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 1: Jetty and he arms Yet Thanks Friday live from Studio
Speaker 1: c Say Senior, a dimly lit room deep within the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: Conflict and chaos. Oh yay, oh goodie, thanks for that,
Speaker 1: Oh boy and Loman, they'd I and hose open, they'd
Speaker 1: promote Jim from accounting for general manager instead of instead
Speaker 1: they hired conflicting chaos. Unless you mean NFL playoff football
Speaker 1: or college That's exactly what I've met. That's conflicting chaos.
Speaker 1: It's a good point, andentrol chaos. But yeah, yeah, fair enough,
Speaker 1: brightly colored uniforms. Watch NFL Wildcar Weekend, which is some
Speaker 1: big NFL fans favorite weekends when you got a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of playoff games going at one time and anyone
Speaker 1: could win. With the Kansas City Chiefs not in it
Speaker 1: for the first time in like a decade, it's more
Speaker 1: of a wide open on both sides sort of situations.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Very exciting, great, great, great college
Speaker 1: football game last night if you watched it, to Miami
Speaker 1: came from behind and beat poor old miss. So we'll
Speaker 1: play either Indiana or Oregon, who played tonight, which will
Speaker 1: be exciting. There you go, that'll be a good ball game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to catch some of that action. I said
Speaker 1: this yesterday too, and this isn't really about sports. If
Speaker 1: you're not a sports fan, the quarterback for Indiana is
Speaker 1: one of those special human beings is that you run
Speaker 1: into now and then and if you man, if you
Speaker 1: haven't caught his act as a sports fan or even
Speaker 1: a non sports fan, is just like a positive energy
Speaker 1: guy or leadership person or something. He's either going to
Speaker 1: be a giant NFL star or a motivational speaker or
Speaker 1: end up the CEO of Ford or something. But he
Speaker 1: is a white president, he is well yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is quite the dude. You remember when young men
Speaker 1: in America and little girls theoretically could grow up and
Speaker 1: dream of being president. That was like this, in this
Speaker 1: great country, you could grow up and be president. That
Speaker 1: was that was not a cliche truism in America. It
Speaker 1: was a bromide a saying that we all knew and
Speaker 1: now it's like, oh god, no, oh, why are you
Speaker 1: threatening me? Well, it's it's been that way for for
Speaker 1: some people for a long time. I just started that
Speaker 1: Assassination of Garfield mini series on Netflix. What's it called?
Speaker 1: About the Lightnings? I'm about the last Blood everywhere disgusting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: death by lightning, Death by lightning. And it's about the
Speaker 1: assassination of James Garfield, which nobody knows anything about, if
Speaker 1: he even knew. There wasn't a session ate. I mean,
Speaker 1: I barely knew it. And I'm a big giant fan
Speaker 1: of presidential stuff, and this mini series lays it's about
Speaker 1: the crazy guy who shot him and about Garfield himself,
Speaker 1: and at least the way it's Garfield's portrayed in this show.
Speaker 1: He had no interest in being president, right. He goes
Speaker 1: to the convention to cast his votes for this dude
Speaker 1: Sherman to try to get him to be the nominee,
Speaker 1: and somebody nominates him and then he ends up the
Speaker 1: nominee and then president. He had no interest in being president.
Speaker 1: His wife didn't want it, he didn't want it. It
Speaker 1: was one of those they were terribly divided and there
Speaker 1: were thirty seven ballots, and finally somebody said, look, everybody
Speaker 1: likes Garfield. He's a good and decent man. And every
Speaker 1: faction said, yeah, actually, Garfield's a pretty good guy. And
Speaker 1: he's like, what the hell are you doing? And you
Speaker 1: know what's really interesting. We didn't talk about this because
Speaker 1: the news flow has just been insane this week. The
Speaker 1: shooter at Brown University put out video confessions there in
Speaker 1: his storage locker where he killed himself, thankfully ending his
Speaker 1: miserable life. Unfortunately he ended it too late, but essentially
Speaker 1: he was one of those sad pathetic losers who blamed
Speaker 1: everyone else for his sad pathetic life and his failures.
