June 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Tucker's arguing style & the L.A. riots
- Emoji meanings
- Online dating & Jack's library story
- My Heart Will Go On & Latino scholars
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and get and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The question is, is are APEX goals shaped by the
goals of the Israeli government to any extent?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, it's a.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Really simple lobbying on behalf of It's a simple question,
that is ape Are APEX goals shaped by the goals
of the Israeli government?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And I'm just gonna ask you a question straightforwardly. And
if you say no, I think we both know that's
not true. Hey, are they shaped by is that?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It is?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Are they coordinating with the Israeli government? Are they talking? Directing?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What you want to talk about? Farah? The law on
lobbying on behalf of someone? It is I hire you,
and you lobby on behalf of me? I direct you?
Does Israel direct APEC know they are not lobbying on
behalf of them? Do they care about them? Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Tucker Carlson in one of his less unfair grillings of
Ted Cruz, there an interview we discussion we featured yesterday
on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, we played a lot of it. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
As much as we've admired Tucker through the years, he's
he's become a forceful advocate for something I'm sure exactly what.
He's one of the most unfair arguers in the history
of arguing. And Jack discussing that yesterday offered to argue
like Tucker Carlson and it was a tour to force
nineteen Michael. He senses when you are at all a
(01:42):
rhetorical threat to you, and that's when he employs his
various trickeries.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What do you mean by threat if you're just threatening me?
Is that what you're doing? No, No, is that what
you're doing? Threat? Well, you just said threat? Would you
like to rewind the tape? And by the way, why
are you being so defensive all of a sudden, gotten
very very defensive? And I just wonder it must I
must have hit a hot spot with you or something
to be so defensive and then to threaten me.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Jack arguing like Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, it's it's a Tangents are the key. You want
to drive someone crazy. You're trying to have a conversation
about a particular topic, and Tucker takes it off into
left field and he bates people into like defending something
that they weren't even wanting to talk about.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Important, Right, he bates them into defending his twisted version
of what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right, Yeah, we just called a fleazy feline.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh that's out of bounds. Right there, we're told this
is very amusing. Let's find out together. It's a comedian
Ami Kozak Tucker Carlson versus Tucker Carlson, which number twelve?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Michael, didn't you support Donald Trump? Of course I did, Yes,
I can't paign for him. And you know he's been
very pro Israel. He supports Israel. Doesn't that mean by
extension you support his role?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why does that? It doesn't mean that at all? Like
at all? Why don't you support Donald Trump if he
supported his roll? Why would you do that?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I don't see why you would do that if it's
against your values as an American?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean, well, what do you what do you want?
I mean, you support your candidate who probably supports is Roe.
I would think you was supported his roll.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Why would you support a candidate's supports is Roel If
you don't support his wrong, why would you contradict yourself? Well,
not as much as you're contradicting yourself. I mean, it's
speaking on both sides of your mouth. I mean, do
you have two moules?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't. Well, there's two miles you're talking. But once
I's being consistent one size now and then they explode.
Like the clip we played yesterday where Ted Cruz mentions
a Bible verse that like is one of his guiding
principles and Tucker says, you know, where where is it
(03:50):
in the Bible? Ted's a I don't remember, But you
don't know what you're so you're guiding philosophy. You don't
know where in the Bible that is. I mean, so
like that sort of thing. Yeah, right, I we're through here.
But I see what you're doing. No, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You can't even cite the chapter. What's the context it's in?
What the chapter of the Bible?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The Bible? I don't know. You don't even know the context.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So you take a random verse from the Bible out
of context, and you based your entire world view on it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
My entire world view it you just said it? What Wait,
you don't know the population of Iran? How could you
possibly want to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon?
When you don't know the population. Yeah, yep, yep. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
In other news, an appeals court has let Trump keep
control of the California National Guard troops in LA, quickly
overturning the San Francisco hippie judges in defensible decision the
other day saying, we conclude it as likely that the
President lawfully exercise statutory authority.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And have had it. Does that doesn't the whole LA
riots thing. So it was last Saturday that I drove
through Los Angeles to take my son to the boy
Scout camp and I'm picking him up tomorrow, and it
was all the talk and I was like, what is
it going to be like at the protests and the
no kings? That seems like that was six years ago. Yeah,
it was six days ago. Yeah, their ace of news
(05:19):
and what's important is just it's too much to handle, right,
no kidding.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And there's still unrest and there will be more demonstrations
and violence, you know at some point.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I'm not in the mood today, but some of the
poll numbers coming out about Americans' willingness to see law
abiding illegal immigrants rounded up and set out sent out
is not high.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, Well, then you better change the law because the
losses that they need to go.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, what I called earlier the Armstrong doctrine, which is
logically absolutely correct, but there's not the will to make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, you can't get far enough down that road. Hey
find that. I want a list of the other federal
laws we get to ignore. Oh yeah, yeah, I agree
with you completely. All right.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm just politics is the art of the possible jack,
and I'm telling you, judging by what I see, it's
not going to be possible to push it as far
as you're talking about, even though that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Want to hear my favorite headline from today? Yeah, there
are many good ones, but I like this one. Pope
Leo the fourteenth has many famous cousins, including Madonna, Justin Bieber,
and Moore. Why does why is the pope cousins with
the Madonna, Justin Bieber and Moore? What why is that?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm not cousins with anybody famous that you know of.
It's probably a distant cousin thing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh yeah, I'll bet you're right. Somebody did some sort
of twenty three and me thing. And like, if you
go far enough out We're all related to Madonna at.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Some point, right, yeah, God help us. So getting back
to the unrest in LA. Uh, this is a great
piece by Heather McDonald. She's talking about, well, the headline
is rioting acceptable? If so, how much a judge shrugged
off some stray, isolent incidents LA Police sources still a
very different story. We don't have s under control. An
(07:12):
LAPD commander told me on Sunday, it's a godsend that
the National Guard and the Marines are here. Officers on
the street felt the same way, though the LAPD forbids
them to express that view in public.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The commander said, I must say that an inside source
told me someone with a great deal of knowledge about
this for a very long time, that LAPD is pretty
unhappy with the lack of funny than beginning. We had
an ex LAPD guy on I don't remember the guest's
(07:44):
name day after the riots started talking about how many
people they're down from their peak a few years ago.
I mean, like thousands fewer police officers on the street
than they had a few years ago, and this we're overwhelmed.
We need the National Guard. We don't have it under control.
