November 13, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Trump draft order to get the "woke" out of our military
- 23 & Me goes broke
- Rage rooms & things we've smashed
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Chapaul yesterday named a former Army's executive as it's new CEO.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So he went from we have the meets too, It's
in there somewhere. Just poke around in the rice a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Wow. Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Breaking news, John Fune will be the leader of the
Republican Senate. Also breaking news, Johnson is going to run
unopposed as the Leader of the House for the Republicans,
so he will once be once again be the Speaker
of the House.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm not surprised to hear that the Senate it went
with Thune. Trump was pushing Rick Scott of Florida, but
the Senate is not there to be pushed around. I
consider themselves their own things very much.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I still got this hair brain conspiracy theory that may
not be true, that all of this coming together so
quickly and so unopposedly at so many levels is because
the world's about to freaking explode, and all the power
bookers know that, and this is not a time to
play around. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was just the
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thorough trouncing. Trump won so many different demographics, and like
every county but two in the country went his direction.
Maybe it's that, maybe everybody's just let's not like raise
our heads up and show that we're against the tide here.
Maybe it's that. I hope it's that. But you know,
getting all the leadership together, getting all these people with
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serious people appointed, and most of the Democrats that I
see on TV, like serious Democrats saying oh yeah, I
approve of this, you know, and just everything running smoothly,
the way Biden treated Trump today in the Oval office.
Just I think the high levels of government thing. This
is not a time to miss around China, Russia, Iran,
all the stuff that's going down.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, I wonder I leaned toward the more mundane explanation,
although both could be factoring in, but I was trying
to I'm trying to find.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, or I see that chart.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
There's there's a chart of like twenty seven different demographic
groups in the United States by age and ethnicity and
education and all sorts of stuff, And it was every
single one except for like college educated white women and
white women under the age ax and whatever. The safest,
most entitled groups in America. They all swung right, except
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for that very small group of life's going.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's great. They're affluent, they're educated, and you know, my.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Diagnosis description would be they're comfortable enough to indulge their
virtue signaling unicornian, utterly bereft of reality philosophies. Everybody else
is like, yeah, I'm trying to feed my kids over here. Anyway,
that's my interpretation. But oh hey, do me a favorite, Michael,
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could you play clip thirty two? This is Katie Pavlich.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Pete Hagsath is dedicated to taking wokeism out of the military,
which if you love the US military and you love
this country, you have to do.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They've been distracted.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
We live in a very dangerous world, and he's vowed
to get rid of generals. He doesn't care who you are,
but if you're distracted from the mission to take care
of your virtue signaling and your wokeism, he wants you
out of there.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So the Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order,
according to the Wall Street Journal, that establishes a warrior
board of retired senior military personnel with the powder to
review three and four star officers and to recommend removals
of any deemed unfit for leadership.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
If Trump approves the.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Order, which is banging around DC, people are looking at it,
it could fast track the removal of generals and admirals
found to be quote lacking in requisite leadership qualities. It
could also create a chilling effect on top military officers,
given the president elects of past bow to fire at
woke generals.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
What if you you always say about the higher you
go up, the more you are a politician than.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
A unless you are a soldier. Yeah, yeah, but I
like the writing. It could create a chilling effect on
top military officers.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, let's get more specific. What sort of chilling effect.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, a chilling effect on trying to make everybody take
DEI training and embrace a trans commanding officer.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, chill away, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No kidding, no kidding, no kidding. I welcome this PubL debate,
and I think it's another one that is easily won
by the right, despite the mainstream media feeling the exact opposite,
that the vast majority of people would choose the most
effective military unit over a unit that has, you know,
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the right number of women trans whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Gay, it doesn't matter. And if you're gay in an
effective fighter and it doesn't affect you know, unit coherence
or whatever. To fight on, my brother, and thank you
for your service. It's not about that. But it's not
about that. I like the rest of the sentence. Actually,
blah blah blah Wolke generals referring to officers seen as
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promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.
Oh no, we wouldn't want to have a chilling effect
on that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Wow, no kidding, what a sentence. There'd be a chilling.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Effect on having a less effective military.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, chill away, chill away.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
How many different tops and that's why this the election
was so delightful, even if you don't love Trump on
so many topics.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Even guys like.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Me have been walking into the town hall meeting of
life thinking, you know, I'm going to advocate for what
I believe. I'm gonna get the hell beat out of me,
but I believe this.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Here we go. Then you walk into the town hall
meeting that is all of.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
America, and not only are you not getting the hell
beat out of you, the eighty percent of the crowd
agrees with you, even though you've just been battered by
the chattering classes of America. We need a better descriptor
that timeout. Can I have a timeout timeout? What is
a good concise term for media and education and entertainment
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and the left politically, so we can quickly summarize who
has been bamboozling us into believing that we're in the minority,
the sane Americans, including Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We need a name for that.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
If you have a good one, tramps mail an e
mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
As I mentioned over the weekend, going to Vegas and
back just airports, streets, restaurants, I saw way more Trump
stuff than I saw before the election.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And I think it's because timeout's over. This is the
official show go ahead.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think it's because people that were pro Trump felt like, oh,
I can raise my head up and say it out loud,
because it turns out fifty percent of the country agrees
with me. And that's certainly enough that I don't have
to hide what I believe. And now with all the
every newscast in America in the world really will include
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Trump and Biden sitting down and smiling and shaking hands
in the Oval office. Today, you should be able to
walk down the street in a Maga hat without being
considered evil or a Nazi given that video today.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But if we were to go into that fanciful town
hall of all Americans and say I don't think we
should promote diversity at the expense of military readiness, crazy
Everybody'd be like, do we even have to vote on this?
And yet it's portrayed as somehow provocative an edgy worth
mentioning his commander in chief. Trump can fire any officer
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at will, but an outside board whose members he appoints
would bypass the Pentagon's regular promotion system, signaling across the
military that he intends to purge.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
A number of generals and admirals.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Of course, if you're the most extreme crazy person on
the left who actually believes he's going to be Hitler
fascist stuff, he's trying to get rid of all the
generals that would say no when he announces I want
the army to surround the House of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Right, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you'll hear plenty of just
utterly hair on fire scare tactics. Having said that I
don't want Trump, because Trump is known for being mercurial
and capricious at times and also easily butt hurt. So
I hope it is a very sober and deliberate process.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
He's now sack generals, He's now a full weekend without
doing anything like really crazy or saying anything really crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, that's good. So let's look at some of the specifics.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The draft order said it aims to establish a review
that focuses and I quote on leadership, capability, strategic readiness,
and commitment to military excellence. Any objections? So far, the
draft doesn't specify what officers need to do or present
to show if they meet those standards. Well, that's why
there's a board. They're going to look through their whole records.
