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Jack Armstrong
Foreign.
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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live 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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Jack Armstrong
Live from studio. It's a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound.
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Joe Getty
And hey, y'all.
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Jack Armstrong
Today, little Friday, we're under the tutelage.
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Joe Getty
Of our general manager, the firefighters of California. On this day, 2 of Greenlanders occupying our territory illegally count back from yesterday. We will, we will wait until we are reunited with our precious Greenland American land.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know if everybody's aware of. Up until really recently in the history of mankind, fire was killing us and burning down our houses constantly. That is the history of mankind in urban areas specifically. I remember many, many books that I've read throughout my life point this out. Oh, do you remember the gangs in the New York. Gangs in New York? Remember that movie, Martin Scorsese? That was one of the big things. One of the big things the gangs did to, to curry favor is they would get there fast to help put out fires because there were constantly fires breaking out and if anything, if the little local fire department, you know, a horse drawn trolley full of water and hoses didn't come there and put it out, it was gonna burn everything down and kill people. And so that's how you would, you know, get people on your side. And I remember when I read the book Devil in the White City about Chicago from The World's Fair, 1893. Fantastic book if you've never read it. But they mentioned in there, at that time, on average there would be four deaths from fire per day in Chicago, even with that much smaller population per day.
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Joe Getty
And I remember more recently during the incredibly stupid discussion of whether Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was reminiscent of the Nazi rallies. A conversation so monumentally stupendously, mind bogglingly idiot, it's hard to imagine any adult engaged in it with a straight face. Seriously. Anyway, take a moment and think about it. Anyway, yeah. And reading about it, it wasn't even the same building because Madison Square Garden and its various incarnations has burnt down repeatedly.
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Jack Armstrong
Excellent example. Almost anytime you're at a historic hotel, restaurant, whatever, if you read the little description on there, this is the version built on the spot where the original one was when it burnt in 18 something, early 19 something, whatever, because it just, it was just a fact of life. But we've become accustomed to, thank God, because of modern materials and firefighting and all kinds of different things that that doesn't happen all the time, but the, the power of fire still exists. As if you've seen any of these pictures from some of these neighborhoods in la. It's just mind boggling how these entire neighborhoods, modern neighborhoods of nice houses are completely gone. Everything gone.
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Joe Getty
Catastrophic. Yeah, yeah. I wonder. And we will get into the looming homeowners insurance crisis from coast to coast. I mean particularly in California, but coast to coast. And I wonder whether we will not evolve as a people into spending a great deal more on making our homes impregnable to the various threats we face. And, and that's the only way we're going to get around the fact that so many homes are nigh on uninsurable these days, given the current market.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. That is going to be quite the story. I think it will help that particularly in the Pacific Palisades area, you got a lot of people with money who have the ability to get the attention of the powerful. And, and in a way that a lot of communities that have burned down, didn't they? They are not going to just sit idly by and let current policy exist. So that'll be interesting for whatever reason and just the way the human mind works, I guess the big fire that's in the Pasadena Altadena area because I know that area really well. Like I know some of these places and streets and stores and everything like that. Them burning down just like really impactful. Like it's hard to wrap my head around that corner. I saw a picture of a corner just, just as cool a community as exists anywhere on the earth. It's like a small town next to Los Angeles, just so nice, beautiful old houses. This little old hardware store that been there for 40 years. Mom and pop place burnt to a ground night before it was open. Kid there closed it down. Kid of the dad who started it. Next day completely gone, just, oh, awful, awful, awful. They found a guy dead in his backyard holding a hose in his hand. And I told the story. When our field caught on fire, I was out there with a hose because when it's small you think, oh, I'll get a hose and I'll, I'll try to start this. And then in seconds I was overcome with smoke and flames and had to get the hell out of there. I mean it just, it happened so fast with the wind shock.
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Joe Getty
And I remember you telling the story, when you say within seconds, you don't mean 45.
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Jack Armstrong
No, no, no. I looked like in my field, for instance, was a very, very windy day, caught on fire, very dry and it was a tiny little okay, if I get a bucket, I can put it out. I turn around to go to the hose, get a bucket. And so this is 20 seconds, I turn around and it's just a wall of flame behind me in that amount of time. And, you know, you amplify that by the 100 mile an hour winds they are having in L. A today, only 50 mile an hour gusts, which is helpful. Tomorrow they're expecting it to be back up to 70 mile an hour gusts. So, good Lord, that's not helpful. Absolutely amazing. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what's going to come out of this in terms of insurance and where you're allowed to build homes and all kinds of different stuff.
