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This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human broadcasting. Live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio.
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At the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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What's this moment like for me? Back when I was waxing the stats table at IUP Thanksgiving weekend and the school was shut down for the playoffs? Did I ever think something like this was possible? Probably not. But if you keep your nose down in life and keep working, anything is possible. Love that. Tell my kids that. Keep your nose down and keep working, anything's possible.
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The simple truths could use a little fertilizing and tending and. And. And teaching these days.
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I think that's the. Nobody ever heard of him before six months ago, coach of Indiana, who won the national championship last night as they went 160 and one of the great sports stories of all time. Want to talk about that more later?
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The great Kurt Signetti.
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Coming up later this hour, we'll talk about the whole Greenland battle, which heated up quite a bit over the weekend with back and forth between Trump and various world leaders. And then Trump truthed out their private texts to really even amp up the. The whole dynamic. So very exciting. I don't know. I have no idea where this is going. And they're all meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Like, today. Trump's gonna give a speech tomorrow, which, based on everything he said over the weekend, he's gonna come out guns blazing about why you should give me Greenland. And if you don't, you're gonna pay a price.
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I just.
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All right, we'll see.
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We'll see. Yeah, you're very exciting. It's hilarious to me.
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Yeah, my.
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My kids are all in jail, my wife is waving a gun around, and my dog is biting me on the leg. Very excited. One way to put it.
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So yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday. We usually worked that. We did not yesterday. Are we racists for not working for. For taking the day off, or if we would have been racist for working if we'd have worked? We decided we were racist if we worked, so we took the day off.
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I'm not a racist at all, so I don't think about these things. Huh. Speaking of simple truths.
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Anyway, we've talked about this many times over the years, but perhaps some of you don't know or you have forgotten. There are a whole bunch of unreleased files on MLK Jr. Partially because our government was illegally surveilling him for years, which I always find fascinating. We have a federal holiday named after the guy. Then we have a building, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, named after the guy at the FBI who was illegally taping the civil rights leader. We gave a national holiday.
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That's correct, sir. I don't understand.
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Water under the bridge.
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Forgiven.
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I don't understand how those two things square. I'm just amazed by it. Or people move on or have forgotten. I mean, we did, our government did all kinds of horrible things around the civil rights movement. And this was Democrats, by the way, presidents at the time, not only Democrats, but also Democrats and their, and their FBI head who were, you know, go around taping people and smearing people. And remember the, the, the FBI sent a letter to MLK Jr. Telling Kill himself. We're going to let your wife know that we have. We're going to send your wife audio of the, of you having sex with other women because we're, you know, putting microphones in lamps in hotel rooms that you're going to stay in illegally. Right. And taping you having sex. And we're going to send that to your wife. So why don't you do the right thing and kill yourself? Our government did that to the guy who has a federal holiday. Now we have marches, we have streets named from all over the world and you've got a building name for the guy who sent the letter. It's just, it's almost too hard to believe.
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Anywho, your focus on the past, it's that I look to the future.
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A lot of the documents of the stuff that they gleaned from secret recordings and all that sort of stuff and the transcripts have never been released, partially because they would be so damaging to everyone. It would not be a good look for MLK Jr. It would not be a good look for the FBI and the federal government and all the people that knew it was going on and were okay with it, whether it's the, you know, sainted JFK or LBJ or whoever the hell and. But they come out next year, those get released next year, January 31st. So a year and 11 days from now, that stuff is going to come out unless Congress passes some sort of. Nah, this isn't a good idea to see this stuff law.
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Yeah, yeah, it's a tough one. It's a tough balancing act because you've got the transparency that we hold dear, which is imperfect in government, but at the same time, I mean, there's a rule of evidence. I can't remember the name because I'm not a tri lawyer, but it has to do with the tainted fruit of Evidence. If it's an illegal search and you discover blankety blank. If there's no disincentive for the authorities to conduct, say, illegal searches. If they can say, oh, it was an illegal search, but come on, the guy's clearly a drug dealer, your honor, they will do illegal searches all the damn time. So I wish there was some principle that we could use to say, look, all of this was completely unholy, and so nobody needs to hear this stuff. This stuff shouldn't exist. It shouldn't be known. At the same time, I could hear myself making the argument, look, it's real, it's fact, it's part of our history. A more complete view of what actually happened and what everybody was doing is definitely to our benefit going forward.
