July 25, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- AI songs & how the world changes
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week, cease fire talks & Macron says Palestine is a state
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and and he arm Yet.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yo yo yo. It is funny and we've got lots
of stuff to talk about coming up. This all.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shol go to j.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Who authorized this music. Steeve Way is ready too time.
That's right, Doc, Baby dock Ben and Madness nab Oh
(01:21):
sure on rhyme may but by golly, that a eye
is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh that is fantastic. We're actually going to do a
feature a little bit later where executive producer Hansen's gonna
explain how he puts those songs together, which you've never
if you've never used AI, I think is going to
be pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's it's well for Joe and I being in the
radio industry, our whole adult lives.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Back in the day, somebody could have put that song together.
It would have been such a giant production and it
would have cost so much money.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Oh yeah yeah, and time, days and days of effort.
So why are you on the telephone.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Because somebody had their car standing up on its nose
on the interstate. I don't know what they did to
imagine that, but I'm pulling into the parking lot right now.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Unless that's a new option so you can park in
tight spaces.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, something went very badly wrong there.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah that would be handy. But yeah, I don't think
that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But it is Friday. We're live from the Armstrong and
Getty Communications compound, and that they were under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Jerome Powell, who's that undo the FED.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh and what do they do well?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
He and Trump took.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Part in one of the more cringey episodes in American
presidential history yesterday, touring the construction project that has overrun
its costs. Like most construction projects do. It was just
cringey and silly and weird. Although it did he coincided
with like the best psychoanalysis of Trump I've come across.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yet. It kind of prove the point, which is why
it's top of mind for me.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know what bothered me is that what got the
most attention was because Trump has been talking about firing
that guy and all the back and forth on stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Just that's the only reason that event got any attention.
Nobody cares about an event where hey, look, somebody's caring
about a cost overrun for a big giant government project, which,
as you said, happens.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
All the time.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Nobody cares. You can't get attention for that. That's not
a story.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, yeah, well, and just it's so it's emblematic of
so much of the politics right now. That's just so dumb.
I don't I don't know. I just I've had enough.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's a good thing. It's Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it's fine with me. We can ignore it. The
perfect findment we could have Hanson make nothing but endless
songs that sing all the news. That's why we should
do someday Hanson could just sit in there and put
together songs that sing the news, just a story by
story throughout the day.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, and I want them to show me how to
do it, because you know, I'm known to string together
a line or two. And it would be kind of
fun to write rhymey versions.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Of the song of the news and have somebody sing
them to us in like stunningly authentic imitations of In
that case, I don't know who was that supposed to
Billie Holiday or.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, and I was.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Thinking, the reason we're gonna have a handsOn on later
to explain how.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
To do that is how many you know?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Soon this stuff is going to be just everywhere, like
you know, your your dad's birthday party, everybody. There's gonna
be a cool song because everybody will be able to
do it and it's super entertaining. Yeah, I'd feel bad
for people who used to do that for a living.
I actually know one guy who had still been making
radio jingles and that sort of stuff and making a
(04:46):
living in it and that's over.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, now what are you gonna do? A hammer? Hold
on for one second?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What are you gonna do? You're gonna adjust? Chat you
him and throwing on has sounded like I came in,
that's funny that you brought that up.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What are you going to do? I had that conversation
with my son yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's all worried about AI, like he can't get to
sleep at night because of it, with his anxiety and
everything like that, And I just talked to him about
how being the people who survive in the world are
people who have the ability to change as things change,
and because it just things always change, and you either
change with the new things, or you don't make it.
(05:27):
And that's like a better skill than any of the
other skills you could pick up, is the skill to change.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I don't know. He seemed to be heartened by that somehow, but.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Uh right, yeah, yeah, just accepting what is clearly true
and can't be changed. It's got to be interesting to
be inside the brain of somebody who can't do that,
who is so resentful or afraid or angry. I don't
know that they just kind of stop trying.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I guess it's and listen, I said that with sympathy, because,
as we've said many times, change is the only constant, right,
we all accept that, But it's the pace of change
in the twenty first century that is so astonishing. True,
it makes it much more difficult to live up to
those words.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, well true, I mean, yeah, so my little speech
about that, while it is true, it has never had
to be applied the way people are going to apply
it over the next five to twenty years.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Ever, ever in history go, everybody was lecturing me to
learn to code. I have learned to code. Now they
don't want code. What should I do now?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yelling people? You know, I sympathize.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, you're right, as recently as eighteen months ago, that
was clearly the thing you needed to do. And that's
like the might be the single most easily replaced skill.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Around right now. That was the first domino to fall.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And it is true because my son brought this up
because he's a big history nut. Everything stayed exactly the
same for a couple thousand years, so very very little
changed until you know, the Enlightenment in the Industrial Revolution, man,
there was not much change.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, on the comforting side, I guess is we all
try to assess how far along AI is and what
its effects are going to be. I was talking to
my daughter the legal intern, and she said that everybody
now knows in law you've got to be extremely careful
with it because it is wildly inaccurate. Wow, between hallucinations
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and it'll see some joker's opinion on his website and
he's the only guy on earth saying, for instance, this
law applies in Ohio. Well, in Ohio they know no,
it doesn't, it absolutely doesn't, and so you just you
can use it for certain things, but it's still very problematic.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's also very new. I got a little more and
it might be all fixed in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And the yeah, exactly, and the fact that things didn't
used to change. Imagine you go back a thousand years
and you tell some guy who's about thousand years but
five hundred years, some guy who's a blacksmith, and you
tell him nobody's going to be riding horses next year.
By next year, horses will be over. I mean, he'd
be like, what do you mean, right, what do you mean?
Of course that's impossible. Everybody's been riding horses since forever
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and they're going to continue. Nope, it's all completely over,
No more horses at all. That will be completely over.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
What by the end of the year, Yeah, I mean
with a phase in of the automobile took many, many moons.
Anybody who's ever seen pictures of the early twentieth century
with America's big cities that had you know, cars going
back and forth and like cable cars and lots of
horses and wagons too sure.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And then for all of rural America that was just
something you saw in pictures. It wouldn't happen where you lived.
