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This is an iHeart podcast broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at.
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The George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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President Trump was set to hold a private dinner tonight with finance industry executive White House.
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And the guest list reportedly included the CEOs of JP Morgan Chase, NASDAQ, Blackstone.
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BlackRock, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. In a related story, Bernie Sanders exploded. So I have some breaking news. Ish. Senior military officials just presented Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including land strikes. Sources tell CBS News Secretary of War Hegseth and Tim Kaine was there. So Tim Kaine must be the head of one of your big military arms force services, something or other for the.
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Democrats ranking member because he's a Democrat. But yeah, I don't know why he.
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Was there unless they mean a different cane. We're at White House for briefings. No final decision made. Well, those are, those things are always a little misleading. I mean, you're for your job. You've got to give all kinds of options, including ones that are incredibly unlikely.
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And keep them updated.
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Yeah. So.
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Yeah, but could be something. Who knows?
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As we said in hour three, neither one of us have the slightest idea where this whole Venezuela thing is going or how it's going to play out. Well, let's get this on first before I start talking about our obesity rate has dropped for the first time in a very, very long time and I think we all know why. But before we get to that, BBC coming under fire. Oh, about to sneeze. Probably a bird flu.
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Oh boy, oh boy.
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Unmistakable freaking avian flu. That's how you know you've got it.
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Quit blanking that chicken. Huh? Oh, that reminds me. The KFTC aprons. The Armstrong and Getty superstore vying for position number one in my favorite swag item. It's either those very amusing looking aprons, perfect for your favorite barbecue chef for Christmas perhaps. Either that or the great new T shirts ruin the whole country. Nome 2028.
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I'm glad I got the last of the pickleball paddles. The Armstrong and Getty pickleball pedals which have sold out.
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Collectible. Yeah, they are. The BBC is undergoing for 450 bucks on eBay with those stupid Starbucks bear.
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Cups and Labubus or whatever those things are called.
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Whatever. Yeah.
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BBC is coming under fire this week, as they should. The top person and number two person both stepped down because they absolutely freaking materially lied in a documentary about Donald Trump. Nobody should have any respect for the BBC until they've done mega formal apologies and cleaned house. In my opinion, just top to bottom. Outrageous. Anyway, to give an idea how WOKE BBC is, somebody had this clip floating around. This is from a report where they claimed that a trans woman's breast milk is every bit as healthy for a baby as a natural one. Here you go. Now, transgender woman's milk is just as good for babies as breast milk. That's according to a letter from the director at University Hospital Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. The claim was made as part of a response against campaign groups. The trust referred to studies and the World Health Organization guidance, including one case which found what it called no observable effects in babies fed by induced lactation.
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Oh, great, great. So you pump a dude full of enough chemicals, he'll start to lactate and then the woke. Woke. Medical authorities say it's every bit as good as milk from a woman, Katie, who's having observed it for a week. We can stay with authority.
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Yeah. Katie, who's working on becoming a mom right now, has her head in her hands over this story because, I mean, what planet are we on? No kidding. What planet are we on? And the fact that she mentioned in that news story, they did it in response to. So it was in response to. In response to people that think this whole trans thing is nuts. They put out a study that says trans women's milk is every bit as healthy for your baby. That is. That is so on its face. Crazy.
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Right? Right. You know, if I had a time machine, Jack, some would have lunch with Lincoln or ask Jesus questions about spirituality. I would shuttle woke people back 10 years and tell them what they're currently saying, but not tell them they were saying it and have every single one of them saying, are you out of your effing mind? Just for my own personal satisfaction in that little exercise. You people are out of your effing minds.
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Yes. Katie, just one more note about BBC.
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This woman, she's one of their news reporters. Last week, she, quote, broke the rules.
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Because the teleprompter said pregnant person and she stopped and said woman afterwards. And she got in trouble for that.
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Yeah, she got disciplined for that. Yeah.
