Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Tetchy and he.
Speaker 3: Well, and you feel like I gotta wind up more
Speaker 3: for that or or on a Friday, I feel like
Speaker 3: I need more of a wind up, li' from Studio
Speaker 3: C season your a dimly let room deep with on
Speaker 3: the bowels the Armstrong he getdy Communications Compound and hey,
Speaker 3: y'all today Friday, Friday. Uh, we're toiling under the title
Speaker 3: of the show. Get the flock out of here. Hey,
Speaker 3: that's a good one, all right if you prefer We're
Speaker 3: going to squeeze Iran.
Speaker 4: Will we enjoyed the juice? You really happy with both
Speaker 4: my titles this morning? You really pleased with myself?
Speaker 3: Ah, I've been one of the problems with doing this
Speaker 3: job for this many years is most of the things
Speaker 3: I say, I've said ten to fifty times.
Speaker 2: But I'm that and hating humanity.
Speaker 3: But here's one of the things I've said many, many
Speaker 3: times over the years. When they launched a new round
Speaker 3: of sanctions against Iran or Iraq or North Korea back
Speaker 3: in the day when they're trying to stop them to
Speaker 3: get a nuclear weapon, which obviously didn't work.
Speaker 2: But all these different things is if you got these,
Speaker 2: why didn't you do this earlier? We're at war or.
Speaker 3: This is a huge crisis and you said you're gonna
Speaker 3: punish him. What so you're holding back on the real sanctions.
Speaker 3: We're seven months into the war. Why were you holding
Speaker 3: back on some of these sanctions?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. And this does not mean your
Speaker 2: point isn't a valid one.
Speaker 4: Every sanction bruises somebody other than the person you're sanctioning,
Speaker 4: and and the stricter and harsher of the sanctions, the
Speaker 4: more bruising. There are of people who say, as I
Speaker 4: often do, Hey why did I come in for a kick?
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden I get that.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't a we're really at a point of
Speaker 3: difficulty here earlier than this seems like we were, I
Speaker 3: hear you anyway, So yeah, new round of sanctions, which
Speaker 3: do sound like a pretty big deal on all kinds
Speaker 3: of good Lord, we'll have to play that clip of
Speaker 3: Scott Besson laying it out. This is the strongest package
Speaker 3: package of sanctions, on the biggest and strongest package of
Speaker 3: sanctions that have ever been unleashed economic sanctions, and uh,
Speaker 3: it'll be and it'll be on every country that does
Speaker 3: business with Iran. They don't come around China, India, some
Speaker 3: of our friends. That sort of stuff. You got to
Speaker 3: stop doing business. That's the problem that always happens. My
Speaker 3: favorite example is always a been when we had strong
Speaker 3: sanctions on Iraq and we ended up going to war
Speaker 3: with them and we had what do we have there
Speaker 3: at one point one hundred thousand troops one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty thousand troops. France was still doing business with them
Speaker 3: behind our back to get around the sanctions because well,
Speaker 3: well you know, you gotta make money.
Speaker 4: Well you remember the Secretary General and his boy of
Speaker 4: the UN, the UN Secretary General and his son were
Speaker 4: doing big business and making tons of money as those
Speaker 4: sanctions were in effects as approved by the UN. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's everybody cheats, everybody lies, everybody pursues their own self interest.
Speaker 3: I've got a tale of a near tragedy avoided. Oh no,
Speaker 3: this morning. So I run into work every single day.
Speaker 3: As I've mentioned many times, I've done been doing this
Speaker 3: since I was nineteen years old, my entire radio career
Speaker 3: working morning radio for some reason. I do it to
Speaker 3: get a heart pumping on everything like that, get jazzed
Speaker 3: up for the show. At the point that I can
Speaker 3: no longer run in, I guess I'll have to call
Speaker 3: it a day. But I have not exceeded a saunter
Speaker 3: since nineteen eighty eight. I was running today. I'm wearing
Speaker 3: red Wing work boots eight seventy five classic model Steve
Speaker 3: McQueen everyone else.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool boot.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I'm running in and I trip a little
Speaker 3: on a crack and a sidewalk and stumble a little bit,
Speaker 3: catch myself, but realize in a little planter thing on
Speaker 3: the ground level where they've got you know, it's just
Speaker 3: like there's a tile of cement missing and there's a
Speaker 3: tree coming out of it, like they do in urban parks.
Speaker 3: But the sprinkler thing is on a metal rod, a
Speaker 3: tiny midtal rod. It's like a drinking straw size, only
Speaker 3: it's a metal rod sticking up out of the ground.
