April 25, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Pundits face-off on anti-Israel protests...
- Inflation news...
- Kamala Harris Secret Service staff in a brawl--with one another...
- Final Thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Say it's the main goal with can I stop?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I think the goal is just showing our support for
Palestine and demanding that NYU stops.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I honestly don't know all what NYU is doing.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is there something that NYU's doing?
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I really don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm pretty sure there.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Do you know what ny is doing out?
Speaker 7 (00:31):
I'm protesting here so.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Much more educated.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
This is not contained quickly, and if these threats and
intimidation are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for
the National Guard. We have to bring order to these campuses.
We cannot allow this to happen around the country. We
are better than this. We're better than this, and I'll
ask the President to do that, and I'll tell them
that very same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
NON agree.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
We need to bring order these campuses in quickly or
it's going to get out of hand. It's going to
get worse, it's going to get more violent. But that
one girl literally turned to her friend and said, do
you know why we're protesting here? And she said no,
I wish I was more educated.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
My favorite part was, uh, what is NYU doing about what?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Like? So she's not even paying any attention to You're
right about what? So those two little use the fact
that there are police and major news organizations everywhere, I
mean that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, and people channing we are a Hamas and down
with the Jews and Israel should be wiped out and
the rest of it. So it's it's funny. There are
multiple layers of this. Those two little twits are just funny,
but they're tools of much more organized, much more ugly
organizations that are trying to wipe Israel off the map.
They're anti Semites, they're Islamist supremacists, pro Hamas, whatever and
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or the blanket over all of them is there neo Marxists.
They want to tear the system down with whatever wedge
they could. Fine. So, while those girls are hilarious, the
protests themselves are not a couple of really interesting and
revealing perspectives from some interesting sources that we wanted to
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play for you. Why don't we start with Scott Galloway,
who's a professor at NYU. He's a man of the
Jewish faith. We'll play seventy five and then we'll call
for seventy six.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Michael, and I do think there is a double standard.
I had walked by NYU last night. What I saw
was peaceful protests. But I can tell you if I
went into the NYU square with a white hood on
and said lynch the blacks or burn the gays, my
idea would be shut off by that night, and I
would never work in academia again. There would be no
need for the words context or nuance. I wouldn't be
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protected by terms like First Amendment or free speech. I
would be out of the world of academia. It seems
like we have a double standard when it comes to
hate speech, as long as it's against Jews.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And so this guy is an academic, he knows what's
going on, and he goes on and explains it somewhat.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
I think it's complicated. I think one, young people have
a healthy gag reflex from what people our age think, and.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I think that's healthy.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Two.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
I don't think Israel has straped itself in glory over
the last twenty or thirty years. They've shifted from being
kind of a David to the goliath. I also think
that incorrectly students on campus, conflate the civil rights movement
with what is going on in Palestine, and have digressed, unfortunately,
because of an orthodoxy promoted by me and my colleagues
that there are oppressors and oppressed and the easiest way
to identify oppressors is how white and how rich they are,
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fairly or unfairly. Israel has seen as ground zero for
whiteness and how wealthy they are. And then, what might
sound paranoid, that is mean I'm wrong. I think we
are being manipulated, specifically youth to their frame for the
world is TikTok. And if you look at TikTok, there
are fifty two videos that are pro homoster pro Palestinian
for everyone served on Israel. I think that we are
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being manipulated. I think Americans are easier fully convinced they've
been fooled with a CCP, I'd be doing exactly the
same thing. I think social media is selling division and polarization.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I mean, we work on a radio station where we
run ads. In the theory which has been born out
over time is that if you run a whole bunch
of ads for your Ford dealership, you will sell more
Fords than the other brand or whatever. Yeah, I mean,
so it's just as simple as that. If there are
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fifty two pro home As messages for every one pro
Israel message on TikTok that they spend all day long,
the messaging works.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, thatsizing works. It's absolutely the work of the communist Chinese. Now,
maybe the kids are more sympathetic so they like those
videos more, that's probably part of it. But the Chinese
are absolutely putting their thumb on the scale. I can't believe.
I was in my fifties before I came across the concept,
and I think Twain may get credit, but I'll bet
it's ancient wisdom that it's much easier to fool someone
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than to convince them they've been fooled, which has to
do with pride, I think in large measure.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
But well, it's also that thing that they've discovered where
you believe the first thing you hear, and then even
when you're told the truth, you can't let go of it.
I've had that happen before, and it's disturbing to me.
Why do I still think this about somebody or something? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Because I heard that originally.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, the very people who gave you that piece of
information can come back and say, I'm so sorry we
were wrong. We got it exactly wrong. This is the truth. No,
you'll stick with the first thing, at least over time.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
For some evolutionary reason. We're built that way. It's very strange.
One kind of sidebar thing he said there, which I
suppose makes sense for him since he's an academic and
he's got that brain, the idea that it's good and
healthy that young people are automatically repulsed about what our
generation says or thinks. Yeah, well it seems to be
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human name, but I don't think it's good. Yeah, you're
trying a bit hard there, sir, but with all due respect,
So this is long ish, but to me, it's amazing.
This is Jonah Goldberg on CNN with one of the
most obnoxious people on the planet.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Was that prejudicial? Your honor Lulu Garcia Navarro, who's a
far left woke type with the New York Times. Listen
to this argument about the nature of the protests and
what the college students mean and what they're representing. And
you tell me who's using cogent adult arguments and who
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is hiding behind woke terminology and slogans in just bull ass.
I'd like to use the real term seventy two Michael.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
I think if a lot of anti Semitic stuff going
on out there, But when you're saying you're Hamas, when
you're praising Hamas, when you're praising his Balla, when you're
saying you're going to globalize the into fable.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Excuse me, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But everyone, I'm gonna finish.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
My point means your pro terrorist, if you are celebrating,
come off your protest.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You're not disputing that what I'm saying the point. Yeah,
But what I'm saying is there are selective quotes that
are being taken, often not from students themselves. In the
encampments in Colombia. They have said this, there are Jewish
students who are actually part of this, and they are
being used to wait, let me, let me do That's true,
But I just would say, more broadly, when people are
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calling for action, like Representative gott Haimer, what are they
actually calling for. You've already had police go off.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
If there are if the if the people in those encampments,
whether they're Columbia students or not, if the university can
clear them from that encampment, then that is something the
university can do.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But they've already put let me let me just say
how we got here. The Columbia chose to bring police
to clear the encampment. That inflamed the situation to where
now you're seeing these protests spread to Yale, to New
York University and beyond. I am many people have said
that the action of bringing police into a group of
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people who are already feeling that they are sort of
representative of the oppressed, who are inspired by what happened
with George Floyd in twenty twenty and seeing what is
happening in Gaza, that that has only really acted as
a catalyst here. And so I wonder at the wisdom
of bringing in the armed police into what is essentially
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a university campus. You know, I question the.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
Wisdom of having a double standard that says it's okay
to shout hateful terror, pro terrorist things at Jews, but
you can't.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You have to have kept total endorsing that a lot.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Of people are endorsing, that a lot of people aren't
condemning it. Yeah, a lot of people aren't condemning it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I look I agree with you.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Universities and a democratic party in the left have a
huge problem trying to figure out how to cut this
Gordian knot that they've created for themselves. But that doesn't
mean I have to sort of condone or not call out.
