October 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump talks to Putin, ghost guns & the NFL
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Jack forgets C.O.W. Clips of the Week, nutrition lies & diets
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms rang.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
From Studio C. SASONR. It's fraye and we're deep within
the valves of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound. And
hey y'all, today we are toiling under the tutelage of
our general manager, Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTI, what is the deal
with Trump?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And put?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's the duly elected President of Russia. The first baffo
punchline of the show. I don't want to fall out
a window this weekend. That sensible precaution. Luckily I live
in a one I know, I don't. I live in
a two story house. I could fall out the window
and die. It's probably more like breaking your arm height,
but be unpleasant, certainly. Yeah, there you go. If Vladimir
(01:17):
Vladimirvitch would probably drop you out as many times as
it took. By the fifth or sixth time, you're good
and tired of it. News reports say the man went
in his house, went back upstairs, fell out the same
window three times until until he died of into his
industry exactly. Trump and Putin on the phone for two
hours yesterday. Would you hang up? No, you hang up.
(01:42):
I'm sorry that was unfair. I did not mean in
any way to suggest anything. I just I do not
get Trump's approach with Putin. We should start saying that
more often. We in no way, in any way attempted
to suggest anything. Uh. And Trump joked about he brought
(02:02):
up tomahawks, and Putin didn't like it. I don't know
if you saw that. They're in the Oval Office. Everybody's laughing.
Doctor Oz was behind him, just blowing a gasket, laughing.
Oh good to be reminded that doctor Oz is in
the administration. I just thought that was the low profile goods.
I just thought that was an interesting joke. The most
powerful nation on Earth threatening the second most powerful nation
(02:23):
on earth with nuclear war and this and that, and nah,
he didn't like that. No, I get it. Cut on it, sir.
Oh my god, these are strange times. But then Zelenski's
coming to the Oval Office today and they're going to
discuss Tomahawk missiles and what not to not. Who knows
how that's going to go. I haven't got the slightest
idea well, I was off yesterday selfishly getting cancer surgery.
(02:45):
I understand you talked to Mike Lyons about the question
of tomahawks, and as usual, Mike had a really interesting perspective,
and I hope we can play a couple of those
highlights for the good folks today and for me selfishly. Yeah,
he didn't seem to think it would be as big
a game it's being portrayed as, which is pretty interesting. Yeah.
(03:08):
I really have no idea what's gonna happen today, and
we'll just have to wait and see because nobody was
predicting the whatever that was that happened back in February.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You don't have a cards, where's your suit?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You know that sort of thing. So who knows what's
gonna happen today. Yeah, I'll tell you One thing that's
gonna happen on the show is we're going to talk
to one of the fabulous folks from the Pacific Legal
Foundation in our three. Gonna kick off our three with
a discussion of the Supreme Court's recent oral arguments the
session they're in right now, and man, there have been
some blockbuster cases, really interesting stuff. Looking forward to talking
(03:40):
to those good folks. So stay tuned or grab it
later via podcast or whatever. And as usual, we don't
mean to imply anything about anything. No, we have no
ideas about nor opinions, and any inference or suggestion that
we do is untoward an illegal Here's the most interesting
without the express written concent of the National Football League.
Here's the most interesting thing I've heard today. Report out
(04:04):
on the number of ghost guns found across the country
by police departments. So five years ago it was thirty,
there were thirty ghost guns. Last year it was three hundred,
and they have no reason to think that it's not
going to exponentially increase like that as the three D
printers get cheaper and it gets you know, more people
(04:25):
to catch on that you can just do that that
ghost guns. Those are the weird ray guns like in
the Ghostbusters movies. Right, I'm sorry, I was saying ghost guns.
What I'm meaning to say is three D printed guns,
which are ghost guns. But it's that's not the key.
Three D printed guns have gone from thirty five years
ago to three hundred last year, and they don't see
any reason why it won't be three thousand five years
from now or thirty thousand, ten years from now, I mean,
(04:48):
why wouldn't it be as that technology gets cheaper and
cheaper in the you know, I heard some advocates on
there for trying to stop this say, well, we need
to make it harder to find the plans to print,
and yeah, good luck with that. Good yea, Who my god,
are you a child? And I know if you're a child,
go to your room. If you're not, quit being stupid.
Don't mean to imply anything about anything, but you're a child.
(05:08):
There's certainly not but so utterly untraceable is the problem. Unregisterable?
And then you know, well you can use them in
many many crimes, and there's ballistics or port bubbla. There
are endless problems. Untraceable, unregistered. Anybody can do it at
any age, with any criminal background, from anywhere. I mean, yeah,
(05:29):
so you could be fresh out of prison and uh,
absolutely not supposed to own a gun and print one
in your home that afternoon. That is going to happen.
That's going to change the whole gun thing.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I don't know where we're going to be going with
this one. Been talking about it four years and knew
it was coming, But it looks like it's here and
it's about to explode. I can't even imagine where we're
going to go with that as a country. That counterbalance
could be incredibly draconian punishments for possession, and I don't
think we will probably put up with that. Although it
(06:03):
depends where this leads. It could be that there's so
much horrendous violence that America says, yeah, we're gonna come
together and agree on this. It's going to be almost
the end of any attempt to keep guns out of
the hands of bad people, isn't it. I don't see
how it's not going to be. Well, that's already pretty unsuccessful,
(06:26):
but yeah, it'll be the end of any real attempt
to it. Wow, technologies are not working in our favor.
I feel like, no, No, it's the afflutary of knowledge.
We now can know and do things that we as
human beings can't handle. That is my belief. Yeah, and
(06:48):
not only could you be a felon from another country
who's seventeen years old and print yourself off a very
lethal handgun. It's cheap. It's cheaper than the actual gun.
If you went out and baw wait, I got to
stop you there. What the hell country? On Earth would
allow in gang members from other countries? What sort of
(07:10):
immigration system do they have? What sort of leadership do
they have in this bizarre scenario where the borders are
just open and they let gang members in. That would
never happen anyway. I just want to put that on
your radar. Is another thing to worry about. That's what
we do is try to make you miserable and scared.
That's what we do here in the Armstrong Land. Angry,
be fair and angry. Okay, let's start the show officially.
(07:33):
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe getting on this. How did
Dowary you get to be Friday, October seventeenth of the
year twenty twenty five. We're armstrong and getting We approve
of this program, all right. Let's begin then officially according
to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go, leaping into
action at mark.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The battle of the Agent has been amputed, Roger, where's
the fact? Beat that bil cup at the thirty five
yard line. They're going all away to the end zone.
Five final sixty eight yards.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So you had an instant classic last night that I
did not see, which I had on Thursday Night Football
with Joe Flacco if you remember him, won a Super
Bowl twenty years ago. And you mean Joe Flacco junior
and Aaron Rodgers, who's also in his forties, both just
went off in a fourth quarter duel that was absolutely
amazing for people you know of that age. There you go, wow, huh,
(08:29):
I wish I had seen it. It's amazing to me.
I've been saying this for a couple of weeks. Now,
how many NFL games come down to it? You used
to complain about the NBA. Why don't you just watch
the last five minutes, that's the whole game. The NFL
is practically that way. Now, tune into the last half
of the fourth quarter and watch that. That's all the excitement.
