April 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Jack reveals a hidden truth...
- What Joe learned from the book, "Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me".
- Does Jack get sick too easily and more often?
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Getty Armstrong and Gatty and he.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
If you want something.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
To worry about, like you know you're headed into the
weekend and you think you know what? Things are too
lasted in my life, I'm so carefree exactly, this little
India Pakistan dust up could turn into something.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm telling you. I nominated it earlier as the story
everyone's ignoring that could turn into the story you can't
ignore within a few weeks. Yeah, so who knows? So
interesting aside before we get to clips of the week.
This week especially, I found myself kind of like jittery
and anxious during the show, like I'm over caffeinated and
(01:00):
going to night change. Well kind of am. I was
just reading about it. First of all, the AI search
results did you get? Are so much better than your
standard Google.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You're all my loll very handy.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I was. I was searching on something essentially metabolizing caffeine,
coffee aging, blah blah blah, and in the past I'd
had to search through like four and a half pages
of coffee ads and old folks homes, and then coffee
makers and cots.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Guy on Reddit, who's got a favorite latte?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh yeah, exactly. But this came up quite beautifully and
it said, yes, people age their bodies tend to process
caffeine more slowly. This can lead to longer lasting effects
of caffeine, potentially causing increased alertness, jitterus, sleep disturbances, and
other unpleasant symptoms. So I have a feeling that's it.
I know I don't metabolize the booze like I used to,
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so I've had to cut back on that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So I had with caffeine, and if you remember, it
was quite a few years ago. Geez, how long ago?
But I just like, it just hit me way harder
and so I had to cut way, way way back.
And then it went away, really yeah, and then went
away and I went back to normal. And then while
I was doing chemotherapy for whatever reason, I didn't drink
caffeine for nine months when I had cancer, and I thought,
(02:22):
I mean, never needed again. I didn't have any desire
for it. It wasn't like I didn't want to drink it.
It just completely lost all desire for caffeine. And how did.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Gloria back in. Some guy on the playground, a kid, kid,
you want some Colombian first time?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I was the slightest bit tired. I thought, you know,
it'd be a little pick me up. I started just
like I.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wonder if my old friend Joe, not that one, that one,
would be willing to make a reappearance in my life.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You know, we see that I was tying off my
arm straight into the rains.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Beautiful. He got a spoonful of Colombian boiling over a candle.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I was gets into the sea coffee with my arm
underneath the spout.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Wow. Wow, you got a problem man, all right? A
lot to squeeze into the final hour of the week,
including turning tricks for.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
An Americano at a Greyhound station. I mean he got
out there for a while, so degrading.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Uh. The biggest Iran hawk in DC might be a giant,
bald headed Democrat John Fetterman what he said lately, I'm
telling you crazy. But first it's time to take fun.
Look back at the week there was. It's cow clips
of the week. We're all the beautiful creardos. I'm having
a party. Ever eat a pondrey?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Huh? Whips of the week. You're in away Mo wouldn't
let us out of the car, and it would not move.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
He would not let us out, and he was coming
back down on.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The waters and he goes run.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You gotta be kidding me. Walimore now has a big
lapt up.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Holy. Yeah, we all too.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That's that olive oil you've been drinking. Now you take
some matches with you. She got to the stop sign
where she proceeded to kick a solo cup out of.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
The side of the mail truck.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Just look at CNN's Fear and Greed index. We're in
fear territory right now.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
President Trump lashing out at Ukraine's president.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I thought it might be easier to deal with Solenski.
So far it's been harder. But that's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians
and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either
say yes or for the United States to walk away
from this process. A lot is happening here.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There is a lot of change happening inside Iran.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It Disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to
save their ass.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Tesla de announcing it's profits have plunged a staggering seventy
one percent.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
My time allocation will drop significantly. The US TRUS three
Secretary Scott Vessen said behind closed doors that he sees
the US China train war as unsustainable. I'm not gonna say, oh,
I'm gonna play hardball with China. I'm going to play
hardball with you. President She no.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
No. In the budget I will present to you, we
will try to do more to speed the deportation of
illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also
a nation of laws.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Today we're going to have a reading of Pride Puppy.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It doesn't get more innocent than a children's alphabet book.
Were all the beautiful queerdos dancing over the rainbow bridge?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I suspect there are a lot of non religious parents
who were into all that. Thrilled about this.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
By the way, eat more beans, good for you, make
America healthy again and flatulent. But it's good for it.
You got to ease into it. That's the key with beans.
Ease into it. Anyway, that's the key with beans. There's
a lot there, Yeah, there is that one gal who's
talking about meat in cages or something. She was talking
about the new anti theft packaging in the meat aisle
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in various states and provinces of Canada too, that because
we've given away civilization, there's so much theft of meat now.
The Walmart is got the meat in like these. It
looks like a chain link fence formed into a giant
burrito or something. It's a chain link burrito with a
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censor on the end to make the meat much too
bulky to shove into your purse or your pocket, or
up your skirt or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Shoving a meat up your skirt. We were in the
CBS in the lamp Post district in San Diego over
the weekend getting some drug medication because we're all sick
while we're trying to be on vacation. But anyway, everything was.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Locked up, Every tiny item was locked up. I just saw,
how did civilization allow this? Just a couple of years ago,
nothing was locked up, nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Now everything is locked up, and we think that's you know,
what do you get to you just the times change.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, part of me would like to ask my progressive
friends what do you think is behind this? But they
would say, well, rising housing prices. Yes, made peop desperate
and they're looting it back because of systemic racism or something. No,
it's not that we decriminalized crime and won't prosecute people
who steal, and so people go ahead and steal because
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from the dawn of man, if you let people do
the wrong thing, they'll do the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, we have some breaking news that nut job George
Santos Yes has been sentenced to seven years in prison
for lying about his campaign fundraising, stealing from donors, and
a number of other He should be locked up just
for being just kind of an over arching in general
(08:10):
nut job.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh I disagree. I think they ought to turn him
loose for our entertainment, for.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Being you know, Jewish, or all the variety of crazy
things he said.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh yeah, it's probably worth just a complete rundown of
everything he said and did, because he is a complete
nut he is.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, yeah, remember he was what was he captain of
the volleyball team wherever he went.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
To Mary's or something like that. He didn't play and
he never went. He didn't play at all. He didn't
go to that school at all.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right, he's well, he's the he's the person that needs
to lie because you get a thrill out of it.
