Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jackie
Speaker 1: and He Raw live from Studio c SE Senor a
Speaker 1: dimly lit room to put them the fowls of the.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty Communications calm down on a.
Speaker 3: Friday where we're happy drunk to start the show and
Speaker 3: by the end of the show we're three quarters drunk.
Speaker 3: Today we're under the tutelage of our general manager, Vladimir
Speaker 3: Also the NFL Draft, which Faamus went to?
Speaker 1: Which team those are? Those are two very different general managers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't resist the Vladimir Right's quoting Trump in recent truth.
Speaker 1: But you know, I gotta admit I've spent as much
Speaker 1: time to get through the NFL Draft today as anything else.
Speaker 1: As I do love some football, really, I just have
Speaker 1: never even when I was super into sports, I didn't
Speaker 1: understand being so into the draft. It's wrong as often
Speaker 1: as it's right, So I just don't understand why it's
Speaker 1: such a big deal. Yeah, speaking only for myself, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say I'm so into it. I just think, oh wow,
Speaker 1: the Niners got an edge rusher, that's cool. Go with
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa. That could be exciting. But I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: take it seriously. I was still great salt. I was
Speaker 1: talking to an NFL insider last night actually about just
Speaker 1: brought up the draft and uh and they said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to be involved in that, but they moved
Speaker 1: it from like a it would be at a bar,
Speaker 1: it's now at a stadium, and now it's just a
Speaker 1: bigger deal. It's like, yeah, so the just individual team's
Speaker 1: drafts they do at a giant stadium full of people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing popular com Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: spectacle in and of itself. It's it's quite amazing just
Speaker 1: as a business. Yeah, well, listen, I understand why you
Speaker 1: got to keep your sources anonymous, but just just admit it.
Speaker 1: Your fishing buddies with Travis Kelcey, you go out to
Speaker 1: bass fishing with them, tea swizzle makes you boys, a
Speaker 1: couple of sandwiches, lows up the cooler with a couple
Speaker 1: of beers, and he kisses tailor on the cheek, and
Speaker 1: you guys go fishing. I wasn't gonna bring up this
Speaker 1: at this point in the show, but we do kind
Speaker 1: of have breaking news around this. So there's a Time
Speaker 1: magazine interview with Trump that came out just like in
Speaker 1: the last couple of hours. I haven't had time to
Speaker 1: read it. It's a magazine, Grandpa, well right, it shows
Speaker 1: how Trump, how old Trump is. Trump gives an interview
Speaker 1: to Time magazine because he thinks Time Magazine's still showing
Speaker 1: up in people's mailboxes and they're putting it on there.
Speaker 1: You know, I wonder, well I would if they called me.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I got like ten minutes on Thursday.
Speaker 1: I'm not making fun of Trump for me. No, I
Speaker 1: still pay attention to the Evening News, sixty minutes and
Speaker 1: Time Magazine because I'm old anyway, and when the relevance
Speaker 1: of those things is so diminished, sixty minutes still has
Speaker 1: some power. Time magazine got no juice at this point, none.
Speaker 1: But they did get an interview with Trump and which
Speaker 1: he blames Ukraine for starting the war. But that's not
Speaker 1: the breaking news. Breaking news is whitcough, Trump's negotiator arrives
Speaker 1: in Moscow as one of the senior Russian generals who's
Speaker 1: planning the war. His car explodes, So I just wondered
Speaker 1: Trump see yesterday he say, you don't know what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And somebody said, you know, you're not putting any pressure
Speaker 1: of Russia. You don't know what we're doing. We're doing
Speaker 1: lots of things you don't know about. And I thought,
Speaker 1: is that one of them? Are we were we sending
Speaker 1: the signal that we're blown up? Generals will blow up
Speaker 1: this general, but we could blow up you. So maybe
Speaker 1: you want to come to the table. Oh that strikes
Speaker 1: me as a long shot, but it's a hell of
Speaker 1: an intriguing possibility. I don't know how we're going to
Speaker 1: Israel like they do to Orhyme's nuclear scientists. Guy who
Speaker 1: rides up next to the general on a motorcycle, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there's a clank on the side of
Speaker 1: his car. What are you doing over there, Kaploly? I
Speaker 1: don't know. We found out fairly recently in the New
Speaker 1: York Times that all that early stuff with Ukraine doing
Speaker 1: so well, we organized all that. I mean, we shipped
Speaker 1: their generals out to where was it, Germany, to another country,
Speaker 1: met with US NATO, the best people, you know, the
Speaker 1: best minds and technology that exists, told him, here's what
Speaker 1: you do that hit there hit there, give them all
Speaker 1: the intelligence. I don't believe for a second that we
Speaker 1: aren't involved in the pinpointing of these generals to assassinate them.
