Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and Dickie and he
Speaker 2: Armsrong Kennedy live from the studio.
Speaker 1: Se Se Sen, you are a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2: He put in the powels of the Armstrong and Getting
Speaker 2: Communications Compound. Hey, y'all, Tuesday, we're under the tutelage of
Speaker 2: our general manager.
Speaker 1: Hey, who is your laderman? Your local air traffic controllers?
Speaker 1: Why is that our general manager?
Speaker 3: Our nation's idiotic, antiquated, dysfunctional, dangerous air traffic control system
Speaker 3: is under scrutiny, and by Gully, the Secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 3: In contrast to the last one, it was useless.
Speaker 1: He says he's gonna fix it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a major all overall bring it into
Speaker 3: the twenty first century.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll believe that when I see it. I believe it.
Speaker 1: I believe it firmly.
Speaker 2: There is a guy in the White House, mister non believer,
Speaker 2: who was willing to shake things up. I was reading
Speaker 2: about the contrast between Pete boot Ed Jedge, who kept
Speaker 2: trying to blame the airlines for the miserable state of
Speaker 2: our air traffic control system.
Speaker 3: And Trump's guy is saying, no, this is terrible. We've
Speaker 3: got to rebuild it. That we've got to take on
Speaker 3: that challenge.
Speaker 2: It's great, that is good, but how has it been
Speaker 2: this bad for this long? The stories yesterday of well,
Speaker 2: fill us in on the headline story that got this
Speaker 2: conversation started yesterday.
Speaker 3: Well, there was a loss of radar availability for sixty
Speaker 3: to ninety seconds at the incredibly busy, dysfunctional Newark Airport
Speaker 3: right outside of New York City and forty thousand pass
Speaker 3: It carries forty thousand passengers day, and it left the
Speaker 3: control tower unable to communicate with any incoming aircraft, which
Speaker 3: led to all sorts of chaos and fear and then
Speaker 3: cascading delays.
Speaker 2: And for just a minute and a half, they couldn't
Speaker 2: talk to anybody, or couldn't hear anybody, didn't know anybody.
Speaker 3: Was, and the pilots were just talking to each other saying, hey,
Speaker 3: I just heard that they've got no radar contact.
Speaker 1: Oh really, holy cow?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, so everybody was just kind of improvising and
Speaker 3: then trying to stay safe during that time. But it
Speaker 3: is a beautiful example which was well, I guess so
Speaker 3: animated and started literally pounding the table. It is a
Speaker 3: perfect example of nobody in government willing to say this
Speaker 3: needs to be fixed. Here's what needs to be fixed,
Speaker 3: here's how we're going to fix it. Let's do this.
Speaker 2: No, they just collect their paychecks and shuffle their paper. Well, right,
Speaker 2: get into how long this has been going on. So
Speaker 2: then the stories throughout the day of like they got
Speaker 2: computers running floppy discs. Yeah, I mean so how many
Speaker 2: decades ago is that?
Speaker 1: The eighties?
Speaker 3: Yeah, administration after minute stra has just kind of kicked
Speaker 3: the can down the road, to cite the cliche.
Speaker 2: So that's the frustrating thing, and everybody should be frustrated.
Speaker 2: But even if you're a big government liberal, you should
Speaker 2: be frustrated by that.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: But we spend so much freaking money on so many
Speaker 2: freaking things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you.
Speaker 2: Can't update a computer in air traffic control from something
Speaker 2: that uses floppy disks along the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, if there were three competing companies and private companies
Speaker 3: and one of them was run that poorly, it would
Speaker 3: go away in the blink of an eye. It would
Speaker 3: go out of business. And and good riddance to it,
Speaker 3: because it's a government monopoly. It continues with its its awful, wasteful,
Speaker 3: dangerous dysfunction, you know, year after a year, but not anymore.
Speaker 3: I say, put him in alcatra. Whoever is in charge
Speaker 3: of that, put him in Alcola drive. Yes, everything. Trump
Speaker 3: doubled down. He said, you know who else will put
Speaker 3: an alcatraz? Those judges who won't let us do our immigration.
Speaker 1: Yes. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 3: Yes, fill it up and then like go upward, make
Speaker 3: it four or five stories high, whatever it takes.
Speaker 2: They're gonna put the judges in alcatraz. I feel like
Speaker 2: that's a controversial statement.
Speaker 3: Yes, but he didn't mean it, Which brings me to
Speaker 3: another thing I'm kind of anxious to talk about, excited
Speaker 3: to talk about.
Speaker 1: Nobody paid attention other than a couple of.