Speaker 3: And I stumbled, and I'm looking right at that thing,
Speaker 3: and I thought, if I had gone down, that thing
Speaker 3: would have been paled me clear through my torso it's
Speaker 3: my final destination. It would have stuck clear out my back.
Speaker 3: I mean, is long enough and pointy enough, And I
Speaker 3: just wonder, well, one that would have been the sort
Speaker 3: of story that makes national news.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, and I don't know if it was that.
Speaker 4: A week and a half, two weeks ago, we had
Speaker 4: a couple of impaling stories in a row. In our
Speaker 4: Impaling Story of the Week, they come in threes, people
Speaker 4: being impaled. That would have been a lame way to
Speaker 4: go out, Jack.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: Lame way to die is whoever's next showing up to
Speaker 3: work and sees me on the ground with that sticking
Speaker 3: up my back.
Speaker 2: Thinks, well, that's not good. I should call someone. I suppose.
Speaker 4: I have a horrifying story of that sort, but I'm
Speaker 4: going to withhold it, showing restraint for once in my life.
Speaker 2: No, no joke. That could have happened if I if I'd.
Speaker 3: Have gone down, very easily could have impaled me. It's
Speaker 3: is a tiny enough spike it would easily just go
Speaker 3: right through me. And it reminded me of this is
Speaker 3: a horrifying story of for a cup of coffee. Maybe
Speaker 3: they're still popular. I don't see them around like I
Speaker 3: used to, uh for environmental reasons and because the humble
Speaker 3: Sea turtle was dying by the millions because of straws,
Speaker 3: which turned out to be bogus. People were trying to
Speaker 3: do away with plastic straws, so one solution in California
Speaker 3: was paper straws, which are useless. Another thing was they
Speaker 3: started selling those like aluminum straws that you would wash
Speaker 3: and reuse, so you wouldn't have a placed anyway. Remember
Speaker 3: the story is in the New York Post, of course,
Speaker 3: of a woman who had one of those aluminum straws,
Speaker 3: and she stumbled and went down through her eye socket
Speaker 3: and out her head and killed her. Oh Lord, impaled
Speaker 3: clear through her head. Wow, you have to assume God
Speaker 3: didn't want you, right, how'd your sister die? Don't worry
Speaker 3: about it. I'm not gonna tell you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Well now I really want to know.
Speaker 2: You don't. No, I don't. I'm not gonna tell you.
Speaker 2: It's just this makes me want to know more. Trust me.
Speaker 3: Sorry. Okay, let's start the show officially. There is stuff
Speaker 3: to talk about today. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
Speaker 3: on this. How did it already get to be? Frye?
Speaker 3: August twenty First, you're twenty twenty six. Armstrong, you're getting
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Speaker 2: There's some people who just hate.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 5: I know, all right.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I enjoyed every time I say it.
Speaker 4: All right, let's begin the show now officially according to
Speaker 4: f C see rules and rags.
Speaker 2: Here we go at Mark. You bet you so? Somebody
Speaker 2: just cut this off? Uh, let's cut up here in.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's a Minnesotan. Oh you betcha talking about
Speaker 3: anti flock camera activists getting up there and just cutting.
Speaker 2: The thing down. Nay, that's what it sounded like.
Speaker 3: Apparently I've never vandalized anything in my life, but you
Speaker 3: might be able to get me on board with that.
Speaker 2: Depends. That's controversial. I know it is. I don't like that.
Speaker 2: Vote for that?
Speaker 3: Who nobody voted for that. We didn't have a good
Speaker 3: discussion about this. He just showed up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm looking forward to hearing your discussion with
Speaker 4: Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation during our four.
Speaker 2: Of the show. Is that correct? Yeahs.
Speaker 4: I have a lovely opportunity to attend my youngest child's
Speaker 4: who is a full grown adult now law school mock
Speaker 4: trial finals, and so I will be doing that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to miss the end of the show.
Speaker 4: I apologize, deeply, humbly and insincerely.
Speaker 2: Are you defend? Oh?
Speaker 4: That'd be fun, and I will testify on my own
Speaker 4: behalf demnit.
Speaker 2: I'm an inn here, My lords, sir, sit down. Uh.
Speaker 3: Trump is going to South Carolina to try to rally
Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham's sisters.
Speaker 2: Support and that woman should not be a US senator.
Speaker 3: I think I agree with you, I really do. Her opponent,
Speaker 3: Ralph Norman, I don't know his age, I don't know
Speaker 3: his act at all. Not a staunch conservative, great conservative record.
