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 Getty and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty, thank you very much, Flanked by everyday workers.
Speaker 1: The President talking up his big beautiful bill today.
Speaker 3: Will deliver a record tax cut, a record spending cut,
Speaker 3: a record investment in border security.
Speaker 1: And revealing a new trade deal with China, although with
Speaker 1: very few specifics.
Speaker 3: We just signed with China yesterday, right, just signed with
Speaker 3: China in the China Deal. We're starting to open up China.
Speaker 3: Things that never really could have happened.
Speaker 4: I remember when the summer was kind of slow news
Speaker 4: wise back in the day.
Speaker 2: It sure isn't anymore.
Speaker 4: So much going on, so much talk about with Congressman
Speaker 4: Tom McClintock of the fifth District of California, longtime friend
Speaker 4: of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Tom, how are you, sir?
Speaker 5: I'm doing fine. You're right. They've been busy little bees
Speaker 5: around here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And we will get to that in a minute.
Speaker 4: I thought you might be interested to know what just
Speaker 4: wrapped up A great conversation with Tim Sanderfer of the
Speaker 4: Goldwater Institute about Independence Day since we're off next week,
Speaker 4: and the Declaration of Independence and in its role in
Speaker 4: the nation's history and ethics and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: And as you are one of the great lovers of
Speaker 4: liberty I've ever met in politics are out. When you
Speaker 4: think about the Declaration of Independence, what do you think about?
Speaker 2: What comes to mind?
Speaker 5: Well, there's this revolutionary concept that there are certain rights
Speaker 5: that don't.
Speaker 2: Come to us from government.
Speaker 5: They come to us from what the founders call the
Speaker 5: laws of nature, and of Nature's God, God creates these rights.
Speaker 5: We create governments to protect these rights, and that's their
Speaker 5: only legitimate function.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I expressed to Tim, I've come to the belief
Speaker 4: that the idea of liberty is just kind of background noise.
Speaker 4: It's almost like wallpaper in the American scene these days,
Speaker 4: and people think that the role of government is to
Speaker 4: be well, is to do things for us and give
Speaker 4: things to us, and liberty needs to be an ever
Speaker 4: present word, I think, or idea as we're discussing the
Speaker 4: politics of our time, and I think that's been lost,
Speaker 4: particularly among young people.
Speaker 5: Well, if you want to know the entire history of
Speaker 5: human civilization and four words, it's freedom, works, socialism, sucks,
Speaker 5: you know. And I talk to young people all the time,
Speaker 5: who's a whole well Socialism that's sharing and taking care
Speaker 5: of one another, and capitalism that's just doggy dog lookout
Speaker 5: for yourself.
Speaker 2: And I try to explain.
Speaker 5: To them, you've got it exactly backwards. The only possible
Speaker 5: way to prosper and secces feed in a capitalist system
Speaker 5: is you've got to figure out what somebody else needs
Speaker 5: and how to get it for them better than they
Speaker 5: can get it for themselves. There's no other way. It
Speaker 5: might be mowing their lawn, it might be doing brain
Speaker 5: surgery on their child, whatever it is, you've got to
Speaker 5: help your neighbor if you're going to succeed and prosper.
Speaker 5: Socialism is taking from one person what they've earned by
Speaker 5: helping their neighbor and giving it to somebody who hasn't.
Speaker 2: And it's true.
Speaker 5: If I take a dollar from Peter and give it
Speaker 5: to Paul, Paul's got an extra dollar to spend, Paul's
Speaker 5: a happy man. Peter's got one less dollar to spend,
Speaker 5: So you haven't helped the economy at all. But what
Speaker 5: you've really done is you've robbed from both of them.
Speaker 5: A dollar's worth of incentive to help each other, Paul
Speaker 5: because he no longer needs to, and Peter because he
Speaker 5: no longer profits from it. And that's why socialism always
Speaker 5: dissolves the bonds that hold a society together and ultimately
Speaker 5: requires lots and lots of government force because you've got
Speaker 5: to force people to act against their own interests.
Speaker 4: All right, You've removed the incentives the reward, so all
Speaker 4: that remains is the punishments. And I love your illustration
Speaker 4: of capitalism too. Are the free market, as I prefer
Speaker 4: to phrase it, because I've got to do whatever I'm
Speaker 4: doing to your satisfaction to profit from it.
Speaker 5: It's an entirely voluntary arrangement. Whereas socialism you've got to
Speaker 5: apply enormous amounts of force.
Speaker 2: And that's why.
Speaker 5: Socialist socialism dissolves first of all, the bonds that hold
Speaker 5: the society together, creates enormous misery and deprivation, and ultimately
Speaker 5: has to be enforced at the point of a bayonet.
