December 19, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Uptick in laser strikes on airplanes by "drone hunters"
- Gender Bending Madness!
- Oh no! Not a government shutdown!
- Visit California & Jack's sticky fork
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jettiety and he
Armstrong and Yetty Well think that they are seeing a drone.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is actually an airplane and they're using a high
powered laser pointer pointing it at the cockpit of an airplane.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's called a laser strike.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The FAA has just given us new data that says
that there is a massive uptick in these laser strikes, typically.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
On a night nationwide.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Just last night, the FA tells me that pilots reported
one hundred and twenty three laser strikes nationwide. No doubt
people thinking they are drone hunting. So many people have
been warned about this already. The problem here is that
folks can really get caught relatively easily.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You don't want to do this.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You can blind pilots during the most critical time that
they're flying down low takeoff or landing to an eleven
one thousand dollars Fine, if the FA catches you and
it is a felony, it could land you with jail time.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
So yeah, this is clearly progressed from a probably legitimate
news story to a craze now to just madness.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I wonder if it'll be a resolution on this story
or it'll just disappear during the next two weeks when
we kind of all go into Christmas New Year's mode
and we'll come back and wonder, I wonder what happened
with that drone thing. That's my prediction that choice. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, these things just go away like smoke. These big
stories that really ought to have a resolution. You could
list half a dozen of them. They just kind of
peter out.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Different story, which I don't think is really a big deal,
but this is about Amazon and a strike.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We are now part of that ticket. We're in it
and we're going through it. These are drivers that are
trying to say that we need better pay and we
need better benefits, and Amazon is basically saying that they're
not in charge.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
This is with the Teamsters.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Union, and we'll go on for the entire day here masks.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So the I'm not into this, but the Teamsters, which
aren't actually in Amazon, are trying to get into Amazon,
and then they're involved in this blah blah blah, and
that'll turn out. However, it's going to turn out, but
our executive producer Hansen says the chanting is particularly good.
Here is the thousands of people out of one point
however many million Amazon employees, but thousands of people that
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are striking today and the workers and drivers chanting. Wow,
that's the most annoying chance I've ever heard. I'm never
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going to get anybody to your son, who are we? Huh?
Who are we? We're still teamsterairs. I will do whatever
I've got to do to make that quit. I will
join your union or outlaw or whatever will make you stop. Wow.
That is one of the most annoying chants I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hey, let me do this just so I can close
the tab. I'd miss this in the fairly long article
about the top secret gift shops like the one at
the CIA in Washington, DC. The CIA does have a
pink and white striped baby onesie that's emblazoned with the
words the result of an undercover operation.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Ah. That's kind of funny. Ah, that is funny. I'm
still running around trying to get my to do list
finished before birthday and Christmas happens. Yeah, yeah, I'm just
not keeping up. I don't know, did get mocked the
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other day online with the too bad you couldn't see
this coming on the calendar.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh wow, online mockery. The man is suffering. You'd think
you'd get more mercy and kindness out of the internet.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, okay, that's hilarious. More compassion. And I'm going to
do some traveling, going to drive halfway cross country as
I usually do, back to Kansas with the kids, and
we'll do what we call cousin Christmas and that'll be
a lot of fun. But got to be all prepared
for that, helping the weather holds out. Trying to figure
out where to spend New Year's Eve? Where the should
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the kids and I spend New Year's Eve? I got
one son that really wants to do Vegas and the
other kid who hates Vegas so much?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh wow, I don't know if I can't please him,
perhaps the third or a second location.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I kind of want to do Vegas, so put my
thumb on the scale. Maybe I get the Vegas hating
kid if I could somehow get him into the room,
getting him past all the craziness. His OCD really does
not work well with the whole Vegas noise lights, everything
that goes on if I could, like maybe put a
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blanket over his head and sedate him and then get
him too the room.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
That sort of thing is a fairly common thing in Vegas,
I think so, or at least it was back in
the sixties. I say, you go, hey, there's a guy
carrying another guy down the street in a blanket.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Don't even look right, no kidding, here's Michael. Go all out.
Go to Times Square, go to New York. Yeah, freaking
no way. I never wanted to do that when I
was young, especially now I do have. I think my
niece did it a couple of years ago. The biggest
problem with the whole Time Square New Year's Eve thing
is no bathrooms. You gotta be there for like six hours,
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and there's no like leaving and coming back, and very
very few opportunities to peace. You just kind of got
to hold it. Adult diaper is your other option? Do
people do that? I don't know. And you're gonna and
you're gonna pass that off as a good expenditure of
your time or how you want to live your life.
