February 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The stunning Nancy Mace speech
- Ads for bad food during the Superbowl & renaming Fort Bragg
- Conservatives are finally winning the culture wars
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE GETTY!
- Final thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
To Eric Bowman, Patrick Bryant, Brian Musgrave and John Osborne.
You have bought yourself a one way ticket to help.
It is NonStop. There are no connections, so I and
all of your victims can watch you rot for an eternity.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, what was that?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That is?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, on the floor
of the House last night as part of a very
very long speech that was about alleged sexual assault and
exploitation and trafficking and peeping tomism involving her and other women,
perhaps under age women. And as you heard there, she
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named names which included her ex fiancee.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And we played a bunch of it in our two
and she didn't lay it out.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
In the best way.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
If I was going to try to do this myself,
But how recently did she come across these photos that
let her to believe that this happened to her? I mean,
if it's pretty recently, you'd be so rattled. I could
see how you might go onto the house floor and
launched into a screen without exactly bringing people up to
speed on what you were talking about, because it kind
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of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, yeah, and she went on at some lengths about
the principles involved in the horrors of sexual ex flotation
and assault and and but didn't tell the folks unless
I missed a part night, I didn't listen to the
whole thing. But and then later she got to the
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super dramatic specifics of it. I'm not sure exactly the
timeline here. It was fairly recently though, as she explained
later in the speech, she got hold of her fiance's
cell phone and found on it dating profiles in all
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sorts of videotapes, and pictures of women who clearly did
not know they were being videotaped. One appeared to be
under age. One videotape, she dramatically revealed, was of her.
She had no idea it was when it was taken
or whatever. And then she gets into the question of
drugging women to incapacitate them and rape them, and sex
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traffick and all sorts of stuff without like she doesn't
lay out evidence like a prosecutor. She just says that's
what happened, Katie. Did you want to jump in.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, apparently she found these videos in mid November of
twenty twenty three, but they don't talk about when the
videos were taken.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
That she legally his phone was in a safe and
she got access to it somehow, So she must have
been alleging a crime and the cops allowed her to
look at his phone or something.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, evidently she was tipped off that he had a
dating profile on some site and somebody sent a screen
capture to her and she asked him about it or something,
and he put his phone in a safe and said, no,
you don't get to see it, and somehow she got
or cops got access to it. But yeah, that the
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details of that aren't clear to me. I wanted to
give just a little more flavor of it. Give us
clip ninety one, Michael.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
When I uncovered evidence of rape and the illegal filming
of women and sex trafficking, I didn't just see victims.
I saw a system that failed to protect them. I
saw criminals who thought they could get away with it
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because no one had the guts, no one had the courage,
no one had the bravery to hold them accountable because
we are filled with cowards. I will burn this system
to the ground if I have to.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All right, So one more piece of audio where she
gets into some specifics and then some complicating facts that
you probably ought to know. As I said earlier, this
is this is really crazy. But exactly what brand of
crazy it is I don't know. And I'm not saying
she's crazy. I'm just saying this is an unbelievable case
slash development.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'm feeling like she could be crazy. I don't know
that she is, but she comes off a little unhinged.
That's why I was wondering when she got a hold
of the pictures or whatever, because you would be unhinged
if this happened to you. Perfectly the outraged emotion even now,
perfectly mean, perfectly reasonable response to be quite. But I
would just thought if she was going to go to
the floor of the house with this, she would have
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I don't know, organized it in some sort of way
that was more graspable.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But anyway, yeah, clip number ninety five, please, Michael.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I found an app where at least one of the
hidden cameras I discovered was stored. I discovered on this
app for this tiny little camera. There were ten thousand,
six hundred and thirty three videos on it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
WHOA, let me repeat.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Just one camera I found had ten thousand, six hundred
and thirty three videos it. Patrick Bryant must have forgotten
in my younger days. In my youth, I used to
be a computer programmer. I know enough about technology. I
found more photos, this time of female employees.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I found photos of wives of.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Male employees, photos of girlfriends and women who very clearly
didn't know their private parts were being filmed and photographed.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I found file after file after file.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Patrick Bryant had upskirt photos of one particular victim, the
wife of a male employee who was also one of
his best friends. He took upskirt photos of his employee's
wife spanning at least eight years.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh wow, wow, this is something I mean to be
unveiled on the House of Representatives or the floor of
the house rather well.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Does she have to tie it together in a greater
point for the country to make this make sense? Or
is she just like really mad at her ex husband,
ex fiance and his friends and went to the floor
with this, or does she need to tie it into.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh no, no, no, I think she actually did tie
it into something else when she was talking about a
system that fails to protect victims and the system needs
to be burnt to the ground because it doesn't work
and it needs to be reformed. She has long made
her personal trauma I'm quoting The New York Times here
part of her political brand, by the way, the New
York Times, which was believe all women, all the time,
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like a cup of coffee. Ago, But Nancy Mace is
a Republican worth noting.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
In the past, she shared the story being molested at
a swimming pool when she was fourteen, said that for
years she blamed herself because she'd been wearing a two
piece bathing suit. She said she was raped when she
was sixteen, leading her to drop out a high school
before pulling herself out of a downward spiral and becoming
the first woman to graduate from the military college the Citadel.
And she has tried to position herself they say in
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The New York Times that they just can't leave aside
prejudicial language, no matter what to talk. She tried to
position herself as the ultimate defend women's rights.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Do you realize this is why Trump won. This sort
of crap. How do you not know this? New York Times? Anyway,
back to this story and yeah, listen to this. This
is a news story. This is not an editorial. She
has tried to position herself as the ultimate defender of
women's rights, even as she has expressed unequivocal support for
President Trump, who has been fined liable for sexual abuse. Yeah,
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do you say that about Kennedy's ever? Do you ever
say that about Ted Kennedy? Ted Kennedy standing up for
women's rights even though he's accused of drowning a woman
and running away from the zine?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You ever do that?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So then they editorialize more. And at one point during
the speech, she mentions Alan Wilson, the South Carolina Attorney general,
whom she targeted, quote as a do nothing attorney general
and she accused of treating women who came forward like criminals. Quote.
During the last year, as I turned everything over to
law enforcement, I was told I, as a victim, would
be investigated. A spokeswoman for mister Wilson said those statements
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are categorically false and politically motivated. Miss Mace has mister
Wilson's cell phone number, and they've been at multiple events
together over the last six months, et cetera, et cetera.