It's just stunning that it could. I feel like when
(08:50):
I was a kid, rarely would there be an exciting game.
You know, there'd be exciting plays throughout, but often nothing
happened in the fourth quarter. Excitement was in the second decided. Yeah.
But now with the changes the rules or whatever it is,
you got teams driving up and down the field. You know,
if there's a minute left on the clock, the other
team's got a good shot. Well, in the fact, the
(09:11):
field goal kickers are consistent too, you know, fifty to
fifty five yards. Yeah, your guy misses a fifty one yarder,
You're like, come on, dude. Yeah, back in the day,
a fifty yard field goal would probably lead the sports
section the next day. Yeah, they might have to change
the rules around that because, yeah, because you only have
to get halfway down the field to have a better
(09:33):
than coin flip's chance of kicking a bilgal. You've heard
the expression, they're moving the goal posts, literally, moving goal
posts like mini golf. He goes back and forth across
the end zone, and you got a time it exactly exactly.
And there's a giant like dolphin that leaps up and
lands in his mouth if it blocks the ball. If
you know dolphins jumps the right. Yes, they've been thinking
(09:55):
outside the box. Again. We don't mean to imply anything
about anything. We've got Katie's headlines on the way and
lots of good stuff today. Michael Bolton, No, no, no,
that's the singer John Bolton, former National security advisor, indicted yesterday.
Is this a good one or a bad one? Is
this right to retribution? Or did the guy have all
kinds of classified documents and he was a little too
loose with him. We'll hear some expert opinions on that.
(10:18):
Lots of good stuff on the way, stay here. So, yeah,
there's new health news out that is the exact opposite
of what we all were doing for like twenty years.
Who knows if this one is true or not, which
reminds me We've got this funny comedy thing about bad
health advice from the government over the years coming up
(10:40):
next segment. Excellent. Yeah, a lot of good stuff to
get to today. Some of it super, you know, history
changing globally impacting, some of it interesting, some of it ridiculous.
Nice balance, I think. So stay tuned, man, we have
a ton of time. Katie, just just relax, just riff.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'm chill out.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I want I want this segment to be like the
guitar solo from Freebird. I mean, it's just gonna go
on and on till the crowd's in a frenzy. Let's
figure out who's sporting. What the lead story with Katie? Katie,
Katie the news lady, A big time wise ass, very
dramatic Katie. Something I missed yesterday. That's funny. Did I
(11:24):
tell you I'm writing a book? On reverse psychology. You are,
please don't buy it. So I, oh my lord, Yes,
every day I'm going to have something that good.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It brightens my morning.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
From We'll start with ABC News, Trump to host is
Zelenski at White House with Tomahawk's Putin call on agenda.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, I wish I could be in the room for that.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
From NBC.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Violence between Hamas and gang's flares in Gaza, calling this
armament into question.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Putin or Trump yesterday said that's got to stop. He
said that's got to stop, and we're going to stop
it once again. We're whoever we're is. But you've got
an area there just absolutely bristling with arms and scores
to settle an angry people and opportunity. You know, our
(12:26):
old producer Positive Sean used to quote a character from
Game of Thrones who said, chaos is a ladder and
that's actually it's a great point. And there's nothing but
chaos in Gaza right now, and so every you know, oh,
you know, I almost use an unfortunate stereotype. I'm certainly
glad I didn't. Every fella with ambitions to be the
(12:47):
latest warlord is now shooting it out with every other one.
How are you going to keep ordering that? Trump, I
guess says, well, we're gonna have Israel come in and
clean house, and Israel's thinking, yeah, we get to kill
a bunch more Hamas guys. Let us know when.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
This one from The Guardian, John Bolton at court to surrender.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
To authorities after being indicted.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So this is interesting. I didn't dive deep into this
story at all. I just watched AB's Evening News, and
their newscast led me to believe, Wow, John Bolton's in
serious trouble on this deal. That's what ABC News made
me think. You're saying you've read legal experts saying this
is not a good case. Yeah, it's very thin. Wow, Okay, yeah,
(13:35):
we'll have to compare and contrast some of the notes.
I had a great experience yesterday, really really interesting in
real life. That was like a It was an illustration
of how conspiracy theories work. I got partial information from
a very good source and reached what I thought was
a fairly solid conclusion. Then another person offered another point
(14:00):
of view that changed everything. But if you take a
narrow bit of evidence over well, exaggerate the importance of
it and ignore all the countervailing evidence. You can make
a hell of a convincing case. It's like, you know,
convicting somebody after the prosecution goes in a trial, not
even listening to the defense. That's what conspiracy theories rest on. Anyway,
(14:22):
More on that.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Later from Fox News.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Judge says she wants body cameras for all federal agents
amids Chicago anti ice clashes.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I think I'm pro body cam on as many cops
as possible. You have no problem with it, any reason.
We don't want that, as long as we hold them
to reasonable standards, right and not. Here I am sitting
in air conditioned comfort judging their actions during moments of
terror in a dark alley, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
From the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Venezuela mobilizes troops and militias as US military looms offshore.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh my god, the marine's gonna take a beach in
Venezuela with Venezuelan military firing back. Holy crap. It is
utterly clear to me now that we are going from
regime change in Venezuela. I'm not sure what shape it's
gonna take. I certainly hope it's not an invasion, because
guys will be hurt and guys will die. But yeah,
(15:24):
that is clearly the goal.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
From the New York Post, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggests
AI powered robocops to help fight crime in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh boy, I don't know if we're ready for robot
cops yet. Let's give it a try. Huh. Yeah, over there,
I'll stay on this side of the bridge.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Also in robot news, this one from the New York Times.
An army of robot telescopes in Texas makes the stars
feel closer than ever. The images from so they have
this big farm and they're putting all these different telescopes
out there that you can rent and you can utilize them.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
As you wish.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
The pictures are incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That'd be really cool.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, USA today with dancing frogs and naked bikers. Portland
resists Trump's National Guard troops.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I was I was reading some of that, not
from the USA today, but and it reminded me of
what made Portland charming before it was disgusting and Antifa ridden,
and that's a whimsical spirit. Yeah, we don't like that,
So we're gonna dance around in inflatable animal suits as
opposed to, you know, trying to blind cops with lasers.
(16:44):
It's fine. That's a very Portland thing to do. Demonstrate
all you want. This is America. It's fine. I appreciate that. Michael.
There's some addresses a frog and you had you had
a ribbit for us, right, well done, well played.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
And finally from the Batylon b PSA, do not go
really fast in a boat with a Venezuelan flag right now?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, no, there's a public service announcement. If you're voting
this weekend, don't have a Venezuelan flag. Are you a
Venezuelan voter? Oh my gosh. So we weren't supposed to
eat carbs, and now they say we overreacted. Wade a second, what.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Dodgers had today as they went up three to nothing
last night and probably are headed toward back to back
World Series for the first time in a quarter century.
