Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: This is a district Donald Trump won by twenty two
Speaker 3: points last year. The fact that the special election has
Speaker 3: become the center of the political universe, it's really a
Speaker 3: testament to the excitement Democrats feel after sweeping key races
Speaker 3: in New Jersey and Virginia last month and Republicans growing
Speaker 3: concerns about the president's unpopularity and facing backlash in the
Speaker 3: midterms next year.
Speaker 1: They are describing a special congressional runoff race in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: specifically the Nashville area, in which the Republican ought to
Speaker 1: win it going away. But there's great excitement around this chick.
Speaker 1: She's been and called the AOC of Tennessee for her
Speaker 1: left wing views in antics. Her name is aften How
Speaker 1: perfect is that aften Ben? And she ought to be
Speaker 1: the ideal Democrat for Republicans in a red face, red
Speaker 1: state to face that used to be the thinking. But
Speaker 1: again she's gotten a lot of support in the dude
Speaker 1: who looks like a great candidate, who's the Republican whose
Speaker 1: name is Van Apps. Matt Van Epps is the West
Speaker 1: Pointer flew helicopters for the Army Tennessee National Guard. Nice
Speaker 1: America First Republican, lower regulation, more freedom, that sort of
Speaker 1: thing seems ideal. And he's running against this aften Ben woman. Now, Katie,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to be the judge because I
Speaker 1: generally stay away from people's appearances unless they deserve it.
Speaker 2: Okay, she is.
Speaker 1: Attractive ish, this aften Ben. But if I were at
Speaker 1: say a Nashville bar, and we are having a drink
Speaker 1: and a laugh and the light hitter just right, I
Speaker 1: might think that's a dude, pretty man ish.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to argue with that is a strong jaw, one.
Speaker 1: That does not enter into her ability to govern successfully
Speaker 1: or legislate Wisely, she's a freaking nutjob.
Speaker 2: But so yeah, you're not wrong. Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So she's thirty six years old, a former community
Speaker 1: activist the hell does that mean? And healthcare organizer? Hell
Speaker 1: does that mean? She's now serving in the Tennessee House
Speaker 1: again dub the AOC of Tennessee. So this woman is
Speaker 1: is also very dodgy with a press. She won't answer
Speaker 1: questions straight, and what they keep asking her is does
Speaker 1: she stand by her last her past public statements.
Speaker 2: Here's just a little sampler for.
Speaker 1: You a few years ago on the city she represents, Nashville.
Speaker 2: I hate the city.
Speaker 1: I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I
Speaker 1: hate country music. I hate all of the things that
Speaker 1: make Nashville barely in its city to the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the country. But I hate it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, now she says she was just talking about
Speaker 1: all the tourists that make it tough for her to
Speaker 1: get to her house. Okay, how about on her state.
Speaker 1: Let's go a little bigger. Let's pull back to ten
Speaker 1: thousand feet on the state of Tennessee. This is an
Speaker 1: interview with the Tennesseean newspaper. And again, this woman is
Speaker 1: not twenty three, so we're not talking about when she
Speaker 1: was nineteen years old.
Speaker 2: She's thirty six. Quote.
Speaker 1: Let me be clear, Tennessee is a racist state. Racism
Speaker 1: is in the air we breathe, permeating the state capitol,
Speaker 1: codified in the legislation being passed. To the detriment of women,
Speaker 1: she means, to the detriment communities of color and the
Speaker 1: working poor are problem with racism in the state is
Speaker 1: wild and untamed. Okay, how about the whole defund the
Speaker 1: police thing. What's the proposal lettl dissolve the matt Nashville PD,
Speaker 1: she asked online. Or if that's not enough for you,
Speaker 1: how about this? She's nizzle. She tweeted this in June
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. Good morning, especially to the fifty four
Speaker 1: percent of Americans that believe burning down a police station
Speaker 1: is justified.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, good grief. Yeah. So.
Speaker 1: On CNN's Inside Politics Sunday, which I wouldn't condemn prisoners
Speaker 1: to watching, host Manu Raju asked Miss Ben if she
Speaker 1: regretted making these remarks instead of disavowing them. She answered
Speaker 1: that she wouldn't post such remarks today because she has matured.