Speaker 4: Right, which is why I'm so astounded by the perhaps
Speaker 4: probable election of this Zorondabi character in.
Speaker 2: New York City.
Speaker 4: The idea that you could run rent control up the
Speaker 4: flagpole and anyone would salute. We just we need to
Speaker 4: do a better job, speaking of America's young people, of
Speaker 4: teaching the basic economics.
Speaker 2: If you choke off the supply of something.
Speaker 4: If you remove the incentives for supplying it, you don't
Speaker 4: get more of it, for instance, rental properties.
Speaker 5: Well, and I think young people are figuring it out.
Speaker 5: You're seeing that in all the polling data. Now, this
Speaker 5: young generation is turning into the most conservative generation we've
Speaker 5: had since the days of Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2: And if you recall, Ronald.
Speaker 5: Reagan's success was driven by the youngest voters in the electorate.
Speaker 5: They understood their futures were at stake, and they spend
Speaker 5: a lot of time figuring things out, connecting the dots
Speaker 5: and starting to make very good decisions. That's what democracies
Speaker 5: are all about. In normal times, they may go haywire,
Speaker 5: but when things get tough, people start putting all of
Speaker 5: their attention into their decisions. They start making very good decisions,
Speaker 5: and they set things right. And I think that's what
Speaker 5: happened across America in twenty twenty four. I think it's
Speaker 5: one of the great realigning elections of American history. New
Speaker 5: York is obviously an aberration and frankly, I've developed this
Speaker 5: morbid curiosity to see just how completely they can destroy
Speaker 5: a city, and I think they've just got the guy
Speaker 5: to do it.
Speaker 4: That may be the only way to cure people of
Speaker 4: their illusion that this stuff actually works. Maybe you have
Speaker 4: to hit bottom like a drunk. Anyway, in my introduction
Speaker 4: to Tom, i'd meant to mention that the congressman was
Speaker 4: voted the best vote for taxpayers two years in a
Speaker 4: row in the House of Representative Citizens against Government Waste
Speaker 4: recently named Tom McClintock one of only two perfect votes
Speaker 4: in the House fighting wasteful government spending. And in that spirit, sir,
Speaker 4: as you keep an eye on the so called big
Speaker 4: beautiful bill getting kicked around now in the Senate. What's
Speaker 4: your perception of where we are and how optimistic are
Speaker 4: you that we will birth something worth having.
Speaker 5: Well, it's going to pass because it absolutely has to
Speaker 5: pass without it, and average families taxes are going to
Speaker 5: rise twenty two percent next year. That's about seventeen hundred
Speaker 5: dollars a year, and additional taxes that'll make it the
Speaker 5: biggest tax increase in American history. That's already on the books.
Speaker 5: This bill stops that tax increase from taking effect, and
Speaker 5: at the same time it removes taxes on tips, and
Speaker 5: over time it increases the standard deduction for seniors to
Speaker 5: protect their Social Security earnings. So that by itself makes
Speaker 5: it absolutely imperative that it passed. But it does a
Speaker 5: lot of other very good things too. I could go
Speaker 5: you know, through the list, among them increasing the border
Speaker 5: patrol and securing the repatriation of the millions of illegal
Speaker 5: aliens that the Biden administration led into this country, you know,
Speaker 5: unleashing America's vast energy resources. But most importantly it comes
Speaker 5: down to this. The only economic indicator that really matters
Speaker 5: is how people answer this question next year. Are you
Speaker 5: better off to day than you were two years ago.
Speaker 5: You can't spend the answer to that question. Every person
Speaker 5: in their own lives how they're doing. If we can
Speaker 5: get this bill into effect this summer, it'll have a
Speaker 5: full year to work before people will be called upon
Speaker 5: to ask that question in the next election. And that's
Speaker 5: why it's going to pass, because it has to well.
Speaker 4: And a third reference to America's young people. I think
Speaker 4: there could be no more important issue than breaking the
Speaker 4: choke hold that the teachers' unions have on our government
Speaker 4: schools through competition and innovation. And I know there's some
Speaker 4: really inspiring or interesting things in the bill pushing school choice,
Speaker 4: So I was glad to hear about that.
Speaker 5: Well and well an Aeriel Durant wrote in their history Civilization,
Speaker 5: what may support a good car Chevrolet competition? You want
Speaker 5: to improve the public schools, restore competition, Allow parents the
Speaker 5: means and the freedom to make their own decision on
Speaker 5: the school that best meets their own child's needs, and
Speaker 5: you will see a huge improvement in the public and
Speaker 5: private schools.