Speaker 1: And the guy who shot Garfield, at least as portrayed
Speaker 1: by the miniseries very much the same. God. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I was thinking last night. I couldn't quite get
Speaker 1: it together. Here's a very angry, sad loser who at
Speaker 1: some point latched onto a way for his suicide to happen. Yeah, essentially, yeah,
Speaker 1: uh huh. Which it turns out throughout history, the more
Speaker 1: you think about it, I think are the more you
Speaker 1: observe it. A lot of the major assassinations throughout history
Speaker 1: or terrorist attacks or whatever were perpetrated not so much
Speaker 1: by somebody with a strong ideology or like they're really
Speaker 1: going to accomplish something. They're just crazy people that needed
Speaker 1: the thing to unleash their vibe on or to make
Speaker 1: them the big big man they had always believed they were,
Speaker 1: and that the world wasn't recognizing. That was the Garfield case.
Speaker 1: A lot of people believe that was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Speaker 1: You know. The John Wilkes booth thing is the exception,
Speaker 1: not the rule. Definitely, the dedicated ideologue, definitely. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: other really really crazy interesting thing I've discovered in the
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours, and maybe we can get into
Speaker 1: this later. We'll have to decide to so much to
Speaker 1: talk about is conspiratualism. These people who, for various reasons,
Speaker 1: they latch onto conspiracy deep you know, deep conspiracy, rabbit
Speaker 1: hole Qanani stuff and exists on the left too, absolutely
Speaker 1: and get a near religious attachment to it or or
Speaker 1: virtually religious attachment to it. I've just been reading about that,
Speaker 1: and it's frequently an elaborate coping mechanism dealing with the
Speaker 1: trauma of their lives and that sort of thing. But
Speaker 1: oh my god, it snapped my head back. It was
Speaker 1: so interesting and revealing. Oh I really want to hear
Speaker 1: about that. We were probably better off as apes. The
Speaker 1: human brain got too big, too complicated, too prone to
Speaker 1: going off in wacky directions. So back to the trees.
Speaker 1: That's my rallying cry. Nobody tunes us in, especially on
Speaker 1: a Friday for presidential minutia. But just while it's in
Speaker 1: my mind that Garfield show, which, by the way, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people would like. It's really well done.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good drama whatever. Yeah, agreed. Was Chester A Arthur,
Speaker 1: who again is just a name.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I knew nothing about Chester A Arthur. I knew he
Speaker 1: was a president, knew nothing about him until this show.
Speaker 1: Was he actually a violent thug like that? I don't
Speaker 1: know to what extent that's true. I remember learning that
Speaker 1: he was very much a party hack. He's not really
Speaker 1: well respected as a statesman or thinker. But boy, the
Speaker 1: presidents we always make jokes about on President's Day of
Speaker 1: being nothing's whatever, turn out at least in this show
Speaker 1: to be pretty fascinating. It looks like Chester A. Arthur
Speaker 1: was the kind of guy that would take people in
Speaker 1: a back alley and beat him down to get the
Speaker 1: money out of him or whatever. He was like. He
Speaker 1: was like a Paully Walnuts in the Sopranos, and he
Speaker 1: ends up vice president. Yeah, Makien, politics were pretty brutal
Speaker 1: back in the day, and then Garfield gets assassinated and
Speaker 1: then he's president. But yeah, wow, that's interesting. We're we've
Speaker 1: got some disgusting politics now, but there's a lot less
Speaker 1: taking people into alleys and beating the money out of them,
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, let's start the show officially. There's so
Speaker 1: much to talk about today. I can't wait to talk
Speaker 1: about Aram. Very excited about what's going on there. Optimistic
Speaker 1: or at least we're getting to the crossroads where the
Speaker 1: Mullas are going to decide. All right, that's enough of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But like Venezuela, the question of what's next, the most
Speaker 1: likely answer is not terribly palatable. But more on that
Speaker 1: to come. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
Speaker 1: it is Friday, January ninth, year, twenty twenty six. How
Speaker 1: did that happen? We are Armstrong and Getty and we
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Speaker 1: at mark.
Speaker 3: A new episode of his podcast, Kansas City Chief star
Speaker 3: Travis Kelsey said that he won't make a decision about
Speaker 3: retirement for a month and added that he's quote just
Speaker 3: being a regular human for a couple of weeks. You know,
Speaker 3: a regular human who's engaged to Taylor Swift and contemplating
Speaker 3: retirement at thirty six.
Speaker 1: This regular dude stuff. Yeah, sitting on an enormous pile
Speaker 1: of money. But that's place. See, he can't, you know,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is the perfect test case for do you
Speaker 1: resent people just because they're successful? I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you going to resent about the dude? I don't know,
Speaker 1: he's very likable, but what a what could anything turn
Speaker 1: your life more upside down even when you're already wealthy
Speaker 1: and famous, than getting engaged to Taylor Swift. I mean,
Speaker 1: holy crap, that would put you into a new well.