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It's a tough one. And there's all kinds of stuff in there. It's one of the reasons that I think smart people who aren't trying to cover anything up say we shouldn't release the Epstein files. You got all kinds of information here with no context. People's names being brought into things. They didn't do anything wrong. And the way it's going to, you know, be used or portrayed or whatever once it's out in the public is not fair, not cool. That's exactly what this sort of stuff is. You're gonna have all kinds of people who, you know, said things on tape because they happen to be in the room with a guy who was being illegally taped by the government. Should that stuff be heard by all of us? Probably not. On the other hand, your point about. Well, it's history. It happened, and we have. It's available to us. It's kind of like.
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If a.
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If there was a funeral over the weekend and they planted a body in the ground and everybody. All the loved ones are there and everything like that. And then Thursday, I go to that spot with a shovel and dig it up and open it up and take the guy's watch. That is not seen as cool. But if he's. But if he's been there for a thousand years, I can do it. And I'm an archaeologist. And if I, you know, I show people his watch, they think it's cool. I end up on a.
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What tv? When does a grave robber become a scientist? What's the over under there? Is it 30 years? 100? 200?
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And if historical figures going way back, man, if you can get some information about their private lives, that's seen as gold information to learn about, you know, somebody in a Napoleon or George Washington or whatever.
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Sure.
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It's just absolutely amazing. You get a little closer to the current times, though, some of the people are still alive. It. It feels different. Yeah.
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Yeah, you're right.
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I wonder, does it matter if there's a Republican administration or a Democratic administration running Congress at the time? And I don't know which would benefit which side. I. I think I lean toward not releasing this stuff partially just because I. I hate the idea of the government secretly taping people and getting away with it. Freaking hate that.
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Specifically to damage them.
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Purely to damage them. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's a tough one. But I can make a good argument on both sides. As I said, it's coming fast.
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When we first started talking about this, you know, 10 years ago or whatever, it seemed so far in the future, but it's now a year away, and decisions are gonna have to be made. And if it turns out it's coming out, that day will be a huge news story. I mean, people will be piling through that stuff because there's tens of thousands of pages of this stuff. Where did I read? I think it's like 200,000 pages, 230,000 pages. Great. There's lots and lots and lots of. Where they were constantly taping and surveilling the guy over years and maybe the.
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Answer is this simple. There's a rule. You wait 50 years after somebody passes. That's the rule. Let's just follow the rule. It's a good rule.
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Even if they were illegally taped by.
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The government, it will bring to light. Shine a bright, bright light on the illegal taping and how insidious it was.
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How is J. Edgar Hoover's name still on the FBI building?
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What.
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What is that message?
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Well, they built the agency. I'm not arguing in favor of it. I agree. It's fairly abhorrent.
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Built an agency where I will do whatever I want. I'll spy on presidents and people that get national holidays named after him. Or people who I think might be sleeping with my wife or whoever because I run this place.
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That's what we're supposed to be, to foil the commies. Are you soft on communism now? My God, you're a pinko, Michael.
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Are we supposed to talk about the.
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It's good to be right. Do you know who Robert L. Woodson is?
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I do not know.
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I knew the name was vaguely familiar. He's an American civil rights activist. He is, I believe, 88 years old now. He was an OG civil rights activist. He joined the Air Force in 1954. To give you an idea of his lifespan, he left the Air Force, graduated from a traditionally black college in 1962. He's got a master of social work and has been an activist in the civil rights movement and the community development movement since 1962. And he unleashed a bomb of a letter on MLK Day that I want to share with you after the break.
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Okay, cool.
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Yeah, it's. It's good stuff. And it's straight talk.
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We'll do that. We'll talk. Greenland want to touch on Indiana winning the national title. One of the greatest sports stories in modern history. So much fun to watch last night and a bunch of other stuff. So stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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During a recent podcast in Paris, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Criticized President Trump's diet, saying, I don't.
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Know how he is alive.
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Well, I do a slight breathe. That's a pretty light hearted take on Trump surviving being shot in the ear.
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And not the brain.
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Right?
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Wow.
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Okay.
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All right. That was disturbing. So Martin Luther King Day yesterday.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Who was assassinated back in a time where we got so whipped up over a variety of things that started happening on a regular basis and I don't want that to happen again.