Is really a political plea for see, we need more officers,
(08:07):
we need more funding. Is what's driving that, which doesn't
make it phony in any way whatsoever. But that could
be the willingness to say to people we don't have
s under control or we're overwhelmed. We want as many
officers as we used.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
To have, right, right, And that could just be the
union talking sure, because they want the payroll and the
rest of it. You know what it reminds me of,
in a funny way is whenever any like US military
action is discussed, you have a certain segment of the
chattering classes that say, oh so, Ray Theon and McDonald,
(08:44):
douglas and all, look at the military industrial complex can
get more money, right as if that's a reaction or
a rejection for every possible military action.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Money and war are in separable.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And what you have to figure out is okay, is
that the defense contractors talking through their mouthpieces on Capitol
Hill or is there actually a legitimate national defense need
here just to say, oh so the military industrial complex
can make more money. That's that's that's not a good argument, yeah,
(09:22):
because that's a constant. There are multiple big city police
forces that are way way down in personnel and completely demoralized.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I believe that to my bone. Sure.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And do the unions also have an interest in beefing
up the roles for financial reason?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Of course? Yeah? Would they be to have more than
they need? You damn right, they would, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
That's why you have to look at it as an
outside of observer or a civilian in charge of those
things and make those judgments.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Combining the military cost thing with Tucker Tuck. One of
the things Tucker said to Ted Cruz on that two
hour long thing that I watch was talking about the
amount of money. You don't know how much money we've
already spent in sending aircraft carriers. I mean, it's got
to be millions of dollars, and I thought, I'm sure
somebody could come up with that number. But our aircraft
(10:17):
carriers are cruising around the sea somewhere, so now they're
there instead of there. I don't understand how that's an
extra cost.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Did they burn x amount of extra fuel getting over
there instead of saying over here? Yeah, but it's like
you see that all the time. To make things over dramatic,
that it cost five million dollars in firefighting time and equipment,
which would have just been at the station house earning
that same amount of money if that hadn't happened. So,
(10:45):
you know, yeah, gotta be careful with that stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Got a new poll the latest numbers on where people
are meeting in the dating world, going back to nineteen thirty.
We talked about this last year, but there are new
numbers out now. It turns out in nineteen thirty nobody
met online. Nobody. Wow, it's changed that much. It's changed
that much. Yes, we have that other stuff on the way. Well,
(11:15):
some big sports news.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
The LA Lakers have been sold for a record ten
billion dollars ten billion for the Lakers. Meanwhile, the Utah
Jazz are on eBay and nobody's bid anything.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Still waiting for the opening bid was that I can't
imagine why the well, how did jazz come in for
a kicking there?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, and small market teams look at Indiana and Oklahoma
City here you're a little rated NBA Finals. So it
finally happened.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I've I've read these I brought these articles to the
show a couple of times about how young hipsters use
emojis differently than old folks and that the old people
need to get hip to it because you're freaking out
your your young workers by giving him a thumbs up.
Thumbs up means that's terrible. It's the equivalent of oh great, apparently, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Remember we talked about this before, but thumbs up is
like sarcastic. Well that's great, yes, because my son sends
me completely inappropriately based on my like a grown up
friend set the emoji of the tears streaming down the
face yes, which usually when adults send it to me,
it's like, you know, I'm really touched by that or
(12:30):
sad about that or whatever. He sends it, like when
he's he sends it when something's funny. He's laughing so hard,
he's crying, and it's.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So it's beyond the tears, just the tears are streaming out.
He's laughing so hard. Yes, exactly. Well, it's finally happened
to me. In my real life, my daughter got some
very good news academically and then included the snorting with
anger emoji, and I said, isn't that an angry emoji?
(13:03):
Because that's cool news, and she said, yeah, in this context, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
F Yeah, I don't know the snorting with anger emoji,
what's it look like? I'll send it to the group.
It's a round yellow faces, Katie, if you could. Yeah,
I'll send it to the group.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I haven't heard that one yet, though, I've only known
that to be like, augh.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
No, yeah, that's that's it. You're just so exasperated, you're
snorting with anger. Yeah, apparently.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Not like I said, I sent an egg plant to
Linda in accounting because I thought her.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Report was good, god, accurate. That's how I denote good work.
There's the emoji in question. O, Katie just sent it
to the group.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I wondered why my phone just went off. I'm quickly
for that. I had never seen that exactly. I had
never seen that one before. Ever.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's the first time I've ever seen that emoji. Yeah,
oh really, you're an anti emojis.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, emojis apparently, I remember I don't send emojis and
I don't text very much, so I guess that's the outside.
But so what do you use that one for? If
somebody had sent that to me, I.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Thought, what the hell is that? Yeah, to me, it's
I'm really pissed off. But no, it's a LFG. As
the kids say, let's a blanket go.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I'm fired up, you go out on a lemon, just
say no, it's not that's not what it's for.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, we can't have if we're gonna use the cartoons
like we're children to communicate, we have to have an
agreed upon meaning, just like we do with words. Yeah,
I'm gonna get I'm gonna get slammed into on the
driver's side door of my car, and some fifteen year
old's gonna say no stop signs to us mean hurry up.
(14:50):
Yeah again. Here's here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay, we old, as you youngsters like to call us,
we own everything and we run and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So am I going to adapt to you or you
that to me? Mmmmmmm. You can't come to me three
times a week and say I need some money for food.
I'm going to my friends and then tell me what
emojis mean. That's not the way it works around here, exactly.
Well said you want money to eat a Cane's chicken
from now on. The tears streaming down means you're sad,
all right, thumbs up means it's good. The thumbs down
(15:21):
means it's bad. All right, ps, get off my lawn
right right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Tell your friends to here's the sidewalk, Look at the lawn,
look at it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I have really entered the teenagers coming to me for
money phase of my life, which I knew what happened
because I I've seen it portrayed on television my whole life.
But oh boy, me and my friends are gonna go eat.
Is there any chance you.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Could coming up later? Guess who's urging Congress to defund
the National Museum of the American Latino Latino scholars who
say it's ridiculous and insulting.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, cool, I like the sound of that. There is
a new The latest data is out on how people
meet in the dating world, which I'm not exactly sure
what that even means, giving the factors up. People don't
date or couple or have kids, so that that factors
into the whole thing too. But the latest, the latest
stats on there, and then my anecdotal evidence from people
(16:25):
I know who do that sort of thing. So that'd
be good on a Friday if you're if you're lonely
and sad. Wow, Wow, that ruined it. That brought me down.
I ruined it. I wish I hadn't said. I didn't
have to say sad. I could have just said, well, lonely,
it's kind of sad, alone and happy. I don't send
you an emoji right now, sad face emoji. But what
(16:46):
just a second, then there's a cute duck emoji. Why
did you send me an egg plant?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Because that means I don't appreciate what you just said
because it's the least think it's the least popular vegetable,
So it means I.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Don't like that. That's why understanding. Yes, So get into
those statistics and a bunch of other stuff on the way.