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Joe Getty
You know, you can, you can certainly relate to the people of old talking about the wrath of God or the vengeance of Satan or what have you. And when such a cataclysm comes upon you, I mean, it's just, it's, it's unfathomable to anybody who hasn't lived through it.
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Jack Armstrong
And I've been following a lot of the social media stuff about forest management, tree management, all that different sort of stuff. Water management in California, which has been horrible and people been complaining about it forever. There's a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast floating around that's getting a lot of attention where he was talking about that very sort of thing and he said, boy, one of these days the conditions are going to be right and there's going to be a spark and it's just going to sweep through LA and just burn everything to the ground. So you can't really go at this from a. Nobody could see this coming standpoint.
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Joe Getty
Right. Yeah, we should start. On the other hand, a lot of the politicization of it, a lot of the politics, including the stuff Trump has said, is not at all helpful. It's just, it's silly, some of it.
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Jack Armstrong
What Trump.
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Joe Getty
Well, talking about forest management and stuff like that, we're in large part not talking about forests, but. And the water stuff that he's commented on, it's just he has read half a paragraph on it and is now making bold pronouncements. And Gavin Newsom's an idiot. California is badly governed and ungovernable. I'm not denying that for a second. It's just some of the conversation that's knocking around online is kind of silly at this point. If you've spent any time with this, like the idea Trump was like, you gotta take all the Water from Northern California, Everybody knows this. And send it to Southern California. And Northern California for 25 years has been saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we kind of need that water. So it's not as simple as that.
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Jack Armstrong
LA schools are closed today except for one caveat which I want to discuss after we start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is. How did it already get to be Thursday, January 9th, the year 2025? You're going with Ain't no. Ain't taking no jive in 25.
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Joe Getty
No. Cut the jive in 25.
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Jack Armstrong
Cut the jive in 25 dot Taking no jive. What.
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Joe Getty
What am I strutting through Harlem in 1976?
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Jack Armstrong
What is happening here? We are Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
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Joe Getty
All right, let's begin squirting the water of truth on the lies of the evildoers. Precisely. Now, according to FCC rules and regs at Mark, do you owe citizens an.
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Reporter
Apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars? Madam Mayor, have you nothing to say today? Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say? Citizens today who are dealing with this disaster, no apology for them. Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
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Jack Armstrong
Says the Mayor of Los Angeles, not answering some questions from a reporter as she's come back to la. She was out of town. I don't know that that matters to me. The policy stuff matters. The policy stuff, decisions made throughout the years obviously matters, but the somebody's out of town when something happens thing I've always thought is over. Overblown.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. With. With all respect to patio furniture there, the Irish reporter, the. The cutting of $17 million from the fire budget. That is absolutely a serious topic. The fact that she happened to be on some idiotic paid for junket, I'm guessing. I mean, that's just. The politicians do that all the time. I'm not in favor of it, but it's not like the fire started and she said, feet, don't fail me now, and headed to Ghana. I mean, she just happened to be there.
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Jack Armstrong
Or if she happened to be in her office when the fire started, it would have unfolded any differently. I doubt that.
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Joe Getty
Well, exactly. And this is. It reminds me going way back to Barack Obama. He's not a Muslim, he's a socialist. Keep your eye on the ball. Don't worry if she was in Ghana. Let's talk about the fact that la, there was a city councilman did an interview just a couple of days ago, said it's absolutely worth. Worth cutting the budget for services to general city services to take care of our migrant population, meaning illegal immigrants. And Karen Bass is 100% on board that there.
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Jack Armstrong
Why did they have to cut the.
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Joe Getty
Fire budget so severely? It's because they're a sanctuary city. Keep your eye on the ball.
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Jack Armstrong
Kind of down like them. Kind of on that road to socialism. Quickly. Maybe we'll talk about it later. I heard the schools in LA will be closed again. Date, obviously, except for the lunch program. The food program will go. And I heard the big announcement that they've got satellite locations for all the meals for breakfast. Lunch and dinner will continue to be served to all the residents. Our schools became a three meal a day food program, government food program. Trying to convince a whole bunch of people, and apparently they have, that it's not your job to feed your family, it's the government's job. The schools are closed. I don't think. Oh my God. How are my kids gonna eat lunch? I take care of the lunch.
