Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: My kid's school has homecoming, so he's all excited about
Speaker 2: that tonight. I'm gonna wear one of my one of
Speaker 2: my shirts, one of my ties, and one of my
Speaker 2: jackets because he's the same size.
Speaker 3: So I remember those days, those heady days of raiding
Speaker 3: my dad's closet good time.
Speaker 1: I was never close to my dad's size.
Speaker 2: It's so different because my son has reached grown man
Speaker 2: at thirteen, and I wasn't a grown man till I
Speaker 2: was like twenty five. So it's just just a different
Speaker 2: world than what I had. I can't even imagine.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 1: Hi, everybody is like a sophomore high school. It was
Speaker 1: like ninety pounds. Wow. Yeah, very different. Yeah, my son
Speaker 1: is shaving and wearing my clothes. That's a very low voice.
Speaker 2: He's a dock worker, he's a doc worker. In Uh,
Speaker 2: was that indubitably incredibly?
Speaker 1: What was that particular?
Speaker 2: In particularly in particularly so the thing that I need
Speaker 2: to remember and everyone should remember about the presidential election
Speaker 2: when we're hearing all this different stuff is nothing matters
Speaker 2: at all except for the undecided voters in a handful
Speaker 2: of states.
Speaker 1: That's all that matters. So any other talk nationally doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Any talk about all of the voters that have made
Speaker 2: up their mind, which is like ninety five percent of people,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It's just the handful of people who could
Speaker 2: go either way in the swing states, which is really
Speaker 2: really interesting. And that's why maybe this storm, the Hurricane Helene,
Speaker 2: becomes a really really big deal because one of the
Speaker 2: swing states that could make all the difference in the world,
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, just got pummeled. As you if you've
Speaker 2: been watching the news, it's horrifying. God dang it. People
Speaker 2: standing on roofs and not getting rescued, standing on roofs
Speaker 2: waving to helicopters, but one doesn't get there in time
Speaker 2: and they die. Next time a helicopter comes by, the
Speaker 2: eighth there no more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gruesome. Off the map, just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're gonna hear from Joe Biden, who said
Speaker 2: this like in the last hour or so, and then
Speaker 2: you're gonna hear from a guy who's actually there dealing
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: First, here's a reporter asking our senile old president about
Speaker 2: how well the government's response is to the storm.
Speaker 5: What does the states the storm zone need, mister President,
Speaker 5: What are the states of the storm zone? What do
Speaker 5: they need after what you saw today.
Speaker 1: On the storm zone? Yet, sir, what stormerslving of?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Don't have any that they need.
Speaker 4: They're very happy off the board.
Speaker 2: Holy gos, Oh the storm zone. I didn't know what
Speaker 2: storm you were talking about. What how about the one
Speaker 2: that's in the news all day every day, one of
Speaker 2: the biggest storms probably gonna end up being the deadliest
Speaker 2: hurricane in US history.
Speaker 1: That one.
Speaker 2: That's the storm the guy's asking you about. Oh, I
Speaker 2: didn't know what storm you're asking me about. Oh, it's
Speaker 2: going great. They're getting everything they need. Everybody's happy. Okay,
Speaker 2: here I'm stunned. Let's hear from a guy who ain't happy.
Speaker 4: Here's the problem. I'm gonna tell you everything that's happening
Speaker 4: from the ground one I'm actually seeing, because what they're
Speaker 4: telling you is complete board news, and these politicians don't
Speaker 4: fluting their line. I'll say this now, I'll say it.
Speaker 1: In the video.
Speaker 4: The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.
Speaker 4: If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters,
Speaker 4: I can't reach these people. It doesn't matter how many
Speaker 4: chainsaws and trucks I got, I can't get to them.
Speaker 4: They're ten twenty miles forty miles in the mountains. There's
Speaker 4: no way to get with them or even communicate with them.
Speaker 4: I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking
Speaker 4: for SOS messages carved in the mud or painting on
Speaker 4: the ground, and we're dropping down and saving them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw a NASCAR driver who's so wealthy he has
Speaker 2: his own helicopter who's flying around trying to pick people
Speaker 2: up yesterday. Let's hear a little bit more from this gentleman,
Speaker 2: and then we'll revisit Joe Biden here once again what
Speaker 2: he had to say about.
Speaker 4: Hey everyone, I just want to thank you for all
Speaker 4: the support and sharing that video. That did exactly what
Speaker 4: it was intended to do, and that was.
Speaker 1: To go viral.