(09:37):
What would you say if if the Warrior Board was
eyeball in General Jones, who was promoting, you know, one
brand of woolchism or not made everybody sit down for
DEI training, and General Jones came to you and said, look,
the Biden administration was sitting on our chest making us
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do that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I hated it. I'm more than happy to implement these
new policies. You're gonna get rid of General Jones or what?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, that's a tough one, because that could be the
case with most of these guys, maybe all of them,
and it's mostly guys, could be almost all of them
and say, yeah, I've been here through two terms of Obama,
and I thought it was gonna be two terms of Biden.
And if I want to stay in uniform and climb
up through the military, which is my career, I.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Gotta be on board with this stuff. I don't like
it either.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, and not only the case, not only climbing up,
but there's a question of the chain of command. I mean,
making your troops sit through DEI training, to me, is awful.
It's racist, it's counterproductive, it's counter readiness and efficiency. It's
(10:50):
I could go on for an hour on this, but anyway,
so but I don't think it's the classic illegal order
that you can defy.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yes, somebody just texted Joe used the words mercurial and
butt hurt.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
In the same sentence. Nice. I'm very complicated trying to
reach all audiences.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I think this is yet another example of something I've
become aware of just in my own mind. And it's
difficult to draw you a picture exactly, but I guess
the town hall thing is a decent enough metaphor the
idea that all of those specific quotes I gave you,
or the more general one about promoting diversity at the
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expense of military readiness. I've got to admit, at least
to a small extent, I had let it creep into
my consciousness that those were provocative or controversial ideas, not
like not in Toto.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I just used a Latin phrase. Now I'm going to
make a fart noise again, very complicated, very layered. I
had let it creep into even my consciousness that, boy,
a lot of people are going to be mad about.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
This, and that's utterly inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
What could be more mainstream than military readiness? Is our
top priority? Even if somebody gets their feelings hurt a
little bit. What is your major malfunction, America?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Coming up your deepest, darkest secrets about to be sold
for profit.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Perhaps let me.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Get some deeper, darker secrets going before that happens, because
I've been wasting time and a.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Bunch of other stuff on the way.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
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Just give us a livea sample and get highly sensitive
information about your health and genealogy.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But now the.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Company's fallen on hard times, big layoffs, losing nearly six
billion dollars ninety eight percent of its value. Since twenty
three and meters is not a healthcare company, your DNA
data is not protected by health privacy laws.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Now more and more customers of twenty three meters saying.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What happens to my data?
Speaker 8 (13:17):
The vica's bankrupt, then potentially could people buy the data?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Twenty three of Me's DNA database is arguably its biggest asset,
but for customers that information could be their biggest liability.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's kind of.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Interesting because originally those companies like twenty three and meter
answers for down common and everything like that, had to
have really long, solid privacy statements for some reason.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't give a crap about mine.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
But to make sure people for now this twenty three
meters might go bankrupt, and that's just it's not for
sale for anybody who wants to do whatever they want
with it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
By the filing cabinets, you get the files. Yes, I
know it's all on computers, but yeah, you get the point.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, there are days I feel like I've lost ninety
eight percent of my value to this.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I sympathize. I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Can't trying to picture, first of all, Michael, saliva sample.
That's why you keep getting in accurate results. It's not
a stool sample.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Wow, that explains a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
But I'm trying to even picture a like twenty three
and me style result that I would be horrified to
have be found.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean, I don't what could you have that you
would be concerned about?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You know, I'm not good at this stuff, but they
have all sorts of analysis and studies. They try to
get you to participate in studies constantly because they want
to sell what is, in effect a genetic medical database
for Okay, this sort of people, they develop this sort
of cancer more often, you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And if if somebody found that out about me, they
would what.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, exactly, Well, he might discriminate against you in hing
or something like that, because a company would be asraded
that you could be.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
You know, blah blah blah. It's not inconceivable. No, it's not,
Actually it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Actually, maybe it's because I'm the agent I am, and
I have blackmailable secrets about many high placed corporate figures.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But I just don't worry about this stuff. No, I
don't either. NBC is reporting.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's hard to know if this is true or not,
but it's at least kind to true. The mainstream media
hates Elon Musk now right, because he went all in
for Trump, But NBC is reporting Elon Musk's near constant
presence at Mar A Lago since Trump's victory has begun
to wear on people in Trump's inner circle. Sources say
he's behaving as if he's co president and making sure
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everyone knows it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
One person says that might be see there being some truth.
There might be one.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Person saying that, but it's not impossible to imagine that
dynamic emerging where Elon is really kind of I mean,
as the world richest man who runs so many different
companies where everybody has to, you know, ask how high
when he says jump, is pretty comfortable weighing in on
everything and famously bristling with energy Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, like twenty hours a day, yeah, which I am
the opposite of whatever the opposite of that would.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Be, and super gung ho and on the autism spectrum, yeah,
I could see where you know, that wouldn't be the
easiest guy to get along with necessarily, so.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're like me.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You don't know the names of all the players in Washington,
d C. Who does and all these names being thrown
around for a variety of positions, I don't know who
they are. But a couple of my favorite pundits weighed
in on the new Senate majority leader and a couple
of other picks from Trump that I think you'll find
interesting as to whether or not what direction Trump is going.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
He might have a second.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Term that is so different from his first term that
his first term is forgotten by history.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
A number of his picks have been at least somewhat
surprising and really cool, really good.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
As far as I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Concerning the mainstream Republican conservative right, I've got that coming up.
It's really interesting. Grab the podcast if you miss it now,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Do you guys see this?
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Following the election, bookings have spiked for rage rooms, where
people pay to go break stuff that. If you think
the people in rage rooms are mad, imagine that the
people who couldn't get a booking out of rage.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Rooms like gold Down. You gotta be kidding.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
If you've never heard of a rage room, it's a
place where people go to smash plates, cuffs and bottle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's waffle house, it's h.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So, as I was listening to that joke, just for chuckles,
I looked up a rage room close to the radio ranch,
and uh, you can choose what music you jam while
you're smashing stuff of great date night idea.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sure, but I'm looking at the packages.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You got your deluxerayge room package forty dollars a person.
Let's see protective gear, A variety of weapons, including baseball bats,
golf clubs, crowbars, a bell, mace, sledgehammer, and paintball gun.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I thought of this years ago, one time on my own.