It's also noted that Nancy Mace has been quite open
about her desire to run for a governor of South Carolina.
Mister Wilson a likely opponent, you know, which may be
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a key fact or utterly irrelevant, And we don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I haven't heard the whole thing about. I wonder if
she's leaving details out for legal reasons. I mean, she
might have run this by a bunch of lawyers before.
But I wish she would have said, you know, on occasion,
I was at a party and I went into the
bedroom and it turns out now there was a camera
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up in the light and I didn't know that, you know,
just I just because there's a lot of left out
of how this occurred. Thing that confuses me.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I don't know it. Yeah, maybe I just heard
it differently. But ten thousand plus video, all the upskirt stuff,
all the clandestine videos of all these different women over
the course of many years. I mean, well, when was
he taking this stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like we We had a story, a local story years
ago about a guy who had cameras in his bathroom,
in his bedroom, he was taping like everybody ever came
to his house.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Is that what this guy was doing?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I wonder?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well apparently yeah. Again, it's years of women, ten thousand
plus videotapes and years skirt shots and whatever. And just
where former fiance where did he hand his business partners
who she named in the first clip we played, right?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Where did he have the camera for his friend his wife?
Where he's taking pictures of her all the time? How
crazy is that? That is some crazy behavior?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah? Yeah, utterly sick. And again this is this absolutely
having been doing this job for a few years, there
are several facts that need to surface until the full
shape of this thing is known.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Right, Yeah, God, you are some sort of weird human being.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It absolutely could be that this will be a big
pivotal moment in the laws and enforcement of exploitation sexual
exploitation of women and girls, because she said it does
appear underage girls were involved as well.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Man, if he had all this stuff on his phone
when he realized the jig was up, I would have
thought he'd have destroyed that thing.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
There'll be more to this story.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Oh, guaranteed a lot more.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Any thoughts text line four one, five two nine KFTC. Well,
this year there were lots of great commercials from brands
like Pringles, Doritos, Totinos, Hogan, Das, and Little Caesars, or
as Trump calls them, the food pyramid.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Three days, three serves a day.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
As I said yesterday watching the Super Bowl, and then
at the end of the Super Bowl there was a
very long The food industry is why we're all obese.
You know, something they're putting in our food is changed
our bodies, and we need to look out. The government's
Nabisco complex is something or other. And I thought, I
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just watched four hours of ads for stuff none of
us really should ever eat, pizza, hot taco bell, just
endless stuff, wings and dip and all these things. That's
got to play some role why we're so fat. I'd
like to go back and watch a super from forty
years ago. Was that all food you should never eat ads?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I don't know, maybe it was.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What percentage of the time, say in nineteen I don't know,
sixty three was a meal truly delicious? Because everybody harkens
back to, you know, the Italian family or the ladies
spend all day on the sauce for Sunday dinner and
it's all homemade and the rest of it. But how
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many meals of the you know, maybe you eat twenty
one in a typical week. H We're actually delicious, And
how many of them were just a very simple grab
and go some nutrition to keep you going, and then
you'd have the big meal on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think jack sandwich or something like that for like, well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Exactly, yeah, just to grab a chunk of something and
eat it and then keep going. Just something very very
simple and not particularly delicious. You know, it has doomed us.
And this sounds like a constitutional principle, which is why
I like this phrase so much. It's the presumption of
deliciousness that is doomed the American wasteline. Every single meal
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has to taste amazing and be like a pleasure experience.
I'm speaking for myself here.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Oh yeah, I'm speaking for myself too when I have
it under control. It's it's the realization partially that that
you know, eat something kind of bland. And two eating
is not a big focus in your life. It's just
a tiny, tiny portion of your day. It's not a
big where are we gonna go giant event? Once a
day or maybe twice a day, and it should just
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be just it's enough to get me by until the
next little something to get me by.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's really all we need.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You need so little food to get through the day.
I think that's what it's so hard to adjust to.
You need to go from little right nutrition to pleasure seeking.
And I'm again, I'm speaking for myself, so I'm not
judging anybody. Yeah, give it a minute, I'll start judging
people again.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We got this text about the Nancy Mace thing, which
I do think there are a lot more details to come.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I don't know what shape it's going to take. We
got this one.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I worry that miss Mace might be trying to get
ahead of another story that makes her look bad. There
could be a pushback to this story that doesn't look
good for her lifestyle, doesn't make her not completely one
hundred percent right, But that very well could happen. Yeah,
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I don't know, and we'll see how that plays out politically. Well,
as you read the New York Times thing, you know
how the mainstream media is going to portray it. Which
is gonna be damned ironic coming out.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Of the Me Too movement.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They have no honor, clearly not. Yeah, but there's more
to that story here, here's a quick one. Doing this
job now, it's so hard to figure out what's true
and what's not. I mean like it takes many minutes,
sometimes hours to figure out what's true or not.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Is this true?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did the second just change Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?
Did that happen today? That did happen today? But is
this true? It's a different brag. It's not Brag the
Confederate general. It's a guy named Bragg who is a
World War Two hero. So they're gonna get the name
back to Fort Bragg to satisfy that crowd, but not
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have to defend a Confederate general by it beat a
different brag.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I believe the phrase I'm searching for is are you
fing kidding me?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Is this all true?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I'm actually named after British communist folksinger Billy Bragg.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But you're seeing it all over the place.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'm seeing that all over the place.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Wow, I feel like that's trying a little too hard.
It's a little slick.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, even for the guy who brought us Trump University.
It's just it's a rule, so easily either do it
or don't do it. Own it.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh wow. Okay, so it's Fort Bragg again, but a
different brag.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
All right, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Proll back everything from the previous not great administration regulations
on the environment regulations on the Second Amendment, the Title
nine guidance.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
President Trump says he's going to reverse Joe Biden's mandate
to phase out plastic straw saying, enjoy your next drink
without a straw that disgustingly dissolves in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You okay, he's right on this one. He is right
on this one. Those staws are terrible.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Objectively, I'm supposed to have some weird tissue paper dissolve
in my mouth just because turtles can't figure out straws
aren't food. No down into tubes, stupid turtles. Of course,
that whole turtle thing was made up anyway, So.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
There you go. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
There's another example of something that Trump canceled yesterday. I
wish I had written it down because it was one
of those great practically everybody agrees, why were we doing this?