Speaker 4: It also brought us a lot of helicopter support from
Speaker 4: the private sector on the civilian side. So we're going
Speaker 4: to put those helicopters to work and go save lives.
Speaker 4: We should be out flying right now. But me and
Speaker 4: Charlie are sitting here on the ground waiting for a
Speaker 4: helicopters to get back.
Speaker 1: But we won't be able to go out probably till.
Speaker 4: Later this afternoon because Joe Biden is flying in and
Speaker 4: they put up a temporary flight restriction in this entire area.
Speaker 4: We had good weather, but because of politics, we can't
Speaker 4: go do our job right now because somebody wants to
Speaker 4: come here and shake hands and kiss babies and tape
Speaker 4: video that he actually pretends like he cares.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they've grounded the helicopters that are rescuing people.
Speaker 2: Oh Lord, to protect the president flying in. Let's hear
Speaker 2: the president again when he got interviewed just a little
Speaker 2: bit ago.
Speaker 5: What do the states the storm zone need, mister President?
Speaker 5: What are the states and the storm zone? What do
Speaker 5: they need after what you saw today? I'm how on
Speaker 5: the storm zone get there?
Speaker 4: I'm learning what storm you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they that never they need.
Speaker 4: They're very happy about the board.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 3: This ought to be a Watergate style scandal slash conversation
Speaker 3: slash reporting frenzy. The idea that George Bush got pilloried
Speaker 3: for saying, Brownie, you're doing a hell of a job, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, they are so utterly dishonest and biased.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you know that, but I am
Speaker 1: actually shocked by this.
Speaker 2: The weird thing that I wouldn't have guessed when this
Speaker 2: was unfolding is Joe Biden deciding not to run has
Speaker 2: like inoculated him against the normal poll and tug of politics.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, it doesn't matter anymore. So he's not
Speaker 2: one of the candidates, so he can be as incompetent
Speaker 2: or non existent or wrong or whatever's he wants to be.
Speaker 2: It's just not really a story because he's not one
Speaker 2: of the candidates. So why he's the president of the
Speaker 2: United States?
Speaker 3: Right, Well, everybody's so fixated on electoral politics for one thing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's like a memo from the job that
Speaker 3: you're going to be gone from next Friday.
Speaker 1: You don't care whatever. That's wild. After hearing that clip,
Speaker 1: he's not running our country. I don't even think he
Speaker 1: what was going on at all? Well, how does he say?
Speaker 2: I understand that he didn't hear this question quite because
Speaker 2: it's always loud everywhere because he doesn't like do press
Speaker 2: conferences or interviews because he can't I don't know why
Speaker 2: he stops by helicopters to he can't hear as it is,
Speaker 2: what's standing.
Speaker 1: Next to a helicopter? What do the what with the what?
Speaker 1: I mean, what does he going through this for?
Speaker 2: But anyway, when he finally oh the storm, I didn't
Speaker 2: know what storm you were talking about.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Everybody's happy across the board.
Speaker 2: Everybody's happy. It's everything, get everything they need. Everybody's happy
Speaker 2: across the board, which is just why knee jerk. My
Speaker 2: brain barely works anymore. It's it's stuck in there somewhere
Speaker 2: for being a politician my whole life. I just regularly say,
Speaker 2: everybody's happy and everything's great.
Speaker 3: So why is the air Nott sick with National Guard
Speaker 3: helicopters right now?
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 3: You know that the state has a responsibility there too,
Speaker 3: But the idea that they can't get helicopters then they
Speaker 3: finally do and they're all grounded because President's doing his
Speaker 3: photo op is obscene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is murderous. Well, when you have.
Speaker 2: Private citizens who happen to have helicopters, I don't know
Speaker 2: who you are.
Speaker 1: Coming in. Obviously, it's something that's doable.
Speaker 2: It's doable to bring a helicopter in and rescue some
Speaker 2: of these people, and it's a private citizen thing.
Speaker 3: Well, the department is under the brave leadership of this fellow.
Speaker 3: Give us forty three, Michael, would you.
Speaker 6: We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that
Speaker 6: we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do
Speaker 6: not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds
Speaker 6: to make it through the season.
Speaker 2: There's still two hundred people missing in that one county
Speaker 2: in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Now hopefully, you know a.
Speaker 2: Lot of them are okay, and they just you know,
Speaker 2: haven't been too concerned with checking in with whoever counts names,
Speaker 2: because they're just trying to figure out what am I
Speaker 2: gonna eat and what am I gonna wear? And where
Speaker 2: am I gonna stay tonight? Right, But there's a decent
Speaker 2: chance a lot of them are dead.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: That was the worst answer we've had from a president
Speaker 2: in a long time.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a complete lack of you know, uh.