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Joe Getty
Well, I remember that great historic vote and the vote totals in the House and the Senate when we voted on becoming a socialist. Oh, that's right. No, we didn't vote on it at all.
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Jack Armstrong
And that's something that, that will continue even with the fire. The all day food program. All right. Interesting. How does mailbag look?
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Joe Getty
Outstanding.
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Jack Armstrong
Cool. That's on the way. Our text line is 415295KFTC.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
You know, it's easy to hear you need to evacuate, but the reality of it, I've never had to do that. Where am I supposed to go exactly? For how long? I'm supposed to get my kids and my dogs in the car. And go where? How? It's not as easy as it sounds.
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Joe Getty
And what do we take in the next five to 10 minutes or. Or 30 seconds in some cases?
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Jack Armstrong
And then you got the whole angle of, you know, you're thinking about what might burn down, what will get stolen. They've arrested, I think, 11 looters in the Pasadena Altadena area this morning.
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Joe Getty
I am staunchly against extrajudicial punishment and police brutality usually.
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Jack Armstrong
Now you got to send a message to looters that ain't happening.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, just don't tell us about it. Yes, do what needs to be done. Here's your freedom loving quote of the.
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Jack Armstrong
Day.
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Joe Getty
From the great CS Lewis, sent along by mj. Great. Call mj. It's helping. Helping out along. Hello. Take two Helping us out with our series of quotes about beginnings. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Jack Armstrong
Boy, that's a good one. That's. That's my favorite one in a long time. Like, I get that.
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Joe Getty
Can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Jack Armstrong
That is a good one. I need to get that tattooed on my head in reverse so when I look in the mirror, I can read it every morning.
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Joe Getty
Wow. Well, you've got it planned out wherever you want to get it tattooed. I think that that is the sort of wisdom everybody ought to know by the time they're 10, isn't it?
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Jack Armstrong
Apparently my ending includes a face tattoo.
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Joe Getty
Which will be the beginning that you wish you could change down the road, ironically. Mailbag, There's a little policy advice from Lawrence. Oh, you can drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongandgetty.com Governor newspaper in the Democrat controlled Senate and assembly in California should partner with pgd. Put all the utility lines underground. Tax dollars could be diverted from projects like planned reparations, planned ports of entry for immigrants, planned defense funds for immigrants to fight Trump's deportation agenda. Always getting there. This could serve California better than the regular train to nowhere. Reduce fires caused by a Griffin. That's absolutely right. Reduced fire risk would entice insurance companies continue to provide coverage in California. That's right, Lawrence. But that would take good leadership and not being whores for public employee unions and the big special interests.
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Jack Armstrong
With no disrespect.
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Joe Getty
That was rude and I apologize.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, to whores. All you're doing is exchanging sex for money. I get it. You're in a tough spot. What the politicians are doing is considerably worse than that from a moral standpoint.
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Joe Getty
Oh yeah, a sex worker is a paragon of virtue compared to these politicians. Sex worker isn't selling me and my interest in my tax dollars down the line, as far as I can tell. I apologize to prostitutes. That was unfair. Is this worth going into? It's really good email from Jim and Oahu. Uh, some active duty military guy took us to task for. For griping about Joe Biden's hastily announced every federal employee gets Thursday off to mourn Jimmy Carter. You know, Holiday, all the federal employees.
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Jack Armstrong
Are off today because Jimmy Carter has a funeral and we're paying for anything. Why? What is that?
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Joe Getty
And some, some fine fella, but misguided said think about the military. Yeah, well, the military is a tiny fraction of the government Workers around the country.
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Jack Armstrong
Nobody.
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Joe Getty
Obviously, we're not talking about the act.
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Jack Armstrong
Nobody means the army when they're talking about government workers.
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Joe Getty
Well, long time Marine rights. While there are some fine patriots in the service, I feel they're outnumbered by parasitic morons who perform their roles so poorly as to be counterproductive. Any doge wor fur should be licking its chops for all the tax dollars we'll save when we trim the fat. To wit, I can't count how many service member service members I encountered that brag over the money they plan on fleecing Americans out of to collect phony disability for the rest of their lives.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's a big one.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. And he says, I'm not saying the pendulum needs to swing back to spitting on service members and calling his baby killers, but we definitely need to pump the brakes on the reverence shown to military people.
