Historical Atrocities and Modern Health Awareness

This is an iHeartPodcast. Guaranteed human . Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty . And now he is Armstrong and Getty . Well guys, New York City is buzzing right now because last night the New York Knicks won game one of the NBA . Woo! Yeah, everywhere you look there's blue and orange. It's like seeing President Trump swimming in the new reflecting pool. That's a pretty good joke. That's a pretty good joke right there. Um, game two tonight. I like it when rarely the NBA playoff games land on like a Friday or Saturday night. I've I've always been amazed that they don't work harder at that. They're big on Mondays and Wednesdays and stuff like that for their games. I don't know why. They must have data that shows that people are more likely to watch them. I don't know. I do know why, and it's always surprised me and I thought I don't uh go by that. The idea is people watch TV on week nights. On uh week weekend nights. They're out and about. There's they're you know partying their bowling alleys, their restaurants are out with friends. I'm much more likely to take in a an Let's get a little uh mailbag in. Drop us a note. Mailbag at armstronggeti.com . Our freedom loving quotes of the day. Uh last hour probably gave this away, but uh what did former U.S. Attorney General Elliott Richardson? He was uh Nixon era, right? I don't know. Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra and General of the Army Omar Bradley have in common. They all participated in D-Day. Yogi Berra. Yogi Berra was a gunner's mate in the Navy during the invasion. He was awarded a Purple Heart . Elliot Richardson, an officer in the 4th Infantry on date. D-Day, he won a bronze star and two Purple Hearts. And Omar Bradley, command ed the American ground forces during the D-Day invasion. The anniversary of which, of course, is tomorrow. Moving along, we're talking about how Congress doesn't Congress anymore. They just are Instagram stars and fundraisers and clowns. Ryan from Houston writes, dear cold warrior, an old fancy jack. Here's the problem. Majority of vote voters don't want hard nosed legislators working to make our country better. They are uh voting for ritual ritual sacrifices for when their god emperor ascends to Mount White House, so they have enough power that the God Emperor can smite their enemies. Well, you left out and give them stuff. I think that's the key that animates politics. And it's you know, it's always been true. Hey, give me stuff, but now it's just shameless and and they don't even have to worry about if they have the money to give you, they'll borrow it if they don't have it. So yeah. Uh moving along, I thought this was so interesting and I know you will too. Got this note from um Rebecca . You guys were talking about men who don't work but instead mooch off women and the taxpayers I worked for years in a police department in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other than for DUI, when a car was towed from a male driver, the release fee was rarely paid by that male. More of more often than not, a woman would show up to pay. If it wasn't his girlfriend, it was usually a mom or worse a grandmother. It was a theme so common that the few times a male came to get their own car back without a woman were surpr ising to us. Wow. But generally , I would be embarrassed to do that . But often those lone males would have to call a woman because they were not the registered owner, didn't have a license, which was usually the reason for the tow, and could not afford the fees. No one following directions on a map should be surprised where they end up, and we are exactly where we led ourselves, men who don't work. Wow, I hear women talking about that sort of th ing. Uh finding adult men out there that like uh have jobs and all that sort of stuff and you know, I can only hear their anecdotal evidence 'cause I only know my life and the people I hang around, but that is quite the story. Yeah. Yeah. How about wow? If I was got pulled over driving drunk, the idea of calling you know some, some woman to bail me out or my mom or whatever. Good lord, have some dignity. Well, she's talking about getting cars back that got towed or whatever. The the fellas never showed up. Wow. Yeah, wow. Uh simple Mitch in Placerville writes on a totally different topic. Uh guys, any time you don't understand life or questioning the ways of the world or your life decisions, know this. I'm a fifty year old bald man who until just now thought that the book Jack mentions, Ulysses , was about the Civil War and the General and Future President of the United States. It's the old Irish book about a bartender named Ulysses. Uh cracked wise. He's a lot like Sam Malone from Cheers. Told my son I'll really want to go see the Odyssey, which is what the book Ulysses is named after and kind of based on. But uh the Odyssey comes out here in the next few days with Matt Damon with the old Homer story, which I've never read the Odyssey, so