Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty and he arms range. Why from Studio C.
Speaker 2: We're in a dimly lit room, he put in the
Speaker 2: vowels of.
Speaker 3: The Armstrong in getting communications compound. After Memorial Day weekend
Speaker 3: the unofficial start of summer.
Speaker 2: So time to ramp it down.
Speaker 3: It's time to go through the motions, time to go
Speaker 3: into summer mode. Time to just you know, kind of
Speaker 3: just pretend to be here at least for the rest
Speaker 3: of the summer.
Speaker 2: Today, today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: You know, I was gonna go with America's war dead
Speaker 1: day after Memorial Day. Must tip our cap to the
Speaker 1: true meaning of the holiday weekend. But then, of course
Speaker 1: our true general manager after that is Trump, Trump, always Trump.
Speaker 1: Fifteen different Trump stories the first account. How many is
Speaker 1: you scan your favorite to news sources? How many of
Speaker 1: the stories headline the first word is Trump, Trump declares Trump,
Speaker 1: crashs back Trump and whatever I know.
Speaker 3: I listened to NPR and they said King Charles is
Speaker 3: going to Canada today to open a session of parliament.
Speaker 3: But the first time the King of England has done
Speaker 3: that in decades. What message does that send to Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: Will be discussing later, Okay, so it's got to obviously
Speaker 3: be about Trump. Couldn't possibly be about anything else anyway.
Speaker 3: That's just the life with the world we live in Canada.
Speaker 3: We're not annexing, Yakay, It's going to be fine. And
Speaker 3: that summertime now once you did, since you mentioned the
Speaker 3: ward ed situation, my son who is in boy Scouts,
Speaker 3: they did a cool thing yesterday where he and his
Speaker 3: troop got to the local cemetery early and put up
Speaker 3: all the little flags before the big ceremony started with
Speaker 3: the band and the singing and everything like that, which
Speaker 3: I beautiful. So my shame had never been to before,
Speaker 3: even though I've lived in that town for twenty five years,
Speaker 3: I'd never been to the big Memorial Day celebration they
Speaker 3: have in the morning at the cemetery. And it was
Speaker 3: really cool, and I was glad that he was participating
Speaker 3: in that and seeing what it was all about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great, Good for you.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody got a chance to do something meaningful
Speaker 1: or at least to cast their thoughts in that direction.
Speaker 1: As I was tweeting and sending around picks to the crew,
Speaker 1: Judy and I went to a historical site, a fort
Speaker 1: to think about war and peace and freedom and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. It was absolutely fabulous. More on that
Speaker 1: to come.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 3: The big story on NPR as I was listening on
Speaker 3: the way in just because it gets me angry, So
Speaker 3: I listened to NPR. It gets me angry, gets my
Speaker 3: blood flow and gets my heart pumping, and I'm ready
Speaker 3: to work.
Speaker 1: So in spite of that whole summer slack and off
Speaker 1: speech you gave, so you're still you know, you got
Speaker 1: your You're you're in the game.
Speaker 3: But their lead story is they're suing the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: They just announced that because Trump's trying to take away
Speaker 3: their funding and they're suing over some sort of he
Speaker 3: can't do that only Congress scan, which I think they're
Speaker 3: probably right on that, but AnyWho, So that got me
Speaker 3: going utterly shameless. That reminds me everything reminds me of
Speaker 3: something I was just reading about. How a really interesting
Speaker 3: perspective on and we're talking about the Israel Hamas than
Speaker 3: here the experts and historians cited by the nprs of
Speaker 3: the world over and over again. Historians are experts.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, dispute Israel's characterization of the tunnels.
Speaker 1: They went through some of these experts and who they
Speaker 1: are and how many times they're quoted by various news sources,
Speaker 1: and these people are cranks, but they are royal on NPR.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I've got one of those kind of stories coming up
Speaker 3: a little bit later too. I grilled last night, a
Speaker 3: Memorial Day tradition in my family, and I just remember
Speaker 3: when I think about Memorial Day as a kid, my
Speaker 3: dad always grilled. I hate grilling. As I've said many times,
Speaker 3: I absolutely freaking hate it. It makes me so angry.
Speaker 3: I'm bad at it. I don't want to be good
Speaker 3: at it, so don't missend me any tips. I don't
Speaker 3: want to be good at it. I don't want to
Speaker 3: do it. I don't ever want to grill again.
Speaker 2: I hate it. What are you like, transgender or something? Man?
Speaker 2: I know it is no man.
Speaker 3: It is the least manly aspect of my entire being
Speaker 3: that I hate grilling as much as I do.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: The problem is I never get the fire hot enough.