He's got some sort of weird addiction about lying. I mean,
because he liked about all kinds of things that weren't important.
You didn't need to be on the volleyball team to
move forward in your life. He just liked lying.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
More than seven years in prison for wire fraud, now
gravated identity theft, and a case that resulted in his
expulsion from Congress. Yeah, he was in Congress for a
year in which he was exposed, in prosecutor's words, as
a pathological liar and fraudster.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
He is that seven years is a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Wait, and he flipped a Democratic seat in Long Island.
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Oh, that reminds me. You got more on George Santos.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Um No, it's a federal charge though, so he will
probably do that time, you know, will it be? He
almost feels bad for the guy because he's got a
screw loose.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's a nut.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's a thief and a fraudster. He's one hundred percent
of that. And we just got done talking about how
you gave away civilization? What do you expect? So you
got to punish a guy like this, but he sees
a kook.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Will he be at one of those prisons where you
like play tennis and kind of live in a dorm
like you're at a community college.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, he'll be in a club fed.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
God, where do I see that?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
One of those season a dowey, little gay, fat floudster.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
When this job is over, I'm going to figure out
what crimes you commit to end up in a prison
like that. They provide your food, your betting, You get.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
To lay around and read, read, got a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Library where I don't want you.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Got to work in the yard a few hours a day,
rake and leaves. Please, let's get started. It's it's soothing.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I don't want to go to some sort of Shawshank
type prisons. I had never seen Shawshank Redemption until this
past weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Somehow, would you think.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
One of the great movies and well referenced movies of
all time. I had done what you were doing with Gladiator.
I had just kind of picked up on the references
and gone with them over the years because I never
actually saw the movie. And oh my god, were prisons
ever that bad in the United States of America?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, yeah, that was brutal. That was the ability of
an arbitrary guard or warden.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
To abuse in mates. Absolutely, to beat you to death
because you were complaining. Sure, they're resisting arrest. Wow, that
is not good. That is not good.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Like everything in life, there's a balance. Should the prisoners
be running rough shot and running the prison and assaulting guard? No,
of course not. Should the warden be able to beat
somebody to death because he doesn't like him, No, of
course not. How about something in between. Let's let's try
to find it.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Man? That was rough?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, what was that?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
The point of the movie is how bad our prisons.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Used to be? No, it's about friendship and perseverance and
crawling through tunnels hope.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Hope that we're supposed to take away from the end
of the.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Keep hope alive. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah. All I kept thinking is how, in the freaking
United States of America, with all the rights you know,
bestowed upon us by our maker, did we have prisons
like that?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah? You know what's interesting about that topic? What's interesting
about that topic? After this? After take two? What's it?
I thought I was feeling so good about that. I
was going to combine that.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The guard's gonna come here and beat garble. Your words
are not in the box.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah. What's interesting about that is I'm reading a book
that really applies directly to that discussion. How the certain
things in the past seem abhorrent, but they were nearly universal,
and so how do we look at them from a
modern perspective and not come to the wrong conclusions?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Ah? You know, am I.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Explaining this well?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah? Presentism?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yes, yeah, in short, yeah, anyway, much on the way,
stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
D NC co chair David Hogg told Politico that jb
Ritsker is a fighter.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
True.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Right now, he's battling diabetes, heart disease and the thousand
pound limit on his condo's elevators.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The childish, idiotic. Wow, Michael, did you select that joke?
That was over the line?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And I like his tag at the end, jackass this
fat jackass, fat jackass.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Wow. Wow, he didn't even get to JB is one
of the leading lights of mutilating children in the name
of transgenderism. But one thousand pound limit on his condo elevators.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Wow, that's good.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's just that's just body shaming. I won't have it,
so Jack. Continuing on with the the thread of the
last segment about presentism. I am reading the book lies
my liberal teacher told me debunking the false narratives defining
America's school system, and it's it's a lot more thoughtful
than it sounds. It's not just a partisan boy libs
(14:04):
are dumb thing. It's really an interesting discussion of history.
But I'm gonna hit you with just a bit of
the introduction because I thought I was great. And he's
talking about colonialism and the Western colonies and stuff. He says,
in reality, almost all areas of the world that were
conquered by the West were previously under the thumb or
boot heel of brutal and unelected native rulers, often external
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conquerors themselves. And he goes through a bunch of history
of a bunch of different regions and yeah, it was
just one brutal conqueror after another. And then he issues
a disclaimer. Essentially, the fact that everybody did X virtually
throughout history, for instance, doesn't mean it's good or even okay.
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But he says, for most ordinary people living through history,
war for conquest was normal but brutal. Whichever end of
the gun you happen to be on, what most people
cared about was what society looked like when the guns
smoke cleared. For such people, Western societies were often the
best bad option. That doesn't mean the Western conquerors were
always right to conquer, or that they weren't often hypocrites
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by even their own loose standards. However, although normal isn't
the same as good when it comes to history or
any other topic, it's important to be aware of norms
because they determine the scale and tenor of our judgment
of the past, which you know is a good way
to put it in general. But he says, throughout this book,
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I'll tackle the question of why liberal teachers teach common
historical myths, but I'll also ask why they've been so
vulnerable to ideological capture and the blinders of fashionable fallacies
in the first place. And he talked about human nature.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So we started with me mentioning that I finally saw
a Shawshank reeption. Next next week I'll review Titanic. But
so the the the thing to focus on is not
that we had such brutal prisons. Everywhere in the world
has had brutal prisons throughout history. It's that we reform
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them and that we don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Just right, Well, the point is not to and I
didn't have time to get to the key part, which
is annoying as hell. The key part is that you've
got to put it in perspective. It was wrong and
brutal that we had those prisons. But it's not a
United States problem. It's not unique to us. It's unique
to humankind. And so to demonize the sins of the
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past and use them as an indictment of, for instance,
the United States of America is idiotic. It's invalid. It's
like hating your spouse because sometimes they're in a bad mood. No,
that's what human beings do.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's like Elon said the other day, every person on
Earth is a descendant of a slave.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a little more to this, this sort
of squeeze, and then maybe we'll get to before the
show is over.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I like it another philosophical Friday. If you miss a
segment or no, or you can find it in podcast form,
listen to it, you know, on your couch with a
pipe and a glass of wine or something. Look for
Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's a great feeling That's what I've always said about
pearl dops. But now I've got another reason for saying it.