I wish I'd have had the money in the capitol,
the money in capital nice jump. I wish I had
the ability and wherewith all to make it happen. Because
I thought of this years ago, I thought, I bet
a lot of people would really like it if you
could like stuff that you you know, people get mad
and smash a coffee cup or something like, what if
you could go into a room and smash a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Tableware people? It turns out it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
For twenty dollars a person, you get a slightly smaller
variety of weapons. Each client will receive a crate that
has a variety of breakable items such as glass items, bottles, VHS, tapes,
and small electronics.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Package is perfect for new clients.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Okate, I'm gonna ask you this question to everyone, Joe,
have you ever smashed anything in anger?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes? And what was it? You know? You remember it
was a house. I burnt down a friend's house after
he crossed me.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
No, I famously producer Scott years and years ago.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
A smashed if you don't start playing that harbor wha,
My god, she's a World War One veteran and so
close after Veterans Day you threaten her seconding.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Anyway? Where was I? Oh? Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It was one of those days where I couldn't get
the printer to work and we're getting very close to
the show and the computer was screwed up, and I
was just so stressed out. And Scott came into wherever
I was and made a light hearted joke about printers
or something like that, and I was so mad I
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threw the mugging the wall. I wasn't mad at him,
I was mad at the printers. And it was an
ill timed attempt at humor. But yes, I was quite
on edge. But I think that's it, Katie.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah, I uh, I took a baseball bat.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
To a curing Oh, very satisfying.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, And it was actually it was in the radio
studio and it was a great It was a great time.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That thing shattered, It went all over the place. Yeah,
they probably rate, but there wasn't there a lot of
clean up the people for that.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, it was I mean it was empty. It wasn't
have any water or anything in it.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, that's probably similar to the one I smashed a printer.
It was it was in anger, but more like controlled anger.
Like I was so angry to printer that I told
my kids I was going to do it. I took
it outside and I smashed it to bits with a
bat because I hated that printer so much. But that
was it was in control. It wasn't out of control
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like when I threw a vacuum down all all the
way once. I just I don't remember what was going on,
but they just get just the cord got all tangled
up in the closet.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I think that's the only thing I've ever smashed. Michael,
you don't seem to be the smashing video game controller.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Playing a game with my brother when I was younger,
and he beat me at the last second I got
so I just threw it against the wall and then
went into pieces.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There you go. Yeah, the thrill of victory, of the
agony defeat. Hanson. You seem like a smasher. You ever
smashed in him? Oh? Please? He smashed something today. He's
smashing something right now. Okay, that's right. He's busy smashing things,
so we can't tell us.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So anyway, this twenty dollars a person package you get
a variety breakable items such as glass items, bottles, VHS, tapes,
and a small a small electronic, just one perfect for
new clients or clients that are unsure about trying this
new experience. Now, for forty bucks a person, you get
the Deluxe with the big variety of weapons I mentioned
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items included in this package bottles, breakable glass items, large electronics,
and windshields. This is perfect for clients wanting to do
big damage to big items.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
So is the level of satisfaction the same? I feel
like it wouldn't be quite the same. That the act
of smashing stuff is a certain I shouldn't be doing this.
This is a signaling to I don't know to others,
to myself. When I threw the vacuum cleaning, there's nobody
around to see it, so I wasn't signaling to anyone else.
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I just I wonder if it's like, you know, cursing
when you're in pain, that actually releases painkilling chemicals in
your brain. And I wonder if you have to be
in the act of anger to get those pleasure chemicals.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Uh yeah, or work it up, you know, I wonder
if there's a bit of a psychic procedure. All right, now,
before we go in there, let's think about your boss.
How do you feel about it?
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Friday afternoon two? Friday afternoon two, You're planning to go home.
Boss just walked in, dumped a big project on your desk.
Could have done it earlier in the week, but you know,
he puts stuff off and he procrastinates. You're gonna pay
the price for it. You had big plans tonight. Come on,
you could do it. Come on, so you're.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like ginning it up. I'm thinking looking back, how about
how's your X treating? You know, let's talk about.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Your excellent but just fine. You gotta tap into a.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Vein because this is about relieving the stress in the anger.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Here he is with another woman. Hut, picture him with
another one. Now here's a.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Bat No again, you have different views of this. I'm
looking at the promotional video here. That's a bad word.
I'm afraid there might be stop it, makeus stop. I
was looking at the promotional video, as I just said,
and but there was an F word printed on the board,
and I'm afraid people might swear drink its Ah.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
That'd be bad. Then I would have smash him thing
because we lost our careers. Smash and smash, smash. It's
been a decent so hell. I don't know if you
know who John Thune is.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
He's a US Senator from South Dakota, and he's just
been elected the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate.
Because the Republicans now have fifty three senators, they are
the majority party. So he's the majority leader of the
US Senate, which is one of the most powerful political
positions on planet Earth. I don't know much about him.
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It's interesting that Christy Nome's going to be the DHS.
She's the governor of South Dakota, and now I get
a senator. Seems pretty heavy. On the to any tiny
little state of South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But that's out.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
There would be like fifty thousand Californians in the cabinet
rougher instance right now. Or he's not in the cabinet obviously,
but you get my mini.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But I don't know anything about John Finn, but I
thought this was interesting. Charles C. W.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Cook, who I respect his opinion and usually agree with it,
of National Review, tweeted out John Thune was the best
option for Senate majority leader. The job requires a particular
set of skills, and they aren't the ones that have
been loudly discussed over the last week. I'm glad he
was chosen. He'll be good for the role. I think
it's interesting that Noah Roffman, also of National Review, said
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the very online maga activist class got Trump and nothing else,
responding to Foon beating Cornyn for the leadership in the Senate.
In other words, Fune's more of a traditional Republican conservative
and not a maga guy, and he won. So that's
what made me think. And with some of the other choices,
(25:24):
Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, I just I wonder
if Trump is going to be way more of a
normal Republican president than anybody was expecting, and yes, end
up going down in history as just another Republican president
as opposed to what he was probably going to be
after one term.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
No, well, I.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Don't know about the one term thing. I think that
it's going to land somewhere in the middle. It's not
the Ultramaga online vision of his leadership, nor is it
going to be you know Reagan, Paul Ryan, and you
know Marco Rubio. But obviously there's some Marco Rubio and
John Thune in the future. And given the fact that
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the Trump election and the incoming administration is a marriage
of conservatism and disruptivism of the Trumpian sort that you
know everybody describes a little differently, but well we've all
been watching it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think that's perfectly appropriate. I I you know, you
can't chuck.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Everything that has been conservatism and claim to be at
all a conservative. I know, you know, I read the
emails from the your you know, some of your more
aggressive drain the swamp neo conservative not neo cons but
you know what I mean, the alt right whatever type
that have this dream of just chucking it all. But
you know, just chucking it all almost always results in
(26:51):
something worse. That's that's the point of conservatism. We go
with the stuff that actually works, and if we need
to tweak it in a Trump that's what's gonna happen.