Speaker 3: I can always lay my hand on the grill. That's
Speaker 3: how not hot it is, and it'll take you a
Speaker 3: week to cook your steaks. And we got these because
Speaker 3: we do ads for Omaha steaks. So we got these
Speaker 3: fantastic Omaha steaks. I mean, just like the greatest quality
Speaker 3: steaks you can possibly get. Got filet mignon on there,
Speaker 3: I got tendroline on there. I got all kinds of
Speaker 3: great stuff on there. Not chicken. I don't eat chicken.
Speaker 3: Give that's my neighbors or something. Maybe you like chicken,
Speaker 3: but anyway, wow, but yeah, no, it's great chicken. We've
Speaker 3: cooked a chicken.
Speaker 2: Oh my shirt, it's fantastic. I just don't eat chicken.
Speaker 2: Barbecued chicken sandwiches.
Speaker 1: You got your chicken, you got your cheese, you got
Speaker 1: your bacon, a nice pumper nickel bread or something, a
Speaker 1: little barbecue sauce.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, maybe if it came pre grilled, because
Speaker 2: I hate grilling.
Speaker 3: But so, But the point was my son, the boy scout,
Speaker 3: it's starting to take over the grilling. He did most
Speaker 3: of it. He got it started and everything like that.
Speaker 3: So if he can do that, I told him, I said, man,
Speaker 3: he's thirteen. I said, man, you take over this. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be so happy if this becomes your thing
Speaker 3: and he watches all these YouTube videos, he's got all
Speaker 3: these shows he watched. No, Dad, you got to do
Speaker 3: this and then go ahead, you be in charge. Perfectly
Speaker 3: yourself out that. Yeah, knock yourself out, enjoy it, make
Speaker 3: this your thing.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's great. I know, that's super. I know, I'm
Speaker 2: very excited about that. You know what.
Speaker 1: Speaking of food and barbecue and that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: we did the classic. We had friends over and we
Speaker 1: had burgers and hot dogs on the grill for attle hosteaks.
Speaker 2: Actually, burger on the grill, especially those burgers is so good.
Speaker 2: They're so great. And you know, I go back to
Speaker 2: my principle.
Speaker 1: There have been times I've knocked myself out trying to
Speaker 1: prepare an incredible meal, you know, with the basting and
Speaker 1: the marinade and then the you know whatever, you slop
Speaker 1: it on on the grill and you smoke it for nine.
Speaker 2: Hours and blah blah blah, and.
Speaker 1: By the end of the year physically and mentally exhausted,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's really good. Or you could
Speaker 1: have burghers and dogs on the grill and have like
Speaker 1: the highest level of deliciousness known to man. And its
Speaker 1: practically effortless for normal men who can grill anyway, grow
Speaker 1: have sun skin, or want to.
Speaker 2: That's my thing. I don't want.
Speaker 3: That's the really missing element here is I have no
Speaker 3: desire to, right, sure, but so my son does.
Speaker 2: So that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Before we get to the opening clip, well, maybe we
Speaker 3: should play the opening clip and that'll start the conversation,
Speaker 3: because we might be at a real turning point in
Speaker 3: this whole Ukraine Russia thing. Let's start to show officially
Speaker 3: before we get in trouble with you and get our
Speaker 3: funding yanked.
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Speaker 4: I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a
Speaker 4: lot of people, and I don't know what the hell
Speaker 4: happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always
Speaker 4: gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities
Speaker 4: and killing people. We're in the middle of talking and
Speaker 4: he's shooting rockets. Into Kiev and other cities. I don't
Speaker 4: like it at all.
Speaker 3: Biggest attack by Russia on Ukraine since the war began.
Speaker 3: I know, I've said that several times in the last
Speaker 3: several weeks. That's because they keep increasing their attacks to
Speaker 3: outdo the one before. I'm not exactly sure what the
Speaker 3: strategy is there from Putin, but you heard what Trump
Speaker 3: said there, and then the new Chancellor of Germany yesterday
Speaker 3: announced no restrictions. Restrictions are off on Ukraine. He announced
Speaker 3: that for NATO, including the United States. He said, no
Speaker 3: more restrictions on NATO supplied arms. You can fire as
Speaker 3: far into Russia as you can with these weapons, which
Speaker 3: includes Moscow.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, all right, that's big, Yes, so big.
Speaker 1: On the Trump clip five to twelve dimensional chess or
Speaker 1: had he actually flattered himself that he and Putin had
Speaker 1: a relationship and.
Speaker 2: I mean that line about what happened to Putin? Nothing.
Speaker 2: He's one of the most consistent human beings I've ever observed.
Speaker 2: What is up with Trump?
Speaker 3: Well, George Bush made the same mistakes, so did Barack Obama.
Speaker 3: Sending Hillary Clinton there with the reset button. Oh, it's
Speaker 3: just the evil Bush administration. You're a nice guy. We
Speaker 3: can reset relationships. I don't know why these people don't
Speaker 3: understand what he is, but maybe Trump does now and
Speaker 3: what that means I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, And that's one of Putin's greatest skills too, is
Speaker 1: to flatter you into thinking that you're buds and oh, finally,
Speaker 1: finally a real leader of leader. I can talk to
Speaker 1: one who understands the world. He he's a genius of that.