Speaker 1: She added that those remarks were made when she was
Speaker 1: a private citizen and not an elected lawmaker. But she
Speaker 1: doesn't say she doesn't believe it. She just says I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have posted it. The difference between now and when
Speaker 1: she made the remarks is that she since learned to
Speaker 1: hide better what she really believes, so she can't be
Speaker 1: called to account for it. And my final note on
Speaker 1: the Democratic wakudoodle of the day. Aft in Ben is
Speaker 1: this delicious note reported by The Free Beacon that she
Speaker 1: in the past called for white candidates, if they find
Speaker 1: out they're in a race, a political race against a
Speaker 1: non wait candidate, you should drop out of the race
Speaker 1: preemptively because there are too many white voices already.
Speaker 2: And I quote, I'm probably.
Speaker 1: Going to be trolled for this, but if you're a
Speaker 1: white man running in a primary with a progressive PoCA,
Speaker 1: that's a progressive people of color, I challenge you to
Speaker 1: ask yourself in this moment, is my voice more important?
Speaker 1: And if you think it is, your campaign is more
Speaker 1: about you than your policy agenda.
Speaker 5: Oh the white guilt.
Speaker 1: Well, then on the other hand, she found herself in
Speaker 1: a primary against a black dude.
Speaker 2: Haha, that's perfect.
Speaker 1: The only black candidate in the primary race who came
Speaker 1: in last place in a four way struggle.
Speaker 2: Ben beat him. Bla blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: During the primary, Dixie press his name was Vincent Dixie,
Speaker 1: which is a great name. Yes, he really needs to
Speaker 1: run a restaurant or a car dealer. Vince Dixie from
Speaker 1: Vince Dixie for anyway. During the primary campaign, Dixie pressed
Speaker 1: Ben at a candidate forum on how she would ensure
Speaker 1: black constituents had a voice in Congress. Ben replied that
Speaker 1: she has always followed the lead of black women and
Speaker 1: said she was grateful for their organizing. But Dixie then
Speaker 1: called out Ben for only mentioning black women. I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure you understand it's more than black
Speaker 1: women in this world that you'll be representing. There are
Speaker 1: also black men that need to be in this conversation,
Speaker 1: he added.
Speaker 2: But having already said that white.
Speaker 1: People should drop out if a black is in the race,
Speaker 1: she had to kind of narrow it down.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean black men. I just meant black women.
Speaker 1: Let's see, she posted, liberals listen to black women. Black
Speaker 1: women abolish the police, liberals listen. An other deleted posts,
Speaker 1: she wrote that she wanted Nashville's police department to be dissolved,
Speaker 1: supported a teachers union call that defunding the police should
Speaker 1: be a condition for schools reopening during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, look, she supported the teachers' unions, And
Speaker 1: if you've ever doubted that teachers unions are a force
Speaker 1: for evil, even as they're just trying to get wages
Speaker 1: and benefits for teachers, which I get. It's a union,
Speaker 1: and I have problems with public employee union in general.
Speaker 1: But anyway, if they only did that, that would be
Speaker 1: one thing.
Speaker 2: But they are evil.
Speaker 1: During COVID they said we won't open schools unless you
Speaker 1: defund the police. That's effing evil.
Speaker 2: That has what to do with COVID, right right, It's
Speaker 2: just crazy.
Speaker 1: So anyway, this crazy nut job Tennessee AOC is just
Speaker 1: two points behind in the polls. I will tell you
Speaker 1: that state poles tend to be inaccurate because the sample
Speaker 1: sizes are pretty small and the national polls are not great.
Speaker 1: But so we'll have to see if this l O
Speaker 1: la lola looking chick gets elected.
Speaker 2: Well that what another Kukola in Congress?
Speaker 1: Great Scott, Great Scott, the progressive wave.
Speaker 4: It's just I try to well, I don't try to
Speaker 4: understand it because I'll go insane, but the mindset of
Speaker 4: listening to her make any of those points and going, yes,
Speaker 4: I like her, I'm with her.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: These people have no capacity for rational thought. How dumb
Speaker 1: are you to want to defund the police?
Speaker 2: Why didn't you.
Speaker 1: Ask anybody in a tough neighborhood, a black neighborhood, a
Speaker 1: Hispanic neighborhood. You morons, Do you want more police in
Speaker 1: your neighborhood or fewer police? Oh, it's like the mins
Speaker 1: are almost universally more.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like the woman that was just interviewed, I think
Speaker 4: it was on News Nation actually who They asked her
Speaker 4: how she felt about the National Guard being sent into Memphis,
Speaker 4: and she thanked them and said, I haven't been able
Speaker 4: to leave my house and feel safe in years.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and now I can.