Speaker 3: He's seventy three running for a six year term. Her
Speaker 3: answer in the debate the other day is disqualifying. Yes,
Speaker 3: we'll play that later if you don't know it. And
Speaker 3: we got headlines on the way we go, clips of
Speaker 3: the week, lots of stuff coming up.
Speaker 2: Stay here, Armstrong, Hey.
Speaker 1: See Armstrong and Yetty show.
Speaker 3: We got some good audio today from crazy people. That
Speaker 3: is kind of modern news, really, the modern newsflow. People
Speaker 3: say crazy things out loud on video, and then there
Speaker 3: are those of you out there who compile them various
Speaker 3: political bents or reaction to news stories or whatever that
Speaker 3: are just amazing, and we've got a lot of those today.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're always concerned about nutpicking. I think in a
Speaker 4: lot of cases the nuttiness is in the philosophy and
Speaker 4: the ideas, and they are widely held. So yeah, some
Speaker 4: of that to come. I propose we just kareem from
Speaker 4: story to story. I have so many interesting things to
Speaker 4: talk about today, I like after.
Speaker 2: Another Kreening on a Friday.
Speaker 4: Yes and yes, all right, let's begin by figuring out
Speaker 4: who's reporting what.
Speaker 2: It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 5: Alrighty, starting with the Alphabet networks. CBS Iran looks to
Speaker 5: boost regional trade ties as United States turn from bombs
Speaker 5: to economic warfare. CNBC oil prices head for a second
Speaker 5: weekly rise as the United States abouts to turn up
Speaker 5: the economic pressure on Iran, and CNN Iran condemns Trump's
Speaker 5: threat of quote economic d Day against Tehran.
Speaker 3: Condemns Sure, Okay, they have to go ahead. They have
Speaker 3: to be worried about this Iran. They have to think old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they've already got rampant inflation, unemployment, growing discontent
Speaker 4: in the streets. But I tell you one thing about
Speaker 4: rains of terror. They work you machine gun forty fifty
Speaker 4: thousand people, you pull them out of hospital beds and
Speaker 4: torture them to death. Everybody hears about it. Everybody thinks, yeah,
Speaker 4: you protest.
Speaker 2: New York Times.
Speaker 5: Canada is considering United States trade deal as deadline mirrors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't even talk about the Trump threat fifty
Speaker 3: on Canadian goods. And then he backed off at five
Speaker 3: till midnight. The other night, he was up late, five
Speaker 3: minutes to midnight. The tariff is off. We've come to
Speaker 3: an agreements and no details, and nobody knows there actually
Speaker 3: was an agreement or whatever. And what we're playing ultimate
Speaker 3: hardball with is the North American Free Trade Agreement or
Speaker 3: the successor to that that Trump himself negotiated and hailed
Speaker 3: as the best agreement in the history of agreements. But
Speaker 3: because he's Trump, because it's up for renewal, it's time
Speaker 3: to just beat the crap out of everybody else involved
Speaker 3: in the negotiation.
Speaker 2: From the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4: Even if there are friends and allies, which I don't
Speaker 4: think is a good long term strategy, Yes.
Speaker 5: Katie, Wall Street Journal, California draws more startup investment than
Speaker 5: all other forty nine states combined.
Speaker 3: You know, if I'm gaving news of my tout that
Speaker 3: why does California when it ranks fiftieth almost every year
Speaker 3: in business climate and all the different other things, continue
Speaker 3: to be such a hub for the most innovative companies
Speaker 3: on earth for you know, for decades and decades part
Speaker 3: of its momentum. I think inertia, they're here, They're in California, USA.
Speaker 5: Today, Americans are drinking less alcohol than ever before.
Speaker 3: Man, I wouldn't have predicted that. Yeah, they're saying, it's
Speaker 3: at a record low. We're more anxious, we're more depressed.
Speaker 4: At each other's throats divided sounds like a recipe for
Speaker 4: having a couple of pops to me.
Speaker 5: Right from the Washington Post, neighbors say Gordon Ramsey's burger
Speaker 5: joint is stinking up their pricey condos. Oh my, they're
Speaker 5: referring to it as a greasy odor.
Speaker 2: They're burgers. His burgers are damn good.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Yeah, it's pricey, but that's a good burger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: New York Post new hypoallergenic peanuts could bring the salty
Speaker 5: snacks back to airplanes and school cafeterias.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the return of the peanut to the
Speaker 3: to the flight fantastic. Oh my god, I'll be in
Speaker 3: Cleveland before no time, enjoying these peanuts. Can't serve peanuts
Speaker 3: on a plane because one guy out of fifty millions.