Speaker 1: Putin is an evil genius.
Speaker 3: Well, what's his firing on civilians all weekend long in
Speaker 3: Ukraine and blowing up buses and schools and actual hospitals,
Speaker 3: not fake Hamas hospitals and everything else.
Speaker 2: What's what's his game?
Speaker 1: Demoralize the Ukrainians? I guess, although, as a couple of
Speaker 1: different wars have shown us, in particular World War Two,
Speaker 1: this sort of bombing of civilian populations does not reduce
Speaker 1: their resolve.
Speaker 2: It increases it, It hardens it.
Speaker 1: Whether it's the Battle of Britain and the blitz in
Speaker 1: London or the bombing of Dresden. The German people got
Speaker 1: more resolute because of that, we found out, so Germany goes.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows Germany's missiles that they've been supplying Ukraine travel
Speaker 1: over three hundred miles, which is well beyond Moscow. And
Speaker 1: as I said, he announced yesterday no more limitations on
Speaker 1: them where you can shoot those things, and they're going
Speaker 1: to send a whole bunch more of them.
Speaker 3: So this could be a major turning point in this
Speaker 3: this conflict. Where is Trump? That's well, you know, I
Speaker 3: don't forget, which analystized reading yesterday the balls and Trump's court,
Speaker 3: it absolutely is. Is he going to say, which they
Speaker 3: hinted at last week, that's it, you guys don't want peace,
Speaker 3: I'm out no more, and we back off and just
Speaker 3: get out of it, which would be a win for
Speaker 3: Russia or huge US. Or does he take this personally,
Speaker 3: which I'm hoping he does personally, because that's the angle
Speaker 3: I'm coming from. I hope he takes it personally, that
Speaker 3: that Russia's treating him like a punk, putin specifically treating
Speaker 3: him like a punk.
Speaker 1: I find it kind of scary that he's got a
Speaker 1: quote unquote ticket personally, but I think you're one hundred
Speaker 1: percent right. We'll see that there's no way to run
Speaker 1: America's foreign policy.
Speaker 3: But so we got some headlines on the way, we
Speaker 3: got some mail bag, we got some other news of
Speaker 3: the day, and there's lots of it because we are
Speaker 3: off for four entire days.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it was fantastic, mostly clarious. I'm mostly uh parented,
Speaker 2: which is fine. Yeah, that's what I signed up for.
Speaker 3: It relax. I wouldn't call it relaxing, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was satisfying. There you go, satisfying. It's a very
Speaker 3: satisfying week.
Speaker 1: That's where I'll go with had purpose right, Yes, the
Speaker 1: secret to a happy long exactly.
Speaker 3: Laid my head down on the pillow at night, feeling
Speaker 3: like I'd done what I was supposed to do, which
Speaker 3: is I on the other hand, which is what I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to interrupt.
Speaker 1: There is a good thing, all right, absolutely, and I
Speaker 1: with my frivolous golf and food and cocktails and cards
Speaker 1: with friends. It was just terrible, just unsatisfying. I didnt
Speaker 1: zero for those things.
Speaker 3: So we got a lot of the way in our
Speaker 3: text line if you want to join in any time
Speaker 3: is four one five two KFTC.
Speaker 2: So Katie, Katie, the newslady is off for a couple
Speaker 2: of days. I forget what it is she doing, or
Speaker 2: maybe it's a secret. I don't know, but she is done.
Speaker 1: I just say she's off of then, don't mumble weird,
Speaker 1: but the nonspiratorial one.
Speaker 2: Rice, just something toward is happening. That is what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I'm suggesting something on toward is happening. So Joe and
Speaker 3: I are just gonna hit you with a bunch of
Speaker 3: headlines from different sources mine or from the last four days,
Speaker 3: because there are things I want to talk about that
Speaker 3: have happened over the last four days, including gonna start
Speaker 3: with a stupid one. Ex flight attendant caught smuggling one
Speaker 3: hundred pounds of a deadly new drug. So this is
Speaker 3: the hot new drug that's made from human bones. Oh stop,
Speaker 3: it's called cush. So if your kids are talking about
Speaker 3: being on the cush, you're getting some cush. That's what
Speaker 3: they're talking about, the hot new drug made from human bones.
Speaker 2: What more on that later.
Speaker 1: My favorite stupid headline, Harvard professor I'm sorry, Harvard Fire's
Speaker 1: professor for fabricating research on dishonesty. She studied dishonesty dishonestly and.
