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Jack Armstrong
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live.
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Jack Armstrong
From the Abraham Lincoln radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Thank you very much.
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Tom McClintock
Flanked by everyday workers, the President talking up his big beautiful bill.
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Joe Getty
Today we'll deliver a record tax cut, a record spending cut, a record investment in border security, and revealing a new.
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Tom McClintock
Trade deal with China, although with very few specifics.
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Joe Getty
We just signed with China yesterday. Right. Just signed with China in the China deal. We're starting to open up China. Things that never really could have happened.
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Jack Armstrong
I remember when the summer was kind of slow, news wise back in the day. It sure isn't anymore. So much going on, so much to talk about with Congressman Tom McClintock of the Fifth District of California, longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Tom, how are you, sir?
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Joe Getty
I'm doing fine. You're right, they've been busy little bees around here.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And we will get to that in a minute. I thought you might be interested to know what just wrapped up a great conversation with Tim Sandifer of the Goldwater Institute about Independence Day since we're off next week, and the Declaration of Independence and in its role in the nation's history and ethics and the rest of it. And as you are one of the great lovers of liberty I've ever met in politics or out. When you think about the Declaration of Independence, what do you think about? What comes to mind?
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Joe Getty
Well, there's this revolutionary concept that there are certain rights that don't come to us from government. They come to us from what the founders called the laws of nature and of nature's God. God creates these rights. We create governments to protect these rights, and that's their only legitimate function.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I expressed to Tim, I've come to the belief that the idea of liberty is just kind of background noise. It's almost like wallpaper in the American scene these days. And people think that the role of government is to be. Well, is to do things for us and give things to us. And liberty needs to be an ever present word, I think, or idea, as we're discussing the politics of our time. And I think that's been lost, particularly among young people.
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Joe Getty
Well, you know, if you want to know the entire history of human civilization in four words, it's freedom works, socialism sucks. You know, I talk to young people all the time who said, oh, well, socialism, that's sharing and taking care of one another, and capitalism, that's just dog eat dog. Look out for Yourself and, and I try to explain to them you've got it exactly backwards. The only possible way to prosper and succeed in a capitalist system is you've got to figure out what somebody else needs and how to get it for them better than they can get it for themselves. There's no other way. It might be mowing their lawn, it might be doing brain surgery on their child. Whatever it is, you've got to help your neighbor if you're going to succeed and prosper. Socialism is taking from one person what they've earned by helping their neighbor and giving it to somebody who hasn't. And it's true. If I take a dollar from Peter and give it to Paul, Paul's got an extra dollar to spend. Paul's a happy man. Peter's got one less dollar to spend. So you haven't helped the economy at all. But what you've really done is you have robbed from both of them a dollar's worth of incentive to help each other. Paul because he no longer needs to, and Peter because he no longer profits from it. And that's why socialism always dissolves the bonds that hold a society together and ultimately requires lots and lots of government force. Because you've got to force people to act against their own interests.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, right. You've removed the incentives, the rewards, so all that remains is the punishments. And I love your illustration of capitalism, too, or the free market, as I prefer to phrase it, because I've got to do whatever I'm doing to your satisfaction to profit from it.
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Joe Getty
It's an entirely voluntary arrangement. Whereas socialism, you've got to apply enormous amounts of force. And that's why socialist socialism dissolves, first of all, the bonds that hold the society together creates enormous misery and deprivation and ultimately has to be enforced at the point of a bayonet.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Which is why I'm so astounded by the perhaps probable election of this Zoran Mandambi character in, in New York City, the idea that you could run rent control up the flagpole and anyone would salute. I. We just, we need to do a better job, speaking of America's young people, of teaching the basic economics. If you choke off the supply of something, if you remove the incentives for supplying it, you don't get more of it. For instance, rental properties.
