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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Hey, how you doing? We're a million miles from victory. But later this half hour, a couple of examples were woke is definitely on the retreat. Part of that is it's just laying low or has changed its stripes or changed the name of this, that and the other to pretend that it's not still doing what it's doing. So again, it's going to be a long, long, long, long fight. But at least there are signs of progress. Later on the hour, going to be talking to CBS military analyst Jeff McCausland about the situation in Ukraine and. And just Europe in general, as I think it's at least possible that there is an era of real instability about to start. You know, it's funny is nobody ever talks about one of the major factors, how long Putin lives. He's in his 70s now. He's not gonna live forever anyway, so that is to come. Plus, boy, all sorts of good stuff. Let's take a moment, though, to take a fun look back at the week that was the Friday tradition is cow clips of the week. They need to tone it down.
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Joe Getty
You grab your baby.
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Jack Armstrong
Didn't that sound crazy? This is cool. Oh, great. We're in a brave new world. Not my Captain America. Okay. Bianca Censori and Kanye west have called it quits. I just hope this doesn't make Kanye do something stupid. It didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen. And maybe you shouldn't have gone on a trip. Why didn't happen to me? I don't know. I mean, I think that that's one of the things we need to look at. President Trump sending shockwaves throughout Europe.
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Joe Getty
You should have never started it. You could have made a deal doubling.
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Jack Armstrong
Down and accusing the Ukrainian leader of being a dictator.
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Joe Getty
A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move faster. He's not going to have a country left. Got to move, got to move fast.
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Jack Armstrong
Zelensky, who's polling over 50%, calling Trump's accus Russian disinformation. They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life if not executed.
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Joe Getty
I trust this guy like I trust gas stations, sushi. And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well.
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Jack Armstrong
Free speech needs boundaries. We say no. Yeah, free speech as well, but it also has this lim. You might sue them. I might sue them. What? No democracy, American, German or European will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid.
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Jeff McCausland
He was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion? We are, after all, democracies.
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Joe Getty
You know, I wonder to find somebody smarter than him. We settled in this.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, thanks for having me. I'm here to provide the president with technology support. We've got people that are taking faxes off fax machines. They had to leave the building and they were never able to walk back in the building again. It comes down to two things, competence and caring. You could be talking about saving over a trillion dollars if we don't solve the deficit. America will go bankrupt if this is not. This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw, chainsaw, Elon Musk there, boy. You know what I want to talk about briefly. Elon. Michael, do me a favor. Cue up clip number 32. This is the lead CNN where he's got a slim majority using presidential power. 52% say he's gone too far. They're cutting federal programs. 51% of American say gone too far. So breathless reporting of various polls that express skepticism about some of the things Trump and Elon Musk are doing. And as always, I must point out, we must point out that unfortunately a lot of America still has its perceptions based on or shaped by the legacy media or even cable news. God help you. And it doesn't surprise me if a good idea that is relentlessly described as a bad idea isn't as popular as it should be. That's not an indictment of the idea. If somebody just badmouths a person over and over again before you meet them, your ill perception of them is based on that bad mouthing. It's not on the facts of that person. You hardly know them yet. So what a weaselly report on CNN. Here's an example for you. It's clip number 80. Michael. This is a variety of talking heads talking during the campaign. Do you remember this when there was a bit of a flap about ivf, there was a court case, was it in Florida is in one of the southeastern states about the personhood of embryos and the ethical quandary that that is. And here's what it sounded like under Donald Trump and J.D. vance's policies and proposals. Of course, we would see total bans on IVF around the country. Trump keeps saying that not only does he, is he opposed to abortion rights? He's also opposed to contraception. He's also opposed to ivf. They clearly, as you said, hate women. Donald Trump is the father not of ivf, but of abortion bans. So I was talking to a couple of fellows yesterday whose adult kids live in progressive areas of the country, as do a couple of mine, and they, or one person removed, like a friend or a relative of theirs, literally crying because their gay marriage or their friends, gay marriage or whatever was going to be ended by the Trump administration and they would be jailed for it. They sincerely believed that. And these are not stupid people, because wildly dis, wildly misinformed is different than stupid. But there are people so wildly misinformed that they're divorced from reality. Like all that crap about how Trump is against IVF and will ban it and is going to ban birth control and blah, blah, blah. They just put out. The White House just put out an executive order expanding access to in vitro fertilization for Americans, directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out of pocket and health plan costs for such treatments, focus on how to ensure reliable access to ivf, et cetera, support for families. It goes into a fair amount of detail, but it was utterly, utterly the opposite of the truth to suggest that Trump and Republicans wanted to end IVF procedures. There's just a really interesting question about the personhood of a fertilized egg among people who, an embryo for short, among people who think about these things. So anyway, just completely dishonest. But we're kind of used to that, aren't we? So I'm so tempted to geek out on the German election. Probably shouldn't, but I think it's so interesting. What time is it? Yeah, we got a minute. Michael, do me a favor. This is from Morning, Jose Raf Sanchez talking about the German elections. And I'll explain why you ought to care about it in a second, but fire away.