Speaker 2: And he's he's the old Joe compassion and so much
Speaker 2: compassion for everybody.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 2: He's lost that ability apparently because he didn't even he
Speaker 2: didn't even give the It's tough what those people are
Speaker 2: going through. I've been watching on the news. I'm following
Speaker 2: on a minute by minute basis with this department and
Speaker 2: that department, and you throw out some names.
Speaker 3: Of people today, instructed them to give them blah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah.
Speaker 2: Right, he couldn't do the normal thing. Just what I
Speaker 2: didn't know what Stormy you're talking about. Oh, they got
Speaker 2: everything they need.
Speaker 3: Everyone's happy across the board, I think, and this is
Speaker 3: very troubling. Part of the reason people aren't taking it
Speaker 3: seriously that a president said something so idiotic and abhorrent
Speaker 3: is that everybody accepts he's so senile. He can't be
Speaker 3: held to account for the things he says. The fact
Speaker 3: that he is the leader of the free world is terrifying.
Speaker 3: It's almost it's almost funny. It's so absurd, it's almost
Speaker 3: funny because, I mean, his the incoherence and insensitivity and
Speaker 3: stupidity they have answer is easily explained. He's too senile
Speaker 3: to know better. At this point, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: Still in the oval of office.
Speaker 1: I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I think that's where the media and the population is.
Speaker 1: It's just like, well, you know, he doesn't know what
Speaker 1: he's saying.
Speaker 3: So I think at this point Kamala Harris ought to
Speaker 3: be the president. I mean, she's a moron, but at
Speaker 3: least she's compassmentous.
Speaker 2: Well, right, I would bet money that that's what history
Speaker 2: will decide, and maybe fairly soon is it, when all
Speaker 2: the stories come out, it will be Oh my god,
Speaker 2: somebody else should have been in charge that last six
Speaker 2: months year.
Speaker 1: That was a horror.
Speaker 3: Three more months of this guy with the world in
Speaker 3: the state that it's in. Anybody else feel like they're
Speaker 3: on the edge of their seat?
Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, why not one more time? This is pretty good.
Speaker 5: What do the states the storm zone need, mister President?
Speaker 5: What are the states and the storm zone? What do
Speaker 5: they need after what you saw today on the storm zone? Yes, sir,
Speaker 5: I'm learning what storm you're talking about. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 5: everything they need. They're very happy.
Speaker 4: Golf the board.
Speaker 2: I think I'm picking up the context. So this is
Speaker 2: after he visited. So a reporter asked him after he visited,
Speaker 2: what did you see today in the storm zone?
Speaker 1: The what the storm zone? I don't know what storm
Speaker 1: you're talking about.
Speaker 2: The one you just spent the day visiting that storm?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, with the devastation and the dead people
Speaker 3: in the towns that are gone.
Speaker 2: I'm the hole looking out the window at the water,
Speaker 2: and then you hug some people. You remember that whole
Speaker 2: thing today, that storm. I didn't know what storm you
Speaker 2: were talking about. Now, everybody's happy across the board. What
Speaker 2: an awful thing to say when people have died anyway.
Speaker 2: I mean, he shouldn't be thrown around. People are happy
Speaker 2: across the board no matter what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm just stunned.
Speaker 3: That is one of the worst things I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: And I don't hold him accountable for it because he's
Speaker 2: not capable of his brain don't work.
Speaker 1: But he shouldn't be president. That is very clear.
Speaker 3: Wow, he had such an odd situation, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: We've made the point already, I guess.
Speaker 1: But I'm not outraged in the way I would not be.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just just shocked.
Speaker 2: But when he's in that mode like he was there,
Speaker 2: what does Anthony blinkoln do when when he comes in
Speaker 2: the Oval office, mister President, he just got off the
Speaker 2: phone with the Prime Minister of Israel. They're planning a
Speaker 2: ground defensive, uh, and they're talking about Iran. What should
Speaker 2: I tell him, Tell who Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: of Israel, about what they were attacked round it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it is Secretary of State Blincoln going
Speaker 2: through that or is he just a bypassing the president
Speaker 2: at this point? I wonder he might be and nobody knows.
Speaker 2: It's weird man.
Speaker 1: I'll bet they're bypassing him. I'll bet they are too.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: If you're tweeting anti automation arguments instead of mailing them,
Speaker 2: you're destroying mail carrier jobs.
