Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2: Ketty Armstrong and Jatiety and know He Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 2: For some reason this popped into my mind. Joe and
Speaker 2: I were talking during the commercials about humidity. This is
Speaker 2: the sort of things we talk about during the commercial.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound all like a couple of old guys, does it.
Speaker 2: It's solid humid. My feet hurt? To your feet hurt?
Speaker 2: Is it always this humid? I told the story many times.
Speaker 2: We left our family vacation last year early because it
Speaker 2: was so hot in Florida in August. We ended up
Speaker 2: flying up to New York and doing different stuff. But anyway,
Speaker 2: my oldest son said the other day he said, that
Speaker 2: was my favorite vacation we've ever been on because we
Speaker 2: did a lot of fun stuff. And my younger son said,
Speaker 2: I liked the We did a road trip vacation before
Speaker 2: last week, drove clear across South Dakota and and different
Speaker 2: stuff Wyoming. But it was just on the got a
Speaker 2: you know, working on a vacation for this year and
Speaker 2: just thinking about, you know, the memories you create with
Speaker 2: your family and for your kids that they'll have the
Speaker 2: rest of their lives and all that sort of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and your kids are grown up already, Joe. How quickly
Speaker 2: it goes by? I mean, I mean, I know everybody
Speaker 2: says that. I know everybody says that, But it's still
Speaker 2: truer than that. It's still truer than the fact that
Speaker 2: everybody says it. You think you got, well, I got
Speaker 2: eighteen years before they're you know, even adults. It goes
Speaker 2: by so freaking fast. True, What is that trick of
Speaker 2: the brain where on a day by day basis, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's grueling, especially when they're younger, but it goes
Speaker 2: by so fast. That period of time where you're walking
Speaker 2: down the sidewalk holding their hand and everything is amazing
Speaker 2: to them, is like that law.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so true. I think it's a variation on
Speaker 1: the old saying time flies when you're having fun. I
Speaker 1: would say time flies when you're completely engaged in what
Speaker 1: you're doing. It's like, you know, we've both worked jobs
Speaker 1: of drudgery and physical labor and humiliatingly low wages, and
Speaker 1: if you are busy at that miserable job, that's so
Speaker 1: much better than not being busy. If you're standing around
Speaker 1: board and you hate your job, that's the worst thing.
Speaker 2: And then the age thing that nobody's ever quite figured
Speaker 2: out why it works that way for as you get older.
Speaker 2: But like my son, who's going to be a junior,
Speaker 2: he's got two years of high school left, and he
Speaker 2: hates school the way I hated school, unfortunately. But I
Speaker 2: remember thinking two years was just you might as well
Speaker 2: say a thousand years. It was so long when you're
Speaker 2: that age. And I told me, I wish I could
Speaker 2: give you you know what two years feels like for me?
Speaker 2: For me, two years feels like six months. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My daughter, who is very bright and well adjusted Delaney,
Speaker 1: in spite of my best efforts, at one point is
Speaker 1: she was contemplating her future. Said, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of law school, I'll be like twenty six and
Speaker 1: a half. And I'm like, ah, yeah, I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Can twenty six year olds.
Speaker 2: Drive or walk or walk?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: That's ryan, You're not that young. But you're young, so
Speaker 1: it's fine. But you're right, You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: And before we get to clips of the week, I
Speaker 1: just I've almost got this down.
Speaker 4: Buffaloed Buffalo buffalo buffaloed buffalo buffaloed buffalo buffalo. I got it,
Speaker 4: I got the emphasis right.
Speaker 2: So you got to post that somewhere because I think
Speaker 2: it's better in print where you can look at it
Speaker 2: and try to digest it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to write it out and explain it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a note from Scott
Speaker 1: that the term buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
Speaker 1: buffalo is grammatically correct and means the bison from Buffalo
Speaker 1: that are bullied by other bison from Buffalo also bully
Speaker 1: bison from Buffalo. I respectfully disagreed. You need some past
Speaker 1: tense and at least one dash in there, But.
Speaker 4: Buffalo to buffalo, buffalo, buffaloed buffalo buffaloed buffalo buffalo is
Speaker 4: actually grammatically correct.
Speaker 2: But yes, I will post it in print. The capitalization
Speaker 2: matters too, it reeks of the lamp. I just came
Speaker 2: across that phrase last night, But pardon me.
Speaker 1: I like that almost as much as it insists on itself,
Speaker 1: exists upon it as a review, itists insists upon itself.
