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Joe Getty
Armstrong and getty. And now here, armstrong and g, Live from Studio C, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y', all, today we're toiling under the title of Joe Getty's Playing Golf. That's the title. So it's just me and a whole bunch of guests that we've lined up for the show today to talk about a whole bunch of different interesting things that are in the news and aren't in the news. And I hope you can stick around and I think it'll be damned interesting. Man, I am riveted by Trump's visit to China right now and taking in as much news as I can on the whole thing. And I don't know if y' all have, but definitely the headline was how aggressive President Xi and his people have been talking about Taiwan and the hey, we're taking Taiwan and don't think about getting away. We're willing to go to war with it. Basically what they said and not much, not, not softened much from the way I just presented it, which is definitely the most harsh they've been in any of the meetings with U.S. presidents. And the interesting thing is, so there's these are behind closed door conversations, a lot of these. And so you get the Chinese readout of what was said and then you get the US White House readout of what was said. Well, the, the Chinese readout had the, the really strong verbiage around Taiwan. The US Readout didn't mention a Taiwan conversation at all. So what Trump said back is unknown at this point. He may have just said nothing, just looked at the guy. And, you know, sometimes in a negotiation, you do that, somebody says something, and you just sit there and listen or look at them or don't say anything. She even brought up the whole Thucydides trap, which we've talked about a lot on the show over the years. Thucydides being one of your ancient Greek writers thinkers. Anyway, the idea is that in world history, anytime you have an established great power and then a rising power, that rising power and great power always go to war. And that has happened, like, every time but once in world history over many thousands of years. Obviously, we are the current great power, and China is the rising great power. And Xi brought up the Thucydides trap on and then that we should try to avoid it, which I take also as kind of a threat. But let me hit you with the actual quote of what President Xi said. And again, there's no response that we know yet of what Trump said back. The Taiwan question is the most important issue in the China US Relations, she said, according to their readout, if it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy. Whether Trump responded to that, I do not know. But we'll, we'll talk more about that later. And we're even trying to line up some guests to have more idea about what's happening there. I think what's happening, like at this moment, as, as, as I speak, either live on the radio or recording it for the podcast, Trump and she are in a private meeting after their big meal there in the Great Hall. So I did a little research on the Great Hall. I don't know if you've watched any of this on the news. So Trump gets off the plane. It's interesting how his relationship we have with China is so important that we're willing to just not even bring up sore points like the fact that Trump and Xi are right there in Tiananmen Square, site of one of the worst massacres against people seeking freedom in my lifetime, the Tiananmen Square massacre. If you don't know anything about it or you're too young, Google it or chat GPT it. Anyway, that's where Trump and G First meet, and Trump gets off the plane. And yesterday they go into the Great hall, which I find very interesting, that there's a big, giant, huge picture of Chairman Mao on the Great hall right there. And that's overlooked. So you got the Tiananmen Square Massacre. We just. We don't even bring that up. You know, a lot of Americans know about Tiananmen Square. Cause they watched it on TV every night back in the late 80s before you slaughtered all those college kids who were trying to get freedom. And then he got Chairman Mao's face over that Chairman Mao responsible for killing more people than maybe any human being in history, almost certainly than any human being in history. Makes Hitler like a punk, look like a punk. Can you imagine if you flew into Munich or Berlin and there was a giant Hitler picture there on the building you were walking in to have negotiations? Well, in China, you fly in and there's a giant portrait of Mao there, who killed somewhere between 30 and 50 million people of his own people. And he got his picture there. And we just kind of ignore that. Anywho, doing a little research on the. The Great hall, this is the sort of thing I would have looked up as a kid. I loved our encyclopedia set when I was a kid because I would. I would think of things I wanted to know about, and I would go grab an encyclopedia and look it up. And it was the only way, living out in rural middle of nowhere, that I could get any information or anything. I would have loved these chatbots when I was a kid. Although if I had access to this, I probably would have just looked at porn as a teenager. So I wouldn't have learned anything. Me too. The Great hall of China, how big is. Is 1.8 million square feet. So the big giant hall that they're eating in right now, if you've seen, like right now live, they've got video. There's Elon Musk chewing. I see up on Fox, because they had this big. There's Tim Cook of Apple. But you got all these different diplomats and business people from the United States and China meeting there. And before Trump and she go into a private room to talk about the Great hall, which was built in the 50s by Chairman Mao, is almost 2 million square feet. To give you an idea how big that is. That's 30 acres of an