Speaker 1: Hardly any human being has ever been in the Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift zone, right right? Yeah? I mean, the heart wants
Speaker 1: what the heart wants, Jack, But I'd be tempted to
Speaker 1: go looking for another skinny block. This is just gonna
Speaker 1: be complicated, Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way
Speaker 1: and you can join us anytime you want on the
Speaker 1: text line four one five kftc yo yo anniversary today
Speaker 1: of uh. It was on this day in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven that Steve Jobs did a big presentation there
Speaker 1: the Bay Area and held up a little heavy, weird
Speaker 1: looking gadget called the iPhone, and man did that change everything?
Speaker 1: Mm thanks Steve in many ways for the worse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, Oh my gosh, did Peter Mgosian write
Speaker 1: a great piece entitled eh ah here it is. Here's
Speaker 1: the title for you, the title, the reveal it there
Speaker 1: it is. Oh I'm sorry. It was just and hate
Speaker 1: is sometime partner the Devil's planned to ruin the next generation.
Speaker 1: If you were to say to Satan, how would you
Speaker 1: ruin the next generation of humans and steal their souls?
Speaker 1: How he would do it? It will chill you to
Speaker 1: the bone. First, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
Speaker 1: the lead story. Oh my gosh, we have plenty of
Speaker 1: time for Katie Green.
Speaker 4: Katie all right, So let's start with the main headline here,
Speaker 4: ABC News Minneapolis Ice shooting. Officer involved in shooting was
Speaker 4: injured in a June incident NBC Minnesota and Portland shootings
Speaker 4: fuel protests and then to kind of counter this New
Speaker 4: York Post Renee Good was Minneapolis quote Ice Watch warrior
Speaker 4: who trained to resist Feds prior to shooting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the ramming of ICE officers in their vehicles
Speaker 1: is going on nationwide. Ain't a joke. They're all aware
Speaker 1: of it. People are getting hurt badly. Stop it now
Speaker 1: or you might get shot in your head. Are they LARPing?
Speaker 1: Joe had a piece for us yesterday about these people
Speaker 1: who are kind of LARPing until they run into reality.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting. It's changed kind of the way I
Speaker 1: look at these people. Also, that got a lot of
Speaker 1: attention yesterday that the officer that shotter had been drugged
Speaker 1: by a car by a protester already earlier and he
Speaker 1: got what two hundred stitches. Yeah, he got hurt and
Speaker 1: had to be feared for his life when that happened before.
Speaker 1: So that would have an effect on your reaction. Yeah.
Speaker 4: From the Washington Post. Iranian protests and strikes escalate as
Speaker 4: leader vows state will not back down.
Speaker 1: I listened to a journalist out of Iran yesterday and
Speaker 1: they are really ramping up the protests. The opposition leader
Speaker 1: dude who is a crown prince of something that is
Speaker 1: calling for the protests every single night. People are coming
Speaker 1: out of what is it, one hundred and ten towns
Speaker 1: cities across Iran now that have protests in them. That
Speaker 1: way bigger than any protests have been previously. Right, right,
Speaker 1: it's an oh, go ahead, you add more. They shut down.
Speaker 1: But the bad guys, and they are bad guys. They
Speaker 1: pulled in their security forces and are bringing in the
Speaker 1: Iranian Revolutionary Guard to try to deal with the situation.
Speaker 1: That's just like in the last forty eight hours, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's such an interesting phenomenon of uprisings like this that
Speaker 1: you have to alter, I'm sorry, offer an alternative. You
Speaker 1: can't just say down with the powers that be. There's
Speaker 1: got to be an alternative to rally around. And in
Speaker 1: this case, the best they can come up with is
Speaker 1: the son of the deposed Shaw, who'd almost certainly become
Speaker 1: a figurehead in something like a republic more of a democracy,
Speaker 1: kind of British style something like that. But you've got
Speaker 1: to have that that figurehead. You can't just say, hey, democracy,
Speaker 1: there's got to be a person.
Speaker 4: From The New York Times, Trump says more US attacks
Speaker 4: on Venezuela quote will not be needed.
Speaker 1: Nogay would I wouldn't think so. We grabbed a couple
Speaker 1: more Russian tankers. Russia's really mad. It is. Well, how
Speaker 1: much of this whole Venezuela thing is that? It's just
Speaker 1: like an end around on the whole Ukraine Russia deal.
Speaker 1: I'd say it's an add on advantage.
