May 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Joe's psychic connection, Jack's forever sickness & political messages at concerts
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Hair swinging & C.O.W. Clips of the Week!
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong is show Katty Armstrong and Jette and he
armsdrong live from the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
C see ten you are.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I just took my pregnant zone as prescribed from my
Whooping Golf along with Kathy. So I am super amped
for the Friday edition of The Armstrong and Getty Show
coming film from forty I've had this head straight in
my head at one point, coming to you straight from
the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And
today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Donald J.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Trump, salesman in chief.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There you go, selling them out to the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Avirab world, even as they sell themselves to us. They
all sell each other stuff and get so intertwined. Nobody
kills anybody anymore. So I just ran over to the
donut shop because I've had to completely blow up my
eating routine because I'm on this medicine that you have
to take with food or you'll get very sick. So
this is going to be the fattest disease I've ever had.
I'm gonna come out of whooping cough, twenty five pounds
(01:22):
fatter than I was when I went in, in addition
to all the other problems. But driving back from the
donut shop, I was listening to NPR and thinking, man,
Trump gets more even with all the negative coverage, he
gets more neutral to just regular presidential coverage now than
he ever got first term. I was listening to their
coverage of the Middle Eastern trip and it was just
(01:42):
pretty neutral, like a regular president, which they never did
first time around. Right, Yeah, I would agree. I mean,
there's plenty of Trump derangements c to be had, and
there's plenty of stuff he's doing that I think is
semi insane and just bad ideas. But you know what,
Trump derangement syndrome is a much disgusted phenomenon frequently banned about.
Is Trump exhaustion syndrome? Too much, too fast? I'm fine
(02:06):
with that if we don't mention him again the rest
of the show. I wouldn't. I wouldn't uh, I wouldn't WinCE. Yeah,
he will still be there on Monday for no kidding. No,
I can't help, but I feel, as you know, Jack,
I have a deep psychic connection with our beloved listeners
and I hear their souls crying out. You needed food
for your medicine, so you got donuts. There are more
(02:29):
foods than just donuts. What's open at this time of day?
A donut shop? Twenty four our grocery store. You could
have gotten some kale.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Excuse.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I used it as an excuse to completely break my
all my rules. If I'm going in, I'm going on. Plus,
I'm sick. I've been sick for I've been sick for
six weeks. I am so tired of being sick. It's
amazing how depressing that is. It's just depressing. And those
of you who are chronically ill, you understand. But it's
sures hour. Michael, I need your wisdom on this. Should
(03:08):
there be a dread disease exemption for a New Year's resolution? No, no,
I got something healthy, Wow, fundamentalist Michael Angelo. I was
going to grant it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, Katie, I'm surprised now, Michael, I disagree. Whatever you want, Jack, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
When I get these exemption, yes, yeah. When I get sick,
it's ramen.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's if I want a big mac, I'm eating a
big mac. I don't care what I ingest if it
makes me feel good. For five minutes when I feel
like garbage the rest.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Of the time.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, do it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's a tough one because obviously your body needs nutrients
to help fight off the disease and you're doing the opposite.
But there is the I've been miserable all day long
and maybe all day to day before, and I'd like
to not be miserable for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I actually feel the same as Katie. I just wanted
to encourage you. That's now. When I had when I
was doing the chemotherapy thing, I remember saying to the
doctor is like, the only thing that sounds good is
like a milkshake or a donut. And because I couldn't
eat anything, and they said, now is not the time
to be concerned about your diet, and I took that
as a green.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Light for the record.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I like to feel of a three judge panel there,
the three judge panel of the Armstrong and Giddy Appeals
Court getting to the Supreme Court thing from yesterday and ken,
so do we do we want? Would we want one
judge like a Michelangelo to hold up the whole thing
if everybody's secreed, Probably not, Look at Jack tying it
all together.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I agree it's a good point.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We're gonna actually have our friend Tim sanderfer on the
next hour to talk about that whole thing. I know
where he stands on it, and I certainly get where
he's coming from. You don't want everything to stand. You
probably don't want everything to stand until and unless it
makes it all the way to the Supreme Court three
years later. If the Supreme Court sometimes decides, hey, that
(05:02):
original ruling, none of us think that was a good idea.
Too bad. You've been doing that for three years. You
know that sort of thing, right, Yeah, Yeah, it's I'm
curious to pick his brain about alternatives and solutions we
might find middle grounds. What I want to ask him
about is a cultural change. Has there been a cultural
(05:22):
change among the judges where they feel like, you know what,
I don't like Obama, I don't like Biden, I don't
like Trump. Who whatever your situation is. I'm going to
hold up what they want to do because I can
one of the six hundred and eighty five judges in America.
And another question that we both know the answer to
before I even finish asking it, has there been a
cultural change where precedents are much more willing to violate
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the law and or the constitution for jazzing up their
base purposes, you know, and that I should have said
that one before I said mine, because that's definitely true,
and that's puts the judges in a rough position. Presidents
now are almost certainly true. Yeah, Presidents now are absolutely
(06:07):
challenging law to see if it will hold up, or
or sometimes in the case of like certainly with Biden's
the Supreme Court stuff, because Nancy Pelosi had said it
one hundred times, knowingly defying the law and knowing it'll
get shut down, but wanting the political credit.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
For having tried precisely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, so that's a problem. I don't know what you
do with that cultural change. Oh yeah, the wobblers that
you first described. You know, it might be constitutional, and
we're not sure. That's that's fine, that's the way our
system works, and that's fine. It's the deliberate flouting of
the constitution knowing it'll be shot down that annoys the
crap out of me. But violation of your actually, it
absolutely is. Yeah, we will discuss that, and questioned Tim closely.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Can't wait for it again. Next hour.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So this got me riled up in the middle of
the night. I was up in the middle of the night, coughing.
I turned to my phone, which is the way to
get to sleep staring at your phone. And Bruce Springsteen
kicked off his world tour in Great Britain and annoyed
the hell out of me. So that will be how
we open the show. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this It is a Friday, May the sixteenth of
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the year twenty twenty five. Were Armstrong and Getty, and
we approve of this program. I think Bruce annoyed all
of America.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Stay with us. Let's begin the show.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we
go at Mark.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The Mighty East Street Band is here tonight to call
upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock
and roll in dangerous times in my home, the America
I love, the America I've written.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
About that has been a beacon of hope and liberty
for two hundred and fifty years, is currently in the
hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treason astric minister.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So here's my question for you. If you lean right,
you've been to many a concert, many a movie, many
many of whatever where he had to listen to some
crap and you put up with it. I actually don't
think I could have stayed at the concert after that.
I think i'd have thought, I am not gonna be
(08:25):
part of your deal man, f you. I paid one
hundred and eighty dollars for this ticket, but I'm leaving
that is. And he goes on and on from there.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, yeah, that was just Oh he did.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There's a lot more to it. Oh three, he does
it through that's the opening. He does it throughout the
concert multiple times. Good lord, but the usual, you know,
crack at the Who's president? If it's a Republican I've
dealt with We've all dealt with going to concerts our
whole lives. But the flat out treason is destroying. Shut up,
(08:57):
you freaking old man guitar players never had a job
in his life, zillionaire. Yeah, I just I don't think
I could. I don't think I could stay and enjoy it.