We might have a back to back winners, which it's
amazing what you can do with four hundred million dollars
as a payroll per year. Right. We have at least
a couple of Seattle Mariners fans who are blaming you
(17:46):
even expressing interest in rooting for them right wearing their
chances because that series is two to two now with
the Toronto Blue Jays. So we we played this late
in the show yesterday, wanted everybody to hear it, and
I don't mind hearing it again because it went. It
goes really fast, and it's got some interesting information before.
It's a comedy bit, but it's about how diet advice
(18:09):
has changed over the years. Nutrition advice. It's basically a
family sitting at the breakfast table in like nineteen eighty
two and a guy from the future shows up and
this is how it goes. Oh my god, Oh that
was sweet, like a bear stepping into a trap, which
is cruel and horrible. Uh yeah, oh my god. Wow,
(18:31):
wow week after week and wow, that was great. Just
I don't, I don't well played, Hansen, just sat in
my ear. Good job, loser, it's an excellent It's time
for the Friday tradition. Yes, I don't know when Joe
used to forget clips of the week. Yes, I didn't
(18:54):
think about this, but now that I'm forgetting clips of
the week, it's not like I'm worried about the schedule
of the show show, we're interrupting the flow of the entertainment.
Or it's that my mind no longer works in my cape?
Do I need a caretaker? Well, although I must disagree completely.
We are in a situation where we have wonderful people
(19:18):
that we work with in every way except on Fridays
they seek to undermine us. It's the very basics of
show business, any show, radio, TV podcast to the technical
people and staff and help her se. Don't forget sports
is coming up next here. They deliberately try to dupe
(19:38):
us into forgetting it's a revolution.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It's out of the unitiation. One of the few pleasures
I get.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's one of your backstabbing. It's one of your few
pleasures in life. And I will not deny you it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Michael just goes. The buzzer is coming.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
They're all a bunch of rotten fasts. All right, it's
the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at
the week that was.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
It's cow clips of the week, one after another, twenty
newly freed hostages in their families, hug, cry, kiss, scream
and pray.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And God bless the Middle East. Thank you everybody. What
was accomplished? Was a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I really command President Trump. I'd command the Qataris, the Egyptians,
and the President.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
This is not going to be a bloodless process.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What did they target? They targeted water, They targeted electrical
power infrastructure. Is China preparing for war?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
There was no other reason to target those systems in.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Summer heat included more than eighty six hundred arrests. Meantime,
across the border dhsas Mexican criminal gangs are placing bouties
on the heads of federal law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I'm going to be strongly recommending that you start looking
at San Francisco. Absolutely all apologize to police officers right here,
because this is the apology that I've been sharing with
many rank and file officers. President Trump says, US forces
struck another small boat carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
We are certainly looking at land now because we've got
to see very well under control. Michael, because he is
of Italian descent, got married on Columbus Day. That's right, Yeah,
a beautiful tribute to the great man. Michael. Moving along,
brodjenn Aside, you got copy off of the truck. Garbage truck,
I mean a garbage truck the size of a whale.
(21:50):
So after we realized there was a boy on the team.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
And let me just say, this person is eighteen years old,
so it's he's a grown man.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Don't carry off all the bag is light at a
plan at the plate, the throw not in time, goes out,
he is out. It's a fourth play at the plate
in the league.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Bothers me that that announcer didn't wait for the call.
I mean he ruined like one of the great calls
right there. I feel like they're but not waiting for
the I don't know. I'm more of an artist than you, Jack.
I think it added to the whole feeling of chaos
an uncertainty. Speaking of chaos, as I was saying five
minutes ago to set up this clip, oh yeah, right,
(22:41):
having completely forgotten clips of the week, you idiot. This
is about nutrition advice and it's kind of funny. But
then I've got a new thing about carbs that's out
from a study today, so kind of fits in with
this perfectly. This is a family at the breakfast table,
early eighties. A man from the future shows up.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
In our house.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I'm from the future. I'm here to warn you. Don't
eat that food. Why not the eggs? They're full of cholesterol?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
What eating even just what egg can dramatically increase your
chance of heart attack.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Don't eat eggs. Oh my god, thank you, you're welcome, godspeed. Well,
I guess I better take those eggs. What you're bad?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yeah, we were wrong about the eggs. Hell, it turns
out there's two types of cholesterol. There's good cholesterol and
bad cholesterol, and eggs actually have both. But just don't
eat the egg yolks, So stick with the egg whites.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yes, thank you, God speed.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We were wrong about the eggs.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
You can Yeah, okay, So it turns out that the
amount of cholesterol in a food doesn't actually affect how
much cholesterol ends up in your blood. The eggs are
probably fine. In fact, we sort of don't even know
what cholesterol is. What the state?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You can't eat the steak?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Why we were wrong about the stakes? Man was not
meant to eat bread?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Man was not meant to eat bread?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Why? Cars out it's genetic doesn't matter whether you exercise
or what she eat. I'm sorry I ruined your meal.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's great. It is really really good, and it fits
in with this story that's out today is study carbs
were once blamed for everything. Now the science is telling
a different story. Oh boy, the carb turns one hundred
and eighty years old this year. I mean, it's kind
of a weird way to look at it. It's like
a funny thing to say. It's like when I said
to my son Isaac Newton discovered gravity, and he said,
(24:47):
he didn't discuss gravity was already here, he just put
it into words. So that'sied. Yeah, that's the thing with
car Carbs have always been around. It's just that the
nailing it down and discussing it started a one hundred
eighty years ago. And as we all know, starting in
when did the bread is the worst thing that ever
happened to us? Craze start mid nineties something like something
(25:08):
like that. I guess. Anyway, they now believe that similar
to that little joke there about cholesterol, there are different
kinds of carbs, and the carbs that you get from
bread and flour different from other carbs you get from
sugar and stuff like that. And Homo sapiens and neanderthals
(25:28):
with varieties and changes and agriculture and stuff like that.
Starting to take in more carbs is what fueled the
growth of brain and the success of the human species, really,
and it's still very important to us. And so certain
kind of carbs are actually great for you and would
be a good idea. Maybe not so much the other
kind of carbs. So we need to think it about
it more complicated way than just counting carbs every single day.
(25:51):
I know where I am in my life, and freaking
do whatever you want, But I just try to burn
more calories than I take in, right the end. That's that, right,
Just keep sugar down your throat. I think that's probably
a good idea. But I'm as close to completely cynical
on this topic as I am any other, absolutely absolutely,
having having grown up with a lot of you good
(26:14):
folks in an era where the highest scientific authorities and
the federal government were telling us eat as much trans
fat as possible, Do not eat any real fats, make
it trans fats. They happen to call it margarine and
other things. Back in the day, it was perhaps the
most horrific thing you can put into your bloodstream, and
(26:37):
the government told us it was way better than eggs
and butter and bread and that sort of thing. It's
just ridiculous. I said yesterday, I grew up in Wisconsin,
the dairy state, and we were eating margarine at the
table instead of butter in the dairy state because the
government said, oh, butter is awful for you, this is
what you need, and transfats like poison. Oh yeah, yeah,
(26:58):
so yeah, I believe taking advice from that sort of stuff.
So again, I just I'm trying to take in fewer
calories than I burn every day. And that's a I
don't know what else to do. That's pretty funny though,
what I love that. Yeah, yeah, it turns out we
don't know much about cholesterol and that what's in the
food doesn't have it. So anyway, go ahead and neat tricks.