Speaker 1: About the whole straight dockworker thing.
Speaker 2: And particularly and particularly if you're tweeting anti automation arguments
Speaker 2: instead of mailing them, you're destroying male's carrier jobs.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So we we had called uh an end to the
Speaker 2: funny songs and memes people had been putting together about
Speaker 2: the eating cats and dogs because we we we thought
Speaker 2: we'd hit all the good ones and they had, they'd
Speaker 2: ceased to amuse us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt like it had come to its natural conclusion.
Speaker 2: But Katie, uh says she's got another good one. Is
Speaker 2: that true, Katie?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I brought us a couple of the ones
Speaker 7: that you guys aired, and I believe Joe even said,
Speaker 7: well that sucked one time, so exactly, I'm trying again.
Speaker 1: I was in the uncharitable mood.
Speaker 7: I apologize, okay, well, hopefully be charitable because I like
Speaker 7: this one a lot.
Speaker 8: Here we go, like it already nineteen eighty six a game.
Speaker 9: The dogs there eating the cats there, the cats suck,
Speaker 9: geople that live there, the dogs there eating the cats there,
Speaker 9: the cats suck.
Speaker 1: Definitely the most danceable of these. Please don't eat my cats?
Speaker 1: Would you do that.
Speaker 9: Else?
Speaker 4: There you go, Please don't eat dog.
Speaker 1: This is a good song. Timber Lakes got to do
Speaker 1: this on his tour. There you go. The only thing
Speaker 1: it's missing to me is the Trump voice, the actual
Speaker 1: the actual Trump. But that I like. I like the
Speaker 1: way that's put together. I would the.
Speaker 7: Reason the reason there's no Trump voice is because he's
Speaker 7: the one playing the horn in the song and the
Speaker 7: music video.
Speaker 1: You can't sing and play the horn at the same time.
Speaker 1: I can vouch for that. It's going a lot.
Speaker 2: Did you see the Duke's a Hazard thing with Trump
Speaker 2: and JD Vans? Spectacular? It is and I was wondering
Speaker 2: how long it took somebody to put that together.
Speaker 3: It was illegal in California for about three days as
Speaker 3: lunkhead Gavin Newsom tried to outlaw parody.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just wondering how long it took somebody to
Speaker 2: put that song together, Like if it was days or
Speaker 2: like a half an hour, I don't really know. I
Speaker 2: was watching my son, my youngest, got Photoshop on his
Speaker 2: computer and he's messing around with that, and he was
Speaker 2: showing me all this stuff he was doing with AI
Speaker 2: with photos that. Because I haven't messed around.
Speaker 1: With AI, I've got to.
Speaker 2: But he was just like, you know, take a desert
Speaker 2: scene and put a volts Wagon beatle in it, Okay,
Speaker 2: and now put a put a skyscraper behind it, and
Speaker 2: it just would show up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It make it a little smaller. Just the creative abilities now,
Speaker 2: and it's so easy. It's stunning to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. My daughter, who has a couple
Speaker 3: of cats that try to escape sometimes, sent us a video,
Speaker 3: funny tiktoki type video of a woman holding her cat
Speaker 3: and yelling at the thing in Trump's voice.
Speaker 1: They're eating the dogs, They're eating the cats.
Speaker 3: The caption is, you know how I'm scaring my cats
Speaker 3: into staying in the house.
Speaker 2: Warnings to sailors in San Diego, wait till you hear
Speaker 2: this story, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10: Now everybody sees things different, and I respect your choice
Speaker 10: as a fellow citizen, But like you, I've only got
Speaker 10: one vote. It's one of the most precious possessions that
Speaker 10: I have. That's why come November fifth, I'll be casting
Speaker 10: my vote for Conwell, Harris and Tim Walls. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3: Born to run his mouth. Apparently that's Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2: Well, he's been a millionaire since he was nineteen and
Speaker 2: never had a real job. So good for him sitting
Speaker 2: there in a diner and his flannel shirt and talking
Speaker 2: about he knows who best represents the working man like
Speaker 2: we all are.
Speaker 3: What got a union card and a wedding colt you
Speaker 3: did when? Although I appreciate his saying, hey, maybe you
Speaker 3: see it differently than me, I respect that. You know what,
Speaker 3: tip of the cap to you, jingle of the earring
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 1: Bruce.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how to look at these things
Speaker 2: with the celebrities. I mean, because we don't have to
Speaker 2: pay attention to him. It's the it's the media. Bruce
Speaker 2: Springsteen has made his endorsement and then they play it
Speaker 2: on you know, NBC or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yes, so what what I mean?
