September 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & the Antichrist
- NBC fake reporting on ICE
- Tim Allen inspired by Erika Kirk & holding a grudge
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty, and he Armstrong and Yetty just straight across
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his headline. I sent it to my son because he
loves this sort of stuff. One million year old skull
discovery could change everything we know about human evolution much
much earlier. The smart versions like us Neanderthals and this
other one been around a lot longer than they realized.
Maybe I'll talk more about that later. Maybe I won't thank.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You for finally you speaking respectfully of my people, the
Neanderthals coming up in moments, the Antichrist that's coming for you.
You probably how to wake up and get ready. According
to Peter Thiel Or Teal, the millionaire investor in data AI,
defense weapons development, texazillionaire, it's an intriguing series of thoughts
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in a few minutes. But first it's the Friday tradition.
Let's take a fond look back at the week that
was its cow clips of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
My greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That man, that young man, I forgive him. I really
believe in the teachings of Jesus as I do.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
There.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It was.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I hate my opponent and I don't want the best
of them.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I am sorry, Erica.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I fear that we will not have an election in
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I really mean that when Democrats like Gavin Newsom, what
they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Unless the rhetoric stops, it's not over. And it's just
it's scary, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And maybe I was being too cautious with a great
deal of sadness about also the fact.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That it might have been a risk.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Let's look on merit and I can tell you on
merit he's a failure, and on merit she's a failure.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Don't take tie it all. My heart is broken for
the Department of Justice. I'm innocent, So let's have a trial.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is it a Trump saying that Ukraine, with NATO's help,
might be able to win back land taken by Russia.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Are you surprised to hear that a little bit? Do
you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft
if they enter their airspace? The finish answer is to
be cool.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Calm and collected, take a Salma, take a nice bath,
and take the right action.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Trump was right about everything.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And I don't say that in a braggadocious way, but
it's true. It blows in all of these predictions. They
were made by stupid people. The countries are going to hell.
These are the two things I got from the United Nations.
A bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Thank you very much. That might have been the Antichrist there.
So Joe has been teasing this animal is like in
the right key. Wow, that was so cool. Joe's been
teasing this Antichrist story. So I said, what the heck
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is into Antichrist? So I grocked it because before we
get there, before we get there.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Nope, go ahead, Sorry, Chase. We're going with Plans C,
which is just like plan A. Go ahead, Wow, Katie,
I'll ask you the question next kill kill kell omah
a next segment, I'll ask you the questions about what
ilhan Omar said.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So anyway back to Jack. So, the concept of the
anti Christ is rooted in Christian theology, particularly the end
time Stuff refers to a figure or entity that is
prophesied to oppose Christ and deceive people before the second
coming of Jesus. This is kind of interesting, though, the
particular characteristics. A deceptive figure who mimics or opposes Christ's
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teachings mimics that's interesting for some of your giant, kind
of weirdo church leaders, a leader or power, an individual
system or both that promotes false beliefs or idolatry. Why no,
wonder people think like TV or or the Internet or
various things or the anti Christ defeated ultimately by Christ's return, though, in.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The words of Bob Dylan, sometimes Satan comes as a
man of peace anyway. Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor in data, AI, defense,
weapons development, all sorts of different things, wants everybody to
think more about the end of the world. He has
been delivering to a closed audience in San Francisco, a
four part speaking series about the anti Christ. He a
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religious guy, Yes he is. He's a devoutly Christian. I
don't think I knew that. I didn't either. Second lecture
happened on Monday. Series is going to go on through
early October. I guess wow, I would I would check
that out and you'd have to get an invite.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But I'm important. I'm I'm kind of a I'm a
minor celebrity. You're vital, You're more than important.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Vice And interestingly, this article talks about the increasing number
of people in Silicon Valley who are willing to be
open about their faith. It's interesting that they weren't before,
but let's not get hung up.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
On that's not surprising.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So one thing he says, will do James Comy your
piece of garbage anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He's garbage. Wow, He's encouraging his audience to continue work.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
How would you describe a man who either has no
principles or fails completely to live up to those he
said he has.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Pog Man, thank you back to me. Uh So, he says.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
To the audience, continue working towards scientific progress in AI
and other forms of technology. Don't don't fear it, don't
over regulate it, because opposing technological progress could.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hasten the coming of the anti Christ. So here's to
a lot of years.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
This all seems crazy, right, Here's how theol says the
end of the world might happen. Existential risks and Jack,
this is right up your ally. Existential risks will present
themselves in the form of nuclear war environmental disasters, maybe
dangerously engineered bioweapons, even autonomous killer robots guided by AI,
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probably wolf shaped. The Chinese get their way, and as
humans race toward a last battle, which is called the
Armageddon in the Bible, with each book of the Revelation right.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Right among us.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So with all that stuff going on, it looks like
we're heading toward the final battle, right well, A one
world government will form, promising peace and safety, and in
thields reckoning. This totalitarian authoritarian regime with real teeth and
real power will be the coming of the modern day
anti Christ. A figure to find in Christian teachings is
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Jack indicated as the personal opponent of God who will
appear before the world ends.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That, as it said where I just read, doesn't have
to be a person, could be a system.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Right exactly. I thought that was interesting as you read that.
The point of these talks, he says, I'm not trying
to be defeated.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh, by the way, the series is.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Being produced by the Hoover Institution, good friends of the
Armstrong and Getty Show, with whom we've not been in
as close touched lately as we had been before.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And we need to rectify that. Yeah, anybody's hoover invite
me to this thing, I will go. I will talk
lovingly of it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, but he wants to drive people to think more
about the armageddon or the Antichrist or the final battle
and who we might turn to in our fear, celebrities
in hopes, well, clearly celebrities in hopes that humans can
find a third way and avoid both outcomes. Let's see,
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there's one more part of this I like.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Obviously there are very very differing interpretations of the Antichrist
and armageddon and how much we ought to be spending
thinking about that. And they identify one leader of a
prominent church in the Bay Area who's sat for the lectures,
and he believes My best understanding is that the New
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Testament writers focus very little, if at all, on pointing
followers of Jesus towards spending their energy on accurately identifying
the anti Christ. To give all of your energy thinking
about all that to me feels like a pretty feudile endeavor.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, that's just like your opinion, man, right, I gropped
Peter Thiel's I just asked, grok, is Peter theel religious?
And yes, he's quite religious. And I thought this was interesting.