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And back when if there was political violence, both sides would say, that is completely unacceptable and they wouldn't throw in a bunch of caveats about, you know, I didn't disagree or I didn't agree with everything Charlie Kirk said, or I really didn't like what he said. But no, they would just go ahead and say, that's horrible. Anyway, so. Robert L. Woodson, senior American civil rights activist, community leader, author, et cetera. He's an old fellow. He's an OG civil rights activist and he wrote a letter for Martin Luther King Day. That is powerful stuff and it should be picked up absolutely everywhere. But it's been picked up practically nowhere. The Journal published it, but he wrote this Black America must declare a one year moratorium on whining about racism. Not because racism has disappeared and not to soothe the sensitivities of white America, but because grievance has become a shield. Protecting predators within our communities, accusations of racism are routinely weaponized to silence accountability, excuse corruption and reward moral cowardice. Old boy, still got it. You can plainly hear Martin Luther King Jr. Warned us against this temptation in his final book. He wrote, it is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity to rise to the level of self criticism. If we truly honor his legacy, we must do what too many leaders refuse to do, confront the enemy within. The enemy is most visible in the epidemic of black on black violence. In a single year, more black lives are destroyed by this violence than were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in four decades of terror. Every year an elderly black man was beaten to death for inquiring why a 14 year old boy was out at 3am with his 10 year old brother as part of a gang of black juveniles. Children are shot at birthday parties. Pregnant women, homeless men and innocent bystanders are brutalized by teenagers who have learned that life is cheap and accountability optional. These aren't isolated tragedies. They are symptoms of moral collapse. Yet such stories rarely dominate national headlines. Civil rights leaders and politicians remain conspicuously silent, waiting instead for the next police shooting. A racial controversy they can exploit for media attention and moral posturing. Call out this silence and you will be accused of racism. Bullied into retreat by those who profit from outrage while ignoring the suffering in their own backyard. This silence isn't compassion, it's cowardice.
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Do you read this? Al Sharpton, you fraud and msnbc, who has him on? Every time there's a racial story is some sort of, you know, the leading light fixing these problems, right?
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Media attention and moral posturing, that is their goal. The same moral blindness fuels corruption. Considering the massive pandemic relief fraud in Minneapolis where nearly a quarter billion dollars, probably much more than that, meant to feed hungry children, was stolen. Whistleblowers raised alarms early, but every question was deflected with accusations of racism until the money was gone. When the accountability dies, predators prosper. Oh, that's a good sentence. When accountability dies, predators prosper. When every critique is labeled racist, justice collapses. Here is the truth we must confront. Poverty doesn't produce moral decay. Deprivation doesn't produce depravity. It never has. We once endured conditions far worse than today without losing our moral compass. During Jim Crow, when racism was written into law, black neighborhoods were safer than today. Elders were respected. Children. Children could walk the streets without fear. Families were intact. Churches were full, and black marriage rates during the Great Depression were higher than for any other group in America. We had less money, but more order. Less power, but more integrity. Then he hearkens back to his growing up, when black communities were sanctuaries from white violence, not danger zones for our own children. Moral discipline, faith and strong families were our first line of defense. Then came the transformation. The civil rights movement dismantled segregation and expanded opportunity. An extraordinary achievement. But over time, leadership shifted from moral suasion to political patronage. Welfare replaced mutual aid. Bureaucrats replaced neighbors. Racial grievance replaced dignity. Poor blacks were told they could only be redeemed by outsiders, while a growing civil rights industry prospered by managing their despair. As conditions deteriorated, blame shifted outward. Failures of policy and leadership were not blamed on incompetence or corruption, but on vague systemic forces rooted in history. This narrative absolved leaders of responsibility and stripped communities of agency. It also created the conditions that made massive fraud and exploitation inevitable. There's more to that. His conclusion is victimhood is not liberation. It is a leash.
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And that was printed where?
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The Wall Street Journal.
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That's good stuff. Yeah.
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There's not a lot of money to be made on it.
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No. So we gonna get Greenland or not? Trump's in Switzerland.
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More on the way. Armstrong and Getty. He arrives tomorrow. But those rising tensions between the United.
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States and its European allies, that will.
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Be this major focus of President Trump's trip. And the president not backing down on that push of his to take over Greenland.
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No, he is not. So the President's on his way to Davos, Switzerland, as we speak. Gonna give a speech tomorrow, which could be damn jazzy in front of all the world leaders. And if you weren't paying attention over the weekend, Donald Trump said he's going to slap tariffs on all our NATO buddies unless they go along with this. US taking Greenland thing, which is insane.
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On several different levels.
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A heck of a thing.
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Yes.
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So you talked about a 10% tariff on all the NATO countries that unless they get on board with us getting Greenland jumping to 25% on June 1st.
