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This is an iHeart podcast, Guaranteed Human. 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, Armstrong. Live from Studio C. See, senor, it's Friday. Thank God, we made it.
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We are broadcasting live from a dimly lit room called the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound, surrounded by razor wire. And we now have golden doodles. We used to have Doberman pinchers, but.
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When they go for your throat, nobody sees it coming. Oh, the little puppy. Exactly.
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You lure them in with the cuteness.
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Right, Right.
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For the juggler. And today, the title of the show.
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Is you don't know Jack Smith or in the Eye of the Trump Again. What.
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I realize that for since we're on all over the country, for many, many, many of you, the only headline, really, is the weather this weekend, one of the worst storms in decades. I regularly mock news coverage of weather. You're a mocker, and I think I am justified in doing that. The evening newscast telling you it's just a regular snowstorm somewhere in the country, like happens all the time is stupid as a news story with all the things that are going on in the world. But this is supposed to.
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There's a killer storm every single day, according to NBC News.
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Yeah, but it's usually just an average, you know, weather. But this is supposed to be one of the worst winter storms in decades for lots of states and cities. So that'll be something to watch, man, if you're traveling. I'm glad. I'm not planning to go anywhere this weekend because the airports are going to be a disaster everywhere because we all know how that works. Even if you got okay weather, your plane's probably going to be delayed.
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Well, the problem in a lot of the country is it's going to be ice. There's going to be an enormous amount of ice. And if you've ever lived through a big ice storm, you're better off with six feet of snow falling on you than one of those ice storms because all the power lines come tumbling down and the roads are impassable and trees break off and limbs fall on your dome.
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Whatever happened to hunkering down? I grew up in very cold climates, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Kansas. Whatever happened to just hunkering down? You got a really big storm, the school closes, you don't go to work. You wait two days, everything goes back to normal and everything's fine. Right?
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Right.
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You don't have to go out there and drive on the highway or go to the airport. Or whatever.
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I'm a hunker. I'm in favor. I'm pro. I'm pro hunker.
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Some of my favorite memories as a kid are hunkering down during big storms. Oh my God. My brothers and I in Wisconsin, we'd look out the big picture window watching the drifts get bigger and bigger and plan the snow fort we were going to build as soon as it got above 40 below so you could go outside and not die.
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Well, that's because you're a child. You're a child with childish ways as children frequently have. What if your power goes out? What then? What are you going to do? Read a book or talk to somebody?
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Power went out for us all the time and it was fun.
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I know I gotta throw this in. Of course with people with life saving equipment. That depends on the power. Blah, blah, blah. Hospital, something. They have generators. But yeah, it's it. It's going to be an enormously disruptive storm. That is absolutely true.
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Gonna be today. Minus 40s is looking at the map. Throw a whole bunch of states in like the upper midwest minus 40s with the wind chill, obviously. Or maybe it's not with the wind chill. I don't know.
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Might.
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Might not be. Yes, Michael, I was thinking about NFL football this weekend. Yeah.
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In this kind of weather.
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So Patriots at Broncos. I don't know how that is, but if it was the other way around, if the Broncos were going to the Patriots. I don't even know if they. I don't know if they'd be able to play the game. Since you brought that up, Michael. The two championship games this weekend, which I'm very excited about. The Patriots are four and a half point favorites at the Broncos. Probably because the Broncos lost their MVP candidate quarterback at the end of the last game.
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I think that could be a factor.
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And starting a guy who hasn't thrown a single pass in three years. So that's an interesting situation.
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He said tan, dressed and ready.
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And then you got the Rams at the Seattle Seahawks and the Rams are.
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Or.
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Or the Seahawks are two and a half point favorite.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, I would have thought they'd have been a bigger favorite. Actually.
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Most of my football freak friends say off Seattle's your Super Bowl.
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I just can't imagine how they play the games, Jack.
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The ball's flat in the middle and pointy at. Then you never know where it's going to bounce.