I think I'd just go out and wait in the
parking lot. Tell me when it's over, I'll drive you home. Yeah, yeah,
here here, Yeah, that's too much, especially when he hammered
it over and over. Years ago, I and several buddies
(09:18):
went to see Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, and
he is a this was Trump one term one and
he's just a frothing mouthed, wild eyed, a nut job
and be you know, one of those guys who unleashes
the most fevered rhetoric you could possibly imagine about everything,
including Trump. And maybe it was just our mood or something,
(09:42):
because he hammered it a fair amount. But by the
end my buddies and I were just guffawing because it
was so over the top and so stupid.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, Bruce is just the hole tir ring at this point,
the whole All the cool people agree with me, and
I'm a cool per something. Screw you, Yeah, that the
rhetoric is awful enough and one sided enough, you know, especially,
I mean unmissibly, because working class America is turning toward
(10:18):
you know who, he's their alleged champion, please is turning
more and more toward not only the Republicans, but Trump
in particular. Oh yeah, yeah right, So to willfully ignore
that fact just as a business person is odd.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And then and what was the second, it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Is surprising that Bruce hasn't thought. I must be missing
something because the people that I've appealed to my entire
career really like Trump the way John Stewart did. John
Stewart hates Trump, but he said, obviously there's something there.
I've got working class friends who voted for Trump. But
Bruce is so isolated from anything working class for the
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past three decades.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
How would he know, right?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, yeah, and then the truly annoying part is kind
of what you said about all the cool people agree.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
We're all cool here. We all agree.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's just it's it's cultish and annoying, you know, calling
on art and rock and roll and whatever, and obviously
we all agree. No, I tell you what, how about
you have enough respect for your audience to understand their
hair because I like your music and they might actually
think independently. Here's the good news. I think we learned
last election, and hopefully this is going forward. It doesn't
(11:32):
work anymore. It's a net negative. Yeah, Deyonce concert and
all that sort of stuff did them Democrats more harm
than good. So I think that era is over. Bruce
doesn't know it, because he's ancient he's ancient and so
full of self regard he can't think straight. Of one
final note, at the risk of tearing my rotator cuff,
patting us both on the back. We are entertainment here.
(11:56):
What we do is entirely about politics and ideology. That is,
and you know, culture and fun and humor and the
rest of it. But I mean a large measure of
it is what's happening in the world and what does
everybody think about it? It not playing songs about going
down to the levee with Mary and she broke my
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heart Now I'm born to run or whatever the hell.
And we expect that a lot of you will disagree
with us a lot of the time, and that's fine,
and we respect it, and we listen and we read
your emails and think, hey, maybe you got a point there.
That smug everybody agrees, and if you don't agree, you're
a fascist, bad person.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
F you.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
God, that is so full of I mean, our relationship
with you is in a word, respect. Lecturing people as
if there's no conceivable chance they would disagree is either
just hubris, the sort of which is disgusting. Sam ut
a screen door and marrying her dress in the River
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and a Cadillac or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Just a complete lack of respect.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh my god, I thought that you so annoying? Oh lord?
Any who? Oh Paul McCartney ought to grab him by
his working man shirt he's never worn to work and say, listen,
your stupid idiot. Your crowd now likes that guy, whether
(13:26):
you agree with that or not. So why don't you
just shut up and play your hits? Oh my god,
that's annoying. Uh. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
What else we got? Oh, it's Friday, so we got clips.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Of the week.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Lots of good stuff to talk about. Awesome O A p.
Didy update. Quite a day yesterday. All on the way.
Stay here. Two things we'll get to former FBI director
James Comy. Is he going to be arrested for assassination,
attempt or threat? And Hey, Starbucks baristas, where what the
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boss tells you to wear? Shut up later? Wow, strong opinions,
brace yourselves. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green. Katie hit it all.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Right, Starting with ABC talks led by US delegation between
Russia and Ukraine underway in Turkey.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You might as well have talks between me and my dog. Good.
That's what most analysts are saying, although it is the
first actual talks they've had in the full three years
of the war. Most analysts are mentioning my dog no,
that these thoughts are gonna get nowhere. And I understand
why she continues to wear the Trump Book the cone
(14:37):
of shame rather.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All yes, yes, back to you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Jack Trump just keeps letting Putin off the hook instead
of putting pressure on him. I don't know what's going
on there, but he said we're gonna meet soon. We
gotta meet soon. It's gonna happen, So that'll be something.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
NBC Cassie faces skeptical cross examination from Diddy's defense team.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm sure we'll get details coming up.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
On the BBC Supreme Court backs.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Quote biological definition.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Of a woman.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, that's the only one. There is anything else that's
just play acting.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I want to hear that.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
From the Wall Street Journal Meta battles a quote epidemic
of scams as criminals flood Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, I was gonna bring that up.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
If you're on the GRAM or the book Brace Yourselves
flood of scams.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
From the Washington Post on a remote island in Australia,
the birds are so full of plastic they crunch.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh not good, anybody concerned about plastics. Asia churns out
and throws in the ocean and just out into the environment.
So many multiples of what the United States does. We
could eliminate plastic here and still have a huge problem.
I get a ticket if I don't put my plastic
bottle in the right container. That's because you live in
(16:04):
a communist and community.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
From study fines, could one animal have eight brains? Octopus
set study says kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
The amazing octopus. The more you learn, the more you
admire them.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
And finally, from the Battle on Bee Home.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Depot adds self deportation. Kiosks, honey, that is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So that story from the bebe about the Supreme Court
rules biological definition of woman?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Is that the British Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yes, Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh okay, I thought, so okay.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I got all excited to fill in my Starbucks story
really quick. Thousands of Starbucks baristas went on strike to
protest the new dress code, where the company decided you
need to wear like a black shirt or black pants
underneath your green apron and a bunch of I'm not
striking again. My advice is where what your boss tells
you to wear, or go somewhere else. You're fired, feel
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free to reapply, but I don't love your chances.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Do like Reagan did gia air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's quite important, just the whole God.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I would tell my kids immediately, where what the boss
tells you to wear? I want to bring my whole
self to work. Don't armstrong and getty. The whole world
got to witness that weird hair flippy thingy spinning your
head thingy yesterday out of the Middle East. That Trump
hardon me. You didn't see that, No one of the
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many celebrations when Trump's going around with these Middle Eastern countries.
I had all these long haired women to music, swinging
their hair around like a line that he walked through.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Wow, that's entertainment.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Camels, cyber trucks and hair flippy thingy women.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wow. Wow, good times, thump said. Trump said, what a culture.
Trump said, a lot of interesting things. We will bring
them to you.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
With so many, so many great topics to cover today.
I vowed to stay until midnight tonight to best serve
you good people.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Jack, I hope you're with me.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The incredibly tall, pompous and nut job James call mey
former FBI director, is going to be answering questions the
FBI today for a stupid post he put out yesterday.