Speaker 4: Congressman Tom McClintock is on the line, I couldn't agree more. Hey,
Speaker 4: in the time, we have left your reaction to a
Speaker 4: couple of geopolitical happenings, the stunning Israeli raid on Iran
Speaker 4: and the US's role in helping out what do you
Speaker 4: make of all that?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, without divulsion classified information, I think I
Speaker 5: can safely say that that if you've ever seen the
Speaker 5: film classic Bambi meets Godzilla, sort of.
Speaker 4: Like that, the efficiency and skill of not only the
Speaker 4: United States fighting forces but our allies in Israel are
Speaker 4: just awesome to behold.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they did a splendid job. I mean, Israeli intelligence,
Speaker 5: the UN, the Iran Foreign minister all agree that the
Speaker 5: Iranian nuclear capability has been, in President Trump's word, obliterated.
Speaker 5: You know, the only people are saying otherwise are the
Speaker 5: Supreme Mola of Iran and a CNN rep order. But
Speaker 5: you know, ultimately, anything can be destroyed can be rebuilt.
Speaker 5: The Iranian regimes made it clear that it intends to
Speaker 5: acquire nuclear weapons and once acquired, to use them first
Speaker 5: against Israel, then against US. And until they acquire that ability,
Speaker 5: they're still going to be the prime sponsor of terrorism
Speaker 5: around the world. I mean, they fund and direct the
Speaker 5: hoodies hezbe Lajamas, and there's no reason to believe they're
Speaker 5: going to stop. The good news is that regime is
Speaker 5: like a rotting porch. It is just waiting to collapse.
Speaker 5: They've oppressed the Iranian people for decades. There is a
Speaker 5: very strong resistance movement there and in the Iranian diaspora abroad.
Speaker 5: And the problem was every time it was on the
Speaker 5: verge of revolution, the Obama and Biden administration stepped in.
Speaker 5: They sent the cargo pallets of cash to the moulahs.
Speaker 5: They relaxed the sanctions. That's not going to happen under Trump.
Speaker 5: So I think ultimately the only way to permanently resolve
Speaker 5: this danger short of a bloody war is to bring
Speaker 5: matt regime crashing down from within.
Speaker 2: And maybe now is the time.
Speaker 5: To start assisting the opposition groups in any way that
Speaker 5: we can well.
Speaker 4: And it's just great to see deterrence back on the
Speaker 4: scene because serious deterrence leads to peace. Congressman Tom McLintock
Speaker 4: of the fifth District of California, Congressman, is always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Happy Independence Day to you and yours and we'll
Speaker 2: talk again soon. Thanks Joe, great talking to you. Likewise.
Speaker 4: Clips of the week coming up in a moment or two,
Speaker 4: and then a report from Jack in Sunny Florida.
Speaker 2: Stay with us.
Speaker 4: Tower grows hungrier with the eating. It's one of those
Speaker 4: principles that we have either forgotten or just been duped
Speaker 4: out of ignoring in the modern day, the fantasy that
Speaker 4: government will just give us everything we need and that
Speaker 4: there isn't any cost for it. And I don't just
Speaker 4: mean literally the cost in tax dollars and confiscations and
Speaker 4: the rest of it, but that it won't be in
Speaker 4: love with its own power and metastasize, because it always
Speaker 4: does and every example through human history, but we as
Speaker 4: humans somehow lose that reality.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: Happy Independence Day a week early to you and yours.
Speaker 4: Jackie is going to be weighing in from Florida in
Speaker 4: a couple of minutes where he is on vacation. Lovely
Speaker 4: of him to join us in enjoying the conversations with
Speaker 4: Tim Sandford and Tom McClintock and all sorts of people
Speaker 4: about the declaration and the US and freedom and the
Speaker 4: rest of it.
Speaker 2: Hope you've enjoyed.
Speaker 4: It too, if you're just joining us, grab the podcast
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty on demand. All right, So we had
Speaker 4: to put it off to accommodate the congressman schedule. But
Speaker 4: it's time for the Friday tradition. Let's take fun look
Speaker 4: back at the week that was. It's cow clips of
Speaker 4: the week.
Speaker 3: That place was demolished, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated, obliteration.
Speaker 2: Whips of the week.
Speaker 6: Mam bom bom bomber.
Speaker 7: US Central Command executed Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 8: Started with the decoy group of two B two bombers
Speaker 8: heading west towards Guam.
Speaker 2: From one world was looking the other way. Seven will
Speaker 2: be twos taking off directly towards Iran.
Speaker 7: With a total of fourteen mops dropped against two nuclear
Speaker 7: target areas.
Speaker 2: This is not a game playing president. When he says
Speaker 2: he's going to do something, he will do it.
Speaker 4: The President obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.
Speaker 2: Iran's response came in the form of a missile strike.
