September 14, 2021 • 37 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features Blinken's Testimony, Beating A Woman, California Recall comments, and Bone Deep Sadness.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty Show.
So I suppose we should play some actual clips from
the hearing yesterday on which a Secretary of State Blincoln
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was being I was gonna say grilled, but these grillings
are always fairly light grilled over the Afghanistan exit I
was talking earlier about. I just I don't understand why they,
Republicans and Democrats both, whenever they have these hearings, can't
do a better job of getting together and having a
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series of questions that build a case. They're all lawyers.
They know how that works, but that they don't have
any interest in it. They interesting getting in their particular
hot take or hot line for their local newspaper or
evening newscast, or their Twitter feed. That's probably more likely
in the modern world they have a sound bite that
goes out on their Twitter feed to everybody. Sure, So
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instead of building a case, really getting down to the
nitty gritty and asking the hard questions, it's like a
set of three minute trials which they never get down
to the real hard evidence. Yeah, so we got some
about that in just a second. But first I wanted
to do this, and this is a growing thing with
Joe Biden. It's kind of interesting. And I'm not even
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presenting this as a like partisan politics sort of thing.
I just think it's interesting as a human being. If
he were the CEO of General Motors, I would think
this story is interesting. He regularly makes things up, and
I can't figure out if he is knowingly lying, or
if he's out of his mind when he does this
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sort of thing, or if he has some neurological quirk
where he can't tell that he doesn't have separate files
for things that have happened and things that he's thought of,
you know, one of the mysteries of the function of
the brain. Yeah, headline in the New York Post Biden
claims first job offer from Idaho lumber company, but it's
news to them. President Biden said it a wildfire focused
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event in Idaho mondate that his first job offer came
from the local lumber and wood products business, Boise Cascade. Sorry, Boise,
there's no z in Boise Jack. Boise Cascade, it's a
lumber company, but the company says it has no record
of that being true. Biden, who's known for sharing memories
that did not happen, said he regularly mentioned the job
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offered to his senate colleague from Idaho, the late Democratic
Senator Frank Church. I used to tell Frank Church this.
I got my first job job offer where I wanted
my wife deceased wife, and I wanted to move to
Idaho because not a joke, it's such a beautiful, beautiful state.
And I interviewed for a job at Boise askkade. He added,
in the meantime, there was a war going on anyway,
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But the whole point was that I always liked kid Frank. Okay, sorry,
were you quoting Grandpa Simpson? Ah, there's war going on,
So I wore onions around my belt, which was the
fashion at the time. But boyse Cade Cascade spokeswoman Lisa
Shampy told the Post, we have no record of prend
Biden's application or of him having The New York Post
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app failed to me hold on just a second. They
more conservative the pupulication, the less usable the website. It
is true, the Washington Examiner, you need to be like
Bill Gates level hacker to read an article at the
Washington examiner so Boise Cascade. Boyse's Cascade spokesman said, we
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have no record of his application. Okay, I was thinking, well,
you know, he's talking about his deceased wife, so that's back.
That's nineteen seventy. He might not have records so that
there's nobody around that was still there at the company.
So that's not proof of anything, but it goes on.
The spokesman said, we checked our system internally and nothing
has turned up. The White House did not immediately respond
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to a request for comment. The Post was unable to
locate any prior record of Biden mentioning the company, including
news clippings archived by Nexus and fact of databases. Biden's
two thousand and seven memoir, Promises to Keep, does not
mention the company or a desire to move to Idaho.
It's unclear where the Idaho application would fit in the
president's Delaware centric legal and political career. Biden graduated from
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Syracuse University Law School in sixty eight received a medical
draft deferment from the Vietnam War during due to his
history of asthma. He was a high school star athlete,
but his asthma was too bad to go to the war,
but whatever Trump had bonespurs He then worked as a
law clerk in public defender in Delaware before he joined
the Newcastle County Council in nineteen seventy. So they keep
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dreaming of the wide open spaces of Idaho and lumber work.
His autobiography says Biden and his late wife, whom he
married nineteen sixty six one law school, moved to the
home state of Delaware and sixty eight shortly after. Anyway,
so you go through all kinds of speeches, talking to friends,
you look at his history, his career, you look at
the company, you do any factor. He's never mentioned it before,
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didn't mention it in his own book, but he says
he regularly mentioned to his friend, the senator from Idaho,
about how his family almost moved to Idaho to take
this lumber job. I regularly attended council meetings wearing a
coon skin cap to remind me of my dream to
go to Idaho. So this article is very, very long,
and again my point is not some sort of so
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vote out Biden or anything like that. I just think
it's interesting that he regularly does things like this. Now,
is it something that all politicians did back in the day.
Because back in the day he goes to Idaho and
gives a speech, nobody hears a word of it outside
of the few people that were there. Not a chance. Yeah,
but now it gets fact checked by the entire copy.
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Is it just that politicians used to make up stories
like this all the time and he just hadn't gotten
out of the habit? No, I just think he's a fabuloust.
He's like Brian Williams. He either can't discern between the
truth in a fantasy or he or he just has
to embellish stories to please the audience. It's a psychological quirk. God,
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I hope I don't do that all the time. Like
I have some story that I'm repeating that just there's
nothing true about it at all. It just popped into
my head. That's weird, and you yourself are convinced it's true.
So that's the question. Does Biden think he almost went
to work for a longer company in Idaho? Does he
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believe that? That's what I wonder? That's what I wonder. Well,
And if you were to drag him to all fifty states,
what he claimed to have almost become a surfing constructor,
in Hawaii, and and and he almost was going to
be a cowboy, he tells the fine folks of Oklahoma.
He'd bought the spurs in the hat and everything, but
then he broke his ankle fighting worn pop. Dude just
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goes state to state to state making these claims. Job's
gonna work. Kind of shrimp boat, he says in New Orleans.
But to my wife wouldn't let me. She's a tough woman.
I had the spurs and everythings to wrestle a gator
in it in Florida, because he'd trained for weeks and
weeks to become a gator wrestler. Last Joe last week,
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he said he'd gone to that synagogue in Pennsylvania after
that horrifying shooting. The synagogue put out a statement later
in the day saying President Biden never came here. Now
that wasn't that many years ago, so that by can
nailed down he never came here. Right, So when he
says stuff like that, does he believe it or is
he just being a politician. I don't know. It's it's
interesting anyway. I've made my point there, you know. I
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would say it has to do with his dementia, although
he's been doing this his entire career. Yeah, I said, hey, Ester,
what a weird quirk. Maybe top of his law school class, etc. Etc. Yeah,
there's a video of that, by the way, I just
heard the audio the other day where he gets in
some guys fay, hey look at Jack, I vote, I've
finished top of my law class and blah blah blah. No,
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everything he says, and that's a little spield. This is
back when he was young and his brain worked. Everything
he says in that little spiel is not true. It's
just interesting. Okay, completely different topic. So they had the
hearing going on yesterday with Anthony Blinkol in the Secretary
of State there and being grilled in Afghanistan. But one representative,
Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, decided to take it a different direction,
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kind of out of nowhere, and then we'll discuss afterwards.
How long was your recent interview with the FBI and
was it a deposition? I'm sorry, I don't know that
what you're wearing. Are you saying that you have not
had a recent interview with the FBI since becoming Secretary
of State. I'm not sure what you're referring to the
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State department turnover documents to the FBI related to Hunter Biden,
Barissima and or the Blue State Strategy Corporation. You will
have to uh, so you have no knowledge of this,
you have had no you don't You are you saying
you have had not not an interview since it would
not be appropriate for me to comment in a public
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form on any legal proceedings that the department. So it
goes on like that for a little while. And so
the speculation afterwards was that this representative or maybe multiple
are aware that he was questioned by the FBI about
Hunter Biden, and so you know, having him say he
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doesn't have any knowledge of it or whatever as an
opportunity to say, wait a second. Now, now we'll see
if there's another shoe to drop on that little discussion there.