Stay tuned for that story. But first, it's the Friday tradition.
Let's take a fond look back at the week that was.
It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You're saying he's dead. That is a truth.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Tap lights are blinking, the sirens are turning. Josh wis
the week McDonald Squish Mellows Happy Mal twenty twenty five reviews.
I noticed it right away. The tea is missing, just
says are unp it says Rump.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is there anything in.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
There that makes it clear that it's a big kidney No,
exactly like any one one.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't see much sense and putting me on the
ballot after I die, I say.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Dig up his bones and reban them. Every thought.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It the drastic de escalation in the trade war between
the United States and China, so there is a chance
to rebalance together.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
This is not a political conference. This is a business conference.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I want to make a deal with Iran. I want
to do something that is possible.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
There's two steps. Is a very very nice step, and
there's a violent step.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I don't want to do the second step. The equipment
that we use, much of it, we can't buy parts
for now.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Any of the representatives that were there, you lay a
finger on them, we are going to have a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
You can't intimidate me.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Come on, give me a break. You know I was
wearing a green uniform barbitu rel agent for five years
before she was even born. Eighty five year old Motown
Legends Smokie Robinson has been accused of sexual assault by
four of his former housekeepers. Robinson plans to beat the
charges by being dead soon. The bottom line is the
White House was lying not only to the press, not
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only to the public, but they were lying to members
of their own cabinet. I think some of the criticism
is fair.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
To be honest of me, again, it makes me mental.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was clear, far far away, there was galaxy and
there were robuts. The robots were.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Coming up close to the one trillion dollar amount is
lost every year to fraud you saw it coming. Oh yeah,
I mean it was like they threw money in the
air and just let people run around and grab it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Nobody should be comfortable when our country is in a
moment of crisis, and I think that there is far
too much comfortability across the board. So I'm Dinny Combs.
The so called freak offs happened weekly, many of the
sessions photographed and filmed.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
She even testified about him, you know, threatening to blow
up rapper Kid Cutty's part.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think he convicted.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Trump's gonna important me?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Could I ask you a question what I'm in London
and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I said, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was just thinking that sixty minute story that we
both found so explosive last Sunday night disappeared into the ether.
A trillion dollars of COVID eight money got stolen. A
kind of entertaining story for about twenty four hours for
a few people.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Doesn't make it dent the key aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
As it was happening, the bureaucrats involved said, man, all
this is going to get stolen and did nothing about it.
But it just didn't land in the American consciousness. I
hate to sound unpatriotic, but a country that behaves like that,
an enterprise that behaves like that, should fail, should fall.
Uh yeah, that's gravity that I mean, that's what you're
asking for, right, Yeah, what it would take to sustain
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it in the face of such incredible incoonfidence, dishonesties too much,
it should give way to something better. Speaking of patriots,
so many questions. The very tall, the very proud of
himself James Coley for me, FBI director who really kickstarted
the whole damn Russian thing by taking the story to
Trump and then calling reporters and saying the President has
(22:19):
been briefed on this. I mean, it was just, oh
my god. He's so full of himself. So he posts
about forty eight hours ago he's walking on the beach
somewhere and he arranges shells in such a way on
the beach that they read eighty six forty seven, and
then he says, look this interesting shell arrangement. I just
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came across any posts.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Excuse me, wow wow for No.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Eighty six depending I usually heard it bar related when
people get eighty six from a bar, kicked out of
a bar, some people interred it, interpreted it as a
threat he should be killed, like President Trump should be
killed Trump being the forty seventh president regard that's the
code for murder in various jurisdictions. I don't know which
one specifically, one eighty six as an island. I definitely
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think it's a stretch that he was advocating an assassination,
attempt or threatening on himself or anything like that. The
FBI is going to investigate it, as they would with
any individual who did that sort of thing. But just
how incredibly unwise is that, a guy who ran the FBI,
after all the trouble you've been through and this and
that and the way people feel about and everything like that,
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you're gonna post an eighty six forty seven And then
he took it down quickly and realized and then apologized
or something. It's just he's unhinged.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
At the same time, I almost think it's kind of useful.
I'm gonna go all Thomas Paine on you here, and
he's actually the source of our freedom loving quote of
the day in a few minutes. But it just goes
to show you that you remove the you know, the surroundings,
the big building and all of the granite and the
suit and the grava toss.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But these guys are just.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
People, clearly, dudes and women, and they have the same
failings and frailties as the rest of us. Stop worshiping them,
any of them, well even less than a lot of
average people. Most people I know would think, that's not
gonna that's gonna be do me more harm than good.
That's not gonna help my life in any way. But
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he thought it would be funny for a second to
take a shot at the president that he hates so much. Yeah,
the more I think about it, we're gonna eighty six
the bee fribs tonight. We don't have enough of them,
that's it just means canceled. Yeah, as opposed to murder.
You don't murder an order or you know, the Margherita
machines broken, So we got eighty six the Marguerite.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, I just okay, all right, whooped? You do?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Nothing will ever beat. When he was standing in the
woods looking at the sky, so many questions, all.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Right, good, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I U back to trying to find somewhere to get
my haircut. That doesn't annoy me. That's one of the
greatest struggles of my life. What are the criteria? Just
cut my hair and don't annoy me. That's it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So you're not worse than dead.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's got nothing to do with like the quality of
the haircut that you're having a problem with. Oh yeah,
well obviously, yeah, there's a band of quality that I
must have. I mean, if it's some hack with dull
scissors who doesn't know how to cut hair, of course
that's unacceptable. But it doesn't sound like the standards are
too high there. Oh no, I'm an average middle aged dude.
I need an average middle aged dude haircut. It's not difficult.
(25:34):
But anyway, it just occurred to me what annoyed me
so much about the one guy who was.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Going to it.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He was really good and really fast, a man who
cut hair. Yes there are them, though them who does that? Uh?
He was like James Komy. And this was the best
description of Komy I ever heard. He is the hero
of every story he tells. Komy's self regard, it's just unbelievable.
(26:01):
All right, that's enough of that. I hope I the
haircutter guy, though, so he tells you some story in
which he comes out the uh looking good or whatever.
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I don't want to give too many facts, partly because
he's an enormous human being and could break me in half.
But yeah, just it's like, dude, it's stop. Do you
like really big beefy men cutting your hair? I really
do strip to the waist if possible. Yeah, shop with
hair cutting. You can't because I don't have any hair,
(26:37):
so I haven't had a haircut since I was like eleven,
So you can't. I have like a thick, lustrous mane
of chestnut locks for the ladies listening. Yes, Jack, you
can't do like uber where you put on a preference
if i'd like at sixty eight degrees and no talking,
not that i'm aware of that. Awesome if you could, though,
yeah everything, Yeah, I'm sorry, pressed the wrong for my
(27:00):
off the that'd be awesome. I wonder if that's the future,
since everything gets more computerized, like everything you do before
you get to the cash register, you'll be able to
press no interaction please, or just everything everywhere you go
all the time. Of course, that's not going to help
us as a society. No, that gives me the dystopian chills,
(27:20):
but good idea. Anyway, mail bag coming up in a
couple of minutes, and some really interesting stuff about an
epidemic of scams that is flooding a couple of the
most popular social media outlets. You thought the waters were
full of sharks, Now I know it's your phone is well? Scammers? Oh?