Speaker 1: It's been the story for well over a month now
Speaker 1: that Memphis is thrilled because Memphis has had a serious
Speaker 1: crime problem. Yeah, the folks in Memphis are mostly thrilled
Speaker 1: by the presidence of the National Guard. It's funny you
Speaker 1: haven't heard that reported in the nations media.
Speaker 2: That's odd.
Speaker 1: It must just be in oversight, all right, more to
Speaker 1: come stay with us. This might be my favorite headline.
Speaker 1: Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI.
Speaker 1: Controversies are upted after twenty one percent of manuscript reviews
Speaker 1: for an international AI conference were found to be generated
Speaker 1: by artificial intelligence. And we'll touch on that a little
Speaker 1: bit more later. Plus the big climate conference that happened
Speaker 1: in Brazil lately. I'm absolutely astounded at the lack of
Speaker 1: self awareness by the lefty climate change zealots, and I
Speaker 1: should probably be glad about it because it undermines them,
Speaker 1: you know, getting over you know, doing what they want
Speaker 1: to do, which is mostly ruined the economy and accomplish nothing.
Speaker 1: But you should shut up, you know what. That was harsh,
Speaker 1: and I apologize. You should more carefully consider your words,
Speaker 1: my dear. So closer to home, though, and of more
Speaker 1: immediate concern, given the fact that virtually all of us
Speaker 1: drive back and forth virtually every day, if not every day,
Speaker 1: a number of high profile truck accidents that have killed
Speaker 1: innocent people have brought the nation's attention to the fact
Speaker 1: that there are a hell of a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have commercial driver's licenses that not only shouldn't, but
Speaker 1: there was no effort made to make sure they were qualified.
Speaker 1: Absolutely shocking news.
Speaker 2: Nation.
Speaker 1: Marcus X Spinoza doing some pretty damn good reporting on it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's been accidents that have really got the attention
Speaker 6: across the country, and certainly of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
Speaker 6: here and the government finding that nearly half, up to
Speaker 6: forty four percent of US trucking driving schools do not
Speaker 6: meet government standards at this point, and they risk facing
Speaker 6: closure because of that particular issue. Out of the roughly
Speaker 6: sixteen thousand licensed truck driving programs of nationwide, the Transportation
Speaker 6: Department says close to three thousand could lose accreditation unless
Speaker 6: they fix serious training and record keeping failures within thirty days.
Speaker 1: So nearly half of truck driving schools don't meet the standards.
Speaker 1: And I don't get the idea that this is one
Speaker 1: of those super picky, you know, hyper regulation things. I
Speaker 1: think it's just making sure these guys have any idea
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But this is a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of truck drivers on the road, is we're about
Speaker 1: to hear.
Speaker 6: And another forty five hundred have been warned they may
Speaker 6: face similar scrutiny. Now that means hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 6: aspiring drivers could see their training and validated, slowing their
Speaker 6: path to a commercial driver's license. Officials say many of
Speaker 6: the schools were operating like quote CDL mills, offering quick
Speaker 6: turn courses without proper behind the wheel, classroom, beyond the
Speaker 6: wheel or classroom training.
Speaker 1: Now I know that California in particular, was wildly giving
Speaker 1: out out commercial driver's licenses to people who didn't even
Speaker 1: speak English, couldn't read English, and that's one of the
Speaker 1: very basic requirements. I wonder if the geographical location of
Speaker 1: these places is disproportionately in Blue states. I don't know
Speaker 1: that to be true. I knew there was I know
Speaker 1: there was a problem in Texas too. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to leap to any conclusion. I was just curious final clip,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 7: Think it's really taken, you know, a number of high
Speaker 7: profile crashes and other incidents to put a spotlight on
Speaker 7: training in our industry in general and asking the question,
Speaker 7: you know, are the are the rules or regulations we
Speaker 7: have on the books?
Speaker 2: Are they working? And if not, what do we need
Speaker 2: to do about them?
Speaker 7: So we are absolutely throwing at ATA that the administration
Speaker 7: is paying attention to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1: That's an absolutely horrible, horrible failure of our licensing agencies,
Speaker 1: dynamics schools.
Speaker 2: How does it get that bad?
Speaker 4: And why did it take multiple people dying for anybody
Speaker 4: to even look at it.
Speaker 2: Imagine if we did that with pilots, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, too many people would die too quickly.
Speaker 1: You kind of you get some recent Indian immigrant, for instance,
Speaker 1: who can't speak English, you give him a driver's license.