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I was at a sports bar, restaurant sort of thing. You stay one of your fancy, you know, they charge you $25 for a hamburger sort of place, but it's a sports bar. And they had the AFC Championship game on from. I don't know what year it was, but it was Brady versus Manning and Broncos Patriots. And I didn't remember how it turned out. And it was the fourth quarter, so it was just as exciting for me as if I was watching it the first time. Cause I didn't remember. Does Brady come back here in the fourth quarter and win? This is the one where Manning won and won the Super Bowl.
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But yeah, I was watching it. I was on the edge of my seat. Yeah, of course. Yeah. What a great matchup. I wouldn't remember it either. Yeah, yeah.
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Who could remember?
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Yeah, I forget. You know, I love sports. I watched, you know, not like sports, freak amounts of sports, but plenty of sports. I never remember who won what six months later. It's just entertainment.
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If it's my team that I've been rooting for my whole life, I remember all those years, like, I can tell you, the San Francisco giants, you know, 1 in 10, 12 and 14, the World Series, that sort of thing. But other teams. No, not. No, no, no way. Yeah, it's just. Well, you know, it should be that way. It's entertainment. It's a TV show. Speaking of which, I just read in the Financial Times with the whole NFL thing there, a lot of people are trying to do a. What would you call it, tangential NFL story today, headed into the games on Sunday, come up with some reason to talk about the NFL. And the one in the Financial Times today was how the NFL has got a full court press going on. They're investing billions of dollars, even more than they've done in the past, to try to make this a worldwide sport. Soccer is the number one sport in the world. The NFL is infinitely better than soccer. I mean, there's just no reason why the NFL. Is there a reason why the NFL can't be popular in other, other countries? Do they not have enough behemoths? Do we lead the world in behemoths?
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Well, there's certainly. Well, that's an interesting question, I think, and I think the NFL would agree with me. It's mostly lack of exposure and not understanding how the game works. Correct.
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Yeah, that's the whole push. So what they're doing is they're taking this incredibly popular sport. And you know this. If you, you know, you got school age kids, flag football has gotten huge and girls, flag football has gotten huge. I drive by the high schoolers, always some sort of practice going on for girls Flag football teams, they just love it and so they're spreading that around the world with the idea that that will catch on first. You don't need a lot of equipment. There's not, you know, people aren't getting hurt, all that sort of stuff. So people understand the game and the score and the strategy and maybe get into it that way. And they're also trying to recruit athletes in other countries that might go towards soccer or basketball into the NFL because that's one of the things the NBA did to become a global sport. I don't know which came first but like four of the top five players in the NBA are from other countries. Currently you don't have that in the NFL. So that's what they're trying to get.
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Going but they're going to, we're going.
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To lead with girls flag football to try to make it popular.
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Yeah, I get growth in industry. I'm not sure football needs to be a global game but I suppose if you're in charge of growing your industry, whatever, whether you're making electric cars or selling people on the deliciousness of sorghum or football, you want to grow it, I guess. But it seems like it feels to me like something that's more likely to screw up the game that I love. I would agree. So we had then be good.
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Yesterday we had the story that some owners, including Robert Kraft of the Patriots, very influential owner, want to add a game to the season, make it an 18 game season and have one of the games be overseas for every team. And I think, yeah, what you just said, I think you're more likely to screw it up and take away the magic that is the NFL rather than, you know, all the wins you get from making it slightly more popular in Spain.
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You know I've, I've talked to a couple of people who've who like went to London to see their team. Just a couple of them but. And they said yeah, it was kind of fun. It was weird though because the crowd wasn't sure when to clap or into it.
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Why do I care about it?
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But we had a, we had a great time in London but then everybody else was like yeah, my freaking team played at 3:00 clock in the morning. They're all jet lagged. Right. They had to fly 6,000 miles. This is ridiculous.
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We missed out on a home game. Depending on which team you are, that sort of thing.
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Right? Yeah, yeah.
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Got another football note but we'll get to it a little bit later. Let's start the show officially on a Friday I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, January 23rd, the year 2026, where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.