Pearl drops, cinnamon and a breath freshening cinnamon taste that
leaves my whole now feeling as good as my teeth. Mmm,
it's a great feeling.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What year was that, Michael, nineteen eighty one? Pearl drops?
That was way more sexual than I need to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, that babe was really aroused by your pearl drops? Wow?
What are they again?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I remember that from my use it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Was was it more or less an alternative to toothpaste?
To give you a fresher breath and all? It? It
kind of came a win there you Good for you.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Hey, In a couple of days, there is a statistic
that's gonna come out out that is going to be
the number one news story that day certainly and for
probably several days afterwards.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Wow, stay tuned. I am intrigued. So we're discussing the
book I've just started reading. It's been out for a while.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Lies.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
My liberal teacher told me the subtitles probably you know,
in a perfect world where you didn't need to market
as aggressively as you do, it's debunking the false narratives
defining America's school schoolrooms. But he's the author, is talking
about the history of warfare, and how for like all
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of human history, you would enslave the defeated folks, you
would take their women, you'd execute their men, you'd enslave
their children, or make them your own or whatever. And
then he moves into so I'll just read it now
for the moral standards virtually all of us profess to
believe in today, Enslaving your enemies is bad, even though
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it happened under colonizers in every shade of the human rainbow,
breaking treaties that were based upon your sworn word to
pick just one sin common across the races and ages
is bad. And he'd mentioned previously that we had done
that with some of the native tribes. But the fact
that almost literally no one alive prior to say again,
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the nineteen fifties in the West shared modern dorm room
morality is critical to know for many reasons. First, Western
herds should temper their hysterical guilt about the past. The
bad things that we did were in most cases done
by all human beings with the power to do them.
The Arab Muslims, the horse Lord Mongols, the Black Moors,
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the Ottomans, the Aztecs during eras when they were legally
and ethically accepted as norms. Second, we shouldn't be embarrassed
of good things just because they're done by the wrong people.
In quotes the unique contribution of the West to the rest,
as in the cases of the maritime slave trade ending
it or Central African cannibalism, so is very often ending
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the practices today that we all find repellent or pretend to.
This point is not only obviously accurate and sweeping in scope,
but also relevant specifically to our debates today about compensations
for the past, such as slavery reparations, any serious plan
for which logically have to target the rich Arab states,
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rising bricks powers of Africa, and anyone else Burgeois Scandinavian
descendants of the Vikings, anyone linked to the multi century
global trade in men and women. And Throughout this book
I'll tackle the question of why liberal teachers teach common
historical myths. Understanding the brutal reality of human nature and
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history has huge implications for the future. Most notably, we
should recognize that all of the great heroes of this
era are flawed human beings who will be judged as
such down the road by our descendants. And then he
goes into the various flaws of people who are more
or less universally seen as hero And what strikes me
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is why this is so calm, and the presentism, the
dorm room morality and that sort of thing. And like
all of these questions, there are the useful idiots who
are of good heart and just want to be on
the right moral side of things. And that's that's admirable.
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It's not bad, it's admirable. But I'm reminded of Othello,
Shakespeare's great play Othello, in which Othello had this wonderful,
beautiful wife, great marriage, but he had a bastard whispering
in his ear to try to pry his wife away
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from him, and it ended up all murderous in Shakespeare, right,
it's not getting too too far into the plot. And
of course the I can't remember was it the name
of the character, and it doesn't matter. But that character
who's whispering in Offellow's ears is a lot like who
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I generally refer to as the neo Marxist is the
people who want to overthrow Western civilization. They follow the
whole victim of presser, settler, colonialist DEI critical theory. Crap. Right,
What you do is you take young people and you say,
look at the sins of the United States. Look at
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those sins. Look how evil they are from the perspective
of nineteen or twenty first century dorm room morality. Any
country that evil should not be allowed to continue, should
be torn apart. Who's with me? And the poor kids
who don't know better or soft heads say, God, that
stuff is evil. That's terrible. And if they let on
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for a minute that everybody was doing that all of
the time everywhere, they would lose that opportunity to whisper
into the king's ear and turn him again, not his wife,
but his civilization. And it's incredibly cynical and dishonest.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, and then there's the I mean, the Soviet Union
loved showing the civil rights strife we've had in the
United States on their TVs. You know, say, America is
not everything they claim it is, and so that justifies
you being an awful prison state.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I mean, well, right, and actually I kind of skipped
his final conclusion, but the point is to learn from
the past and to have some honest perspective about it,
so you can, you know, benefit from history, not use
it as a ridiculous, a distorted weapon to get what
you want, but to actually understand it. Wilfred Riley's the
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name of the guy who wrote it. I really recommend it.
It's again it's it's both really accessible and deals with
some really important ideas. I think so lies. My liberal
teacher told me.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I've never so is that cynicism. I've never understood people
who enjoy the philosophy of the United States is not
as great as it claims, and religious people aren't as
perfect as they claim, and you know, just that sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, it's how does that make you happier?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So nobody can reach the perfect ideal that they set
for themselves as a human or a country, So don't try,
or I don't even know. I don't even get the point.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think it's different on an individual basis. On an
individual basis, you know, it's it's ignored the don't worry
about the splinter in your neighbors, I worry about the
log in your own. People always want to point out
other people's sins, to make them feel better about themselves.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I know I do.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh yeah, hell all day long, favorite hobby, but as
a presentism, politically speaking, has been absolutely nakedly a weapon
of overthrow. Yeah, it's an indictment, and utterly unfair indictment.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I want to throw this out here before I get
to that statistic as I'm coughing. I mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I have fought this for.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Quite a while now, and I'm going to accept it
because somebody pointed out to me it's just true last night.
I get sick more than the average person, at least
I have for the last I don't know how long year,
two years longer, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, I know I never used to.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I know I never used to unless I was in
denial then, but I don't think I used to AnyWho.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And it kind of gets what we were talking about
yesterday about being better looking than average or smarter than
average people. Half of people are uglier than average, half
of people are dumber than average. It's just the way
statistics work. I mean, it's just they're still getting wrong.
But so if I'm on the I get sick more
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than average, you know, I'm in the bottom half am
I you know, slightly.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Moral either, by the way, but anyway, yes, what's that
It's not a moral feeling.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, I don't think it is. That's what I was
going to throw it out for anybody listening. It's like,
either I don't know, you're a medical professional, or you've
dealt with this or something like that. If you get
sick more often than your friend's family, whatever, if you
come up with a way to deal with that, like
a way to avoid that, to temper that. Do you
are a mask?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I don't know. Is there anything?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Because I'm tired of being sick? I hate it's miss
It's been a very unenjoyable couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I had a period there, like a week of being
perfectly healthy, then like I was sick for like a
week before that, and I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Of it and I don't want to Is there anything
to do about that? I guess is my question. If
you have any answer for that to email or text,
I guess, or if I just doomed this.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I know you like to nap and public toilets
because you like the feel of the tile, So maybe
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, maybe I'm doing something that other people don't do.