I spent I got a lot of scars from calling
out horrible statements on the right of the last ten year.
I call it anti Semitism, a bigger chick all the time.
On the right, of course, I don't hear a lot
of that from sort of squad adjacent type people calling
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out this stuff on the left.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, absolutely not. It was interesting, Oh, Lulu, there was
making an argument that is an example of the decision
dilemma we've talked about before that Radicals was Saulolensky and
then Cloward Piven. They all recommended put your opponent in
a decision dilemma, and she illustrated that by saying, well,
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a lot of people think, what do you think, baby
speak for yourself. A lot of people think that it
was very provocative to bring in the police, the armed police,
to clear the campus. Well, no, no, these people are
violating the rules. They are making it impossible to operate
through the university, and you're trying to paint people who
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stand up to them as being the provocateurs. The people
you escalated.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
And they were asked to leave many many times, and
then he wouldn't. So what do you do at that
point other than bring in the armed police, which is
a funny term.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So one more perspective. Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, who's really starting to impress me, I
said earlier, and I will repeat that he's starting to
strike me as a Trumanesque character. He seems very unassuming,
kind of in every guy, not big, showy, flashy, but
he seems to have a steel spine in a lot
of ways, or is at least developing one. We'll see.
(10:27):
It's early. But he spoke at the the Columbia campus.
It was Columbia, all right, and very persuasively that the
Jewish students will not stand alone, and he was being heckled,
and he interrupted his own speech and said, enjoy your
free speech to the hecklers, and of all people, Joe
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Scarborough had some thoughts on that and related eighty six
about you.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Sevent of Americans and close to one hundred percent of
parents with kids on college campuses, agree with the speaker.
The line that speaker Johnson said that should have cut
through that crowd was enjoy your free speech. Enjoy your
freedom of speech, you know, because you don't.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Get that with Hamas. You never got that with AMAS.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
If you disagreed with AMAS, that take you to the
top of the building and push you off, or just
put a bullet in the back of your.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Head and he goes on.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
You know, these people.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Who call themselves progressive are actually shutting down college campuses
in the name of a terrorist group. That kills people
who are LGBTQ, that kills people who support free speech,
that kills people who talk about peace.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
So you get so many different layers of kind of
people in these protests. You've got at the very bottom rung,
the girls we heard from earlier, who don't even know
why they're.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
There, more educated.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You got the.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
People the very very copper or Marxists and they don't
care about Hamas or the Jews, or they just care
about Marxism and overthrowing the system. Then you've got a
whole bunch of things in between two people that are
actually pro homos.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, and there's a self righteousness the zeal of the
revolutionary that a lot of people have written about through
the ages, where you become so caught up in the
righteousness of your cause and your hatred of the so
called evil doers, that you believe absolutely anything you do
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is excusable and that everything they do is punishable by death,
that you have the right to kill them. Now, a
lot of these students are not looking to kill anybody,
some of them are, some of them will. There will
be violence, absolutely, but you can't underestimate when some people
get crazed with that sort of mob anger, what they're capable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Of, right.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
I was thinking, I'm going to tell my kids, or
I would tell any young people when you're if you're
going to get into this whole protest world, pay attention
to what the loudest people are saying, because you're getting
associated with it, whether you believe that or not. So
you might want to, rather than say why are we here,
listen to what they're chanting and like google it figure
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out what it means, because you're part of saying that,
whether you're saying it out loud or not, if you're
there supporting that protest.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And I wonder if we could introduce into college college
age psychology one oh one. It'd be like you'd only
have to meet three four times. It'd be a one
credit class. Or you explain, all right, look, you're between
eighteen and twenty five whatever. You have a couple of
things going on in your mind and your soul. Number One,
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you have a strong need for belonging. Okay, that's fine,
it's healthy. We all have it, and good for you.
Nobody's making funny.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
He's strong need for bo there's also a strong need
for booty. What you'll discuss in subsequent classes.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And you want very much to feel like an adult
and that you're doing something important. Beware because that need
to belong and the need to do something important will
draw you into things you should not be doing.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Some interesting economic news out we should talk about, and
other things to hear.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yourself more educated, arm strong, and getty.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
The Dow tumbled seven hundred points at the beginning of
the day because of the economic information that came out.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
It is now down about five hundred points.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
But a mix of slowing growth firm inflation worries investors
is the headline in the Wall Street Journal. So the
quarterly growth was one point six percent, that's not a
lot and was below what they even expected. We were
trying to slow down the economy. That's why they're raising
interest rates, because that's how you cut off inflation.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But that's not the slowing of the economy, which is
bad news. Would be good news because they had lower
rates and then that's good news.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
But there is inflation news also that was bad. So
I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But this is an excuse for me to use my
favorite stock marker term. The Dow found a firm bottom
down five hundred points.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Well a sell or buy or hold? I'm a hold guy.
But tomorrow the inflation news comes out. So Thursday data
suggests that a widely watched inflation reading due tomorrow could
be much worse than expected. So if that inflation number
comes out tomorrow and it is worse than expected, so
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we grew at one point six percent, inflation is back
to be in a thing.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Yeah, well, we'll talk about it tomorrow when it happens.
I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
As we've been saying for quite some time, unprecedented times
unprecedented equals unprecedented. You can't pump out this many trillions
of dollars and close down the economy for like a
year and a half. And you can't just do all
of these things and then and then go back to
normal anytime soon. Who knows how long it'll take for
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the housing market, for the job market, for prices to
all settle into something like a normal rhythm.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Who knows both parties Trump and Biden doing things that
ten years ago, even just ten years ago, would have
been seen as so wildly irresponsible.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
No government should do them anyway. Here's my favorite thing
we got coming up. We mentioned earlier. One of the
Secret Service agents assigned to Kamala har has gotten a
fight with their boss, and the details are coming out
and they're great, and it includes the term diversity equity
(17:02):
inclusion on how it may have happened. According to some
of the other agents who were talking to reporters.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I had assumed that the one agent was just humiliated
having to guard a lunkhead that they snapped. They felt
like they had wasted their careers.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Stay tuned, That's what Armstrong and Geeddy. I'm looking up
at the TV.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan are on The Comedians.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
They're playing locally somewhere.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Actually thought maybe I'd go see the show, but they're
promoting the new movie The Jerry Seinfeld Creation Unfrosted about
a I'm guessing hilarious take on the creation of the
pop tart in the sixties is what the movie's about.