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Okay, here we go. Let's swing into action. According to FCC rules or regulations precisely at mark. Compliance, they think, is optional. Compliance is not optional. Not when law enforcement conducts. It's legal, lawful, ethical and moral duties. It's not optional. There is no option there. So I had a heavy hand in selecting that clip because I will be using that phrase going forward in my life in all sorts of circumstances. Compliance is not optional when your kids are older.
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I'm going to use it with my.
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Kids, kids, friends, golf buddies.
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You can't really use it with your kids because it's like, I'm an adult. I'll see you later.
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Good to talk to you, dad. Click. Compliance is not optional. I will say to my wife, I want Mexican food tonight. Compliance is not optional. Oh.
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Or depending on what you got going on a Friday night, turn around, pose like this. Compliance is not up.
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Oh, boy.
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Wow.
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Took us R rated. On the other hand, that was Greg Bovino, the head of the ICE Patrol division. He's right. There are a lot of the cosplaying, you know, middle aged white people screeching in the streets who seem to think this is all kind of a. It's a voluntary thing. Yeah. Whether you comply with a police.
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I've mentioned that a couple times this week that a few pieces I've read from legal minds about how so many of these things are being seen as optional right now. Like the Clinton's not obeying a subpoena and they're not the first to do this. It's just, it's, you know, not making it a Democrat Republican thing, but it's become a thing where we're not, you know, we're not going to honor that subpoena.
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What?
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Or, you know, sanctuary cities may have really started the wave of this. What is that? You can't just decide. We don't believe in that law here. What?
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Yeah, we're, we're opting out. Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Well, and then you've got another layer of it too. There's a left wing group that's raising millions of dollars to bail out anybody who gets arrested, impeding the ICE officers, particularly in Minneapolis, so that the individual cosplaying revolutionaries, mostly cosplay, feel no actual or very little actual negative consequence for their actions. And it's, you know, it's, it's kind of a different phenomenon than people just thinking, oh, I can just impede ICE with my vehicle. And it's all fun and games, but it all contributes to a sense of. Well, absolutely, a lack of consensus on what limits society should have and how those limits should be, you know, cooked up and enacted.
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There's going to be. I hope not, but I think there's going to be a much worse situation than that one woman getting shot in the car that we're all going to be talking about soon. I drove under an underpass yesterday with a whole bunch of agitated protesters on top and a big sign across the freeway that said disobey ICE or something like that. We're going to end up with a clash where a whole bunch of people get hurt or killed and it's going to be awful.
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And the leftists want that. They want that very much.
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Yeah, you got that problem, too. Anyway, we got Katie's headlines on the way, clips of the week, which I'm going to remember today, and lots of stuff to talk about, so I hope you can stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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Possibly very important negotiations going on. Trilateral negotiations between US, Russia and, and, and Ukraine going on Abu Dhabi. And Zelensky just put out a report on how they're going. So we'll get to that a little bit later. I sure like to see that come to an end. But everything I've read is Putin still isn't willing to give on the major points.
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So wake me when it's begun. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie?
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Well, that's exactly what all of the major networks are reporting. Cnn, Zelensky slams Europe for inaction. NBC, Kiev is freezing in the dark as Russian strikes leave Ukraine's capital powerless.
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Wow.
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And ABC Russia, Ukraine and the United States to hold first trilateral talks since the start of the war.
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If Putin shows any indication of actually wanting to end this, let me know because I haven't seen it yet.
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That's what I've been saying. Yeah, I appreciate there are talks going on, but there have been plenty of talk talks starting with, I got to.
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Believe if you actually wanted to end it, you wouldn't blast the hell out of a whole bunch of Ukrainian cities the night before the big meetings.
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From the Financial Times, Donald Trump sends US Armada towards Iran, quote, just in case.
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Yeah, that is something we could have. We could have that going on over the weekend. Trump says a massive US Armada is heading toward Iran. Last time we sent a massive armada toward a country, we grabbed their leader and shipped Them off to New York.
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From the New York Post, Amazon planning thousands of job cuts next week after axing 14,000 due to AI.
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Another round of 14,000 that they're going to get rid of. Do you know how many employees Amazon has?
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100.
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I didn't know this. 175.