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Jose Raf Sanchez
So at first glance, this very much looks like a normal election. In Germany. You have an unpopular government here. It's led by the center left. It's presiding over a bat economy. Germany's been in recession for two years and it looks like the voters are going to chuck them out and they're going to replace them with a government led by the center right, the cdu, Angela Merkel's old party, a traditional transatlantic party. They are supporters of Ukraine.
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Jack Armstrong
All that is true. Next clip.
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Jose Raf Sanchez
Michael what is not normal is that the far right is absolutely surging in a way we have not seen since the defeat of the Nazis in the Second World War. The polls show the alternative for Germany, known as the AfD, likely to win the second largest number of seats in Parliament, to be the largest opposition party. And that is sending shockwaves absolutely through this country.
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Jack Armstrong
So two things. Number one, as I've said before, the rise of the AfD, which includes some characters who are absolutely repugnant. The AfD is, is right a lot about a lot of things. They also include some absolute Nazi sympathizers and pro Putin lunatics and various other unsavory elements. But the reason they have power is that it was so verboten to use the German to talk frankly about the shock of mass immigration among the so called respectable parties of right of center, that the expression of that frustration and anger and fear was reserved for the far right. And so you've got lunatics who don't care. They're not all lunatics, but you got a party that includes a fair amount of lunatics who just don't care being the only ones willing to say what was obviously true about the rampant immigration. And that's why they grew and that's why they've gained as much power as they have and, and will be a factor. Now here's what you have to understand about Germany. And it matters because they're one of our biggest trading partners, one of our biggest allies, the biggest economy in Europe and ought to be, ought to be a big strong, robust part of NATO, but they're not. So there's what they call the firewall in German politics. You cannot play footsie with the AFD because they include neo Nazis and some lunatics, seriously bad people with bad ideas. So the problem is this guy, Fred Mertz, fans of classic tv, very amused by that. Friedrich Mertz, uh, Fred Mertz, the, the, the best buddy of Ralph Kramden in the Honeymooners. Anyway, Friedrich Merckx is a fairly reasonable center right type guy, but he can't include the AfD in his coalition in a parliamentary system. So he's got to look to his left to socialist losers and utopians and green energy morons and the rest of it. And so you remember when Bill Clinton famously said in a speech, there's nothing that is wrong with America that cannot be fixed by what is right with America. Which is actually a great line, I use that on my kids. Germany's the opposite. There is practically nothing wrong with Germany that we can fix anymore with what is right with Germany because they've gone so far down the road of high taxes, high regulations, utterly ridiculous commitments to green energy, phasing out their nuclear programs, begging Russia for oil and gas, that their economy is shrinking while everybody else's is growing. Their military is a joke, their society is falling apart because it's, well, they imported people who hate their culture by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions. It's a much smaller country than the US and it's falling apart. And because they silenced the reasonable right for so long, now the alternative on the right are lunatics. There are multiple lessons that we can learn from their awful, awful example. Speaking of which, WOKE on the retreat. We'll talk about that. Some encouraging signs in a moment. Stay with us. Armstrong and Getty. I keep meaning to dig up the podcast from last Friday's show when I was on vacation and Jack was talking to our friend Tim Sandifer about the Playboy magazine's rebranding, stuff like that, because I'd love to hear his take. I was just reading in the I guess it was Breitbart covering that Playboy's returning to its roots after going through a failed WOKE rebrand that included pop star Lizzo on a centerfold, a transgender playmate in a ban on nudity. Now whatever you think of nudity and softcore erotica or if you prefer porn, I mean, I don't really want to get into that, but just the spirit of the thing, just emasculating, denying masculinity, denying heterosexuality, just everybody needs to be like a Ken doll transgender. It's part of really unhealthy impulse. I think. It's complicated. Books are, have been written about it and will continue to be. But a lot of it has to do with kind of passive conformity, I think, because there would be, you know, the neo Marxists and socialists and WOKE crowd, the one thing they demand always is obedience. They have no interest in rugged individuality. It's antithetical to what they're trying to do. And I think stamping out masculinity is a big part of that program. It runs through a lot of it, but I hadn't realized how far it had gone. So in 2017, just one month after Hugh Hefner, who was a pig but he died, they announced that they would have a transgender playmate. And Hefner's then 26 year old son