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Joe Getty
Well, and I think young people are figuring it out. You're seeing that in all the polling data. Now this, this young generation is turning into the most conservative generation we've had since the days of Ronald Reagan. And if you recall Ronald Reagan's success was driven by the youngest voters in the electorate. They understood their, their, their futures were at stake and they spent a lot of time figuring things out, connecting the dots and starting to make very good decisions. That's, that's what democracies are all about. In normal times, they may go hay, but when things get tough, people start putting all of their attention into their decisions. They start making very good decisions and they set things right. And I think that's what happened across America in 2024. I think that was one of the great realigning elections of American history. New York is obviously an aberration. And frankly, I've developed this morbid curiosity to see just how completely they can destroy a city. And I think they've just got the guy to do it.
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Jack Armstrong
That may be the only way to cure people of their illusion that this stuff actually works. Maybe you have to hit bottom like a drunk. Anyway, in my introduction to Tom, I'd meant to mention that the Congressman was voted the best vote for taxpayers two years in a row in the House of Representatives. Citizens Against Government Waste recently named Tom McClintock one of only two perfect votes in the House fighting wasteful government spending. And in that spirit, sir, as you keep an eye on the so called big beautiful bill getting kicked around now in the in the Senate, what's your perception of where we are and how optimistic are you that we will birth something worth having?
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Joe Getty
Well, it's going to pass because it absolutely has to pass. Without it, an average family's taxes are going to rise 22% next year. That's about $1,700 a year in additional taxes. That'll make it the biggest tax increase in American history. That's already on the books. This bill stops that tax increase from taking effect. And at the same time, it removes taxes on tips and overtime. It increases standard deduction for seniors to protect their Social Security earnings. So that by itself makes it absolutely imperative that it pass. But it does a lot of other very good things too. I could go through the list. Among them increasing the border patrol and securing the repatriation of the millions of illegal aliens that the Biden administration let into this country. You know, unleashing America's vast energy resources. But most importantly, it comes down to this. The, the only economic indicator that really matters is how people answer this question next year. Are you better off today than you were two years ago? You can't spin the answer to that question. Every person knows in their own lives how they're doing. If we can get this bill into effect this summer. It'll have a full year to work before people will be called upon to ask that question in the next election. And that's, that's why it's going to pass, because it has to.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, and a third reference to America's young people, I think there could be no more important issue than breaking the chokehold that the teachers unions have on our government schools through competition and innovation. And I know there's some really inspiring or interesting things in the bill pushing school choice, so I was glad to hear about that.
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Joe Getty
Well, and. Yes. Well. And Ariel Durant wrote in their history of civilization, what makes Ford a good car? Chevrolet. Competition. You want to improve the public schools, restore competition, allow parents the means and the freedom to make their own decision on the school that best meets their own child's needs. And you will see a huge improvement in the public and private schools.
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Jack Armstrong
Congressman Tom McClintock is on the line. I couldn't agree more. Hey, in the time we have left, your reaction to a couple of geopolitical happenings, the stunning Israeli raid on Iran and the US's role in helping out, what'd you make of all that?
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Joe Getty
Well, I mean, without divulging classified information, I think I can safely say that if you've ever seen the film classic Bambi meets Godzilla, sort of like that.
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Jack Armstrong
The efficiency and skill of not only the United States fighting forces, but our allies in Israel are just awesome to behold.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, and they did a splendid job. I mean, Israeli intelligence, the un, the Iran foreign minister, all agree that the Iranian nuclear capability has been, in President Trump's word, obliterated. You know, the only people we're saying otherwise are the supreme Mullah of Iran and a CNN reporter. But, you know, ultimately, anything that can be destroyed can be rebuilt. The Iranian regime has made it clear that it intends to acquire nuclear weapons, and once acquired, to use them first against is then against us. And until they acquire that ability, they're still going to be the prime sponsor of terrorism around the world. I mean, they fund and direct the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, and there's no reason to believe they're going to stop. The good news is that regime is like a rotting porch. It is just waiting to collapse. They've oppressed the Iranian people for decades. There is a very strong resistance movement there and in the Iranian diaspora abroad. And the problem was, every time it was on the verge of revolution, the Obama and Biden administration stepped in. They sent cargo pallets of cash to the moolahs, they relaxed the sanctions that's not going to happen under Trump. So I think ultimately the only way to permanently resolve this danger, short of a bloody war, is to bring that regime crashing down from within. And maybe now's the time to start assisting the opposition groups in any way that we can.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, and it's just great to see deterrence back on the scene because serious deterrence leads to peace. Congressman Tom McClintock of the fifth district of California. Congressman, it's always a pleasure. Thanks. Happy Independence Day to you and yours, and we'll talk again soon.