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Speaking of time machines, I got into a conversation some with somebody the other day. This should have happened more often. Everybody. Everybody's got their top time machine thing. But I'd like to know numbers like 5 through 10. Those. Those are really interesting with somebody coming up with the idea, like, I'll use me a time machine and be There when your mom and dad met and get to witness that. Wouldn't that be something?
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And then play a Chuck Berry guitar solo and impress everybody. But it was too loud. Oh, sorry. That was Back to the Future.
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Wouldn't that be something, though? I wouldn't choose that over, you know, walking with the disciples or whatever else I'm going to do in my time machine, but it'd be a pretty good one on the list.
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Yeah. Man, I would love to go back to the night my wife and I really met, where I started to get to know each other.
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I don't know the rules of the time machine. Can you go back to something that you did and look, observe yourself?
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I'd put on, like, a theatrical beard and be the. The waiter or something, the busboy.
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I've never thought of time machines were like that. You can go back and see yourself. That changes everything.
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Yeah, that's. That's one of the great, you know, mind blanks of time machines. Amusingly dealt with in one of the Harry Potter movies, by the way. Yeah, Nobody. Nobody's sure, Jack, since. Well, for one thing, time machines don't exist and probably never will.
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Well, they never have. If they have had in the past, somebody would have visited us.
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But maybe they were under deep cover. They signed the time machine agreement and had it notarized. How?
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That's. That's.
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That's you. No, no, that's not proof of anything. I would go back. I would have lunch with Lincoln, and I would tell them, look, whatever you do, don't go see a play. I don't care how hard your crazy wife begs. You tell her, you got a headache or something, stay home. Tell her, look, honey, I'm gonna clean the kitchen. You go to the play.
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Of course, the crazy thing about the unfolding of history is you don't have any idea if that'd make things much, much worse. For some reason, you have no idea if he hadn't been shot. My biggest question, my son, at least once a month asks, what superpower would you like to have? And we have to have that conversation again.
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Well, he's tracking you across time for a longitudinal study.
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And I always say, it depends. I would go invisible if I get to have clothes and shoes. But if I'm naked, I don't want to be invisible. If I have to try to travel around completely naked and barefoot, that would be of no advantage whatsoever.
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You'd get cold.
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Exactly. So to me, that's always been the big one. I'd love to be invisible. I mean, to like go to the White House and hang in on, watch all those meetings and stuff like that. But I need to have shoes on to get there, get to the airport, sneak on a plane.
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My recollection of the classic Invisible man movies of the 50s.
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Yeah. You usually get to have whatever clothes you're wearing. You become invisible at the time.
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Well, no, I was gonna say, because he like wrapped his face in a scarf so he could be seen. And then I think he would actually shed his clothes when he wanted to be invisible. So you'd get to the White House, you'd say, yeah, John Smith to see the Secretary of the Interior or something. And then you gotta. Oh, no, you'd probably just, you know, drop your clothes half a block from.
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The White House and I'm gonna stand.
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In your way on the sidewalks, try not to step on a sharp rock.
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I'm gonna stand in the corner of the Oval Office completely naked even though nobody can see me. It's just not that comfortable. Have to sit down on their furniture with my bare ass. I'm like, I don't, I don't want to do that.
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That's their problem. That sounds like a them problem. I mean, you'd get used to it. I think you'd walk by the Marine there at the door, say, you know, give him a little salute that he doesn't see, of course. And you sneak in and listen to the, the deliberations.
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Yeah, I hate being barefooted more than most people, so hope you don't step on something sharp. I don't have to spend my whole life like that.
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Well, okay, so have stretchy arms then. Or fly, I don't care. Nobody's making you be invisible.
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Another thing I want to jimin. Oh, so we. We've shrunk three percent. Obesity is down three percent. We haven't shrunk three percent. Obesity is down 3%. First time. It hasn't gone up in a very, very long time for the obvious reasons. Those weight loss drugs that are out there, for instance, the use percentage of people using these injectables. In February of 2024, it was 5.8%. It's now up to 12%. It's more than doubled in that amount of time. And it could easily be twice that a year from now if the price.