I don't know if there is or not, or if
that representative is like Joe Biden, just mixed stuff up.
I have no idea, But well, I tell you what
that clip. I haven't seen the video, but that clip
certainly had the sound of a guy whose eyes got
wide and mouth got dry all of a sudden, right
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whoa your m Well, I we out he had nothing
to say. He can figure out what to say, right,
So the question is due, do some journalists or congress
people come forward and say, Okay, here's what happened. And
as you heard here, he's denying that he had that
conversation or pretending he doesn't remember or something. Yeah, So
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I don't know if that's anything or not. I don't
have any idea. Blincoln is currently being grilled by US
senators and we'll see if any news comes out of that.
You certainly hope. So. I mean, one of the biggest
debacles in foreign policy in my life, and we'll see
if anything, if anybody pays a price or has to
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resign or has to answer for it at all. I
don't know. Oh, I just saw the other day the
offensive coordinator coordinator for the Navy football team. He got
fired because the offense wasn't scoring points. Nobody involved with
the Afghanistan debacle got fired, but the offensive coordinator of
Navy got fired A good one. Yeah, unbelievable. He speaking
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of the hearing yesterday and Scott Perry that's kind of
a different topic, but I appreciated his line of questioning
and clip thirty three, how many Afghan citizens came the
United states that had not met the qualifications for special
immigrant visa. We're in the process. How many How many
did you brain you were just at dullest? How many
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did you bring? We have We will have by the
end of the month, we will have brought a total
of approximately sixty thousand that have not met the IV process.
Stand some of those will be some of those will
have been through the SIV process. Our Afghan refugees required
to be vaccinated for COVID before coming to the United
States of America. They are vaccinated in the United States
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before they are before they are resettled. Okay, that's interesting.
The demanding the number right now is probably a little
bit unfair. It's it's known at this point that a
very small percentage of the tens of thousands of air
lifted out had the special immigration visas. They're just afghanza
wan to leave and I don't blame them might have
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done the same thing. But what a mess. So, if
you have not updated your operating system on your iPhone
or your MacBook or whatever, your iPad, whatever Apple product
you have, you need to. If you haven't heard this story,
we'll have it for you next. Armstrong and the Armstrong
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and Getty Show. Okay, so it looks like maybe the
Senate is taking these grilling of Anthony Blinking a little
more seriously today. In general, the Senate is significantly more
serious than the House. I've always thought any freaking can fog,
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a mere idiot could become a House member. Generally, it's
a little harder to become a US Senator, Jack. I've
studied this my entire adult life. In the Senatorial as
clown ratio is forty five percent less than that of Congress.
And part of that is because they have six year terms.
They don't have to be quite as appealing to their
local news feedback home. They can, you know, but so theoretically.
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But here you're gonna hear a couple of eclips here.
It includes Democratic Chairman Endez from the Foreign Relations Committee Democrat,
then a couple of Republicans, including Marco Rubio, MISSUS Secretary.
The execution of the US withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed.
This committee expects to receive a full explanation of the
administration's decisions on Afghanistan since coming into office last January.
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There has to be accountability. You know, there is not
enough lipstick in the world to put on this pig
to make it look any different than what it had
actually is. I don't know how it's possible. If, in fact,
the people in charge of our foreign policy did not
see all these factors and conclude that there was a
very real possibility of a very rapid collapse, then we've
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got the wrong people making military and diplomacy decisions in
our government. There you go. You got the Republican and
Democrat chair saying that there needs to be accountability here,
and Marco Rubio saying, yeah, we need different people in there,
so we'll see if anything comes out of it today. Yeah,
I feel like the momentum for that sort of change
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was last week, the week before I concur and as
I said earlier, remembering my own brilliant point, I think
Joe Biden did a politically very clever move by Thursday,
getting us back into our camps and arguing about my
side's good, your side's bad over the whole vaccine thing,
or I think this hearing. If this hearing had happened
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before last Thursday, I think it would have felt different. Yeah,
I agree completely. I think there will be no accountability.
That would be my guests. Yeah, nobody will resign, nobody
will be fired. Yeah, which is really quite amazing. It
should be astonishing. It's not, but it should be. We
got one hundred thousand people out of there, Yeah, almost
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all of them, not the people we were supposed to
get out. So what Yeah? Yeah, So your iPhone or
your iPad or your MacBook or whatever you got from
Apple might have this Pegasus spywear in it and you
wouldn't have any idea. It is known as the Holy
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Grail of surveillance because it allows, whether it's governments or
mercenaries or criminals or whoever, to break into your device
without tipping the victim off. You don't have to click
on a link, there's nothing that shows up. They just
get in zero click remote exploit is what it's known
as Pegasus, and Apple announced yesterday that you might have
it in here. It's gotten into all the Apple products,
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and so they introduced a fix yesterday and strongly encouraged
everyone to do an emergency software update to get past
the vulnerability. Again, it's your iPhone, your iPad, your Apple Watch,
even your Apple Watch or Matt computer. Interesting, So, my
understanding is this is all launched by this Israeli security firm.
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And I don't have the article in front of me.
That's I know Pegasus is the product. Is that the
name of the company or do they have like several
letters that they're known by anyway, This is straight out
of NSO group whatever that means n S group, that's right.
So this is straight out of the department of One
man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. One man's vigilant
government protecting against imminent threats as another man's government overreach, surveillance, state, totalitarian,
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scary stuff that they claim. Look, we just make our
stuff available and responsible governments to protect their people. This
Pegasus spyware can turn on your camera and your microphone
record messages, texts, emails, and calls, even though sent via
encrypted message and apps like if you're using those, doesn't
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make any difference anything you can do on your phone.
This SPYWARER can see and even more. It's really quite amazing. Wow, surveillance, blackmail, misinformation,
the destruction of character, or be smirching your reputation, all
sorts of juicy possibilities. I'm meant to download the update
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last night. I haven't yet, but everybody should do it
right away if you miss an hour good Armstrong and
Getty dot com Armstrong and Getty, The Armstrong and Getty
Show focus is here in California. Will finally decide whether
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or not Governor Gavin you some stay in office. Newsom
seems to be searching, but you never know about these things.
He could end up winning by just a hair a
slicked back perfectly. Quaff and Democrats are putting out all
the stops for the election. Today. President Biden was in
California campaigning on Newsome's behalf. Newsome is definitely facing some
major obstacles. Number one. Joe Biden is in California campaigning
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on Newsom's behalf. Newsome was grateful for the help, though
he said he said, how can I ever repay you?
And by leaned in and said, do you know anything
about Afghanistan? Oh? Boy? So the hearing going on and
I'm watching a little bit. The Senate hearing way different
than the House hearing yesterday. This is way more in
Blincoln's face. Rand Paul just got into the issue of
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and asked, so was that drone strike? Did we get
a terrorist or did we get an innocent guy? And
Secretary of State blinkins that I don't know. Wow, that's interesting.
You know, you don't know, because the New York Times
and the Washington Post seems to have kneeled it down,
and you haven't done any sort of internal follow up
on that at all to see if we got a
terrorist or an innocent dude. Didn't think of it. We're busy,
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I forgot. I also find it troubling that that story
has just disappeared. I thought it would be a big deal,
should be a big deal. It has disappeared. No legs
whatsoever on that story. You know, among the human qualities
that are considered in religion, literature, politics, I think selective
outrage is neglected. There ought to be a commandment about it,
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because if you're outraged all the time, it has no impact.