Things like the plastic straws that he did away with.
But I'm gonna build it to a point here. First
of all, somebody said, how about if we go with
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funt Fort humblebrag.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I was thinking that same thing.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, it's so much work keeping up the fort
because it's the biggest fort in America. So oh it's
hard work. Wait, humble brag Fort humble brag.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, so I don't dig this one.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
So they changed the name of the used to be
Fort Bragg after a Confederate general then, which is weird.
It's weird, and the timing of it was bad because
it was coming out of the whole George Floyd Woke
was just steamrolling the country for a while, right, and
you're taking Lincoln's name off of things, and George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson is just nut.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And it was at the same time.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So I can understand the you know, the knee jerk
want to push back against this steamroller that was changing
America so fast. But having forts named after Confederate generals
at this point is especially.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Because there are a lot of things that are named
after Confederate this that and the other, and monuments and
all that weren't built in eighteen seventy five. They were
built during the Civil rights era to mark defiance against
integration and that sort of thing. Okay, let's be straight
about that now. Y'all need to be straight about the
fact that taking Lincoln's name off of school is effing lunacy.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
That absolutely is.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But if you didn't hear so, it was Fort Bragg forever,
then they changed it to Fort Liberty. Now the second
deaf is signed paperwork changing it back to Fort Bragg,
but a different guy named Bragg who is a World
War two here. And what I don't like about this is,
I don't think Trump's a racist. Don't give the left
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ammunition to claim you're a racist because this makes it
look like it's a wink and a nod. Yeah, we
named it after a different brag right, Southern racists. You
all know I'm on board with you, and we're really
really mean the other Confederate soldier.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Don't make their job easier.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I don't like that, I know, I know. Just stick
with the important stuff. Please.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Anyway, to the whole culture war thing that I've been
talking about, this article, I came across, yes, across yesterday.
It was the best week, best three weeks, and conservative
the last half century in the culture war my whole life,
We're always losing the culture war all the time, constantly retreating,
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and then finally something's happened. I've got some examples here
and then an explanation of how they did it. We
got to keep our eye on how did they win
the culture war all this time?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So first this CBS Newspole. This is more from their
big poll that had trumpet fifty two percent popular. Trump's
administration focus on ending d EI, diversity equity inclusion too much,
rite them ount or not enough? Write them out forty five,
not enough sixteen. So that gets you to was at
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sixty one Sixty one percent of America says right them
out or not enough?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Sixty one percent.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I know, and by the way, right amount is a
hell of a lot so far.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So I realize every news outlet you see other than
Fox portrays it as a horror, but pushing two thirds
of Americans are okay with it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Also, the latest polling on Americans' support for openly transgender
US troops. It's still at fifty eight percent, which I think, well,
it's dropping like a stone and it's going to go
under fifty percent before you know what.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I think.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
As recently as twenty nineteen, it was seventy one percent
of Americans supported openly transgender US troops. I don't know
how you can function as a you know, with openly
transgender soldiers. Just a distraction, and why would you want
any distractions? So you can what be more fair? The
job isn't being fair. The job is beating the Chinese.
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But it went from seventy one to sixty six a
couple of years ago, and now it's fifty eight. That's
a pretty big drop in a short amount of time.
So it dropped twenty points among Republicans, almost twenty points
among independents. Democrats are holding in there at eighty four percent, though,
because you know, fair full of faith, religious doctrine. But
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this is the part that I really liked from Rich
Lowry's Peace about how conservatives are winning the culture war
for the first time in half a century. For quite
some time, conservatives have focused on the notion of quote
a long march through the instants to understand how the
left came to dominate elite culture. That phrase is attributed
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to the nineteen sixties era left wing German activist Rudy Dutchki,
who wanted, in the words of a progressive analyst quote,
to create radical change from within government and society by
becoming an integral part of the machinery.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
And that is clearly what.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Happened over all my lifetime. It's still in there for
the most part. And it's why you send your kid
to public school for thirteen years and then maybe off
the college, and all of a sudden they have a
completely different worldview than you do. And you can't even
imagine where they came to these conclusions. It's because it
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was an integral part of the machinery that they've been
in their whole lives.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Change from within, yep. I don't know how I pretend
to be part of it and then institute the radical
change bit by bit.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
How long would it take to root that out?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
You know, we've been talking about public schooling a lot
today or college is ah boy, there's so far to
go in terms of even getting to like.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What it would be, you know, parody, getting to like even.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
On that score. And here's the problem, and here's why
certain radicals on the right have gained steam. If you
are going to accomplish what we're talking about, getting it
back to some level of sanity and just education and
not indoctrination and ideological diversity in colleges, stuff like that,
if you are going to do it in a way
that is fair and reasonable, it will take.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Forever.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And so the temptation is to, you know, just wholesale
house clean, tear the whole thing down. Now, how that
would look, and the legalities of it and the rest
of it, I don't know. I'd have to think about
it and read, you know that the ideas of people
who know more than I do. But it is it's
almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which education is
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diseased in this country.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I would agree.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
There are certainly pockets of reasonableness here and there, various
school districts and schools and campuses and the rest of it,
and I'm so grateful that they still exist, but man,
they're rare.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We should get this back on again, just because there's
an update on the story.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Let me find the clip of Trump yesterday, which one
is the jazziest one. Let's go with this eighty three.
Trump said this on air Force one yesterday. This is
after Hamas announced they're backing out of stage two of
the so called Seaspire agreement. When I see that scene
that I saw today with people coming out of helicopters
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and airplanes that are emaciated, that look like they haven't
had a meal in a.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Month for no reason for that, and I don't know
how much longer we can take it.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
You want to be passed.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I don't know how long we can take it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
When I watched people that were healthy people a reasonably
short number of years ago, and you look at him today, they.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Look like they've aged twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They literally look like the old pictures of holocausts.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's the same thing. I mean, the same thing. And
I don't know how long we're gonna take that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So later yesterday in the Oval Office, Trump hit Hamas
with an ultimatum, and he went with noon on Saturday,
off the top of his head, as is the way
he does everything. Noon on Saturday. He said that sounds
like a good time. All the hostages need to be
back or all hell is going to break out. Now,
it's not known for certain if he meant all hostages,
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like all hostages or all the ones agreed to in
the ceasefire agreement, which is coming out little by little bit.
