December 17, 2024 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms range.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
From Studio C See Senior, a dimly lit room deep
with them the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound.
We've got into stockings, hung We've got red and green bunting.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We're all wearing little curled elk shoes, Santa hats.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Technically I'm dressed as a nutcracker, but anyway, and today
we're under the two legit our general Manager Johnald Donald J.
Trump doing press conferences, conferencing with the press, speaking to
the American people. Imagine how weird is that a president
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and or president elect communicating with the.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
People of the United States. What's he thinking?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
So here's Gerald Baker writing in the Wall Street Journal
about the Trump moment. This may be the first time
since the nineteen eighties and Reagan that we have a
GOP president with the standing, the authority, and the legislative
and executive resources to reshape politics in the US and abroad.
He goes through a list of all the business leaders
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and powerful democrats and everybody that have either spoken to
him or gone to visit him, et cetera, et cetera.
Only a few presidents changed the political weather by their
very election.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
John F.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Kennedy presaged the social and political transformations of the sixties.
Ronald Reagan and eighty announced the arrival of a new
political economy for the West five weeks before his inauguration.
Mister Trump's new order is well underway. I don't know
if that's overstating it or not making it a Kennedy
type Reagan type moment, but man, it certainly could be.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah, it's early days. It's a it's
a really good start. But these aren't normal early days.
That's the point. They're not like any early days I've seen, maybe.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Obama that first time where everybody was so in love
with him.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But yeah, it's this, this, this is amazing, especially for
a guy who, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
The only thing we've heard for ten years is his
high negatives and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Most unpopular this and that have ever this is astounding.
This is just astounding.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I think in two of the three examples we gave
of transitional periods presaging, you know, real change in America's
politics that was aided along by the incumbent being incredibly weak,
Jimmy Carr and Joe Biden specifically.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So I think there's just that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Do you remember Do you remember, unless you've got a
serious neurological condition, Yes, you remember the just euphoria on
the Democratic side of the aisle when Joe Biden about
a hot to have cared his way out of the
race and they got a new chance, the great Kamala Harris,
who everybody knew was moron.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But just the newness finally out with the old.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I think part of it is that, Honestly, Maggie Haberman,
who hates Trump, writes, he has enjoyed a steady stream
of vanquished opponents and critics and business leaders who once
spurned him, arriving to pay respects, seek jobs, or simply
watch him press play on the iPad that he uses
to control the music from the patio during the dinner hours.
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It's so funny that Trump runs the music during East the.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
DJ DJ Marlango. He has the iPad with him.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I've seen the videos of it, and they're all eating
and the songs about to end, and he's scrolling through
and picks.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm guessing a lot of yacht rock.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
A lot of yacht rock, and then he'll fire up
YMCA right before dessert and everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Does oh yes, dinner table events. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I maybe I'm gonna feel like a sap later, but
I'm optimistic that something could actually happen.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like with this Doge thing.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
The Committee's having their first big get together today, and
with Elon Musk's high profile and maybe just maybe enough
important people realizing it's practically now or never that something
can happen. I don't know. I hope I don't look
back on this in two years. In the thing I
am nothing. Nothing, nothing happened, not only little, but nothing.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, I think I don't think it'll be little or nothing.
I think it'll be significant. I know a lot of
our hopes will be dashed. I'm already highly troubled by
Trump's seeming willingness to sell the actual working man in
woman in favor of union support for the very very
few from the longshoreman, for instance. His support of that
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union and what they're doing and against you know, automation
is awful. That's picking you know what five hundred workers
prospects against the prospects of fifty million workers. Since more
efficient to docs and trade would be better for everybody,
and preventing that is only good for a tiny group
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of people.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Another thing about the Trump moment is his amazing for
him self control he's had thus far and had throughout
the press conference yesterday. He had an opportunity to go
Trump and go dark and go vengeance or go insult
on a whole bunch of different answers, and he took
a pass. How long can he keep that up? Is
Susie Wilds got some sort of special talent? Is she
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like custom motto was for Mike Tyson and nobody else
could do it? Can she whisper in his ear? Before
Trump goes out there, remember the goal. Keep your eye
on the prize, eyeing the prize. It's not about the
one person you hate. Keep your eye on the prize.
Because he took a pass on all kinds of.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Normal Trump targets yesterday, right right, You know, I was
gonna speculate that maybe it's that he's still trying to
earn the admiration of guys like Elon Musk, who he's
close to, and he wants to be the statesman. Although
Elon Musky is one of the great insult comics in
the history of the Internet.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So maybe not. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
You're right, though, I mean that observation is one hundred
percent right. He's very statesman like these days.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Can he keep that up? No? Oh is that rhetorical? Sorry,
he's older.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
He he might have decided. You know, I'd kind of
like to be remembered as a good president.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, And honestly, I don't think giving it up entirely
is a good idea anyway. That the the quick political wit,
the well placed insult where it's appropriate, Yeah, that's part
of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, but don't where it's appropriate is the key.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You've got to stay away from the you know, I
prefer people who don't get captured about John McCain or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know, all those things. They were just so over
the top that was ages ago. Yeah, but of course
you're right, Yeah, don't don't punch down.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
He didn't tweet out that picture of a fat Chris
Christie McDonald's over the weekend, So oh, maybe that's his outlet.
Maybe Susie Wils's go ahead, truth social your fat jokes
and all that sort of stuff doesn't really have might matter,
just at the podium on MIC. You could keep it
under control. Maybe that's his outlet.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
She's got a list of four people he's allowed to insult.
All right, you're feeling like it, go after Christy. Christy's fine. Kamala,
that'd be fine too. Oh, speaking of Kamala, I have
some Kamala news that please. People are gonna spit coffee
all over the windshields. It's it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Wow, that's cool, that's very, very exciting. I just it
has to do with her future plans. I have to
what is this stuff on my desk? I have to
resist the temptation to because I listened to NPR on
the way to work, and I really need to fight
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the temptation to just be a you know, a response
to NPR. Although NPR is pretty powerful, has really good
ratings all across the country a lot because they have
a different business model than every other radio station and
that they didn't have to worry about ads or profit
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I think a government support.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But so.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I feel like somebody needs to respond to some of
the news that they put out there, because I have
friends who believe all that NPR crap. But they did
a story about homelessness today, in particular to Montana, and
they presented it as since the Supreme Court ruled that
you don't have to supply shelter for homeless people, cities
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across America, including these in Montana, shutting down their homeless
shelters right before winter, and they presented it as if
the trump right wing Supreme Court swooped in and took
away a right that has always existed from are unhoused
as opposed to there was one wacky ruling that threw
homelessness into a crisis and finally we got it straightened
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back out again, right, And gonna look into that story
a little bit more later in the show. I think
it's important for the national conversation about homelessness. And I
don't know where all of y'all come down on it,
but a whole bunch of towns that had put up
shelters because that was the law at the time, and
they wanted to be able to boot the homeless people
out of their town, but you couldn't legally unless you
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had a shelter provided for them, and so they put
up enough shelters to provide for him. Now that that's
not the lawnymore. They're saying, okay, enough of the shelters.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well right right.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
In fact, those laws were so loopy you could safely
describe them as you're not allowed to enforce your laws
unless you have a bed for each vagrant. Right well,
the ultimate's camping, pan handling, sleeping on the sidewalk, what
have you, public defecation.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
The fastest growing homeless population in America right now is
in Montana, and pr of course portrayed as because of
high housing costs, rent and mortgages, because that's what we
all do if rent gets too high, we go live
on the street and new drugs.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But more on that later.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
The main question, of course, being is housing a right?
