December 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Woman leaves father's ashes at a movie theater on purpose
- Liberal arts & sciences... go away!
- San Diego is becoming a super sanctuary city
- Are you ready for Christmas?
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
That's going viral.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A woman in Wisconsin admitted to leaving something pretty unusual
at a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Take a look of this, an urn full of ashes
found in a movie theater in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It appears the mystery has been solved.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The woman now as she left the urn there on purpose.
She says, the remains inside are those of her father.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
With whom she did not have a close relationship. She
didn't want the remains in her home.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So when she went to see a movie, she brought
the urn and dished it underneath seats where Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Beetlejuice was playing Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice one Moviego was like ern,
I thought it was a promotional popcorn. Butchet, he's getting
a lot of cheese nuts. That's all I'm getting here.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh geez, that's gross.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Wow, what an interesting story. So she so she obviously
went through the process of having her father creamated, went
to the service, and ended up getting the ashes. Even
though she didn't have a good enough relationship with him
that she wanted to keep the ashes. I would have
thought that would have broken down earlier somewhere and then rather.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Than somebody asked for him to be cremated. I don't,
But how does she end up with the ashes?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
If she hates him so much that she doesn't she's
going to leave him somewhere?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That just seems weird. Why wouldn't she say no, you
keep them? No, I just I think in a lot
on a happy family, she do. What do you have
to do to minimize conflict?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay? Even the ashes? Okay, even if I go with that. Yeah,
your disposal of them isn't throw them in the trash,
throw them off a cliff, Yeah, depending on how angry
you are about him. Whenever you a movie theater and
leave him under the seat.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's amazing how often this is all the analysis you need.
I know what I'll do, dot dot dot, and then
you fill it in with what they did, and you think,
how the hell do you got right? You decide, I mean,
I get that you think of it, but then you
decide that's your best course of action. Maybe maybe she's
sitting there in the movie with the ashes and thought,
you know what, this movie sucks and my dad did too.
(02:25):
I'm leaving the movie. I'm leaving him. I don't know
who knows. You'd have to ask her. That's some odd
damn behaviors being of odd behavior. This is a Twitter
thread sent to me, brought to my attention by and
I did not clear whether this person wanted to be
named a very serious person? Uh not a crank the
(02:48):
opposite of a crank.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It is a Twitter.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Post by Jennifer's Xiang zeg z e Ng, who is
an American of Chinese origin. She has about her core
of a million followers. She says her her profile is writer,
reporter and China expert news and analysis on Chinese affairs,
and is followed by a number of people who we
(03:14):
follow and and are serious observers of China. Okay, Having
said that, I'm just going to read the first part
to you. Can you believe this is a US Navy
recruiting office in Alhambra, California. Every recruiter here is Chinese,
as well as all the people coming to enlist. The
working language here is also Chinese.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, so you don't mean of Chinese origin, but born
here speak English? Why are they speaking Chinese there? I mean,
clearly they're Chinese Americans. They can't be Chinese nationals. But
let me let me go on a little bit. This
is why I'm so I'm so completely befuddled by this.
And there are pictures and videos, as she makes clear
(03:58):
in a bit, let me just read on and then
we'll get to some of the questions. The video was
filmed by a Chinese language YouTuber and the US Navy
recruiter who took him there to film all this is
and she names the rank and the gentleman's name.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He's got his name obviously of Chinese origin. In the
description box of this video on YouTube, which was uploaded
on December one, twenty twenty four, this naval guy's contact
information is provided, and what concerns me is that the
first option listed is his we Chat ID to get
in touch with an alleged US military recruiter. We Chat
(04:37):
is the big Chinese social media site. The telephone number
of the office comes as the second choice. As all
data on we Chat is controlled by the CCP, this
at least gives the CCP access to the personal data
of all those who apply to join the US Navy
and who are admitted. The second question is why is
this office staffed exclusively by Chinese individuals. The other day
(05:00):
I shared a video where a Chinese American military member said,
if the US goes to war with China, he would
quit the US Army because he doesn't want to fight
against China.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
If all these Chinese people recruited through this office feel
the same way, what will happen? And the worst case
scenario is what if some of them are recruited by
the CCPs spies or perhaps they are already spies. One
thing I am sure of from listening to their accent
is that they all come from mainland to China. Everyone
in this video, and the title of the original Chinese
language video is quote, how desperate are Chinese people to
(05:34):
join the US military? They're overwhelming recruitment offices, each with
their own reasons for enlistening. Finally, this the Chinese word
used as Chinese symbols, which can be translated as Chinese
people or more precisely people from PRC or people of
PRC the People's Republic of China. In the mind or
subconsciousness of the youtubeer who shot this video. All these
(05:55):
people still belonged to the prc.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
OH.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I hope that's looked into. Yeah, I don't get this.
I am absolutely befuddled by this.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's not hard to imagine somebody of Chinese descent being
very willing to join the US military to fight against China,
right because you didn't like, I mean, we are friend
ying Ma. She's not a friend of a fan of
she grew up in China, She's not a fan of China.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
She also retweeted something from somebody on the East Coast
Chinese illegals seeking naturalization lured by US military offices ran
by Chinese individuals and advertised in China. This person said,
I've reported on this before, but in New York. It
doesn't surprise me. So it's like, you can get your
(06:50):
papers if you serve in the military, you can get
American papers, no matter how you got in the country,
So enlist today. Well, if anybody has any idea what
the ELL's going on here, what's behind it? I would
love to know. Again, she does not appear to be
any sort of crackpot, and the person who sent this
(07:10):
to me is absolutely not either.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Okay, yeah, if you know anything about it, email or text.
So with all the UFOs drones flying around in New Jersey,
for instance, that might be from China or wherever, that
has some people talking about alien life forms. Elon had
an interesting text the other day about the likelihood of
(07:37):
intelligent life on other planets that I wanted to pass
along because I found it fascinating. We also have clips
of the week we need to get to all the
way stay here.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I almost feel bad that I may have misled you,
but not really, because I think this is a it's
a learning moment. It's that's what I was looking for.
You remember phrase with like you escape it pot People
don't say it anymore, Thank goodness. It was a teachable moment. Ironically,
don't repeat cliches anyway. So this we were just talking
(08:10):
about this recruitment office al Hambro, California that appears to
be entirely run by Chinese speaking people, and it looks
like they're just recruiting other Chinese people and it's extremely
suspicious and weird and it is. I scrolled way, way, way,
way way down in the feed and finally came across
a guy saying, Hey, this is a sophisticated deep fake
(08:33):
and he's a military guy.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And he points out a number of the errors you
would not catch wow unless you're knowledgeable about military military procedures,
ribbons and that sort of thing. And he catches some
other inconsistencies that if you spent a couple hours of
your time researching the people in the video and their
actual rank and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It is scary, right, And so you are correct that
this is worth doing, even though it was misleading in
the beginning. Just to show how easy it is to
be misled by AAI deep fakes, including people that are
pretty knowledgeable the original source of this to you, and
(09:19):
they're only going to get better. They're only going to
get better. That video the other day, if you haven't
seen the video of Trump and Jill Biden front pews
Notre Dame Cathedral the other day, they're talking and then
like they get into a fight. It's so damned real looking.
I mean, if you went this fight not an argument, yeah, fistfight.
