The Bent Carrot

Published Sep 20, 2024, 3:21 PM

In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show

  • Israel created shell companies for pagers years ago
  • New gun owners in America
  • What did Rich Lowry actually say?
  • Social media is selling out info... 

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The drive deep rightfield.

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It's the first time Oltani in his career has had a three home run game. Can you believe this? Ten runs batted in for Oltani?

And he has invented the fifty to fifty club because there wasn't one that existed before, and nobody thought it wherever it would be where he hit fifty home runs in one season and steal fifty bases, He's actually at fifty one and fifty one now. I think Crazy's unbelievable, absolutely crazy a show. Hey Otani of the Dodger who are now in the playoffs. In honor of Shohevtani, I'm wearing a Negro League Kansas City Monarch's hat to honor Asian baseball players dominating something I don't know.

Well, just non white. You're fighting against white supremacy, except that Asians are considered white by the or something or other by the neo Marxist. Boy, did you make me nervous when you correctly stated the name of the league from whom that team comes. Rich Lowry of the National Review getting canceled from speaking engagements because of a word he didn't even say. Is that sort of canceled cowardice continues in the US, to my shock in horror. More on that to come.

Yeah, we'll play the audio for you and you can decide. Well, it won't be hard to decide, but you'll just see how dangerous the world is from that standpoint. Speaking of dangerous, if you got any electronic device around you and you're a member of Hez Boil, you're probably a little nervous still. Of course, Israel's raining bombs down on them right now. But after a couple of days of their pagers and walkie Talki's blowing up and everything like that, more details are coming out. A couple of things that I thought were really interesting. One hadn't been pointed out to me until I read it in the New York Times. How amazing a technological feat it is before you even get to the how did you get them in their hands? Thing? Just to build a pager that's the same size as a tiny regular pager with one to two ounces of the explosive device in it.

Yet the pager still works.

Obviously, the pager, and you have the ability to set it off whenever you want to. But the pager still works. The pager's still got to work, so it's not like it's a dummy pager that's going to explode. It has to work right for a while. Otherwise people feel fairly normal too.

Yeah, if it was.

Way heavier or something like that, it would work.

But so maybe this is Israel's future making really good pagers, but be sure to uncheck the box for the sklode kind don't accidentally order that.

This once again gets to the how can Israel be so good at these things? The masade and their intel and everything like that, and didn't catch the tunnel network and all the planning that had been done for October seventh, and then when October seventh happened, it took them eighteen hours to show up in some of those towns where people were being raped and murdered. I means, it's absolutely amazing. But anyway, Israel created shell companies in Europe as long as fifteen years ago to make these pagers and everything like that, and steered Hesbel of that direction through a number of moles and double agents to get hesbela years ago to start buying their electronics from these companies that Israel had set up. So this goes back a decade and a half of sowing the seeds for this in case you ever needed to do it. And that's just I mean, that's straight out of a movie where it would seem almost unbelievable.

Same country that couldn't scramble the IDF to fend off the attackers. It is just astounding. As Churchill said, nothing will change until you are attacked. I also thought this headline was interesting Hebella hunts for security gaps and moles as it reels from the brutal week. If I'm a Hesbala guy, my boss calls me and says, hey, Mohammed, can you come into the office. Boss wants to talk to you. Oh, just some formalities about a call you made Israel. Just yeah, if you could come on in right now, they'd because man, I'm gonna have a long day. A long day, I don't imagine imagine Hebel is very patient or kind and trying to figure out who might be a double agent.

No or too concerned if they get the wrong guy. Yeah.

Yeah oo, let's just sign up for it when you become an Islamis terrorist.

I'm watching the flames over parts of be route right now. Bombing commencing, so we'll see how that escalate to de escalate show Heyo Tani.

Greatest day in baseball history, probably MVP your comeback player of the year, Three Mile Island. They're going to fire up Three Mile Island, and the reason why is pretty interesting.

So you gotta be olend enough to remember that it was a nuclear reactor in the East Coast somewhere Pennsylvania went haywire, and that kind of ended nuclear power in the United States for all time. Apparently it suddenly crippled it badly. Yeah, and it just became well, we can't have nuclear power. It's too dangerous. All these decades since.