Speaker 2: Got fired for it. That's pretty funny. What do you expect?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So headlines, you got Russia carrying out its largest ever
Speaker 1: drone missile struck on Ukraine. We talked about that, with
Speaker 1: more than three hundred five the explosive drones at least
Speaker 1: nine cruise missiles reigning over a Kiev. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: already mentioned this, but just to give you the quote
Speaker 1: from the new German Chancellor over the weekend, there are
Speaker 1: no longer any rage restrictions range restrictions on weapons supplied Ukraine,
Speaker 1: not from the British, not from the French, not from US,
Speaker 1: and not.
Speaker 2: From the Americans either. He says.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he gets to speak for us,
Speaker 3: or if he'd already worked that out, but that's what
Speaker 3: he said.
Speaker 1: That is so interesting, what's going on in the White
Speaker 1: House behind the scenes. We will get more heavily into
Speaker 1: this story later, but it is amazing, horrifying. A crypto investor,
Speaker 1: this is a guy with a ton of money, was
Speaker 1: charged in Manhattan over the weekend with kidnapping and torturing
Speaker 1: a man in a bid to access his bitcoin wallet.
Speaker 2: He was over the course of several weeks.
Speaker 1: He was held in a luxury townhouse where he was beaten, electrocuted,
Speaker 1: and forced to take drugs and dangled over a high
Speaker 1: stairway at one point, And why is.
Speaker 3: This any different than like it couldna happen in any
Speaker 3: other rich dude in like saying give me your money
Speaker 3: or I'm gonna pluck your eyes out or whatever is
Speaker 3: the crypto thing and make it more likely that that happens.
Speaker 1: Yes, one hundred percent, because it's so quickly accessible and.
Speaker 2: Then untraceable you transfer it.
Speaker 1: You've got those little digits and there's not a paper
Speaker 1: trail like a bank.
Speaker 3: So you wouldn't be getting a diamond or a painting
Speaker 3: or cash that you can obviously trace.
Speaker 1: Right or you know, I think, yeah, now that I
Speaker 1: think about it, because my wife generally handles this sort
Speaker 1: of thing. But I mean, if you broke into my
Speaker 1: house and held a gun to my head and said
Speaker 1: I want your entire net.
Speaker 2: Worth, I'd be like, it's gonna take at least two weeks.
Speaker 1: I got all sorts of codes to enter and clearances,
Speaker 1: then I got to call somebody.
Speaker 2: Then they're gonna email me in.
Speaker 1: The Bible if you know how to access it, good
Speaker 1: for you, Yeah, no kidding it out for me. But
Speaker 1: with Bitcoin, I typed in the numbers. You have all
Speaker 1: of my money, so anyway, it's extremely attractive and you're
Speaker 1: seeing more and more of that. As we're discussing last week.
Speaker 1: This headline will lead to a conversation later. We have
Speaker 1: not talked about this at length. It's about the television show,
Speaker 1: the Netflix show Adolescence, and the headline from the Hill
Speaker 1: is toxic online content is poisoning boys minds. Congress must respond,
Speaker 1: this show's getting a ton of attention. I gotta watch
Speaker 1: it as a parent of a couple of boys, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how people are reacting to it coming up.
Speaker 1: It's something yeah, okay, I'll be interesting to hear this
Speaker 1: because my first exposure to the show and the commentary
Speaker 1: on it was saying that a lot of the criticism
Speaker 1: was coming from the left in a way that I
Speaker 1: found not compelling.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, but I don't know, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: And then this, I've got to admit I've been confused, perplexed,
Speaker 1: as other folks have that Trump seems to be harder
Speaker 1: on our allies than our adversaries at times in terms
Speaker 1: of trade agreements. But I read a great account of well,
Speaker 1: let me hit you with the headline. Trump delayed his
Speaker 1: unexpected threat to impose a fifty percent tariff on the
Speaker 1: European Union, pushing this decision back by a month after
Speaker 1: announcing it Friday, and so the stock market went back
Speaker 1: up again. Blah blah blahs were not going to hammer
Speaker 1: Europe with tariffs. But I read an explanation of it.
Speaker 1: It is so frustrating dealing with the EU because and
Speaker 1: if you're old enough to remember this, this was the
Speaker 1: criticism from the start.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a unit, the EU.
Speaker 1: It's kind of one thing, but it's actually a bunch
Speaker 1: of different countries with a bunch of different priorities and languages,
Speaker 1: and some of.
Speaker 2: Them don't like each other very much.
Speaker 1: And so you're trying to negotiate quote unquote with the EU,
Speaker 1: but their negotiators always have to say, I gotta go
Speaker 1: back because Germany and Frans don't agree on this, so
Speaker 1: I'll get back to you. And negotiating with him is
Speaker 1: just it's incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 3: Another headline we have to get to. Not important, but
Speaker 3: very fun. If you have a marriage where your wife
Speaker 3: physically shoves you around, don't have it caught on video.
Speaker 3: Why was French President Macron shoved in the face by
Speaker 3: his wife before they got off on the plane yesterday.
Speaker 3: Love that story, and we'll get to that among other
Speaker 3: things on the.