If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and
Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty, We listen to this.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Tinder just added a new feature that let's use this
coordinate double dates.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You meet three people you don't like. Well, that's interesting
is negative joke about tender and online dating app and
then people laughing and everything like that. I don't know
anything like I don't have I have no practical knowledge
of online dating because I've never done it or seen
(17:41):
a website or I mean, I only know what I've
heard people talk about. But I've I've heard almost entirely
negative stuff, at least in the last couple of years
about how awful it is, and and and the number
of people I've heard who deleted all their apps and
have given up on it because it's it's a it's
a it's only you know a handful of guys trying
(18:04):
to have sex and the end. Yes, Katie, UH drama
makes the stories.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I have several friends that have met the loves of
their lives and been gotten married thanks.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
To quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what,
Jacket's what you described the big story, this is hot,
this is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot,
and then backlash against what's hot.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's actually terrible, It's terrible, over and over. But I
only know my own personal experience with just people I know,
and it's anecdotal, one hundred percent anecdotal, and the plural
anecdote is not data, but anecdotally. I know lots of
people who say and and it's all it was good.
What happened? Well, I can tell you one thing that
(18:46):
did happen that you might not know. Of match dot com,
but every single one of the other UH forums they own,
like practically all of them now. Match dot Com owns Tender,
and I've I've heard of these in the news, okay,
cubid and and I think Hinge and a bunch of
other stuff, maybe e harmony, but they own almost all
(19:09):
of them now, And there's some belief that they have
a reason to not have you match because if you
match with somebody you stay with, you're done as a customer.
Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah,
there is some reason to you know, just string you along,
get you kind of close or not give you many
(19:31):
and you stay desperate and you stay on the.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I mean, of course there's an incentive for that. Yeah, yeah,
that's funny. I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say,
you've got a monopoly uncoupling. We can't have this. Of course,
you could just meet somebody at the library or something
like that. Right the library, it's likely to be a junkie.
But anyway, depending where you live, you meet somebody at
(19:54):
the library is a particularly bad choice in the modern world.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Who's sleep upped in my head? Who meeting someone at
the library? People who read books, sir. The library is
for washing your feet in the sink, and we all
know that, or looking at porn on a taxpayer funded computer,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Researching how do I hide a body? Not on your
own computer?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Right, But looking at the charts through the years, back
in the nineteen thirties, nobody met online. I think that's
an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing. But for all
of mankind time, it was the ice cream social and
friends and then church and that. So that was big
enough to think like. But the way online has exploded,
(20:42):
it dwarfs every other way of people meeting currently, at
least according to all these studies. So you know that
contradicts my anecdotal evidence, although it could have gotten a
lot worse just in the last couple of years, and
these charts would still be true, especially if Match dot
Com bought all the companies and has some reason to
(21:06):
you have zero reason to like perfect your algorithm, you know,
like TikTok perfected the algorithm to keep you engaged. I
don't know if Match dot com or well, they're all
match dot com now, but if Match dot com could
do that, even if somebody came in boss, I've done it.
I've figured out the algorithm that uh, nine times out
(21:28):
of ten will put people together that they'll be happy
the rest of their lives. Would you use that. I
think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
the library online, of course, to make sure that that
did not get out.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, at the very least, change them radiator in the basement.
There are many options to keep this from coming out,
but we don't have to go through the various macob
examples exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
There are several hipop to mind. Oh right, wow, okay,
well it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah. I saw the New York Times article a while back.
I think I talked about this on their breakdown was
it's it's it's like I don't remember the exact numbers,
but this is close enough to write. It's like ten
to one women to men, first of all on there
and secondly, of the men, it's like the same ten
percent best looking guys who get all the dates with
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like ninety percent of the women, and they're not interested
in a in a relationship past like you know, a
night or two, and so I mean that's and that's
what most of it is, at least according to that
New York Times article.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to do that right right, right, right,
right right, or to you know, continually match you up
with somebody who you're never going to connect with full time,
but close.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius. Huh,
that would be evil. Yeah, yeah, And then they they
very being And then this article had a whole bunch
of stuff in there. This all sounds horrible to me,
and I can't imagine it. Just it just sounds like
setting yourself up for the worst rejection you can imagine
in your life, to to like, you know, to put
(23:14):
all this effort and everything like that and get like
no results. In some of the websites, people can give
you thumbs down and stuff. It's like, right, why am
I going back to high school? Are you gonna make
me go back to high school and live this again?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
the nonfiction section of the library, say, I see you're
looking at a book about fungus.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I too, am interested in the fungus for instance. You know,
let me transition quickly to my favorite library story before
we do something differently. I once was in the library, Gladys,
this is my one of my favorite stories. I've told
them many times but we have a lot of new noises.
Katie's never heard this story. I'm sure I'm in the library.
It matters.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It wasn't when you were in the stacks of the
college library in the toil.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
This is a different story. It's totally different. It's funny.
I've got good library stories that I've told many times.
The other one was somebody trying to have a male
hookup is a very complicated I talked about it on
the One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling
all my library stories this week. For some reason. This one,
(24:20):
I'm in the library dressed like me, but me is
shaved head and I'm wearing Doc Martin's which is a
very common look for me. I'm in the library and
I'm in the World War Two section, which is not
uncommon either. I was talking about a book form World
War Two earlier in the show. I'm constantly reading books
about World War Two. But I'm in the World War
(24:41):
two section, shaved head, black Doc Martins, and a guy
walks by me and kind of gives me the look. Now,
having had the previous library experience that I mentioned on
One More Thing, I think he's just interested in me,
and I'm not interested in him because I'm teterossect and
I don't think much beyond it. I walk out of
(25:02):
the library. He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the
like the cement railing. He said, see you like World
War two books? Huh? You like? Uh? You like like
reading about hit Ler and stuff like that. We're having
a meeting Tuesday night. Just let you know. It's at
seven o'clock and it's at the whatever he thought I
was a neo Nazi. I got invited by a neo
Nazi to a Nazi party. My god, I know, in retrospect,
(25:31):
I told this on the air like the next day.
In retrospect, I kind of wish I'd have gone. Yeah,
I just could have investigated get out, but I was
so weirded out. I was so weirded out, oh you know.
And then I get my picture taken and somebody recognized me.
It's on the evening news, no one talk shows, but
(25:53):
that's how they start the meeting. Uh. But yeah, guy
actually invited me to a neo NATS party. Just got
add short hair and war Doc Martins like, you know,
like every lesbian in America, I mean, so what are
they all Nazis. No, Look, what did he look like?