(27:19):
Oh my god, that's funny, right right, Oh goodness, the
carb that's that guy's having a discussion the other day
with somebody who's saying, how do you know somebody's got
a PhD? They'll tell you, or how do you know
somebody's a uh does CrossFit? They'll tell you. And it
was one of them was, how do you know somebody's
a on a new diet? They'll tell you. I mean,
(27:42):
that is definitely a thing. What is it about the
evangelism of diets? I mean, there's all kinds of different
things we do. People do but they don't feel the
need to convert others. But like they do with diets,
I think they're trying to reinforce their own enthusiasm for it.
Maybe I don't know, but it's the whole diet thing.
It's a lot like fashion in that you know, one
(28:06):
leg length or width or whatever is as good as another.
It keeps you from exposing your genitals or being battered
by the weather. You know, you're closed in short, but
it's got to keep changing, and people have to keep
inventing rationalizations for it changing. Otherwise fashion as a concept
wouldn't exist. And like, and I've made this point and
(28:28):
it's a very serious one about education. The reason so
much of education got perverted in you know, the last
chunk of the twentieth century was these universities, the educational
colleges were cranking out all these master's degrees in PhDs.
And what do you need a PhD in for? What
(28:49):
do you need a PhD for? If you're just going
to say keep doing the same thing. Keep teaching phonics,
keep teaching math the way we're doing everything. That's great.
It's worked for centuries. Yeah, we figured this out two
thousand years ago, so just stay exactly. Now, give me
my big fat salary because I got a fake degree. No,
that doesn't work. So you've got to come up with
a new fad, a new concept, and then swear, like
(29:11):
you know, mouthfuls of margarine that it'll just save the children.
And then you don't give a crap about the children.
You give a crap about your own ego and your
own salary. Anyway. I think a lot of diet stuff
is precisely that. How am I going to sell a
book that says just keep eating what you're eating, try
to exercise more. Be very short book, Hey, eat a
(29:33):
balanced diet, like you've heard your whole damn life. There.
My book is now two sentences long. Burn more calories
than you take in every day? Right, and here you go.
That's the appendix or the post loots I did the afterward, Yeah,
post loud, I like that. I'm sorry, I was thinking music.
It's the it's the author's note. Oh yeah, and burn
(29:53):
more calories than you take in Okay, we've got mail
bag on the way. Lots of stuff today. Stay here.
So the Trump White House or Justice Department indicted another
guy that he hates because Molten wrote a book that
bad mouth Trump. Is this something to be worried about
or not? Or are we back to the whole Everything
(30:16):
in Washington, DC is classified. They treat everything like it's,
you know, the code to the nuclear weapons and that
whole conversation. Yeah, probably some of all of the above
right into that later, right, A lot of good stuff
to squeeze in. Clearly we're heading for regime change in Venezuela.
I want to get into that a bit more. Here's
(30:37):
your freedom loving quote of the day. And I was
reminded of this in seeing a few of the quote
unquote highlights from the Mumdanni New York mayoral debate and
then getting a great email from a beloved listener on
the same topic, and that's Mumdannie has walked back his
views on defunding the place, and two days after saying
(31:00):
refusing to say that Hamas should lay down its arms,
he now says, well, of course that's what a truth is.
Of course they should lay down their arms and h
and I was reminded of this quote. Who I'm pretty
sure is James Lindsay. It might be Chris Rufo, but
I'm ninety percent sure as James Lindsay. And I've hit
you with it before, but it's one of my all
time favorites. Marxists just lie. They lie so overtly and
(31:21):
blatantly that people begin to question their own perceptions. It
works because no one expects another person to lie so overtly.
They don't believe in shared truth. They use words as weapons.
Until you learn to keep this in mind during every interaction,
you will continue to get played. They rely on you
implicitly assuming that they have good intentions and are aiming
(31:42):
at a shared truth, and so dialogue can be productive.
That's a deception. Here is the key. Here's what you
need to take away. For Marxists. Dialogue is not a
way of attaining truth. It is a forum for manipulation.
Uh albag Yes. Very short version of last night's debate.
I took in a bunch of postgame coverage. It was
(32:04):
two hours long, three candidates incredibly boring. The moderators were horrible,
Andrew Cuomo was horrible. Mamdani will be the next mayor
of New York City.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Good lord zorrun Mandani.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Right, I love that clip so much. Drop us a
note mail bag in Armstrong. You Giddy dot com got
this from Eric in Beautiful Astoria, Oregon. Jack's interview with
fabulous Tim Sandefer included the fact that some very nutty
state legislatures in this country are doing their thing, including
Hawaii case in point. Did you know that Hawaii recently
made it illegal to laugh too loudly in a public area?
(32:41):
That's right, You're only allowed a loh and he says,
I regret nothing. I regret nothing. That's the funny part.
I know, regret nothing. I know. That's good. David Rice.
When you guys start streaming your show on YouTube or something,
which we are going to do, I set up the
(33:03):
cameras so whenever Jack comes in late, he blocks Joe
as he passes. That way, Michael can make the door
sound cliff, followed immediately by Katie Porter yelling hysterically, get
out of my shot. That's funny. We are going to
be on YouTube sooner rather than later. I'm gonna have
to figure out how I want to dress once we're
on television, because I wear suits some days, but the
other days I look like a homeless person. So I
(33:26):
don't know. Ah ah ow I yeah, okay, we'll talk
about that more later. Let's see, this is just funny
and interesting, Bob, writes Pilot Bob from the blah that's
the beautiful Los Altos Hills. I loved hearing Katie's dad
talk about how he graduated from Stanford to embalming. Let
him know, our distinguished Senator Adam Schiff started his career
(33:48):
that same way. My Stanford buddy was Shift's medical undergrad
advisor and the one who delivered the news to Adam
that his math grades were not good enough to cut
it for med school. So I've always blamed my friend
for transforming Shift into a blood draining politician. Oh man,
it's like when Hitler wasn't good enough painter. I wish
Adam Schiff had been a better doctor. Yeah, no kidding, no.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Kidding, got ballst than his neck I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Oh, not a long hitter. Robin says some very nice
things about listening to the show since rush Limbauugh left
the air, And I love thank you, thanks for making
the unhappy news entertaining. Yeah, not long ago. Yesked, if
there was an increase in attendance at churches, I can
answer that with a resounding yes. After Charlie kirk'ssassination, we
saw a huge increase in young people filling the pews.
The evening of Charlie's memorial, we had over twenty four
(34:37):
hundred people, one hundred and sixty five spontaneous baptisms. This Sunday,
we're baptizing over sixty people. Wow, yeah, amazing, thanks Robin. Yeah,
that's that's great. I mean it's horrible, but it's great.
Let's see how much time do we have, Michael, About
thirty seconds? Another Jay in San Jose, frequent correspondent writes
(35:00):
Meduro is dead for sure. Extra points and he makes
an intriguing point that we will use to open our
discussion of are we going to push regime change in Venezuela?
The answer is yes, by the way. Cool. And this
latest indictment of a Trump enemy, John Bolton, does it
(35:23):
hold any water or not? We got that for him
and a bunch of other stories to get to Today.
