
(08:19):
in Western societies obviously be just as horrific as anything
we can imagine they might be. They might be calculating
that's that was part. That was the calculation eighty years
ago today by the Japanese right exactly. And though it
sounds unthinkable, that sort of thing has been decided over
and over again in history, including WW two, and I
(08:40):
just I'm surprised nobody is. I'm not hearing any punditry
on that question. Yeah, it is shocking that more atomic
bombs have not been dropped since eighty years ago this week.
I mean, it's just shocking. Nobody would have expected that.
I've got it crappy as human beings are. Yes, I
would agree we've got to Kennedy's yesses that he was
(09:01):
making in his administration for where the world would be,
and we're way short of that, thank god, in terms
of countries having and using nuclear weapons. Someday it will happen, though,
and then who knows what's going to occur after that.
But uh, it's a little heavy for right at this moment.
We should start to show. We should start to show
officially on this August six sixth. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
(09:23):
Joe Getty Wednesday, August sixth of the year twenty twenty five,
or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. Oh,
I should probably mention that the Chinese are establishing baby
factories in Los Angeles. More on that story to come.
What is bizarre? Story? Bizarre? All right, let's begin the
show officially now according to FCC rules regulations, here we
go at Mark, I would like to know what your
(09:45):
solution would be for gun violence.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Great question, I believe in a mix of stronger gun
control laws, mental health support.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And community engagement.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections,
making sure everyone feel seen and heard. It's about building
a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think
about that?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I think that's a great idea, Joaquin, So what was that?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That was somebody who doesn't exist being interviewed one of
the kids who died in the Parkland school shooting, one
of the worst school shootings in US history. An a
I creation of in theory how you would answer or
something I don't know exactly. That was a grand standing
(10:32):
former CNN lefty Jim Acosta interviewing the AI manifestation of
one of the victims of the Parkland shooting, with the
blessing of the parents, who are gun control activists as well.
Is that supposed to be deep? Or I think so
touching and moving and powerful? Because you programmed a robot
(10:55):
to say what you wanted it to say, I assume,
And it looks like the lad talking kind of accept
the words are out of sync with the lips. Well,
even if they were in sync with ellips, how significant
would that be? Do I have a soft head. In
this scenario, I think, to the pliable skulled among us,
that's very powerful. Oh my god, that was so moving.
(11:21):
All right. I know. Wait, we've heard about this thing
with funerals across the country. I don't know if this
will become a thing where you ai kind of reanimates
the person that was dead, right, and then they can
they can be up on a screen thanking everybody for
coming and maybe saying what they you know you meant
(11:41):
to me or whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Sniding blame, calling out my enemies, and you did me wrong,
Uncle Aal, you did me wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I would shout from beyond the grave. So it's like
the great Festivus airing of the grievances. That's the way
the funeral would go. Oh yeah, I got stuff to say.
Sit down. I have a lot of problems with you people.
Let's get started. I may be dead, but I'm not
through with you. Uncle Jim, you kissed my wife once
when you were drunk. I've always hated you. Okay, So
(12:18):
we got the Chinese baby making factory or whatever Joe
called that. We got Katie's headlines, we got lots of
news of the day. I hope you can stay here.
I look forward to Katie's headlines because there's a couple
of head spinners. I don't know if they're a really
big deal or just kind of the sound and fury
signifying nothing that goes on in modern politics. Right, Hey,
(12:41):
quick private note to Elon Musk, Elon, get some cookies
or something on X Why are you always making me
re sign in? So the dang Twitter on my laptop?
It's the pain. This is me. It's me. Don't you
recognize me? All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie starting with.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
The three Beata O'Rourke's Political Action Committee funded Texas Democrats
private jet to Illinois.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh really, I know why he needs to get go away? Yeah,
oh please, But it reminds me of why like a
Kamala Harris might run for office again to build a
giant slush fund, true, and to become a king maker
or queen maker. Man, you can play a role that way.
We need to talk more about the whole redistricting thing. Man.