He looked like me. He was in a T shirt, doc,
short hair, except he's a Nazi. Did he have the
(26:16):
white laces in his? Doc? Martins that he wasn't? I
think that's two. I mean, you're really outing yourself if
you go there, are you okay? I'm aware of this. Yeah,
that that's a full on I'm a racist Nazi if
you have white lace supremacist? But oh really, I did
not know that. Yeah, I've always I've always kind of
(26:38):
wished I have checked it out. But you know, it
might be one of those things you get in and
you know some people, and and and and it's it's
harder to untangle yourself from that than you think. Yeah,
I was.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
I can think of all sorts of things that would
go wrong there. I mean not like like deadly wrong,
but just really really wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
If you're campus, all the Nazis are waving at you,
you know.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Oh, hey Jack, hey, well somebody recognizes here or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I mean, that's they were doomed. Yeah, they're walking down
through the park with their big swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey,
that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
And you're saying you know as the news shows up
at your front door. I just went out of curiosity.
You were curious about near Nazism. Well, yeah, I mean
it's it's it's terrible, obviously, but I wanted to go
to the meeting and meet some of the fellows.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I like the footwear.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I don't know what to say, fortunate.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh yeah, but you're right. You get to the meeting
and like, right off the bat, it's you got to
put your arm in the air and say, we blame
the Jews, we hate the Jews. Our goal is to
have the Jews annihilated and immediately and mean and I
are like, I can't be here, and then what are
you gonna just turn around and walk out the door?
And where are you going? Yeah? Again, so I probably
(27:56):
made the right decision, and just getting wide eyed and
uh no and walking away from the guy. Sell you
like World War two books, don't you? Yeah, me and
every other male in America. What the hell is this?
You're casting a pretty quill in that garb? Please, I
male pattern baldness. I keep my hair short. Michael Jordan
made it popular. That's not make doesn't make it a Nazi.
(28:18):
You doubled down with the Doc Martins.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
True, Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging
around in Oregon wearing a pink tutu and some guy
assumes I swing his way.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You can't fault him more in the uniform, huh, were
in heels in a short skirt and they made all
kinds of assumptions. Right, we wanted to get to the
hilarious music bed that is all the rage right now.
If you're gonna do a meme and mock something that's
supposed to be serious, this is the way to mock it.
(28:48):
Katie hipped us to this, and it's so dang funny.
We'll have that coming up for you next Yeah. I
looked it up. So in case you didn't know this,
match dot Com owns tender, ok Cupid, plenty of fish hinge,
black people meet upward, Christian dating, all kinds of yeah,
(29:09):
and that interesting one company. Yeah. So we mocked quite
a bit last week. The Senator Padilla running at the
Homeland Secretary and then being pushed back by Secret Service.
He's lucky he didn't get a rifle button in the
face or something, but he got pushed to the ground
and then he acted like it was some sort of oppressive.
(29:32):
Clearly Hitler Trump is Hitler sort of thing. Oh yeah,
Ashley is the term fascist.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
He so clearly tried to haul himself up on the
cross and become the savior of brave Latino voters everywhere
by his like fake getting arrested drama. It's just pathetic.
And then he comes out afterward and gives this on
the very verge of tears statement about how terrible an
(29:58):
experience it was.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And then you com bin with this. Katie hipped us
to the fact that there's a meme, now is it?
High school kids are great school kids. I think this
was like an elementary school thing. Yeah, playing my Heart
will go on on the fourth grade recorder, remember that
musical instrument poorly? And you put this under things you
want to mock the seriousness of, and it sounds like this.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I was forced to the ground, first on my knees
and then flat on my chest and its handcuffed and
marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking why am I being detained?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That is so good? That is really really that you
could not write words that would be better mockery than that.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Oh that is perfect and exactly what he deserves.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's justice. And hilarity. I love that.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
So, a coalition of more than twenty Latino scholars and
community leaders are asking Speaker of the House of Mike
Johnson to defund the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Latino has outlined the president's discretionary budget request.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Uh said Alfonso at is that on the part of
the Smithsonian mall thing, is it not built yet? Okay,
because there's a bunch of those now that didn't exist
years ago the last time I'd been to DC. Yeah,
it's like.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
The African American Museum that rose up in the wake
of various cultural moments American there was a bunch of them, right, Yeah, exactly.
It hasn't yet been built, but it was going to
be funded for many millions of dollars in Alfonso Aguilar,
director of Hispanic Engagement at the American Principles Project, said, quote,
President Trump is right, it's time to take back our
institutions of culture. That's why he wants to defund this
(32:01):
woke travesty. Congress should now not allow the development of
a museum that's going to be used to push a
radical agenda of grievances and anti American ideologies.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
The letter goes on to state.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Ah, oh, it's a permanent exhibition right now in the
National Museum of American History entitled present Day, a Latino.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
History of the United States.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Sadly, the letter states, quote, this museum is being used
to present to the public a culturally Marxist depiction of
the experiences of Hispanics in America. The museum's flagship exhibit,
in fact, proposes that the history of Americans of Hispanic
origin should be reduced to a quote struggle for justice
to achieve a mostly leftist agendon labor or education, access, fairhousing,
(32:49):
and more recently immigration justice from LGBT plus Q rights, etc.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Accordingly, Hispanics are pervasively portrayed as an oppressed people in
their Spanish era and Christian roots ignored or disparaged.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, the Spanish got over on a whole bunch of
other cultures, like wiped them out, murdered them so that
they could be the dominant culture for a while. Yeah,
I remember, so there was a variety of things like that.
I was just at that museum not that long ago
with my kids, if you remember me talking about it,
And I didn't visit that stuff. But then even in
(33:25):
the natural history part where it was just, you know,
here's a stuffed saber tooth tiger or whatever it was.
Constant climate change is why this animal got wiped out
in Mankind's the love of the automobile and blah blah blah.
It's just never ending, that sort of thing. Yeah. One
of the.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Guys at the National Review, I can't remember if it
was Rich Lowry, wrote a piece a number of months
ago that it was right at the beginning of Trump's
term that if Trump wanted to be successful in beating
back the whole woke insanity movement, that he had to focus.
There were like four points, and obviously one was education
in the universities, but one of them was saying, people
(34:05):
need to get hold of our cultural institution, specifically our
museums again, because the museums on the National Mall are
all run I shouldn't say all. They are heavily heavily
run by a heavily leftist point of view, to the
point that even you know, mastodons somehow, you know, involved
global warming and the racism of African elephants or something
(34:29):
like that and the immigrant elephants or something.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, it's just ridiculous. We got a text from somebody
getting back to the story last segments. We got a
text from somebody who says they got invited to a
barbecue one time and they got there and it was
a neo Nazi meeting. Oh boy, they had made assumptions
about them.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Well, how was the food? As long as I'm here?
