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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong, and Jettie and he armsrang live from the studio c Signor deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Giddy Information Complex. This is the Armstrong and Giddy Show Live this Thursday, the second of October, the year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. This morning, under the tutelage of Honorary General Manager. The devastation, the devastation wrought by the government shutdown. I tried to go to the grocery store yesterday. Fires burning all over town, gangs of young ruffians, stray dogs, bones piled high in the streets. Oh there's Jack.
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Speaker 1: Everybody play the door open there, MAKA, what is my face color? It's rather pale as god, well, it's always palish. No nod though, Well, yeah, you don't look as robust as normal. Got a bit of a thing going through our house. Oh and the thing may have reached me. It's a stomach thing.
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Speaker 3: M And.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep the trash can right next to Oh boy, there's a hint. Okay, all right, the trash can there. Sorry to hear that. That's all right. School play school, schools in and when school is in. Oh, seems like somebody sick constantly, just part of the deal. It's a great incubator or and or your immune system learns as much as your brain as a kid going to school. You know. Oh that's interesting anyway. Uh oh, man, I hate this feeling. Oh boy, I don't even want to say the wrong thing, because if you're kind of on the edge, right and I'm on the merest, suggestion can be unhelpful.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not that susceptible luckily to that sort of happen. I'm sorry, what were you talking about.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the devastation caused by the government shutdown, Well that's probably part of why I feel this way. Yeah, the grocery store was in flames.
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Speaker 1: Well, the shelves.
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Speaker 2: Were empty, so there was no medicine to the right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they did neighbors just attacking neighbors, just out of just pure animal fear, like one of those experiments where the rats are overpacked in a cage and they turn on each other.
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Speaker 2: That's just right.
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Speaker 1: And today's a holiday, so they won't even have a vote on the whole shutdown thing today.
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Speaker 2: I don't care.
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Speaker 1: I do not care. I don't believe you care. I really don't be that anybody who cares.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Actually, I know one person who works for the Department Agriculture and the number of people they are going to lay off there. They're worried they might be the one. And I could understand that, Oh, sure you because I do things. Some people are going to lose their jobs out of this deal, which you know, it's an attempt to use the shutdown to fire some people, which you know, whatever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I realized the shut down quote unquote is not that interesting or compelling. But some of the things around it, like this Russell vote, it looks like it ought to be vaught because it's the word ought with a V in front of it. But I'm totally pronounces it vote. But anyway, he is the director of the Office of Management Budget, and he is like a conservative's dream come true, small government. We need to rain this in guy, and he is looking at this shutdown as an opportunity to just super turbocharge the ability to trim the fat. And you know how successful he'll be and how long it will endure and what judge will interfere on what level? Nobody's really sure, but it's an opportunity anyway.
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Speaker 1: My final word for now on the shutdown would be the Washington Post editorial Board. The Washington Post Editorial Board says the Democrats walked into a trap on this and it's not a good idea. So they don't even think the whole Democrats claiming it's the Republican's fault thing is going to work.
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Speaker 2: I don't unless you're Haakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that. I don't think it matters anyway. You look back over the shutdowns of my lifetime. Who got blamed doesn't seem to have any indication that it had a result in the next election.
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Speaker 2: So just that it doesn't matter who gets blamed. Yeah, I wouldn't get a tattoo commemorating the great victory. Yeah, you're going to be having it removed or changed into a pretty girl with ideals or something down there.
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Speaker 1: What's that tattoo? I overreacted to a shutdown, And you remember when the Democrats got blamed for that shutdown? No, no, I really don't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, super excited tattoo.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that was no over reaction. I think you got caught up in a good cable news That's what happened there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, get out touch grass, as they say, until it makes you want to do what Jack is trying not to do.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, I gotta find it. I'm gonna figure out way to uh peppermint. Peppermint, Yes, settles the stomach, clears the mind. It's a very good nausea treatment. I've never used peppermint. I don't think I will get I will order. I will door dash a peppermint mocha with whipped cream. Would that make me feel better?
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Speaker 2: Probably? Oh my, I think there are probably like peppermints in the little lunch room. What about convenience star Pello greeno water, something bubbly, maybe a tea, another tea, all good remedies. Okay, wraps of peppermint tea. There you go.
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Speaker 1: Let's start to show officially. We got a good clip today. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is U two Sorry, Thursday, October second, the year twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: We are armed and getting We approve of this program. Well, by golly, let's start officially then, According to FCC, rules and regulations. The show starts at mark I'm Strong and gadget They see gender is only.
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Speaker 4: A construct and sex is assigned in birth, and they say.
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Speaker 5: We are done with that.
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Speaker 4: Transient kids by self diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagent.
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Speaker 5: We are done with that.
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Speaker 2: Homelessness is a lifestyle, done with that.
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Speaker 4: Whiteness is toxic. Don Dinus is in women's prison, John welcoming me into Fada.
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Speaker 5: We are done, done, done with that.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty And to put that together, that's really good. Oh, I love that. That is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: You know one thing that America is done with, if it isn't even is aware that it's happening, is the whole Antifa in Portland thing. Got some reporting on that from Fox, as has been now for many years. The media, even national right wing media, doesn't get the Antifa Portland story. They just I don't. It's too far from New York. I mean, we have planes these days. I don't understand how you can't figure out what Antifa is or how how big a deal it is in Portland and Seattle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, A great, a great. They we have been among the few voices trying to bring attention to that situation, and it's spreading across the country. There have been contagions ten to two.
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Speaker 1: There have been battles in the streets in Portland now for like one hundred straight days and getting so little media coverage.
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Speaker 2: That's why the National Guard is there.
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Speaker 1: And now I heard on NPR and I think one of your cable news channels last week that there's no such thing as antifa.
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Speaker 2: It's a myth.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, antifa stands for anti fascists, so they couldn't possibly be I mean they actually said the national media, good lord, I know, well, they're they're part of the the what's the right word that doesn't sound crazy. They're part of the team that is trying to push radical leftism, including violence. I have some excellent evidence of that coming up later in the show. I think a lot of it is ignorance about Antifa. They just it's not on the East coast the way it is on the West coast, and they just missed the story.
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Speaker 2: Somehow. Bad journalists is what they are, depends to who you're talking about. I believe that for like Fox News and some of the other reasonable Wall Street Journal maybe, but not NPR. NPR squarely on their side.
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Speaker 1: So you call yourself antifa short for anti fascists, and then you can go around beating people down to try to get them to do what you want them to do, and you get credit for being anti fascist.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you're dressed in you're dressed in black and beat down your opponents in the streets so they can't hold meetings or carry out their policies fight after night. How far could you take it?
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Speaker 1: Could you wear Nazi uniforms with swastiks swastikas on them, burning down synagogues but call yourselves anti Nazi? And would you still get credit for that? But no, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You misunderstand they're anti Nazi. There are times an NPR would be forced to go with government. Republicans are claiming that the use of the Nazi insignia is indication that antifa is not really anti fascist. They would go with government with the Republicans pounce.