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Joe Getty
Thanks, Joe. Great talking to you.
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Jack Armstrong
Likewise. Clips of the week coming up in a moment or two. And then a report from Jack in sunny Florida. Stay with us. Armstrong and Gettysburg. Power grows hungrier with the eating. It's one of those principles that we've either forgotten or just been duped out of ignoring in the the modern day the fantasy that government will just give us everything we need and that there isn't any cost for it. And I don't just mean literally the cost in tax dollars and confiscations and the rest of it, but that it won't be in love with its own power and metastasize because it always does in every example through human history. But we as humans somehow lose that reality. Anyway, happy Independence Day a week early to you and yours. Jack is going to be weighing in from Florida in a couple of minutes where he is on vacation. Lovely of him to join us. Been enjoying the conversations with Tim Sandifer and Tom McClintock and all sorts of people about the declaration in the US and freedom and the rest of it. Hope you've enjoyed it, too. If you're just joining us, grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. All right, so we had to put it off to accommodate the congressman's schedule, but it's time for the Friday traditional. Let's take final look back at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
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Joe Getty
That place is demolished. Totally obliterated.
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Tom McClintock
Obliterated.
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Jack Armstrong
Obliterated.
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Joe Getty
It was called obliteration. This is cow of the week.
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Jack Armstrong
U.S. central Command executed Operation Midnight Hammer.
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Tom McClintock
Started with a decoy group of two.
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Joe Getty
B2 bombers heading west towards Guam.
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Jack Armstrong
And while the world was looking the other way, seven more B2 taking off directly towards Iran with a total of 14 MOPS dropped against two nuclear target areas.
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Joe Getty
This is not a game playing president. When he says he's going to do something, he will do it.
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Jack Armstrong
The president obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.
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Tom McClintock
Iran's response came in the form of a missile strike they don't know what the they're doing.
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Joe Getty
You understand that questions remain about the.
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Jack Armstrong
Fate of Iran's enriched uranium. Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape. At least two of the Iranian nuclear.
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Tom McClintock
Facilities targeted were not completely destroyed.
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Joe Getty
But I think CNN is a gutless group of people. I know that better than you know.
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Jack Armstrong
That, and I know that that's not the case.
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Tom McClintock
But I'm asking whether the order was.
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Jack Armstrong
Given and the people who say that.
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Joe Getty
It doesn't matter the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. If you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordeau, you better.
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Jack Armstrong
Get a big shovel and go really deep.
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Joe Getty
If I'm the president, we will attack Iran.
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Tom McClintock
We would be able to totally obliterate them.
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Joe Getty
Totally obliterated.
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Tom McClintock
Obliterated.
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Jack Armstrong
Obliterated.
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Joe Getty
It was called obliteration.