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If we do not yet have our icy new territory by then.
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Here's my favorite thing from the weekend. So the Prime Minister of Norway, I'm not going to say his name because it's got an O with a line through it and I do not pronounce names that have an O with a line through it.
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That's a brave stance.
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Jonas Storr. Anyway, the Prime Minister of Norway, he and Trump's buddy who you've mentioned many, many times, the guy from Finland who he golfs with, sent a joint message to Trump over the weekend to try to de escalate things and asked for a three way phone call. Their goal was to, you know, to try to calm things down a little bit. They said it was a short message to President Trump on, by behalf of myself and the President of Finland in which we are trying to de escalate tensions and we requested a three way phone call. Here's Trump's response. Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States. Complete and total control of Greenland because your country didn't give me the Nobel Prize. Now the, that shouldn't matter anyway. But the government of Norway doesn't give out the prize. It's an independent group that happens to be in Norway. That's got nothing to do with the government.
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But the, the Prime Minister has said, I've told him that repeatedly. You know, I think I know what's going on here.
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Of course, Trump probably thinks that, well, the government should be, probably does control that, the Nobel committee. And if they don't, they should because that's the way he looks at things.
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Yeah, here's the problem. And I am not a fan of this at all. And I've believed this for a very long time and I've yet to have any reason to doubt it. Everybody who's ever been president has had other jobs before they became president. Then when they get to the office, literally or, you know, they're elected to the office, they realize, okay, this is a really different thing with different responsibilities to, you know, not only the people now, but to history, the legacy, the continuity, blah, blah, blah. My belief is that Trump got to the White House and partly because he was so awfully abused by the media and the left and, well, same thing. He said to hell with it. I'm just going to do it this way. I've always done it bare knuckled. I get deals no matter what gets damaged in the process. I want to build a golf course on the coast of Ireland. I will threaten, I will cajole, I will destroy relationships. I don't care who hates me. I'm getting that resort built.
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Well, the I don't care who hates me is clearly a part of Trump's personality, right?
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Indeed. Well, the problem is he's now going for a deal for Greenland. No matter who hates him and no matter the damage it causes, unfortunately, the damage is with our closest allies who've preserved a pretty damn high level of world peace for a very long time.
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Well, here's the pushback on that though, and I'm. Well, let me read this from the New York Post. Their analysis of this. President Donald Trump has learned perhaps too well that Europe's political elites, the current governments in Britain and France, the dominant forces in the European Union and the left leaning establishments across the continent won't do a thing when it comes to hard power unless their noses are rubbed in the need. The NATO is the greatest alliance and all of the things that people say, but they haven't been funding it forever. They've been leaning on the United States forever and look in their own backyard. I mean, they talk all the time. This is what I don't want to get about Joe Scarborough and Ian Bremmer and people like that.
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Then be sure you bring this home to owning Greenland immediately.
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Go ahead. No, I don't know if I can. But this is what I don't get from the crowd. It talks about NATO and how valuable it is, everything like that. All these European countries, they won't do anything hardly or they haven't until recently to stop Russian aggression in their own damn backyard. At the beginning, they were continuing to buy oil, for instance.
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Right.
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It's just amazing. So the whole destroying NATO thing, I don't quite get that narrative. They seem pretty willing to destroy themselves. Now.
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Go ahead.
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Bringing it home to taking Greenland. I can't connect those dots.
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So having gotten more cooperation than NATO has given for many, many years, he's now going to lay waste to it? I don't know if my headphones glitched out or something. I just, I don't quite get the reasoning. Well, he thinks NATO has sucked and been Lazy. They're improving a lot lately, mostly because they're afraid of Russia. They're useless. They're useless socialists. I agree with that completely.
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Well, I think what the New York Times, the New York Post is saying, and this is a very scary proposition, is that Trump thinks they won't stand up to Russia in their own backyard. They're sure as hell not going to stand up to the United States, which is a very scary idea, obviously. I mean, if Trump is actually thinking they're gonna back down, they won't go to war with Russia, they're sure as hell not gonna go to war with us.