I kind of look forward to saying not at Homer . Okay . Let's see. Uh oh, I love this from Dennison Lincoln. The slow LA vote counting is a feature, not a bug. Uh, he says this is a national story and national embarrassment. Uh blah blah blah. As a former manager at the California DMV, a government agency not known for efficiency, I will tell you the pace of work at the LA County Elections Office is not the exception, but the rule. My experience with public employees is that they will take all the time you give them. And if they have thirty days to complete a task, they will take thirty days. The DMV's budget for processing vehicle registrations was based on a formula that determines the staffing required. That formula was developed around a specific process , and if reducing the time for that process uh to be completed would reduce the number of staff and the number of supervisors and managers needed, then voila, an agency's budget would go down. OMG, that cannot happen. Oh, that's maddening. That is so freaking maddening. So if it takes three weeks to eat your car registration in the mail, it's because they could do it faster, but they would lose uh some of their budget. So they're gonna Dennis continues since the LA County Register of Voters makes four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and has a staff of eleven hundred with a budget of three hundred fift andy million dollars, he's not going to improve the process. Welcome to California government. Is there any way around that? I'm sure it's that way in government all across the country and at every level. Is there any way to get around that? I mean I've been hearing that my entire adult life. I knew people that worked in various government levels where they they had to they'd be at the end of the year scrambling to buy laptops or different crap TVs they didn't need to spend their budget, otherwise they get their budget cut. That is obviously a horrible system. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely terrible. Uh more email in a moment, but first a word from our friends at Roughgreens. You want your dog to be as healthy and happy as possible for as long as possible, so heartbreaking when they have to go. And rough greens could be a real boost to your dog's health and longevity. Yeah, and it's a pretty simple deal to try it out. All you gotta do is pay the shipping and then you get that rough greens, you get all the uh live supplements that you get to sprinkle on top of these staying with the same dog food you already use, and you got the live probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, 20 vitamins, and minerals. All made in the USA . It's the number one uh supplement for your dog in America. 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That they th okay, I just got my tenth pair of two hundred dollars Oakley sunglasses because they had to spend their money. Wow. That's just not good on any level. There's just get there surely there's a way to break through that that uh conundrum. And I think it's worth observing that if you're talking about the military, there's life and death involved there. Yeah. And if they're behaving that way, what's the Department of the Interior, whatever that is? What are they doing? Or the registrar of voters like Dennis was writing about. No kidding. Oh my lord. It's out of control. No, if we make the government bigger, it'll look out for the little person. Say idiots. Idiots . Uh finally this, Jeff and SoCal, um he's talking about how the stuff AI is already doing makes the Terminator movie a reality minus the time travel uh show, obviously. Uh he says there are a number of facets to it. The medical advancements are encouraging already. Um you have computer nerds hiding in basements all over the world ripping people off or breaking into police departments and holding them hostage for millions of dollars before they'll let them have their computers back. With these scumbags so computer savvy now, what are they gonna do with AI assistance? With the amount of power they'll have at their fingertips, it'll be truly terrifying. Then there's the what if AI takes over itself and there's no way to stop it? Although there is a way to stop it, but that would put us back in the stone age and have to cut all the power somehow and blow up the power plants to shut it down. Well China what now what happens now what if it happens here first and we have to go to those measures to stop Will China fly over and say thank you for our new country and take us over? What if it's the other way around? Do we sit back and watch China be taken over by whomever because their system gets shut down by AI? Then he goes into w all sorts of bizarre and troubling uh possibilities involving uh somebody hikes into your car and drives it down the street and won't give it back to you until you give it money. Um then the infrastructure, sewer, water treatment, uh power plants, et cetera. Isn't it more likely than that that AIs, rather than seeing the geopolitical world in