(09:40):
If you went back ten years and showed me that,
I thought, holy crap, Donald Trump and Joe Biden got
in a fight. It's only because I'm aware of AI,
and it's so unlikely that that would happen that I
jumped to the fact that it's ai. It looked completely believable.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think the twenty first century might make humankind insane, yeah,
or just really really weird.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean science fiction writers need
to get into what's going to happen when nobody believes
anything that they read here or see.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So well already covered that ground.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What is information at that point? What the party tells
you it is. So I just came across something damned interesting. Hey,
that's what we're shooting for. Huh. This is from Elon
Musk's Twitter feed, and this is something different than I
was going to talk about, but I just came across it.
Elon Musk said it's annoying when Chomsky is right, and
(10:38):
that got my attention because Noam Chomsky is one of
the most annoying bastard on Earth. Is weird politics and
everything like that. But here's Noam Chomsky talking about the
pseudo intellectualism, intellectualism of post modern literary theorists. I don't
know why he laid this out the video. It looks
(10:59):
like he's less It's a deep sake. He's been an
old man my whole life. So here's the quote, and
this is about hearing all the gobbledygook from various critical
race theory people and that sort of stuff. If you
look at what's happening, I think it's pretty easy to
figure out what's going on. I mean, suppose you're a
literary scholar at some elite university or an anthropologist or whatever.
(11:23):
If you do your work seriously, that's fine, but you
don't get any big prizes for it. On the other hand,
you take a look over in the rest of the university,
and you got those guys in the physics department and
the math department, and they have all kinds of complicated theories,
which of course we can't understand, but they seem to
understand them. And they have principles, and they deduce complicated
things from the principles, and they do experiments and they
(11:43):
find either the experiments work or they don't work. And
so that's really impressive stuff. So I want to be
like that too, over in the humanities. So I want
to have a theory in the humanities, you know, literary criticism, anthropology,
and so on. There's a field called theory. We're just
like the physicists. They talking in comprehen We can talk
in comprehensibly. They have big words, We have big words.
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They draw far reaching conclusions. We'll draw far reaching conclusions.
We're just as prestigious as they are. Now. If they say, well,
look we're doing real science and you guys aren't. That's white, male, sexist,
bourgeois whatever, the answer is, that's what we say. How
are we need different from them? Okay, and that's appealing
to the people in the humanities. Why did he give
away the game there? But that is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That is one hundred percent correct and eloquently stated.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't know why he outed the people on his side.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I don't know. Maybe he's just a cantankerous old man
or something. But that's that's beautiful, right. And he's an
obnoxious lefty oh a mesater.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, and crazy in my opinion, But so yeah. So
the math physics guys, they got all kinds of stuff
that nobody understands. They win prizes. Everybody who's smart enough
to understand it seems to believe it. Yeah, let's do
the same thing over here, critical race theory and all
kinds of weird crap and make up the term LATNX
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And right exactly, yeah, and just the whole, well, the
whole you've got to innovate. To be an academic star,
you've got to come up with something new, which is
ruined education. Nothing works better than phonics, nothing. But you're
not gonna get some acclaim or a giant grant for
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saying no, the old stuff is the way. You got
to keep doing it. So everybody's got to be, you know,
pushing the boundaries, and there are no boundaries to be
pushed in a lot of this stuff. You combine that
with the soft sciences, like he says, wanting to seem legit,
like I got a degree in political science and I
was really good at it, and I got a Bachelor
of Arts degree. Now so that wait a minute, it's
(13:49):
right there in the name of the major political science
that's not science, said the University of Illinois. If we
were just kidding you, please go away.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The liberal arts and sciences. The sciences is just to
make you shut up.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We don't mean it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So if you're a professor of women's trans ethnic studies
or something, you can come up with this theory of
how well, I'll say the US was founded on slavery
or something like that, and make up all this different stuff.
And the people in the physics department say that doesn't
make any sense. Well, it doesn't make sense to you.
Your stuff doesn't make sense to me, So let's just
(14:27):
agree to disagree. Then you go from there.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Listen to this here in the surreal landscape of modern academia,
it seems there's no idea to outlandish to be wrapped
in the veneer of intellectualism and published in a peer
reviewed journal. Entered belas Boro's paper Queering Babies auto Ethnographic
Reflections from a Gay Parents through Surrogacy. The paper, which
(14:51):
has been peer reviewed and published in an auspicious journal,
masquerades a scholarship while offering little more than the author's
subjective musings dressed up in the jargon of post war theory.
As its title suggests, that paper relies heavily on auto ethnography,
a method that is essentially a diary entry trying to
pass as a rigorous analysis. At its core, the essay's
(15:11):
premise that surrogate babies are queer creatures by default, and
that perhaps all babies babies are inherently queer stretches the
boundaries of logic, coherence and decency.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, so that whole thing there you just laid out.
The physics math people would say that sounds like it's
made up, and the people who made it up would say, well,
so does string theory. So again, let's agree to disagree.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right, so shut up and give me my PhD and
queer baby's studies.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Wow, oh that is interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Shut the universities down. Let's take a deep breath for
about five years, then repopulate them with sane people.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, huh, at least the parts that
aren't like the physics math department. Although, as we know,
the physics and math and biology departments have gotten infiltrated
by the the woke stuff too and have to work
it into the classrooms where I saw the other day
the one guy doing a rant and raven in front
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of his lecture hall full of hostages. I mean, you know,
students that have to be there and listen to his
crap going on about how it was okay to murder
the CEO of United Healthcare. He was not like a
physics professor with some hard science, like, wow, you're as
crazy as those other people are.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well, he probably had to convincingly fill out his DEI
statement to get the gig. So thirty seven more qualified
physics professors who would not genuflect at the altar of
this cult didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Get the gig he did. Yeah, why did Noam Chomsky
give away the game? There?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Will?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I will think about that the rest of my days,
about the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I assume it's legit. One of our beloved listeners actually
email us a link to the same thing, so it's
getting attention.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Elon tweeted it out. That was his you know, his
thing was, it's annoying when Chomsky is right. We've got
a lot more on the way. I hope you can stay.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I had a conversation with my son last night. I've
been trying to convince them to this since he was little.
I understand why he didn't go for his little His
birthday is two days before Christmas, December twenty third, and
it makes it really makes a mess of the whole thing.
It's it's just it's it's too much. It's just too much.
Everybody gets together, you have cake, you got open presents,
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and then like twenty four hours later, it feels like
you do it again, and it just it just always
seems like too much and like it lessens the other one. Anyway,
I was hoping that when he got older, maybe he'd
go for the half birthday that I know some of
you do. I remember when he was born, a bunch
of you said that that's what you do in your families.
So you decide because your birthday's too close to Christmas.
(17:57):
You celebrated at the six month mark, so do it
in June or July whatever, and then it has more
of a special feeling and blah blah blah. But uh,
he didn't want to go for it. He's a partially
because he's ocd AF that's five letters, and he wants
to do his birthday on his birthday. But man, the
birthday and getting ready for the birthday and then the
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Christmas a lot. And I tell this story every year.