indoor ballroom. You can't even wrap your head around how big that is. 30 acres. Acres is the size of that ballroom. Holy crap. Way bigger than any of your biggest sports stadiums that you've ever been to. Contains a massive central auditorium where they're eating right now that will hold 10,000 people in one of the rooms, because there's a whole bunch of great big giant rooms, enormous banquet halls that they can have many banquets going on at the same time, hundreds of meetings rooms and all that sort of stuff. But it's just insanely huge. It's bigger than the US the entire US Capitol. If you've ever been to DC or the palace of Westminster in Britain or any of those sites, if you've ever traveled and seen those great big giant buildings, this is way bigger than that. And that's where they're meeting right now. And I. To me, the most interesting thing that I want to hear today is what was Trump's response when President Xi basically threatened war over the island of Taiwan? Did he just say nothing? Because, again, our. Our printout from our White House doesn't bring up Taiwan at all. I can get into some more of the particulars of what they said back and forth. We should probably start the show officially because the FCC would just love to jump on this, since I'm solo today, and find me, maybe throw me in FCC jail if I don't start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, May 14, the year 2026. We are Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program. Let's begin the show. Mark, we both believe that the China,
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US Relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never mess it up.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, they're making it very, very clear that things could go sideways if they don't get what they want and the what they want. As they emphasized over and over, President Xi himself and all the spokespeople believe him that the number one thing for them is that Taiwan becomes part of China. Xi also stresses that Taiwan independence is fundamentally incompatible with peace across the Taiwan Strait. In other words, if Taiwan is independent, there will not be peace. The opposite of peace is, of course, war. Describing stability in the region as in the common interest of both Beijing and Washington. Well, it's not really in our interest to allow the Taiwan Strait to become part of China. And, you know, we're seeing what's happening with the Strait of Hormuz. The Taiwan Strait is every bit as big a deal to shipping, and more importantly than that, Taiwan is responsible for 90% of your very best computer chips on planet Earth, and you don't want China controlling all that. As we head into the world of AI and everything like that, let me read one more. This is the New York Times version of it. Taiwan. Taiwan itself. The country pushed back after Xi warned Trump that the issue of Taiwan could cause conflict between the two countries. China's military threats are the sole cause for instability in the Taiwan Strait in the region, said a government spokeswoman. She said that Taiwan had maintained close contact with Washington throughout the preparations for the summit and that they were deeply grateful for long standing US support, which includes a current deal for $11 billion worth of weapons that we're going to give to Taiwan. They haven't been delivered yet, but the deal is made. Now there are some pundits out there, mostly Trump critics, who are concerned that Trump is going to trade away the arms deal for help with the Strait of Hormuz in Iran, that that's going to be his leverage he uses on President Xi. Hey, we won't deliver the $11 billion worth of military equipment to Taiwan. If you really lean on your friend Iran to open that straight back up again. I think most of us freedom loving people would find that horrible. There's no indication that Trump's actually planning to do that. So. But that is worth keeping our eye on. It's one of the headlines that's out there. Got our ear to the ground for the conversations as they're going on in China right now. Some of the other reporting over the last 24 hours and a whole bunch of other stuff to come, which we will hit in headlines right after this.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
I definitely don't want to have all heavy stuff today, but we have to at some point get into this. Nick Kristoff of the New York Times story I Don't know if you're aware of this or not. He had a piece in the New York Times the other day claiming horrifying rapes by Israel against Palestinians. That was so over the top. I mean, it was just like, how could this possibly be true? Israelis with this kind of systemic raping of innocent Palestinians, blah, blah, blah. And it turns out they can't back up. Christoph of the New York Times can't back this up at all. Now he's getting all kinds of pushback and, and starting to apologize. And this is a heck of an interesting story how the New York Times let one of their major columnists go this far if into like crazy town conspiracy world on a story that turns out not to be true. I definitely want to talk about that later if you don't know anything about it. And maybe this segment if we have time. I want to get into this new study about smartphones and how much your brain gets better with just two weeks of getting rid of most of your smartphone use. Get to that in just a little bit. It's interesting and I'm thinking about trying it myself. We have some pretty good guests lined up for the show today, including our friend Tim Sandiferton, the lawyer who will be on later talking about, well, lots of different things, but mostly his book that he wrote, Proclaiming Liberty, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Tim's one of the best people to talk about that sort of