You know, Jerry Seinfeld's always been obsessed with pop tarts.
I'll bet that's pretty funny. Well, we knew what would
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happen eventually, the cackle drove someone crazy. Kamala Harris's cackle
apparently has driven someone crazy. I'll hit you with the
headline here before we get into this fairly long, but
I think worth it description of what has happened here excellent.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
A Secret Service agent.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Tasked with guarding Kamala Harris started brawling with other agents
and began her confrontation by taking an agent's phone, throwing
menstrual pads, and telling them we're all going to burn
in hell, before she started punching fellow agents.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh that's going to be a long day.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Oh boy, this is a good story. I'm excited to
tell it.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
And then it's involving a physical attack by a female
Secret Service agent who is tasked with protecting Kamala Harrison. Again,
probably driven crazy by the cackle or just the inane conversation.
I mean, can you imagine being subjected to that crap
all day long? It is time for us to do
what we have been doing in that time as every day.
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Oh real clear politics, and they quote anonymously some agents
later says it's raising questions about whether the agency had
thoroughly vetitor during the hiring process and the ongoing push
to increase the numbers of women in the service through
DEI brought in somebody that wasn't ready for this job anyway.
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This particular Secret Service agent was removed from her duties
Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and
other agents trying to subduer. According to the agency spokesman,
so this is from the own Secret Service saying that
this is what happened, attacked or boss, which is pretty exciting.
Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent
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who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herzig HRCZEG. The
altercation occurred at approximately lay nine am at Joint Base
and Rus, the home of Air Force one and Air
Force two.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now I can see going completely berserk at four or
five o'clock in the afternoon, but man, if you start
the day with going berserki, and it's going to be
a long day.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
You're right, Nine am is pretty early to completely lose
it and start punching your boss. That's the sort of
thing that happens at five point thirty. I need you
to stay late, Oh yeah, said yay?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Why ya yatta?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Herzigs showed up at the terminal and began acting erradically,
grabbing another senior agent's personal phone and deleting applications on it.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
According to familiar with them, what are you doing deleting
your apps?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Why? Uh? The other agent, a shift leader, was able
to recover his phone and then acted as if nothing
had happened, but Herzig's bizarre behavior didn't stop. She then
began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items,
including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling that he would
need them, that he would need them later to save
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another agent, and telling your peers that they were going
to burn in hell and needed to listen to God.
Herzig also screamed at the special Agent in charge uh
female officers in the Vice President's detailer, claiming they would
show up and help her and allow her to continue
working At that point, the other agents of the scene
believed she was suffering from some sort of mental breakdown,
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and she was told that she needed to be relieved
from her assignment. That's when she snapped entirely. One source recounted.
So it's when they told her that they were going
to relieve her of her duty, that she thought they
thought she was struggling today, That's when she snapped entirely.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
That's in quotes. Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Herzig then her pre snap activities were pretty snappy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
If you hear me talking.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They were on the snappy end of things.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Sure, wow, so oh, I haven't snapped yet, There's more
to come.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Herzig then chest bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled
him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herzig
were especially concerned because she's still had her gun in
the holster. You gotta remember, these people are armed. If
somebody's going completely berzerko saying crazyess and punching people with
a gun, yeah, you gotta be concerned that that's next.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You got to disarm them immediately.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from
her coffter, then removed her from the terminal The agent
was immediately removed from their assignment.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Washing examiner first reported the incident.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
A US Secret Service special agent supporting the Vice president's departure.
Uh blah blah blah blah bah said the ba the
distressing blah blah blah. The agents on the seat then
called medical personnel to remove her from the terminal. Just
then they started calling it a medical matter, which it
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might actually be.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
She may have just gone nuts.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Following the incident's Secret Service agents and officers are privately
questioning the hiring process and where they the agency had
adequately screened her background, Some wondering to reporters whether they
hire was part of a diversity, equity and inclusion push
in response to years of staff shortages that have required
the agency. The lords want strict employment standards and physical
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performance standards to get fulf we get more females on
the staff.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Didn't earn it. Dismantle all DEI programs everywhere they exist
in government, education and private enterprise.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Wow, at the level of your protecting the president and
vice president at a particularly vall little time in American history,
and you got somebody there who clearly is not fit
to be doing that job.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
When I think about agents going crazy. One has to
think of agents going crazy and the craziness of agents.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
So what's the throwing the tampons at a guy and
saying you're going to need these later.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That sounds like a at that somebody is going to
be bleeding. Oh, I mean because those are fameless, famously
used for gunshots, like the the Russian soldiers in Ukraine
were so badly equipped they're trying to get tampons to
put in the wounds of people were shot. You could
be right. I thought it was just a you're a
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chick wow sort of entirely different interpretation. Or would we
have to tip you Michael? Do you have any more
Kamela han Andy?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We must together work together to see where we are,
where we are headed, where we are going, and our
vision for where we should be.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
See I'd crack after a couple of months of that.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah you hear that twice.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You're hiding behind the curtains, punching your boss, throwing tampons.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Now with Mike on, I was just going to say,
I've had a couple of instances with guys when they've
started acting like big babies, and I have pulled out
a tampon and asked them if they needed it.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Of course, yeah, that's very course. Oh yeah, you're gonna
need this later.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Hey, by the bye. A fired minor league umpire isssued
Major League Baseball, claiming he was sexually harassed by a
female umpire and discriminated against because he is male. For
one thing, Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
It goes into this had a big DEI program where
they're like, hey, we need women umpires and people of
color and whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And if if you got four guys to choose from,
and two of them are clearly superior, but there's also
a woman in there, you got to promote the woman,
which is absolutely illegal discrimination. And so this guy is suing,
and I suspect very strongly unless MLB, which has a
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hell of a lot of money, he's gonna come to
a big, old fat settlement with the boy. I suspect
that this could be the beginning of the end of
their DEI garbage.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Well, in a fair amount of talk around the whole
Boeing thing that it was DEI that's led to all
the safety concerns with their airplanes.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Right yeah, yeah, Well I just.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I don't like it anywhere, but I get it if
you're an insurance agency or whatever. But I would think
of things like the military, the Secret Service, cops, just
various things where we could all as a society say,
not here, we'll discuss this, we'll try it in other
areas of the world, we'll see if it works, blah
blah blah, but not here.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
We just need the.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Strongest, fastest, bravest everybody for this particular job, and we'll
put the social stuff somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That reminds me of our discussion of the race based
admissions to colleges. The idea that you can fix the
fact that little black kids, for instance, are not getting
a good education, you can fix that at the level
of elite universities by just dragging them in. That's idiotic.