Speaker 1: Would Trump make such a move given his rhetoric and stances,
Speaker 1: not out loud, not out loud, He wouldn't make that obvious.
Speaker 1: But I no, no at all. Obviously, I'm asking would
Speaker 1: he do it at all? Well, it's being done with
Speaker 1: our help, so he's not stopping it. I mean, I'd
Speaker 1: be shocked if it's not with our help. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Ukraine's developed some capabilities, but there's a
Speaker 1: whole lot of mirk here, no doubt, a whole lot
Speaker 1: of mirk. Oh, it'll be many years before we know
Speaker 1: the true story. Anyway, that's enough of that. If we're
Speaker 1: getting back briefly to sixty minutes, you said they still
Speaker 1: have power, yes, but it's now red and says going
Speaker 1: to low power mode. True, he didn't. We haven't talked about.
Speaker 1: I mean, how about the fact that they got rid
Speaker 1: of their producers or he stepped down because he said
Speaker 1: he no longer has the autonomy to do whatever he
Speaker 1: wants and they used to have. So we were talking
Speaker 1: about sixty Minutes. This is some inside baseball stuff for
Speaker 1: US media people. But we were talking about a couple
Speaker 1: of episodes of sixty Minutes where it was like, whoa
Speaker 1: was this Fox? I mean, where they were really on
Speaker 1: the other side of where they usually are in story
Speaker 1: in my opinion on both stories, I don't remember which
Speaker 1: the stories were, but where they were both, to my mind,
Speaker 1: on the right side of the story, the correct side
Speaker 1: of the story, which I believe followed directly on the
Speaker 1: heels of a couple of weeks that were just like
Speaker 1: watching an episode of Morning Joe. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: so far off it was ridiculous. And this guy steps
Speaker 1: down and says he no longer has the ability to
Speaker 1: do what he wants. I think forced on him those
Speaker 1: more balanced shows, and he said I quit. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: said as much. And other insiders are lak Sherry Redstone,
Speaker 1: the new chairman of Viacom well good, the paramount ESPN
Speaker 1: plus whatever the hell conglomerate runs it now is says
Speaker 1: telling him what to do and what not to do. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: she said she was very unhappy with a couple of
Speaker 1: pieces that they had done, and I'm sure she was.
Speaker 1: They were outrageous, and we were screaming about him on
Speaker 1: that Monday morning after. But I think this is a
Speaker 1: win win. She says, no, that was way too left.
Speaker 1: He says, I'm gonna do what I want, or I leave.
Speaker 1: She says, fine, he leaves. So maybe sixty Minutes will
Speaker 1: get a little closer to what they've always been. Left,
Speaker 1: but not like they were a month ago. Right, I
Speaker 1: could easily see. I don't even remember the dude's name.
Speaker 1: He's semi legendarian. Pardon me. Sixty Minutes has been on
Speaker 1: since we were born and we're old. They've had three
Speaker 1: people run the thing, and he was the number three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what I was gonna say is he is thoroughly
Speaker 1: entrenched in the media elite. It's entirely possible he went resistance.
Speaker 1: He decided we're abandoning any pretense of both sides. We're
Speaker 1: gonna fight the resistance. Trump is Hitler, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, if they straighten it out, great,
Speaker 1: If not, they will continue to vanish into the dustbin
Speaker 1: of history. He probably also thought they would never let
Speaker 1: me go, and he was wrong. Many many of us
Speaker 1: have had that situation in life. I didn't think I
Speaker 1: was unfireable my first radio job where I was the
Speaker 1: program director, but I didn't think the place could run
Speaker 1: without me. This was one of the great lessons in
Speaker 1: my life. I was working. I was killing myself, Thank you, Gladys.
Speaker 1: I was killing myself at that radio station. I mean
Speaker 1: literally working seventy hours a week while being a full
Speaker 1: time college student because I just didn't think the place
Speaker 1: could run without me. I did everything, and no, man,
Speaker 1: they'll miss me when I was gone. And then I left,
Speaker 1: and you know what, they just kept on chugging along.
Speaker 1: They found different ways to do it. One of the
Speaker 1: best lessons of my life to find that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now what are you doing, dude? Everybody replaceable ever rebody?
Speaker 1: Well quite literally, I mean, are you familiar with the
Speaker 1: whole life cycle and how long human beings have been around?