Speaker 2: You want to you want to pick human beings that
Speaker 2: have the least real life experience.
Speaker 3: Bruce Springsteen would be way toward the top of the list.
Speaker 3: He might be their king exactly. Yeah, no kidding. If
Speaker 3: he endorsed a certain guitar string, I'd listen to that.
Speaker 3: But anyway, thanks Bruce, appreciate it. Speaking of endorsements, I
Speaker 3: thought this was interesting. The fairly big deal is being
Speaker 3: made over this in some quarters. Over two hundred retired
Speaker 3: generals and admirals have endorsed Donald J. Trump for President
Speaker 3: of the United States, saying, in part, Donald Trump is
Speaker 3: a proven track record of success providing the most fundamental
Speaker 3: responsibilities required of a US president, protecting national security domestic
Speaker 3: safety in the US Constitution. Meanwhile, the current administration, led
Speaker 3: by the President and Vice President of the lot our
Speaker 3: nation to become insecure, our citizens unsafe, and our country
Speaker 3: divided due to the culture war being waged across America
Speaker 3: in the form of diversity, equity and inclusion. I actually
Speaker 3: am in a hearty agreement with this. These two hundred
Speaker 3: retired generals and admirals.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, this came out as a response
Speaker 2: to the two hundred generals and whoever that.
Speaker 1: Wrote a letter supporting Kamala Harris a couple days earlier,
Speaker 1: precisely my point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we can get one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 3: different ones to endorse Trump, then Kamala and just keep
Speaker 3: going if you want, until we're out of generals and admirals,
Speaker 3: the same way we could come up with high No.
Speaker 1: Fifty one intelligence.
Speaker 3: Professionals who agreed that the Hunter lapped up bears all
Speaker 3: the signs of a Russian information campaign.
Speaker 2: Personally, I'm waiting until Bonjobi makes his decision and announces
Speaker 2: his endorsement.
Speaker 3: Least John Mellencamp has spoken out. He's broken his silence.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I thought that was interesting. It won't get
Speaker 3: any coverage outside of conservative media right now. Now this
Speaker 3: is more significant, and I wish, honestly we had the
Speaker 3: time to read the whole thing and discuss it. Maybe
Speaker 3: we will seek out the author, one Elliott Ackerman, who
Speaker 3: we've talked to before. He is the brilliant author, also
Speaker 3: marine and veteran, who wrote the Fifth Act that incredibly
Speaker 3: interesting book about the withdrawal from Afghanists.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite audiobooks of all time, really really good.
Speaker 2: If you want to understand warfare in the United States
Speaker 2: and then the modern era, that is the book for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Elliot Ackerman is one of those people who the Good
Speaker 3: Lord gave many, many gifts. He's a retired marine who
Speaker 3: was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Valor,
Speaker 3: and the Purple Heart during his five deployments to Afghanistan
Speaker 3: and I rock.
Speaker 1: He's also brilliant and a great author. Anyway.
Speaker 3: The title of his piece for the Free Press recently
Speaker 3: is the US is not ready for a modern war.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: A three thousand dollars drone can take out a ten
Speaker 3: million dollar tank. When will the American military learn that?
Speaker 1: Lesson? He asks?
Speaker 3: And I'm just going to read you a couple of paragraphs,
Speaker 3: he says. Two years ago, I was invited to lunch
Speaker 3: in Washington with Gilman Louis, a tech venture capitalist. He
Speaker 3: was in town to discuss the passage of the Chips Act,
Speaker 3: that fifty three billion dollar investment in US manufacturing our
Speaker 3: own computer chips were not dependent on China. He believed
Speaker 3: that offshoring of tech manufacturing was a dire national security issue.
Speaker 3: His concerns were many, from the one I stated to
Speaker 3: China's navy having surpassed the size of our own. If
Speaker 3: we ever had to fight World War three, the US
Speaker 3: would not be ready, he said. Although I shared Gilman's concerns,
Speaker 3: I told him I wasn't quite as worried as him.