It never has worked, it never will work at the
elite levels, whether it's the Secret Service or the military doctors.
(26:57):
Oh my god, I've got so much on how deep
is ruining medicine that we need to get to at
some point. But at the elite level you deal with
you just go with uh with the excellence hierarchies right now.
If you want one more women umpires and who gives
a crap, there's only like one hundred and fifty Major
(27:18):
League empires.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Anyway, It's just it's a tiny field. How many balls
you got up? That's your favorite? Actually used that hack child,
that's Joe's best tackle. I love you, but I'm a
female umpire.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Hey, how many balls you got? Where was I?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh, wherever I was ranting about excellence? How about Oh?
So if for some reason you think there need to
be more umpires with ovaries, and again, what are you
even thinking about in your world? You address that high
school ball, college ball you you uh, I don't know,
(27:59):
have some private organization finances scholarship for women who want
to go to umpire school something like that. You don't
hold down dudes because they're dudes, and not give them
jobs they've earned and then elevate and and there are
rumors to the effect of there are a couple two
tree women umps who have been elevated, who have who
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lack what it takes to be in that job. And
it's obvious to everyone immediately, and and I kind of
slowed down and thought about how I'd phrased this, Because
it's not the gala's fault. They're being put into a
into a position where they're going to fail and be embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Why do you reckon this chick grabbed the guy's phone
and started deleting his apps.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
That's on behavior man.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Maybe he was constantly playing Angry Birds or or the
Save the King or whatever the heck that was stupid game.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Is anti map quests.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
If I hear you mentioned wordwarman, give me.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
That that is someone whose mind is cracked.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That she hid behind the curtains.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I mean, any one or two of those activities you
could think, well, I think she was again trying to
indicate you're being a baby or a meow uh and
and I'm gonna pretend like I mean, any one or
two of those you can explain away.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
But there's like half a dozen different bizarre behaviors. I'm
surprised they let it go as long as they did.
Somebody with a gun who's hiding behind the curtains like
they're a three year old, Yeah, I'd be worried they're
gonna come out of their you know, bullets flying right,
lost their mind, right, It's why.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Like the activist jackasses you run into ran into after
the homeless junkie terrorized your family, who said if you
if you cross the street because you see a homeless
a person experiencing homelessness coming, you're a bad person. No
human beings. No, somebody exhibiting one kind of crazy might
be capable of a couple, two or three other kinds
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of crazy. And so you cross the street or you
take her gun.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I bet there's gonna be more to this story, this
story you over wait, Yeah, a wolf in ish Strong.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Next.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I think we got to hear it one more time.
Everybody agrees with you. The best part of the clip
is the girl her friend saying about what.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's never endingly entertaining to me this clip.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
There's the main goal with can I stop?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I think the goal is just showing support for Palestine
and demanding that NYU stops. I honestly don't.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Know what ny is doing.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is there something that NYU is doing?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I really don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I'm pretty sure there.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Do you know what ny is doing?
Speaker 8 (30:54):
About?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
That?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Is?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Why are you protesting here?
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Some more educated? Do you know what about what?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
N Yu? Yeah? Yeah about what? And I wish the
chanting they hadn't gotten too loud to drown out her
Her girl number two's blah blah, blah, I wish I
was more I wish we were more educated, so educate.
(31:27):
The part I love about the first girl is she
launches into the we're here to support Palestine and to protest.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
With n Yu?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
What is ny you doing?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Because she really about what.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
She came out hot like she really I thought she
was going to lay it out. It sounded like, yeah,
you know, I ain't mine very firm in my convictions
and why I'm here, right, It's just.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
When you got to the what are you talking about?
That she faltered something about what something about what NYU
was doing has made me very angry. I don't recall
what and.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Her friends standing right new sure her friends being interviewed
by the media.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
And just not relieve and paying attention to her probably
saw a cute guy somewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, And when she is directed to this is what
we were talking about, she's like, I don't know anything
about that. I wish we were more educated.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
That more educated. She would like to know what percentage
of the protesters are that. Yeah, it's it's almost irrelevant. No,
it's interesting. It's not irrelevant. It's it's less than very
it's somewhat relevant. I'll let you know what I'm done here.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, it's somewhat relevant, but only somewhat because the people
that are directing this know that there will be people
who have no idea why they're doing what they're told
to do, but they will do it anyway. In fact,
that's a great example of how scary this can be.
Here's a couple of chicks who have no idea what
they're talking about, but they're up there stamping their feet
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and pounding on things and probably would be willing to
break windows if that's what the crowd did. Next.
Speaker 11 (33:04):
I heard you guys talking earlier and thought it would
be fun to attack and take over, I mean, introduce
final thoughts with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Was that supposed to be putin? That did not sound
like putin? Other than that, it was great.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
plain clips that sound nothing like who they purport to be.
Mike Lenslow, Michael, I was.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
Just thinking about earlier when we were talking about AI
replacing jobs, and I was thinking about my job, and
I thought, you know what, I need to start selling
fruit on the side, so I need to do something.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
AI can't sell fruit alongside the road.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
That's right, true, that's a good point, Katie Green. Do
you have a final thought for us?
Speaker 10 (33:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna own that putin clip.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
I'm blaming the AI website.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
I made it on though it was kutany was it
wasn't It wasn't completely bad because that would have been
my guess.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Okay, So I really again, Michael.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
I heard you guys talking earlier and thought it would
be fun to attack and take over I mean, introduce
final thoughts with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
It wasn't obviously him, but that would have been my
guess if I'd have been given a guess.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Really okay, Jack, final thought?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Oh we got this text.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Somebody was listening to one of our podcasts, want to
weigh in on one topic with some interesting information, but
then said thank you for providing a balance of humor
and up to date information without the former, I couldn't
take the latter.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
That is exactly the way we feel about it.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Dude, this stuff is very very important, or ma'am uh,
this is a lot of important.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Stuff every single day.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
But without laughing now and then about various parts of it.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
I'd go nuts.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
It gets ponderous, Yeah, it really can. We're trying. Some
days we don't get the balances right. We apologize in advance.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Armstrong and Getty rabbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Great hot links there for you.
Drop a note if there's something that we ought to
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Speaker 6 (35:04):
So those inflation numbers come out tomorrow. You want to
see the stock market tumble yellow? See then, God bless America.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
I'm strong and gekte how many more hours am I
doing this?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Four more years?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Paul, I am here?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Yourself was more educated. That's ludicrous, right, I'm so good.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Okay, so let's go with the buying number one. You
have a strong need for belonging. Okay, that's fine, it's healthy.
We all have it, and good for you. Nobody's making funny.
He's strong need for booty. There's also the strong need
for booty.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
That I still have this stuffy
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Thank you, arm Strong and Getting
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Say it's the main goal with can I stop?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I think the goal is just showing our support for
Palestine and demanding that NYU stops.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I honestly don't know all what NYU is doing.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is there something that NYU's doing?