Yeah, the Three Mile Island facility has an undamaged Unit one reactor, which sits right next to Unit two, which was shut down after a partial partial core melt down in nineteen seventy nine, which led to five days of panics in five years of unfortunate soft rock concerts. The incident heightened in the awareness of nuclear plants potentially say empty problems and contributed to a loss of enthusiasm that lasted for decades. Oh yeah, it still goes on today. Yeah yeah, which is a shame because that is green energy. Absolutely is Are there problems occasionally? Yeah? Absolutely? But you know what energy is, right, well, it's energy and trying to contain it in its waste and never have any problems or fires or short circuits or whatever. It's an impossibility. As they say, nuclear power is the only power whose waste is contained anyway. So the interesting part of this is the company Constellation Energy that owns Three Mile Island, has come to a deal with Microsoft. Now, part of the problem is nuclear power can be expensive compared to natural gas and like shale oil and that sort of thing, and so just market competition made it less attractive to operate nuclear power, at least in Pennsylvania. But Microsoft is going to fire up a giant a center that is going to consume such astounding amounts of electricity it needs, you know, vast supplies, and so it's signed a twenty year power purchase agreement with Constellation Power to use the power from Three Mile Island. It's it's almost as if they've they've bought or they're leasing their own nuclear reactor. That's how much money. Uh, these giant AI processing centers sucked down.

That's incredible. And man, if nuclear power really got going in the United States and we embraced it the way for instance France as that could be, that could really be a game changer. Not freaking wind farms.

Oh no, no, that's absolutely fanciful and idiotic. So a price battle has broken out for those red hot weight loss drugs. Both the Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilliar are starting to offer discount slashing as much as half of the price tags of these medicines, which cost a grand a month you know, wolf, Yeah, wow, thousand dollars a month. And you have to stay on them to keep the weight off her, because if you if you take it for a while and the weight goes off and you stop taking them, will the weight come back? Are you the average slub in this scenario?

I am? I am an average slub And in this scenario, yes, the weight may well come back. Uh huh, Katie knows about this. Not necessarily so, Katie, who wants to a total of how many pounds in your life? I've lost seventy five. That's a lot.

But I have two friends that took this drug, both of which came off of it. One of them is totally active and continued her diet and exercise, and she's fine. The other one is gaining it back quickly.

Yeah, and then you got to go back to the other part of your closet maybe, or maybe you even gave those clothes away.

Oh she donated all of them, which is I feel for her.

Dang it that hurts.

Yeah, yeah it does. Yeah. Yeah, A lot of us have walked to that road, that portly road.

I kept feel pair of my big pants and a couple of big shirts just in case.

Oh really, you got some of your big clothes around just in case.

Yeah, I can fit in one pant leg of the other pants.

No kidding. Yeah, I'll take a picture, right somebody your height seventy five pounds is a lot on anybody, but your height, that's really a lot.

Katie's four foot one. Anyway, it's true. Yeah, what was I going to say? Oh I had another thing. The big pants are around to look at. Oh, we're not going back there.

That's a good idea. Yeah, post them next to just hang them next to the refrigerator. That's a pretty good idea.

The same size as the refrigerator.

Was I gonna say, oh wow, So a lot of the weight loss drug thing they work, but they're super expensive. So is are you overweight enough or is your health situation enough that insurance will pay for it? Is that going to change now that we're moving away from the stupid BMI to the BRI. I the body Roundness Index, and that's not a joke, that's actually a thing that they're gonna start using. Is the bounty Body Roundness Index gonna put more people in play or different people in play. I wonder for these drugs being paid for by their their doctor actually recommending it for health reasons.

Yeah, putting aside the uh inscrutability and utter, you know, immorality of so many insurance and medical schemes and scams. Right now, those studies I think are being done. The insurance companies are trying to figure out, Look, do we net save ourselves a bunch of money by getting these people these incredibly expensive drugs?

So one thousand dollars a month and that's probably on the high side because we've had yeah, we've had plenty of textures. It wasn't that much. It is that much for some people, but it's not that much for everybody anyway. So say it is one thousand dollars a month, twelve thousand dollars a year for the insurance company. That's a lot, especially year after year. But man, you blow out a couple of knees or whatever.

