Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Getty and now he Armsrong.
Speaker 3: I just got off my rocket ship motorcycle from my
Speaker 3: adrenaline is very high, live from studio.
Speaker 2: See a dimly lit room deep within the bowels.
Speaker 3: Of the Armstrong in Getty Communications compound that now has
Speaker 3: a rump rooum attached to it.
Speaker 2: And today we are under the title of the show, no.
Speaker 1: Prisons, free healthcare, a socialist paradise on the ballot, or
Speaker 1: if you prefer Europe's Biden says La frontera is secure,
Speaker 1: which is Spanish for the border is secure.
Speaker 2: Very good, The border is closed. The border is secure.
Speaker 2: There you go, fantastic. So we have to acknowledge right
Speaker 2: off the back.
Speaker 3: Katy Katie the news lady, rejoins the Armstrong and get officially.
Speaker 4: Who am i and what am I doing here?
Speaker 2: Who is an owl mom and has a baby? How
Speaker 2: old your baby?
Speaker 4: No, he'll be three months next week.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I was telling Katie before the show, and
Speaker 1: you know the maternity leave. I'll be back, you know,
Speaker 1: end of July. And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's a long time from now. I remember thinking that
Speaker 1: here we are, time flies crazy.
Speaker 2: It was weird.
Speaker 4: It flew by and it crawled by at the exact
Speaker 4: same time.
Speaker 2: That is the entire kid experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hours dragon, the year's jerk, as they say,
Speaker 1: or the years fly.
Speaker 3: Have they ever nailed that down? Because we always talk
Speaker 3: about the whole time speeds up as you get older.
Speaker 2: But what's the what's the every day seems like it's
Speaker 2: four days.
Speaker 4: I think it's the exhaustion.
Speaker 1: But but five years seems like two months. What is
Speaker 1: that whole thing with kids?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That reminds me of that hilarious video of the toilet
Speaker 1: paper in the grocery store aisle thirty two equals twenty four,
Speaker 1: which equals twelve, which Eagles says that, Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: nobody knows. Nobody knows. There's gonna be a reason we're
Speaker 1: built that way, I would assume.
Speaker 2: Anyway. Cool, Well, good to have you back, Katie, very
Speaker 2: excited to get back. Indeed, Yeah, this is the first time.
Speaker 3: Were in full strengthen quite some time with a variety
Speaker 3: of illnesses and vacations and all kinds of things like.
Speaker 2: That, so groovy.
Speaker 4: Everybody watch out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, everybody watch out. The good news, of course,
Speaker 3: is Joe I think hinted too. Did you hint two
Speaker 3: in your titles or not? Donald Donald Trump announced the
Speaker 3: Strait is open today, So that is very exciting.
Speaker 1: No, weirdly, that was the one I left out. I
Speaker 1: was going to go with that, but when with the
Speaker 1: borders are secure instead? But yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: good news, the straits are open.
Speaker 3: Yes see, the President announced the Strait is open today.
Speaker 3: Here's my breaking news. The state will not be open.
Speaker 1: It is not in any ways whatsoever and will not
Speaker 1: be but go ahead, fifty says s all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what's going on there relationship to
Speaker 2: the truth. We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 3: And of course it's communist election day all across the country,
Speaker 3: so that's exciting. Get a few communists in office, see
Speaker 3: how they're doing. Listen to some of their crazy plans.
Speaker 1: If they were only communists, that'd be fine, but at
Speaker 1: least a handful of them are about Islamists too. They
Speaker 1: absolutely want to get rid of the Constitution in favor
Speaker 1: of sharia law.
Speaker 2: Not a fan speaking for myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what was the other thing? There's another one
Speaker 3: on there. Maybe the wind of riding my motorcycle to
Speaker 3: work at a high rate of speed blew it out
Speaker 3: of my head.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what happened. I was trying to think of.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: My son's going to the New Spider Man tonight. I
Speaker 3: know he's very excited. That's his headline in his life.
Speaker 3: He's going to a New Spider Man with one of
Speaker 3: his friends, which sets some sort of box offer at
Speaker 3: box office records over the weekend. Right, Yeah, so I'll
Speaker 3: keep you up to speed on the Spider Man movie.
Speaker 3: Which do you think is the most exciting of the
Speaker 3: communist race is going on today? Almost having a communist governor. Well,
Speaker 3: they're not going to win, but major party can it is?
Speaker 3: I said yesterday, the craziest major party candidates we may
Speaker 3: have ever had in our entire nation's history are going
Speaker 3: to be elected today, which is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: The Wisconsin race is mostly amusing because it's a governor's race.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin is like so many states, It is a couple
Speaker 1: of deep blue blotches and then in an immense, you know,
Speaker 1: acreage of red. But the wackadoodle girl running for a
Speaker 1: governor there. I don't think she's gonna do much to
Speaker 1: harm America. She'll be a miserable failure, etcetera. L said
Speaker 1: in Michigan, Now that is one worth watching. He is dangerous,
Speaker 1: he's smart, he's ruthless, he's an avowed Islaminist.