Trump is meeting with the Zelenski at the White House.
That might happen while we're doing the show. If you
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From Studio C. SASONR. It's fraye and we're deep within
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hey y'all, today we are toiling under the tutelage of
our general manager, Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTI, what is the deal
with Trump?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And put?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's the duly elected President of Russia. The first baffo
punchline of the show. I don't want to fall out
a window this weekend. That sensible precaution. Luckily I live
in a one I know, I don't. I live in
a two story house. I could fall out the window
and die. It's probably more like breaking your arm height,
but be unpleasant, certainly. Yeah, there you go. If Vladimir
(01:17):
Vladimirvitch would probably drop you out as many times as
it took. By the fifth or sixth time, you're good
and tired of it. News reports say the man went
in his house, went back upstairs, fell out the same
window three times until until he died of into his
industry exactly. Trump and Putin on the phone for two
hours yesterday. Would you hang up? No, you hang up.
(01:42):
I'm sorry that was unfair. I did not mean in
any way to suggest anything. I just I do not
get Trump's approach with Putin. We should start saying that
more often. We in no way, in any way attempted
to suggest anything. Uh. And Trump joked about he brought
(02:02):
up tomahawks, and Putin didn't like it. I don't know
if you saw that. They're in the Oval Office. Everybody's laughing.
Doctor Oz was behind him, just blowing a gasket, laughing.
Oh good to be reminded that doctor Oz is in
the administration. I just thought that was the low profile goods.
I just thought that was an interesting joke. The most
powerful nation on Earth threatening the second most powerful nation
(02:23):
on earth with nuclear war and this and that, and nah,
he didn't like that. No, I get it. Cut on it, sir.
Oh my god, these are strange times. But then Zelenski's
coming to the Oval Office today and they're going to
discuss Tomahawk missiles and what not to not. Who knows
how that's going to go. I haven't got the slightest
idea well, I was off yesterday selfishly getting cancer surgery.
(02:45):
I understand you talked to Mike Lyons about the question
of tomahawks, and as usual, Mike had a really interesting perspective,
and I hope we can play a couple of those
highlights for the good folks today and for me selfishly. Yeah,
he didn't seem to think it would be as big
a game it's being portrayed as, which is pretty interesting. Yeah.
(03:08):
I really have no idea what's gonna happen today, and
we'll just have to wait and see because nobody was
predicting the whatever that was that happened back in February.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You don't have a cards, where's your suit?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You know that sort of thing. So who knows what's
gonna happen today. Yeah, I'll tell you One thing that's
gonna happen on the show is we're going to talk
to one of the fabulous folks from the Pacific Legal
Foundation in our three. Gonna kick off our three with
a discussion of the Supreme Court's recent oral arguments the
session they're in right now, and man, there have been
some blockbuster cases, really interesting stuff. Looking forward to talking
(03:40):
to those good folks. So stay tuned or grab it
later via podcast or whatever. And as usual, we don't
mean to imply anything about anything. No, we have no
ideas about nor opinions, and any inference or suggestion that
we do is untoward an illegal Here's the most interesting
without the express written concent of the National Football League.
Here's the most interesting thing I've heard today. Report out
(04:04):
on the number of ghost guns found across the country
by police departments. So five years ago it was thirty,
there were thirty ghost guns. Last year it was three hundred,
and they have no reason to think that it's not
going to exponentially increase like that as the three D
printers get cheaper and it gets you know, more people
(04:25):
to catch on that you can just do that that
ghost guns. Those are the weird ray guns like in
the Ghostbusters movies. Right, I'm sorry, I was saying ghost guns.
What I'm meaning to say is three D printed guns,
which are ghost guns. But it's that's not the key.
Three D printed guns have gone from thirty five years
ago to three hundred last year, and they don't see
any reason why it won't be three thousand five years
from now or thirty thousand, ten years from now, I mean,
(04:48):
why wouldn't it be as that technology gets cheaper and
cheaper in the you know, I heard some advocates on
there for trying to stop this say, well, we need
to make it harder to find the plans to print,
and yeah, good luck with that. Good yea, Who my god,
are you a child? And I know if you're a child,
go to your room. If you're not, quit being stupid.
Don't mean to imply anything about anything, but you're a child.
(05:08):
There's certainly not but so utterly untraceable is the problem. Unregisterable?
And then you know, well you can use them in
many many crimes, and there's ballistics or port bubbla. There
are endless problems. Untraceable, unregistered. Anybody can do it at
any age, with any criminal background, from anywhere. I mean, yeah,
(05:29):
so you could be fresh out of prison and uh,
absolutely not supposed to own a gun and print one
in your home that afternoon. That is going to happen.
That's going to change the whole gun thing.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I don't know where we're going to be going with
this one. Been talking about it four years and knew
it was coming, But it looks like it's here and
it's about to explode. I can't even imagine where we're
going to go with that as a country. That counterbalance
could be incredibly draconian punishments for possession, and I don't
think we will probably put up with that. Although it
(06:03):
depends where this leads. It could be that there's so
much horrendous violence that America says, yeah, we're gonna come
together and agree on this. It's going to be almost
the end of any attempt to keep guns out of
the hands of bad people, isn't it. I don't see
how it's not going to be. Well, that's already pretty unsuccessful,
(06:26):
but yeah, it'll be the end of any real attempt
to it. Wow, technologies are not working in our favor.
I feel like, no, No, it's the afflutary of knowledge.
We now can know and do things that we as
human beings can't handle. That is my belief. Yeah, and
(06:48):
not only could you be a felon from another country
who's seventeen years old and print yourself off a very
lethal handgun. It's cheap. It's cheaper than the actual gun.
If you went out and baw wait, I got to
stop you there. What the hell country? On Earth would
allow in gang members from other countries? What sort of
(07:10):
immigration system do they have? What sort of leadership do
they have in this bizarre scenario where the borders are
just open and they let gang members in. That would
never happen anyway. I just want to put that on
your radar. Is another thing to worry about. That's what
we do is try to make you miserable and scared.
That's what we do here in the Armstrong Land. Angry,
be fair and angry. Okay, let's start the show officially.
(07:33):
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe getting on this. How did
Dowary you get to be Friday, October seventeenth of the
year twenty twenty five. We're armstrong and getting We approve
of this program, all right. Let's begin then officially according
to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go, leaping into
action at mark.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The battle of the Agent has been amputed, Roger, where's
the fact? Beat that bil cup at the thirty five
yard line. They're going all away to the end zone.
Five final sixty eight yards.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So you had an instant classic last night that I
did not see, which I had on Thursday Night Football
with Joe Flacco if you remember him, won a Super
Bowl twenty years ago. And you mean Joe Flacco junior
and Aaron Rodgers, who's also in his forties, both just
went off in a fourth quarter duel that was absolutely
amazing for people you know of that age. There you go, wow, huh,
(08:29):
I wish I had seen it. It's amazing to me.
I've been saying this for a couple of weeks. Now,
how many NFL games come down to it? You used
to complain about the NBA. Why don't you just watch
the last five minutes, that's the whole game. The NFL
is practically that way. Now, tune into the last half
of the fourth quarter and watch that. That's all the excitement.
