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: Jackie and Key arms Drawn, get it who I'm from?
Speaker 1: The studio scene says you are. We are in a
Speaker 1: dimly lit room deeper.
Speaker 2: Than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound
Speaker 2: on Tuesday and under.
Speaker 1: The tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3: The hard parts, the hard part, Oh, our general manager
Speaker 3: is a concept.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: We're going very igh minded here, very intellectual as in comma.
Speaker 1: Here comes the hard part. What are we talking about?
Speaker 3: Oh, the negotiations over the fate of Ukraine. The diplomacy
Speaker 3: that took place yesterday was very impressive, very interesting. The
Speaker 3: more I look into it, the deeper I dive, the
Speaker 3: more interesting it becomes.
Speaker 1: But now the.
Speaker 2: Hard part, and I'm looking at the television. Some of
Speaker 2: the pictures out of that thing are really something. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's quite the historic meeting in terms of the group
Speaker 2: of power that came together at the White House in
Speaker 2: a way that has never happened in the history of
Speaker 2: the world. Right, really wild. I was watching some analysis
Speaker 2: on News Nation Today and the guy said, and I
Speaker 2: don't think enough people are saying this. Does Putin have
Speaker 2: any interest in any of this? Has anybody checked? Because
Speaker 2: there's a chance he has no interest in this whatsoever.
Speaker 2: And if he doesn't, does any of this matter at all? Well, right,
Speaker 2: you have to at least it partially except the premise
Speaker 2: that he wants to end this and fairly quickly if
Speaker 2: he can.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he does.
Speaker 2: And if he doesn't have any interest at all, are
Speaker 2: you practically at square one.
Speaker 1: In terms of forcing him to end it? Or do
Speaker 1: he just walk away? That what a great question.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because from Putin's point of view, it's
Speaker 3: not like he has two choices go along with the
Speaker 3: Trump plan or keep fighting. No, he has six or
Speaker 3: seven choices, I mean, various shades of doing this, agreeing
Speaker 3: to that, violating that in six months, you know, stringing
Speaker 3: along the negotiations that start.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't even think most of the analysis approaches it
Speaker 2: as if he has two choices. Most of the analysis
Speaker 2: seems to approach it as this, as if he's on
Speaker 2: board with wanting this to end. And it's just how,
Speaker 2: you know, what the what the construct of the ending
Speaker 2: looks like it's like he has one choice. Is the
Speaker 2: way it's being presented that he's already chosen. He wants
Speaker 2: to end, everybody wants to end. It's what does that
Speaker 2: look like? And he hasn't made any noises whatsoever that
Speaker 2: is an interest at all.
Speaker 3: No, there's probably a long Russian word for pretending to agree.
Speaker 1: So other side show cards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's just I think what happened here,
Speaker 3: not that it's a bad thing, but he was just
Speaker 3: curious to say.
Speaker 2: All right, well, well they cook up, let's find out.
Speaker 2: We're just delaying like a man and a woman. And
Speaker 2: she's they're having a bit of an argument over you know,
Speaker 2: are they gonna have flowers on the table at the
Speaker 2: wedding or just out front? And that's a lot of
Speaker 2: money and she's never said yes. Maybe she's not gonna
Speaker 2: say yes. You're arguing about stuff. Doesn't matter if she
Speaker 2: doesn't say yes. And uh, I think that's might be
Speaker 2: where we are on this now. Trump did say just
Speaker 2: a little bit ago and we'll play some clips, and
Speaker 2: a called into Fox and Friends that something along the
Speaker 2: lines of, uh, I hope Trump is good and if
Speaker 2: he's not, it's gonna be it's gonna be ugly and
Speaker 2: whatever ugly means, Houtin Putin, Yeah, Trump said, putting in
Speaker 2: the I hope he's gonna be good and if he's not,
Speaker 2: it's going to be ugly.
Speaker 1: Well, the whole question is security guarantees.
Speaker 3: I mean, which Trump throughout for the first YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 3: security guarantees. That's an enormous topic, right, Putin's gonna have
Speaker 3: some strong opinions about to say the.
Speaker 1: Least Trump throughout for the first time ever. Uh.
Speaker 2: The idea of the United States being part of a
Speaker 2: backup security guarantee, So that's a heck of a thing.