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Jack Armstrong
That's interesting.
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Joe Getty
A lot of us are a holes and we do get too many.
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Jack Armstrong
You.
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Joe Getty
Know, and I've made this point before, respect for an appreciation for the members of our military is absolutely appropriate. In fact, it's required. Worshipfulness is not. And I think a lot of that worshipfulness is performative. And it comes from the fact that such a small percentage of our population ever serves in the military. It's phony. It's making a big flowery deal out of how you love the military to kind of distract people from the fact that you and your family have no interest in serving. Respect is good. Worshipfulness is dangerous in all things.
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Jack Armstrong
Some of my favorite negative things, particularly about spending I've ever heard about the military, have come from people I know who have been in the military their whole lives.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Not from outsiders. I've got a big complaint about Carter's funeral, among other things on the way. Stay tuned.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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News Anchor
President Biden, meanwhile, says he thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But in an interview with USA Today, one of the very few interviews President Biden has granted as he prepares to exit the White House, the president admitted he's not sure that had he won, he would have had the stamina to serve for another four years. Here's a quote from President Biden. Who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old?
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Jack Armstrong
As from CBS News, Joe Biden thinks he would have won. Okay, fine. If that, if that helps you, your last couple of years on earth and I think you're in your final years, fine, fine, whatever.
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Joe Getty
Donald J. Is going to be halfway through the of office when all of Biden's aides are going to be running to the media to describe exactly how it was.
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Jack Armstrong
So Joe Biden is the only ex president who has a speaking role at Jimmy Carter's funeral, which is today. We are doing full team coverage in hours 3, 4, and then a special bonus hour 5 in which we will cover the funeral in its entirety.
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Joe Getty
Wow, you better have a gun. Be ready to point it at me.
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Jack Armstrong
So I'm watching it live on TV and everybody is filed into the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. and if you've never made that part of your Washington D.C. tour, you should. It's a bit of a train ride out there, but just an unbelievable church. Everybody who's anybody in national government is there. And as the camera's panning around looking at him, just saw a good view of why John F. Kerry didn't win the presidency as he walked in. And he's got this big bright blue silk scarf around his neck along with his suit. And I just thought you, the windsurfing, the scarf, the wood that it were, that's why you couldn't get elected president, dude. Everybody else just in a dark suit. Apparently all the vice presidents are sitting together. You got Mike Pence sitting it there and yucking it up with the most relaxed man in the building, Al Gore. We're talking about this. Yesterday, Al Gore went off and thought, you know, screw this whole politics thing. I, I almost won. I should have won. Maybe I shouldn't be praying. I'm not going to spend the rest of my life saying it was stolen or, or, or, or my, my feelings hurt like a Hillary Clinton or whoever, forever. I'm just gonna go off in a different direction and pretend climate change is important and, and become a billion.
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Joe Getty
Make a billion dollars. That's right. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
He's happier.
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Joe Getty
I'll whip up fear over climate change. That sounds like fun.
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Jack Armstrong
But he's throwing back his head and laughter, talking to Mike Pence. And over on the other side, also yucking it up, is a old gray haired senator from Indiana, Dan Quayle, who was vice president many years.
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Joe Getty
You were gonna, you were gonna kill me. You are, you're gonna hate me. You're gonna cuss me out on the air live. And I deserve it. For various reasons that are not terribly interesting, I totally forgot to tell the story that when I was playing golf with friends in October at a particular golf course in California that will remain nameless, I came within 6 inches of getting T boned in my golf cart by a fast Driving Dan Quail. We met at an intersection. He wasn't paying attention and about, about put me in the hospital.
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Jack Armstrong
How did you not tell this story in the air?
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Joe Getty
I. It was, it was days later because I'd taken a couple of days off because you big news story or something and I just, I just didn't think of it.
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Jack Armstrong
Because you got pushed down a flight of stairs by Walter Mondale and it covered up the other story.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. The ghost of Spiro Agnew haunted my dreams. I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, is that the end of the story? Is that the whole. That's your whole.
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Joe Getty
He said oh, sorry and drove on.