Speaker 1: And nobody can hunt mast it onni like me. This
Speaker 1: tribe is gonna starve about me and my spear. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 1: getting on this. It is Friday, April twenty fifty, year
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. We are Armstrong in getting We approve
Speaker 1: of this program. All right, then let's get into it.
Speaker 1: The show begins officially now. According to FCC rules regulations,
Speaker 1: at Mark were the.
Speaker 4: First pick in the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, the
Speaker 4: Tennessee Titans select Cameron warn Quart alone.
Speaker 1: I mean, Ohman will own for his ability to escape
Speaker 1: the rush and throw deep down field. That will either
Speaker 1: launch the Tennessee Titans into the upper realms of the NFL,
Speaker 1: or he'll be a bust and be on five different
Speaker 1: teams and out of the league by the time he's
Speaker 1: twenty nine, or anything in between, or anything in all
Speaker 1: equally likely. Yes, ye, exactly, yes. You would think it'd
Speaker 1: be easier to predict who is gonna do well and
Speaker 1: who wasn't than it is. It's it's shocking. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the same freaking sport. Yeah, but it's it's it's wild.
Speaker 1: Some people dominating college sports are nobody can't even make
Speaker 1: the team in the NFL. And and then you got
Speaker 1: your players who were you know, you kind of heard
Speaker 1: of them, and then they're just And of course Tom
Speaker 1: Brady the most successful player in NFL history. He was
Speaker 1: a sixth round draft choice. Sixth round. Every team passed
Speaker 1: on him five times. Combination of your gifts of physical
Speaker 1: mental motivation. Why is the way you fit into a
Speaker 1: team a scheme? The coaches? You get? It's all very complicated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a lot of money invested in trying to
Speaker 1: figure that out. Yep, forty nine Ers quarterback, last pick
Speaker 1: in the draft. Oh really irrelevant? Yeah yeah, brock Purty, Sure,
Speaker 1: who is he from? Where? No? Brock Purty who Drafter Year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I thought they got a new guy. I thought that's
Speaker 1: what he meant. No, No, they got an edge rusher, Jack,
Speaker 1: the rangey sophomore from Georgia that's known for his ability
Speaker 1: to all lootolf on some lot then and get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But that's it. Yeah, that's a perfect example.
Speaker 1: Brock perty who is a quarterback who makes it to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl? Was the last pick, so every single
Speaker 1: team had a chance to pick him multiple times and said, no, no,
Speaker 1: I tell you who, We're not picking that dumb ass.
Speaker 1: All right, you know what, I'd rather pick a monkey
Speaker 1: than that young man. All right, are there any monkeys
Speaker 1: on the draft board? How about can we take your
Speaker 1: it guy because we hear he's really good. We kind
Speaker 1: of need an it No point in grabbing him because
Speaker 1: our football inflator has been our balls are sicky lately?
Speaker 1: Can we can we draft a better football inflator instead
Speaker 1: of rock party? You don't want that, especially heading into
Speaker 1: the weekend. So we got a lot more on the
Speaker 1: We got clips of the week this hour. Stay with us.
Speaker 4: A new study says that paper straws aren't as eco
Speaker 4: friendly as you think, but hey, at least they don't
Speaker 4: work and make everything taste like paper. Researchers analyze dozens
Speaker 4: of different brands of paper straws and found that they
Speaker 4: contain forever chemicals, which are chemicals named after how long
Speaker 4: it takes to drink a milkshake through a paper straw.
Speaker 1: How many times has that happened? Where the paper straw
Speaker 1: turns out to be as bad for the environment or
Speaker 1: you as the plastic straw. The plastic bag is worse
Speaker 1: than the paper bag, and then the carryon bag is
Speaker 1: worse than most of it, worse than both of them.
Speaker 1: Or electric vehicles do more harm than the environment in
Speaker 1: the roads than they I mean, over and over again,
Speaker 1: this has happened emotion not logic. That explains so many
Speaker 1: things that are pushed by the left. I want to
Speaker 1: help the environment, paper bags, cut down trees. Let's use
Speaker 1: plastic bags. Whoa, whoa. Let's think about this for a second. No,
Speaker 1: we need to save the environment. Just come on. And
Speaker 1: you know what's funny about a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: is I share their goals. Sure, of course, I think
Speaker 1: we all do. But I think it's worth asking will
Speaker 1: that work when you're choosing a policy. Good Lord, I
Speaker 1: think it's as simple as that. Sometimes, So Katie cannot
Speaker 1: be with us for her usual segment. Yes, her equipment.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this indelicate phrase now, but I hear
Speaker 1: people use this phrase a lot, like goals with jobs
Speaker 1: who make money. No, we need more delicacy, not less.