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Speaker 1: There's also a video that is causing some problems in some schools, some good problems in my opinion, about there being two genders as opposed to fifty that we can talk about later.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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Speaker 1: Watched some baseball last night. Yankees closed close it out. No, they gave the game. So everybody's got a Game three. All all the series went to game three. Wow, that's exciting. So all the Wall card games. It's a do or die today.
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Speaker 2: Good. That's good baseball.
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Speaker 1: I need that while I'm sitting there trying not to vomit.
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Speaker 2: Perfect. The Dodgers won. They cleaned out the Reds.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking of. The Dodgers won and they finished off the Reds. I knew I had something in my head like that, but my stomach is confusing me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. This just handed to All the baseball games have been canceled because of the shutdown. It's just too dangerous to try to go to the games. Right, What was it shut down going on?
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Speaker 1: And so I get a lot on the way stay here text line four one KFTC.
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Speaker 2: And yo yo yo?
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Speaker 1: Did he get sentenced tomorrow? I hope I didn't steal one of your headlines there, Katie.
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Speaker 2: Did.
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Speaker 1: He is going to be sentenced tomorrow, and there's some hubbubble around whether how much time he's going to spend in jail. I hope a lot.
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Speaker 2: He's been teaching a class in jail. It's been very well received.
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Speaker 1: Have information on that a class in one, I'll tell you about it. Okay, freakouts, freakoff see throw a freak off, creative use as a baby oil step one.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, how to terrify and or bribe people into compliance, all sorts of interesting stuff. Got a great study of what it looks like inside the informational bubble of the left, with a variety of examples coming up play on the show. I'm excited to bring that to you. It is really quite something, and I'm bringing it to you not not entirely just to bash lefties, but just as an observer of human kind. I think it's really interesting to look at what that sort of life is like and how it can lead you off track. Anyway, let's figure out who's reporting. What's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Okay, it's worded this.
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Speaker 5: Way because it's the Guardian. White House plays.
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Speaker 3: Racist, deep fake video of Democratic leaders on Loop.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: The reason I chose this is because yesterday they had two TVs set up and the Sombrero video was playing on Loop in the White House briefing room.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh wow, is that where we're where we're headed?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Note to the Guardian. Things that are comparely kind of sort of ethnic in nature. The day where you say it's that's racist, that everybody cowers and cringes, that day's gone. Shut up.
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Speaker 1: The call it racist thing is dumb, but it is definitely, you know, a pretty snarky.
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Speaker 2: Modern, young online sort of way to I don't know if it's good. It's not presidential, but.
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Speaker 5: It is hilarious.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's hilarious. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: From ABC.
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Speaker 3: Zelenski to meet with European leaders in Denmark with Russian invasion at top of agenda.
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Speaker 2: Wow. There was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today by I can't remember who the guy was, but he was saying, look, you gotta shoot down those drones and planes that make incursions into airspace. Shoot them down. And he gives the example of Turkey, of all places, a number of years ago, the Russians were making incursions into Turkish airspace and the Turk shot the damn plane down. And did that cause World War three or an escalation or no? No, Russians are like, oh okay, that's how far we can push in Turkey next.
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Speaker 1: You know, Russia had the biggest call up of draftees they've had since twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a sign of something and what that causes domestically will be interesting to observe.
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Speaker 3: This one from the Wall Street Journal, Trump signs order that could see US military defending Cutter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll never happen. As part of the whole Middle East deal, Trump issued in an executive order which does not have the power of a treaty or anything like that, saying we will defend the territory and safety of Cutter in case of an attack, we will come to your aid. It's just part of the whole getting the terrorist supporting Kataris to do the right thing. Finally, with Hamas.
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Speaker 3: From Breitbart dot com, illegal immigrants were issued eighteen wheeler licenses in New York, Illinois, and California.
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Speaker 2: With quote no name given. Yeah, I've been following this story for the last couple of days. As it is broken.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's the way they one of the ways they got around the UH given illegals licenses to drive big rigs. Is they just they just they filled out all the stuff without the names.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so on our licenses, where it usually would say your name, it says no name given on the actual driver's license.
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Speaker 2: What the hell? Yeah, pretty amazing.
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Speaker 3: From NBC police chiefs across the country sounding the alarm over quote disturbing rise in rhetoric, citing rising political threats, i'd say. From the Associated Press, PEPSI looks at coloring Cheetos with paprika as companies ditch synthetic.
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Speaker 2: Diesrica's got a bit of a taste to it. Yeah, does certainly changed the Cheeto experience.
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Speaker 5: From the Washington Post.
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Speaker 3: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla detains Gretit Tunberg.
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Speaker 5: And other activists.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've a little bred of her, leading advocate of the eternal omni cause I feel bad for two I actually do.
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Speaker 5: She just got launched into this as a child.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly wrong. It is, sweetheart, It is all wrong. You really ought to go live a normal life. I should be back in school, yep or whatever.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the headline. This is not me. From the New York Post.
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Speaker 3: Harvard hires drag queen named Lahore Bagistan.
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Speaker 5: As a visiting professor.
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Speaker 2: Horgistan.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know I've never understood the drag queen phenomenon. I don't know how this ever got a toe hold in our world, but that's quite the name. Mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: Then they've hired this human is a lecturer of some sort.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a visiting professor. Yes, yeah, study finds.
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Speaker 2: The abnormal psychology department. I hope, oh.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully, study finds stuck in line science says waiting is actually good for your brain.
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Speaker 2: I'll bet it is. I want to read that. That's interesting.
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Speaker 5: And finally from the.
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Speaker 3: Babylon Bee supporters beg Gavin Newsom to stop doing meth before he posts on social media.
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Speaker 1: I saw the headline that was going on. I saw one headline yesterday. You probably all saw it. I thought, Wow, the monkeys finally got her. But no, Jane Goodall died of natural causes in her nineties.
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Speaker 2: Chimpanzees are actually apes Jackson jack and not monkeys. But yes, the famous chimp Lady has passed. But it wasn't at the hand of the monkeys. They weren't like, we've had enough of this. No, no, they would have done that long ago. Yeah, she was lucky they didn't ever like rip her arm off or something because chimps can go wild. Yeah, no, because they are well wild.
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Speaker 1: She had a good relationship with them. A bunch of that stuff that we talked about that we're going to get to. It's a pretty noozy day, and.
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Speaker 2: Of course we're all lighting candles for the government shipment.
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Speaker 6: Armstrong and Geeddy, an Egyptian wrestler, recently attempted to break a Guinness World record by pulling a seven hundred ton ship across water by a rope with his teeth. The record was for richest dentist. All right, minds me, I stand by it.
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Speaker 1: I got Henry's first appointment since he got his braces on today.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they do. Did they tighten them up or those of you who had braces? Is that what they do? Michael?
