September 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The kissing bug disease, C.O.W. Clips of the Week & Charlie Sheen
- Charlie Sheen's daughter
- Details about Charlie Kirk's assassination & political violence
- 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, Ketty arm Strong
and Katty and now he Armstrong and Hetty. Stephen King,
(00:23):
the author of Maybe some of Your Favorite Horror Books,
has retracted his idiotic tweet that he put out yesterday
saying Charlie Kirk was in favor of stoning Gaze. How
are you feeling bad about this guy being killed? How?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Don't you like do the slightest bit of research on
that before you would post that? Because wouldn't it strike you?
Is sounds a little crazy that this guy that so
many people are speaking highly of is in favor of
stoning gaze.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, Steven, I know you're, you know, more
into killer clowns and weird spirits and stuff like that.
But there's this thing called Google or chat GPT, and
all they have to do is type in did Charlie
Kirk actually say? And then fill in the blank, and
then in like one one millionth of a second you'll
find out that he didn't. Now that's what it would
have taken, Stephen, Boy, do we have a fight in
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ahead of us?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know what that is, we both know what that is.
It's people that are so drenched in the other side
is evil that they just absolutely take that at face value.
Of course, they think that you should stolee Gates, I mean,
cause that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, because they've heard over and over again the most vicious,
slanderous characterization of their opponents, and they went into it
believe in conservatives are evil and hateful, not that we
just have a different point of view about what policies work. Anyway,
the young man who slaughtered Charlie Kirk was exactly what
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you think he would be. We can talk about that
a little bit more. One note that his expressions of
dislike for mister Kirk were so off putting and vitriolic
that it freaked out people who heard him ranting and
raving at a dinner. For instance, we'd heard that he
(02:20):
had expressed a dislike. No, evidently it was so vehement
that people are like, dude, are you out of your mind?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So he's a little unhinged, or you would keep that
to yourself while you were completely indoctrinated.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, Anyway, more on that to come. Quick public
service announcement. Be on the lookout for Chegis disease. What
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. C ha
gas chegas disease, also known as kissing bug disease. It's
now endemic in the United States. Here's here's the deal.
It's the kissing bug bug disease, the kissing bug disease.
(02:52):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If I don't kiss a bug, can I avoid catching it?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
A bunch of bug kissers out there? No, here's what happens. Uh.
The kissing bug is known as the It's got a
long scientific name which you'll never remember anyway. Apparently there's
a parasite that gets on the so called kissing bug
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and infects it and bites, bites it and sucks its blood.
Then the bug becomes a carrier for the parasite. Then
the bug passes the parasite through its droppings. So what
you need to do is avoid.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The poop.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Of a bug infected by a parasite getting into a
cut in your skin, your eyes, or your mouth, or
you'll get chegis disease.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, I'll do my best. How would I know if
I had this chagis disease? Uh? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
These symptoms are on pleasant indeed, swollen eyelids is the
most immediate and prominent symptom. You look like a prize
fighter who got smacked in both eyes. Wow, swollen and
you need to get ice between rounds.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, it's just at least it's an easy to identify symptom.
Because that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Plus fever, diarrhea and loss of appetite. It can progress
to enlarged esophagus or colon, large heart, or even sudden death,
although that's very rare.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So if you notice a bug pooping on you, he's
got a big heart. No, he's not supposed to. That's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, No, that's a symptom. I just don't just don't
let any bugs poop on you, especially if you have
a cut going. Okay, but that's how you avoid the
CHEGIS does.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I like in disease that has an identifiable symptom
like swollen eyelids, as opposed to flu like symptoms, which
is everything else. And I always I feel like I've
got flu like symptoms pretty much every day of my life.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
All Right, So we've got a bunch to squeeze into
the final hour of the week. But first, let's take
a fond look back at the Dark Week that was
It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Right Now, shots fired during a speech by right wing
activist Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
This nation is in desperate need of prayer and some
kind of an intervention.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
We only have a democracy if we settle our disagreements
with words.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This is a dark day for our states.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I want to be remembered for courage from my faith.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I think with a high degree of certainty we have him.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
We got him, Arena's Rootskup getting on the train ground,
rises from his seat and unprovoked, the video shows him
stamp her.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
You know, when you have horrible killings, you have to
take horrible actions.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Saying nineteen Russian drones violating its airspace.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Again guns of August?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
How about the drones of September? I'm worried so for.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The point is when there's dissonance and data that you
have to sort of watch how it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
All works out.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
The message apparently bears the signature of President Trump and
comes with an outline of what appears to be a
naked woman do drugs?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Israeli airstrikes targeting hamas leadership in Dollhawk Hutter, did you get.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The targets you were seeking.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
If we didn't get them this time, we'll get them
the next time. An ASS report card for twelfth graders
across the US shows reading and MAS scores drop to
historic lows.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, So, if I don't know the.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Two baby raccoons immediately, I just started doing CPR.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
On it, because there's probably a lot of people out
there that still only know me from those viral clips.
A guy screaming tiger blood and winning and all the
other nonsense.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Watching in the stance his now favorite player on his
favorite teams had just hit a hold and Andrew his
dad got that baseball. A woman started berating, felt like
cleaning the ball was hurt.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What was she screaming at you? I can't even repeat
that on her.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
She's very vulgar. Did you mention Marius about the mystery
of who actually impregnated the boy's mother, because surely it
wasn't that Limprest. That last part was harshley, Judge Mantle,
(07:38):
I believe that was Michael's voice. That was terrible thing,
a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He said, Michael, Uh are you going through Manno pause,
We have symptoms of that. We can get you in
a little bit if you need them.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Did you just alter the term menopause to include the
word man to imply that men are going through something similar?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I ah, Charlie Sheen. His voice appeared in the e
clips of the Week I do. I'm for some reason,
I'm interested in watching at least some of that Netflix
documentary about that. I'd like to hear him talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I've got to admit, and you've reinforced this. I love
his tone of I was completely out of control. I
was a jackass and it's my fault. Good for you, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and he's got eight years of sobriety going so yes,
have you seen any.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Set of fake choppers? Because he has rotted out? But
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I watched, I watched the whole thing. Okay, well, yeah,
tell us about it.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
He's it's a lot of it is sad, he because
he talks a lot about his kids and whatnot. But
he one of the things that I took from it,
especially towards the end, and I won't spoil any of it,
but he really was shocked at his own behavior, and
he talked about how shame is the best thing that
happened to him because he was so shameful of what
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he did that he felt like he needed to talk
about it, and that's why he's finally kind of coming
out with it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It was that having sex with dudes partially. Okay, there's
plenty to be ashamed of. I saying, well, anybody who
doesn't want to know this, turn off the radio for
a moment. Go ahead and tell me you're not going
to spoil anything. What was the what was the Charlisian
document Oh? You ruined the documentary of Charliician? What happened?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
I mean they obviously they talk a lot about his relationships.