Well no, because they're the outrage of Trump had done
this would have lasted for weeks and weeks, the outrage
of Bush had done it. Oh weeks so long? Oh yeah,
no doubt. Yeah, it's troubling anyway, there's some strong things
being said by senators, and we'll have the highlights tomorrow,
I'm sure. Hey, back briefly to this spywear that is
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on all our Apple products. First of all, if you
haven't hurried to down load the software update yet, I
wouldn't be too concerned about it, as it's probably been
bouncing around your iPhone or your iPad or your Apple
Watch since March at least. Oh boy, this spyware can
do anything that you can do on your product and more.
(20:17):
Read every text, read every email, turn off, turn on
your camera, your recording device, whatever, can send texts, can
send emails. Oh wait a minute, yeah, can it remind
me my wife's birthday is coming up? That sort of thing.
I'd be handy. Yeah, maybe what if it starts doing
things that are handy? Hello, it's really security here, Joe.
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I one to remind you your wife's birthday is coming up. Yeah,
your kid's got baseball practice tonight. Oh dang, thank you spyware.
See on your GPS, you're still at home, your kid
has practice. I'd be very handy. Well, first of all,
that practically all of us have Apple devices, and we've
got this spyware, and it's been there since March. I
think the only thing that saves us on all so
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many of these hacks and everything like that is just
the bulk. There's so many gazillions of people involved that
you know, there's not an individual somewhere and hey, I
got Jack's phone. I know what, I'll send a text
to his ex girlfriend that from years ago, and you know,
cause him some real problems. I mean, nobody can get
that granular. No, No, it's it's like the NSA. They
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could target you if they wanted to. Yeah, it's troubling though. Everybody, criminals, governments,
everybody has been in all of our business for so long.
I can understand those of you who have the idea
of just throwing up your hands saying whatever, they've got
to access to everything. Everybody has accessed everything. What am
I going to do about it? Smart tech guy once said,
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and this is years and years ago. If it is online,
it will be hacked. That seems to be the case.
I want to mention this story again just because it's
so awful and egregious. You got this dude who is
a dude up until about two and ten and pretty stout,
tough dude. As he was a Special Forces soldier in
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the Army. He was one of the manliest dudes on
the planet. Part of an elite twelve man team dispatched
to Afghanistan. In two thousand and seven, tough guy Andy
Know posted some pictures of him back when he was
a dude, giving an idea what he is. Well, at
some point he decided to fight as a woman in MMA.
He decided he was a woman. He's got that brain
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wiring thing going on where he is a woman. And fine,
But why you get to, as a guy with all
the physical advantages of a dude, get to beat the
crap out of some girl in MMA. I don't know.
But he just pulverized this girl and choked her out
until she had to submit at some point. And some
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people are hailing this as a great step forward for
trans rights. I don't quite get it. It is a
disgusting step backward for humanity. This guy has the frame
of a big strong man, and he has the bone density,
he has the bone size, the weight of his fists.
Do you know how important that is in fighting. I'm
a guy with small hands, so I'll tell you the
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weight of the bones in your fist matter in combat sports.
Muhammad Ali famously had enormous hands, which is one of
the reason he punched so hard. So you have a
guy's physical structure beating and choking a woman senseless. And
I'm supposed to think this is wonderful, and every version
of it is written something like this. The thirty year
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old McLoughlin is the first transgender athlete to openly participate
in a mixed martial arts competition, because until now it
was seen as just a nonstarter, as unthinkable for the
reasons we've enunciated. This is not hatred, this is not transphobia.
This is a question of the man's physical structure. Beating
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a woman's senseless. It's disgusting. So I didn't watch a fight.
Our executive her handsOn did and the born girl girl,
Um woman got in some pretty good shots, I guess
because she is a professional MMA fighter and really good
at it. Um. He took a couple of shots but
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survived him. To me, the fact that he's not good
at it even more makes our point. Um, the fact
that he's not particularly good at he's just he's just
a big dude who beat the crap out of a girl,
a woman who, even though she's got the skills, he's
got all the strength and everything that goes with me
in a dude. And forgive us for saying he because
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I know, I'm sure he identifies as a woman, but
to keep the story straight you almost have to. Yeah,
I'm just trying to that's a good point. I'm just
trying to make it clear home I'm talking about I'm
not denying she is a she. At this point, Hanson,
having watched it, made clear that the former FELLA Special
Forces guy um did not have very good skills whatsoever,
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was lumbering about and just using her great mass and
strength to dominate in spite of the skill level of
the gal, which is, as you point out, that really
makes the point. And the former Special Forces dude who
is now a woman MMA fighter, wore a T shirt
as his hand. Her hand was raised in victory that
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said stop transgenocide, whatever that means. And as the reason
Andy No was posting pictures is the guy is super
the woman is super down with Antifa apparently, so she's
transgenocide politically, and I just likes beating girls senseless. I
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gotta believe that somewhere around eighty five to nine of
America thinks that's that's crazy that this former dude gets
to beat up this woman. But everybody's so scared of
being anywhere near the issue or what will happen with
advertisers or Twitter or whatever that it just happens. Nobody,
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nobody says anything. I haven't heard anything from that. The
fighter who lost, I'm sure she is told to keep
her mouth shut or her sponsors and the network that
puts on Mmway and everything. They don't want to deal
with it, so they're just gonna allow former guys to
beat the crap out of women. I guess, boy, we're
a twisted society. It's it's interesting. Anyway, you got any
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comment on that text line? FO nine five KFTC. What
were we doing next? We got something good next? Oh yeah, oh,
just we're gonna recap our fabulous conversation with Larry Elder
a little while back in the show. He's running for
governor California and he brought it good stuff. Yeah. The
recall is today Armstrong and the Armstrong and Getty Show. Finally,
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I had to come to the point where I'm not
a Democrat because everybody whose systematically traumatized, terrorized, harassed, stalked,
and stolen from me during my time in California and
in Hollywood has been a Democrat. Do I agree with
him on all points? No? So what he is the
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better candidate. He has the better man that is the
actor Rose McGowan supporting Larry Elder for governor. Rose McGowan
famously at the forefront of the hashtag me too movement
after being sexually abused by Harvey Weinstein, and there was
an effort to silence her, fronted by Jennifer Sebel Newman allegedly,
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which is an interesting development. We talked to Larry Elder
last hour. It was a really interesting chat. We wanted
to hit you with a couple of the head line,
a couple of the clips there. It is give us
eighty one and regarding the woman who threw the egg
at me wearing a girl in mask. At the risk
of sounding Texas gentlemen, how do we know it was
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a mask? Yeah, I'm just saying, all right, a lighter
moment there, buddy. You got into some serious issues as well.
Eighty two parents should have school choice. The majority of
black and brown parents want school choice. Yet they pulled
that lever every two years, four years, six years for
the Democratic Party. And I've been asking them why, and
they're beginning to rethink their loyalty to the Democratic Party,
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and they are scared bleepless plunging on eighty three. And
I've been talking about these issues for a long time
like you guys have. And look, I lost money doing this.
You know, you've put your reputation online doing all of this.
I wasn't doing it for fame. I'm doing it because
this may sound really, really, really immodest. I'm doing it
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because I felt I could make a difference, and I
knew that morally, spiritually, and patriotically, I would regret it
if I didn't do it. Lost money, Yeah, well that's
a pretty good indication that you're serious. It's costing your
money personally. Absolutely. He went on to describe old great
Grandpa Joe Biden his support for blacks quote unquote, look
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at Joe Biden. For decades, he's lied about allegedly going
to black churches to strategize how to desegregate restaurants and
movie theaters in Delaware. New York Times did an investigation
years ago found he never did any of it, and
kept saying it over and over and over again. Told
that guy, if you don't know whether that you want
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to vote for me, you're Trump. You ain't really black.