Speaker 2: I came across this last night. I'm starting to write,
Speaker 2: and I'm wanting to do that like trying to get
Speaker 2: in the habit of writing of it regular fabulous and
Speaker 2: that I like, I play musical instruments every single day.
Speaker 2: I've never been able to consistently write, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try to build the habit of writing on a regular basis. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So I've been watching a lot of and reading a
Speaker 2: lot about writers and writing and stuff like that. And
Speaker 2: Martin Amos quoted Samuel Johnson about overwriting. I mean, because
Speaker 2: you got to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, but at
Speaker 2: some point you know it's perfect and now you're only
Speaker 2: doing damage.
Speaker 1: That's one of the best tricks to writing. And Samuel,
Speaker 1: you stop painting. Same with music and uh.
Speaker 2: And Samuel Johnson had a phrase of it, reeks of
Speaker 2: the lamp as you stayed up too long, too late
Speaker 2: adjusting it. I mean you over wrote it. Yeah, which
Speaker 2: is a good phrase, Reeks of the lamp. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's funny. Boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole buffalo buffalo thing. Does Reek of the
Speaker 1: Lamp put it away?
Speaker 2: Son? All right, it's the beloved Friday tradition. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's take a fond look back at the week that was.
Speaker 1: It's cal clips of the Week.
Speaker 2: Anonymous. You call, we can save this.
Speaker 5: It's possible to land this plane. But right now CBS News,
Speaker 5: in my view, is on fire, fire, Where's going?
Speaker 6: Part of our thesis here is that people do not
Speaker 6: want their candidates grown in fasts.
Speaker 2: P hustle, P hustle.
Speaker 4: Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination.
Speaker 5: It's a journey.
Speaker 7: What kind of a creeper has been on a decade
Speaker 7: on a platform like kick?
Speaker 6: I said, none of this swell or should stop him
Speaker 6: from coming us centator, I'm Sarah himself.
Speaker 1: Is this perfectly amiable for completely unaccomplished establishment non entity?
Speaker 1: Consumer prices with food and energy included rose four point
Speaker 1: two percent.
Speaker 2: You know what I really love? I love the inflation.
Speaker 3: A little company that started in a warehouse in El
Speaker 3: Segundo is now going public for the it was the
Speaker 3: largest IPO that ever.
Speaker 7: To be fair, I'm not crooked, but well, you play
Speaker 7: right into the hands.
Speaker 2: You're either crooked or you're stupid. Thank you, darling. Have
Speaker 2: we good esser President? Let's please I travel all the
Speaker 2: way to Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: We hit them hard yesterday and we're going to hit
Speaker 3: him again hard today.
Speaker 8: And he said we'll bomb the s out of them.
Speaker 2: And it's just tap tap tap. Instead, they're going to
Speaker 2: have tap tap tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran.
Speaker 9: But the straits have been open for a number of
Speaker 9: months already and you just didn't know about it.
Speaker 3: We have a signing.
Speaker 2: And the documents.
Speaker 9: You're in pretty final shape.
Speaker 2: It's not a corporate ride.
Speaker 3: Continuous cool, got no good.
Speaker 2: But it's gone. Let's gone. It's gone. Godlo Maratha Garden.
Speaker 2: They can't pull leaf it. It's Clips of the Week.
Speaker 1: Mike Hanson, executive producer, with a brilliant job on Clips
Speaker 1: of the Week as always.
Speaker 2: Will they be anybody at the Spurs game tomorrow? I
Speaker 2: don't know if any If a fan fight even go,
Speaker 2: I think the players should just forfeit. After the other night,
Speaker 2: it's call it good so the world's worst male voice.
Speaker 1: Every time I hear it, my skin crawls.
Speaker 2: It's pretty funny. I don't think. Just disqualifiz So he
Speaker 2: worked in the plant nepaign. We never did play good
Speaker 2: to the bastard. Yeah, we never did play the Platner's
Speaker 2: acceptance speech and stuff like that earlier this week, but
Speaker 2: you heard a little bit of it there. It was good.
Speaker 2: It was really good. So if Susan Collins, the Republican
Speaker 2: sitting senator, has oppo research, I suggest you dump it
Speaker 2: when the appropriate time comes. Because he ain't gonna be
Speaker 2: a pushover. No, he's a.
Speaker 1: Forceful and articulate, one hundred percent a charismatic guy. Just
Speaker 1: don't become his girlfriend, or don't burgle is bad.