It was very gradual as it spread across We better
start the show officially before.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
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Speaker 1 (08:55):
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Speaker 2 (09:37):
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Speaker 1 (09:41):
Hulk Holgan got more attention with his death than Oh,
I don't remember the last celebrity.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
They got this much attention. We should talk about this later.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Joe and I are not people who get why wrestling
was ever big and continues to be big, But it's
it's been giant.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
My old adult. I kind of do get it. I
just don't like it. I don't get it, so I
should get it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Electronic dance music that people can dance to at a
rave for hours and hours. I get that they really
like to dance. I have no interest in it. It's
so huge, I know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So we got that for you.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We got clips of the week, Katie's back, so we
got headlines, which is really great, and we've got a
text line which you can join in the conversation anytime
you want. Four one, five, two nine five KFTC. Maybe
it's because he has such a giant head. I was
just looking at Trump walking around the place with a
Powell and he's wearing a hard hat. Most presidents get
(10:41):
ridiculed endlessly anytime they put on any kind of headgear,
any kind of hat, helmets, whatever. Trump doesn't look ridiculous
in them for some reason. Is it because he has
a giant head that he looks okay in a hard
hat or a McDonald's paper hat or whatever it is
he wears.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I've got to admit I have not thought nearly enough
about this issue.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh you know how it does really throw on various
head gear and they get mocked and mostly well, never
never put on a hat is like a rule of politics.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, yeah, and Trump does it all the time. It
seems to work. Again, fascinating question. I wish I had
a better answer for you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I will.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Perhaps it is the size of his hat. I don't know.
I think the hard hat thing is probably because he's
worn him his entire life, so he just throws it on,
looks comfortable in it, and doesn't walk around with it
perched on the top of his head like a Michael
Dukakis for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Right, all right, hey, let's figure out who's reporting what
a pleasure it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Is to have her back. It's Katie Green.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Hey, Katie, Hi, guys, Starting with ABC, I ran to
whole nuclear talks with European delegations as Trump threatens renewed strikes.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I was just reading how Iran is working as hard
as they can, as fast as they can to rearm
their proxies, says Several shipments of arms have been intercepted
in recent days.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
So yeah, they're down, but they're not out, and they
certainly have not changed their stripes.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
From NBC Deputy A. G. Todd Blanche to hold second
meeting with.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I keep messing her name up, Gilan.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I think.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
She's a pedophile. Freaking child. If you pronounce her name right,
she's a pedophile. Right, there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'm intrigued by this whole uh deal though, the the
idea of going and talking to her and seeing what
she knows and blah blah blahs. It's fraught.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
As they say in the fancy speech business, there's a
lot that could go skanky on it. I heard somebody
point out this is now the longest lasting scandal of
Trump's two terms. I mean, the Russian hoax was all
one sided. This is not all one sided, as the
speaker in the House came up yesterday and said this
is not a hoax when he was asked specifically about it.
(12:52):
And Trump's been leaning on this as a hoax all
week long. So I mean, it's a scandal because you know,
you got all different directions going on.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But the lasting I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But it's now been like a week and a half
of everyday stories.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
From the New York Times. Appeals court blocks California's background
checks for ammunition buyers.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yes, yes, take that, Gavin, God dang it. I want
to rant and rape about NPR's coverage of that too.
Thank god they yanked the taxpayer funding from NPR.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
From Fox News, Ron Klaim.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Told House investigators that Hillary Clinton sounded the alarm on
Biden's political viability by twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Twenty twenty four, heck yeah, he was well into my
brain doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Work territory by then. Oh yeah, somebody had to be
talking about it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's interesting that after a handful of people claimed the
fifth Ron claim's like, yeah, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, people were saying he's kind of getting kind of
punched drunk lately and not as sharp as he used
to be.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yep, sure enough, I appreciate his candor.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
From realtor dot com, home sales drop in June to
their lowest level in nine months, as prices hit new
all time high nationally.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Mm hmm, boy, that's not what's going on locally for
me or maybe you. National real estate statistics are it's
hard to know whether there's a point even right, they're
barely barely useful, but.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Nine months low in June. June's the hot.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Period for home sales.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Oof from CBS Columbia to pay two hundred million dollars
settlement to federal government over investigations.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's part of the bribes.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You've got to pay the Trump administration to do business.
Same as with CBS, as it was reported on NBR.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
From The New York.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Times, the FCC approves sky Dance's eight billion dollar merger
with paramount.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
To my point, yep, right after Colbert fired do the math.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Or whatever? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
From Bryce Katie, every headline you're throwing at us is
a fairly complicated, misreported, stupid arguments, flying back and forth story,
and it's difficult to comment on them briefly.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's kind of frustrating. You've put me on edge. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Maybe this one will help, okay.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
From Breitbart, Rapper glow Rilla, who campaigned with Kamala Harris,
is facing drug charges. Oh no, yeah, glow Rilla, she's
one of the ones talking on stage.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh so she who would win between one hundred men
and Glorilla from the New York Glorilla, you're such a
hero to our children, and now look at you.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
How the mighty have fallen? From the New York I
remember when the name Glowilla, well nothing it smiles and
respect and no.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Look, if this can happen with glue rilla is nothing sacred.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Fight, just making sure it's out of your guys' system.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Are you ready? Probably not, but go ahead. I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
New York Post cat mom accuses Blue Angels of terrorizing
her fourteen year old cat with sonic barrage practices.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, she's suing because the Blue Angels frighten her cat.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Wall Street Journal, Goodbye gentle parenting. Hello to f around
and find out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, I read that. We'll talk about that later. Everything's
got to be a trend.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Everything's got to be a trend.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Biden excited to see what
auto pen comes up with for his memoir.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's pretty funny. Yeah, that's good. I think the autopen
story's overblown, but that's funny. We can, I suppose get
into depth and some of those headlines that Joe rightfully
said are just way too complicated to comment on.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, and with some fun in mirth, fun and mirth,
I find the news is weighing me down. Let's not
be weighed down, friends, Let's rally Shelley together.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Chocolate makers are hiking prices. Oh, but Steve, and you
can still buy white chocolate, sure, or I could just
pour splenda over a box of crayons and eat that
because there's no difference.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I think that's funny. I think Colbert's funny.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I've been listening to some of my right leaning podcast
brethren who feel the need to say he's never been funny,
and I just don't think that's.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
True at all. I think the show was good. I
think it is funny.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I mean, the politics of it was insufferable, right, but
that was the decision he decided to make. So I
wanted to bring that up just a little bit because
the FCC said it would allow Paramount to merge with
Hollywood studio Skydance, clearing the remain old hurdle blah blah blah.