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Speaker 1: They tightened yes, I remember, sent them down, Yeah, get them good and tank them one more notch. Yeah, that sort of thing, Katie.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Cranking was the word that I was going to use.
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Speaker 1: One of the wires broke the end of the day somehow, and then it was like it was just the sharp end. It reminded me it was like an e string on an electric guitar. It's like super sharp on the end, and I didn't know what to do with it. I got out my same clippers I used for my guitar strings and cut it off so it wasn't jabbing him in the mouth.
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Speaker 2: But hopefully they can fix that. Every guitar player in the world cringed when you said that, I think because we've all punctured our fingertips that damn e string. Anyway, Katie, Sorry, he.
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Speaker 5: Gets to change his rubber band color today too.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's exciting. Yeah, fall colors, earth tones probably, that's what I would suggest. Pumpkin spice colored right exactly? Ah? Did you are you gonna mentioning?
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Speaker 1: There is a Fox reporter writing as opposed to broadcasting about walking the streets of Portland and how Antifa has taken over many city blocks. It's pretty danged interesting and it's amazing it doesn't get more national attention.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, even in conservative media. Again, the lefties are in favor of it. But speak of that sort of thing, and what a great fit that is for this. First of all, the Fox News is reporting on a panel at Harvard. This happened a couple of years ago. The Ivy League school hosted a panel call don't stand around and let people get hurt. Anti fascism, fascism after Charlottesville, and of course Charlottesville one of the great overrated incidents in American history. If the left had just let those useless, dumb ass weasels march around with their torches and then go back to their ramshackle holmes, you know, just there was nothing. These people don't have followers, they didn't they don't have popularity, they don't have power, But it was useful politically to make it seem like that is the Republican Party.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's what caused Joe Biden to run for president. Boy, there's one more reason to hate those guys. There's way more jew hatred and college campuses than there wasn't that lot Charlottesville gathering.
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Speaker 2: Oh way more, way, more and more potent. But anyway, the Panels star guest was professor Dwayne Dixon of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was placed on administrative leave Monday after reports of his armed left wing activism as a member of the far left gun club Redneck Revolt and so he's on leave and video of the event was quickly removed from the Harvard Center's YouTube page after this guy was put on leave, but the Internet is forever, and they point out that he was introduced by three Harvard academics. Education professor Timothy McCarthy, Professor of American History at African American Studies, Vincent Brown, American history professor Lisa McGirr. Brown introduced Dixon. Many view are aware of the ongoing vigorous debate over or whether it's okay to punch a Nazi. I personally happen to believe that ethical question was settled by World War Two, when the Raiders of the Lost Arc, which is a fairly amusing reference, and the whole saying the holds the conference that celebrating this guy's the guest speakers that really, these nazi, white supremacist fascist types supporters of Donald Trump are so dangerous that violence against them can be justified. And you know, I'd like to get into more detail about that and more of the specifics of what they said, but has always repressed for time. And I wanted to get to this because I thought it was an unbelievably great observation by Barton Swain, who was writing in the journal about mainstream political violence, and he writes a public square dominated by fury and contempt isn't likely to give us much helpful analysis of political violence. But an important principle has emerged since the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. The best articulation of the principle I've read appeared in Noah Rothman's essay for Commentary Magazine. To put it briefly, what a party says about an act of violence tells you a lot about that party's responsibility for it. And Rothman points out Tanahazy coats this week it nicely illustrates what he calls the butt rule. I have a this is a quote. Now, I have a politic that rejects violence, that rejects political violence. I take no joy in the killing of anyone, no matter what they said. But there it is. But if you ask me what the truth of Charlie Kirk's life was, you know, in the truth of his public life, I would have to tell you it's hate. Wow. Okay, So mister Coates among the meanest and least observant professional writers in America. I would agree he's a hack and a liar and a kook. Can't be expected to notice his own role in a dire cultural trend, but his remarks helped clarify it, clarify it for everyone else. And here's the point of this now. A report was released last month by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that tells us, in the unlikely event you hadn't noticed it, that the left left wing political violence is on the rise. This is notable, the author's explained, because for the past three decades, acts of right wing terrorism and violence have far outnumbered left wing ones. Maybe so, but here's where Barton Swain gets into a really interesting and important conclusion. Realization, acts of murder, arson, sabotage don't come with right wing left wing labels, though in some cases you can make reasonable deductions. He talks about how if somebody's just mentally ill, it's really hard to assign motive, and that's it's a good point and a fair point. But here's here's the crazy part. What stands out, he says, is how distant most of the causes motivating right wing acts of violence are from anything an ordinary conservative would recognize, but how familiar most of the left wing motivations sound. Here you go, because the reports about partisan extremism. Right wing violence often motivated by ideas of racial or ethnic supremacy, opposition to all government authority, believing it is tyrannical and illegitimate, misogyny, hatred of women, including in cells, hatred based on sexuality or gender identity, belief in the QAnon conspiracy theory, or opposition to abortion, and as Swain points out, really only the last item is anything any conservative he knows would recognize as a worthy value to pursue the rest of it's terrible racial supremacy, hatred of women, belief in QAnon. Whatever. That's a whack of doodal crap, right right, And that's this allegedly neutral scientific study of political violence. That's the stuff that motivates right wing political violence. Left wing violence, on the other hand, can arise from an opposition to capitalism, imperialism, or colonialism, all taught in our nation's schools and universities. How about black nationalism, support for LGBTQ plus rights, support for environmental causes or animal rights, adherence to pro communist, pro socialist beliefs, or anti fascist rhetoric. Opposition to government authority under the belief it is a tool of repression, responsible for social injustice, or support for decentralized political and social systems such as anarchism. Most of these, almost all of them have a place in the mainstream left of the Democratic Party, and some are beloved in the Democratic Party. And the title of his piece, I should point out is mainstream political violence.
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Speaker 1: So the list you had for conservatives, I don't know a single person that is into those things. The list you had of Democrats, like every progressive I know, is into all.
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Speaker 2: Those things, and again absolutely enshrined in academia all of those things. That's interesting. Yeah, and Swam says that's not to say any you're wrong or evil, only that most have a mainstream provenance. He says, the high profile acts of terror that have us so rattled, in other words, are propelled by creeds and attitudes to which American media and liberal political class have, in one way or another, given their blessing. That is an interesting point.
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Speaker 1: But the other games all go to Game three today, very excited about that, really digging the baseball, really enjoying it. And I'm don on this is a break from the crazy world.
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Speaker 2: You know. I was watching the Yankees Red Sox myself and what struck me. And this is true of the playoffs in all sports, particularly the sports that have a very, very long season. The players care so much, right, oh yeah, oh my god.
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Speaker 3: There was.
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Speaker 2: Multiple guys on base. It looked to be a home run ball. The pitcher was about to, you know, hurl himself off a cliff. Then his center fielder makes the catch and he celebrated like he'd won a war. This picture must beside himself with joy and relief.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, that's why you watch sports. Yeah, that's why he lost the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool.