Speaker 2: He's dangerous. You don't think he could win, do you? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think he will, but I think he could. Wow.
Speaker 1: Mike Rodgers is polling ahead of him, but not nearly
Speaker 1: enough for comfort. Granted, a single state poll tends.
Speaker 2: To be iffy. They don't pull a.
Speaker 3: Lotus the classic events, my dear events. Who knows what's
Speaker 3: going to happen between now and November right exactly? And
Speaker 3: I just I'm gonna channel a little sung too here.
Speaker 3: I would rather overestimate my opponent's capabilities than underestimate them
Speaker 3: and be smarting from a costly historic defeat in the morning.
Speaker 3: If I got on my scale, I did. I did
Speaker 3: say it's some sort of record over the weekend. I
Speaker 3: would I should have. I should have entered a contest. Yes,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm on pregnanzone for an odd reason.
Speaker 3: Katie and pregnant Zone Jo justin. How do you remember
Speaker 3: what your dose was you were taking when it didn't
Speaker 3: have an effect on you? Because I've had different doses,
Speaker 3: not the higher dose. Man, it's like it makes you
Speaker 3: like a bear.
Speaker 4: I have to tell you. I just don't even there's
Speaker 4: so much more of me to love right now after
Speaker 4: having a kid. I don't want to hear it out
Speaker 4: of either one of you. You don't look like it.
Speaker 2: It's you know, you're fine. It's God's plan, you guess God.
Speaker 4: After losing eighty pounds prior to getting pregnant and now
Speaker 4: having like thirty to lose, it's like, good God, Almighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well you'll.
Speaker 4: Get I'll get it off. But I don't want to
Speaker 4: hear it out of either one of you right now.
Speaker 4: You both look great.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, let me lift up my shirt for you.
Speaker 1: I'm uh yeah, pregnantzon't gave me all sorts of energy,
Speaker 1: but it didn't make me ravenous like you. You know,
Speaker 1: I I got to admit it was unkind. When you
Speaker 1: were at the State Fair and they put a blue
Speaker 1: ribbon around your neck.
Speaker 3: Right next to them, I'm walking to the animal barn
Speaker 3: they put the blue ribbon. On my second I said,
Speaker 3: I'm not even in the hog competition.
Speaker 2: That's not a hog. This embarrassing. That is a gentleman
Speaker 2: who was just walking by rush. So you're calling me
Speaker 2: a pig. A mistake has been made. Yes, we need
Speaker 2: to correct this air at once.
Speaker 3: This is multifying well so, but to see the difference
Speaker 3: is Katie, You've got.
Speaker 2: Every like the best reason in the world to gain way.
Speaker 3: I mean, Mohammed, It's all part of the process of
Speaker 3: keeping the baby healthy and all these different sorts of things.
Speaker 2: I was just a guy at the state Fair with
Speaker 2: no self control. Those are different things.
Speaker 4: And he ended up in the hot contest and wanded.
Speaker 2: Up walking by the hot contest with a blue river.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna get in it, win it. Shane, right, Shane.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was late Saturday when we were sitting there watching
Speaker 1: the State Fair hypnotist with my big tub of Mit
Speaker 1: chocolate chip ice cream.
Speaker 2: I thought, this small life is? Is this where I saw.
Speaker 1: Myself when I was a young man with that watching
Speaker 1: a state Fair hypnopist eating a big bowl of ice
Speaker 1: cream after all the other crap I've eaten.
Speaker 4: For so I want a big corn dog that's been
Speaker 4: on my craving list, Fir.
Speaker 2: I had one. It was good.
Speaker 1: It was as good as you were imagining. Here's a
Speaker 1: compliment for you, Jack. In the demographic of people who
Speaker 1: are sitting there shoveling ice cream down their throats, you're
Speaker 1: the only one with all your teeth.
Speaker 2: So well done. It was.
Speaker 3: It was quite the crowd because it was the nine
Speaker 3: o'clock show, like the the Dark Time one, in the
Speaker 3: fact that you have to be sixteen to watch it
Speaker 3: because it gets sixy.
Speaker 2: I guess we didn't stay for the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I just watched enough of it for my kids to
Speaker 3: get because they thought that only happened on television. They
Speaker 3: didn't know that that sort of thing happened in real life. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it happens in real life, son. People gathering crowds like
Speaker 3: this to watch this sort of entertainment since I was
Speaker 3: a kid till this moment. That's a head scratcher for me.
Speaker 3: The whole hypnotist thing. People, Oh yes, they do exactly
Speaker 3: what he says. It seems nutty to me.
Speaker 2: Did you go up on stage Jack let him hypnotize you?