I mean talk about condescending and insulting black people. Claimed
that he was trying to visit Nelson Mandela got arrested
when Nelson Mandela was behind bars during apartheid Africa. Never happened,
and this guy comes and cut the commercial. I mean
it's bizarre. It is bizarre. I mean, getting back to
that lumber story from Boise earlier and where he claimed
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he took a job offer there that whole you wouldn't
think you could claim you got arrested with Nelson Mandela.
And I think because that's a whopper of a story
and it wasn't true at all. Well, he has a
career long habit of doing that. There's something about his
brain that just doesn't work right. Maybe Cornpop hit him
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hard in the head. I don't know. All Right, one more,
Larry Eldercliff, I really like this. I thought it was
pretty eloquent. Eighty six. I'm going to break this source
of respel that the Democratic Party has had all the
black and brown voters and they are scared to death
homelessness through the roof crime, through the roof bad forest management.
We're running out of water because we haven't added to
our water infrastructure in forty and fifty years and we
(30:41):
have a rolling brown out situation because we've not adequately
dealt with our power grid. There's no front, no policy
where this man in two years has made the lies
of California is better. That reminds me. I was gonna
joke to Larry when we were talking to him that
the Democratic Party must secretly hope he gets elected, sending
(31:02):
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to campaign for Gavin. I mean,
Joe is the president. I get at the gravitas. It
shows the support of the party. But Kamala thanks for nothing? Yeah,
no kidding. Well, well, I don't know when the results
are gonna come out of the California recall, but could
be days they expect, Yeah, yeah, eventually, I don't. I
(31:24):
don't suspect it. It's gonna go the way I'd liked
it to go, But I don't know. Just you gotta
chip away. Sometimes it feels like it'll never get done
changing minds and hearts and alerting them. I mean, if
the people who haven't of California haven't figured out by
now that one party rule sucks and is making their
lives more miserable, it's hard to believe they ever will
(31:46):
wake up, But the history of these things is they
do eventually. How much time I got, Michael, we got
about two and a half, Alex in the newsroom. Can
you hear me? I can? Can you hear me? Um? Yes?
I can? Um. You watched the game last night? I
did money night football. What was the crowd like for
the Raiders? This is now, This is a second season
for the LA, for the Raiders, the whole La Oakland
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now Las Vegas Raiders. This is a second season for
being in Vegas, but the first time they've been allowed
to have people. So what was the crowd like? It
was energetic. They loved the Raiders. They have a like
a nightclub in one of the end zones, like I
mean Vegas, But that was pumping. The crowd was into it.
And even the crowd from you know where I watched
from they were having a great time seeing the crowd
(32:30):
having a great time. So when you say there's a nightclub,
I mean every stadium has a place you can stand
there and drink beer. Are you talking about people like
dancing and club music. There's a DJ, there's bottle service,
stroke lights. But are the fans people from Las Vegas
that always looked the Raiders or did the people travel
(32:50):
from Oakland in LA or what was your sense? You know,
it's hard to say. With the current NFL because it's
so widespread. I think it's a lot of traveling fans. Well,
that was the plan. That was the whole hope of
the whole having a Vegas team, is it people would
come from wherever to watch these games. Well, they're going
to host the NFL Draft too, so that's going to
bring more fans in and just kind of make it
(33:11):
the travel spot. Well, the model from the beginning was
that they would build some fan base in Las Vegas.
But the current Raiders fans can easily get to Vegas
if they want to. Plus every team when their fans
see on the schedule, New York Giants, the Miami Dolphins, whatever,
whenever their fans see on the schedule, oh my god,
we're gonna be at Las Vegas. Everybody books at trip
(33:33):
to Las Vegas and makes the football game part of it.
So the home fan base is almost immaterial given the
attractiveness in Las Vegas as a travel destination, right, And
I don't see how this would have. The concern was
always that it would have such a negative fet of
more pressure on the idea of illegal gambling or players
(33:54):
throwing games or whatever. So twentieth century word or nineteenth century.
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense at all. Now,
since you can gamble from anywhere and billions and billions
of dollars are gambled on the NFL, it does make
any sense at all. Well, I saw an article today
saying that NFL gambling is at an all time high.
(34:14):
Did it have a number on it? Not in front
of me at a moment. I always like they usually
do this around the Super Bowl, where where they'll tell
you how much legal gambling is and there'd be like
eighty million dollars legally gambled and four billion dollars illegally gambled.
Which I got a number fifty eight point two million transactions,
a one hundred and twenty six percent increase from the
(34:36):
same period last year. That's a lot of transactions. A
lot of that is the whole fantasy football thing. You
can bet on just a player of how many catches
he's gonna get, as opposed to just who wins the fine. Yeah. Yeah,
I actually spoke to somebody who's on the sideline of
an NFL game while they were talking about moving the
Raiders to Vegas and how what about gambling? And he
said to me on the phone, he said, look, I'm
(34:57):
gonna place a bet right now. I'm standing on the
sideline during a game. I can place a bet. What
the hell does it matter what town I'm in? Right? Hi,
this is a cornpop when I'm not trying to get
my Razor, Rusty and Rain Barrel. I listened to final
thoughts with Armstrong and Giddy. I don't know if I
(35:18):
believe mister pop. I don't know if I believe that's
actually cornpop. Here's your host, Joe Getty. Let's get a
final thought from everybody on the Crewe presses the buttons
in the control room. Michael Lang though, Michael Well, I
don't know how many votes Larry Elder will get or
Gavin Newsom, but I want to hear the reports on
the right ends, like how many did Bend Dover get
ip Freely. They gotta start reporting those young Alex is
(35:40):
our producer. Alex A final thought. I think my fiance
is starting to listen to the show a bit too much.
Every time I ask her something, she goes, Is that
your final thought? There you go, beautiful, Jack. How about
a final thought from you, sir, Well, if you've done
it before, you know what it feels like. If you haven't,
you probably can't imagine. But my son's my youngest first
the league baseball practice was last night and he was
(36:02):
so excited about it, and he had so much fun
in watching him do. That was one of the greatest
things that's happened to me in recent memory. Oh that's beautiful,
that's fabulous. Yeah, here's all the volunteer coaches out there.
So impressed, so impressed with the coaches and the people
that put that together. It really takes a certain kind
of person to be able to do that. My final
thought is one party rule sucks. It is awful, It
(36:24):
is destructive. It oppresses people, and if there isn't a
significant opposition that's allowed to exist, it will lead to
terrible governance all the time. Yep, no doubt about it.
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four our work day.
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be back with more right after these works up. Damn,
it's just what it is. Empty and boom goes to dynamite.
Let's go with the bone. You know what I'm in
the mood for. Bone deep sadness, saddened to the bones,
to the bone, full of melancholy, just sad that I know.
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Thanks all very much, Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty Show.
So I suppose we should play some actual clips from
the hearing yesterday on which a Secretary of State Blincoln
(00:32):
was being I was gonna say grilled, but these grillings
are always fairly light grilled over the Afghanistan exit I
was talking earlier about. I just I don't understand why they,
Republicans and Democrats both, whenever they have these hearings, can't
do a better job of getting together and having a
(00:52):
series of questions that build a case. They're all lawyers.