Speaker 1: Her radio equipment crapped the bed. How do we feel
Speaker 1: about that phrase? Does my cringe not tell you? Can
Speaker 1: you not read my cringe? I take from its context
Speaker 1: that that's a negative occurrence. I I'm not aware of
Speaker 1: this being a common situation for people in real life. No,
Speaker 1: thank goodness, at least not at this stage of my life.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, not since I've made a very coarse, well
Speaker 1: and uncommon. So I'm just surprised I've heard it for
Speaker 1: a long time in the world of golf. Oh really,
Speaker 1: maybe it started there. I was two up with two
Speaker 1: to play, and then I blanked the bed. Yeah I
Speaker 1: won't even because I am a man of refinement. I
Speaker 1: will not join you in the gutter. Wow. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is becoming more more popular, more common. Soon as I
Speaker 1: heard my mom say it, that's when I know it's
Speaker 1: going mainstream. That's a pretty good standard. It's very unlikely
Speaker 1: it will happen. God bless her. So because Katie is
Speaker 1: not available and her equipment has indeed lost control of
Speaker 1: its I can't even finish that sentence. It would have
Speaker 1: been really funny, but I just can't go there anyway. So,
Speaker 1: just taking a quick look at who's reporting what New
Speaker 1: York Times leads story is heg sets, personal phone use
Speaker 1: creative vulnerabilities. Even the Wall Street journal is talking about
Speaker 1: the chaos at the Pentagon, and I want to get
Speaker 1: into it in some depth later. I think there is
Speaker 1: truth to both the idea that there is turmoil at
Speaker 1: the Pentagon and also that the swamp Monster doesn't want
Speaker 1: her a former and it's going to do everything it
Speaker 1: can to throw up resistance. Absolutely I believe to be true.
Speaker 1: The headline the Wall Street journal polygraph threats, leaks and infighting,
Speaker 1: the chaos inside hegxets Pentagon. New York Post is talking
Speaker 1: about some guy falling out of the draft. Oh it's
Speaker 1: an old Shador Sandard's falling out. New York Post is
Speaker 1: a weird paper. It does some brilliant, super serious journalism
Speaker 1: and some of the most ridiculous stuff I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged fire along the line of
Speaker 1: control separating their two countries overnight. These are a couple
Speaker 1: of nuclear powers, giant militaries, and unfriendly neighbors who are
Speaker 1: divided by religion. This is my lead nominee for a
Speaker 1: story nobody's paying attention to that could be a gigantic
Speaker 1: story in roughly six weeks, right, yeah, no doubt Who's
Speaker 1: being of international relations? Do you have more on that? Sorry? No,
Speaker 1: I was going to back up to the New York
Speaker 1: Post their cover today, which I had in front of me.
Speaker 1: I don't right now, but is something about your general manager.
Speaker 1: It was Trump yaling Vladimir and it was basically making
Speaker 1: Trump for sticks and stones, will break my bones for
Speaker 1: just you know, hey, stop Vladimir and having echoes of
Speaker 1: Biden's don't, which is you know, it's a a that's
Speaker 1: a fairly painful critique. I think of Trump and I'm
Speaker 1: as covery of week twenty four hours. For Trump, it
Speaker 1: had a very strong whiff of don't of Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: don't to me oof. That is that is critical. My
Speaker 1: real sticking point with this is that, and I've come
Speaker 1: across a couple of my favorite commentators who agreed completely
Speaker 1: the idea that look, both countries want peace is simply
Speaker 1: not true. No, it's not at all. And that is
Speaker 1: what Trump and witcoffin company have been asserting over and
Speaker 1: over again. I don't see that at all. Speak speaking
Speaker 1: of Russia, thirty seconds left. Russian military court on Thursday
Speaker 1: sentenced Dive and Popov, former Russian commander who'd criticized senior
Speaker 1: mid military leaders, to five years in a penal colony
Speaker 1: for fraud in corruption, that sort of thing. That's the
Speaker 1: beauty of running an oligarchy where everybody is corrupt. Chijin
Speaker 1: Ping will tell you this, If you need to get
Speaker 1: rid of somebody, you just point your finger and say
Speaker 1: he's corrupt. He's thinking everybody's corrupt around here, right. We
Speaker 1: got clips of the week coming up Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Fifty world leaders are headed to Rome right now, including
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump. He's on his way to Italy for
Speaker 1: the big Pope funeral tomorrow. He'll be there. Zelenski will
Speaker 1: be there. Prince William because his dad, the King, is
Speaker 1: ill or something. But anyway, lots of world Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: going to be there. Is Pope Francis here, Pope Francis,
Speaker 1: where are you come on? Is? Joe Biden will be there.