Speaker 3: No, man, I was ducking my head so hard because
Speaker 3: I always get picked for things, always, always, always, always,
Speaker 3: anytime there's a somebody in the crowd, you sir, it's
Speaker 3: always me. And my family laughed so hard when I
Speaker 3: get back because it's always me. I don't know what
Speaker 3: the look is on my face, but I kept my
Speaker 3: head down. I was really making sure I didn't make
Speaker 3: any eye contact. But the kid next to me fellas
Speaker 3: that got hypnotized sitting next to me.
Speaker 2: In the room, he just like she was talking to
Speaker 2: talk and his head went down.
Speaker 4: My buddy, my buddy got picked for that.
Speaker 2: And he he said, I.
Speaker 4: Don't even know what happened to.
Speaker 2: Me up there?
Speaker 4: What Yeah, I I which I didn't buy it, but he.
Speaker 2: Don't buy it either. But it happens. And I've talked
Speaker 2: to people who've said it happened to them.
Speaker 1: It's got to be there's a genetic tendency, neurological something
Speaker 1: or other. It's like being left handed or good at
Speaker 1: music or something or what.
Speaker 2: I thought it was an IQ thing to a certain level.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, minded, you know, like I was
Speaker 2: gonna go there. You can say it. You're new with child,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Yeah, you're weak mind, Like my brain won't let.
Speaker 3: Me do that, yeah, right, Or I suppose if you're
Speaker 3: gonna twist it around, you're you're not trusting enough, or
Speaker 3: you're too cynical. I guess if you're gonna flip it
Speaker 3: on its head, maybe because I'm you know, sharing those things.
Speaker 3: Let's start the show officially. I do need to tell
Speaker 3: that story maybe in the podcast later. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday. It is
Speaker 3: election day for communists around the country, August the fourth year,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, where I'm strung in getting we approve
Speaker 3: of this program.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Then let's start the show official late according to FCC
Speaker 1: rules and ranks, here we go.
Speaker 3: At Mark, you said Americans should cancel Thanksgiving. Should have
Speaker 3: done this in sixteen twenty one.
Speaker 5: Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many
Speaker 5: people in our communities, and so I think there I
Speaker 5: wanted to make sure that people understood that there are
Speaker 5: multiple views, but views can evolve.
Speaker 3: Which one are black job communists is running on ending
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving because it's so painful.
Speaker 1: The word that leaves to my mind is charisma. Wow,
Speaker 1: she could be hypnotized. That is Francesca Hong, who is
Speaker 1: running for governor of Wisconsin. She is a communist, got
Speaker 1: a good issue and Dullsville, Jamie, God, dang it.
Speaker 6: What is it with these people in their wafing. It
Speaker 6: is obtainful time from many people. All I me, me, me, me, yourself,
Speaker 6: hate your country?
Speaker 2: I did, I hate you?
Speaker 4: And he's very orcus of her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3: And when you look at your issues, of course, the
Speaker 3: painfulness of Thanksgiving always ranks very high, right.
Speaker 2: Up there with the inflation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, job security and food prices. Yeah, it's all those
Speaker 1: things fit together.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Katie is back and we're going to get the
Speaker 3: headlines coming up in a bit and get into some
Speaker 3: of the news of the day.
Speaker 2: The President did say I don't know how he's gonna.
Speaker 3: Rhetorically handle this today, but he did say yesterday the
Speaker 3: Strait will be open tomorrow, which is now, And I
Speaker 3: mean he stated it definitively yesterday that they want a deal.
Speaker 3: They've got some sort of deal in the Strait will
Speaker 3: be open.
Speaker 1: So I don't do the prediction market thing, but I'd
Speaker 1: be curious to gaze at it and figure out what's
Speaker 1: sure it'll be open.
Speaker 2: What's that trading for how sheep. Can I buy that?
Speaker 3: Well, it's funny, I think like everybody on his side
Speaker 3: and not on his side, just kind of action of
Speaker 3: that was kind of yeah, whatever, So people shouldn't just
Speaker 3: say yeah whatever.
Speaker 2: To the president announcing something that major.
Speaker 1: I just came across on a similar topic, some very
Speaker 1: learned analysis of why the recently announced giant breakthrough with
Speaker 1: a moss and the piece has begun. It's just it
Speaker 1: was just it's not going to happen. Okay, I can't
Speaker 1: have it, And I thought, what's the point in reading this.
Speaker 1: I did read it.
Speaker 2: I thought I'm not even gonna bring it at the
Speaker 2: show because it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I haven't heard that far end of the story.
Speaker 3: I just assumed that was the result. But there's lots
Speaker 3: of course it is. There's lots to get to today.
Speaker 3: I hope you can stick around. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: Doing some back to school shopping with the kids, which
Speaker 3: is a reminder that it's that time of year already.
Speaker 3: As speaking of time going by, Oh boy, howdy? Yeah,
Speaker 3: absolutely right. All right, so much to talk about. Let's
Speaker 3: get started.
Speaker 1: Who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie gringing Katie.
Speaker 4: All righty, let's start with the alphabet networks ABC dimplomatic
Speaker 4: efforts to end war ongoing, Katari official says Fox News.