Speaker 2: Okay. I don't know if you've heard this.
Speaker 1: He has a unique system of justice for burglars.
Speaker 2: KRTB. Keep raping those burglars. You'd see him there coming
Speaker 2: at you with his sharpened action, and you'd think, well,
Speaker 2: I guess that's the worst of it.
Speaker 1: Nope, nope, you ever seen pulp fiction?
Speaker 3: Son?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Oh, and then the other, speaking of weird voices, play
Speaker 1: get ready to play twelve Michael, This is a guy
Speaker 1: who is inside of Walmart bizarrely, some troubled young man.
Speaker 1: I think he's mentally ill judging. I just he looked
Speaker 1: mentally ill to me. He set fire to an entire
Speaker 1: display of bras.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's like a free the Nipple
Speaker 1: activist or just like some loose or is completely nuts.
Speaker 1: But so he sets this fire inside of Walmart and
Speaker 1: the alarms are going off, and here's how one fellow reacted.
Speaker 2: He can't make this out. Look at this, I mean
Speaker 2: Walmart and written, he's on fire. Where's going? Why the
Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse voice? Hey kids?
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, is this an earthquake? What
Speaker 1: are we supposed to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. I don't want to
Speaker 2: get hurt. Why would you do that? Go falsetto saw
Speaker 2: a couple of flames when all mister Bill, I have
Speaker 2: no idea.
Speaker 1: Oh no.
Speaker 2: More to come. Well, we're playing a lot of audio,
Speaker 2: but you know, it's Friday, it's summer, we're barely working.
Speaker 2: I think it fulfills our contractual obligations to play this. Also,
Speaker 2: Michaelangelo has said this Bill Birthing really fits in with
Speaker 2: what we were talking about with kids growing up faster
Speaker 2: than that sort of stuff, So why not play it here?
Speaker 8: Life could pass you by, it happens, you know, you
Speaker 8: just keep living and living and living. You know what
Speaker 8: it is you basically got I think you got like
Speaker 8: twenty five thirty years to absorb as much as you can,
Speaker 8: and then that's it. That's all you know, because right
Speaker 8: around then you get married and it's over right.
Speaker 10: You have a couple of kids. You're sucked in the bubble.
Speaker 10: You don't have time to pay attention to what's going
Speaker 10: on on the world. You just suck with these kids. Eh,
Speaker 10: don't be a stereo killer. Don't touch that. You're just
Speaker 10: sucking that. You have three, four kids. That is a
Speaker 10: twenty five year sentence trying to get them all through college.
Speaker 10: Society just keeps going. You get the last month through college,
Speaker 10: you step back out of the bubble.
Speaker 2: Just you don't know what happened.
Speaker 10: You're not even paying attention. You go back to your
Speaker 10: old record collection.
Speaker 2: Baby, even have an over Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, back
Speaker 2: into the real world. I have the opposite thing, because
Speaker 2: I was talking to something about this yesday. Because I
Speaker 2: didn't have kids, so I was forty five, so I
Speaker 2: don't have Uh. I didn't delay all the things that
Speaker 2: I wanted to do. I wish I would have, but
Speaker 2: I didn't delay all the things I wanted to do,
Speaker 2: so that you know, I had, I had more stuff
Speaker 2: than jam in there. But I get his point. Mm hmm, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it a sentence by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination.
Speaker 2: Oh no, absolutely not. Yeah, I already dread when it's
Speaker 2: over with the combination of if it doesn't end, something's
Speaker 2: gone wrong. So that's a weird contradiction coming up.
Speaker 1: I want to get to this, Is Mexico safe enough
Speaker 1: to go to the World Cup?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: The answer is probably yeah, But the reasons why are
Speaker 1: just crazy interesting. It's amazing how little we pay attention
Speaker 1: to the half a narco state unstable critical trading partner
Speaker 1: that's right over there.
Speaker 2: My neighbors are going to Mexico City on vacation this summer.
Speaker 2: I went to Mexico City twenty years ago in vacation.
Speaker 2: It was really, really awesome, very interesting. Got a fantastic
Speaker 2: piece by a great writer named Matthew Continetti about how
Speaker 2: it's around the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary looking back
Speaker 2: on the bi centennial fifty years ago, how nostalgia warps
Speaker 2: you into believing things are so much we're so much
Speaker 2: better than they are and they are now and that's
Speaker 2: a distortion and blah blah blah. It's really interesting. We'll
Speaker 2: get to that later. To stick around Mexico, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: Mexico defeats some country you've never heard of in soccer
Speaker 2: for the World Cup of the opening match there at
Speaker 2: As Texas Stadium. Is that the name of ours? One
Speaker 2: of the most legendary stadiums in the world.