It's just stunning that it could. I feel like when
(08:50):
I was a kid, rarely would there be an exciting game.
You know, there'd be exciting plays throughout, but often nothing
happened in the fourth quarter. Excitement was in the second decided. Yeah.
But now with the changes the rules or whatever it is,
you got teams driving up and down the field. You know,
if there's a minute left on the clock, the other
team's got a good shot. Well, in the fact, the
(09:11):
field goal kickers are consistent too, you know, fifty to
fifty five yards. Yeah, your guy misses a fifty one yarder,
You're like, come on, dude. Yeah, back in the day,
a fifty yard field goal would probably lead the sports
section the next day. Yeah, they might have to change
the rules around that because, yeah, because you only have
to get halfway down the field to have a better
(09:33):
than coin flip's chance of kicking a bilgal. You've heard
the expression, they're moving the goal posts, literally, moving goal
posts like mini golf. He goes back and forth across
the end zone, and you got a time it exactly exactly.
And there's a giant like dolphin that leaps up and
lands in his mouth if it blocks the ball. If
you know dolphins jumps the right. Yes, they've been thinking
(09:55):
outside the box. Again. We don't mean to imply anything
about anything. We've got Katie's headlines on the way and
lots of good stuff today. Michael Bolton, No, no, no,
that's the singer John Bolton, former National security advisor, indicted yesterday.
Is this a good one or a bad one? Is
this right to retribution? Or did the guy have all
kinds of classified documents and he was a little too
loose with him. We'll hear some expert opinions on that.
(10:18):
Lots of good stuff on the way, stay here. So, yeah,
there's new health news out that is the exact opposite
of what we all were doing for like twenty years.
Who knows if this one is true or not, which
reminds me We've got this funny comedy thing about bad
health advice from the government over the years coming up
(10:40):
next segment. Excellent. Yeah, a lot of good stuff to
get to today. Some of it super, you know, history
changing globally impacting, some of it interesting, some of it ridiculous.
Nice balance, I think. So stay tuned, man, we have
a ton of time. Katie, just just relax, just riff.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'm chill out.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I want I want this segment to be like the
guitar solo from Freebird. I mean, it's just gonna go
on and on till the crowd's in a frenzy. Let's
figure out who's sporting. What the lead story with Katie? Katie,
Katie the news lady, A big time wise ass, very
dramatic Katie. Something I missed yesterday. That's funny. Did I
(11:24):
tell you I'm writing a book? On reverse psychology. You are,
please don't buy it. So I, oh my lord, Yes,
every day I'm going to have something that good.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It brightens my morning.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
From We'll start with ABC News, Trump to host is
Zelenski at White House with Tomahawk's Putin call on agenda.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, I wish I could be in the room for that.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
From NBC.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Violence between Hamas and gang's flares in Gaza, calling this
armament into question.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Putin or Trump yesterday said that's got to stop. He
said that's got to stop, and we're going to stop
it once again. We're whoever we're is. But you've got
an area there just absolutely bristling with arms and scores
to settle an angry people and opportunity. You know, our
(12:26):
old producer Positive Sean used to quote a character from
Game of Thrones who said, chaos is a ladder and
that's actually it's a great point. And there's nothing but
chaos in Gaza right now, and so every you know, oh,
you know, I almost use an unfortunate stereotype. I'm certainly
glad I didn't. Every fella with ambitions to be the
(12:47):
latest warlord is now shooting it out with every other one.
How are you going to keep ordering that? Trump, I
guess says, well, we're gonna have Israel come in and
clean house, and Israel's thinking, yeah, we get to kill
a bunch more Hamas guys. Let us know when.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
This one from The Guardian, John Bolton at court to surrender.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
To authorities after being indicted.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So this is interesting. I didn't dive deep into this
story at all. I just watched AB's Evening News, and
their newscast led me to believe, Wow, John Bolton's in
serious trouble on this deal. That's what ABC News made
me think. You're saying you've read legal experts saying this
is not a good case. Yeah, it's very thin. Wow, Okay, yeah,
(13:35):
we'll have to compare and contrast some of the notes.
I had a great experience yesterday, really really interesting in
real life. That was like a It was an illustration
of how conspiracy theories work. I got partial information from
a very good source and reached what I thought was
a fairly solid conclusion. Then another person offered another point
(14:00):
of view that changed everything. But if you take a
narrow bit of evidence over well, exaggerate the importance of
it and ignore all the countervailing evidence. You can make
a hell of a convincing case. It's like, you know,
convicting somebody after the prosecution goes in a trial, not
even listening to the defense. That's what conspiracy theories rest on. Anyway,
(14:22):
More on that.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Later from Fox News.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Judge says she wants body cameras for all federal agents
amids Chicago anti ice clashes.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I think I'm pro body cam on as many cops
as possible. You have no problem with it, any reason.
We don't want that, as long as we hold them
to reasonable standards, right and not. Here I am sitting
in air conditioned comfort judging their actions during moments of
terror in a dark alley, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
From the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Venezuela mobilizes troops and militias as US military looms offshore.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh my god, the marine's gonna take a beach in
Venezuela with Venezuelan military firing back. Holy crap. It is
utterly clear to me now that we are going from
regime change in Venezuela. I'm not sure what shape it's
gonna take. I certainly hope it's not an invasion, because
guys will be hurt and guys will die. But yeah,
(15:24):
that is clearly the goal.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
From the New York Post, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggests
AI powered robocops to help fight crime in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh boy, I don't know if we're ready for robot
cops yet. Let's give it a try. Huh. Yeah, over there,
I'll stay on this side of the bridge.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Also in robot news, this one from the New York Times.
An army of robot telescopes in Texas makes the stars
feel closer than ever. The images from so they have
this big farm and they're putting all these different telescopes
out there that you can rent and you can utilize them.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
As you wish.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
The pictures are incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That'd be really cool.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, USA today with dancing frogs and naked bikers. Portland
resists Trump's National Guard troops.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I was I was reading some of that, not
from the USA today, but and it reminded me of
what made Portland charming before it was disgusting and Antifa ridden,
and that's a whimsical spirit. Yeah, we don't like that,
So we're gonna dance around in inflatable animal suits as
opposed to, you know, trying to blind cops with lasers.
(16:44):
It's fine. That's a very Portland thing to do. Demonstrate
all you want. This is America. It's fine. I appreciate that. Michael.
There's some addresses a frog and you had you had
a ribbit for us, right, well done, well played.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
And finally from the Batylon b PSA, do not go
really fast in a boat with a Venezuelan flag right now?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, no, there's a public service announcement. If you're voting
this weekend, don't have a Venezuelan flag. Are you a
Venezuelan voter? Oh my gosh. So we weren't supposed to
eat carbs, and now they say we overreacted. Wade a second, what.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Dodgers had today as they went up three to nothing
last night and probably are headed toward back to back
World Series for the first time in a quarter century.
We might have a back to back winners, which it's
amazing what you can do with four hundred million dollars
as a payroll per year. Right. We have at least
a couple of Seattle Mariners fans who are blaming you
(17:46):
even expressing interest in rooting for them right wearing their
chances because that series is two to two now with
the Toronto Blue Jays. So we we played this late
in the show yesterday, wanted everybody to hear it, and
I don't mind hearing it again because it went. It
goes really fast, and it's got some interesting information before.