Is housing a right? That's what we got to figure
out as a country. My answer would be no. Let's
start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this It is Tuesday, December seventeenth, the year twenty
twenty four. Life was not a boor in twenty four?
Were Armstrong in getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Let's begin then, officially according FCC rules and regulations, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The show starts at mark.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Not going to comment on the putin question, but I
will comment on on BB.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Who had a very good talk.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
As you know, I gave warning that if these hostages
aren't back home by that date, all hell's going to
break out.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Trump threatening Hamas as opposed to threatening Israel is a
breath of fresh air. You think you've had a bad year, Hamas,
brace yourself? Right, How does mailbag look very good?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Quite nice?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Any chance next year is going to be like the
most normal year we've had in quite some time. No, no,
how could it? Well, we just came out of this
wacky presidential election. I feel like we could return to
some sort of normalcy. You don't think so, it's a
long shot.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You you bet that you will win handsomely if you win,
because with all the geo political instability going on right now,
the Middle East is about to go nuts by the
standards of the Middle.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
East, right, for instance, Russia, Ukraine and China. You're right, Uh,
here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Sanna's coming around and all the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Fat anyway, Anyway, I was tempted to jump into a
different discussion, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You got a tree, you don't got kids in your
house anymore. You have a tree up. Oh yeah, yep, festive.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Judy's got all over her nutcrackers out and and uh
yeah the house is nice. We're going to decorate it
when a little d our youngest gets here with her
man for a visit.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, why not.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I wish the big kids could be here, But work
and travel and all is tough this time here anyway. Uh,
here's a freedom loving quote of the day. I absolutely
love set along by Matt the Idaho Farmhan. It's Kevin Roberts,
who's the president of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm saving this one.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation
of fire. The preservation of fire strikes me as a
good metaphor for conservatism. It's not rose tinted nostalgia and
idealized past. It preserves they to the past and applies
its lessons to the present. Maintaining a controlled burn is
a way to a better future. Interesting tending the fire
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of democracy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I like that. No, you don't like that. You're not
impressed by that? No reaction at all.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well, the populace has to want that. I think that's
what happens. That's what I think I'm starting to learn
as I get older. No, if they don't, you jab
them with one of the burning embers. Continue to the metaphor.
I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, More on that to come, obviously, the ongoing conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
First, mail bag.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
If you would like to communicate, there are a couple
of ways to do it. You can text us four
one five, two nine five KFTC or drops a note
via email. Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Paolo one of a couple of people, one of several
people do weigh in on the Fermi paradox. If there
are so many planets, there ought to be a lot
of life. Why I haven't re found it? And Polo
goes into some of the numbers, which I think are
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so interesting. As we know, it requires a lot of
very special circumstances to evolve, so the occurrences of it
may be relatively sparse, but the universe is vast, so
it's likely to happen in places other than in the Earth.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And some of the numbers are mind blowing.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone.
They're an estimated two hundred billion to two trillion galaxies
in the universe.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The estimates just keep growing. His telescopes see further.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
So, you know, as he points out, but everything's very
very very far away and we can't get there really
detect much.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But then I like this from burbank Luke, but the
main question being, but then where are they?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Or as burbank Luke points out, and you know, I
almost jumped into this yesterday, but we were pressed for time,
when are they? The Fermi paradox makes sense for the
same reason. SETI is futile time. That's the our listening
giant listening telescope or what would you call listening dish right,
what's the term, doesn't matter station listening station. Surely there
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is was other intelligent life in the universe. They could
trundle along for eons and the primordial soup, then the lungs,
the legs, the opposable thumbs.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Then they're using rocks as tools and so on.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Eventually they figure out broadcast TV, which is what SETI
listens for, basically sitcoms of the Hexapus family holiday specials,
and the next thing you know, they all blow each
other up in the Pentane wars. The last part only
takes two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
There are no blips of sound out there from previous
civilizations that became advanced, none floating through the universe.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Not a blip. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
The numbers are too fast for me to comprehend. I've
decided decided a long time ago, the great, the great
questions of physics and science were so beyond me. I
would stick with the more mundane, you know, things that
we are dealing with here in the primordial soup.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Like how do I get the lid off this thing?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Little more like how should civilizations be organized? Okay, side
show Bob Wrights on the top of the drones. Isn't
it funny that we have more verified photos of Hunter's
junk than these drones. I'm starting to come on, I
did not see Hunter Biden's junk entering into the conversation
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comparison there it is. I'm starting to think this is
this is nothing more than our generation's War of the worlds.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Thanks Bob Well.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Trump was asking about this at the press conference sation day.
I thought his answer was damned interesting. We'll play that
for you coming home. Then, Shaun ways In. I mean,
it could be the DoD but why did the drones
force Right Patterson Air Base to close on Friday. I'm
not saying it's the enemy, but I'm thinking you're given
these morons too much credit, Like, what about the Biden
administration has led you to think they're on this. Hell,
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we're probably about a week away from Harris being appointed.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Drones are Yeah, they didn't close an air Force base.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Briefly, you'd think if the government was behind the drones,
the government would be able to tell the Airporce base
you don't need to close it's us.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, yeah, you would, unless it was just so top
secret that, hey, look, air Force is going to be
inconvenience for a couple of days. But we've got to
do this again.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Trump was asked about it. I thought his answer was interesting,
among other things, on the ways they do.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We'll take a look at TikTok.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
You know, I have a warm spot in my heart
for TikTok because I won Youth by thirty four points.
And there are those that say that TikTok has something
to do with that TikTok had an impact.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And so we're taking a look at it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But you know, we won youth.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Republicans are always thirty points down in youth.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Trump is such a negotiator, and that's what he has
been his whole life. I mean, the whole will take
a look at that is just it's just it's just
a what do you got for me? That's what that is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yes, And the fact that his reaction when asked about
TikTok was not about the national security of the United
States but how it benefited him is well that's Trump.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Well yeah, also, but you know, he's he's he's wanting
somebody to come forward with enough money or giveaways or
something to get him to change his mind. He's just
he's he's he's the negotiator, and he's always open. I'm
always open. Make an offering. Is everything is up.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
For negotiation, make an offer.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, and some big money guy out there heard in effect,
you know, Trump is pro TikTok. We could probably get
some pretty good policy. Maybe we do try to buy
it from the Chinese.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I guess my point was he he just never closes
the door on anything like like we've you know, we
have agents that have shown that sort of thing. U
and TikTok's set to go away what middle of January.