Denise Richards is still madly in love with him. Oh really,
and her part of the documentary is heart wrenching. Wo
you can just tell he took her heart, ripped it out,
stomped on it, and she still just cares about him.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Major. Yeah. People who you know, you're married to someone
and they become a drug drug addict. I've heard those
stories before.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
But I loved the way she handled it because she
got really emotional on camera, and all people from Netflix
are going, Okay, we're gonna cut she goes no film this,
like you people need to see that this type of
behavior causes this type of pain. Wow, Yeah, it was
really that was probably the most.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Powerful part for me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And now it's it's odd because his last wife, who
he had his two boys with, she's still in recovery
and you can tell throughout the documentary. I don't know
if she's wasted or what's going on there, but she
definitely seems off. And now Charlie is the one that
all the kids go to because he's the reliable parent.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh good for him.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Yeah, So it's a it's a happy ending story. But
the Denise Richards part broke my heart pretty again.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, that's good because that's a common thread with alcoholics
and drug addict because I'm not hurting anybody but myself,
which is never true, right, And she's wanting to make
that clear.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He look at all the damage he did in spite
of all the money. Yeah, and all the fame and
all the crap people think are important, she Jans people
think are important.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Warner Brothers for two and a half Men. They wanted
Charlie so bad because they had sold the show out
a couple of years and they had all this money
coming in. But Charlie was kind of wavering on whether
he was going to be part of it. He was
making two million dollars an episode.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, that blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I didn't know that. Yeah, high spared guy in all
of television.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Jeez, funny.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's a funny damn show too, which reminds me. The
Emmys are on Sunday Night, which we used to talk
about when they're out, like who's nominating all that sort
of stuff. Now it would be a list of shows
you've never heard of or I've never heard of, or
you've heard of two of them but not the other.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
To find once you hear from hearing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Because you and all your friends have a series you're
watching that's the greatest thing you've ever seen, but you
don't know anybody else that's watching it. That's just how
how spread out at all is.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Is that on Blue Tree or mind doc? Oh it's
on ZIM Flying Oh I don't. I don't subscribe to that. Well,
you can always quit.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Nate Bargatzi's the host, which so he's you know, they
hired the hottest comedian out there to be the host,
and it's kind of interesting because he's His whole thing
is he's a nice guy and a lot of these
shows it's about making fun of people, and he doesn't
do that. He makes fun of himself, but he doesn't
really make fun of anybody else. So, uh, I don't
know how that'll be. There's one thing I wanted to
point out about that though, I heard on NPR that
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I thought was really interesting about the Emmys and the bow.
I'll think of it later.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I was speaking of NPR. I happen to flip him
on before the show to punish myself for my sins,
and they were going on and on and on about
January sixth, in the wake of the assassination of Charlie
Kirk long feature about January sixth.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Wow. The thing I do get from the Emmys. If
something is named the Best Drama, I will probably check
it out. It was a couple of years ago when
every single actor on S Creek won the award that
year and it won Best Comedy, and I thought, I
got to check that out, and I checked it out.
It was one of the greatest things it's ever been
(13:13):
ever filmed. It's S Creek, So you know, sometimes the
awards can tip you off to good things. They got
the murderer of Charlie Kirk a few details maybe we
can pass along to you. It's mostly mundane, which makes
it all the worse.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But that's exactly what you thought.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, that and other stuff on the way. Stay here. Wow,
this is heavy. So I didn't think we'd talked this
much about the Charlie Sheen documentary today. But Charlie Sheen's
estranged daughter put out a video just yesterday having watched
the documentary, in which she's half crying, saying I had
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no idea. My dad got sober because of me, and
and said she gives the documentary a ten out of ten.
So hopefully that leads toward the healing of that relationship.
I mean, how awful is that? But from the documentary,
Charlie Sheen saying, it was December tenth, twenty seventeen, and
by nine am I was on my third McCallan spiked coffee.
(14:17):
I assume that's a whiskey Irish.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, Scotch. Actually okay, I think, yeah, Scotch, it's whiskey.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So an Irish coffee. My phone rang and when I
picked it up, it was my daughter Sam. This is
the estranged daughter who put out the video. It was
my daughter Sam asking what time we're leaving s I
said to myself, her appointment that day had completely slipped
my mind. He was supposed to, you know, be picking
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her up to go do something, and he had to
call somebody else to go pick her up and all
that sort of stuff because he couldn't. And that was
the moment of clarity they call it in the world
of being an addict or an alcoholic, that he couldn't.
He couldn't, he couldn't deal with that. And so wow,
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that's that reached her finding that out, that that that
was the moment that he cared so much about that
that's what led him to get sober.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Wow. How interesting. Not a crack up, just a moment
of clarity that he'd let down the people he cared
about the most. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, wow huh.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Happy for the guy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah. So a lot of people, including us, have realized
what a rock star the governor of Utah might be
for the Republican Party. That's kind of as I say that,
it sounds really coarse, because he is just reacting best
he could to a horrible, horribly tragic thing that happened
in his state.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
But he's been received very well. Yeah, he's he's said
some wonderful, eloquent things. I'll just for the record, I'll
say we've had a couple of utahns say, don't canonize
the guy. You know, he's kind of controversial in some ways.
But yes, he's said some absolutely wonderful, appropriate things.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I quite understand that standard that people apply to it.
You name the politician throughout history that doesn't have things
you don't like about them, Go ahead, go ahead, name one.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, no, that don't I characterize their comments. It was
much more thoughtful than that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Okay, But anyway, he spoke today as he was announcing
that they caught the scumbag assassin, and the details that
have come out on that that are unfortunately mundane, which
makes it even more tragic and worse. Also, the latest
stats on how many young people think political violence is justified.
(16:55):
That number has got to go down or we are
in big trouble. Yeah, that's sickening and horrifying. If you
can't stay tuned, that number is astonishingly high. Yeah, can
we move that down or is it going to go up?
Stay tuned for all that it's on the way, Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
This is certainly about the tragic death assassination, political assassination
of Charlie Kirk. But it is also much bigger than
an attack on an individual. It is an attack on
all of us. It is an attack on the American experiment.