So this Skydance corporation has bought Paramount, which owns CBS,
(18:13):
which owns Stephen Colbert, and fired him, and all of
mainstream and left media is still continuing to portray this
as a Trump awfulness in the President of the United
States Hitler, the Hitler President ruined one of their favorite
shows by forcing him out right, and then they say sarcastically,
(18:35):
CBS said it was a business decision. But and while
I agree that the timing is very unfortunate, if you're
trying to make the argument I'm trying to make.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I did just a quick search on this.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Comparing late shows now, which I just don't think the
formula in math works anymore as a revenue stream.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
With Carson back in the day.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So Johnny Carson and is in his heyday, like all
through the seventies and and a lot of the eighties,
was drawing between twelve and seventeen million viewers a night.
Colbert gets about one million people, and the other shows
because it's just you know, because of the splintering of everything,
there's a big difference between a show that gets seventeen
million people and a show that gets one million people.
(19:18):
Johnny Carson alone for NBC, he was bringing in between
one hundred and two hundred million dollars a year to
NBC adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Wow, he's underpaid, And yeah, he probably was.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He was responsible for some of the year's twenty percent
of NBC's revenue in his one show, whereas Colbert's losing
forty million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Right right to overlook those numbers is to not report
the story correct to lie. It's either to be so
ignorant you should be in a different line of work,
or you're just a liar.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's why I brought it. Yeah, it's amazing. And when
Colbert took over, and this is not his fault. Some
of it probably is, but it's not all his fault.
When he took over, I wrote that down somewhere. Letterman
was getting around ten million people a night as a show,
doing pretty well. But again a decade ago, way different
(20:15):
situation for entertainment and platforms and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The average age.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
When Letterman was doing it was sixty Under Colbert, it
is sixty eight the average age of.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
A viewer of Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
It's sixty eight, right, right, And you can take average
in this this question as opposed to median, because unlike
the famous Bill Gates walks into a bar, there are
no three hundred and fifty year olds watching Colbert skewing
the number. So yeah, it's a good sixty eight, folks.
I was shocked to hear that myself. What would you
(20:49):
have guessed?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It was far younger than that, So yeah, it is
a It's just it's a vanishing piece of real estate,
like was supposed to happen with global warming, but it's
actually happened to Network TV.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
By the way, do we want to squeeze cow in
this segment?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh yeah, we have to. I forgot, I completely forget.
Hit with the buzzer, Hit me with the buzzer, Michael,
I've made fun of Joe for you forgetting running wild
with its ego. I believe this is the first time
ever I've forgotten clips of the week. Good lord, I'm embarrassing, embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Uh yeah, so let to come but first, it's the
Friday tradition. Time to take a fond look back at
the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Boy, or it's long tonight.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
We have breaking news as we come on the air.
Ozzy Osbourne has died.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Scottish ship Build has his Open championship.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So please you well again.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
We hope to get a little bit more competitive because
like a girl trip to Cancun. Right now, there's no David.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Would an untalented man be able to compose the following
satirical witticism.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yourself? I still think about Kamala.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I had to come back for the insurance because I'm
they informed me earlier this year.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
I'm on Cobra, I'm as I and there's someone that's
been so focused on trying to understand.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Can a man become a woman? Can a man become
a woman?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Not?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
No, thank you can victy killer Brian Coberger forced to
face the families of his victims and a survivor.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He chose destruction, he chose evil.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
In my view, the time has now calm to end
mister Colberger's fifteen minutes of fame.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You may received as in high school and college, but
you're going.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
To be getting big d's in prison. Whether it's right
or wrong, It's time to go after people.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
President Obama and his leadership team effectively launch a year's
long coup against the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You want to take a look at that and stop
talking about nonsense.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Attorney General Pambondi told President Trump that his name appears
multiple times in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Some Democrats are joining Republicans in Congress demanding the finals
be released.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
People ask me what's going to cost me politically? I said, well,
sure it is. How do you get cracked?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
It's everywhere mainly for that reason, I learned how to
make my own. I know exactly what happened in that debate.
He's tired of you give him ambient to be able
to sleep. You, how do you think your hotel room
gets cleaned? How do you think you get food on
your fucking table?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Your crack is whack so well, I wouldn't say it
(24:21):
was underwrought. Wow. Wow, Hunter Biden's a dope. You know,
interesting things, an incapable of critical thought, interesting thing about vices.
Uh and you could apply this to a whole bunch
of different things.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Him saying cracks everywhere. I'm sure that's true, like more
or less literally speaking. But it's nowhere if you're not
in that world, it's like nowhere for me, right, says
I don't ever think about it or look into it.
It's as if it doesn't exist for you living in
that world. It's everywhere, you know the look, you know,
the no, it's everywhere, But for me it's nowhere.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
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affairs in order. A quick word from our friends at
trust and Will dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That's at security Edison, thank you. What if Hulk Hogan
died yesterday, it didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
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that can frequently mean lengthy, expensive and bitter legal battles,
or the state deciding what happens to your assets after
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That's so inexpensive.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
For instance, I hope Sharon Osbourne had gone online and
gone through the step by step process start to finish.
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Speaker 2 (26:13):
I hope you.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Saw the rendering of Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan on
a cloud walking through the Pearly Gates together I did.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That was very moving.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
For such For some reason, Malcolm Jamal Warner was not
or Chuck me and Joni was not allowed to be
part of that.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I don't know why. B listers.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Sorry, two great big headlines which are worth mentioning. One
Israel and the United States are withdrawing from the Gaza
ceasefire talks with Hamas.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Because they were completely ridiculous and a sharad.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Because they were completely ridiculous and a sharad. At the
same time, Emmanuel McCrone has announced that France will recognize
Palestine as a state, breaking with the United States and
all normal countries. In my opinion, I mean, so the
bulk of nations in the world recognize Palestine, but all
(27:12):
of the major countries do not, like all of the
g seven. Up until yesterday when France broke, most nations
in the world do recognize Palestine as a nation. The
United States does not, and neither does Britain, Canada, Germany,
Japan and Italy.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
What does it even mean they don't have a coherent
GUD I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And when they did, at least in terms of Gaza,
which is a significant chunk of what people refer to
as quote unquote Palestine when they refer to it at all.
But if you're referring to to Gaza, it was run
by a known terrorist organization, an Islamist terrorist organization. But
chron has lost his mind or he's under domestic political
pressures which have twisted his thinking.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well, I was wondering about that. Do they just have
such a giant, angry Muslim population in France now that
he feels like he's got to be on this side
of the story, I wonder. I wonder. Wall Street Journal
has a number of great opinion pieces today, including one
by the by a fellow by the name of Yaser
Abu Shabab who I did not know, entitled Gosins are
(28:20):
finished with Hamas. My popular forces control significant parts of
eastern Rafa and we are ready to build a new
future in the future. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
This guy, through desperation, he and all the fellas in
his neighborhood were like Hamas is freaking evil. They're leading
to the death of all our people. We just want
to live, work and protect our families. So they've banded
together into this militia and they're saying, look, we're not
an ideological movement. We're a pragmatic one. We just want
(28:49):
to stop the war and everybody gets to live their lives.