His older brother Sam, so he's his brother. Sam is
two when we bring home Henry from the hospital on
Christmas Eve, and Sam collapses to his knees and starts
crying because he really he was able to understand as
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a two year old the jig is up. I am
no longer the only show in town. All the focus
is gonna be on whoever this is, and I already
don't like him, and and oh it was I can
still picture. It was so sad. He just he tried
to smile, he tried to be happy because we're hey,
here's your new brother, and he kind of smiled, and
then he just collapsed on the floor crying. And oh
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it was painful. And I know it is a common thing,
not unique to my family, but oh that hurt. With
the Christmas tree there and all the presents. Have you
ever known anybody to have for birthday, Katie, if you
ever heard of that before? Now, yeah, I would do it.
I wouldn't want to do it when I was a kid, probably,
but past a certain age. Yeah, let's let's let's let's
(19:23):
let's do presence gifts hubbub in the middle of the summer,
not have both of them two days apart.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, I want two sets of presents.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And try as you might, there's just no way. It's
the same amount of stuff I think that you're gonna
get when they're together. There's always kind of a combo.
This is your combo birthday because it's a very big guy.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Whatever I don't know how long did it take for
that sting of no longer being the only child to
kind of go do you think I.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Don't know, he's fourteen. I'll let you know if it
wears off. I don't know. I don't actually know. It
wasn't that long, but it makes sense. I probably did
the same thing. I was the oldest, and then you
know you're the only show in time. I look at
the Christmas pictures from when I before, I have when
I was the only child there briefly, and oh my god,
the amount of presents I got, And then you know
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it changes when there's competition.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So here's one of the most annoying things that's happened
in recent memory. San Diego County was voting on whether
or not to become what they're calling a super sanctuary county.
So not only are they gonna, uh not give up
the idea of being a sanctuary county, we're gonna be
a super sanctuary county, whatever the hell that is. There
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was only one no vote. It passed, God dang it.
So more on that after we hear some of the
actual arguments. This is San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond,
who we've had on the show before talking about he
was the no vote. He was the only no vote
on San Diego County becoming a super sanctuary county, and
(20:58):
he said this, I.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Think this policy goes beyond California's existing sanctuary laws by
adding an additional layer of bureaucracy that hinders local law
enforcement from directly notifying ICE about illegal immigrants who are
currently in our jails and they have committed heinous crimes
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including child abuse or endangerment, driving under the influence of
alcohol or drugs, but only if this conviction is for
a felony, possession.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Of an unlawful deadly weapon, gang.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Related offenses, a crime resulting in death or involving personal
affliction or great bodily injury, possession or use of a firearm,
and the commission of an offense torture, rape, and kidnapping.
That's the population we're talking about. So under this policy,
and if a legal immigrant commits one of these serious crimes,
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San Diego County would be legally prohibited from directly coreating
with ICE. This effectively protects the offenders from deportation, allowing
them to remain in our communities where they could cause
that same harm.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Again. This is so bone deep crazy. I have trouble
happy wrapping my head around it. I guess we should
have recorded some of the arguments in favor of it,
so I would at least understand what their thinking is.
Let's let mister Desmond roll on with the awfulness of
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San Diego becoming San Diego County becoming a super sanctuary county.
And this isn't just theoretical.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
We have seen the devastating consequences of such policies across
the nation. Barbie Larsen was brutally murdered in her own
home by an illegal alien gang member with a history
of drug possession and burglary. He was released because of
sanctuary loss. Kate Steinel was senselesusly shot killed in a
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San Francisco peer but a llegal immigrant with a long
history of violent crime. Just months ago, I sat next
to Patty Moren, a mother whose life was shattered when
her daughter was raped murdered by an illegal immigrant. Her
heartbreaking testimony is something I'll never forget. A reminder that
these tragedies are not statistics, they are human lives forever altered.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You know what we ought to do hands an executive producer,
maybe you get some of the arguments for any county
becoming a super sanctuary county, because we already are a
sanctuary state in California, and they wanted to add to
that the protections for not just people here who are
here illegally, but people who are illegal here illegally and
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in jail, already committed a crime. Sometimes, as you heard,
they're a terrible crime. I don't even understand the argument.
I don't even know where to start because I don't
understand their argument. So maybe we ought to grab some
of that and we can play it next week. But
let's let Desmond wrap up here.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
And these tragedies are preventable, but sanctuary laws allow them
to happen by allowing illegal criminals back into our communities
instead of into the hands of ice. San Diego County
is already spending five million dollars annually of taxpayer money
to provide legal counsel for illegal immigrants facing deportation, no
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matter what the reason is that they're being deported. This
proposed legislation, to me, seeks to prioritize the interest of
illegal criminal immigrants over the safety of law abiding immigrants
and citizens.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted three
to one yesterday. That was the one that you've been hearing.
Who was against this to restrict the use of county
resources for federal immigration enforcement. That ideology is so nuts
to me. I don't even know where to start. Uh.
I think you're blinded by your weird m I don't
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even know. I mean, like I said, I can't even
get in the headspace. I can't even steal man their argument.
As they say, if you're gonna have a good debate,
you're supposed to be able to express the other person's
position to their satisfaction. I can't do that on this
one because I don't get their ideology. Some of it
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is just this is the opposite of what Trump wants.
So some of it is that it's Trump arrangement syndrome.
It says, oh, Trump wants a boot out of legals,
then I have to be again. Some of it is that,
and it's very popular in certain quarters, including a lot
of San Diego. But wow, we will get some of
the arguments for the super sanctuary county so we can
hear what these numb nuts think we'll do. That next week,
(25:52):
maybe we'll have a mister desmond on he could lay
it out for us pretty well, I guess. But there
you go. Trump won the election. You saw all of
the polling on all the border stuff. It's between eighty
and ninety percent Americans want secured borders. Sixty percent of
Americans want every single undocumented immigrant booted out of the
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country period. We're not even talking illegals. You could be
talking to hard working, productive family members. Sixty percent want
them boot it out. I don't think that's ever gonna happen.
I don't think that's workable. But that is the feeling
of the country right now. But in San Diego County
you had three people that voted for keeping criminals in
the country. People that are known criminals. We want you
in our country, and the taxpayer will help support them.
(26:35):
Freaking nuts. We'll finish strong next strong.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
In Seattle, a pair of suspected jewelry thieves attempted to
escape by row.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Boat before being arrested. A row boat. Is there no
slower escape vehicle available? It's the cops quick to the
ghetaway blimp. They're trolling right at us. That's pretty funny.
A robo pretty much is the slowest thing you can
(27:09):
come up with. Uh, that is hilarious. Hi y'all doing.
We got one more week left in the year of broadcasting?