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Jack Armstrong
On all Midnight Hammer clips of the week. We might play the fun one later on in the hour because we have an alternate clips of the week that Hansen has prepared for us. I was reading about a great piece written by credit where it's due. Dove Lieber, inside Operation Narnia, the daring attack Israel feared it couldn't pull off. And my gosh, it's compelling. At midnight on June 13, Israel's generals gathered in a bunker beneath Israel air Force headquarters, Israeli Air Force headquarters, and watched as jets descended on Tehran in an operation they called Red Wedding. Ooh. Anybody familiar with the Game of Thrones gets that reference. Hours later and 1,000 miles away, Iran's top military commanders were dead. A mass killing much like the famous wedding scene from the show Game of Thrones. The combination of intelligence, information, military precision that enabled the attack surprised people around the world. But it wasn't the only improbable success at the outset of the 12 day campaign. Another key part of the initial attack, considered so fantastical, even, even by its planners, that it was called Operation Narnia, after the fictional C.S. lewis series. It successfully killed nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously at their homes in Tehran. The key being that pulling off the attacks required elaborate ruses to ensure a surprise. At the last moment, they nearly fell apart. But the point being both the scientists and the generals, it had to be carefully coordinated because, you know, the regime is sensitive to the fact that Israel was on high alert and maybe coming for them, the US as well. And if one general got it, everybody else would have gone to ground. And if one scientist got it, all the rest would have vanished into the woodwork. So it all had to happen a thousand miles away, nearly Simultaneously. And you know, part of the untold story, well, until now, is that Israel's been conducting drills to get the skills down to do this in very innocent seeming ways. Flying large groups of aircraft to Greece and refueling them over and over again on the way without landing in a way that seemed odd to people. But they've been working on this for years and years and pulled it off against all odds. And at least for now, the mullahs don't have nukes. That story will be ongoing, obviously. Much more to come. Stay with us. Armstrong and Getty. A couple more segments to go. We're going to finish strong if we possibly can, including with this special guest appearance by the co host of the show, Mr. Jack Armstrong. Jack, where are you now?
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Tom McClintock
I took my talents to South Beach.
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Jack Armstrong
Way to go. So first question, you're there in Florida, is anybody alive? Because I remember they were calling Ron DeSantis Ron death sentence during COVID Are there any Floridians left?
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Tom McClintock
Yes, they seem to be alive and scantily clad. Katie, maybe Katie can explain this. Why are bikinis so expensive? Since there is so little material involved, especially in the modern era, please figure.
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Jack Armstrong
That out for me because I don't know.
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Tom McClintock
Good Lord. So I have two teenage boys, we're on the beach in south beach and they're both playing it cool. But I, I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I don't know that I'd want to be a 15 year old boy in this environment.
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Jack Armstrong
It would be distracting, torturous, I would guess.
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Tom McClintock
Oh my God. And I was talking to somebody before I came here and they said, man, you gotta really be careful to not end up. Because I was explaining to my, my younger Henry Associ, scantily clad with a danger, with danger for some reason, like you're in a dangerous neighborhood if you're seeing scantily clad people. And I was talking to somebody about that and they said, oh, it's very easy to end up on a beach where, you know, it's topless. You're going to see a lot of nudity and he will freak out if he sees that. So I'm trying to avoid that.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, that's interesting. I would never think of that as a concern on a trip to Florida, but there you are.
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Tom McClintock
So much nudity.
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Jack Armstrong
How hot is it?
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Tom McClintock
It's freaking hot.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh my God.
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Tom McClintock
Muy caliente. So I got here last night. This is kind of funny. So I'm staying at one of those. If you've ever seen pictures of South Beach, Miami the colorful art deco hotels that are like in every postcard. We're staying in one of those. And because of southwest weirdness we got here like two and a half hours later than we were supposed to. Of course, sitting on the tarmac for an hour 15 in Houston for no explanat whatsoever and just that sort of thing. But so we get to the hotel and we get dropped off at 1am and the doors open, we walk in, there's nobody at the front desk and there's like no bell to ring or anything. And I thought, oh, you know, fine, they're in the bathroom or whatever. So we wait and we wait and like a half hour goes by and I call the number and the phone rings there right in front of me.
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Jack Armstrong
And anyway, pick it up, answer it.
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Tom McClintock
Two hours of awaiting from 1am to 3am with nobody around. We, we eventually walked down the street and got some pizza because we were starving and there was nobody. And I mean the bar was there. I could have walked into the bar and poured myself a top shelf drink if I wanted to. I could have stolen many, many things and there was just nobody there. It was so strange.
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Jack Armstrong
Boy, it's not like you're in some sort of village in northwestern Norway or something.
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Tom McClintock
Yeah, right, right. I wasn't visit, visiting Greenland. I was in South Beach, Miami and I mean there's people everywhere and the bars are thumping and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, so I went next door to a hotel and had, even though I'd already paid for three rooms at this one, I and got a couple of rooms just because we needed somewhere to sleep. That it was now that was 3am And I got it straightened out today. I took some video, some funny videos though that I showed to the manager today and somebody's getting fired. They even left their keys sitting on the desk like the I'm the janitor keys with like 8,000 keys on it. And all the keys were labeled like bar, you know, master key for the rooms, you know, all the different stuff. And they just left it there.
