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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
When.
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Joe Getty
He speaks to President Xi of China.
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Jack Armstrong
When we.
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Unnamed Guest
I mean, look, right now, and I told you before, they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business. They made a trillion dollars with Biden. A trillion dollars. Even a trillion won with Biden selling us stuff, much of it we don't need. You know, somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to be open. Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally, but.
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Jack Armstrong
So I thought that was an odd thing for Donald Trump to say. So maybe your children will have one doll instead of 30 dolls for Christmas this year.
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Joe Getty
Well, two. It's twice as many as you just said.
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Jack Armstrong
What is that?
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Joe Getty
Or did he mean on the shelves? I think he meant on the shelves and they'd cost a few bucks more.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, he meant on the shelves. He didn't mean like as a gift.
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Joe Getty
That's the way I took it.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay. That's not the way I took it. But I could be wrong. What an odd thing to say.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Kids are gonna have way fewer presents.
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Joe Getty
What? One of our beloved listeners to whom I should give credit, although it'd take too long to find, I think compared that to Jimmy Carter's setting your thermostat lower speech.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, the malaise speech.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. As it's called. Yeah. Huh. Not sure that's fair.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I don't know. I just seemed like an odd thing to say. To me. So your kid will get two dolls instead of 30. I mean, if he met on the shelves. Okay.
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Joe Getty
If I were to look at all of this through the lens of Trump is doing his strategic ambivalence slash I'm crazy style of negotiating, him saying so China loud enough so China could hear it. Yeah, we're gonna have a tiny fraction of the consumer choice on our shelves, and it's gonna cost more money. What are you gonna do? Xi Jinping's thinking, holy crap. He's willing to like, completely slap this stuff in the face of the American consumer. Fewer choices, more money, blah, blah. He's crazy. He's. He's nuts. We better. We better give in. I mean, that's. That's the way I would see it. If that's what's happening.
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Jack Armstrong
Michael's gonna grab just the last part of that with the dolls because I want to hear the wording on that, because I took it as your kid gets too many toys and they'll be fine with a few, which I thought is a hell of a thing to say.
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Joe Getty
I don't know that you've got a persecution complex. You think Trump was criticizing you?
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Jack Armstrong
No, everyone, not me, America.
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Joe Getty
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, go ahead.
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Unnamed Guest
Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost A couple of bu would go away.
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Joe Getty
But it's not clear. It's. It's Trump being vague, as he often is.
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Jack Armstrong
No, it's more defendable if it's what you took it as in that just so you have a few less choices. Quite a few less choices. But if it's a year, kids are going to get less presents. They get too many presents anyway. I just thought what an interesting. What an interesting angle to go with.
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Joe Getty
Your kids are spoiled and dolls are too cheap. Yeah, right. I don't think that's what he meant.
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, let's hear goes on a little bit. This is kind interesting, this, this serious battle between us and China.
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Unnamed Guest
They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which, not all of it, but much of which we don't need. And we have to make a fair deal. We've been ripped off by every country in the world. But China, I would say, is the leading. The leading one. The leading candidate for the chief ripper offer. There has never been. There has never been a country that's been ripped off more than the United States of Americ America.
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Jack Armstrong
Ships full of stuff we don't need anyway. Again, not exactly sure. I mean, they're shipping it over here. Because people are buying it and they're not mean. They're not in the business of just. And stores aren't in the business of filling their shelves full stuff people don't want either. Need and want are two different things.
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Joe Getty
But. Right. Exactly. We have railed against cheap Chinese crap tendency to buy garbage that'll just be replaced in three years as opposed to, you know, enduring quality for a little more money.
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Jack Armstrong
Give me a $60 toaster.
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Joe Getty
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
You have for 20 years and you.
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Joe Getty
Give to your kids when you go to the great beyond. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
You too old for toast?
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Joe Getty
I don't know what age. No longer chew without toast. Honey, would you like my incredibly rock solid Detroit built toaster?
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Jack Armstrong
This is a robust toaster. It weighs about 40 pounds. You might want to have somebody help you carry it. But it will make four slices of toast for the next two decades.
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Michael
Right.