Speaker 3: Snippets to Trump's commencement speech at University of Alabama. Matthew
Speaker 3: Countinetti did. He watched the whole thing, and he said
Speaker 3: it was really an amazing distillation of Trump's life philosophy,
Speaker 3: and it struck me in reading it. Essentially, Trump goes
Speaker 3: through the ten points he thinks are most important for
Speaker 3: being successful in life.
Speaker 1: And number one get a hot wife.
Speaker 3: It struck me, and then Trader in when you know
Speaker 3: you get tired of her. It struck me that the
Speaker 3: media especially spends a lot of time talking about stuff
Speaker 3: Trump clearly doesn't mean, and then ignores when he says,
Speaker 3: all right, here's what I really believe. And he's clearly
Speaker 3: being sincere because it's not as exciting. But we'll go
Speaker 3: through that speech. I think you'll find it interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3: It won't be nearly as fascinating as the incritasies of
Speaker 3: air traffic control, but it'll be good.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: I think today's my last day. I think today's the
Speaker 2: day I finally die from this disease I've got. So
Speaker 2: I suppose anything I've got to say I should say today.
Speaker 1: Since I'm probably gonna die.
Speaker 3: How does it work with your last words? I mean,
Speaker 3: at doing what we do for a living. You could say, okay,
Speaker 3: these are my last words. The only thing that matters
Speaker 3: is family and God. But then by contract, we have
Speaker 3: to keep talking. So and you'd hate for your last
Speaker 3: words to be We'll talk about Trump's commencement speech in
Speaker 3: just a minute.
Speaker 2: Stay with us. You know that would be dumb trouble
Speaker 2: with the royal family. Those are my last words. That'd
Speaker 2: be horrible.
Speaker 3: The conclave stretches on, will bring you an update. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that would that would be terrible. So let's just designate
Speaker 3: your last words then I will I will agree to
Speaker 3: promote them as quote unquote your last words, right, that
Speaker 3: is it.
Speaker 2: Yes, historians, because historians have obviously would be writing about me,
Speaker 2: would say his last words were highlights from the Diddy trial.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows why my last words are my last words?
Speaker 2: Will be a list of the people I hate the most.
Speaker 2: That'll be That's what I'm going to go with. The
Speaker 2: enemy's list, exactly. Vengeance right right to the grave.
Speaker 1: Right, that is healthy.
Speaker 2: Take keep breath right right as they're lowering you, you
Speaker 2: should be muttering the names of those.
Speaker 1: You hope to take vengeance against in the afterlife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my fourth grade gym teacher him, let's start
Speaker 2: the show officially.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, monthly in
Speaker 2: now May the six, the year twenty twenty five, war
Speaker 2: armstrung and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: The show starts at mark.
Speaker 2: His lawyers are aiming to convince the jury the government
Speaker 2: is trying to police consensual sex by a swinger who
Speaker 2: they say invited others into his bedroom. Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 2: heavy hand of the law.
Speaker 1: Wow, consensual adult sex.
Speaker 3: Right, Friends and neighbors getting together with a createle loob
Speaker 3: and enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? Wow? Bunch of puritans? Right? Poor?
Speaker 1: Did he being persecuted? Oh my god, that's the defense.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: Well, and he's got a hell of a team of lawyers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, we if you're old enough to remember, OJ,
Speaker 2: you know, you have some really good, expensive lawyers.
Speaker 1: It's amazing what they can come up with.
Speaker 3: You're gonna hearton himself said that the colors of justice
Speaker 3: are not black and white.
Speaker 1: The color of justice is green. If you're on that.
Speaker 2: Thanks, So Jay, if you're on that jury, are you
Speaker 2: going to hear and see some pretty sexy stuff?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna be hardcore porn really in short?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's accurate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose there'll be a bunch of women and
Speaker 2: men there describing in great detail what they did.
Speaker 1: Or were forced to do well.
Speaker 3: And remember, dude kept loads of video right partly to
Speaker 3: enforce omerta. Is that all it's silence, the code of silence? Yeah,
Speaker 3: uh so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if it's entered into evidence, you got to
Speaker 2: let the jury see it.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: It'd be easy to get distracted as a jur Oh
Speaker 2: that's right, this is a trial.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it could cause unwanted emotional and physical reactions
Speaker 3: as you're trying to figure out whether this guy's a
Speaker 3: monster who you know, compelled people to perform various acts
Speaker 3: sex traffic, so she.
Speaker 2: Probably shouldn't like you throw on the jury and you
Speaker 2: finally get to your first deliberation. You get in there
Speaker 2: in the room, say, let's just start with what was
Speaker 2: your favorite part? O? What my favorite part was. Hey,
Speaker 2: we'll get to deliberate and in a minute. Yeah, let's
Speaker 2: just it's just somebody, it's just everybody lay out.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite part?