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Jack Armstrong
How do you spell tomato.
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Joe Getty
One? Fair.
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Jack Armstrong
So. Oh, the other thing sitting behind the vice presidents is a meth mouthed Hunter Biden. He's so got the meth mouth. He just, I mean that really destroy. He's a good looking guy with a family lineage of good looking guys. His dad is a good looking guy when he was. And he's just got that full jaw weird face thing that meth users get. Poor guy sit next to his super hot, hot wife.
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Joe Getty
35 year old wife or whatever she is.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, but Biden is speaking today. We'll see how that goes. Here's the part I want to complain.
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Joe Getty
About that you know what Hunter Biden's got to do then you can get to your complaint. He's got to open up a string of laundromats called money laundering. Just dollar signs in the name because they had to go big. Like in the city where most laundroma are, people respond to dollar signs, you know.
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Jack Armstrong
Sure.
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Joe Getty
Money laundering, come on.
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Jack Armstrong
There are a couple of eulogies given today by the sons of people who wrote the eulogies because Jimmy Carter lived so freaking long. For instance, Gerald Ford, former president, the one who proceeded, who lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976 had written a eulogy thinking he's got to be dying soon. But Ford died and Carter lives on and so his son is going to read the speech that he wrote. There's another one of those examples I guess. So they're going to have a song. I'm sure there'll be some music. And Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Garth Brooks who seems to be omnipresent at all national events at this point because he's beloved and a good singer is going to sing freaking Imagine by John Lennon. Now I'm fine with that as just a tune. I loved it as a wide eyed ignorant child. I mean seriously, you have to be a child to like really Take in those lyrics and get starry eyed about it because they're moronic. They're just moronic. And the only reason that bothers me, because it's your funeral, you know, have whatever kind of music you want. That was actually Carter's foreign policy. And that's why a lot of the things that happened, happened, man. You should read our friend Tim Sandifer's Twitter thread. He's been linking all these various articles about how Jimmy Carter's policies, abandoning the Shah led to the mullahs and everything we've been dealing with in Iran for the 40 years. Jimmy Carter actually believed the song Imagine and the imagine there's no war bs, and we're all gonna be friends. That's not reality. And we can't have presidents who believe. The John Lennon lyrics great tie in.
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Joe Getty
To Justin Trudeau, who is on the outs in Canada, as you've probably heard more on that later.
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Jack Armstrong
That. That's one thing. The. That because it's hard to get into arguments about counterintuitives in the same way that you can. For instance, you can criticize George Bush for going into Iraq. Really easy to do. You know, you see what happens. Lives lost, money spent. What were the results? It's more difficult to criticize a Barack Obama or a Jimmy Carter for things that they didn't do. But if you're smart enough or you listen to and read the right smart people, they can get into it pretty well. But Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama get great credit for not getting involved in all kinds of things where we maybe should have or stayed more involved. And it led to really, really difficult, expensive things. See the war in Ukraine, for instance, by not pushing back, back when he had the chance.
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Joe Getty
Drives me nuts. I don't think it's at all shocking for me to point out that national. The United States passivity, being passive, was, was praised roundly by the media and academia, the great oversized bullhorn of the far left through the years. Now, certainly there are examples of being overactive or doing the right thing in a terrible, stupid way. To witness a rock, on the other hand. You get what I'm saying, though? Passivity is praised uniformly in the media.
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Jack Armstrong
Always. Yeah, that was, that was my point. It's just, it's, it's, it's more complicated to push back on that. And, and as I mentioned from the Bob Woodward book, he quotes Joe Biden in the Oval Office getting off the phone with Putin right before the invasion. When Biden realized, damn it, Putin's actually going to invade. He said Barack F this all up. He F'd this all up when he didn't do anything. When Putin went into Crimea or Georgia, whichever one it was. Crimea, I guess. So it's Joe Biden's view of the whole thing is that Barack not pushing back led to the invasion of Ukraine, not just, you know, maga right winger Jack Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I was just reading something else about Biden and not running and resentment and the bitterness that's pouring out of him right now. He hates Barack Obama. He resents him so much, and his campaign team and David Plouff and all those people. I don't doubt that he. He will go to his grave cursing their names.