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You're right.
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No, it's 1.6 million. Wow.
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Does that include the drivers or.
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I assume but 1.6 million Amazon employees.
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Wow.
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From the Washington Post. Tick Tock says U. S. Spin off is finalized.
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Yeah, I saw that.
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They've.
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They've made a deal. We can tell you about that. Finally, belatedly enforcing that law, the Chinese propaganda tool Tick Tock will remain in your children's pockets and perhaps yours with the same algorithm.
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No, they're changing the algorithm.
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So then it's.
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Are they.
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But then it's not Tick Tock if they change the algorithm because that's the. That's the joy, that's the magic. Okay, more on that later.
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The magic of communism.
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Also from the New York Post, mysterious Dorito shaped aircraft spotted flying at night over Area 51.
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I saw this video. It's getting a lot of attention. Apparently we got some new fancy plane.
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It's a triangle, but they went with Dorito shape.
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Guy wrote the article, was hungry apparently. Or just we need to send up some Cheetos shaped missiles at it. That's take it down.
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That's our schooling now. We no longer teach shapes like that.
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So kids have to reference snack foods. All right, we need to reduce it to roughly popcorn looking rubble. It's clearly an attack.
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From Study finds leisure crafting can be life changing, especially for people over 60.
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What's leisure crafting?
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It's just. It's picking up a new hobby.
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Ah. Oh, I'm a huge fan of that.
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Yeah.
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Or renewing an old hobby.
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Well, I will say the picture that accompanies this article is a guy playing guitar.
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So I thought that was pretty cool. Super good for your brain.
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And finally, the Babylon bee, Don Lemon immediately bursts into flames upon entering a church.
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Yeah, we got more Don Lemon news coming up for you. Boy, he's really an awful human being.
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's an example of everything you don't want to be as a human. Yes, perhaps Satan's presence on earth.
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By the way, he lives in a three and a half million dollar house in the New York area. Are people allowed to just go into that since it's private property and protest various things? Is that a thing?
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Armstrong and Getty.
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So I just Read Zelensky's post. President of Ukraine, Dear journalists. And it basically was, I'm going to keep you updated on a minute, moment by moment basis on the negotiations that they go on in this space. So he's going to let everybody know how it's going. But this is not a game for him. He has seen the awfulness of the worst kind of war up close for four years.
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And Melanie's trying to work the ref. Trump and the ref is a complicated guy to work. Right.
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But you don't see Europe pulling together some sort of talks between Russia and Ukraine and anything.
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They're the continent. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Whether they're capable of it or not is the question. I think not is where the smart money's gone. So much to talk about. But first, let's take fun. Look back at the week that was its cow clips of the week. I would encourage everyone to be optimistic and excited about the future. Sit back, relax, this will work out. Things are going to work out pretty well, actually.
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President Trump lashing out at NATO allies.
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As he escalates his push for Greenland. And you know, because the boat went there 500 years ago and then left, that doesn't give you title to property. We are in the midst of a.
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Rupture, not a transition.
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How far are you willing to go to acquired Greenwood? You'll find out.
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It's not specific enough to know at this point how long this lasts.
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Forever. Forever. It'll be forever. Donald Trump, he's a T. Rex. You mate with him or he devours you.
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Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach. Ken, he's here with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.
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I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.
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Oh, my goodness. More tension, including a Sunday church service disrupted by around 40 protesters.
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You will be judged not by a God, but by a court of law. You Nazi. I have to take care of my flock. Listen, we live in a. There's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest. We're here to work, worship. We're here to worship Jesus. Don, you're a gay black man in America. I mean, part of it is being like a white woman, that I'm privileged and I have a lot of privilege. Busfield now behind bars in New Mexico with no bond. A New Mexico judge allowing his release from jail as he awaits trial.
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A Canadian man accused of posing as a commercial pilot and a flight attendant in order to get on hundreds of.