Speaker 1: Hope just self preservation keeps him on the road. But
Speaker 1: as we've seen the number of people have been killed
Speaker 1: because of that, that fingers crossed approach. I just it's
Speaker 1: such a multi layered failure. Not only are these schools
Speaker 1: fake CDL mills, as they called them, but any regulatory
Speaker 1: agencies that I should have been looking at it have
Speaker 1: failed until now. The trucking schools don't give out the licenses.
Speaker 1: You have to go to the DMV and pass the test,
Speaker 1: which is why I wonder about which states are doing what,
Speaker 1: who is giving them out like candy, and who is not.
Speaker 1: And again Texas had a bit of a scandal with this,
Speaker 1: so it's not just a red blue thing. I think
Speaker 1: it may be entirely. Look, we need cheap foreign truck drivers,
Speaker 1: and we need a bunch of them, but quick, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's just what drives this. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it's absolutely shocking. Let's hope they've gotten to the bottom
Speaker 1: of it and no more people will die. Speaking of
Speaker 1: competence and lack thereof and state politics, we really haven't
Speaker 1: touched on this much.
Speaker 2: And do we have the.
Speaker 1: Tim Waltz Kristen Welker tape from Meet the Press yesterday?
Speaker 1: I don't even remember. We may have, but he was
Speaker 1: on and she asked him about the more than a
Speaker 1: billion dollars in taxpayer funds that were stolen from mostly
Speaker 1: Somali migrants. And of course there are the people from
Speaker 1: the left. It would be a mistake to demonize or
Speaker 1: immigrant community.
Speaker 2: Shut up.
Speaker 1: How about we charge criminals with crimes. That's all anybody
Speaker 1: wants to do. But well, Kristen Welker, no, you know,
Speaker 1: Republican attack dog, good lord right, says to him, and
Speaker 1: to quote, dozens of people of East African descent have
Speaker 1: been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more than a
Speaker 1: billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs during COVID.
Speaker 1: Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud
Speaker 1: in your state? Well, the model for the New American
Speaker 1: masculinity responded, well, I certainly take responsibility for putting people
Speaker 1: in jail, he said, before pointing to Trump the president.
Speaker 1: This president has cut a lot of inspector generals. He's
Speaker 1: cut programs that could help us tackle this on.
Speaker 2: Nobodys poor sentence.
Speaker 1: That's Donald Trump deflect demon eyes, come up with no solutions.
Speaker 1: He's not going to help fix anything on fraud. I'm
Speaker 1: just a regular guy.
Speaker 2: I was a football coach. Oh boy, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: He could have been our.
Speaker 1: Can you? Occasionally I allow myself to picture Kamala as
Speaker 1: the president during the disturbulent times. I mean, Trump's nuts,
Speaker 1: but good lord, Kamala Yike Simarta cum stay with us.
Speaker 2: Grab the podcast.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you are here Earlier.
Speaker 1: Hour two of the show kicked off with an interview
Speaker 1: with the fabulous Mike Lyons or military analyst about the
Speaker 1: controversy over the strikes in the Caribbean, specifically the alleged
Speaker 1: snuffing of two survivors of a strike on September. The
Speaker 1: second Mike and definitely worth dipping into the podcast Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getting on demand hour two from today. He made
Speaker 1: the point that look, this sort of double tap to
Speaker 1: make sure the threat is eliminated, whether the boat or
Speaker 1: the people, is very, very common in warfare. There's a
Speaker 1: little complication in that it's not clear that this is
Speaker 1: a warfare per se or terrorism per se. It's a
Speaker 1: drug cartel. This is kind of a new wrinkle on
Speaker 1: executive power. But anyway, that's the backdrop, and we make
Speaker 1: no judgment here. There are too many facts that aren't
Speaker 1: known yet. Mike was of the opinion that this was
Speaker 1: just a very loyally effort to get the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: specifically Pete Hegzeth, perhaps to hang a scalp on the
Speaker 1: wall by Democrats. We countered that there seemed to be
Speaker 1: plenty of Republicans who seem concerned with us too, But
Speaker 1: it's an interesting case.
Speaker 2: And we will not prejudge here.
Speaker 1: On the Armstrong and Getty Show, having said that the
Speaker 1: President is holding a cabinet meeting as we speak, and
Speaker 1: both the President and Pete Hegzeth addressed this topic.