Speaker 3: What do you think was the hottest part? Oh, my god,
Speaker 3: that's I'll bet it's it ends up just being troubling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be, because there's so much violence and
Speaker 2: drugging and everything like that. It's gonna it's gonna turn
Speaker 2: pretty sick pretty fast, I think.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, given his violence against women and testimony
Speaker 3: to that effect.
Speaker 2: I wonder how many famous people are worried about their
Speaker 2: names and pictures and videos all of a sudden coming
Speaker 2: up in this.
Speaker 1: It might be a probably a good number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, certainly if you're a New York hip hop
Speaker 3: mogul or adjacent to them, perhaps a pop star, movie star, girl,
Speaker 3: friend wife, even if you're not like somebody who does
Speaker 3: horrible things, you know, particularly want to be have your
Speaker 3: name and face attached to some of those parties if.
Speaker 1: People otherwise didn't know you were, you know, adjacent.
Speaker 3: To that lifestyle, right, Yeah, I don't have a firm grasp,
Speaker 3: No pun intended on.
Speaker 2: Charge you with a thousand bottles of baby oiled to
Speaker 2: have a firm grasp to anything, very slipper.
Speaker 3: I don't have a firm grasp on the list of
Speaker 3: folks who might be called to testify or identified.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it'll be uh, it'll be notable.
Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then I'm always confused with the jury stuff. So
Speaker 2: do you you have to You can't find people that
Speaker 2: don't know anything about it. You have to find people
Speaker 2: who basically say, I've heard about it, but I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just oll like I can. I'll keep it up
Speaker 1: in mind. I think I could I really do.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, Well, for one thing, i'd consider it
Speaker 2: like a sacred vow under the Constitution. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: got the idea that, yeah, he's kind of a perv
Speaker 2: and may have done these things, but now the government
Speaker 2: has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. That's an
Speaker 2: easy proposition to internalize for me anyway. And what did
Speaker 2: our reporter just say there? It's just some adults engaging
Speaker 2: in conceptual sex. Quit being such a prude.
Speaker 3: So it's funny. A couple of things just clicked into
Speaker 3: my head. One of the themes of the Cane Mutiny,
Speaker 3: which I just read, the classic World War two novel,
Speaker 3: which is just you think you're reading a great book.
Speaker 3: Then you get to the end and you realize you've
Speaker 3: been reading a really, really great book.
Speaker 1: Cool, I've never read it.
Speaker 3: Just it's again, it's an incredibly compelling narrative. And then
Speaker 3: the theme kind of gets flipped on its head at
Speaker 3: the end and the author I'm not going to give
Speaker 3: away too much here, but the author essentially says, yeah,
Speaker 3: how do I I don't want to spoil this even
Speaker 3: though it's a many several generations old novel, because you're
Speaker 3: taking on an emotional intellectual journey, very much like the
Speaker 3: characters in the novel, and then at the end you
Speaker 3: learn something as they're learning something. I will just say that,
Speaker 3: and I found it absolutely fascinating and just an author
Speaker 3: that brilliant ought have the reputation does Anyway, the.
Speaker 1: Book is three quarters of a century old.
Speaker 2: I think you get a pass for spoilers on books
Speaker 2: that old, but it's up to you.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about our relationship with the good folks in
Speaker 3: the audience.
Speaker 2: They're thinking the Cane Mutiny. I've never read that I'm
Speaker 2: gonna read. I don't want to ruin it for them.
Speaker 2: Ahab never catches the whale. What you know, I tell
Speaker 2: you what.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 3: Reveal the odd parallel between the Cane Mutiny and our
Speaker 3: jury system. Right after this, okay, we got news of
Speaker 3: the headlines mail bag, all the stuff Trump's serious about,
Speaker 3: the whole pay and illegals to get out of the
Speaker 3: buying a plane ticket and giving them some cash to
Speaker 3: have him get out. Christi Noma says, one person has
Speaker 3: taken advantage of that program so far, one like the
Speaker 3: number one.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a start, an acorn, oak tree, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Longest journey, one step, et cetera. Yes, right, all on
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: Say here, Mark Alprin writing that really there are two stories,
Speaker 2: really only. I mean, if you're following politics, how this
Speaker 2: tariff thing turns out and everything else, those are the
Speaker 2: two stories. That's how big the tariff thing is. It's
Speaker 2: that and everything else. I mean, this is going to
Speaker 2: be insanely disruptive if it goes the way most people predict.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's going to start landing soon.