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Speaker 1: So before we take a break, Elon Musk apparently is the richest man in the world. Again, briefly, Paul Allen was Elon Musk just became the first person to hit five hundred billion dollars in net worth half a trillionaire, the first one ever on earth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if that's true. What am I gonna buy? Maybe France?
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true adjusted for inflation, Like if you go back to JD. Rockefeller, what he would have been worth today. Maybe I'll even look into that. But yeah, Elon is worth five hundred billion dollars. If that's not you know, f f you money. Like I can say into whatever I want, which he says and does whatever he wants. Pretty obvious.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what is so I was being silly, obviously, But I find myself wondering if you were to offer, say, fifty billion dollars, how many countries on Earth that are? They got to be autocracies, probably unless they have real financial problems and they think, yeah, all right, and he can be our king and pay off all of our loans. You want to be king of a country. Well, no, how many countries would sell themselves to you as Elon Musk for fifty billion dollars. I'm some warlord. I got a stressful job. I mean, I'm looting the treasury every day and I live like the king that I am. But it's you know, it's it's tough work. I'm thinking, oh, I will sell you, you know, name your your African Republic. I'm not sure you'd want one of those, but.
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Speaker 1: Well, I love that this is big. His big thing is he wants to figure out how to get his to Mars. So the more money he has, the more likely that happens. I think that's very exciting out that happens in my lifetime.
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Speaker 2: You want to go with a tropical island nation, clearly, but I submit to you there are no fewer than seventy nations you could for fifty billion dollars. Probably that'd be an interesting thing to start, just start adding up. Elon Musk just bought his fifteenth country today. Talk about a collection. Yeah, coming up a very very special freedom loving quote of the day. Oh cool said, it's different than anything I've ever done.
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Speaker 1: Trump just said something pretty funny about the shut down. We got mailbag on the white and a bunch of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Stay here.
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Speaker 1: This is reading about all the Starbucks that are shutting down across the country.
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Speaker 2: Hundreds of them. Though there are how many thousand did I say the other day, like twelve thousand Starbucks or something like this? An enormous number he house anyway, where they're shutting them down is kind interesting, and I think they're not being completely honest about why they're shutting them down. But we can talk about that later. That's funny, that is I've got something very similar right in front of me on that topic. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, except it's not a freedom loving quote of the day. It's a story. We're flipping the format here in a way. It's a note from al Anonymous, who is an active duty member of our military, and he says, this is the most important thing I've ever sent you. It needs to get out to the freedom loving world. As he's shared with us in the past, he has he had a very large freedom loving quote board behind his desk, inspired by the Armstrong and Getty show. I need to put it up during COVID times for my own sanity. As I saw the shenanigans in real time, I can only imagine the kicking people out, healthy young men for not getting the jab, et cetera. It is very visible to at least one hundred Army civilians, contractors, and soldiers daily. I'm proud of the conversations this board is instigated over the last four years. Departing from his note, imagine that people look at the quote and talk about liberty and how precious it is and how to defend it and the Army's role in preserving it.
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Speaker 1: I love that, Love that. Getting back to Al's note, I recently moved desks. I am now in a private office. Luckily, the captain that took over the quote board is an articulate, freedom loving hard charger. He takes his oath to the Constitution first and foremost in it shows he promised to keep the tradition of putting.
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Speaker 2: Up a daily quote going. And then Al sings the praises of this guy, says he's a terrific soldier. He's been reprimanded twice now by his leadership for putting up quotes regarding the new warrior ethos ideology. Most recent reprimand was a couple of days ago after the headset speech and one day after the ten directives were sent out to all of the Department of War. They were direct quotes from our chain of command from Secretary of War. Hegxeth, and he points out these aren't the firebrand type quotes he sometimes chucks out there. These were the more vanilla type things, explaining the importance of the warrior ethos mindset that I know you understand the importance of He has been stopped from putting up quotes for the love of liberty. How can this be true of my military? The point of this situation has revealed to me just how much the week feelings over logic, woke ideology has embedded itself in the military. I don't think three and a half years will be enough to root this out. Whoever's the next leader of our nation has got to be like minded. We must win this fight against DEI and critical theory for the sake of freedom everywhere. This is not hyperbole, and it is for the sake of our nation. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think that's how you can justify Pete bringing all those generals together and making such a big show of that, and that it is a major attempt to turn around the enormous ship that is the military. I mean it very slow to turn around something that big, and just had to really get a lot of attention. Say well, like you said, that s is over right. If you don't, if you're not on board, retired, thank you for your service. We're changing ways.
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Speaker 2: Right, We're not asking you to consider these thoughts. We're telling you this is the way it is. Well, I hope he's successful. Well yeah, but the fact that Al Anonymous and his protege there are being told take down those quotes, that's amazing. Now, if there's some obscure military regulation that I'm not aware of that factors into this, yeah, that could be certainly. But the fact that Al for four years had the freedom loving quotes of the day up and they yielded many, many discussions among hundreds of people, and all of a sudden, now know that is interesting anyway, mail bag bootwoot, Well that was an email. A couple of good ones speaking of Portland, Jack as I know you want to and Starbucks one. This is from Tim. No one is talking about the fact that Target closed all their Portland stores months ago and Walmart has just followed suit all of them. What did Target and Walmart know that the Oregon governor in Portland mayor.
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Speaker 1: Know understand why these businesses don't say out loud why they're closing. They always come up with, well, there's a downsizing something or other and we've designed to focus on online sales or something. They never just say out loud. This city has become such a crap hole. We can't get anybody to work here. Our workers are being attacked, our customers won't come in because there's too many drug fiends outside the door. Why, and our shoplifting losses are so enormous we can't make a profit, which is a huge factor.
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Speaker 2: But you're one hundred percent right. Walmart issued a mealy mouthed, non committal saying nothing statement about considering many factors. Yeah, why don't you say it? Walmart? I don't know. It's amazing. We'll get more into that later. Speaking of the great Northwest, Ricky the Bricky Us, a huge Mariners fan, says Jack, feel free to jump on the Mariner's bandwagon as you threatened, just for the love of all that is holy. No merchandise, don't buy it, touch it, don't even look at Mariner's wag. I'm not superstitious, but we all know about you. Yeah, that's my team.
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Speaker 1: Once we get to pass this wild card round, I'm all about the big dumper.
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Speaker 2: Jack is the great cooler. The minute he even looks at a Mariner's hat, they will be ejected from the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Got to admit I don't like the Mariner logo, so I'm probably not gonna buy a hat.
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Speaker 2: So you're in the clear. What's not so long? Right? Just don't dig it.