thing. Not only is he incredibly knowledgeable, he's just so good at presenting those stories in an exciting way. I wish he had been my 8th grade history teacher who took this stuff and made it so dreadfully dull you wanted to jump out a window. Whereas Tim makes it exciting. And we'll talk to Tim a little bit later. A lot of these kind of stories around as we come up on the 250th anniversary of the birthday of this country on July 4 this year. More on that later. Some of the headlines going on. We mentioned President Xi raising the prospect of a future US China war in his meeting with Trump, which seems pretty, I don't know if belligerent's the right word, but certainly strident. Get into more on that later. Rudy Giuliani, to remember him, revealed he was in a coma recently. Right? So Rudy Giuliani takes a crime ridden New York, becomes mayor, turns it around. A Republican, a Democrat, a Republican in a Democrat city, turns it around, becomes a super big deal known throughout the world. Then 9, 11 happens. He performs magnificently. America's mayor. We started Calling him presidential candidates gotta be someday, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then he, then he gets involved in the Trump world and like loses his mind or I don't know what happened with Rudy Giuliani. Anyway, he's gotten pretty crazy in the last several years. Poor guy's health took a bad turn recently and he was in a coma. Just like week before last, he was in a coma for several days. He said yesterday that he had a significant spiritual experience while in his coma and was spoken to. And the story of how that all went down and, and what this apparition said to him while he was in his coma is pretty interesting. So to get to that later in the show, you don't hear that every single day. Oh, got the story. If you heard it late in the show yesterday, we'll have to retell it somewhat because there's pushback now. Gavin Newsom being accused of handing out really expensive to taxpayers tablets to prisoners in California where they sit around and watch porn and reach out to kids sexually and all kinds of different horrible things. Gave all these prisoners little porn machines that we paid way too much for. Gavin Newsom's office pushing back hard against that story that we reported yesterday and the originators of the story pushing back hard against Gavin saying, oh yeah, you did give them tablets and they are using them for porn. So we'll have to get into that story later. If you didn't hear it, it's a pretty good one and mind boggling and maddening. Honda Motor reported its first annual loss since 1957 yesterday. Why? I didn't even have to read the rest of the headline to guess. After scaling back its electric vehicle plans similar to Ford and General Motors and a whole bunch of other major auto makers, these companies that were forced into making electric cars by first the Obama administration, then the Biden administration with all these various goals and regulations, the state of California did the same thing on how many electric cars we all they thought, well, we got to start making electric cars is going to be the law of the land here in just a few years. Nobody wanted them, nobody bought them. Ford gave up on it. GM gave up on it. Honda lost money for the first time since the 50s because of the electric cars. And now, at least while Trump's president, we've moved away from that. But I find that story damned interesting. These major car companies went out there and made electric cars for you and you just didn't want them. I drive a cybertruck every single day, an electric car. But I know most people don't want an electric car or they certainly don't want it for their main car. Anyway, we'll probably get into the details on that. A lot of people worked up over that. Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction being overturned. Some of the details on that story for you and maybe the biggest story yesterday in its entirety, this CIA whistleblower saying that Dr. Fauci absolutely was hiding the origin of COVID on purpose. And we have to get to that one. We'll do a full segment on that because we've been talking about this since COVID first showed up on the scene. We got a lot on the way. If you missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.
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Jack Armstrong
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It was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci's injecting himself into the IC. We have documentation that shows that as of August 12, the CIA was considering calling this a lab leak. That changed on August 17th of 2021.
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Joe Getty
We just heard testimony that he intervened behind the scenes to try and get our own intelligence agency, CIA, FBI, to change their assessment of of the lab leak. Why? Because he helped fund the Wuhan lab. He supported and funded gain of function research and then he tried to cover it up. I think this is so clearly true. Thought it was true from the beginning. They should have played the famous clip from the Colbert show when Jon Stewart was on there and they had that little argument over where the COVID virus came from. And Jon Stewart says, oh I don't know, maybe it come from. Came from a lab that's studying this very thing, the Wuhan virus there in Wuhan. Yeah. The most obvious thing from the beginning of COVID was it came out of that lab and our government officials, mostly, mostly Anthony Fauci tried to cover up. I'll believe that till my dying day. And we got a lot more information on that from yesterday's hearing, which I'm a little suspicious about the timing of this hearing. But here's Bill Malusian's report on Fox. Has to be on Fox cuz nobody else was interested in covering this story at all.