Speaker 4: Trump says he is giving Iran quote every last chance
Speaker 4: to reach a deal.
Speaker 2: Clearly, i'd say, and CBS.
Speaker 4: Trump threatens Iran with quote decapitation as who do he's
Speaker 4: claim strike on Saudi airport?
Speaker 2: So what's this whole Aman Iran deal?
Speaker 3: That they announced combat between Oman Ron, that they're going
Speaker 3: to open the street with tolls the two of them, Like,
Speaker 3: we're not involved. I don't know what's going on with that,
Speaker 3: which has been called a non starter by the President.
Speaker 4: From NBC. Man accused of arson in the three biggest
Speaker 4: fires in Washington one guy, Yeah, guy.
Speaker 2: What's his job situation?
Speaker 4: Uh, they're not releasing a whole lot of details about
Speaker 4: him other than that he's been accused of.
Speaker 3: The climate change, hates his parents, crayon's what's his deal?
Speaker 4: I will tell you I spent some time in Idaho
Speaker 4: and the air quality is you can't go out side
Speaker 4: part of the country, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In answer to your question, Jack, probably all of the above, Yes,
Speaker 1: you get the order the variety pack. Yeah, I'm trans
Speaker 1: and I hate capitalism, also development, I'm pro environmental and
Speaker 1: hate Israel because I have to.
Speaker 2: It's the permanent.
Speaker 4: Omnikaus from the Washington Post how Trump's claims of vandalism
Speaker 4: at the renovated reflecting pool have crumbled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a rupt situation.
Speaker 3: So it kind of reminded me of the legal challenges
Speaker 3: to the twenty twenty election when some of the people
Speaker 3: that were saying strong things about the vandalism Jeanine Piro
Speaker 3: ended up in a courtroom and would have been in
Speaker 3: legal trouble to say something that's not true.
Speaker 2: Their story was different. Yeah, they had no case.
Speaker 1: What was different about this one is she said in
Speaker 1: various filings, we're misled by Interior. There's no evidence here.
Speaker 1: We're not prosecuting this case. And Trump has been making
Speaker 1: the still saying there's a vicious, vicious vandalism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 3: It's not the issue of the day, though, I mean
Speaker 3: for crying out loud mainstream media.
Speaker 2: Good lord.
Speaker 4: From the war from the WNBA from Breitbart. WNBA coach
Speaker 4: who wore quote trans kids belonged shirt fears that men are.
Speaker 2: Taking coaching jobs, right right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it we're for inclusivity if it's people exactly like us,
Speaker 1: diversity meeting more people like me.
Speaker 3: Somebody tweeted at us last night. We shot out yesterday
Speaker 3: because we talked about it several times. The idea of
Speaker 3: some dudes got to come play in WNBA to end
Speaker 3: this look Dave Chappelle's bit about Lebron playing in the WNBA.
Speaker 2: We need to play that again later.
Speaker 4: This one's for you, Jack. New York Post entire theater
Speaker 4: evacuated during Spider Man's screening. Do two moviegoers uncontrollable bout
Speaker 4: of rotten flatulence?
Speaker 3: Did they have that ulsteria or whatever the heck that's
Speaker 3: called names cyclists or bad lettuce, bad.
Speaker 2: Lettuce in the name of the Spider Man man that's
Speaker 2: going to an aggressive scent.
Speaker 4: Study finds this one's not good. I shouldn't be laughing.
Speaker 4: Most eighth graders don't think that trying fetanyl once is
Speaker 4: a big deal.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you do. Not all your kids think of that?
Speaker 2: Good Lord, how did they come to that conclusion? Man?
Speaker 2: I've talked to my kids about that over and.
Speaker 3: Over again, about how just anything could have a little
Speaker 3: bit of fentanyl.
Speaker 2: Inn it's all it takes to kill you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, game over. Finally, the Babylonde terrorists are feeling dumb
Speaker 4: for ramming twin towers when all they had to do
Speaker 4: was run for mayor.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, that's some dark humor. But good oh.
Speaker 1: That reminds me we haven't gotten to the story. Thousands
Speaker 1: of nine to eleven families are saying, Mamdonnie, don't come
Speaker 1: to the memorial.
Speaker 2: You're rooting for the wrong team.
Speaker 3: So we'll go deeper on a whole bunch of those
Speaker 3: news stories. The New York Times piece about the Iran
Speaker 3: peace deal is pretty interesting, but specifically they're quotes from
Speaker 3: the administration there is. They're anonymous as usual, but if
Speaker 3: they're true, I find them highly troubling. Among other things
Speaker 3: we'll get to if you miss the segment. Gets the
Speaker 3: podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Those cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in this country are spreading.
Speaker 7: Federal officials are now concerned water and wastewater utilities in
Speaker 7: at least a dozen states may have been compromised. So far,
Speaker 7: there have been no widespread disruptions. One of the affected states, Michigan,
Speaker 7: saying there are no known impacts that pose a public
Speaker 7: health concern, But the fear is Iran is showing its
Speaker 7: capacity to retaliate as President Trump threatens a possible escalation
Speaker 7: of the war.