Speaker 4: From the Wall Street Journal, White House ballroom architect said
Speaker 4: a West Wing edition is under consideration, going to be
Speaker 4: some ballroom.
Speaker 1: Can't wait. I hope I get invited to many balls.
Speaker 4: From Fox News, Naked woman allegedly assaults deputy while intoxicated
Speaker 4: and claiming she was trying to be a mermaid.
Speaker 1: Well try harder, sweetheart number one. You're on try land
Speaker 1: number two. You still got legs the whole mermaid. I
Speaker 1: saw a dude yesterday on a moped, like a cool
Speaker 1: vintage moped. I mean, this is like the hipster of hips.
Speaker 1: He's on a cool vintage moped. He's got a tail,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, tail or some sort of tale, the free thing,
Speaker 1: free tale.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: I know you gotta look at me, Look at me,
Speaker 1: I'm special. Look at me. You gotta tail. He had
Speaker 1: sideburns and some sort of wacky old timey hat. All right,
Speaker 1: so help you. This is bordering on old man shouting
Speaker 1: at clouds. But we need a great deal more of
Speaker 1: this in our society. Yeah, I get it. Look at me,
Speaker 1: look at me, look at me. Accomplish something then someone
Speaker 1: then people will look at you to all this just
Speaker 1: the virtue signaling, look at me, I'm trans, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: a gender or whatever. Oh look I have a tail. Whatever.
Speaker 1: If you're twelve, okay, great, I get it. But if
Speaker 1: you're a grown ass man or ought to be, there
Speaker 1: ought to be more judgment, harsh judgment of that sort
Speaker 1: of thing, because it's sad. Do something, accomplish some something,
Speaker 1: learn something, then people will pay attention to you, not
Speaker 1: just because you dress up as a damn fox, you weirdo.
Speaker 4: From page six, Madonna strips down to lingerie.
Speaker 1: And Jamby has for that ahead what else did she do?
Speaker 4: And jumps in bed with younger lovers in new raunchy ad.
Speaker 1: I haven't saying this for a long time. You get
Speaker 1: what to move past the I'm sexy and people want
Speaker 1: me thing? At some point you're in your sixties. Not
Speaker 1: that you can't be sexy in your sixties, but you
Speaker 1: can't be You can't be a sex symbol for the everyone,
Speaker 1: for the masses in your sixties. You know, how about
Speaker 1: the wise and respected elder Stateswoman's things? Any really literally anything?
Speaker 1: But look at me? Look at me spreading my knees.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants that. I know it's time for straight talk, Katie.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, no thanks.
Speaker 4: Study finds drunk from pizza auto brewery syndrome turns carbs
Speaker 4: into alcohol.
Speaker 1: How do you get that? Can you sign up for that?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, imagine that I wouldn't have to like
Speaker 1: drink beer with the beer, wine with the pizza. It
Speaker 1: was if the ones shop stop shopping.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I have two Babylon Bees because I couldn't decide.
Speaker 4: So the first one is teenager confused how parents still
Speaker 4: don't know everything?
Speaker 1: But it only took him sixteen years. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And then the other.
Speaker 4: One is Greenland Panics, as Marco Rubio is seen donning
Speaker 4: heavy parka.
Speaker 1: I came across what may be my favorite Babylon Bee
Speaker 1: headline of the last six months or so. I don't
Speaker 1: want to paraphrase it because it's so good. But it
Speaker 1: has to do with the the Minnesota Social Services ripoff scandal.
Speaker 1: Joe is going to re explain to us the LARPing
Speaker 1: element of these protesters. Really, yeah, the poor stupid lady
Speaker 1: who got shot in the head. Just what what are
Speaker 1: those people doing? What do they think they're doing? Marping?
Speaker 1: Pretty well illustrated. Marping is the acronym for live action
Speaker 1: role playing. Yeah, essentially, well, yes, yes, and that's what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I never thought about it this way before.
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting. It's what's going on all across the country.
Speaker 1: On the way Armstrong and Getty, Oh a beautiful Chester,
Speaker 1: Joe and I are about to launch into content completely
Speaker 1: forgetting the first Friday of the new year that this
Speaker 1: is where we do clips of the week, right right,
Speaker 1: and the very people who are supposed to be part
Speaker 1: of the team to present the show. Instead of pointing
Speaker 1: out that fact, I'm saying, hey, dude, you got clips
Speaker 1: of the week, so maybe move that other feature a
Speaker 1: little No, no, no, they just remain silent, giggling like idiots.