We don't want to overthrow Israel or anybody else.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And he's and he's saying, look, I could use a
little support here because we've got in this somehow or other. Well,
you talk about the interesting see development, You talk about
brave patriots, him and all his friends who are doing that.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Well, his brother and his cousin got killed and or tortured,
and instead of capitulating as many people do, he and
his family members and his neighbors and his friends said,
you know that's over.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
If we have to die fighting Hamas, we're going to
do it. We're not taking their oppression anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I wish that would give it.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
If it's been recovered on NPR, I certainly haven't heard it.
As I often say, if I ever hear a story
on NPR that is not some sort of up with
Palestinian slash Hamas, I you know it would be the
first time.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, and be careful looking for noble hearted heroes in
the Middle East. I don't know this guy's act. What
he's saying is outstanding. Well, you know, judge people by
what they do.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's true. It's true on its face what their beliefs are.
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Sure, Okay, we got a mail bag on the way
and lots of stuff to get today. I hope you
can stick around. If there's one thing that becomes a
norm from the Trump presidencies, it should be answering questions.
He's answering questions right now, like he does every single
day every president. It should just be considered normal. You
(30:14):
have to answer questions every day from all kinds of
different people about every time.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Idea. Love that idea.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Lots of presidents like Joe Biden get away with answering
no questions ever.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
And sending a little halfwit up there to half answer
half witted questions from the biased media.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, this is so much better. I mean, I think
Trump does it because he's in the ego media. Aya
really likes the attention. Yeah, but but he.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Does answer questions every single day from hostile media constantly.
And he he just commented on pardoning Glanne Maxwell, whether
he would do that or not, almost people outside the
White House, and a number of other things that.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We'll get to later in the show. Love it.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. That's not
really a freedom loving quote of the day. I just
thought it was somewhat.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Amusing in honor of the Cringey tour of the Federal
Reserve construction project by Trump and Jerome Powell yesterday from
the Great Oscar Wild. When I was young, I thought
that money was the most important thing in life. Now
that I am old, I know that it is. He
got thrown in jail for being gay.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You know, oh boy, that really doesn't apply to this quote.
But non' no, it doesn't. I like this one from
Robert frost is.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Judy and I are having a very frustrating time coming
to grips with certain realities of modern banking.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I won't bore you with the details right now.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But the Great Robert Frost at a bank is a
place where they lend you in an umbrella in fair
weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Old Bob Frost he good to twist a phrase? Was he? Mailbag?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
But I've got promises to keep, says Robert Frosty doing mailbag, Yes,
drops note mail bag at Armstrong e Giddy dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
The Fabulous JT in Livermore.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
It says it's your next Nobel Prize worthy idea we
during our four of the show or something that I
can't remember lateish in the show yesterday, I came up
with an idea that we both agreed was one of
the better that's ever reared its head on the Armstrong
and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
And I instantly forgot about it until I came across this,
this email. It is the is the world nuts curve?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It needs to be a precursor considered before you look
at any other pole results. What were we talking about?
Was it a right track, wrong track?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Or oh it was?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Oh, it was people's perception of their personal finances right?
And how the highest number for people perceiving themselves to
be really in solid position financially peaked two thousand and four,
right before the crash, and then it hit its low
at a time when Why did it hit slow? But
(33:00):
it hit its low at a time when the world
seemed nuts.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Yeah, And though by objective financial measures people are not right,
I get it, because the world is nuts, and they
are insecure in their finances and in various other aspects
of their life because the world is nuts. Yeah, Only
a third of Americans right now consider their personal financial
(33:25):
situation excellent or very good only a third.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It was almost two thirds in two thousand and four.
The stock markets hitting records every single day. Inflation is low,
but the world does seem nuts.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
JT writes, if you recall a few years ago, you
came up with another brilliant formulation to describe the unknowable
direction or world was heading towards. No, I'd forgotten about
that completely as well, JT. I felt the formula was
so brilliant and timely that I submitted your theory for
consideration of a Nobel Prize in economics. It was not
only brilliant, but would have been the shortest, most understandable
and approachable economics theory.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Ever to win the coveted Nobel.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Unfortunately, the Nobel committee slighted you that year, and he
has a link to who actually won the prize for economics.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I would have been funny to win and then have
to be reminded what it was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Anyway, he writes, to refreshed listeners' memories, the brilliant and
timely formula was unprecedented times unprecedented equals unprecedented.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
That is so clearly true and underappreciated and closely tied
to the nuts curve. Anyway, mayor nuts remain uncurved. Let's
see garrick in. Davis writes, I never thought I'd hate
someone more than Gavin Newsom, but now I hate Jack
that much.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Wow, I'll forgive him. But what an a hole?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
What Hulk Hogan meant to so many people, and how
recognized and loved he was all over the world for
kids of the eighties, he was the man. He was
the patriot in the ring, proud to be an American,
waving the stars and stripes.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Was he perfect in his personal life?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
No, But the fact that Jack just rushed on made
fun of him made me the most angry I've ever
been at.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, I should I should take that to heart.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
You know, there's a little more sarcasm here which I
have enjoyed. I'll get over it because, unlike Jack is
heard in his Hulk Hogan obituary, I'm an adult and
know when to speak ill of the dead, especially if
I know dick about that person.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Anyway, I do know the d word about Hulk Holgan.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
But I would not have thought that making fun of
Hulk Hogan would bring so much aid upon me. Okay,
you learn and.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Then then may be my favorite. By the way, the
woman he married led him back to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
So Jack, if you get into heaven, what you're gonna
do when Hulkmania runs wild on you? Brother? Wow?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
In other words, you're gonna get an ass kicking in heaven.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well, you don't expect that. You find out you got
into heaven fantastic.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I did my best. I got into heaven. Then you
get your ass kicked Hulk Hogan comes around the next cloud.
You got a problem, brother, Yeah, that is not what
I expect to get Beating up Up. Steve from Everett
Washington has a brilliant way to end the Epstein thing.
(36:05):
I wish you could. I wish you had the power
to end it, but we'll share that with you next hour.