Speaker 1: He is Yeah, highest ranking Catholic we've ever had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden will be there. Jean Paul the second I
Speaker 1: was told, John Paul the Second was here. Yeah. Boy,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of stories on his mental decline.
Speaker 1: As more and more folks are speaking openly, it was
Speaker 1: one hundred percent the plan to just drag the senile
Speaker 1: old mummy across the finish line, then figure out what
Speaker 1: to do, because everybody knew what was happening, including the
Speaker 1: American people. So the fact that the Sharad continued as
Speaker 1: a mark of true desperation or insanity or something. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is the plan that could not work. In a
Speaker 1: couple of moments, while I didn't have any interest in
Speaker 1: the NFL draft. I do have some interest in who
Speaker 1: ends up being the pope, and I have an opinion,
Speaker 1: though it might now unfounded. So the Catholic Church draft
Speaker 1: is the one you're watching. And okay, fine and dandy,
Speaker 1: But first let's take a fond look back at the
Speaker 1: week there was. It's cow clips of the Week for
Speaker 1: all the beautiful creerdos. I'm having a party ever eat
Speaker 1: a poondry huh week, We're in a way. Mo wouldn't
Speaker 1: let us out of the car and it would not move.
Speaker 4: He would not let us out, and he was coming
Speaker 4: back down toward this and he goes run.
Speaker 1: He's got a gun. Yo, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1: Walmart now has this big locked up Holy yeah, we
Speaker 1: on TV. That's that olive oil you've been drinking. No, hey,
Speaker 1: take the matches with you. She got to the stop
Speaker 1: sign where she proceeded to kick a solo cup out
Speaker 1: of the side of the mail truck. Just look at
Speaker 1: CNN's Fear and Greed Index. We're in fear territory right now.
Speaker 1: President Trump lashing out at Ukraine's president. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: it might be easier to deal with Selenski. So far,
Speaker 1: it's been harder, but that's okay. I'm not sure you
Speaker 1: know what concessions Putin will ever be willing to make,
Speaker 1: but he surely hadn't made very many so far. A
Speaker 1: lot happening here.
Speaker 4: There is a lot of change happening inside Iran. It
Speaker 4: Disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to save
Speaker 4: their ass.
Speaker 1: Tesla announcing it's profits have plunged a staggering seventy one percent.
Speaker 1: My time, aucation it's doge will drop significantly. The US
Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Vessen said behind closed doors that he
Speaker 1: sees the US China train war as unsustainable. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, I'm going to play hardball with China.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play hardball with you. President. She no. No.
Speaker 4: In the budget I will present to you, we will
Speaker 4: try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal.
Speaker 1: Aliens whore arrested for crimes.
Speaker 4: We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also
Speaker 4: a nation of laws.
Speaker 1: Today we're going to have a reading of Pride Puppy.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get more innocent than a children's alphabet book.
Speaker 1: For all the beautiful queerdos dancing over the Rainbow Bridge.
Speaker 1: I suspect there are a lot of non religious parents
Speaker 1: who were into all that. Thrilled about this. By the way,
Speaker 1: eat more beans, good for you, make America healthy again
Speaker 1: and flagelent. But it's good for it. You got to
Speaker 1: ease into it. That's the key with beans. Ease into it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the key with beans. There's so much to unpack there.
Speaker 1: I was struck by Bill Clinton's use of the term
Speaker 1: illegal aliens as the president. I happen to be watching
Speaker 1: a special report with Brett Bear last night, and I
Speaker 1: think it was David Spunt was the reporter was talking
Speaker 1: about some illegal aliens related story, and he started to
Speaker 1: say immigrants, and he corrected himself to say migrants. I
Speaker 1: continue to be amazed at folks, even on the right,
Speaker 1: their willingness to let the left impose language upon them
Speaker 1: and apparently not even know it's being done.
Speaker 2: And then how about that news report about the book
Speaker 2: Pride Puppy, which is the focus of that Supreme Court case,
Speaker 2: in which the news reporter says, what could be more
Speaker 2: innocent than a children's alphabet book?