(17:39):
It is an.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Attack on our ideals.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
We will never be able to solve all the other problems,
including the violence problems that people are worried about, if
we can't have a clash of ideas safely and securely,
even especially especially those ideas with which you disagree. That's
why this matters so much.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We've got people's attitudes towards political violence in some poll numbers,
including some taken sense. Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Get to
that in just a second. But that was Governor Cox
of Utah, who's gotten a fair amount of attention for
handling this situation very well. If I maybe crassly political
for a moment, Noah Rothman of National Review posted, Cox
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has done extremely well over the last forty eight hours. Calming, informed, judicious, human.
He made the most of his moment, but not in
a cloying or solicitous way. An impressive performance. Then no
one went on to say this morning, after Governor Cox's
part of the press conference when they released the killer.
The name of the killer. Oh my god, he's quoting
(18:50):
you've all livin I'm sold Cox twenty eight. Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Interesting, And yeah, they do have the killer. We haven't
mentioned that for a while. And it's just a regular
young guy who hated Charlie kirk.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hey. He's been ratting and raving about him lately. And
it turns out his father, who's a retired sheriff's deputy,
got him to turn himself in through a minister who
is a family friend. He initially told his dad he'd
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rather kill himself than surrender, but this was convinced to
relent somehow.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So acceptance of political violence is higher than it ought
to be. Here's a couple of different polls for you.
This passed April, so not that many months ago. One
think tank at Rutgers University found that fifty five percent
fifty five percent of self identified left of center respondent
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said that it was at least somewhat justified to murder
President Trump. Over half of left of center respondents said
it was at least somewhat justified to murder President Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's sickening, it's crazy. Yeah, forty eight percent said the
same of Elon Musk I remember when that came out. Yeah,
And then sixty percent said it was somewhat acceptable to destroy.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
A Tesler dealership. You people are nuts, you realize, How
do you not know that? Your nuts? The question was
asked on a scale of one to seven on how
justified it was, and seven being the highest completely justified.
Nearly fifteen percent of the left of centers who wanted
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who said it was okay to murder Donald Trump gave
it a seven completely justified.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Fifteen percent of that over half said it was completely
justified to murder Donald Trump. Now that is either a
performative answer, which is still sick, or you actually believe it,
which means you ought probably ought to be in the
care of the state.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Because you're crazy, right right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Dang it. Different poll November and this one. It's interesting
to see how it's grown because they've been asking this
in Ugov for a while. In November of twenty seventeen,
when asked if violence was justified to advance political goals,
only eight percent of Democrats and Republicans said it was
at least a little bit justified. By twenty twenty, that
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number had gone to thirty six percent. It went from
eight to thirty six between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty. Yeah,
that kind of growth is intolerable. And then in the
latest poll by you gov taken after Charlie Kirk was murdered,
seventy two percent of people said violence is never justified.
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So I'm very happy to see that in the wake
of the assassination this week.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I like the federal there were more than double the
number of Democrats who said violence can be justified than Republicans.
It was a shocking number of Independents too.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
On the question about Charlie Kirk specifically, five percent said
they'd prefer not to say whether they think violence is
justified it or not. Well, you know'd yeah, so you
see think that means they do. Yeah, of course if
you're against it, you wouldn't be afraid to say it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
No, of course not.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, seeing that, And this is from Yahoo News that
I'm reading. By the way, left leaning organization, if ever
there was one saying that violence can be justified is
more prominent among Democrats and independence than among Republicans, which
is not shocking at all. It's funny that I quoted
Noah Rothman of the National Review, as he is writing
a book about the left end political violence, that it
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will be very timely when it comes out.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And it's absolutely not justified or acceptable that people on
the right believe it either. We condemn them just as strongly.
But and you know, we haven't gotten to this. Did
you have more you want to I'll just.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Still just hit you at the summary paragraph that there
were three sets of polls they looked at from different
polling organizations. Makes it clear that it is a minority
of Americans who support political violence, but that more minority
is significance is significant. It's between ten and forty percent
depending on the poll of people who think that violence
can be justified to obtain political goals. Ten percent is
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way too high. You know, if you look at fifty
thousand college kids on campus, if ten percent of them
in that one college, I think political violence is Okay.
You got a serious problem.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Right, yeah, a horrifyingly serious problem. Agreed. So I'm not
sure we're going to play this whole thing. I might
jump in, but the first voice you're going to hear
is Seth Moulton was a Democrat congressman fairly well known
he's a fixture on the talking head shows. And then
the second voice is commentator by the name of Jeffrey
(24:07):
Mead Michael. I'll tell you when to bail out. But
let's clip sixty.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Let's be serious about where this violence is coming from.
Of extremist violent attacks.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
In America's freamless.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Violence violent murders, seventy six percent are from right wing extremists.
Four percent are from left wing extremists. I condemned that
four percent, But we also need to be honest about
it as a nation about where this violence.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Is coming from.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And oh, by the way, it's probably an appropriate time
to talk about guns too.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
This man is gas lighting right in front of our faces,
real time, just gaslighting. And what's even more sick is
that he's downplaying the political violence that gets conservatives at
this moment. Otis he didn't say anything about extremist political murders.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
He just said extremist.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
So in that study, that basically counts for anyone that
commits violent acts that has extremist beliefs. So for example,
if a white supremacist kills someone in a bar fight
and it wasn't even really did to race, that counts.
This is what's so despicable about what he just did.
It's it's blatant manipulation, blatant gas lighting, and an attempt
at narrative control. All we have to do is pay attention, then,
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Gan before I say that he's minimizing the actual problem
that we have with violence against conservatives in this country.
Let's think about right we assassinate.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Fail out of that, and we could go through the
various acts of political violence lately. But one thing that
there have been a couple of criticisms of that study
that if people hear them, just devastate the accuracy. If
you go one day past the end of the study,
there was the killing of like of I can't remember
fourteen people by a leftist lunatic, and that completely changes
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all of the numbers. Second thing, and even more devastating,
that includes violence and deaths in prisons with the white
gangs the Area Nation, for instance, considered a right wing
political organization, whereas the black and Hispanic gangs were just
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in that incredibly flawed study just identified as ethnic groups
ethnic club's innocence, So it was only the white gang
guys who had a political stance attributed to their in
prison violence and that constituted the vast majority of the
incidents they were talking about. It is a horrifyingly misleading
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study and Seth Molton should know better.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Stats are worthless correct there really are. I mean, you
you can craft a study or stats to justify anything
you want to say. How about we all just go
with all political violence is no good and keep it
at that. That was easy, which we never got around
(27:05):
to playing any Bernie Sanders put out a four minute
video yesterday. It was very good and balanced and blamed
both sides, including his own, and just we can't have this.