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Bill Malusian
Republicans say the headline from today's hearing with this active CIA employee was his testimony that there was a US government cover up about COVID 19's origins. A cover up in which he says Dr. Anthony Fauci played a very key role. James Erdman testified that back In August of 2021, right as the US intel community was about to determine that COVID 19 had leaked from a Chinese lab, Dr. Fauci injected himself into those conversations and the lab leak theory was suddenly changed to a neutral position just days later.
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Joe Getty
So that's Bill Malusion of Fox. As I said, I watched cbs, NBC and ABC and unless I blinked and missed it, they did not cover this hearing at all yesterday. I'm a little suspicious, as I said, the fact that this hearing with a CIA whistleblower who says he has direct knowledge that Anthony Fauci got injected himself into this story and covered up the or pushed away the original assessment that Covid probably came out of that lab. Why did this hearing happen on the day Trump shows up in China when all your major news hosts are broadcasting live from China and going on and on and on about that? Absolutely a giant story. Why did the hearing happen that day? I mean that guarantees it's gonna get almost no coverage. Fox was on it. Bill Milusian goes on and not a
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Bill Malusian
single Democrat on that Senate Homeland Security Committee showed up to today's hearing. That fact reflected by a row of empty chairs. The CIA says that hearing was all just a political show telling Fox in part, quote, the committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an agency officer for testimony today without notifying the CIA. The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul. This proceeding amounts to nothing more than a dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing.
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Joe Getty
That's the pushback of the Democrats. Now if you remember back in the day. So this, this hearing is being run by Rand Paul. He's the Republican chair of this Senate hearing. If you remember back in the day, Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci had a lot of run ins. Those are two guys that hate each other if they lived in near each other. Anthony Fauci would tackle round Paul while he was mowing his lawn, I guarantee you because they hate each other. And Rand Paul has been calling out Anthony Fauci of lying about this whole gain of function research from the beginning. And you know, Anthony Faunche said you don't understand science and all the back and forth, okay. And then of course, because in the Trump era everything becomes about Trump. It became a, if you support Trump, you have to love or you have to hate Anthony Fauci. And which I think there's a good reason to. And if you hate Trump, you have to absolutely love Anthony Fauci. And so it just broke down along those lines. So here's a little from this CIA whistleblower. He's a CIA Agent James Erdman. In the testimony yesterday, intelligence community leaders
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and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident. Motives are difficult to define given the scope of the Diggs review. Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in cover up, wasted resources and a failure to properly inform policymakers. Public health policy would have been very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for an emergency use authorization MRNA products being mandated by the former administration.
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Joe Getty
So the problem is, I wonder how many of you even listening right now who probably lean toward Fauci was lying about this and covered it up up. Who think, who cares? At this point, I think it very important to nail this down. It's interesting how we all there's such a tendency to want to move on from COVID I was talking to a friend of mine, a really smart friend of mine the other day, and he said part of it is people either overreacted or underreacted and in either case they are kind of like embarrassed by that and don't want to think about it. Either you thought it was a nothing Covid and you know, million plus people died, or you thought it was and everything and everything should be closed down for years. And looking back on it, that seems ridiculous and you're kind of embarrassed about it. In either case, you don't want to talk about it anymore. But the fact that there's a decent chance that we were lied to by the very agencies that are supposed to protect us because they started this whole thing, they caused the whole thing and they didn't want to own up to it is a pretty big story to me. The CIA whistleblower goes on.
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Dr. Fauci's role in the COVID up was intentional. Dr. Fauci influenced the analytical process and findings by leveraging his position to ensure the IC consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials and scientists. This included some of the authors of the paper, the Proximal origin of SARS CoV 2 and other public health experts who have been in his orbit for the last 20 plus years. Some of the scientists were part of the Biological Sciences Experts Group or the bseg, an Office of Director National Intelligence Advisory Body whose members often receive considerable funding from NIAID and public health agencies.