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Jack Armstrong
Whoever it was.
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Tom McClintock
I don't know if they passed out or had a hookup in one of.
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Jack Armstrong
The rooms or what happened. But wow. Good gracious. Okay, I could have made, I could.
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Tom McClintock
Have made quite the reality show video out of that if I had been willing to break the law. Just gone into the bar and you know, go room to room chats. Good night. How are you doing in there?
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Jack Armstrong
Just checking in. Everybody's sleeping. Okay, great. I'm the manager. Enjoy your stay. 3 o' clock in the morning.
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Tom McClintock
All right. Anybody need a foot rub or anything? No.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay. It gets stabbed.
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Tom McClintock
It is so freaking hot here, though. If you're not used to humidity, like, I'm not. It is just absolutely ridiculous.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Well, Judy and I were hunting to figure out where our, you know, semi golden years pad would be, and we're focused on South Carolina and where we ended up. And. And somebody said to us, well, it's really hot, but it's not Florida hot. And I thought, good God, there's like a whole nother gradation.
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Tom McClintock
You know What I'm noticing is how I explain this to the kids because we just. We just ate the whole Cuban Hispanic culture is so much different than the. I'm from Mexico's Hispanic culture. Oh, yeah, it's just different. It's just like a different. Well, it's a different culture. It's like. And I suppose that's obvious, but you know, you, you think Spanish and often lump people together, but the Marco Rubio Hispanic crowd is much different than the, you know, California Hispanic crowd in all kinds of different ways that I'll talk about when, when we come back. Here's the coolest thing that's happened to me today that doesn't really even have anything to do with my vacation. It's more about AI and Chat GPT. So I could not figure out the Nespresso machine in the room. And like, I need coffee or I'm going to pull somebody's head off, you know? And it was a new kind of Nespresso machine that I'd never seen before and just, I couldn't get it to work. I took a picture of it on my phone, pressed one button and said, how do you make this thing work? It went to Chat GPT and it came back it. So do you press that button to the left and that other one after it blinks? And it just, it looked at it figured out what it was, got the instructions and told me, how awesome is that?
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, that is great. We did. Jack, Perhaps you can listen to the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on Demand did a little AB with an article about a gal who was using AI as her career counselor and how incredibly great it was in ways that I won't redescribe, but. And then the B was an article about how with very few tweaks, it could give you some really fine ideas for wiping out the Jews or wiping out white people or. Or a back door portal into the White House IT system or whatever just turned evil at the drop of a Hat.
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Tom McClintock
So yeah, I'm sure how to make a bomb out of crock pot if you wanted to or something like that. Oh, boobs. I see them right over there. Boobs. They're bare boobs here. Sam's head is going to pop off when I. A 15 year old high school boy, I never saw anything like this before. Oh my God. He's gonna be, he's gonna be texting his friends on the down low. Dudes, you can't believe this.
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Jack Armstrong
Free the nipple. What is.
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Tom McClintock
Hey, Katie, what is the appeal of a topless beach? Is it tan lines? Is it like feminism?
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Jack Armstrong
What is it? Probably a mixture of both. The tan lines can get really tacky if, if you get dark.
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Tom McClintock
So does it make you feel wild or like seen or. I just, I don't even quite understand.
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Jack Armstrong
I've never gone to a topless beach, so I don't know what they are feeling in that exact moment. I would assume they feel quite free.
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Tom McClintock
I'll go ask her.
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Jack Armstrong
A nice breeze. Do it. Do it. Compliment her too. You look very fit. Do you work out?
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Tom McClintock
Oh my God.
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Jack Armstrong
Just go up here and tell her how pretty her eyes are.
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Tom McClintock
Man, if it's this hot here on the beach by the water, we're going to the Everglades on Sunday where it's supposed to be significantly more humid and hot. I can't imagine what that's going to feel like. I'll be wishing an alligator would bite my head off.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, speaking of which, have you seen any of the big lizards with the boys yet?