I'm telling you it's compelling, a compelling development yesterday really politically,
and we'll get to that in an hour too. If
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and and he arm Yet.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yo yo yo. It is funny and we've got lots
of stuff to talk about coming up. This all.
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Om the arm Strong Getty Show, Trump, Sev.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shol go to j.
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Who authorized this music. Steeve Way is ready too time.
That's right, Doc, Baby dock Ben and Madness nab Oh
(01:21):
sure on rhyme may but by golly, that a eye
is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh that is fantastic. We're actually going to do a
feature a little bit later where executive producer Hansen's gonna
explain how he puts those songs together, which you've never
if you've never used AI, I think is going to
be pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's it's well for Joe and I being in the
radio industry, our whole adult lives.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Back in the day, somebody could have put that song together.
It would have been such a giant production and it
would have cost so much money.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Oh yeah yeah, and time, days and days of effort.
So why are you on the telephone.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Because somebody had their car standing up on its nose
on the interstate. I don't know what they did to
imagine that, but I'm pulling into the parking lot right now.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Unless that's a new option so you can park in
tight spaces.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, something went very badly wrong there.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah that would be handy. But yeah, I don't think
that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But it is Friday. We're live from the Armstrong and
Getty Communications compound, and that they were under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Jerome Powell, who's that undo the FED.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh and what do they do well?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
He and Trump took.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Part in one of the more cringey episodes in American
presidential history yesterday, touring the construction project that has overrun
its costs. Like most construction projects do. It was just
cringey and silly and weird. Although it did he coincided
with like the best psychoanalysis of Trump I've come across.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yet. It kind of prove the point, which is why
it's top of mind for me.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know what bothered me is that what got the
most attention was because Trump has been talking about firing
that guy and all the back and forth on stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Just that's the only reason that event got any attention.
Nobody cares about an event where hey, look, somebody's caring
about a cost overrun for a big giant government project, which,
as you said, happens.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
All the time.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Nobody cares. You can't get attention for that. That's not
a story.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, yeah, well, and just it's so it's emblematic of
so much of the politics right now. That's just so dumb.
I don't I don't know. I just I've had enough.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's a good thing. It's Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it's fine with me. We can ignore it. The
perfect findment we could have Hanson make nothing but endless
songs that sing all the news. That's why we should
do someday Hanson could just sit in there and put
together songs that sing the news, just a story by
story throughout the day.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, and I want them to show me how to
do it, because you know, I'm known to string together
a line or two. And it would be kind of
fun to write rhymey versions.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Of the song of the news and have somebody sing
them to us in like stunningly authentic imitations of In
that case, I don't know who was that supposed to
Billie Holiday or.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, and I was.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Thinking, the reason we're gonna have a handsOn on later
to explain how.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
To do that is how many you know?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Soon this stuff is going to be just everywhere, like
you know, your your dad's birthday party, everybody. There's gonna
be a cool song because everybody will be able to
do it and it's super entertaining. Yeah, I'd feel bad
for people who used to do that for a living.
I actually know one guy who had still been making
radio jingles and that sort of stuff and making a
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living in it and that's over.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, now what are you gonna do? A hammer? Hold
on for one second?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What are you gonna do? You're gonna adjust? Chat you
him and throwing on has sounded like I came in,
that's funny that you brought that up.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What are you going to do? I had that conversation
with my son yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's all worried about AI, like he can't get to
sleep at night because of it, with his anxiety and
everything like that, And I just talked to him about
how being the people who survive in the world are
people who have the ability to change as things change,
and because it just things always change, and you either
change with the new things, or you don't make it.
(05:27):
And that's like a better skill than any of the
other skills you could pick up, is the skill to change.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I don't know. He seemed to be heartened by that somehow, but.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Uh right, yeah, yeah, just accepting what is clearly true
and can't be changed. It's got to be interesting to
be inside the brain of somebody who can't do that,
who is so resentful or afraid or angry. I don't
know that they just kind of stop trying.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I guess it's and listen, I said that with sympathy, because,
as we've said many times, change is the only constant, right,
we all accept that, But it's the pace of change
in the twenty first century that is so astonishing. True,
it makes it much more difficult to live up to
those words.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, well true, I mean, yeah, so my little speech
about that, while it is true, it has never had
to be applied the way people are going to apply
it over the next five to twenty years.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Ever, ever in history go, everybody was lecturing me to
learn to code. I have learned to code. Now they
don't want code. What should I do now?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yelling people? You know, I sympathize.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, you're right, as recently as eighteen months ago, that
was clearly the thing you needed to do. And that's
like the might be the single most easily replaced skill.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Around right now. That was the first domino to fall.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And it is true because my son brought this up
because he's a big history nut. Everything stayed exactly the
same for a couple thousand years, so very very little
changed until you know, the Enlightenment in the Industrial Revolution, man,
there was not much change.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, on the comforting side, I guess is we all
try to assess how far along AI is and what
its effects are going to be. I was talking to
my daughter the legal intern, and she said that everybody
now knows in law you've got to be extremely careful
with it because it is wildly inaccurate. Wow, between hallucinations
(07:29):
and it'll see some joker's opinion on his website and
he's the only guy on earth saying, for instance, this
law applies in Ohio. Well, in Ohio they know no,
it doesn't, it absolutely doesn't, and so you just you
can use it for certain things, but it's still very problematic.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's also very new. I got a little more and
it might be all fixed in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And the yeah, exactly, and the fact that things didn't
used to change. Imagine you go back a thousand years
and you tell some guy who's about thousand years but
five hundred years, some guy who's a blacksmith, and you
tell him nobody's going to be riding horses next year.
By next year, horses will be over. I mean, he'd
be like, what do you mean, right, what do you mean?
Of course that's impossible. Everybody's been riding horses since forever
(08:18):
and they're going to continue. Nope, it's all completely over,
No more horses at all. That will be completely over.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
What by the end of the year, Yeah, I mean
with a phase in of the automobile took many, many moons.
Anybody who's ever seen pictures of the early twentieth century
with America's big cities that had you know, cars going
back and forth and like cable cars and lots of
horses and wagons too sure.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And then for all of rural America that was just
something you saw in pictures. It wouldn't happen where you lived.