Speaker 1: Hope and we'll screw up some team. This is now.
Speaker 1: Miami wouldn't have won that game last night, so it
Speaker 1: couldn't be now.
Speaker 4: I will say, last time this happened, there was some
Speaker 4: coordination going on behind the scenes. We were all in cahoots.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with that. I am Michael.
Speaker 1: This is all Michael. Yeah. So it's like Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: offensive line knows he thinks it's going to be a pass,
Speaker 1: but it's a run. This is hilarious. Oh yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get let him get wiped out by the defensive tackle. Yeah, Michael, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll wait, we'll we'll wait for a moment.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Someday it will come and revenge will be sweet. I
Speaker 1: completely forgot the Clips of the Week even existed. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I just hadn't thought of it for a while. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's we'll get to that stuff in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating and compelling and trust us. But first, let's
Speaker 1: take fun look back at the insane week that was.
Speaker 1: It's cow clips of the Week. What a great game?
Speaker 1: This is going give me our first day big problems here,
Speaker 1: what you get it. We will replace the frigidity of
Speaker 1: rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. Families, especially white families,
Speaker 1: but some UOC families who are homeowners as well are
Speaker 1: going to have a different relationship to property than than
Speaker 1: than the one that we currently have. I want you
Speaker 1: to give me one example of socialism you think working
Speaker 1: well somewhere. I think of Cuba in particular. That's coming
Speaker 1: to day becoming.
Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna fight the United States militarily over the future
Speaker 3: of Greenlands.
Speaker 1: One last question, see it make any sense?
Speaker 2: One helony and protesters taking to the streets of their
Speaker 2: country again.
Speaker 1: Iron's government is now and he got payments, payments of
Speaker 1: seven dollars a month to help people afford food.
Speaker 2: The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation
Speaker 2: in the capital of Venezuela, Operation Absolute Resolve. This was
Speaker 2: an audacious operation. Nicholas Uduro had his chance. He left
Speaker 2: around and he found out.
Speaker 1: And he's a violent guy.
Speaker 2: He gets up there and he tries to imitate my
Speaker 2: dance a little bit.
Speaker 1: The American people did not sign up for this kind
Speaker 1: of adventurism. So we are going to run the country.
Speaker 1: So those of you who thought this whole project was
Speaker 1: globalhomo oh crazy. Actually we are.
Speaker 4: Under assault like no other time in our state's history.
Speaker 1: It was an active domestic terrorism, and she attempted to
Speaker 1: run an law enforcement officer over. I want to tell
Speaker 1: everybody directly that is both. So it looked like she
Speaker 1: was impeding ICE vehicles. Definitely, yeah, that was her goal.
Speaker 2: And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
Speaker 2: the fuck out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: It's clips of the week, first week of the year,
Speaker 1: first week back. Two giant stories, very very short follow
Speaker 1: up to that. First of all, if anybody is left
Speaker 1: thinking that I Joe Getty was like being hyperbolic or
Speaker 1: paranoid in describing the social justice crowd as neo Marxists
Speaker 1: when they say we need to confiscate private property. Now
Speaker 1: do you believe me? Anyway? Moving along, so on the
Speaker 1: Minnesota shooting. The Minneapolis shooting, it's interesting. I think a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of people on the right are
Speaker 1: coming together and agreeing that this poor woman, Renee Nicole
Speaker 1: Good is an unfortunate dupe and it's very very sad
Speaker 1: that she got shot, which I think is a good
Speaker 1: and healthy way to look at it. There are a
Speaker 1: couple of ways I'd like to frame what happened, and
Speaker 1: I think if you understand these two things, you'll really,
Speaker 1: really really understand what happened Number one. I mentioned it
Speaker 1: yesterday that Marxists are trained to put you in predicaments.
Speaker 1: You can't win decision to them, as they call them,
Speaker 1: You taunt, you impede law enforcement until they take a
Speaker 1: swing at you, and then you post the video online
Speaker 1: and say, look at the fascist brutes were up against
Speaker 1: any attempt to rally people to the cause. It's actually
Speaker 1: it's in writing Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Lensky.
Speaker 1: It's a well known strategy. They do it all the time.
Speaker 1: In this case, it went way, way, way, wait, way
Speaker 1: too far. This woman believed, as one writer put it,
Speaker 1: she'd been radicalized by her fellow lefty political friends that
Speaker 1: ice are monsters that she must fight. She bought all
Speaker 1: the fascist coming into our communities to blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and she imagined that she was a brave resistance fighter.