Speaker 2: They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 6: You understand that questions remain about the fate of Iran's
Speaker 6: enriched uranium.
Speaker 8: Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape.
Speaker 9: At least two of the Iranian nuclear facilities targeted were
Speaker 9: not completely destroyed.
Speaker 5: But I think CNN is a gut lists group of people.
Speaker 2: I know that better than you know that, and I
Speaker 2: know that that's not the case. But I'm not see
Speaker 2: whether the order was given, and the people say that
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter the order was given. They have everything
Speaker 2: they need to build nuclear weapons.
Speaker 10: If you want to make an assessment of what happened
Speaker 10: at four doh, you better get a big shovel and
Speaker 10: go really deep.
Speaker 2: If I'm the president, we will attack iron. We would
Speaker 2: be able to totally obliterate.
Speaker 3: Them, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated.
Speaker 2: It was called obliteration.
Speaker 4: On all midnight Hammer clips of the Week. We might
Speaker 4: play the fun one later on in the hour, because
Speaker 4: we have an alternate Clips of the week that Hansen
Speaker 4: is prepared for US. I was reading about a great
Speaker 4: piece written by Credit where it's due Dove Lieber inside
Speaker 4: Operation Narnia, the Daring attack. Israel feared it couldn't pull off,
Speaker 4: and my gosh, it's compelling. At midnight on June thirteenth,
Speaker 4: Israel's general's gathered in a bunker beneath Israel Air Force
Speaker 4: Headquarters Israeli Air Force Headquarters and watched his jets descended
Speaker 4: on Tehran in an operation they called Red Wedding. Ooh,
Speaker 4: anybody familiar with the Game of Thrones gets that reference.
Speaker 4: Hours later, in one thousand miles away, Iran's top military
Speaker 4: commanders were dead, a mass killing much like the famous
Speaker 4: wedding scene from the show Game of Thrones. The combination
Speaker 4: of intelligence, information, military precision that enabled the attack surprised
Speaker 4: people around the world, but it wasn't the only improbable success.
Speaker 2: At the outset of the twelve day campaign.
Speaker 4: Another key part of the initial attack considered so fantastical
Speaker 4: even by its planners, that it was called Operation Narnia
Speaker 4: after the fictional C. S.
Speaker 2: Lewis series.
Speaker 4: It successfully killed nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously
Speaker 4: at their homes in Tehran, the key being that pulling
Speaker 4: off the attacks, which required elaborate ruses to ensure surprise
Speaker 4: at the last moment they nearly fell apart.
Speaker 2: But the point being both the scientists and.
Speaker 4: The generals, it had to be carefully coordinated, because you know,
Speaker 4: the regime is sensitive to the fact that Israel was
Speaker 4: on high alert and maybe coming for them the US
Speaker 4: as well, And if one general got it, everybody else
Speaker 4: would have gone to ground, and if one scientist got it,
Speaker 4: all the rest would have vanished into the woodwork.
Speaker 2: So it all had to happen.
Speaker 4: A thousand miles away, nearly simultaneously. And you know, part
Speaker 4: of the untold story, well untold till now, is that
Speaker 4: Israel's been conducting drills to get the skills down to
Speaker 4: do this in very innocent seeming ways, flying large groups
Speaker 4: of aircraft to Greece and refueling them over and over
Speaker 4: again on the way without landing, in a way that
Speaker 4: seemed odd to people, but they've been working on this
Speaker 4: for years and years and pulled it off off against
Speaker 4: all odds, and at least for now, the Mullahs don't
Speaker 4: have nukes. That story will be ongoing, obviously, much more
Speaker 4: to come.
Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong and Geddy. A couple more segments
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 4: We're going to finish Strong if we possibly can, including
Speaker 4: with this special guest appearance by the co host of
Speaker 4: the show, mister Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Jack, where are you now? I took my talents to
Speaker 2: South Beach.
Speaker 4: Way to go? So first question, you're there in Florida.
Speaker 4: Is anybody alive? Because I remember they are calling Ron
Speaker 4: de Santis ron death sentence during COVID.
Speaker 2: Are there any Floridians? Yes, they seem to be alive
Speaker 2: and scantily clad. Katie.
Speaker 9: Maybe Katie can explain this. Why are bikinis so expensive
Speaker 9: since they're so little material involved, especially in the modern era.
Speaker 10: Please figure that out for me, because I don't know.
Speaker 9: Good Lord, So I have two teenage boys. We're on
Speaker 9: the beach in South Beach and they're both playing it cool.
Speaker 5: But I.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 9: I don't know that i'd want to be a fifteen
Speaker 9: year old boy in this environment. It would be a distracting,
Speaker 9: torturous I.
Speaker 2: Would guess, Oh my god.