Speaker 2: Way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: We do have a lot to catch up on after
Speaker 3: being off for four self indulgent days, including where we
Speaker 3: are on the Big Beautiful Bill, including on where we
Speaker 3: are in the Big Beautiful cover up, as that continues
Speaker 3: to be a story of hiding Joe Biden throughout his
Speaker 3: presidency and the Jake Tapper book and all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: There are some new wrinkles there.
Speaker 1: It's funny, mediocre minds think alike. I have been surprised
Speaker 1: and gratified at the continued energy around that story. People
Speaker 1: are not content to let it lie and forget about it,
Speaker 1: because I think the more you hear, the more you realize,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, we have a serious sickness in our system,
Speaker 1: our media specifically anyway.
Speaker 3: So it's graduation season, and particularly around colleges, it's the
Speaker 3: time of the year where self important liberals get invited
Speaker 3: to major universities to give speeches, and then the media
Speaker 3: covers them like a news event because they're saying the
Speaker 3: sort of thing that most of the media agrees with.
Speaker 2: That's what happens.
Speaker 3: Well described there are you know, people who lean right
Speaker 3: that go to colleges that lean right. The few that are,
Speaker 3: but they never make get a new news coverage, so
Speaker 3: you don't hear about them, including the President for instance.
Speaker 3: But here Joe mentioned this last week. I've seen this
Speaker 3: starting to burble up and get more attention. Where was
Speaker 3: which university? Was he speaking at.
Speaker 2: Wake Forest Wake Force in South Carolina, Carolina?
Speaker 3: I thought Weak Force was South Carolina and not unless
Speaker 3: it's moved, Okay, it doesn't really matter. It's you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's your your, it's your major figure of the
Speaker 3: left giving a lefty speech.
Speaker 2: But he went over the top.
Speaker 3: And one of the reasons it's so remarkable is he's
Speaker 3: on one of the most important news programs in the world,
Speaker 3: Sixty Minutes, which allegedly is trying to be you know,
Speaker 3: a nonpartisan, hit it down the middle sort of coverage.
Speaker 1: Or at the very least fair, just be fair. And
Speaker 1: a guy with this point of view can't be doing that.
Speaker 1: This is Scott Pelley speaking to college graduates.
Speaker 5: Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives. They can
Speaker 5: make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. Power can change the
Speaker 5: death of n of the words we use to describe reality.
Speaker 5: Diversity is now described as illegal, equity is to be shunned,
Speaker 5: Inclusion is.
Speaker 2: A dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends.
Speaker 2: There's nothing new in this. We have another clip that
Speaker 2: I'm tempted to play.
Speaker 1: It's all about the fear, be very afraid, We're all
Speaker 1: in grave danger. Goes on and on, But that one
Speaker 1: really caught my ear because he claimed that the center
Speaker 1: and the right are trying to change the definitions of words,
Speaker 1: or say that they're no longer acceptable. Diversity, equity, and inclusion,
Speaker 1: which we all know exactly what they mean, and we
Speaker 1: all know they're wonderful. Those sickos on the right are
Speaker 1: trying to change what they mean, which is just unbelievable. Diversity, equity,
Speaker 1: and inclusion coming out of the mouths of a leftists
Speaker 1: mean nothing like you think they mean.
Speaker 2: It is a tool of capturing institutions, right man.
Speaker 3: The left is so good at this game, and they
Speaker 3: get to pull it off with the help of the
Speaker 3: compliant media. It's like what I was listening to an
Speaker 3: NPR today. They were discussing how Trump is trying to
Speaker 3: change the way we teach history in America. And all
Speaker 3: the things he's attacking. Well, you put it in there.
Speaker 3: What do the allages within the last ten years, what
Speaker 3: they teach in schools is not the same as what
Speaker 3: they taught in schools when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: You put stuff in there that a lot of us
Speaker 2: don't like.
Speaker 3: When Trump tries to take it out, that's not rewriting history.
Speaker 3: You rewrote history. He's trying to write it back to
Speaker 3: what it was before. UH sixty minutes anchor Scott Pelly
Speaker 3: ripped for angry unhinged commencement speech criticizing Trump. Now that's
Speaker 3: the New York Post's headline on that their version.
Speaker 2: Of it, but angry and unhinged is not far off.
Speaker 3: He said that the UH we should all be worried
Speaker 3: about the insidious sphere that has infiltrated schools, businesses, and
Speaker 3: homes across the nation, leaving America in a state of peril.
Speaker 3: The country needs you. The country that has given you
Speaker 3: so much is calling you. The class of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Country needs you, and it needs you today the morning
Speaker 3: our sacred rule of law. This morning, our sacred rule
Speaker 3: of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities
Speaker 3: are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack, and
Speaker 3: insidious fear is reaching throughout the schools and into our
Speaker 3: private thoughts.