They know how that works, but that they don't have
any interest in it. They interesting getting in their particular
hot take or hot line for their local newspaper or
evening newscast, or their Twitter feed. That's probably more likely
in the modern world they have a sound bite that
goes out on their Twitter feed to everybody. Sure, So
(01:14):
instead of building a case, really getting down to the
nitty gritty and asking the hard questions, it's like a
set of three minute trials which they never get down
to the real hard evidence. Yeah, so we got some
about that in just a second. But first I wanted
to do this, and this is a growing thing with
Joe Biden. It's kind of interesting. And I'm not even
(01:34):
presenting this as a like partisan politics sort of thing.
I just think it's interesting as a human being. If
he were the CEO of General Motors, I would think
this story is interesting. He regularly makes things up, and
I can't figure out if he is knowingly lying, or
if he's out of his mind when he does this
(01:59):
sort of thing, or if he has some neurological quirk
where he can't tell that he doesn't have separate files
for things that have happened and things that he's thought of,
you know, one of the mysteries of the function of
the brain. Yeah, headline in the New York Post Biden
claims first job offer from Idaho lumber company, but it's
news to them. President Biden said it a wildfire focused
(02:22):
event in Idaho mondate that his first job offer came
from the local lumber and wood products business, Boise Cascade. Sorry, Boise,
there's no z in Boise Jack. Boise Cascade, it's a
lumber company, but the company says it has no record
of that being true. Biden, who's known for sharing memories
that did not happen, said he regularly mentioned the job
(02:42):
offered to his senate colleague from Idaho, the late Democratic
Senator Frank Church. I used to tell Frank Church this.
I got my first job job offer where I wanted
my wife deceased wife, and I wanted to move to
Idaho because not a joke, it's such a beautiful, beautiful state.
And I interviewed for a job at Boise askkade. He added,
in the meantime, there was a war going on anyway,
(03:04):
But the whole point was that I always liked kid Frank. Okay, sorry,
were you quoting Grandpa Simpson? Ah, there's war going on,
So I wore onions around my belt, which was the
fashion at the time. But boyse Cade Cascade spokeswoman Lisa
Shampy told the Post, we have no record of prend
Biden's application or of him having The New York Post
(03:27):
app failed to me hold on just a second. They
more conservative the pupulication, the less usable the website. It
is true, the Washington Examiner, you need to be like
Bill Gates level hacker to read an article at the
Washington examiner so Boise Cascade. Boyse's Cascade spokesman said, we
(03:47):
have no record of his application. Okay, I was thinking, well,
you know, he's talking about his deceased wife, so that's back.
That's nineteen seventy. He might not have records so that
there's nobody around that was still there at the company.
So that's not proof of anything, but it goes on.
The spokesman said, we checked our system internally and nothing
has turned up. The White House did not immediately respond
(04:08):
to a request for comment. The Post was unable to
locate any prior record of Biden mentioning the company, including
news clippings archived by Nexus and fact of databases. Biden's
two thousand and seven memoir, Promises to Keep, does not
mention the company or a desire to move to Idaho.
It's unclear where the Idaho application would fit in the
president's Delaware centric legal and political career. Biden graduated from
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Syracuse University Law School in sixty eight received a medical
draft deferment from the Vietnam War during due to his
history of asthma. He was a high school star athlete,
but his asthma was too bad to go to the war,
but whatever Trump had bonespurs He then worked as a
law clerk in public defender in Delaware before he joined
the Newcastle County Council in nineteen seventy. So they keep
(04:53):
dreaming of the wide open spaces of Idaho and lumber work.
His autobiography says Biden and his late wife, whom he
married nineteen sixty six one law school, moved to the
home state of Delaware and sixty eight shortly after. Anyway,
so you go through all kinds of speeches, talking to friends,
you look at his history, his career, you look at
the company, you do any factor. He's never mentioned it before,
(05:14):
didn't mention it in his own book, but he says
he regularly mentioned to his friend, the senator from Idaho,
about how his family almost moved to Idaho to take
this lumber job. I regularly attended council meetings wearing a
coon skin cap to remind me of my dream to
go to Idaho. So this article is very, very long,
and again my point is not some sort of so
(05:36):
vote out Biden or anything like that. I just think
it's interesting that he regularly does things like this. Now,
is it something that all politicians did back in the day.
Because back in the day he goes to Idaho and
gives a speech, nobody hears a word of it outside
of the few people that were there. Not a chance. Yeah,
but now it gets fact checked by the entire copy.
(05:57):
Is it just that politicians used to make up stories
like this all the time and he just hadn't gotten
out of the habit? No, I just think he's a fabuloust.
He's like Brian Williams. He either can't discern between the
truth in a fantasy or he or he just has
to embellish stories to please the audience. It's a psychological quirk. God,
(06:19):
I hope I don't do that all the time. Like
I have some story that I'm repeating that just there's
nothing true about it at all. It just popped into
my head. That's weird, and you yourself are convinced it's true.
So that's the question. Does Biden think he almost went
to work for a longer company in Idaho? Does he
(06:40):
believe that? That's what I wonder? That's what I wonder. Well,
And if you were to drag him to all fifty states,
what he claimed to have almost become a surfing constructor,
in Hawaii, and and and he almost was going to
be a cowboy, he tells the fine folks of Oklahoma.
He'd bought the spurs in the hat and everything, but
then he broke his ankle fighting worn pop. Dude just
(07:04):
goes state to state to state making these claims. Job's
gonna work. Kind of shrimp boat, he says in New Orleans.
But to my wife wouldn't let me. She's a tough woman.
I had the spurs and everythings to wrestle a gator
in it in Florida, because he'd trained for weeks and
weeks to become a gator wrestler. Last Joe last week,
(07:25):
he said he'd gone to that synagogue in Pennsylvania after
that horrifying shooting. The synagogue put out a statement later
in the day saying President Biden never came here. Now
that wasn't that many years ago, so that by can
nailed down he never came here. Right, So when he
says stuff like that, does he believe it or is
he just being a politician. I don't know. It's it's
interesting anyway. I've made my point there, you know. I
(07:45):
would say it has to do with his dementia, although
he's been doing this his entire career. Yeah, I said, hey, Ester,
what a weird quirk. Maybe top of his law school class, etc. Etc. Yeah,
there's a video of that, by the way, I just
heard the audio the other day where he gets in
some guys fay, hey look at Jack, I vote, I've
finished top of my law class and blah blah blah. No,
(08:05):
everything he says, and that's a little spield. This is
back when he was young and his brain worked. Everything
he says in that little spiel is not true. It's
just interesting. Okay, completely different topic. So they had the
hearing going on yesterday with Anthony Blinkol in the Secretary
of State there and being grilled in Afghanistan. But one representative,
Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, decided to take it a different direction,
(08:28):
kind of out of nowhere, and then we'll discuss afterwards.
How long was your recent interview with the FBI and
was it a deposition? I'm sorry, I don't know that
what you're wearing. Are you saying that you have not
had a recent interview with the FBI since becoming Secretary
of State. I'm not sure what you're referring to the
(08:52):
State department turnover documents to the FBI related to Hunter Biden,
Barissima and or the Blue State Strategy Corporation. You will
have to uh, so you have no knowledge of this,
you have had no you don't You are you saying
you have had not not an interview since it would
not be appropriate for me to comment in a public
(09:13):
form on any legal proceedings that the department. So it
goes on like that for a little while. And so
the speculation afterwards was that this representative or maybe multiple
are aware that he was questioned by the FBI about
Hunter Biden, and so you know, having him say he
(09:34):
doesn't have any knowledge of it or whatever as an
opportunity to say, wait a second. Now, now we'll see
if there's another shoe to drop on that little discussion there.
I don't know if there is or not, or if
that representative is like Joe Biden, just mixed stuff up.