Speaker 4: All right, don't fly take the bus. Hey, mister peanut,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about your terrible allergy. I seriously am, and
Speaker 4: I hope you live a long, happy life and avoid
Speaker 4: any sort of problem with it. On the other hand,
Speaker 4: give me some damn peanuts. You can't say, mister peanut.
Speaker 4: When there is a mister peanut with spind spindley legs
Speaker 4: and a top hat in a monocle, I appreciate him
Speaker 4: dressing classy even in these casual times.
Speaker 3: Well done, mister. You don't see mister Peanut just wearing
Speaker 3: his pajamas.
Speaker 2: Right right, well, all right, pee Peanut. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Study fine, Larry Legome, Yeah, that'll do. That's fine. Stop
Speaker 2: salted Sam, I don't know. You guys are the worst.
Speaker 2: Uh okay.
Speaker 5: Study fines forty nine percent of dog owners say that
Speaker 5: their pets eat higher quality meals than they do.
Speaker 3: Wow, I've probably had periods of my life where that
Speaker 3: was true. The dog ate better this week than I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife can't cook.
Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, wow, woa, this is the nineteen forties. My
Speaker 3: wife can cook.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you really nice knowing you, Michael, what's
Speaker 5: the mic on the old battleax?
Speaker 2: I thought I was talking to Hanson only salted Sam. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And finally the Babylon Bee aw sad woman's mascara not
Speaker 5: smudged enough while filming herself crying for a selfie video,
Speaker 5: and now she has to start all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, sitting in your car or walking or whatever.
Speaker 3: God thing is performative, it really really is.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 3: I had a comment on one of those stories, but
Speaker 3: don't remember what it was, unfortunately, from earlier. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll get.
Speaker 2: Tracked by day. Yeah, I'm sure we'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is. We got clips of the week coming up.
Speaker 3: If you don't know what, we're referring to. Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 3: who dropped dead out of nowhere with a heart attack
Speaker 3: a while back, and his sister immediately emerged as a
Speaker 3: candidate to take his seat, which bothered me from the
Speaker 3: get go because I don't want.
Speaker 4: The ortic dissection. But you got the dead part, right,
Speaker 4: That's the bottom line. Anything with your heart's a heart attack.
Speaker 4: To me, it's all the sound.
Speaker 3: His sister immediately jumps up to, well, she should be
Speaker 3: the senator, which I don't get it all just because
Speaker 3: you have the same last name.
Speaker 2: I don't understand that at all. Well, to fill the
Speaker 2: seat until the election in November. Fine, yeah, okay, But.
Speaker 3: Immediately I remember people saying, you know, she was very
Speaker 3: close to him, and you know they were very tight.
Speaker 3: An advisor he would turn to. Clearly he was not
Speaker 3: turning to her for any advice on anything since she
Speaker 3: got asked by Taiwan and her answer was I don't
Speaker 3: really know anything about foreign policy. She couldn't even make
Speaker 3: up an answer, which alone is enough reason not to
Speaker 3: be a senator. You're not quick enough on your feet,
Speaker 3: verbal enough.
Speaker 2: Right here, curious and curious enough about the world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's unbelievable. I was a serious blow to her chances.
Speaker 3: God, I'd say Clips of the Week next, and then
Speaker 3: we'll get into the.
Speaker 1: Korena thee Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Love the story from Mark Halpern's column today. Let's talk
Speaker 3: about this more later.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 3: There's not a single twenty twenty six candidate in any race,
Speaker 3: either party with a polster who isn't telling them to
Speaker 3: adopt an anti data center position and to accuse their
Speaker 3: opposition of being pro data center. Wow, that's the that's
Speaker 3: the best position to take, no matter what party, what
Speaker 3: your constituency, what race, I have to be anti data
Speaker 3: center and it'd say the other girl, guy or girl.
Speaker 2: Is for them.
Speaker 4: I saw something similar. It's uh yeah, yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: it's obligatory. Wow, all of us sudden. So more on
Speaker 4: that to come. Got dozens of great stories to get to.
Speaker 4: But first, it's the beloved Friday tradition. Let's take a
Speaker 4: fan look back at the week that was. It's cow
Speaker 4: clips of the week.
Speaker 2: It's cow. They call it cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2: It's cow. Luigi MANNGIONI pleading guilty to stalking the husband
Speaker 2: and father.
Speaker 3: I shot mister Thompson in Manhattan and he died, man said.
Speaker 2: Today, breaking news the sudden death of actress Hayden Panetier.
Speaker 2: Frank Beer, the drummer of zz Top, has died.
Speaker 1: The national debt hitting a staggering milestone, topping forty trillion
Speaker 1: dollars for the first time.