Speaker 3: And nobody's sure exactly how it's gonna go though, who
Speaker 3: means what how long it's gonna last? It's just question marks,
Speaker 3: pylon question marks. So a couple of things. First of all,
Speaker 3: one of the one of the themes, one of the
Speaker 3: interesting things said in the King Mutiny is by one
Speaker 3: of the officers who was explaining to another guy. Look,
Speaker 3: the United States Navy is a system designed by geniuses
Speaker 3: to be run by idiots. In other words, it's designed
Speaker 3: so that even if there's an idiot in a position,
Speaker 3: it continues to function and minimizes the damage done by
Speaker 3: the idiot. I go further down that road because it's
Speaker 3: really interesting. But that's what was said. The jury system,
Speaker 3: and I've had the privilege and the really interesting experience
Speaker 3: of serving on a handful of juries and being in
Speaker 3: a couple more jury pools. It is a system designed
Speaker 3: by geniuses.
Speaker 1: To be implemented by idiots.
Speaker 3: Every single jury I have been part of, and it's
Speaker 3: just been two or three, have had people on there
Speaker 3: who scared me. They were incapable of rational thought. So
Speaker 3: I understand, Yeah, I assume you have to assume that
Speaker 3: that's always the case. I more often than not, I
Speaker 3: would guess. You know, the multiple of anecdote does not
Speaker 3: equal data. But the more I saw, the more disturbed
Speaker 3: I was. There are some people who react completely emotionally.
Speaker 3: They can't think critically. They're easily swayed by their own
Speaker 3: prejudices to the point that you think this person is
Speaker 3: an idiot. And prosecutors know this, and so that's why
Speaker 3: jury selection is so important, and they're looking for things
Speaker 3: you wouldn't even guess. They just want people who can
Speaker 3: listen to evidence.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: I'd go into detail, but we're pressed for time. Can't
Speaker 3: wait for Katie to get back tomorrow so she can
Speaker 3: handle the news headlines during this segment Number one, because
Speaker 3: it's fun. Number two, it's less work for us, but
Speaker 3: a handful of things going on, big stories. First of all,
Speaker 3: we've got one guess per hour for our four hours
Speaker 3: to talk about the MET gala and the fashions, the
Speaker 3: incredible outfits we saw there.
Speaker 1: God, that is. The coverage that that gets is just incredible.
Speaker 3: It is so for those familiar with our reference it's
Speaker 3: a reenactment of the Capital from the Hunger Games movies.
Speaker 1: Well, I've never seen.
Speaker 2: A super rich adorned in bizarro fashions completely drowning in
Speaker 2: their own self regard, living in a world that's so
Speaker 2: foreign from the rest of ours, and it's unrecognizable from
Speaker 2: either side. Well, right, And it fits in with a
Speaker 2: theme I've mentioned, like in the last week or so,
Speaker 2: about the number of people in America that don't want
Speaker 2: to live that lifestyle and the people who live that
Speaker 2: lifestyle don't believe it. Trust me, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be at the gal at the MET. It's not because
Speaker 2: I'm jealous or anything like that. I sincerely actually don't
Speaker 2: want to be part of that crowd and not out
Speaker 2: of any sort.
Speaker 1: Of reverse makes me cool. I just think it's.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous because you don't know what designer to go with,
Speaker 3: Armani or Gavinci.
Speaker 2: So all your talk about it, you're not making me
Speaker 2: feel like I'm left out or anything.
Speaker 1: Trust me.
Speaker 3: So Israel proved plans to seize all of the Gaza strip,
Speaker 3: Germany's in chaos because their newly formed government just got
Speaker 3: voted out. Essentially, it's really pretty interesting and some really
Speaker 3: fun conclave history. If you're into the Pope coming up,
Speaker 3: stay with us.
Speaker 1: More to come, Armstrong and Getty games off to Brown
Speaker 1: Bridges there they want to come back. You're gonna game
Speaker 1: one when for New York. A couple of upsets last night.
Speaker 2: Denver upset okay See and the Knicks upset the Celtics
Speaker 2: game one of the semi finals. Great games. Knicks were
Speaker 2: down by twenty. But here's the interesting thing. I'm watching
Speaker 2: more basketball because I'm sick. I'm seeing more. But the
Speaker 2: sport has changed so much. There was a record set
Speaker 2: last week in three pointers. Celtics beat it. Last night
Speaker 2: they lost by one basket in overtime, missing forty.
Speaker 1: Five three pointers the game is just so different.