Peel integrates his faith into his philosophy, seeing it as
a counter to atheism and liberalism, which he believes led
to the madness of crowds. This is inspired, as you said,
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has inspired a wave of interest in Christianity among Silicon
Valley elites, with some crediting him for normalizing faith in
tech circles. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And I don't agree with his conclusions here honestly. But
he says, and maybe the anti Christ then no, he
would say, I'm not nearly charismatic enough.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And powerful enough, but you're too stupid to be the Antichrist.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now that hurts, all right, That left a bruise. The
antichrist probably represents as a great humanitarian, it's redistributive, it's
an extremely great philanthropist, as an effective altruist. And these
things are not simply anti Christian. But it's always when
they get overly combined with state power that something is
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very wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I'm I love Christianity stuff and theology and all that.
Source of just love it. I've read tons of it.
Love it, love it, love love it. But one of
the problems with this concept, the way it's worded, is
you can apply it to so many things if you
need to or want to to demonize something. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The part that really grabbed me about this, though, is
that he was making the case that when there is
the ultimate fear and the ultimate need to solve this,
to do something, as the mushroom clouds are going up
all over the world blah blah blah, there will be
a very powerful entity that says I am here.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
To help you and save you, and I guarantee you
we would turn to it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And because it's the world's greatest emergency, I will need
the greatest power that's ever been granted. Like that scenario,
Whether you think it's of God and the Antichrist and
armageddon or not, that scenario jingles true to these ears.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Have you seen Endgame the Marvel thing? No, that's of us.
I'm a grown up. I saw it with my children.
In my defense, that's a pretty good portrayal of in
the end apocalypse or whatever. I mean, just everything's going
hell crazy, thunderstorms and tidal waves and the earth cracking
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apart and everything so pretty long for the days when
poop was hitting fans. Yeah, exactly, So you tease something else.
I don't remember what it was, but it's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Funny funny comedian another Donald Trump rift and riff rather
not rift riff. And also Trump said something very funny
about Ilhan Omar, who's an America hating Islamist in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Cool all on the way, stay here and keep the faith.
Comedian to Mallen just said something interesting about Charlie Kirk's
wife's eulogy she gave the other day. I'll tell you
about that later.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So if you take seriously a lot of the stuff
being said about ICE, it's no wonder a guy was
shooting at him, shooting at ICE agents. Sure, the rhetoric
has been horrendous. I mean, I have a long long
list of people from the local to the media to
big time politicians nationally household names saying horrendous, inaccurate things.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
NBC News published an article you could see yourself as
a John Brown like character easily in terms of justifying
your violence. Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
There's the there's an organization calling themselves the John Brown Society.
I think recruiting on college campuses Armed resistance.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oooh John Brown and John Brown his sons hacked people
to death with hatchets. Yeah nice, oh boy.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
But anyway, NBC News published an article a couple of
days ago accusing ICE agents of holding a five year
old autistic girl to pressure her father to surrender authorities.
So I snatched up an off autistic girl and threatened
to do something to pressure her father. That would be
pretty evil if it happened, says the article's headline, which
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they tweeted out and promoted at NBC News. A little
less than nine hours later, NBC News deleted its tweet
promoting the story and updated the article to state the
ICE agents simply were with the girl as they attempted
to arrest her father because he gave the ICE agents
both beryls and tried to run away from his kid.
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The ICE agents were like, take care of the little girl,
and they issued a correction that said the original story
mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Representative Ilan Omar.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
America Hater Minnesota, posted the false claim on x and
left it up even after NBC News deleted its own post.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
This is vile and.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Cruel and beyond cruel, abolish Ice Omar wrote, So number ten,
Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States. This
is funny.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Pilman Omar and a group that I met the head
of Somalia.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her
back and he said, I don't want it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, what else? Okay? What else? Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And speaking to Donald Jay, this is Sean Froschingen, Trump imitator.
We played yesterday with a great riff about well, we'll
just go ahead and play Michael.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
My fellow Americans.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
In light of recent studies, I wanted to warn against
the use of toasters in your bathtub or your shower.
It's an incredibly dangerous thing to do. You can get electrocuted.
They call it electrocuted. I call it ZAPT like you've
never seen before, a shocking experience.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You don't want to get.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Zapped that much, I can tell you, especially if you're
on the left. You people are fried enough as it is.
We don't need it to get any worse. And electricity
is no joke. I got along very well with you
may have heard of him, Benjamin Franklin. I called him
brilliant pen And he was flying a kite and the
lightning hit it and he was getting electrocuted. He was
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getting XAPT and I grounded him, and if I wasn't there,
it would have been a much different situation. But I
grounded him and we discovered electricity together. Brilliant pen tremendous
guy got along very well with him. Along the same lines,
we want to advise against licking your wall outlets. Despite
what higly belly Pritsker says, your wall outlet is not
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a candy bar.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Do not try to lick it.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It doesn't taste very good and you may pick up
a shock, which we don't want you to do. We
don't want you to get hurt. I know those on
the left love and enjoy very much licking their windows.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We asked that we don't apply the exact same thing to.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
The wall outlets. It could get you very hurt. We
want to keep America safe, We want to make America great.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Wow, that is good. That is a good impersonation. That's
good on so many levels, so many the nuances of
the the way uses language.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right, and just the idea of that. He said, don't
use tilan all. So you've got right lefties online guzzling
tailan all, which is one of the most stupid things
you can do one. Gal died from it already. Really yeah,
a cute liver failure.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah wow, Okay, we got a lot on the way
to finish out strong for the week, so I hope
you can stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Turns out a South African minister's prediction that the world
would end on Tuesday didn't come true, meaning Mika Prazinski
had sex with her husband for no reason.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh I'm not sure I needed that. This is interesting.
This is pretty heavy for a Friday actor. Comedian Tim Allen,
you know his work? Whatnot one of your few conservatives
in Hollywood? And what was his.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Subsequent super giant hit that people absolutely love the man
in charge?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Or I don't know. I never watched this, sir, Who's
the boss? That was different. He said that Charlie Kirk's widow,
Erica Kirk, inspired him to forgive the man who killed
his father in a drunk driving accident more than sixty
years ago. Oh wow. Now it's kind of interesting to
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me because Tim Allen's a well known, outspoken Christian, but
he hadn't, for whatever reason, forgiven the guy who killed
his dad. Tell they heard Erica Trump or Erica I
keep saying that Erica Kirk speak. Yeah, I wonder how
many other people across the country had that experience. It
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is a good idea, just psychologically, even if not from
a theological standpoint, in that you get nothing by hanging
on to the you know, the hate and the anger.
It's the classic thing. People say, it's like drinking poison
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and hoping the other person and dies.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, they say that about carrying a grudge, which is similar. Yeah,
I have very, very, very similar.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You know, I've always struggled with this. I I get
it completely. I haven't really been in that position, not
to that level. What happened, Thanks God, oh yeah, thank God.