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Oh, and it's a pill when it's a weekly pill. Please.
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And the prices come down the way Trump's talking about, so.
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Oh, right. And the price is going to be what, 1/7 of what it is or something like that. Please. Everybody's gonna. I'm gonna do it.
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I think. Yeah. Gonna be awesome.
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Hello. Man, I got some nice golf clothes that are just not gonna fit anymore.
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But I've never heard anybody do that before. Say, I'd rather stay fat because I got some nice clothes.
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I mean, I'd have to, like, totally restock.
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Wow.
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Okay. Well, I didn't say I'm not going to do it, but it'd be a bit of a downside.
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You could get them altered. Yeah, get them all.
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You can't get golf shirts altered, Michael. That's not a thing, as the kids say. Nonetheless, I mean, with all the health benefits, unless they, you know, people start growing a second head or, you know, developed horrific cancers or something like that, I think you almost have to.
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Yeah, no kidding. That's going to be awesome to Witness. We're down 3% in obesity. What's it going to be next year? Probably double digits. Wow.
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Certainly could be.
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Yeah. Couple things you probably should know, whether you believe it's a big deal or not, about the whole Epstein controversy, which is the first thing they voted on when they opened the government up, and it's the first big bill they're going to vote on next week.
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And speaking of perversion, this is one of my favorite headlines of the day. I'll pay it off. Furry. Who celebrated Charlie Kirk assassination and said us deserved 911 running for Congress in Michigan.
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Fantastic. All on the way. Stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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Well, you know, I vote with my party 91% of the time. And which means I agree with the. Have agreed with the President 91% of the time. But they. When they're protecting pedophiles, when they are blowing our budget, when they are starting wars overseas, I'm sorry, I can't go along with that. And back home, people agree with me. They understand. Even the most ardent Trump supporters understand sometimes he gets bad advice, sometimes he gives bad advice. And we wouldn't model our lives after him, his personal life. And they're okay with that. I mean, they can still. You can still, like, Donald Trump in Kentucky and like what I'm doing and what Ro Khanna is doing, which is trying to get transparency. So that's Representative Thomas Massie. He is a Republican and he is out there. He's in Kentucky. He's out there saying, if you vote against the Epstein Transparency act, which Speaker Mike Johnson has said is going to come up to a full House vote next week, then you are protecting pedophiles. So you got the Democrats who want to vote for it because they think somehow it's going to embarrass Trump, even though still, even after yesterday, there's nothing really that has come out. That's very exciting. Uh, and Massey says if you don't vote for it, you're protecting pedophiles. I don't know what he thinks is going to come out.
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The hell is Thomas Massie doing anything with Ro Khanna for?
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Massie is best known for his advocacy of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberties. Sounds like my kind of guy. I don't know. He. He rose up through the Tea Party top. Tea Party. That's how he ended up in Congress. I don't know why he's so convinced that this child pedo ring exists with all the main players in America at the top of it, and we're all going to find out through the Epstein files. Or if he does believe it and he just enough of his voters believe it that he has to pretend to believe it.
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Right? Right. Well, he is no Sam Smeltzer, also known as Elliot Badger, who is a furry who identifies as a honey badger. He celebrated the assassinations of Charlie Kirk and United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He was banned from X for saying America deserved 9 11. He is running in the Democratic primary for a competitive House seat in Michigan.
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You can't be on Twitter if you say America deserved 9 11.
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I thought Elon was more specifically encouraging violence. Okay, I think I'd have to read the actual rules, but. He goes by the alias Elion Badger, dresses as a honey badger at political events and furry conventions. Filed as a candidate to represent Michigan seventh, Though his fundraising has lagged behind the front runner. I wonder why. His campaign has drawn drawn local buzz, including an October front page photo shoot in Michigan's between the Lines LGBT newspaper that touts his honey badger energy.