It's a comedy bit, but it's about how diet advice
(18:09):
has changed over the years. Nutrition advice. It's basically a
family sitting at the breakfast table in like nineteen eighty
two and a guy from the future shows up and
this is how it goes. Oh my god, Oh that
was sweet, like a bear stepping into a trap, which
is cruel and horrible. Uh yeah, oh my god. Wow,
(18:31):
wow week after week and wow, that was great. Just
I don't, I don't well played, Hansen, just sat in
my ear. Good job, loser, it's an excellent It's time
for the Friday tradition. Yes, I don't know when Joe
used to forget clips of the week. Yes, I didn't
(18:54):
think about this, but now that I'm forgetting clips of
the week, it's not like I'm worried about the schedule
of the show show, we're interrupting the flow of the entertainment.
Or it's that my mind no longer works in my cape?
Do I need a caretaker? Well, although I must disagree completely.
We are in a situation where we have wonderful people
(19:18):
that we work with in every way except on Fridays
they seek to undermine us. It's the very basics of
show business, any show, radio, TV podcast to the technical
people and staff and help her se. Don't forget sports
is coming up next here. They deliberately try to dupe
(19:38):
us into forgetting it's a revolution.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It's out of the unitiation. One of the few pleasures
I get.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's one of your backstabbing. It's one of your few
pleasures in life. And I will not deny you it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Michael just goes. The buzzer is coming.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
They're all a bunch of rotten fasts. All right, it's
the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at
the week that was.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
It's cow clips of the week, one after another, twenty
newly freed hostages in their families, hug, cry, kiss, scream
and pray.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And God bless the Middle East. Thank you everybody. What
was accomplished? Was a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I really command President Trump. I'd command the Qataris, the Egyptians,
and the President.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
This is not going to be a bloodless process.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What did they target? They targeted water, They targeted electrical
power infrastructure. Is China preparing for war?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
There was no other reason to target those systems in.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Summer heat included more than eighty six hundred arrests. Meantime,
across the border dhsas Mexican criminal gangs are placing bouties
on the heads of federal law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I'm going to be strongly recommending that you start looking
at San Francisco. Absolutely all apologize to police officers right here,
because this is the apology that I've been sharing with
many rank and file officers. President Trump says, US forces
struck another small boat carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
We are certainly looking at land now because we've got
to see very well under control. Michael, because he is
of Italian descent, got married on Columbus Day. That's right, Yeah,
a beautiful tribute to the great man. Michael. Moving along,
brodjenn Aside, you got copy off of the truck. Garbage truck,
I mean a garbage truck the size of a whale.
(21:50):
So after we realized there was a boy on the team.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
And let me just say, this person is eighteen years old,
so it's he's a grown man.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Don't carry off all the bag is light at a
plan at the plate, the throw not in time, goes out,
he is out. It's a fourth play at the plate
in the league.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Bothers me that that announcer didn't wait for the call.
I mean he ruined like one of the great calls
right there. I feel like they're but not waiting for
the I don't know. I'm more of an artist than you, Jack.
I think it added to the whole feeling of chaos
an uncertainty. Speaking of chaos, as I was saying five
minutes ago to set up this clip, oh yeah, right,
(22:41):
having completely forgotten clips of the week, you idiot. This
is about nutrition advice and it's kind of funny. But
then I've got a new thing about carbs that's out
from a study today, so kind of fits in with
this perfectly. This is a family at the breakfast table,
early eighties. A man from the future shows up.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
In our house.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I'm from the future. I'm here to warn you. Don't
eat that food. Why not the eggs? They're full of cholesterol?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
What eating even just what egg can dramatically increase your
chance of heart attack.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Don't eat eggs. Oh my god, thank you, you're welcome, godspeed. Well,
I guess I better take those eggs. What you're bad?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yeah, we were wrong about the eggs. Hell, it turns
out there's two types of cholesterol. There's good cholesterol and
bad cholesterol, and eggs actually have both. But just don't
eat the egg yolks, So stick with the egg whites.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yes, thank you, God speed.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We were wrong about the eggs.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
You can Yeah, okay, So it turns out that the
amount of cholesterol in a food doesn't actually affect how
much cholesterol ends up in your blood. The eggs are
probably fine. In fact, we sort of don't even know
what cholesterol is. What the state?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You can't eat the steak?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Why we were wrong about the stakes? Man was not
meant to eat bread?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Man was not meant to eat bread?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Why? Cars out it's genetic doesn't matter whether you exercise
or what she eat. I'm sorry I ruined your meal.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's great. It is really really good, and it fits
in with this story that's out today is study carbs
were once blamed for everything. Now the science is telling
a different story. Oh boy, the carb turns one hundred
and eighty years old this year. I mean, it's kind
of a weird way to look at it. It's like
a funny thing to say. It's like when I said
to my son Isaac Newton discovered gravity, and he said,
(24:47):
he didn't discuss gravity was already here, he just put
it into words. So that'sied. Yeah, that's the thing with
car Carbs have always been around. It's just that the
nailing it down and discussing it started a one hundred
eighty years ago. And as we all know, starting in
when did the bread is the worst thing that ever
happened to us? Craze start mid nineties something like something
(25:08):
like that. I guess. Anyway, they now believe that similar
to that little joke there about cholesterol, there are different
kinds of carbs, and the carbs that you get from
bread and flour different from other carbs you get from
sugar and stuff like that. And Homo sapiens and neanderthals
(25:28):
with varieties and changes and agriculture and stuff like that.
Starting to take in more carbs is what fueled the
growth of brain and the success of the human species, really,
and it's still very important to us. And so certain
kind of carbs are actually great for you and would
be a good idea. Maybe not so much the other
kind of carbs. So we need to think it about
it more complicated way than just counting carbs every single day.
(25:51):
I know where I am in my life, and freaking
do whatever you want, But I just try to burn
more calories than I take in, right the end. That's that, right,
Just keep sugar down your throat. I think that's probably
a good idea. But I'm as close to completely cynical
on this topic as I am any other, absolutely absolutely,
having having grown up with a lot of you good
(26:14):
folks in an era where the highest scientific authorities and
the federal government were telling us eat as much trans
fat as possible, Do not eat any real fats, make
it trans fats. They happen to call it margarine and
other things. Back in the day, it was perhaps the
most horrific thing you can put into your bloodstream, and
(26:37):
the government told us it was way better than eggs
and butter and bread and that sort of thing. It's
just ridiculous. I said yesterday, I grew up in Wisconsin,
the dairy state, and we were eating margarine at the
table instead of butter in the dairy state because the
government said, oh, butter is awful for you, this is
what you need, and transfats like poison. Oh yeah, yeah,
(26:58):
so yeah, I believe taking advice from that sort of stuff.
So again, I just I'm trying to take in fewer
calories than I burn every day. And that's a I
don't know what else to do. That's pretty funny though,
what I love that. Yeah, yeah, it turns out we
don't know much about cholesterol and that what's in the
food doesn't have it. So anyway, go ahead and neat tricks.