Am I right about that? Michael? Am I looking at
that correctly? One more broadcasting week next week Monday through Friday,
and then we'll have our end of the year show
on Friday, which is always baffo and full of all
kinds of fun stuff. Then we're off for two weeks
while you complain to us through texts and emails about
(27:29):
why aren't we working? And then we come back to
start a brand new year of fun and frivolity with
a new president, Which leads me to this. Mark Alprin,
writing in his newsletter today about the amazing day Trump
had yesterday Thursday, by the standards of presidential transition and
Trump's most fundamental desires on the National town Square, was
a super baffo day for the maven of Mara a Lago,
(27:52):
fusing in a series of Wall Street photo ops at
the New York Stock Exchange, where he rang the bell,
first time any president or about to be president has
done that in forty years since. Wrong with Reagan and
his person of the Year honor with Time Magazine, which
doesn't matter to most people, but it matters a lot
to Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yes, Katie, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot,
you keep saying boffo.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You don't know the word boffo. No, it was wonderful, fantastic,
big Okay.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I thought it was like an acronym for something.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
No, okay, not just you're away saying you know af
and all this stuff.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
I thought boffo fit in the FAFO. I don't know,
I should I should stop saying some of those things. Actually,
Trump having members of his family and political posse flanking
him there at the Stock Exchange with the giant Time
magazine cover behind his head, might have been the highest moment.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Of his life, which is absolutely true. It's not that
just that the big Apple is his oyster. As the
Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness. The Washington Post, they
came up with that massed head statement when Trump was
elected in twenty sixteen because they were going to be
the resistance. Even the Washington Post noted the entire known
galaxy is now arguably more under Trump's thumb than it
(29:06):
has ever been. And this man was president for four
years already really quite amazing. Mark Alpern goes on to write,
there has never been a modern transition like this, with
the incoming folks making visible progress on areas including immigration,
foreign policy. Doge, that'd be cutting back on spending, executive
orders of all stripes, and more before he even takes office.
(29:28):
Peggy Noonan, as she often does, writing in the Wall
Street Journal, said it best or is she a postperson?
Framing that Trump is what he is doing this December.
You have to see that what we are witnessing right
now is truly remarkable, with no precedent in US history.
He's essentially functioning as a sitting president a month and
a half before his president. We're now down to what
(29:50):
is the date today? So he got a month and
a week five weeks before he's actually president. Now the
part Joe was talking about a little bit later. I
don't know if birds coming home to roost is a
fair way to talk about it or not. It's just
(30:10):
the reality of people still have a bad mood about
the economy. Economies move slow. It'll take a while to
fix that, even if it can be fixed. Making people
feel better about what stuff costs and everything like that,
he's going to have a margin of like one or
two in the House. He got a new majority leader
in the Senate that nobody is exactly sure where he's
(30:31):
going to be on things, and then you got a
couple of wards that could go south at any moment.
So but you know, such as being president. If you
don't want that sort of stress and everything, don't take
the job. Michael, Where are you and your Christmas shopping?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I got to get all the stocking stuff or stuff.
You're the little items?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Tree up?
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Oh yeah, tree's up.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Trees up? Yeah, packages wrapped the ones that you do have.
Are there packages under the tree?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
There are some packages.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
I still got a lot of rapping to do.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Man, you're making me feel horrible, Katie, tree up, Nope,
that makes me feel better. Good. There you go. Will
there be a tree or a Yeah, it's going up.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Husband's working crazy hours and unfortunately I can't reach it
and I'm not going to risk falling off a louder
or hurting my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Oh that's right. You're one of those Jesus Haytan artificial
tree people also allergic to pine.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
But we can go to Jesus Haymen if you want.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That's a big difference. Hanson, Is your tree up? Gotta be?
You got little kids? Tree up? Oh my god? Does
that mean? Does that mean of course it is? Or
hell no, it's not. He's got to go. Apparently it's not.
(31:42):
So apparently this tree is not up. Oh wow, man,
you got kid. I know I got kids too, and
my tree is not up, and I feel bad about it.
I should have a tree up. It should be decorated.
There should be presents under the tree. It should smell
like a nutmeg or something in my house, like you know,
like in a movie. But it doesn't. Yeah, it will
this weekend. We're going to go get the tree tomorrow
and we'll get all that going, get.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
The inflatable snowman on the front yard so that you
know that works.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And then I got to wrap some presents because a
tree with no presents under it, when you get this
close to Christmas is just sad. I mean, it just
makes a tear go down my CHEEKO. I've considered going
artificial tree. I know they're way better. I'm a child
of the seventies. We had among the first artificial trees.
When I was a kid, and those were not very good.
(32:27):
They were they did there was. It was a plastic
stick with other plastic coming out of it.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Yes, we went artificial after many years of buying a
real one.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Just cost too much. The price drove you there. Yeah yeah,
I saw a kind of not particularly spectacular tree yesterday.
Fairly small, got it. I think the boy scout a lot,
and it was with the tacks and the little add
ons and everything they do. I think it was almost
one hundred dollars really. Oh yeah, yeah, I go. Ohh,
So I go cut down a tree every single year
(32:57):
with us all, and I will do that tomorrow and
kids will start and then they'll get tired, and then I,
as an old man, will be on my hands and
knees cutting the tree, risking a heart attack for their joy.
And then we'll bring it up there and then they
shake it out and they wrap it and they put
the stand on it. And once I get done with
everything like that, it'll be dang near two hundred dollars
for just like a regular sized tree.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Man, you can get one that already has lights on
it and just use that every year.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh, the artificial trees have lights already.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Oh yeah, you plug them in and bam, you're done.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I feel like that takes away some of it. Isn't
decorating the tree part of the whole thing. Get snacks
and then like music and we decorate the tree. One
time in a house I had which I had a
double story entryway, I got a twenty foot tree, twenty
foot real tree, which was spectacular. But man, that's a
(33:45):
lot of work when that thing's done and you got
to get it out of there and haul it away.
And so hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong
and Getty. Yeah. I wish I could have done it
with the kids one time, the twenty foot tree, because
that is something. We got one of those in your house.
It is wild. Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Me.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Let's get a final thought from our what do we
call you? Michael Technical director, Tactical director Michael Angelo.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Michael, Yeah, I gotta get my Christmas movies going. Christmas vacation, elf.
You know some of the other Christmas bees. Oh yeah,
Christmas Story, that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Right, got to do all three of those. Probably get
going on that this weekend. Are you a diehard as
a Christmas movie guy? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Okay, here's the Katie Katie, the news Lady Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I met a listener the other day, and when he
found out I was on the show, the only thing
he said to me is I love it when.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
You guys play buy the dip.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Yeah, that was his favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Why that's funny. I don't buy the dip. What is
my final thought? Yeah, I feel bad as a parent
that it's gotten this close. Bub. We'll get it up tomorrow,
the tree, and then we'll decorate it and we'll have
some snacks and play the music, and I'll get some
presents under there, and it's beginning to look a lot
like Christmas. And I love the whole thing as long
(35:04):
as I don't have to go to it to a mall,
which I might have to do at some point. Oh boy,
this time of year, you got you gotta be. Some
people love it. Some people feel the Christmas spirit when
they're parking. I do not. I feel like murderous rage.
Homicidal rage is what I feel.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
It's really Christmas is getting slammed into everywhere you go,
armstrong in getdy, wrabbing up.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Another grueling four hour work day, so many people to
think and one way to thank them would be the
Armstrong in geeddy dot com and buy some merch. I
don't know if you can get it in time for Christmas,
but still worth by Armstrong in geeddy dot com. We
will see on Monday. God bless America, Armstrong and Getty.
And I'll just say this, I mean he's ignoring the
(35:47):
Iranian mothership in particularly, so let's go with the public
is going to demand something be done. The United States
Air Force is going to shoot down says, oh Lord,
you wanted sometown. We shut some down.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
You happy and again, thank you so much for saying
bye bye.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That was great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Geddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
That's going viral.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A woman in Wisconsin admitted to leaving something pretty unusual
at a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Take a look of this, an urn full of ashes
found in a movie theater in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It appears the mystery has been solved.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The woman now as she left the urn there on purpose.