(27:42):
I thought you scammers? Literally no, So we'll be talking
about that, among other things. Walmart has said, yeah, we're
going to raise prices because of the tariffs, which opens
the door for all of America to do the same.
So the tariff thing might not quite be over yet.
Is a topic controversy. Yeah, I got two of the
(28:03):
Wall Street Journal's opinion on the Walmart thing, and then
Axios which had a counter version oddly enough about the
Walmart raising prices thing. So we'll hit you at that
next hour see what you think is most likely, whether
it's a big deal or not.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
All right, sounds good?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, and mail bag on the way next to here.
Trump actually responded just moments ago to the James Comy
Instagram post, and Trump said James Comy knew exactly what
he was doing. That was an assassination threat. Here we go,
Here we go ten years ago. Can you imagine a
(28:38):
sitting president claiming the former FBI director had attempted had
made an assassination threat. I mean, what a giant story
that would be the world would have come to a stop,
and everybody reacting to both sides of it with Komy
what a jackass, and Trump's trolling again right and moving
on with their day. Really, if you're normal, I think
(28:59):
that's the way you ought to react. Here's your freedom
loving quote of the day from Patrick Henry. Whoops, oh
it's not Wait a minute, how did that go there?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Thomas Pain?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Thomas Pain, Those who expect to reap the blessings of
freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And then you great tough women too.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
We needed a lot of expect to who expect to
reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of
supporting it. We needed a lot of Thomas Paine's energy
during the revolution. But he was a full on advocate
of the French Revolution style of just tearing everything completely
the ground and starting over. He was a nut in
my opinion. Wow wow, Jack computing the characters of our
(29:44):
Founding Fathers and the greatest Americans? Is he part of
the Russian plot to undermine our country together with the
Chinese communists? Yes, is the answer to that. We'll take
your calls. Next hour, stay with us, Mailbag He drops
a note. Mail Bag and Armstrong and Getty dot Com
have an opinion. Somebody ought to be talking about mail
(30:04):
Bag and Armstrong and Getty dot com drew the Millennial
rights guys on the topic of the Fourteenth Amendment. Get
Timmy Sandy on to discuss it. Tim Sandifer, he wrote
an entire book about it, sort of indirectly, but it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Even if it's drier than.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Assaulting Oh my, the conscience of the Constitution.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
It is an excellent book. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
One of the first things he'll say is that the
fourteenth Amendment was the codification of the Declaration of Independence.
He brushed over the Fourteenth briefly, and he's probably already
drafted a ninety page response to everything he left out.
He's weird but awesome. Love the show. Thanks Drew the Millennial.
We'll have the weird but awesome Tim Sandifer on next hour. Well, yeah,
I'll have to decide if we want to emphasize that
or the bigger question of whether these judges can jump
(30:47):
in and stop a president all the time that keeps happening.
We will emphasize neither the peanut butter nor the jelly.
We will marry them in sweet sweet accord. Wow, well
a boat in other words, On the topic of virtual reality,
John speaking for a lot of us, says, listening to
the One More Thing talk about virtual reality. Yes, the
(31:08):
Armstrong You Getty One More Thing podcast. We record it
after the radio show is done. It never airs frequently,
it has swears. Anyway, he says, I have a hard
enough time dealing with actual reality.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I don't need any more.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Well, the most amazing thing I ever got out of
the virtuality the Apple headset was the serenity of nature
and being alone by a lake. So it was interesting
that I was able to bring that feeling to my
life quickly and easily. Wow, the irony swat team is
now breaking down our doors to enforce the law. Yeah,
(31:43):
that's amazing. Yes, lucky, this high tech gadget, I just
got an incredible expense from a giant American corporation.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's allowed me to go to the woods.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Let's see you moving along, Jess and Wiley Texas pretty disappointed? Michelangelow,
How did I'm gonna rephrase this? But every time the
P Diddy update comes along or that P Diddy bombshell,
y'all laid out about the size of his manhood? How
did you miss the delightful hip hop one hit wonder
(32:15):
TUTSI role by the sixty nine Boys with a Z I.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Don't know making your request?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He plays the song every time Katie pops up with
her ditty update. Does he take request? Tell him to
start taking requests? I request? Did he take my request?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Thanks? Jess. I've never heard of that song?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Me neither.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
We don't know one hit hip hop wonders?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, there was some testimony from a different did he
trial that might lead you to believe that he's unusually
a small in his manhood and that might have something
to do with his weird, I mean beyond weird attitude
toward women and sex.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, violence fueled control freak year.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, let's see, this is serious?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Do we have time for this?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Why not to frequent correspond to JT in Livermore, I'm
I'm a Trump supporter generally, though I've repeatedly stated I'd
not want to have him over for dinner, but I'm
glad he's in the White House. I'd love to have
him over for dinner. I wouldn't want him to date
my mom. Okay, fair enough, let's send your list Armstrong
mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. But even
though I've sought really hard to find justification for Trump's
(33:25):
seemingly inexplicable behavior visa v. Putin, unless this is some
sort of eighteen dimensional chess moved to keep Putin in
the war so as to decimate Russia militarily and economically,
I'm almost out of excuses, right, I agree, And then
he says, in fact, I'm so out of excuses that
my imagination and is dredging up old Kevin Costner movies,
(33:47):
in which Costner plays a Navy intel officer turns out he's.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
A deep Russian mole after all. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It's one of my favorite all time movies. No way out. Yeah,
uh uh, I don't think that. I don't think Trump
is any sort of asset or any of that sort
of stuff. I don't know what is fascination with Putins,
but I worry that if they meet Trump is going
to say some way too flattering things about Putin and
way too negative things about Zelensky for anybody to.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Be able to take. I know, yeah, I worry about
that too.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
More on Putin's history of manipulating American presidents later on
in the show. This is so interesting from Sean. We
were talking about AI dominated warehouses with AI forklifts and
the rest of it. Lights out warehouses are definitely the future.
It was more than ten years ago. I stood in
a huge warehouse and they essentially had a pilot program
of one section of it was entirely automated, very close aisles,
(34:41):
no lights. Through the silhouettes of the aisles, I could
see machines rising and pulling pallets and bringing them to
exit points.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, you wouldn't need any lighting.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Wow, and how much would that save you if you
didn't have to light and heat or air conditioned to
a certain extent. You don't want the machines to burn up,
but they wouldn't have to be as comfortable as for humans.
I never even thought about the same there and this
we have time for this, No, we really don't. We
got three more hours from beautiful Placterville California, pointing out
(35:10):
that the California Bullspit Train, as now described by the
folks building it, is now officially slower than taking a
bus from San Francisco to La Yeah, because it'd probably
take nine or ten hours. Yeah, you could take a
bus faster and a heck of a lot cheaper. Oh
my god, that's amazing. We've got so much more for you.