Cooper, God knows what his upbringing was like, said at the time of the decision to feature men in Playboy, quote, it's the right thing to do. We're at a moment where gender roles are evolving all part of the MeToo cancel culture thing. And then an editorial team of two women and a gay man took over with a mission to make Playboy more progressive. And, and it, it failed horrifically. The magazine's Playboy bunnies were renamed brand ambassadors and given sex neutral names such as September Playmate rather than Miss September. Who thought this would work? Only lunatics. Anyway. And again, grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand from last Friday. I can't remember what hour it is. I'm not really sure, but Tim and Jack talk about that. I'm sure it was very interesting. But I was also glad to see the woke numbskulls at Disney have at least shown signs that they understand that America is not where their radical lefty employees and the Internet are. And they've scaled back. A bunch of the content warnings on classic films. Your, your Dumbos, your Peter's Pan will no longer have autoplayed warnings about triggers and racial stereotypes. And you may be offended by this. These stereotypes are wrong then and wrong now. Negative depictions and, or mistreatment of people or colors. No, we, we, we don't need you to shove that down our throat. We can see it when it, it happens and we're interested in it. And there's no need to cleanse classic entertainment. It's a teaching tool if nothing else. But what I think is more significant at least, is that Disney is aware of the world has changed, thank goodness. But it's going to be a long, long battle. Speaking of long, long battles, the situation in Europe, Ukraine, Russia, military analyst Jeff McCausland to talk about the immediate and long term concerns. Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Jeff McCausland
But he should have taken it serious and allowed the United States to engage. President Trump is the only one that could have prevented this war from taking place. And President Trump now is cleaning up the mess that Biden left behind. And President Trump will get it done. He will negotiate an end to this war. He wants to see the war ended regardless of how that takes place. He wants to see a win for Ukraine and a win for Russia at the same time because there's a lose lose going on for both countries right now. People are dying and the President said he wants people to stop dying.
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Jack Armstrong
Senator MARK Wayne Mullen they're helping interpret some of the statements the President has made lately. Some of them Looney Tunes, in my opinion. But let's not get hung up on that. There's a lot to discuss, whether it's Ukraine or the Middle east or a couple other fronts. And what a pleasure to welcome Dr. Jeff McCausland back to the show. Jeff is a CBS News military consultant senior fellow at Stockdale center for Ethical Leadership at the Naval Academy. Jeff, it's always a pleasure. How are you, Joe?
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
It's trippy to be with you and I'm doing fine.
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Jack Armstrong
Excellent. So while I am not an expert on the level of a Dr. Jeff McCausland, for instance, I can usually, if I'm presented with a question of what would peace in Ukraine look like? I can cook up some scenarios that are, that are fairly reasonable and I might even say I'm only 50, 50 that this would work. But this is the most likely thing I can see. I've got to admit I'm a little at a loss to even describe what a peace settlement with long term security for Ukraine would look like. Help me.
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
Well, peaceful settlement for Ukraine would look like, of course the Russians can end this war tomorrow. They've always been able to end this world of war. They just got to pull their forces back to their territory. That's a pretty easy solution. But obviously they don't seem convinced to do that. And some of the arguments that are being made by the president that actually it's Ukraine's fault that this war occurred not only are counterfactual, but also make this whole process more difficult. On the Ukrainian side, what might peace look like? Well, some kind of a negotiated settlement whereby of course, they receive some sort of security guarantees. Doesn't look like that security guarantee would be membership in NATO, but some guarantee bilaterally by the United States or by European allies with the United States that if there was an attack on them, those powers would then come to their support. Second of all, perhaps the emplacement of some kind of a peacekeeping force to monitor whatever the agreement determined in terms of territorial changes. If those were made, this was done back in 2014 following the invasion of Russia of the Crimea and also a portion of Donbas under the auspices of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. Quite frankly, the Russians basically ignored a lot of those peacekeepers that were present and clearly prepared to do what they then did in 2022. So the question of peacekeeping also means are you going to have a very small force just can kind of monitor what's going on? Some people call that bluff and pray. Or are you going to put a larger force in of, say, a couple hundred thousand peacekeepers that actually have the physical capacity, not only deter a subsequent attack, but actually defense?