It was very gradual as it spread across We better
start the show officially before.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We get in trouble with the FCC. Whoever that commissioner is.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is
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Speaker 5 (09:10):
I warned everybody last Sunday when Hulk of Mania it
was gonna run wild of.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The whole w W.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's there would be Targulent's brother. And when the two
strongest courses in the w W run outsite side of
the fence, we almost tore the building down. The Dream
Team w W all the maniac call it. We all
become the alpha at Nightmare. Alright, best, let's get back to.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You again with the Hulk Hogan. Stop it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Hulk Holgan got more attention with his death than Oh,
I don't remember the last celebrity.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
They got this much attention. We should talk about this later.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Joe and I are not people who get why wrestling
was ever big and continues to be big, But it's
it's been giant.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
My old adult. I kind of do get it. I
just don't like it. I don't get it, so I
should get it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Electronic dance music that people can dance to at a
rave for hours and hours. I get that they really
like to dance. I have no interest in it. It's
so huge, I know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So we got that for you.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We got clips of the week, Katie's back, so we
got headlines, which is really great, and we've got a
text line which you can join in the conversation anytime
you want. Four one, five, two nine five KFTC. Maybe
it's because he has such a giant head. I was
just looking at Trump walking around the place with a
Powell and he's wearing a hard hat. Most presidents get
(10:41):
ridiculed endlessly anytime they put on any kind of headgear,
any kind of hat, helmets, whatever. Trump doesn't look ridiculous
in them for some reason. Is it because he has
a giant head that he looks okay in a hard
hat or a McDonald's paper hat or whatever it is
he wears.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I've got to admit I have not thought nearly enough
about this issue.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh you know how it does really throw on various
head gear and they get mocked and mostly well, never
never put on a hat is like a rule of politics.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, yeah, and Trump does it all the time. It
seems to work. Again, fascinating question. I wish I had
a better answer for you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I will.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Perhaps it is the size of his hat. I don't know.
I think the hard hat thing is probably because he's
worn him his entire life, so he just throws it on,
looks comfortable in it, and doesn't walk around with it
perched on the top of his head like a Michael
Dukakis for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Right, all right, hey, let's figure out who's reporting what
a pleasure it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Is to have her back. It's Katie Green.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Hey, Katie, Hi, guys, Starting with ABC, I ran to
whole nuclear talks with European delegations as Trump threatens renewed strikes.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I was just reading how Iran is working as hard
as they can, as fast as they can to rearm
their proxies, says Several shipments of arms have been intercepted
in recent days.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
So yeah, they're down, but they're not out, and they
certainly have not changed their stripes.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
From NBC Deputy A. G. Todd Blanche to hold second
meeting with.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I keep messing her name up, Gilan.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I think.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
She's a pedophile. Freaking child. If you pronounce her name right,
she's a pedophile. Right, there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'm intrigued by this whole uh deal though, the the
idea of going and talking to her and seeing what
she knows and blah blah blahs. It's fraught.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
As they say in the fancy speech business, there's a
lot that could go skanky on it. I heard somebody
point out this is now the longest lasting scandal of
Trump's two terms. I mean, the Russian hoax was all
one sided. This is not all one sided, as the
speaker in the House came up yesterday and said this
is not a hoax when he was asked specifically about it.
(12:52):
And Trump's been leaning on this as a hoax all
week long. So I mean, it's a scandal because you know,
you got all different directions going on.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But the lasting I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But it's now been like a week and a half
of everyday stories.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
From the New York Times. Appeals court blocks California's background
checks for ammunition buyers.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yes, yes, take that, Gavin, God dang it. I want
to rant and rape about NPR's coverage of that too.
Thank god they yanked the taxpayer funding from NPR.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
From Fox News, Ron Klaim.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Told House investigators that Hillary Clinton sounded the alarm on
Biden's political viability by twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Twenty twenty four, heck yeah, he was well into my
brain doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Work territory by then. Oh yeah, somebody had to be
talking about it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's interesting that after a handful of people claimed the
fifth Ron claim's like, yeah, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, people were saying he's kind of getting kind of
punched drunk lately and not as sharp as he used
to be.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yep, sure enough, I appreciate his candor.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
From realtor dot com, home sales drop in June to
their lowest level in nine months, as prices hit new
all time high nationally.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Mm hmm, boy, that's not what's going on locally for
me or maybe you. National real estate statistics are it's
hard to know whether there's a point even right, they're
barely barely useful, but.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Nine months low in June. June's the hot.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Period for home sales.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Oof from CBS Columbia to pay two hundred million dollars
settlement to federal government over investigations.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's part of the bribes.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You've got to pay the Trump administration to do business.
Same as with CBS, as it was reported on NBR.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
From The New York.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Times, the FCC approves sky Dance's eight billion dollar merger
with paramount.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
To my point, yep, right after Colbert fired do the math.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Or whatever? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
From Bryce Katie, every headline you're throwing at us is
a fairly complicated, misreported, stupid arguments, flying back and forth story,
and it's difficult to comment on them briefly.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's kind of frustrating. You've put me on edge. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Maybe this one will help, okay.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
From Breitbart, Rapper glow Rilla, who campaigned with Kamala Harris,
is facing drug charges. Oh no, yeah, glow Rilla, she's
one of the ones talking on stage.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh so she who would win between one hundred men
and Glorilla from the New York Glorilla, you're such a
hero to our children, and now look at you.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
How the mighty have fallen? From the New York I
remember when the name Glowilla, well nothing it smiles and
respect and no.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Look, if this can happen with glue rilla is nothing sacred.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Fight, just making sure it's out of your guys' system.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Are you ready? Probably not, but go ahead. I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
New York Post cat mom accuses Blue Angels of terrorizing
her fourteen year old cat with sonic barrage practices.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, she's suing because the Blue Angels frighten her cat.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Wall Street Journal, Goodbye gentle parenting. Hello to f around
and find out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, I read that. We'll talk about that later. Everything's
got to be a trend.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Everything's got to be a trend.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Biden excited to see what
auto pen comes up with for his memoir.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's pretty funny. Yeah, that's good. I think the autopen
story's overblown, but that's funny. We can, I suppose get
into depth and some of those headlines that Joe rightfully
said are just way too complicated to comment on.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, and with some fun in mirth, fun and mirth,
I find the news is weighing me down. Let's not
be weighed down, friends, Let's rally Shelley together.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Chocolate makers are hiking prices. Oh, but Steve, and you
can still buy white chocolate, sure, or I could just
pour splenda over a box of crayons and eat that
because there's no difference.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I think that's funny. I think Colbert's funny.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I've been listening to some of my right leaning podcast
brethren who feel the need to say he's never been funny,
and I just don't think that's.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
True at all. I think the show was good. I
think it is funny.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I mean, the politics of it was insufferable, right, but
that was the decision he decided to make. So I
wanted to bring that up just a little bit because
the FCC said it would allow Paramount to merge with
Hollywood studio Skydance, clearing the remain old hurdle blah blah blah.