I have no idea, But well, I tell you what
that clip. I haven't seen the video, but that clip
certainly had the sound of a guy whose eyes got
wide and mouth got dry all of a sudden, right
(09:56):
whoa your m Well, I we out he had nothing
to say. He can figure out what to say, right,
So the question is due, do some journalists or congress
people come forward and say, Okay, here's what happened. And
as you heard here, he's denying that he had that
conversation or pretending he doesn't remember or something. Yeah, So
(10:20):
I don't know if that's anything or not. I don't
have any idea. Blincoln is currently being grilled by US
senators and we'll see if any news comes out of that.
You certainly hope. So. I mean, one of the biggest
debacles in foreign policy in my life, and we'll see
if anything, if anybody pays a price or has to
(10:42):
resign or has to answer for it at all. I
don't know. Oh, I just saw the other day the
offensive coordinator coordinator for the Navy football team. He got
fired because the offense wasn't scoring points. Nobody involved with
the Afghanistan debacle got fired, but the offensive coordinator of
Navy got fired A good one. Yeah, unbelievable. He speaking
(11:04):
of the hearing yesterday and Scott Perry that's kind of
a different topic, but I appreciated his line of questioning
and clip thirty three, how many Afghan citizens came the
United states that had not met the qualifications for special
immigrant visa. We're in the process. How many How many
did you brain you were just at dullest? How many
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did you bring? We have We will have by the
end of the month, we will have brought a total
of approximately sixty thousand that have not met the IV process.
Stand some of those will be some of those will
have been through the SIV process. Our Afghan refugees required
to be vaccinated for COVID before coming to the United
States of America. They are vaccinated in the United States
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before they are before they are resettled. Okay, that's interesting.
The demanding the number right now is probably a little
bit unfair. It's it's known at this point that a
very small percentage of the tens of thousands of air
lifted out had the special immigration visas. They're just afghanza
wan to leave and I don't blame them might have
(12:09):
done the same thing. But what a mess. So, if
you have not updated your operating system on your iPhone
or your MacBook or whatever, your iPad, whatever Apple product
you have, you need to. If you haven't heard this story,
we'll have it for you next. Armstrong and the Armstrong
(12:42):
and Getty Show. Okay, so it looks like maybe the
Senate is taking these grilling of Anthony Blinking a little
more seriously today. In general, the Senate is significantly more
serious than the House. I've always thought any freaking can fog,
(13:04):
a mere idiot could become a House member. Generally, it's
a little harder to become a US Senator, Jack. I've
studied this my entire adult life. In the Senatorial as
clown ratio is forty five percent less than that of Congress.
And part of that is because they have six year terms.
They don't have to be quite as appealing to their
local news feedback home. They can, you know, but so theoretically.
(13:28):
But here you're gonna hear a couple of eclips here.
It includes Democratic Chairman Endez from the Foreign Relations Committee Democrat,
then a couple of Republicans, including Marco Rubio, MISSUS Secretary.
The execution of the US withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed.
This committee expects to receive a full explanation of the
administration's decisions on Afghanistan since coming into office last January.
(13:52):
There has to be accountability. You know, there is not
enough lipstick in the world to put on this pig
to make it look any different than what it had
actually is. I don't know how it's possible. If, in fact,
the people in charge of our foreign policy did not
see all these factors and conclude that there was a
very real possibility of a very rapid collapse, then we've
(14:13):
got the wrong people making military and diplomacy decisions in
our government. There you go. You got the Republican and
Democrat chair saying that there needs to be accountability here,
and Marco Rubio saying, yeah, we need different people in there,
so we'll see if anything comes out of it today. Yeah,
I feel like the momentum for that sort of change
(14:35):
was last week, the week before I concur and as
I said earlier, remembering my own brilliant point, I think
Joe Biden did a politically very clever move by Thursday,
getting us back into our camps and arguing about my
side's good, your side's bad over the whole vaccine thing,
or I think this hearing. If this hearing had happened
(14:56):
before last Thursday, I think it would have felt different. Yeah,
I agree completely. I think there will be no accountability.
That would be my guests. Yeah, nobody will resign, nobody
will be fired. Yeah, which is really quite amazing. It
should be astonishing. It's not, but it should be. We
got one hundred thousand people out of there, Yeah, almost
(15:18):
all of them, not the people we were supposed to
get out. So what Yeah? Yeah, So your iPhone or
your iPad or your MacBook or whatever you got from
Apple might have this Pegasus spywear in it and you
wouldn't have any idea. It is known as the Holy
(15:41):
Grail of surveillance because it allows, whether it's governments or
mercenaries or criminals or whoever, to break into your device
without tipping the victim off. You don't have to click
on a link, there's nothing that shows up. They just
get in zero click remote exploit is what it's known
as Pegasus, and Apple announced yesterday that you might have
it in here. It's gotten into all the Apple products,
(16:03):
and so they introduced a fix yesterday and strongly encouraged
everyone to do an emergency software update to get past
the vulnerability. Again, it's your iPhone, your iPad, your Apple Watch,
even your Apple Watch or Matt computer. Interesting, So, my
understanding is this is all launched by this Israeli security firm.
(16:25):
And I don't have the article in front of me.
That's I know Pegasus is the product. Is that the
name of the company or do they have like several
letters that they're known by anyway, This is straight out
of NSO group whatever that means n S group, that's right.
So this is straight out of the department of One
man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. One man's vigilant
government protecting against imminent threats as another man's government overreach, surveillance, state, totalitarian,
(16:51):
scary stuff that they claim. Look, we just make our
stuff available and responsible governments to protect their people. This
Pegasus spyware can turn on your camera and your microphone
record messages, texts, emails, and calls, even though sent via
encrypted message and apps like if you're using those, doesn't
(17:12):
make any difference anything you can do on your phone.
This SPYWARER can see and even more. It's really quite amazing. Wow, surveillance, blackmail, misinformation,
the destruction of character, or be smirching your reputation, all
sorts of juicy possibilities. I'm meant to download the update
(17:33):
last night. I haven't yet, but everybody should do it
right away if you miss an hour good Armstrong and
Getty dot com Armstrong and Getty, The Armstrong and Getty
Show focus is here in California. Will finally decide whether
(17:58):
or not Governor Gavin you some stay in office. Newsom
seems to be searching, but you never know about these things.
He could end up winning by just a hair a
slicked back perfectly. Quaff and Democrats are putting out all
the stops for the election. Today. President Biden was in
California campaigning on Newsome's behalf. Newsome is definitely facing some
major obstacles. Number one. Joe Biden is in California campaigning
(18:21):
on Newsom's behalf. Newsome was grateful for the help, though
he said he said, how can I ever repay you?
And by leaned in and said, do you know anything
about Afghanistan? Oh? Boy? So the hearing going on and
I'm watching a little bit. The Senate hearing way different
than the House hearing yesterday. This is way more in
Blincoln's face. Rand Paul just got into the issue of
(18:45):
and asked, so was that drone strike? Did we get
a terrorist or did we get an innocent guy? And
Secretary of State blinkins that I don't know. Wow, that's interesting.
You know, you don't know, because the New York Times
and the Washington Post seems to have kneeled it down,
and you haven't done any sort of internal follow up
on that at all to see if we got a
terrorist or an innocent dude. Didn't think of it. We're busy,
(19:08):
I forgot. I also find it troubling that that story
has just disappeared. I thought it would be a big deal,
should be a big deal. It has disappeared. No legs
whatsoever on that story. You know, among the human qualities
that are considered in religion, literature, politics, I think selective
outrage is neglected. There ought to be a commandment about it,
(19:33):
because if you're outraged all the time, it has no impact.
