WEBVTT - A&G Monday Replay Hour Two 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.720 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:25.439 Getty Armstrong and Getty and he is Armstrong. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:33.479 And Getty Strong and welcome to a replay of the 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.000 Armstrong and Getty Show. We are on vacation. But boy, 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.320 do we have some good stuff for you. Yes, indeed 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.000 we do. And if you want to catch up on 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.320 your ang listening. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.760 During your travels, remember grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.519 on demand. You ought to subscribe wherever you like to 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:54.160 get podcasts. No On with the infotainment And this week 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.000 is always Fat Tuesday. In Marty Gras happening in New Orleans. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.560 And I just saw some Marty Grass rep worse down there. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.640 Cyber truck had pulled up on the street and there 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.720 was a tremendous amount of booing going on, and I 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.119 just thought that was interesting that that is like seen 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.120 as an I was going to say a vehicle, but 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.319 it's actually a vehicle, so using it as a here's 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:15.160 the sound. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.760 Doing a cyber truck pulling trup. Oh the music play it. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.600 It's in the background. Women are showing their boobs for. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:29.840 Needs. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.120 Yet it's still time to do the leader of DOGE 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.280 because you hate cutbacks and spending. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:42.880 I just don't get it. Wasteful spending, idiotic spending. That's 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:49.160 just tribal signaling. Oga boga, don't care. Yeah, speaking of 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.400 that sort of thing. Oh, Michael, are you giving up 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:57.400 playing chest for lint? I am yes, no more shadless. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.000 So one of the themes that the President struck in 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.440 his speech last night was getting rid of a bunch 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.880 of woke crap and transgender this and that, which I 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.560 thought was terrific. And we'll play some highlights in I 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.560 don't know, twenty minutes, half an hour or something like that, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.240 but I thought a couple of things were very interesting, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.160 one more newsy and one more philosophical. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.040 But first of all, the newsy thing. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:27.560 For the last decade, the establishment media have touted advocates 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.840 claims as fact that we have roughly fifteen thousand transgender 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.240 people serving in the US military. If you're not familiar 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.240 with the term, it means a person of one sex pretending. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.680 To be the other sex. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.359 Wow, and over and over again, I've heard the fifteen 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.480 thousand numbers and thought. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:45.520 Damn, that's a lot. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.200 No I believe it, But yeah, I was. I didn't either, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.000 but I had no idea what to think. But this 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.320 week President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.880 about forty two hundred service members, which is still a 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.600 hell of a lot, but it's just over one quarter 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.280 of what they were claiming. This adds up to one 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.360 transgender person for every five hundred service members in a 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.919 military of two point one million active in reserve members. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.840 I am surprised that it is that many, and I'd 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:22.960 be curious as to what is going on psychosocially that would. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:29.960 That would cause that. I mean, you talk about ridiculous tribalism. 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.720 I came across Bill Crystal's tweet last night. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:33.440 Most of you. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.520 Don't know who he is. He used to be one 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.200 of my favorite pundits. He is a hardcore conservative, like 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.520 in the classic style. His dad, Irving Crystal founded I 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.880 think the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers of conservatism, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.760 and Bill Crystal carried that on and then Bill Crystal hated. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.520 It, called Berry Goldwater a moderate. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.360 Bill Crystal who used to be on you know, like 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.360 meet the Press and face a nation and arguing for 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.560 conservatives all these years. He hated Trump so much he 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.720 went over with the people that formed the Bulwark, and 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.520 they have become a grift machine. And they've just figured 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.640 out that if they say bad things about Republicans that 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.280 they can make a lot of money. And this is 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.960 what Bill Crystal tweeted out last night. Stand with trans Americans. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.320 You don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.880 to know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.400 unjust and dangerous. You've lost your mind just because he 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.000 hasn't lost his mind, he's become so cynical. He just thinks, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.680 you know what, it's all a game. Anyway, screw it. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.760 There are enough of these people out there if I 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.640 take this angle, they'll continue to you know, donate money 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.560 to us and read our stuff and give us clicks, 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.120 and I'll make a look whatever. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.239 Yeah, give the converts. Everybody wants to celebrate the converts. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.039 Yep, yep, yeah. Wow. That is some cynical crack. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.040 So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.880 have looked at the world around us, and and I 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.800 think a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.680 activists in the Woke Thing are neo Marxists, and the 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.839 Woke Thing is just an excuse to say, you're in 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.719 charge of this institution, but you're a racist, and I 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.080 can prove it with my anti racist theories, and obviously 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.120 we can't have a racist in charge, so now I'm 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:16.680 in charge. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.120 It's a method of conquest. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.760 It takes over institutions, be they you know, schools or 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.000 government departments or whatever. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.839 We get the hardcore. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.400 Doing that, the people who want to be nice people 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.480 and they go along with it. This is the useful idiots, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.680 and they are legion in their numbers, and often it's 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.080 young people because young people are easy to indoctrinate. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.080 The problem with that term is that Lenin's term, I 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:44.560 think it is. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:50.120 Yeah, John Lennon, no v I Lenin. The problem with 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.359 that term is that it's obviously quite insulting. It's not 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.040 a good way to explain to someone that they maybe 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.800 are being used for a purpose that they do not 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:58.279 agree with. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.720 If you call them an idiot, you know, you make 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:01.280 a good point. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.760 Let's go with useful morons instead useful halfwits. Now it's 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.919 actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which is 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.360 what I'm leading toward. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.520 It's long been known that all the. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.559 Intelligence agencies and governments of the world are interested in 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:26.560 influencing people to believe certain things to support certain programs 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.479 or certain governments. I mean that's obvious, right, Propaganda, the 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.480 Hitler Youth to the malt Se tongue and his Red Guard, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.360 just all sorts of programs like that. And a guy 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.719 who's been studying this his whole life. His name is 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:45.760 a Jason Christoff, and he did a presentation recently that 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:50.919 was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson, speaking of rock ribbed Conservatives. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.039 He explained how mind control. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.039 Is easy to execute because human beings are essentially walking psyops. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.320 He said he quote, he said, Mimetic programming, which is 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.040 the process of having someone learn to imitate patterns and behaviors, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.000 is routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:10.600 and governments. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:11.400 Quote. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.800 Mind control works on the subconscious, and the subconscious is 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.320 something that loves us and wants. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:17.400 To protect us. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.800 And it's in the realm of activity, similar to your 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.320 heart beating. So there are things you understand as a 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.480 human being that you're not in control of. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:25.320 They're instinctive. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.440 Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.360 bigger group of humans is doing, and so it is 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.720 responsive to repetitive content. Simply put, people are always looking 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.160 to learn what a larger group is doing and fit in, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.800 meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful. You know, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.880 obviously we're just talking about conformity here. All sales organizations 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.160 know this, sure, quoting again from mister Christoff. The reason 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.440 the subconscious does this is because it knows that most 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.640 humans like other humans who act, talk and think like 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.920 they do, and all the subconscious nuh, and all your 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.480 subconscious know that it's safer to bond with a bigger group. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.640 To break this mind control technique down further, your subconscious 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:13.680 automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to adopt ideas 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:21.840 as their own. Your reptile brain is telling you you 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:27.120 decided this on your own, to go along with the crowd, because, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.200 for whatever reason, that works better with humans. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.400 It's more adaptive. As they say in anthropology, that's why, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.960 for example, do any of my beliefs come from my 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.880 own thinking? Or is this all just because I was 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:39.679 surrounded by it? 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.560 I think sometimes the best you can do is be 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.600 intellectually honest and examine your beliefs and test them now 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.720 and again and try the other ideas. But anyway, that's 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:51.920 a great other topic. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.720 What time is it? Yeah, we're good, blah blah blah. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.480 This is why, for example, at a party where there's 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.920 a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.160 feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.560 you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:10.320 your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.640 full of anxiety, and it will also reward you for 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.200 going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and calm. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.920 In the feeling of calmness, that's wow. So there's more 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.720 to peer pressure than meets the eye. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:30.520 Right exactly, it's not weakness, it's it's anthropologically adaptive. The 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.800 problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, you're gonna 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.840 be fine having a drink, or unless somebody is trying 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.880 to feed your roofy and rape you or something like that, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.960 you're fine Bill Cosby's house or oh right, exactly. In short, 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:49.840 but if there is an insidious group bent on evil 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:57.840 utilizing these truths intentionally and aggressively, you get an entire 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.280 generation of young people walle looking around saying it's not 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.559 wrong to have a man in a woman's sport, even 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.200 though he whoops the hell out of the women and 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.400 takes all the titles. It's not wrong to have a 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.640 man in a women's prison because that man says he's 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.319 a woman. They come up with an idea as ludicrous 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.680 is that a man who says he's a woman is 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:17.559 actually a woman. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.560 And then certainly things that are easier to go for. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.480 I won't say fall four like hearing about climate change 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.280 every class you're ever in your whole life, right. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.080 Christoph actually touched on the COVID nineteen pandemic in the response, said, 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.960 media let's push highly similar similar narratives to quote unquote 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.920 control people, influencing them to stay at home. Mind control 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.400 is the basis of all advertising, and the governments have 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.880 been proven to be using the same group dynamic application 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.960 against the public. He pointed to examples such as the 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.920 UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known as the Nudge Unit. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.000 Have you ever heard of this? 