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Flights has Been arrested. Now five of the biggest alcohol makers in the world are sitting on what's described as a lake of unsold alcohol. Veronica the cow using a tool to scratch her back. It looks like this marks the first time on record that a mammal that wasn't a primate has been documented using a tool. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Four legs good, two legs bad. It's our first time making butter. It might be a disaster. Exhausted, he's going to take off and run. Then doo weaves his way first and go diving for the end zone touchdown. It's clips of the week, man.
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That touchdown from the game the other night, that's one of the iconic plays of all time. They just had the angle right on the camera and everything and just.
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Oh, yeah, that is. So as I said, if, if, if it were, you know, part of a movie, they'd have had to choreograph that carefully and rehearse it over and over again and separated into, like, three different shots and stuff. All right, let's. Let's shoot the smashing in. Now the. The twirl. All right, let's try the twirl again. Now the dive. The. Dad, bring in the stuntman for the dive.
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Yeah, no, you. You dove a little too early because we have to have you maximumly stretched out and barely getting across the goal line as you get hit when a.
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Behemoth caves in your shoulder blades. Yes, exactly. Let's try it again.
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So I, I noticed on all the politics stuff, it's all performative and juvenile, and as a guy who are original.
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Air names, as a guy who performs.
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For a living and is quite juvenile, it's a. Quit working my space. But how did we get here? Why are we not better than this?
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We just. Oh, my. I could not agree more. Yeah, it was funny. I was, I was listening to it and thinking back to my mock title of the show today, one of them, one of the options was in the eye of the trumpican, which has to do with the fact that we've passed by yet another. Good Lord, does this mean World War three or the end of NATO or a rupture or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah for, you know, three, four, five days now. It's like, oh, there's the vague outline of some sort of deal that may never come to fruition. Let's take a deep breath and soon it'll be, we're sending nuclear bombers over Italy or something. Well, we've got nuclear bombers based in Italy, so that would be a weird example, but you know what I mean? What's the next giant controversy? So the dirty commies, what they did was they designed a, an app that was so damned entertaining that Americans, because we're stupid, would welcome it and be entertained by it while they turned our children's brains into mush and fed us Chinese propaganda. And we would thank them for it.
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Well, we're stupid as a country to have allowed that individual people into TikTok are not stupid because it's the greatest entertainment thing ever invented by mankind, apparently.
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No, I disagree, but it's more equivalent a disagreement. It's the greatest endorphin addiction fulfillment tool I've never. And the only reason I'm quibbling is because I find that whole field so interesting. But yeah, you're right, it's incredibly riveting.
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I don't have tick tock, but I've just, just heard from grown ups who have or do on how it's just a completely different level of understanding the algorithm of what you enjoy. And I already struggle with that on YouTube and Instagram as it's figured out certain things that I like, certain sports things, certain comedy things, certain nostalgia TV things, just certain things that I like and it feeds it to me and.
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It'S just 15 seconds of this. This looks pretty good.
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I mean I like this. And then. And TikTok is supposed to be infinitely better than that. So I can't even imagine how, how appealing it is.
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Right. Why couldn't it have been one of our cruel exploiters of human brain psychology and not. Not theirs?
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With the problem being is we found out a couple of years ago that half a young people get their news from tick tock and all the news is based on United States bad, rest of the world good, that sort of stuff.
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Yeah, and, and cranking up divisions between us based on race, sexuality, et cetera. It's just, it's Chinese propaganda tool there' out of that at all. So Congress said no, you got to.
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Get that out of there.
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We either got to have ownership by an American entity or you got to get it out because it's. And if you missed this, I'm sorry you missed it. I think I actually bookmarked it. Who was it? One of your great writers about China did a deep, deep, deep dive and found all of the statements about TikTok by Chinese intelligence agents and high up members of the Chinese Communist Party. And they view it as a, a walk off grand slam home run infiltration tool of the United States.
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It may be talked about centuries from now, the way People talk about the Trojan horse trick. I mean, it was. It's that good. And the crazy thing is, of course, as you mentioned, Congress passed a law that it can't exist anymore, and neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump decided to follow through on it.