Speaker 1: Indeed, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I bet that's a hell of
Speaker 1: an atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Fun yeah, So the toneless tune of the Usela.
Speaker 1: So a couple of journalists approaching the question of whether
Speaker 1: Mexico is safe enough given the cartel nuttiness lately.
Speaker 2: To go to the World Cup, To fly into Mexico
Speaker 2: City and go to a soccer match, I wouldn't hesitate
Speaker 2: at all, but.
Speaker 1: Neither would Neither would I, although they're also having big
Speaker 1: matches in the suburbs of Guadalajara, where manicured lawns sit
Speaker 1: near high end shopping centers and eighty nine bags of
Speaker 1: human remains have been found in the past year dumped
Speaker 1: in ravines are dug up from unmarked graves and a
Speaker 1: few miles from those discovery soccer plan fans will pour
Speaker 1: into the big Akron Stadium outside.
Speaker 2: Guadalajara for World Cup matches, blah blah blah, and.
Speaker 1: They go into the four Months of violence, spasm of violence,
Speaker 1: cartel violence that paralyzed Guadalajara and the surrounding state of Jalisco.
Speaker 2: I used to ride my motorcycle around Mexico, and I
Speaker 2: don't know as i'd be it'd be comfortable doing that
Speaker 2: now as I used to. But I always just think
Speaker 2: back when I used to do it, people tell me, oh,
Speaker 2: it's way too dangerous to do it down there. I
Speaker 2: never had anything that came within one hundred miles of
Speaker 2: even being sketchy while I was in Mexico. But things
Speaker 2: are worse now than they were then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't doubt it. I would add that you
Speaker 1: were aware of. But anyway, I've got a friend who
Speaker 1: got the perfect window to go to Cairo, Egypt, and
Speaker 1: then Israel, including Jerusalem and and just all the holy.
Speaker 2: Sites and everything.
Speaker 1: He said, we had to cancel this several times because
Speaker 1: I couldn't go before we went, and then I couldn't
Speaker 1: go now. But so I got so lucky, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, at times Mexico is the same as kind
Speaker 1: of up and down in terms of the situation. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I thought this was super interesting. Tyler Cowan, who's a writer, thinker, economists,
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff, and he writes for The Free
Speaker 1: press has been to Mexico dozens and dozens of times,
Speaker 1: and his stuff, and I wish we had time for it.
Speaker 1: But he's talking about how murder and Mayhem ruled the
Speaker 1: Mexican ruled. After the Mexican government took out remember Elmentcho,
Speaker 1: the leader of the powerful Hallisto New Generation cartel, the
Speaker 1: cartel's response was swift and violent, most notably in taurist
Speaker 1: hotspot Porta Vayarta, which used to be off limits.
Speaker 2: Bah bah uh.
Speaker 1: And then he goes into the entire history of the
Speaker 1: country of Mexico is not being a coherent state. They've
Speaker 1: never been a so coherent united country.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And so it kind of just moves in waves like
Speaker 1: we're talking about. But he said, yeah, I absolutely go
Speaker 1: to the World Cup, but I wouldn't like to venture
Speaker 1: into the countryside.
Speaker 2: Similar to Cuba. If they could ever get their act together,
Speaker 2: they'd be such a tourist. Valhalla, Oh yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: gorgeous place.
Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: The Congressional baseball game was one last night by the Republicans.
Speaker 7: He defeated the Democrats eleven to two. And I'm not
Speaker 7: saying they cheated, but I'm pretty sure there's no Senator
Speaker 7: Otani from South Dakota.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. There was a spectacular catch by one of
Speaker 2: the Republicans, I think, yeah, dive and grab in the
Speaker 2: left field. Yeah. So we're coming up on the two
Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country. Gotta say, I mean,
Speaker 2: I was a child for the Bisonentennial in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: I certainly feel like, well, there was definitely a lot
Speaker 2: less America hating going on, if any. I don't think
Speaker 2: there was any.
Speaker 1: Un percent that was the fringe of the fringe, but
Speaker 1: anything of all races. By the way, folks, all races,
Speaker 1: And I.
Speaker 2: Got a clue for you.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy six, black people weren't stupid or blinded
Speaker 1: to reality. Nor were they in nineteen forty five when
Speaker 1: patriotism ran very high.