We can't have this. We have to be able to
disagree and have arguments without people being afraid to express
their opinion because they're afraid they're going to get hurt
or killed. We just it's the only way we can
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move forward.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Right And we already have a serious problem with the
best people unwilling to get involved in the nation's politics,
or your state's politics, or your county politics. There's actually
there's not to get into this too much. But within
the community I live in, the politics of it has,
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like national politics, gotten ugly and personal in a way
that it hasn't been as much in the past, and
it's at a moment of you ask people, hey, are
you willing to get involved in help with the community
and its management, blah blah blah, and they're like, not
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a chance, And we're doomed. We're doomed as a country
in society if the only people willing to get involved
in politics are the climbers in the greed heads and
not to people who are honestly concerned about the country
and its children. Not to mention the adults. I'm one
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of them, and I hope somebody is concerned about me.
But the best, most decent people in the country are afraid,
physically afraid to run for Congress for instance, first city
council or what have you. Then we're doomed. We are
really truly doomed.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Strong.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And we know that you can't comment on legal cases pending.
But as Sonny said, you know the ruling yesterday about
ice raise. I'm just curious, how are they going to
know who is who.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Read my descent?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Where?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Where?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Where can people find these descents?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Because I think.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
People always think they're not available to regular folks. Is
there a place to online online and you search online
the way you search anything. The Supreme Court's decision yesterday.
You're gonna start there, all right, So descent yesterday, Gnome,
that's one of the names in the case, the Gnome
(29:35):
Supreme Court decision. Search bar, it'll pop right up. The
Supreme Court website. Supreme Court dot gov has all our
decisions immediately when they're issues, so you don't even.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Have to wait.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They keep defunding the Partner of Education.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
How is going to be reading these descents? Wow, that's
from the view if you don't recognize the horrific voices
of what be Goldbergen whatever. One woman's name is, Joy
bay Are so whoop? Be completely unaware that you can
read these Supreme Court decisions. Well, first of all without
going to the Supreme Court website or every article you
(30:12):
read in any major newspaper has a link to them.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Always, always, Yeah, you have to try to avoid them.
And she's clearly never read one, never read part of one. Wow,
she's an ignoramus.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So when you're reading an article in the New York
Times and like it's either in bold or blue or
has a line under it, that's a hyperlink, and you
can click on it and it will take you to
more information about whatever you're reading.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I loved Sonya suddenly Orr, where can I find these decisions? Oh?
You've heard of google? Right, I mean, like, just google
anything related to it. It'll come up. What are you serious?
We if he's an ignoramus. She was charming in Sister Act,
but she's an ignora.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Married today dancing briefly? Were they actually married or just dating?
They're together for a while. I'm gonna ask chet GPT.
This is important to me.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We're Whoopi Goldberg and Ted dance and actually married or
just dating? That is one of the weirder things that's
happened in world history. I think I think they just dated.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Okay, well, you pointed out years ago. You're the first
person I heard mention this that in Hollywood, getting married
is like going steady.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It is not till death do us part at all. No,
it's just like we're exclusive for a while.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
We're down to the about the last dozen baseball games
of the year, and then we'll be into the playoffs,
and if you like baseball, that's when it gets very
very exciting.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I do. I love baseball. I haven't been watching lately
I need to get.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Back to it. Yeah, and then the NFL is in
week two. This weekend, I'll probably catch a little bit
of that. I'm craving that a little more than normal,
as this has been a very long news week.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Obviously, it has difficult and painful, and the road ahead
is as uncertain as it's ever seemed.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I'll be interested to see how the Sunday shows handle this.
There'll be a full what five days out from the assassination,
and how big a role that plays in the Sunday
talk shows and what people have to say.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It will be at least slightly interesting to see what
they leave in, what they leave out, what aspects of
the case, how they try to spin it, of course,
but I'm so exhausted by that. I mean, it's not
like I need further evidence that Kristin Welker's a lefty.
I mean, And what.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I'm always looking for is after there's something horrifying, we
tend to come together for like an hour, and then
we go right back to where we were before fairly quickly.
And I wonder if that's where we'll be on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So, yeah, Well, if any good comes of this, it's
at least well. A significant number of people have been
energized to continue Charlie Kirk's work in whatever way their
talents can take them, whether it's openly engaging in discussion,
(33:14):
whether it's realizing that conservatives can't just like grind our
teeth and grumble as the leftist crowd insists on their
way and calls everybody who disagrees with them a hater
or says speech is violence, because of course, the next
sentence is, therefore violence is justified to combat violence. We can't.
(33:36):
We can't pretend that's harmless anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Strong, Strong, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
the whole crew, to wrap up the week. There is
pressing the buttons. Mike l Aangelo, MI got watch your
final thought. Yeah, this is for Katie.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Katie.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh glad right, Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I had so many people ask where you were and
they really missed you. So welcome back. Thank you, Katie
Green are esteemed news woman is back in the saddle.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Katie.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
A final thought for us.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yes, I'm very happy to be back, and I'm also
very happy to wish my mom a happy seventy fifth
birthday today.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Cool. Yeah, and she's still smoking hot. Oh, she's incredibly youthful.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Jack thought for you're gonna call her mom hunt. I'm
glad you didn't. I didn't want that's just weird.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
She's pretty hot.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
That's a weird thing to say. That's an odd sorry,
Josh Larry, she is your girl is a hoty weird
to say. My high school er. My high schooler is
having four of his friends stay the night on Saturday night.
So I'm going to have five teenage boys ofphmores in
my house and it'll be loud, it'll smell like a
locker room, lots of laughter. I assume they'll be up
(35:06):
in his room getting tattoos and smoking and vaping or something.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah. I guess my final thought is, yeah, I could
use a little break too, honestly, after wallowing in this
horror for days and days. But my final final thought
is have courage, stay on the high road, do the
right thing, and do it in the right way. You'll
never have to apologize for that ever.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Armstrong in Geeddy wrapbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
So many people who thanks so little time go to
armstrong giddy dot com. A lot of great hot links.
We'd love to hear from you. Drop us a note
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Speaker 1 (35:41):
He Joe Getty who goes around to co workers telling
them their mother is hot. We will see you on Monday.
God bless America with a high degree of certainty.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
We have him, We got him.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
The father convinced the son this is it, and he's
there now. The suspect was taking it a custody at
ten pm local time.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
Said when people stop talking, that's when you get violence
young people.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
He wanted to help young people and he didn't deserve this.