terms of countries, looks at it in terms of AIs like anthropop anthro p the Clawed Chatbot AI world uh anthropic um looks at chat GPT and sees that as the threat as opposed to China or whatever, we need to take out our we we want to be the dominant AI. And they start blowing up each others or sabotaging or put a virus in there or whatever. I don't know why that wouldn't happen. That's a super interesting thought. I mean that's the history of mankind, although we're not exactly talking about mankind. We're talking about mankind's unholy computer baby. What what threat would they perceive from the other system Right. I'm not saying there there aren't. It's just yeah, what would dominance do for an AI system? Why would do they want that? Well if there's heavy competitiveness at the level of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, which obviously there is, their their AIs are certainly going to feel that or notice that. And perhaps the most shocking and chilling development so far in the history of AI And it said, Yeah, he's cheating on his wife. He's a shoplifter. He's uh he's a closeted Nazi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta fire this guy, quick. Yeah. I mean that was crazy. God I'd say. We're a week away from World Cup soccer matches in the United States. I can give you a little primer on that. So you kind of know what you're talking about, if anybody brings it up or if you care. I don't care about soccer really, but this is a big, big worldwide event. Among other things on the way, stay here. Armstrong and Getty here for HIMS. There are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. 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Uh speaking of Joe DiMaggio, one of the many, many star , superstar athletes who participated in World War II, since we were just talking about D-Day earlier, and you mentioned Yogi Berra, I just did a little lookup on that and it's just can you imagine a calamity so large that that would ever happen again? Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, I mean some of the biggest names on planet Earth for sports went in the military and went over and fought in World War II. Can you imagine a situation where you'd have , you know, who are the big stars that are going to play tonight? Jalen Brunson and uh and well Wemby'd be fighting for the French, so I suppose he'd be laying down his arms under the trees waiting for the Germans to take over. But oh my . All the biggest athletes in America? Oh well go go go with baseball. Well, show hey if Tony be farting for the Japanese. They're on our side now. Open borders. Biden. What ? And and our uh movie stars as well. Uh little uh Tim Chalome would be uh totin' a rifle as big as him. Yeah so, he got Tim Tim Chalamet fighting in the in the in whatever battle, and though who's the giant for the Yankees that uh hits all the home runs? Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge. It it's almost impossible to picture, isn't it? Right. That's how big a calamity World War II was. Holy cow. Anywho , I'm not gonna get off on this. Speaking of sports . Uh a week from today, on a Friday, it'll be kind of exciting. The United States plays their first soccer match in the World Cup. It's at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, and we take on the hated Paraguayans. Oh my god. Oh, the ancient rivalry. Oh we've always you know. Oh my god. The memories I have of rooting against Paraguay. Well, ever since the Paraguayan American War of uh eighteen fifty three through fifty-four, uh You know, passions have run high. So nine Eastern, six Pacific next Friday. So at uh Sofi Stadium. I didn't realize there were so many matches at all of these different places. They're playing at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. They're playing at uh Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts, where the Patriots play. Eleven different stadiums, the big stadiums we watch all our favorite football teams in. Philadelphia where the Eagles play. Um, but uh close by, 70 miles from my own house, Levi Stadium where the 49ers play. I don't know if I'll be going to this match next Saturday, Qatar versus Switzerland. Hmm. I don't know if I can name a lot of players in either team. Have you ever met a leader of Hamas ? You might uh run into one at the uh Qatar uh game as they uh famously shelter Islamists of all sorts . Yeah. So the United States is likely to beat Paraguay in that first game next Friday. We're ranked f uh sixteenth, I believe, and Paraguay's ranked forty something. So we're supposed to win that and then uh don't know who would play next when you get into the knockout round. Um but that'll be fun and people will be excited for a little while. And my guess would be uh the US population in general is going to be interested exactly as long as the US team is in it. And then as soon as they're out, there are gonna be a bunch of foreigners going to soccer matches at your local stadium and you're watching something else if you're