The enormity of the hurt of losing your father at
age eleven, for instance. I mean, I can't even imagine
what's that. What's that's like as suddenly and drunk driver.
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It feels like letting go. And I'm not making the argument,
I'm just saying why I struggle with this. It feels
like letting go of the impulse to insist on justice.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Hm. I've got in my own life, and thank god,
I don't have anything close to as big as what
Tim Allen's talking about, and what Erica Kirk was talking about,
and I hope I never do. But I've had something
the biggest things in my life of people adders into
I was able to forgive them and and and uh.
And that's been very very helpful for me, just as
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a selfish thing. It has been so helpful for me
to just accept them, you know, that's that's the way
they're made, or the way that we handled it at
the time, and they couldn't help it, or wish they
hadn't themselves, or whatever it is, depending on the situation.
I have trouble with smaller things like aren't nearly as significant,
like my hatred for the most powerful Democrat in California
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for years. What's his name, former mayor of Sacramento who
tried to run us out of our job. Oh right,
Darryl stein Daryl Steinberg. He is the most powerful man
in California for a very long time, which is which
makes you a powerful person because California is a very big,
wealthy state. Like that's a minor thing compared to the
things I'm talking about, which I won't describe, very minor
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compared to tru I have more trouble letting go of
those kind of things than I do the big ones
for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, yeah, well I would suggest at the point you
can't remember your your enemy's name, it's time to forgive.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Maybe it's not gone. Maybe I'm not hanging on to
it quite as deeply as I'm portraying it. But it's
not like I have a shrine at home and as
soon as I get home, I get undressed and stand
beneath and think, may you die today at a fiery crash.
They're all sick pins in it, etc. Oh, it's all
because he tried to get us fired over we talked
about something on the air. He twisted it completely and
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tried to have us fired for political gain, which makes
you a hack. Of course, that was like long before
his career got started and he became the most powerful
man in California, as I've stated for a very long time.
So it didn't hold him back. It worked, Yeah, yeah,
it did in a way. Part of it.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I think I'm not hearing a lot of forgiveness in
mister Armstrong's voice.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Are you No? Well, I said, I haven't forgiven him.
Part of it is because I hate political hackery so much,
and he's just like a symbol of it.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh sure, yeah, well right, and to try to take
away somebody's living through distortions and he had a bunch
of kids.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
In my house and everything.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Oh yeah, it was we were politically incorrect, yeah, but
we were talking about the challenges of diversity along with
this supposed nothing but blessings from the left. And for
that he tried to, you know, put my kid's daddy
out of work.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But it wasn't even like I haven't forgiven either.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I want to fight him celebrity boxing right now, let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I just wish more people had known he was that
kind of guy who's rising through the ranks of politics.
But it wasn't even like the Jimmy Kimmel or Bill
Maher example, where they actually said that thing and then
I feel like they shouldn't be fired for it. We
didn't say the thing that there were intended, the thing
that they were claiming, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And you know what's really interesting and it's funny we're
dredging this up after all these years, is I have
heard from many people who have worked with that fellow
who say he's really a very kind and decent guy.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, as soon as he apologizes to me, I will
forgive him.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well, and here's the interesting part, though we disagreed on
really it was before anybody called it woke, but we
disagreed on the woke mindset, and in a fairly careful
and Gentlemdley way.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
By the way, that.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Was enough to make a kind and decent man an
angry savage who tried to ruin live.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, that's Bill Mars because we called into question the
beliefs of his cult. That's Bill Maher's point. And Bill
Mahr gets more, you know, has more credibility in this
area than I do. Like me claiming that lefties are
crazier with their politics than people on the right. You know,
I'm on the right, so maybe that's just my view.
But Bill Maher is not a person of the right.
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I mean, he has made his living as a person
of the left. And he says I can talk to
conservatives to left. That's not right.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well, and again, if Daryl had wanted to talk about
the disagreement, we have been more than delighted to sure.
Of course, in fact, we would have sought that opportunity.
His response was they should be fired and run out
of town for having a different opinion, which I am
going to characterize as racist. And then and this is
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my I've been you know, it's funny. I've been wanting
to get to this article from the New York Times.
That is a perfect example of which you see.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
A lot, and that is.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The attacking side will characterize what you said, your quote.
You almost never see the quote. They just call it
all sorts of scary things. And then if it's the
other side trying to make a point, and in this
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case it was the Jewish residence of a certain town
in I think it may have been New Jersey, they
were highly concerned about this pro Palestinian speaker, and the
New York Times wouldn't give that quote either. They just
or the reason, the direct quotes for why the Jewish
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people were concerned. Give me the.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Quote what was said, give me the whole quote.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
But the left so often won't do that because when
you look at it in the light of day, in
the case what we said, it was perfectly defensible. Or
in the case of this controversy that I'm talking about,
what the pro Palestinian person said essentially was let's have
one thousand October seventh and kill all the Jews we can.
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Now I am to my discredit paraphrasing because I can't
find it, but just the whole I'll describe the quote
for you and then tell you how horrible it is.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Now, how about you just tell me what they said.
By the way, we didn't get to this consumer story today,
which is good news that we should put out there.
Consumer spending up and increased slightly more than expected in
August as households went on vacation and dined out, but
keeping the economy on solid ground according to Reuters, as
the third quarter progressed. So consumer spending hanging in there
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despite a lot of things we have heard. Wonder if
there's any chance it was hoping to get ahead of tariffs.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Could be I don't know, yeah, yeah, I just wonder.
Is it that top ten percent of earners though, that
we're pushing consumer spending you talked about a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Certainly could be ten. The top ten percent of income
people in this country are half of consumer spending right now,
and it's never been that out of whack.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay, So, just for the record, because I found it,
Bookshop cancels event with Palestinian author over community concerns, The
Times reported, but it wouldn't give any of the quotes
that made the Jewish community concerned, which included on the
day of the October seventh massacre, she posted resist on
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Facebook with Palestinian flags and flame emojis, probably representing the
babies who are set on fire and the families burnt
alive and shot to death. The next day she said,
may we witness an indigenous uprising and reclamation over lands
on a global scale, On a global scale. Interesting, our
people are the protectors of life and land. May this
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Palestinian uprising be the push needed for the dominoes of
colonialism to fall from every quarter of this world. And
on the first anniversary of the October seventh attack, she
posted one year plus seventy six of genocide. No, I
don't give a f about what anyone says or how
anyone feels about. How we fight and rid our land
of the vicious colonizers. Free Palestine from the river to
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the sea. And she goes on and on and on.