That gets me sick more often. I like the tongue
kiss everybody I meet. That's my greeting instead of handshakings.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Right, the traditional greeting of my people is a little
off putting.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Oh yeah, hobo outside the grocery store doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Plus you eat at the gas station. Yeah, I don't know.
I suspect it's something geneticish, but who knows.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But I wasn't this way my whole life.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
There may be a little denial.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Tell me this, and as I was sick of fair
amount as a kid, I was in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, I'm asking this as a friend among your people,
the hardy Iowa farmer. Maybe being sick isn't like look
down upon, but not doing your work because you're sick
is definitely squinted at a little bit. Oh beyond squinted's
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party part of the culture you come from.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Right, So some meaning what that I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Maybe you haven't wanted to admit that you want to know.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I haven't wanted to admit that. I'm a person. To me,
it is a moral failing if you get sick more
than the average person. In my mind, it's a moral failing.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
We've had a breakthrough here, we've had a get out
the box of tissues. There are gonna be some tears.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It is absolutely a lack of character if you get
sick more than the average person.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The same way, you're not saying you've perceived it to
be your you still believe that. Well, yes, it's exactly
like the thing. It's exactly it's exactly like he was
here to mock you.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yes, no, it's exactly like what you said like a
week ago. And how you judge men who put cream
in their coffee, and how intellectually you know that's totally different. No,
it's exactly. Intellectually you know this doesn't mean anything. But
you wait a minute, you don't feel that way anyway.
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Wait a minute, Oh my god, I need the tissues now, Michael,
give me the tissues.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
All right, the waterworks are about to start. You on
a deep anthropological we're gonna fight the next valley guys
to the death today level see that as weakness, Oh absolutely,
it's I see the cream and the coffee as pickiness,
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which is weakness, because we're gonna have to fight the
guys in the valley next valley to the death by
sundown today and we're not gonna it's it's caveman judgment
and we're not gonna win that battle if our you know,
if our bowman says, ah, anybody got any cream? Some cream?
This bow is so dirty, it's dirty. I can't fire
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this at the invading horror.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
You're right, that is exactly what it is, though, because
it is literally weakness. If you're sick, more off, and
you're less able to help the herd. I mean that's
just a fact, right.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, we live in a word where you've helped the
herd quite adequately this week, thank you very much. But yeah,
I think it's difficult to leave that sort of thing behind.
I think, just you know, in the modern world, you've
got to be aware of it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
There is an aspect of quote unquote racism that is inborn.
It's been proved over and over again by science that
babies tend to react more positively to faces that look
like their own for reasons of anthropological tribal belonging, in
self protection and mutual protection. That sort of thing. Just
as a modern human being, you have to recognize that
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and say, oh, oh, that's what that is, okay, cool.
I got to overcome that.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, so I've had a major breakthrough in the last
fifteen hours of finally recognizing, at least at this point
in my life, I get sick more than the average person,
which I hate to say out loud. Oh my god,
I hate to say that out loud. I'm not gonna
say it around my kids, even though it's probably obvious.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I tell you what, if I'm dealing with a guy
who's sniffing and coughing and says, not only does there
no cream, there's no hazel nut cream, I've kind of
have hazel nut cream. Yeah, I'm kicking them right the
hell out of the tribe. I admit it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The statistic that's gonna land next week, that's gonna be
the biggest news stories. But I'll tell you what, I've
had a few in my life in an adult life
where you have revelations about yourself, and it's just mind
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blowing whenever that happens, like, how have I been? How
have I been in denial about this? I just think
it's fascinating the power of the human brain to deny
reality if it needs to as a protection mechanism about
various things. And then when for whatever reason, you have
a breakthrough and realize it. It's just like, Wow, what
else am I missing about my own life?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And how it takes so long?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Stunning? Or maybe I'm just click now why didn't clear?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, there's that.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So this is probably gonna be huge. April thirtieth, so
today's twenty five, fifty five days from here. So he
had twenty six, twenty nine. So middle of next week
the quarterly GDP economic numbers come out, and it's projected
by most outlets that we're gonna be somewhere around minus two.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Make it grows too in growth? Yeah, and I mean
if there was a shrinkage.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, I mean anything short of four percent four percent
plus is considered kind of weak. So, uh, minus two,
that's gonna be the talk of America. And you know
it won't be a Trump's lap, he hasn't been in
office that long, but blah blah blah blah blah. It's
it's gonna be a big, big topic.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
Michael Angelo in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
It said tip for Jack? Okay, to keep him healthy?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Jack, you gotta quit saying the following phrase, don't throw
that away, give it to me. I'll eat that.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, if it was always stomach illnesses, I would agree
with that. But I don't think I'm catching a cold
because I ate expired yogurt. Our esteemed newswoman Katie Green
has the day off, Jack. What's your final thought for us?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Didn't get a lot of texts from a lot of you,
and the things you have done to try to keep
sickness at bay all look them over and we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
My final thought is, all right, the whole can you
give us a review? How did we do? Thing? Is
just completely over the line. I just got an email
from a music venue asking how did we do for
a show I went to. I just checked on October
the fourth of last year? How did you do? I
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don't remember?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Every restaurant die. I'm still here, car Rentalds. Just an
average overnight stay in an average hotel. Because you're on
the road, Do I.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Need to give you a review?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
There's a restaurant I go to. It's a good place.
You walk in and you get a text alert, Hey,
how do we do? Don't freaking know? I just walked in.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
So far, so good. Nobody's assaulted me. Armstrong and Getty
wracking up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and Getty dot com. I have all sorts of
great stuff there for you. If you see something we
ought to be talking about over the weekend, send it along.