Speaker 1: You really pretending you don't know? It's about the fact
Speaker 1: that there's drag queen stuff in the book, and you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to opt out of it. Come on now,
Speaker 1: S is for sun and sodomy. It's a nice, innocent
Speaker 1: children's book. You people are either so stupid you ought
Speaker 1: to be in the care of the state, or just
Speaker 1: obnoxiously dishonest. Speaking of obnoxious, one more quick note. I
Speaker 1: love this Andrew Styles writing in The Free Beacon, A
Speaker 1: belatedly Happy Earth Day to anyone who missed it. That
Speaker 1: was apparently I don't know. Twenty day is twenty second
Speaker 1: somewhere around there's Earth Day. I forget it every year.
Speaker 1: It's a nothing. But Andrew uses the S word and
Speaker 1: I don't approve, so I'll just say poop. But he
Speaker 1: says blated happy Earth data to anyone who gives up poop.
Speaker 1: If CNN's chief climate correspondent Bill Weir is right, he
Speaker 1: definitely isn't. But for the sake of the argument, it
Speaker 1: could be the last one we'll ever get to celebrate.
Speaker 1: So here's who this guy is. He did not even
Speaker 1: about it. Even by low standards of mainstream journalism. Weir
Speaker 1: is a horribly obnoxious liberal weirdo. It's best known for
Speaker 1: naming his son River after conceiving him quote in a lighthouse,
Speaker 1: and for celebrating the Yes, I know, I should probably
Speaker 1: pause after every you know phraser. There's too much coming here,
Speaker 1: too fast. Yeah, conceive your kid in a lighthouse? Is
Speaker 1: that some sort of poetic something or other I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Or maybe the phallic nature of the White House gave
Speaker 1: him a lighthouse, given an idea. I don't know. But see,
Speaker 1: he conceived his son in a lighthouse and named him River,
Speaker 1: all right. Ah, And he's known for celebrating the child's
Speaker 1: birth by publishing an absurdly long and absurdly public letter
Speaker 1: apologizing to the child for bringing him into a polluted
Speaker 1: world full of greedy corporations and climate change skeptics. Oh,
Speaker 1: a letter of apology to your baby when it's born.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's that's too much. But wait, there's more
Speaker 1: days before the election. In last year, we're told the
Speaker 1: CNN audience that life on Earth may cease to exist
Speaker 1: if Kamala Harris loses. If that's the case, and it
Speaker 1: certainly isn't, Democrats probably shouldn't have nominated such awful candidates,
Speaker 1: says Andrew Styles. And it's a good point. So that
Speaker 1: person CNN's climate chief climate correspondent. That's worth knowing. That's
Speaker 1: worth knowing. So the their main person that's going to
Speaker 1: tell you about the hurricane and how it's because of
Speaker 1: climate change is obviously crazy. I mean that is the
Speaker 1: display of a crazy person. Yeah, he is a full
Speaker 1: blown the sky is falling wacky doodle. Yeah wow. Speaking
Speaker 1: of media institutions whose battery is flashing red CNN, please,
Speaker 1: Oh hey, I didn't. I don't even pay much attention
Speaker 1: to them anymore at all. That is wild. I would
Speaker 1: like to know more. I'm gonna have to dig that
Speaker 1: up because he's probably explained the I'm sure very poetic
Speaker 1: and deep significance of conceiving your baby in a lighthouse,
Speaker 1: but writing a letter of apology to the kid, it
Speaker 1: is so self aggrandize. It is it is. It is
Speaker 1: all look at me, look at me, look at me,
Speaker 1: all of it. And then that weird thing that we
Speaker 1: talk about a lot where however, this got flipped upside
Speaker 1: down somewhere in the eighties or nineties or never happened
Speaker 1: because being resilient and tough used to be cool. That's
Speaker 1: how you got attention. Now, the more hurt you are
Speaker 1: by the world. The more un afraid. Yeah, the more
Speaker 1: afraid you are, the more attention you get. So the
Speaker 1: more social currency you get, the more approval you get.
Speaker 1: I had to write a letter of apology to my
Speaker 1: baby for bringing them into a polluted world where the
Speaker 1: corporations are Oh my god, Ah, I've got to throw up.
Speaker 1: You know. I was gonna say, is there We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to clean that up? I was gonna say, is
Speaker 1: there a good solid term for a fellow like him?
Speaker 1: I think snowflake is about as good as it gets.