The coverage of this is so unfair. Well, and how
(13:30):
hilariously jerrymandered Illinois is right, it's I mean the ironies
just too much. It's statistically the most jerrymandered state in
the country, and that's where they ran to to hide.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
For maybe see judge to consider halting operations at Alligator
Alcatraz over environmental concerns.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, okay, all right, environmental concerns. That's always the lefties
technique and getting a better deal free union or not,
you know, having the illegals held or whatever. You don't
care about the environment.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
From NBC House Committee subpoenas the Clintons and several other
former DOJ officials for testimony about Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The whole Epstein thing. Subpoenas for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton,
Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, William Barr, Merrick Garland, Jeff Sessions,
Alberto Gonzales, call me muller. Everybody who can possibly imagine
from like the last entire decade of politics has been
subpoena around the whole Epstein thing. This is either a
really big deal or nothing. I don't have any idea.
(14:41):
This has just become too ridiculous to pay attention to anymore.
In my opinion. You got Democrats going around the country
holding town hall saying we demand transparency of the Epstein thing.
We need the Fosy, well, the Republicans, at least the
Epstein file. But somebody leaked yesterday that Galaine and the
country needs to come up with pronunciation. Let's call her
Gina or Brenda. Let's just pick a name, big Geni,
(15:05):
dog Ja, but every outlet has a different pronunciation. Queen Purvo. Anyway,
she gets moved to the it's like staying at a
resort style prison. And then yesterday the news comes out
that she told when she got interviewed a week or
so ago, she said, I have nothing on Trump. I've
never saw him do anything untoward whatsoever. The timing on
(15:27):
that is not good. I don't I'm not trying to
claim I think Trump did anything, but that's horrible timing.
And it's unprecedented to have a sex offender of her
level in a club fed. It's just what get moved
to that low security prison the same time she announces
Trump didn't do anything wrong. Come on, now, that's just
(15:49):
not a good look. No, it's terrible. From the New
York Post.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
More sex toys get thrown during Liberty Fee games as
one appears to hit Sophie Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh what what sort of sex toys we'll get any
one if we saw before. Okay, we'll get into the
details later. If this becomes a trend, this could get
pretty funny. Well, size matters too. If you're getting you know,
hit by stuff chucked from the stands. Uh yeah, let's uh.
Let's folks listen. It's your sacred right to chuck sex
(16:26):
toys at the game of your choosing, but make sure
you don't hurt anybody else. Be careful.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
From USA today quote taste it for yourself. Breast milk
flavored ice cream available nationwide.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Stop it? Oh what, I'm not a baby, so you well,
I just what's going on here? What's what's the point?
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Secret Service in awe, Trump
walks on moderate at least slope roof.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh that's some good sarcassm right there. So back to
the WNBA and not the sex toys part. Did you
hear what Britney Griner said? And she's the one that
we traded one of the worst people in the world
for to get out of that Russian prison. She said
the dumbest thing about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA the
other day. We got a bunch of stuff we got
(17:24):
to get to. I hope you can stick around Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Nineteen year old former dough staff are known as Big Balls,
was beaten by a violent mob of miners in the
nation's capital and a popular part of town. According to police,
A fifteen year old man and a fifteen year old
woman were arrested in charged with unarmed carjacking. Trump warned
if crime has not dealt with properly, he may be
forced to take over.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Somebody from Dosee was very badly hurt last night.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
You saw that a young man who was beat up
by a bunch of thugs in DC.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And either they're going to straighten their act out. In
the terms of government and in terms of protection, we're
gonna have to federalize and run it the way it's
supposed to be run. That's a terrible story. Could happen
in any city, could certainly happen in any of your
blue cities where they don't prosecute crime. And even if
they catch somebody doing something awful, you let them go
because the system blah blah blah, you're a Marxist. But
(18:16):
in this case, it was a big balls, one of
your famous doge dudes nineteen years old and saw carjacking
and they're coming toward the car and he pushes his
girlfriend in the car to try to say, to protect
her from this group that was harassing him. Then they
just start beating the crap out of him. Yeah, and
thing you left out of your analysis is that the
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word has gotten around that if you're a teenager you
can commit any crime, and in the Blue Cities they'll say, well,
you're a victim of the system, so we'll do nothing
about it. It's just luck that police happened to roll
up like right as he was getting attacked or quite
possibly would have been killed. I mean, oh yeah, you know,
you can start getting kicked in the head and punched
(18:58):
in the face or you know, again, there are a
hell of a lot of the fates that are horrible,
that are sure of being killed. Sure, absolutely, Well, just
that alone, you would never be the same. No, he's
in one of the really trendy hot spots of DC
where a restaurant, bars and stuff like that. You would
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never again in your life walk out of a restaurant
wasn't even super late at night. You'd never get in
your life, walk out of a restaurant and not be
nervous about being attacked, and anybody who's had traumatic brain
injury can tell you it changes you pretty much forever. Anyway,
A horrible story. But so now Trump is talking over
(19:40):
his legal right to take over DC if it's not
being run properly. Putting aside for the moment, the shrieks
of horror that we would hear from the left and
then some on the right as well. If it were
done in the right way and DC became like a
(20:02):
low crime heavenly, you know, great city to live in.