He didn't say at one point, no more of this
one at a time, two at a time, three, here, two,
there all of the hostages.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
That's right. He did say that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
So yeah, yeah, well, met and Yahoo just came out
and said net Yaho says ceasefire will end Saturday at
noon if hostages are not returned. The New York Times
says he did not say how many hostages need to
be released to avoid a resume in a resuming of
what he called intense fighting.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I continue to be shocked that there are Americans still
being held dual citizens, but American citizens, and there are
American hostages who are known to be dead having been
neglected or murdered by Hamas. The previous administration didn't say
boo about it. There's just no consciousness of it among
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the American people. It's outrageous though. And if Trump, let's
face it, we know Trump at this point, if he
feels like Hamas thinks they can bully him, the response
will be swift and awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Netnah who said in this video, he just put out
this decision passed in the cabinet unanimously.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
They voted on it today.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
The if Hamas does not return the hostages by Saturday noon,
the ceasefire will end. The idea app will resume intense
fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated and Trump saying the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So it's on just a matter of time. I've been
saying that all along. This whole ceasefire thing is temporary.
I hope they can retrieve as many hostages as as possible.
The idea of this second phase where a lasting peace
will be achieved, please please there No, it can't happen.
Hamas has no desire for it to happen. They never have.
(28:39):
They've made that infinitely clear. What are you people talking about?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Interesting that it was a unanimous vote in his cabinet. Yeah,
they must have reached the conclusion having seen those hostages
in their condition they were in, as Trump just talked about,
and then the way Hamas treated them as they handed
them over the well, and.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The way Hamas claim every other day that Nope, you
violated this in that so we're not giving your hostages back.
I think even the piece next are saying, all right,
we're probably at the end of the productive part of
this process.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Right, or maybe at the end of really being able
to get anybody back, So if we can't get anybody
back alive, we might just might as well just get
this over with.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Yeah, this is going
to bog down into we'll get one hostage every three
months if we beg what.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
An ugly situation.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We're fine.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Those Jumas people are flipping crazy nihilist nutjobs. They need
to all be dead, all of them. There's no there's
not none. You're locked up for life, but that'd be
very difficult to do. Arrest them and all that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Kill them all, just kill them all.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh yeah, Sinwar made it ultimately clear if we have
to sacrifice a million Palestinian people to get the Jews
off of our land, we'll do it. You're gonna make
peace with them? How please tell me the plan.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens before
during an afternoon on Saturday, we will finish strong next.
So we do four hours of this every day at
the point of a contractual gun, and then we do
a podcast afterwards called One More Thing. And in today's
(30:12):
One More Thing, I'm going to interview Joe.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
On his birthday. Oh that's nice. I'm going to be
a really tough interview too. One word answers, how dare
you ask that that sort of thing? Just terrible?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Guess exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You know, there are days I get a little discouraged
at the size of the battle to bring sanity, whether
to the schools like we've been talking about today or
the state of California, given the clutches of the public
employee unions and lawyers who, like any you know, movement
of regular voters to get anything done is just thwart
(30:48):
it over and over again. It's very, very frustrated. But
sometimes frequently locally, at your town level, your city level,
your school district level, you can get real stuff done.
That's one of the reasons I'm always howling about why
are we so obsessed with the federal government all the time.
(31:09):
But Fremont has a plan to ban homeless camps anywhere
in the city. It has the potential to be the
most forcible response yet in the Bay Area to that
big US Supreme Court ruling this summer that thank god,
granted officials brought authority police homelessness and rolled back the
grants pass insanity. Mercury News is reporting on this. If
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we approved and the vote is today, advocates for homeless
people say the proposal of their dead place, I don't
care what they have to say, but it's going to
be the strictest restrictions on bums and junkies and homeless
camps and how they operate in the Bay Area. It
would ban prohibit encampments on quote, any public property, including
(31:54):
any street, sidewalk, park, open space, waterway, or private property
not designed for camping. It would all so allow officials
to criminally charge anyone aiding or betting a homeless camp
of provision service providers. Fear could put a target other back,
but they've collected sixteen hundred online signatures of local people
and it's moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The story of the last.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Month has been apparently there is a limit on a
whole bunch of different stories.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Apparently there is a limit people are willing to put up.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
With, and a lot of people who have been cowed
into silence are silent.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
No more right, fire thought, Yes, with your hosts Jack
Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Here's your host, Joe gen Let's get a final thought
from everybody on the crew wrapp things up for the day.
There is our technical director Michael time for a final thought. Well,
with the Super Bowl gone, it means no more football
on Sunday, So it means I gotta start talking to
my wife, going to craft Fars, going to church.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
H craft Fairs, church, and talking to the wife. Yeah,
at least until September.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Katie Green has a final thought for us. Katie, Well, Joe,
on this very special day that it is your birthday,
we have a new edition of Katie's Corner spelled with
the K to keep you both happy at our trying
getdy dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Awesome, Oh excellent.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
All right. I'm not sure how that honors me in
any way, but I'll have to think on it to
find out. Oh okay, Jack, final thought.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, I mentioned once again we're going to do a
very special probably with the theme music and everything, One
More Thing podcast in which we take a look at
Joe's life and what he's learned over these many decades.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
You're not going to make me cry like you're Ellen
degenerous or something, are you?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I like the idea of you firing back at me.
Oh yeah, here's the real question. What do you think
you're doing super combative exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
My final thought is.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'm a lucky guy. Uh and I'm lucky to live
what I do. And we all are thinking back to
what sixty meant when we're little kids.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You're definitely an old man then, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's a different era now. I just I'm excited about
all the things I'm doing. I don't feel old. Really,
Let's let's.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Get it all.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
My mom always says that when she was a kid,
you for you're a sixty five year in a wheelchair
if you're alive at all.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm strong and getty. Righting up, another ghouling, four hour workday.
So many people, thanks so little times, Thank you for
being here. Go to armstrong getty dot com discover the
many delights they're.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
In see tomorrow. God bless America. I think we need
to be careful with the term I'm strong and getty.
So what's different with you? Well, I would say this,
why I'm.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
At I'm not going to jump in you made it
rights riding a long time.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
It could lead to a serious problem.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, absolutely, Oh are you sure? Oh dead shore Okay,
So let's go with it. Buy sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yes, I say happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
That high note, thank you all very much for Armstrong
and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
To Eric Bowman, Patrick Bryant, Brian Musgrave and John Osborne.