Speaker 1: But crazy you're crazy? Or or or cry bully is
Speaker 1: another term. I really like the people who constantly are
Speaker 1: whining about how put upon and afraid they are, and
Speaker 1: yet they're vicious bullies. Cry bully. That's what this Bill
Speaker 1: Weir is. What a show that's wild. I look forward
Speaker 1: to him telling me about the next tornado and how
Speaker 1: that represents climate change. Now that I know his backstory,
Speaker 1: I do have an opinion on who I think should
Speaker 1: be the pope that I want to talk about at
Speaker 1: some point. But we do have mail bag on the
Speaker 1: way and lots of good stuff you want to weigh
Speaker 1: in on anything. Our text line is four one five
Speaker 1: two nine five KFTC. David Ignatius of the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: one of the more respected senior sort of geopolitical analyzers
Speaker 1: in America, writes for the as I said, You've got
Speaker 1: a fairly optimistic article today about Trump's plan to try
Speaker 1: to end this war. Seems to think it's got a
Speaker 1: real shot, which is interesting. Interesting. Indeed. Also, who's the
Speaker 1: strongest war hawk against Iran in Washington, d C. Here's
Speaker 1: a hint. He's a giant, bald headed Democrat. Oh stay
Speaker 1: with us, right, yeah, yeah, here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 1: of the day. I was flipping through my many collections
Speaker 1: of fabulous quotes and I came across one of the
Speaker 1: worst freedom loving quotes of the day I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: It's terrible, and it explains a lot. This is from
Speaker 1: Fdr Franklin Deleanor, Socialist Roosevelt. True individual freedom cannot exist
Speaker 1: without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and
Speaker 1: out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships
Speaker 1: are made. M Well, now that last part is not
Speaker 1: like completely untrue. If you have a desperate populace, they're
Speaker 1: desperate to be led to something or other. But the
Speaker 1: idea that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security
Speaker 1: and quote unquote independence. Therefore, we're going to make a
Speaker 1: lot of people dependent on the government and they'll have
Speaker 1: true freedom. That is one of the most perverse statements
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. That's interesting. I wonder if he believed that,
Speaker 1: if he thought, you know, if I give people enough
Speaker 1: that they don't want freedom from want, then they'll be free.
Speaker 1: Interesting now because I try to see both sides. In
Speaker 1: the era, the actual era of the actual Hitler and
Speaker 1: the fascists, etc. Yes, those people were economically really downtrodden
Speaker 1: and looking for an answer, and he was saying, we
Speaker 1: don't want people to be so desperate they're looking for
Speaker 1: an extreme answer. I get that, but it's the first
Speaker 1: part that strikes me as perverse. You dropped an h bam.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the back and forth between Bill Maher
Speaker 1: and Larry David. I have not overhe We'll have to
Speaker 1: get We'll have to get into that later, good lord.
Speaker 1: And ironically, not far down the list of my quotes
Speaker 1: about freedom, here's Eleanor Roosevelt his bride. Freedom makes a
Speaker 1: huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility
Speaker 1: for the person who is unwilling to grow up the
Speaker 1: person who does not want to carry his own weight.
Speaker 1: This is a frightening prospect. Man. I'd take old eleanor
Speaker 1: ten times out of ten over the old man. Was
Speaker 1: she a softball player? Yes? Yeah, allegedly okay yeah. Batted
Speaker 1: from both sides, they said, mail bag an unfortunate exchange.
Speaker 1: Drop us a note, would your mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 1: and gedddy dot com Going with the lighter fare mostly
Speaker 1: first of all, this Kevin from Kevin, even though I'm
Speaker 1: fairly sure you guys aren't the Babylon p I'd like
Speaker 1: to submit the following headlines. Nonetheless, UK braces for violence
Speaker 1: in the wake of India Pakistan conflict. The subhead local
Speaker 1: politicians now arming their underage harems in preper for urban warfare,
Speaker 1: a reference to the India Pakistan budding conflict and many
Speaker 1: of the EMMA grees from those countries in the UK.
Speaker 1: And that could get pretty spicy. Two nuclear powers, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: how about this from oh Concluding, I pray our discussion
Speaker 1: of papoosas the national dish of El Salvador, I guess
Speaker 1: and said to be delicious by Jesson Wiley, Texas. We're
Speaker 1: the best thing that ever had happened to papoosas or whatever.
Speaker 1: Hell this is from Denzel. My girlfriend usually gives me
Speaker 1: papoosa on my Birthdayzell, be better than that, my friend. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's okay on a Friday. No other day do better
Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, that's a rough joke. Huh. How about
Speaker 1: this from Sean. We were discussing yesterday. Jack brought us
Speaker 1: some insight about the things that will doom a relationship
Speaker 1: and how most couples have only roughly three arguments that
Speaker 1: they have over and over again. Maybe this particular's change,
Speaker 1: but it's essentially the same argument. Yeah, that's fascinating, Sean Wrights.