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Joe Getty
As I'm want to say, you could toast a bagel with it, then beat an ox to death with it and then toast another bagel with it because it's still intact. But anyway I, I have thought that. But I want to make that choice. I don't want the President of the United States necessarily to make it for me. On the other hand, I get his point completely. I don't think he. I. That's a silly argument and unnecessary. And he baited me into like arguing against it because that's. It's totally irrelevant. China even more than the most most of the world post WW2 because this describes the whole world but especially China went from complete economic basket case that needed our mercy so their economy could get up and running and become a customer of ours and a supplier of ours too. But yeah, we took mercy on them and gave them unfair trade deals cuz we wanted them to develop economically. But they've gone from a basket case case now to a superpower and in the case of China, a thief, a manipulator of currencies and just a cheater in every way that's imaginable. So yeah, it's time to change the relationship. Never mind how many dolls are out there.
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Jack Armstrong
That'll be the title of the last chapter of my memoir. Too old for Toast. The sad. The sad chapter following the previous sad chapters. China said this yesterday. Different topic. But still our evil enemy. China. China pointed its finger at the United States for the origins of COVID Yesterday the communist regime argued that substantial evidence suggested that Covid might have come from the US earlier than the outbreak in China while insisting the lab leak theory was extremely unlikely in A white paper the government put out yesterday. The US government, instead of facing squarely its failure in response to COVID 19 and reflecting on its shortcomings, has tried to shift the blame and divert people's attention by shamelessly politicizing COVID 19. Covid 2 origins tracing Chinese officials complaint.
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Joe Getty
It was our fault that we financed gain of function research, and they're known to be leaky lab. I'll grant them that.
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Jack Armstrong
It was our fault that we didn't call out the who's clearly in the pocket of China and let them get away with the early reporting that allows China to have this sort of statement.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I was. I was just reading earlier there the. The idea that the WHO is in China's pocket and lying repeatedly and egregiously back in the COVID days, is more rock solid than ever. The WHO is a perverse corrupt organization, or certainly was, as opposed to the.
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Jack Armstrong
Un, which is a perverse corporate corrupt organization and pretty much every other world organization that we finance almost entirely, as was the.
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Joe Getty
The cdc and. What's the other one that the scarf lady ran?
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Jack Armstrong
NBA.
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Joe Getty
The NBA. That's right. All of those organizations were the nih. They were all lying like lunatics during the whole Covid thing. And it's all documented now, as I said last hour, I could talk about this every day for the rest of my life. I think it's that important. But people just. They. I don't think they want to.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, they gotta stop showing us on TV or I gotta turn off the TVs. Have you seen the guy fall out of the stands at the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game?
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Joe Getty
I have not.
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Jack Armstrong
Oof. I haven't heard if he was drunk or not. He had to be. No way you fall over the railing like that if you're not drunk. Anyway, lands on the field and players start yelling, get somebody out here. Yeah. He falls from the upper deck onto the field in the outfield.
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Joe Getty
How's their stadium shaped?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, in such a way that the. You fall on the field?
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Joe Getty
Well, clearly, yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Twenty feet, two stories, which is far enough, especially if you land more or less on your head.
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Joe Getty
How long does it take to get to terminal velocity? You took more math than I did think.
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Jack Armstrong
30Ft, if I remember right. So it wouldn't have been at terminal velocity, but you've been going. He was humming. Yeah, it looks he just kind of like arms is his side, leans over the railing, and then just tumbles forward.
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Joe Getty
All the way to the ground. As a guy who has a fear of failing, falling in precipices I don't need that. Yikes.
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Jack Armstrong
Will they start putting seat belts in those seats at major league sports sporting events?
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Joe Getty
They need to require it. A shoulder belts as well.
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Jack Armstrong
Almost certainly. Drunk, right?
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Joe Getty
I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
I stumble.
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Joe Getty
You could stumble. You could step on, like, a. A slick hot dog wrapper that has mustard on.
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Jack Armstrong
You could step on a slick hot dog wrapper. Yes. Katie, I'm. I'm watching this video right now.
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Joe Getty
It.
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Jack Armstrong
This looks intentional to me, like he was trying to kill himself.
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Joe Getty
Well, he was sitting, and then he stands up and he launches himself over the railing.