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Jack Armstrong
I wanted to bring that up. My finish. My final ye. That's the point. My final funeral note is. So you got a funeral today for a Jimmy Carter who hasn't been in office for four of 45 years. 45 years. I mean, so that's a long time. So, you know, bygones be bygones. A lot of the hot rhetoric of the day way back then, you know, as you can have a decent funeral if Joe Biden dies next year, and he very easily could. Well, everything is still very fresh on both sides of the aisle. Be interesting to see what that funeral's like.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's funny. That kind of anticipates my next point. Part of me thinks, you know what, just why don't you do the Carter funeral and then have lunch and hang around the church for a while? Because Biden doesn't look good to me. But, oh, my God, I mean, you're all set up. The priest is there, the minister, whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
We got our dark suits on the flowers. Garth. Siri can sing a different song, some.
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Joe Getty
Irish tune guitar tuned up. Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, try to get some sort of two for one thing going. How you feeling, President Biden? You okay, because we can. While we're all here, let's.
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Joe Getty
I'm just saying don't hold out for our, you know, benefit.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, Michael?
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Joe Getty
I think the casket will fit.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
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Joe Getty
You gotta go too far. That was disastrous.
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly. See, what Joe said was in perfectly good taste, and then you took it into the realm of absurdity.
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Joe Getty
Right. What I was going to say is. And you know, I remember growing up as a kid with the pictures of the presidents around the top of the classrooms and. And. And there was a certain worshipfulness that was taught to us, or at least I got out of it. And I think in some cases, respect and admiration on the highest level is owed. And I could Name the usual names, but you can guess what they are.
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Jack Armstrong
Polk, Fillmore.
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Joe Getty
You got me. At the same time, now that I'm old and bitter and recognize the various paths people take to the presidency and the various sorts of people who've become president, and the utter dishonesty, skullduggery, terrible policies, et cetera, they've unleashed upon our country, the incursions against the Constitution, the accumulating of executive power, the rest of it. I don't feel worshipful toward those who've held the highest office.
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Jack Armstrong
Absolutely.
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Joe Getty
It's a hell of a job and wears you down. And. And so I have respect for people who take on that challenge, but I am not worshipful.
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Jack Armstrong
No, no, no, no. They're not kings.
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Joe Getty
It feels a little monarchical. Yeah, yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
So that's that. Maybe we won't do our 3, 4, and then a bonus hour 5 of Carter Funeral coverage. Then we've got.
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Joe Getty
Unless, you know, the buy one, get one thing happens would be historic.
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Jack Armstrong
We've got Katie' Lines on the way. Stay here.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
So now Trump and Milani are walking, and I guess as the president elect, he'll be present in just a few days. He walks in last. He's the last person, it looks like, to be walking in, shaking hands with Al Gore and Mike Pence, who he was going to allow to be hung. I believe this is the first time they've touched in quite some time.
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Joe Getty
Well, that's nice that they're coming back.
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Jack Armstrong
Together and reminded that looking like an aging mop.
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Joe Getty
Mark Lebovich's brilliant book, this Town Opens at the funeral of Tim Russert. I may reread that first chapter to remind myself of what's really happening there in the nation's capital. Yeah, let's figure out who's reporting what today. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Oh, by the way, next hour, Jack, what I'd really like to do is finally get to the analysis of Doge. What can it accomplish? What are the roadblocks gonna be? And. And can it get rid of a federal agency, for instance? So stay tuned if you can, right now, Katie Green.
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Jack Armstrong
Katie, Barack just walked in. He had the big time Trump, so he walked in.
- [30:21]
Joe Getty
Whatever, Mr. Professor Obama.
- [30:24]
Jack Armstrong
And everybody's shaking hands. All right, back to you, Katie, as I watch the funeral.
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Katie Green
All right, blah, blah, blah.
- [30:28]
Joe Getty
Lead story, Katie Green.
- [30:29]
Katie Green
Go, ktla. Hundreds of thousands without power in Los Angeles as the fire enters day three.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Gonna be not as windy today, but still very windy. And the winds are supposed to Pick up tomorrow. So like 50 mile an hour gusts is the window to try to get this under control. It's still all 0% contained I believe.
- [30:48]
Katie Green
From the Washington Post. As La Burns, Trump blames Newsom and California governor pushes back.
- [30:56]
Joe Getty
All right, there will be plenty of time for that.