But it's not gonna be one hundred percent one or
the other.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
So this pundit went on to say, they're really going
to have to get Tulsi Gabbard or r Ifk confirmed
soon or the MAGA wing is gonna be unhappy. Well
to that point, this is just breaking news that a
Tulsi Gabbard D of Hawaii is in the mix to
be named Director of National Intelligence. Now in the mix
to be named might be throwing her name out there
(27:27):
to satisfy a certain crowd. If she gets named Director
of National Intelligence, that would be the MAGA wing.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Absolutely. That would be disturbing. Yeah, I would because she's
she's she's fairly nutty on that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we'll
have to see. We will.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Are super intrigued by the Elon Vivek partnership. You haven't
given that it's full due in the government efficiency of the.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
DOGE thing Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. Yeah, and it's
not going to be part of the government, So it
would seem that Trump is the chief executive, it probably
give them as much access as he can to all
the information they would need. Then they would make recommendations
because they won't have the power to do anything. And
(28:19):
that's where the rubber meets the road. But I'm all
for the recommendations.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I think one of the key handicaps for some of
the great commissions and bipartisan groups that's been formed through
the years is when their reports come out, they just
don't get very much attention, correct, and they don't build
the sort of energy, speed, juice, you know, whatever you
want to use as a descriptor that actually moves the
(28:45):
ball down the field and the forces of gigantic, metastasizing
bureaucratic government win the day over and over again. I'm
thinking these guys, it might just be just too much
to ignore. Between Elon and his obvious status and Vivek,
who bothers me because he's off putting.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But he's an outstanding salesman.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
He's a billionaire, he is he I don't know, I
think so super successful dude.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well, yeah, Usually these blue ribbon commissions are led by
some senator or House member you've never heard of. And
then they make their speech and nobody cares. Elon will
have his platform of Twitter and the world's attention as
the world's are just man to come out and say, look,
this is how much we're wasting on this or that
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I think it'll be a big difference.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And the idea that never ending growth in spending, never
ending growth in debt, just spending our grandchildren's money, that
that is a cultural norm that can't change.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We just have to live with it. I reject that.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, and I think those guys might indeed get the
cultural current flowing in the other direction.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
That's absolutely possible.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah, Vivik's a billionaire, so for all his uh nutty
things that he he says, he obviously knows how to
run a business in a profitable way.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
He's an excellent sales guy. I think that's his main skill.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I hope he can sell the country on here's where
we can be more efficient and get some attention. We
will finish strong next. So on old Pete Hegzeth being
named nominated whatever you call it, for Secretary of Defense.
I just came across this from Mark Halprin's newsletter today.
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Now he is somebody I trust as a straight shooter.
He doesn't have any skin in the game of pushing
forward somebody or not. He's just reporting what he's hearing
on the ground. So his little blurb about Pete Heggzeth
is this as a defense industry lobbyist asks Politico, who
the f is this guy? Okay, so that doesn't bother
me personally, Jack Armstrong, a defense industry lobbyist, not knowing
(30:55):
this person as a player that he could call in
favors on, that doesn't bother me, but goes on to
say Halpern writes, as someone who knows him well texted
me last night, I would not let this guy babysit
my kids. Let alone run the building and oversee US
forces around the world. Now, Halpurn would not print that
unless it was somebody he had some respect for their opinion.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It's impossible to say how far this will go.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
But whether he gets a confirmation hearing or not, my
spidey sense says that Peter Hegzeth will not serve one
day in his life as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
So that's the reporting from Albert. Yeah, it's a surprising choice.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, to run the most complicated bureaucracy on planet Earth.
But I don't have any skin in the game either.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just curious, honestly. Yeah, I don't have
an opinion on Pete one way or the other. He's
decent enough broadcaster. I think when we picture giant heists,
this is a story about a giant heist. Well, these days,
I guess I would picture something electronic cyber scam, because
those are the biggest, you know, examples of thievery.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
But the ski mask and a bat and some jewelry.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
This is an amazing heist, if you will, if you
forgive the use of the term, two hundred million dollars
and ongoing, still going. And this is one of the
reasons so many countries, so many people invest in the
United States because we don't have craft like this going on.
This is story out of Columbia. Seven hundred yards deep
(32:28):
into the earth, in Columbia's richest gold mine, private security
guards crouch behind sandbags, trapped in a failing battle with
a drug trafficking gang that's commandeered thirty miles of tunnels
worth hundreds of miles of millions of dollars. Wow, gangs
are like taking over gold mines and running them because
(32:48):
the owners can't muster enough firepower.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
To take them back. Yeah, that's clean jumpers back cracky. Yeah,
don't sleep on civilization. I'm ready to aga.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
That was recently nominated for a Grammy. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Let's get a.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up today.
Wouldn't that be lovely? First of all, our technical director
Michael Angelo has a final thought. Michael, I got to
seek out one of these rage rooms and try that.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
The idea sounds great.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Of smashing TV, smashing furniture, just just a great idea.
Uh yeah, don't knocket till you've tried it. Katie Greener
esteemed to Newswoman as a final thought.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Katie, Okay, Michael Angelo, if you do that, we have
to get that on video some plodies. I would pay
a lot of money to see you in a rage room.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Absolutely, Jack, do you have a final thought to share
with us?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I am suffering from PTSD today flashbacks last night helping
my son finish his big giant worth half the grade
English paper that he had known about for weeks but
put off until the last night, and I'm helping with it,
and I was just having lived that experience through junior high,
high school, and all of college, including some graduate school.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh my god, why do some of us do this to.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Ourselves signaling me when you're done? Because I got my
fingers in my ears. I can't even hear that. It
stresses me out. Yeah, man, do I relate to that.