Speaker 2: The ri is pretty good. The return on investment back
Speaker 2: to just facts.
Speaker 3: Pretty soon, I'll be declaring the hormone straight a territory
Speaker 3: of the United States.
Speaker 1: You are the best in the world in terms of
Speaker 1: the research thats you do.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to be honest to you.
Speaker 3: I'm not on national security that I'm not that informed
Speaker 3: on national security. So tonight here that humanoid robot called
Speaker 3: Superman and is six and a half foot jump in
Speaker 3: the air.
Speaker 2: How it is something the racer is on.
Speaker 3: As you remember, I donated the flagpoles, one on each side,
Speaker 3: and this is a great pole.
Speaker 2: This is the top of the line. It's tapered. Nick
Speaker 2: Shirley has a small peanuts allegedly. That's so adult of you.
Speaker 2: Did you hear about this? What'd you get to today? No,
Speaker 2: because I low you just bed Roden and doom scrolled.
Speaker 2: It's also the reason I quit smoking weed. I don't
Speaker 2: understand like there's no sexualization in a drag show. It's
Speaker 2: just people dressing up and singing.
Speaker 5: Care and accountability circles work better than punishing people who
Speaker 5: have engaged in sexual harm to make them stop. Also,
Speaker 5: what we saw were kinds of poverty, people who are
Speaker 5: stealing things like food based so we imagine a future
Speaker 5: society without the nation state, right so, and without money.
Speaker 5: Socialism is more gear toward like helping the people in
Speaker 5: your you know, the government.
Speaker 2: Can I feel? Please finish what I'm gonna say? What's
Speaker 2: the grow up?
Speaker 3: I just wanted to follow up on the period about it.
Speaker 2: You're a loud, boisterous person.
Speaker 1: You're I was trying to find out if you had.
Speaker 2: So handsOn.
Speaker 3: That woman that said we envision not having a nation
Speaker 3: state all that sort of stuff. Was that the chick
Speaker 3: that is mum Donnie's housing person?
Speaker 2: Is that who that was?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh that's say Ed's sister. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3: There's so many of them it's hard to keep them
Speaker 3: all straight. You envision doing away with the nation state
Speaker 3: and money? Okay, that's a reasonable position. Man, what fu
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna run on. Cats will walk upright
Speaker 3: on their back feet, and we'll all start speaking Polynesian.
Speaker 3: That is the future of America. That's what I'm Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is gonna happen by twenty twenty eight. That's where
Speaker 3: we're gonna go with. We're speaking about a careening from
Speaker 3: issue to issue to issue, which we plan to do.
Speaker 3: Got a good clip from Gavin Newsom. We're going to
Speaker 3: get to a little bit later. It's become quite a
Speaker 3: thing that they no longer use the SAT scores to
Speaker 3: qualify people to get into universities because they were racist
Speaker 3: or whatever they decided, and so they did away with it,
Speaker 3: and now we have endless universities, including a good one
Speaker 3: from Berkeley just the other day, where this professor had
Speaker 3: the guts to come out and say, look, we got
Speaker 3: to do something. I'm getting all these students they can't
Speaker 3: do basic math. I can't teach them the stuff we
Speaker 3: need to teach them here at Berkeley if they show
Speaker 3: up not being able to do basic fractions. Anyway, Gavin
Speaker 3: Newsom asked about it yesterday, and we'll play the clip
Speaker 3: a little bit later where he hums and haws it.
Speaker 2: Look, it's an issue of fairness. Show me the data.
Speaker 3: I mean, once I see the data, I'll make a
Speaker 3: decision and just won't take a stand on that.
Speaker 2: What a weird time to be alive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he does not have the game he thinks he
Speaker 4: has played. He's so beholden to certain groups be it,
Speaker 4: you know, And that's that's very similar to the whole.
Speaker 2: Transgender athlete.
Speaker 4: It's a question of fairness there, but the grace of God,
Speaker 4: he just he knows he's stuck in between a rock
Speaker 4: and a hard place, the rock being the truth and
Speaker 4: the hard place being his radical supporters, or in the
Speaker 4: case of the education thing, the teachers' unions.
Speaker 3: I was in a lunch yesterday with some corporate types
Speaker 3: and one of them, throughout the question, we got into
Speaker 3: talking about politics and twenty eight and that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: and one of them said, do you think Gavin Newsom
Speaker 3: actually believes people like him? That's an interesting question. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he believes people like him. But you know,
Speaker 3: I listen you like you do. I take in a
Speaker 3: ton of podcasts and punditry and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom's name hasn't popped up much lately anytime they
Speaker 3: get into the who do you think is gonna be
Speaker 3: the nominee in twenty eight? Lately his name hasn't popped
Speaker 3: up like there. For a while, it was always his name,
Speaker 3: and lately it has not been. And it's more AOC
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris Shapiro, those that crowd AOC keeps coming up
Speaker 3: over and over. Oh my god, please nominator anyway. I
Speaker 3: didn't mean to get off on that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's all right.