Yeahs again Heinrich.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
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a segment or now, or get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
The question is, is are APEX goals shaped by the
goals of the Israeli government to any extent?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, it's a.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Really simple lobbying on behalf of It's a simple question,
that is ape Are APEX goals shaped by the goals
of the Israeli government?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And I'm just gonna ask you a question straightforwardly. And
if you say no, I think we both know that's
not true. Hey, are they shaped by is that?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It is?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Are they coordinating with the Israeli government? Are they talking? Directing?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What you want to talk about? Farah? The law on
lobbying on behalf of someone? It is I hire you,
and you lobby on behalf of me? I direct you?
Does Israel direct APEC know they are not lobbying on
behalf of them? Do they care about them? Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Tucker Carlson in one of his less unfair grillings of
Ted Cruz, there an interview we discussion we featured yesterday
on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, we played a lot of it. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
As much as we've admired Tucker through the years, he's
he's become a forceful advocate for something I'm sure exactly what.
He's one of the most unfair arguers in the history
of arguing. And Jack discussing that yesterday offered to argue
like Tucker Carlson and it was a tour to force
nineteen Michael. He senses when you are at all a
(01:42):
rhetorical threat to you, and that's when he employs his
various trickeries.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What do you mean by threat if you're just threatening me?
Is that what you're doing? No, No, is that what
you're doing? Threat? Well, you just said threat? Would you
like to rewind the tape? And by the way, why
are you being so defensive all of a sudden, gotten
very very defensive? And I just wonder it must I
must have hit a hot spot with you or something
to be so defensive and then to threaten me.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Jack arguing like Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, it's it's a Tangents are the key. You want
to drive someone crazy. You're trying to have a conversation
about a particular topic, and Tucker takes it off into
left field and he bates people into like defending something
that they weren't even wanting to talk about.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Important, Right, he bates them into defending his twisted version
of what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right, Yeah, we just called a fleazy feline.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh that's out of bounds. Right there, we're told this
is very amusing. Let's find out together. It's a comedian
Ami Kozak Tucker Carlson versus Tucker Carlson, which number twelve?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Michael, didn't you support Donald Trump? Of course I did, Yes,
I can't paign for him. And you know he's been
very pro Israel. He supports Israel. Doesn't that mean by
extension you support his role?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why does that? It doesn't mean that at all? Like
at all? Why don't you support Donald Trump if he
supported his roll? Why would you do that?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I don't see why you would do that if it's
against your values as an American?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean, well, what do you what do you want?
I mean, you support your candidate who probably supports is Roe.
I would think you was supported his roll.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Why would you support a candidate's supports is Roel If
you don't support his wrong, why would you contradict yourself? Well,
not as much as you're contradicting yourself. I mean, it's
speaking on both sides of your mouth. I mean, do
you have two moules?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't. Well, there's two miles you're talking. But once
I's being consistent one size now and then they explode.
Like the clip we played yesterday where Ted Cruz mentions
a Bible verse that like is one of his guiding
principles and Tucker says, you know, where where is it
(03:50):
in the Bible? Ted's a I don't remember, But you
don't know what you're so you're guiding philosophy. You don't
know where in the Bible that is. I mean, so
like that sort of thing. Yeah, right, I we're through here.
But I see what you're doing. No, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You can't even cite the chapter. What's the context it's in?
What the chapter of the Bible?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The Bible? I don't know. You don't even know the context.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So you take a random verse from the Bible out
of context, and you based your entire world view on it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
My entire world view it you just said it? What Wait,
you don't know the population of Iran? How could you
possibly want to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon?
When you don't know the population. Yeah, yep, yep. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
In other news, an appeals court has let Trump keep
control of the California National Guard troops in LA, quickly
overturning the San Francisco hippie judges in defensible decision the
other day saying, we conclude it as likely that the
President lawfully exercise statutory authority.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And have had it. Does that doesn't the whole LA
riots thing. So it was last Saturday that I drove
through Los Angeles to take my son to the boy
Scout camp and I'm picking him up tomorrow, and it
was all the talk and I was like, what is
it going to be like at the protests and the
no kings? That seems like that was six years ago. Yeah,
it was six days ago. Yeah, their ace of news
(05:19):
and what's important is just it's too much to handle, right,
no kidding.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And there's still unrest and there will be more demonstrations
and violence, you know at some point.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I'm not in the mood today, but some of the
poll numbers coming out about Americans' willingness to see law
abiding illegal immigrants rounded up and set out sent out
is not high.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, Well, then you better change the law because the
losses that they need to go.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, what I called earlier the Armstrong doctrine, which is
logically absolutely correct, but there's not the will to make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, you can't get far enough down that road. Hey
find that. I want a list of the other federal
laws we get to ignore. Oh yeah, yeah, I agree
with you completely. All right.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm just politics is the art of the possible jack,
and I'm telling you, judging by what I see, it's
not going to be possible to push it as far
as you're talking about, even though that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Want to hear my favorite headline from today? Yeah, there
are many good ones, but I like this one. Pope
Leo the fourteenth has many famous cousins, including Madonna, Justin Bieber,
and Moore. Why does why is the pope cousins with
the Madonna, Justin Bieber and Moore? What why is that?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm not cousins with anybody famous that you know of.
It's probably a distant cousin thing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh yeah, I'll bet you're right. Somebody did some sort
of twenty three and me thing. And like, if you
go far enough out We're all related to Madonna at.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Some point, right, yeah, God help us. So getting back
to the unrest in LA. Uh, this is a great
piece by Heather McDonald. She's talking about, well, the headline
is rioting acceptable? If so, how much a judge shrugged
off some stray, isolent incidents LA Police sources still a
very different story. We don't have s under control. An
(07:12):
LAPD commander told me on Sunday, it's a godsend that
the National Guard and the Marines are here. Officers on
the street felt the same way, though the LAPD forbids
them to express that view in public.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The commander said, I must say that an inside source
told me someone with a great deal of knowledge about
this for a very long time, that LAPD is pretty
unhappy with the lack of funny than beginning. We had
an ex LAPD guy on I don't remember the guest's
(07:44):
name day after the riots started talking about how many
people they're down from their peak a few years ago.
I mean, like thousands fewer police officers on the street
than they had a few years ago, and this we're overwhelmed.
We need the National Guard. We don't have it under control.