So this Skydance corporation has bought Paramount, which owns CBS,
(18:13):
which owns Stephen Colbert, and fired him, and all of
mainstream and left media is still continuing to portray this
as a Trump awfulness in the President of the United
States Hitler, the Hitler President ruined one of their favorite
shows by forcing him out right, and then they say sarcastically,
(18:35):
CBS said it was a business decision. But and while
I agree that the timing is very unfortunate, if you're
trying to make the argument I'm trying to make.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I did just a quick search on this.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Comparing late shows now, which I just don't think the
formula in math works anymore as a revenue stream.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
With Carson back in the day.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So Johnny Carson and is in his heyday, like all
through the seventies and and a lot of the eighties,
was drawing between twelve and seventeen million viewers a night.
Colbert gets about one million people, and the other shows
because it's just you know, because of the splintering of everything,
there's a big difference between a show that gets seventeen
million people and a show that gets one million people.
(19:18):
Johnny Carson alone for NBC, he was bringing in between
one hundred and two hundred million dollars a year to
NBC adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Wow, he's underpaid, And yeah, he probably was.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He was responsible for some of the year's twenty percent
of NBC's revenue in his one show, whereas Colbert's losing
forty million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Right right to overlook those numbers is to not report
the story correct to lie. It's either to be so
ignorant you should be in a different line of work,
or you're just a liar.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's why I brought it. Yeah, it's amazing. And when
Colbert took over, and this is not his fault. Some
of it probably is, but it's not all his fault.
When he took over, I wrote that down somewhere. Letterman
was getting around ten million people a night as a show,
doing pretty well. But again a decade ago, way different
(20:15):
situation for entertainment and platforms and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The average age.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
When Letterman was doing it was sixty Under Colbert, it
is sixty eight the average age of.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
A viewer of Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
It's sixty eight, right, right, And you can take average
in this this question as opposed to median, because unlike
the famous Bill Gates walks into a bar, there are
no three hundred and fifty year olds watching Colbert skewing
the number. So yeah, it's a good sixty eight, folks.
I was shocked to hear that myself. What would you
(20:49):
have guessed?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It was far younger than that, So yeah, it is
a It's just it's a vanishing piece of real estate,
like was supposed to happen with global warming, but it's
actually happened to Network TV.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
By the way, do we want to squeeze cow in
this segment?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh yeah, we have to. I forgot, I completely forget.
Hit with the buzzer, Hit me with the buzzer, Michael,
I've made fun of Joe for you forgetting running wild
with its ego. I believe this is the first time
ever I've forgotten clips of the week. Good lord, I'm embarrassing, embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Uh yeah, so let to come but first, it's the
Friday tradition. Time to take a fond look back at
the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Boy, or it's long tonight.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
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Ozzy Osbourne has died.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Scottish ship Build has his Open championship.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So please you well again.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
We hope to get a little bit more competitive because
like a girl trip to Cancun. Right now, there's no David.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Would an untalented man be able to compose the following
satirical witticism.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yourself? I still think about Kamala.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I had to come back for the insurance because I'm
they informed me earlier this year.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
I'm on Cobra, I'm as I and there's someone that's
been so focused on trying to understand.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Can a man become a woman? Can a man become
a woman?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Not?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
No, thank you can victy killer Brian Coberger forced to
face the families of his victims and a survivor.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He chose destruction, he chose evil.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
In my view, the time has now calm to end
mister Colberger's fifteen minutes of fame.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You may received as in high school and college, but
you're going.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
To be getting big d's in prison. Whether it's right
or wrong, It's time to go after people.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
President Obama and his leadership team effectively launch a year's
long coup against the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You want to take a look at that and stop
talking about nonsense.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Attorney General Pambondi told President Trump that his name appears
multiple times in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Some Democrats are joining Republicans in Congress demanding the finals
be released.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
People ask me what's going to cost me politically? I said, well,
sure it is. How do you get cracked?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
It's everywhere mainly for that reason, I learned how to
make my own. I know exactly what happened in that debate.
He's tired of you give him ambient to be able
to sleep. You, how do you think your hotel room
gets cleaned? How do you think you get food on
your fucking table?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Your crack is whack so well, I wouldn't say it
(24:21):
was underwrought. Wow. Wow, Hunter Biden's a dope. You know,
interesting things, an incapable of critical thought, interesting thing about vices.
Uh and you could apply this to a whole bunch
of different things.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Him saying cracks everywhere. I'm sure that's true, like more
or less literally speaking. But it's nowhere if you're not
in that world, it's like nowhere for me, right, says
I don't ever think about it or look into it.
It's as if it doesn't exist for you living in
that world. It's everywhere, you know the look, you know,
the no, it's everywhere, But for me it's nowhere.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
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Speaker 2 (26:13):
I hope you.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Saw the rendering of Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan on
a cloud walking through the Pearly Gates together I did.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That was very moving.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
For such For some reason, Malcolm Jamal Warner was not
or Chuck me and Joni was not allowed to be
part of that.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I don't know why. B listers.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Sorry, two great big headlines which are worth mentioning. One
Israel and the United States are withdrawing from the Gaza
ceasefire talks with Hamas.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Because they were completely ridiculous and a sharad.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Because they were completely ridiculous and a sharad. At the
same time, Emmanuel McCrone has announced that France will recognize
Palestine as a state, breaking with the United States and
all normal countries. In my opinion, I mean, so the
bulk of nations in the world recognize Palestine, but all
(27:12):
of the major countries do not, like all of the
g seven. Up until yesterday when France broke, most nations
in the world do recognize Palestine as a nation. The
United States does not, and neither does Britain, Canada, Germany,
Japan and Italy.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
What does it even mean they don't have a coherent
GUD I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And when they did, at least in terms of Gaza,
which is a significant chunk of what people refer to
as quote unquote Palestine when they refer to it at all.
But if you're referring to to Gaza, it was run
by a known terrorist organization, an Islamist terrorist organization. But
chron has lost his mind or he's under domestic political
pressures which have twisted his thinking.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well, I was wondering about that. Do they just have
such a giant, angry Muslim population in France now that
he feels like he's got to be on this side
of the story, I wonder. I wonder. Wall Street Journal
has a number of great opinion pieces today, including one
by the by a fellow by the name of Yaser
Abu Shabab who I did not know, entitled Gosins are
(28:20):
finished with Hamas. My popular forces control significant parts of
eastern Rafa and we are ready to build a new
future in the future. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
This guy, through desperation, he and all the fellas in
his neighborhood were like Hamas is freaking evil. They're leading
to the death of all our people. We just want
to live, work and protect our families. So they've banded
together into this militia and they're saying, look, we're not
an ideological movement. We're a pragmatic one. We just want
(28:49):
to stop the war and everybody gets to live their lives.