Speaker 4: This has struck me as so completely ridiculous in a
Speaker 4: non starter for so long. But in these weird, populous times,
Speaker 4: if the Republican involved made a misstep, it could happen.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: And understanding the way primaries work, right, you don't need
Speaker 3: to appeal to that many people to get the nomination
Speaker 3: in either party.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh, you're right.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: Brett Stevens, the token conservative for the New York Times,
Speaker 4: wrote a great piece about that where he said, uh, yeah,
Speaker 4: woke one was crazy. Uh, but where's the accountability? And
Speaker 4: he goes he lists person after person after person who
Speaker 4: was ruined for saying something comp deletely mainstream that again.
Speaker 4: Now you could say again and it would have no repercussions.
Speaker 4: And he makes a powerful, powerful case. I would like
Speaker 4: to hear that list. We want to be a class action.
Speaker 3: I know legally it'd be hard to get this together,
Speaker 3: but a class action among people who were victimized by
Speaker 3: the whole horrific woke apocalyse. Would this be names and
Speaker 3: stories we all remember mostly from his column and examples.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I remember several of them but we might have
Speaker 3: to dig into that. That would be a pretty good one. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we got a lot more on the way. We're going
Speaker 3: to get into mailbag and some of the other stories
Speaker 3: of the day, and just koreem from topic to topic.
Speaker 2: It'll be real good. Stay here, armro.
Speaker 1: See Armstrong and getting st Wow.
Speaker 3: I was just reading this article the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 3: of which I understand about five percent, about the really
Speaker 3: intricate parts of the economy and the market that most
Speaker 3: of us don't pay any attention to. Uh, and it's
Speaker 3: not good news. And it's a weird mid August. What
Speaker 3: the hell is going on? Maybe I'll get to that
Speaker 3: a little later, a.
Speaker 2: Little more unprecedented. That's good, right, Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Super So mentioned Brett Stevens column in The New York
Speaker 4: Times about how AOC laughed off WOK one and and
Speaker 4: he says, good for AOC acknowledging mistakes. Now, can we
Speaker 4: have some accountability for the vast damage that woke one
Speaker 4: point zero did not to mention the damage that woke
Speaker 4: two point oho continues to do, and he points out
Speaker 4: that it wasn't just an Orwellian linguistic fad or a
Speaker 4: tedious set of corporate training sessions and cultural sensitivity, et cetera.
Speaker 4: As it was experienced by those on the wrong end
Speaker 4: of it. It was a system of enforced ideological conformity, policed
Speaker 4: by social bullying and institutional coercion, or a cowardice which
Speaker 4: damaged and sometimes even ended reputations, careers, and at least
Speaker 4: one man's life restitution if only in the four of
Speaker 4: honest contrition and perhaps even a public apology is in order.
Speaker 2: And then he goes through.
Speaker 4: The top editor for the Philadelphian Choir, that's the big
Speaker 4: newspaper in Philly, had to resign for his job and
Speaker 4: issue a groveling apology for the sin of running an
Speaker 4: article by the paper's architecture critic with the headline buildings
Speaker 4: matter too, or you know, and they're a bunch of bunch.
Speaker 2: Of examples that are just laughable.
Speaker 3: The thing that got him fired was a headline saying
Speaker 3: buildings lives matter too. No buildings matter too. Didn't even
Speaker 3: have lives in it, so no buildings matter too. At
Speaker 3: the height of George Floyd was enough to get you fired. Yeah,
Speaker 3: wires sets in here insane.
Speaker 4: Here's a radio slash podcast host who was suspended indefinitely
Speaker 4: because he stated it's sometimes permissible for a non black
Speaker 4: person to quote a racial slur in narrow context.
Speaker 2: He didn't even.
Speaker 4: Use it, He just said it is permissible to use
Speaker 4: it as a if you're talking about racials. And he
Speaker 4: was essentially fired for that.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: James Bennett, former editor of the New York Times opinion section,
Speaker 4: forced from his job after publishing an essay from a
Speaker 4: sitting Senator, Tom Cotton.