You have bought yourself a one way ticket to help.
It is NonStop. There are no connections, so I and
all of your victims can watch you rot for an eternity.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, what was that?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That is?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, on the floor
of the House last night as part of a very
very long speech that was about alleged sexual assault and
exploitation and trafficking and peeping tomism involving her and other women,
perhaps under age women. And as you heard there, she
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named names which included her ex fiancee.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And we played a bunch of it in our two
and she didn't lay it out.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
In the best way.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
If I was going to try to do this myself,
But how recently did she come across these photos that
let her to believe that this happened to her? I mean,
if it's pretty recently, you'd be so rattled. I could
see how you might go onto the house floor and
launched into a screen without exactly bringing people up to
speed on what you were talking about, because it kind
(01:49):
of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, yeah, and she went on at some lengths about
the principles involved in the horrors of sexual ex flotation
and assault and and but didn't tell the folks unless
I missed a part night, I didn't listen to the
whole thing. But and then later she got to the
(02:12):
super dramatic specifics of it. I'm not sure exactly the
timeline here. It was fairly recently though, as she explained
later in the speech, she got hold of her fiance's
cell phone and found on it dating profiles in all
(02:32):
sorts of videotapes, and pictures of women who clearly did
not know they were being videotaped. One appeared to be
under age. One videotape, she dramatically revealed, was of her.
She had no idea it was when it was taken
or whatever. And then she gets into the question of
drugging women to incapacitate them and rape them, and sex
(02:55):
traffick and all sorts of stuff without like she doesn't
lay out evidence like a prosecutor. She just says that's
what happened, Katie. Did you want to jump in.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, apparently she found these videos in mid November of
twenty twenty three, but they don't talk about when the
videos were taken.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
That she legally his phone was in a safe and
she got access to it somehow, So she must have
been alleging a crime and the cops allowed her to
look at his phone or something.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, evidently she was tipped off that he had a
dating profile on some site and somebody sent a screen
capture to her and she asked him about it or something,
and he put his phone in a safe and said, no,
you don't get to see it, and somehow she got
or cops got access to it. But yeah, that the
(03:52):
details of that aren't clear to me. I wanted to
give just a little more flavor of it. Give us
clip ninety one, Michael.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
When I uncovered evidence of rape and the illegal filming
of women and sex trafficking, I didn't just see victims.
I saw a system that failed to protect them. I
saw criminals who thought they could get away with it
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because no one had the guts, no one had the courage,
no one had the bravery to hold them accountable because
we are filled with cowards. I will burn this system
to the ground if I have to.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All right, So one more piece of audio where she
gets into some specifics and then some complicating facts that
you probably ought to know. As I said earlier, this
is this is really crazy. But exactly what brand of
crazy it is I don't know. And I'm not saying
she's crazy. I'm just saying this is an unbelievable case
slash development.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'm feeling like she could be crazy. I don't know
that she is, but she comes off a little unhinged.
That's why I was wondering when she got a hold
of the pictures or whatever, because you would be unhinged
if this happened to you. Perfectly the outraged emotion even now,
perfectly mean, perfectly reasonable response to be quite. But I
would just thought if she was going to go to
the floor of the house with this, she would have
(05:22):
I don't know, organized it in some sort of way
that was more graspable.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But anyway, yeah, clip number ninety five, please, Michael.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I found an app where at least one of the
hidden cameras I discovered was stored. I discovered on this
app for this tiny little camera. There were ten thousand,
six hundred and thirty three videos on it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
WHOA, let me repeat.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Just one camera I found had ten thousand, six hundred
and thirty three videos it. Patrick Bryant must have forgotten
in my younger days. In my youth, I used to
be a computer programmer. I know enough about technology. I
found more photos, this time of female employees.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I found photos of wives of.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Male employees, photos of girlfriends and women who very clearly
didn't know their private parts were being filmed and photographed.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I found file after file after file.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Patrick Bryant had upskirt photos of one particular victim, the
wife of a male employee who was also one of
his best friends. He took upskirt photos of his employee's
wife spanning at least eight years.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh wow, wow, this is something I mean to be
unveiled on the House of Representatives or the floor of
the house rather well.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Does she have to tie it together in a greater
point for the country to make this make sense? Or
is she just like really mad at her ex husband,
ex fiance and his friends and went to the floor
with this, or does she need to tie it into.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh no, no, no, I think she actually did tie
it into something else when she was talking about a
system that fails to protect victims and the system needs
to be burnt to the ground because it doesn't work
and it needs to be reformed. She has long made
her personal trauma I'm quoting The New York Times here
part of her political brand, by the way, the New
York Times, which was believe all women, all the time,
(07:43):
like a cup of coffee. Ago, But Nancy Mace is
a Republican worth noting.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
In the past, she shared the story being molested at
a swimming pool when she was fourteen, said that for
years she blamed herself because she'd been wearing a two
piece bathing suit. She said she was raped when she
was sixteen, leading her to drop out a high school
before pulling herself out of a downward spiral and becoming
the first woman to graduate from the military college the Citadel.
And she has tried to position herself they say in
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The New York Times that they just can't leave aside
prejudicial language, no matter what to talk. She tried to
position herself as the ultimate defend women's rights.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Do you realize this is why Trump won. This sort
of crap. How do you not know this? New York Times? Anyway,
back to this story and yeah, listen to this. This
is a news story. This is not an editorial. She
has tried to position herself as the ultimate defender of
women's rights, even as she has expressed unequivocal support for
President Trump, who has been fined liable for sexual abuse. Yeah,
(08:43):
do you say that about Kennedy's ever? Do you ever
say that about Ted Kennedy? Ted Kennedy standing up for
women's rights even though he's accused of drowning a woman
and running away from the zine?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You ever do that?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So then they editorialize more. And at one point during
the speech, she mentions Alan Wilson, the South Carolina Attorney general,
whom she targeted, quote as a do nothing attorney general
and she accused of treating women who came forward like criminals. Quote.
During the last year, as I turned everything over to
law enforcement, I was told I, as a victim, would
be investigated. A spokeswoman for mister Wilson said those statements
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are categorically false and politically motivated. Miss Mace has mister
Wilson's cell phone number, and they've been at multiple events
together over the last six months, et cetera, et cetera.