I mean, it's going to not be a thing in
the United States in the middle of January unless something
big happens. And uh, maybe the biggest opponent of TikTok
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in the entire US government is Marco Rubio, who's been
on every talk show he could get on for years
now talking about how it's insane that we allow TikTok
in this country. And that's Trump's Secretary of State. So
it'd be interesting to see how that plays out. As
they pointed out on Foction.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Friends this morning, quoting Marco Rubio.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You download the TikTok app, they immediately the Chinese Communist
Party has access to everything in your phone immediately when
you download that app.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I think it's We're such a dope as a country.
We really are. It is nuts, of course it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
And in addition to that, and then I'll move on
from TikTok because I wasn't planning to talk TikTok, but
in addition to the fact that they have access to
all your infos so basically, you know, get into everything,
build a profile on you, steal information, all that sort
of stuff. They're putting out all this news that is
pro China's agenda and anti Vus agenda and whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Smart person who has listened to on cable.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
News today said, TikTok is going to be full of news.
And since our young people get half their news from
TikTok about why the tariffs against China are horrible and
shouldn't happen, how they're hurting them, right, and so we
let our young people be educated on all the issues
by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, they're being stupefied. They're stupid ofied half the time,
and the other half of the time they're being misinformed
for the purposes of cheshin ping.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
But there are funny videos.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh come on, is there any country that's got any
sense left?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'll move there.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I'm sure there's lots of these, But I saw the
one yesterday where it's popular now to have T shirts
that have the what do you call that symbol thing
on where you put your phone over it with the
picture like the menus at restaurants now, Oh QR code, Yeah,
QR coat on T shirts and you do the QRE
because they're curious, you do the qrqte on the guy's
T shirt and it's the Trump Trump doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yes, yeah, that's so funny. Speaking of Trump press.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Conference yesterday that I saw almost universal, if not praise,
grudging He much better now than he was before. Ish
from the MSNBC crowd on the way he handled his
press conference. But here's here's him me and ask about
the drone situation.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
You call them on the drones that are flying out
reports and it seems like that there people have a
big disc the government.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
The government knows what is happening.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Look, our military knows where they took off from.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
They know where it came from and where it went.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
And for some reason they don't want to comment, and
I think they'd be better off saying what it is.
Our military knows, and our president knows. And for some
reason they want to keep people in suspense.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I can't imagine it's the enemy, because it was the
enemy they'd blasted out, even if they were late, they'd blasted.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Something strange is going on. For some reason, they don't
want to tell the people, and they should because the
people are really I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
We want to know.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
They're very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won't
spend the weekend in Bedminster. I've decided to cancel my trip.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
No, we don't have the follow up. That's important, the
follow up being have you been briefed on this? And
he said, I'm I'm not going to comment on that.
It sure sounds like he has been, and he almost
certainly has been. As the incoming president, they start doing
the full on daily briefing with the incoming president right here,
So he's been briefed on it. He knows what's going on.
I thought he obviously, by Trump style, took a pass
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there to take a shot at Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Our president knows.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
He didn't say sleepy Joe or stupid Joe, or Joe's wandering.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Around to the backyard or any of the normal things.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
He didn't refer to him as the Mummy, as some
radio shows perhaps have.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, and because he was president of the United States
for four years, he also absolutely knows the capabilities of
our military.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And he's saying that the military knows where they're coming
from and what they are, so.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Hey, when he was saying, look, the military knows what's
going on. They know where they took off. If they
came from a garage, they could go to that cash.
Am I the only one who is sitting here thinking
is this classified? Are we supposed to know? The military
can do that? But it is interesting what the technology
is now.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Most people seem to think that he did has had
a briefing on the whole thing, and so, yeah, so
him saying the military's on top of it, but they
won't tell you. For some reason, the president knows, but
for some reason they're not telling you that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
That's interesting. I don't.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I'm still mystified as to what's going on me too.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
There are at least five different scenarios that I consider
equally likely. I'm completely at c on this one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
One other Trump related thing that I wanted to throw
out before we take a break is RFK Junior was
on the hill yesterday trying to woo senators to his side,
and this is another example of if you take your
information through mainsteam media. RFK Junior is a complete nut
job and everything he proposes is evil, awful, and only
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a crazy person would think it. Pulling out today, eight
and ten American adults support requiring nutrition, education, and federally
funded medical schools.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's one of RFK junior things.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Seventy four percent support banning certain additives, including dies, from
the nation's food supply. Another RFK junior thing, a seventy
four percent. Now, that doesn't mean the population's right or
well informed on this stuff, but I'm just saying it's
not a lot of these things as aren't being received like,
oh my god, how could he do that? Like is
being portrayed portrayed on the evening news even on two
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thirds of Americans, including seventy one percent of Democrats, want
the federal government to increase restrictions on the use of
pesticides and agricultural products. Banning processed foods in public school
lunch is supported by two thirds of both Democrats and Republicans.
I don't know if I agree with all this stuff,
but the public is not going Could you possibly even
on the one that gets less than fifty percent? On
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florid Fluorid in the nation's drinking water, Kennedy said he
wants to get rid of drinking water. Fluoride removal is
backed by fifty six percent Republicans only a third of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
But that's not.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Nut job territory for discussing it. I don't know what
I think of that issue.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
By the way, if it leads toward a reassessment of
the policy using twenty first century science, there's nothing wrong
with that. On some other public issues raised by Kennedy,
Republicans Democrats are more split, like whether the drug ozimpic
ought to be restricted for weight loss. Forty three percent
of Democrats support restricting the drug fifty two percent of Republicans,
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so as opposed to what.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I know it can help with like alcoholism and stuff
like that, but I can't imagine anybody'd be against that.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I don't know the issue on the people are saying
the ozempic for other things.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I have to look it up.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, I didn't know that was a hot topic that
they even asked about it. The one, oh, I wonder
on the whole food coloring thing, it's probably not good
to put extra stuff in our food. That's completely unnecessary,
even if you even if there's no science saying that
making this look a little more brown or red or green.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Or whatever doesn't do any damage.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
What's the upside of putting you know, chemicals and food,
But I think you take away that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Food dye and a lot of us are going to
look at our food and.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Think, ah, could you bring back the food dye.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't like the way it just looks. Well, that
doesn't make it good though.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I mean, we've gotten used to the utterly unnatural rainbow
hues and processed food.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I think we need to ease into it. Though.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Everything's gonna be kind of a gray brown, right, lots
of gray brown food.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Hey, it's nothing more delicious looking than that. Kind of weird?