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Jack Armstrong
It does look like he just leans forward with his arms at his side and goes over. Unless he, like, passed out or. So drunk he fell over, which. Joe and I were at a football game one time where a guy fell right in our laps, completely over. If he had been going forward with a railing, he'd had tumbled onto the field.
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Joe Getty
Right. Or maybe, you know, the. The Pirates had men on second and third with no outs. And he said to his companion, tell you what, they don't score a run again this inning. I'm killing myself. Sure enough hitting. Do a quick double play, then a strikeout. And he said, that's it. I'm done.
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Jack Armstrong
Executive producer Hansen has looked over the video like there's a pruder film. Same conclusion. Katie thinks it was on purpose. Guy said, goodbye, crew world.
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Joe Getty
What?
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Jack Armstrong
I'm going to dive onto the field. That's an interesting way to go out foreign.
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Joe Getty
It's possible he's suicidal and stupid because that's a stupid way to do it. True.
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Jack Armstrong
People jump off bridges.
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Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, but that'll kill you. Throwing yourself onto an outfield will generally not 20ft. Right.
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Jack Armstrong
You know what? I want a really bad shoulder injury. Here I go. I doubt that's it. All right.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. I don't want to kill myself, but I want to, like, cause myself pain for the rest of my life.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Guys alive. So maybe they can ax him at some point when he wakes up. Yo, what was that all about?
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Joe Getty
You know what I'd like to hear, Michael? What? Flip 60 again, please. Hi, everyone. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you.
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Michael
And Dougie's here, too.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, man.
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Joe Getty
Oh, please, have a seat, please. I throw myself out of this Kansas ball game to stop that.
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Advertiser
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Joe Getty
And thank you.
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Jack Armstrong
If I was in the second deck at Kamala Harris's comeback speech, I would have put my arms at my side and divin. Dive and dove straight onto my head.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Just to end that, we Might have more of that later. And other stuff. Stay here.
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Michael
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Another troubling sign out there in the market. Strippers are reporting that customers are tipping less than half of what they used to. Yes, but what those customers lack in tips, they make up for in sparkling personality.
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Unnamed Guest
Hey.
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Joe Getty
Hey, Cheyenne. Hey. Hey, Cheyenne. You smell good. Listen, I hate to do this, but.
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Unnamed Guest
I need, I need a place to crash.
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Jack Armstrong
Does your building allow iguanas?
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Joe Getty
Full disclosure, I can't afford underwear.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God. That is not a charitable view of your average strip club patron.
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Joe Getty
Although I prefer the name the, the moniker Gentleman's club Jack, because everyone I've seen in one is a real gentleman.
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Jack Armstrong
So the Washington Post has an interesting story today about Sean P. Diddy Combs.
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Joe Getty
Speaking of debauchery.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. And there are. I didn't realize this. He's got, he's in jail. There's a decent chance he's going to be in jail for the rest of his life. He's got the whole sex trafficking and all the different charges. There are 70 different cases after this one that he's going to be dealing with. 77. Zero.
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Joe Getty
Wow. That's incomprehensible.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it really is. So I'll just give you the opening part for the Washington Post. And really their point is everybody more or less knew this was his lifestyle, but just thought and what are you gonna do? I guess he was like a king.
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Joe Getty
Of old, like a Caligula.
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Jack Armstrong
They talk about this woman, Tania Wallace. Oh, I'm haven't seen a picture of. But I'M guessing is very hot. That's how you end up in this situation. In late 2022, which wasn't very long ago, Sean Combs got into trouble. A man in Los Angeles approached Tania Wallace with an offer. The man was a scout for soft White Underbelly. That is a YouTube channel about people struggling with issues of abuse and addiction. Anyway, Wallace, an aspiring singer or model or actress or whatever you are as a young hot woman in Los Angeles, and there are thousands and thousands of them, also made some money with some sex work and agreed to go get her picture taken or whatever. In the interview with the Washington Post, she recounted an incident where the crown prince of Brunei, once she got into the this orbit, flew her from Los Angeles to Miami with the promise of helping her singing career. So if you're an out of work wannabe hottie singer and the crown prince of Brunei says, yeah, I'll fly you to wherever I'm gonna help you. I mean, who are you gonna say no to that?