Then she pushed the fact that Zionists and Jews control
the whole Western world. The United States is under Zionist occupation,
which The New York Times helpfully summarized as the Jewish
community was somewhat concerned about that author.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Wow. So then on the other side, you can't speak
at colleges or bookstores or whatever if your pro choice
or think boys shouldn't be in girls sports or a
whole bunch of other things that are perfectly mainstream views.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, or they helpfully summarize Charlie Kirk's views as hateful
and divisive.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But then, but again, don't give us the words. Yeah,
that's interesting, Yeah, okay, we will finish in liars and
the lies day lie. That's right, telling you we'll finish
strong next time. All the per old timey television. That
means new episodes come back. Saturday Night Live is new
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next Saturday, not Tomorrow night, but next Saturday they come
back with their fifty first season, and then Sixty Minutes
comes back Sunday night. I always watch Sixty Minutes, and
I'm gonna like the new CBS trying not to be crazy. Wope, CBS,
but they've got that governor of Utah. They got so
much attention as their big interview Sunday Night Cox. Yeah,
(29:01):
that'll be good.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So, speaking of TV, I thought this was interesting and
rang true. It opens with who wrote this Christian Schneider.
He says, have you seen the new Star Wars series?
What was it called? And or no, wait, maybe it
was Obi Wan Kenobi. Or it could have been The
Mandalorian or Osaka or the Book of Boba Fet or
(29:23):
Skeleton Crew or the Acolyte. And then he says, as
a Star Wars crazed child of the seventies, I am
the prime target audience for all this content. Yeah, I
know it. We were twelve when Star Wars came out,
and to say I loved that movie is like saying
I love my wife. It's true, but it doesn't begin
to describe the relationship I had with those movies.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And he says, yet, I haven't made it all the
way through any.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Of these series, much less the glut of Star Wars
films cranked out over the past decade. What the producer
is now trying to wring every last penny from George
Lucas's franchise don't recognize is that the thing that made
the original Star Wars Star Wars films especially was their scarcity.
And he describes it, and he says, but now, whether
it's the Star Wars Extended Universe or the DC comics ruled,
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these beloved brands are drowning us. It's impossible to escape them.
In the past decade, Marvel has produced twenty three television series,
adding up to almost five hundred episodes.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Twenty three TV series. Yeah, there's a new Loki thing
coming out. I like Loki.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Where it was once to everybody likes Loki. Where it
was once a challenge to seek out merchandise related to
your favorite movie or show, Now it's difficult to avoid.
And his point in all of this is that what
we live in what he calls an age of permanent ephemerality,
ephemeral meaning here today, gone today.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
We are so drowning in options. None of them means anything.
It doesn't matter because there's another one right around the corner.
Loki's the master of mischief, So they say, where's that
funky horny helmet? Yeah, that's interesting. The this one abundance
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of options does change the way you watch something. It's
got to be really really good for you to hang
with it, or you think. I mean, because when we
were kids, there was one thing on worth a damn ever.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, yeah, two if you were like crazy lucky, and
then it was a conflict.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But I like this though.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
If you're a certain age, think about the time you
bought a new album cassette or CD by an up
and coming band you heard about from your friends. You
were likely to sit and listen to that album over
and over until you formed a real opinion on its merits,
simply because you were financially invested in it. To give
up on a CD too early would be to light
your fifteen bucks on five absolutely, But now every song
in every album ever record is available on your phone
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for the monthly cost of a single album. Trying out
a new artist means hitting a few buttons listening to
a couple of songs. If you don't like it, just
bail on it and try something else. You've invested almost
nothing in discovering it, so it's not worth putting in
the effort beyond skipping around for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's interesting. That's an exact description of where did I
read this the other day? About online dating? And one
of the many critiques of it in its current forms
is that that is what happens with people, the endless options.
You know, this is pretty good, but there's probably something better,
because there's a whole bunch of other options, and the
way that it has never happened in the real world
in the past. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I remember I used to make jokes about video store
disease back when video stores were thaying, because you'd go
in there and you'd find fourteen different things you're up
for watching and I couldn't decide, and sometimes I would
just walk out again, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But if you do that many times.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But the idea of like investing two hours, what if
I don't like this, well, you know what, there are
fifteen other videos I can watch instead. There are fifteen
other people I could date, So I'm not gonna worry
about I'm gonna check this one without even thinking about
it because there are other options.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oof. Ephemeral, that's what it is. We're drowning an ephemeral. Yeah. Wow,
that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Naturally, TV shows and movies op for cheap gimmicks to
keep people watching. Take tea execurable Netflix movie Happy Gilmore two,
which seems like it took as long to write as
it does to watch, but features seventy two celebrity cameos.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Oh really, wow, Hey kids, it's that time again with
Armstrong and Getty. Here's Joe's for final thoughts. Joe, who getty?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
All right, let's begin the show. I'm sorry to begin
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Let's wrap things up with the final thought from everybody
on the crew, beginning with our technical director Michaelangelo and Michael, how.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Things have changed. When I was younger, I could stay
up all night.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yesterday I went to an office party from four pm
to six pm and I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Wow, sad Katie Green are esteemed to Newswoman is very youthful, Katie.
A final thought for us, we talked about that woman
taking out billboards in the Bay Area for a husband.
There's a section on here.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
To apply on behalf of someone else, So I might
sign one of you guys up for this.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, see how it comes. Jack final thought for us,
speaking of TV, It's funny how my son like he's
run through everything current that you can watch, and so
he's now on a House kick. He's watching all the
episodes and seasons of House he absolutely loves it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Wow, huh, interesting, h gosh. My final thought is I
haven't seen Happy Gilmore too. It sounds terrible and gimmicky
and features lots of celebrity golfers, and it I just
life's too short, passing oh by the way, and all
other golf news. As we speak these words, the Ryder
(34:53):
Cup is going on and America is getting our ass
handed to us by the Europeans on our home course
with Trump there, with Trump is going to have Pambondi
prosecute these losing golfers, losers we.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Don't like, losers. Armstrong and Eddy wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
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Speaker 1 (35:30):
Well, I'm sure something dang interesting will happen this weekend
and we'll have it for you on Monday and all
the different views of it and try to give you
as fair a coverage of it as we possibly can.
That's what we do all the time. See you Monday.
God bless America. There were so many great too omens
on today.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
He's Armstrong Ayeeddy Show but perhaps done as great as this.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Well, and it doesn't mean you're in favor of what's
happening now, but a it's hard to take and be
just the idea of a guy in you know, a
fistfight breaking out a knife, and then the other guy
breaks out a knife, and the first guy says, sight,
God and heaven.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
He he's brought out of knife. Well, yes, yes he
did too. The Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty, and he Armstrong and Yetty just straight across
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his headline. I sent it to my son because he
loves this sort of stuff. One million year old skull
discovery could change everything we know about human evolution much
much earlier. The smart versions like us Neanderthals and this
other one been around a lot longer than they realized.