watching anything. I you know, if there was a good uh matchup I would go. Of course I like soccer. Um would you go to Belgium Iran ? Uh yeah. Oh yeah. How's Iran gonna be received at various games? Well Well and the poor players. Who knows how they stand on all of this? Yeah. Hey, we'll execute your mother if you don't go play and play hard. Oh god. We already went through the whole thing with the uh women Iranian soccer team. Right. And uh are these dudes gonna feel compelled, I'm sure they will, to uh put their hands over their hearts for the Iranian national anthem and wave the flag proudly, I suppose. Are there not games in America's hat, Canada and America's uh Boxer shorts, Mexico . Mexico shorts all of uh uh uh North America's hosting. I got Seattle, I got Houston, I got Santa Clara, I got Kansas C ity. Maybe this is just a list of the American ones. I don't know. Yeah, it could be. I don't think so. But you go to a big time match with a couple of countries and their fans and the chants and the banners and stuff like that. It's a festive atmosphere. Oh, please. Some serious fights black some people's eyes. Exactly, yeah. A little hooliganism. Speaking of blackening blackening eyes, Gavin New som versus Kamala Harris is supposed to be a knockdown drag out if they both run for president. Armstrong and Getty . The New World Screwworm, which eats animals from the inside out has been finally found in America. Inside a cow . Scientists say this is just the latest of many reasons to avoid sex with Joy Bayar. Wow Oh I do not approve that joke for air. Wow Do not error that one. I feel like me and the crowd there all k cow who's the who's the target of this? Here it comes. Who's the target? He goes Joy Bale . Oh . And sex with Joy Bale nonetheless. Wow. We gotta keep that in mind. That's the f that's the old conservative Fox crowd watching that, and he's got the highest rated show of any of your late night talk shows. Making jokes like that. I will not traffic in such myself. I will every day all day. So the prospect of utterly unprincipled Gavin Newsome squaring off against his co Californian lunkhead Kamala Harris in vying for the White House is has excited and titillated us for a very long time, uh because they're they're both completely unprincipled and and vicious when necessary. Let me set it up with this because I think it's really interesting. I read the was it the Bob Woodward book? I think it was. Pretty sure it was, actually. The reason Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris, though he had already made it clear he was going to pick a black woman, so that narrowed it down to a certain extent. Was Joe Biden, having been around the political game for a long time , noticed that when anybody's name popped up in the media as a different black woman that could be the vice presidential nominee, all of a sudden some negative story would come out about that woman and she'd get piled on and driven out of the conversation. And Biden suspected correctly that it was Kamala Harris. She was out there kneecapping anybody who got any headway as like a little momentum in the media . She had an operation for taking them out. And he liked her sharp elbows. He really appreciated she knows how the game is played. She knows how to fight back. So if that's true , Gavin better be prepar Well yeah, and you could see the logic in it in that the candidate often will pick a V who's tech dog and they get to float above the fray and say, listen, I'm here to talk about the issue. Yeah, you want somebody who can play that game, and he felt like she could . So let's uh let's uh frame this this way. Do these people hate each other or not ? First, though , it was widely thought Kamala was done because the But in appearances like in April, she was at uh a big gathering of New York uh black activists who chanted, Run again, run again. What? And she said, I might, I'm still thinking about it. Run again . Right, right . And then they compare the book sales for the two books. The Wall Street Journal reporting with a straight face that Harris's book one hundred and seven days, uh, her tour sold out event spaces around the U.S. more than six months after its publication. I can't imagine paying money to go see Kamala Harris be. Well, you know, I would though, I would, but ironically. Yeah, yeah. I'm suspicious of that. Uh I know they kept making the venue smaller. They would book a big hall and then they would s shrink it down, put up curtains, all that sort of thing, you know, like bands do sometimes because you're not selling many tickets. And then how many tickets did they give away to various activists and stuff like that to fill it up? And they claim her fascinating book, which was widely hooted at, uh, sold more than three hundred and eighty-five thousand copies. But all right, let's get into the do these people hate each other. Not a lot. I'd be pleased with it, but you know, I'm not a national uh political figure. Uh so uh let's see. Gavin Newsom told Axios he'd only read excerpts of Harris's book, but heard it sold unbelievably well. Harris has said nothing publicly about Gavin Newsome's book. But the governor, Gavy, did cite a dig in Harris's book. Harris wrote that she called Newsom to secure his support after B iden dropped out from the twenty twenty four race. And the governor texted Hiking will call back, according to Harris's account, but he never did call back. Now Newsom said he did text Harris saying he had already put out a statement supporting her and that he was the last person she needed to talk to. Hinting uh implying I'm behind you. I'm so obviously on your side Harris replied, he said, on book tour, get back to you later. Anyway, that's the relationship, Newsom said to the interviewer. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I like that. He's uh he was middle aged man not in a hurry in terms of returning her phone call. Yeah, yeah. And then a month after the alleged text snub, Harris was getting ready to to accept the hastily arranged Democratic nomination for president She was surprised to see Newsome was not on the roster of speakers. Advisors told her that Newsom had declined a speaking slot because of a scheduling conflict. According to people, Newsom considered the convention appearance on behalf of Harris about as appealing as giving a speech at the wedding of an ex, said people close to them, and he was happy to have an excuse to bow out gracefully , he told the LA Times that uh he was going to take his children to school orientation that day and then fly to Chicago later. And he appeared at the convention's high point later that week. What's that thing they say if you want a friend in Washington get a dog ? Yes at any point your friends can turn against you or you'll turn against them if it's uh politically advan advantageous to you. And all kinds of different circumstances can change all the time. I'm thinking about for whatever reason this popped into my head reading one of those LBJ books that I like so much when JFK picked LBJ to be his running mate. His younger brother Bobby Kennedy hated LBJ so much. I mean, just with a fire. And he didn't even tell his own brother that he was going to pick LBJ. He just did it. Didn't have a conversation with him or anything like that. I mean, so it can be that tight of relationship. You'll still just do whatever you want to do. Wow, that may be the all-time example. Yeah, no kidding. I I can picture. Well, I'll tell you what I can picture after a quick word from our friends at Incogni, because this is going to stick with you. It's crazy. We've talked about these stories on the air. You're at work, your phone buzzes, it's your kid, and your kid panicked, says he's been in an accident, needs money wired right now . It's a scam. They have cloned your kid's voice horrifying uh from from video online, and criminals buy your phone number and your family details from data brokers, then they grab your kid's voice and and make your the call. It's terrible. 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You know what's exciting about this to me is Kamala Harris being in California and San Francisco all those years, she probably knows a lot about Gavin Newsome's personal life if she wants to go that hardcore in terms of uh bringing him down. Well, and what I can picture as I started to say is all right, say I'm a moderate Republican, you're a moderate Republican, uh somebody's gotta have the moderate Republican lane. And we know each other. We've got a friendly relationship, and you know, we might even go to each other and say, hey, it could get a little rough, but that's the business we're in. Yeah, I understand. That's fine. These two actually hate each other. To start with, right. Yes. I believe that to be true. Yes. Or or even worse, or just as bad, they have contempt for each other. Each one sees themselves as clearly the superior political talent and resents the fact that the other one thinks the opposite is true. Yeah, I'll bet they both think the other one is a lightweight who just kind of through luck of circumstances ended up where they are. Yeah. Yeah, I've I I've had a couple of those relationships in my life where either either I've been involved in it or I've observed it that there was a real question excuse me a real question of who would be the alpha dog between like two guys and man they circled each other warily. Like fighters. And that's what uh Gavin and Kamler are doing. So this could be fun. Just just hold nothing back, guys. That's all I ask. Hold nothing back. Right. Well I don't think they will. Cause I mean the stakes are so high. I'm reminded of a great uh nursery rhyme. Let me see if I can get this right . There once were two cats of Kilkenny. Each thought there was one cat too many. So they fought and they fit and they scratched and they bit till instead of two cats there weren't any. So I'm hoping those two go at it until they're both reduced to shreds. You committed that to memory. I used to read nursery rhymes to my kids all the time . And some of my favorites, yeah, stuck in my mind. Interesting. It's interesting what things stick in your mind and what don't. Yeah. Yeah. Oh I know. So I can uh I can not hear a song for twenty years and remember the lyrics. Oh, I was doing that the other day. There was some uh like I don't know, 70s or 80s or whatever, like Spotify hundred great hits or whatever. And I was just scrolling through it as I was driving and songs I hadn't heard in honest to God four decades. Wow. Word for word, I could sing them. And I thought, how do I possibly know what the next line is going to be in this song that I haven't heard in forty years? Some one hit wonder that I that I didn't even remember existed word for word. That's it's it's stunning. And I'm sure there are scholarly studies about this , but I remember at least two of my kids, uh, the elementary school they went to, um, they would learn a song that had all the states, the American states, in alphabetical order. And so they always had all the states memorized um because it was set to music and I've always wanted to memorize the Gettysburg Address but I'm lazy so I haven't put it to put it put it to music man put it to a beak. Do I have to go not that bait How about something John Denver esque with a nice acoustic guitar? Yeah, the the state saying Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, it makes a big difference if you put it together. Yeah. Oh . Anyway. Connecticut. Um quick follow-up to our scintillating uh soccer conversation. Yes. Eleven U S venues, three in Mexico, two in Canada. Bueno, if that matters to you at all. We've got other stuff on the way. Stay here . Armstrong and Getty . How's things with you? Good. Glad to hear it. I'm trying to decide whether to do this story or not later. Have you ever heard of the Shining Path ? Oh yeah, the Gorilla Group. I I hadn't, or if I had, I forgot it. Uh there's a piece out about the history of the Shining Path, one of history's worst mass murder movements . And And some of the details are I'll never forget them. Is that the sort of thing you want to hear? Probably not, especially on a Friday. I don't know I'll have to think about that over . But that's rough. Man's inhumanity to man. God, I would say. Medieval. Holy crap. Um I was reading this. This is a story. Hey, I'm sorry. Very, very quick aside. See, I used to read a lot of stuff like that uh in college, but even before that, whether it was about the killing fields in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge um and Shining Path, some of the girl Maoist China, the Nazis, blah blah blah. And it it it formed my worldview that you have to have strong institu tions that ensure liberty or it will go away. The default of humanity is oppression and brutality. And and so you don't give away civilization easily. Anyway. Well do you want to hear it? It's up to you. Coin flip. It's kicking communists, right? Oh yeah. Yeah . Jack is contemplating . He's re reviewing it. If you don't want to hear this sort of thing on a Friday and I don't blame ya. Oh boy. I'll just give you a little bit of this book that's out. Um The Communist Party of Peru did not quote boil children alive as a A small distinction. Along with stones and machetes, they did also engage in the act of killing infants, elderly people, and pregnant women at the village of I can't pronounce a name in nineteen eighty three, blah blah blah blah blah. It goes on like that . That is amazing . Communist regimes over and over again have gotten to that level of justust barely human violence against other humans. It's weird and hard to explain how you end up there, but they they often, often, often do the utter conviction, the one hundred percent no doubt conviction that you are right, the other side is evil, and your vision of history must come true. I read an account of a twentieth century communist who was asked, if it had cost a million lives for the Soviet experiment to succeed, would you still have endorsed it? And he said, Yeah. How about five million? Hmm, yeah, he said and, this was an American communist. Yeah, Soviet Union. To to m make your whole plan of communism work, okay, you have to jail people. Why do you have to starve them and work them to death with no shoes or socks on in the freezing cold. Why do you have to do that as part of getting your communism going? But it it ends that way all the time or gets Always. All the time. And that's why you don't it's call for violent revolution in a system that just needs a tweak or two. And then you got like uh May Day, May 1st, in towns like I live in in the park where you had the hammer and sickle on flags because people are ignoring that h history. Well, they that that's uh an outlier. Okay, it's not actually. They just didn't get it quite right. It's not like they were Nazis. Yeah, it's very, very much like they were Nazis. Okay, different story. Uh clickbait, a California Post and New York Post are really good at clickbaiting. This one got me. Survivor star. Okay, that's a bit of a