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Whatever the hell that means.
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Yeah, he's got a series of just obscenely, stupidly snarky tweets.
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Do you know any furries, Katie? I've never been able to wrap my head around this. I hate the fact that I do. I mean, I do. Good. Good. Yeah.
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I went to school with a guy.
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Who now identifies as a female fox. A female fox? Mm. And how does that exhibit itself? Does he dress like a fox? Occasionally wears corsets and whatnot, and wears.
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Furry ears and a tail from what.
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I can see online.
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So, like a transgenderish fox?
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Yes. Okay.
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All right. And I'm the one with the problem if I call you a weirdo. All right, fair enough. Yeah.
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Remember, I saw a guy in the parking lot at the grocery store last year. He had a tail in ears and I wanted to try by and say nice. Nice tail you got there.
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Here's a picture of the guy in his full badger regalia with the caption, I hate America and I love China. All right, I got a suggestion. I'll bet you can guess what it is. Son.
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My goal in life is to somehow parent my teenage boys to a place where they're not so desperate for attention that they need to do these sorts of things.
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Keep your daughters off the pole. Keep your sons out of furry conventions. That's Parenting 101, chapter one of my new parenting book.
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I got a free speech conversation I want to have. I listen to. You're kind of an absolutist on free speech.
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Close, close, but not. Not really.
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I may be paring back based on a podcast I listened to the other day.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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Gone fascist, have you? Okay, well, I'll be fair about it. Fascist.
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I'll be fair. Nice tail you got there, dude. That's really cool, that tail you got there.
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Thank you. You know, I just had it brushed out. It looks so fluffy. I'm so proud of it. I just had it brushed for noticing.
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Yeah, that's a really cool tail.
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I feel pretty.
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Oh, man.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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The vehicle entered the second hole here at Venetian Bay Golf Course and they basically destroyed 7,000 square feet of the second hole, causing about $160,000 in damage. And based on LPR evidence, anonymous tips, we were able to get the person who drove the truck onto the greens. Keller Atkins, 17 year old Atlantic High school student. Confessed to causing the damage because they were bored. Didn't think there's anything else to do at 2:30 in the morning. I'll use a line that my grandmother relayed on me. Nothing good happens after 10 o' clock at night as a kid in his pickup was doing donuts in his truck on the green of a golf course. What was the RPL coverage? Or I assume, some sort of cameras.
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I wonder. Yeah, I assumed it was like tire evidence. I don't know why, but yeah. Well, he and his family ought to be on the hook for that entire amount, plus penalties.
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While the parents got to pay it. I mean, who else would? I suppose that makes sense, but oh man, that's their charge.
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Yeah, and the more you make it suck, the less of that you get. It's pretty easy math.
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I had to explain them that to my kids a couple of times with various things that they were wanting to do. You Know who gets the ticket or the cops come talk to me, that's who. Although I have instructed my kids, like, my son rides an electric dirt bike all over town, which is technically illegal, but everybody does it. If you get pulled over, say you're trans. They only. You only pulled me over because I'm trans.
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Right. In your communist enclave, it's a good idea. You know, there's got to be a saying somewhere out there, a bromide, a truism and aphorism that says, essentially, it takes work and intelligence to build something. Any stupid animal can break something.
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Yeah.
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Because the number of people who think, you know, I'm too stupid and lazy to build anything, but I'm cool because I could break something. It ought to be just generally agreed on in society. That. That is absolutely. You have tattooed on your forehead I'm a loser. Yeah.
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That fits in a little bit with me getting more culturally conservative as I get older and wanting to talk about free speech. But before I get to that, couple of news items that are worth mentioning. Senator Chris Murphy, who's a Democrat from New Hampshire, and he is the worst of that bunch. He says the most ridiculous things. He's. He's worse than Adam Schiff. I mean, he's just so. He was on a radio show yesterday and said he's criticizing the Democrats who caved and voted to reopen the government, who coincidentally, as Jon Stewart pointed out, all eight of them are not up for reelection.