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Speaker 1: We got a lot of stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here. If you miss it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong, and Jettie and he armsrang live from the studio c Signor deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Giddy Information Complex. This is the Armstrong and Giddy Show Live this Thursday, the second of October, the year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. This morning, under the tutelage of Honorary General Manager. The devastation, the devastation wrought by the government shutdown. I tried to go to the grocery store yesterday. Fires burning all over town, gangs of young ruffians, stray dogs, bones piled high in the streets. Oh there's Jack.
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Speaker 1: Everybody play the door open there, MAKA, what is my face color? It's rather pale as god, well, it's always palish. No nod though, Well, yeah, you don't look as robust as normal. Got a bit of a thing going through our house. Oh and the thing may have reached me. It's a stomach thing.
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Speaker 3: M And.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep the trash can right next to Oh boy, there's a hint. Okay, all right, the trash can there. Sorry to hear that. That's all right. School play school, schools in and when school is in. Oh, seems like somebody sick constantly, just part of the deal. It's a great incubator or and or your immune system learns as much as your brain as a kid going to school. You know. Oh that's interesting anyway. Uh oh, man, I hate this feeling. Oh boy, I don't even want to say the wrong thing, because if you're kind of on the edge, right and I'm on the merest, suggestion can be unhelpful.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not that susceptible luckily to that sort of happen. I'm sorry, what were you talking about.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the devastation caused by the government shutdown, Well that's probably part of why I feel this way. Yeah, the grocery store was in flames.
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Speaker 1: Well, the shelves.
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Speaker 2: Were empty, so there was no medicine to the right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they did neighbors just attacking neighbors, just out of just pure animal fear, like one of those experiments where the rats are overpacked in a cage and they turn on each other.
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Speaker 2: That's just right.
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Speaker 1: And today's a holiday, so they won't even have a vote on the whole shutdown thing today.
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Speaker 2: I don't care.
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Speaker 1: I do not care. I don't believe you care. I really don't be that anybody who cares.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Actually, I know one person who works for the Department Agriculture and the number of people they are going to lay off there. They're worried they might be the one. And I could understand that, Oh, sure you because I do things. Some people are going to lose their jobs out of this deal, which you know, it's an attempt to use the shutdown to fire some people, which you know, whatever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I realized the shut down quote unquote is not that interesting or compelling. But some of the things around it, like this Russell vote, it looks like it ought to be vaught because it's the word ought with a V in front of it. But I'm totally pronounces it vote. But anyway, he is the director of the Office of Management Budget, and he is like a conservative's dream come true, small government. We need to rain this in guy, and he is looking at this shutdown as an opportunity to just super turbocharge the ability to trim the fat. And you know how successful he'll be and how long it will endure and what judge will interfere on what level? Nobody's really sure, but it's an opportunity anyway.
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Speaker 1: My final word for now on the shutdown would be the Washington Post editorial Board. The Washington Post Editorial Board says the Democrats walked into a trap on this and it's not a good idea. So they don't even think the whole Democrats claiming it's the Republican's fault thing is going to work.
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Speaker 2: I don't unless you're Haakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that. I don't think it matters anyway. You look back over the shutdowns of my lifetime. Who got blamed doesn't seem to have any indication that it had a result in the next election.
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Speaker 2: So just that it doesn't matter who gets blamed. Yeah, I wouldn't get a tattoo commemorating the great victory. Yeah, you're going to be having it removed or changed into a pretty girl with ideals or something down there.
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Speaker 1: What's that tattoo? I overreacted to a shutdown, And you remember when the Democrats got blamed for that shutdown? No, no, I really don't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, super excited tattoo.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that was no over reaction. I think you got caught up in a good cable news That's what happened there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, get out touch grass, as they say, until it makes you want to do what Jack is trying not to do.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, I gotta find it. I'm gonna figure out way to uh peppermint. Peppermint, Yes, settles the stomach, clears the mind. It's a very good nausea treatment. I've never used peppermint. I don't think I will get I will order. I will door dash a peppermint mocha with whipped cream. Would that make me feel better?
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Speaker 2: Probably? Oh my, I think there are probably like peppermints in the little lunch room. What about convenience star Pello greeno water, something bubbly, maybe a tea, another tea, all good remedies. Okay, wraps of peppermint tea. There you go.
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Speaker 1: Let's start to show officially. We got a good clip today. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is U two Sorry, Thursday, October second, the year twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: We are armed and getting We approve of this program. Well, by golly, let's start officially then, According to FCC, rules and regulations. The show starts at mark I'm Strong and gadget They see gender is only.
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Speaker 4: A construct and sex is assigned in birth, and they say.
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Speaker 5: We are done with that.
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Speaker 4: Transient kids by self diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagent.
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Speaker 5: We are done with that.
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Speaker 2: Homelessness is a lifestyle, done with that.
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Speaker 4: Whiteness is toxic. Don Dinus is in women's prison, John welcoming me into Fada.
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Speaker 5: We are done, done, done with that.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty And to put that together, that's really good. Oh, I love that. That is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: You know one thing that America is done with, if it isn't even is aware that it's happening, is the whole Antifa in Portland thing. Got some reporting on that from Fox, as has been now for many years. The media, even national right wing media, doesn't get the Antifa Portland story. They just I don't. It's too far from New York. I mean, we have planes these days. I don't understand how you can't figure out what Antifa is or how how big a deal it is in Portland and Seattle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, A great, a great. They we have been among the few voices trying to bring attention to that situation, and it's spreading across the country. There have been contagions ten to two.
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Speaker 1: There have been battles in the streets in Portland now for like one hundred straight days and getting so little media coverage.
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Speaker 2: That's why the National Guard is there.
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Speaker 1: And now I heard on NPR and I think one of your cable news channels last week that there's no such thing as antifa.
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Speaker 2: It's a myth.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, antifa stands for anti fascists, so they couldn't possibly be I mean they actually said the national media, good lord, I know, well, they're they're part of the the what's the right word that doesn't sound crazy. They're part of the team that is trying to push radical leftism, including violence. I have some excellent evidence of that coming up later in the show. I think a lot of it is ignorance about Antifa. They just it's not on the East coast the way it is on the West coast, and they just missed the story.
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Speaker 2: Somehow. Bad journalists is what they are, depends to who you're talking about. I believe that for like Fox News and some of the other reasonable Wall Street Journal maybe, but not NPR. NPR squarely on their side.
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Speaker 1: So you call yourself antifa short for anti fascists, and then you can go around beating people down to try to get them to do what you want them to do, and you get credit for being anti fascist.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you're dressed in you're dressed in black and beat down your opponents in the streets so they can't hold meetings or carry out their policies fight after night. How far could you take it?
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Speaker 1: Could you wear Nazi uniforms with swastiks swastikas on them, burning down synagogues but call yourselves anti Nazi? And would you still get credit for that? But no, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You misunderstand they're anti Nazi. There are times an NPR would be forced to go with government. Republicans are claiming that the use of the Nazi insignia is indication that antifa is not really anti fascist. They would go with government with the Republicans pounce.