Well no, because they're the outrage of Trump had done
this would have lasted for weeks and weeks, the outrage
of Bush had done it. Oh weeks so long? Oh yeah,
no doubt. Yeah, it's troubling anyway, there's some strong things
being said by senators, and we'll have the highlights tomorrow,
I'm sure. Hey, back briefly to this spywear that is
(19:55):
on all our Apple products. First of all, if you
haven't hurried to down load the software update yet, I
wouldn't be too concerned about it, as it's probably been
bouncing around your iPhone or your iPad or your Apple
Watch since March at least. Oh boy, this spyware can
do anything that you can do on your product and more.
(20:17):
Read every text, read every email, turn off, turn on
your camera, your recording device, whatever, can send texts, can
send emails. Oh wait a minute, yeah, can it remind
me my wife's birthday is coming up? That sort of thing.
I'd be handy. Yeah, maybe what if it starts doing
things that are handy? Hello, it's really security here, Joe.
(20:38):
I one to remind you your wife's birthday is coming up. Yeah,
your kid's got baseball practice tonight. Oh dang, thank you spyware.
See on your GPS, you're still at home, your kid
has practice. I'd be very handy. Well, first of all,
that practically all of us have Apple devices, and we've
got this spyware, and it's been there since March. I
think the only thing that saves us on all so
(20:58):
many of these hacks and everything like that is just
the bulk. There's so many gazillions of people involved that
you know, there's not an individual somewhere and hey, I
got Jack's phone. I know what, I'll send a text
to his ex girlfriend that from years ago, and you know,
cause him some real problems. I mean, nobody can get
that granular. No, No, it's it's like the NSA. They
(21:20):
could target you if they wanted to. Yeah, it's troubling though. Everybody, criminals, governments,
everybody has been in all of our business for so long.
I can understand those of you who have the idea
of just throwing up your hands saying whatever, they've got
to access to everything. Everybody has accessed everything. What am
I going to do about it? Smart tech guy once said,
(21:42):
and this is years and years ago. If it is online,
it will be hacked. That seems to be the case.
I want to mention this story again just because it's
so awful and egregious. You got this dude who is
a dude up until about two and ten and pretty stout,
tough dude. As he was a Special Forces soldier in
(22:05):
the Army. He was one of the manliest dudes on
the planet. Part of an elite twelve man team dispatched
to Afghanistan. In two thousand and seven, tough guy Andy
Know posted some pictures of him back when he was
a dude, giving an idea what he is. Well, at
some point he decided to fight as a woman in MMA.
He decided he was a woman. He's got that brain
(22:28):
wiring thing going on where he is a woman. And fine,
But why you get to, as a guy with all
the physical advantages of a dude, get to beat the
crap out of some girl in MMA. I don't know.
But he just pulverized this girl and choked her out
until she had to submit at some point. And some
(22:49):
people are hailing this as a great step forward for
trans rights. I don't quite get it. It is a
disgusting step backward for humanity. This guy has the frame
of a big strong man, and he has the bone density,
he has the bone size, the weight of his fists.
Do you know how important that is in fighting. I'm
a guy with small hands, so I'll tell you the
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weight of the bones in your fist matter in combat sports.
Muhammad Ali famously had enormous hands, which is one of
the reason he punched so hard. So you have a
guy's physical structure beating and choking a woman senseless. And
I'm supposed to think this is wonderful, and every version
of it is written something like this. The thirty year
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old McLoughlin is the first transgender athlete to openly participate
in a mixed martial arts competition, because until now it
was seen as just a nonstarter, as unthinkable for the
reasons we've enunciated. This is not hatred, this is not transphobia.
This is a question of the man's physical structure. Beating
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a woman's senseless. It's disgusting. So I didn't watch a fight.
Our executive her handsOn did and the born girl girl,
Um woman got in some pretty good shots, I guess
because she is a professional MMA fighter and really good
at it. Um. He took a couple of shots but
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survived him. To me, the fact that he's not good
at it even more makes our point. Um, the fact
that he's not particularly good at he's just he's just
a big dude who beat the crap out of a girl,
a woman who, even though she's got the skills, he's
got all the strength and everything that goes with me
in a dude. And forgive us for saying he because
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I know, I'm sure he identifies as a woman, but
to keep the story straight you almost have to. Yeah,
I'm just trying to that's a good point. I'm just
trying to make it clear home I'm talking about I'm
not denying she is a she. At this point, Hanson,
having watched it, made clear that the former FELLA Special
Forces guy um did not have very good skills whatsoever,
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was lumbering about and just using her great mass and
strength to dominate in spite of the skill level of
the gal, which is, as you point out, that really
makes the point. And the former Special Forces dude who
is now a woman MMA fighter, wore a T shirt
as his hand. Her hand was raised in victory that
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said stop transgenocide, whatever that means. And as the reason
Andy No was posting pictures is the guy is super
the woman is super down with Antifa apparently, so she's
transgenocide politically, and I just likes beating girls senseless. I
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gotta believe that somewhere around eighty five to nine of
America thinks that's that's crazy that this former dude gets
to beat up this woman. But everybody's so scared of
being anywhere near the issue or what will happen with
advertisers or Twitter or whatever that it just happens. Nobody,
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nobody says anything. I haven't heard anything from that. The
fighter who lost, I'm sure she is told to keep
her mouth shut or her sponsors and the network that
puts on Mmway and everything. They don't want to deal
with it, so they're just gonna allow former guys to
beat the crap out of women. I guess, boy, we're
a twisted society. It's it's interesting. Anyway, you got any
(26:23):
comment on that text line? FO nine five KFTC. What
were we doing next? We got something good next? Oh yeah, oh,
just we're gonna recap our fabulous conversation with Larry Elder
a little while back in the show. He's running for
governor California and he brought it good stuff. Yeah. The
recall is today Armstrong and the Armstrong and Getty Show. Finally,
(27:02):
I had to come to the point where I'm not
a Democrat because everybody whose systematically traumatized, terrorized, harassed, stalked,
and stolen from me during my time in California and
in Hollywood has been a Democrat. Do I agree with
him on all points? No? So what he is the
(27:26):
better candidate. He has the better man that is the
actor Rose McGowan supporting Larry Elder for governor. Rose McGowan
famously at the forefront of the hashtag me too movement
after being sexually abused by Harvey Weinstein, and there was
an effort to silence her, fronted by Jennifer Sebel Newman allegedly,
(27:50):
which is an interesting development. We talked to Larry Elder
last hour. It was a really interesting chat. We wanted
to hit you with a couple of the head line,
a couple of the clips there. It is give us
eighty one and regarding the woman who threw the egg
at me wearing a girl in mask. At the risk
of sounding Texas gentlemen, how do we know it was
(28:11):
a mask? Yeah, I'm just saying, all right, a lighter
moment there, buddy. You got into some serious issues as well.
Eighty two parents should have school choice. The majority of
black and brown parents want school choice. Yet they pulled
that lever every two years, four years, six years for
the Democratic Party. And I've been asking them why, and
they're beginning to rethink their loyalty to the Democratic Party,
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and they are scared bleepless plunging on eighty three. And
I've been talking about these issues for a long time
like you guys have. And look, I lost money doing this.
You know, you've put your reputation online doing all of this.
I wasn't doing it for fame. I'm doing it because
this may sound really, really, really immodest. I'm doing it
(28:54):
because I felt I could make a difference, and I
knew that morally, spiritually, and patriotically, I would regret it
if I didn't do it. Lost money, Yeah, well that's
a pretty good indication that you're serious. It's costing your
money personally. Absolutely. He went on to describe old great
Grandpa Joe Biden his support for blacks quote unquote, look
(29:16):
at Joe Biden. For decades, he's lied about allegedly going
to black churches to strategize how to desegregate restaurants and
movie theaters in Delaware. New York Times did an investigation
years ago found he never did any of it, and
kept saying it over and over and over again. Told
that guy, if you don't know whether that you want
(29:36):
to vote for me, you're Trump. You ain't really black.