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Right.
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Just. Just a coincidence. Anyway, Chris Murphy, the senator on a radio station said, I certainly not here as a presidential candidate. They were asking me if he was going to run. In fact, I think it'd be a big mistake for anybody to assume right now that there's going to be a free and fair election in 2028. I think Donald Trump is serious about running, wanting to run for a third term. That's a U.S. senator. U.S. senator claiming the president is not going to allow a presidential election. That's where we are. I mean, you know, and I mean, I, I can fully understand if you don't like Trump. Him wearing a Trump 2028 hat, you know, eggs on this sort of stuff.
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Although he said specifically the other day, no, I'm not running.
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That whole conversation is. Well, it is what it is. Then you got this Ukraine story, which I don't like. Wall Street Journal. Two of Ukraine's top ministers resigned yesterday amid allegations of corruption in the country's energy sector, the fallout from which is becoming a challenger for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Of course. And that's the knock on Ukraine by a lot of you that don't want us funding the war is. That is a corrupt country. And. And as Byron York wrote in the Washington examiner today, Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries when this war started. And you can't root that out overnight, which is certainly true.
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Every single former Soviet republic has had to fight an existential battle against corruption. It's just. It's endemic in the communist systems. And trying to leave communism behind is a long slogan.
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But how about. I think it's a dude and a woman, but how about these two people. You're at war literally for your survival. Kids being killed and abducted daily, and you're stealing.
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Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it's sickening. But profiteering has been part of war as long as blood has been part of war. It's. It's the constant fight. It's part of the constant fight to. To stop that. Lincoln dealt with it like crazy. He and Stanton pulled out their hair trying to stop the profiteers and the thieves during the Civil War. It's just endemic.
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So I don't know how many of you know who Yuval Levin is. He is considered one of the greatest thinkers in all of conservatism. If you haven't read any of his books or regular pieces that he puts out every single week, he's brilliant. Really, really brilliant guy. Anyway, I heard him talking the other day, and he wasn't presenting this as his argument so much as presenting it as an argument. The fact that we've gone too far with free speech, absolute absolutism. And conservatives particularly should be. For reigning it back in that the. He was talking about. He's written a lot about the Founding Fathers and their intent and the Constitutional Convention and all that sort of stuff that the intent was really around free speech. For anything political, you got to be able to say whatever the hell you want. And the government can't stop you from saying that.
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Well, that's true. Absolutely. Yeah, sure.
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But he doesn't see any reason why that needs to extend to pornography. For instance, when people make the argument that that is a free speech violation for the government to say you can't have porn and a variety of other things. And I thought, yeah, what is the problem with that? Is the concern that it's a slippery slope from banning porn to banning political speech. I don't think that would have to be.
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No offense. I'd like to hear his argument from his mouth undistilled, because I've got an immediate answer to it.
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Go ahead.
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I'd like to hear him explain.
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What's the immediate answer?
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Well, if the government is intent on regulating something, for instance, pornography, then it's become a political issue. But the actual showing of porn. I could talk about regular. I'm noodling this through. I could talk politically about porn. I don't need to show porn. No, I'm thinking no. I'm thinking no. There's no constitutional right to show two people fornicating.
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But isn't that the argument that's made for why you can't stop a lot of porn? Is the free speech?
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Oh, yeah. 100%. Yeah. People versus Larry Flint. What do you, what do you have tonight on your favorite streaming service?
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Yeah, I saw that movie. Yeah. I, I, Somebody'd have to talk me out of why I don't have, why I should care that the government would say, no, we're not going to have pornography. What's pornography? I'll know it when I see it. You get into that whole thing. But there's plenty you could come up. Well, short of what anybody would say, wait, that's not pornography, and get rid of that, and we'd all be fine.
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Yeah, yeah. The absolutist argument and, and this is, it's actually a pretty good argument, is you write for me the justification for limiting pornography. Okay. And give me five minutes. I will take that same standard and misapply it in multiple ways.