My final thought is, I have a four hour rage
room every day. The Armstrong and Getty show, I Emerge
is placid and column is a little lamb all my
frustrations out.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
How nice for you Armstrong and Geeddy wrapping up out
of They're grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 4 (34:52):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
It is the most puzzling, wonderful reward I think we've
seen in many, many years.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
And I think it's important to use your voice, even
the particular field in particular. So let's go with a bang.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
If it turns out that winning award depends on being
mad at your enemies for a really long time and
not telling them why. Well, then I say more women
in combat.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Chapaul yesterday named a former Army's executive as it's new CEO.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So he went from we have the meets too, It's
in there somewhere. Just poke around in the rice a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Wow. Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Breaking news, John Fune will be the leader of the
Republican Senate. Also breaking news, Johnson is going to run
unopposed as the Leader of the House for the Republicans,
so he will once be once again be the Speaker
of the House.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm not surprised to hear that the Senate it went
with Thune. Trump was pushing Rick Scott of Florida, but
the Senate is not there to be pushed around. I
consider themselves their own things very much.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I still got this hair brain conspiracy theory that may
not be true, that all of this coming together so
quickly and so unopposedly at so many levels is because
the world's about to freaking explode, and all the power
bookers know that, and this is not a time to
play around. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was just the
(01:34):
thorough trouncing. Trump won so many different demographics, and like
every county but two in the country went his direction.
Maybe it's that, maybe everybody's just let's not like raise
our heads up and show that we're against the tide here.
Maybe it's that. I hope it's that. But you know,
getting all the leadership together, getting all these people with
(01:56):
serious people appointed, and most of the Democrats that I
see on TV, like serious Democrats saying oh yeah, I
approve of this, you know, and just everything running smoothly,
the way Biden treated Trump today in the Oval office.
Just I think the high levels of government thing. This
is not a time to miss around China, Russia, Iran,
all the stuff that's going down.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, I wonder I leaned toward the more mundane explanation,
although both could be factoring in, but I was trying
to I'm trying to find.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, or I see that chart.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
There's there's a chart of like twenty seven different demographic
groups in the United States by age and ethnicity and
education and all sorts of stuff, And it was every
single one except for like college educated white women and
white women under the age ax and whatever. The safest,
most entitled groups in America. They all swung right, except
(02:57):
for that very small group of life's going.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's great. They're affluent, they're educated, and you know, my.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Diagnosis description would be they're comfortable enough to indulge their
virtue signaling unicornian, utterly bereft of reality philosophies. Everybody else
is like, yeah, I'm trying to feed my kids over here. Anyway,
that's my interpretation. But oh hey, do me a favorite, Michael,
(03:26):
could you play clip thirty two? This is Katie Pavlich.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Pete Hagsath is dedicated to taking wokeism out of the military,
which if you love the US military and you love
this country, you have to do.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They've been distracted.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
We live in a very dangerous world, and he's vowed
to get rid of generals. He doesn't care who you are,
but if you're distracted from the mission to take care
of your virtue signaling and your wokeism, he wants you
out of there.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So the Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order,
according to the Wall Street Journal, that establishes a warrior
board of retired senior military personnel with the powder to
review three and four star officers and to recommend removals
of any deemed unfit for leadership.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
If Trump approves the.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Order, which is banging around DC, people are looking at it,
it could fast track the removal of generals and admirals
found to be quote lacking in requisite leadership qualities. It
could also create a chilling effect on top military officers,
given the president elects of past bow to fire at
woke generals.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
What if you you always say about the higher you
go up, the more you are a politician than.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
A unless you are a soldier. Yeah, yeah, but I
like the writing. It could create a chilling effect on
top military officers.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, let's get more specific. What sort of chilling effect.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, a chilling effect on trying to make everybody take
DEI training and embrace a trans commanding officer.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, chill away, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No kidding, no kidding, no kidding. I welcome this PubL debate,
and I think it's another one that is easily won
by the right, despite the mainstream media feeling the exact opposite,
that the vast majority of people would choose the most
effective military unit over a unit that has, you know,
(05:16):
the right number of women trans whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Gay, it doesn't matter. And if you're gay in an
effective fighter and it doesn't affect you know, unit coherence
or whatever. To fight on, my brother, and thank you
for your service. It's not about that. But it's not
about that. I like the rest of the sentence. Actually,
blah blah blah Wolke generals referring to officers seen as
(05:41):
promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.
Oh no, we wouldn't want to have a chilling effect
on that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Wow, no kidding, what a sentence. There'd be a chilling.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Effect on having a less effective military.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, chill away, chill away.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
How many different tops and that's why this the election
was so delightful, even if you don't love Trump on
so many topics.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Even guys like.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Me have been walking into the town hall meeting of
life thinking, you know, I'm going to advocate for what
I believe. I'm gonna get the hell beat out of me,
but I believe this.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Here we go. Then you walk into the town hall
meeting that is all of.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
America, and not only are you not getting the hell
beat out of you, the eighty percent of the crowd
agrees with you, even though you've just been battered by
the chattering classes of America. We need a better descriptor
that timeout. Can I have a timeout timeout? What is
a good concise term for media and education and entertainment
(06:50):
and the left politically, so we can quickly summarize who
has been bamboozling us into believing that we're in the minority,
the sane Americans, including Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We need a name for that.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
If you have a good one, tramps mail an e
mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
As I mentioned over the weekend, going to Vegas and
back just airports, streets, restaurants, I saw way more Trump
stuff than I saw before the election.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And I think it's because timeout's over. This is the
official show go ahead.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think it's because people that were pro Trump felt like, oh,
I can raise my head up and say it out loud,
because it turns out fifty percent of the country agrees
with me. And that's certainly enough that I don't have
to hide what I believe. And now with all the
every newscast in America in the world really will include
(07:41):
Trump and Biden sitting down and smiling and shaking hands
in the Oval office. Today, you should be able to
walk down the street in a Maga hat without being
considered evil or a Nazi given that video today.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But if we were to go into that fanciful town
hall of all Americans and say I don't think we
should promote diversity at the expense of military readiness, crazy
Everybody'd be like, do we even have to vote on this?
And yet it's portrayed as somehow provocative an edgy worth
mentioning his commander in chief. Trump can fire any officer
(08:15):
at will, but an outside board whose members he appoints
would bypass the Pentagon's regular promotion system, signaling across the
military that he intends to purge.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
A number of generals and admirals.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Of course, if you're the most extreme crazy person on
the left who actually believes he's going to be Hitler
fascist stuff, he's trying to get rid of all the
generals that would say no when he announces I want
the army to surround the House of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Right, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you'll hear plenty of just
utterly hair on fire scare tactics. Having said that I
don't want Trump, because Trump is known for being mercurial
and capricious at times and also easily butt hurt. So
I hope it is a very sober and deliberate process.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
He's now sack generals, He's now a full weekend without
doing anything like really crazy or saying anything really crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, that's good. So let's look at some of the specifics.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The draft order said it aims to establish a review
that focuses and I quote on leadership, capability, strategic readiness,
and commitment to military excellence. Any objections? So far, the
draft doesn't specify what officers need to do or present
to show if they meet those standards. Well, that's why
there's a board. They're going to look through their whole records.