Is really a political plea for see, we need more officers,
(08:07):
we need more funding. Is what's driving that, which doesn't
make it phony in any way whatsoever. But that could
be the willingness to say to people we don't have
s under control or we're overwhelmed. We want as many
officers as we used.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
To have, right, right, And that could just be the
union talking sure, because they want the payroll and the
rest of it. You know what it reminds me of,
in a funny way is whenever any like US military
action is discussed, you have a certain segment of the
chattering classes that say, oh so, Ray Theon and McDonald,
(08:44):
douglas and all, look at the military industrial complex can
get more money, right as if that's a reaction or
a rejection for every possible military action.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Money and war are in separable.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And what you have to figure out is okay, is
that the defense contractors talking through their mouthpieces on Capitol
Hill or is there actually a legitimate national defense need
here just to say, oh so the military industrial complex
can make more money. That's that's that's not a good argument, yeah,
(09:22):
because that's a constant. There are multiple big city police
forces that are way way down in personnel and completely demoralized.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I believe that to my bone. Sure.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And do the unions also have an interest in beefing
up the roles for financial reason?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Of course? Yeah? Would they be to have more than
they need? You damn right, they would, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
That's why you have to look at it as an
outside of observer or a civilian in charge of those
things and make those judgments.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Combining the military cost thing with Tucker Tuck. One of
the things Tucker said to Ted Cruz on that two
hour long thing that I watch was talking about the
amount of money. You don't know how much money we've
already spent in sending aircraft carriers. I mean, it's got
to be millions of dollars, and I thought, I'm sure
somebody could come up with that number. But our aircraft
(10:17):
carriers are cruising around the sea somewhere, so now they're
there instead of there. I don't understand how that's an
extra cost.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Did they burn x amount of extra fuel getting over
there instead of saying over here? Yeah, but it's like
you see that all the time. To make things over dramatic,
that it cost five million dollars in firefighting time and equipment,
which would have just been at the station house earning
that same amount of money if that hadn't happened. So,
(10:45):
you know, yeah, gotta be careful with that stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Got a new poll the latest numbers on where people
are meeting in the dating world, going back to nineteen thirty.
We talked about this last year, but there are new
numbers out now. It turns out in nineteen thirty nobody
met online. Nobody. Wow, it's changed that much. It's changed
that much. Yes, we have that other stuff on the way. Well,
(11:15):
some big sports news.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
The LA Lakers have been sold for a record ten
billion dollars ten billion for the Lakers. Meanwhile, the Utah
Jazz are on eBay and nobody's bid anything.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Still waiting for the opening bid was that I can't
imagine why the well, how did jazz come in for
a kicking there?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, and small market teams look at Indiana and Oklahoma
City here you're a little rated NBA Finals. So it
finally happened.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I've I've read these I brought these articles to the
show a couple of times about how young hipsters use
emojis differently than old folks and that the old people
need to get hip to it because you're freaking out
your your young workers by giving him a thumbs up.
Thumbs up means that's terrible. It's the equivalent of oh great, apparently, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Remember we talked about this before, but thumbs up is
like sarcastic. Well that's great, yes, because my son sends
me completely inappropriately based on my like a grown up
friend set the emoji of the tears streaming down the
face yes, which usually when adults send it to me,
it's like, you know, I'm really touched by that or
(12:30):
sad about that or whatever. He sends it, like when
he's he sends it when something's funny. He's laughing so hard,
he's crying, and it's.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So it's beyond the tears, just the tears are streaming out.
He's laughing so hard. Yes, exactly. Well, it's finally happened
to me. In my real life, my daughter got some
very good news academically and then included the snorting with
anger emoji, and I said, isn't that an angry emoji?
(13:03):
Because that's cool news, and she said, yeah, in this context, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
F Yeah, I don't know the snorting with anger emoji,
what's it look like? I'll send it to the group.
It's a round yellow faces, Katie, if you could. Yeah,
I'll send it to the group.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I haven't heard that one yet, though, I've only known
that to be like, augh.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
No, yeah, that's that's it. You're just so exasperated, you're
snorting with anger. Yeah, apparently.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Not like I said, I sent an egg plant to
Linda in accounting because I thought her.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Report was good, god, accurate. That's how I denote good work.
There's the emoji in question. O, Katie just sent it
to the group.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I wondered why my phone just went off. I'm quickly
for that. I had never seen that exactly. I had
never seen that one before. Ever.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's the first time I've ever seen that emoji. Yeah,
oh really, you're an anti emojis.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, emojis apparently, I remember I don't send emojis and
I don't text very much, so I guess that's the outside.
But so what do you use that one for? If
somebody had sent that to me, I.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Thought, what the hell is that? Yeah, to me, it's
I'm really pissed off. But no, it's a LFG. As
the kids say, let's a blanket go.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I'm fired up, you go out on a lemon, just
say no, it's not that's not what it's for.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, we can't have if we're gonna use the cartoons
like we're children to communicate, we have to have an
agreed upon meaning, just like we do with words. Yeah,
I'm gonna get I'm gonna get slammed into on the
driver's side door of my car, and some fifteen year
old's gonna say no stop signs to us mean hurry up.
(14:50):
Yeah again. Here's here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay, we old, as you youngsters like to call us,
we own everything and we run and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So am I going to adapt to you or you
that to me? Mmmmmmm. You can't come to me three
times a week and say I need some money for food.
I'm going to my friends and then tell me what
emojis mean. That's not the way it works around here, exactly.
Well said you want money to eat a Cane's chicken
from now on. The tears streaming down means you're sad,
all right, thumbs up means it's good. The thumbs down
(15:21):
means it's bad. All right, ps, get off my lawn
right right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Tell your friends to here's the sidewalk, Look at the lawn,
look at it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I have really entered the teenagers coming to me for
money phase of my life, which I knew what happened
because I I've seen it portrayed on television my whole life.
But oh boy, me and my friends are gonna go eat.
Is there any chance you.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Could coming up later? Guess who's urging Congress to defund
the National Museum of the American Latino Latino scholars who
say it's ridiculous and insulting.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, cool, I like the sound of that. There is
a new The latest data is out on how people
meet in the dating world, which I'm not exactly sure
what that even means, giving the factors up. People don't
date or couple or have kids, so that that factors
into the whole thing too. But the latest, the latest
stats on there, and then my anecdotal evidence from people
(16:25):
I know who do that sort of thing. So that'd
be good on a Friday if you're if you're lonely
and sad. Wow, Wow, that ruined it. That brought me down.
I ruined it. I wish I hadn't said. I didn't
have to say sad. I could have just said, well, lonely,
it's kind of sad, alone and happy. I don't send
you an emoji right now, sad face emoji. But what
(16:46):
just a second, then there's a cute duck emoji. Why
did you send me an egg plant?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Because that means I don't appreciate what you just said
because it's the least think it's the least popular vegetable,
So it means I.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Don't like that. That's why understanding. Yes, So get into
those statistics and a bunch of other stuff on the way.