Is that green or is that gray?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Anyway? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's you don't have to have food that's colored like
a tropical fish to find it delicious. I mean, again,
it's utterly unnatural. We weren't eating food that looked like
that seventy five years ago. We'll go back, it'll.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Be fine, decent point. Oh yeah, that's the one thing,
the one thing I'll I'll bring up the one thing.
RFK Junior said that is clearly true.
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Speaker 5 (28:35):
A lot of critics of RFK Junior are going with,
for instance, make Polio great Again. You know, is anti
vax stance, How anti vaxx is he Trump was asking
about this yesterday. One of the things he said is
RFK Junior is a lot less out there than a
lot of you think. And you'll find that out during
the hearings, which is what you keep saying. We have
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a process for this. They'll be asked about it, we'll
all get to hear it, and we'll see what he thinks. Yeah,
wild press speculation is not actually mentioned in the constitution,
but there is this from RFK Junior. Two thirds of
American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. Fifty
years ago, that number was less than one percent. We've
gone from one percent to sixty six percent in fifty years.
(29:19):
I don't know if that's because of food dye or
vaccinations or whatever. But as we were talking about yesterday,
chronic depression and anxiety and all these different things really
worth taking a look at.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Why you know that reminds me I came across this.
I haven't independently verified it. But it's from a Twitter
account that I've followed and looked at many times and
never found it to be wrong. This is from Business Insider,
which is a liberal publication, but you know, not completely
louning to its daily calories consumed to buy Americans?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh boy, is it not gonnout me specifically?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yes, yes, In fact, your picture with big fat cheeks
is right at the illustration here. Actually it's like a
big gichanic hamburger and fries that looks really good.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I have a doughnut in the other hand. Wish I
was eating it right now.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Anyway, in nineteen sixty one, I'm going round a little
bit here. Ironically, the American the average American consumed twenty
nine hundred calories twenty nine hundred, it's now thirty seven hundred.
Whoa Why have Americans gotten fatter? I mean, there are
a handful of things that have contributed. But if that
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is true, if that's verifiable, come on.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
The average American takes in thirty seven hundred calories a day.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yes, sir, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
That's from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations Statistics Division National geographic.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I don't know, I don't know how you'd nail that down,
but man, if that's true, that's a high number.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Although do you that strike you as accurate? Though?
Speaker 5 (30:54):
If you eat out much, Man, you sit down at
an Applebee's and you look at the menu, if you
live somewhere where they have the calories next to the
I mean, you get a big cheeseburger and fries and everything,
it's gonna be like twenty four hundred calories to get
a You're gonna be there for that meal, little one
the day.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, wow, that is something.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Twenty nine hundred was the average in nineteen sixty one,
now thirty seven hundred.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
And all that food information you see on the back
of the bottle of anything is all based on a
two thousand calorie diet, which apparently nobody's doing.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Right right, And it's worth pointing out because, I mean,
that is only eight hundred calories a day, which is plenty.
But once you're taking in more than you need, right,
I mean, it cascades you keep gaining weight.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
That's interesting. We've got Katie's headlines on the way and
a bunch more news to get to today.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Stay here, Thank you, lou Rawls. You should bring up
that calorie stuff again. In the show, we sh talked
about that. That's probably the most important thing I'm gonna
hear today.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
It could be yeah, heading into more of the holiday
eating season before I get to the eating playoffs and
try to win the championship.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
I wish McDonald's didn't tell us how many calories were.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I mean, I'm not going to McDonald's to check calories.
I don't need to know.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I go back and forth on that. It keeps, it keeps,
it keeps me from ordering certain things. Sometimes maybe I'll
get the mcclury ooh, another eleven hundred calories.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't know that I need that.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Human beings were not designed to be roving through a
world where delicious fruit is falling from the trees and
suicidal antelopes run up to you and offer you their meat.
That's not the way we were designed. And what have
we done? Antelopes were run up to you, Go ahead,
eat me, I'll cook it for you real quick. Now
let me cover it in cheese. Shocking, shocking. Let's figure
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out who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Katie starting with Brightbart dot com. Madison Christian School attack.
Second grader reportedly called nine one one to alert police.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Oh, I've seen him interviewing this little girl. Yeah, no
mineral business. But mom, dad, everyone leave the little girl alone.
There's no way this is good for her. Yeah, take
her home and get the cameras away now.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
NBC Ukraine Security Service claims assassination.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Of Russian general sanctioned for chemical weapons use I saw that.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yeah, they'd blow him up right in the middle of Moscow.
I guess right for Blue from.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Fox News, drones spotted across the northeast, likely coming from
quote inside the US.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
According to military expert, the drones.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Are coming from inside the country.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I think most of us are assuming that at this point,
right nobod's thinking it's Theiranian mothership or whatever.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
From the New York Times, who now has tampoons in
the men's bathroom, no place to hide, trapped on the border.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Immigrants fear deep rotation with.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Trump, All right, they should.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I want to get into that New York Times story
about the tamboon and some We have a gender betting
madness update coming, and it's just it's ridiculous. Finds there
are most one percent of the employees of the New
York Times consider themselves not a dude or a dude
at at most it's one percent.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
From The New York Post.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
California felon who was granted quote compassionate release after twenty
six years behind bars sent back to prison for the
exact same crime.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
From CNN after.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Years on a transplant list, alabamam, my grandmother receives kidney
from gene edited pig oh.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
First time ever. And if this works, that'll be a
really big deal. We'll be able to make as many kidneys.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
As you want.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Who wants a kidney? You want?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Did a new kidney just for fun? Half human a
half pigs running around? Jack is perfectly comfortable with that.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Do they vote?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Do they get the right to free speech? That's what
I want to know, or free squealing? You know, as
the case.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
Maybe rough study finds resting gift face. How good are
you at hiding your disappointment during the holidays?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's funny, I've gotten very good.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah, no kidding, Oh you've got to. It's hard though,
it's you really get because because it happens in a
moment's notice. It's not like you're a method actor and
you can like get yourself worked up into the state
where you're gonna give a great perforce, Like all of
a sudden.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
You're on, oh hey, hey, that's great.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
I've got one kid that, for better or worse, does
not even try this is it? This is what I'm getting.
I don't want any of this stuff. Oh yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, you know where you stand.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
And finally, the Babylon be Mystery drones turn out to
just be elaborate gender reveal party.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
How long is this going to go on before we
get our answer? Or willious go away as a story?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Like what is it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
I mean, because there's the really suspicious stuff, then there's
the thousands of drones that are around anyways.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
From Studio C See Senior, a dimly lit room deep
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We've got into stockings, hung We've got red and green bunting.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We're all wearing little curled elk shoes, Santa hats.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Technically I'm dressed as a nutcracker, but anyway, and today
we're under the two legit our general Manager Johnald Donald J.