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Jack Armstrong
Do you have any optimism that Europe has the will to actively participate in that sort of program?
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
I think the Europeans will is growing. But of course, there's two things they've got to have. They've got to have the political capital, that is the population support for programs and policies like that, and then the economic capacity to expand their own internal defense industries and expand their military significantly. And that's going to take some time. There's already clear discussions ongoing between the British and the French. I'm told they're talking about implementing some kind of an air effort that would supplement the peacekeeping force on the ground. Again, this is all preliminary. Would that be some kind of a no fly zone whereby European aircraft would be over the battlefield area and if the Russians violated that airspace, either by launching missiles into it or bringing their aircraft into it, that they then would be engaged? But all, again, that is very preliminary and it remains to be seen. Furthermore, of course, the real question is where and when and how are these negotiations going to occur that are going to craft this particular agreement? And initially it appeared it was going to be a bilateral negotiation between the United States and Russia. Well, the Ukrainians, for obvious reasons, pushed back on that. You're negotiating about us. So the president now acknowledged that Ukraine will be participating, but it's unclear what that means. Is this going to be a trilateral negotiation of three countries, going to be a bilateral negotiation between the United States and Russia, with Ukraine in the next room, or are the Ukrainians and Russians going to have a bilateral negotiation with the United States as a mediator? Those diplomatic nuances are very important, not only in terms of what that solution looks like, but frankly, how it actually is conducted and concluded.
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Jack Armstrong
And we both know that if there's an asymmetry of desire to reach a deal in whatever sort of negotiation you're talking about, the person who is willing to walk away has an enormous advantage. How anxious is Putin at this point to end the war and come to some sort of deal?
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
I think he's more anxious than we might well imagine. Everybody said, well, it's inevitable the Russians are gonna win. We should give in to him. And it concerns me, frankly, that the administration has already made major concessions in advance. Whether you agree with those concessions or not, you don't go into an agreement saying, hey, I'm gonna give you these following things. Let's talk. And what have we given them? Well, we've said, first of all that Ukraine will never be into NATO number one. We've already said that Ukraine has to make certain territorial concessions. The president's already said, well, we should bring Russia back in the G7. There's even been Some talk of reducing some of the sanctions. Well, those might all be appropriate concessions to make. Making them before you've actually begun the conversation does not appear to me to be a terrific negotiating strategy.
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Jack Armstrong
Dr. Jeff McCauslin online, CBS News military consultant. Let's talk a little bit about the very concept of striking a deal with Vladimir Putin. How does he differ from other leaders of major powers that we might sign a treaty with?
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
Well, first of all, you can't trust this guy. He's violated about every agreement you can think of. There was an agreement reached at Minsk about the invasion of the donbas in Crimea, 2014, which of course, he has violated. And to answer better, the last question made is, does he want a deal? He does. I think he's being forced to think about that because he's had 700,000 casualties, maybe 150,000 of those are dead. He's lost thousands of pieces of equipment, tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers. I was talking to colleagues of mine who monitored this very closely, and they told me the Russians are now employing T55 tanks on the battlefield. These were made in the 1960s. There have been some suggestion that 60% of all the artillery being fired by the Russian military right now in Ukraine is made in North Korea. And so he's starting to have some very severe manpower issues to keep that force going if you're losing 1000 guys or more a day, which is what the Russians are in fact doing. So the one thing he fears, of course, is being sent to a mobilization of the population, which would be very politically unpopular at home. Also, economically, Russia right now has about a nine to nine and a half percent inflation rate. Interest rates in Russia are about 21%. Well, you and I, Jack, can only imagine how the average American would react to that. So he has some motivations. But at the same time, without commitments and without the ability to verify an agreement and enforce an agreement, you can't trust Vladimir Putin at all.
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Jack Armstrong
We don't like unnecessary hyperbole around here if we can avoid it. But as a guy who grew up in the post WWII era and the Cold War and the rest of it, then the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this era that we're at the dawn of seems unbelievably unstable virtually everywhere you look. Would you agree what concerns you the most?