Speaker 2: People come flying down the court on a fast break,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. If there's no defense under the basket, you
Speaker 2: could get wide open shots of any length. Everybody takes
Speaker 2: a three pointer as if that's the only option. That's
Speaker 2: just the way the game is now. And I don't
Speaker 2: know why they've all decided that's a good idea. Why
Speaker 2: there isn't a team that has said, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: for the last eighty years of the sport, you throw
Speaker 2: it to a guy who makes a twelve footer.
Speaker 1: And it's a gimme every single time.
Speaker 3: But they data, they don't data. They've all done the
Speaker 3: cybermetrics thing. They've analyzed if we take a.
Speaker 2: Certain number of three point shots so we're more likely
Speaker 2: to win.
Speaker 1: Well, I to.
Speaker 2: Assume they know more about it than I do. But
Speaker 2: they missed forty five three pointers.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Well, Jack, as a student of warfare, you'd be certainly
Speaker 3: familiar with this concept. If the defenses evolve to, you know,
Speaker 3: defend against that philosophy, that's when you shake it up.
Speaker 1: I would think, So, you know, maybe.
Speaker 2: You're right, you're actually ahead of your time.
Speaker 1: I just came across this. I thought this was.
Speaker 2: Really good or writing about again. And then I was
Speaker 2: reading this piece today about how there are really only
Speaker 2: two political stories out there, the tariff story and everything else.
Speaker 2: That's how big the whole tariff thing is, because if
Speaker 2: it goes the direction most people are predicting, it'll be
Speaker 2: the only story maybe on the planet, the loan in
Speaker 2: the United States, and.
Speaker 3: Then we'll be dealing with shortages of both pencils and dolls.
Speaker 2: President right, hey, do you have that Coldbert joke? Play
Speaker 2: that Coldbert joke about the dolls? It's just too good.
Speaker 4: The crazy continued on Air Force One when Trump doubled
Speaker 4: down on the dollies.
Speaker 2: Fifteen year old does indeed thirty seven dollars, she can
Speaker 2: be very happy with two or three or.
Speaker 1: Four or five.
Speaker 4: Buddy, teen year old girl is not going to be
Speaker 4: happy with two or three or four or five dolls,
Speaker 4: because a fifteen year old girl isn't happy with anything.
Speaker 2: And if you, like me, are a parent of a
Speaker 2: teenager and I have, that's what dad, I have.
Speaker 1: Boys, It makes me feel better to hear that, because it's.
Speaker 2: Just like, how am I failing so badly that he's
Speaker 2: constantly miserable?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 3: And it's notably different with girls too. There's a special Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, if it's another level of that, I can't
Speaker 2: even imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's difficult to describe.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how many fifteen year old girls
Speaker 2: want dolls, even in their best moods.
Speaker 1: It's a toy friend a younger set.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but the point remains cheap excess to consumerism,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. I don't agree with him. Well, I
Speaker 3: agree with him philosophically, but not governmentally.
Speaker 2: But here's the writing I was talking about. They're talking
Speaker 2: about Trump's inner circle and everything like that, and uh
Speaker 2: elon Musk, you know, Stephen Miller, a variety of people
Speaker 2: around him. While there's no doubt that these vote, these
Speaker 2: folks are very wealthy and very professionally successful attack and
Speaker 2: other endeavors. As one close observer of the cohort told
Speaker 2: me Monday night on the topic, they really believe they
Speaker 2: know everything, and you'd be amazed.
Speaker 1: At how little they actually know.
Speaker 2: This is the thing I talk about a lot because
Speaker 2: I've I've observed.
Speaker 1: This in my life over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Anybody that's success, not anybody, but most people who are
Speaker 2: successful in any area of life think they know everything
Speaker 2: about every other area. Also, it's just the way we're billed,
Speaker 2: I guess, and I'm sorry. Who are we talking about here,
Speaker 2: specifically the people around Trump, the inner circle of reality
Speaker 2: of geniuses who say this is gonna work out. You're Lutnix,
Speaker 2: you're Elon's, you're whoever, who have jumped on boorm and
Speaker 2: that has been my experience, and this in this person
Speaker 2: anonymously telling Mark Alburn, they really believe they know everything,
Speaker 2: you'd be amazed at how little they actually know. And
Speaker 2: I think that's quite possibly the case with some of
Speaker 2: these people who have come in. And then he goes
Speaker 2: on to say, one of history's great error is that
Speaker 2: far too many smart people don't know that.
Speaker 1: The Halberstam title of the famous Vietnam War book.