Speaker 8: As I've said, I'm saying again, we've only just begun
Speaker 8: striking Narco boats and putting Narco terraces at the bottom
Speaker 8: of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people,
Speaker 8: and Joe Biden tried to approach it with kick loops,
Speaker 8: allowed them to come across the border. Cartels takeover community,
Speaker 8: twenty million people, hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned, and
Speaker 8: President Trump said no we're taking the bloves off. We're
Speaker 8: taking the fight to these designated terror organizations.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 8: So we're stopping the drugs, we're striking the boats, we're
Speaker 8: defeating narco terrorists, and we're saying to you, may say
Speaker 8: one thing that drugs coming in through the same by
Speaker 8: seeing are down ninety percent, and I don't know who
Speaker 8: the nine percent is.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure either are because down ninety one percent.
Speaker 8: By see, we've had a bit of a pause because
Speaker 8: it's hard to find boats to strike right now, which
Speaker 8: is the entire point. Right, deterrence has to matter, not arrested,
Speaker 8: handover and then do it again, the rinse and repeat
Speaker 8: approach of previous administrations. This is meant to get aft
Speaker 8: after that approach. And I will just end by saying,
Speaker 8: as President Trump always has our backs.
Speaker 2: We always have the back of our commanders who.
Speaker 8: Are making decisions in difficult situations, and we do in
Speaker 8: this case and all these strikes. They're making judgment calls
Speaker 8: and ensuring that they defend the American people.
Speaker 2: They've done the right things.
Speaker 6: We'll keep doing that, and we had their backs.
Speaker 1: Good ye think, wow, wow, pretty unequivocal statement.
Speaker 2: There, and that's new that just happened. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 2: was the cabinet meeting that's going on right now as
Speaker 2: we speak. Wow.
Speaker 5: I don't know if the chuckles were a good idea. Hey,
Speaker 5: we've killed so many people we can't even find a
Speaker 5: boat to shoot out of the water.
Speaker 2: Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: People chuckled. People chuckled in the background, background chuckles. What
Speaker 1: are you anti chuckling?
Speaker 2: Now is your monster?
Speaker 5: I haven't heard anybody mentioned this that Trump really hates drugs,
Speaker 5: really hates him. He doesn't drink or do drugs or
Speaker 5: even drink caffeine. And his kids, he's told this story
Speaker 5: many times when they are grown up. First thing you
Speaker 5: would say every morning, no drinking, no drugs, no tattoos,
Speaker 5: he would say to his kids, just because he believes
Speaker 5: in that whole sales mantra thing you get into people's heads.
Speaker 5: Apparently worked with his kids because they don't drink drug
Speaker 5: or to do have tattoos.
Speaker 2: But he hates his older brother right to addiction.
Speaker 5: He lost his older brother to addiction. Yeah, and so
Speaker 5: it runs in his family. I think, actually, I think
Speaker 5: Trump is a classic untreated alcoholic. But as all the
Speaker 5: a or marks of that.
Speaker 2: But because you're alcoholic, that means because he doesn't drink.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, the way many of us understand alcoholism, drinking has
Speaker 5: absolutely nothing to do with it here right now. It's
Speaker 5: a symptom of something your Your brain is not like
Speaker 5: other people's in the way you interact with the world.
Speaker 2: And I've only had the one brain. It doesn't work
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 5: The best way to deal with it is drinking or
Speaker 5: something else to deal with the way you look at
Speaker 5: the world. And there are you can be an alcoholic
Speaker 5: and never drink in your life, is the belief.
Speaker 2: Of many alcoholics.
Speaker 5: But that aside, I won't go down that road.
Speaker 2: He he hates drugs.
Speaker 5: He definitely hates them and thinks they're bad for society,
Speaker 5: which they the you know, very very often are, and
Speaker 5: certainly the kind of stuff, the fentanyl and.
Speaker 2: Everything like that.
Speaker 5: It's hard hard to come up with a good recreational
Speaker 5: story about fentanyl, I think.
Speaker 1: Right right, Oh yeah, just do a little fentanyl to
Speaker 1: relax on the weekend after around of golf with my buddies.
Speaker 2: I don't recall ever, hearing.
Speaker 5: Helps me with my anxiety.
Speaker 1: I tell you what this is difficult, and this is
Speaker 1: a great case study if you enjoy wrestling with difficult questions,
Speaker 1: because the ends do not justify the means always, you
Speaker 1: know that very saying essentially says, I if the if
Speaker 1: the result we get is good, then that justifies anything
Speaker 1: we did on the way, and that that can lead
Speaker 1: to horrors, absolute horrors.
Speaker 2: So you can't do that. On the other hand, listening
Speaker 2: to Pete talk.