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Speaker 1: There's also a video that is causing some problems in some schools, some good problems in my opinion, about there being two genders as opposed to fifty that we can talk about later.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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Speaker 1: Watched some baseball last night. Yankees closed close it out. No, they gave the game. So everybody's got a Game three. All all the series went to game three. Wow, that's exciting. So all the Wall card games. It's a do or die today.
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Speaker 2: Good. That's good baseball.
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Speaker 1: I need that while I'm sitting there trying not to vomit.
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Speaker 2: Perfect. The Dodgers won. They cleaned out the Reds.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking of. The Dodgers won and they finished off the Reds. I knew I had something in my head like that, but my stomach is confusing me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. This just handed to All the baseball games have been canceled because of the shutdown. It's just too dangerous to try to go to the games. Right, What was it shut down going on?
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Speaker 1: And so I get a lot on the way stay here text line four one KFTC.
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Speaker 2: And yo yo yo?
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Speaker 1: Did he get sentenced tomorrow? I hope I didn't steal one of your headlines there, Katie.
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Speaker 2: Did.
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Speaker 1: He is going to be sentenced tomorrow, and there's some hubbubble around whether how much time he's going to spend in jail. I hope a lot.
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Speaker 2: He's been teaching a class in jail. It's been very well received.
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Speaker 1: Have information on that a class in one, I'll tell you about it. Okay, freakouts, freakoff see throw a freak off, creative use as a baby oil step one.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, how to terrify and or bribe people into compliance, all sorts of interesting stuff. Got a great study of what it looks like inside the informational bubble of the left, with a variety of examples coming up play on the show. I'm excited to bring that to you. It is really quite something, and I'm bringing it to you not not entirely just to bash lefties, but just as an observer of human kind. I think it's really interesting to look at what that sort of life is like and how it can lead you off track. Anyway, let's figure out who's reporting. What's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Okay, it's worded this.
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Speaker 5: Way because it's the Guardian. White House plays.
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Speaker 3: Racist, deep fake video of Democratic leaders on Loop.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: The reason I chose this is because yesterday they had two TVs set up and the Sombrero video was playing on Loop in the White House briefing room.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh wow, is that where we're where we're headed?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Note to the Guardian. Things that are comparely kind of sort of ethnic in nature. The day where you say it's that's racist, that everybody cowers and cringes, that day's gone. Shut up.
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Speaker 1: The call it racist thing is dumb, but it is definitely, you know, a pretty snarky.
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Speaker 2: Modern, young online sort of way to I don't know if it's good. It's not presidential, but.
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Speaker 5: It is hilarious.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's hilarious. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: From ABC.
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Speaker 3: Zelenski to meet with European leaders in Denmark with Russian invasion at top of agenda.
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Speaker 2: Wow. There was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today by I can't remember who the guy was, but he was saying, look, you gotta shoot down those drones and planes that make incursions into airspace. Shoot them down. And he gives the example of Turkey, of all places, a number of years ago, the Russians were making incursions into Turkish airspace and the Turk shot the damn plane down. And did that cause World War three or an escalation or no? No, Russians are like, oh okay, that's how far we can push in Turkey next.
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Speaker 1: You know, Russia had the biggest call up of draftees they've had since twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a sign of something and what that causes domestically will be interesting to observe.
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Speaker 3: This one from the Wall Street Journal, Trump signs order that could see US military defending Cutter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll never happen. As part of the whole Middle East deal, Trump issued in an executive order which does not have the power of a treaty or anything like that, saying we will defend the territory and safety of Cutter in case of an attack, we will come to your aid. It's just part of the whole getting the terrorist supporting Kataris to do the right thing. Finally, with Hamas.
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Speaker 3: From Breitbart dot com, illegal immigrants were issued eighteen wheeler licenses in New York, Illinois, and California.
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Speaker 2: With quote no name given. Yeah, I've been following this story for the last couple of days. As it is broken.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's the way they one of the ways they got around the UH given illegals licenses to drive big rigs. Is they just they just they filled out all the stuff without the names.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so on our licenses, where it usually would say your name, it says no name given on the actual driver's license.
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Speaker 2: What the hell? Yeah, pretty amazing.
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Speaker 3: From NBC police chiefs across the country sounding the alarm over quote disturbing rise in rhetoric, citing rising political threats, i'd say. From the Associated Press, PEPSI looks at coloring Cheetos with paprika as companies ditch synthetic.
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Speaker 2: Diesrica's got a bit of a taste to it. Yeah, does certainly changed the Cheeto experience.
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Speaker 5: From the Washington Post.
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Speaker 3: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla detains Gretit Tunberg.
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Speaker 5: And other activists.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've a little bred of her, leading advocate of the eternal omni cause I feel bad for two I actually do.
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Speaker 5: She just got launched into this as a child.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly wrong. It is, sweetheart, It is all wrong. You really ought to go live a normal life. I should be back in school, yep or whatever.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the headline. This is not me. From the New York Post.
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Speaker 3: Harvard hires drag queen named Lahore Bagistan.
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Speaker 5: As a visiting professor.
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Speaker 2: Horgistan.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know I've never understood the drag queen phenomenon. I don't know how this ever got a toe hold in our world, but that's quite the name. Mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: Then they've hired this human is a lecturer of some sort.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a visiting professor. Yes, yeah, study finds.
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Speaker 2: The abnormal psychology department. I hope, oh.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully, study finds stuck in line science says waiting is actually good for your brain.
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Speaker 2: I'll bet it is. I want to read that. That's interesting.
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Speaker 5: And finally from the.
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Speaker 3: Babylon Bee supporters beg Gavin Newsom to stop doing meth before he posts on social media.
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Speaker 1: I saw the headline that was going on. I saw one headline yesterday. You probably all saw it. I thought, Wow, the monkeys finally got her. But no, Jane Goodall died of natural causes in her nineties.
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Speaker 2: Chimpanzees are actually apes Jackson jack and not monkeys. But yes, the famous chimp Lady has passed. But it wasn't at the hand of the monkeys. They weren't like, we've had enough of this. No, no, they would have done that long ago. Yeah, she was lucky they didn't ever like rip her arm off or something because chimps can go wild. Yeah, no, because they are well wild.
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Speaker 1: She had a good relationship with them. A bunch of that stuff that we talked about that we're going to get to. It's a pretty noozy day, and.
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Speaker 2: Of course we're all lighting candles for the government shipment.
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Speaker 6: Armstrong and Geeddy, an Egyptian wrestler, recently attempted to break a Guinness World record by pulling a seven hundred ton ship across water by a rope with his teeth. The record was for richest dentist. All right, minds me, I stand by it.
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Speaker 1: I got Henry's first appointment since he got his braces on today.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they do. Did they tighten them up or those of you who had braces? Is that what they do? Michael?
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Speaker 1: They tightened yes, I remember, sent them down, Yeah, get them good and tank them one more notch. Yeah, that sort of thing, Katie.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Cranking was the word that I was going to use.