Speaker 2: And Wall Street Journal writing about that today. We'll get
Speaker 2: to that later. But man boots on the ground of
Speaker 2: European countries, I guess France and Great Britain and security
Speaker 2: backup security guarantees from the United States. I saw former
Speaker 2: uh what was Bolton under Trump? A national security advisor
Speaker 2: saw him on one of the talk shows last night
Speaker 2: saying guarantees from the United States of British and French
Speaker 2: troops are if they get if they're getting their asses kicked,
Speaker 2: we we come in and fight. Also, that's what that means,
Speaker 2: and so that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: That's a long way from where we were a year ago. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the question of what exactly Zelensky will agree to
Speaker 3: or get his country to vote for, since that's what
Speaker 3: their constitution says.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an enormous open question too. It's huge.
Speaker 3: We've just and then there's the you know, to continue
Speaker 3: to your wedding, you know, metaphor. And there's a question
Speaker 3: of kids, which we'll decide down the road anyway. Uh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: oh wait wait wait right, so now comes the hard part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an understatement.
Speaker 2: If the if the other, if she has no interest
Speaker 2: in getting married whatsoever, it's not the hard part. It's like,
Speaker 2: what are we doing here? And I'm not sure Putin
Speaker 2: has any interest in ending this? Well, right, yeah, And
Speaker 2: it's an interesting point. It's not as if it is inevitable.
Speaker 2: If you wrestle manfully enough with the issues and negotiate
Speaker 2: skillfully and generously long enough, you will come to an argrant.
Speaker 2: It's possible the parties actually will get together and decide.
Speaker 3: We have no overlap here, we have no common ground none,
Speaker 3: and we despise each other.
Speaker 1: In fact, is that not the most likely outcome.
Speaker 2: You agreed on the kids and the flowers and the
Speaker 2: caterer and how big the guest list was going to be.
Speaker 2: But you're a no on getting married.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a no. Well then what was all that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You're the one who brought it up. I didn't A
Speaker 3: troubling metaphor and disappointing. I didn't start the conversation about
Speaker 3: flowers and catering.
Speaker 2: You did, so I went along with it. But I
Speaker 2: never said I had any interest in getting married. What
Speaker 2: did we spend on the invitations?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 3: Man, that's your deal, that's your whole idea. I really
Speaker 3: think I even like you.
Speaker 4: Boy.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, I just can't belie.
Speaker 2: Leave that Putin and Zelenski are going to be in
Speaker 2: a room together alone.
Speaker 1: It's brutal to contemplate, doesn't it? Just the.
Speaker 2: Hatred legitimate from Zelensky side. Oh, how would you not
Speaker 2: have depatred for that guy? You would think the best
Speaker 2: thing I could do for my country is if I
Speaker 2: could attack him in time, to stick my thumbs through
Speaker 2: his eye sockets and scramble his brain. That'd be the
Speaker 2: best thing I could do for my country. Require unusually
Speaker 2: long thumbs. But I see your point. Yeah, yeah, Do
Speaker 2: they shake hands?
Speaker 3: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: How could you possibly shake hands with your put and
Speaker 2: sent a missile into an apartment complex yesterday killed a
Speaker 2: whole family, including a little girl.
Speaker 3: Man, how could you shake hands with that guy? Well,
Speaker 3: and they have abducted to twenty thirty forty fifty thousand.
Speaker 3: Nobody's quite sure. How many Ukrainian children? Can you imagine
Speaker 3: if somebody did that to the US friends, and then
Speaker 3: our president was forced to shake his hand and beg
Speaker 3: him for a deal.
Speaker 2: And stand side by side for a picture. No, it's
Speaker 2: impossible to imagine.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't I know a.
Speaker 3: Lot of you that would fight to the death before
Speaker 3: you watched that scene.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And so I think what I heard today was that
Speaker 2: Putin asked for the one on one with Zelensky. I
Speaker 2: think he's asking for that with the idea of all
Speaker 2: this will be something. How's he going to react to this?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and Putin a TV boy, let's get it on.
Speaker 2: Putin has all the cards in terms of trying to
Speaker 2: make Zelensky nuts. Oh yeah, I mean if he sits
Speaker 2: down and talks, Yeah, and talks about how you know
Speaker 2: you started this war or any of that kind of crap,
Speaker 2: or we're only bombing military installations, or just any of
Speaker 2: the lies that he throws out.
Speaker 1: Got it be impossible not to lose your head. Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And what would the security look like there? How's
Speaker 3: school enrollment in Ukraine? It's great in Russia. You got
Speaker 3: lots of great new kids here, yeah exactly. Yeah, teaching
Speaker 3: them all about Russia and how it's one country with
Speaker 3: Ukraine and teaching them the language to Russian.