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Joe Getty
Well, and you're already sharing your favors with fellas for various, you know, forms of renumeration. Why not, you know, what the heck? Maybe you could get your singing career going. Not that I approve.
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Jack Armstrong
I just get it anywhere. Anyway, Crown Principe flies her from LA to Miami with a promise of helping her singing career. Once there, he took her to a party on Star island, an uber exclusive man made enclave home to celebrities such as Rick Ross, retired basketball star Shaquille O'Neal, and Sean Diddy Combs. The music mogul was throwing a party. Security guards took her phone before she could wander through the proper. She entered quite a scene, as she described to the Washington Post, topless waitresses served drinks by the pool. Inside, woozy partygoers were having sex and nobody was really even paying any attention. Wallace eventually encountered Sean Combs outside on a patio. At some point, she says, he started masturbating.
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Joe Getty
It's quite a party.
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Jack Armstrong
Prince Abdullah Zima Brunei, who was 38 years old.
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Joe Getty
What's really funny is they describe this as an exclusive place. Yeah, I'd rather go somewhere less exclusive where people aren't doing that.
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Jack Armstrong
So the groundbreaks of an eye says, hey, you want to go to Cuba tomorrow? I was freaked out. She got away from it and never became like a victim of any of this, but witnessed a bunch of it. So she was one of the people that had the spidey sense or good judgment or upbringing or whatever. When the crown prince of Benai says, hey, let's go to Cuba tomorrow, probably to get into a different country where they have different laws and rules. And she said, no, no thanks and went back home. But she's interviewed by the Washington Post. But, but, and again, one of the points being there were tons and tons of people that had encountered all this and had been going on and everybody kind of knew he was living this lifestyle just like again, what are you gonna do? That's Sean Combs being Sean Combs.
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Joe Getty
On the other hand, she just released a hit record. I saw Diddy waxing his dolphin by the sea. It's number three in streaming this week. Jack.
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Jack Armstrong
It's a waltz, oddly enough.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Strangely so. The US Military is changing its game as quickly as possible. New frontiers in warfare, drones and more. We'll talk about it in moments.
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Jack Armstrong
You know, we don't have a challenge with the innovation. The innovation's happening. Down with our soldiers. We're changing formations right now. We had an exercise. We had more than 200 drones in a brigade combat team. We're watching what's happening. We know we need to change. And, you know, if there's one thing we just can't go fast enough, we got to speed that change. General Randy George on Fox and Friends today talking about the military modernizing to try to keep up with the reality of new warfare that everybody on the planet is watching. Happened before our eyes in Ukraine and Russia.
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Joe Getty
Indeed. Yeah. And more on that specifically, in a moment. But first, in a more general look at the situation. I thought it was interesting that the Wall Street Journal editorial board was quite blunt in discussing what I think is good news. The House Senate Armed Services Committee has unveiled plans for a one time $150 billion increase in defense spending as part of a reconciliation bill, whether it passes or not. Who? But the striking part to me was that the Journal said, and I think they're quite correct, it's early good news that includes a cash infusion to arrest US Military decline. They just stated as fact that our military is in decline. And they go on to say the US Military spending is at a historic low as a share of the economy and America lacks the ammunition, hardware and up to date technology to prevail over an axis of adversaries.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, you could be in decline in a number of ways. You could be in decline because the current stuff you have, you know, it's breaking down and you're not replacing it or fixing it or training is poor. You could also be just right on top of it and everything is great. But you're in decline because warfare has changed drastically in the last couple of years and you haven't changed with it. You're pretending that when you go to war, it's going to be an old timey war and not the new modern war.
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Joe Getty
Right, right. And interestingly, a lot of the money is going to ship building, which is still important. I hope a lot of that is unmanned vessels. The future of everything is drones. Again, more on that in a second. Munitions, the Pacific forces, homeland missile defense, and a few other things, but I think that's overdue and necessary. But to the drone thing.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, I keep mentioning this Ukraine podcast I listened to the other day where a guy who ran Ukraine's military for a while put out a paper basically saying warfare has changed. And here's. And he said big ships are useless now. Russia's super high tech warships are hiding in docks because if they go out at all, they get attacked by drones and sunk.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Now the technology might be coming to deal with the drones and then the ships are a go again. But for right now, tanks and ships, they can't really go out and do anything.