He was truly a good person.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
He said, always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
To my friend Charlie Kirk rest now, brother, we have
the watch and I'll see you in Valalla.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong
and Katty and now he Armstrong and Hetty. Stephen King,
(00:23):
the author of Maybe some of Your Favorite Horror Books,
has retracted his idiotic tweet that he put out yesterday
saying Charlie Kirk was in favor of stoning Gaze. How
are you feeling bad about this guy being killed? How?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Don't you like do the slightest bit of research on
that before you would post that? Because wouldn't it strike you?
Is sounds a little crazy that this guy that so
many people are speaking highly of is in favor of
stoning gaze.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, Steven, I know you're, you know, more
into killer clowns and weird spirits and stuff like that.
But there's this thing called Google or chat GPT, and
all they have to do is type in did Charlie
Kirk actually say? And then fill in the blank, and
then in like one one millionth of a second you'll
find out that he didn't. Now that's what it would
have taken, Stephen, Boy, do we have a fight in
(01:23):
ahead of us?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know what that is, we both know what that is.
It's people that are so drenched in the other side
is evil that they just absolutely take that at face value.
Of course, they think that you should stolee Gates, I mean,
cause that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, because they've heard over and over again the most vicious,
slanderous characterization of their opponents, and they went into it
believe in conservatives are evil and hateful, not that we
just have a different point of view about what policies work. Anyway,
the young man who slaughtered Charlie Kirk was exactly what
(01:58):
you think he would be. We can talk about that
a little bit more. One note that his expressions of
dislike for mister Kirk were so off putting and vitriolic
that it freaked out people who heard him ranting and
raving at a dinner. For instance, we'd heard that he
(02:20):
had expressed a dislike. No, evidently it was so vehement
that people are like, dude, are you out of your mind?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So he's a little unhinged, or you would keep that
to yourself while you were completely indoctrinated.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, Anyway, more on that to come. Quick public
service announcement. Be on the lookout for Chegis disease. What
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. C ha
gas chegas disease, also known as kissing bug disease. It's
now endemic in the United States. Here's here's the deal.
It's the kissing bug bug disease, the kissing bug disease.
(02:52):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If I don't kiss a bug, can I avoid catching it?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
A bunch of bug kissers out there? No, here's what happens. Uh.
The kissing bug is known as the It's got a
long scientific name which you'll never remember anyway. Apparently there's
a parasite that gets on the so called kissing bug
(03:18):
and infects it and bites, bites it and sucks its blood.
Then the bug becomes a carrier for the parasite. Then
the bug passes the parasite through its droppings. So what
you need to do is avoid.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The poop.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Of a bug infected by a parasite getting into a
cut in your skin, your eyes, or your mouth, or
you'll get chegis disease.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, I'll do my best. How would I know if
I had this chagis disease? Uh? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
These symptoms are on pleasant indeed, swollen eyelids is the
most immediate and prominent symptom. You look like a prize
fighter who got smacked in both eyes. Wow, swollen and
you need to get ice between rounds.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, it's just at least it's an easy to identify symptom.
Because that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Plus fever, diarrhea and loss of appetite. It can progress
to enlarged esophagus or colon, large heart, or even sudden death,
although that's very rare.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So if you notice a bug pooping on you, he's
got a big heart. No, he's not supposed to. That's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, No, that's a symptom. I just don't just don't
let any bugs poop on you, especially if you have
a cut going. Okay, but that's how you avoid the
CHEGIS does.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I like in disease that has an identifiable symptom
like swollen eyelids, as opposed to flu like symptoms, which
is everything else. And I always I feel like I've
got flu like symptoms pretty much every day of my life.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
All Right, So we've got a bunch to squeeze into
the final hour of the week. But first, let's take
a fond look back at the Dark Week that was
It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Right Now, shots fired during a speech by right wing
activist Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
This nation is in desperate need of prayer and some
kind of an intervention.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
We only have a democracy if we settle our disagreements
with words.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This is a dark day for our states.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I want to be remembered for courage from my faith.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I think with a high degree of certainty we have him.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
We got him, Arena's Rootskup getting on the train ground,
rises from his seat and unprovoked, the video shows him
stamp her.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
You know, when you have horrible killings, you have to
take horrible actions.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Saying nineteen Russian drones violating its airspace.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Again guns of August?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
How about the drones of September? I'm worried so for.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The point is when there's dissonance and data that you
have to sort of watch how it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
All works out.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
The message apparently bears the signature of President Trump and
comes with an outline of what appears to be a
naked woman do drugs?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Israeli airstrikes targeting hamas leadership in Dollhawk Hutter, did you get.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The targets you were seeking.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
If we didn't get them this time, we'll get them
the next time. An ASS report card for twelfth graders
across the US shows reading and MAS scores drop to
historic lows.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, So, if I don't know the.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Two baby raccoons immediately, I just started doing CPR.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
On it, because there's probably a lot of people out
there that still only know me from those viral clips.
A guy screaming tiger blood and winning and all the
other nonsense.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Watching in the stance his now favorite player on his
favorite teams had just hit a hold and Andrew his
dad got that baseball. A woman started berating, felt like
cleaning the ball was hurt.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What was she screaming at you? I can't even repeat
that on her.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
She's very vulgar. Did you mention Marius about the mystery
of who actually impregnated the boy's mother, because surely it
wasn't that Limprest. That last part was harshley, Judge Mantle,
(07:38):
I believe that was Michael's voice. That was terrible thing,
a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He said, Michael, Uh are you going through Manno pause,
We have symptoms of that. We can get you in
a little bit if you need them.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Did you just alter the term menopause to include the
word man to imply that men are going through something similar?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I ah, Charlie Sheen. His voice appeared in the e
clips of the Week I do. I'm for some reason,
I'm interested in watching at least some of that Netflix
documentary about that. I'd like to hear him talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I've got to admit, and you've reinforced this. I love
his tone of I was completely out of control. I
was a jackass and it's my fault. Good for you, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and he's got eight years of sobriety going so yes,
have you seen any.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Set of fake choppers? Because he has rotted out? But
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I watched, I watched the whole thing. Okay, well, yeah,
tell us about it.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
He's it's a lot of it is sad, he because
he talks a lot about his kids and whatnot. But
he one of the things that I took from it,
especially towards the end, and I won't spoil any of it,
but he really was shocked at his own behavior, and
he talked about how shame is the best thing that
happened to him because he was so shameful of what
(09:07):
he did that he felt like he needed to talk
about it, and that's why he's finally kind of coming
out with it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It was that having sex with dudes partially. Okay, there's
plenty to be ashamed of. I saying, well, anybody who
doesn't want to know this, turn off the radio for
a moment. Go ahead and tell me you're not going
to spoil anything. What was the what was the Charlisian
document Oh? You ruined the documentary of Charliician? What happened?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
I mean they obviously they talk a lot about his relationships.