That's a lot a lot. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, you have to have a couple of replacements, or you know, diabetes, severe diabetes with complications, that sort of thing, that's incredibly expensive.

Ongoing medicine for blood pressure, diabetes, whatever, that's pretty expensive. Yeah.

I don't know anything about the pharmacology of these drugs. You wonder if they are you know, microdoses available or smaller doses or ongoing therapy. I suppose they'll develop those in the years to come.

I findal where do you think this is going with those weight loss drugs? If they're don't you think like two thirds of America will be on them at some point prices will come down and.

Yeah, which troubles me a great deal because we still haven't really nailed down I mean, it's like the reverse of Chesterton's fence. We're building Chesterton's moat without any understanding of why we need a moat. What are the environmental causes? And I know we've discussed this many times if you're new to this chat, but why has obesity exploded in the last forty years? What is actually causing that? And if it's three or four things, great, let's come to an understanding of what they are before we get Americans on more drugs all the time.

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And why are they buying guns? That's what I want to know.

You ask liberals. The answer to that question will shock you. Stay with us.

A couple of great controversies going today, overblown or not. One of them probably not overblown, one of them one percent overblown.

Yeah, it's like the entirety of it is overblowingness. Looking forward to getting into that. This is somewhat surprising and kind of bitterly snarkily funny, and I'm probably a bad person for being amused by this. But the headline is, as we mentioned moments ago, the most new gun owners are US Liberals. And because every news article has to start with a specific person in their experience, I mean, like every single one, this starts with a dude who's a lifelong Democrat in Iowa. Before we get to his moving and gripping story. Dude's last name is spelled get this c i E m noo czo lw Ski Smith sim Nachilowski probably or something like that.

My whole anyway, my whole family background's Iowa Democrats. That's a gun tot and crowd. I'm surprised this guy didn't already have a gun.

Yeah, and they actually profile a number of different folks in a number of different places. Here's a somebody from Oregon and all sorts of different places. But the interesting part is the explanation for why liberals are the fastest growing group of gun owners and this guy Republicans. Well, that's that's kind of it. That's part of it.

Apprehension about street crime, armed right wing extremists.

Whatever else the world could possibly throw to us, throw at us. Yeah, they quoted a number of different people in groups of people, and they all say the same thing. Well, you know, just personal protection. Because there's so much crime, plus all these maga lunatics running around, it may come down to gunplay and so.

The uh and so the takeaway from this.

And I read the whole article, is these lefties, having advocated and passed and implemented the policies that have led to an explosion in street crime, are now so threatened by it they need a gun and or they are fantasies that they try to sell that mega lunatics are trying to take over the nation and stomp their faces with our mega boots. And I don't consider myself mega, but anyway, Uh, that's what.

The left has been selling too. So their need for a firearm is almost all self created, both the reality part of it and the fantasy part of it. And you feel like you're gonna have to roll into town and pull off some sort of Brothers situation or.

What, well, right this guy in a Cedar City or wherever it was, Dude, The chances of you having to get into a you know, Okay, corral situation with a bunch of maga maniacs is well, it's none zero, It's not going to happen.

I'm a gun owner and pro I have got several, so I'm not mocking the idea of that. It's just that the the reason for it is kinda funny. If you've gone your whole life without being a gun owner and now all of a sudden you are because a maga all right, right, and then they profile this over turned row, I better get an AR fifteen. Here's here's this progressive lesbian gal married to a woman, worries about anti gay violence and crime in general, anti gay violence. Give me a freaking break.

Yeah, I know again, that is a fantasy being sold to the left by the left.

That's somebody who's reading fake versions of Project twenty twenty five.

Right exactly. Yeah. Here's a guy fifty four years old founded La Progressive Shooters a few years ago. This year's social unrest, pandemic, and election motivated him to create a place for people to learn about firearms for protection. Oh yeah, in La, your main concern is maga lunatics coming after you, right, that's what lord?

Yep, if you're walking the street at night, that's who's going to get you A maga lunatic.

Wow, people are cuckoo nuts.

All right, we've got an important you make the call controversy coming up. You need to listen to this. Hey, dude, Armstrong and Getty.