Speaker 9: And I was talking to somebody before I came here,
Speaker 9: and they said, man, you gotta really be careful to
Speaker 9: not end up because I was explaining to my younger
Speaker 9: Henry associates like scantily clad with a with danger for
Speaker 9: some reason, like you're in a dangerous neighborhood if you're
Speaker 9: seeing scantily clad people.
Speaker 2: And I was talking to somebody about that and they said, Oh.
Speaker 9: It's very easy to end up on a beach where
Speaker 9: you know it's topless hearing to see a lot of nudity,
Speaker 9: and he will freak out if he sees that.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to try to avoid that. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: I would never think of that as a concern on
Speaker 4: a trip to Florida.
Speaker 2: But there you are so much nudity. How hot is it?
Speaker 2: It's freaking hot? Oh my god, Mooie Colliente. So I
Speaker 2: got here last night. This is kind of funny. So
Speaker 2: I'm staying at one of those.
Speaker 9: If you've ever seen pictures of South Beach, Miami, the
Speaker 9: colorful art deco hotels that are like in every postcard,
Speaker 9: we're staying in one of those. And we, because of
Speaker 9: Southwest weirdness, we got here like two and a half
Speaker 9: hours later than we were supposed to, of course, sitting
Speaker 9: on the tarmac for an hour fifteen in Houston for
Speaker 9: no explanation whatsoever, and just that sort of thing. But
Speaker 9: so we get to the hotel and we get dropped
Speaker 9: off at one am and the doors open.
Speaker 2: We walk in.
Speaker 9: There's nobody at the front desk and there's like no
Speaker 9: bell to ring or anything. And I thought, oh, you know, fine,
Speaker 9: they're in the bathroom wherever. So we wait and we wait,
Speaker 9: and like a half hour goes by and I call
Speaker 9: the number and the phone rings there right in front
Speaker 9: of me, and.
Speaker 2: Anyway pick up answer.
Speaker 9: Two hours of a waiting from one am to three
Speaker 9: am with nobody around, we eventually walked down the street
Speaker 9: and got some pizza because we were starving, and there
Speaker 9: was nobody there.
Speaker 2: And I mean the bar was there.
Speaker 9: I could have walked into the bar and poured myself
Speaker 9: a top shelf drain if I wanted to. I could
Speaker 9: have stolen many many things, and there was just nobody there.
Speaker 9: It was so strange.
Speaker 2: Boy, it's not like you're.
Speaker 4: In some sort of village in northwestern Norway or somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right.
Speaker 9: I wasn't visiting Greenland. I was in South Beach, Miami,
Speaker 9: and I mean there's people everywhere, and the bars are.
Speaker 2: Thumping and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 9: Anyway, so I went next door to a hotel and
Speaker 9: had even though I'd already paid for three rooms at
Speaker 9: this one, I went next door and got a couple
Speaker 9: of rooms just because we needed somewhere to sleep.
Speaker 2: That it was now, that was three am, and I
Speaker 2: got a street. Not today.
Speaker 9: I took some video, some funny videos though, that I
Speaker 9: showed to the manager today, and somebody's getting fired. They
Speaker 9: even left their keys sitting on the desk, like the
Speaker 9: I'm the janitor keys with like eight thousand keys on it,
Speaker 9: and all the keys were labeled like bar, you know,
Speaker 9: a master key for the rooms, you.
Speaker 2: Know, all the different stuff, and they just left it there.
Speaker 9: Whoever it was, I don't know if they passed out
Speaker 9: or had a hook up in one of the rooms
Speaker 9: what happened, But wow, good gracious, Okay, I could have
Speaker 9: made I could have made quite the reality show video
Speaker 9: out of that if I had been willing to break
Speaker 9: the law. Just gone into the bar and you know,
Speaker 9: go room to room, Jess, good night. How are you
Speaker 9: doing in there? Yeah, get in. Everybody's sleeping. Okay, great,
Speaker 9: I'm the manager. Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2: Freak like I was worrying. It's right.
Speaker 9: Anybody need a foot rub or anything? Okay, it gets stabbed.
Speaker 9: It is so freaking hot here though. If you're not
Speaker 9: used to humidity, like I'm not, it's just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, Judy and I were hunting to figure out where
Speaker 4: are you know, semi golden years pad would be, and
Speaker 4: we're focused on South Carolina and where we ended up
Speaker 4: and uh and and somebody said to us, well, it's
Speaker 4: really hot, but it's not Florida hot. And I thought,
Speaker 4: good god, there's like a whole nother gradation.