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
Well, I would agree wholeheartedly. And we've had a system of international norms, international institutions, the rules of the road that was established at the end of World War II that we're about to give away. Let's be very candid about that. This is coming to a close if we're not careful. The commitments we've made to NATO, which has been the most successful alliance in the history of man, is we're about to walk away from like that, which will be enormously unsettling in Europe. Secondly, of course, this has a ripple effect all the way around the globe. If anybody doesn't think that Xi Jinping is watching this very closely and saying to himself, well, the Americans are willing to walk away from 75 years of commitment to NATO and take Vladimir Putin's talking points and also walking away from Ukraine, then there really should be no problem with us invading Taiwan. Some bright day, the Americans will probably complain, but they'll do very, very little about that. And our allies in Asia that Mr. Biden, when he was president at least was trying to establish a more cohesive alliance with the Japanese, with the Koreans and those countries working together, support to Taiwan, alliances with the Philippines, Australia and possibly India. The question they will be asking themselves, well, if the Americans are no longer reliable partners for their European friends of 75 years, why can we depend on the Americans to come to our end? Perhaps we should cut our own deals with the Chinese and try to get the best deal we can. If that's not bad enough. One of the things that we have done over those period of time since World War II is obviously extend our American nuclear security guarantee. This ensured that a large number of countries did not then create their own nuclear weapons because they depended on that guarantee. Well, if we walk away, those countries may say, well, we're on our own. And one way to ensure conflict is to acquire nuclear weapons. And certainly countries like, hey, Germany, Sweden, Finland, perhaps Poland certainly have the industrial capacity to produce nuclear weapons, as do the Koreans, as do the Japanese. Even Taiwan at one time had a nascent nuclear program. And might they think that's one way to deter Chinese aggression? In a world of 30, 40, 50 countries armed with nuclear weapons doesn't seem to me to be a stable place.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Buckle up. Dr. Jeff McCausland, CBS News, military consultant. Thanks so much for the time, Jeff. Really great stuff.
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Dr. Jeff McCausland
Take care, Jack.
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Jack Armstrong
Thanks. You got it? Yeah. Don't worry about it. It's fine. It's fine. Jack's on vacation, so. Yeah. Golly G. It's like they say about your health. If you have your health, nobody thinks about it. If you don't have your health, it's all you can think about. I'm realizing that even though a lot of us grew up in the, you know, when obviously, we grew up, had the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war hanging over us. I mean, it's not like I thought about it on the baseball field or when I was trying to woo my best girl. It was. It was. It was stable instability, you know, the mutually Assured destruction, deterrence and all that stuff. It was a fairly stable world. And then the dissolution of the Soviet Union unfolded reasonably well, really. But what a blip that was compared to 1915 through 1945. And it appears that that blip is now over, for better or worse. And we and our leaders and our allies will do our best to, you know, keep some level of stability going just so people can live their lives and enjoy the good things in life. But, yeah, we definitely need to be standing on our guard and thinking long term. And I hope the potus, for all of his bluster and occasionally shooting out his mouth, is thinking long term, because we need to, for the American people. We'll finish strong. Next, Armstrong and Getty.
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Katie
I think naps are the most disgusting thing you can do.
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Jack Armstrong
100 agree. There's another word for napping. It's called sleeping.
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Katie
And sleeping should be done at night. There's nothing you should do where you wake up that disoriented and feel sick. Naps are for pets and for babies.
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Jack Armstrong
It always feels like you've had a hangover.
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Katie
When you wake up from a nap, you are the most foul you'll ever be.
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Jack Armstrong
Bad breath, ugly, puffy eyes, sick.
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Katie
That's what a nap is. How stupid do you have to be? Be able to turn your brain off in the middle of the day.
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Jack Armstrong
Knob taking a knop. I bet she says milk. It was. Oh, you know, you had me at hello. You lost me at nop nop. All right, I'm gonna be all controversial and stoke an argument online and get lots and lots of engagement. So over it.
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Michael
Total rage bait.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Thank you. Yeah, I gotta. I gotta learn all those hipster terms. Or do I?
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Michael
Maybe.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's handy. If you're gonna exist at all in the online world, you ought to at least know some of the lingo. Rage bait. Yeah, that's ex.
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Michael
I would love to know what she does for a living, or lack thereof.