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Tom McClintock
No, we just, we, we. We arrived, as I explained, at three in the morning basically. So we, we haven't done much yet. Yeah, I just had a. I just had a lobster omelette that was pretty fantastic.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I'll bet, I'll bet. So is there surf there? Are there crashing waves or is it pretty placid?
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Tom McClintock
It's. I'd say it's in between. It's like perfect for being out there in the water and bob up and down, but not gonna drag you out to sea and kill you. I might rent a jet ski and head to Cuba.
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Jack Armstrong
The good man. Yeah, a little reverse Marielle boat lift. Good idea. Yeah, they'll welcome you with open arms. Isn't it crazy how warm the Atlantic is compared to the Pacific?
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Tom McClintock
But Sam and Henry are out there right now. Salmon hates cold water, so it must be pretty comfy.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I still remember the shock of stepping into the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Having grown up as a kid who vacationed on the east coast and thinking, sweet mother of God, no. The Atlantic Ocean in the summertime is like a bath. Seriously. Yeah, it's like.
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Tom McClintock
So all those Beach Boys songs, you know, all the, the surfing, you know, they're all shrunk up underneath those shorts. It's freezing cold.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Or they're wearing wetsuits or whatever. But certainly more than the harlots of South Beach. I don't approve.
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Tom McClintock
I like the way everybody on the plane last night just accepted the fact that we sat there for an hour 15 with no explanation whatsoever before we took off. And everybody just accepts that now because it's just part of the deal. Yeah, nobody, nobody felt a need to explain. Nobody even asked. You just think, well, I guess this is just the way it is flying now. Didn't used to be that way. Somebody would have made a big deal out of the fact that we been sitting here for an hour 15 before we took off and we're going to be late for everything. It's just part of the deal.
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Jack Armstrong
Now switching to my business reporter hat. It'll be interesting to see the evolution of Southwest Airlines as they have evolved somewhat. The late night comedians making jokes about Spirit and JetBlue and all those other alternate airlines. That's not from nothing. They didn't make that stuff up. That derision came from somewhere. Which direction does the great Southwest go? Who knows else?
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Tom McClintock
Yeah, you don't want to end up being like a Spirit or a Boeing where you're just an endless punchline.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Not so obvious that way. More boops.
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Tom McClintock
I gotta, gotta turn my head this way. I don't want to be. I don't want anybody to think I'm star. I'll look this. There's a cop car over there. I'll stare at the cop car.
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Jack Armstrong
That's what I'll do, Jack. I've vacationed in the south of France. You'll get used to it. They'll get used to it. Everything will be fine very, very soon. We have the breast alarm. The breast alarm is sounded, ladies and gentlemen. Head to the shelters.
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Tom McClintock
I don't want to be old guy at the beach staring at 20 year olds boobs. So I got to make sure my head is going the right direction.
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Jack Armstrong
You're not gonna stare, but you don't have to look at a cop car either. But you have the right to look in the direction you choose.
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Tom McClintock
Jack, this is America.
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Jack Armstrong
That's right.
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Tom McClintock
Well, you wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to tell it because I haven't heard anybody speak English in quite some time.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. Although getting back to the Cuban culture thing, it's a shame the goddamn communists are in charge of Cuba.
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Tom McClintock
Oh, no kidding.
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Jack Armstrong
The food is incredible, the music is wonder. People are hardworking and industrious. It's. It's a shame.
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Tom McClintock
I was thinking that last night this whole south beach vibe would be all of Cuba and people would be traveling from all over the world to spend the kind of money they spend here in Cuba. Those idiot communists, you know, missing out on all that.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, that's what used to happen until Che Guevara and old weird beard Castro got got the nod. But what are you going to do? Nothing's forever. Anything exciting this afternoon or you just.
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Tom McClintock
Chill out after your all nighter T shirts in Miami?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh my God. Punch him in the head.