Denise Richards is still madly in love with him. Oh really,
and her part of the documentary is heart wrenching. Wo
you can just tell he took her heart, ripped it out,
stomped on it, and she still just cares about him.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Major. Yeah. People who you know, you're married to someone
and they become a drug drug addict. I've heard those
stories before.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
But I loved the way she handled it because she
got really emotional on camera, and all people from Netflix
are going, Okay, we're gonna cut she goes no film this,
like you people need to see that this type of
behavior causes this type of pain. Wow, Yeah, it was
really that was probably the most.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Powerful part for me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And now it's it's odd because his last wife, who
he had his two boys with, she's still in recovery
and you can tell throughout the documentary. I don't know
if she's wasted or what's going on there, but she
definitely seems off. And now Charlie is the one that
all the kids go to because he's the reliable parent.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh good for him.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Yeah, So it's a it's a happy ending story. But
the Denise Richards part broke my heart pretty again.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, that's good because that's a common thread with alcoholics
and drug addict because I'm not hurting anybody but myself,
which is never true, right, And she's wanting to make
that clear.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He look at all the damage he did in spite
of all the money. Yeah, and all the fame and
all the crap people think are important, she Jans people
think are important.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Warner Brothers for two and a half Men. They wanted
Charlie so bad because they had sold the show out
a couple of years and they had all this money
coming in. But Charlie was kind of wavering on whether
he was going to be part of it. He was
making two million dollars an episode.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, that blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I didn't know that. Yeah, high spared guy in all
of television.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Jeez, funny.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's a funny damn show too, which reminds me. The
Emmys are on Sunday Night, which we used to talk
about when they're out, like who's nominating all that sort
of stuff. Now it would be a list of shows
you've never heard of or I've never heard of, or
you've heard of two of them but not the other.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
To find once you hear from hearing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Because you and all your friends have a series you're
watching that's the greatest thing you've ever seen, but you
don't know anybody else that's watching it. That's just how
how spread out at all is.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Is that on Blue Tree or mind doc? Oh it's
on ZIM Flying Oh I don't. I don't subscribe to that. Well,
you can always quit.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Nate Bargatzi's the host, which so he's you know, they
hired the hottest comedian out there to be the host,
and it's kind of interesting because he's His whole thing
is he's a nice guy and a lot of these
shows it's about making fun of people, and he doesn't
do that. He makes fun of himself, but he doesn't
really make fun of anybody else. So, uh, I don't
know how that'll be. There's one thing I wanted to
point out about that though, I heard on NPR that
(12:30):
I thought was really interesting about the Emmys and the bow.
I'll think of it later.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I was speaking of NPR. I happen to flip him
on before the show to punish myself for my sins,
and they were going on and on and on about
January sixth, in the wake of the assassination of Charlie
Kirk long feature about January sixth.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Wow. The thing I do get from the Emmys. If
something is named the Best Drama, I will probably check
it out. It was a couple of years ago when
every single actor on S Creek won the award that
year and it won Best Comedy, and I thought, I
got to check that out, and I checked it out.
It was one of the greatest things it's ever been
(13:13):
ever filmed. It's S Creek, So you know, sometimes the
awards can tip you off to good things. They got
the murderer of Charlie Kirk a few details maybe we
can pass along to you. It's mostly mundane, which makes
it all the worse.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But that's exactly what you thought.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, that and other stuff on the way. Stay here. Wow,
this is heavy. So I didn't think we'd talked this
much about the Charlie Sheen documentary today. But Charlie Sheen's
estranged daughter put out a video just yesterday having watched
the documentary, in which she's half crying, saying I had
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no idea. My dad got sober because of me, and
and said she gives the documentary a ten out of ten.
So hopefully that leads toward the healing of that relationship.
I mean, how awful is that? But from the documentary,
Charlie Sheen saying, it was December tenth, twenty seventeen, and
by nine am I was on my third McCallan spiked coffee.
(14:17):
I assume that's a whiskey Irish.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, Scotch. Actually okay, I think, yeah, Scotch, it's whiskey.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So an Irish coffee. My phone rang and when I
picked it up, it was my daughter Sam. This is
the estranged daughter who put out the video. It was
my daughter Sam asking what time we're leaving s I
said to myself, her appointment that day had completely slipped
my mind. He was supposed to, you know, be picking
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her up to go do something, and he had to
call somebody else to go pick her up and all
that sort of stuff because he couldn't. And that was
the moment of clarity they call it in the world
of being an addict or an alcoholic, that he couldn't.
He couldn't, he couldn't deal with that. And so wow,
(15:14):
that's that reached her finding that out, that that that
was the moment that he cared so much about that
that's what led him to get sober.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Wow. How interesting. Not a crack up, just a moment
of clarity that he'd let down the people he cared
about the most. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, wow huh.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Happy for the guy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah. So a lot of people, including us, have realized
what a rock star the governor of Utah might be
for the Republican Party. That's kind of as I say that,
it sounds really coarse, because he is just reacting best
he could to a horrible, horribly tragic thing that happened
in his state.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
But he's been received very well. Yeah, he's he's said
some wonderful, eloquent things. I'll just for the record, I'll
say we've had a couple of utahns say, don't canonize
the guy. You know, he's kind of controversial in some ways.
But yes, he's said some absolutely wonderful, appropriate things.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I quite understand that standard that people apply to it.
You name the politician throughout history that doesn't have things
you don't like about them, Go ahead, go ahead, name one.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, no, that don't I characterize their comments. It was
much more thoughtful than that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Okay, But anyway, he spoke today as he was announcing
that they caught the scumbag assassin, and the details that
have come out on that that are unfortunately mundane, which
makes it even more tragic and worse. Also, the latest
stats on how many young people think political violence is justified.
(16:55):
That number has got to go down or we are
in big trouble. Yeah, that's sickening and horrifying. If you
can't stay tuned, that number is astonishingly high. Yeah, can
we move that down or is it going to go up?
Stay tuned for all that it's on the way, Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
This is certainly about the tragic death assassination, political assassination
of Charlie Kirk. But it is also much bigger than
an attack on an individual. It is an attack on
all of us. It is an attack on the American experiment.