(09:37):
What would you say if if the Warrior Board was
eyeball in General Jones, who was promoting, you know, one
brand of woolchism or not made everybody sit down for
DEI training, and General Jones came to you and said, look,
the Biden administration was sitting on our chest making us
(10:00):
do that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I hated it. I'm more than happy to implement these
new policies. You're gonna get rid of General Jones or what?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, that's a tough one, because that could be the
case with most of these guys, maybe all of them,
and it's mostly guys, could be almost all of them
and say, yeah, I've been here through two terms of Obama,
and I thought it was gonna be two terms of Biden.
And if I want to stay in uniform and climb
up through the military, which is my career, I.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Gotta be on board with this stuff. I don't like
it either.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, and not only the case, not only climbing up,
but there's a question of the chain of command. I mean,
making your troops sit through DEI training, to me, is awful.
It's racist, it's counterproductive, it's counter readiness and efficiency. It's
(10:50):
I could go on for an hour on this, but anyway,
so but I don't think it's the classic illegal order
that you can defy.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yes, somebody just texted Joe used the words mercurial and
butt hurt.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
In the same sentence. Nice. I'm very complicated trying to
reach all audiences.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I think this is yet another example of something I've
become aware of just in my own mind. And it's
difficult to draw you a picture exactly, but I guess
the town hall thing is a decent enough metaphor the
idea that all of those specific quotes I gave you,
or the more general one about promoting diversity at the
(11:37):
expense of military readiness. I've got to admit, at least
to a small extent, I had let it creep into
my consciousness that those were provocative or controversial ideas, not
like not in Toto.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I just used a Latin phrase. Now I'm going to
make a fart noise again, very complicated, very layered. I
had let it creep into even my consciousness that, boy,
a lot of people are going to be mad about.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
This, and that's utterly inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
What could be more mainstream than military readiness? Is our
top priority? Even if somebody gets their feelings hurt a
little bit. What is your major malfunction, America?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Coming up your deepest, darkest secrets about to be sold
for profit.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Perhaps let me.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Get some deeper, darker secrets going before that happens, because
I've been wasting time and a.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Bunch of other stuff on the way.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Stay here, millions have you used twenty three and meat?
Just give us a livea sample and get highly sensitive
information about your health and genealogy.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But now the.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Company's fallen on hard times, big layoffs, losing nearly six
billion dollars ninety eight percent of its value. Since twenty
three and meters is not a healthcare company, your DNA
data is not protected by health privacy laws.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Now more and more customers of twenty three meters saying.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What happens to my data?
Speaker 8 (13:17):
The vica's bankrupt, then potentially could people buy the data?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Twenty three of Me's DNA database is arguably its biggest asset,
but for customers that information could be their biggest liability.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's kind of.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Interesting because originally those companies like twenty three and meter
answers for down common and everything like that, had to
have really long, solid privacy statements for some reason.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't give a crap about mine.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
But to make sure people for now this twenty three
meters might go bankrupt, and that's just it's not for
sale for anybody who wants to do whatever they want
with it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
By the filing cabinets, you get the files. Yes, I
know it's all on computers, but yeah, you get the point.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, there are days I feel like I've lost ninety
eight percent of my value to this.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I sympathize. I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Can't trying to picture, first of all, Michael, saliva sample.
That's why you keep getting in accurate results. It's not
a stool sample.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Wow, that explains a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
But I'm trying to even picture a like twenty three
and me style result that I would be horrified to
have be found.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean, I don't what could you have that you
would be concerned about?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You know, I'm not good at this stuff, but they
have all sorts of analysis and studies. They try to
get you to participate in studies constantly because they want
to sell what is, in effect a genetic medical database
for Okay, this sort of people, they develop this sort
of cancer more often, you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And if if somebody found that out about me, they
would what.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, exactly, Well, he might discriminate against you in hing
or something like that, because a company would be asraded
that you could be.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
You know, blah blah blah. It's not inconceivable. No, it's not,
Actually it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Actually, maybe it's because I'm the agent I am, and
I have blackmailable secrets about many high placed corporate figures.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But I just don't worry about this stuff. No, I
don't either. NBC is reporting.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's hard to know if this is true or not,
but it's at least kind to true. The mainstream media
hates Elon Musk now right, because he went all in
for Trump, But NBC is reporting Elon Musk's near constant
presence at Mar A Lago since Trump's victory has begun
to wear on people in Trump's inner circle. Sources say
he's behaving as if he's co president and making sure
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everyone knows it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
One person says that might be see there being some truth.
There might be one.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Person saying that, but it's not impossible to imagine that
dynamic emerging where Elon is really kind of I mean,
as the world richest man who runs so many different
companies where everybody has to, you know, ask how high
when he says jump, is pretty comfortable weighing in on
everything and famously bristling with energy Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, like twenty hours a day, yeah, which I am
the opposite of whatever the opposite of that would.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Be, and super gung ho and on the autism spectrum, yeah,
I could see where you know, that wouldn't be the
easiest guy to get along with necessarily, so.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're like me.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You don't know the names of all the players in Washington,
d C. Who does and all these names being thrown
around for a variety of positions, I don't know who
they are. But a couple of my favorite pundits weighed
in on the new Senate majority leader and a couple
of other picks from Trump that I think you'll find
interesting as to whether or not what direction Trump is going.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
He might have a second.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Term that is so different from his first term that
his first term is forgotten by history.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
A number of his picks have been at least somewhat
surprising and really cool, really good.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
As far as I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Concerning the mainstream Republican conservative right, I've got that coming up.
It's really interesting. Grab the podcast if you miss it now,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Do you guys see this?
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Following the election, bookings have spiked for rage rooms, where
people pay to go break stuff that. If you think
the people in rage rooms are mad, imagine that the
people who couldn't get a booking out of rage.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Rooms like gold Down. You gotta be kidding.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
If you've never heard of a rage room, it's a
place where people go to smash plates, cuffs and bottle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's waffle house, it's h.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So, as I was listening to that joke, just for chuckles,
I looked up a rage room close to the radio ranch,
and uh, you can choose what music you jam while
you're smashing stuff of great date night idea.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sure, but I'm looking at the packages.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You got your deluxerayge room package forty dollars a person.
Let's see protective gear, A variety of weapons, including baseball bats,
golf clubs, crowbars, a bell, mace, sledgehammer, and paintball gun.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I thought of this years ago, one time on my own.