Speaker 9: You know, what I'm noticing is how I explained this
Speaker 9: to the kids, because we just we just ate the
Speaker 9: whole Cuban Hispanic culture is so much different than the
Speaker 9: I'm from Mexico's Hispanic culture. It's just different. It's just
Speaker 9: like a different well it's a different culture. It's like
Speaker 9: and I suppose that's obvious, but you know, you think
Speaker 9: Spanish and often the people together. But the Marco Rubio
Speaker 9: Hispanic crowd is much different than the you know, California
Speaker 9: Hispanic crowd in all kinds of different ways that I'll
Speaker 9: talk about when when we come back. Here's the coolest
Speaker 9: thing that's happened to me today that doesn't really even
Speaker 9: have anything to do with my vacation.
Speaker 2: It's more about AI and chat GPT.
Speaker 9: So I could not figure out an espresso machine in
Speaker 9: the room, and like, I need coffee or I'm going
Speaker 9: to pull somebody's head off, you know. And it was
Speaker 9: a new kind of an espresso machine that I'd never
Speaker 9: seen before, and just I couldn't get it to work.
Speaker 9: I took a picture of it on my phone, pressed
Speaker 9: one button and said, how do you make this thing work?
Speaker 2: It went to chat GPT and it came.
Speaker 9: Back and so do you press that button to the
Speaker 9: left and that other one after it blink and it
Speaker 9: just it looked at it, figured out what it was,
Speaker 9: got thet ructions and told me, how awesome is that?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: That is great? We did Jack.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you can listen to the podcast. Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 4: on Demand did a little ab with an article about
Speaker 4: a galoo was using AI as her career counselor, and
Speaker 4: how incredibly great it was in ways that I won't redescribe.
Speaker 4: But and then the b was an article about how,
Speaker 4: with very few tweaks it could give you some really
Speaker 4: fine ideas for wiping out the Jews or wiping out
Speaker 4: white people, or a backdoor portal into the White House
Speaker 4: it system or whatever just turned evil at the drop
Speaker 4: of a hat.
Speaker 9: So yeah, I'm sure how to make a bomb out
Speaker 9: of crockpot if you wanted to, or something like that.
Speaker 2: Oh boobs, I see him right over there. Boobs, hair
Speaker 2: boobscar boobs. There are bear boobs here. Sam's head is
Speaker 2: going to pop off.
Speaker 9: When I was a fifteen year old high school boy,
Speaker 9: I never saw anything like this before. Oh my got
Speaker 9: he is going to be He's going to be texting
Speaker 9: his friends on the download.
Speaker 2: Dudes, you can't believe this. Free the nipple?
Speaker 9: What is it, hey, Katie? What is the appeal of
Speaker 9: a topless beach? Is it tanlines? Is it like feminism?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 10: Probably a mixture of both. The tanlines can get really
Speaker 10: tacky if you get dark.
Speaker 2: So does it make you feel wild or like seen?
Speaker 2: Or I just I.
Speaker 10: Don't even understand, I've never gone to a topless beach,
Speaker 10: so I don't know what they are feeling in that
Speaker 10: exact moment. I would assume they feel quite free. I'll
Speaker 10: go ask her a nice.
Speaker 2: Breeze do it? Do it compliment? Or two? You look
Speaker 2: very fit? Do you work out?
Speaker 10: Oh? My god, I just help here and tell her
Speaker 10: how pretty her eyes are.
Speaker 9: Man, if it's this hot here on the beach by
Speaker 9: the water, We're going to the Everglades on Sunday, where
Speaker 9: it's supposed to be significantly more humid and hot. I
Speaker 9: can't imagine what that's going to you. Like, I'll be
Speaker 9: wishing an alligator would bite my head off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of which, have you seen any of the
Speaker 4: big lizards with the boys yet?
Speaker 2: No? We just we are.
Speaker 6: We are.
Speaker 9: We arrived, as I explained it, three in the morning, basically,
Speaker 9: so we haven't done much yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I just had a U I just had a lobster
Speaker 9: onlet that was pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll bet, I'll bet so.
Speaker 4: Is there surf there or there crashing waves or is
Speaker 4: it pretty placid?
Speaker 2: It's I'd say it's in between.
Speaker 9: It's like perfect for being out there in the water
Speaker 9: and bob up and down, but not going to drag
Speaker 9: you out to see and kill you.
Speaker 2: I might run a jet ski and had to Cuba
Speaker 2: the good Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the little reverse mary l boat left good idea. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they'll welcome you with open arms. H isn't it crazy
Speaker 4: how warm the Atlantic is compared.
Speaker 2: To the Pacific.
Speaker 9: And then yet but salmon henry are out there right now,
Speaker 9: and sam and hates cold water, so it must be
Speaker 9: pretty comfy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I still remember the shock of stepping into the Pacific
Speaker 4: Ocean for the first time, having grown up is kid
Speaker 4: who vacationed on the East Coast and thinking.