Speaker 2: Anyway, thank to you. The word nostalgia literally means homesickness,
Speaker 2: a homesickness for the past. Matthew Continetti writes about for
Speaker 2: AEI and writes about how fifty years ago, for the Bisonentennell,
Speaker 2: America was in many respects much more of a mess
Speaker 2: than it is today, despite the way we remember it.
Speaker 2: Because of the way the brain works, which we're about
Speaker 2: to get into. But inflation, gas lines, crime, unemployment, political violence,
Speaker 2: race relations, geopolitical tensions, just coming out of the Vietnam War,
Speaker 2: Middle East, everything was worse than it is now, despite
Speaker 2: what we're telling polsters post.
Speaker 1: Watergate as well, great cynicism and disillusionment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, most Americans tell posters we're better off fifty years ago.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, lots of people always think things were
Speaker 2: better fifty years ago. It's been that way since the
Speaker 2: dawn of polling. What makes people think the past was
Speaker 2: better isn't a careful study of statistics, but a lazy
Speaker 2: inventory of feelings and a laser outsourcing to media vibes.
Speaker 2: This tendency didn't begin with polling. The poll he just
Speaker 2: made it easier to quantify the pull of nostalgia.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's lazy as much as it's just
Speaker 1: in us. That's what humans do. It's the great philosopher
Speaker 1: Barber streisand put it to those two painful to remember.
Speaker 2: We simply choose to forget well, and then the powerful
Speaker 2: take advantage of this tendency, this human tendency to glorify
Speaker 2: the past. Get back to Matthew continent. He's writing, ironically.
Speaker 2: The system so many people on the left, right, and
Speaker 2: middle heat scorn on for failing the current generation fuels
Speaker 2: the malaise. Political demigods, activist journalists, and big corporations seek
Speaker 2: to exploit or monetize the natural human tendency to pine
Speaker 2: for the simpler, happier times. The Roman poet Horace had
Speaker 2: a term for such people two thousand years ago, and
Speaker 2: he gives the Latin for it, appraiser of times past
Speaker 2: when he was a boy. That has always worked, always
Speaker 2: through human history. You could claim that, you know, back
Speaker 2: when things were great. We all remember when things were
Speaker 2: great fifty years ago, and then, you know, try to
Speaker 2: sell something to somebody or convince them you should be
Speaker 2: in charge now or whatever it is. Nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 2: that was actually the peak. It was better than picking aera,
Speaker 2: and you can find things worthy of nostalgiaa You can
Speaker 2: also find plenty of things almost nobody wants restored. For instance,
Speaker 2: the infant mortality rate three many times higher in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six and thirteen times higher in nineteen twenty six,
Speaker 2: fifty years before that. Yeah, anyway, this last paragraph is
Speaker 2: what I wanted to get in because I thought it
Speaker 2: was really interesting, he writes. I'm a conservative, so I'm
Speaker 2: the first to concede that the past is worth remembering
Speaker 2: and studying. But if all you do is cherry pick
Speaker 2: the good, real or alleged while blinding yourself to the bad,
Speaker 2: you're not studying the past. You're grading the present against
Speaker 2: a past that never was. Well said, Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing to watch out for. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I wonder is there a I always go to evolutionary reasons,
Speaker 2: assuming that most human nature stuff we have held onto
Speaker 2: is because those of us who do these things have
Speaker 2: survived versus people who didn't. And I wonder if there's
Speaker 2: just some advantage to remembering the good stuff and blocking
Speaker 2: out the bad for moving forward. You talked about Beniesia earlier,
Speaker 2: how you forget how much work having a baby is
Speaker 2: because if you remembered it, maybe you wouldn't have another baby.
Speaker 2: But you know, and maybe that's it. Maybe that's the
Speaker 2: whole evolutionary thing. I have no idea, or.
Speaker 1: Even if it's not evolutionary, it might just be you know, uh,
Speaker 1: anthropologically adaptive, like.
Speaker 2: Being nice to people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what's so interesting is, you
Speaker 1: know when I read orwell earlier in my life, before
Speaker 1: I had much perspective, I got that if you can
Speaker 1: seize people's history, you can you can control them because
Speaker 1: you're controlling the perception of who they are. I kind
Speaker 1: of sort of got it, but now I really really
Speaker 1: get it. Oh yeah, because the neo Marxists right now
Speaker 1: are doing the opposite. Well, they're doing something similar to
Speaker 1: what Matthew Continetti's talking about. But everybody's trying to tell
Speaker 1: you what the past was because you are, we are
Speaker 1: a product of everything we have lived and done. If
Speaker 1: you can twist in people's mind what we've lived and done.