I wish I'd have had the money in the capitol,
the money in capital nice jump. I wish I had
the ability and wherewith all to make it happen. Because
I thought of this years ago, I thought, I bet
a lot of people would really like it if you
could like stuff that you you know, people get mad
and smash a coffee cup or something like, what if
you could go into a room and smash a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Tableware people? It turns out it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
For twenty dollars a person, you get a slightly smaller
variety of weapons. Each client will receive a crate that
has a variety of breakable items such as glass items, bottles, VHS, tapes,
and small electronics.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Package is perfect for new clients.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Okate, I'm gonna ask you this question to everyone, Joe,
have you ever smashed anything in anger?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes? And what was it? You know? You remember it
was a house. I burnt down a friend's house after
he crossed me.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
No, I famously producer Scott years and years ago.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
A smashed if you don't start playing that harbor wha,
My god, she's a World War One veteran and so
close after Veterans Day you threaten her seconding.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Anyway? Where was I? Oh? Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It was one of those days where I couldn't get
the printer to work and we're getting very close to
the show and the computer was screwed up, and I
was just so stressed out. And Scott came into wherever
I was and made a light hearted joke about printers
or something like that, and I was so mad I
(19:58):
threw the mugging the wall. I wasn't mad at him,
I was mad at the printers. And it was an
ill timed attempt at humor. But yes, I was quite
on edge. But I think that's it, Katie.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah, I uh, I took a baseball bat.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
To a curing Oh, very satisfying.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, And it was actually it was in the radio
studio and it was a great It was a great time.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That thing shattered, It went all over the place. Yeah,
they probably rate, but there wasn't there a lot of
clean up the people for that.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, it was I mean it was empty. It wasn't
have any water or anything in it.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, that's probably similar to the one I smashed a printer.
It was it was in anger, but more like controlled anger.
Like I was so angry to printer that I told
my kids I was going to do it. I took
it outside and I smashed it to bits with a
bat because I hated that printer so much. But that
was it was in control. It wasn't out of control
(20:56):
like when I threw a vacuum down all all the
way once. I just I don't remember what was going on,
but they just get just the cord got all tangled
up in the closet.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I think that's the only thing I've ever smashed. Michael,
you don't seem to be the smashing video game controller.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Playing a game with my brother when I was younger,
and he beat me at the last second I got
so I just threw it against the wall and then
went into pieces.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There you go. Yeah, the thrill of victory, of the
agony defeat. Hanson. You seem like a smasher. You ever
smashed in him? Oh? Please? He smashed something today. He's
smashing something right now. Okay, that's right. He's busy smashing things,
so we can't tell us.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So anyway, this twenty dollars a person package you get
a variety breakable items such as glass items, bottles, VHS, tapes,
and a small a small electronic, just one perfect for
new clients or clients that are unsure about trying this
new experience. Now, for forty bucks a person, you get
the Deluxe with the big variety of weapons I mentioned
(21:58):
items included in this package bottles, breakable glass items, large electronics,
and windshields. This is perfect for clients wanting to do
big damage to big items.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
So is the level of satisfaction the same? I feel
like it wouldn't be quite the same. That the act
of smashing stuff is a certain I shouldn't be doing this.
This is a signaling to I don't know to others,
to myself. When I threw the vacuum cleaning, there's nobody
around to see it, so I wasn't signaling to anyone else.
(22:31):
I just I wonder if it's like, you know, cursing
when you're in pain, that actually releases painkilling chemicals in
your brain. And I wonder if you have to be
in the act of anger to get those pleasure chemicals.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Uh yeah, or work it up, you know, I wonder
if there's a bit of a psychic procedure. All right, now,
before we go in there, let's think about your boss.
How do you feel about it?
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Friday afternoon two? Friday afternoon two, You're planning to go home.
Boss just walked in, dumped a big project on your desk.
Could have done it earlier in the week, but you know,
he puts stuff off and he procrastinates. You're gonna pay
the price for it. You had big plans tonight. Come on,
you could do it. Come on, so you're.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like ginning it up. I'm thinking looking back, how about
how's your X treating? You know, let's talk about.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Your excellent but just fine. You gotta tap into a.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Vein because this is about relieving the stress in the anger.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Here he is with another woman. Hut, picture him with
another one. Now here's a.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Bat No again, you have different views of this. I'm
looking at the promotional video here. That's a bad word.
I'm afraid there might be stop it, makeus stop. I
was looking at the promotional video, as I just said,
and but there was an F word printed on the board,
and I'm afraid people might swear drink its Ah.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
That'd be bad. Then I would have smash him thing
because we lost our careers. Smash and smash, smash. It's
been a decent so hell. I don't know if you
know who John Thune is.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
He's a US Senator from South Dakota, and he's just
been elected the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate.
Because the Republicans now have fifty three senators, they are
the majority party. So he's the majority leader of the
US Senate, which is one of the most powerful political
positions on planet Earth. I don't know much about him.
(24:20):
It's interesting that Christy Nome's going to be the DHS.
She's the governor of South Dakota, and now I get
a senator. Seems pretty heavy. On the to any tiny
little state of South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But that's out.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
There would be like fifty thousand Californians in the cabinet
rougher instance right now. Or he's not in the cabinet obviously,
but you get my mini.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But I don't know anything about John Finn, but I
thought this was interesting. Charles C. W.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Cook, who I respect his opinion and usually agree with it,
of National Review, tweeted out John Thune was the best
option for Senate majority leader. The job requires a particular
set of skills, and they aren't the ones that have
been loudly discussed over the last week. I'm glad he
was chosen. He'll be good for the role. I think
it's interesting that Noah Roffman, also of National Review, said
(25:02):
the very online maga activist class got Trump and nothing else,
responding to Foon beating Cornyn for the leadership in the Senate.
In other words, Fune's more of a traditional Republican conservative
and not a maga guy, and he won. So that's
what made me think. And with some of the other choices,
(25:24):
Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, I just I wonder
if Trump is going to be way more of a
normal Republican president than anybody was expecting, and yes, end
up going down in history as just another Republican president
as opposed to what he was probably going to be
after one term.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
No, well, I.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Don't know about the one term thing. I think that
it's going to land somewhere in the middle. It's not
the Ultramaga online vision of his leadership, nor is it
going to be you know Reagan, Paul Ryan, and you
know Marco Rubio. But obviously there's some Marco Rubio and
John Thune in the future. And given the fact that
(26:08):
the Trump election and the incoming administration is a marriage
of conservatism and disruptivism of the Trumpian sort that you
know everybody describes a little differently, but well we've all
been watching it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think that's perfectly appropriate. I I you know, you
can't chuck.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Everything that has been conservatism and claim to be at
all a conservative. I know, you know, I read the
emails from the your you know, some of your more
aggressive drain the swamp neo conservative not neo cons but
you know what I mean, the alt right whatever type
that have this dream of just chucking it all. But
you know, just chucking it all almost always results in
(26:51):
something worse. That's that's the point of conservatism. We go
with the stuff that actually works, and if we need
to tweak it in a Trump that's what's gonna happen.