Our email address is mail bag at Armstrong and Getdy
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Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'll be back next week with a whole new set
of health complaints because I'm weak.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
God bless. Armstrong and Getty is an unpredictable beast.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
There's nothing wrong with you for being like this.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I was wondering you know what you felt about that drive?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Whenever you say that in child, Listen, let's go one
final message.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Our football inflator has been our balls are sicky lately?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Can wait?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Can we draft a better football inflator instead of rock Party?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Got a great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Geddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Getty Armstrong and Gatty and he.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
If you want something.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
To worry about, like you know you're headed into the
weekend and you think you know what? Things are too
lasted in my life, I'm so carefree exactly, this little
India Pakistan dust up could turn into something.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm telling you. I nominated it earlier as the story
everyone's ignoring that could turn into the story you can't
ignore within a few weeks. Yeah, so who knows? So
interesting aside before we get to clips of the week.
This week especially, I found myself kind of like jittery
and anxious during the show, like I'm over caffeinated and
(01:00):
going to night change. Well kind of am. I was
just reading about it. First of all, the AI search
results did you get? Are so much better than your
standard Google.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You're all my loll very handy.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I was. I was searching on something essentially metabolizing caffeine,
coffee aging, blah blah blah, and in the past I'd
had to search through like four and a half pages
of coffee ads and old folks homes, and then coffee
makers and cots.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Guy on Reddit, who's got a favorite latte?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh yeah, exactly. But this came up quite beautifully and
it said, yes, people age their bodies tend to process
caffeine more slowly. This can lead to longer lasting effects
of caffeine, potentially causing increased alertness, jitterus, sleep disturbances, and
other unpleasant symptoms. So I have a feeling that's it.
I know I don't metabolize the booze like I used to,
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so I've had to cut back on that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So I had with caffeine, and if you remember, it
was quite a few years ago. Geez, how long ago?
But I just like, it just hit me way harder
and so I had to cut way, way way back.
And then it went away, really yeah, and then went
away and I went back to normal. And then while
I was doing chemotherapy for whatever reason, I didn't drink
caffeine for nine months when I had cancer, and I thought,
(02:22):
I mean, never needed again. I didn't have any desire
for it. It wasn't like I didn't want to drink it.
It just completely lost all desire for caffeine. And how did.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Gloria back in. Some guy on the playground, a kid, kid,
you want some Colombian first time?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I was the slightest bit tired. I thought, you know,
it'd be a little pick me up. I started just
like I.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wonder if my old friend Joe, not that one, that one,
would be willing to make a reappearance in my life.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You know, we see that I was tying off my
arm straight into the rains.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Beautiful. He got a spoonful of Colombian boiling over a candle.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I was gets into the sea coffee with my arm
underneath the spout.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Wow. Wow, you got a problem man, all right? A
lot to squeeze into the final hour of the week,
including turning tricks for.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
An Americano at a Greyhound station. I mean he got
out there for a while, so degrading.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Uh. The biggest Iran hawk in DC might be a giant,
bald headed Democrat John Fetterman what he said lately, I'm
telling you crazy. But first it's time to take fun.
Look back at the week there was. It's cow clips
of the week. We're all the beautiful creardos. I'm having
a party. Ever eat a pondrey?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Huh? Whips of the week. You're in away Mo wouldn't
let us out of the car, and it would not move.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
He would not let us out, and he was coming
back down on.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The waters and he goes run.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You gotta be kidding me. Walimore now has a big
lapt up.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Holy. Yeah, we all too.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That's that olive oil you've been drinking. Now you take
some matches with you. She got to the stop sign
where she proceeded to kick a solo cup out of.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
The side of the mail truck.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Just look at CNN's Fear and Greed index. We're in
fear territory right now.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
President Trump lashing out at Ukraine's president.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I thought it might be easier to deal with Solenski.
So far it's been harder. But that's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians
and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either
say yes or for the United States to walk away
from this process. A lot is happening here.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There is a lot of change happening inside Iran.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It Disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to
save their ass.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Tesla de announcing it's profits have plunged a staggering seventy
one percent.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
My time allocation will drop significantly. The US TRUS three
Secretary Scott Vessen said behind closed doors that he sees
the US China train war as unsustainable. I'm not gonna say, oh,
I'm gonna play hardball with China. I'm going to play
hardball with you. President She no.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
No. In the budget I will present to you, we
will try to do more to speed the deportation of
illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also
a nation of laws.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Today we're going to have a reading of Pride Puppy.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It doesn't get more innocent than a children's alphabet book.
Were all the beautiful queerdos dancing over the rainbow bridge?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I suspect there are a lot of non religious parents
who were into all that. Thrilled about this.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
By the way, eat more beans, good for you, make
America healthy again and flatulent. But it's good for it.
You got to ease into it. That's the key with beans.
Ease into it. Anyway, that's the key with beans. There's
a lot there, Yeah, there is that one gal who's
talking about meat in cages or something. She was talking
about the new anti theft packaging in the meat aisle
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in various states and provinces of Canada too, that because
we've given away civilization, there's so much theft of meat now.
The Walmart is got the meat in like these. It
looks like a chain link fence formed into a giant
burrito or something. It's a chain link burrito with a
(06:33):
censor on the end to make the meat much too
bulky to shove into your purse or your pocket, or
up your skirt or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Shoving a meat up your skirt. We were in the
CBS in the lamp Post district in San Diego over
the weekend getting some drug medication because we're all sick
while we're trying to be on vacation. But anyway, everything was.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Locked up, Every tiny item was locked up. I just saw,
how did civilization allow this? Just a couple of years ago,
nothing was locked up, nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Now everything is locked up, and we think that's you know,
what do you get to you just the times change.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, part of me would like to ask my progressive
friends what do you think is behind this? But they
would say, well, rising housing prices. Yes, made peop desperate
and they're looting it back because of systemic racism or something. No,
it's not that we decriminalized crime and won't prosecute people
who steal, and so people go ahead and steal because
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from the dawn of man, if you let people do
the wrong thing, they'll do the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, we have some breaking news that nut job George
Santos Yes has been sentenced to seven years in prison
for lying about his campaign fundraising, stealing from donors, and
a number of other He should be locked up just
for being just kind of an over arching in general
(08:10):
nut job.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh I disagree. I think they ought to turn him
loose for our entertainment, for.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Being you know, Jewish, or all the variety of crazy
things he said.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh yeah, it's probably worth just a complete rundown of
everything he said and did, because he is a complete
nut he is.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, yeah, remember he was what was he captain of
the volleyball team wherever he went.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
To Mary's or something like that. He didn't play and
he never went. He didn't play at all. He didn't
go to that school at all.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right, he's well, he's the he's the person that needs
to lie because you get a thrill out of it.