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Which brings us to the. Well, in fairness to Biden, a, he was completely senile and B, the deadline was on Trump's watch, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, so TikTok officially established a joint venture to conform with the law, finally to allow it to keep operating in the US which it has been. So that's a non sentence. Under the terms of the deal negotiated by the Trump administration, the popular video sharing app will be operated by a new U.S. entity controlled by investors seen as friendly to the U.S. data Management and algorithm training on American users will be overseen by Oracle, the cloud computing giant that has safeguarded its U.S. data for years and has close ties to the Trump administration, according to the Journal of Wall Street.
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But does your reading of this mean they're going to create a new algorithm?
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Well, it just says the algorithm will be overseen because.
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The algorithm is what made TikTok so fantastic. Be like the story we had earlier about they're trying to get the NFL going around the world. Other countries can have the NFL, but you can't use an oblong ball. Poignant. And you can't have a hundred yard field. And you can't have all these things.
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You can wear big shoulder pads or helmets.
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You can call it football, but it's got to be a different thing.
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Yeah, I think if I understand this correctly, and if it is executed as it's claiming, as all the parties are claiming, the Chinese will no longer be able to use it to accomplish the evil goals that we've been describing. An American consortium will have control of it.
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So did China have to agree to this? And if so, why? Why would you agree to let the United States have the greatest algorithm ever invented?
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The best case scenario I can come up with is they thought, all right, we're losing, at least to some extent, our propaganda tool, but we're continuing to rake in enormous amounts of money.
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Okay, that makes sense if it's very, very profitable.
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Yeah, yeah. So, on a totally different topic, word from our friends at Rough Greens. Rough Greens is not a dog food. It's a live nutritional supplement you add to your dog's food. You don't have to change your dog's food to improve your dog's health.
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Health.
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Just add a scoop of Rough Greens and just wait and see the benefits.
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Now it's spelled rough R U F F. Like when the dog, your dog is trying to talk to you.
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Rough.
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Yeah, you. It's a live nutritional supplement you add to the food you already use. You don't have to change your dog's food, which is huge. Then you add this and you're gonna get all kinds of benefits. Support immune defense, slow age related decline, which we all want with our pets. Helping your dog stay active, mobile and alert as they get older.
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I wish somebody would come along and give you an option to change your algorithm or start over whether it's your Google search, because Google searches, they give you stuff based on what your search history is. And we all know how, the way Instagram and YouTube and stuff like that. And I wish I could go on YouTube and say, Look, I like this other stuff, but I don't need any more John Mayer guitar lessons ever for the rest of my life, so stop giving them to me.
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Yeah, that sort of thing. Right? Yeah. My understanding is Europe has much closer to what you're describing, but I don't know the details. They're, they're, you know, they're restrictive to the point of choking tech not to death, but certainly choking it till its face turns blue, which on some days I think is probably a good policy. But do you ever, you know, I think big tech is mostly evil.
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I do this. Do you ever hesitate to search on something on any of those because you think, you know, I'd like to see that, but I don't want to get this for the rest of my life.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, as you, you know, I've shared off the air, my sexual kink is I really go for women who are dressed like men, who are dressed like women. It's a sub, sub, sub genre.
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Gotcha. Who sit on balloons till they pop?
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Well, sometimes, yes.
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Is everybody familiar with that? That's a thing how women in sexy clothes sitting on balloons till they pop is A thing?
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Yeah. Yeah. Seriously? Yeah, it doesn't do it for me.
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But, you know, if it does it for you, fine. Something about the anticipation and then the release of the pop of the balloon or something.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Katie. No. It doesn't turn you on.
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Nah.
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Just what a time to be alive, you know?
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No kidding. Yeah. And if that was your turn on pre video, how did you know?
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Right?
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And if you happen to be at a birthday party once and your buddy's wife came out of the pool, stumbled playfully, sat on the big balloon that. Then you thought, geez, that's hot. Oh my God, that's hot.
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And then the Internet came along and you thought, oh my God, there are thousands of people who like the same thing.
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A
Wow. One more reason to unplug the Internet.
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We've got Mailbag on the waist to.