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The episode was two hours long.

Yep.

If it lasted four hours, everyone would have had to call their doctor.

That's right.

They're all senior men, all in one house.

The line for the bathroom at three am is going to look like a halftime at an Eagles game.

I didn't I didn't watch The Golden Bachelorette because this time it's a woman. And so when they had a Golden Bachelor, he was seventy two. The Golden Bachelorette is sixty one, which I think is interesting just about the way we look at age and men versus women. But all the dudes are on there in their sixties and for an I would talking to somebody who watched the show, and there was a lot of guys dressing and acting way too young for the age old boy, which sounds kind of entertaining.

Yeah, I didn't see it either because I'm not imprisoned or house bound, but I'm yeah, I could see that being a little uncomfortable.

So I don't know if you know who rich Lower is if you're really a political junkie and you've been watching the Sunday talk shows for years. He was a regular guest on Your Faces, The Nation Meets the Press, Wait wait, wait, way back, and he looked he looked like a child. He's a very young looking guy, but great spokesman for Republicanism, super great and.

Extremely bright, very down to earth, in a great sense of humor.

And as like fair reasonable. He uses the word winsome all the time. It'd be perfect to describe him. Uh, just just just a happy personality, not an angry conservative at all.

Yeah. Yeah, he's one of my favorite commentators.

And U this happened. I think I became aware of it on Monday afternoon and I came across it and I thought, it's not getting any attention. It shouldn't. I don't want to give it any air. So I didn't even think about bringing it to the show because I thought it would just die and go away because it was on Megan Kelly's show. I don't have any idea how many people watching Megan Kelly's video cast or podcast or whatever it is, but anyway, it's turned into a thing. As Rich Lowry was a touring the country doing some speaking engagents and got canceled by a couple of universities.

Well one university, Indiana State University, utter unforgivable, horrific cowards that they are, and also the Badger Institute, which is a rite of setter think tank in Wisconsin.

So I'm asking Joe, since he's heard it and I've heard it, do you think it's for people better for people to not even know what to listen for before they hear it the first time. Maybe that'd be a good way to approach it, or tell them what they should be listening for, Because if you don't know what to listen for, I think it's going to go by and you're going to think, Okay, what happened that got this guy canceled?

Well, I hadn't noticed that the clip we have is a minute a full minute long.

Well, I think it helps put it in context. I mean, just because yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you what I was thinking. I was thinking, yeah, let's play the raw thing and then we'll concentrate on the business end of it. But sorry, I was thinking out loud. But yeah, let's just play it. Okay, here we go. This is Rich Lowry on Megan Kelly.

Finally, he said something to the effect of, look, if we have to create stories in order to bring attention to what's happening the media, he admits they made it up right as opposed to and if you listen to the full clip, he says, by drawing attention to what's happening on the ground, it's just right as this line online.

You don't hate me enough.

Go ahead, remember alternative facts with Kelly, and they did the same thing. She wasn't saying. You make up fictions and pretend they're facts. You bring other facts to bear and the debate that are being ignored. And that's what he was saying, and I loved I think it was in that interview where Dana Bash says, you know, the police have gone through eleven months of recordings of calls and they've only found two Springfield residents calling to complain about Haitian maker migrants taking geese from ponds. Only two calls, and I think one lesson this whole story. People don't care about geese. People really hate geese all things consider, I think people would prefer Haitian migrants to come and take the geese off the golf course. Right, So as pets it's the cast and dogs has become the standard. Geese clearly don't matter.

So what's funny is the first time I heard that clip, it was not having to do with the idiotic controversey. It was just about that story and I didn't even notice, well right.

I didn't either. I was listening to what he must have said about the geese or the dog eating or whatever that must have been controversial. But no, it's because he obviously dropped an enbomb. You didn't hear the enbomb dropped a bomb.

He got hung up between migrants and immigrants, and he started to say migrants with an M. And it's on video and you can clearly see his lips form an M, which is very different from an N. If you can do both. One is a perse lip thing, one is an open mouthed thing. And so what's bizarre about this is. There are a couple of highly irresponsible, vicious accounts on x Twitter that are claiming he dropped an inbomb even though he didn't. Others like NPR are running stories that say he appeared or seemed to say a racial slur, which is weird. What does a peer have to do with it? As rich Lowry himself asked either sedator, I didn't and since upon careful listening and viewing, anyone concerned that I can discern that I obviously didn't, writing that I appeared to utter it is just a way to make the charge without the evidence.