(17:39):
It is an.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Attack on our ideals.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
We will never be able to solve all the other problems,
including the violence problems that people are worried about, if
we can't have a clash of ideas safely and securely,
even especially especially those ideas with which you disagree. That's
why this matters so much.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We've got people's attitudes towards political violence in some poll numbers,
including some taken sense. Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Get to
that in just a second. But that was Governor Cox
of Utah, who's gotten a fair amount of attention for
handling this situation very well. If I maybe crassly political
for a moment, Noah Rothman of National Review posted, Cox
(18:28):
has done extremely well over the last forty eight hours. Calming, informed, judicious, human.
He made the most of his moment, but not in
a cloying or solicitous way. An impressive performance. Then no
one went on to say this morning, after Governor Cox's
part of the press conference when they released the killer.
The name of the killer. Oh my god, he's quoting
(18:50):
you've all livin I'm sold Cox twenty eight. Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Interesting, And yeah, they do have the killer. We haven't
mentioned that for a while. And it's just a regular
young guy who hated Charlie kirk.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hey. He's been ratting and raving about him lately. And
it turns out his father, who's a retired sheriff's deputy,
got him to turn himself in through a minister who
is a family friend. He initially told his dad he'd
(19:25):
rather kill himself than surrender, but this was convinced to
relent somehow.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So acceptance of political violence is higher than it ought
to be. Here's a couple of different polls for you.
This passed April, so not that many months ago. One
think tank at Rutgers University found that fifty five percent
fifty five percent of self identified left of center respondent
(19:55):
said that it was at least somewhat justified to murder
President Trump. Over half of left of center respondents said
it was at least somewhat justified to murder President Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's sickening, it's crazy. Yeah, forty eight percent said the
same of Elon Musk I remember when that came out. Yeah,
And then sixty percent said it was somewhat acceptable to destroy.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
A Tesler dealership. You people are nuts, you realize, How
do you not know that? Your nuts? The question was
asked on a scale of one to seven on how
justified it was, and seven being the highest completely justified.
Nearly fifteen percent of the left of centers who wanted
(20:45):
who said it was okay to murder Donald Trump gave
it a seven completely justified.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Fifteen percent of that over half said it was completely
justified to murder Donald Trump. Now that is either a
performative answer, which is still sick, or you actually believe it,
which means you ought probably ought to be in the
care of the state.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Because you're crazy, right right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Dang it. Different poll November and this one. It's interesting
to see how it's grown because they've been asking this
in Ugov for a while. In November of twenty seventeen,
when asked if violence was justified to advance political goals,
only eight percent of Democrats and Republicans said it was
at least a little bit justified. By twenty twenty, that
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number had gone to thirty six percent. It went from
eight to thirty six between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty. Yeah,
that kind of growth is intolerable. And then in the
latest poll by you gov taken after Charlie Kirk was murdered,
seventy two percent of people said violence is never justified.
(21:54):
So I'm very happy to see that in the wake
of the assassination this week.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I like the federal there were more than double the
number of Democrats who said violence can be justified than Republicans.
It was a shocking number of Independents too.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
On the question about Charlie Kirk specifically, five percent said
they'd prefer not to say whether they think violence is
justified it or not. Well, you know'd yeah, so you
see think that means they do. Yeah, of course if
you're against it, you wouldn't be afraid to say it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
No, of course not.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, seeing that, And this is from Yahoo News that
I'm reading. By the way, left leaning organization, if ever
there was one saying that violence can be justified is
more prominent among Democrats and independence than among Republicans, which
is not shocking at all. It's funny that I quoted
Noah Rothman of the National Review, as he is writing
a book about the left end political violence, that it
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will be very timely when it comes out.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And it's absolutely not justified or acceptable that people on
the right believe it either. We condemn them just as strongly.
But and you know, we haven't gotten to this. Did
you have more you want to I'll just.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Still just hit you at the summary paragraph that there
were three sets of polls they looked at from different
polling organizations. Makes it clear that it is a minority
of Americans who support political violence, but that more minority
is significance is significant. It's between ten and forty percent
depending on the poll of people who think that violence
can be justified to obtain political goals. Ten percent is
(23:33):
way too high. You know, if you look at fifty
thousand college kids on campus, if ten percent of them
in that one college, I think political violence is Okay.
You got a serious problem.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Right, yeah, a horrifyingly serious problem. Agreed. So I'm not
sure we're going to play this whole thing. I might
jump in, but the first voice you're going to hear
is Seth Moulton was a Democrat congressman fairly well known
he's a fixture on the talking head shows. And then
the second voice is commentator by the name of Jeffrey
(24:07):
Mead Michael. I'll tell you when to bail out. But
let's clip sixty.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Let's be serious about where this violence is coming from.
Of extremist violent attacks.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
In America's freamless.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Violence violent murders, seventy six percent are from right wing extremists.
Four percent are from left wing extremists. I condemned that
four percent, But we also need to be honest about
it as a nation about where this violence.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Is coming from.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And oh, by the way, it's probably an appropriate time
to talk about guns too.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
This man is gas lighting right in front of our faces,
real time, just gaslighting. And what's even more sick is
that he's downplaying the political violence that gets conservatives at
this moment. Otis he didn't say anything about extremist political murders.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
He just said extremist.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
So in that study, that basically counts for anyone that
commits violent acts that has extremist beliefs. So for example,
if a white supremacist kills someone in a bar fight
and it wasn't even really did to race, that counts.
This is what's so despicable about what he just did.
It's it's blatant manipulation, blatant gas lighting, and an attempt
at narrative control. All we have to do is pay attention, then,
(25:17):
Gan before I say that he's minimizing the actual problem
that we have with violence against conservatives in this country.
Let's think about right we assassinate.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Fail out of that, and we could go through the
various acts of political violence lately. But one thing that
there have been a couple of criticisms of that study
that if people hear them, just devastate the accuracy. If
you go one day past the end of the study,
there was the killing of like of I can't remember
fourteen people by a leftist lunatic, and that completely changes
(25:52):
all of the numbers. Second thing, and even more devastating,
that includes violence and deaths in prisons with the white
gangs the Area Nation, for instance, considered a right wing
political organization, whereas the black and Hispanic gangs were just
(26:15):
in that incredibly flawed study just identified as ethnic groups
ethnic club's innocence, So it was only the white gang
guys who had a political stance attributed to their in
prison violence and that constituted the vast majority of the
incidents they were talking about. It is a horrifyingly misleading
(26:40):
study and Seth Molton should know better.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Stats are worthless correct there really are. I mean, you
you can craft a study or stats to justify anything
you want to say. How about we all just go
with all political violence is no good and keep it
at that. That was easy, which we never got around
(27:05):
to playing any Bernie Sanders put out a four minute
video yesterday. It was very good and balanced and blamed
both sides, including his own, and just we can't have this.