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I really don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm pretty sure there.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Do you know what ny is doing out?
Speaker 7 (00:31):
I'm protesting here so.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Much more educated.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
This is not contained quickly, and if these threats and
intimidation are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for
the National Guard. We have to bring order to these campuses.
We cannot allow this to happen around the country. We
are better than this. We're better than this, and I'll
ask the President to do that, and I'll tell them
that very same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
NON agree.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
We need to bring order these campuses in quickly or
it's going to get out of hand. It's going to
get worse, it's going to get more violent. But that
one girl literally turned to her friend and said, do
you know why we're protesting here? And she said no,
I wish I was more educated.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
My favorite part was, uh, what is NYU doing about what?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Like? So she's not even paying any attention to You're
right about what? So those two little use the fact
that there are police and major news organizations everywhere, I
mean that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, and people channing we are a Hamas and down
with the Jews and Israel should be wiped out and
the rest of it. So it's it's funny. There are
multiple layers of this. Those two little twits are just funny,
but they're tools of much more organized, much more ugly
organizations that are trying to wipe Israel off the map.
They're anti Semites, they're Islamist supremacists, pro Hamas, whatever and
(01:53):
or the blanket over all of them is there neo Marxists.
They want to tear the system down with whatever wedge
they could. Fine. So, while those girls are hilarious, the
protests themselves are not a couple of really interesting and
revealing perspectives from some interesting sources that we wanted to
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play for you. Why don't we start with Scott Galloway,
who's a professor at NYU. He's a man of the
Jewish faith. We'll play seventy five and then we'll call
for seventy six.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Michael, and I do think there is a double standard.
I had walked by NYU last night. What I saw
was peaceful protests. But I can tell you if I
went into the NYU square with a white hood on
and said lynch the blacks or burn the gays, my
idea would be shut off by that night, and I
would never work in academia again. There would be no
need for the words context or nuance. I wouldn't be
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protected by terms like First Amendment or free speech. I
would be out of the world of academia. It seems
like we have a double standard when it comes to
hate speech, as long as it's against Jews.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And so this guy is an academic, he knows what's
going on, and he goes on and explains it somewhat.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
I think it's complicated. I think one, young people have
a healthy gag reflex from what people our age think, and.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I think that's healthy.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Two.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
I don't think Israel has straped itself in glory over
the last twenty or thirty years. They've shifted from being
kind of a David to the goliath. I also think
that incorrectly students on campus, conflate the civil rights movement
with what is going on in Palestine, and have digressed, unfortunately,
because of an orthodoxy promoted by me and my colleagues
that there are oppressors and oppressed and the easiest way
to identify oppressors is how white and how rich they are,
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fairly or unfairly. Israel has seen as ground zero for
whiteness and how wealthy they are. And then, what might
sound paranoid, that is mean I'm wrong. I think we
are being manipulated, specifically youth to their frame for the
world is TikTok. And if you look at TikTok, there
are fifty two videos that are pro homoster pro Palestinian
for everyone served on Israel. I think that we are
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being manipulated. I think Americans are easier fully convinced they've
been fooled with a CCP, I'd be doing exactly the
same thing. I think social media is selling division and polarization.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I mean, we work on a radio station where we
run ads. In the theory which has been born out
over time is that if you run a whole bunch
of ads for your Ford dealership, you will sell more
Fords than the other brand or whatever. Yeah, I mean,
so it's just as simple as that. If there are
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fifty two pro home As messages for every one pro
Israel message on TikTok that they spend all day long,
the messaging works.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, thatsizing works. It's absolutely the work of the communist Chinese. Now,
maybe the kids are more sympathetic so they like those
videos more, that's probably part of it. But the Chinese
are absolutely putting their thumb on the scale. I can't believe.
I was in my fifties before I came across the concept,
and I think Twain may get credit, but I'll bet
it's ancient wisdom that it's much easier to fool someone
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than to convince them they've been fooled, which has to
do with pride, I think in large measure.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
But well, it's also that thing that they've discovered where
you believe the first thing you hear, and then even
when you're told the truth, you can't let go of it.
I've had that happen before, and it's disturbing to me.
Why do I still think this about somebody or something? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Because I heard that originally.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, the very people who gave you that piece of
information can come back and say, I'm so sorry we
were wrong. We got it exactly wrong. This is the truth. No,
you'll stick with the first thing, at least over time.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
For some evolutionary reason. We're built that way. It's very strange.
One kind of sidebar thing he said there, which I
suppose makes sense for him since he's an academic and
he's got that brain, the idea that it's good and
healthy that young people are automatically repulsed about what our
generation says or thinks. Yeah, well it seems to be
(05:59):
human name, but I don't think it's good. Yeah, you're
trying a bit hard there, sir, but with all due respect,
So this is long ish, but to me, it's amazing.
This is Jonah Goldberg on CNN with one of the
most obnoxious people on the planet.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Was that prejudicial? Your honor Lulu Garcia Navarro, who's a
far left woke type with the New York Times. Listen
to this argument about the nature of the protests and
what the college students mean and what they're representing. And
you tell me who's using cogent adult arguments and who
(06:36):
is hiding behind woke terminology and slogans in just bull ass.
I'd like to use the real term seventy two Michael.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
I think if a lot of anti Semitic stuff going
on out there, But when you're saying you're Hamas, when
you're praising Hamas, when you're praising his Balla, when you're
saying you're going to globalize the into fable.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Excuse me, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But everyone, I'm gonna finish.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
My point means your pro terrorist, if you are celebrating,
come off your protest.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You're not disputing that what I'm saying the point. Yeah,
But what I'm saying is there are selective quotes that
are being taken, often not from students themselves. In the
encampments in Colombia. They have said this, there are Jewish
students who are actually part of this, and they are
being used to wait, let me, let me do That's true,
But I just would say, more broadly, when people are
(07:26):
calling for action, like Representative gott Haimer, what are they
actually calling for. You've already had police go off.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
If there are if the if the people in those encampments,
whether they're Columbia students or not, if the university can
clear them from that encampment, then that is something the
university can do.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But they've already put let me let me just say
how we got here. The Columbia chose to bring police
to clear the encampment. That inflamed the situation to where
now you're seeing these protests spread to Yale, to New
York University and beyond. I am many people have said
that the action of bringing police into a group of
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people who are already feeling that they are sort of
representative of the oppressed, who are inspired by what happened
with George Floyd in twenty twenty and seeing what is
happening in Gaza, that that has only really acted as
a catalyst here. And so I wonder at the wisdom
of bringing in the armed police into what is essentially
(08:25):
a university campus. You know, I question the.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
Wisdom of having a double standard that says it's okay
to shout hateful terror, pro terrorist things at Jews, but
you can't.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You have to have kept total endorsing that a lot.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Of people are endorsing, that a lot of people aren't
condemning it. Yeah, a lot of people aren't condemning it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I look I agree with you.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Universities and a democratic party in the left have a
huge problem trying to figure out how to cut this
Gordian knot that they've created for themselves. But that doesn't
mean I have to sort of condone or not call out.