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Okay, so I'm gonna back off my opinion and just try to look at this as a, you know, a political scientist. It's a case study. So. And I'm, I'm reminded of his proposal for the billion dollar entry fee circle of elders or whatever he's calling it, that doesn't even mention Gaza, but is allegedly going to administer Gaza and also become like a global organization for, for adjudicating disputes and, and doing deals and that sort of thing. And one of the complaints that some people have, including Macron of France, who isn't worth the baguette he wrote in on, is that Sacre Blues. This appears to be replacing the un why are you replacing the. So the UN sucks. Well, that's truer than anything that's ever been said. So Trump is looking at the UN as completely useless. I mean, beyond the point of repair. It's a house that needs to be torn down because it's a good property. He is looking at NATO in the same way. I'm just noodling this through. I'm not arguing in favor of it that NATO is no longer fixable. It needs to be torn down to the studs. We need Greenland to protect the United States and the Western world if they won't have it. Okay, fine. NATO falls apart, you know what's going to happen the next day? All those countries are going to get together and say we kind of ought to, you know, band together to protect ourselves against the evildoers. What should it look like? Yeah, so it's the creative destruction of trumpetalism.
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Yeah, I could actually see that happening.
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Yeah, that's a hell of a gamble.
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Even if NATO didn't exist, though, you can't really justify threatening Great Britain and France and.
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Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, I don't like it as a strategy. And the fact that the most easily butt hurt human on the planet who's obviously an egomaniac and Inflexible. And although, you know, he's flexible, who needs to be? I just that he is carrying out this brand brilliant history, changing strategy intentionally. I'm having a hard time buying it, but I don't hate my hypothetical argument. I'll have to think about it more. And certainly if you'd like to email, drop us a note. What do you think of that? Mailbagarmstrongandgetty.com mailbagarmstrongandgetty dot com, we'll go through them and bring the best to the good folks.
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So speaking of Macron and that league of elders or whatever that Trump's trying to put together to run Gaza and various super friends.
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Yes.
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Macron said he doesn't want to be part of it. Trump was asked about it today, this morning, before he got on the plane.
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Any response to President Macron saying he will not join the. Did he say that? Well, nobody wants him because he's going to be out of office very soon. So, you know, that's all right. What I'll do is if they feel like Costco, I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he'll join.
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But he doesn't have to join.
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If he said that. You're probably giving it to me a little bit differently.
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But if, if he actually did say.
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That, but as you know, he's going to be out of office in a.
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Few months, so the whatever, Ministry of Peace or something I think it's called, McCrone said he won't be part of it. Well, then I'll put 200% tariffs on his wine and champagne.
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Oh, boy. I honestly think, and this should not happen by, you know, legal, you know, arguments. I'll bet the Supreme Court justices saw that headline and thought, okay, yeah, we gotta do something. Because the idea that the 1974 Emergency Powers act extended to the French won't join a hypothetical organization that nobody quite understands that it was and that's a national emergency. Therefore, the president should be able to level 200% tariffs on wine.
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Come on.
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To calm. If you want a king. If you want a king. No kings. That's what I say. If you want a king. That's the way a king behaves.
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So you wish Kamala had won. That's, that's okay.
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That was fair.
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So to calm things down, seen as one of the grownups in the room, Scott Besant yesterday. Sit back, relax.
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I am confident that the leaders will not escalate and that this will work out in a manner that ends up in a very good place for all they have for. For national security, for the US and for Europe. Excuse me, Mr. Secretary, here in the sales meeting, the sales manager just came in and said if we don't get sales up 10%, he's going to murder us all in our sleep. Well, sit back, relax. This will end up in a good place for the sales department and the entire organization.
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Sit back, relax.
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I like Scott Besson, by the way. I think he's a very, very smart dude, and he is. How do you describe this? The Trump reinterpreter in chief for a lot of this stuff.
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So, final word on this before we take a break. The Wall Street Journal's reporting was. By threatening tariffs and leaving the specter of military action on the table in recent days, Trump has stunned even some of his closest aides, who now believe it could become more difficult for Europeans to accept any sort of negotiation given the US President's increasing demands. That was your point last week, where you kind of put people in a position where they look like punks by saying, yes, you don't. You don't ever want to do that in a deal.
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Well, right, yeah. Oh, great. You've put me in a position where if I say, if I agree to it, I'm going to be humiliated. Thanks, but I'd love to feed JD Vance a couple of drinks and get his straight scooch.
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You want to talk to J.D. vance? I want to sit at the bar all night with Marco Rubio. That's who I want to talk to. Sit back, relax.
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B
Okay. All right. I'm relaxed.
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A
What does Rubio think of this? I mean, I don't know if that reporting is true or not, but his closest aides are stunned. His closest aids probably are thinking, oh, my God. Oh.
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B
And then flying to Davos to bring sense and wisdom to the whole thing. Is Gavin freaking Newsom.