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Joe Getty
Boy, that's a great illustration of the challenge of the thing. Wow. Yeah. Ships are out. Wait a minute. We figured out how to fend off drones, get those ships oiled up and back out on the sea. Yeah, crazy. Oh, speaking of which. And I'm going to do this just so I don't forget a handful of folks who were discussing how that 60, 70, $80 million fighter jet fell off an aircraft carrier. And we were talking about how swiftly an aircraft carrier might turn and that Sort of thing. A handful of our beloved listeners sent us videos of modern aircraft carriers executing emergency turns. And it is stunning. It is mind blowing. These gigantic vessels are seriously listing to one side and turning like a speedboat.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Okay, so it is possible that it was the sharp turn that caused the plane. The big thing that was pulling the plane, and the plane rolled off the side and fell in.
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Joe Getty
But if. Well, obviously there's got to be a failing on some level. Otherwise every time they did this, all the planes would fall off.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, that was going to be my point. Having to turn sharply in a war is a thing. That's why you made it have the capability to turn sharply. And I assume you don't want your fighter jets to roll off into the sea every time you have to make a sharp turn.
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Joe Getty
Yes, that would be a rather expensive learning curve. You'd hope they just go ahead and strap them down to begin with. So the headline today is US army plans massive increase in its use of drones. The shift to more small unmanned aircraft is based on lessons, as Jack mentioned, from the Ukraine battlefield. And feel free to jump in, you know, obviously, anytime you want. From the podcast, you're listening to the knowledge you gained, but they're calling it the largest overhaul since the end of the Cold War. There are plans to equip each combat division in the army with around 1000 drones and to shed outmoded weapons and other equipment. I love that. The plan is the product of more than a year of experimentation at a huge training range in Bavaria and other U.S. bases, drawing heavily on lessons from the war in Ukraine, where small unmanned aircrafts, as I'm sure you've been following, used in large numbers and have transformed the battlefield. I'm pleased to hear this.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, the interesting thing was hearing a different person on the podcast later say, well, it's openly known and being reported that in Great Britain they're working on a weapon they think they are going to be able to perfect that deals with these swarms of drones and will be able to disable them. So then the whole drone thing will be over and might have been a four year blip in military history. I have no idea. Neither does anybody else probably.
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Joe Getty
Well, it's such an intriguing thought that the, because of, you know, computers and AI and the ability to simulate this and then then 3D print that these like, waves of technology that transform the battlefield that often in the past would like hold sway for a hundred years. Now it might be like a week and a half, right? Oy vey. Maybe we should just give peace a chance, Jack. Yeah, good luck.
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Jack Armstrong
War has never solved anything.
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Joe Getty
So the.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I love.
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Joe Getty
That's one of my favorite ones. Yeah. The Army's 10 active duty divisions would shift heavily into unmanned aircraft if this plan is indeed carried out, using them for surveillance, to move supplies and to carry out attacks. No truckers, you know, protected by machine gunners, going down the known supply routes at incredibly high risk. Any of you guys and gals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the roads, you know, fraught with IEDs and the rest of it, we're thinking about y'all as we discussed this. Now, a drone would haul that crap one way or another or. Well, and a drone can mean a dozen different things as we all, I think, have figured out. Unmanned aerial vehicle, which is obviously what we're talking about here, Unmanned road vehicles, ground vehicles, ocean going vessels. There I happen to know personally, there are a number of companies doing incredible innovative work with, with seagoing drones.
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Jack Armstrong
There are a couple of reports out there that the Russian military is like six months from collapsing. And that might be what Trump is up to and talking to Zelensky about. I hope that's true. That'd be awesome. You wouldn't think you could sustain these kind of casualties even as Russia for very long. They're approaching a million men taken off the field in three years. A million. 17,000 deaths drove them out of Afghanistan. The famous Russian mothers who got so much political power marching in the streets about, you know, their sons not coming back. 17,000. They've had almost a million killed and wounded to the point they're no longer on the field in three and a half years.