Maybe I'll talk more about that later. Maybe I won't thank.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You for finally you speaking respectfully of my people, the
Neanderthals coming up in moments, the Antichrist that's coming for you.
You probably how to wake up and get ready. According
to Peter Thiel Or Teal, the millionaire investor in data AI,
defense weapons development, texazillionaire, it's an intriguing series of thoughts
(01:08):
in a few minutes. But first it's the Friday tradition.
Let's take a fond look back at the week that
was its cow clips of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
My greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That man, that young man, I forgive him. I really
believe in the teachings of Jesus as I do.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
There.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It was.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I hate my opponent and I don't want the best
of them.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I am sorry, Erica.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I fear that we will not have an election in
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I really mean that when Democrats like Gavin Newsom, what
they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Unless the rhetoric stops, it's not over. And it's just
it's scary, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And maybe I was being too cautious with a great
deal of sadness about also the fact.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That it might have been a risk.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Let's look on merit and I can tell you on
merit he's a failure, and on merit she's a failure.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Don't take tie it all. My heart is broken for
the Department of Justice. I'm innocent, So let's have a trial.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is it a Trump saying that Ukraine, with NATO's help,
might be able to win back land taken by Russia.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Are you surprised to hear that a little bit? Do
you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft
if they enter their airspace? The finish answer is to
be cool.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Calm and collected, take a Salma, take a nice bath,
and take the right action.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Trump was right about everything.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And I don't say that in a braggadocious way, but
it's true. It blows in all of these predictions. They
were made by stupid people. The countries are going to hell.
These are the two things I got from the United Nations.
A bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Thank you very much. That might have been the Antichrist there.
So Joe has been teasing this animal is like in
the right key. Wow, that was so cool. Joe's been
teasing this Antichrist story. So I said, what the heck
(03:44):
is into Antichrist? So I grocked it because before we
get there, before we get there.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Nope, go ahead, Sorry, Chase. We're going with Plans C,
which is just like plan A. Go ahead, Wow, Katie,
I'll ask you the question next kill kill kell omah
a next segment, I'll ask you the questions about what
ilhan Omar said.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So anyway back to Jack. So, the concept of the
anti Christ is rooted in Christian theology, particularly the end
time Stuff refers to a figure or entity that is
prophesied to oppose Christ and deceive people before the second
coming of Jesus. This is kind of interesting, though, the
particular characteristics. A deceptive figure who mimics or opposes Christ's
(04:31):
teachings mimics that's interesting for some of your giant, kind
of weirdo church leaders, a leader or power, an individual
system or both that promotes false beliefs or idolatry. Why no,
wonder people think like TV or or the Internet or
various things or the anti Christ defeated ultimately by Christ's return, though, in.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The words of Bob Dylan, sometimes Satan comes as a
man of peace anyway. Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor in data, AI, defense,
weapons development, all sorts of different things, wants everybody to
think more about the end of the world. He has
been delivering to a closed audience in San Francisco, a
four part speaking series about the anti Christ. He a
(05:22):
religious guy, Yes he is. He's a devoutly Christian. I
don't think I knew that. I didn't either. Second lecture
happened on Monday. Series is going to go on through
early October. I guess wow, I would I would check
that out and you'd have to get an invite.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But I'm important. I'm I'm kind of a I'm a
minor celebrity. You're vital, You're more than important.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Vice And interestingly, this article talks about the increasing number
of people in Silicon Valley who are willing to be
open about their faith. It's interesting that they weren't before,
but let's not get hung up.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
On that's not surprising.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So one thing he says, will do James Comy your
piece of garbage anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He's garbage. Wow, He's encouraging his audience to continue work.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
How would you describe a man who either has no
principles or fails completely to live up to those he
said he has.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Pog Man, thank you back to me. Uh So, he says.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
To the audience, continue working towards scientific progress in AI
and other forms of technology. Don't don't fear it, don't
over regulate it, because opposing technological progress could.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hasten the coming of the anti Christ. So here's to
a lot of years.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
This all seems crazy, right, Here's how theol says the
end of the world might happen. Existential risks and Jack,
this is right up your ally. Existential risks will present
themselves in the form of nuclear war environmental disasters, maybe
dangerously engineered bioweapons, even autonomous killer robots guided by AI,
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probably wolf shaped. The Chinese get their way, and as
humans race toward a last battle, which is called the
Armageddon in the Bible, with each book of the Revelation right.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Right among us.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So with all that stuff going on, it looks like
we're heading toward the final battle, right well, A one
world government will form, promising peace and safety, and in
thields reckoning. This totalitarian authoritarian regime with real teeth and
real power will be the coming of the modern day
anti Christ. A figure to find in Christian teachings is
(07:43):
Jack indicated as the personal opponent of God who will
appear before the world ends.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That, as it said where I just read, doesn't have
to be a person, could be a system.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Right exactly. I thought that was interesting as you read that.
The point of these talks, he says, I'm not trying
to be defeated.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh, by the way, the series is.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Being produced by the Hoover Institution, good friends of the
Armstrong and Getty Show, with whom we've not been in
as close touched lately as we had been before.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And we need to rectify that. Yeah, anybody's hoover invite
me to this thing, I will go. I will talk
lovingly of it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, but he wants to drive people to think more
about the armageddon or the Antichrist or the final battle
and who we might turn to in our fear, celebrities
in hopes, well, clearly celebrities in hopes that humans can
find a third way and avoid both outcomes. Let's see,
(08:40):
there's one more part of this I like.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Obviously there are very very differing interpretations of the Antichrist
and armageddon and how much we ought to be spending
thinking about that. And they identify one leader of a
prominent church in the Bay Area who's sat for the lectures,
and he believes My best understanding is that the New
(09:04):
Testament writers focus very little, if at all, on pointing
followers of Jesus towards spending their energy on accurately identifying
the anti Christ. To give all of your energy thinking
about all that to me feels like a pretty feudile endeavor.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, that's just like your opinion, man, right, I gropped
Peter Thiel's I just asked, grok, is Peter theel religious?
And yes, he's quite religious. And I thought this was interesting.
Peel integrates his faith into his philosophy, seeing it as
a counter to atheism and liberalism, which he believes led
to the madness of crowds. This is inspired, as you said,
(09:39):
has inspired a wave of interest in Christianity among Silicon
Valley elites, with some crediting him for normalizing faith in
tech circles. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And I don't agree with his conclusions here honestly. But
he says, and maybe the anti Christ then no, he
would say, I'm not nearly charismatic enough.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And powerful enough, but you're too stupid to be the Antichrist.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now that hurts, all right, That left a bruise. The
antichrist probably represents as a great humanitarian, it's redistributive, it's
an extremely great philanthropist, as an effective altruist. And these
things are not simply anti Christian. But it's always when
they get overly combined with state power that something is
(10:27):
very wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I'm I love Christianity stuff and theology and all that.