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Speaker 1: One of the wires broke the end of the day somehow, and then it was like it was just the sharp end. It reminded me it was like an e string on an electric guitar. It's like super sharp on the end, and I didn't know what to do with it. I got out my same clippers I used for my guitar strings and cut it off so it wasn't jabbing him in the mouth.
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Speaker 2: But hopefully they can fix that. Every guitar player in the world cringed when you said that, I think because we've all punctured our fingertips that damn e string. Anyway, Katie, Sorry, he.
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Speaker 5: Gets to change his rubber band color today too.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's exciting. Yeah, fall colors, earth tones probably, that's what I would suggest. Pumpkin spice colored right exactly? Ah? Did you are you gonna mentioning?
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Speaker 1: There is a Fox reporter writing as opposed to broadcasting about walking the streets of Portland and how Antifa has taken over many city blocks. It's pretty danged interesting and it's amazing it doesn't get more national attention.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, even in conservative media. Again, the lefties are in favor of it. But speak of that sort of thing, and what a great fit that is for this. First of all, the Fox News is reporting on a panel at Harvard. This happened a couple of years ago. The Ivy League school hosted a panel call don't stand around and let people get hurt. Anti fascism, fascism after Charlottesville, and of course Charlottesville one of the great overrated incidents in American history. If the left had just let those useless, dumb ass weasels march around with their torches and then go back to their ramshackle holmes, you know, just there was nothing. These people don't have followers, they didn't they don't have popularity, they don't have power, But it was useful politically to make it seem like that is the Republican Party.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's what caused Joe Biden to run for president. Boy, there's one more reason to hate those guys. There's way more jew hatred and college campuses than there wasn't that lot Charlottesville gathering.
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Speaker 2: Oh way more, way, more and more potent. But anyway, the Panels star guest was professor Dwayne Dixon of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was placed on administrative leave Monday after reports of his armed left wing activism as a member of the far left gun club Redneck Revolt and so he's on leave and video of the event was quickly removed from the Harvard Center's YouTube page after this guy was put on leave, but the Internet is forever, and they point out that he was introduced by three Harvard academics. Education professor Timothy McCarthy, Professor of American History at African American Studies, Vincent Brown, American history professor Lisa McGirr. Brown introduced Dixon. Many view are aware of the ongoing vigorous debate over or whether it's okay to punch a Nazi. I personally happen to believe that ethical question was settled by World War Two, when the Raiders of the Lost Arc, which is a fairly amusing reference, and the whole saying the holds the conference that celebrating this guy's the guest speakers that really, these nazi, white supremacist fascist types supporters of Donald Trump are so dangerous that violence against them can be justified. And you know, I'd like to get into more detail about that and more of the specifics of what they said, but has always repressed for time. And I wanted to get to this because I thought it was an unbelievably great observation by Barton Swain, who was writing in the journal about mainstream political violence, and he writes a public square dominated by fury and contempt isn't likely to give us much helpful analysis of political violence. But an important principle has emerged since the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. The best articulation of the principle I've read appeared in Noah Rothman's essay for Commentary Magazine. To put it briefly, what a party says about an act of violence tells you a lot about that party's responsibility for it. And Rothman points out Tanahazy coats this week it nicely illustrates what he calls the butt rule. I have a this is a quote. Now, I have a politic that rejects violence, that rejects political violence. I take no joy in the killing of anyone, no matter what they said. But there it is. But if you ask me what the truth of Charlie Kirk's life was, you know, in the truth of his public life, I would have to tell you it's hate. Wow. Okay, So mister Coates among the meanest and least observant professional writers in America. I would agree he's a hack and a liar and a kook. Can't be expected to notice his own role in a dire cultural trend, but his remarks helped clarify it, clarify it for everyone else. And here's the point of this now. A report was released last month by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that tells us, in the unlikely event you hadn't noticed it, that the left left wing political violence is on the rise. This is notable, the author's explained, because for the past three decades, acts of right wing terrorism and violence have far outnumbered left wing ones. Maybe so, but here's where Barton Swain gets into a really interesting and important conclusion. Realization, acts of murder, arson, sabotage don't come with right wing left wing labels, though in some cases you can make reasonable deductions. He talks about how if somebody's just mentally ill, it's really hard to assign motive, and that's it's a good point and a fair point. But here's here's the crazy part. What stands out, he says, is how distant most of the causes motivating right wing acts of violence are from anything an ordinary conservative would recognize, but how familiar most of the left wing motivations sound. Here you go, because the reports about partisan extremism. Right wing violence often motivated by ideas of racial or ethnic supremacy, opposition to all government authority, believing it is tyrannical and illegitimate, misogyny, hatred of women, including in cells, hatred based on sexuality or gender identity, belief in the QAnon conspiracy theory, or opposition to abortion, and as Swain points out, really only the last item is anything any conservative he knows would recognize as a worthy value to pursue the rest of it's terrible racial supremacy, hatred of women, belief in QAnon. Whatever. That's a whack of doodal crap, right right, And that's this allegedly neutral scientific study of political violence. That's the stuff that motivates right wing political violence. Left wing violence, on the other hand, can arise from an opposition to capitalism, imperialism, or colonialism, all taught in our nation's schools and universities. How about black nationalism, support for LGBTQ plus rights, support for environmental causes or animal rights, adherence to pro communist, pro socialist beliefs, or anti fascist rhetoric. Opposition to government authority under the belief it is a tool of repression, responsible for social injustice, or support for decentralized political and social systems such as anarchism. Most of these, almost all of them have a place in the mainstream left of the Democratic Party, and some are beloved in the Democratic Party. And the title of his piece, I should point out is mainstream political violence.
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Speaker 1: So the list you had for conservatives, I don't know a single person that is into those things. The list you had of Democrats, like every progressive I know, is into all.
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Speaker 2: Those things, and again absolutely enshrined in academia all of those things. That's interesting. Yeah, and Swam says that's not to say any you're wrong or evil, only that most have a mainstream provenance. He says, the high profile acts of terror that have us so rattled, in other words, are propelled by creeds and attitudes to which American media and liberal political class have, in one way or another, given their blessing. That is an interesting point.
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Speaker 1: God, I would say, so, I have an interesting point to make after we tell you about simply Safe. As I say, every time I pull away from my house, I'm happy to see the simply Safe sign in my yard, reminding me that I, you know, I got the system. I set it up myself. It's super easy to set up. That's part of the whole simply Safe thing, your security system. And I got the cameras, I got the sensors, I got the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: But the other games all go to Game three today, very excited about that, really digging the baseball, really enjoying it. And I'm don on this is a break from the crazy world.
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Speaker 2: You know. I was watching the Yankees Red Sox myself and what struck me. And this is true of the playoffs in all sports, particularly the sports that have a very, very long season. The players care so much, right, oh yeah, oh my god.
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Speaker 3: There was.