She says, the remains inside are those of her father.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
With whom she did not have a close relationship. She
didn't want the remains in her home.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So when she went to see a movie, she brought
the urn and dished it underneath seats where Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Beetlejuice was playing Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice one Moviego was like ern,
I thought it was a promotional popcorn. Butchet, he's getting
a lot of cheese nuts. That's all I'm getting here.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh geez, that's gross.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Wow, what an interesting story. So she so she obviously
went through the process of having her father creamated, went
to the service, and ended up getting the ashes. Even
though she didn't have a good enough relationship with him
that she wanted to keep the ashes. I would have
thought that would have broken down earlier somewhere and then rather.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Than somebody asked for him to be cremated. I don't,
But how does she end up with the ashes?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
If she hates him so much that she doesn't she's
going to leave him somewhere?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That just seems weird. Why wouldn't she say no, you
keep them? No, I just I think in a lot
on a happy family, she do. What do you have
to do to minimize conflict?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay? Even the ashes? Okay, even if I go with that. Yeah,
your disposal of them isn't throw them in the trash,
throw them off a cliff, Yeah, depending on how angry
you are about him. Whenever you a movie theater and
leave him under the seat.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's amazing how often this is all the analysis you need.
I know what I'll do, dot dot dot, and then
you fill it in with what they did, and you think,
how the hell do you got right? You decide, I mean,
I get that you think of it, but then you
decide that's your best course of action. Maybe maybe she's
sitting there in the movie with the ashes and thought,
you know what, this movie sucks and my dad did too.
(02:25):
I'm leaving the movie. I'm leaving him. I don't know
who knows. You'd have to ask her. That's some odd
damn behaviors being of odd behavior. This is a Twitter
thread sent to me, brought to my attention by and
I did not clear whether this person wanted to be
named a very serious person? Uh not a crank the
(02:48):
opposite of a crank.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It is a Twitter.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Post by Jennifer's Xiang zeg z e Ng, who is
an American of Chinese origin. She has about her core
of a million followers. She says her her profile is writer,
reporter and China expert news and analysis on Chinese affairs,
and is followed by a number of people who we
(03:14):
follow and and are serious observers of China. Okay, Having
said that, I'm just going to read the first part
to you. Can you believe this is a US Navy
recruiting office in Alhambra, California. Every recruiter here is Chinese,
as well as all the people coming to enlist. The
working language here is also Chinese.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, so you don't mean of Chinese origin, but born
here speak English? Why are they speaking Chinese there? I mean,
clearly they're Chinese Americans. They can't be Chinese nationals. But
let me let me go on a little bit. This
is why I'm so I'm so completely befuddled by this.
And there are pictures and videos, as she makes clear
(03:58):
in a bit, let me just read on and then
we'll get to some of the questions. The video was
filmed by a Chinese language YouTuber and the US Navy
recruiter who took him there to film all this is
and she names the rank and the gentleman's name.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He's got his name obviously of Chinese origin. In the
description box of this video on YouTube, which was uploaded
on December one, twenty twenty four, this naval guy's contact
information is provided, and what concerns me is that the
first option listed is his we Chat ID to get
in touch with an alleged US military recruiter. We Chat
(04:37):
is the big Chinese social media site. The telephone number
of the office comes as the second choice. As all
data on we Chat is controlled by the CCP, this
at least gives the CCP access to the personal data
of all those who apply to join the US Navy
and who are admitted. The second question is why is
this office staffed exclusively by Chinese individuals. The other day
(05:00):
I shared a video where a Chinese American military member said,
if the US goes to war with China, he would
quit the US Army because he doesn't want to fight
against China.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
If all these Chinese people recruited through this office feel
the same way, what will happen? And the worst case
scenario is what if some of them are recruited by
the CCPs spies or perhaps they are already spies. One
thing I am sure of from listening to their accent
is that they all come from mainland to China. Everyone
in this video, and the title of the original Chinese
language video is quote, how desperate are Chinese people to
(05:34):
join the US military? They're overwhelming recruitment offices, each with
their own reasons for enlistening. Finally, this the Chinese word
used as Chinese symbols, which can be translated as Chinese
people or more precisely people from PRC or people of
PRC the People's Republic of China. In the mind or
subconsciousness of the youtubeer who shot this video. All these
(05:55):
people still belonged to the prc.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
OH.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I hope that's looked into. Yeah, I don't get this.
I am absolutely befuddled by this.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's not hard to imagine somebody of Chinese descent being
very willing to join the US military to fight against China,
right because you didn't like, I mean, we are friend
ying Ma. She's not a friend of a fan of
she grew up in China, She's not a fan of China.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
She also retweeted something from somebody on the East Coast
Chinese illegals seeking naturalization lured by US military offices ran
by Chinese individuals and advertised in China. This person said,
I've reported on this before, but in New York. It
doesn't surprise me. So it's like, you can get your
(06:50):
papers if you serve in the military, you can get
American papers, no matter how you got in the country,
So enlist today. Well, if anybody has any idea what
the ELL's going on here, what's behind it? I would
love to know. Again, she does not appear to be
any sort of crackpot, and the person who sent this
(07:10):
to me is absolutely not either.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Okay, yeah, if you know anything about it, email or text.
So with all the UFOs drones flying around in New Jersey,
for instance, that might be from China or wherever, that
has some people talking about alien life forms. Elon had
an interesting text the other day about the likelihood of
(07:37):
intelligent life on other planets that I wanted to pass
along because I found it fascinating. We also have clips
of the week we need to get to all the
way stay here.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I almost feel bad that I may have misled you,
but not really, because I think this is a it's
a learning moment. It's that's what I was looking for.
You remember phrase with like you escape it pot People
don't say it anymore, Thank goodness. It was a teachable moment. Ironically,
don't repeat cliches anyway. So this we were just talking
(08:10):
about this recruitment office al Hambro, California that appears to
be entirely run by Chinese speaking people, and it looks
like they're just recruiting other Chinese people and it's extremely
suspicious and weird and it is. I scrolled way, way, way,
way way down in the feed and finally came across
a guy saying, Hey, this is a sophisticated deep fake
(08:33):
and he's a military guy.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And he points out a number of the errors you
would not catch wow unless you're knowledgeable about military military procedures,
ribbons and that sort of thing. And he catches some
other inconsistencies that if you spent a couple hours of
your time researching the people in the video and their
actual rank and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It is scary, right, And so you are correct that
this is worth doing, even though it was misleading in
the beginning. Just to show how easy it is to
be misled by AAI deep fakes, including people that are
pretty knowledgeable the original source of this to you, and
(09:19):
they're only going to get better. They're only going to
get better. That video the other day, if you haven't
seen the video of Trump and Jill Biden front pews
Notre Dame Cathedral the other day, they're talking and then
like they get into a fight. It's so damned real looking.
I mean, if you went this fight not an argument, yeah, fistfight.