Speaker 1: Which brings us to an absolutely terrific piece that we
Speaker 1: shared late in the show yesterday, And if you've heard
Speaker 1: it before, I hope you enjoyed as much as we did.
Speaker 1: And it's very thought provoking. It's written by a gal
Speaker 1: who has an anonymous account on Twitter, but is quite
Speaker 1: smart anyway. I think a lot of radicalization happens in
Speaker 1: spaces where it's all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It's easy
Speaker 1: to LARP as a revolutionary. That's live action role playing
Speaker 1: as someone who stands against oppression. There's a lack of
Speaker 1: seriousness about it all. You start to believe the memes.
Speaker 1: You start to believe you're a hero, you're the main character.
Speaker 1: Then you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like
Speaker 1: pull your car in front of police officers. They draw
Speaker 1: their guns, and the LARP crumbles. You're not that person.
Speaker 1: This is real life and those are real guns. Nothing
Speaker 1: but get the hell out of here, screams in her brain.
Speaker 1: She probably didn't see the officer standing in front of
Speaker 1: her car as she smashes the gas. The officer can't
Speaker 1: know this, of course, they don't know what she's thinking.
Speaker 1: They just know when guns were drawn asking her to
Speaker 1: step out of her vehicle, she slammed on the gas
Speaker 1: in the direction of an officer. They're not in a LARP.
Speaker 1: Their job is real and they encounter people who want
Speaker 1: to kill them, so they fire. No one in this
Speaker 1: woman's life told her she's on a retarded, destructive LARP.
Speaker 1: She was encouraged by her peer group viral videos of
Speaker 1: similarly lost radical larper's getting nothing but praise online politicians
Speaker 1: calling the enforcement of our laws akin to the Nazis,
Speaker 1: calling them illegitimate, calling them evil, telling them, telling their
Speaker 1: citizens to make their voices heard. Everyone in her life
Speaker 1: failed her. She needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead,
Speaker 1: she had no one, and now she's dead, a horrible
Speaker 1: case of internet radicalization. Yeah, I think that's really really good.
Speaker 1: I think that describes some people I know who see
Speaker 1: this as all as kind of like an online game
Speaker 1: and well LARPing, live action role playing, as opposed to
Speaker 1: reel their real laws and real consequences and real situations
Speaker 1: that people can get themselves into where people get hurt
Speaker 1: rightly or wrongly.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I think it's revealing that her partner, lesbian partner, was
Speaker 1: screaming after the shooting, this is my fault, This is
Speaker 1: my fault. I made her come down here to be
Speaker 1: a brave revolutionary standing up to Trump's fascist forces. I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. Now none of this matters her.
Speaker 1: What she you know, her lifestyle doesn't have anything to
Speaker 1: do with whether or not the cops get to shoot
Speaker 1: her in this situation or not. Certainly not. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it is kind of interesting. So she they mentioned on
Speaker 1: the news last night, And I'm going to rail about
Speaker 1: the CBS evening news coverage last night. I mean, nobody
Speaker 1: watches these newscasts, so it doesn't matter that much. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe how incredibly bad a job they did of
Speaker 1: like informing America. What was going on there? Or why
Speaker 1: why is ice there? Never came up, never came up
Speaker 1: at all. But anyway, they mentioned just off handedly, when
Speaker 1: her second husband died, she and she after that she
Speaker 1: had had a kid, surgate kidd and adopted kid whatever
Speaker 1: they're lesbian part. So she is married to two dudes
Speaker 1: before she got married to this woman. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know all her other stuff. So it doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: just as an interesting you got, she got quite the life.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And a poet is said to be a fine poet.
Speaker 1: I've said many times I love poets and dreamers and artists.
Speaker 1: I just don't want them in charge. Yeah, yeah, it's said.
Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, two things, Trump and company
Speaker 1: never miss a chance to be belligerent in a way
Speaker 1: that fires up opposition. I don't think that's smart. I
Speaker 1: think there are times for that. It's absolutely appropriate to
Speaker 1: come on strong rhetorically with the action whatever. Absolutely, but
Speaker 1: it not always. Sometimes, as in law enforcement, you need
Speaker 1: the buy in from the community to do it effectively.