Speaker 1: There saying, look, we've got to establish de terrence because
Speaker 1: these drugs are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans' so
Speaker 1: on the decline, partly because the Trump administration the border
Speaker 1: at center, but still killing tens of thousands of Americans.
Speaker 1: We have a limited period of absolute going apass and
Speaker 1: telling these cartels, not the.
Speaker 2: US, you're not selling here. Yeah we know we're a
Speaker 2: great market.
Speaker 1: Yeah we know we got a lot of addicts, but
Speaker 1: we're going to blow up your boat and snuff you
Speaker 1: if you try. Well, it's not completely indefensible on a
Speaker 1: moral level. No, And it's been presented as just a
Speaker 1: given that because we're a big, rich country full of
Speaker 1: people that are so affluent they got you know, time
Speaker 1: and space to do drugs, that there's nothing you can
Speaker 1: do about it. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 5: And the Trump administration is saying, well, how about if
Speaker 5: you can't get the drugs. How about if you can't
Speaker 5: get the drugs, then people won't be doing as many drugs, right,
Speaker 5: And no, I'm not looking for the easy answer. I
Speaker 5: could make examples of you know, some things that would
Speaker 5: be way over the line that we could do to
Speaker 5: stop people from bringing drugs in a machine gun anybody
Speaker 5: who steps across the border.
Speaker 1: That would take care of it. No, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's too horrible, horrible, But this is a tough one.
Speaker 2: I don't like. This is kind of a pet peeve
Speaker 2: of mine.
Speaker 1: But designated terrorist organizations the word terrorist is now completely meaningless.
Speaker 1: It's like fascist from the left. Fascist just means anybody
Speaker 1: I don't like. I think terrorist just means any organization
Speaker 1: that does stuff I don't like, that has a gun.
Speaker 2: I guess it's useful politically, but.
Speaker 1: I suppose you could argue that the cartels participated in
Speaker 1: murder and mayhem for profit, whereas most quote unquote terrorist
Speaker 1: organizations do it for political power or religious zelotry.
Speaker 5: Well, I feel like the media, including us in the country,
Speaker 5: just as a whole is being pretty relaxed about the
Speaker 5: fact that we've got this big, giant cocked mill terry
Speaker 5: fist done in Venezuela. Right that it looks like we're
Speaker 5: gonna throw the punch at some point, and we're not
Speaker 5: having that much of a discussion about do we want
Speaker 5: to do this? Do we want to do a regime change?
Speaker 5: Do we want marine storm on the beach there in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm approving or disapproving. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: Do we want to do?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Tell me what I'm disapproving?
Speaker 5: Well, I guess then I would start a number of Yeah,
Speaker 5: I guess I would start with we should demand more,
Speaker 5: what's the plan here? And then a conversation whether whether
Speaker 5: we're on board with this or not. Right, it certainly
Speaker 5: looks like we're about to do a regime change. It
Speaker 5: looks like what it looked like in Iraq a couple
Speaker 5: of different times, or Afghanistan or wherever. That's what it
Speaker 5: looks like.
Speaker 1: Well, and back when we had a congress worth a
Speaker 1: pair of James Madison's underpants, they would have probably weighed
Speaker 1: in in some way. But now they're just social media influencers.
Speaker 5: James Madison's underpants would have been very dainty, very tight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, a little lacey. If you hear what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, well, I dout know about that. I didn't
Speaker 1: say lay neither. Is there's something wrong with my mic?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, these are odd times. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what I'm being asked to approve.
Speaker 5: It's hard to get people's attention for anything other than
Speaker 5: I'm mad at Trump. I'm happy with Trump about some
Speaker 5: specific thing that's not even that important.
Speaker 2: Me did it, it's great. If Trump did it, it's horrible.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's similar to my AI. I won't start
Speaker 5: that again. But he got you know, people saying there's
Speaker 5: a fifty percent likely whod mankind gets wiped out?
Speaker 2: Oh well, what you know? What did Trump say about what?
Speaker 5: And the same thing with We're about to go to
Speaker 5: war with Venezuela and you can't get any conversation going
Speaker 5: about that, and maybe we are, maybe we aren't. I
Speaker 5: don't know what about the midterms?
Speaker 1: You know, Judy's out tonight. Maybe I'll watch Don't Look
Speaker 1: Up again. It's very entertaining movie. I enjoyed it. Fat
Speaker 1: Leo DiCaprio he went ahead and got Dowey and suburban.
Speaker 2: For the all I admire is played an uncool guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate a really good looking guy who takes
Speaker 5: a role that makes him look kind of weak and dopey.