Speaker 2: Of course, that seems you should go berserk. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: just I can't imagine that that's happening. And Trump's talking
Speaker 2: about it like it's going to wow. How about well,
Speaker 2: let's uh, well before we take a break.
Speaker 4: So the.
Speaker 2: Did the hot mic moment? I suppose if you follow
Speaker 2: the news, everybody's heard it. So Trump's tropping talking to
Speaker 2: Macron as they're getting ready to sit down and everything
Speaker 2: like that, and he says to Macron something along the
Speaker 2: lines of yeah, I talked to him, and I think
Speaker 2: he really wants to for me, he wants to do
Speaker 2: a deal.
Speaker 1: I think Trump's out of his mind, thinking.
Speaker 3: That puts that easily manipulated, thinking that Putin, as a
Speaker 3: personal favor to Trump, is willing to do some sort
Speaker 3: of deal because of Trump's you know, because of their bond.
Speaker 1: That's scary. It is scary. I don't know how Trump
Speaker 1: I could possibly think that. Yeah, yeah, now.
Speaker 2: I did hear one of your report that Trump was
Speaker 2: livid on the plane back from Alaska on Friday, felt
Speaker 2: like he'd really been jerked around, that Putin had led
Speaker 2: him to believe that he was interested in doing something
Speaker 2: and then got there and wasn't interested in anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you.
Speaker 2: Got led to believe. I mean, we don't know what
Speaker 2: exactly they're saying on all these phone calls. They were
Speaker 2: on the phone together for forty minutes yesterday.
Speaker 1: But why do you believe this guy? He's a freaking snake.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Well, unless we want to end up
Speaker 3: in a FCC gulag, we probably want to start the
Speaker 3: show officially.
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Speaker 5: In Ballance are corrupt mail in ballas.
Speaker 1: You could never have a real.
Speaker 3: Democracy with mail in ballas.
Speaker 1: You know that we're the only country in the world,
Speaker 1: I believe I may be, but just about the only
Speaker 1: country in the world that.
Speaker 5: Uses it because of what's happened, massive fraud.
Speaker 1: All over the place.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we just threw out another really really controversial
Speaker 2: hot topic.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little uh uhuh headfake there, and and drove
Speaker 3: toward domestic policy eliminating mail in ballots I assume, aside
Speaker 3: from people who actually need them now troops seving is
Speaker 3: serving overseas, et cetera. But yeah, that'll be a that'll
Speaker 3: be a big one.
Speaker 2: And we can certainly discuss all the ins and out
Speaker 2: so that a little bit later, and whatever other news
Speaker 2: of the day there is, and there's a there's a
Speaker 2: fair amount out there, as there is always, but that
Speaker 2: that meeting at the Oval Office yesterday was just absolutely
Speaker 2: mind blowing in terms of its significance and power, all
Speaker 2: gathered together in one place. Some of the analysis that
Speaker 2: exists out there from all the smart people, we can
Speaker 2: pass that along to you. We'd like to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Text line four one, five, two nine five k FTC.
Speaker 2: They are the first place Dodgers and a wagon jumping
Speaker 2: fake fan. That's what I say. I'm too busy to
Speaker 2: root for teams that lose.
Speaker 1: I ain't got that kind of time. Wow. Wow, that's great.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what being a fan is. Being a fan.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I used to be super into that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: but now that I'm not. It just I can't even imagine, however,
Speaker 2: was It's like being a fan of a band and
Speaker 2: then getting angry if another band puts out a good album.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't. I don't understand. He's
Speaker 1: a monster, folks, He's no American. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead
Speaker 3: story with Katie Green Katie all right, starting with ABC.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 5: Truly a significant step, Zelensky says of White House meeting with.
Speaker 2: Trump again, it is very significant if Putin has any
Speaker 2: interest in this also, and if he doesn't, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure we accomplish anything well.
Speaker 3: And to you know, rephrase that, if Putin has any
Speaker 3: interest in anything that would have any interest for the
Speaker 3: Ukrainian side, right, I mean even if he thinks, yeah,
Speaker 3: we could probably come to a deal, and oh, I
Speaker 3: wants forty percent of Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Well it's over and no troops in the country.
Speaker 5: From the Free Beacon, The Associated Press suggests Gossen Evacuie
Speaker 5: died of starvation without ever mentioning that she suffered from leukemia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a hell of an exposa in the
Speaker 3: Free Press on the absolutely systematic use of people suffering
Speaker 3: from other diseases in major publications and broadcast networks to
Speaker 3: illustrate Israel's cruelty, even though it has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with that knowing. It's not two examples, it's dozen. Is
Speaker 3: it knowingly or is it just they don't do their homework.