Speaker 3: Now, I forget, where did the original idea that it
Speaker 3: was Iran come from? That was our intelligence agencies came
Speaker 3: up with leaves. Yeah, which Trump said then the other day,
Speaker 3: doesn't need not sure it's Iran. I was just reading
Speaker 3: where last year now Americans lost almost a billion dollars
Speaker 3: from AI related crimes on how easy it is to
Speaker 3: hack Indy with AI because you just any numb nuts
Speaker 3: can say, hey, claude, how.
Speaker 2: Do I you know do this?
Speaker 3: Or that you don't have to be a super genius
Speaker 3: anymore and just brought that up because you know, maybe
Speaker 3: it's not Iran.
Speaker 2: Could be so many options out there now in the
Speaker 2: modern world.
Speaker 3: But for intelligence people say it's Iran, a country we're
Speaker 3: at war with, So it makes sense that's something that's
Speaker 3: not twelve states.
Speaker 2: So we'll keep our eye on that story. Certainly sounds
Speaker 2: like a warning shot to me.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to just bring you this little piece
Speaker 3: and then we'll move on from the Iran war from
Speaker 3: the New York Times, because I find this troubling to me,
Speaker 3: it's all about the whether they get a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: I want to make sure they don't. I really I
Speaker 3: don't want them to change or the Trump administration to
Speaker 3: change on that. According to The New York Times, in
Speaker 3: private comments, some officials doubt there will be a nuclear accord,
Speaker 3: and then mister Trump may simply declare, as he has
Speaker 3: suggested in the past, that Iran stockpiles should remain buried
Speaker 3: under the rubble created after an air and attack on
Speaker 3: three nuclear facilities in June and twenty twenty five. That
Speaker 3: was Midnight Hammer, Which then, why did we need to
Speaker 3: go through epic fury and tolls and gas prices and
Speaker 3: everything else that we've done since then.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: But inside the Pentagon, the New York Times says some
Speaker 3: senior officials are skeptical of the emerging Oman Iran arrangement
Speaker 3: for opening the Strait. I'm sure they are, and worry
Speaker 3: that it amounts to a capitulation to the Uranians. What
Speaker 3: the fact that the Strait was open to free transit
Speaker 3: prior to the war and then would be a toll
Speaker 3: booth run by one of the worst regimes on earth. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'd say that's a capitulation if that ends up happening,
Speaker 3: and it's always worth repeating international waters, Yeah, the only
Speaker 3: international waters if some big dog can force them to
Speaker 3: be And maybe we're not willing to do that in Europe.
Speaker 2: Certainly willing to anyway.
Speaker 3: So if those comments are true, that Trump might decide,
Speaker 3: you know what, we've done enough damage to the nuclear program.
Speaker 3: They can't get a bomb any time soon, which is
Speaker 3: probably true, but it's a long way short of various things.
Speaker 3: He was talking about going in there and taking out
Speaker 3: the radiation dust or whatever the heck.
Speaker 2: That term is.
Speaker 1: Right, So that's where we are. Yeah, it could look very,
Speaker 1: very different than three months. I found myself thinking about
Speaker 1: the various efforts to decriticalize the Straits of four moves,
Speaker 1: meaning developing alternate roots, pipelines, other places to take the oil,
Speaker 1: other ways to sell the oil, just diminish its importance.
Speaker 1: And that could be in three months, six months, five years,
Speaker 1: that could be the result, and nobody decides it's worth
Speaker 1: the trouble to whack your end hard enough to let
Speaker 1: them release the straits. So instead we just price it
Speaker 1: in those who are desperate to use the straits of
Speaker 1: hormones and then anybody who's got an alternative exploits that alternative.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of it is going to be the
Speaker 3: world is going to figure out a way to work
Speaker 3: around the straight of Wore moves. So there they're leverage
Speaker 3: and all the money to make it off. It is
Speaker 3: dissipating as it goes building pipelines and coming up with
Speaker 3: other ways to do it.
Speaker 2: But as a.
Speaker 3: Political issue, I'm not sure the average person gives a
Speaker 3: crap as usual. And if the war ended in gas
Speaker 3: prices start coming back down, that'd be good enough for
Speaker 3: most people.
Speaker 2: I would have to guess, regardless of the outcome.
Speaker 1: So more importantly, perhaps as I'm getting ready to launch
Speaker 1: into this account of the Kremlin's new recruiting tactics, as
Speaker 1: I was going to switch to the Russia Ukraine War,
Speaker 1: the pop up ad in the Wall Street Journalist for
Speaker 1: what appears to be a five hundred dollars toaster.
Speaker 2: What to do spread?
Speaker 1: But does it applies heat to bread to make it
Speaker 1: more crispy? It appears to be a stainless steal. Oh
Speaker 1: just switched out to what is this now? Some AI
Speaker 1: thing for my retail estaff.