Trump doing press conferences, conferencing with the press, speaking to
the American people. Imagine how weird is that a president
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and or president elect communicating with the.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
People of the United States. What's he thinking?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
So here's Gerald Baker writing in the Wall Street Journal
about the Trump moment. This may be the first time
since the nineteen eighties and Reagan that we have a
GOP president with the standing, the authority, and the legislative
and executive resources to reshape politics in the US and abroad.
He goes through a list of all the business leaders
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and powerful democrats and everybody that have either spoken to
him or gone to visit him, et cetera, et cetera.
Only a few presidents changed the political weather by their
very election.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
John F.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Kennedy presaged the social and political transformations of the sixties.
Ronald Reagan and eighty announced the arrival of a new
political economy for the West five weeks before his inauguration.
Mister Trump's new order is well underway. I don't know
if that's overstating it or not making it a Kennedy
type Reagan type moment, but man, it certainly could be.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah, it's early days. It's a it's
a really good start. But these aren't normal early days.
That's the point. They're not like any early days I've seen, maybe.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Obama that first time where everybody was so in love
with him.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But yeah, it's this, this, this is amazing, especially for
a guy who, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
The only thing we've heard for ten years is his
high negatives and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Most unpopular this and that have ever this is astounding.
This is just astounding.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I think in two of the three examples we gave
of transitional periods presaging, you know, real change in America's
politics that was aided along by the incumbent being incredibly weak,
Jimmy Carr and Joe Biden specifically.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So I think there's just that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Do you remember Do you remember, unless you've got a
serious neurological condition, Yes, you remember the just euphoria on
the Democratic side of the aisle when Joe Biden about
a hot to have cared his way out of the
race and they got a new chance, the great Kamala Harris,
who everybody knew was moron.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But just the newness finally out with the old.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I think part of it is that, Honestly, Maggie Haberman,
who hates Trump, writes, he has enjoyed a steady stream
of vanquished opponents and critics and business leaders who once
spurned him, arriving to pay respects, seek jobs, or simply
watch him press play on the iPad that he uses
to control the music from the patio during the dinner hours.
(03:49):
It's so funny that Trump runs the music during East the.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
DJ DJ Marlango. He has the iPad with him.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I've seen the videos of it, and they're all eating
and the songs about to end, and he's scrolling through
and picks.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm guessing a lot of yacht rock.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
A lot of yacht rock, and then he'll fire up
YMCA right before dessert and everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Does oh yes, dinner table events. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I maybe I'm gonna feel like a sap later, but
I'm optimistic that something could actually happen.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like with this Doge thing.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
The Committee's having their first big get together today, and
with Elon Musk's high profile and maybe just maybe enough
important people realizing it's practically now or never that something
can happen. I don't know. I hope I don't look
back on this in two years. In the thing I
am nothing. Nothing, nothing happened, not only little, but nothing.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, I think I don't think it'll be little or nothing.
I think it'll be significant. I know a lot of
our hopes will be dashed. I'm already highly troubled by
Trump's seeming willingness to sell the actual working man in
woman in favor of union support for the very very
few from the longshoreman, for instance. His support of that
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union and what they're doing and against you know, automation
is awful. That's picking you know what five hundred workers
prospects against the prospects of fifty million workers. Since more
efficient to docs and trade would be better for everybody,
and preventing that is only good for a tiny group
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of people.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Another thing about the Trump moment is his amazing for
him self control he's had thus far and had throughout
the press conference yesterday. He had an opportunity to go
Trump and go dark and go vengeance or go insult
on a whole bunch of different answers, and he took
a pass. How long can he keep that up? Is
Susie Wilds got some sort of special talent? Is she
(05:53):
like custom motto was for Mike Tyson and nobody else
could do it? Can she whisper in his ear? Before
Trump goes out there, remember the goal. Keep your eye
on the prize, eyeing the prize. It's not about the
one person you hate. Keep your eye on the prize.
Because he took a pass on all kinds of.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Normal Trump targets yesterday, right right, You know, I was
gonna speculate that maybe it's that he's still trying to
earn the admiration of guys like Elon Musk, who he's
close to, and he wants to be the statesman. Although
Elon Musky is one of the great insult comics in
the history of the Internet.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So maybe not. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
You're right, though, I mean that observation is one hundred
percent right. He's very statesman like these days.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Can he keep that up? No? Oh is that rhetorical? Sorry,
he's older.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
He he might have decided. You know, I'd kind of
like to be remembered as a good president.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, And honestly, I don't think giving it up entirely
is a good idea anyway. That the the quick political wit,
the well placed insult where it's appropriate, Yeah, that's part
of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, but don't where it's appropriate is the key.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You've got to stay away from the you know, I
prefer people who don't get captured about John McCain or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know, all those things. They were just so over
the top that was ages ago. Yeah, but of course
you're right, Yeah, don't don't punch down.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
He didn't tweet out that picture of a fat Chris
Christie McDonald's over the weekend, So oh, maybe that's his outlet.
Maybe Susie Wils's go ahead, truth social your fat jokes
and all that sort of stuff doesn't really have might matter,
just at the podium on MIC. You could keep it
under control. Maybe that's his outlet.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
She's got a list of four people he's allowed to insult.
All right, you're feeling like it, go after Christy. Christy's fine. Kamala,
that'd be fine too. Oh, speaking of Kamala, I have
some Kamala news that please. People are gonna spit coffee
all over the windshields. It's it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Wow, that's cool, that's very, very exciting. I just it
has to do with her future plans. I have to
what is this stuff on my desk? I have to
resist the temptation to because I listened to NPR on
the way to work, and I really need to fight
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the temptation to just be a you know, a response
to NPR. Although NPR is pretty powerful, has really good
ratings all across the country a lot because they have
a different business model than every other radio station and
that they didn't have to worry about ads or profit
(08:33):
I think a government support.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But so.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I feel like somebody needs to respond to some of
the news that they put out there, because I have
friends who believe all that NPR crap. But they did
a story about homelessness today, in particular to Montana, and
they presented it as since the Supreme Court ruled that
you don't have to supply shelter for homeless people, cities
(08:57):
across America, including these in Montana, shutting down their homeless
shelters right before winter, and they presented it as if
the trump right wing Supreme Court swooped in and took
away a right that has always existed from are unhoused
as opposed to there was one wacky ruling that threw
homelessness into a crisis and finally we got it straightened
(09:20):
back out again, right, And gonna look into that story
a little bit more later in the show. I think
it's important for the national conversation about homelessness. And I
don't know where all of y'all come down on it,
but a whole bunch of towns that had put up
shelters because that was the law at the time, and
they wanted to be able to boot the homeless people
out of their town, but you couldn't legally unless you
(09:41):
had a shelter provided for them, and so they put
up enough shelters to provide for him. Now that that's
not the lawnymore. They're saying, okay, enough of the shelters.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well right right.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
In fact, those laws were so loopy you could safely
describe them as you're not allowed to enforce your laws
unless you have a bed for each vagrant. Right well,
the ultimate's camping, pan handling, sleeping on the sidewalk, what
have you, public defecation.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
The fastest growing homeless population in America right now is
in Montana, and pr of course portrayed as because of
high housing costs, rent and mortgages, because that's what we
all do if rent gets too high, we go live
on the street and new drugs.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But more on that later.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
The main question, of course, being is housing a right?