Speaker 1: Any cop will tell you that. That's why good policing
Speaker 1: inquires a lot of community outrage outreach rather a lot
Speaker 1: of it. When the cop comes in to the hood
Speaker 1: because something's gone wrong, everybody says, oh, there's Jones, because
Speaker 1: Jones has been in the hood and introduced himself and
Speaker 1: said hello, and stopped in the stores and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's an important part of policing. Never ending belligerence is
Speaker 1: not going to help this situation, even if you're in
Speaker 1: the right, and I think some of it could be
Speaker 1: toned down a little bit. Absolutely. It got no attention
Speaker 1: the day of the shooting. But Tom, because nobody wanted
Speaker 1: to know, media wanted to hear from anybody being calmed.
Speaker 1: Tom Holman said, well, I think we should wait and
Speaker 1: have an investigation. Tom Holman, who's you know, kind of
Speaker 1: fam on Fox and throwing red meat, was like the
Speaker 1: grown up that day saying we should wait for an investigation.
Speaker 1: But in fact he said it would be unprofessional of
Speaker 1: me to comment before all the facts are in. Oh
Speaker 1: my lord, I didn't even hear that till yesterday. There
Speaker 1: were no clips of that because that's not what people want.
Speaker 1: They want the people declaring in a murder or the
Speaker 1: exact opposite. I was watching CBS News last night, and
Speaker 1: it's just one newscast on a channel that, like most channels,
Speaker 1: very few people watch. But they interviewed a number of
Speaker 1: people on the street, all of them with the ICE
Speaker 1: has got to get out of here, this is America,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Never even gave a wink to the
Speaker 1: other side that about half the country agrees with. And
Speaker 1: the reason that ICE is there at all, there was
Speaker 1: a giant scandal. Nine billion dollars got stolen from taxpayers,
Speaker 1: much of it by illegal immigrants. So they up to
Speaker 1: the number of ICE agents there to try to deal
Speaker 1: with all these illegal criminals. So they come into Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That's what started this this whole thing, but never even
Speaker 1: mentioned why federal agents would be there to try to
Speaker 1: arrest criminals. And whether or not they you know or not,
Speaker 1: still doesn't mean you get to shoot people as a cop,
Speaker 1: but you gotta have that background for some context. They
Speaker 1: presented it as just like, I don't know, they just
Speaker 1: sent in thugs for no reason to harass Minnesota's right.
Speaker 1: It's outrageous, it's sad, it's sick, I praised CBS News.
Speaker 1: I watched Tony de Couple's first UH broadcast and it
Speaker 1: was it was pretty good, it was solid, it was something,
Speaker 1: but it was terrible. It was egregious. Last night they
Speaker 1: gave this one young black kid on the street, like
Speaker 1: quote after quote after quote, who declared this kid the
Speaker 1: arbiter of what's right and wrong? And you made that
Speaker 1: the center of your newscast. I just believe it's wrong
Speaker 1: and they shouldn't be here, and blah blah, and they
Speaker 1: went on and on. We asked once again, whatever his
Speaker 1: name was, what do you think follow up interview and
Speaker 1: kit he was well into his twenties, But what what
Speaker 1: Who can there's with this one person who clearly has
Speaker 1: no idea. We would have an IQ of about seventy
Speaker 1: eight too. Why the hell is he the spokesman for
Speaker 1: Minneapolis or America When you interview people on the street
Speaker 1: who clearly don't have the slightest idea what sanctuary city
Speaker 1: is or isn't what law enforcement supposed to do the
Speaker 1: fact that are cracking down on illegal immigration, that we
Speaker 1: have millions of illegals here and something needs to be
Speaker 1: done about it. Why why wouldn't you give that context
Speaker 1: to America? Well, it especially And my only quibbal with
Speaker 1: your screen, which was most excellent, was that the percentage
Speaker 1: of Americans who would agree with apprehending illegal immigrants who
Speaker 1: rip off the taxpayers would be closer to eighty eight
Speaker 1: percent than half the country, virtually unanimous. But that's why
Speaker 1: more ICE agents were sent in. Right then that's fine.
Speaker 1: If you then say, and we think this was an
Speaker 1: illegal shooting, that's fine, but you got to have all
Speaker 1: that information, all right. My final note, I want to
Speaker 1: talk of about more about the topic of never ending
Speaker 1: belligerence as a terrible strategy, both you know, for the
Speaker 1: administration and for us as human beings. That's not how
Speaker 1: you change minds. What is your goal? What is your goal?
Speaker 1: If you're if your tactics don't fit your strategy, they're
Speaker 1: bad tactics. If your strategy is to change minds, Michael,
Speaker 1: I know we got to take an effing break. If
Speaker 1: you make that gesture again, I'm gonna come in there
Speaker 1: and do it on your forearm. That's way out of line.