Well, so, Katie, I saw your reaction to this. This is the first time you've heard this. I think what was your reaction hearing this for the first time?

Boy, that was close. It sounded like what he's being canceled for to me. But I'm gonna go back in March just to see, right.

But keeping in mind that that word itself is not a magic incantation. If somebody with no intention of hurling a racial slur stumbles in their speech, which trust me, is easy to do, then it just.

It doesn't matter.

It's we are living in a pretty enlightenment witchcraft fearing society if we think somebody accidentally uttering Voldemort's name will actually bring doom?

Are we rational human beings or are we not? Anyway, I'll stop ranting now.

Well. Charles C. W. Cook, who works with slash for Rich Lowry at Nashal Review, tweeted out, this hit on Rich Lowry is one of the most dishonest and revolting things I've ever seen, and those who echoed or embedded it in any way have exiled themselves from decent society. I would guess say that should be true. And this this idea that's existed for quite a while that if you get tongue tied and accidentally say a bad word, it doesn't matter if you stumbled or whatever. It's treated as if you said it on purpose, you know, with hatred in your heart. It's weird, but that's the way things have been treated for a very long time.

Yes, Katie, Well, okay, so I just went back and watched it, and I retract. But it's an obvious M watching it and then listening back to it. I mean, maybe it might be my headphones or something, because they're sure sounded like an N right there, but it's obviously an M.

Yeah, well and nothing. And if you know Rich Lowry, he would never ever cast racial dispersions around anyway. But this is actually a facet of neo Marxism. You remember, the whole thing where your intentions don't matter.

If I say it's racist, if I felt it was racist, it's racist, and you're a racist, and now I have all the power over you. That's what this is all about.

And you know, the vicious artists I get using it, But like the Indiana State being so cowardly, or the Badger Institute whatever that is being so cowardly that they've canceled their appearances, some of them making weasley statements about well safety concerns have prompted as to I'm afraid we should. It's just terrible.

So Mike Pence, former Vice president, and was he the governor of Indiana, he was, indeed, yeah, huff he tweeted out yesterday he said, come on, Indiana State, who canceled Rich Lowry? You're better than this. Rich Lowry's a good and decent man who's being smeared and canceled for something he verifiably never said. Reinstate his invitation, do it? Now? Wait to go, Mike about the you know, state university in the state he used to run.

Yeah, yeah, uh, let me kick NPR just because they need as many kickings as they can get, if memory serves Rich Rights. When NPR ran its initial story on the controversy, its headline said that I appeared to say a racial slur, an example of the innuendo noted above. Then the headline changed to Conservative editor in chief says mispronunciation led to accusations of using slur, which is at least more accurate. Initially. The story also puts slur in place of the M word in quoting me. That it changed slur to word, which is better but still not quite right because it was not a word.

There is no word that he spoke. It was two words being smashed because he misspoke. This is from Benny Johnson. Is he the guy that took money from the Russians unknowingly?

I think it may be anyway. Benny Johnson is not sure how much I want to quote him, but go ahead. He said, I know Rich Lowry. He's a thoughtful gentleman, not a hateful bone in his body. But bad faith cancel pigs.

That's a good term, but bad faith cancel pigs are spinning Rich obviously mispronouncing a word into a rabid hysteria. Rich may be polite, polite, but I'm not. You're a dumb bastard if you believe this Oaks. Yeah, yeah, Benny, Wow, that's really good. Pr like their fifth iteration of the story. Their media reporter David, I'm gonna say his name carefully fulcon flick. Oh my god, that one's like designed to get your Yeah, no kidding. After watching several times, even slowing this down to a quarter speed, I believed Lowry garbled migrants and immigrants just after saying the word Haitian. He continued, this is fulcon flick, trying to explain to it and get that Benny comment back again.