Speaker 2: You got them. Yeah. And even for people that are
Speaker 2: doing their best to let you know what happened, as
Speaker 2: without an agenda, the best they can don't agree on stuff,
Speaker 2: So history to a certain extent is a fabrication. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it's the best you can do. And then if you
Speaker 2: got somebody with an agenda and that's all you've ever learned,
Speaker 2: then you have a completely skewed view of everything. It's
Speaker 2: true timely troubling.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I think the most terrifying sentence I have
Speaker 1: ever cooked up in discussing the complete infiltration of our schools,
Speaker 1: our educational system with these radical leftists. Is kids learn
Speaker 1: what they're taught, and they've learned to hate their country
Speaker 1: like that, proud of being an American? Gallop pole. I
Speaker 1: was looking at this earlier. We were talking about this
Speaker 1: at length to kick off? Was it our two? I
Speaker 1: don't remember our three? Are you extremely or very proud
Speaker 1: to be an American? Silent greatest generation? The older folks
Speaker 1: eighty three percent, falls off eight percent, to baby boomers
Speaker 1: at seventy five percent, barely falls off at all, to
Speaker 1: Gen X seventy one percent. Then it falls off full
Speaker 1: thirteen percent. Millennials fifty eight percent say they are and
Speaker 1: Gen Z born ninety seven and on forty one percent
Speaker 1: say they're extremely or very proud to be an American.
Speaker 1: I would have been absolutely a yes at their age.
Speaker 1: So it's not just age. They learned what they were taught.
Speaker 2: Oh, the idea of learning were a bad country seems crazy.
Speaker 2: I had two men lefty professors, but I didn't come
Speaker 2: out of school thinking we are a bad country. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I came out of school thinking what's the matter with them?
Speaker 1: The great historian Gordon Wood died recently. He was a
Speaker 1: super hardcore critic of the sixteen nineteen Project late in
Speaker 1: his life and was very, very eloquent. If I'm a
Speaker 1: twelve year old and I'm taught that the sixteen nineteen
Speaker 1: Project is an accurate portrayal of the country's founding and
Speaker 1: why it was founding founded, it's plausible enough, I would
Speaker 1: believe it. It holds together as an argument. It is factually, wildly,
Speaker 1: almost hilariously inaccurate, and it's cherry picking and it's just
Speaker 1: utter dishonesty. But twelve year olds believe it. Kids learn
Speaker 1: what they're taught. That's why, you know. I've been saying,
Speaker 1: we're in the fight for our lives, for certainly for
Speaker 1: our country, for our children's hearts and minds, and we've
Speaker 1: let it.
Speaker 2: Go way too far in the other direction. But I
Speaker 2: don't want to go on and on. I have funny stuff.
Speaker 2: And again, it's Friday. We've been trying to have to
Speaker 2: slur because we're half in the bag. We got the
Speaker 2: dakery machine going. Uh, it's Friday. We got I got
Speaker 2: a bunch of jokes when we come back to finish strong,
Speaker 2: whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Of I ate a gummy, and uh, I wasn't getting high,
Speaker 1: so I had another one. And now Michael has three heads,
Speaker 1: and one of them is the head of a giant rabbit.
Speaker 2: So your calibration got off.
Speaker 1: I could be scrawmating any minute, Michael, So get me scrawming,
Speaker 1: Get me a bucket.
Speaker 2: Oh no, scrammting. Not at least until the show's over.
Speaker 2: A bunch of jokes and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: We'll finish. Strong, Stay here, strong. We threw a rod well.
Speaker 2: You gotta wait right here and fix the mechanical.
Speaker 10: You got to sit in the middle of five hours?
Speaker 2: Are you crazy? The airplane experience, it's not a good experience.
Speaker 2: Bring you fishing, gulb Oh, yeah, you got a net.
Speaker 2: I'm gon use my hand. This trip is gonna be
Speaker 2: so so great. That's gonna be so great. It's a
Speaker 2: great burden to have to leave. Our families don't want
Speaker 2: to go. Alfred is the largest mill owner in Western
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 1: Will employ over one hundred and twenty children.
Speaker 2: Are you four children working at the mill? I disliked
Speaker 2: children so much.