- [30:59]
Katie Green
From 5 Fox News, Biden approves $500 million in Ukraine's security package 11 days before Trump takes office.
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Jack Armstrong
I gotta tell you, I'm watching the funeral live and I'm distracted by that. Barack is sitting next to Donald Trump and they look as comfortable with each other. They're kind of like whispering to each other, nodding and laughing a little bit. They're having a good conversation. I would love to know what two guys who know how the whole thing works better than anybody, what they're saying to each other about the whole affair.
- [31:30]
Joe Getty
Right.
- [31:31]
Jack Armstrong
Because there are a couple of rich.
- [31:33]
Joe Getty
Guys that have fabulous to east a fabulous east coast real estate for instance.
- [31:38]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It looks like there's a little snark going on between the two about the whole affair and I just, I'd love to know what they're saying.
- [31:48]
Katie Green
From cnn. Is bird flu the next pandemic? What to know after the first, first H5N1 death in the US yeah.
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Joe Getty
No it's not. And stop it with that fear mongering.
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Jack Armstrong
And that person died with bird flu. Kind of like the whole Covid thing. They were a old sick person already and had bird flu.
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Katie Green
From the New York Post. Congestion pricing advocate attacked in New York City subway station as a new nine dollar toll pushes people into mass transit.
- [32:19]
Joe Getty
Of course, to be fair, everyone's attacked in New York subway stations now that crime has been legalized.
- [32:25]
Katie Green
Touche.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's a lot of the point though. So you've made it so expensive. You're trying to get people more people to take mass transit. And the person's idea was got attacked on mass transit. Drawing attention to the fact that that's a lot of the reason people don't want to write mass transit.
- [32:40]
Katie Green
From Breitbart.com ABC is launching a weekend edition of the View. It'll be hosted by Joey Behar and will be basically the hens of the View will be joining her. Except all of them except for Whoopi.
- [32:56]
Jack Armstrong
If that's the way you want to spend your Saturday morning, can I buy your time?
- [33:02]
Joe Getty
Is this to torture the few remaining Al Qaeda guys in Guantanamo or something? Who asked for this? Good Lord.
- [33:10]
Jack Armstrong
I have breaking news news. The only person who's not smiling and looking happy with George W. Bush. He's looking happy and he and his wife and Bill, Bill is sitting there, kind of a smile on his face, yucking it up with Al and, and Trump and, and Barack are still chatting it up non stop. They can't stop talking to each other. The only person that looks miserable, Hillary Rodham Clinton, she looks angry.
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Katie Green
She always does.
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Jack Armstrong
She's sitting there thinking, I can't believe Trump, Trump's gonna be president again.
- [33:39]
Joe Getty
I'm in the front row as a POTUS or as a wife, not a potus. This sucks. Yeah.
- [33:46]
Katie Green
We have a couple more from abc. Attorney General Merrick Garland informs Congress special counsel's Donald Trump investigation has concluded.
- [33:57]
Joe Getty
Yeah, we gathered that.
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Katie Green
And finally, the Babylon Bee Newsome assured Wildfire victims that he's diverting millions of dollars to emergency. Emergency DEI initiatives.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, there's going to be a lot, as you said, there's going to be a lot of looking over the policies and the rhetoric of a whole bunch of different government officials, whether it's people of LA or Governor Newsom himself on this whole thing.
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Joe Getty
Yes. Yeah, clearly. But the dust can settle. In my opinion. Some of the sniping political stuff going back and forth right now is not very productive. But spe. Political sniping, Elizabeth Warren versus Pete Hegseth, the whole hearings for the Cabinet story is about to heat up like crazy. And she's just, she is underestimated as an evildoer. She is a hardcore Marxist.
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Jack Armstrong
So Hansen's claiming that none of the presidents who came in shook hands with Trump. I'm sure I saw Obama shake hands with Trump. But you're saying none of the other presidents shook hands because they're all shaking hands with each other and everybody. Kamala Obama did not shake his hand. Hansen is saying Kamala just walked in. She's the only other person besides Hillary who looks miserable is Kamala just walked in with her husband.
- [35:12]
Joe Getty
She took a hostile glance at Trump. Trump didn't even look at her. She looked down with disdain and began flipping through the program.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy. I'm loving body language segment. I'm loving reading the body language. We've got more on the way. Stay with us.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Gettys.