We can't have this. We have to be able to
disagree and have arguments without people being afraid to express
their opinion because they're afraid they're going to get hurt
or killed. We just it's the only way we can
(27:26):
move forward.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Right And we already have a serious problem with the
best people unwilling to get involved in the nation's politics,
or your state's politics, or your county politics. There's actually
there's not to get into this too much. But within
the community I live in, the politics of it has,
(27:49):
like national politics, gotten ugly and personal in a way
that it hasn't been as much in the past, and
it's at a moment of you ask people, hey, are
you willing to get involved in help with the community
and its management, blah blah blah, and they're like, not
(28:09):
a chance, And we're doomed. We're doomed as a country
in society if the only people willing to get involved
in politics are the climbers in the greed heads and
not to people who are honestly concerned about the country
and its children. Not to mention the adults. I'm one
(28:30):
of them, and I hope somebody is concerned about me.
But the best, most decent people in the country are afraid,
physically afraid to run for Congress for instance, first city
council or what have you. Then we're doomed. We are
really truly doomed.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Strong.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And we know that you can't comment on legal cases pending.
But as Sonny said, you know the ruling yesterday about
ice raise. I'm just curious, how are they going to
know who is who.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Read my descent?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Where?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Where?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Where can people find these descents?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Because I think.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
People always think they're not available to regular folks. Is
there a place to online online and you search online
the way you search anything. The Supreme Court's decision yesterday.
You're gonna start there, all right, So descent yesterday, Gnome,
that's one of the names in the case, the Gnome
(29:35):
Supreme Court decision. Search bar, it'll pop right up. The
Supreme Court website. Supreme Court dot gov has all our
decisions immediately when they're issues, so you don't even.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Have to wait.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They keep defunding the Partner of Education.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
How is going to be reading these descents? Wow, that's
from the view if you don't recognize the horrific voices
of what be Goldbergen whatever. One woman's name is, Joy
bay Are so whoop? Be completely unaware that you can
read these Supreme Court decisions. Well, first of all without
going to the Supreme Court website or every article you
(30:12):
read in any major newspaper has a link to them.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Always, always, Yeah, you have to try to avoid them.
And she's clearly never read one, never read part of one. Wow,
she's an ignoramus.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So when you're reading an article in the New York
Times and like it's either in bold or blue or
has a line under it, that's a hyperlink, and you
can click on it and it will take you to
more information about whatever you're reading.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I loved Sonya suddenly Orr, where can I find these decisions? Oh?
You've heard of google? Right, I mean, like, just google
anything related to it. It'll come up. What are you serious?
We if he's an ignoramus. She was charming in Sister Act,
but she's an ignora.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Married today dancing briefly? Were they actually married or just dating?
They're together for a while. I'm gonna ask chet GPT.
This is important to me.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We're Whoopi Goldberg and Ted dance and actually married or
just dating? That is one of the weirder things that's
happened in world history. I think I think they just dated.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Okay, well, you pointed out years ago. You're the first
person I heard mention this that in Hollywood, getting married
is like going steady.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It is not till death do us part at all. No,
it's just like we're exclusive for a while.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
We're down to the about the last dozen baseball games
of the year, and then we'll be into the playoffs,
and if you like baseball, that's when it gets very
very exciting.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I do. I love baseball. I haven't been watching lately
I need to get.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Back to it. Yeah, and then the NFL is in
week two. This weekend, I'll probably catch a little bit
of that. I'm craving that a little more than normal,
as this has been a very long news week.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Obviously, it has difficult and painful, and the road ahead
is as uncertain as it's ever seemed.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I'll be interested to see how the Sunday shows handle this.
There'll be a full what five days out from the assassination,
and how big a role that plays in the Sunday
talk shows and what people have to say.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It will be at least slightly interesting to see what
they leave in, what they leave out, what aspects of
the case, how they try to spin it, of course,
but I'm so exhausted by that. I mean, it's not
like I need further evidence that Kristin Welker's a lefty.
I mean, And what.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I'm always looking for is after there's something horrifying, we
tend to come together for like an hour, and then
we go right back to where we were before fairly quickly.
And I wonder if that's where we'll be on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So, yeah, Well, if any good comes of this, it's
at least well. A significant number of people have been
energized to continue Charlie Kirk's work in whatever way their
talents can take them, whether it's openly engaging in discussion,
(33:14):
whether it's realizing that conservatives can't just like grind our
teeth and grumble as the leftist crowd insists on their
way and calls everybody who disagrees with them a hater
or says speech is violence, because of course, the next
sentence is, therefore violence is justified to combat violence. We can't.
(33:36):
We can't pretend that's harmless anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Strong, Strong, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
the whole crew, to wrap up the week. There is
pressing the buttons. Mike l Aangelo, MI got watch your
final thought. Yeah, this is for Katie.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Katie.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh glad right, Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I had so many people ask where you were and
they really missed you. So welcome back. Thank you, Katie
Green are esteemed news woman is back in the saddle.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Katie.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
A final thought for us.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yes, I'm very happy to be back, and I'm also
very happy to wish my mom a happy seventy fifth
birthday today.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Cool. Yeah, and she's still smoking hot. Oh, she's incredibly youthful.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Jack thought for you're gonna call her mom hunt. I'm
glad you didn't. I didn't want that's just weird.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
She's pretty hot.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
That's a weird thing to say. That's an odd sorry,
Josh Larry, she is your girl is a hoty weird
to say. My high school er. My high schooler is
having four of his friends stay the night on Saturday night.
So I'm going to have five teenage boys ofphmores in
my house and it'll be loud, it'll smell like a
locker room, lots of laughter. I assume they'll be up
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in his room getting tattoos and smoking and vaping or something.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah. I guess my final thought is, yeah, I could
use a little break too, honestly, after wallowing in this
horror for days and days. But my final final thought
is have courage, stay on the high road, do the
right thing, and do it in the right way. You'll
never have to apologize for that ever.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Armstrong in Geeddy wrapbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
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Speaker 1 (35:41):
He Joe Getty who goes around to co workers telling
them their mother is hot. We will see you on Monday.
God bless America with a high degree of certainty.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
We have him, We got him.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
The father convinced the son this is it, and he's
there now. The suspect was taking it a custody at
ten pm local time.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
Said when people stop talking, that's when you get violence
young people.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
He wanted to help young people and he didn't deserve this.
He was truly a good person.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
He said, always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
To my friend Charlie Kirk rest now, brother, we have
the watch and I'll see you in Valalla.
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