He's got some sort of weird addiction about lying. I mean,
because he liked about all kinds of things that weren't important.
You didn't need to be on the volleyball team to
move forward in your life. He just liked lying.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
More than seven years in prison for wire fraud, now
gravated identity theft, and a case that resulted in his
expulsion from Congress. Yeah, he was in Congress for a
year in which he was exposed, in prosecutor's words, as
a pathological liar and fraudster.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
He is that seven years is a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Wait, and he flipped a Democratic seat in Long Island.
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Oh, that reminds me. You got more on George Santos.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Um No, it's a federal charge though, so he will
probably do that time, you know, will it be? He
almost feels bad for the guy because he's got a
screw loose.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's a nut.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's a thief and a fraudster. He's one hundred percent
of that. And we just got done talking about how
you gave away civilization? What do you expect? So you
got to punish a guy like this, but he sees
a kook.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Will he be at one of those prisons where you
like play tennis and kind of live in a dorm
like you're at a community college.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, he'll be in a club fed.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
God, where do I see that?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
One of those season a dowey, little gay, fat floudster.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
When this job is over, I'm going to figure out
what crimes you commit to end up in a prison
like that. They provide your food, your betting, You get.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
To lay around and read, read, got a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Library where I don't want you.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Got to work in the yard a few hours a day,
rake and leaves. Please, let's get started. It's it's soothing.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I don't want to go to some sort of Shawshank
type prisons. I had never seen Shawshank Redemption until this
past weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Somehow, would you think.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
One of the great movies and well referenced movies of
all time. I had done what you were doing with Gladiator.
I had just kind of picked up on the references
and gone with them over the years because I never
actually saw the movie. And oh my god, were prisons
ever that bad in the United States of America?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, yeah, that was brutal. That was the ability of
an arbitrary guard or warden.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
To abuse in mates. Absolutely, to beat you to death
because you were complaining. Sure, they're resisting arrest. Wow, that
is not good. That is not good.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Like everything in life, there's a balance. Should the prisoners
be running rough shot and running the prison and assaulting guard? No,
of course not. Should the warden be able to beat
somebody to death because he doesn't like him, No, of
course not. How about something in between. Let's let's try
to find it.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Man? That was rough?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, what was that?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
The point of the movie is how bad our prisons.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Used to be? No, it's about friendship and perseverance and
crawling through tunnels hope.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Hope that we're supposed to take away from the end
of the.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Keep hope alive. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah. All I kept thinking is how, in the freaking
United States of America, with all the rights you know,
bestowed upon us by our maker, did we have prisons
like that?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah? You know what's interesting about that topic? What's interesting
about that topic? After this? After take two? What's it?
I thought I was feeling so good about that. I
was going to combine that.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The guard's gonna come here and beat garble. Your words
are not in the box.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah. What's interesting about that is I'm reading a book
that really applies directly to that discussion. How the certain
things in the past seem abhorrent, but they were nearly universal,
and so how do we look at them from a
modern perspective and not come to the wrong conclusions?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Ah? You know, am I.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Explaining this well?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah? Presentism?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yes, yeah, in short, yeah, anyway, much on the way,
stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
D NC co chair David Hogg told Politico that jb
Ritsker is a fighter.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
True.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Right now, he's battling diabetes, heart disease and the thousand
pound limit on his condo's elevators.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The childish, idiotic. Wow, Michael, did you select that joke?
That was over the line?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And I like his tag at the end, jackass this
fat jackass, fat jackass.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Wow. Wow, he didn't even get to JB is one
of the leading lights of mutilating children in the name
of transgenderism. But one thousand pound limit on his condo elevators.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Wow, that's good.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's just that's just body shaming. I won't have it,
so Jack. Continuing on with the the thread of the
last segment about presentism. I am reading the book lies
my liberal teacher told me debunking the false narratives defining
America's school system, and it's it's a lot more thoughtful
than it sounds. It's not just a partisan boy libs
(14:04):
are dumb thing. It's really an interesting discussion of history.
But I'm gonna hit you with just a bit of
the introduction because I thought I was great. And he's
talking about colonialism and the Western colonies and stuff. He says,
in reality, almost all areas of the world that were
conquered by the West were previously under the thumb or
boot heel of brutal and unelected native rulers, often external
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conquerors themselves. And he goes through a bunch of history
of a bunch of different regions and yeah, it was
just one brutal conqueror after another. And then he issues
a disclaimer. Essentially, the fact that everybody did X virtually
throughout history, for instance, doesn't mean it's good or even okay.
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But he says, for most ordinary people living through history,
war for conquest was normal but brutal. Whichever end of
the gun you happen to be on, what most people
cared about was what society looked like when the guns
smoke cleared. For such people, Western societies were often the
best bad option. That doesn't mean the Western conquerors were
always right to conquer, or that they weren't often hypocrites
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by even their own loose standards. However, although normal isn't
the same as good when it comes to history or
any other topic, it's important to be aware of norms
because they determine the scale and tenor of our judgment
of the past, which you know is a good way
to put it in general. But he says, throughout this book,
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I'll tackle the question of why liberal teachers teach common
historical myths, but I'll also ask why they've been so
vulnerable to ideological capture and the blinders of fashionable fallacies
in the first place. And he talked about human nature.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So we started with me mentioning that I finally saw
a Shawshank reeption. Next next week I'll review Titanic. But
so the the the thing to focus on is not
that we had such brutal prisons. Everywhere in the world
has had brutal prisons throughout history. It's that we reform
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them and that we don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Just right, Well, the point is not to and I
didn't have time to get to the key part, which
is annoying as hell. The key part is that you've
got to put it in perspective. It was wrong and
brutal that we had those prisons. But it's not a
United States problem. It's not unique to us. It's unique
to humankind. And so to demonize the sins of the
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past and use them as an indictment of, for instance,
the United States of America is idiotic. It's invalid. It's
like hating your spouse because sometimes they're in a bad mood. No,
that's what human beings do.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's like Elon said the other day, every person on
Earth is a descendant of a slave.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a little more to this, this sort
of squeeze, and then maybe we'll get to before the
show is over.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I like it another philosophical Friday. If you miss a
segment or no, or you can find it in podcast form,
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Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's a great feeling That's what I've always said about
pearl dops. But now I've got another reason for saying it.
Pearl drops, cinnamon and a breath freshening cinnamon taste that
leaves my whole now feeling as good as my teeth. Mmm,
it's a great feeling.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What year was that, Michael, nineteen eighty one? Pearl drops?