Speaker 3: Well, I just five hundred dollars is a bit much,
Speaker 3: But you know, my jihot against cheap Chinese crap. How
Speaker 3: many twenty five dollars toasters have I had in my
Speaker 3: life that they'll enough.
Speaker 2: To buy a five hundred dollars stainless steel.
Speaker 1: One practically the cheap plastic handle breaking off at some
Speaker 1: point because it's made of the flimsiest, crappiest plastic on earth. Right,
Speaker 1: you could toast the bread on your forehead. You get
Speaker 1: so pissed off and that happens, I hear you. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: what Katie.
Speaker 4: Gone from old men yelling at clouds to old men
Speaker 4: yelling at toasters exactly?
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey, listen, sister, I remember what my
Speaker 1: mom's crip.
Speaker 3: I remember what my grandma's toaster looked and felt like
Speaker 3: that's a piece of equipment like GM.
Speaker 2: Made it or something. Oh yeah, yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: You could toast some bread, beat a guy to death
Speaker 1: with it if you broke into your house, then toast
Speaker 1: a couple more pieces of bread that was solidly made
Speaker 1: Detroit Steel appliances.
Speaker 2: Ohs for better times, huh.
Speaker 3: Anyway, what'd you say about the Ukrainian War?
Speaker 1: Well, Russia is now desperate for men, idiots, the suicidal
Speaker 1: to man their front lines. So not only are they
Speaker 1: buying more meat puppets from North Korea to be slaughtered
Speaker 1: nearly immediately.
Speaker 2: That's a rough term.
Speaker 1: But in Russia's smaller towns and cities, military recruiters have
Speaker 1: resorted to detaining men on the street, essentially waylaying them
Speaker 1: outside their place of work or under the pretext of
Speaker 1: routine document checks, they bring them down to the nuclear
Speaker 1: the military recruitment office, where the men are threatened and
Speaker 1: beaten until they sign up for the war. Russia is
Speaker 1: already offering life changing sums of money, but nobody wants
Speaker 1: it anymore. They're running out of guys who are signing on.
Speaker 1: What's the old timey term for that, impressed, Yeah, impressment
Speaker 1: and dat I was just reading about that from the
Speaker 1: Revolutionary War era.
Speaker 2: God dang it.
Speaker 3: So you walk out of your workplace and there's a
Speaker 3: couple of Russian dudes there say hey, we need to
Speaker 3: talk to you, and you don't have any option of
Speaker 3: running or not talking to them. I mean, you need
Speaker 3: to come down the station. Next thing, you know, and
Speaker 3: you're on the front line and as we've learned the
Speaker 3: life expectancy on the front line now is about twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So here's this bloke in some small town in Russia
Speaker 1: where his buddy essentially said to him, Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: go down to the police station. They want to check
Speaker 1: my papers. Oh my god, or bureaucratic crap. Well, when
Speaker 1: he arrived, two military recruiters waiting for him carried him
Speaker 1: off to the recruitment office, where he's beaten.
Speaker 2: On the liver and kidneys. He was able to intervene.
Speaker 1: Oh, his friend was able to intervene and force the
Speaker 1: man's release only as he was being transferred to a
Speaker 1: medical exam. He says, quote, if I'd come two hours later,
Speaker 1: they would have already taken him away.
Speaker 2: He'd have been gone.
Speaker 3: Well, what's the beating him for, just because that's the
Speaker 3: Soviet style?
Speaker 2: No beat him into signing up.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see to get you to sign I've never understood, clearly,
Speaker 3: there's a reason for it, because every regime does it.
Speaker 3: I've never understood the beating confessions out of people when
Speaker 3: everybody knows the confession was beating out of you, or
Speaker 3: beating somebody into signing up for the military.
Speaker 2: When everybody knows you were beaten into doing it. What what what? What?
Speaker 3: What step do you accomplish by doing that?
Speaker 2: Terrorizing people?
Speaker 1: We've discussed this in the context of Putin shoving people
Speaker 1: out windows. Everybody knows he's having people whacked and tossing
Speaker 1: them out the window, whether they're pre shot or beaten
Speaker 1: or just a nice fresh toss out a tense story window.
Speaker 1: It's to say, look, I can do it. It's obvious,
Speaker 1: everybody knows it. And I get away with it. And
Speaker 1: you resist the government, I'm gonna beat you to within
Speaker 1: an inch your life. Then I'm going to execute you,
Speaker 1: and I'll make you sign a confession that says yes,
Speaker 1: I did it. That's the way we run things around here.
Speaker 2: Keep it in mind.
Speaker 3: You have you ever read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Kessler.
Speaker 3: It's the classic of the genre. Sounds familiar from way
Speaker 3: back in the Soviet days. Oh man, it's a short book.
Speaker 3: It's a it's if you ever wanted to know about
Speaker 3: this thing, beating confessions out of people, That's what that
Speaker 3: whole story is. And it's the best ever. But holy crap,
Speaker 3: that is horrifying.