Speaker 9: Really doesn't bother me what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Life. Larry in the Pursuit of unhappiness An Almost History
Speaker 2: of America seven episodes, starts June twenty six on HBO.
Speaker 2: And I'll bet you that's why he was in the
Speaker 2: front row at the Knicks game, even though he's been
Speaker 2: a lifelong Knicks fan and he's got like hundreds of
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. Oh but HBO got him a front
Speaker 2: row ticket so that they could promote his new show, right,
Speaker 2: we found out from Ben Stiller.
Speaker 1: That's the way it works. So what's the premise of
Speaker 1: the show? Can you tell?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: I don't know, like a funny documentary there?
Speaker 2: Huh? Kids working at mills? Are you okay with that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: As much as I dislike kids, I don't really care.
Speaker 2: Him going nuts at the game the other night was funny, though,
Speaker 2: just because we've never seen him happy. It just was
Speaker 2: always miserable. That's his whole vibe is miserable, right, uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: By the way, SpaceX crossed one twenty eight, one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty eight dollars a share. At one point it
Speaker 2: was one fifty or something. Anyways, I predicted Elon Musk
Speaker 2: officially the world's first trillionaire, So good luck to Elon.
Speaker 3: Are getting weird?
Speaker 2: I they can wear fast. It could be a really
Speaker 2: really big deal, this whole SpaceX thing, getting everything into space.
Speaker 2: And but more on that probably Monday, after it settles
Speaker 2: down and we see how it all went. I got
Speaker 2: some battle on b headlines for you. Just a bunch
Speaker 2: of jokes in a row. There you go, all pretty
Speaker 2: funny to wrap things up. How much time I got, Michael,
Speaker 2: see if I need to hurry through this?
Speaker 9: Oh you got about let's see five minutes.
Speaker 2: Five minutes. Yeah, Oh jeez, we need more material. I
Speaker 2: got a million things EMTs to be stationed near spurs
Speaker 2: bench next game to prevent choking. Oh we had this
Speaker 2: one earlier. Trump sets world record by winning war with
Speaker 2: Iran twenty seven times in one year. Yeah, we'll see
Speaker 2: where that goes over totally decimated. They're completely they are
Speaker 2: navies at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 1: Why aren't we not imposing our terms on them?
Speaker 2: We'll see where that goes today and over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Man Bill Gates brought before Congress to answer for Epstein
Speaker 2: and Windows Vista. I'm not I never had. Was Windows
Speaker 2: Vista bad? That's going back some Yeah, it was a debacle.
Speaker 2: This one. I relate to a lot particularly before I
Speaker 2: had kids. I met Sloppy Joe's last night. I'd had
Speaker 2: Sloppy Joe's in a long time. Got Sloppy Joe, and
Speaker 2: I told I showed my kids. My fourteen year old
Speaker 2: loved them. My sixteen year old, who doesn't like meat,
Speaker 2: I didn't really like him. I mean, you put some
Speaker 2: potato chips on the top underneath the bun of Sloppy Joe. Please,
Speaker 2: that's some good eating right there.
Speaker 1: Known as Sloppy Daddy's for many years in my house.
Speaker 2: Really, of course got we had sloppy g though. That
Speaker 2: was a good eat. My god, I have not had
Speaker 2: an sj in oh years? What do I things? So good?
Speaker 2: So cheap? And then Henry he wanted one for he
Speaker 2: went to bed, got some of the leftovers out of
Speaker 2: heat it up, and another one for bed. That's a
Speaker 2: good eating anyway. I thought this joke was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Man eating cereal out of flower vase wonders if he
Speaker 2: should do dishes. I've been that guy before. Oh my,
Speaker 2: that is funny. What have I got that's conon cave enough?
Speaker 2: I could eat cereal out of rather than do dishes.
Speaker 2: A shoe flow race, a countint party realizes too late
Speaker 2: that person asking him about his work was just being polite.
Speaker 2: Oh no kidding. That's tough. Oh that's tough.
Speaker 1: So getting back to the dish thing now, you you
Speaker 1: have been a single man more than I have in
Speaker 1: my adult huh. But when like my wife's out of
Speaker 1: town for a week or something, I am one spoon,
Speaker 1: one bowl, one fork, one plate.
Speaker 2: Guy, Absolutely and the same bowlspoon, fork, plate.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, nothing else is disturbed in the cabinet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: much more efficient. And you don't have to quote unquote
Speaker 1: do dishes. You get a little soap on a sponge. There,
Speaker 1: you're done, and you eat a meal and then you
Speaker 1: do it again.