Speaker 3: I repeated an argument had often heard from national security pros,
Speaker 3: which was that the United States retained the upper hand
Speaker 3: against any potential adversary because the truly exquisite technology, from
Speaker 3: the iPhone to the chips developed by Nvidia to the
Speaker 3: breakthroughs that open AI did not occur in China or Russia,
Speaker 3: but right here at home, and no adversary could compete
Speaker 3: with us in the creation of exquisite technology. Here's where
Speaker 3: it gets super interesting. Gilman listened patiently. Then he asked
Speaker 3: me a question. In the Second World War, which nation
Speaker 3: produced the most exquisite technology? Because it wasn't the United States,
Speaker 3: it was Germany, he reminded me. Back then, American Sherman
Speaker 3: tanks nicknamed flaming coffins by GI's, who proved no match
Speaker 3: in one on one contests, when the German counterpart the
Speaker 3: Tiger tank the ponzer Kompfwagen, Both the fighter jet and
Speaker 3: the long range ballistic missile and as that came later
Speaker 3: in the war, weren't creations of the Allies but of Germany.
Speaker 3: With a notable exception of the atom bomb, the Germans
Speaker 3: were consistently the first to field what was then considered
Speaker 3: exquisite technology. The problem for the Germans was that they
Speaker 3: lacked industrial capacity.
Speaker 1: The Allies defeated the.
Speaker 3: Axis with inferior technology that could be mass produced, and
Speaker 3: the conclusion, I'm sure you know where we're going with this.
Speaker 3: Today the United States finds itself in the position of
Speaker 3: the Germans. We have divested ourselves of much of our
Speaker 3: industrial capacity. China, meanwhile, with thirty five percent of the
Speaker 3: world's global manufacturing output, finds itself in the position that
Speaker 3: allowed the US to win the Second World War. And
Speaker 3: he goes into a bit of detail, and I don't
Speaker 3: think you'll be paywalled. We'll post a link at Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty dot com. If you're interested in the topic,
Speaker 3: you can read the whole thing. But he supports his
Speaker 3: argument quite thoroughly with a number of different examples, including
Speaker 3: the one that the sub had mentioned these ten million
Speaker 3: dollars tanks that are being taken out by three thousand
Speaker 3: dollars drone and the Abrams M one tank, which is
Speaker 3: an amazing piece of battlefield technology. I didn't know it
Speaker 3: requires two million dollars an annual maintenance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that was part of the argument, and I
Speaker 2: was just reading about this last night in David Sanger's
Speaker 2: New Cold Wars. That was part of the argument on
Speaker 2: not getting the tanks to Ukraine when they're asking for them,
Speaker 2: is there's just no way they could afford the maintenance.
Speaker 2: They're very complicated to maintain. It costs a lot of money.
Speaker 2: They're complicated to use that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, like I said, that's a concerning and really
Speaker 3: intriguing peace We'll link it under hot links at Armstrong
Speaker 3: in getty dot com. Similar article, this time from the
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal at the world's largest shipyard, US courts
Speaker 3: and ally to face up to China. South Korea offers
Speaker 3: shipbuilding capacity know how in talent that rivals China, whose
Speaker 3: maritime dominance is growing. And it's a similar story. We
Speaker 3: have offshore in the name of global trade, which seemed
Speaker 3: like a good idea for a while, and aspects of
Speaker 3: it still are. But we had offshore the very industrial
Speaker 3: capacity that wins wars. We can't build a fraction of
Speaker 3: the ships we need at a fraction of the speed
Speaker 3: we need to do it. We are on our hands
Speaker 3: and knees begging South Korea, the number two ship builder
Speaker 3: in the world after China, to please build us some
Speaker 3: ships while you're building yourself.
Speaker 1: Some ships, please, can you please?
Speaker 2: And we have the least modern docks in the world
Speaker 2: of advanced countries, which we all learned through the longshoreman
Speaker 2: strike this week, and the longshoreman won their deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm trying to find the figures on the
Speaker 3: vastly greater expense of building the same ship in the
Speaker 3: US versus in South Korea or anywhere else on Earth
Speaker 3: for that manager for that matter.
Speaker 1: Rather I'm sor I'm reading all.
Speaker 3: I'm talking China, South in Japan cheer out ships that
Speaker 3: account for more than ninety percent of the world's tonnage
Speaker 3: ninety percent, the US bills two tenths of a percent.
Speaker 3: Do we have the industrial capacity to win a major conflict?
Speaker 1: No, not even close.
Speaker 3: Well, now we might be able to fire it up
Speaker 3: and adapt our current technology the way we did in
Speaker 3: World War Two. You know, car plants became tank plants.
Speaker 3: But we have at the time.
Speaker 1: Got to admit.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm always hoping is that just as the
Speaker 2: third biggest population on Earth and the biggest economy by
Speaker 2: quite a lot, we can ramp up early quickly, I hope.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: The good news is this, the very dei programs that
Speaker 3: we began the segment talking about are bearing some fabulous fruit.