Speaker 3: I think it's they don't bother checking Hamas feeds it
Speaker 3: and they gobble it right.
Speaker 4: From the Washing and Post. As more National Guard units.
Speaker 5: Deployed to DC, local officials.
Speaker 4: Are questioning the need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just saw that other Red states are sending
Speaker 3: troops to d three of them.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys remember that trans flag that popped up
Speaker 5: in Yosemite.
Speaker 4: Yeah from NBC.
Speaker 5: Park ranger fired after draping transgender flag on Yosemites El Capitan.
Speaker 2: Oh, good good. It's not your job. You obviously care
Speaker 2: more about that issue than being a park ranger. We'll
Speaker 2: find somebody else who's mostly interested in being a park ranger.
Speaker 5: From bright part dot com, godfather of AI Jeffrey Hinton
Speaker 5: wants machines to quote care for us like we are
Speaker 5: their babies.
Speaker 1: And what the hell does that mean? He was saying,
Speaker 1: you're a duck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like letting them take control is how we're going
Speaker 5: to survive AI.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I send that to me. I want to
Speaker 1: read then. Okay.
Speaker 5: From the New York Post DJ to start handing over
Speaker 5: Jeffrey Epstein files to Congress.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's still a thing.
Speaker 1: What does that even mean?
Speaker 5: From the New York Times? Goodbye MSNBC? Hello MS?
Speaker 2: Now, I saw that, So it's not When does it
Speaker 2: start being called that now? Already it's called MS. Nobody
Speaker 2: watches these channels anyway.
Speaker 1: Only radio hosts talk about them.
Speaker 4: It just said that they're changing it this year.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're losing all the assets of NBC News though,
Speaker 3: So what emerges? I mean nobody watches it now? I
Speaker 3: mean it's NBC held on to was it Telemundo but
Speaker 3: got rid of MSNBC if you'd want to know an
Speaker 3: idea of the pecking order.
Speaker 5: There from the Wall Street Journal, your late night cheese
Speaker 5: fix might.
Speaker 4: Be linked to your nightmares.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's funny. You gotta talk about that.
Speaker 5: Study fines young men are t maxing testosterone.
Speaker 1: What's that they're saying?
Speaker 5: Kids like young teenagers are upping their testosterone levels by
Speaker 5: like taking supplements.
Speaker 1: How do they get them?
Speaker 4: They it's called t maxing.
Speaker 3: Are they those phony supplements that don't actually do any good?
Speaker 1: I'll have to dig into that.
Speaker 5: And finally, the babylon Bee Democrats say mail in ballot
Speaker 5: ban will place undue hardship on dead voters.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to think about the mail in
Speaker 2: ballot I generally I would like voting to go back
Speaker 2: to just we all go stand in line on one day.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if we're ever going to get
Speaker 1: there again.
Speaker 3: Well, the problem with all of it is that that's
Speaker 3: determined by the states right in charge of voting, right
Speaker 3: as it should be.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get into that more. All those topics. We
Speaker 2: can delve into it to a certain extent. That AI
Speaker 2: thing was nutty, So more details on the way and
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of different stuff. If I hope you
Speaker 2: can stick around, and if you can't, you want to
Speaker 2: get a segment or an hour, get the podcast Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty on.
Speaker 3: Demand Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm not, actually, but I pictured you more shirtless
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Speaker 3: like Tour de front riding a kid's bike. I'm somewhere
Speaker 3: in between. I'm going to be in probably jeans, tennis
Speaker 3: shoes and a T shirt. But I am on a
Speaker 3: real bike, not a child's bike. I took out of
Speaker 3: someone's backyard. The suburban gentleman look exactly.
Speaker 1: That is why not perfect.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to our favorite military analyst, Mike
Speaker 2: Lyons next our perfect timing since a lot of US
Speaker 2: security guarantees and NATO's security guarantees, well not NATO, but
Speaker 2: NATO country guarantees were brought up yesterday, and we need
Speaker 2: to talk to a military guy about what that would
Speaker 2: look like, what that actually means. So I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to that conversation right.
Speaker 3: Indeed, so switching to the domestic scene, at least temporarily,
Speaker 3: there are a number of stories that show enormous progress.
Speaker 1: Towards sanity.
Speaker 3: We were talking yesterday about an absolutely blockbuster report in
Speaker 3: the Hill about how vast majorities of college kids don't
Speaker 3: believe the garbage they've been indoctrinated in, but they're afraid
Speaker 3: to say it.