(09:40):
If you went back ten years and showed me that,
I thought, holy crap, Donald Trump and Joe Biden got
in a fight. It's only because I'm aware of AI,
and it's so unlikely that that would happen that I
jumped to the fact that it's ai. It looked completely believable.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think the twenty first century might make humankind insane, yeah,
or just really really weird.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean science fiction writers need
to get into what's going to happen when nobody believes
anything that they read here or see.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So well already covered that ground.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What is information at that point? What the party tells
you it is. So I just came across something damned interesting. Hey,
that's what we're shooting for. Huh. This is from Elon
Musk's Twitter feed, and this is something different than I
was going to talk about, but I just came across it.
Elon Musk said it's annoying when Chomsky is right, and
(10:38):
that got my attention because Noam Chomsky is one of
the most annoying bastard on Earth. Is weird politics and
everything like that. But here's Noam Chomsky talking about the
pseudo intellectualism, intellectualism of post modern literary theorists. I don't
know why he laid this out the video. It looks
(10:59):
like he's less It's a deep sake. He's been an
old man my whole life. So here's the quote, and
this is about hearing all the gobbledygook from various critical
race theory people and that sort of stuff. If you
look at what's happening, I think it's pretty easy to
figure out what's going on. I mean, suppose you're a
literary scholar at some elite university or an anthropologist or whatever.
(11:23):
If you do your work seriously, that's fine, but you
don't get any big prizes for it. On the other hand,
you take a look over in the rest of the university,
and you got those guys in the physics department and
the math department, and they have all kinds of complicated theories,
which of course we can't understand, but they seem to
understand them. And they have principles, and they deduce complicated
things from the principles, and they do experiments and they
(11:43):
find either the experiments work or they don't work. And
so that's really impressive stuff. So I want to be
like that too, over in the humanities. So I want
to have a theory in the humanities, you know, literary criticism, anthropology,
and so on. There's a field called theory. We're just
like the physicists. They talking in comprehen We can talk
in comprehensibly. They have big words, We have big words.
(12:04):
They draw far reaching conclusions. We'll draw far reaching conclusions.
We're just as prestigious as they are. Now. If they say, well,
look we're doing real science and you guys aren't. That's white, male, sexist,
bourgeois whatever, the answer is, that's what we say. How
are we need different from them? Okay, and that's appealing
to the people in the humanities. Why did he give
away the game there? But that is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That is one hundred percent correct and eloquently stated.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't know why he outed the people on his side.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I don't know. Maybe he's just a cantankerous old man
or something. But that's that's beautiful, right. And he's an
obnoxious lefty oh a mesater.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, and crazy in my opinion, But so yeah. So
the math physics guys, they got all kinds of stuff
that nobody understands. They win prizes. Everybody who's smart enough
to understand it seems to believe it. Yeah, let's do
the same thing over here, critical race theory and all
kinds of weird crap and make up the term LATNX
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And right exactly, yeah, and just the whole, well, the
whole you've got to innovate. To be an academic star,
you've got to come up with something new, which is
ruined education. Nothing works better than phonics, nothing. But you're
not gonna get some acclaim or a giant grant for
(13:26):
saying no, the old stuff is the way. You got
to keep doing it. So everybody's got to be, you know,
pushing the boundaries, and there are no boundaries to be
pushed in a lot of this stuff. You combine that
with the soft sciences, like he says, wanting to seem legit,
like I got a degree in political science and I
was really good at it, and I got a Bachelor
of Arts degree. Now so that wait a minute, it's
(13:49):
right there in the name of the major political science
that's not science, said the University of Illinois. If we
were just kidding you, please go away.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The liberal arts and sciences. The sciences is just to
make you shut up.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We don't mean it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So if you're a professor of women's trans ethnic studies
or something, you can come up with this theory of
how well, I'll say the US was founded on slavery
or something like that, and make up all this different stuff.
And the people in the physics department say that doesn't
make any sense. Well, it doesn't make sense to you.
Your stuff doesn't make sense to me, So let's just
(14:27):
agree to disagree. Then you go from there.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Listen to this here in the surreal landscape of modern academia,
it seems there's no idea to outlandish to be wrapped
in the veneer of intellectualism and published in a peer
reviewed journal. Entered belas Boro's paper Queering Babies auto Ethnographic
Reflections from a Gay Parents through Surrogacy. The paper, which
(14:51):
has been peer reviewed and published in an auspicious journal,
masquerades a scholarship while offering little more than the author's
subjective musings dressed up in the jargon of post war theory.
As its title suggests, that paper relies heavily on auto ethnography,
a method that is essentially a diary entry trying to
pass as a rigorous analysis. At its core, the essay's
(15:11):
premise that surrogate babies are queer creatures by default, and
that perhaps all babies babies are inherently queer stretches the
boundaries of logic, coherence and decency.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, so that whole thing there you just laid out.
The physics math people would say that sounds like it's
made up, and the people who made it up would say, well,
so does string theory. So again, let's agree to disagree.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right, so shut up and give me my PhD and
queer baby's studies.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Wow, oh that is interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Shut the universities down. Let's take a deep breath for
about five years, then repopulate them with sane people.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, huh, at least the parts that
aren't like the physics math department. Although, as we know,
the physics and math and biology departments have gotten infiltrated
by the the woke stuff too and have to work
it into the classrooms where I saw the other day
the one guy doing a rant and raven in front
(16:15):
of his lecture hall full of hostages. I mean, you know,
students that have to be there and listen to his
crap going on about how it was okay to murder
the CEO of United Healthcare. He was not like a
physics professor with some hard science, like, wow, you're as
crazy as those other people are.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well, he probably had to convincingly fill out his DEI
statement to get the gig. So thirty seven more qualified
physics professors who would not genuflect at the altar of
this cult didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Get the gig he did. Yeah, why did Noam Chomsky
give away the game? There?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Will?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I will think about that the rest of my days,
about the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I assume it's legit. One of our beloved listeners actually
email us a link to the same thing, so it's
getting attention.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Elon tweeted it out. That was his you know, his
thing was, it's annoying when Chomsky is right. We've got
a lot more on the way. I hope you can stay.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I had a conversation with my son last night. I've
been trying to convince them to this since he was little.
I understand why he didn't go for his little His
birthday is two days before Christmas, December twenty third, and
it makes it really makes a mess of the whole thing.
It's it's just it's it's too much. It's just too much.
Everybody gets together, you have cake, you got open presents,
(17:35):
and then like twenty four hours later, it feels like
you do it again, and it just it just always
seems like too much and like it lessens the other one. Anyway,
I was hoping that when he got older, maybe he'd
go for the half birthday that I know some of
you do. I remember when he was born, a bunch
of you said that that's what you do in your families.
So you decide because your birthday's too close to Christmas.
(17:57):
You celebrated at the six month mark, so do it
in June or July whatever, and then it has more
of a special feeling and blah blah blah. But uh,
he didn't want to go for it. He's a partially
because he's ocd AF that's five letters, and he wants
to do his birthday on his birthday. But man, the
birthday and getting ready for the birthday and then the
(18:18):
Christmas a lot. And I tell this story every year.