It's also noted that Nancy Mace has been quite open
about her desire to run for a governor of South Carolina.
Mister Wilson a likely opponent, you know, which may be
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a key fact or utterly irrelevant, And we don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I haven't heard the whole thing about. I wonder if
she's leaving details out for legal reasons. I mean, she
might have run this by a bunch of lawyers before.
But I wish she would have said, you know, on occasion,
I was at a party and I went into the
bedroom and it turns out now there was a camera
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up in the light and I didn't know that, you know,
just I just because there's a lot of left out
of how this occurred. Thing that confuses me.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I don't know it. Yeah, maybe I just heard
it differently. But ten thousand plus video, all the upskirt stuff,
all the clandestine videos of all these different women over
the course of many years. I mean, well, when was
he taking this stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like we We had a story, a local story years
ago about a guy who had cameras in his bathroom,
in his bedroom, he was taping like everybody ever came
to his house.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Is that what this guy was doing?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I wonder?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well apparently yeah. Again, it's years of women, ten thousand
plus videotapes and years skirt shots and whatever. And just
where former fiance where did he hand his business partners
who she named in the first clip we played, right?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Where did he have the camera for his friend his wife?
Where he's taking pictures of her all the time? How
crazy is that? That is some crazy behavior?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah? Yeah, utterly sick. And again this is this absolutely
having been doing this job for a few years, there
are several facts that need to surface until the full
shape of this thing is known.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Right, Yeah, God, you are some sort of weird human being.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It absolutely could be that this will be a big
pivotal moment in the laws and enforcement of exploitation sexual
exploitation of women and girls, because she said it does
appear underage girls were involved as well.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Man, if he had all this stuff on his phone
when he realized the jig was up, I would have
thought he'd have destroyed that thing.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
There'll be more to this story.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Oh, guaranteed a lot more.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Any thoughts text line four one, five two nine KFTC. Well,
this year there were lots of great commercials from brands
like Pringles, Doritos, Totinos, Hogan, Das, and Little Caesars, or
as Trump calls them, the food pyramid.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Three days, three serves a day.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
As I said yesterday watching the Super Bowl, and then
at the end of the Super Bowl there was a
very long The food industry is why we're all obese.
You know, something they're putting in our food is changed
our bodies, and we need to look out. The government's
Nabisco complex is something or other. And I thought, I
(12:45):
just watched four hours of ads for stuff none of
us really should ever eat, pizza, hot taco bell, just
endless stuff, wings and dip and all these things. That's
got to play some role why we're so fat. I'd
like to go back and watch a super from forty
years ago. Was that all food you should never eat ads?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I don't know, maybe it was.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What percentage of the time, say in nineteen I don't know,
sixty three was a meal truly delicious? Because everybody harkens
back to, you know, the Italian family or the ladies
spend all day on the sauce for Sunday dinner and
it's all homemade and the rest of it. But how
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many meals of the you know, maybe you eat twenty
one in a typical week. H We're actually delicious, And
how many of them were just a very simple grab
and go some nutrition to keep you going, and then
you'd have the big meal on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think jack sandwich or something like that for like, well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Exactly, yeah, just to grab a chunk of something and
eat it and then keep going. Just something very very
simple and not particularly delicious. You know, it has doomed us.
And this sounds like a constitutional principle, which is why
I like this phrase so much. It's the presumption of
deliciousness that is doomed the American wasteline. Every single meal
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has to taste amazing and be like a pleasure experience.
I'm speaking for myself here.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Oh yeah, I'm speaking for myself too when I have
it under control. It's it's the realization partially that that
you know, eat something kind of bland. And two eating
is not a big focus in your life. It's just
a tiny, tiny portion of your day. It's not a
big where are we gonna go giant event? Once a
day or maybe twice a day, and it should just
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be just it's enough to get me by until the
next little something to get me by.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's really all we need.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You need so little food to get through the day.
I think that's what it's so hard to adjust to.
You need to go from little right nutrition to pleasure seeking.
And I'm again, I'm speaking for myself, so I'm not
judging anybody. Yeah, give it a minute, I'll start judging
people again.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We got this text about the Nancy Mace thing, which
I do think there are a lot more details to come.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I don't know what shape it's going to take. We
got this one.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I worry that miss Mace might be trying to get
ahead of another story that makes her look bad. There
could be a pushback to this story that doesn't look
good for her lifestyle, doesn't make her not completely one
hundred percent right, But that very well could happen. Yeah,
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I don't know, and we'll see how that plays out politically. Well,
as you read the New York Times thing, you know
how the mainstream media is going to portray it. Which
is gonna be damned ironic coming out.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Of the Me Too movement.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They have no honor, clearly not. Yeah, but there's more
to that story here, here's a quick one. Doing this
job now, it's so hard to figure out what's true
and what's not. I mean like it takes many minutes,
sometimes hours to figure out what's true or not.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Is this true?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did the second just change Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?
Did that happen today? That did happen today? But is
this true? It's a different brag. It's not Brag the
Confederate general. It's a guy named Bragg who is a
World War Two hero. So they're gonna get the name
back to Fort Bragg to satisfy that crowd, but not
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have to defend a Confederate general by it beat a
different brag.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I believe the phrase I'm searching for is are you
fing kidding me?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Is this all true?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I'm actually named after British communist folksinger Billy Bragg.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But you're seeing it all over the place.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'm seeing that all over the place.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Wow, I feel like that's trying a little too hard.
It's a little slick.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, even for the guy who brought us Trump University.
It's just it's a rule, so easily either do it
or don't do it. Own it.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh wow. Okay, so it's Fort Bragg again, but a
different brag.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
All right, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Proll back everything from the previous not great administration regulations
on the environment regulations on the Second Amendment, the Title
nine guidance.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
President Trump says he's going to reverse Joe Biden's mandate
to phase out plastic straw saying, enjoy your next drink
without a straw that disgustingly dissolves in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You okay, he's right on this one. He is right
on this one. Those staws are terrible.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Objectively, I'm supposed to have some weird tissue paper dissolve
in my mouth just because turtles can't figure out straws
aren't food. No down into tubes, stupid turtles. Of course,
that whole turtle thing was made up anyway, So.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
There you go. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
There's another example of something that Trump canceled yesterday. I
wish I had written it down because it was one
of those great practically everybody agrees, why were we doing this?