Speaker 2: That is one of the more important things for people
Speaker 2: to know that I can remember. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: important information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we hammered.
Speaker 3: This pretty good yesterday, but seventy eight percent of students
Speaker 3: told us a self censor on their belief surrounding gender identity,
Speaker 3: seventy two percent on politics in general, sixty eight percent
Speaker 3: on family values. They value what are traditionally known as
Speaker 3: family values, but they dare not speak it on college campus,
Speaker 3: and more than eighty percent so they'd submitted classwork that
Speaker 3: mis represented their views in order to align with professors.
Speaker 3: You give them a chance and they will tell you
Speaker 3: what they really think. And we are on the cusp.
Speaker 3: I think of a huge move toward the youngsters or
Speaker 3: recognizing what's being done at colleges. It's not education at all,
Speaker 3: it's in doctrination. But those poll numbers were stunning and encouraging.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: The important thing to me, though, is just realizing that
Speaker 3: as human nature, that we're all so susceptible.
Speaker 1: I don't know about all, but so many people are
Speaker 1: susceptible to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of keeping your mouth shut if you think most
Speaker 2: people don't agree with you. I keep my mouth shut
Speaker 2: in most social situations about political stuff. But right, well,
Speaker 2: and the whole concept of a preference distortion, which I
Speaker 2: find so interesting that you because everybody around you is silent,
Speaker 2: you think, oh, I'm probably one of the only people
Speaker 2: who believes this because they agree with the powerful people
Speaker 2: who are telling us all what we ought to believe.
Speaker 1: But no, you're all sitting there thinking the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how many times, probably everybody's had
Speaker 2: this situation where that is going on, and somebody says,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a gun owner, and I'm me too,
Speaker 2: me too, and that's oh, geez, okay, so we're not
Speaker 2: all well, and that's whatever the topic is.
Speaker 1: And that's the crazy thing.
Speaker 3: You know too, If you find yourself in college and thinking,
Speaker 3: you know this this stuff about you know, the gender
Speaker 3: bending madness, a man can just become a woman and
Speaker 3: that's really a woman, and all the other stuff they
Speaker 3: teach these poor kids, all the critical theory stuff. If
Speaker 3: you have the courage to stand up and be that
Speaker 3: rebel and think, you know what, ten percent of us
Speaker 3: are together, I'm going to stand up and say so,
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, eighty five percent of the
Speaker 3: class is on your side.
Speaker 1: You are a rebel, but you know you're not nearly
Speaker 1: as lone as you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't blame people though, I mean, well, it's
Speaker 2: not blame them at all. First of all, everything that's
Speaker 2: been presented to all of us led us to believe
Speaker 2: that this is what most people on college campuses thought.
Speaker 1: Was this stuff.
Speaker 3: Well that's part of the insidious plot. That's what propaganda is.
Speaker 2: Sure, and telling everybody, including the teachers who are going
Speaker 2: to grade you, that they're wrong, completely wrong, is not
Speaker 2: always your best move, right. Oh yeah, Well that's why
Speaker 2: eighty percent of the kids submitted work that they didn't believe,
Speaker 2: because they had to get some to get their grades
Speaker 2: and move on in life. Nearly four out of five.
Speaker 2: I don't believe this, but I'm gonna pretend I do
Speaker 2: to get along. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but that's you know, that's.
Speaker 3: Indoctrination, especially of youth, is all about fighting unfairly and
Speaker 3: bullying and convincing kids that everybody believes it, and anybody
Speaker 3: who dissents as a bad person. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: blame the kids at all. No, I want to fight
Speaker 3: against the evil doers or bullying them anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh mor good.
Speaker 3: News, and if San Francisco's doing it, it's gonna spread.
Speaker 3: San Francisco has embraced a new tool to clear homeless camps.
Speaker 3: I've noticed city officials pointing to cleaner streets. Is evidence
Speaker 3: that more active approach is working. I feel like my reporter,
Speaker 3: I say it's cruel and nasty.
Speaker 2: I feel like my reporting, with my own circumstances, was
Speaker 2: leading the way long before the Wall Street Journal or
Speaker 2: others picked up on this. On the East coast, San
Speaker 2: Francisco's a complete If you haven't been in a long time,
Speaker 2: it's a completely different looking city than it was a
Speaker 2: year ago.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Indeed, between July of last year and July of this year,
Speaker 3: the city arrested or cited more than one thousand and
Speaker 3: eighty people on illegal lodging charges. That's over ten times
Speaker 3: the number of arrests during the same period a year
Speaker 3: early under the progressive former administration. Last time I was
Speaker 3: in downtown San Francisco, I saw a homeless person one
Speaker 3: and that person was being talked to by somebody from
Speaker 3: the city about how you got to get out of here.