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A
Yeah. Oh, God. So Trump's gonna give a speech tomorrow. Gavin Newsom is gonna give a speech Thursday.
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B
Oh, geez.
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A
When does the. When does this end? When does the. When does the performative stuff end ever? I said this to my son yesterday. I said, biggest question in the world is, when Trump leaves the scene, do things calm back down or not? That's one of the biggest questions hanging out there.
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B
Yeah, it's a fascinating one.
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A
Nobody knows either. Quick question before we go to break. Do you think there's any chance we militarily take Greenland?
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B
I'm so horrified by the notion. It's. It's hard to even picture. I'm Gonna say no. No.
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A
You don't think there's any chance we're.
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B
Gonna attack a NATO country?
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A
Wait, I don't think we'd attack him. I think we would just. I think we just send a ship over and marines would just walk onto the country, and nobody's gonna shoot at them.
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B
Raise the flag.
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A
Raise the flag. And nobody stops us. And I think that might be the plan.
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B
It's still an attack.
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A
Oh, yeah. But I don't think there'd be any fighting. I think everybody slap their foreheads and say, okay, now what do we do with this situation?
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B
Oh, boy. Spicier and spicier.
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A
Oh, boy. That game was good last night. Want to touch on that? And a bunch of other stuff. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty to the Hoosier star cub Fernando Mendoza to come up big.
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B
When it mattered most.
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A
That drive and dive on fourth down.
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B
Proved why Mendoza is this year's Heisman Trophy winner.
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A
That was some play. I've seen the replay now 500 times. That was badass. That was really a badass play you.
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B
Would have had if it was a movie. You'd have had to choreograph it for, like, hours and then reduce it to, like, four different shots. Okay, now we're gonna shoot the. Crashing into the linebacker. All right, now the spin move action. And then now the big dive. And they'd had to do that, like, 20 times to get it right. No, dude just did it first take.
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A
As a tall, skinny guy stretching your body out in such a way to get just hammered. He did for the 18th time of the game, stumbling around dazed, his lip bleeding. But that's the way it was the whole game.
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B
Well, the referees who'd forgotten to bring their flags, let them play. And dude took a hell of a beating. I tell you what, it was great sport.
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A
Two things. One, what's a microwave cost nowadays? 50 bucks. A cheap microwave.
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B
Yeah, you get the cheap dorm one. It takes, like, an hour to melt an ice cube.
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A
Well, that's what we got. That's what we got in the kitchen already. I'm going to throw that off the balcony, the one we got in there right now, because it smells like. I don't know.
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B
Videotape it and put that online.
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A
Yeah, the smell of our microwave. Go open a microwave. Next break, Michael, if you want to really enjoy something. Okay. What the hell. Yeah. Hanson says confirm. It is horrible. It is disgusting.
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B
Overnight. Guy pick cooks up roadkill.
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A
That's what I think. I think squirrels in there. Old squirrels. And so I'm going to Throw that off the balcony and, you know, Amazon will have one delivered today for 50 bucks. Cool. Cool. Then different thing over the weekend. And I tweeted this out. I didn't read the replies because I wondered if anybody knew anything about this. I tweeted a picture out of this guy that flies around outside the town I live in. And you see him up in the sky all the time. And I've seen him when he gets lower by the airport. It looks like a lawnmower engine with a propeller sitting in a chair with a parachute on top.
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B
Ultralight something or other.
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A
I don't know. But, man, it looks just crazy to be that high up in the air and flying around. And then I just wondered if anybody knew anything about that. What sort of person does that? Does that void your health insurance or your homeowners insurance?
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B
Yeah, 100%.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yeah. If you're a private pilot of any sort, you've got a. That's a very special thing you've got to deal with. So, yeah, a guy who flies around with a lawnmower with a propeller attached. Yeah. I think there's probably a clause.
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A
Well, there's just. So there's nothing around you. I mean, he's just sitting in that chair thing with his feet dangling and it looks so terrifying.
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B
I would like to see his brainwaves and mine shown, you know, side by side. Because if you forced me at gunpoint to do that, I'd say, no, just shoot me. You're shooting me. I'm not doing that.
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A
Well, the thing I was thinking is.
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B
What?
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A
He obviously really, really likes it. So he gets the adrenaline rush out of it and needs that for some reason or something.
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B
I admire him and will continue to admire him till the day he dies, which won't be long.
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A
Oh, God. We have a lot more to talk about next hour. If you don't get it, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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B
Armstrong and Getty.
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A
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