Speaker 1: All right, boy, that is just absolutely classic. You spend
Speaker 1: all of your time and your career convincing people they
Speaker 1: need to be terrified when there's like two thirds of
Speaker 1: the country that's not at all, I mean, from mildly
Speaker 1: concerned to very interested.
Speaker 2: But no, we're not.
Speaker 1: Being torn apart by insidious fear at all, Scott.
Speaker 3: And the part right before that little clip about power
Speaker 3: that we just played you the fear to speak in America.
Speaker 3: If our government is, in Lincoln's phrase, of the people,
Speaker 3: by the people, for the people, then.
Speaker 2: Why are we afraid to speak? What the effort you
Speaker 2: talk about? Don't know?
Speaker 3: I assume he's referencing that Columbia student that got snatched
Speaker 3: up on the campus and that you.
Speaker 1: Were literally speaking about how you're afraid to speak. Do
Speaker 1: you see the irony there, Scott? Do I see the
Speaker 1: irony there?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Now, the New York Post says the speech was received
Speaker 3: with scattered, scant applause.
Speaker 2: That's the New York Post version. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: haven't actually listened. They might say that, and that might
Speaker 2: be true.
Speaker 3: Or it may be true, and it might be because
Speaker 3: everybody's barely paying attention and they just want to get
Speaker 3: out of there on.
Speaker 2: A hot day.
Speaker 3: How long is this going to last? As opposed to
Speaker 3: not enjoying what he had to say, but that that is,
Speaker 3: that is that is just craziness. It is just craziness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the It reminds me so much of
Speaker 2: when Komy.
Speaker 1: Braefed the president, so then he could liake that leak
Speaker 1: that the president has.
Speaker 2: Been briefed on this Stele dossier.
Speaker 1: Well, so Scott Pelley and his brethren preached being terrified
Speaker 1: and in fear all the time, and then he goes
Speaker 1: to the graduation ceremony and breathlessly reports and.
Speaker 2: Everybody's really afraid. There's fear, in citious fear going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder where that in citious fear came from.
Speaker 1: It's the roughly third of the country that listens to
Speaker 1: you and beliefs your crap. Don't terrify them. Then report
Speaker 1: that they're terrified and act as if somebody else did it.
Speaker 3: Well, and as he stands up in front of a
Speaker 3: bunch of university kids and said, now is the moment
Speaker 3: your nation is calling on you with all the fear
Speaker 3: to speak out. Yeah, the fear to speak out for
Speaker 3: the past quite a while has been from anybody to
Speaker 3: the right on any college campus because you'll be a
Speaker 3: physically attacked and the university will do nothing about it.
Speaker 3: As long as you as long as you speak progressive stuff,
Speaker 3: you're safe. You speak anything the other side, you're physically
Speaker 3: not safe.
Speaker 2: But you didn't care about.
Speaker 1: That fear to speak out aspect, did you, Scott Pelly?
Speaker 1: You pampus asked, not for a second, did you worry
Speaker 1: about that? And just to double down on what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like the right half of ideology that
Speaker 1: was afraid to speak out.
Speaker 2: It was the right eighty percent.
Speaker 1: Anything outside of the most radical leftism had to keep
Speaker 1: its mouth shut on college campuses. And now Scott Pelley's
Speaker 1: preaching that people are afraid to speak out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, he is a piece of ass.
Speaker 3: Freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is
Speaker 3: reaching throughout our schools, our businesses, our homes and indoor
Speaker 3: private thoughts. What are you to hands shoe hans who's
Speaker 3: got insidious fear going in their business because they're afraid
Speaker 3: to speak or whatever. Now, maybe the tariffs have got
Speaker 3: you upset. I'll grant you that. Well, I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what that is, idiot, I'll tell you what that's driving
Speaker 3: that is. He believes diversity, equity and quality inequality means diversity, equity, inequality,
Speaker 3: that they mean those words inclusion, mean those words and
Speaker 3: not what they've twisted them to mean. And it's so
Speaker 3: that's what he's basing it on. So he is the
Speaker 3: useful idiot.
Speaker 1: He is the big, famous, pompous, useful idiot who doesn't
Speaker 1: understand neo Marxism. He just he thinks it's a moral ark. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll move on from this because we don't need to
Speaker 1: belabor it forever. But do you think do you think
Speaker 1: he doesn't know that college campuses are not a safe space?
Speaker 1: I hate that term for anybody to you know, on
Speaker 1: the right eighty percent? As you said, right, Yeah, does
Speaker 1: he not ignorate?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a knowledgeable, insidious activist. I think
Speaker 1: he is a pompous, rich, famous idiot, probably with big guns.
Speaker 1: Oh and tight shirts. Your shirt shrank in the dryer
Speaker 1: or something. It's very tight, very impressive for an older man.
Speaker 1: I'm very impressive for an older man. Yes, you pomp
Speaker 1: us pos.
