WEBVTT - A&G Replay Friday Hour Three 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.880 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.400 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.240 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:26.640 Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong, and 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:30.840 that's arm Strong in Geddy. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.959 Yes, indeed, and you have a unique special opportunity that's low. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:35.880 We're done anyway. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.920 To enjoy a carefully curated selection of arm Strong and 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.800 Getty replays, Enjoy Ben Sass. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:45.200 I wish I had known the guy. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.000 He's a he's still alive, but he is dying of cancer. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.800 And he's a small town Nebraska guy. I'm a small 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.599 town Kansas guy, and I just I wish I had 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.680 known him because he's absolutely amazing. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:56.360 He is. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.360 He is like what I picture the founding fathers were 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.440 probably like, if you listened to them talk. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.520 Yeah, he'd have made a good founding father. I think, yeah, 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:05.840 well said yeah. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.000 And super smart guy, too good for politics. I just 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.800 was watching the interview last night, and I've thought this 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.959 many times. I've listened to interviews with them, I've read stuff, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.560 and we talked to him, and just like, why can't 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.680 we have more people like this in our politics? 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.400 Because they won't take the job. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.959 I guess most of the time where they won't say 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.560 the things you need to say to get elected. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.120 I think it comes down to what does getting into 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.000 politics for reward and what does it punish? And we 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.920 get the leaders public servants we deserve because our politics 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:38.480 are perverse. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.319 I retweeted the Ben Sas interview from sixty Minutes last night, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.960 saying everybody should watch it. Sarah Isger, who I really like, said, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.720 haven't seen a conversation like this intellectual, philosophical big picture 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.600 on TV in decades. It's incredible. I would agree it 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.919 was incredible. Let's listen to some of it. Here's Ben SaaS, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.600 who's dying of pancreatic cancer, on sixty Minutes last night. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.560 I love America, and I think there's a lot of 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.240 big and meaty things that we should have been talking 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:11.400 about and we still can talk about. And having a 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.480 terminal diagnosis isn't really that unique. We're all always on 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:20.079 the clock. Some of us have the benefit maybe it's 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.720 a weird word, but the benefit of knowing our time 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.360 is finite and defined. Then it becomes an opportunity to 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:31.600 talk about bigger stuff and you have focus from that. Yeah, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.240 I mean it's weird to be in your early fifties 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.160 and get a terminal diagnosis, and people all of a 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.440 sudden act like you're ninety three or ninety four and 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.160 you have a lot of wisdom. I don't know that 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.280 I have a lot of wisdom, but I have a 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.320 lot of things that I think we should be reflecting 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:45.880 on together. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.880 Oh, and he lays out some of them right here. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.160 Neither of these parties really have very big or good 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.120 ideas about twenty thirty or twenty fifty. At a national 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.840 security level, at a future work level, at an institution 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.880 building level, the Congress is not wrestling with bigger important 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:02.800 questions right now. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.280 If Congress is looking at the wrong things, what is 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:07.800 it missing. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.960 We are living through a digital revolution, which is both 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.760 glorious and horrific at the same time, because what the 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.200 digital revolution does is it accelerates almost everything about the 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.320 human experience. Anything that can be reduced to a series 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.560 of stabs, which is most economic activity, is going to 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.680 be routinized and become really really cheap, really fast, and 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.400 really ubiquitous. We've never lived in a world where twenty 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.880 two year olds couldn't assume that the work they did 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.360 they would be able to do until death of retirement, 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.000 and we're never going to have that world again. And 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.240 Congress doesn't talk about any of those kind of most 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.240 fundamental issues. The disruption of work for good and for 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.640 ill should be front and central. Congress doesn't even not 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:53.560 have that conversation. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:04:00.480 It's an enormous conversation in the small liberty in me 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.000 is concerned that Congress will respond by passing gigantic, expensive 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.680 government programs that will be rife with bloat and fraud. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:11.520 I had another point I was going to make. It 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.040 is actually more positive than that. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:18.520 Oh, but there should be thinking before the storm hits, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.279 in the same way that a lot of the world 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.000 health organizations and our health organizations thought a lot about 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.520 what if there was a giant pandemic, how should we 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.119 handle it? Then when it hit, they panicked and didn't 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.800 do any of the things they said they were going 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.320 to do, which they should have stuck with. But a 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.240 little planning, a little if this then that I think 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.920 would be really helpful before the AI. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.640 Ending work as we know it the thing really manifests. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.000 Let's start down the road of Ben Saz talking about 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.120 the role politics should play in our lives. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.839 What makes you a Republican. I'm a Republican because I 0:04:54.880 --> 0:05:00.440 think the Lincoln Reagan continuum does the best job building 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.720 constraint on thinking Washington is our fundamental political community. I 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.000 think your fundamental political community is your neighborhood, in your 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.360 city hall, and maybe even your state legislature. And right 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.920 now we are sacrificing a lot of our national politics 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.960 to weird folks who want their main community to be 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.560 their political tribe at a federal level. And that should 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.800 be like the ninth thing or the fifteenth thing you 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.440 care about, not the first or second thing. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.520 I would agree weird folks. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.920 He goes on, it's no secret that the current president 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.400 and I wrestled on lots and lots of issues. But 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.919 I don't spend much time commenting on our current politics 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.600 because I don't really think our current politics are driving 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.799 what's happening. I think it's mostly an echo of what's happening. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:52.159 I think we have really thin, shallow community right now, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.640 and unless people know the thickness of their local community, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.720 it's hard to make sense of what national politics are 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.320 for I think sational political dysfunction is an echo of 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:03.320 larger problems. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:08.039 That's troubling and correct I believe and correct and going 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.560 to be hard to fix in the Internet. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.839 Era, thin shallow connections to our communities that sounds about 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:20.239 right and feeling like really really strong connection to whoever 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.200 is president at the moment right, and the two camps 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.440 becoming more and more quasi religious too. In various ways, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.599 he got asked about what's conservative or not? Oh, actually, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.719 this is a clip they played from so Ben Sass 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.080 was one of the yes votes to remove Trump from 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.080 office after January sixth. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.719 He was one of the Republicans that voted yes. Was 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:43.960 there a total of six or seven? 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:45.400 Seven? I believe you. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.960 He voted yes to remove him. And he had to 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.880 explain to his Nebraska voters why he didn't think a 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.839 lot of the stuff Trump did was conservative. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:01.600 Here's some of that personality. Cults aren't conservative. Conspiracy theories 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.920 aren't conservative. Lying that an election has been stolen, it's 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:11.200 not conservative. Acting like politics as a religion, it isn't conservative. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:15.840 So I turned some of you off, I'm sure. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:23.920 And then more importantly to me, this conversation about again 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.040 people the weird people that want to be in national office. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.760 Many senators I know would not be able to breathe 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:38.080 without that job, it would kill them to leave. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.640 I don't want what you said to be true, but 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.080 I fear that that is true, and that is a 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.920 sign of a much, much deeper problem. We got a 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.520 lot of people who serve in government who really do 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.960 think the highest and greatest thing you can ever do 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.920 is have the title senator or congressman. The best thing 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:07.400 you can do is be called dad or mom, bluffer, neighbor, friend, governor, senator, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 house member. It's a great way to serve. It should 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.640 be your eleventh calling, or maybe sixth, but never top. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:21.720 Yeah, what do you do in Your national sport is 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:27.920 federal politics and your quasi religion is federal politics. And 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.560 I can probably come up with a couple of more 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.960 metaphors because it's morphed into this weird way beyond what 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.920 politics ever has been the thing. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.559 Yeah, so what what did you you said? Our national 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:40.520 religion and. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:45.160 Uh and uh sports national pastime? 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.600 Yeah, our national past time. It's our number one TV show. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.720 The number one TV show in America isn't entertainment, Cosby 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:56.439 or Seinfeld. It's what did Trump do today? And how 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.480 were the good mean things said about him? 0:08:58.559 --> 0:08:59.119 Yeah? 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.800 Yeah, so it's a it is our pastime, our entertainment. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.319 We think the answer to all our problems comes out 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.680 of Washington, d C. And specifically the president. Yeah, it's terrible. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.640 It is absolutely trouble and not the way it was designed. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.320 And I agree with Ben Sass that a lot of 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.040 the current weirdness we have in politics are a reflection 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.800 of that. Because again, later in the hour, we're going 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.600 to get to the casual embrace of like murderous violence 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.200 on the left and some of the things that have 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.640 been said recently, and you don't get there. That's not 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.880 one step to get there. That's being way down a 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.920 path that you suddenly embrace somebody who says we need 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.040 to have these people's blood, blood running through the streets, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.960 we need to slaughter these people. People nodding their head. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:49.199 Yeah right, the whole radical chic thing. I'm not sure 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.120 where we go from here. We're not gonna play it here. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.360 But if you watch the interview, the last part of 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.600 it is about him being a very Ben Sas being 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.160 a very devout Calvinist, Reformed Church Calvinist, and him talking 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.720 about what that means to him and how he looks 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.880 at death and dying through that Lens and all that 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.480 sort of stuff, and then oh my god, the stuff 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.559 about not getting to walk his daughters down the aisle 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.359 or being there for his son when he's sixteen, eighteen, twenty. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.760 Ooh, trying to stay optimistic about that. Yeah, that was 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.720 very very, very heavy and emotionally that was something. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.839 But who is there? 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.880 Is there any way we can break out of this 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.200 in the Internet era? You don't raise money with interviews 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.400 like that as a politician. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:46.600 No, And I've got an extremely provocative philosophical question for you. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:47.679 Do we have time? Yes, we do. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.760 In a time where mobs are running wild in the streets, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.520 will of Ben Sassby heard? 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.360 Can he be heard? 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.320 Or? And I know a lot of my younger friends 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.600 on the right would say, look, I agree with him, 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.120 But if the Ben sass is the world, the political 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.679 pacifists will get absolutely bowled over, bowled over, bulldozed by 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.920 the howling mob. We've got to neutralize their howling mob 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.160 with ours before we can even hope to have the 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.040 samee conversation. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.680 Well, and he and and and ah and a Ben 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.920 SaaS in most districts is not going to lose to 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.040 a Democrat. You're going to get primaried on the right 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:33.400 right and get and lose. Same same with anybody who 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.640 tries to be anything like Ben SaaS as a Democrat, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.040 you're going to get primaried on the left by an 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.040 AOC or somebody. Yeah, talking about public if you can 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.840 keep it talking about how evil capitalism and how trumps Hitler. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.280 So yeah, I don't know how we break out of that. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.040 Couldn't recommend that interview with Ben SaaS, even if you 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.560 ignore the government stuff and just do the child rearing, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.120 how you face death stuff, because it's really good. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.320 If anybody knows how to fix this, call me at 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.240 home anytime, night or day, let me know, or drop 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.400 us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getdy dot Connau. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.800 Faxit to the President quickly. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.240 The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah more Jack, more shoe podcasts, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:32.240 and our hot links The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.680 A man calling himself Charles Chen reached out to me 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.120 on social media over the following weeks. He asked detailed 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.320 questions about my background, offered to pay for a trip 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.960 to China, sent me a flight itinerary to Shanghai, and 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.960 pressured me to move our conversation to wichat an app 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.400 that is monitored by the CCP. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.840 That's a young woman by the name of Elsa Johnson. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.240 She is a Stanford University student testifying to something a 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.760 story that we brought you a number of months ago 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.800 about how she was actively recruited by Chinese spies who 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.960 are looking for more Stanford students and scientists and research 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.440 assistants to do work for the Communist Chinese. I am 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.560 struck by the fact that was on CBS News and 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.240 for all of the idiotic yelling about when Barry Weiss 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:25.400 took over as whatever executive editor, the just horrifically ridiculous 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.959 muling by the far lefties. It's obvious to me what 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.280 Barry is doing. She's saying, that's a huge story. Yes, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.440 we're going to cover it. To stuff that is obviously 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.600 a huge story that ought to be covered, like hundreds 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.440 of communists at No King's rallies, for instance. That would 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:45.320 be lovely, wouldn't it. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:46.320 Anyway? 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.840 Miss Johnson goes on to discuss how the Communist Chinese 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.920 agent attempted to put his hooks in her. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.880 He publicly commented on one of my Instagram posts in 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.120 Mandarin asking me to delete screenshots. I had taken of 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.480 our conversation. I do not know how he knew I 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.679 had these screenshotso the FBI confirmed he had no affiliation 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.760 with Stanford. He was likely operating on behalf of China's Ministry. 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.120 Of State Security. I was one of at least. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.440 Ten female students he targeted. Since twenty twenty, after my 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.200 co author, Garrett Malloy, and I published our investigation, the 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.320 incidents worsened. I began receiving intimidation calls, where callers would 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.520 switch to Mandarin and in one case the caller referenced 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.840 my mother. Just this week, I received another call from 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.440 US number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.320 and asked whether I had finished dinner. I have also 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.640 received threatening scam emails attempting to convince me to take 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.320 down my reporting on this issue. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.560 Ah, that's stuff about get rid of your screenshots. I 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.800 have no idea how they knew I had screenshots, or 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.880 did you finish dinner, which I assume. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.200 Is she was eating dinner at the time. Yeah, just to. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.840 Let you know where got an eye on you right now, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.400 which would be this sort. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.760 Of thing happens hundreds of times, certainly a week or 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.520 a month in the US, especially on university campuses which 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.240 are teeming with Chinese nationals or Chinese Americans who have 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.720 family back in the homeland and therefore have you know, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.160 points of the leverage against them. Yeah, she is an 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.440 incredibly brave young woman, by the way, I salute her. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:28.000 This one more example of how we are the most comfortable, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.960 least aware superpower that's ever existed on Earth. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.520 We just don't protect ourselves. Yeah, man, it'd be sacked. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.040 A lot of us hate ourselves. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.920 It'd be so easy to just, you know, copy some 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:45.720 documents from whatever department you're in at the university and 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.160 send them to whatever email address you're supposed to, just 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.960 to avoid the whatever they might do to your family 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.280 back home. You think, what good is this stuff from 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:55.760 the college you're going to do. It's no big deal. 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.280 It's not like their nuclear secrets or something like that. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:05.400 And it'd be so easy to go along with that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.600 this gal she was. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.720 She was just reporting on what China was doing on campus, 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.440 trying to recruit students, and so she wasn't even like 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.600 a target for recruitment. She was somebody who was talking 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:27.160 about it. And then she bashed Stanford for failing to 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.520 help her deal with the alleged foreign espionage, saying that 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.280 she was quote a freshman navigating a foreign intelligence operation 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.480 with no institutional support. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:37.840 Oh my god. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:43.040 So she ultimately the Hoover Institution, which is the conservative thinking, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.840 conservative leaning think tank that operates on Stanford's campus, as 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.080 like a weird It's almost like East Germany back in 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.920 the day, if you remember that, it was this outpost 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.040 of in this case, sanity, in the midst of the 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.640 insanity of Stanford. The university told her, yeah, we can't 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.240 help here, and the Hoover Institution said, wait, what is happening? 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.480 Will help you. We're gonna connect you with the FBI 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.399 and get you some good advice and some good protection. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:10.639 Way to go. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:17.520 Hoover Institution, then the spokeshole for the ridiculous Stanford that 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.000 quote the university takes any allegations of undo foreign influence 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.359 seriously and has robust policies and procedures to protect students. Okay, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.199 I don't know what to tell you other than what 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.880 we've told you many times before. China is actively trying 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.720 to bring us down, and a lot of American society 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.359 doesn't really care China's ass in short, Yes, sir, that's correct. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.800 The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, more Jack or Show podcasts, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:51.200 and our hot links. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:49.800 The arm Strong and Getty Show. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.600 Two Army soldiers are in the hospital with serious injuries 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.679 after a bear attack in Alaska, a spokesperson with the 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.200 eleventh Airborne Division stating the soldiers were participating in a 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.399 land navigation training exercise on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.320 Richardson when they encountered the bear in a remote area. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.240 Both soldiers deployed bear spripe during the attack, but sustained 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.480 serious injuries and were taken to a hospital in Anchorage. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.600 The Alaska Department of Fish and Game responded to the incident, 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.280 determining it appears to be a defensive attack by a 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.919 bear recently emerged from a den, and initial reports identified 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.680 the involved animal as a brown bear. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.640 Wow, soft on bear crime, That's what I say. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.040 And you joined the military, you don't think about being 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:39.960 injured by a bear? 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:41.480 No, indeed. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.080 Yeah, that's terrible. I'm glad the guys are well. They're 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.400 certainly going to survive. Bel Oh, God knows what sort 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.600 of injuries they have. We got this note from Eric 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:54.600 in bald Mound, Illinois number one. Herrick bald Mound needs 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:59.680 to hold vote like this week to get a better name. Wow, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:05.880 what I mean, like virtually anything would be a better name. Anyway, 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.240 Eric says, I lived in Anchorage for thirty one years. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.040 There are many bear encounters every year. You should have 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.520 an Alaska bear report weekly or monthly. That's a compelling idea. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.760 We'll consider it, and he sends along this headline report 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.840 bear injured woman's backside while she was using an outhouse 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.600 near Haines, Alaska, literally bit on the ass as she 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.359 attempted to use an outhouse at his ill treatment. Second 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.239 bear related story on the show today. By the way, 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.320 if you've listened to the whole thing includes some would 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:42.000 be criminal geniuses in southern California vandalizing. 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.280 Cars while wearing a bear suit. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.439 Back to you have an I ran update for you 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.399 in a second. There's a little confusion going on. Nobody's 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.720 exactly sure what's happening. But are you following the whole 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:56.080 missing scientist story? Yeah, kind of tangible, Is it real? 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:57.479 I don't know. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.280 Yeah, I think the guy wandered off, but I don't know. No, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.040 there's ten missing scientists. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.640 Oh wow, the news coverage is about at least ten 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.520 scientists or research link figures that have been cited as 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:15.280 either are missing or recently died in mysterious circumstances. The 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.879 story has spread quickly because several of the cases involved 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.400 sensitive government or defense adjacent work. Can't I can't figure 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.680 out if this is like an internet BS story or 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:25.600 a real story. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:27.480 Fox was just talking about it. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.760 I the last time I read about it, I thought, Oh, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.200 this is internet BS. If you can take the entire 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.080 world of government, science and the rest of it, and 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.440 a bunch of guys who were older, certain number of 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:40.560 got you gonna die, and. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:41.760 You know what that is? 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.320 Maybe I'm a fool. I don't know. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.520 I could see how you could put that together and 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.240 make it work, though, yeah, do it with like ex 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:56.600 major League ballplayers next right, exactly exactly. I was watching 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.560 a highlight from Tucker Carlson over the weekend where he 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.639 was talking about he said, and I quote, I feel 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.320 sorry for Trump as I do for all slaves. He's 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.680 talking about how Trump is a slave to the Israeli's 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:10.560 needs and wants. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:12.680 Of course, Yanta Jews. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.119 I feel sorry for Trump as I do for all slaves. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.960 They can't possibly be friends anymore, can they? 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:21.800 No? Tucker and Trump? 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:23.119 No. 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.560 Trump has said he's essentially he's dead to me. Yeah, 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:31.320 I can understand why. So here we have Tucker. Are 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.520 you used to Are you moving off Tucker? Or yeah? 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:34.800 I was going to have more. 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:39.840 Because evidently he's repeatedly, lately, repeatedly taken a praising Sharia 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.119 law and suggesting that Islam and it is a totalitarian 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.080 legal code, offer an inspiring moral clarity in contrast with 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.600 today's Western decadence. He even announced his attention to buy 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:53.560 a house and cut her, which he should. 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:59.520 Because there's employer run this another time. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.000 Yeah, I don't know what's going on there. So there 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.440 are conflicting reports on what's happening on with the whole 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:11.720 ceasefire Iran blowing up all their bridges and power plants thing. 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:20.760 CNN has said that talks are set for tomorrow, contradictoring 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:25.120 reports from The New York Post are and others are 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.560 that the US delegation led by Vice President jad Vance 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.679 is set to lend Pakistan today for talks. Trump just 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.480 said on one of the TV channels that Wednesday evening 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:42.040 is the debt new deadline. According to Reuters, citing a 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.919 senior Iranian official, Iran is considering attending the talks in 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:51.159 Islamabad as Pakistani mediators worked to end the US blockaded 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.520 the Straight of Horn moves. That's the first I've heard 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.800 of any Iranian officials showing up at all, although that 0:22:56.880 --> 0:23:00.760