Speaker 3: Remember that to be right about most of it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: remember that that was crazy. That was Tom Cotton arguing
Speaker 3: that we should put the National Guard on the streets,
Speaker 3: I think, to try to calm things down, Which you
Speaker 3: don't have to agree with that, but that's perfectly reasonable
Speaker 3: to let a US senator make that case right in
Speaker 3: the New York Times.
Speaker 4: Well, one more example, just because I can't resist, because
Speaker 4: I remember this at the time and still makes me insane.
Speaker 4: Jason Kilbourne, University of Illinois Chicago law professor, was barred
Speaker 4: from campus and placed on administrative leave because he had
Speaker 4: used the first two letters I'm sorry the first letter
Speaker 4: of two slurs in his civil procedure exam on a
Speaker 4: front the Black Law Students Association described as mental terrorism, sorr.
Speaker 2: He referred to the N word, and I don't know
Speaker 2: what else. Yeah, I think there was. I don't remember
Speaker 2: what the other that.
Speaker 3: Was moving the line or the Overton window from You
Speaker 3: can't say the word, you need to say the N
Speaker 3: word too. You can't even say the N.
Speaker 4: Word right or even N dot dot dot. And it
Speaker 4: was a law class about a woman filing a discrimination
Speaker 4: case because somebody had dropped an N bomb on her.
Speaker 3: Did you read Harry Potter? Do you remember the whole
Speaker 3: Voldemort thing? They couldn't say it didn't that seem nuts? Nope,
Speaker 3: that actually happened. Is happening in the United States of America.
Speaker 4: Here's a woman railroaded out of Harvard after a TV
Speaker 4: appearance in which she said that the terms male and
Speaker 4: female were scientifically essential, even if she insisted that facts
Speaker 4: about biology shouldn't prevent us from treating people with respect.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a Nazi to me. Yeah, no, kidding, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom line. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, well and so angry and to the
Speaker 3: point that walk woke too is a thing and going
Speaker 3: on right now. We get a story later about this
Speaker 3: guy who had to leave his job after eleven years
Speaker 3: at a prestigious newspaper in Seattle, first stating the truth
Speaker 3: about Sophie Cunningham and the whole transfer and specifically teenage athletes. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: we'll read his horrific offensive words to you and let
Speaker 3: you be the judge.
Speaker 4: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Badly needed.
Speaker 4: So interesting backstory on this one. When Ronald Reagan lost
Speaker 4: the nomination for president to Jerry Ford in nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: six at the convention, Ford won and he gave.
Speaker 2: His speech and he said, I watched it just the
Speaker 2: day before yesterday. Oh my god, how interesting. Here's a
Speaker 2: fifty year anniversary on Wednesday. Oh that's why I came up.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so Jerry Ford said, ron why don't you
Speaker 3: come up and say if you were he was the
Speaker 3: very greatest thing to do. This is such a good story.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: You know, when you lose in politics, you're bitter, and
Speaker 3: they were bitter, and they hated each other at that time,
Speaker 3: as always happens in politics, Ford and Reagan. Reagan loses
Speaker 3: to Ford barely the night that Ford's going to give
Speaker 3: the big speech at the convention. You know, hey, I'm
Speaker 3: the nominee Reagan and Nancy and a couple other people
Speaker 3: are across the street having drinks. He has had no
Speaker 3: plan to speak, right, he was asked to speak, and
Speaker 3: he said no. His wife told him no, they were open,
Speaker 3: or they weren't even going to be in the arena
Speaker 3: for this thing, right as it was going on. That's how.
Speaker 3: And then he ends up on stage given what many
Speaker 3: people call the best convention speech ever.
Speaker 4: Right in his best speech, perhaps, but so he said
Speaker 4: the obligatory kind words about Jerry Ford, but having no plan,
Speaker 4: he went into a riff about how he'd been asked
Speaker 4: to write a letter for a time capsule.
Speaker 2: That's going to be.
Speaker 4: Opened in the year twenty seventy seventy six, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: three hundredth anniversary of the country. And he talks about
Speaker 4: the brainstorming he did about what to write about and
Speaker 4: the issues of the day, and how you know that
Speaker 4: probably wasn't the right approach, including nuclear warfare, nuclear weapons control.
Speaker 4: And I'll pick up his speech and this is our
Speaker 4: freedom loving quote. And it suddenly dawned on me. Those
Speaker 4: who read this letter one hundred years from now will
Speaker 4: know whether those missiles were fired. They will know whether
Speaker 4: we met our challenges whether they will have the freedom
Speaker 4: that we have known up until now, We'll depend on
Speaker 4: what we do here. Well, they look back with appreciation
Speaker 4: and say thank God for those people in nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: six who headed off that loss of freedom, who kept
Speaker 4: us now one hundred years later free, who kept a
Speaker 4: world from nuclear destruction. And if we failed, they probably
Speaker 4: won't get to read the letter at all, because it
Speaker 4: spoke of individual freedom and they won't be allowed to
Speaker 4: talk of that or read of it, that notion of
Speaker 4: what will the people of one hundred years from now
Speaker 4: say about us. If that doesn't energize you just a
Speaker 4: little bit, you're a different sort of person than we are.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're a political junkie. I found this interesting
Speaker 3: because I watched it just the other day and read a.