Speaker 1: Russian losses on the front now reach an estimated thirty
Speaker 1: to forty thousand killed and wounded every.
Speaker 2: Month a month. Still yeah, oh that's incredible.
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Speaker 3: I just saw quarterback Aaron Rodgers has gone off on
Speaker 3: Anthony Faucis doesn't pay last week, So I have to
Speaker 3: play a little bit of that later. Although, if I'm
Speaker 3: running a football team.
Speaker 2: How about you figure out how to pass the ball
Speaker 2: down in the field and score touchdowns and stay out
Speaker 2: of politics.
Speaker 1: Well, oh yeah, I just saw a great headline I
Speaker 1: can't wait to read. I think it may be taibi
Speaker 1: that the media can't admit the truth about Fauci because
Speaker 1: they spent years just bludgeoning, verbally, canceling, silencing anybody.
Speaker 2: Who disagreed with them.
Speaker 1: So they can't to admit the truth about Fauci is
Speaker 1: to admit their own complicity, and they won't do it.
Speaker 1: They're gutless, they have no principles. They're self delusional. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to Russia, there's this journalist who's got a long
Speaker 1: Russian sounding name, young woman. On the first night of
Speaker 1: my recent trip to Russia, driving from the airport at
Speaker 1: two in the morning, I passed a gas station just
Speaker 1: outside Moscow. A long line of cars and trucks snaked
Speaker 1: around it waiting for the ration of about ten gallons
Speaker 1: of fuel wow around the block. In the wee hours
Speaker 1: at least the station was still operating. Several others had
Speaker 1: passed along the way had no gasoline at all, and
Speaker 1: for a long time. She points out, the Russian authorities
Speaker 1: could keep the war kind of at a distance from
Speaker 1: the normal people. They'd remained comparatively insulated from the worst
Speaker 1: human costs until now. During the weeks I spent in
Speaker 1: Russia earlier this month, and nearly everyone I spoke to
Speaker 1: had a drone story. Some had watched drones razoring the sky.
Speaker 1: Others had heard explosions or seen the fiery aftermath of
Speaker 1: a strike. And she goes into a bunch of details.
Speaker 1: Hardly goes by without fresh announcements from Moscow authorities about
Speaker 1: drones intercepted on their way to the capitol, And she
Speaker 1: talks about fuel shortages all over the place, serious fuel shortages,
Speaker 1: panic overgas lean shortages.
Speaker 2: So that's changing as well. But we're four years in,
Speaker 2: four and a half years in Yeah, the front line
Speaker 2: is essentially frozen.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, But you got one side to twilling to
Speaker 3: feed humans beings into it, another side that would like
Speaker 3: it to end, you know, yesterday, because they got school
Speaker 3: teachers and doctors still dying out there trying to protect
Speaker 3: their country.
Speaker 1: And as the old and very powerful saying, one side
Speaker 1: is fighting with a gun at their back, the other
Speaker 1: side is fighting with their homes and families at their backs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what an ugly story. We got to move on
Speaker 2: from ugliness.
Speaker 1: I just think I've got amusement, amusement and common sense
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
Speaker 3: I'm just glad that somebody is running for governor in
Speaker 3: Wisconsin on ending Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: That's finally, finally, finally common sense.
Speaker 3: Exactly, Michael, exactly. So we got stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: Sphere, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: A four ton stage piece of a Space's rocket is
Speaker 3: going to crash into the moon today. I guess it's
Speaker 3: part of the price of doing business. Will they'll be fine.
Speaker 3: They're visible by telescope. It'd be kind of a cool
Speaker 3: thing to see. Oh yeah, that could be cool. Here's
Speaker 3: your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1: But let's preface it with a contemporary tape of a
Speaker 1: man on the street asking college students questions.
Speaker 7: What country is Venice, Italy located in?
Speaker 2: For one hundred dollars do you have any clue. Gosh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be a teacher, so I should know this.
Speaker 2: You should Paris. Wow.
Speaker 1: Oh good lord, I just asked a random asking. I
Speaker 1: asked the guys for a random college student answering your
Speaker 1: question because I came across this in Tim Sanders sanda
Speaker 1: For's fabulous book Proclaiming Liberty. This is twenty year old
Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton on the topic of was you know the
Speaker 1: reasoning behind independence and self governance and stuff? And some
Speaker 1: Tory writer quibbled that New York didn't have a charter
Speaker 1: with the king. Doesn't matter. You don't have to understand that.
Speaker 1: Here's the twenty year old Hamilton. It is true that
Speaker 1: New York has no charter, but the sacred rights of
Speaker 1: mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments
Speaker 1: or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam
Speaker 1: and the whole volume of human nature by the hand
Speaker 1: of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or
Speaker 1: obscured by mortal power.
Speaker 2: Now did he sing that to a hip hop beat?
Speaker 8: WHOA, they had money and we wanted it. Whoall, We're
Speaker 8: a dumb society. To be less dumb, try teach your
Speaker 8: children not to be dumb.