Speaker 3: The US Navy has unveiled its first gender integrated submarine.
Speaker 3: We now have girls on our submarines. Because the United
Speaker 3: States Military is a jobs program and a social experimentation lab.
Speaker 2: Right, the most important thing is not being the most dominant.
Speaker 1: Military power on Earth. It's being the fairest to everyone,
Speaker 1: the most enlightened. Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, And one final note about the United States Military
Speaker 3: and all of its awesomeness. This is outrageous to me,
Speaker 3: and I don't want the show to be all outrage.
Speaker 3: I don't think this segment has been an age. It's
Speaker 3: concerned anger.
Speaker 2: I'm angry, and I want to carry that anger over
Speaker 2: to everyone that could listen.
Speaker 3: Jack is outraged by my lack of outrage, Yes, but
Speaker 3: I am so mad. I am actually outraged by this.
Speaker 3: This is a warning to sailors United States Navy personnel
Speaker 3: in the San Diego, California area. All of these pro
Speaker 3: Palestinian pro Hamas Islamist tied groups and the soft headed
Speaker 3: jackasses that support them have called for a week of
Speaker 3: rage calls for action across the United States. Some events
Speaker 3: may occur in the in the San Diego region. The
Speaker 3: Navy is close involved with protecting Israel from hesbela eran Hamas,
Speaker 3: et cetera, and some of the anger related to the
Speaker 3: protests will likely be directed at the US military, so
Speaker 3: members should strongly be advised against being out in uniform
Speaker 3: in the vicinity of protest activity, or wearing things someone
Speaker 3: could tie them to the military simply to avoid unwanted attention.
Speaker 3: We are warning our service personnel. Don't be in uniform,
Speaker 3: don't wear a hat, don't let anybody know you are
Speaker 3: serving the United States, because you might be in danger
Speaker 3: in the United States. Are you effing kidding me?
Speaker 1: That's something?
Speaker 3: Why are we sending out a warning to these Marxists
Speaker 3: and Islamists and whatever the misguided college idiots are. If
Speaker 3: you lift a hand against one of our service members.
Speaker 3: Because they're in the service, you will see the inside
Speaker 3: of a federal penitentiary, and the arrest process probably.
Speaker 1: Won't be as gentle as you're used to either. Why
Speaker 1: are we not warning them exactly, which I'm sure you could.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Actually know the laws, But there's got to be some
Speaker 2: sort of political terrorism or something, or if for reasons
Speaker 2: of politics you're attacking people in our military, but whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the threats should be to Hey, I wouldn't do that
Speaker 2: if I were you. Here's what will happen as opposed
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 10: Better.
Speaker 2: If you're in the Navy, you better probably wear your
Speaker 2: civilian clothes and kind of hide that and don't mention
Speaker 2: that to anybody, because the angry college kids are out
Speaker 2: and well, you know.
Speaker 3: The Antifa types might beat you to death or certainly unconscious.
Speaker 3: I want a poster on every light pole in San
Speaker 3: Diego on the sailor kissing the woman, which seems like
Speaker 3: toxic masculinity to me. By the way, I want to
Speaker 3: sign everywhere saying if you threaten a US surface member,
Speaker 3: you're in violation of federal code whatever it is, and
Speaker 3: you will serve up to ten years in prison, and
Speaker 3: we will prosecute you, prosecute you. We have lost the confidence,
Speaker 3: the posit save energy of the need to defend this
Speaker 3: country and Western civilization in general. We have been cowed
Speaker 3: into this bizarre self hatred by the radical left in academia.
Speaker 1: And I won't have it. Who's with me? I know
Speaker 1: you probably are. I will cripple you.
Speaker 2: Monday is the one year anniversary of October seventh, and
Speaker 2: it will be interesting to see the op eds in
Speaker 2: the newspapers and what politicians have to say and how
Speaker 2: they handle it on the Sunday talk shows and all
Speaker 2: that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Oh and what Yale has said about October seventh to
Speaker 3: its Jewish students may make you want to I don't know,
Speaker 3: rain blows upon their unholy heads. Bruce Springs, not the
Speaker 3: Jewish students, the faculty, I should say.
Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen announced who he's endorsing, and they use that
Speaker 2: at a tease going into the news. It's like the
Speaker 2: other day when The New York Times is going to
Speaker 2: announce tomorrow who the editorial board chooses for the presidential candidate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have a feeling they're going to go with the
Speaker 2: Democrat and when Bruce did too, I'll be darned.
Speaker 1: Oh god, jeez.