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Joe Getty
Right, right. Well, I don't think you import a bunch of half starved North Koreans to do the fighting because you're in rosy shape. Everything's going great, right? Yeah, yeah. Land warfare has transitioned to drone warfare, says Jack Keane, retired General Vice Chief of Staff of the Army. You see him on Fox now and again with his blue eyes like a husky dog. Anyway, land warfare has transitioned to drone warfare. If you can be seen, you can be killed. A soldier carrying a rocket propelled grenade, a tank command and control facilities, artillery positions can all be taken out by drones very rapidly for now unless the Brits get their thing done, so. Interesting.
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Jack Armstrong
God, I'd say.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, well, I'm glad to hear that we're at least aggressively seeking the leading edge, even if we're not quite at it. And we might be, you know, we do a lot of stuff that's highly classified.
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Jack Armstrong
And where is China on This who knows, right?
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Since we mentioned sports, LeBron James is out of the playoffs in the first second year in a row. Even though they were the three seed, they got knocked out four one and then the Timber was Can I jump.
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Joe Getty
In and say if you'd like to sound knowledgeable about basketball but you have no time to pay attention to it, here's what you say. Yeah, because the NBA Salary capped have LeBron and Luka Doncic on the same team. They had no supporting cast. Just say that and people revere you as a sage.
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Jack Armstrong
Unless you're probably a Warriors fan or a Minnesota Timberwolves fan, you don't care about this. But the the Wolves beat the warriors last night. So that's three two warriors and comes back to San Francisco Friday night. I might go to that game. But the warriors are The Timberwolves last night set an NBA record for the worst 3 point percentage in any game in a playoffs with at least 40 attempts. They shot 47 threes and missed 40 of them. You think you would win and they dominated that game. I mean they just trounced the warriors, but they shot 47 threes and missed 40 of them.
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Joe Getty
And won the game.
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Jack Armstrong
And won the game.
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Joe Getty
But what a miserable effort by Golden State.
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Jack Armstrong
Lucky for you to keep. That's one of the weird things about the NBA. If you've been an NBA fan, there's just. There's those games where your team gets blown out by 20. It happens right off the bat. All the players seem to recognize this is one of those games and kind of give up. And it just, it happens now and then. I don't know why.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I know, I know. Basketball's the, the most egregious sport for that, I think. So. A Florida imam has announced that he' going to convert everybody into Florida to Islam. If you don't know why, that's different than a Baptist minister saying the same thing. You should stay tuned. And if you do know the difference, you should stay tuned. In fact, everyone should stay tuned. But we have a lot of good stuff. Anything in particular leap to your mind, Jack?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. What was I wanting to get to. I know that.
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Joe Getty
Oh, he's got a Campus Madness update coming up next hour. That's really good and interesting.
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Jack Armstrong
Also one one of the more popular weight loss drugs. It's going to be a lot easier to get and a new way get it. So more of us will be on that as insurance companies start to decide that it's cheaper for us in the long run for you to have that drug than to pay for all your various problems that come from being too heavy.
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Joe Getty
Makes sense.
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Jack Armstrong
So we're all going to be skinny and on medicine for better or worse. Stay tuned.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
29 year old child, Aaron has come out as transgender.
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Joe Getty
When the press asked her for comment, she said, you talking to they them.
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Jack Armstrong
Old timey movie reference. Good one.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, a good one.
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Jack Armstrong
To what extent Robert De Niro was her dad. I don't know his dad, their dad.
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Joe Getty
Their dad, save her. So let's just go with they. It's too confusing. So a lot to come next hour of important news. Worthiness, a couple of things that are apropos. Nothing but enlightening and or amusing. Including this. Let's not get hung up on the fact that this woman is named Lindsey Graham. Not the. The somewhat effeminate.
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Jack Armstrong
What?
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Joe Getty
South Carolina. What would you need to do that for? I'm sorry. The. The gentle mannered. Well, I don't know. There's a Saturday Night Live bit back in the day. It doesn't matter.
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Jack Armstrong
It's inappropriate.
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Joe Getty
And I retracted. He's a brilliant man, a veteran and.
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Jack Armstrong
A long running us a long time unmarried male.