Is housing a right? That's what we got to figure
out as a country. My answer would be no. Let's
start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this It is Tuesday, December seventeenth, the year twenty
twenty four. Life was not a boor in twenty four?
Were Armstrong in getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Let's begin then, officially according FCC rules and regulations, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The show starts at mark.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Not going to comment on the putin question, but I
will comment on on BB.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Who had a very good talk.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
As you know, I gave warning that if these hostages
aren't back home by that date, all hell's going to
break out.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Trump threatening Hamas as opposed to threatening Israel is a
breath of fresh air. You think you've had a bad year, Hamas,
brace yourself? Right, How does mailbag look very good?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Quite nice?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Any chance next year is going to be like the
most normal year we've had in quite some time. No, no,
how could it? Well, we just came out of this
wacky presidential election. I feel like we could return to
some sort of normalcy. You don't think so, it's a
long shot.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You you bet that you will win handsomely if you win,
because with all the geo political instability going on right now,
the Middle East is about to go nuts by the
standards of the Middle.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
East, right, for instance, Russia, Ukraine and China. You're right, Uh,
here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Sanna's coming around and all the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Fat anyway, Anyway, I was tempted to jump into a
different discussion, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You got a tree, you don't got kids in your
house anymore. You have a tree up. Oh yeah, yep, festive.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Judy's got all over her nutcrackers out and and uh
yeah the house is nice. We're going to decorate it
when a little d our youngest gets here with her
man for a visit.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, why not.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I wish the big kids could be here, But work
and travel and all is tough this time here anyway. Uh,
here's a freedom loving quote of the day. I absolutely
love set along by Matt the Idaho Farmhan. It's Kevin Roberts,
who's the president of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm saving this one.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation
of fire. The preservation of fire strikes me as a
good metaphor for conservatism. It's not rose tinted nostalgia and
idealized past. It preserves they to the past and applies
its lessons to the present. Maintaining a controlled burn is
a way to a better future. Interesting tending the fire
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of democracy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I like that. No, you don't like that. You're not
impressed by that? No reaction at all.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well, the populace has to want that. I think that's
what happens. That's what I think I'm starting to learn
as I get older. No, if they don't, you jab
them with one of the burning embers. Continue to the metaphor.
I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, More on that to come, obviously, the ongoing conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
First, mail bag.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
If you would like to communicate, there are a couple
of ways to do it. You can text us four
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via email. Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Paolo one of a couple of people, one of several
people do weigh in on the Fermi paradox. If there
are so many planets, there ought to be a lot
of life. Why I haven't re found it? And Polo
goes into some of the numbers, which I think are
(13:59):
so interesting. As we know, it requires a lot of
very special circumstances to evolve, so the occurrences of it
may be relatively sparse, but the universe is vast, so
it's likely to happen in places other than in the Earth.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And some of the numbers are mind blowing.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone.
They're an estimated two hundred billion to two trillion galaxies
in the universe.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The estimates just keep growing. His telescopes see further.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
So, you know, as he points out, but everything's very
very very far away and we can't get there really
detect much.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But then I like this from burbank Luke, but the
main question being, but then where are they?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Or as burbank Luke points out, and you know, I
almost jumped into this yesterday, but we were pressed for time,
when are they? The Fermi paradox makes sense for the
same reason. SETI is futile time. That's the our listening
giant listening telescope or what would you call listening dish right,
what's the term, doesn't matter station listening station. Surely there
(14:59):
is was other intelligent life in the universe. They could
trundle along for eons and the primordial soup, then the lungs,
the legs, the opposable thumbs.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Then they're using rocks as tools and so on.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Eventually they figure out broadcast TV, which is what SETI
listens for, basically sitcoms of the Hexapus family holiday specials,
and the next thing you know, they all blow each
other up in the Pentane wars. The last part only
takes two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
There are no blips of sound out there from previous
civilizations that became advanced, none floating through the universe.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Not a blip. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
The numbers are too fast for me to comprehend. I've
decided decided a long time ago, the great, the great
questions of physics and science were so beyond me. I
would stick with the more mundane, you know, things that
we are dealing with here in the primordial soup.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Like how do I get the lid off this thing?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Little more like how should civilizations be organized? Okay, side
show Bob Wrights on the top of the drones. Isn't
it funny that we have more verified photos of Hunter's
junk than these drones. I'm starting to come on, I
did not see Hunter Biden's junk entering into the conversation
(16:14):
comparison there it is. I'm starting to think this is
this is nothing more than our generation's War of the worlds.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Thanks Bob Well.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Trump was asking about this at the press conference sation day.
I thought his answer was damned interesting. We'll play that
for you coming home. Then, Shaun ways In. I mean,
it could be the DoD but why did the drones
force Right Patterson Air Base to close on Friday. I'm
not saying it's the enemy, but I'm thinking you're given
these morons too much credit, Like, what about the Biden
administration has led you to think they're on this. Hell,
(16:42):
we're probably about a week away from Harris being appointed.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Drones are Yeah, they didn't close an air Force base.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Briefly, you'd think if the government was behind the drones,
the government would be able to tell the Airporce base
you don't need to close it's us.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, yeah, you would, unless it was just so top
secret that, hey, look, air Force is going to be
inconvenience for a couple of days. But we've got to
do this again.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Trump was asked about it. I thought his answer was interesting,
among other things, on the ways they do.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We'll take a look at TikTok.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
You know, I have a warm spot in my heart
for TikTok because I won Youth by thirty four points.
And there are those that say that TikTok has something
to do with that TikTok had an impact.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And so we're taking a look at it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But you know, we won youth.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Republicans are always thirty points down in youth.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Trump is such a negotiator, and that's what he has
been his whole life. I mean, the whole will take
a look at that is just it's just it's just
a what do you got for me? That's what that is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yes, And the fact that his reaction when asked about
TikTok was not about the national security of the United
States but how it benefited him is well that's Trump.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Well yeah, also, but you know, he's he's he's wanting
somebody to come forward with enough money or giveaways or
something to get him to change his mind. He's just
he's he's he's the negotiator, and he's always open. I'm
always open. Make an offering. Is everything is up.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
For negotiation, make an offer.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, and some big money guy out there heard in effect,
you know, Trump is pro TikTok. We could probably get
some pretty good policy. Maybe we do try to buy
it from the Chinese.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I guess my point was he he just never closes
the door on anything like like we've you know, we
have agents that have shown that sort of thing. U
and TikTok's set to go away what middle of January.