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Hear Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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We were just talking about that amazing play he made. Indiana Hoosiers star quarterback Fernando Mendoza is officially entering the NFL draft. He will be the number one pick and he will get to go get the bejesus beaten out of him as an Las Vegas Raider. Enjoy. Enjoy the next couple of years of your life. Oh, at least you'll be rich.
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Yeah. Yeah. Here's your freedom hating quote of the day. Actually factors into one of the pieces of email and Mailbag wrapping up our series from Lois Shickle Gruber. Later, Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany. He alone. No, Michael. No, no, no, no, no. Must I explain to you again when the Hitler bell is appropriate and when it's inappropriate?
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All right, I'm.
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Compliance is not. What's that phrase I vowed to use?
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Compliance not an option.
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No, no, not optional. Compliance is not optional, Michael. Here's your. Your freedom hating quote of the day from Hitler. He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
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He understood that too.
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Yeah, he did. Mailbag, drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongygetty.com we'll get to that email in a moment. But first, this from Aloha Al. Guys, my daughter and I have been collecting new and used vinyl albums. We had several new ones for Christmas. Got several new ones. As we were listening to them while playing board games, we ran into a dilemma we weren't used to. Gotta flip the album when the side ends. All right, now, we all know Ang has sleeve boy for that sort of duty. So along that theme, we have Flipper Boy. Oh, Flipper Boy. Please flip the album, Flipper Boy. Time to change the album. You heard the last track, Flipper Boy.
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B
Or it just keeps going.
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Right. Let's See, Nick writes, guys, I watched the Animal Farm trailer again. That word is animal. Trying not to see it as perverting the storyline, but I couldn't. The thing the animals do is open up a petting zoo. There's no scarcity, no working boxer to death for the benefit of the cause. Anyway, I'm behind. Blah, blah, blah. Am I the first to point out the movie is also being released on May Day. How perverse is that?
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Oh, it doesn't come out till May. Okay. I was hoping to see it soon.
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Traditional Chinese. I'm sorry. Communist workers holiday. May Day. Beautiful. Moving along. Speaking of totalitarians, Paolo with a really intriguing email. He talks about a specific policy in China. What it is is almost a distract. But he points out that they effed up in a way that only totalitarian governments can. The problem with absolute centralized power is that when it makes a mistake, it can make a really big one. Making mistakes is one of the things we humans do best. But a culture that embraces a diversity of ideas, it's much easier to learn from mistakes than to be crippled by them. And to stop them more quickly too. In a centralized power regime, mistakes are forcefully imposed. Much more difficult to recover from. Yeah, I would say the COVID response was a big. Was a great example of that. Yeah. Where any dissent was silenced even when it was correct. And how'd that work out? Moving along. You know, I said we'd get to this. So I'm going to. Randy happened to be watching PBS and some news story came on and a black reporter and Asian reporter were in Mississippi doing a hatchet piece on a predominantly black school. There are various accusations which may or may not be true, but Randy writes, and I'm paraphrasing. I thought it was weird and surprising that pbs, NPR would be going after a minority run school like that. Now he gets it it because people like me are pointing to Mississippi and its educational reforms going profonics, taking the power away from the teachers unions, getting rid of restorative justice and reinstalling order in the classrooms. And they're desperate to discredit any achievement by black students in Mississippi. They don't give a crap about the kids. They give a crap about their ideology. God, that's sick. Wow. Let's see. This is an intriguing question from Michael. Good morning team. I have a question for you, Joe, since you almost went to law school. That is true, I did. The judge in Minnesota said that Don Lemon cannot be charged because he was a member of the press. Don Lemon was not wearing any press gear does not actually work for any accredited news organization. So my question is, do you think that this judge in Minnesota just made all podcast, YouTube and streamers official members of the press? Keep up the good, funny words. The answer to that is yes in a way, Michael, and it's probably appropriate. But that does open up a couple of, you know, conundra, a couple of intriguing questions about who's in the press and who's not. What can somebody who's quote unquote in the press but not really do and get away with it because they're quote unquote in the press? We got to figure all that out.
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It opens up a couple of conundra.
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Several Conundra Jack, wow.
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B
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