Things like the plastic straws that he did away with.
But I'm gonna build it to a point here. First
of all, somebody said, how about if we go with
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funt Fort humblebrag.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I was thinking that same thing.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, it's so much work keeping up the fort
because it's the biggest fort in America. So oh it's
hard work. Wait, humble brag Fort humble brag.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, so I don't dig this one.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
So they changed the name of the used to be
Fort Bragg after a Confederate general then, which is weird.
It's weird, and the timing of it was bad because
it was coming out of the whole George Floyd Woke
was just steamrolling the country for a while, right, and
you're taking Lincoln's name off of things, and George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson is just nut.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And it was at the same time.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So I can understand the you know, the knee jerk
want to push back against this steamroller that was changing
America so fast. But having forts named after Confederate generals
at this point is especially.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Because there are a lot of things that are named
after Confederate this that and the other, and monuments and
all that weren't built in eighteen seventy five. They were
built during the Civil rights era to mark defiance against
integration and that sort of thing. Okay, let's be straight
about that now. Y'all need to be straight about the
fact that taking Lincoln's name off of school is effing lunacy.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
That absolutely is.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But if you didn't hear so, it was Fort Bragg forever,
then they changed it to Fort Liberty. Now the second
deaf is signed paperwork changing it back to Fort Bragg,
but a different guy named Bragg who is a World
War two here. And what I don't like about this is,
I don't think Trump's a racist. Don't give the left
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ammunition to claim you're a racist because this makes it
look like it's a wink and a nod. Yeah, we
named it after a different brag right, Southern racists. You
all know I'm on board with you, and we're really
really mean the other Confederate soldier.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Don't make their job easier.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I don't like that, I know, I know. Just stick
with the important stuff. Please.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Anyway, to the whole culture war thing that I've been
talking about, this article, I came across, yes, across yesterday.
It was the best week, best three weeks, and conservative
the last half century in the culture war my whole life,
We're always losing the culture war all the time, constantly retreating,
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and then finally something's happened. I've got some examples here
and then an explanation of how they did it. We
got to keep our eye on how did they win
the culture war all this time?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So first this CBS Newspole. This is more from their
big poll that had trumpet fifty two percent popular. Trump's
administration focus on ending d EI, diversity equity inclusion too much,
rite them ount or not enough? Write them out forty five,
not enough sixteen. So that gets you to was at
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sixty one Sixty one percent of America says right them
out or not enough?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Sixty one percent.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I know, and by the way, right amount is a
hell of a lot so far.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So I realize every news outlet you see other than
Fox portrays it as a horror, but pushing two thirds
of Americans are okay with it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Also, the latest polling on Americans' support for openly transgender
US troops. It's still at fifty eight percent, which I think, well,
it's dropping like a stone and it's going to go
under fifty percent before you know what.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I think.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
As recently as twenty nineteen, it was seventy one percent
of Americans supported openly transgender US troops. I don't know
how you can function as a you know, with openly
transgender soldiers. Just a distraction, and why would you want
any distractions? So you can what be more fair? The
job isn't being fair. The job is beating the Chinese.
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But it went from seventy one to sixty six a
couple of years ago, and now it's fifty eight. That's
a pretty big drop in a short amount of time.
So it dropped twenty points among Republicans, almost twenty points
among independents. Democrats are holding in there at eighty four percent, though,
because you know, fair full of faith, religious doctrine. But
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this is the part that I really liked from Rich
Lowry's Peace about how conservatives are winning the culture war
for the first time in half a century. For quite
some time, conservatives have focused on the notion of quote
a long march through the instants to understand how the
left came to dominate elite culture. That phrase is attributed
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to the nineteen sixties era left wing German activist Rudy Dutchki,
who wanted, in the words of a progressive analyst quote,
to create radical change from within government and society by
becoming an integral part of the machinery.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
And that is clearly what.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Happened over all my lifetime. It's still in there for
the most part. And it's why you send your kid
to public school for thirteen years and then maybe off
the college, and all of a sudden they have a
completely different worldview than you do. And you can't even
imagine where they came to these conclusions. It's because it
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was an integral part of the machinery that they've been
in their whole lives.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Change from within, yep. I don't know how I pretend
to be part of it and then institute the radical
change bit by bit.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
How long would it take to root that out?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
You know, we've been talking about public schooling a lot
today or college is ah boy, there's so far to
go in terms of even getting to like.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What it would be, you know, parody, getting to like even.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
On that score. And here's the problem, and here's why
certain radicals on the right have gained steam. If you
are going to accomplish what we're talking about, getting it
back to some level of sanity and just education and
not indoctrination and ideological diversity in colleges, stuff like that,
if you are going to do it in a way
that is fair and reasonable, it will take.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Forever.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And so the temptation is to, you know, just wholesale
house clean, tear the whole thing down. Now, how that
would look, and the legalities of it and the rest
of it, I don't know. I'd have to think about
it and read, you know that the ideas of people
who know more than I do. But it is it's
almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which education is
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diseased in this country.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I would agree.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
There are certainly pockets of reasonableness here and there, various
school districts and schools and campuses and the rest of it,
and I'm so grateful that they still exist, but man,
they're rare.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We should get this back on again, just because there's
an update on the story.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Let me find the clip of Trump yesterday, which one
is the jazziest one. Let's go with this eighty three.
Trump said this on air Force one yesterday. This is
after Hamas announced they're backing out of stage two of
the so called Seaspire agreement. When I see that scene
that I saw today with people coming out of helicopters
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and airplanes that are emaciated, that look like they haven't
had a meal in a.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Month for no reason for that, and I don't know
how much longer we can take it.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
You want to be passed.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I don't know how long we can take it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
When I watched people that were healthy people a reasonably
short number of years ago, and you look at him today, they.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Look like they've aged twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They literally look like the old pictures of holocausts.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's the same thing. I mean, the same thing. And
I don't know how long we're gonna take that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So later yesterday in the Oval Office, Trump hit Hamas
with an ultimatum, and he went with noon on Saturday,
off the top of his head, as is the way
he does everything. Noon on Saturday. He said that sounds
like a good time. All the hostages need to be
back or all hell is going to break out. Now,
it's not known for certain if he meant all hostages,
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like all hostages or all the ones agreed to in
the ceasefire agreement, which is coming out little by little bit.