Source of just love it. I've read tons of it.
Love it, love it, love love it. But one of
the problems with this concept, the way it's worded, is
you can apply it to so many things if you
need to or want to to demonize something. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The part that really grabbed me about this, though, is
that he was making the case that when there is
the ultimate fear and the ultimate need to solve this,
to do something, as the mushroom clouds are going up
all over the world blah blah blah, there will be
a very powerful entity that says I am here.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
To help you and save you, and I guarantee you
we would turn to it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And because it's the world's greatest emergency, I will need
the greatest power that's ever been granted. Like that scenario,
Whether you think it's of God and the Antichrist and
armageddon or not, that scenario jingles true to these ears.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Have you seen Endgame the Marvel thing? No, that's of us.
I'm a grown up. I saw it with my children.
In my defense, that's a pretty good portrayal of in
the end apocalypse or whatever. I mean, just everything's going
hell crazy, thunderstorms and tidal waves and the earth cracking
(11:53):
apart and everything so pretty long for the days when
poop was hitting fans. Yeah, exactly, So you tease something else.
I don't remember what it was, but it's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Funny funny comedian another Donald Trump rift and riff rather
not rift riff. And also Trump said something very funny
about Ilhan Omar, who's an America hating Islamist in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Cool all on the way, stay here and keep the faith.
Comedian to Mallen just said something interesting about Charlie Kirk's
wife's eulogy she gave the other day. I'll tell you
about that later.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So if you take seriously a lot of the stuff
being said about ICE, it's no wonder a guy was
shooting at him, shooting at ICE agents. Sure, the rhetoric
has been horrendous. I mean, I have a long long
list of people from the local to the media to
big time politicians nationally household names saying horrendous, inaccurate things.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
NBC News published an article you could see yourself as
a John Brown like character easily in terms of justifying
your violence. Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
There's the there's an organization calling themselves the John Brown Society.
I think recruiting on college campuses Armed resistance.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oooh John Brown and John Brown his sons hacked people
to death with hatchets. Yeah nice, oh boy.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
But anyway, NBC News published an article a couple of
days ago accusing ICE agents of holding a five year
old autistic girl to pressure her father to surrender authorities.
So I snatched up an off autistic girl and threatened
to do something to pressure her father. That would be
pretty evil if it happened, says the article's headline, which
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they tweeted out and promoted at NBC News. A little
less than nine hours later, NBC News deleted its tweet
promoting the story and updated the article to state the
ICE agents simply were with the girl as they attempted
to arrest her father because he gave the ICE agents
both beryls and tried to run away from his kid.
(14:05):
The ICE agents were like, take care of the little girl,
and they issued a correction that said the original story
mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Representative Ilan Omar.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
America Hater Minnesota, posted the false claim on x and
left it up even after NBC News deleted its own post.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
This is vile and.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Cruel and beyond cruel, abolish Ice Omar wrote, So number ten,
Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States. This
is funny.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Pilman Omar and a group that I met the head
of Somalia.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her
back and he said, I don't want it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, what else? Okay? What else? Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And speaking to Donald Jay, this is Sean Froschingen, Trump imitator.
We played yesterday with a great riff about well, we'll
just go ahead and play Michael.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
My fellow Americans.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
In light of recent studies, I wanted to warn against
the use of toasters in your bathtub or your shower.
It's an incredibly dangerous thing to do. You can get electrocuted.
They call it electrocuted. I call it ZAPT like you've
never seen before, a shocking experience.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You don't want to get.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Zapped that much, I can tell you, especially if you're
on the left. You people are fried enough as it is.
We don't need it to get any worse. And electricity
is no joke. I got along very well with you
may have heard of him, Benjamin Franklin. I called him
brilliant pen And he was flying a kite and the
lightning hit it and he was getting electrocuted. He was
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getting XAPT and I grounded him, and if I wasn't there,
it would have been a much different situation. But I
grounded him and we discovered electricity together. Brilliant pen tremendous
guy got along very well with him. Along the same lines,
we want to advise against licking your wall outlets. Despite
what higly belly Pritsker says, your wall outlet is not
(16:11):
a candy bar.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Do not try to lick it.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It doesn't taste very good and you may pick up
a shock, which we don't want you to do. We
don't want you to get hurt. I know those on
the left love and enjoy very much licking their windows.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We asked that we don't apply the exact same thing to.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
The wall outlets. It could get you very hurt. We
want to keep America safe, We want to make America great.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Wow, that is good. That is a good impersonation. That's
good on so many levels, so many the nuances of
the the way uses language.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right, and just the idea of that. He said, don't
use tilan all. So you've got right lefties online guzzling
tailan all, which is one of the most stupid things
you can do one. Gal died from it already. Really yeah,
a cute liver failure.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah wow, Okay, we got a lot on the way
to finish out strong for the week, so I hope
you can stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Turns out a South African minister's prediction that the world
would end on Tuesday didn't come true, meaning Mika Prazinski
had sex with her husband for no reason.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh I'm not sure I needed that. This is interesting.
This is pretty heavy for a Friday actor. Comedian Tim Allen,
you know his work? Whatnot one of your few conservatives
in Hollywood? And what was his.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Subsequent super giant hit that people absolutely love the man
in charge?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Or I don't know. I never watched this, sir, Who's
the boss? That was different. He said that Charlie Kirk's widow,
Erica Kirk, inspired him to forgive the man who killed
his father in a drunk driving accident more than sixty
years ago. Oh wow. Now it's kind of interesting to
(18:14):
me because Tim Allen's a well known, outspoken Christian, but
he hadn't, for whatever reason, forgiven the guy who killed
his dad. Tell they heard Erica Trump or Erica I
keep saying that Erica Kirk speak. Yeah, I wonder how
many other people across the country had that experience. It
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is a good idea, just psychologically, even if not from
a theological standpoint, in that you get nothing by hanging
on to the you know, the hate and the anger.
It's the classic thing. People say, it's like drinking poison
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and hoping the other person and dies.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, they say that about carrying a grudge, which is similar. Yeah,
I have very, very, very similar.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You know, I've always struggled with this. I I get
it completely. I haven't really been in that position, not
to that level. What happened, Thanks God, oh yeah, thank God.
The enormity of the hurt of losing your father at
age eleven, for instance. I mean, I can't even imagine
what's that. What's that's like as suddenly and drunk driver.