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Joe Getty
So before I get to this next clip of him, the one thing I don't understand and I don't think he's able to explain is there was I'm reading from National Review now. When the CIA conducted a Covid relook in 2022 and 2023, the CIA, quote, retaliated against analysts supporting the lab leak hypothesis. Why would the CIA retaliate against people who were pushing the, to my mind, obvious true story that it leaked out of that lab? Who was able to pressure those CIA analysts? Is that the Biden administration? Or did Foushee have something, some leverage over them? That, that part I don't get. Or did they just honestly believe that the lab leak hypothesis was not true? Although I don't know why you'd have to pressure analysts over that. You'd just say we have a, we have a disagreement over this. Seems like the adult, fair, honest way to handle it. Erdman went on to say, and I don't know if it's in this clip that's the CIA analyst. Erdman says there was a retaliation, particularly against those who refused to agree with management's middle of the night anonymous rewrite of the analysis, which changed the assessment to a non call judgment. There was analysis by CIA originally that, well it probably leaked out of that lab where they study this very sort of thing and do gain of function research. Then in the the just like overnight, somehow the analysis changed to we don't think that's likely and nobody's exactly sure who did that or why Anyway. Erdman goes on, there was no oversight
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monitoring how this web of relationships influenced research policy and public health in any holistic way for over 20 years. In fact, several of the BCEG scientists helped Dr. Fauci rewrite definitions of gain of function in 2015 to lift a funding pause on dangerous research. Still others participated in Planning Event 201 in 2019. This was a coronavirus pandemic tabletop exercise, curiously similar to the events that played out during the COVID 19 pandemic. It was attended by Dr. Fauci and individuals with IC ties like former DNI Avril Haynes.
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Joe Getty
So then I want to get this one more shorter clip on and then I'll sum this all up for you if you're not following. Clip 38 Michael the CIA and DNI
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
analytic managers responsible for examining the origin of COVID made decisions inconsistent with the conclusions of subject matter experts and analytical tradecraft consistently favoring the theory of zoonosis or natural origin. Following the CIA's Covid relook that culminated in 2023, the CIA retaliated against analysts supporting the lab leak hypothesis.
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Joe Getty
So the summary here, and this is the National Reviews writing about this Dr. Anthony Fauci's influence over the Intelligent Intelligence Community, the IC as they call them, all the different intelligence agencies. Dr. Anthony Fauci's Influence over the IC's Covid Origin Analysis and the writing and unwitting role of some of the scientists played in the COVID up exposed why this issue is of deep concern. Erdman said the interconnected web of conflicts of interest is a national security crisis caused by the inability to provide real oversight and call for proper oversight with teeth going forward. Even suggesting the possibility of an investigation in style of the seventies era church committee. That was a committee that we put together back in the 70s, all kinds of different staple stuff, Watergate and going back to the way our intelligence agency spied on various people and got involved in, you know, South American coups and all that sort of stuff. This Erdman is suggesting that we have some sort of select committee get into this story at that level. I would love if that happened. Those things move really, really slow. If we have another Republican president, that could happen, but then that'd be the only way. Well, the problem here is just having the truth is always better. Knowing what actually happened is always better. To me, the most likely thing is, and this has been the case forever, but the most likely thing is this and we have more information pointing this direction all the time. Dr. Fauci was funding a labor in China, in various places around the world to try to create the worst virus they possibly could create in a lab so that they could do research on how to fight it. If something like that ever happened naturally. Well, what happened is this kind of virus never occurred naturally and maybe never would have, but you created one in the lab and some scientist apparently like took it home. Somehow it got on their, their sleeve or their shoe or whatever and it started spreading around there and spread around the world and killed millions of millions of people and cost trillions of trillions of dollars and kids got booted out of school for a year and a half or all the different stuff that happened. And Dr. Fauci didn't want to own up to that. He didn't want to be the, oh, sorry about that. I guess the, the lab didn't do a good job with my. He didn't want to be the face of that. And more importantly than that, and I don't think it was just ass covering, I think he was concerned that if the world finds out the truth, they're gonna shut down this sort of research. And the only thing standing between a deadly virus that wipes out mankind and doing this sort of