Speaker 2: The Best in the Brightest was meant ironically, smartest folks
Speaker 2: in the world who presided over many, many mistakes and dumbness. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: A little closer to home, Jack and I've been discussing
Speaker 3: this for many, many years, having had a long, mediocre
Speaker 3: career together, and that is that as we rose up
Speaker 3: from from small towns to medium to big towns to giant,
Speaker 3: you know, the number one media market in the world
Speaker 3: or in the country. Certainly, we had expected that we
Speaker 3: would see higher and higher levels of competence, intelligence, creativity,
Speaker 3: just effectiveness in short, and there wasn't none of that.
Speaker 1: But there wasn't nearly as much as we thought.
Speaker 2: And there were a plenty of dopes and ineffective people
Speaker 2: and fools at the at the highest levels. They were
Speaker 2: just wrong about stuff.
Speaker 3: And it's so difficult, I think for most Americans to imagine,
Speaker 3: for instance, the incredible dishonesty and incompetence of the Biden
Speaker 3: White House. You've got a senile fool. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: always been a fool, come on, but a senile fool
Speaker 3: announcing unconstitutional programs, denying what was clearly true, steering the
Speaker 3: ship of state directly into an iceberg. Also, they could
Speaker 3: hang on to their jobs for one more term, get
Speaker 3: the old man through the election, then we'll know, we'll
Speaker 3: figure out what to do that. But the important part
Speaker 3: is we keep our jobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the West wing of the White House was those people.
Speaker 2: And it's not impossible to believe.
Speaker 3: Trump's got some people around him who may be a
Speaker 3: little overconfident about one idea or another.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, as I have said over and over again, and
Speaker 2: I mean it, I want to be wrong. I will
Speaker 2: happily say, look, wow, they knew what they were doing
Speaker 2: all along.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have doubted them. Look at me, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2: I'm fine saying that six months from now, a year
Speaker 2: from now, if this all turns out, right, I.
Speaker 1: Share hope it does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just my My great hope is that a
Speaker 3: lot of the tariff talk is bluff to get better
Speaker 3: trade deals, because our trade deals, many of them, are
Speaker 3: bad and can be improved. And all the stuff about
Speaker 3: oh I love tariffs, we're gonna we're gonna solve the budget,
Speaker 3: We're gonna pay off the debt with tariffs. We're gonna
Speaker 3: on shore all the manufacturing. That's it's a bluff. That'd
Speaker 3: be fine if it works. And besides, you'll have too
Speaker 3: many pencils anyway. I'm disgusted by the number of pencils
Speaker 3: you people have. I look at you, either come out
Speaker 3: of your ears, out of your pockets. Oh, pencils everywhere exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that actually factors in a mailbag, weirdly enough, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 2: Jon Stewart has a funny clip about Trump and his
Speaker 2: view of toys.
Speaker 4: Oh on, they don't need to have two hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty pencils, they can have five.
Speaker 5: Trump has such a Depression era of view of what
Speaker 5: kids play with in twenty twenty five. Tends don't need
Speaker 5: twenty sets of those hoops you hit with a stick
Speaker 5: as you go down the street.
Speaker 1: Just one hoop is Jim Dandy.
Speaker 3: So he used some odd examples, the point being yes,
Speaker 3: cheap Chinese goods and consumerism, etc.
Speaker 1: I'm on board coming up later.
Speaker 3: I'm working on crafting this in a way that does
Speaker 3: not drain your life force from you and make you
Speaker 3: wish for death. The upcoming battle over Medicaid is so important,
Speaker 3: and it is going to be some of the worst,
Speaker 3: most stupid demagogy politics you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 3: In fact, it's already begun. The Republicans are coming after
Speaker 3: your medicaid. Medicaid is a scam, not not at its core,
Speaker 3: but it's become this money spigot, state government scam that
Speaker 3: needs so desperately to be straightened out, and it the
Speaker 3: amount of growth in Medicaid dwarfs all the other social
Speaker 3: security type programs. The entitlement programs really important. We'll try
Speaker 3: to explain it in a way that is understandable. What
Speaker 3: did you get What time did you get back from
Speaker 3: the met gala last night? I know you were your
Speaker 3: giant Statue of Liberty costume. Oh like two thirty in
Speaker 3: the morning, right, Yeah, Well, I went to an after party,
Speaker 3: then an after after party. I was at jay Z's
Speaker 3: after party. You know, we talked a little about Diddy,
Speaker 3: but you kept your voice down, and.
Speaker 2: I saw you with a Kadashian Al Sharpton. Yeah, some
Speaker 2: twenty five year old pop singer.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Yeah, Oduo Lipa.
Speaker 3: We danced a lot and she tried to make a move.