Speaker 2: Really, and I don't think I've heard anywhere about Elon
Speaker 2: Musk coming out for Donald Trump other than like here.
Speaker 1: Or you know, rightly, What the.
Speaker 3: Hell does Elon Musk know about the world and how
Speaker 3: it works compared to a Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2: Elon out with quite the tweet today. He's going to
Speaker 2: be in Bethel, Pennsylvania tomorrow. Trump's going back there for
Speaker 2: a rally, first time since he got shot there, and
Speaker 2: Elon's gonna be there, which is something. But Elon put
Speaker 2: out quite the tweet. We ought to read to you,
Speaker 2: among other things on.
Speaker 1: The way Armstrong, a number of stories we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: to yet, start with this. Elon Musk tweeted this out today.
Speaker 2: And he gets no attention in the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: I know they hate him, but his world's richest man, and.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean we have to platform him owns Twitter.
Speaker 1: I mean, if.
Speaker 2: What's his name, Jeff Bezos was still the world's richest
Speaker 2: man and was getting this involved in the presidential race
Speaker 2: on the side of Kamala Harris. His every quip would
Speaker 2: make the evening newscast about Kamala Harris anyway, elon Musk.
Speaker 2: Today the Dems are doing deliberate voter importation to swing
Speaker 2: states and fast tracking them to citizenship. The only question
Speaker 2: is when, not if, enough migrants can vote to flip
Speaker 2: all swing states, shifting the whole country to permanent one
Speaker 2: party rule, just like what happened to California after the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty six amnesty. Diabolically smart, to be honest, That's
Speaker 2: why I keep saying that unless Trump wins and reverses
Speaker 2: a scam, twenty twenty four is the last election in America.
Speaker 1: That's some pretty strong talk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is a much more more logically reasonable
Speaker 3: proposition than Trump will declare the end of democracy and
Speaker 3: become president for life.
Speaker 1: How the hell would that happen? Is it not going to?
Speaker 2: Does?
Speaker 1: Going through tweets? Does anybody know why?
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green tweeted today, Yes, they can control the weather.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't
Speaker 2: be done. Does anybody know what she's talking about?
Speaker 3: Blaming Biden for the hurricane? I don't know who can
Speaker 3: control the weather though them? Okay, she said they ken.
Speaker 1: And everyone knows it.
Speaker 2: The Mets Brewers series is over, so this doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you followed the other day
Speaker 2: when the britt, one of the shortstop for the Mets,
Speaker 2: got into a back and forth with the Uh he
Speaker 2: was on base, he'd hit a triple with the third
Speaker 2: basement for the Brewers, and they were back and forth
Speaker 2: and they were going to meet in the parking lot
Speaker 2: and fight after the game. Wow, And the guy for
Speaker 2: the Mets, Willis, said, I was there. I showed up,
Speaker 2: and that I was there. I was writing he didn't show.
Speaker 2: So he actually showed up in the parking lot where
Speaker 2: they had agreed to fight, and the other guy didn't
Speaker 2: show old school. That is pretty old school.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 2: I want to get to this, but I'm gonna save
Speaker 2: it up. I'm gonna save it for next hour, I guess,
Speaker 2: or a fourth hour. Don't dour Wait a minute, I know.
Speaker 2: Should we do four hours? That seems like a lot.
Speaker 3: If you don't don't get the fourth hour, grab it
Speaker 3: via podcast Armstrong you getty on demand, better yet subscribe.
Speaker 2: How about this guy running as a Republican Mike Lawler
Speaker 2: a represented a Republican representative locked in a tight race
Speaker 2: for re election. This story broke yesterday. The headline photos
Speaker 2: show New York congressman in blackface as Michael Jackson in
Speaker 2: two thousand and six as a college student. Because he
Speaker 2: was a big Michael Jackson fan, he dressed as Michael
Speaker 2: Jackson and.
Speaker 1: Put black on his face.
Speaker 2: Unreal, he says, as a big fan of Michael Jackson,
Speaker 2: and I didn't think it was a big deal at all.
Speaker 2: But in the New York Times it says the ugly
Speaker 2: practice of blackface was used in the eighteen thirties to
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah. He said, I didn't
Speaker 2: know anything about that at the time.
Speaker 1: It was a first thing for my mind. Different right.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see if that has an effect.
Speaker 2: The New York Times acted like it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I saw one comment.
Speaker 3: I'd rather see the reporter reporting this hounded out of
Speaker 3: society than this guy who is just a Michael Jackson fan.
Speaker 1: Good one.
Speaker 7: I'm strong and getty