research is me. I'm the one man on earth that can protect this sort of research. So I'm going to do what needs to be done as a good patriot and lover of humankind to lie about all this and cover it up so we can continue to do gain of function research. I really think that that's what happened. And so far I remember reading about this early on and I haven't been able to dig this back up again because there was a lab leak. There's been a couple of lab leaks so far. The worst viruses that have happened in the last, well, century really are ones that were mad made and then leaked out of labs. So you might want to take a look at whether maybe we ought to take a look as a society and like vote on this whether we think it's a good idea to continue to make horrifying viruses that might leak out since they aren't occurring naturally anyway. I hope they get, I really hope they get to the bottom of this story someday. They're really criticizing science because I represent science. I got another comment on that. But first I want to tell you about trust and will. 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If you need expert input, they've got attorneys available. Trust and will Affordable estate plans. Priceless peace of mind. Go to trustandwill.comarmstrong and get 20% off. That's trustandwill.com armstrong and get your 20% off. Trustandwill.com armstrong Final note on this. I hope someday there is a real hearing. Maybe we need to get years down the road. Maybe Trump needs to leave the scene so people aren't dug in on that issue and we get a real hearing on the origin of COVID and can move forward in a proper way. But man, right now, I think we're still living in La La Land. Thank God for that. CIA whistleblower. We've got more on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
The New York Times published a profile yesterday on Gen Z high school students who have revived the trend of playing with hacky sacks. That story again. Weeds back. That's funny. I was never a pot smoker and I played gazillions of hours of hacky sack. I drank a lot of beer, man, did I play. You ever play hacky sack, Michael? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. Oh, God, I played it for. I wonder how many thousands of hours I played hacky sack. I was thinking about that the other day with playing pool, too. Like billiards, you know, pool, that kind of game. Money. Thousands. If I had the thousands of hours back that I played pool or hacky sack, would I do something more productive with that time? Or was it, as my memory would tell me, Gladys, looking back on my hacky sack and playing pool days, mostly in my 20s, was it like the greatest time of my life? It was freaking awesome, Priest, staring at your smartphone. Me and one or two or three other dudes would be out there by the pool at the apartment complex, shirtless, getting tanned, drinking beer, playing hacky sack all afternoon. That's freaking awesome. I don't know. I think about that a lot. Maybe that's just something as you get older. Was that a good expenditure of time because you were really, really happy? Or is that you don't understand how short life is? You're in your 20s, just a waste of your existence. And I go back and forth on that. I don't know. I know moderation is the key. Moderation. Moderation. That's what I say. Maybe I'll talk more about that later. We got a number of good guests lined up for today. And particularly to kick off hour two, we'll be talking to Tim Sandifer, who we absolutely love. And man, if you want to talk about the founding of this country with somebody who's into it and interesting, can present it in an interesting way, it's Tim Sandifer in his new book, Proclaiming Liberty. We'll tell you all about it. Kicking off our two. If you don't get that for some reason, you can't listen. Get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on Demand. The closing arguments of the big Elon Musk scam Altman trial are today. I shouldn't say Scam Altman because that's prejudicial and makes it sound like I'm on the side of Elon Musk, which I probably am. Though most of the legal experts I've read think he is not going to prevail in this trial. Um, but anyway, I'm looking up at the TV and it says open eye. Yesterday tried to submit a Golden Jackass trophy as evidence of something, and I don't know who made it. They haven't. They had an actual trophy that said the Golden Jackass with a donkey kicking its back legs. And I don't know who presented it to who and why it was being entered as evidence in the trial. Maybe I'll try to dig that up a little bit later. Came across this yesterday. I thought it was fantastic. Uh, we should. Trump should rename the Strait of Iran the Strait of America. That might be the Strait of Hormuz. Rename it the Strait of America. I wonder if that would solve our whole problem. Start calling it the Strait of America. Trump is in China right now being warned by President Xi that, hey, we're taking Tyrone or Taiwan or we're going to war. And what was our response? Haven't seen any news reporting yet on how Trump responded to Xi's threat. Our printouts of the meaning don't even include that conversation. So maybe you just ignored him. I have no idea. We'll try to dig that up, too. Hopefully that news will come out while we're on the air today, because I'm highly interested in that. A lot more on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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Jack Armstrong
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