Speaker 3: It was late, she was drunk. I said, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm married. No, hey, this has been fun, but hands off, sweetheart,
Speaker 3: and I knew it was time to go home.
Speaker 2: Exactly. You don't want to get yourself in trouble. So
Speaker 2: we got mail bag coming up next day. Here, this
Speaker 2: is a good text. We got Sean Diddy. Combs is
Speaker 2: guilty of one thing. He loved too much and way
Speaker 2: too weirdly.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: To continue our discussion from the last segment, a longtime
Speaker 3: friend of mine In Friend of the Show, Mike the
Speaker 3: Lawyer in Chicago says there's an incredible bias in the
Speaker 3: legal community of big city lawyers against country lawyers. They
Speaker 3: think they're smarter and better because they make more money.
Speaker 3: But there's also a saying among lawyers with wisdom that says,
Speaker 3: somebody tells you I'm just a country.
Speaker 1: Lawyer, You're probably going to lose.
Speaker 3: They're just as bright, if not brighter, than so many
Speaker 3: city lawyers.
Speaker 1: Center. That's funny.
Speaker 2: I got a friend who moved from California to Tennessee
Speaker 2: and his kids. He's not a California He's from the Midwest. Actually,
Speaker 2: he moved with his family who had grown up in
Speaker 2: California to Tennessee small town, and his kids thought they
Speaker 2: were going to walk into school and be so far
Speaker 2: ahead all and they were so far behind all the
Speaker 2: other kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he said.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the California thinks they're smarter than everybody else,
Speaker 2: but they're not.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: How interesting. Yeah, some of the best, most talented people
Speaker 3: we've ever known in the radio business decided, no, I'm
Speaker 3: going to make my life and raise my children in
Speaker 3: Cincinnati or you know, Jolie Illinois or whatever. They're every
Speaker 3: bit as talented and smart as anybody else. They just
Speaker 3: made a different life choice.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Here's to you in your life choices, friends, Here's your
Speaker 3: freedom loving quote of the day from the great Patrick Henry.
Speaker 3: The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will
Speaker 3: be secure when the transactions of their rulers may be
Speaker 3: concealed from them. Oh Man, Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, that's that
Speaker 3: you're resting in peace right now.
Speaker 1: You have no idea.
Speaker 3: The transactions of our rulers are so incredibly opaque and
Speaker 3: complex it would take a lifetime study to understand one
Speaker 3: one thousandth of them.
Speaker 1: Mailbag, Well, we'll keep trying.
Speaker 3: Drop his note mail bag at Armstrong you getty dot
Speaker 3: com is our email address.
Speaker 1: Mail bagget Armstrong, you getty dot com.
Speaker 3: On the topic of the rock reopening, Alcatraz is a
Speaker 3: prison Alvin and Berkeley right there by the ock, says
Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi can see Alcatraz from her mansion on Russian Hill.
Speaker 3: Should she be worried?
Speaker 2: I hope so he can a stick Nancy Pelosi at Alcatraz.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Back to the kentupy can Entucky derby horse. Not to
Speaker 3: beat a dead horse, but rites Kevin, I was thinking,
Speaker 3: what could be even more appropriate than a horse named
Speaker 3: Sovereignty to win the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 2: Under our current political climate would.
Speaker 3: Have been the horse named journalism win, only to have
Speaker 3: been disqualified later for doping while beaten ridden by an
Speaker 3: illegal alien MS thirteen gang member with a free Palestine
Speaker 3: neck tattoo. That's about the state of journalism. Yes, journalism
Speaker 3: the horse performed well better than journalism the profession, but
Speaker 3: it did not win. If Journalism the profession ran in
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby, it would have stumbled out of the
Speaker 3: gate and crawled to the finish an hour after the
Speaker 3: other horses had won or finished. There's nothing but Congress
Speaker 3: with a lower approval rating than journalism. Right now, let's
Speaker 3: see different topic. Trump's dolls and pencils. Eric, who is
Speaker 3: a construction guy, says, dere big freedoman jack the What
Speaker 3: does that say?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: On the topic of abundance and pencils. I use the
Speaker 3: pencils from our home for my professional fence gardening layout stuff,
Speaker 3: and I get the idea. Sometimes they disappear because he's
Speaker 3: using them for work. This irritated the Princess. I turned
Speaker 3: to Amazon where I purchased three hundred pencils for a
Speaker 3: few ducats. I proceeded to add pencils to every possible
Speaker 3: place in our home. We need to keep our trade
Speaker 3: relations with China, so it can continue to troll my
Speaker 3: wife or we could be adults. So she was gripe
Speaker 3: and had him for their lack of pencils, So he
Speaker 3: bought three hundred of them and sprinkles them everywhere.