(27:19):
Oh my god, that's funny, right right, Oh goodness, the
carb that's that guy's having a discussion the other day
with somebody who's saying, how do you know somebody's got
a PhD? They'll tell you, or how do you know
somebody's a uh does CrossFit? They'll tell you. And it
was one of them was, how do you know somebody's
a on a new diet? They'll tell you. I mean,
(27:42):
that is definitely a thing. What is it about the
evangelism of diets? I mean, there's all kinds of different
things we do. People do but they don't feel the
need to convert others. But like they do with diets,
I think they're trying to reinforce their own enthusiasm for it.
Maybe I don't know, but it's the whole diet thing.
It's a lot like fashion in that you know, one
(28:06):
leg length or width or whatever is as good as another.
It keeps you from exposing your genitals or being battered
by the weather. You know, you're closed in short, but
it's got to keep changing, and people have to keep
inventing rationalizations for it changing. Otherwise fashion as a concept
wouldn't exist. And like, and I've made this point and
(28:28):
it's a very serious one about education. The reason so
much of education got perverted in you know, the last
chunk of the twentieth century was these universities, the educational
colleges were cranking out all these master's degrees in PhDs.
And what do you need a PhD in for? What
(28:49):
do you need a PhD for? If you're just going
to say keep doing the same thing. Keep teaching phonics,
keep teaching math the way we're doing everything. That's great.
It's worked for centuries. Yeah, we figured this out two
thousand years ago, so just stay exactly. Now, give me
my big fat salary because I got a fake degree. No,
that doesn't work. So you've got to come up with
a new fad, a new concept, and then swear, like
(29:11):
you know, mouthfuls of margarine that it'll just save the children.
And then you don't give a crap about the children.
You give a crap about your own ego and your
own salary. Anyway. I think a lot of diet stuff
is precisely that. How am I going to sell a
book that says just keep eating what you're eating, try
to exercise more. Be very short book, Hey, eat a
(29:33):
balanced diet, like you've heard your whole damn life. There.
My book is now two sentences long. Burn more calories
than you take in every day? Right, and here you go.
That's the appendix or the post loots I did the afterward, Yeah,
post loud, I like that. I'm sorry, I was thinking music.
It's the it's the author's note. Oh yeah, and burn
(29:53):
more calories than you take in Okay, we've got mail
bag on the way. Lots of stuff today. Stay here.
So the Trump White House or Justice Department indicted another
guy that he hates because Molten wrote a book that
bad mouth Trump. Is this something to be worried about
or not? Or are we back to the whole Everything
(30:16):
in Washington, DC is classified. They treat everything like it's,
you know, the code to the nuclear weapons and that
whole conversation. Yeah, probably some of all of the above
right into that later, right, A lot of good stuff
to squeeze in. Clearly we're heading for regime change in Venezuela.
I want to get into that a bit more. Here's
(30:37):
your freedom loving quote of the day. And I was
reminded of this in seeing a few of the quote
unquote highlights from the Mumdanni New York mayoral debate and
then getting a great email from a beloved listener on
the same topic, and that's Mumdannie has walked back his
views on defunding the place, and two days after saying
(31:00):
refusing to say that Hamas should lay down its arms,
he now says, well, of course that's what a truth is.
Of course they should lay down their arms and h
and I was reminded of this quote. Who I'm pretty
sure is James Lindsay. It might be Chris Rufo, but
I'm ninety percent sure as James Lindsay. And I've hit
you with it before, but it's one of my all
time favorites. Marxists just lie. They lie so overtly and
(31:21):
blatantly that people begin to question their own perceptions. It
works because no one expects another person to lie so overtly.
They don't believe in shared truth. They use words as weapons.
Until you learn to keep this in mind during every interaction,
you will continue to get played. They rely on you
implicitly assuming that they have good intentions and are aiming
(31:42):
at a shared truth, and so dialogue can be productive.
That's a deception. Here is the key. Here's what you
need to take away. For Marxists. Dialogue is not a
way of attaining truth. It is a forum for manipulation.
Uh albag Yes. Very short version of last night's debate.
I took in a bunch of postgame coverage. It was
(32:04):
two hours long, three candidates incredibly boring. The moderators were horrible,
Andrew Cuomo was horrible. Mamdani will be the next mayor
of New York City.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Good lord zorrun Mandani.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Right, I love that clip so much. Drop us a
note mail bag in Armstrong. You Giddy dot com got
this from Eric in Beautiful Astoria, Oregon. Jack's interview with
fabulous Tim Sandefer included the fact that some very nutty
state legislatures in this country are doing their thing, including
Hawaii case in point. Did you know that Hawaii recently
made it illegal to laugh too loudly in a public area?
(32:41):
That's right, You're only allowed a loh and he says,
I regret nothing. I regret nothing. That's the funny part.
I know, regret nothing. I know. That's good. David Rice.
When you guys start streaming your show on YouTube or something,
which we are going to do, I set up the
(33:03):
cameras so whenever Jack comes in late, he blocks Joe
as he passes. That way, Michael can make the door
sound cliff, followed immediately by Katie Porter yelling hysterically, get
out of my shot. That's funny. We are going to
be on YouTube sooner rather than later. I'm gonna have
to figure out how I want to dress once we're
on television, because I wear suits some days, but the
other days I look like a homeless person. So I
(33:26):
don't know. Ah ah ow I yeah, okay, we'll talk
about that more later. Let's see, this is just funny
and interesting, Bob, writes Pilot Bob from the blah that's
the beautiful Los Altos Hills. I loved hearing Katie's dad
talk about how he graduated from Stanford to embalming. Let
him know, our distinguished Senator Adam Schiff started his career
(33:48):
that same way. My Stanford buddy was Shift's medical undergrad
advisor and the one who delivered the news to Adam
that his math grades were not good enough to cut
it for med school. So I've always blamed my friend
for transforming Shift into a blood draining politician. Oh man,
it's like when Hitler wasn't good enough painter. I wish
Adam Schiff had been a better doctor. Yeah, no kidding, no.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Kidding, got ballst than his neck I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Oh, not a long hitter. Robin says some very nice
things about listening to the show since rush Limbauugh left
the air, And I love thank you, thanks for making
the unhappy news entertaining. Yeah, not long ago. Yesked, if
there was an increase in attendance at churches, I can
answer that with a resounding yes. After Charlie kirk'ssassination, we
saw a huge increase in young people filling the pews.
The evening of Charlie's memorial, we had over twenty four
(34:37):
hundred people, one hundred and sixty five spontaneous baptisms. This Sunday,
we're baptizing over sixty people. Wow, yeah, amazing, thanks Robin. Yeah,
that's that's great. I mean it's horrible, but it's great.
Let's see how much time do we have, Michael, About
thirty seconds? Another Jay in San Jose, frequent correspondent writes
(35:00):
Meduro is dead for sure. Extra points and he makes
an intriguing point that we will use to open our
discussion of are we going to push regime change in Venezuela?
The answer is yes, by the way. Cool. And this
latest indictment of a Trump enemy, John Bolton, does it
(35:23):
hold any water or not? We got that for him
and a bunch of other stories to get to Today.
Trump is meeting with the Zelenski at the White House.
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