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to read up on this new drug made
Speaker 3: out of human bones called cush, because I like to
Speaker 3: be up on the.
Speaker 2: Hot new drug. It's no jenkom hey, Michael, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was thinking the two might go together.
Speaker 3: Jencom is least a twenty year old reference, is it not?
Speaker 3: What what was jencom?
Speaker 2: Roughly?
Speaker 3: Broadly it Yeah, it was a drug, yeah, fermented poop.
Speaker 3: He was going to use the term feces like a
Speaker 3: biologist or something. You, on the other hand, used poop
Speaker 3: like you're a four year old. And it never existed,
Speaker 3: and it was an internet rumor and it didn't It
Speaker 3: was never real. I think cush is real, grinding up
Speaker 3: human bone.
Speaker 1: Round human bones. Why would you go to that much
Speaker 1: trouble for your drug? There are lots of drugs.
Speaker 3: Well, watch the video later and break it down second
Speaker 3: by second. But what's your hot take on Macron getting
Speaker 3: show in the face by his ninety.
Speaker 2: Year old wife. Well, he's a Frenchman.
Speaker 1: He probably had an affair right in front of her
Speaker 1: on the plane.
Speaker 2: She caught him bent over stewardess or whatever.
Speaker 1: And sorry that was indelicate, and and and and was
Speaker 1: giving him the beat down.
Speaker 3: That's what is what a funny video if you haven't
Speaker 3: seen it. They land in the big presidential plane wherever
Speaker 3: they're landing. The door opens with the door opens with
Speaker 3: just the worst timing for him. The door opens with
Speaker 3: all the cameras to watch the French president walk down
Speaker 3: the stairs right when she shoves her hands and his face,
Speaker 3: pushing him backwards.
Speaker 2: Bad timing for him, bad look for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what they're they're a fiery longtime power couple.
Speaker 2: They're sick of the stress and the travel.
Speaker 1: And they were squabbling and she gave him a hand
Speaker 1: in the face, caught by cameras. They said it was
Speaker 1: a joke. They were joking. They were playing uh uh,
Speaker 1: you know, way you don't play that.
Speaker 2: Game where where Judy shoves you in the face.
Speaker 1: No, and front of you know, if they're twenty somethings
Speaker 1: at like a Memorial Day barbecue and they're playing and
Speaker 1: everybody's had some beers and they're being silly.
Speaker 2: Okay, I could believe that.
Speaker 1: But a couple as old as they are about to
Speaker 1: get off a plane, she's shoved them hard in the face.
Speaker 2: Now they're on a fight.
Speaker 3: Well, when he was a twenty something, she was a
Speaker 3: fifty something, So they're different brackets.
Speaker 2: There, right, So she's ninety year old one.
Speaker 3: We've got a mail bag coming up, among other things.
Speaker 3: Stay here, hey, I just saw the video of the
Speaker 3: cheese rolling contest they had in England over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Guy who's won back to back years. Holy crap, does
Speaker 3: he sacrifice his body for that? If you're willing to
Speaker 3: break all your bones and maybe die, you can win
Speaker 3: that competition.
Speaker 1: I mean, gravity is on your side, well until you
Speaker 1: hit the ground. Every year when they show the quote
Speaker 1: unquote highlights of that, I am struck by the incredible
Speaker 1: violence of it.
Speaker 3: Have you ever watched that Netflix video with the girl
Speaker 3: who won seven times?
Speaker 2: Oh it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's battered like she was way her shoulder
Speaker 3: sticks up at a funny angle from the voice.
Speaker 2: She smashed it.
Speaker 1: She's chasing contest. Damn, you gotta want it. So here's
Speaker 1: your freedom loving quote of the day. I came across
Speaker 1: a couple of I love. They're of no particular theme.
Speaker 1: I just thought they were interesting. This one is as
Speaker 1: a baseball fan, Gene Mack, the Great manager, losing streaks
Speaker 1: are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got
Speaker 1: off to a bad start. If you lose in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you
Speaker 1: lose at the end, you're choking. And you know, as
Speaker 1: a non baseball fan, I think you can still appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That the nature And I had a great conversation with
Speaker 1: a friend about this just yesterday. The nature of success
Speaker 1: and failure and perseverance. I mean, we oughtit like that
Speaker 1: ought to be a third of everything we teach kids
Speaker 1: as youngsters. Perseverance, reading, writing, good manners, and perseverance.
Speaker 3: I'm teaching my kids if you're struggling, figure out who
Speaker 3: is to blame for holding you back and focus on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, mail white straight men, Yeah, oh definitely, yes,
Speaker 1: we as a class of people are intent on holding
Speaker 1: you back.
Speaker 2: Just know that mailbag, drop us.