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Well, then we would get into Supreme Court decisions the same way we do with gun laws. And you apply this or that, and you try to get around them, and then sometimes you didn't get around it, and sometimes you do.
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Right.
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Case by case basis, we come to a point we seem to agree on.
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Right. So if the case was human beings in a sexual contest performing incredible tests of human elasticity and endurance, the answer would be.
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And flexibility.
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The answer would be no. If, on the other hand, I were hauled into the docket or before the bench or whatever because I was advocating.
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For a woman breastfeeding a kid. It's always that one.
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Gay marriage or what? In public?
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No. On what's pornography and what's not. As soon as you do that, then you won't be able to have a woman breastfeeding a kid.
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Right.
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I don't know. There's got to be a way to keep pornography and a variety of other really horrifying things out of society. There just has to be.
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Right. Especially children. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and this is a great illustration of what happens when a society loses its common Cultural assumptions and agreements and has to go with written laws written by Lawyers. Penal Code 123 43C1, as opposed to. No, that's disgusting. You can't show that to children.
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That's what I was talking about yesterday on the One More Thing podcast. If you didn't listen to it or you don't listen to it, we do another segment after this radio show called the One More Thing that doesn't air on the radio. But we were talking about when Elvis showed up and the Beatles showed up, and all of a sudden now the long hair and rock and roll and sex and whatever, and fighting back against your parents and stodgy old people who won't let us have fun. But what you were just talking about, culturally, we would have not accepted anything within 100 miles of pornography, as prevalent as it is. And when people say it existed, yeah, it existed in dark corners of big cities, and if you knew somebody, you could find it. But it wasn't everywhere all the time.
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Right again, certainly not perverting the poor kids sexual development, their neurological sexual development.
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I've been continuing to think, and I've been wrong, that women at some point would lead the charge against pornography when they'd finally realize, this hasn't done us any good. This hasn't made my life better, this hasn't made my dating life better, that guys think this is what sex is. So I'm going to be on the side of limiting pornography and lead the truth.
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Sorry, they're too busy screaming in favor of Hamas in the streets. Yeah, and screaming in favor of letting dudes into their own locker rooms.
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Right?
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Yeah. I don't know. It's an interesting question, but again, I think the highly unsatisfactory answer is that sort of thing is enforced by cultural norms, not carefully written laws. And once you've lost your cultural norms, well, you're onto a whole nother thing.
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She had the Roaring Twenties. So much roaring, and women were wearing short skirts and being all sexy and smoking and drinking. But then the Great Depression comes along. But is that a realistic view of it?
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I'm not sure.
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Like in Iowa, where my family is from, they were living like they were in the Great Gatsby.
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Oh, no, no. That was then as now. That's a. That they were the Kardashians of the time. You know, that sort of people. They were the urban wealthy and like their imitators in other places that were doing all that and living like that. That's like, how many. What percentage of Americans were actually freaking hippies in 1967.
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I know.
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All right, so your insurance salesman had longer hair than he'd had a few years ago. Your sportscasters, you see them now, it's kind of funny. They've all got shaggy beetle hair. Yeah, but I mean, they weren't hippies.
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Well, right. And it's funny, growing up, taking in pop culture with the feeling that Woodstock was just such a giant event, all encompassing event. I remember my dad telling me one time, I was young, he didn't even know what happened. So did most people. Had no idea even was happening, let alone were there. And it was a major cultural moment in their lives. Now I was going to work. I didn't even know what was happening.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Huh. I think I'm for limiting free speech. I might have to read more about this.
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Well, yeah, it's. You want to talk about the devil is in the details. It's like a Ghostbusters style, 75 foot tall, fire breathing devil.
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Yeah, it gets into the thing we talked about years ago. I should dig that back up because it's so entertaining. When Facebook tried to decide what sort of nudity they wouldn't allow, would or wouldn't allow on Facebook and how crazy it got with, well, a woman breastfeeding a child. That's okay. Okay, we got a woman breastfeeding a 13 year old and it's a sexual thing.