If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Just look
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong is show Katty Armstrong and Jette and he
armsdrong live from the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
C see ten you are.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I just took my pregnant zone as prescribed from my
Whooping Golf along with Kathy. So I am super amped
for the Friday edition of The Armstrong and Getty Show
coming film from forty I've had this head straight in
my head at one point, coming to you straight from
the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And
today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Donald J.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Trump, salesman in chief.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There you go, selling them out to the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Avirab world, even as they sell themselves to us. They
all sell each other stuff and get so intertwined. Nobody
kills anybody anymore. So I just ran over to the
donut shop because I've had to completely blow up my
eating routine because I'm on this medicine that you have
to take with food or you'll get very sick. So
this is going to be the fattest disease I've ever had.
I'm gonna come out of whooping cough, twenty five pounds
(01:22):
fatter than I was when I went in, in addition
to all the other problems. But driving back from the
donut shop, I was listening to NPR and thinking, man,
Trump gets more even with all the negative coverage, he
gets more neutral to just regular presidential coverage now than
he ever got first term. I was listening to their
coverage of the Middle Eastern trip and it was just
(01:42):
pretty neutral, like a regular president, which they never did
first time around. Right, Yeah, I would agree. I mean,
there's plenty of Trump derangements c to be had, and
there's plenty of stuff he's doing that I think is
semi insane and just bad ideas. But you know what,
Trump derangement syndrome is a much disgusted phenomenon frequently banned about.
Is Trump exhaustion syndrome? Too much, too fast? I'm fine
(02:06):
with that if we don't mention him again the rest
of the show. I wouldn't. I wouldn't uh, I wouldn't WinCE. Yeah,
he will still be there on Monday for no kidding. No,
I can't help, but I feel, as you know, Jack,
I have a deep psychic connection with our beloved listeners
and I hear their souls crying out. You needed food
for your medicine, so you got donuts. There are more
(02:29):
foods than just donuts. What's open at this time of day?
A donut shop? Twenty four our grocery store. You could
have gotten some kale.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Excuse.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I used it as an excuse to completely break my
all my rules. If I'm going in, I'm going on. Plus,
I'm sick. I've been sick for I've been sick for
six weeks. I am so tired of being sick. It's
amazing how depressing that is. It's just depressing. And those
of you who are chronically ill, you understand. But it's
sures hour. Michael, I need your wisdom on this. Should
(03:08):
there be a dread disease exemption for a New Year's resolution? No, no,
I got something healthy, Wow, fundamentalist Michael Angelo. I was
going to grant it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, Katie, I'm surprised now, Michael, I disagree. Whatever you want, Jack, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
When I get these exemption, yes, yeah. When I get sick,
it's ramen.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's if I want a big mac, I'm eating a
big mac. I don't care what I ingest if it
makes me feel good. For five minutes when I feel
like garbage the rest.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Of the time.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, do it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's a tough one because obviously your body needs nutrients
to help fight off the disease and you're doing the opposite.
But there is the I've been miserable all day long
and maybe all day to day before, and I'd like
to not be miserable for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I actually feel the same as Katie. I just wanted
to encourage you. That's now. When I had when I
was doing the chemotherapy thing, I remember saying to the
doctor is like, the only thing that sounds good is
like a milkshake or a donut. And because I couldn't
eat anything, and they said, now is not the time
to be concerned about your diet, and I took that
as a green.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Light for the record.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I like to feel of a three judge panel there,
the three judge panel of the Armstrong and Giddy Appeals
Court getting to the Supreme Court thing from yesterday and ken,
so do we do we want? Would we want one
judge like a Michelangelo to hold up the whole thing
if everybody's secreed, Probably not, Look at Jack tying it
all together.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I agree it's a good point.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We're gonna actually have our friend Tim sanderfer on the
next hour to talk about that whole thing. I know
where he stands on it, and I certainly get where
he's coming from. You don't want everything to stand. You
probably don't want everything to stand until and unless it
makes it all the way to the Supreme Court three
years later. If the Supreme Court sometimes decides, hey, that
(05:02):
original ruling, none of us think that was a good idea.
Too bad. You've been doing that for three years. You
know that sort of thing, right, Yeah, Yeah, it's I'm
curious to pick his brain about alternatives and solutions we
might find middle grounds. What I want to ask him
about is a cultural change. Has there been a cultural
(05:22):
change among the judges where they feel like, you know what,
I don't like Obama, I don't like Biden, I don't
like Trump. Who whatever your situation is. I'm going to
hold up what they want to do because I can
one of the six hundred and eighty five judges in America.
And another question that we both know the answer to
before I even finish asking it, has there been a
cultural change where precedents are much more willing to violate
(05:46):
the law and or the constitution for jazzing up their
base purposes, you know, and that I should have said
that one before I said mine, because that's definitely true,
and that's puts the judges in a rough position. Presidents
now are almost certainly true. Yeah, Presidents now are absolutely
(06:07):
challenging law to see if it will hold up, or
or sometimes in the case of like certainly with Biden's
the Supreme Court stuff, because Nancy Pelosi had said it
one hundred times, knowingly defying the law and knowing it'll
get shut down, but wanting the political credit.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
For having tried precisely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, so that's a problem. I don't know what you
do with that cultural change. Oh yeah, the wobblers that
you first described. You know, it might be constitutional, and
we're not sure. That's that's fine, that's the way our
system works, and that's fine. It's the deliberate flouting of
the constitution knowing it'll be shot down that annoys the
crap out of me. But violation of your actually, it
absolutely is. Yeah, we will discuss that, and questioned Tim closely.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Can't wait for it again. Next hour.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So this got me riled up in the middle of
the night. I was up in the middle of the night, coughing.
I turned to my phone, which is the way to
get to sleep staring at your phone. And Bruce Springsteen
kicked off his world tour in Great Britain and annoyed
the hell out of me. So that will be how
we open the show. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this It is a Friday, May the sixteenth of
(07:15):
the year twenty twenty five. Were Armstrong and Getty, and
we approve of this program. I think Bruce annoyed all
of America.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Stay with us. Let's begin the show.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we
go at Mark.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The Mighty East Street Band is here tonight to call
upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock
and roll in dangerous times in my home, the America
I love, the America I've written.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
About that has been a beacon of hope and liberty
for two hundred and fifty years, is currently in the
hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treason astric minister.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So here's my question for you. If you lean right,
you've been to many a concert, many a movie, many
many of whatever where he had to listen to some
crap and you put up with it. I actually don't
think I could have stayed at the concert after that.
I think i'd have thought, I am not gonna be
(08:25):
part of your deal man, f you. I paid one
hundred and eighty dollars for this ticket, but I'm leaving
that is. And he goes on and on from there.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, yeah, that was just Oh he did.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There's a lot more to it. Oh three, he does
it through that's the opening. He does it throughout the
concert multiple times. Good lord, but the usual, you know,
crack at the Who's president? If it's a Republican I've
dealt with We've all dealt with going to concerts our
whole lives. But the flat out treason is destroying. Shut up,
(08:57):
you freaking old man guitar players never had a job
in his life, zillionaire. Yeah, I just I don't think
I could. I don't think I could stay and enjoy it.