Speaker 1: A note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 1: First of all, this is a bit of an aside,
Speaker 1: but last week we were talking about Gaviy Newsom's tantrum
Speaker 1: against the beautiful town of Turlock, California, and how he
Speaker 1: was trying to scapegoat the mayor there for insisting that
Speaker 1: there be accountability for the zillions of dollars spent on
Speaker 1: quote unquote homeless problems, which is just handouts for transient
Speaker 1: drug addicts, and the mayor, Amy bou Black, said, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to sign off on this.
Speaker 2: This is irresponse, and so.
Speaker 1: Gavin tried to turn her into a monster and him
Speaker 1: into this hero of trying to battle homelessness. Anyway, as
Speaker 1: a recap, well her honor the mayor herself rights, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time in your show to
Speaker 1: discuss Gavin's tantrum with our city Turlock.
Speaker 2: Thanks to your show, I've.
Speaker 1: Reconnected with a few people from my past. I appreciate
Speaker 1: what you two do, So we appreciate what you do. Amy,
Speaker 1: You've got some real guts, sweetheart. I appreciate what we
Speaker 1: do also, Yes, well done. Moving along the frequent correspondent
Speaker 1: honorary co host of the show, at least during mailbag,
Speaker 1: JT and livermore similar to how only Nixon could go
Speaker 1: to China. Our country will never address our debt and
Speaker 1: deficit problems until the left is willing to legitimately participate
Speaker 1: and lead the way. Only the left can go to
Speaker 1: fiscal sanity. The right share as hell isn't, which we'll
Speaker 1: talk about more later.
Speaker 2: But the reason is simple.
Speaker 1: It's just too easy for the left to demagogue every
Speaker 1: effort by Republicans to reign in spending. For decades, social
Speaker 1: security was the third rail upon politics. Remember not too
Speaker 1: many years ago, the GOP threw in the towel and
Speaker 1: yelled vociferously and vehemently against accusations by the left that
Speaker 1: the GOP were going to cut entitlements. I remember that
Speaker 1: during the State of the Union, you drew great attention
Speaker 1: to that turning point in American history at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, perspective, as Kevin.
Speaker 3: McCarthy said, whoaha, whoa, whoah, how dare you claim we're
Speaker 3: going to cut entitlements?
Speaker 2: Whoa Yeah.
Speaker 1: More recently, with Doge flagging billions of dollars of waste
Speaker 1: fraud and abuse, the left took the side of waste
Speaker 1: fraud and abuse. Any effort by Trump and the GOP
Speaker 1: to cut the waste frauden abuse of being met with
Speaker 1: in Medicare louder voices about how healthcare is going to
Speaker 1: be taken away from millions of poor Americans. By contrast,
Speaker 1: when a Democrat was willing to reform welfare, it was done.
Speaker 3: That is probably true the Nixon China references. Nixon, because
Speaker 3: he had built decades of credibility as an anti communist,
Speaker 3: could go to China and you didn't have to worry nobody.
Speaker 2: He had to worry that he was, you know, soft
Speaker 2: on communism.
Speaker 3: If the Democrats stood up and said we are spending
Speaker 3: too much, that would get everybody's attention.
Speaker 1: Demagoguing cuts to entitlements or even legitimate cuts to waste, fraud,
Speaker 1: and abuse that nobody could defend is just too powerful,
Speaker 1: too easy, and too effective for the right to overcome.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about the excellent point, big beautiful build.
Speaker 3: It's on its way to the Senate. Coming up a
Speaker 3: little bit later. The horrendous, hateful, horror.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there's the cheese rolling video again. How
Speaker 2: did that guy not break his neck?
Speaker 3: It's just luck, It's just look, you can't land on
Speaker 3: your neck that many times.
Speaker 2: He's just not be paralyzed. They carried him off he's
Speaker 2: got the cheese in his hands, but they carried him off.
Speaker 1: Normally this might not make their grade. But this note
Speaker 1: from Dennis and Lincoln has to do with eating chicken,
Speaker 1: which we were just discussing.
Speaker 2: June issue of.
Speaker 1: The Atlantic has a very interesting article titled How the
Speaker 1: Chicken Sandwich Conquered America I thought you would enjoy. For example,
Speaker 1: in the last five years, chicken sandwich consumption increased by
Speaker 1: twenty percent, while burger consumption dropped by three percent.
Speaker 2: Kidding or indicative.
Speaker 1: Over that same period, twenty eight hundred fast food or
Speaker 1: fast casual spots devoted to chicken opened, twelve hundred burger
Speaker 1: joints closed. Behold the humble Chicken.
Speaker 3: I was at Kentucky Fried Chicken on Saturday. Long story,
Speaker 3: won't get into it. I didn't eat My son ate.
Speaker 3: He ordered chicken tenders, water, no sides, twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 3: Twenty eight dollars the Kentucky for chick for the tenders.
Speaker 3: I said, are you sure that's right? He said, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's expensive to eat here. The guy buying the counter
Speaker 3: said he's empty. Also inflation Man, inflation, Armstrong and Getty