But it's not gonna be one hundred percent one or
the other.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
So this pundit went on to say, they're really going
to have to get Tulsi Gabbard or r Ifk confirmed
soon or the MAGA wing is gonna be unhappy. Well
to that point, this is just breaking news that a
Tulsi Gabbard D of Hawaii is in the mix to
be named Director of National Intelligence. Now in the mix
to be named might be throwing her name out there
(27:27):
to satisfy a certain crowd. If she gets named Director
of National Intelligence, that would be the MAGA wing.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Absolutely. That would be disturbing. Yeah, I would because she's
she's she's fairly nutty on that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we'll
have to see. We will.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Are super intrigued by the Elon Vivek partnership. You haven't
given that it's full due in the government efficiency of the.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
DOGE thing Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. Yeah, and it's
not going to be part of the government, So it
would seem that Trump is the chief executive, it probably
give them as much access as he can to all
the information they would need. Then they would make recommendations
because they won't have the power to do anything. And
(28:19):
that's where the rubber meets the road. But I'm all
for the recommendations.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I think one of the key handicaps for some of
the great commissions and bipartisan groups that's been formed through
the years is when their reports come out, they just
don't get very much attention, correct, and they don't build
the sort of energy, speed, juice, you know, whatever you
want to use as a descriptor that actually moves the
(28:45):
ball down the field and the forces of gigantic, metastasizing
bureaucratic government win the day over and over again. I'm
thinking these guys, it might just be just too much
to ignore. Between Elon and his obvious status and Vivek,
who bothers me because he's off putting.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But he's an outstanding salesman.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
He's a billionaire, he is he I don't know, I
think so super successful dude.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well, yeah, Usually these blue ribbon commissions are led by
some senator or House member you've never heard of. And
then they make their speech and nobody cares. Elon will
have his platform of Twitter and the world's attention as
the world's are just man to come out and say, look,
this is how much we're wasting on this or that
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I think it'll be a big difference.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And the idea that never ending growth in spending, never
ending growth in debt, just spending our grandchildren's money, that
that is a cultural norm that can't change.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We just have to live with it. I reject that.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, and I think those guys might indeed get the
cultural current flowing in the other direction.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
That's absolutely possible.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah, Vivik's a billionaire, so for all his uh nutty
things that he he says, he obviously knows how to
run a business in a profitable way.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
He's an excellent sales guy. I think that's his main skill.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I hope he can sell the country on here's where
we can be more efficient and get some attention. We
will finish strong next. So on old Pete Hegzeth being
named nominated whatever you call it, for Secretary of Defense.
I just came across this from Mark Halprin's newsletter today.
(30:30):
Now he is somebody I trust as a straight shooter.
He doesn't have any skin in the game of pushing
forward somebody or not. He's just reporting what he's hearing
on the ground. So his little blurb about Pete Heggzeth
is this as a defense industry lobbyist asks Politico, who
the f is this guy? Okay, so that doesn't bother
me personally, Jack Armstrong, a defense industry lobbyist, not knowing
(30:55):
this person as a player that he could call in
favors on, that doesn't bother me, but goes on to
say Halpern writes, as someone who knows him well texted
me last night, I would not let this guy babysit
my kids. Let alone run the building and oversee US
forces around the world. Now, Halpurn would not print that
unless it was somebody he had some respect for their opinion.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It's impossible to say how far this will go.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
But whether he gets a confirmation hearing or not, my
spidey sense says that Peter Hegzeth will not serve one
day in his life as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
So that's the reporting from Albert. Yeah, it's a surprising choice.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, to run the most complicated bureaucracy on planet Earth.
But I don't have any skin in the game either.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just curious, honestly. Yeah, I don't have
an opinion on Pete one way or the other. He's
decent enough broadcaster. I think when we picture giant heists,
this is a story about a giant heist. Well, these days,
I guess I would picture something electronic cyber scam, because
those are the biggest, you know, examples of thievery.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
But the ski mask and a bat and some jewelry.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
This is an amazing heist, if you will, if you
forgive the use of the term, two hundred million dollars
and ongoing, still going. And this is one of the
reasons so many countries, so many people invest in the
United States because we don't have craft like this going on.
This is story out of Columbia. Seven hundred yards deep
(32:28):
into the earth, in Columbia's richest gold mine, private security
guards crouch behind sandbags, trapped in a failing battle with
a drug trafficking gang that's commandeered thirty miles of tunnels
worth hundreds of miles of millions of dollars. Wow, gangs
are like taking over gold mines and running them because
(32:48):
the owners can't muster enough firepower.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
To take them back. Yeah, that's clean jumpers back cracky. Yeah,
don't sleep on civilization. I'm ready to aga.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
That was recently nominated for a Grammy. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Let's get a.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up today.
Wouldn't that be lovely? First of all, our technical director
Michael Angelo has a final thought. Michael, I got to
seek out one of these rage rooms and try that.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
The idea sounds great.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Of smashing TV, smashing furniture, just just a great idea.
Uh yeah, don't knocket till you've tried it. Katie Greener
esteemed to Newswoman as a final thought.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Katie, Okay, Michael Angelo, if you do that, we have
to get that on video some plodies. I would pay
a lot of money to see you in a rage room.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Absolutely, Jack, do you have a final thought to share
with us?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I am suffering from PTSD today flashbacks last night helping
my son finish his big giant worth half the grade
English paper that he had known about for weeks but
put off until the last night, and I'm helping with it,
and I was just having lived that experience through junior high,
high school, and all of college, including some graduate school.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh my god, why do some of us do this to.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Ourselves signaling me when you're done? Because I got my
fingers in my ears. I can't even hear that. It
stresses me out. Yeah, man, do I relate to that.
My final thought is, I have a four hour rage
room every day. The Armstrong and Getty show, I Emerge
is placid and column is a little lamb all my
frustrations out.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
How nice for you Armstrong and Geeddy wrapping up out
of They're grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
So many people who thanks so little time. Go to
Armstrong Geeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Click on the hotlinks, grab yourself T shirt for your
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Speaker 2 (34:45):
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See tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
It is the most puzzling, wonderful reward I think we've
seen in many, many years.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
And I think it's important to use your voice, even
the particular field in particular. So let's go with a bang.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
If it turns out that winning award depends on being
mad at your enemies for a really long time and
not telling them why. Well, then I say more women
in combat.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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