If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and
Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty, We listen to this.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Tinder just added a new feature that let's use this
coordinate double dates.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You meet three people you don't like. Well, that's interesting
is negative joke about tender and online dating app and
then people laughing and everything like that. I don't know
anything like I don't have I have no practical knowledge
of online dating because I've never done it or seen
(17:41):
a website or I mean, I only know what I've
heard people talk about. But I've I've heard almost entirely
negative stuff, at least in the last couple of years
about how awful it is, and and and the number
of people I've heard who deleted all their apps and
have given up on it because it's it's a it's
a it's only you know a handful of guys trying
(18:04):
to have sex and the end. Yes, Katie, UH drama
makes the stories.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I have several friends that have met the loves of
their lives and been gotten married thanks.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
To quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what,
Jacket's what you described the big story, this is hot,
this is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot,
and then backlash against what's hot.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's actually terrible, It's terrible, over and over. But I
only know my own personal experience with just people I know,
and it's anecdotal, one hundred percent anecdotal, and the plural
anecdote is not data, but anecdotally. I know lots of
people who say and and it's all it was good.
What happened? Well, I can tell you one thing that
(18:46):
did happen that you might not know. Of match dot com,
but every single one of the other UH forums they own,
like practically all of them now. Match dot Com owns Tender,
and I've I've heard of these in the news, okay,
cubid and and I think Hinge and a bunch of
other stuff, maybe e harmony, but they own almost all
(19:09):
of them now, And there's some belief that they have
a reason to not have you match because if you
match with somebody you stay with, you're done as a customer.
Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah,
there is some reason to you know, just string you along,
get you kind of close or not give you many
(19:31):
and you stay desperate and you stay on the.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I mean, of course there's an incentive for that. Yeah, yeah,
that's funny. I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say,
you've got a monopoly uncoupling. We can't have this. Of course,
you could just meet somebody at the library or something
like that. Right the library, it's likely to be a junkie.
But anyway, depending where you live, you meet somebody at
(19:54):
the library is a particularly bad choice in the modern world.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Who's sleep upped in my head? Who meeting someone at
the library? People who read books, sir. The library is
for washing your feet in the sink, and we all
know that, or looking at porn on a taxpayer funded computer,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Researching how do I hide a body? Not on your
own computer?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Right, But looking at the charts through the years, back
in the nineteen thirties, nobody met online. I think that's
an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing. But for all
of mankind time, it was the ice cream social and
friends and then church and that. So that was big
enough to think like. But the way online has exploded,
(20:42):
it dwarfs every other way of people meeting currently, at
least according to all these studies. So you know that
contradicts my anecdotal evidence, although it could have gotten a
lot worse just in the last couple of years, and
these charts would still be true, especially if Match dot
Com bought all the companies and has some reason to
(21:06):
you have zero reason to like perfect your algorithm, you know,
like TikTok perfected the algorithm to keep you engaged. I
don't know if Match dot com or well, they're all
match dot com now, but if Match dot com could
do that, even if somebody came in boss, I've done it.
I've figured out the algorithm that uh, nine times out
(21:28):
of ten will put people together that they'll be happy
the rest of their lives. Would you use that. I
think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
the library online, of course, to make sure that that
did not get out.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, at the very least, change them radiator in the basement.
There are many options to keep this from coming out,
but we don't have to go through the various macob
examples exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
There are several hipop to mind. Oh right, wow, okay,
well it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah. I saw the New York Times article a while back.
I think I talked about this on their breakdown was
it's it's it's like I don't remember the exact numbers,
but this is close enough to write. It's like ten
to one women to men, first of all on there
and secondly, of the men, it's like the same ten
percent best looking guys who get all the dates with
(22:24):
like ninety percent of the women, and they're not interested
in a in a relationship past like you know, a
night or two, and so I mean that's and that's
what most of it is, at least according to that
New York Times article.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to do that right right, right, right,
right right, or to you know, continually match you up
with somebody who you're never going to connect with full time,
but close.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius. Huh,
that would be evil. Yeah, yeah, And then they they
very being And then this article had a whole bunch
of stuff in there. This all sounds horrible to me,
and I can't imagine it. Just it just sounds like
setting yourself up for the worst rejection you can imagine
in your life, to to like, you know, to put
(23:14):
all this effort and everything like that and get like
no results. In some of the websites, people can give
you thumbs down and stuff. It's like, right, why am
I going back to high school? Are you gonna make
me go back to high school and live this again?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
the nonfiction section of the library, say, I see you're
looking at a book about fungus.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I too, am interested in the fungus for instance. You know,
let me transition quickly to my favorite library story before
we do something differently. I once was in the library, Gladys,
this is my one of my favorite stories. I've told
them many times but we have a lot of new noises.
Katie's never heard this story. I'm sure I'm in the library.
It matters.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It wasn't when you were in the stacks of the
college library in the toil.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
This is a different story. It's totally different. It's funny.
I've got good library stories that I've told many times.
The other one was somebody trying to have a male
hookup is a very complicated I talked about it on
the One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling
all my library stories this week. For some reason. This one,
(24:20):
I'm in the library dressed like me, but me is
shaved head and I'm wearing Doc Martin's which is a
very common look for me. I'm in the library and
I'm in the World War Two section, which is not
uncommon either. I was talking about a book form World
War Two earlier in the show. I'm constantly reading books
about World War Two. But I'm in the World War
(24:41):
two section, shaved head, black Doc Martins, and a guy
walks by me and kind of gives me the look. Now,
having had the previous library experience that I mentioned on
One More Thing, I think he's just interested in me,
and I'm not interested in him because I'm teterossect and
I don't think much beyond it. I walk out of
(25:02):
the library. He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the
like the cement railing. He said, see you like World
War two books? Huh? You like? Uh? You like like
reading about hit Ler and stuff like that. We're having
a meeting Tuesday night. Just let you know. It's at
seven o'clock and it's at the whatever he thought I
was a neo Nazi. I got invited by a neo
Nazi to a Nazi party. My god, I know, in retrospect,
(25:31):
I told this on the air like the next day.
In retrospect, I kind of wish I'd have gone. Yeah,
I just could have investigated get out, but I was
so weirded out. I was so weirded out, oh you know.
And then I get my picture taken and somebody recognized me.
It's on the evening news, no one talk shows, but
(25:53):
that's how they start the meeting. Uh. But yeah, guy
actually invited me to a neo NATS party. Just got
add short hair and war Doc Martins like, you know,
like every lesbian in America, I mean, so what are
they all Nazis. No, Look, what did he look like?