I think I'd just go out and wait in the
parking lot. Tell me when it's over, I'll drive you home. Yeah, yeah,
here here, Yeah, that's too much, especially when he hammered
it over and over. Years ago, I and several buddies
(09:18):
went to see Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, and
he is a this was Trump one term one and
he's just a frothing mouthed, wild eyed, a nut job
and be you know, one of those guys who unleashes
the most fevered rhetoric you could possibly imagine about everything,
including Trump. And maybe it was just our mood or something,
(09:42):
because he hammered it a fair amount. But by the
end my buddies and I were just guffawing because it
was so over the top and so stupid.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, Bruce is just the hole tir ring at this point,
the whole All the cool people agree with me, and
I'm a cool per something. Screw you, Yeah, that the
rhetoric is awful enough and one sided enough, you know, especially,
I mean unmissibly, because working class America is turning toward
(10:18):
you know who, he's their alleged champion, please is turning
more and more toward not only the Republicans, but Trump
in particular. Oh yeah, yeah right, So to willfully ignore
that fact just as a business person is odd.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And then and what was the second, it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Is surprising that Bruce hasn't thought. I must be missing
something because the people that I've appealed to my entire
career really like Trump the way John Stewart did. John
Stewart hates Trump, but he said, obviously there's something there.
I've got working class friends who voted for Trump. But
Bruce is so isolated from anything working class for the
(10:59):
past three decades.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
How would he know, right?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, yeah, and then the truly annoying part is kind
of what you said about all the cool people agree.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
We're all cool here. We all agree.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's just it's it's cultish and annoying, you know, calling
on art and rock and roll and whatever, and obviously
we all agree. No, I tell you what, how about
you have enough respect for your audience to understand their
hair because I like your music and they might actually
think independently. Here's the good news. I think we learned
last election, and hopefully this is going forward. It doesn't
(11:32):
work anymore. It's a net negative. Yeah, Deyonce concert and
all that sort of stuff did them Democrats more harm
than good. So I think that era is over. Bruce
doesn't know it, because he's ancient he's ancient and so
full of self regard he can't think straight. Of one
final note, at the risk of tearing my rotator cuff,
patting us both on the back. We are entertainment here.
(11:56):
What we do is entirely about politics and ideology. That is,
and you know, culture and fun and humor and the
rest of it. But I mean a large measure of
it is what's happening in the world and what does
everybody think about it? It not playing songs about going
down to the levee with Mary and she broke my
(12:16):
heart Now I'm born to run or whatever the hell.
And we expect that a lot of you will disagree
with us a lot of the time, and that's fine,
and we respect it, and we listen and we read
your emails and think, hey, maybe you got a point there.
That smug everybody agrees, and if you don't agree, you're
a fascist, bad person.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
F you.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
God, that is so full of I mean, our relationship
with you is in a word, respect. Lecturing people as
if there's no conceivable chance they would disagree is either
just hubris, the sort of which is disgusting. Sam ut
a screen door and marrying her dress in the River
(12:59):
and a Cadillac or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Just a complete lack of respect.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh my god, I thought that you so annoying? Oh lord?
Any who? Oh Paul McCartney ought to grab him by
his working man shirt he's never worn to work and say, listen,
your stupid idiot. Your crowd now likes that guy, whether
(13:26):
you agree with that or not. So why don't you
just shut up and play your hits? Oh my god,
that's annoying. Uh. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
What else we got? Oh, it's Friday, so we got clips.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Of the week.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Lots of good stuff to talk about. Awesome O A p.
Didy update. Quite a day yesterday. All on the way.
Stay here. Two things we'll get to former FBI director
James Comy. Is he going to be arrested for assassination,
attempt or threat? And Hey, Starbucks baristas, where what the
(13:57):
boss tells you to wear? Shut up later? Wow, strong opinions,
brace yourselves. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green. Katie hit it all.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Right, Starting with ABC talks led by US delegation between
Russia and Ukraine underway in Turkey.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You might as well have talks between me and my dog. Good.
That's what most analysts are saying, although it is the
first actual talks they've had in the full three years
of the war. Most analysts are mentioning my dog no,
that these thoughts are gonna get nowhere. And I understand
why she continues to wear the Trump Book the cone
(14:37):
of shame rather.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All yes, yes, back to you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Jack Trump just keeps letting Putin off the hook instead
of putting pressure on him. I don't know what's going
on there, but he said we're gonna meet soon. We
gotta meet soon. It's gonna happen, So that'll be something.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
NBC Cassie faces skeptical cross examination from Diddy's defense team.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm sure we'll get details coming up.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
On the BBC Supreme Court backs.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Quote biological definition.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Of a woman.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, that's the only one. There is anything else that's
just play acting.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I want to hear that.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
From the Wall Street Journal Meta battles a quote epidemic
of scams as criminals flood Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, I was gonna bring that up.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
If you're on the GRAM or the book Brace Yourselves
flood of scams.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
From the Washington Post on a remote island in Australia,
the birds are so full of plastic they crunch.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh not good, anybody concerned about plastics. Asia churns out
and throws in the ocean and just out into the environment.
So many multiples of what the United States does. We
could eliminate plastic here and still have a huge problem.
I get a ticket if I don't put my plastic
bottle in the right container. That's because you live in
(16:04):
a communist and community.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
From study fines, could one animal have eight brains? Octopus
set study says kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
The amazing octopus. The more you learn, the more you
admire them.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
And finally, from the Battle on Bee Home.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Depot adds self deportation. Kiosks, honey, that is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So that story from the bebe about the Supreme Court
rules biological definition of woman?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Is that the British Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yes, Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh okay, I thought, so okay.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I got all excited to fill in my Starbucks story
really quick. Thousands of Starbucks baristas went on strike to
protest the new dress code, where the company decided you
need to wear like a black shirt or black pants
underneath your green apron and a bunch of I'm not
striking again. My advice is where what your boss tells
you to wear, or go somewhere else. You're fired, feel
(17:07):
free to reapply, but I don't love your chances.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Do like Reagan did gia air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's quite important, just the whole God.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I would tell my kids immediately, where what the boss
tells you to wear? I want to bring my whole
self to work. Don't armstrong and getty. The whole world
got to witness that weird hair flippy thingy spinning your
head thingy yesterday out of the Middle East. That Trump
hardon me. You didn't see that, No one of the
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many celebrations when Trump's going around with these Middle Eastern countries.
I had all these long haired women to music, swinging
their hair around like a line that he walked through.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Wow, that's entertainment.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Camels, cyber trucks and hair flippy thingy women.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wow. Wow, good times, thump said. Trump said, what a culture.
Trump said, a lot of interesting things. We will bring
them to you.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
With so many, so many great topics to cover today.
I vowed to stay until midnight tonight to best serve
you good people.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Jack, I hope you're with me.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The incredibly tall, pompous and nut job James call mey
former FBI director, is going to be answering questions the
FBI today for a stupid post he put out yesterday.