(19:30):
It feels like letting go. And I'm not making the argument,
I'm just saying why I struggle with this. It feels
like letting go of the impulse to insist on justice.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Hm. I've got in my own life, and thank god,
I don't have anything close to as big as what
Tim Allen's talking about, and what Erica Kirk was talking about,
and I hope I never do. But I've had something
the biggest things in my life of people adders into
I was able to forgive them and and and uh.
And that's been very very helpful for me, just as
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a selfish thing. It has been so helpful for me
to just accept them, you know, that's that's the way
they're made, or the way that we handled it at
the time, and they couldn't help it, or wish they
hadn't themselves, or whatever it is, depending on the situation.
I have trouble with smaller things like aren't nearly as significant,
like my hatred for the most powerful Democrat in California
(20:24):
for years. What's his name, former mayor of Sacramento who
tried to run us out of our job. Oh right,
Darryl stein Daryl Steinberg. He is the most powerful man
in California for a very long time, which is which
makes you a powerful person because California is a very big,
wealthy state. Like that's a minor thing compared to the
things I'm talking about, which I won't describe, very minor
(20:44):
compared to tru I have more trouble letting go of
those kind of things than I do the big ones
for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, yeah, well I would suggest at the point you
can't remember your your enemy's name, it's time to forgive.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Maybe it's not gone. Maybe I'm not hanging on to
it quite as deeply as I'm portraying it. But it's
not like I have a shrine at home and as
soon as I get home, I get undressed and stand
beneath and think, may you die today at a fiery crash.
They're all sick pins in it, etc. Oh, it's all
because he tried to get us fired over we talked
about something on the air. He twisted it completely and
(21:22):
tried to have us fired for political gain, which makes
you a hack. Of course, that was like long before
his career got started and he became the most powerful
man in California, as I've stated for a very long time.
So it didn't hold him back. It worked, Yeah, yeah,
it did in a way. Part of it.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I think I'm not hearing a lot of forgiveness in
mister Armstrong's voice.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Are you No? Well, I said, I haven't forgiven him.
Part of it is because I hate political hackery so much,
and he's just like a symbol of it.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh sure, yeah, well right, and to try to take
away somebody's living through distortions and he had a bunch
of kids.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
In my house and everything.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Oh yeah, it was we were politically incorrect, yeah, but
we were talking about the challenges of diversity along with
this supposed nothing but blessings from the left. And for
that he tried to, you know, put my kid's daddy
out of work.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But it wasn't even like I haven't forgiven either.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I want to fight him celebrity boxing right now, let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I just wish more people had known he was that
kind of guy who's rising through the ranks of politics.
But it wasn't even like the Jimmy Kimmel or Bill
Maher example, where they actually said that thing and then
I feel like they shouldn't be fired for it. We
didn't say the thing that there were intended, the thing
that they were claiming, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And you know what's really interesting and it's funny we're
dredging this up after all these years, is I have
heard from many people who have worked with that fellow
who say he's really a very kind and decent guy.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, as soon as he apologizes to me, I will
forgive him.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well, and here's the interesting part, though we disagreed on
really it was before anybody called it woke, but we
disagreed on the woke mindset, and in a fairly careful
and Gentlemdley way.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
By the way, that.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Was enough to make a kind and decent man an
angry savage who tried to ruin live.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, that's Bill Mars because we called into question the
beliefs of his cult. That's Bill Maher's point. And Bill
Mahr gets more, you know, has more credibility in this
area than I do. Like me claiming that lefties are
crazier with their politics than people on the right. You know,
I'm on the right, so maybe that's just my view.
But Bill Maher is not a person of the right.
(23:44):
I mean, he has made his living as a person
of the left. And he says I can talk to
conservatives to left. That's not right.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well, and again, if Daryl had wanted to talk about
the disagreement, we have been more than delighted to sure.
Of course, in fact, we would have sought that opportunity.
His response was they should be fired and run out
of town for having a different opinion, which I am
going to characterize as racist. And then and this is
(24:13):
my I've been you know, it's funny. I've been wanting
to get to this article from the New York Times.
That is a perfect example of which you see.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
A lot, and that is.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The attacking side will characterize what you said, your quote.
You almost never see the quote. They just call it
all sorts of scary things. And then if it's the
other side trying to make a point, and in this
(24:45):
case it was the Jewish residence of a certain town
in I think it may have been New Jersey, they
were highly concerned about this pro Palestinian speaker, and the
New York Times wouldn't give that quote either. They just
or the reason, the direct quotes for why the Jewish
(25:05):
people were concerned. Give me the.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Quote what was said, give me the whole quote.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
But the left so often won't do that because when
you look at it in the light of day, in
the case what we said, it was perfectly defensible. Or
in the case of this controversy that I'm talking about,
what the pro Palestinian person said essentially was let's have
one thousand October seventh and kill all the Jews we can.
(25:34):
Now I am to my discredit paraphrasing because I can't
find it, but just the whole I'll describe the quote
for you and then tell you how horrible it is.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Now, how about you just tell me what they said.
By the way, we didn't get to this consumer story today,
which is good news that we should put out there.
Consumer spending up and increased slightly more than expected in
August as households went on vacation and dined out, but
keeping the economy on solid ground according to Reuters, as
the third quarter progressed. So consumer spending hanging in there
(26:07):
despite a lot of things we have heard. Wonder if
there's any chance it was hoping to get ahead of tariffs.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Could be I don't know, yeah, yeah, I just wonder.
Is it that top ten percent of earners though, that
we're pushing consumer spending you talked about a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Certainly could be ten. The top ten percent of income
people in this country are half of consumer spending right now,
and it's never been that out of whack.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay, So, just for the record, because I found it,
Bookshop cancels event with Palestinian author over community concerns, The
Times reported, but it wouldn't give any of the quotes
that made the Jewish community concerned, which included on the
day of the October seventh massacre, she posted resist on
(26:56):
Facebook with Palestinian flags and flame emojis, probably representing the
babies who are set on fire and the families burnt
alive and shot to death. The next day she said,
may we witness an indigenous uprising and reclamation over lands
on a global scale, On a global scale. Interesting, our
people are the protectors of life and land. May this
(27:18):
Palestinian uprising be the push needed for the dominoes of
colonialism to fall from every quarter of this world. And
on the first anniversary of the October seventh attack, she
posted one year plus seventy six of genocide. No, I
don't give a f about what anyone says or how
anyone feels about. How we fight and rid our land
of the vicious colonizers. Free Palestine from the river to
(27:38):
the sea. And she goes on and on and on.