That was way more sexual than I need to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, that babe was really aroused by your pearl drops? Wow?
What are they again?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I remember that from my use it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Was was it more or less an alternative to toothpaste?
To give you a fresher breath and all? It? It
kind of came a win there you Good for you.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Hey, In a couple of days, there is a statistic
that's gonna come out out that is going to be
the number one news story that day certainly and for
probably several days afterwards.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Wow, stay tuned. I am intrigued. So we're discussing the
book I've just started reading. It's been out for a while.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Lies.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
My liberal teacher told me the subtitles probably you know,
in a perfect world where you didn't need to market
as aggressively as you do, it's debunking the false narratives
defining America's school schoolrooms. But he's the author, is talking
about the history of warfare, and how for like all
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of human history, you would enslave the defeated folks, you
would take their women, you'd execute their men, you'd enslave
their children, or make them your own or whatever. And
then he moves into so I'll just read it now
for the moral standards virtually all of us profess to
believe in today, Enslaving your enemies is bad, even though
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it happened under colonizers in every shade of the human rainbow,
breaking treaties that were based upon your sworn word to
pick just one sin common across the races and ages
is bad. And he'd mentioned previously that we had done
that with some of the native tribes. But the fact
that almost literally no one alive prior to say again,
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the nineteen fifties in the West shared modern dorm room
morality is critical to know for many reasons. First, Western
herds should temper their hysterical guilt about the past. The
bad things that we did were in most cases done
by all human beings with the power to do them.
The Arab Muslims, the horse Lord Mongols, the Black Moors,
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the Ottomans, the Aztecs during eras when they were legally
and ethically accepted as norms. Second, we shouldn't be embarrassed
of good things just because they're done by the wrong people.
In quotes the unique contribution of the West to the rest,
as in the cases of the maritime slave trade ending
it or Central African cannibalism, so is very often ending
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the practices today that we all find repellent or pretend to.
This point is not only obviously accurate and sweeping in scope,
but also relevant specifically to our debates today about compensations
for the past, such as slavery reparations, any serious plan
for which logically have to target the rich Arab states,
(20:22):
rising bricks powers of Africa, and anyone else Burgeois Scandinavian
descendants of the Vikings, anyone linked to the multi century
global trade in men and women. And Throughout this book
I'll tackle the question of why liberal teachers teach common
historical myths. Understanding the brutal reality of human nature and
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history has huge implications for the future. Most notably, we
should recognize that all of the great heroes of this
era are flawed human beings who will be judged as
such down the road by our descendants. And then he
goes into the various flaws of people who are more
or less universally seen as hero And what strikes me
(21:04):
is why this is so calm, and the presentism, the
dorm room morality and that sort of thing. And like
all of these questions, there are the useful idiots who
are of good heart and just want to be on
the right moral side of things. And that's that's admirable.
(21:24):
It's not bad, it's admirable. But I'm reminded of Othello,
Shakespeare's great play Othello, in which Othello had this wonderful,
beautiful wife, great marriage, but he had a bastard whispering
in his ear to try to pry his wife away
(21:46):
from him, and it ended up all murderous in Shakespeare, right,
it's not getting too too far into the plot. And
of course the I can't remember was it the name
of the character, and it doesn't matter. But that character
who's whispering in Offellow's ears is a lot like who
(22:06):
I generally refer to as the neo Marxist is the
people who want to overthrow Western civilization. They follow the
whole victim of presser, settler, colonialist DEI critical theory. Crap. Right,
What you do is you take young people and you say,
look at the sins of the United States. Look at
(22:27):
those sins. Look how evil they are from the perspective
of nineteen or twenty first century dorm room morality. Any
country that evil should not be allowed to continue, should
be torn apart. Who's with me? And the poor kids
who don't know better or soft heads say, God, that
stuff is evil. That's terrible. And if they let on
(22:49):
for a minute that everybody was doing that all of
the time everywhere, they would lose that opportunity to whisper
into the king's ear and turn him again, not his wife,
but his civilization. And it's incredibly cynical and dishonest.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, and then there's the I mean, the Soviet Union
loved showing the civil rights strife we've had in the
United States on their TVs. You know, say, America is
not everything they claim it is, and so that justifies
you being an awful prison state.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I mean, well, right, and actually I kind of skipped
his final conclusion, but the point is to learn from
the past and to have some honest perspective about it,
so you can, you know, benefit from history, not use
it as a ridiculous, a distorted weapon to get what
you want, but to actually understand it. Wilfred Riley's the
(23:47):
name of the guy who wrote it. I really recommend it.
It's again it's it's both really accessible and deals with
some really important ideas. I think so lies. My liberal
teacher told me.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I've never so is that cynicism. I've never understood people
who enjoy the philosophy of the United States is not
as great as it claims, and religious people aren't as
perfect as they claim, and you know, just that sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, it's how does that make you happier?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So nobody can reach the perfect ideal that they set
for themselves as a human or a country, So don't try,
or I don't even know. I don't even get the point.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think it's different on an individual basis. On an
individual basis, you know, it's it's ignored the don't worry
about the splinter in your neighbors, I worry about the
log in your own. People always want to point out
other people's sins, to make them feel better about themselves.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I know I do.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh yeah, hell all day long, favorite hobby, but as
a presentism, politically speaking, has been absolutely nakedly a weapon
of overthrow. Yeah, it's an indictment, and utterly unfair indictment.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I want to throw this out here before I get
to that statistic as I'm coughing. I mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I have fought this for.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Quite a while now, and I'm going to accept it
because somebody pointed out to me it's just true last night.
I get sick more than the average person, at least
I have for the last I don't know how long year,
two years longer, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, I know I never used to.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I know I never used to unless I was in
denial then, but I don't think I used to AnyWho.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And it kind of gets what we were talking about
yesterday about being better looking than average or smarter than
average people. Half of people are uglier than average, half
of people are dumber than average. It's just the way
statistics work. I mean, it's just they're still getting wrong.