He didn't say at one point, no more of this
one at a time, two at a time, three, here, two,
there all of the hostages.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
That's right. He did say that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
So yeah, yeah, well, met and Yahoo just came out
and said net Yaho says ceasefire will end Saturday at
noon if hostages are not returned. The New York Times
says he did not say how many hostages need to
be released to avoid a resume in a resuming of
what he called intense fighting.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I continue to be shocked that there are Americans still
being held dual citizens, but American citizens, and there are
American hostages who are known to be dead having been
neglected or murdered by Hamas. The previous administration didn't say
boo about it. There's just no consciousness of it among
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the American people. It's outrageous though. And if Trump, let's
face it, we know Trump at this point, if he
feels like Hamas thinks they can bully him, the response
will be swift and awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Netnah who said in this video, he just put out
this decision passed in the cabinet unanimously.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
They voted on it today.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
The if Hamas does not return the hostages by Saturday noon,
the ceasefire will end. The idea app will resume intense
fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated and Trump saying the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So it's on just a matter of time. I've been
saying that all along. This whole ceasefire thing is temporary.
I hope they can retrieve as many hostages as as possible.
The idea of this second phase where a lasting peace
will be achieved, please please there No, it can't happen.
Hamas has no desire for it to happen. They never have.
(28:39):
They've made that infinitely clear. What are you people talking about?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Interesting that it was a unanimous vote in his cabinet. Yeah,
they must have reached the conclusion having seen those hostages
in their condition they were in, as Trump just talked about,
and then the way Hamas treated them as they handed
them over the well, and.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The way Hamas claim every other day that Nope, you
violated this in that so we're not giving your hostages back.
I think even the piece next are saying, all right,
we're probably at the end of the productive part of
this process.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Right, or maybe at the end of really being able
to get anybody back, So if we can't get anybody
back alive, we might just might as well just get
this over with.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Yeah, this is going
to bog down into we'll get one hostage every three
months if we beg what.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
An ugly situation.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We're fine.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Those Jumas people are flipping crazy nihilist nutjobs. They need
to all be dead, all of them. There's no there's
not none. You're locked up for life, but that'd be
very difficult to do. Arrest them and all that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Kill them all, just kill them all.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh yeah, Sinwar made it ultimately clear if we have
to sacrifice a million Palestinian people to get the Jews
off of our land, we'll do it. You're gonna make
peace with them? How please tell me the plan.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens before
during an afternoon on Saturday, we will finish strong next.
So we do four hours of this every day at
the point of a contractual gun, and then we do
a podcast afterwards called One More Thing. And in today's
(30:12):
One More Thing, I'm going to interview Joe.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
On his birthday. Oh that's nice. I'm going to be
a really tough interview too. One word answers, how dare
you ask that that sort of thing? Just terrible?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Guess exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You know, there are days I get a little discouraged
at the size of the battle to bring sanity, whether
to the schools like we've been talking about today or
the state of California, given the clutches of the public
employee unions and lawyers who, like any you know, movement
of regular voters to get anything done is just thwart
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it over and over again. It's very, very frustrated. But
sometimes frequently locally, at your town level, your city level,
your school district level, you can get real stuff done.
That's one of the reasons I'm always howling about why
are we so obsessed with the federal government all the time.
(31:09):
But Fremont has a plan to ban homeless camps anywhere
in the city. It has the potential to be the
most forcible response yet in the Bay Area to that
big US Supreme Court ruling this summer that thank god,
granted officials brought authority police homelessness and rolled back the
grants pass insanity. Mercury News is reporting on this. If
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we approved and the vote is today, advocates for homeless
people say the proposal of their dead place, I don't
care what they have to say, but it's going to
be the strictest restrictions on bums and junkies and homeless
camps and how they operate in the Bay Area. It
would ban prohibit encampments on quote, any public property, including
(31:54):
any street, sidewalk, park, open space, waterway, or private property
not designed for camping. It would all so allow officials
to criminally charge anyone aiding or betting a homeless camp
of provision service providers. Fear could put a target other back,
but they've collected sixteen hundred online signatures of local people
and it's moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The story of the last.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Month has been apparently there is a limit on a
whole bunch of different stories.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Apparently there is a limit people are willing to put up.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
With, and a lot of people who have been cowed
into silence are silent.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
No more right, fire thought, Yes, with your hosts Jack
Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Here's your host, Joe gen Let's get a final thought
from everybody on the crew wrapp things up for the day.
There is our technical director Michael time for a final thought. Well,
with the Super Bowl gone, it means no more football
on Sunday, So it means I gotta start talking to
my wife, going to craft Fars, going to church.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
H craft Fairs, church, and talking to the wife. Yeah,
at least until September.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Katie Green has a final thought for us. Katie, Well, Joe,
on this very special day that it is your birthday,
we have a new edition of Katie's Corner spelled with
the K to keep you both happy at our trying
getdy dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Awesome, Oh excellent.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
All right. I'm not sure how that honors me in
any way, but I'll have to think on it to
find out. Oh okay, Jack, final thought.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, I mentioned once again we're going to do a
very special probably with the theme music and everything, One
More Thing podcast in which we take a look at
Joe's life and what he's learned over these many decades.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
You're not going to make me cry like you're Ellen
degenerous or something, are you?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I like the idea of you firing back at me.
Oh yeah, here's the real question. What do you think
you're doing super combative exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
My final thought is.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'm a lucky guy. Uh and I'm lucky to live
what I do. And we all are thinking back to
what sixty meant when we're little kids.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You're definitely an old man then, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's a different era now. I just I'm excited about
all the things I'm doing. I don't feel old. Really,
Let's let's.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Get it all.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
My mom always says that when she was a kid,
you for you're a sixty five year in a wheelchair
if you're alive at all.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm strong and getty. Righting up, another ghouling, four hour workday.
So many people, thanks so little times, Thank you for
being here. Go to armstrong getty dot com discover the
many delights they're.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
In see tomorrow. God bless America. I think we need
to be careful with the term I'm strong and getty.
So what's different with you? Well, I would say this,
why I'm.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
At I'm not going to jump in you made it
rights riding a long time.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
It could lead to a serious problem.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, absolutely, Oh are you sure? Oh dead shore Okay,
So let's go with it. Buy sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yes, I say happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
That high note, thank you all very much for Armstrong
and Getty
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