Then she pushed the fact that Zionists and Jews control
the whole Western world. The United States is under Zionist occupation,
which The New York Times helpfully summarized as the Jewish
community was somewhat concerned about that author.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Wow. So then on the other side, you can't speak
at colleges or bookstores or whatever if your pro choice
or think boys shouldn't be in girls sports or a
whole bunch of other things that are perfectly mainstream views.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, or they helpfully summarize Charlie Kirk's views as hateful
and divisive.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But then, but again, don't give us the words. Yeah,
that's interesting, Yeah, okay, we will finish in liars and
the lies day lie. That's right, telling you we'll finish
strong next time. All the per old timey television. That
means new episodes come back. Saturday Night Live is new
(28:36):
next Saturday, not Tomorrow night, but next Saturday they come
back with their fifty first season, and then Sixty Minutes
comes back Sunday night. I always watch Sixty Minutes, and
I'm gonna like the new CBS trying not to be crazy. Wope, CBS,
but they've got that governor of Utah. They got so
much attention as their big interview Sunday Night Cox. Yeah,
(29:01):
that'll be good.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So, speaking of TV, I thought this was interesting and
rang true. It opens with who wrote this Christian Schneider.
He says, have you seen the new Star Wars series?
What was it called? And or no, wait, maybe it
was Obi Wan Kenobi. Or it could have been The
Mandalorian or Osaka or the Book of Boba Fet or
(29:23):
Skeleton Crew or the Acolyte. And then he says, as
a Star Wars crazed child of the seventies, I am
the prime target audience for all this content. Yeah, I
know it. We were twelve when Star Wars came out,
and to say I loved that movie is like saying
I love my wife. It's true, but it doesn't begin
to describe the relationship I had with those movies.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And he says, yet, I haven't made it all the
way through any.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Of these series, much less the glut of Star Wars
films cranked out over the past decade. What the producer
is now trying to wring every last penny from George
Lucas's franchise don't recognize is that the thing that made
the original Star Wars Star Wars films especially was their scarcity.
And he describes it, and he says, but now, whether
it's the Star Wars Extended Universe or the DC comics ruled,
(30:07):
these beloved brands are drowning us. It's impossible to escape them.
In the past decade, Marvel has produced twenty three television series,
adding up to almost five hundred episodes.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Twenty three TV series. Yeah, there's a new Loki thing
coming out. I like Loki.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Where it was once to everybody likes Loki. Where it
was once a challenge to seek out merchandise related to
your favorite movie or show, Now it's difficult to avoid.
And his point in all of this is that what
we live in what he calls an age of permanent ephemerality,
ephemeral meaning here today, gone today.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
We are so drowning in options. None of them means anything.
It doesn't matter because there's another one right around the corner.
Loki's the master of mischief, So they say, where's that
funky horny helmet? Yeah, that's interesting. The this one abundance
(31:11):
of options does change the way you watch something. It's
got to be really really good for you to hang
with it, or you think. I mean, because when we
were kids, there was one thing on worth a damn ever.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, yeah, two if you were like crazy lucky, and
then it was a conflict.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But I like this though.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
If you're a certain age, think about the time you
bought a new album cassette or CD by an up
and coming band you heard about from your friends. You
were likely to sit and listen to that album over
and over until you formed a real opinion on its merits,
simply because you were financially invested in it. To give
up on a CD too early would be to light
your fifteen bucks on five absolutely, But now every song
in every album ever record is available on your phone
(31:53):
for the monthly cost of a single album. Trying out
a new artist means hitting a few buttons listening to
a couple of songs. If you don't like it, just
bail on it and try something else. You've invested almost
nothing in discovering it, so it's not worth putting in
the effort beyond skipping around for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's interesting. That's an exact description of where did I
read this the other day? About online dating? And one
of the many critiques of it in its current forms
is that that is what happens with people, the endless options.
You know, this is pretty good, but there's probably something better,
because there's a whole bunch of other options, and the
way that it has never happened in the real world
in the past. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I remember I used to make jokes about video store
disease back when video stores were thaying, because you'd go
in there and you'd find fourteen different things you're up
for watching and I couldn't decide, and sometimes I would
just walk out again, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But if you do that many times.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But the idea of like investing two hours, what if
I don't like this, well, you know what, there are
fifteen other videos I can watch instead. There are fifteen
other people I could date, So I'm not gonna worry
about I'm gonna check this one without even thinking about
it because there are other options.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oof. Ephemeral, that's what it is. We're drowning an ephemeral. Yeah. Wow,
that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Naturally, TV shows and movies op for cheap gimmicks to
keep people watching. Take tea execurable Netflix movie Happy Gilmore two,
which seems like it took as long to write as
it does to watch, but features seventy two celebrity cameos.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Oh really, wow, Hey kids, it's that time again with
Armstrong and Getty. Here's Joe's for final thoughts. Joe, who getty?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
All right, let's begin the show. I'm sorry to begin
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Let's wrap things up with the final thought from everybody
on the crew, beginning with our technical director Michaelangelo and Michael, how.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Things have changed. When I was younger, I could stay
up all night.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yesterday I went to an office party from four pm
to six pm and I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Wow, sad Katie Green are esteemed to Newswoman is very youthful, Katie.
A final thought for us, we talked about that woman
taking out billboards in the Bay Area for a husband.
There's a section on here.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
To apply on behalf of someone else, So I might
sign one of you guys up for this.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, see how it comes. Jack final thought for us,
speaking of TV, It's funny how my son like he's
run through everything current that you can watch, and so
he's now on a House kick. He's watching all the
episodes and seasons of House he absolutely loves it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Wow, huh, interesting, h gosh. My final thought is I
haven't seen Happy Gilmore too. It sounds terrible and gimmicky
and features lots of celebrity golfers, and it I just
life's too short, passing oh by the way, and all
other golf news. As we speak these words, the Ryder
(34:53):
Cup is going on and America is getting our ass
handed to us by the Europeans on our home course
with Trump there, with Trump is going to have Pambondi
prosecute these losing golfers, losers we.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Don't like, losers. Armstrong and Eddy wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
So many people, thanks so little time. Thank you for
being here.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
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Speaker 1 (35:30):
Well, I'm sure something dang interesting will happen this weekend
and we'll have it for you on Monday and all
the different views of it and try to give you
as fair a coverage of it as we possibly can.
That's what we do all the time. See you Monday.
God bless America. There were so many great too omens
on today.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
He's Armstrong Ayeeddy Show but perhaps done as great as this.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Well, and it doesn't mean you're in favor of what's
happening now, but a it's hard to take and be
just the idea of a guy in you know, a
fistfight breaking out a knife, and then the other guy
breaks out a knife, and the first guy says, sight,
God and heaven.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
He he's brought out of knife. Well, yes, yes he
did too. The Armstrong and Getty
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