Speaker 2: That is, I think that's cool.
Speaker 1: No, he's a scientist. You know what percentage of scientists
Speaker 1: are buff?
Speaker 5: Like? I know for a fact that like Steve McQueen,
Speaker 5: only took roles that made him look like a really
Speaker 5: cool badass worked for him, and it worked for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, this is neither here nor there, no nor anywhere.
Speaker 2: All right, it's just tough.
Speaker 1: These are the moral questions that I enjoyed wrestling with
Speaker 1: because they're no easy answers. You cannot if somebody is
Speaker 1: because a lot of these people are just guys in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: They're fishermen. They got a little family business. They're a
Speaker 1: laborer or whatever, but they're pretty good with a boat,
Speaker 1: and they're hired often as a navigator or what's one
Speaker 1: of the other jobs I was reading about the different
Speaker 1: jobs on the boat. These guys don't make a lot
Speaker 1: of money by our standards, but they make a lot
Speaker 1: of money by their standards. Just for like being the
Speaker 1: guy to hold onto the cocaine. And oh, one of
Speaker 1: the main roles is you got to keep the engines
Speaker 1: fueled because they go through a lot of fuel because
Speaker 1: they're running hot like crazy.
Speaker 2: You'd be terrified fast on the ocean.
Speaker 1: So these guys all they do, because they're good with
Speaker 1: an engine, is they make sure the fuel keeps flowing.
Speaker 1: And they get paid a certain amount of money for that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you blow up a drug boat and that poor
Speaker 1: son of a bitch is clinging to the wreckage, snuffing
Speaker 1: him from above, is that okay as the United States
Speaker 1: of America?
Speaker 5: Or is it not not running your boats fast enough?
Speaker 2: Apparently? Honey, you can't go faster than a missile. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Do they hear anything? Would you hear anything? Would you
Speaker 5: see a plane? Would he be even aware there's a
Speaker 5: plane in the sky?
Speaker 2: No? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially given the fact that you're zooming along at
Speaker 1: high speed on the ocean. You're slapping up and down
Speaker 1: on the waves, the engines are roaring.
Speaker 5: No, you have no idea you would just all of
Speaker 5: a sudden you just cease to exist, correct, And then
Speaker 5: maybe unless again, you're the poor sob clinging to the RCD.
Speaker 5: Maybe there's just everything goes black and loud and the
Speaker 5: next thing you know, you're bobbing.
Speaker 2: In the ocean. What the hell was that?
Speaker 5: Until the second one that hexeth the orders comes right
Speaker 5: then you're done. Yeah, well huh, I'd say, don't be
Speaker 5: a you know, the guy who checks the oil on
Speaker 5: the motor for a drug boat. Do something else.
Speaker 1: What if there had been cameras at the Battle of
Speaker 1: the Bulge or you know, one of the great military victories,
Speaker 1: would we be picking apart who got shot when and
Speaker 1: whether that German guy was trying to surrender or not.
Speaker 1: Cameras and lawyers unleashed on you know, the Battle of Gettysburg.
Speaker 2: Right? Is this just untenable?
Speaker 1: It reminds me of our discussion many times about the
Speaker 1: situation in Gaza with Israel. This is the first iPhone
Speaker 1: modern social media information war within a war.
Speaker 5: If Trump gets if the Democrats win the House, they
Speaker 5: are going to impeach Trump. Everybody seems to be an
Speaker 5: agreement on that. This is a possible possibly.
Speaker 2: One of the issues. Right. War in Venezuela, Mm hmm, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think so. Or whatever in Venezuela, maybe.
Speaker 1: Trump's just gonna go get some nice spicy chicken tacos
Speaker 1: for the Marines and then go home.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: He can text us or email us anytime. We will
Speaker 5: finish strong. Next TV News, the long awaited fifties and
Speaker 5: It's Stranger Things is officially here.
Speaker 2: Great. Yeah, over the week it actually crashed Netflix. Oh,
Speaker 2: everyone's like this season is so scary, especially.
Speaker 5: The part where I was with my family for five
Speaker 5: days and Netflix wouldn't load. That was It's interesting. I
Speaker 5: saw quite a few people were watching Stranger Things the
Speaker 5: new season on the plane when I was flying home
Speaker 5: from the Midwest. And the kids are also old now,
Speaker 5: you know, they had more than a season's worth of
Speaker 5: time in between several seasons, so they've grown here so much,
Speaker 5: and they're like still trying to portray him his little kids,
Speaker 5: and I don't know, I just don't know, Like the
Speaker 5: Sopranos used to do sometimes, you know, it'd be like
Speaker 5: three years between seasons and all of a sudden, AJ's
Speaker 5: a foot taller and got a beard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dad, I don't have to listen to you any
Speaker 2: anybody on the crew. A Stranger Things.