Speaker 3: So the residents and business owners complaining about safety as
Speaker 3: encampments grew have finally been heard now. Of course, the
Speaker 3: activists say, you're merely shifting the homeless population around the
Speaker 3: city and putting homeless people a greater risk. Shut up
Speaker 3: a most of them need to shrug addicts. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: shut up. So San Francisco is doing a good job.
Speaker 3: It is possible, even under some of the bizarre court
Speaker 3: rulings recently. And also and this is out of San
Speaker 3: Francisco as well. Once seen as a model of progressive
Speaker 3: drug policy, San Francisco stands now as a morbid example
Speaker 3: of how harm reduction has gone astray.
Speaker 1: This is one of the.
Speaker 3: Shibboleths, one of the gods of the left is that
Speaker 3: you've got to help junkies do drugs safely and comfortably.
Speaker 3: Look I get the clean needles thing, I get the
Speaker 3: impulse there.
Speaker 1: What's the theory on that?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: Well, how's that supposed to end?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 2: People will on their own decide, you know what, I
Speaker 2: don't want to live in my own filth on the
Speaker 2: street at some point, yes, okay, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, this Gal who's the executive director of the
Speaker 3: National Harm Reduction Coalition, called the shift in San Francisco
Speaker 3: away from the harm reduction quote moronic and antithetical to
Speaker 3: what we know works. But the problem in San Francisco
Speaker 3: and other progressive cities is that harm reduction has become
Speaker 3: completely divorced from recovery.
Speaker 1: What began as a.
Speaker 3: Campaign to keep people live long enough to recover from
Speaker 3: addiction has devolved into a philosophy that no longer considers
Speaker 3: recovery as necessary.
Speaker 1: Or even desirable.
Speaker 3: Question of whether or not harm reduction is successful comes
Speaker 3: down to whether it's treated as a gateway to recovery
Speaker 3: or as an alternative to it.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 3: It has become an alternative to getting off of drugs.
Speaker 2: What percentage? So I'm I'm not a big financed by
Speaker 2: you the taxpayer. I'm not big on the uh on
Speaker 2: rehabs and that sort of stuff, because they are incredibly unsuccessful,
Speaker 2: and nobody pays any attention to that. But of people
Speaker 2: that I mean, not just for regular people, of people
Speaker 2: that are so far down the whole drug road that
Speaker 2: you're sleeping on the street next to another drug addict,
Speaker 2: how many of those people ever clean up? I wonder
Speaker 2: half a one percent. I'll bet it's I'll bet it's very,
Speaker 2: very low.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm guessing you know, a pretty good chunk of
Speaker 3: them continue using into their forties fifties, and then they
Speaker 3: succumb to you know, the sort of thing middle aged
Speaker 3: addicts do. As you know, a corner once said, in
Speaker 3: response to the question who's your most common customer, they
Speaker 3: said male fifties alcoholic, and I'm sure drug addict. Now,
Speaker 3: because that was, gosh, fifteen years ago, I think they
Speaker 3: would probably say, yeah, middle aged drug addict or a
Speaker 3: young drug addict. Anyway, more good news, though. Don't want
Speaker 3: to get focused on the bad news. Want to get
Speaker 3: focused on the fact that a lot of the insane
Speaker 3: policies of the left are being abandoned, even in places
Speaker 3: like San Francisco. Different topic, but kind of the same area.
Speaker 3: Boston Children's Hospital. The Harvard Medical Research and Training Hospital
Speaker 3: that specializes in children's care, had previously insisted that they
Speaker 3: do not perform genital surgeries as part of gender affirming
Speaker 3: care on patients under the age of eighteen, but a
Speaker 3: journal of Clinical Medicine Studies published a couple of years
Speaker 3: ago that was improved. Blah blah blah describes chest surgeries
Speaker 3: for those who were fifteen, as well as genital surgeries
Speaker 3: for those over seventeen, And the Trump administration has subpoenaed
Speaker 3: all sorts of information from them, and because of that,
Speaker 3: at least partly, and this is from the New York Times,
Speaker 3: uh reload plays there. It is hospitals are limiting gender
Speaker 3: treatment for transminers. Both of those phrases ought to be
Speaker 3: in quotes because they're made up. Even in blue states,
Speaker 3: three prominent medical centers in California recently announced they would
Speaker 3: stop the treatments, citing pressure from the Trump administration and
Speaker 3: from from sanity.