Speaker 1: My wife and I sometimes joke about how there's an
Speaker 1: argument we always have, but luckily it's about something we
Speaker 1: both think is stupid. What if your number three argument
Speaker 1: is over what the number three argument actually is? Oh wow,
Speaker 1: you just can't settle that. What if argument number two
Speaker 1: is why did I ever marry you? Oh? Lord, that's
Speaker 1: a tough argument. On the topic of Greenland Ice, let's
Speaker 1: see different. Kevin Rights, Hey, a big freedom and perpetually
Speaker 1: sick Jack Kevin the Texas Marine with a thought on
Speaker 1: those paying big money for Greenland's soon to be our
Speaker 1: new estate, or so I hear ice. Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: talking about this yesterday. People paying exorbitant rates for you know,
Speaker 1: centuries old, eons old ice from Greenland. Those paying two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty bucks for a drink merely because it
Speaker 1: contains one hundred thousand year old ice. Reminds you of
Speaker 1: something I once read. The question isn't why a fool
Speaker 1: and his money are easily parted. The question is how
Speaker 1: the fool and his money got together in the first place.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, that's interesting. The perpetually sick Jack, a
Speaker 1: friend of mine brought this up the other day, said,
Speaker 1: you know how many times you've been sick in the
Speaker 1: last like six months? And I don't keep track, but yeah,
Speaker 1: way too often. And they asked, does having cancer change
Speaker 1: your immune system so you get sick more often? I think,
Speaker 1: I am. I don't know that I've ever. I was
Speaker 1: going to do a little research on that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I have gotten fairly sick, way too many times in
Speaker 1: the last year. You know what it feels to me.
Speaker 1: And I haven't done a statistical with that word again,
Speaker 1: is statistical study on this. But it seems to me
Speaker 1: that your lads are ill a lot too, having raised
Speaker 1: three kids myself and I have you formed a theory
Speaker 1: in my head, utterly without dad to support it, that
Speaker 1: there's something about your immune system that's a little different
Speaker 1: than other folks. Maybe genetically speaking. It's not shocking, not
Speaker 1: that genetic difference. Never gets sick. My mom got sick once,
Speaker 1: so I don't know where this comes from. Skips a
Speaker 1: generation or two. Who knows anyway, get well soon. Let's
Speaker 1: see Jack is a menace, writes there recently mentioned Jess
Speaker 1: and Wiley Texas. Joe, you must find a way to
Speaker 1: strange Ac during mail bag. He's always interrupting my excellent
Speaker 1: emails with his outbursts. I suggest enlisting Katie to exist.
Speaker 1: Next time he interrupts, have her punch him right in
Speaker 1: the neck. She'll be fine. He won't hit a girl
Speaker 1: on moral grounds. Hi, he doesn't even believe men should
Speaker 1: hit women during Olympic sanctioned boxing matches. Jack ps and
Speaker 1: this is my favorite part. If you don't want the pain,
Speaker 1: stay in your lane. Wow. I'm gonna use that in
Speaker 1: the future. And finally, this Lisa from Beautiful Elverta talking
Speaker 1: about child stars as we were earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: specifically referencing Haley Joel osmond I was recently visiting a
Speaker 1: friend in Texas for her daughter's baby shower, she writes.
Speaker 1: One of the women shared a story of her friend's
Speaker 1: three year old daughter, who told her little friend that
Speaker 1: she wouldn't be joining her at preschool because quote, I
Speaker 1: make too much money at home. What out of the
Speaker 1: mouths of babes huh? The woman explained, the girl's parents
Speaker 1: dress her up and do activities which they post on
Speaker 1: social media, for which they are paid well by having
Speaker 1: so many followers. The mother of the baby shower mom
Speaker 1: to be, said she thought her daughter should go back
Speaker 1: to work maintaining her more than comfortable income while her
Speaker 1: husband stayed home to raise the baby. He'd do so
Speaker 1: many things with the baby that he could post. So sad.
Speaker 1: And then she talks about a friend whose child has
Speaker 1: a physical deformity, but she has close to two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand followers, the theme being yes, she has this handicap,
Speaker 1: but we still do great things together. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: She got a check for over five grand a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago for a month for one month. Why
Speaker 1: it's insane and hard to turn down? Once the spigot opens. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's the modern child star. You're right, the Internet, social media,
Speaker 1: you're right. Will it have similarly unsavory repercussions for the
Speaker 1: child down the road? I don't know. No, we don't.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting. Hey, if you missed a segment with
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