I spent I got a lot of scars from calling
out horrible statements on the right of the last ten year.
I call it anti Semitism, a bigger chick all the time.
On the right, of course, I don't hear a lot
of that from sort of squad adjacent type people calling
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out this stuff on the left.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, absolutely not. It was interesting, Oh, Lulu, there was
making an argument that is an example of the decision
dilemma we've talked about before that Radicals was Saulolensky and
then Cloward Piven. They all recommended put your opponent in
a decision dilemma, and she illustrated that by saying, well,
(09:30):
a lot of people think, what do you think, baby
speak for yourself. A lot of people think that it
was very provocative to bring in the police, the armed police,
to clear the campus. Well, no, no, these people are
violating the rules. They are making it impossible to operate
through the university, and you're trying to paint people who
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stand up to them as being the provocateurs. The people
you escalated.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
And they were asked to leave many many times, and
then he wouldn't. So what do you do at that
point other than bring in the armed police, which is
a funny term.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So one more perspective. Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, who's really starting to impress me, I
said earlier, and I will repeat that he's starting to
strike me as a Trumanesque character. He seems very unassuming,
kind of in every guy, not big, showy, flashy, but
he seems to have a steel spine in a lot
of ways, or is at least developing one. We'll see.
(10:27):
It's early. But he spoke at the the Columbia campus.
It was Columbia, all right, and very persuasively that the
Jewish students will not stand alone, and he was being heckled,
and he interrupted his own speech and said, enjoy your
free speech to the hecklers, and of all people, Joe
(10:50):
Scarborough had some thoughts on that and related eighty six
about you.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Sevent of Americans and close to one hundred percent of
parents with kids on college campuses, agree with the speaker.
The line that speaker Johnson said that should have cut
through that crowd was enjoy your free speech. Enjoy your
freedom of speech, you know, because you don't.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Get that with Hamas. You never got that with AMAS.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
If you disagreed with AMAS, that take you to the
top of the building and push you off, or just
put a bullet in the back of your.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Head and he goes on.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
You know, these people.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Who call themselves progressive are actually shutting down college campuses
in the name of a terrorist group. That kills people
who are LGBTQ, that kills people who support free speech,
that kills people who talk about peace.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
So you get so many different layers of kind of
people in these protests. You've got at the very bottom rung,
the girls we heard from earlier, who don't even know
why they're.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
There, more educated.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You got the.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
People the very very copper or Marxists and they don't
care about Hamas or the Jews, or they just care
about Marxism and overthrowing the system. Then you've got a
whole bunch of things in between two people that are
actually pro homos.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, and there's a self righteousness the zeal of the
revolutionary that a lot of people have written about through
the ages, where you become so caught up in the
righteousness of your cause and your hatred of the so
called evil doers, that you believe absolutely anything you do
(12:41):
is excusable and that everything they do is punishable by death,
that you have the right to kill them. Now, a
lot of these students are not looking to kill anybody,
some of them are, some of them will. There will
be violence, absolutely, but you can't underestimate when some people
get crazed with that sort of mob anger, what they're capable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Of, right.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
I was thinking, I'm going to tell my kids, or
I would tell any young people when you're if you're
going to get into this whole protest world, pay attention
to what the loudest people are saying, because you're getting
associated with it, whether you believe that or not. So
you might want to, rather than say why are we here,
listen to what they're chanting and like google it figure
(13:25):
out what it means, because you're part of saying that,
whether you're saying it out loud or not, if you're
there supporting that protest.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And I wonder if we could introduce into college college
age psychology one oh one. It'd be like you'd only
have to meet three four times. It'd be a one
credit class. Or you explain, all right, look, you're between
eighteen and twenty five whatever. You have a couple of
things going on in your mind and your soul. Number One,
(13:54):
you have a strong need for belonging. Okay, that's fine,
it's healthy. We all have it, and good for you.
Nobody's making funny.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
He's strong need for bo there's also a strong need
for booty. What you'll discuss in subsequent classes.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And you want very much to feel like an adult
and that you're doing something important. Beware because that need
to belong and the need to do something important will
draw you into things you should not be doing.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Some interesting economic news out we should talk about, and
other things to hear.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yourself more educated, arm strong, and getty.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
The Dow tumbled seven hundred points at the beginning of
the day because of the economic information that came out.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
It is now down about five hundred points.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
But a mix of slowing growth firm inflation worries investors
is the headline in the Wall Street Journal. So the
quarterly growth was one point six percent, that's not a
lot and was below what they even expected. We were
trying to slow down the economy. That's why they're raising
interest rates, because that's how you cut off inflation.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But that's not the slowing of the economy, which is
bad news. Would be good news because they had lower
rates and then that's good news.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
But there is inflation news also that was bad. So
I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But this is an excuse for me to use my
favorite stock marker term. The Dow found a firm bottom
down five hundred points.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Well a sell or buy or hold? I'm a hold guy.
But tomorrow the inflation news comes out. So Thursday data
suggests that a widely watched inflation reading due tomorrow could
be much worse than expected. So if that inflation number
comes out tomorrow and it is worse than expected, so
(15:50):
we grew at one point six percent, inflation is back
to be in a thing.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Yeah, well, we'll talk about it tomorrow when it happens.
I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
As we've been saying for quite some time, unprecedented times
unprecedented equals unprecedented. You can't pump out this many trillions
of dollars and close down the economy for like a
year and a half. And you can't just do all
of these things and then and then go back to
normal anytime soon. Who knows how long it'll take for
(16:25):
the housing market, for the job market, for prices to
all settle into something like a normal rhythm.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Who knows both parties Trump and Biden doing things that
ten years ago, even just ten years ago, would have
been seen as so wildly irresponsible.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
No government should do them anyway. Here's my favorite thing
we got coming up. We mentioned earlier. One of the
Secret Service agents assigned to Kamala har has gotten a
fight with their boss, and the details are coming out
and they're great, and it includes the term diversity equity
(17:02):
inclusion on how it may have happened. According to some
of the other agents who were talking to reporters.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I had assumed that the one agent was just humiliated
having to guard a lunkhead that they snapped. They felt
like they had wasted their careers.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Stay tuned, That's what Armstrong and Geeddy. I'm looking up
at the TV.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan are on The Comedians.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
They're playing locally somewhere.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Actually thought maybe I'd go see the show, but they're
promoting the new movie The Jerry Seinfeld Creation Unfrosted about
a I'm guessing hilarious take on the creation of the
pop tart in the sixties is what the movie's about.