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Joe Getty
And this gal has what? This gal has the same name. But that's apropos. Not of that. And she is testifying and I believe a school board meeting. Here's what she had to say. 12. Michael.
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Michael
My name is Lindsey Graham and I am a cat. Meow. Meow. I'm not a woman dressed as a cat. I am a cat. By show of hands, I'm curious how many of you believe and confess that I'm a cat. No one. You are right. Why? Because you are not stupid and these children are not stupid. One look at me and you know this to be true. I am a woman posing as a cat. You may also think, correctly, that if I truly believe I'm a cat, I have a mental disorder. If I suffer from a mental disorder, and if I am unable to discern reality, am I safe to be around children? Would you put me in charge of making critical decisions about the safety and well being of children and about the direction of their education when I cannot even discern truth from fiction. No tail, whiskers or outfit makes me a cat. Just like no lipstick, high heels or long hair makes him a woman. If you were to address me as a cat right now, it's as ridiculous as when you say Ms. Bixler and a grown man's voice comes thundering over the.
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Jack Armstrong
Thank you, Cutter. Mike, I sure agree with her directionally, but I don't know if that's a fair. There. There are not a lot of men or women who are practically the other gender for whatever reasons of humanity. I mean, there's a lot of very effeminate dudes and masculine women. There are no practically cat like dudes or women. I'm here live. I'm not a cat.
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Joe Getty
That's a. That's a fair assess. I think her point may have been a bit overstated. Let's Try this one instead. Perhaps you'll. You'll like this one. This is a woman who posted the inevitable sitting in her car, talking to the camera, aggrieved video. She has tattoos everywhere, many of which appear to be of an occult nature. Your typical goat's horns and pentagrams and that sort of thing. She also has more piercings than a bullseye at a high archery tournament. Just all sorts of metal every which way. And she posted a video. And then a gal, another plucky gal, decided to reply to it.
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Michael
I applied for a job at TJ Maxx a few weeks ago, and they denied my application. They couldn't even call me. They just sent me some automated email. So I went in today, and I was like, so what was the reason I didn't get hired? And she was like, oh, like, you just, like, don't have enough experience. There was candidates that had, like, more experience than you. And, you know, I asked her if it was about my tattoos, obviously, because.
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Joe Getty
I know a lot of places don't like tattoos.
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Michael
She said, that wasn't the reason. I don't feel like that's true.
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Michael
If you want to tattoo the mess out of your face, be my guest. There is no law against inking your neck with demon symbols or scrolling all kinds of occult imagery across your forehead. Just like there's no law against putting 40 studs through your cheeks and your lips or dyeing your eyeballs green if you're a dude who wants to strut around in fishnet stockings, or if you're a woman who wants to dress up like a cat and meow at everybody. That's not illegal. Supremely stupid, but not illegal. But please, for the love of all that is holy, stop demanding that the rest of us accommodate your insanity. You did what you did to be different. Congratulations. Mission accomplished. So if TJ Maxx doesn't want you to be the face of their store for their customers, maybe go see if the circus has any.
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Joe Getty
Otis.
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Jack Armstrong
That's a good ending.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. I can do or present any way I want, and you have to accept me.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Not really, no.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. How do you. The trouble is there's just too many lawyers and everything. How do you legally do that, though? How do you legally. How do you write that into the law? Very state by state, you know? And where do you draw the line? We don't want women with short hair working here. Can you do that?
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Joe Getty
It depends on the nature of the.
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Jack Armstrong
Business, but in reality, if you get away from freaking lawyers and having to, you know, get everything figured out law wise. No, TJ Maxx shouldn't have to hire somebody that 90% of customers are going to, like, recoil from.
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Joe Getty
Right. Or be afraid of. Yeah, clearly that that collision between practical reality and civil rights is a really interesting field. And I could talk about it all day, but we're out of time.
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Jack Armstrong
But just everybody should teach their youngster, you want to be really out there, go ahead. But there are gonna be results from this. There will be repercussions from this.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. People have reactions. They make perceptions or assumptions about you. Maybe they're not right, maybe they're not fair, but they will do it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Wow. The sitting in the car selfie video. Yeah. What do you young people. Young people, get off my lawn.
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