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Tom McClintock
Probably not quite as cool you do.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, no kidding, I guess. Yeah. Excuse me. Excuse me. You and the T shirt. Yeah, Chequin. His guys, he. They executed my grandfather for no reason other than he was a school teacher. So. Yeah, yeah, try that in south beach beaches. Anyway, go vacation, have a good time. Did we lose them? That's fine. We're going to break anyway. Jack, weighing in from the hot, steamy beaches of Miami, will be back and finish strong. Next, Armstrong and Getty. Funny coincidence. There's breaking news as I'm speaking these words that the University of Virginia president has resigned. The Justice Department was after him because he had been enthusiastically continuing illegal DEI programs, specifically racial discrimination. You know, relying on the, the ridiculous but popular canard that the way you fix any racial problems of history is through lots and lots of racism. The Justice Department was looking into the schools clinging to DEI efforts and. Good, I'm glad he quit. It's, it's a, a step in the right direction anyway because our universities and schools are hotbeds of this stuff. And also the Supreme Court earlier today had ruled that yes, parents can absolutely demand that their kids can opt out of so called LGBTQ+ minus over the power of three stories in Maryland schools as they were teaching kids radical gender theory in like third grade. And the parents are saying, you've got to give us, we've got to be able to take our kids out of school and not hear that stuff. It's, it's absolutely antithetical to our religion and our morals and our beliefs about the world and the rest of it. So that's, that's another. A great blow. Oppression comes from the left and the right alike. Always has. In fact, you know, whether it's you want to Cite the horseshoe theory that it, you know, toward the end of the horseshoe, the left and right are pretty close to each other. And who was it? Was it Iran? Somebody made the brilliant point that effectively there's really no difference between left and right. They throw different phony academic rationales at you as to why they ought to be in charge of everything. But what they share is a systematic subjugation of individual rights in favor of government control. And it's funny that those two things should break as I'm getting ready to finish up the last show before Independence Day next week. We're all on vacation next week, but after Thomas Jefferson and Adams, mostly with some help from Ben Franklin, drafted the Declaration of Independence and went through Continental Congress and everything. The first. First paragraph is just saying, look, we're breaking with England and we owe everybody an explanation. Why, it's a famous paragraph, but I'm going to skip to the second one. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Anything that departs from that, no matter the excuse, no matter the long explanation, the eloquent Ibramix kindy book or the phony 1619 project or what have you, anything that departs from those couple of sentences, feel free to reject it with confidence because they are false words of false prophets. Thanks, weird singing guy. Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the week. There he is, pressing the buttons. Michelangelo, Michael, what's your final thought real quick?
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Joe Getty
This childhood memory involved an entire brick.
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Jack Armstrong
Of firecrackers and a lot of bottle.
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Joe Getty
Rockets and a trip to a certain.
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Jack Armstrong
State with loose firework laws. And that's all I'll say. It's just a fictional, you know, thing, but it was fun. Beloved American tradition. That's right. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie, it has been so long since I have had zero plans. And I have zero plans for next week. I'm excited about it. You know, I've occasionally quoted Paul McCartney to my wife. Wife. Oh, that magic feeling. Nowhere to go. Yeah, it's nice sometimes, isn't it? I'm going to guest guess at Jack's final thought. Look, boobs as he is there in south beach. Or sometimes the nipple is indeed free. My final thought. Happy Independence Day. God bless this country. Read the Declaration of Independence again. It's worth it. It's really, really important. Hope everybody has a great week. We have some very carefully prepared best of and stuff you've never heard. It's never aired before. We'll see you next Monday. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
So you're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats, no Roman candles or screaming mimis?
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Jack Armstrong
No.
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Joe Getty
Oh, come on, man. You don't got no lady fingers, buzz bundles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity doodahs or craft flappers?
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Jack Armstrong
No, I don't.
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Joe Getty
You're gonna stand there, there, owning a firework stand and tell me you don't have no whistling bung holes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honky lighters, who's your dues, who's your don'ts? Cherry bombs, nips, a dazers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistling kitty chaser?
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Jack Armstrong
No.
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Joe Getty
Because snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like. What? That might be your problem. It's not what you like, it's the consumer.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. This is an I heart podcast.