What effect might that have on the nation's politics, probably
just for about one generation. That would be something. I mean,
if the Feds went in and cleaned up DC made
us safe, Wow, that'd be great. So interesting story here,
(20:22):
that's turn in Singapore cane people for chewing gum. Start
there with the gum Caine grumbles from there, that's pined
for chewing gum. Mark Errick. So a different topic. This
is not actually about the WNBA. It's bigger than that
and more interesting than that. So it starts with the
whole uh we had Katie mentioned possibility it's going to
(20:48):
become a thing to throw sex toys on the court
at w NBA games. I hear that, Alay has. I
hope that doesn't catch on. It's happened twice. The fact
that I find it hilarious doesn't mean it should continue.
I'm not laughing, I'm coughing. Well it's spread to the NBA. No,
(21:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I suppose very quickly they'll have to start just going
through people's bags and purses to make sure they haven't
brought a you say the word. I don't say the word.
It rhymes with admiral, Admiral Bilbo. I don't say that word.
But they'll just start have to check your bags and
purses to make sure you're not trying to smuggle one in.
But you just strap it to your leg or something.
(21:35):
It's not like a metal detector is gonna catch it anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Such politically correct times, they can't ask you if you're
wearing it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You know what I mean? Well, right, yeah, exactly. So anyway,
this is different part of the w NBA story. Britney
Griner is maybe.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Pardon me a man, sorry, it's that same cough Joe has.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, so first of all, Katie mentioned that during the commercials,
and I had never really thought about it, and she
says she's got a very low voice, and she's a
very man masculine, masculine woman. So then I just I did.
I searched on Britney Griner. I wasn't searching on that.
I was searching on something else, and then I came
across the story that, well, if I look at news, uh,
(22:25):
Snopes has a story that's making the round that the
WNBA is doing some sort of investigation as to her
actual sex. But Snope says that isn't true. That's funny.
I haven't heard Snopes referenced in forever. I wasn't even
going to talk about that. I had watched a video
last night on YouTube that featured quotes from Stephen A. Smith,
(22:47):
clips from his show like the most famous sportscaster in
the world, and a bunch of other people and everything
like that, and got hoodwinked on something that isn't real.
Apparently a whole bunch of organizations have. And then you
can cobble together comments about other things and put them
with your narrative, and it's pretty easy to get fooled
in the modern world. That's really the point of me
(23:09):
bringing this up. It's not the WNBA story. It's just
a It is so damn hard to figure out what's
real and what's not, and it's gonna get way worse anyway.
So Britney Griner, a WNBA player, She's the famous one
that got locked up in Russia by Putin and we
had to trade one of the worst arms merchants in
(23:29):
the world to get her back out. Yeah, way to go,
way to get to have to, you know, obligate your
country to do that, because you like the gane so much.
She has her she has, thank you, madam. She has
recently been associated with fabricated quotes expressing frustration with crowds
the women's basketball games. I heard these last night and
(23:49):
Stephen A. Smith commenting on him, and I thought, oh,
I can't wait to talk about this tomorrow. This is amazing.
She did not say she was not complaining about current
WNBA crowds, and said w NBA games used to be
a chill, quiet place you could bring your laptop and
relax and enjoy the game. Now there's all this yelling
and chanting and stomping around. You can't even hardly hear
(24:10):
yourself thinking these stadiums, And of course the blowback was, Okay,
you became a popular sport and now you have a
crowd and you're complaining about it. No, did people actually
take that seriously?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I took it seriously because it had Stephen A. Smith
reacting to it, but apparently he was reacting to other
stories that just got edited in and so I just
got fooled. So she did not say that, just to clarify, No,
and he did not comment on it correct And yet
there it was in utterly convincing form on the interwebs. Yeah,
I mean very convincing. They had recently posted this, and
(24:45):
then they had what looked like a tweet from her,
and then they Stephen A. Smith thought it was outrageous,
and then they have him going on and on about
the WNBA and not understand blah blah blah, and I
just assumed it was real. Wow, but it was completely phony. Yeah, disturbing.