But so if I'm on the I get sick more
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than average, you know, I'm in the bottom half am
I you know, slightly.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Moral either, by the way, but anyway, yes, what's that
It's not a moral feeling.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, I don't think it is. That's what I was
going to throw it out for anybody listening. It's like,
either I don't know, you're a medical professional, or you've
dealt with this or something like that. If you get
sick more often than your friend's family, whatever, if you
come up with a way to deal with that, like
a way to avoid that, to temper that. Do you
are a mask?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I don't know. Is there anything?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Because I'm tired of being sick? I hate it's miss
It's been a very unenjoyable couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I had a period there, like a week of being
perfectly healthy, then like I was sick for like a
week before that, and I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Of it and I don't want to Is there anything
to do about that? I guess is my question. If
you have any answer for that to email or text,
I guess, or if I just doomed this.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I know you like to nap and public toilets
because you like the feel of the tile, So maybe
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, maybe I'm doing something that other people don't do.
That gets me sick more often. I like the tongue
kiss everybody I meet. That's my greeting instead of handshakings.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Right, the traditional greeting of my people is a little
off putting.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Oh yeah, hobo outside the grocery store doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Plus you eat at the gas station. Yeah, I don't know.
I suspect it's something geneticish, but who knows.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But I wasn't this way my whole life.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
There may be a little denial.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Tell me this, and as I was sick of fair
amount as a kid, I was in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, I'm asking this as a friend among your people,
the hardy Iowa farmer. Maybe being sick isn't like look
down upon, but not doing your work because you're sick
is definitely squinted at a little bit. Oh beyond squinted's
(27:59):
party part of the culture you come from.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Right, So some meaning what that I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Maybe you haven't wanted to admit that you want to know.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I haven't wanted to admit that. I'm a person. To me,
it is a moral failing if you get sick more
than the average person. In my mind, it's a moral failing.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
We've had a breakthrough here, we've had a get out
the box of tissues. There are gonna be some tears.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It is absolutely a lack of character if you get
sick more than the average person.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The same way, you're not saying you've perceived it to
be your you still believe that. Well, yes, it's exactly
like the thing. It's exactly it's exactly like he was
here to mock you.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yes, no, it's exactly like what you said like a
week ago. And how you judge men who put cream
in their coffee, and how intellectually you know that's totally different. No,
it's exactly. Intellectually you know this doesn't mean anything. But
you wait a minute, you don't feel that way anyway.
(29:04):
Wait a minute, Oh my god, I need the tissues now, Michael,
give me the tissues.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
All right, the waterworks are about to start. You on
a deep anthropological we're gonna fight the next valley guys
to the death today level see that as weakness, Oh absolutely,
it's I see the cream and the coffee as pickiness,
(29:30):
which is weakness, because we're gonna have to fight the
guys in the valley next valley to the death by
sundown today and we're not gonna it's it's caveman judgment
and we're not gonna win that battle if our you know,
if our bowman says, ah, anybody got any cream? Some cream?
This bow is so dirty, it's dirty. I can't fire
(29:51):
this at the invading horror.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
You're right, that is exactly what it is, though, because
it is literally weakness. If you're sick, more off, and
you're less able to help the herd. I mean that's
just a fact, right.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, we live in a word where you've helped the
herd quite adequately this week, thank you very much. But yeah,
I think it's difficult to leave that sort of thing behind.
I think, just you know, in the modern world, you've
got to be aware of it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
There is an aspect of quote unquote racism that is inborn.
It's been proved over and over again by science that
babies tend to react more positively to faces that look
like their own for reasons of anthropological tribal belonging, in
self protection and mutual protection. That sort of thing. Just
as a modern human being, you have to recognize that
(30:44):
and say, oh, oh, that's what that is, okay, cool.
I got to overcome that.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, so I've had a major breakthrough in the last
fifteen hours of finally recognizing, at least at this point
in my life, I get sick more than the average person,
which I hate to say out loud. Oh my god,
I hate to say that out loud. I'm not gonna
say it around my kids, even though it's probably obvious.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I tell you what, if I'm dealing with a guy
who's sniffing and coughing and says, not only does there
no cream, there's no hazel nut cream, I've kind of
have hazel nut cream. Yeah, I'm kicking them right the
hell out of the tribe. I admit it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The statistic that's gonna land next week, that's gonna be
the biggest news stories. But I'll tell you what, I've
had a few in my life in an adult life
where you have revelations about yourself, and it's just mind
(31:38):
blowing whenever that happens, like, how have I been? How
have I been in denial about this? I just think
it's fascinating the power of the human brain to deny
reality if it needs to as a protection mechanism about
various things. And then when for whatever reason, you have
a breakthrough and realize it. It's just like, Wow, what
else am I missing about my own life?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And how it takes so long?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Stunning? Or maybe I'm just click now why didn't clear?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, there's that.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So this is probably gonna be huge. April thirtieth, so
today's twenty five, fifty five days from here. So he
had twenty six, twenty nine. So middle of next week
the quarterly GDP economic numbers come out, and it's projected
by most outlets that we're gonna be somewhere around minus two.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Make it grows too in growth? Yeah, and I mean
if there was a shrinkage.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, I mean anything short of four percent four percent
plus is considered kind of weak. So, uh, minus two,
that's gonna be the talk of America. And you know
it won't be a Trump's lap, he hasn't been in
office that long, but blah blah blah blah blah. It's
it's gonna be a big, big topic.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
Michael Angelo in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
It said tip for Jack? Okay, to keep him healthy?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Jack, you gotta quit saying the following phrase, don't throw
that away, give it to me. I'll eat that.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, if it was always stomach illnesses, I would agree
with that. But I don't think I'm catching a cold
because I ate expired yogurt. Our esteemed newswoman Katie Green
has the day off, Jack. What's your final thought for us?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Didn't get a lot of texts from a lot of you,
and the things you have done to try to keep
sickness at bay all look them over and we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
My final thought is, all right, the whole can you
give us a review? How did we do? Thing? Is
just completely over the line. I just got an email
from a music venue asking how did we do for
a show I went to. I just checked on October
the fourth of last year? How did you do? I
(34:07):
don't remember?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Every restaurant die. I'm still here, car Rentalds. Just an
average overnight stay in an average hotel. Because you're on
the road, Do I.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Need to give you a review?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
There's a restaurant I go to. It's a good place.
You walk in and you get a text alert, Hey,
how do we do? Don't freaking know? I just walked in.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
So far, so good. Nobody's assaulted me. Armstrong and Getty
wracking up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'll be back next week with a whole new set
of health complaints because I'm weak.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
God bless. Armstrong and Getty is an unpredictable beast.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
There's nothing wrong with you for being like this.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
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Speaker 4 (35:00):
Whenever you say that in child, Listen, let's go one
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Speaker 2 (35:04):
Our football inflator has been our balls are sicky lately?
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Can wait?
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