Speaker 2: Not being dumb, be less dumb. Mail Bag.
Speaker 1: Jopson non dumb note at mailbag at armstrong Egeeddi dot com.
Speaker 1: Judith Rights on the topic of the Washington State Artists
Speaker 1: and this guy's he was previously jailed for ten years
Speaker 1: because he killed his father because he didn't want to
Speaker 1: do his dishes. I cannot verify that, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like the sort of thing a psychopathic, youthful offender would
Speaker 1: do when he was released from prison. Let's see Katie
Speaker 1: escape from California. Rights on the topic of the new
Speaker 1: all women's soft but Baseball League. I have one request
Speaker 1: regarding the women's baseball League. Please don't let men in.
Speaker 1: I know, I know in today's world that may sound
Speaker 1: hopelessly old fashioned, but if it's an all women's league,
Speaker 1: maybe we could just let it stay an all women's
Speaker 1: league with women who play. And then she says one question.
Speaker 1: I heard the national anthem performance? Do we have that
Speaker 1: handy Michael from the the opening day of the new
Speaker 1: women's Baseball League?
Speaker 2: Oh see can you see Bye bye Wow? Boys?
Speaker 5: So froud?
Speaker 8: But why why.
Speaker 2: All right? Make it sop?
Speaker 1: If we go any further, we'll have to play the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Maybe we could play the whole thing later.
Speaker 1: It was definitely it's definitely being called the worst national anthem.
Speaker 1: That wasn't intentionally bad. That was Katie's question. Was it
Speaker 1: an accidental train wreck? Was someone trying to make a statement.
Speaker 1: Either way, it was certainly annoying.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's it's Martha Reeves from Martha Reeves and
Speaker 3: the Vandela's is who that is what dancing in the
Speaker 3: streets or whatever her big hit songs.
Speaker 1: Were, oh calling out around the world.
Speaker 2: I am not ready for a brand new beat. If
Speaker 2: that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Let's see back to the founding papas Scott and Heilsburg
Speaker 1: guys said. This weekend, I visited Monticello, the home of
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 2: Cool. I've done that. I need to do it.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I've been in that area so
Speaker 3: many times and never went the liberal ben to.
Speaker 1: The tour wasn't quite as bad as I expected, though
Speaker 1: the tour guide made sure to hammer home that a
Speaker 1: slave was a slave whenever discussing Monticello's servants workers. What
Speaker 1: truly bothered me was that when she briefly discussed Jefferson's
Speaker 1: views on slavery. She touched on his writings about ending
Speaker 1: slavery slavery, but went on to explain that we don't
Speaker 1: really know what Jefferson thought about slavery. Having heard Timothy
Speaker 1: Sanderferr on the show last week, I think we know
Speaker 1: exactly what Jefferson thought.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he wrote and wrote and wrote about it.
Speaker 1: But you can't admit that as a progressive kp LOOGI
Speaker 1: keep pushing leftists out of government institution. Scott, Thanks Scott.
Speaker 1: Let's see Ryan from Houston observes that I took you
Speaker 1: just a spitball guest Tomit at the National Debt yesterday.
Speaker 1: I missed by eight trillion dollars. I guess what is it?
Speaker 1: Around thirty two trillion? Now it's we're knocking on the
Speaker 1: door of forty trillion. Sure that doesn't sound like a
Speaker 1: lot eight trillion, but that's ad Elon Musks or five
Speaker 1: feet of the California bullet train. That's funny, Ryan. We
Speaker 1: are screamed, you're cracked.
Speaker 2: Ryan.
Speaker 1: And then finally, this helpfully from Paolo on the difference
Speaker 1: between open source and open weight. When we're discussing AI
Speaker 1: models because they just throw that out at news articles,
Speaker 1: including news articles to a general audience, without explaining what
Speaker 1: that means. And maybe I'm the only guy in America
Speaker 1: who doesn't know the difference, but.
Speaker 2: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: Open source think of AI models as massive physical machines
Speaker 1: with billions of adjustable knobs. Open source means giving you
Speaker 1: the complete blueprints and codes to build it, run it,
Speaker 1: and modify the machine itself from scratch. Open weights means
Speaker 1: giving you with the pre built machine and the exact
Speaker 1: knob settings that resulted from months of very expensive training.
Speaker 1: But you get a fully functional pre train machine. You
Speaker 1: can adjust those knobs if you want for your specific needs.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate the enlightenment, sir. Then he points out
Speaker 1: if the AI bubble collapses, the economy is doomed.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 3: There was a major update in the Savannah Guthries mom
Speaker 3: story over the weekend that I missed that Joe brought
Speaker 3: us to and then it turns out Heather Myers was
Speaker 3: there like the day after this story broke, with some
Speaker 3: interesting information all around that we talked a little bit
Speaker 3: about yesterday. I find it fascinating. I hope you will too.
Speaker 3: Because we're gonna get into that a little bit an
Speaker 3: hour too. Yeah, there's a real update. If you miss
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