We don't want to overthrow Israel or anybody else.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And he's and he's saying, look, I could use a
little support here because we've got in this somehow or other. Well,
you talk about the interesting see development, You talk about
brave patriots, him and all his friends who are doing that.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Well, his brother and his cousin got killed and or tortured,
and instead of capitulating as many people do, he and
his family members and his neighbors and his friends said,
you know that's over.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
If we have to die fighting Hamas, we're going to
do it. We're not taking their oppression anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I wish that would give it.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
If it's been recovered on NPR, I certainly haven't heard it.
As I often say, if I ever hear a story
on NPR that is not some sort of up with
Palestinian slash Hamas, I you know it would be the
first time.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, and be careful looking for noble hearted heroes in
the Middle East. I don't know this guy's act. What
he's saying is outstanding. Well, you know, judge people by
what they do.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's true. It's true on its face what their beliefs are.
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Sure, Okay, we got a mail bag on the way
and lots of stuff to get today. I hope you
can stick around. If there's one thing that becomes a
norm from the Trump presidencies, it should be answering questions.
He's answering questions right now, like he does every single
day every president. It should just be considered normal. You
(30:14):
have to answer questions every day from all kinds of
different people about every time.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Idea. Love that idea.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Lots of presidents like Joe Biden get away with answering
no questions ever.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
And sending a little halfwit up there to half answer
half witted questions from the biased media.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, this is so much better. I mean, I think
Trump does it because he's in the ego media. Aya
really likes the attention. Yeah, but but he.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Does answer questions every single day from hostile media constantly.
And he he just commented on pardoning Glanne Maxwell, whether
he would do that or not, almost people outside the
White House, and a number of other things that.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We'll get to later in the show. Love it.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. That's not
really a freedom loving quote of the day. I just
thought it was somewhat.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Amusing in honor of the Cringey tour of the Federal
Reserve construction project by Trump and Jerome Powell yesterday from
the Great Oscar Wild. When I was young, I thought
that money was the most important thing in life. Now
that I am old, I know that it is. He
got thrown in jail for being gay.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You know, oh boy, that really doesn't apply to this quote.
But non' no, it doesn't. I like this one from
Robert frost is.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Judy and I are having a very frustrating time coming
to grips with certain realities of modern banking.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I won't bore you with the details right now.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But the Great Robert Frost at a bank is a
place where they lend you in an umbrella in fair
weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Old Bob Frost he good to twist a phrase? Was he? Mailbag?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
But I've got promises to keep, says Robert Frosty doing mailbag, Yes,
drops note mail bag at Armstrong e Giddy dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
The Fabulous JT in Livermore.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
It says it's your next Nobel Prize worthy idea we
during our four of the show or something that I
can't remember lateish in the show yesterday, I came up
with an idea that we both agreed was one of
the better that's ever reared its head on the Armstrong
and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
And I instantly forgot about it until I came across this,
this email. It is the is the world nuts curve?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It needs to be a precursor considered before you look
at any other pole results. What were we talking about?
Was it a right track, wrong track?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Or oh it was?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Oh, it was people's perception of their personal finances right?
And how the highest number for people perceiving themselves to
be really in solid position financially peaked two thousand and four,
right before the crash, and then it hit its low
at a time when Why did it hit slow? But
(33:00):
it hit its low at a time when the world
seemed nuts.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Yeah, And though by objective financial measures people are not right,
I get it, because the world is nuts, and they
are insecure in their finances and in various other aspects
of their life because the world is nuts. Yeah, Only
a third of Americans right now consider their personal financial
(33:25):
situation excellent or very good only a third.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It was almost two thirds in two thousand and four.
The stock markets hitting records every single day. Inflation is low,
but the world does seem nuts.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
JT writes, if you recall a few years ago, you
came up with another brilliant formulation to describe the unknowable
direction or world was heading towards. No, I'd forgotten about
that completely as well, JT. I felt the formula was
so brilliant and timely that I submitted your theory for
consideration of a Nobel Prize in economics. It was not
only brilliant, but would have been the shortest, most understandable
and approachable economics theory.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Ever to win the coveted Nobel.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Unfortunately, the Nobel committee slighted you that year, and he
has a link to who actually won the prize for economics.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I would have been funny to win and then have
to be reminded what it was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Anyway, he writes, to refreshed listeners' memories, the brilliant and
timely formula was unprecedented times unprecedented equals unprecedented.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
That is so clearly true and underappreciated and closely tied
to the nuts curve. Anyway, mayor nuts remain uncurved. Let's
see garrick in. Davis writes, I never thought I'd hate
someone more than Gavin Newsom, but now I hate Jack
that much.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Wow, I'll forgive him. But what an a hole?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
What Hulk Hogan meant to so many people, and how
recognized and loved he was all over the world for
kids of the eighties, he was the man. He was
the patriot in the ring, proud to be an American,
waving the stars and stripes.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Was he perfect in his personal life?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
No, But the fact that Jack just rushed on made
fun of him made me the most angry I've ever
been at.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, I should I should take that to heart.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
You know, there's a little more sarcasm here which I
have enjoyed. I'll get over it because, unlike Jack is
heard in his Hulk Hogan obituary, I'm an adult and
know when to speak ill of the dead, especially if
I know dick about that person.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Anyway, I do know the d word about Hulk Holgan.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
But I would not have thought that making fun of
Hulk Hogan would bring so much aid upon me. Okay,
you learn and.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Then then may be my favorite. By the way, the
woman he married led him back to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
So Jack, if you get into heaven, what you're gonna
do when Hulkmania runs wild on you? Brother? Wow?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
In other words, you're gonna get an ass kicking in heaven.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well, you don't expect that. You find out you got
into heaven fantastic.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I did my best. I got into heaven. Then you
get your ass kicked Hulk Hogan comes around the next cloud.
You got a problem, brother, Yeah, that is not what
I expect to get Beating up Up. Steve from Everett
Washington has a brilliant way to end the Epstein thing.
(36:05):
I wish you could. I wish you had the power
to end it, but we'll share that with you next hour.
I'm telling you it's compelling, a compelling development yesterday really politically,
and we'll get to that in an hour too. If
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