His older brother Sam, so he's his brother. Sam is
two when we bring home Henry from the hospital on
Christmas Eve, and Sam collapses to his knees and starts
crying because he really he was able to understand as
(18:39):
a two year old the jig is up. I am
no longer the only show in town. All the focus
is gonna be on whoever this is, and I already
don't like him, and and oh it was I can
still picture. It was so sad. He just he tried
to smile, he tried to be happy because we're hey,
here's your new brother, and he kind of smiled, and
then he just collapsed on the floor crying. And oh
(19:01):
it was painful. And I know it is a common thing,
not unique to my family, but oh that hurt. With
the Christmas tree there and all the presents. Have you
ever known anybody to have for birthday, Katie, if you
ever heard of that before? Now, yeah, I would do it.
I wouldn't want to do it when I was a kid, probably,
but past a certain age. Yeah, let's let's let's let's
(19:23):
let's do presence gifts hubbub in the middle of the summer,
not have both of them two days apart.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, I want two sets of presents.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And try as you might, there's just no way. It's
the same amount of stuff I think that you're gonna
get when they're together. There's always kind of a combo.
This is your combo birthday because it's a very big guy.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Whatever I don't know how long did it take for
that sting of no longer being the only child to
kind of go do you think I.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Don't know, he's fourteen. I'll let you know if it
wears off. I don't know. I don't actually know. It
wasn't that long, but it makes sense. I probably did
the same thing. I was the oldest, and then you
know you're the only show in time. I look at
the Christmas pictures from when I before, I have when
I was the only child there briefly, and oh my god,
the amount of presents I got, And then you know
(20:12):
it changes when there's competition.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So here's one of the most annoying things that's happened
in recent memory. San Diego County was voting on whether
or not to become what they're calling a super sanctuary county.
So not only are they gonna, uh not give up
the idea of being a sanctuary county, we're gonna be
a super sanctuary county, whatever the hell that is. There
(20:37):
was only one no vote. It passed, God dang it.
So more on that after we hear some of the
actual arguments. This is San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond,
who we've had on the show before talking about he
was the no vote. He was the only no vote
on San Diego County becoming a super sanctuary county, and
(20:58):
he said this, I.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Think this policy goes beyond California's existing sanctuary laws by
adding an additional layer of bureaucracy that hinders local law
enforcement from directly notifying ICE about illegal immigrants who are
currently in our jails and they have committed heinous crimes
(21:20):
including child abuse or endangerment, driving under the influence of
alcohol or drugs, but only if this conviction is for
a felony, possession.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Of an unlawful deadly weapon, gang.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Related offenses, a crime resulting in death or involving personal
affliction or great bodily injury, possession or use of a firearm,
and the commission of an offense torture, rape, and kidnapping.
That's the population we're talking about. So under this policy,
and if a legal immigrant commits one of these serious crimes,
(21:55):
San Diego County would be legally prohibited from directly coreating
with ICE. This effectively protects the offenders from deportation, allowing
them to remain in our communities where they could cause
that same harm.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Again. This is so bone deep crazy. I have trouble
happy wrapping my head around it. I guess we should
have recorded some of the arguments in favor of it,
so I would at least understand what their thinking is.
Let's let mister Desmond roll on with the awfulness of
(22:32):
San Diego becoming San Diego County becoming a super sanctuary county.
And this isn't just theoretical.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
We have seen the devastating consequences of such policies across
the nation. Barbie Larsen was brutally murdered in her own
home by an illegal alien gang member with a history
of drug possession and burglary. He was released because of
sanctuary loss. Kate Steinel was senselesusly shot killed in a
(23:00):
San Francisco peer but a llegal immigrant with a long
history of violent crime. Just months ago, I sat next
to Patty Moren, a mother whose life was shattered when
her daughter was raped murdered by an illegal immigrant. Her
heartbreaking testimony is something I'll never forget. A reminder that
these tragedies are not statistics, they are human lives forever altered.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You know what we ought to do hands an executive producer,
maybe you get some of the arguments for any county
becoming a super sanctuary county, because we already are a
sanctuary state in California, and they wanted to add to
that the protections for not just people here who are
here illegally, but people who are illegal here illegally and
(23:47):
in jail, already committed a crime. Sometimes, as you heard,
they're a terrible crime. I don't even understand the argument.
I don't even know where to start because I don't
understand their argument. So maybe we ought to grab some
of that and we can play it next week. But
let's let Desmond wrap up here.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
And these tragedies are preventable, but sanctuary laws allow them
to happen by allowing illegal criminals back into our communities
instead of into the hands of ice. San Diego County
is already spending five million dollars annually of taxpayer money
to provide legal counsel for illegal immigrants facing deportation, no
(24:26):
matter what the reason is that they're being deported. This
proposed legislation, to me, seeks to prioritize the interest of
illegal criminal immigrants over the safety of law abiding immigrants
and citizens.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted three
to one yesterday. That was the one that you've been hearing.
Who was against this to restrict the use of county
resources for federal immigration enforcement. That ideology is so nuts
to me. I don't even know where to start. Uh.
I think you're blinded by your weird m I don't
(25:10):
even know. I mean, like I said, I can't even
get in the headspace. I can't even steal man their argument.
As they say, if you're gonna have a good debate,
you're supposed to be able to express the other person's
position to their satisfaction. I can't do that on this
one because I don't get their ideology. Some of it
(25:31):
is just this is the opposite of what Trump wants.
So some of it is that it's Trump arrangement syndrome.
It says, oh, Trump wants a boot out of legals,
then I have to be again. Some of it is that,
and it's very popular in certain quarters, including a lot
of San Diego. But wow, we will get some of
the arguments for the super sanctuary county so we can
hear what these numb nuts think we'll do. That next week,
(25:52):
maybe we'll have a mister desmond on he could lay
it out for us pretty well, I guess. But there
you go. Trump won the election. You saw all of
the polling on all the border stuff. It's between eighty
and ninety percent Americans want secured borders. Sixty percent of
Americans want every single undocumented immigrant booted out of the
(26:13):
country period. We're not even talking illegals. You could be
talking to hard working, productive family members. Sixty percent want
them boot it out. I don't think that's ever gonna happen.
I don't think that's workable. But that is the feeling
of the country right now. But in San Diego County
you had three people that voted for keeping criminals in
the country. People that are known criminals. We want you
in our country, and the taxpayer will help support them.
(26:35):
Freaking nuts. We'll finish strong next strong.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
In Seattle, a pair of suspected jewelry thieves attempted to
escape by row.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Boat before being arrested. A row boat. Is there no
slower escape vehicle available? It's the cops quick to the
ghetaway blimp. They're trolling right at us. That's pretty funny.
A robo pretty much is the slowest thing you can
(27:09):
come up with. Uh, that is hilarious. Hi y'all doing.
We got one more week left in the year of broadcasting?