Stay tuned for that story. But first, it's the Friday tradition.
Let's take a fond look back at the week that was.
It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You're saying he's dead. That is a truth.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Tap lights are blinking, the sirens are turning. Josh wis
the week McDonald Squish Mellows Happy Mal twenty twenty five reviews.
I noticed it right away. The tea is missing, just
says are unp it says Rump.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is there anything in.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
There that makes it clear that it's a big kidney No,
exactly like any one one.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't see much sense and putting me on the
ballot after I die, I say.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Dig up his bones and reban them. Every thought.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It the drastic de escalation in the trade war between
the United States and China, so there is a chance
to rebalance together.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
This is not a political conference. This is a business conference.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I want to make a deal with Iran. I want
to do something that is possible.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
There's two steps. Is a very very nice step, and
there's a violent step.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I don't want to do the second step. The equipment
that we use, much of it, we can't buy parts
for now.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Any of the representatives that were there, you lay a
finger on them, we are going to have a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
You can't intimidate me.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Come on, give me a break. You know I was
wearing a green uniform barbitu rel agent for five years
before she was even born. Eighty five year old Motown
Legends Smokie Robinson has been accused of sexual assault by
four of his former housekeepers. Robinson plans to beat the
charges by being dead soon. The bottom line is the
White House was lying not only to the press, not
(20:04):
only to the public, but they were lying to members
of their own cabinet. I think some of the criticism
is fair.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
To be honest of me, again, it makes me mental.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was clear, far far away, there was galaxy and
there were robuts. The robots were.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Coming up close to the one trillion dollar amount is
lost every year to fraud you saw it coming. Oh yeah,
I mean it was like they threw money in the
air and just let people run around and grab it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Nobody should be comfortable when our country is in a
moment of crisis, and I think that there is far
too much comfortability across the board. So I'm Dinny Combs.
The so called freak offs happened weekly, many of the
sessions photographed and filmed.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
She even testified about him, you know, threatening to blow
up rapper Kid Cutty's part.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think he convicted.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Trump's gonna important me?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Could I ask you a question what I'm in London
and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I said, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was just thinking that sixty minute story that we
both found so explosive last Sunday night disappeared into the ether.
A trillion dollars of COVID eight money got stolen. A
kind of entertaining story for about twenty four hours for
a few people.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Doesn't make it dent the key aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
As it was happening, the bureaucrats involved said, man, all
this is going to get stolen and did nothing about it.
But it just didn't land in the American consciousness. I
hate to sound unpatriotic, but a country that behaves like that,
an enterprise that behaves like that, should fail, should fall.
Uh yeah, that's gravity that I mean, that's what you're
asking for, right, Yeah, what it would take to sustain
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it in the face of such incredible incoonfidence, dishonesties too much,
it should give way to something better. Speaking of patriots,
so many questions. The very tall, the very proud of
himself James Coley for me, FBI director who really kickstarted
the whole damn Russian thing by taking the story to
Trump and then calling reporters and saying the President has
(22:19):
been briefed on this. I mean, it was just, oh
my god. He's so full of himself. So he posts
about forty eight hours ago he's walking on the beach
somewhere and he arranges shells in such a way on
the beach that they read eighty six forty seven, and
then he says, look this interesting shell arrangement. I just
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came across any posts.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Excuse me, wow wow for No.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Eighty six depending I usually heard it bar related when
people get eighty six from a bar, kicked out of
a bar, some people interred it, interpreted it as a
threat he should be killed, like President Trump should be
killed Trump being the forty seventh president regard that's the
code for murder in various jurisdictions. I don't know which
one specifically, one eighty six as an island. I definitely
(23:11):
think it's a stretch that he was advocating an assassination,
attempt or threatening on himself or anything like that. The
FBI is going to investigate it, as they would with
any individual who did that sort of thing. But just
how incredibly unwise is that, a guy who ran the FBI,
after all the trouble you've been through and this and
that and the way people feel about and everything like that,
(23:32):
you're gonna post an eighty six forty seven And then
he took it down quickly and realized and then apologized
or something. It's just he's unhinged.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
At the same time, I almost think it's kind of useful.
I'm gonna go all Thomas Paine on you here, and
he's actually the source of our freedom loving quote of
the day in a few minutes. But it just goes
to show you that you remove the you know, the surroundings,
the big building and all of the granite and the
suit and the grava toss.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But these guys are just.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
People, clearly, dudes and women, and they have the same
failings and frailties as the rest of us. Stop worshiping them,
any of them, well even less than a lot of
average people. Most people I know would think, that's not
gonna that's gonna be do me more harm than good.
That's not gonna help my life in any way. But
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he thought it would be funny for a second to
take a shot at the president that he hates so much. Yeah,
the more I think about it, we're gonna eighty six
the bee fribs tonight. We don't have enough of them,
that's it just means canceled. Yeah, as opposed to murder.
You don't murder an order or you know, the Margherita
machines broken, So we got eighty six the Marguerite.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, I just okay, all right, whooped? You do?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Nothing will ever beat. When he was standing in the
woods looking at the sky, so many questions, all.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Right, good, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I U back to trying to find somewhere to get
my haircut. That doesn't annoy me. That's one of the
greatest struggles of my life. What are the criteria? Just
cut my hair and don't annoy me. That's it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So you're not worse than dead.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's got nothing to do with like the quality of
the haircut that you're having a problem with. Oh yeah,
well obviously, yeah, there's a band of quality that I
must have. I mean, if it's some hack with dull
scissors who doesn't know how to cut hair, of course
that's unacceptable. But it doesn't sound like the standards are
too high there. Oh no, I'm an average middle aged dude.
I need an average middle aged dude haircut. It's not difficult.
(25:34):
But anyway, it just occurred to me what annoyed me
so much about the one guy who was.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Going to it.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He was really good and really fast, a man who
cut hair. Yes there are them, though them who does that? Uh?
He was like James Komy. And this was the best
description of Komy I ever heard. He is the hero
of every story he tells. Komy's self regard, it's just unbelievable.
(26:01):
All right, that's enough of that. I hope I the
haircutter guy, though, so he tells you some story in
which he comes out the uh looking good or whatever.
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I don't want to give too many facts, partly because
he's an enormous human being and could break me in half.
But yeah, just it's like, dude, it's stop. Do you
like really big beefy men cutting your hair? I really
do strip to the waist if possible. Yeah, shop with
hair cutting. You can't because I don't have any hair,
(26:37):
so I haven't had a haircut since I was like eleven,
So you can't. I have like a thick, lustrous mane
of chestnut locks for the ladies listening. Yes, Jack, you
can't do like uber where you put on a preference
if i'd like at sixty eight degrees and no talking,
not that i'm aware of that. Awesome if you could, though,
yeah everything, Yeah, I'm sorry, pressed the wrong for my
(27:00):
off the that'd be awesome. I wonder if that's the future,
since everything gets more computerized, like everything you do before
you get to the cash register, you'll be able to
press no interaction please, or just everything everywhere you go
all the time. Of course, that's not going to help
us as a society. No, that gives me the dystopian chills,
(27:20):
but good idea. Anyway, mail bag coming up in a
couple of minutes, and some really interesting stuff about an
epidemic of scams that is flooding a couple of the
most popular social media outlets. You thought the waters were
full of sharks, Now I know it's your phone is well? Scammers? Oh?