Now this doesn't matter because it's a sport that only
exists because it's subsidized by the men's league, and you know,
(25:09):
in sports doesn't matter that much period all the way around.
But this sort of thing is happening with politics all
the time. I don't know. I don't know what we're
going to do about this. I don't think there's anything
we can do about it. Hurl a dildo into the
House of Representatives. I don't know. Oh that's your answer
for everything. It's just you've made your planted. What is
(25:30):
one to do? I don't know. Well, I'm reduced to
chucking of marital lie. Well, I can't. I can't do
the homework assignment. Everything I come across to like go
three layers deep to make sure it's real. It's a
little too time consuming, right, And then the other end
of it is you just stop believing anything, which is
what Putin's hoping for with all the bots that he's
(25:52):
got flying her out there in the Chinese. They want
us to just become so discouraged we don't believe anything.
Coming up. By the way, and mail bag highly controversial
and sexist email about the WNBA. Shocking stuff stay with us.
And by the way, as I'm scrolling through, I just
searched on Britney Griner complaints about crowd the number of
(26:13):
sites that say bright Britney Griner complains about how loud
it is not games and blah blah blah. I mean
tons of sites that we're quoting that whole fake thing. Wow, Wow,
these are odd times. I know it, I don't, I don't.
I don't know what's gonna happen. Things are getting weird,
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off Trust and Will dot com slash Armstrong. Now there's
a question about whether she said Britney Grinder said trash
white girl about Caitlin Clark after a call or something
the other game again getting getting to the Wall Street
Journals article that there might be a legal case that
Caitlin Clark is being discriminated against in the workplace for
(28:04):
being white. Right, But to your previous point, My immediate
instinctive reaction to you suggesting that Britney Grinder said that
was I don't know if she said it or not. Right, Yeah,
I don't know, a little troubling if you do this
for a living, follow the news and want to talk
about the most interesting stuff, and a chunk at the time,
(28:27):
it might not be true speaking of women in the news.
The perfect cap, the exclamation point, the end, the second
parenthesy of the Sydney Sweeney story. Oh boy, I hope
it's the cap in the end. I know, I think
we all do. I don't think the subpoenas on the
(28:48):
Clintons and Komy and Clapper and all these different people
about the Epstein case means that's the cap on that story.
I think we're about to go way further on that
whole thing to what end. I have no idea. We'll
get into that an hour two. And we've got mail
Bag next. For instance, we're just talking about the fake
(29:11):
Britney Griner's story WNBA story that went around and got
all kinds of outlets talking about it, and it was
all phony. The whole Epstein thing. How are you supposed
to nail down what's real and what's not on that?
And are now subpoenas for like everybody that's been in
the news and politics in the last ten years have
(29:32):
been subpoenaed around the whole Epstein thing. And I have
no idea what's going to come out of that. It's
become a cottage industry, a significant industry, both in terms
of dollars and cents and also political power going back
and forth. So yeah, I see your point coming up
next hour. Never mind, Puppy Mills the Chinese communists are
running baby mills in the United States. The unbelievable story
(29:56):
coming up. I can't wait. You're not over selling this good.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, wrapping up
a series from the fabulous the fabulous Xavier Milay of Argentina.
And this isn't the quote of the day, but I
liked it. He says, I'm really a rough Bardian libertarian.
The state shouldn't exist. But in the short run, I'm
(30:18):
a menarchist. I've decided that's what I am. He says,
I'm a minarchist. I'll settle for minimal government that provides defense, justice,
and security, with social services left to the private sector.
I want to get back to that quote. Wow, ruminate
on it. That is great. Yeah, yeah, it's terrific. Oh
here's the actual quote. Do not surrender to the advance
(30:38):
of the state. The state is not the solution. The
state is the problem itself. Male state is the problem itself.
It's just a different wording of Ronald Reagan's you know,
amen to that. More more to come. Drum's note mail
bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Wow, this just die.
(31:01):
This email from Drew the millennial WNBA finally receiving enormous
amounts of attention relative to anything it's ever seen. These
women are finally getting what they've been demanding for years,
but they seem more unhappy than ever. This is the
most interesting thing about the WNBA. It's a league of women, obviously,
but the league is, in general Caddy jealous of the
success of other women, unsatisfied with solutions to the league's
(31:23):
problems because they aren't in the form they expected, et cetera.