Am I right about that? Michael? Am I looking at
that correctly? One more broadcasting week next week Monday through Friday,
and then we'll have our end of the year show
on Friday, which is always baffo and full of all
kinds of fun stuff. Then we're off for two weeks
while you complain to us through texts and emails about
(27:29):
why aren't we working? And then we come back to
start a brand new year of fun and frivolity with
a new president, Which leads me to this. Mark Alprin,
writing in his newsletter today about the amazing day Trump
had yesterday Thursday, by the standards of presidential transition and
Trump's most fundamental desires on the National town Square, was
a super baffo day for the maven of Mara a Lago,
(27:52):
fusing in a series of Wall Street photo ops at
the New York Stock Exchange, where he rang the bell,
first time any president or about to be president has
done that in forty years since. Wrong with Reagan and
his person of the Year honor with Time Magazine, which
doesn't matter to most people, but it matters a lot
to Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yes, Katie, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot,
you keep saying boffo.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You don't know the word boffo. No, it was wonderful, fantastic,
big Okay.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I thought it was like an acronym for something.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
No, okay, not just you're away saying you know af
and all this stuff.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
I thought boffo fit in the FAFO. I don't know,
I should I should stop saying some of those things. Actually,
Trump having members of his family and political posse flanking
him there at the Stock Exchange with the giant Time
magazine cover behind his head, might have been the highest moment.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Of his life, which is absolutely true. It's not that
just that the big Apple is his oyster. As the
Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness. The Washington Post, they
came up with that massed head statement when Trump was
elected in twenty sixteen because they were going to be
the resistance. Even the Washington Post noted the entire known
galaxy is now arguably more under Trump's thumb than it
(29:06):
has ever been. And this man was president for four
years already really quite amazing. Mark Alpern goes on to write,
there has never been a modern transition like this, with
the incoming folks making visible progress on areas including immigration,
foreign policy. Doge, that'd be cutting back on spending, executive
orders of all stripes, and more before he even takes office.
(29:28):
Peggy Noonan, as she often does, writing in the Wall
Street Journal, said it best or is she a postperson?
Framing that Trump is what he is doing this December.
You have to see that what we are witnessing right
now is truly remarkable, with no precedent in US history.
He's essentially functioning as a sitting president a month and
a half before his president. We're now down to what
(29:50):
is the date today? So he got a month and
a week five weeks before he's actually president. Now the
part Joe was talking about a little bit later. I
don't know if birds coming home to roost is a
fair way to talk about it or not. It's just
(30:10):
the reality of people still have a bad mood about
the economy. Economies move slow. It'll take a while to
fix that, even if it can be fixed. Making people
feel better about what stuff costs and everything like that,
he's going to have a margin of like one or
two in the House. He got a new majority leader
in the Senate that nobody is exactly sure where he's
(30:31):
going to be on things, and then you got a
couple of wards that could go south at any moment.
So but you know, such as being president. If you
don't want that sort of stress and everything, don't take
the job. Michael, Where are you and your Christmas shopping?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I got to get all the stocking stuff or stuff.
You're the little items?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Tree up?
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Oh yeah, tree's up.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Trees up? Yeah, packages wrapped the ones that you do have.
Are there packages under the tree?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
There are some packages.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
I still got a lot of rapping to do.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Man, you're making me feel horrible, Katie, tree up, Nope,
that makes me feel better. Good. There you go. Will
there be a tree or a Yeah, it's going up.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Husband's working crazy hours and unfortunately I can't reach it
and I'm not going to risk falling off a louder
or hurting my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Oh that's right. You're one of those Jesus Haytan artificial
tree people also allergic to pine.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
But we can go to Jesus Haymen if you want.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That's a big difference. Hanson, Is your tree up? Gotta be?
You got little kids? Tree up? Oh my god? Does
that mean? Does that mean of course it is? Or
hell no, it's not. He's got to go. Apparently it's not.
(31:42):
So apparently this tree is not up. Oh wow, man,
you got kid. I know I got kids too, and
my tree is not up, and I feel bad about it.
I should have a tree up. It should be decorated.
There should be presents under the tree. It should smell
like a nutmeg or something in my house, like you know,
like in a movie. But it doesn't. Yeah, it will
this weekend. We're going to go get the tree tomorrow
and we'll get all that going, get.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
The inflatable snowman on the front yard so that you
know that works.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And then I got to wrap some presents because a
tree with no presents under it, when you get this
close to Christmas is just sad. I mean, it just
makes a tear go down my CHEEKO. I've considered going
artificial tree. I know they're way better. I'm a child
of the seventies. We had among the first artificial trees.
When I was a kid, and those were not very good.
(32:27):
They were they did there was. It was a plastic
stick with other plastic coming out of it.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Yes, we went artificial after many years of buying a
real one.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Just cost too much. The price drove you there. Yeah yeah,
I saw a kind of not particularly spectacular tree yesterday.
Fairly small, got it. I think the boy scout a lot,
and it was with the tacks and the little add
ons and everything they do. I think it was almost
one hundred dollars really. Oh yeah, yeah, I go. Ohh,
So I go cut down a tree every single year
(32:57):
with us all, and I will do that tomorrow and
kids will start and then they'll get tired, and then I,
as an old man, will be on my hands and
knees cutting the tree, risking a heart attack for their joy.
And then we'll bring it up there and then they
shake it out and they wrap it and they put
the stand on it. And once I get done with
everything like that, it'll be dang near two hundred dollars
for just like a regular sized tree.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Man, you can get one that already has lights on
it and just use that every year.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh, the artificial trees have lights already.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Oh yeah, you plug them in and bam, you're done.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I feel like that takes away some of it. Isn't
decorating the tree part of the whole thing. Get snacks
and then like music and we decorate the tree. One
time in a house I had which I had a
double story entryway, I got a twenty foot tree, twenty
foot real tree, which was spectacular. But man, that's a
(33:45):
lot of work when that thing's done and you got
to get it out of there and haul it away.
And so hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong
and Getty. Yeah. I wish I could have done it
with the kids one time, the twenty foot tree, because
that is something. We got one of those in your house.
It is wild. Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Me.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Let's get a final thought from our what do we
call you? Michael Technical director, Tactical director Michael Angelo.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Michael, Yeah, I gotta get my Christmas movies going. Christmas vacation, elf.
You know some of the other Christmas bees. Oh yeah,
Christmas Story, that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Right, got to do all three of those. Probably get
going on that this weekend. Are you a diehard as
a Christmas movie guy? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Okay, here's the Katie Katie, the news Lady Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I met a listener the other day, and when he
found out I was on the show, the only thing
he said to me is I love it when.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
You guys play buy the dip.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Yeah, that was his favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Why that's funny. I don't buy the dip. What is
my final thought? Yeah, I feel bad as a parent
that it's gotten this close. Bub. We'll get it up tomorrow,
the tree, and then we'll decorate it and we'll have
some snacks and play the music, and I'll get some
presents under there, and it's beginning to look a lot
like Christmas. And I love the whole thing as long
(35:04):
as I don't have to go to it to a mall,
which I might have to do at some point. Oh boy,
this time of year, you got you gotta be. Some
people love it. Some people feel the Christmas spirit when
they're parking. I do not. I feel like murderous rage.
Homicidal rage is what I feel.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
It's really Christmas is getting slammed into everywhere you go,
armstrong in getdy, wrabbing up.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Another grueling four hour work day, so many people to
think and one way to thank them would be the
Armstrong in geeddy dot com and buy some merch. I
don't know if you can get it in time for Christmas,
but still worth by Armstrong in geeddy dot com. We
will see on Monday. God bless America, Armstrong and Getty.
And I'll just say this, I mean he's ignoring the
(35:47):
Iranian mothership in particularly, so let's go with the public
is going to demand something be done. The United States
Air Force is going to shoot down says, oh Lord,
you wanted sometown. We shut some down.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
You happy and again, thank you so much for saying
bye bye.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That was great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Geddy
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