I mean talk about condescending and insulting black people. Claimed
that he was trying to visit Nelson Mandela got arrested
when Nelson Mandela was behind bars during apartheid Africa. Never happened,
and this guy comes and cut the commercial. I mean
it's bizarre. It is bizarre. I mean, getting back to
that lumber story from Boise earlier and where he claimed
(29:57):
he took a job offer there that whole you wouldn't
think you could claim you got arrested with Nelson Mandela.
And I think because that's a whopper of a story
and it wasn't true at all. Well, he has a
career long habit of doing that. There's something about his
brain that just doesn't work right. Maybe Cornpop hit him
(30:18):
hard in the head. I don't know. All Right, one more,
Larry Eldercliff, I really like this. I thought it was
pretty eloquent. Eighty six. I'm going to break this source
of respel that the Democratic Party has had all the
black and brown voters and they are scared to death
homelessness through the roof crime, through the roof bad forest management.
We're running out of water because we haven't added to
our water infrastructure in forty and fifty years and we
(30:41):
have a rolling brown out situation because we've not adequately
dealt with our power grid. There's no front, no policy
where this man in two years has made the lies
of California is better. That reminds me. I was gonna
joke to Larry when we were talking to him that
the Democratic Party must secretly hope he gets elected, sending
(31:02):
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to campaign for Gavin. I mean,
Joe is the president. I get at the gravitas. It
shows the support of the party. But Kamala thanks for nothing? Yeah,
no kidding. Well, well, I don't know when the results
are gonna come out of the California recall, but could
be days they expect, Yeah, yeah, eventually, I don't. I
(31:24):
don't suspect it. It's gonna go the way I'd liked
it to go, But I don't know. Just you gotta
chip away. Sometimes it feels like it'll never get done
changing minds and hearts and alerting them. I mean, if
the people who haven't of California haven't figured out by
now that one party rule sucks and is making their
lives more miserable, it's hard to believe they ever will
(31:46):
wake up, But the history of these things is they
do eventually. How much time I got, Michael, we got
about two and a half, Alex in the newsroom. Can
you hear me? I can? Can you hear me? Um? Yes?
I can? Um. You watched the game last night? I
did money night football. What was the crowd like for
the Raiders? This is now, This is a second season
for the LA, for the Raiders, the whole La Oakland
(32:09):
now Las Vegas Raiders. This is a second season for
being in Vegas, but the first time they've been allowed
to have people. So what was the crowd like? It
was energetic. They loved the Raiders. They have a like
a nightclub in one of the end zones, like I
mean Vegas, But that was pumping. The crowd was into it.
And even the crowd from you know where I watched
from they were having a great time seeing the crowd
(32:30):
having a great time. So when you say there's a nightclub,
I mean every stadium has a place you can stand
there and drink beer. Are you talking about people like
dancing and club music. There's a DJ, there's bottle service,
stroke lights. But are the fans people from Las Vegas
that always looked the Raiders or did the people travel
(32:50):
from Oakland in LA or what was your sense? You know,
it's hard to say. With the current NFL because it's
so widespread. I think it's a lot of traveling fans. Well,
that was the plan. That was the whole hope of
the whole having a Vegas team, is it people would
come from wherever to watch these games. Well, they're going
to host the NFL Draft too, so that's going to
bring more fans in and just kind of make it
(33:11):
the travel spot. Well, the model from the beginning was
that they would build some fan base in Las Vegas.
But the current Raiders fans can easily get to Vegas
if they want to. Plus every team when their fans
see on the schedule, New York Giants, the Miami Dolphins, whatever,
whenever their fans see on the schedule, oh my god,
we're gonna be at Las Vegas. Everybody books at trip
(33:33):
to Las Vegas and makes the football game part of it.
So the home fan base is almost immaterial given the
attractiveness in Las Vegas as a travel destination, right, And
I don't see how this would have. The concern was
always that it would have such a negative fet of
more pressure on the idea of illegal gambling or players
(33:54):
throwing games or whatever. So twentieth century word or nineteenth century.
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense at all. Now,
since you can gamble from anywhere and billions and billions
of dollars are gambled on the NFL, it does make
any sense at all. Well, I saw an article today
saying that NFL gambling is at an all time high.
(34:14):
Did it have a number on it? Not in front
of me at a moment. I always like they usually
do this around the Super Bowl, where where they'll tell
you how much legal gambling is and there'd be like
eighty million dollars legally gambled and four billion dollars illegally gambled.
Which I got a number fifty eight point two million transactions,
a one hundred and twenty six percent increase from the
(34:36):
same period last year. That's a lot of transactions. A
lot of that is the whole fantasy football thing. You
can bet on just a player of how many catches
he's gonna get, as opposed to just who wins the fine. Yeah. Yeah,
I actually spoke to somebody who's on the sideline of
an NFL game while they were talking about moving the
Raiders to Vegas and how what about gambling? And he
said to me on the phone, he said, look, I'm
(34:57):
gonna place a bet right now. I'm standing on the
sideline during a game. I can place a bet. What
the hell does it matter what town I'm in? Right? Hi,
this is a cornpop when I'm not trying to get
my Razor, Rusty and Rain Barrel. I listened to final
thoughts with Armstrong and Giddy. I don't know if I
(35:18):
believe mister pop. I don't know if I believe that's
actually cornpop. Here's your host, Joe Getty. Let's get a
final thought from everybody on the Crewe presses the buttons
in the control room. Michael Lang though, Michael Well, I
don't know how many votes Larry Elder will get or
Gavin Newsom, but I want to hear the reports on
the right ends, like how many did Bend Dover get
ip Freely. They gotta start reporting those young Alex is
(35:40):
our producer. Alex A final thought. I think my fiance
is starting to listen to the show a bit too much.
Every time I ask her something, she goes, Is that
your final thought? There you go, beautiful, Jack. How about
a final thought from you, sir, Well, if you've done
it before, you know what it feels like. If you haven't,
you probably can't imagine. But my son's my youngest first
the league baseball practice was last night and he was
(36:02):
so excited about it, and he had so much fun
in watching him do. That was one of the greatest
things that's happened to me in recent memory. Oh that's beautiful,
that's fabulous. Yeah, here's all the volunteer coaches out there.
So impressed, so impressed with the coaches and the people
that put that together. It really takes a certain kind
of person to be able to do that. My final
thought is one party rule sucks. It is awful, It
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is destructive. It oppresses people, and if there isn't a
significant opposition that's allowed to exist, it will lead to
terrible governance all the time. Yep, no doubt about it.
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four our work day.
So many people that think so a little time. If
you miss a chunk of the show, all you have
to do is go to your favorite podcast platform downloaded.
(36:45):
Armstrong and Getty on demand. If you need a link,
go to Armstrong and Getty dot com. You can email
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send it along mailbag at Armstrong and Geity dot com.
While you're there, pick up a T shirt or something.
See tomorrow. God Bless America. Listen up jack Wagon, worst
episode ever Less, hug and love each other and we'll
(37:05):
be back with more right after these works up. Damn,
it's just what it is. Empty and boom goes to dynamite.
Let's go with the bone. You know what I'm in
the mood for. Bone deep sadness, saddened to the bones,
to the bone, full of melancholy, just sad that I know.
(37:27):
Thanks all very much, Armstrong and Getty
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