It's interesting because evidently, if a big group of women
get together, that group of individual women will begin to
collectively behave like one single woman without them even coordinating it.
It just happens. This needs to be studied on the
university level. Truth of millennial That is sexist, that's stereotyping.
(31:46):
You know what, your emails are no longer welcome here.
It's like what's his name the comedian at the SPT
other night when he said, Megan Rappano isn't here good
and everybody we grown and he said, oh, what we're
gonna pretend she is a good time. That's beautiful. Moving along, boy,
(32:06):
We did a segment on parents sneaking candy contraband to
their kids in camp and Kay Rights, I agree with Katie.
The story he told the other day about the kids
that summer campon and the parents sounds like smuggling contraband
into a prison. What are these kids and their parents
going to do next? Suitcase, slim gyms, tutsi rolls, and
three Musketeers bars, perhaps a can of pringles. I doubt that. Well,
(32:31):
if I have to, I'll take the slim gym over
the pringles. You know, it was crazy because these camps
have these rules against candy and food and all because
they have rat problems. But the parents explained, the kid
gets a jolt of Mommy and daddy are thinking of
me and sent me my favorite treat even though I'm
(32:51):
away at camp. And I look at it the other way.
I think the kid gets a jolt of You're not
going to always have everything you want the way you
want it. This is life. That's what eules follow him.
Let's see Jeff and North Carolina points out, guys, JD.
Vance has been glaringly absent during several big controversies lately.
(33:12):
Smart Trump famously, we ought to get this clip essentially
called jdvans the heir parent yesterday. Yeah, and he has
not been involved in some of the stickier, icky er
stuff like Epstein for instance. What if he's got the
Trump esque qualities that work and but with some restraint,
(33:35):
that might make him pretty powerful. Oh my gosh, don't
don't tempt me place, don't give me that much hope.
Let's see Brandon, right, guys. The whole jerrymandering discussion reminds
me of a great saying voters don't choose their politicians,
politicians choose their voters. I wish I could remember where
(33:55):
I read that, But just like human nature, I don't
think it'll ever change. All we can do is restrain them.
In California, about forty percent of people vote Republican, represented
by seventeen percent of the House members. That's almost exactly
the same number. Is what Texas is trying to pull
off right now. That's being treated as some sort of
(34:16):
Nazi takeover and deceiving hypocrite. Gavin Nooso is all offended.
We've got to protect our democracy. In fact, we're going
to violate our own laws and we're going to redistrict
even harder in California. I must say, though, I think
the Dems are winning the pr battle on this, even
though they jerry mannered their states long before Texas got
around to it. I don't think they will ultimately win it.
(34:39):
I hope you're right, even with the entirety of the
media let's see, Wow, this is heavy. Jacob writing about
our discussion of the Pacific theater in World War Two,
the dropping of the atomic bombs, etc. It reminded me
of a conversation I had with my sister in law,
who was Japanese born and raised in Japan. I forgot
how the subject of the war came up. I was
(35:00):
curious about how it was taught in Japan. After some discussion,
I asked her if she was taught about comfort women,
the rape of Nan King, et cetera. Her reaction was
if she were hearing about these atrocities for the very
first time. Well educated woman too. And it occurred to
me that the more controversial subjects were not taught in
Japanese schools, and why would they be. Only a stupid
country would focus on the horrible things that it did
(35:21):
in its past. I mean, I'm for a balanced view
of history, but yeah, we have allowed our education system
to be taken over by America haters. It's a bizarre experiment. Well,
but I don't even know if I buy in as
much as people claim they do about looking at your
worst stuff all the time. Did you sit around the
(35:42):
dinner table and talk about the time you lost your
temper over and over and over again? Why? All right?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
No, it would be a perverse and poisonous way of
approaching the totality of whatever you're talking about, right, And
the only possible motivation for promoting demanding that that's the
way the discussion go is because you want to tear
down what it is you are talking about. Absolutely, that's
(36:11):
a good one. Speaking of Joe Getty, cold Warrior, damn
Chinese commies running baby mills in our country in LA specifically,
all the details next hour, I promise. Plus, we have
a new detention center with a cool name, the Speedway
Slammer in Indiana. It's no Alligator Alcatraz, so lots on
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