He looked like me. He was in a T shirt, doc,
short hair, except he's a Nazi. Did he have the
(26:16):
white laces in his? Doc? Martins that he wasn't? I
think that's two. I mean, you're really outing yourself if
you go there, are you okay? I'm aware of this. Yeah,
that that's a full on I'm a racist Nazi if
you have white lace supremacist? But oh really, I did
not know that. Yeah, I've always I've always kind of
(26:38):
wished I have checked it out. But you know, it
might be one of those things you get in and
you know some people, and and and and it's it's
harder to untangle yourself from that than you think. Yeah,
I was.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
I can think of all sorts of things that would
go wrong there. I mean not like like deadly wrong,
but just really really wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
If you're campus, all the Nazis are waving at you,
you know.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Oh, hey Jack, hey, well somebody recognizes here or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I mean, that's they were doomed. Yeah, they're walking down
through the park with their big swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey,
that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
And you're saying you know as the news shows up
at your front door. I just went out of curiosity.
You were curious about near Nazism. Well, yeah, I mean
it's it's it's terrible, obviously, but I wanted to go
to the meeting and meet some of the fellows.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I like the footwear.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I don't know what to say, fortunate.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh yeah, but you're right. You get to the meeting
and like, right off the bat, it's you got to
put your arm in the air and say, we blame
the Jews, we hate the Jews. Our goal is to
have the Jews annihilated and immediately and mean and I
are like, I can't be here, and then what are
you gonna just turn around and walk out the door?
And where are you going? Yeah? Again, so I probably
(27:56):
made the right decision, and just getting wide eyed and
uh no and walking away from the guy. Sell you
like World War two books, don't you? Yeah, me and
every other male in America. What the hell is this?
You're casting a pretty quill in that garb? Please, I
male pattern baldness. I keep my hair short. Michael Jordan
made it popular. That's not make doesn't make it a Nazi.
(28:18):
You doubled down with the Doc Martins.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
True, Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging
around in Oregon wearing a pink tutu and some guy
assumes I swing his way.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You can't fault him more in the uniform, huh, were
in heels in a short skirt and they made all
kinds of assumptions. Right, we wanted to get to the
hilarious music bed that is all the rage right now.
If you're gonna do a meme and mock something that's
supposed to be serious, this is the way to mock it.
(28:48):
Katie hipped us to this, and it's so dang funny.
We'll have that coming up for you next Yeah. I
looked it up. So in case you didn't know this,
match dot Com owns tender, ok Cupid, plenty of fish hinge,
black people meet upward, Christian dating, all kinds of yeah,
(29:09):
and that interesting one company. Yeah. So we mocked quite
a bit last week. The Senator Padilla running at the
Homeland Secretary and then being pushed back by Secret Service.
He's lucky he didn't get a rifle button in the
face or something, but he got pushed to the ground
and then he acted like it was some sort of oppressive.
(29:32):
Clearly Hitler Trump is Hitler sort of thing. Oh yeah,
Ashley is the term fascist.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
He so clearly tried to haul himself up on the
cross and become the savior of brave Latino voters everywhere
by his like fake getting arrested drama. It's just pathetic.
And then he comes out afterward and gives this on
the very verge of tears statement about how terrible an
(29:58):
experience it was.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And then you com bin with this. Katie hipped us
to the fact that there's a meme, now is it?
High school kids are great school kids. I think this
was like an elementary school thing. Yeah, playing my Heart
will go on on the fourth grade recorder, remember that
musical instrument poorly? And you put this under things you
want to mock the seriousness of, and it sounds like this.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I was forced to the ground, first on my knees
and then flat on my chest and its handcuffed and
marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking why am I being detained?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That is so good? That is really really that you
could not write words that would be better mockery than that.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Oh that is perfect and exactly what he deserves.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's justice. And hilarity. I love that.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
So, a coalition of more than twenty Latino scholars and
community leaders are asking Speaker of the House of Mike
Johnson to defund the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Latino has outlined the president's discretionary budget request.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Uh said Alfonso at is that on the part of
the Smithsonian mall thing, is it not built yet? Okay,
because there's a bunch of those now that didn't exist
years ago the last time I'd been to DC. Yeah,
it's like.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
The African American Museum that rose up in the wake
of various cultural moments American there was a bunch of them, right, Yeah, exactly.
It hasn't yet been built, but it was going to
be funded for many millions of dollars in Alfonso Aguilar,
director of Hispanic Engagement at the American Principles Project, said, quote,
President Trump is right, it's time to take back our
institutions of culture. That's why he wants to defund this
(32:01):
woke travesty. Congress should now not allow the development of
a museum that's going to be used to push a
radical agenda of grievances and anti American ideologies.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
The letter goes on to state.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Ah, oh, it's a permanent exhibition right now in the
National Museum of American History entitled present Day, a Latino.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
History of the United States.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Sadly, the letter states, quote, this museum is being used
to present to the public a culturally Marxist depiction of
the experiences of Hispanics in America. The museum's flagship exhibit,
in fact, proposes that the history of Americans of Hispanic
origin should be reduced to a quote struggle for justice
to achieve a mostly leftist agendon labor or education, access, fairhousing,
(32:49):
and more recently immigration justice from LGBT plus Q rights, etc.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Accordingly, Hispanics are pervasively portrayed as an oppressed people in
their Spanish era and Christian roots ignored or disparaged.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, the Spanish got over on a whole bunch of
other cultures, like wiped them out, murdered them so that
they could be the dominant culture for a while. Yeah,
I remember, so there was a variety of things like that.
I was just at that museum not that long ago
with my kids, if you remember me talking about it,
And I didn't visit that stuff. But then even in
(33:25):
the natural history part where it was just, you know,
here's a stuffed saber tooth tiger or whatever it was.
Constant climate change is why this animal got wiped out
in Mankind's the love of the automobile and blah blah blah.
It's just never ending, that sort of thing. Yeah. One
of the.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Guys at the National Review, I can't remember if it
was Rich Lowry, wrote a piece a number of months
ago that it was right at the beginning of Trump's
term that if Trump wanted to be successful in beating
back the whole woke insanity movement, that he had to focus.
There were like four points, and obviously one was education
in the universities, but one of them was saying, people
(34:05):
need to get hold of our cultural institution, specifically our
museums again, because the museums on the National Mall are
all run I shouldn't say all. They are heavily heavily
run by a heavily leftist point of view, to the
point that even you know, mastodons somehow, you know, involved
global warming and the racism of African elephants or something
(34:29):
like that and the immigrant elephants or something.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, it's just ridiculous. We got a text from somebody
getting back to the story last segments. We got a
text from somebody who says they got invited to a
barbecue one time and they got there and it was
a neo Nazi meeting. Oh boy, they had made assumptions
about them.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Well, how was the food? As long as I'm here?
Yeahs again Heinrich.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Damn, oh jeez, excuse me whooping cough. If you miss
a segment or now, or get the podcast Armstrong and
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which involves a near hookup, you can look for our
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