Speaker 1: That's actually threatening violence. That was a little month. Oh
Speaker 1: that was just awful, and I pat, I just want
Speaker 1: to finish my my god dang sentence. Never mind, go
Speaker 1: to break. It's our top priority. Break. We've got mail
Speaker 1: bag on the way. And then there's much more to
Speaker 1: say on this topic, no doubt about it. If you
Speaker 1: want to say it. Here's our text line four one, five,
Speaker 1: two nine five KFTZ. Jene has talked hopefully about this
Speaker 1: in the past. Maybe it's gonna happen. It looks like
Speaker 1: gen Z is more likely to cut down on screen
Speaker 1: time than us gen xers or millennials on their own.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that in hour two. First, here's
Speaker 1: your freedom hating quote of the day. Super interesting. It
Speaker 1: from the nuremberger Berg trials. Gurring was being interviewed by
Speaker 1: a journalists about war and how it's tough to drag
Speaker 1: people to war in a way because they have nothing
Speaker 1: to gain. Just getting home in one piece is all
Speaker 1: they want. And the American journalist says, well, in a democracy,
Speaker 1: we have Congress, so it's different. Blah blah bah. He said,
Speaker 1: all that's well and good, but the people can always
Speaker 1: be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That's easy.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is tell them they're being
Speaker 1: attacked and denounce the Pacifists for lack of patriotism and
Speaker 1: exposing the country to danger. Or it's the same way
Speaker 1: in any country. Yeah, boy, that's true. And throughout the time.
Speaker 1: Have you watched that movie about that with Russell Crowe's
Speaker 1: no during that looks so good. I want to watch it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, mailbg sounds good. Yeah. I wish I had
Speaker 1: more time to take in all the wonderful content that
Speaker 1: exists in the world. Ah, let's see mailbag, drop us
Speaker 1: a note, mailbag a armstrong giddy dot com very quickly.
Speaker 1: I want to clean this up. We got a couple
Speaker 1: of great emails about the Venezuela Maduro thing that I
Speaker 1: didn't get to. Jimmy Houston wrote, Does anyone find it
Speaker 1: odd that it was easier to arrest the president of
Speaker 1: Venezuela than it was to find a single child in
Speaker 1: a Somali run daycare in Minnesota? Nah? Anyway, I owned too.
Speaker 1: I thought that was good. We're there, We're all leering
Speaker 1: about this. Eric L. Polpo Smith, in a story Oregon,
Speaker 1: wrote the fracas in Caracas. Get out your maraccas, but
Speaker 1: keep your l pacus. Anyway, the note was pretty good too.
Speaker 1: Oh let's see. Ah. Several people, including Stacey, said, respect
Speaker 1: Mary in the Hoe, who worked hard to compile the
Speaker 1: end of the year lists of bad names and things.
Speaker 1: Jack is never done. She got shafted in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: This is worse than Jack not tipping the dumpster driving Maid.
Speaker 1: You're right, I propose our four of the show today
Speaker 1: got at the end of the year lists from Mary
Speaker 1: and the Hoe got do I agree that with and
Speaker 1: I am completely to blame. Let's see Robert writes a
Speaker 1: preventable death the entire state of Minnesota probably would only
Speaker 1: require four or five ice agents if we had not
Speaker 1: allowed millions of people into our country for no good reason. Yeah. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you let something bad go long enough. The cleaning it
Speaker 1: up is going to be hard and unpleasant. You've heard
Speaker 1: that many times here. How the hell are you gonna
Speaker 1: unwind that without a lot of really uncomfortable things see
Speaker 1: deficit spending. I actually got pulled last night and they
Speaker 1: asked the biggest problem thank you facing the country and
Speaker 1: gave me a list. I said, none of those things,
Speaker 1: deficit spending. Let's see ice ice baby, writes Antonio whin
Speaker 1: Are Minnesota leader's going to be charged with inciting a riot?
Speaker 1: It's good question. Then finally, this from big Ern McCracken.
Speaker 1: I believe that had to be a upha. That's non
Speaker 1: diplome of some sort. Hardly anyone's been in the position
Speaker 1: of being engaged to Taylor Swift. Come on, how about
Speaker 1: every bass player from every emo band from the year
Speaker 1: twenty oh four through twenty eighteen. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't think she was actually engaged. I don't think
Speaker 1: she was it. They were just boyfriends about the Jonas
Speaker 1: boy No, they were just boyfriends. I don't care. We
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