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Jack Armstrong
Maybe she's a cot sitter who has that time for knops. Ah, yeah. Oh, boy. So I'm trying to decide whether we have time for this really interesting and weighty topic. Two minutes. I'm not sure I have it in me. It's about the birthright citizenship thing, and it's really Interesting. But I don't know. I'm tired. Tired. You can take a nap this weekend.
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Michael
You should take a nap.
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Jack Armstrong
I should take a nap, and then I'll totally wake up from a nap and rub the sleep out of my eyes.
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Michael
Oh, don't.
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Jack Armstrong
I tell you what. The catnap, the brain reset. Catnap is one of the most amazing things that exists. I can't always get her done. I've heard it described as a nap where you, like, lay down on the couch, close your eyes, space out, whatever, maybe a little white noise on the phone, whatever you like. And if you have a book in your hand, you fall asleep just to the point that you drop the book and it wakes you up. Huh. And that resets your brain in a way that it's difficult to explain. Like, when I get done with the show, it's not like we're digging ditches around here, but it takes a fair amount of converse. Concentration. Enough concentration to say concentration, not conversation. For instance, obviously it's waning, but by the end of it, I'm mentally, like, shot. And if I can take the 10, 15 minute cat nap, it's like hitting a reset button.
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Michael
It's catnop.
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Jack Armstrong
So the Internet morons can stuff it.
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Michael
I've never taken a cat nap. I don't. I don't sleep well, period. But it's. If I take a nap, it's too long, usually.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you got to be careful with that because it can keep you up at night. And you're better off just going to bed really, really tired and go to sleep. Why do you have sleep troubles? Is it the terrible things you've done?
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Michael
Yeah, they haunt me every moment.
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Jack Armstrong
Trust me, sister, I know what you mean.
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Michael
I. I lay down and it's like me laying down to go to bed is my brain's cue to just go nuts thinking about anything and everything.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy. Yeah, there's got to be a cure for that. Do you wind down or do you, like, go straight from activity to trying to go to sleep?
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Michael
I wind down ish. You know, I'll like, usually on my way into the bedroom, like, I'll pick up a couple of things or do whatever and then go to bed?
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Jack Armstrong
But have you ever tried the deal where you have a pad and pen next to your bed and if you start to worry about something, you write it down and say to yourself, there it is. I'll think about it in the morning. I won't forget. It'll be right there for me. It really helps.
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Michael
Okay, I'm Starting that tonight.
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Jack Armstrong
You could always try vodka.
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Michael
No.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that too. Okay.
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Jose Raf Sanchez
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Let's do final thoughts now. Here's your host, me. Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. Our technical director Michelangelo keeping us on the air will lead us off. Michael, talk to us. Just happy birthday to our friend, good friend Jack. I hope he's doing well and I just don't want to see him on the news this weekend, that's all. Yeah, I'm trying to decide whether it was a mistake not to have like a big deal for my birthday, but I don't know. I know this sounds odd, but I'm not comfortable comfortable being the center of attention in real life. Anyway, final thought. Kate. Katie.
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Michael
Yeah, same. Same as Michael. Happy birthday to Jack. And I hope, I hope he has at least one solid bang bang this weekend. Back to back. Big meal.
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Jack Armstrong
The way he eats would put me in the hospital. Michael, play me clip 35. Here's my final thought. Chainsaw. This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw. These are rocks. Times. These are odd times. Chainsaw. Putin's invading foreign countries are President blames the victim. He's probably working at something. But you got the richest man on earth dancing around saying chainsaw. SpaceX just pulled off another miracle. A technical leap forward this week nobody's even talking about it because Elon Musk is dancing around with a chainsaw. Chainsaw. Odd times. Armstrong. Armstrong and Giddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. So many people. Thanks. A little time. Go to armstrong yeti.com if you're not subscribed to the podcast, you ought to be pick up some ag swag for your favorite ag fan, including. If that's you, drop us a Note mailbag@armstrongandgetty.com we'll see you Monday. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty were unquestionably in poor taste. They need to tone it down. And when it's over, it is over. It is over. Over.
- [36:08]
Joe Getty
And I think I have the power to end this. We're going to stand up, let hell break out.
- [36:13]
Jack Armstrong
Doesn't that sound crazy? Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, obviously it's not serious.
- [36:17]
Jeff McCausland
I'm serious.
- [36:18]
Joe Getty
And you know what? Everybody knows it.
- [36:21]
Jack Armstrong
One final message. It's clone. Bye bye. Have a great Friday. You mother Armstrong and Gettysburg.