I mean, it's going to not be a thing in
the United States in the middle of January unless something
big happens. And uh, maybe the biggest opponent of TikTok
(18:50):
in the entire US government is Marco Rubio, who's been
on every talk show he could get on for years
now talking about how it's insane that we allow TikTok
in this country. And that's Trump's Secretary of State. So
it'd be interesting to see how that plays out. As
they pointed out on Foction.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Friends this morning, quoting Marco Rubio.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You download the TikTok app, they immediately the Chinese Communist
Party has access to everything in your phone immediately when
you download that app.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I think it's We're such a dope as a country.
We really are. It is nuts, of course it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
And in addition to that, and then I'll move on
from TikTok because I wasn't planning to talk TikTok, but
in addition to the fact that they have access to
all your infos so basically, you know, get into everything,
build a profile on you, steal information, all that sort
of stuff. They're putting out all this news that is
pro China's agenda and anti Vus agenda and whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Smart person who has listened to on cable.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
News today said, TikTok is going to be full of news.
And since our young people get half their news from
TikTok about why the tariffs against China are horrible and
shouldn't happen, how they're hurting them, right, and so we
let our young people be educated on all the issues
by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, they're being stupefied. They're stupid ofied half the time,
and the other half of the time they're being misinformed
for the purposes of cheshin ping.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
But there are funny videos.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh come on, is there any country that's got any
sense left?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'll move there.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I'm sure there's lots of these, But I saw the
one yesterday where it's popular now to have T shirts
that have the what do you call that symbol thing
on where you put your phone over it with the
picture like the menus at restaurants now, Oh QR code, Yeah,
QR coat on T shirts and you do the QRE
because they're curious, you do the qrqte on the guy's
T shirt and it's the Trump Trump doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yes, yeah, that's so funny. Speaking of Trump press.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Conference yesterday that I saw almost universal, if not praise,
grudging He much better now than he was before. Ish
from the MSNBC crowd on the way he handled his
press conference. But here's here's him me and ask about
the drone situation.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
You call them on the drones that are flying out
reports and it seems like that there people have a
big disc the government.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
The government knows what is happening.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Look, our military knows where they took off from.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
They know where it came from and where it went.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
And for some reason they don't want to comment, and
I think they'd be better off saying what it is.
Our military knows, and our president knows. And for some
reason they want to keep people in suspense.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I can't imagine it's the enemy, because it was the
enemy they'd blasted out, even if they were late, they'd blasted.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Something strange is going on. For some reason, they don't
want to tell the people, and they should because the
people are really I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
We want to know.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
They're very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won't
spend the weekend in Bedminster. I've decided to cancel my trip.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
No, we don't have the follow up. That's important, the
follow up being have you been briefed on this? And
he said, I'm I'm not going to comment on that.
It sure sounds like he has been, and he almost
certainly has been. As the incoming president, they start doing
the full on daily briefing with the incoming president right here,
So he's been briefed on it. He knows what's going on.
I thought he obviously, by Trump style, took a pass
(22:29):
there to take a shot at Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Our president knows.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
He didn't say sleepy Joe or stupid Joe, or Joe's wandering.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Around to the backyard or any of the normal things.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
He didn't refer to him as the Mummy, as some
radio shows perhaps have.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, and because he was president of the United States
for four years, he also absolutely knows the capabilities of
our military.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And he's saying that the military knows where they're coming
from and what they are, so.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Hey, when he was saying, look, the military knows what's
going on. They know where they took off. If they
came from a garage, they could go to that cash.
Am I the only one who is sitting here thinking
is this classified? Are we supposed to know? The military
can do that? But it is interesting what the technology
is now.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Most people seem to think that he did has had
a briefing on the whole thing, and so, yeah, so
him saying the military's on top of it, but they
won't tell you. For some reason, the president knows, but
for some reason they're not telling you that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
That's interesting. I don't.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I'm still mystified as to what's going on me too.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
There are at least five different scenarios that I consider
equally likely. I'm completely at c on this one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
One other Trump related thing that I wanted to throw
out before we take a break is RFK Junior was
on the hill yesterday trying to woo senators to his side,
and this is another example of if you take your
information through mainsteam media. RFK Junior is a complete nut
job and everything he proposes is evil, awful, and only
(24:08):
a crazy person would think it. Pulling out today, eight
and ten American adults support requiring nutrition, education, and federally
funded medical schools.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's one of RFK junior things.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Seventy four percent support banning certain additives, including dies, from
the nation's food supply. Another RFK junior thing, a seventy
four percent. Now, that doesn't mean the population's right or
well informed on this stuff, but I'm just saying it's
not a lot of these things as aren't being received like,
oh my god, how could he do that? Like is
being portrayed portrayed on the evening news even on two
(24:43):
thirds of Americans, including seventy one percent of Democrats, want
the federal government to increase restrictions on the use of
pesticides and agricultural products. Banning processed foods in public school
lunch is supported by two thirds of both Democrats and Republicans.
I don't know if I agree with all this stuff,
but the public is not going Could you possibly even
on the one that gets less than fifty percent? On
(25:08):
florid Fluorid in the nation's drinking water, Kennedy said he
wants to get rid of drinking water. Fluoride removal is
backed by fifty six percent Republicans only a third of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
But that's not.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Nut job territory for discussing it. I don't know what
I think of that issue.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
By the way, if it leads toward a reassessment of
the policy using twenty first century science, there's nothing wrong
with that. On some other public issues raised by Kennedy,
Republicans Democrats are more split, like whether the drug ozimpic
ought to be restricted for weight loss. Forty three percent
of Democrats support restricting the drug fifty two percent of Republicans,
(25:49):
so as opposed to what.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I know it can help with like alcoholism and stuff
like that, but I can't imagine anybody'd be against that.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I don't know the issue on the people are saying
the ozempic for other things.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I have to look it up.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, I didn't know that was a hot topic that
they even asked about it. The one, oh, I wonder
on the whole food coloring thing, it's probably not good
to put extra stuff in our food. That's completely unnecessary,
even if you even if there's no science saying that
making this look a little more brown or red or green.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Or whatever doesn't do any damage.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
What's the upside of putting you know, chemicals and food,
But I think you take away that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Food dye and a lot of us are going to
look at our food and.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Think, ah, could you bring back the food dye.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't like the way it just looks. Well, that
doesn't make it good though.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I mean, we've gotten used to the utterly unnatural rainbow
hues and processed food.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I think we need to ease into it. Though.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Everything's gonna be kind of a gray brown, right, lots
of gray brown food.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Hey, it's nothing more delicious looking than that. Kind of weird?