Speaker 2: Sweet mother, God, go wrong. No, the Atlantic Ocean in
Speaker 2: the summertime is like a path. Seriously.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like so all those beach boys songs, you know,
Speaker 9: all the surfing you know, they're all shrunk up underneath
Speaker 9: those shorts.
Speaker 4: It's freezing cool, right, or they're wearing wet suits or whatever,
Speaker 4: But certainly more than.
Speaker 2: The harlots of South Beach. I don't approve.
Speaker 9: I liked the way everybody on the plane last night
Speaker 9: just accepted the fact that we sat there for an
Speaker 9: hour fifteen with no explanation whatsoever. Before we took off,
Speaker 9: and everybody just accepts that now because it's just part
Speaker 9: of the deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody felt the need to explain. Nobody even ask.
Speaker 2: You just think, well, I guess this is just the
Speaker 2: way it is flying now. Didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 9: Somebody would have made a big deal out of the
Speaker 9: fact that we've been sitting here for an hour fifteen
Speaker 9: before we took off and we're gonna be late for everything.
Speaker 2: That's just part of the deal.
Speaker 4: Now, switching to my business reporter hat, it'll be interesting
Speaker 4: to see the evolution of Southwest airlines as they have evolved.
Speaker 4: Somewhat the late night comedians making jokes about Spirit and
Speaker 4: Jet Blue and all those other alternate airlines. That's not
Speaker 4: from nothing. They didn't make that stuff up. That derision
Speaker 4: came from somewhere. Which direction does the great Southwest go?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you don't want to end up being like a
Speaker 9: Spirit or a Bowling, where you're just an endless punchline.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely not so obviously. Rest of today that
Speaker 4: way more boobs. I gotta gotta turn my head this way.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be I don't anybody think I'm staring.
Speaker 2: I'll look this.
Speaker 4: There's a cop car over there. I'll stare at the
Speaker 4: cop car. That's what ill did, Jack have vacation in
Speaker 4: the South of France. You'll get used to it, They'll
Speaker 4: get used to it. Everything will be fine, very very
Speaker 4: soone we have the breast arm. The breast alarm has sounded.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, head to the shelters.
Speaker 9: I don't want to be old guy at the beach
Speaker 9: staring at twenty year old's boobs, So I got to
Speaker 9: make sure my head is going the right direction.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna stay. But you don't have to look
Speaker 4: at a cop car either. But do you have to
Speaker 4: right to look in the direction you choose?
Speaker 2: Jack, this is America. That's trouble.
Speaker 9: You wouldn't You wouldn't be able to tell it because
Speaker 9: I haven't heard anybody speak English and quite some time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Although, getting back to the Cuban culture thing, it's
Speaker 4: a shame that goddamn communists are in charge of Cuba,
Speaker 4: because the food is incredible, the music is wonderful, the
Speaker 4: people are hardworking and industrious.
Speaker 2: It's it's a shame.
Speaker 9: I was thinking that last night, this whole South Beach
Speaker 9: vibe would be all of Cuba, and people would be
Speaker 9: traveling from all over the world to spend the kind
Speaker 9: of money they spend here in Cuba. Those idiot communists, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, missing out on all that.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what used to happen until Chae Guovera and
Speaker 4: old weird Beard Castro got the nod. But what are
Speaker 4: you gonna do? Nothing's forever anything exciting this afternoon, or
Speaker 4: you just chill out after your all night shirts in Miami.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, punch of minute. Probably not quite as
Speaker 4: cool to do. Yeah, no kidding, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, excuse me, you and the T shirt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jacob Vera and his guys they executed my grandfather
Speaker 4: for no reason other than he was a school teacher.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, try that in South Beach beaches. Anyway,
Speaker 4: go vacation, have a good time.
Speaker 2: Did we lose him? That's fine, We're going to break anyway.
Speaker 4: Jack weighing in from the hot, steamy beaches of Miami.
Speaker 4: We'll be back and finished wrong. Next funny coincidence. There's
Speaker 4: breaking news is I'm speaking these words that the University
Speaker 4: of Virginia president has resigned. The Justice Department was after
Speaker 4: him because he had been enthusiastically continuing illegal DEI programs,
Speaker 4: specifically racial discrimination, you know, relying on the ridiculous but
Speaker 4: popular canard that the way you fix any racial problems
Speaker 4: of history through lots and lots of racism. The Justice
Speaker 4: Department was looking into the schools clinging to DEI efforts
Speaker 4: and good, I'm glad he quit. It's it's a step
Speaker 4: in the right direction anyway, because our universities and schools
Speaker 4: are hotbeds of this stuff. And also the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: earlier today had ruled that yes, parents can absolutely demand
Speaker 4: that their kids can opt out of so called lgbt
Speaker 4: Q plus minus over the power of three stories in
Speaker 4: Maryland schools as they were teaching kids radical gender theory
Speaker 4: in like third grade, and the parents are saying, you've
Speaker 4: got to give us, We've got to be able to
Speaker 4: take our kids out of school and and and not
Speaker 4: hear that stuff. It's it's absolutely antithetical to our religion
Speaker 4: and our morals and our beliefs about the world and
Speaker 4: the rest of it. So that's that's another a great blow.