You know, Jerry Seinfeld's always been obsessed with pop tarts.
I'll bet that's pretty funny. Well, we knew what would
(17:54):
happen eventually, the cackle drove someone crazy. Kamala Harris's cackle
apparently has driven someone crazy. I'll hit you with the
headline here before we get into this fairly long, but
I think worth it description of what has happened here excellent.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
A Secret Service agent.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Tasked with guarding Kamala Harris started brawling with other agents
and began her confrontation by taking an agent's phone, throwing
menstrual pads, and telling them we're all going to burn
in hell, before she started punching fellow agents.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh that's going to be a long day.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Oh boy, this is a good story. I'm excited to
tell it.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
And then it's involving a physical attack by a female
Secret Service agent who is tasked with protecting Kamala Harrison. Again,
probably driven crazy by the cackle or just the inane conversation.
I mean, can you imagine being subjected to that crap
all day long? It is time for us to do
what we have been doing in that time as every day.
(19:01):
Oh real clear politics, and they quote anonymously some agents
later says it's raising questions about whether the agency had
thoroughly vetitor during the hiring process and the ongoing push
to increase the numbers of women in the service through
DEI brought in somebody that wasn't ready for this job anyway.
(19:25):
This particular Secret Service agent was removed from her duties
Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and
other agents trying to subduer. According to the agency spokesman,
so this is from the own Secret Service saying that
this is what happened, attacked or boss, which is pretty exciting.
Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent
(19:47):
who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herzig HRCZEG. The
altercation occurred at approximately lay nine am at Joint Base
and Rus, the home of Air Force one and Air
Force two.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now I can see going completely berserk at four or
five o'clock in the afternoon, but man, if you start
the day with going berserki, and it's going to be
a long day.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
You're right, Nine am is pretty early to completely lose
it and start punching your boss. That's the sort of
thing that happens at five point thirty. I need you
to stay late, Oh yeah, said yay?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Why ya yatta?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Herzigs showed up at the terminal and began acting erradically,
grabbing another senior agent's personal phone and deleting applications on it.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
According to familiar with them, what are you doing deleting
your apps?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Why? Uh? The other agent, a shift leader, was able
to recover his phone and then acted as if nothing
had happened, but Herzig's bizarre behavior didn't stop. She then
began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items,
including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling that he would
need them, that he would need them later to save
(20:54):
another agent, and telling your peers that they were going
to burn in hell and needed to listen to God.
Herzig also screamed at the special Agent in charge uh
female officers in the Vice President's detailer, claiming they would
show up and help her and allow her to continue
working At that point, the other agents of the scene
believed she was suffering from some sort of mental breakdown,
(21:17):
and she was told that she needed to be relieved
from her assignment. That's when she snapped entirely. One source recounted.
So it's when they told her that they were going
to relieve her of her duty, that she thought they
thought she was struggling today, That's when she snapped entirely.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
That's in quotes. Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Herzig then her pre snap activities were pretty snappy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
If you hear me talking.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They were on the snappy end of things.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Sure, wow, so oh, I haven't snapped yet, There's more
to come.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Herzig then chest bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled
him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herzig
were especially concerned because she's still had her gun in
the holster. You gotta remember, these people are armed. If
somebody's going completely berzerko saying crazyess and punching people with
a gun, yeah, you gotta be concerned that that's next.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You got to disarm them immediately.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from
her coffter, then removed her from the terminal The agent
was immediately removed from their assignment.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Washing examiner first reported the incident.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
A US Secret Service special agent supporting the Vice president's departure.
Uh blah blah blah blah bah said the ba the
distressing blah blah blah. The agents on the seat then
called medical personnel to remove her from the terminal. Just
then they started calling it a medical matter, which it
(22:46):
might actually be.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
She may have just gone nuts.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Following the incident's Secret Service agents and officers are privately
questioning the hiring process and where they the agency had
adequately screened her background, Some wondering to reporters whether they
hire was part of a diversity, equity and inclusion push
in response to years of staff shortages that have required
the agency. The lords want strict employment standards and physical
(23:12):
performance standards to get fulf we get more females on
the staff.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Didn't earn it. Dismantle all DEI programs everywhere they exist
in government, education and private enterprise.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Wow, at the level of your protecting the president and
vice president at a particularly vall little time in American history,
and you got somebody there who clearly is not fit
to be doing that job.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
When I think about agents going crazy. One has to
think of agents going crazy and the craziness of agents.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
So what's the throwing the tampons at a guy and
saying you're going to need these later.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That sounds like a at that somebody is going to
be bleeding. Oh, I mean because those are fameless, famously
used for gunshots, like the the Russian soldiers in Ukraine
were so badly equipped they're trying to get tampons to
put in the wounds of people were shot. You could
be right. I thought it was just a you're a
(24:19):
chick wow sort of entirely different interpretation. Or would we
have to tip you Michael? Do you have any more
Kamela han Andy?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We must together work together to see where we are,
where we are headed, where we are going, and our
vision for where we should be.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
See I'd crack after a couple of months of that.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah you hear that twice.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You're hiding behind the curtains, punching your boss, throwing tampons.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Now with Mike on, I was just going to say,
I've had a couple of instances with guys when they've
started acting like big babies, and I have pulled out
a tampon and asked them if they needed it.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Of course, yeah, that's very course. Oh yeah, you're gonna
need this later.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Hey, by the bye. A fired minor league umpire isssued
Major League Baseball, claiming he was sexually harassed by a
female umpire and discriminated against because he is male. For
one thing, Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
It goes into this had a big DEI program where
they're like, hey, we need women umpires and people of
color and whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And if if you got four guys to choose from,
and two of them are clearly superior, but there's also
a woman in there, you got to promote the woman,
which is absolutely illegal discrimination. And so this guy is suing,
and I suspect very strongly unless MLB, which has a
(25:45):
hell of a lot of money, he's gonna come to
a big, old fat settlement with the boy. I suspect
that this could be the beginning of the end of
their DEI garbage.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Well, in a fair amount of talk around the whole
Boeing thing that it was DEI that's led to all
the safety concerns with their airplanes.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Right yeah, yeah, Well I just.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I don't like it anywhere, but I get it if
you're an insurance agency or whatever. But I would think
of things like the military, the Secret Service, cops, just
various things where we could all as a society say,
not here, we'll discuss this, we'll try it in other
areas of the world, we'll see if it works, blah
blah blah, but not here.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
We just need the.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Strongest, fastest, bravest everybody for this particular job, and we'll
put the social stuff somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That reminds me of our discussion of the race based
admissions to colleges. The idea that you can fix the
fact that little black kids, for instance, are not getting
a good education, you can fix that at the level
of elite universities by just dragging them in. That's idiotic.