Speaker 1: That is some good marital trolling.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was that way with the kids
Speaker 2: when they were little. I get so frustrated over there
Speaker 2: was never a binkie around when I needed one. I
Speaker 2: wanted to have so many binkies in the house that
Speaker 2: you walked ankle deepened binkies from room to room so
Speaker 2: there was always one at hand.
Speaker 3: M let's see mess rights, Dear ang. This includes a
Speaker 3: coarse word for testicles, and I apologize for using it
Speaker 3: in advance. Once again, you two of parading around the
Speaker 3: unwelcome idea that microplastics and men's balls are the reason
Speaker 3: for declining birth rates. I say, nay, I blame American chicks.
Speaker 1: Think about it.
Speaker 3: Plastics started taking a foothold in the sixties. Feminism took
Speaker 3: a stronger foothold in the sixties.
Speaker 1: The timeline for both fits.
Speaker 3: But are other species also showing the precipitous decline in
Speaker 3: birth rates? Have baboons lost their desire to mate? Our
Speaker 3: raccoons invulnerable to having plastic in their balls, even though
Speaker 3: they wallow around in our dumpsters? And are the men
Speaker 3: in Afghanistan and every other neanderthal country somehow more resilient
Speaker 3: to the microplastics?
Speaker 1: Imp? No, they all do lack feminism.
Speaker 2: Well I don't know about that point, but yeah, it
Speaker 2: doesn't seem to be effecting the birth rate of your
Speaker 2: hellholes for whatever reason. And they got as much plastic,
Speaker 2: if not more, right? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't That's an interesting thought. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I appreciate the note. How about this? John no
Speaker 3: Age rites guys? Uh oh omg. He writes, he listened
Speaker 3: to the podcast yesterday. I've officially been lectured more by
Speaker 3: you than my own mother about having kids sooner rather
Speaker 3: than later. I'm starting to get antsy over here listening
Speaker 3: to the podcast. Let's not make this a regular thing. No,
Speaker 3: I was not hectoring anybody to having kids, have kids younger.
Speaker 3: I was just saying that having Judy and I had
Speaker 3: our kids young by today's standards, and you never hear
Speaker 3: anybody advocating for the ways in which that's really really good.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying you should.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that nobody ever explains the advantages of it,
Speaker 2: for some reason, because you're going against the tide, I
Speaker 2: guess or the.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the advantages seem obvious, and
Speaker 1: I did it the other way around. Yeah. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: let's see do we have time for this year? We
Speaker 1: do excellent.
Speaker 3: Frequent correspondent Powello writes, guys, there's some controversy over the
Speaker 3: public funding of religious schools. I should mention I've got
Speaker 3: some trumpy emails here for mailbag, but we've talked enough
Speaker 3: about Trump this hour, so kind of skip them for now.
Speaker 1: We'll get to them later.
Speaker 3: But there's some controversy about the public funding of religious
Speaker 3: schools because that could amount to state sponsored religion.
Speaker 1: That would not be good, and he quotes The New
Speaker 1: York Times.
Speaker 3: The main question in the case is whether the First
Speaker 3: Amendment permits states to sponsor and if finance, religious charge schools.
Speaker 3: In other words, the Supreme Court is deciding whether charter schools,
Speaker 3: which are publicly funded and privately run are fundamentally private
Speaker 3: or public, and Paolo says, that's fine question, but why
Speaker 3: does it matter? The relevant question is how do we
Speaker 3: most effectively teach children the things that we all agree
Speaker 3: are important for them to learn, and not impose a
Speaker 3: state sponsored religion while we're doing it.
Speaker 1: How about this, there's.
Speaker 3: The three RS set of things everybody. Everybody agrees we
Speaker 3: want children to be taught. Any schools certified to teach
Speaker 3: that required curriculum can teach it. The state will provide
Speaker 3: schools that teach that curriculum and only that curriculum public schools,
Speaker 3: or it will call those. In addition, the state will
Speaker 3: pay any school certified to teach the required curriculum some
Speaker 3: fixed amounts, and the schools so certified will be measured
Speaker 3: by testing whatever means are appropriate to you. Sure they're
Speaker 3: effectively teaching anything else they teach beyond that is What
Speaker 3: is required is between the parents and the schools. It
Speaker 3: doesn't add up to the states sponsoring a religion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree completely, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: School choice Friends, school choice.
Speaker 3: More and more states are are moving more and more
Speaker 3: in that direction, and as we discussed several days ago,
Speaker 3: the data so far is glowing school choice works.
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