Speaker 4: Oppression comes from the left and the right alike always
Speaker 4: has in fact, you know, whether it's you want to
Speaker 4: cite the horseshoe theory that you know, towards the you know,
Speaker 4: end of the horseshoe, the left and right are pretty
Speaker 4: close to each other.
Speaker 2: And who was it? Oh? Was it?
Speaker 4: Iin Ran somebody made the brilliant point that affectional that effectively,
Speaker 4: there's really no difference between left and right. They throw
Speaker 4: different phony academic rationales at you as to why they
Speaker 4: ought to be in charge of everything, but what they
Speaker 4: share is a systematic subjugation of individual rights in favor
Speaker 4: of government control. And it's funny that those two things
Speaker 4: should break as I'm getting ready to finish up the
Speaker 4: last show before Independence Day next week.
Speaker 2: We're all on vacation next week.
Speaker 4: But after Thomas, Jefferson and Adams, mostly with some help
Speaker 4: from Ben Franklin, drafted the Declaration of Independence and went
Speaker 4: through Continental Congress and everything. The first paragraph is just saying, look,
Speaker 4: we're breaking with England, and we owe everybody an explanation why.
Speaker 4: It's a famous paragraph, but I'm going to skip to
Speaker 4: the second one. We hold these truths to be self evident,
Speaker 4: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
Speaker 4: by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these
Speaker 4: are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that to
Speaker 4: secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their
Speaker 4: just powers from the consent of the governed. Anything that
Speaker 4: departs from that, no matter the excuse, no matter the
Speaker 4: long explanation, the eloquent to Ebrame's kindibook or the phony
Speaker 4: sixteen nineteen project or what have you, anything that departs
Speaker 4: from those couple of sentences, feel free to reject it
Speaker 4: with confidence, because they are false words of false prophets.
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 3: To listen to the thought from a strong again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, weird singing guy.
Speaker 4: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 4: crew to wrap up the week. There he's pressing the buttons, Michelangelo, Michael,
Speaker 4: what's your final thought?
Speaker 2: Real quick?
Speaker 8: This childhood memory involved uh an entire brick of firecrackers
Speaker 8: and a lot of bottle rockets and a trip to
Speaker 8: a certain state with loose firework laws. And that's all
Speaker 8: I'll say. It's just a fictional, you know thing, but it.
Speaker 4: Was fun, beloved American tradition. That's right, Katie Green or
Speaker 4: a steam Newswoman. As a final thought.
Speaker 10: Katie, it has been so long since I have had
Speaker 10: zero plans, and I have zero plans for next week.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about it.
Speaker 4: You know I've occasionally quoted Paul McCartney to my my wife,
Speaker 4: Oh at magic feeling nowhere to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice sometimes, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to guest guess ad Jack's final thought, look
Speaker 4: boobs as he is there in South Beach where sometimes
Speaker 4: the nipple is indeed free. My final thoughts, Happy Independence Day,
Speaker 4: God bless this country. Read the Declaration of Independence again.
Speaker 4: It's worth it, It's really really important.
Speaker 2: I hope everybody has a great week.
Speaker 4: We have some very carefully prepared best of and stuff
Speaker 4: you've never heard, it's never aired before. We'll see you
Speaker 4: next Monday, God bless them. Ere Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: You're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats,
Speaker 6: no Roman candles or screaming mamies.
Speaker 2: No, Oh, come on, man, you don't got no.
Speaker 6: Lady fingers, buzz butterles, sneaker bombs, church burners, finger blasters,
Speaker 6: gut busters, zif he do dies or craft flappers.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 6: You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell
Speaker 6: me you don't have no whistling bungholes, No, spleen splitters,
Speaker 6: whisker biscuits, honkey ladders, hooskerdoos, hoosker don'ts cherry bombs, nips
Speaker 6: and dazers, whether without the scooter stick or one single
Speaker 6: whistling kiddy jaser.
Speaker 5: No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
Speaker 2: What that might be a problem.
Speaker 6: It's not what you like.
Speaker 2: It's the consumer. Armstrong and getty,