Is that green or is that gray?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Anyway? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's you don't have to have food that's colored like
a tropical fish to find it delicious. I mean, again,
it's utterly unnatural. We weren't eating food that looked like
that seventy five years ago. We'll go back, it'll.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Be fine, decent point. Oh yeah, that's the one thing,
the one thing I'll I'll bring up the one thing.
RFK Junior said that is clearly true.
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Speaker 5 (28:35):
A lot of critics of RFK Junior are going with,
for instance, make Polio great Again. You know, is anti
vax stance, How anti vaxx is he Trump was asking
about this yesterday. One of the things he said is
RFK Junior is a lot less out there than a
lot of you think. And you'll find that out during
the hearings, which is what you keep saying. We have
(28:56):
a process for this. They'll be asked about it, we'll
all get to hear it, and we'll see what he thinks. Yeah,
wild press speculation is not actually mentioned in the constitution,
but there is this from RFK Junior. Two thirds of
American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. Fifty
years ago, that number was less than one percent. We've
gone from one percent to sixty six percent in fifty years.
(29:19):
I don't know if that's because of food dye or
vaccinations or whatever. But as we were talking about yesterday,
chronic depression and anxiety and all these different things really
worth taking a look at.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Why you know that reminds me I came across this.
I haven't independently verified it. But it's from a Twitter
account that I've followed and looked at many times and
never found it to be wrong. This is from Business Insider,
which is a liberal publication, but you know, not completely
louning to its daily calories consumed to buy Americans?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh boy, is it not gonnout me specifically?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yes, yes, In fact, your picture with big fat cheeks
is right at the illustration here. Actually it's like a
big gichanic hamburger and fries that looks really good.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I have a doughnut in the other hand. Wish I
was eating it right now.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Anyway, in nineteen sixty one, I'm going round a little
bit here. Ironically, the American the average American consumed twenty
nine hundred calories twenty nine hundred, it's now thirty seven hundred.
Whoa Why have Americans gotten fatter? I mean, there are
a handful of things that have contributed. But if that
(30:31):
is true, if that's verifiable, come on.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
The average American takes in thirty seven hundred calories a day.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yes, sir, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
That's from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations Statistics Division National geographic.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I don't know, I don't know how you'd nail that down,
but man, if that's true, that's a high number.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Although do you that strike you as accurate? Though?
Speaker 5 (30:54):
If you eat out much, Man, you sit down at
an Applebee's and you look at the menu, if you
live somewhere where they have the calories next to the
I mean, you get a big cheeseburger and fries and everything,
it's gonna be like twenty four hundred calories to get
a You're gonna be there for that meal, little one
the day.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, wow, that is something.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Twenty nine hundred was the average in nineteen sixty one,
now thirty seven hundred.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
And all that food information you see on the back
of the bottle of anything is all based on a
two thousand calorie diet, which apparently nobody's doing.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Right right, And it's worth pointing out because, I mean,
that is only eight hundred calories a day, which is plenty.
But once you're taking in more than you need, right,
I mean, it cascades you keep gaining weight.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
That's interesting. We've got Katie's headlines on the way and
a bunch more news to get to today.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Stay here, Thank you, lou Rawls. You should bring up
that calorie stuff again. In the show, we sh talked
about that. That's probably the most important thing I'm gonna
hear today.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
It could be yeah, heading into more of the holiday
eating season before I get to the eating playoffs and
try to win the championship.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
I wish McDonald's didn't tell us how many calories were.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I mean, I'm not going to McDonald's to check calories.
I don't need to know.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I go back and forth on that. It keeps, it keeps,
it keeps me from ordering certain things. Sometimes maybe I'll
get the mcclury ooh, another eleven hundred calories.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't know that I need that.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Human beings were not designed to be roving through a
world where delicious fruit is falling from the trees and
suicidal antelopes run up to you and offer you their meat.
That's not the way we were designed. And what have
we done? Antelopes were run up to you, Go ahead,
eat me, I'll cook it for you real quick. Now
let me cover it in cheese. Shocking, shocking. Let's figure
(32:54):
out who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Katie starting with Brightbart dot com. Madison Christian School attack.
Second grader reportedly called nine one one to alert police.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Oh, I've seen him interviewing this little girl. Yeah, no
mineral business. But mom, dad, everyone leave the little girl alone.
There's no way this is good for her. Yeah, take
her home and get the cameras away now.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
NBC Ukraine Security Service claims assassination.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Of Russian general sanctioned for chemical weapons use I saw that.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yeah, they'd blow him up right in the middle of Moscow.
I guess right for Blue from.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Fox News, drones spotted across the northeast, likely coming from
quote inside the US.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
According to military expert, the drones.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Are coming from inside the country.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I think most of us are assuming that at this point,
right nobod's thinking it's Theiranian mothership or whatever.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
From the New York Times, who now has tampoons in
the men's bathroom, no place to hide, trapped on the border.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Immigrants fear deep rotation with.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Trump, All right, they should.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I want to get into that New York Times story
about the tamboon and some We have a gender betting
madness update coming, and it's just it's ridiculous. Finds there
are most one percent of the employees of the New
York Times consider themselves not a dude or a dude
at at most it's one percent.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
From The New York Post.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
California felon who was granted quote compassionate release after twenty
six years behind bars sent back to prison for the
exact same crime.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
From CNN after.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Years on a transplant list, alabamam, my grandmother receives kidney
from gene edited pig oh.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
First time ever. And if this works, that'll be a
really big deal. We'll be able to make as many kidneys.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
As you want.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Who wants a kidney? You want?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Did a new kidney just for fun? Half human a
half pigs running around? Jack is perfectly comfortable with that.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Do they vote?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Do they get the right to free speech? That's what
I want to know, or free squealing? You know, as
the case.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
Maybe rough study finds resting gift face. How good are
you at hiding your disappointment during the holidays?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's funny, I've gotten very good.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah, no kidding, Oh you've got to. It's hard though,
it's you really get because because it happens in a
moment's notice. It's not like you're a method actor and
you can like get yourself worked up into the state
where you're gonna give a great perforce, Like all of
a sudden.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
You're on, oh hey, hey, that's great.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
I've got one kid that, for better or worse, does
not even try this is it? This is what I'm getting.
I don't want any of this stuff. Oh yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, you know where you stand.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
And finally, the Babylon be Mystery drones turn out to
just be elaborate gender reveal party.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
How long is this going to go on before we
get our answer? Or willious go away as a story?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Like what is it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
I mean, because there's the really suspicious stuff, then there's
the thousands of drones that are around anyways.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
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