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.840 No, It's a former government organization run by a charity 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.360 which uses behavioral insights to change people's behavior, for example, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.400 by changing messaging to make people more likely to pay. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.720 Their taxes on time. Wow. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.520 Christoff believes such tactics have been used to drive social 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.600 changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.880 screen diminishing since the nineteen fifties in favor of less 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.160 conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.760 use similar strategies. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.120 But we're running out of time. But you get the idea. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.839 And I've often said, you don't need to do what 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.360 the culture is doing because a lot of that is 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.840 designed by people who do not have your best interests 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.920 in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:50.880 is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:55.239 that is your animal brain being used, often by evil 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.800 people to try to get you to behave in a 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:58.480 certain way. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.400 That's really interesting stuff. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.960 Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty The Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.520 The arm Strong and Getty Show. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.240 So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.559 age is. Apparently wanted to open a checking account at 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.400 the bank or an account at the bank because he's 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:26.239 got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.560 and he doesn't spend his money like his brother does. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.000 He saves it because he wants to be able to 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.240 put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.160 So he's got a decent sized chunk. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.960 Of money added up over the years, and he'd been 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.280 keeping it in a shoe box. And so he's going 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:41.840 to open an account. And I remember when I opened 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.080 an account when I was probably about his age. I 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.400 started mowing lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.480 money and opening a bank account on the passage. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.280 I remember it myself. On the way to the. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.800 Bank, I did say to him, I said, you know, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.079 I haven't I haven't been around the idea of opening 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.560 an account for a bank in forty years something like that. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.800 So I don't know if the rules have changed, but 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.760 so in case something happens, but anyway, we should we 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.040 get it there sure enough. And so we're trying to 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.760 open this account and everything like that. And first of all, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.560 many banks everything is I don't know if it's because 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.640 the government comes down on them so hard or something 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.439 like that. They treat everybody like you're a want to 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.319 be terrorist, Like everything you do, it's like, jeez, lighten up. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.360 But anyway, he needs to have two forms of ID 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:27.840 is where we ran into the roadblock. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.679 I said, what is a form of ID for a 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:31.560 thirteen year old? 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.280 He said, and they said, well, your Social Security card 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.880 is birth certificate? Okay, great, So I said, the fact 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.920 that I'm his dad isn't good enough. I can't vouch 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.080 for the fact that he's my son. And I have 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.160 an account here and have had for twenty five years 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.000 and open an account for him. I can't do that, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.240 and no, we need to. And I said, is that 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.640 a bank policy or the state law or what is that? 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.880 Because I was thinking if it's a bank policy, I'll 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:58.680 go to a different bank. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.800 But it's a federal law. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.400 It's part of the patriotch I said, oh, of course, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.240 And he said, well, it's a federal I said, you 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.040 don't need to explain the federal government to me. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.280 And I hate the federal government, I said. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.160 And then the guy looked at me like I was Oh. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.480 He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're one of those people. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.880 You're Timothy McVeigh, You're you're you're one of those people. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.040 Yeah, clearly I've heard about them. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.800 I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.960 This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.440 bank account for a thirteen year old, and as his parent, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.280 I got it. I gotta prove who he is because 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.040 you can't take my word for the fact that he's 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:39.600 my child, makes me child money laundering, little mule for 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.560 your militia, whatever you want to call him. The Patriot 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.400 Act was so much I was trying to explain it 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.640 to her. He was so much crap that they jammed through. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.720 It's all because of nine to eleven. So you're gonna 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.440 stop the next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.520 year olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.280 even though their parent, who you know, is sitting right there. 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.960 I hate stuff like that, and the and the but 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.640 they were there. Their eyes got so wide when I 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.400 hate the said I hate the federal government. And I 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.080 was thinking, if I was doing this same thing in 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.600 my in my where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.880 and I said I hate the federal government, the teller 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.480 would have said, yeah, me too, don't. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:17.600 You high five Joe. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.040 Came end of that brother, But that just being oh 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.880 my god, you shouldn't she said, oh she even she 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.520 gasped the woman gasped, and her boss just looked at 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:28.840 me white. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.040 I'd like, oh, we about to have a fight. Oh man, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.800 you have to have two pieces of id. Even though 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.640 he's my kid. I just found that amazing. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.280 All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.560 Get ready to jot this one down and get it right? 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:47.920 Would you? 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.760 Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there are two emergencies. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.680 Yeah, but actually exactly. And I actually told my son 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.400 because he was oneonder. He was the like, is that 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.720 something you can't say out loud? I said, I told him. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.840 The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.480 Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.760 language are I'm here from the I'm from the government, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:14.600 and I'm here to help you. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.360 I mean, he ran on, I hate the government, or 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.800 I just saw clip this morning. The government isn't the solution. 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.240 Government is the problem. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.840 And the woman who was typing furiously after I said that, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.320 because she was so horrified that anybody would say that, 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.480 I said, you know, all the money in my account 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.600 I made that by going on the radio every day 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.200 and saying I hate the government. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:34.920 And I make my living. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.440 By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:47.720 the FDIC, right, the CIA, the NSA, if I'm happy 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.520 to testify against this monster, I'm. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.520 Sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list now, yes, Michael. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.440 So wonder they didn't hit the silent alarm on you 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.160 and then you know, cops show up or something. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:56.920 I would have been. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.960 I would have loved to talk to people and explain 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.440 why it's okay for me to say I hate the government. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.680 No, no, no, We've got to surveill him for a while 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.160 and go through his mail and monitor his phone calls. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.040 We've got the NSA working on it already. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:12.399 What I hate is the manager guy acting like it 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.720 makes sense that we have a law that I can't 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.840 vouch for my kid being my kid. That seems perfectly 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.600 reasonable to me. Two forms of ID for a child 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.560 right when their parents is there. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.880 How thought he says his name, Then I say his name? 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.600 Is that two forms of ID? And if not, what 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.200 the hell has the world becalled? 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:40.680 I know Armstrong, the Armstrong and Yetti Show. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.359 I thought this was so interesting. Steven sent this along. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.000 Did the god fearing Founders of America arrive at the 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.320 three branches of government from the Bible. This is from 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.960 Isaiah thirty third chapter twenty fourth verse for Jehovah is 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.160 our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah is our king. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.280 He is the one who will save us. I see judicial, legislative, 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.000 and executive right there in scripture. I think you know 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.200 that reflects the ancient reality that when human beings associate, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.720 they need someone to make up the rules, then figure 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.880 out how are we going to enforce these rules, and 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.240 what if there's a disagreement. I think it's as simple 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.600 as that. But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.040 way back to the Old Testament. That's right, sir, that's 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:35.760 what we're talking about. Mail day. You can drop us 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.720 a note at any time you like. Michael always a problem, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.480 drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.159 dot com. This first email references the fact that today 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.399 is indeed my birthday, not only that it is my 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.040 sixtieth birthday. I know you're thinking, Joe, you seem so 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.160 youthful and clever, that can't be true. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.440 Yeah, I know. Have you checked the math on it? 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.560 I don't. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:06.600 Jack and I first connected in our mid twenties. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:07.520 We're twenty five. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:13.880 Yeah, that seems only remember like three things between then 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:14.200 and now. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:15.639 Two of them were brothes of children. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.119 That's sorry to that seems like and I know, if 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.280 you're forty, this seems weird maybe, or certainly if you're 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.720 twenty five, that seems like six years ago. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:31.040 Yah, roughly seems like about six years ago. Yeah, it's crazy, 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:32.439 it's nuts. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.600 And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.720 lovely and very very much appreciated. And it's funny. It's Tuesday, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.600 it's a work day. I've got my kids arriving in 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.400 town this week, which is that big fun. That is awesome. Yeah, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.040 it is awesome, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.480 various ways. My son and I. I picked them up 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.320 at the airport, came a big hug, and then we 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.480 philosophized the entire way home from the airport, which is 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.600 what we do. My eldest of my youngest daughter and 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.400 I spar and joke and kid each other. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.080 And so it's it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.960 But happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it. Play 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.560 Hanson and Katie, you'll get you something. And as to 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.720 the whole you know. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:15.159 I don't need anything. 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.840 As to the old sixty thing, which seems like such 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.639 a milestone, you know, It's funny. I was so miserable 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.520 like a year ago because of my back problems, and 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.359 I feel so much better now. I feel like I'm 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.879 d aging or something. I'm not, Lord knows, but so 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.520 I don't feel old. I feel younger than I used to. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.920 So I don't know. I just let's let's just keep 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:39.760 doing what we're doing. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.679 Let's just have fun, Let's do the shows, play some golf, 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:44.720 let's enjoy. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.080 A nice glass of wide. Just as opposed to not 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.480 big on milestone, as opposed to what lay down in 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.399 front of a train, I mean, is that the other option? 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.840 Or well, no, no, no, I'm just I've never been 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:55.520 huge about milestones. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.560 It's like when I graduated from college, I was like, 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.719 all right, what's next. I just didn't weep. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:05.880 And and maybe I lack the ability to reflect properly 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.520 on things as they pass, but certainly when my kids 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.320 moved out, that was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.359