Speaker 1: So that's good.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of real madness being rolled back. Good
Speaker 3: progress domestically.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: Let's not focus on the grim stuff. So you mentioned
Speaker 2: before the show you got a cold, I do. It
Speaker 2: seems fairly mild, oh as most of my colds have
Speaker 2: been in the last I don't know decade.
Speaker 1: Oh, good for you. I hate cold. I haven't had
Speaker 1: one in a long time.
Speaker 3: I've got maybe the Remember that streak I had with
Speaker 3: whooping coffin colds.
Speaker 2: I was sick for like six months. I feel like
Speaker 2: like non stop. It's horrible. I've meant second time. I
Speaker 2: have no idea why, though I wish I knew why,
Speaker 2: if like I was doing something washing my hands more,
Speaker 2: staying away from cretans or I don't know what, but that.
Speaker 1: One, that's a big one, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm scratchy of throats and runny of nose and
Speaker 3: I want to lie down every minute.
Speaker 1: But no, that's probably not that. But not you wish
Speaker 1: you don't care, but not you wish you were dead,
Speaker 1: like bad colds can be. Nah now and.
Speaker 3: It's good because we're traveling overseas on Friday.
Speaker 1: I can't believe.
Speaker 2: I didn't pick up on the obvious. Why have I
Speaker 2: not been sick and roughly three months? Anyway? My kids
Speaker 2: are back in school. Oh yeah, oh, my kids have
Speaker 2: been out of school all summer long. That's why I
Speaker 2: haven't been sick, and now my kids are back in school,
Speaker 2: so welcome back the common cold.
Speaker 3: Those clever little microbe messengers bringing home little microscopic notes
Speaker 3: from their friends.
Speaker 2: There's a nice sales lady around here calls the kids
Speaker 2: going to school plague, taxis plague, taxis perfect. I know, God,
Speaker 2: dang it, kids are back in school, so bring back
Speaker 2: the gold.
Speaker 1: All. Oh, well, that's just part of it. Occurs to me,
Speaker 1: I should name names.
Speaker 3: Back to the transgender youth thing, mutilating poor innocent children
Speaker 3: who are momentarily confused with either chemicals or knives. Children's
Speaker 3: Hospital LA Shuddered Center for trans Youth Health and Development,
Speaker 3: Thank god. Stanford Medicine San Francisco Bay Areas paused surgical procedures,
Speaker 3: including new puberty blocker implants for those under.
Speaker 1: The age of nineteen, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: And Kaiser Permanenae, one of the biggest health systems in
Speaker 3: the nation with dozens of facilities in California, announced it
Speaker 3: would pause gender related surgeries for patients under the age
Speaker 3: of nineteen. Can you imagine the sort of person who
Speaker 3: would mutilate a confused teenager, probably autistic, probably suffering from
Speaker 3: other emotional problems because they thought they're desperate, desperate road
Speaker 3: to happiness might be some sort of sex change because
Speaker 3: they're confused children. Can you imagine executing those confused wishes?
Speaker 2: Ugh, or just or monsters or people who are just
Speaker 2: a feminine gay boys or masculine gay.
Speaker 3: Girls right who've been convinced by the activists. No, No,
Speaker 3: you've got to have a surgeon cut on you to
Speaker 3: become who you really are.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you see a gay little fellas and
Speaker 3: butch girls.
Speaker 1: You're exactly the way you ought to be. Have a
Speaker 1: great life.
Speaker 3: Here at the Fascist Conservative Armstrong and Getdy show.
Speaker 1: We accept you for you who you are. You're fine,
Speaker 1: You're like God made you. Don't let those sickos hack
Speaker 1: you up. Good lord.
Speaker 2: Esh Okay, we're gonna get into the whole Ukraine thing
Speaker 2: and what security guarantees would look like from the United
Speaker 2: States and European troops and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: An hour two we got mail bag on the way
Speaker 2: next to here. Hetty, I did not know this. I
Speaker 2: thought this was over September. Congress comes back to DC,
Speaker 2: front and center, right off the bat Ebstein crap. Oh, no,
Speaker 2: Democrats are going to be able to force all kinds
Speaker 2: of different Epstein conversations. Republicans have enough stuff in their
Speaker 2: own party to want it to happen. It's going to
Speaker 2: be back in our lives again.