Speaker 2: I don't even put that much ever, it rinse it off.
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna soap and sponge.
Speaker 1: It right exactly?
Speaker 2: Who are you going to poison you? You've got some
Speaker 2: crusted raisin brand and stuff from yesterday? What do I care?
Speaker 1: Oh that's two sea, you're too too far.
Speaker 2: New b disc golfer not even high? Can you play
Speaker 2: disc golf?
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 2: Hi? Is that allowed? And this one, which is a
Speaker 2: joke but very serious, Carmelo kicking himself for not converting
Speaker 2: to Islam and stabbing someone in the UK instead. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: that's a good one. That is a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about that much more serious tones earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, pitting everybody against each other based on their
Speaker 1: race or their sexual proclivity or whatever. It's a useful
Speaker 1: revolutionary tactic in ways we've talked about. I was talking about,
Speaker 1: or I was reading about, rather how Lebanon is on
Speaker 1: the verge of another civil war.
Speaker 2: And I remember back in.
Speaker 1: Ho gosh was it late eighties, that they had a
Speaker 1: previous horrendous civil war with the Green Line, which was
Speaker 1: a street that if you even tried to cross it
Speaker 1: you would be killed by a sniper from one side
Speaker 1: or another. And it was the Sunnis and the Shia,
Speaker 1: and the Drus and the Maronites, the Palestinians and then
Speaker 1: the rag taggy clinging to the idea that they had
Speaker 1: a state government forces all either killing everybody else or
Speaker 1: a couple of those other groups, and it's all based
Speaker 1: on identity.
Speaker 2: And the idea.
Speaker 1: That that is on any level a good idea is
Speaker 1: not only profoundly Unamerican, it's profoundly stupid.
Speaker 2: Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 2: here's your host for final thoughts, Joel Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap things up for the day. Pressing the buttons
Speaker 1: in the control room. There he is keeping the ship afloat.
Speaker 1: It's Michael Angelo. Michael final thought.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were talking about nostalgia, and I was just
Speaker 9: making a list of my nostalgia. We have the corded
Speaker 9: telephones from the landline. We got the VHS tapes, Blockbuster
Speaker 9: video buying CDs, Atari video games, and of course getting
Speaker 9: together with friends to watch the scrambled Playbood channel, hoping
Speaker 9: to see a little boob.
Speaker 2: Good times Jack. A final thought for us, I wish
Speaker 2: I hadn't started talking about sloppy Joe's. I'm glad I've
Speaker 2: got some leftovers. I guarantee you when I get home,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna whip another one of those up microwave A
Speaker 2: couple of little bees. No, I don't put you. I've
Speaker 2: never tried. That is a good. Oh, it's fantastic. Put cheese.
Speaker 2: I put potato chips on there. Potato chips and cheese.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, why not? What are you an anti Jesus
Speaker 2: and Yolo?
Speaker 1: Let's see my final thought is nineteen seventy six, the
Speaker 1: year of our bicentennial. I was extremely patriotic them as
Speaker 1: I am now. I was collecting those bicentennial quarters and
Speaker 1: we got my childhood dog, Nika, and I cried because
Speaker 1: we had to separate her from her litter mates. And
Speaker 1: she was sad, so I was sad. That is most
Speaker 1: of my memory in nineteen seventy six. Oh and I
Speaker 1: was wearing tall gym socks because everybody was.
Speaker 2: I had a red, white and blue Budweiser bucket hat
Speaker 2: that I wore that whole summer. Was a child when
Speaker 2: kids would wear beer related gear. Armstrong in Getty wrapping
Speaker 2: up another grueling four hour work day, Eh, kept the
Speaker 2: sun off your head. So many people to thanks, so
Speaker 2: little time.
Speaker 1: Good Armstrong, Eyeddy dot Com, Travis the line mail bag
Speaker 1: at Armstrong and Geddy dot com pickups me and ge
Speaker 1: swag and enjoy the hot.
Speaker 2: Like my brother had a bi centennial Schlitz hat. See
Speaker 2: him Monday. God bless American.
Speaker 3: And now it's time to go to the end of
Speaker 3: the show. Yeah, it's over, but before we hit.
Speaker 1: The door, there's time for just one more buffaloed buffalo.
Speaker 4: Buffalo buffaloed buffalo, buffaloed buffalo, buffalo.
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