Speaker 4: Fan, I watched the first season and somewhat enjoyed it,
Speaker 4: but it lost me after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5: I should get into it because when my kids were
Speaker 5: too young for when we first started watching it, and
Speaker 5: it was a little too much for them, and I
Speaker 5: should delve back into it now that they're older and
Speaker 5: could handle it. I thought it was pretty cool. It
Speaker 5: roped me in, but I never get further than the
Speaker 5: first season. Actually, there's a list out of best TV
Speaker 5: shows or something like that we're gonna get into tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Best episodes of all time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which I'm looking forward to. I wonder if some
Speaker 5: of them will be the episodes of the television show Friends,
Speaker 5: which I saw where they store all the old Friends videotape.
Speaker 5: Maybe some of you are aware of this, if you're
Speaker 5: into movies or whatnot. There is a salt mine in
Speaker 5: the middle of Kansas, which is where I was for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5: I'd never toured this. I was aware of this tour
Speaker 5: spot for many years. Like a lot of high school
Speaker 5: field trips go there or whatever. I'd never gone.
Speaker 2: I took the boys.
Speaker 5: So it's a salt mine way way underground that has
Speaker 5: for whatever reasons with it's something to do with the
Speaker 5: temperature staying the same and the lack of humidity. They
Speaker 5: store old documents and film and stuff there because it
Speaker 5: will not deteriorate at all. Like all the old episodes
Speaker 5: of Johnny Carson, the original film of the Wizard of
Speaker 5: Oz is down there, All the episodes of Friends that
Speaker 5: are on film are down there because they can't deteriorate
Speaker 5: with the perfect just the right amount of humidity and
Speaker 5: temperature being exactly the same down there. It's kind of
Speaker 5: interesting and it's enormous. The salt mine. I've got to
Speaker 5: go down on the salt mines. It's two hundred miles
Speaker 5: long and one hundred and twenty miles wide.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's how big it hits.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, when nothing deteriorates down there, So they
Speaker 5: have all the they started going down there in the
Speaker 5: nineteen twenties, and all the garbage going back to the
Speaker 5: nineteen twenties is still down there, and they have it
Speaker 5: in a pile. And you can see all these old
Speaker 5: fast food wrappers and coke bottles and cigarette boxes and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. All the garbage is still there. It
Speaker 5: looks exactly like if it was thrown out yesterday. Kind
Speaker 5: of a surprise aspect of the tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah it really is.
Speaker 7: And now final faults with Armstrong and getting engage.
Speaker 5: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: How about a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: To wrap up the show. There is Michael Angelow pressing
Speaker 1: the buttons in the control room. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2: You know you mentioned the Wizard of Oz in that list. Jack,
Speaker 2: I still have not seen that movie. What I know,
Speaker 2: I just haven't gotten around to seeing it.
Speaker 5: I don't like it because it insists upon itself.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, and I vomited. Katie Greener esteemed and use
Speaker 1: woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2: Katie, we were talking.
Speaker 4: About supplements earlier and kind of the damage they can do.
Speaker 4: Just keep an eye out if you're one of those
Speaker 4: people that chases supplements on like Amazon.
Speaker 2: Be careful. Oh oh yeah, yeah, it's so funny. Jack.
Speaker 2: A final thought for us.
Speaker 5: I got more stories about being down in that salt mine.
Speaker 5: I might have to put them into the One More
Speaker 5: Thing podcast. A couple of really interesting things, including dead Burrows.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned dead Burrows. Yes, good lord. My final thoughts.
Speaker 1: He is a little self grandizing. I think that discussion
Speaker 1: we had about inflation an hour three of the show
Speaker 1: is absolutely absolutely worth going back and grabbing via podcast
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on demand. The fact that inflation is
Speaker 1: not a rise in prices. That's what inflation causes it.
Speaker 1: Inflation is increasing the currency supply. It seems like a
Speaker 1: distinction without a difference, but it's important.
Speaker 2: Check out segment.
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 5: Couple of developing stories, including this whole striking on the
Speaker 5: Venezuelan boat. We'll have the latest tomorrow.
Speaker 2: God bless America.
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