Speaker 4: Line I'm not I'm an America junkie, So don't you
Speaker 4: ruin the mood I've sat.
Speaker 3: I read a long piece about it from Scott Linskam
Speaker 3: of The Dispatch. The crowd went wild. He gave a
Speaker 3: speech right after Ford gave his big expectance speech. It's
Speaker 3: a terrible idea to have anybody give a speech after
Speaker 3: the night. You know who the nominee is give their
Speaker 3: speech anyway. Reagan comes out, gives a better speech. Crowd
Speaker 3: goes why. Then immediately, of course, people were writing and
Speaker 3: jaws were flapping about the Did we nominate the right
Speaker 3: guy immediately, like within sixty seconds of the guy.
Speaker 2: Giving you in the arena exactly? What a horrible move?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: than Gentlemen. Last Friday, I tuned in had one of
Speaker 4: the best laughs. I can remember listening to your your
Speaker 4: stuff about those outdated coffee commercials and the tab commercial.
Speaker 2: We could use a lot more of that right now.
Speaker 4: How about make that an every Friday segment and pull
Speaker 4: out old commercials to laugh at.
Speaker 3: Thank you always for what you do. Love your show.
Speaker 3: I love you more, Polly. I don't remember this at all.
Speaker 3: I'm glad they enjoyed it so much, the.
Speaker 4: Outdated coffee commercials where the husband says to his wife
Speaker 4: the girls at the office know how to make coffee.
Speaker 3: But I don't remember our riffing about it. I just
Speaker 3: I don't remember it. Oh really, wow, I'm glad you
Speaker 3: Drone Easter I'm glad we were funny, oh itarious.
Speaker 4: I cherish the memory yesterday, Perhaps you remember this. Yesterday
Speaker 4: we were talking about the turnaround in education among several
Speaker 4: Southern states and how blue states are ignoring it because
Speaker 4: it's politically incorrect to recognize red states or doing anything right,
Speaker 4: and it goes up against a lot of teachers unions.
Speaker 4: If you missed it, for God's sake, seriously grab the
Speaker 4: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand from Thursday, August the twentieth.
Speaker 4: I think it's hours two and three. We talked about
Speaker 4: it to figure out it's well titled. But anyway, on
Speaker 4: that topic, a California public school teacher says, I agree
Speaker 4: with you regarding the state of state of schools, particularly
Speaker 4: in California at the high school level, Goodheart's laws in action.
Speaker 2: Graduate rates no longer are just a measure. They're the goal.
Speaker 4: So everything is done to move the kids along regardless
Speaker 4: of skill. One thing regarding California stats, good portion of
Speaker 4: the kids who can't read are kids who have recently
Speaker 4: come to the US from other countries and don't speak
Speaker 4: English and in many cases weren't educated in their primary
Speaker 4: language either. These students are included in the test results
Speaker 4: that get reported. But there are signs of hope in
Speaker 4: the California district I work for teachers that all levels
Speaker 4: are offered training on teaching and reading and phonics is
Speaker 4: the core. We've already seen gains.
Speaker 3: That's good, you know, that's an interesting point and a
Speaker 3: good one, but it's also damning, just from a different direction.
Speaker 3: You can't bring in people who don't speak English and
Speaker 3: have no education into the class with my kid and
Speaker 3: drag down the whole process for US taxpayers who want
Speaker 3: our kids educated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gaffy, if this means that much to you that
Speaker 4: the unwashed masses can flood into the country without documentation,
Speaker 4: start ESL schools all right, fund them by the government.
Speaker 4: Of course, it'll turn out to be a scam too
Speaker 4: and get unionized in the rest of it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, don't drag down the English speaking kids. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's interesting. I was talking to some of the
Speaker 3: other day that grew up in a California public school
Speaker 3: and there is a big wave of immigrants came in
Speaker 3: that didn't speak English, and how every class was just
Speaker 3: undoable at that time. This would have been in the eighties.
Speaker 4: I guess yeah, the mayor of Sacramento tried to run
Speaker 4: us out of our careers for saying that out loud.
Speaker 2: We got a lot more in the way.
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