Speaker 3: Perfect time for the freedom loving quote of the day,
Speaker 3: based on Trump saying we need to get rid of
Speaker 3: paper or mail in ballots. I thought i'd go with
Speaker 3: the series quotes about voting. Why not start off with
Speaker 3: the granddaddy of them all. We're gonna start with the
Speaker 3: showstopper Weston Churchill. The best argument against democracy is a
Speaker 3: five minute conversation.
Speaker 1: With the average voter.
Speaker 3: Eyah, eh, mail bag, rub us a note, mail bag
Speaker 3: and armstrung and getty dot com. Here's a nice note
Speaker 3: from alien anonymous. My daughters yard at school last week
Speaker 3: in Oakland, California. On the third day of school, they
Speaker 3: posted this flyer on the bulletin board. Notice that the
Speaker 3: reading is for only pre K through first graders. It
Speaker 3: is a drag queen presenting to the little kids. Everyone
Speaker 3: can make their own rainbow. Also because they announced they
Speaker 3: will lot to have freaking believable I was disgusted by
Speaker 3: this rights aleen. Also because they noticed they will not
Speaker 3: be doing a Grandparent's Day this year, since some kids
Speaker 3: have no grandparents and feel left out, we decided to
Speaker 3: keep our daughter out of school the entire week as
Speaker 3: a protest. Since they rely so much on attendance for funding,
Speaker 3: I may be blackballed for the community that I want
Speaker 3: to stand for what's right, and then mentions our conversation
Speaker 3: yesterday and says, I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to stand up and say what I believe.
Speaker 3: Hopefully a preference cascade takes hold here after you have
Speaker 3: preference falsification and people realize, wait a minute, I'm just
Speaker 3: going to say what I believe, and then they find
Speaker 3: out everybody agrees with me. That's what's own is a
Speaker 3: preference cascade.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can understand why people don't know, because I mean,
Speaker 2: you're hanging around with the other parents at the park,
Speaker 2: at the playground after school. You don't want to be
Speaker 2: the pariah or enemies with these people.
Speaker 1: But that is incredible.
Speaker 2: So you eliminate Grandparents' Day because some kids don't have grandparents,
Speaker 2: but you're willing to have every kid exposed to the
Speaker 2: drag queen crap right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unbelievable. I know. We need to shut down
Speaker 1: our entire education system.
Speaker 3: And start a new speaking of which Eric from Florida writes, Florida's.
Speaker 1: Getting after it.
Speaker 3: Here's what students can expect in Florida schools next year.
Speaker 3: The coursework involves instructions on communist movements in places like Russia, China, Cuba,
Speaker 3: even the US itself. According to the Legislative Analyst, instruction
Speaker 3: must include age appropriate content about the following, the history
Speaker 3: of communism in the US and domestic communist movements, atrocities
Speaker 3: committed in foreign countries under the guys of communism, comparative
Speaker 3: discussion of political ideologies such as communism, totalitarianism, et cetera,
Speaker 3: the increasing threat of communism in the US and to
Speaker 3: its allies, the economic industrial political events that have preceded
Speaker 3: communist revolutions, and the communist policies at Cuba, and the
Speaker 3: spread of communist ideologies throughout Latin America. Good for you, Flora,
Speaker 3: Good for you. How much time do you add?
Speaker 1: Michael? Oh, this is so good? Do I have time for?
Speaker 1: It's from Zach reading from the Book of Gavin.
Speaker 3: And it came to pass in those days that tidings
Speaker 3: went up, fourth went forth upon x which in times
Speaker 3: past was called twitter, and lo the people did marvel,
Speaker 3: for the saying was spread abroad. Behold thy savior hath
Speaker 3: arisen among thee. And they lifted up their voice and cried, surely, surely,
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom of California's risen yea, even as the Christ
Speaker 3: of old. And then the people rejoiced and spake to
Speaker 3: one another, saying, behold, he shall deliver us from the
Speaker 3: Orange hitler, even the man called Trump, which reigneth his
Speaker 3: king in the White House of Marble.
Speaker 1: I got a skip a little.
Speaker 3: Bit nice, yes, spake and they and yet they regarded
Speaker 3: not the cry of the poor, neither of the multitude
Speaker 3: of the homeless, nor the plague of strange powders and needles.
Speaker 3: Neither considered they the broken hideways, nor the grievous cost
Speaker 3: of bread and dwelling.
Speaker 2: You know, I should finish this leaders. I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: working in spake more often. So we're gonna talk to
Speaker 2: Mike Lines about what a US security guarantee for Ukraine
Speaker 2: would look like, among other things.
Speaker 1: Next hour.
Speaker 3: If you don't get a good podcast, Armstrong and Getty