(27:42):
I thought you scammers? Literally no, So we'll be talking
about that, among other things. Walmart has said, yeah, we're
going to raise prices because of the tariffs, which opens
the door for all of America to do the same.
So the tariff thing might not quite be over yet.
Is a topic controversy. Yeah, I got two of the
(28:03):
Wall Street Journal's opinion on the Walmart thing, and then
Axios which had a counter version oddly enough about the
Walmart raising prices thing. So we'll hit you at that
next hour see what you think is most likely, whether
it's a big deal or not.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
All right, sounds good?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, and mail bag on the way next to here.
Trump actually responded just moments ago to the James Comy
Instagram post, and Trump said James Comy knew exactly what
he was doing. That was an assassination threat. Here we go,
Here we go ten years ago. Can you imagine a
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sitting president claiming the former FBI director had attempted had
made an assassination threat. I mean, what a giant story
that would be the world would have come to a stop,
and everybody reacting to both sides of it with Komy
what a jackass, and Trump's trolling again right and moving
on with their day. Really, if you're normal, I think
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that's the way you ought to react. Here's your freedom
loving quote of the day from Patrick Henry. Whoops, oh
it's not Wait a minute, how did that go there?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Thomas Pain?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Thomas Pain, Those who expect to reap the blessings of
freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And then you great tough women too.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
We needed a lot of expect to who expect to
reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of
supporting it. We needed a lot of Thomas Paine's energy
during the revolution. But he was a full on advocate
of the French Revolution style of just tearing everything completely
the ground and starting over. He was a nut in
my opinion. Wow wow, Jack computing the characters of our
(29:44):
Founding Fathers and the greatest Americans? Is he part of
the Russian plot to undermine our country together with the
Chinese communists? Yes, is the answer to that. We'll take
your calls. Next hour, stay with us, Mailbag He drops
a note. Mail Bag and Armstrong and Getty dot Com
have an opinion. Somebody ought to be talking about mail
(30:04):
Bag and Armstrong and Getty dot com drew the Millennial
rights guys on the topic of the Fourteenth Amendment. Get
Timmy Sandy on to discuss it. Tim Sandifer, he wrote
an entire book about it, sort of indirectly, but it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Even if it's drier than.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Assaulting Oh my, the conscience of the Constitution.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
It is an excellent book. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
One of the first things he'll say is that the
fourteenth Amendment was the codification of the Declaration of Independence.
He brushed over the Fourteenth briefly, and he's probably already
drafted a ninety page response to everything he left out.
He's weird but awesome. Love the show. Thanks Drew the Millennial.
We'll have the weird but awesome Tim Sandifer on next hour. Well, yeah,
I'll have to decide if we want to emphasize that
or the bigger question of whether these judges can jump
(30:47):
in and stop a president all the time that keeps happening.
We will emphasize neither the peanut butter nor the jelly.
We will marry them in sweet sweet accord. Wow, well
a boat in other words, On the topic of virtual reality,
John speaking for a lot of us, says, listening to
the One More Thing talk about virtual reality. Yes, the
(31:08):
Armstrong You Getty One More Thing podcast. We record it
after the radio show is done. It never airs frequently,
it has swears. Anyway, he says, I have a hard
enough time dealing with actual reality.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I don't need any more.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Well, the most amazing thing I ever got out of
the virtuality the Apple headset was the serenity of nature
and being alone by a lake. So it was interesting
that I was able to bring that feeling to my
life quickly and easily. Wow, the irony swat team is
now breaking down our doors to enforce the law. Yeah,
(31:43):
that's amazing. Yes, lucky, this high tech gadget, I just
got an incredible expense from a giant American corporation.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's allowed me to go to the woods.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Let's see you moving along, Jess and Wiley Texas pretty disappointed? Michelangelow,
How did I'm gonna rephrase this? But every time the
P Diddy update comes along or that P Diddy bombshell,
y'all laid out about the size of his manhood? How
did you miss the delightful hip hop one hit wonder
(32:15):
TUTSI role by the sixty nine Boys with a Z I.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Don't know making your request?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He plays the song every time Katie pops up with
her ditty update. Does he take request? Tell him to
start taking requests? I request? Did he take my request?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Thanks? Jess. I've never heard of that song?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Me neither.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
We don't know one hit hip hop wonders?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, there was some testimony from a different did he
trial that might lead you to believe that he's unusually
a small in his manhood and that might have something
to do with his weird, I mean beyond weird attitude
toward women and sex.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, violence fueled control freak year.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, let's see, this is serious?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Do we have time for this?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Why not to frequent correspond to JT in Livermore, I'm
I'm a Trump supporter generally, though I've repeatedly stated I'd
not want to have him over for dinner, but I'm
glad he's in the White House. I'd love to have
him over for dinner. I wouldn't want him to date
my mom. Okay, fair enough, let's send your list Armstrong
mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. But even
though I've sought really hard to find justification for Trump's
(33:25):
seemingly inexplicable behavior visa v. Putin, unless this is some
sort of eighteen dimensional chess moved to keep Putin in
the war so as to decimate Russia militarily and economically,
I'm almost out of excuses, right, I agree, And then
he says, in fact, I'm so out of excuses that
my imagination and is dredging up old Kevin Costner movies,
(33:47):
in which Costner plays a Navy intel officer turns out he's.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
A deep Russian mole after all. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It's one of my favorite all time movies. No way out. Yeah,
uh uh, I don't think that. I don't think Trump
is any sort of asset or any of that sort
of stuff. I don't know what is fascination with Putins,
but I worry that if they meet Trump is going
to say some way too flattering things about Putin and
way too negative things about Zelensky for anybody to.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Be able to take. I know, yeah, I worry about
that too.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
More on Putin's history of manipulating American presidents later on
in the show. This is so interesting from Sean. We
were talking about AI dominated warehouses with AI forklifts and
the rest of it. Lights out warehouses are definitely the future.
It was more than ten years ago. I stood in
a huge warehouse and they essentially had a pilot program
of one section of it was entirely automated, very close aisles,
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no lights. Through the silhouettes of the aisles, I could
see machines rising and pulling pallets and bringing them to
exit points.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, you wouldn't need any lighting.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Wow, and how much would that save you if you
didn't have to light and heat or air conditioned to
a certain extent. You don't want the machines to burn up,
but they wouldn't have to be as comfortable as for humans.
I never even thought about the same there and this
we have time for this, No, we really don't. We
got three more hours from beautiful Placterville California, pointing out
(35:10):
that the California Bullspit Train, as now described by the
folks building it, is now officially slower than taking a
bus from San Francisco to La Yeah, because it'd probably
take nine or ten hours. Yeah, you could take a
bus faster and a heck of a lot cheaper. Oh
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