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Speaker 2: Multiple guys on base. It looked to be a home run ball. The pitcher was about to, you know, hurl himself off a cliff. Then his center fielder makes the catch and he celebrated like he'd won a war. This picture must beside himself with joy and relief.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, that's why you watch sports. Yeah, that's why he lost the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool.
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Speaker 1: So before we take a break, Elon Musk apparently is the richest man in the world. Again, briefly, Paul Allen was Elon Musk just became the first person to hit five hundred billion dollars in net worth half a trillionaire, the first one ever on earth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if that's true. What am I gonna buy? Maybe France?
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true adjusted for inflation, Like if you go back to JD. Rockefeller, what he would have been worth today. Maybe I'll even look into that. But yeah, Elon is worth five hundred billion dollars. If that's not you know, f f you money. Like I can say into whatever I want, which he says and does whatever he wants. Pretty obvious.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what is so I was being silly, obviously, But I find myself wondering if you were to offer, say, fifty billion dollars, how many countries on Earth that are? They got to be autocracies, probably unless they have real financial problems and they think, yeah, all right, and he can be our king and pay off all of our loans. You want to be king of a country. Well, no, how many countries would sell themselves to you as Elon Musk for fifty billion dollars. I'm some warlord. I got a stressful job. I mean, I'm looting the treasury every day and I live like the king that I am. But it's you know, it's it's tough work. I'm thinking, oh, I will sell you, you know, name your your African Republic. I'm not sure you'd want one of those, but.
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Speaker 1: Well, I love that this is big. His big thing is he wants to figure out how to get his to Mars. So the more money he has, the more likely that happens. I think that's very exciting out that happens in my lifetime.
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Speaker 2: You want to go with a tropical island nation, clearly, but I submit to you there are no fewer than seventy nations you could for fifty billion dollars. Probably that'd be an interesting thing to start, just start adding up. Elon Musk just bought his fifteenth country today. Talk about a collection. Yeah, coming up a very very special freedom loving quote of the day. Oh cool said, it's different than anything I've ever done.
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Speaker 1: Trump just said something pretty funny about the shut down. We got mailbag on the white and a bunch of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Stay here.
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Speaker 1: This is reading about all the Starbucks that are shutting down across the country.
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Speaker 2: Hundreds of them. Though there are how many thousand did I say the other day, like twelve thousand Starbucks or something like this? An enormous number he house anyway, where they're shutting them down is kind interesting, and I think they're not being completely honest about why they're shutting them down. But we can talk about that later. That's funny, that is I've got something very similar right in front of me on that topic. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, except it's not a freedom loving quote of the day. It's a story. We're flipping the format here in a way. It's a note from al Anonymous, who is an active duty member of our military, and he says, this is the most important thing I've ever sent you. It needs to get out to the freedom loving world. As he's shared with us in the past, he has he had a very large freedom loving quote board behind his desk, inspired by the Armstrong and Getty show. I need to put it up during COVID times for my own sanity. As I saw the shenanigans in real time, I can only imagine the kicking people out, healthy young men for not getting the jab, et cetera. It is very visible to at least one hundred Army civilians, contractors, and soldiers daily. I'm proud of the conversations this board is instigated over the last four years. Departing from his note, imagine that people look at the quote and talk about liberty and how precious it is and how to defend it and the Army's role in preserving it.
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Speaker 1: I love that, Love that. Getting back to Al's note, I recently moved desks. I am now in a private office. Luckily, the captain that took over the quote board is an articulate, freedom loving hard charger. He takes his oath to the Constitution first and foremost in it shows he promised to keep the tradition of putting.
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Speaker 2: Up a daily quote going. And then Al sings the praises of this guy, says he's a terrific soldier. He's been reprimanded twice now by his leadership for putting up quotes regarding the new warrior ethos ideology. Most recent reprimand was a couple of days ago after the headset speech and one day after the ten directives were sent out to all of the Department of War. They were direct quotes from our chain of command from Secretary of War. Hegxeth, and he points out these aren't the firebrand type quotes he sometimes chucks out there. These were the more vanilla type things, explaining the importance of the warrior ethos mindset that I know you understand the importance of He has been stopped from putting up quotes for the love of liberty. How can this be true of my military? The point of this situation has revealed to me just how much the week feelings over logic, woke ideology has embedded itself in the military. I don't think three and a half years will be enough to root this out. Whoever's the next leader of our nation has got to be like minded. We must win this fight against DEI and critical theory for the sake of freedom everywhere. This is not hyperbole, and it is for the sake of our nation. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think that's how you can justify Pete bringing all those generals together and making such a big show of that, and that it is a major attempt to turn around the enormous ship that is the military. I mean it very slow to turn around something that big, and just had to really get a lot of attention. Say well, like you said, that s is over right. If you don't, if you're not on board, retired, thank you for your service. We're changing ways.
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Speaker 2: Right, We're not asking you to consider these thoughts. We're telling you this is the way it is. Well, I hope he's successful. Well yeah, but the fact that Al Anonymous and his protege there are being told take down those quotes, that's amazing. Now, if there's some obscure military regulation that I'm not aware of that factors into this, yeah, that could be certainly. But the fact that Al for four years had the freedom loving quotes of the day up and they yielded many, many discussions among hundreds of people, and all of a sudden, now know that is interesting anyway, mail bag bootwoot, Well that was an email. A couple of good ones speaking of Portland, Jack as I know you want to and Starbucks one. This is from Tim. No one is talking about the fact that Target closed all their Portland stores months ago and Walmart has just followed suit all of them. What did Target and Walmart know that the Oregon governor in Portland mayor.
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Speaker 1: Know understand why these businesses don't say out loud why they're closing. They always come up with, well, there's a downsizing something or other and we've designed to focus on online sales or something. They never just say out loud. This city has become such a crap hole. We can't get anybody to work here. Our workers are being attacked, our customers won't come in because there's too many drug fiends outside the door. Why, and our shoplifting losses are so enormous we can't make a profit, which is a huge factor.
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Speaker 2: But you're one hundred percent right. Walmart issued a mealy mouthed, non committal saying nothing statement about considering many factors. Yeah, why don't you say it? Walmart? I don't know. It's amazing. We'll get more into that later. Speaking of the great Northwest, Ricky the Bricky Us, a huge Mariners fan, says Jack, feel free to jump on the Mariner's bandwagon as you threatened, just for the love of all that is holy. No merchandise, don't buy it, touch it, don't even look at Mariner's wag. I'm not superstitious, but we all know about you. Yeah, that's my team.
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Speaker 1: Once we get to pass this wild card round, I'm all about the big dumper.
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Speaker 2: Jack is the great cooler. The minute he even looks at a Mariner's hat, they will be ejected from the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Got to admit I don't like the Mariner logo, so I'm probably not gonna buy a hat.
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Speaker 2: So you're in the clear. What's not so long? Right? Just don't dig it.
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Speaker 1: We got a lot of stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here. If you miss it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