It never has worked, it never will work at the
elite levels, whether it's the Secret Service or the military doctors.
(26:57):
Oh my god, I've got so much on how deep
is ruining medicine that we need to get to at
some point. But at the elite level you deal with
you just go with uh with the excellence hierarchies right now.
If you want one more women umpires and who gives
a crap, there's only like one hundred and fifty Major
(27:18):
League empires.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Anyway, It's just it's a tiny field. How many balls
you got up? That's your favorite? Actually used that hack child,
that's Joe's best tackle. I love you, but I'm a
female umpire.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Hey, how many balls you got? Where was I?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh, wherever I was ranting about excellence? How about Oh?
So if for some reason you think there need to
be more umpires with ovaries, and again, what are you
even thinking about in your world? You address that high
school ball, college ball you you uh, I don't know,
(27:59):
have some private organization finances scholarship for women who want
to go to umpire school something like that. You don't
hold down dudes because they're dudes, and not give them
jobs they've earned and then elevate and and there are
rumors to the effect of there are a couple two
tree women umps who have been elevated, who have who
(28:21):
lack what it takes to be in that job. And
it's obvious to everyone immediately, and and I kind of
slowed down and thought about how I'd phrased this, Because
it's not the gala's fault. They're being put into a
into a position where they're going to fail and be embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Why do you reckon this chick grabbed the guy's phone
and started deleting his apps.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
That's on behavior man.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Maybe he was constantly playing Angry Birds or or the
Save the King or whatever the heck that was stupid game.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Is anti map quests.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
If I hear you mentioned wordwarman, give me.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
That that is someone whose mind is cracked.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That she hid behind the curtains.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I mean, any one or two of those activities you
could think, well, I think she was again trying to
indicate you're being a baby or a meow uh and
and I'm gonna pretend like I mean, any one or
two of those you can explain away.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
But there's like half a dozen different bizarre behaviors. I'm
surprised they let it go as long as they did.
Somebody with a gun who's hiding behind the curtains like
they're a three year old, Yeah, I'd be worried they're
gonna come out of their you know, bullets flying right,
lost their mind, right, It's why.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Like the activist jackasses you run into ran into after
the homeless junkie terrorized your family, who said if you
if you cross the street because you see a homeless
a person experiencing homelessness coming, you're a bad person. No
human beings. No, somebody exhibiting one kind of crazy might
be capable of a couple, two or three other kinds
(30:08):
of crazy. And so you cross the street or you
take her gun.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I bet there's gonna be more to this story, this
story you over wait, Yeah, a wolf in ish Strong.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Next.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I think we got to hear it one more time.
Everybody agrees with you. The best part of the clip
is the girl her friend saying about what.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's never endingly entertaining to me this clip.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
There's the main goal with can I stop?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I think the goal is just showing support for Palestine
and demanding that NYU stops. I honestly don't.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Know what ny is doing.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is there something that NYU is doing?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I really don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I'm pretty sure there.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Do you know what ny is doing?
Speaker 8 (30:54):
About?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
That?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Is?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Why are you protesting here?
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Some more educated? Do you know what about what?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
N Yu? Yeah? Yeah about what? And I wish the
chanting they hadn't gotten too loud to drown out her
Her girl number two's blah blah, blah, I wish I
was more I wish we were more educated, so educate.
(31:27):
The part I love about the first girl is she
launches into the we're here to support Palestine and to protest.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
With n Yu?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
What is ny you doing?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Because she really about what.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
She came out hot like she really I thought she
was going to lay it out. It sounded like, yeah,
you know, I ain't mine very firm in my convictions
and why I'm here, right, It's just.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
When you got to the what are you talking about?
That she faltered something about what something about what NYU
was doing has made me very angry. I don't recall
what and.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Her friends standing right new sure her friends being interviewed
by the media.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
And just not relieve and paying attention to her probably
saw a cute guy somewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, And when she is directed to this is what
we were talking about, she's like, I don't know anything
about that. I wish we were more educated.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
That more educated. She would like to know what percentage
of the protesters are that. Yeah, it's it's almost irrelevant. No,
it's interesting. It's not irrelevant. It's it's less than very
it's somewhat relevant. I'll let you know what I'm done here.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, it's somewhat relevant, but only somewhat because the people
that are directing this know that there will be people
who have no idea why they're doing what they're told
to do, but they will do it anyway. In fact,
that's a great example of how scary this can be.
Here's a couple of chicks who have no idea what
they're talking about, but they're up there stamping their feet
(32:57):
and pounding on things and probably would be willing to
break windows if that's what the crowd did. Next.
Speaker 11 (33:04):
I heard you guys talking earlier and thought it would
be fun to attack and take over, I mean, introduce
final thoughts with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Was that supposed to be putin? That did not sound
like putin? Other than that, it was great.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
plain clips that sound nothing like who they purport to be.
Mike Lenslow, Michael, I was.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
Just thinking about earlier when we were talking about AI
replacing jobs, and I was thinking about my job, and
I thought, you know what, I need to start selling
fruit on the side, so I need to do something.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
AI can't sell fruit alongside the road.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
That's right, true, that's a good point, Katie Green. Do
you have a final thought for us?
Speaker 10 (33:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna own that putin clip.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
I'm blaming the AI website.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
I made it on though it was kutany was it
wasn't It wasn't completely bad because that would have been
my guess.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Okay, So I really again, Michael.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
I heard you guys talking earlier and thought it would
be fun to attack and take over I mean, introduce
final thoughts with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
It wasn't obviously him, but that would have been my
guess if I'd have been given a guess.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Really okay, Jack, final thought?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Oh we got this text.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Somebody was listening to one of our podcasts, want to
weigh in on one topic with some interesting information, but
then said thank you for providing a balance of humor
and up to date information without the former, I couldn't
take the latter.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
That is exactly the way we feel about it.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Dude, this stuff is very very important, or ma'am uh,
this is a lot of important.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Stuff every single day.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
But without laughing now and then about various parts of it.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
I'd go nuts.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
It gets ponderous, Yeah, it really can. We're trying. Some
days we don't get the balances right. We apologize in advance.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Armstrong and Getty rabbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Great hot links there for you.
Drop a note if there's something that we ought to
be talking about. Mail bag at Armstrong in giddy dot com.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
So those inflation numbers come out tomorrow. You want to
see the stock market tumble yellow? See then, God bless America.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
I'm strong and gekte how many more hours am I
doing this?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Four more years?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Paul, I am here?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Yourself was more educated. That's ludicrous, right, I'm so good.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Okay, so let's go with the buying number one. You
have a strong need for belonging. Okay, that's fine, it's healthy.
We all have it, and good for you. Nobody's making funny.
He's strong need for booty. There's also the strong need
for booty.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
That I still have this stuffy
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Thank you, arm Strong and Getting
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