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Is that okay?
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How are you going to tell the difference?
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Right. I remember that it was one of the funniest things you've ever brought us. And I just. The history of sensors is awful. Balancing that against the moral decay of a society. Oh, that's tough stuff.
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God, I'd say we will finish strong.
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B
Next Armstrong and Getty.
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I just want to apologize to any Americans who are out there who still have flight cancellations or delays today. I want to apologize to the many American families who are made to go hungry over the last several weeks. Our troops and other federal employees who are wondering where their next paycheck would come from. All of that's on the Democrats. That's what I have the wrong.
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Get off my lawn.
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Did he start by saying, I apologize the airlines? No. Was that 53? Okay, well, the 53 on my sheet is NBC Nightly News's report that the airlines would be back to normal by Friday or Saturday, which is pretty big news.
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Yeah. Yeah. Thank goodness. Yeah. So crazy. So I, I've read about this Wolf River Electric, which is, you know, a fairly small company in, in Minnesota. It does solar and that sort of stuff. They're getting a bunch of canceled contracts late last year. And so they started calling the people who canceled the contracts, their former customers and say, hey, what's going on? We enjoyed working with you people. And the answer, as they say, left them floored. The clients said they bailed after learning from Google searches that the company settled the lawsuit with the state attorney general over deceptive sales practices. But the company had never been sued by the government, let alone settled a case. Turns out that Gemini, Google's artificial intelligence intelligence technology, hallucinated it. Wow. Made it up completely.
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A
Wow.
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Never in any sort of legal jeopardy from that sort of thing. Not even a hint of it. And so the question is, all right, they're suing now Google for defamation. Who pays when AI makes stuff up? And we'll talk about that a little more tomorrow.
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Final Thoughts with Armstrong and Getty. Yeah.
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Oh, the world's shortest rave.
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It's about the length I like. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
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How about a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day? There he is, our technical director, Michelangelo Michael.
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A
Final thought? Yeah.
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B
That story about the 17 year old.
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Doing donuts on the golf course reminds me of my dad telling me, yeah, if you do something and you get yourself in jail, you're gonna sit in.
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There for a little while. Oh, yeah, yeah. Katie Green, I'm sure you got a similar speech. You have a final thought that was exactly along those lines. My dad used to say, think of everything that I've worked for and that can all go out the window if you screw up.
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Oh, that's a good.
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I will kill you for it. Bingo. Yeah, Jack, a final thought.
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And I used to scoff like all younger people at the hole, nothing good happens to after midnight thing.
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But you know what?
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Even though there's some things that I had really enjoyed that have happened after midnight as a whole pretty, pretty, pretty good idea to keep your life on track by doing everything on the other side of midnight.
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So speaking of AI, my final thought is it reminds me a little bit of free speech and some of the societal things we've been talking about. I'm always aware of some unbelievably cool, important, valuable stuff that's happening in the world of AI and also some stupid, damaging, moronic stuff. AI is like a human being. It's just capable of great beauty and just utter idiocy.
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Joe Getty says AI is like a human being. Interesting. Armstrong. And yet he wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. So many people to.
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Thanks a little time. Go to armstronggetty.com hold. Holy cow, do we have some great swag for you. The ruin the whole Country Newsom 2028 T shirts are flying off the shelves. Get one yourself.
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A
Oh, I'll wear that one for a couple of years. See you tomorrow. God Bless America. Armstrong and Getty After a hard day's work in front of a hot mic, if your name is Jack, then take this advice. Clean out the lint and stick. Set your dryer too high. Your bedding should be crisp and dry.
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B
Don't sleep on the wet sheets. Sleep on the wet sheets. If your name is Jack, don't sleep on the wet sheets.
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A
Oh, that's great.
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B
Armstrong and Getty.
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This is an I Heart podcast.