That was beautiful, he said. It's startling to hear what emerged. Nonetheless, critics can best grapple directly with the substance of what he is saying. Oh, David, thank you so much for saying yeah. Perhaps instead of worrying about this guy stumbling over his words, we could talk about the issue.

Oh David, how wise of you. You're a dumb bastard if you believe this hoax. So yeah, that's better. So A lot of the commentary, though, was along the lines, and I should have screen captured it. Again. I didn't think this would turn into anything when I saw it on Monday, I thought, look, this one's so not a close call. I didn't think it would blow up. But then Indiana State canceled the speech, and it has become a thing. Uh the that we've seen this before. It's the yeah, he he didn't mean to say it, and in context you can realize it. But you can see how easily that word came out of his mouth. So it's an ordered It's a word he clearly says regularly in private company. I have seen that argument a dozen times on Twitter.

Oh my god, that's so idiotic and disingenuous.

Conservatives use these words regularly and closed doors, and that's why they so easily come to mind or come out of their mouths when they misspeak.

Right right, all right? Is Lowry also mentions that there are several stories along with the he appeared to other stories that said he did denies making a racial slur, and he says, yes, of course I denied it because I didn't say it. But these stories apply a classic when did you stop beating your wife. Logical fallacy to imply that my denial of a completely fabricated charge implies some sort of guilt. Great Scott, this part of it is just clickbait. If I'm a lefty and I see a headline prominent conservative editor denies uttering racial slur, clikety click, I go.

Well, Rich Lowry's not a household name by any means. But how many thousands of kids who go to Indiana State will have his name in the back of their head as a racist the rest of their lives because Indiana State canceled them. They'll just hear what he said the N bomb, and he's so we can't have him speak here, and they'll just that that's who he'll be to them if he ever crosses their Twitter feed or anything.

Right, final final note, and again I will defer to the eloquent mister Lowry for that final note. The fundamental idea behind these charges is that I suffer from a kind of racist Tourette syndrome. I walk around and occasionally blurt out racial slurs, And somehow this condition hasn't been evident throughout thirty something years of speaking in public, until I happened to stumble on the word migrants, then the terrible truth was revealed. It's too risible for words the word risible, such as to provoke laughter. I appreciate rich holding on to his sense of humor. Execrable, unforgivable, dishonest, vicious. There are other words I might use.

Man he's an example of as a guy who is on the right of politics. I wish he was making the argument all the time on every talk show. I wish he was on Facination every week because he's so good at it and does the happy warrior thing. But yet, of all people to attack God, these sorts of controversies wear me out, and I'm shocked that in the year twenty twenty four still can get going like this. I thought we'd lost our national just utter cringing, trembling paranoia against being called a racist for something that is clearly not I don't know how I feel about Jimmy Fallon's joke about men at that age and eating the pea all the time.

I didn't enjoy it.

That wasn't helpful in any way. We've got more coming up.

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If they enjoy it, Yeah, because then they can get ads that are relevant to themselves and their life. Right Like, after I buy a lawnmower for the next five years, they try to sell me a lawnmower. Here's here's the rub there, Jimmy, I already have one thought.

Most items are like that, not all. But I got a pair of work boots. Need one? I need one pair of work boots. You don't need to send me ads for the next two years for work boots.

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TV over and over again. I can guess, has anybody seen the bent carrot ad? I'm sure it has to do with my schanz.

Well, I didn't really understand what it was. I kept seeing the ann and kept thinking, is that carrot? Did they go out of their way to make that carrot look like an erect penace? I mean, it sure does. But anyway, it's a carrot falling into a pile of other carrots. But it's a bent carrot landing in regular carrots, and they you and think, oh, okay, it's just carrots, just an oddly shaped carrot. But then I see the ad again. I think, no, it's a it's a it's a it's a big campaign to raise awareness about prone disease, disease, which is what your carrot gets bent? Exactly, Yeah, precisely.

Yeah. I have a friend who's a urologist and has educated me somewhat on this.

Could my carrot all of a sudden become bent? Is that the thing?

It happens overnight? Jackie, better check?

Jeez. I needed the awareness what do I do to avoid it?

What do we have coming up other than the death of the minivan?

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The official podcast...of the broadcast...of The Armstrong & Getty Show!  Learn more at ArmstrongAn 
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