You're going to stand out in the probably cold in
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a diaper, a wet diaper full of your own urine,
or maybe worse.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, it wakes it away from the skin to leave
you feeling dry jack.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So that you can see Ariana Grande sing something close
to Midnight with Ryan Seacrest, think something with the ball drop.
I did see CNN as advertising Big Anderson Cooper and
his gay compatriot. They're both gay. But every I've watched
the have you ever actually watched any of that? Everyone
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I've watched it, I thought, well, this is the last
year doing that, because they're they're they're completely out of control.
I mean, they're just drunk and giggling, and whenever they
do talk they say really inappropriate things, and I think, well,
that'll be the end of this. But they're promoing it
more than ever this year, so I wonder if it,
like actually gets ratings and they make money off of
it because CNN's dying. And then I think, I don't care.
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Bring back the drunk gay guys saying inappropriate things. It's
the only show we've got to get to any ratings.
I shouldn't judge because I've never done it. But the
New Year's Eve Time Square thing strikes me very much.
Is the sort of person who would say, oh, yeah,
I've done that, and it is amazing. Who hangs out
with people who say, Oh, that is so cool. I
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wish I could do that. I'm so jealous. And neither
one of them means a word.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They say, that's the sort of people I think who
do it, But I don't know. I don't like big
gatherings and just forced cheer. God we obligatory high spirits.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Usually usually the timing works out where I'm with my
brother and his daughter, who is like super snarky also,
and if you want to be snarky and sarcastic, those
New Year's Eve shows are fantastic, flowing between Ryan Seacrest,
CNN the Country one. They're just so lame. I mean,
just the lamest things that are ever in front of
you ever are on New Year's Eve on network television.
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Now you got my attention. That's so embarrassing, lelame. We
have this for you. If you got your kids in
public school, you have to be concerned, learned about them, work,
and woke nuttiness into every class, including math. We've got
an unbelievable example for you, and a whole bunch of
stuff around that topic and other stuff on the waisis
stay here.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Armstrong and Getty, it's humiliating to undress next to For
perspective here, let me be very clear. A six foot four,
twenty two year old man, fully naked, fully intact, fully
exposing himself inches away from where we as women were
simultaneously fully undressed. I mean, this isn't a hypothetical. That's
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the reality that myself, my teammates, my competitors from around
the country, and girls, I mean, and various sports across
the nation continue to face at the hands of the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
So the competing is one thing.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I mean, anyone with any amount of brain activity knows
that that's unfair, they know that that's wrong. But what
you couldn't possibly grasp or wrap your head around is
the violation of the locker room.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So amazing it's Riley Gains, a great Riley Gains, a
female swimmer who's been speaking out against trans athletes being
involved in her sport.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And as I always must point out, the real insidious
part of this is then a young woman like Riley
Ganes and all our teammates looking upon that fully intact,
six foot four male are told say that's a woman.
Oh wow, say it's a woman, and they are in
serious trouble until they submit and say yes, that's a woman.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And if you're uncomfortable, there's something wrong with you with
a bad person. You're a bad person. If you're uncomfortable
with this. Speaking of gender bending madness really nuts. Yeah
it is. That's why I am so fired up about it.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So speaking of gender bending madness, this is kind of
a public service feature because awareness is upstream, as they say,
of action, and so much of the madness that's going
on in schools.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
People aren't aware of. They assume what's being taught to.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Their kids is virtually the same as what they were
taught as kids. And there's so much sickness in America's
public schools right now. It's inclusive places you might be surprised.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, we'll start.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
In not surprisingly California, specifically Rancho Buena Vista.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
This is James. He is a parent.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
I am here to talk about an assignment that was
showed into my daughter's classroom.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm going to read the assignment.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I do have a picture, but that's you know, never
hear whether it says stand in a circle, each of
you is now gay or lesbian, and you're about to
begin your coming out process. You cannot talk for the
rest of this activity. I don't see how this is
part of the California curriculum for education. There's nothing that
it does other than groom children.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
So in math class you have to stand in a
circle and practice coming out.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I would hate that if it were in some sort
of sexuality and health class. The fact that it's in
math class when you've got such low proficiency in math
is beyond disturbing. Now this is all in California. We
mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
There's a new law that makes it extremely difficult to
get pornography out of California libraries, including school libraries. If
it involves a black person, or a gay person or
a gender non what the hell person, You can have
as much porn as you want. It's sick and unbelievable,
but again that's California. Abigail Shreier, The Fabulous Abigail Shreier
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wrote a great story about the It's entitled The Kindergarten
into Fada. This happens to be in La as well
in Siksi, California, where all of the teachers at the
Big Teachers' Union meeting are talking about how to get
kids as young as kindergarteners to understand the evil colonial
oppressor Zionist state and what it's doing to the poor Palestinians. Kindergarteners. Literally,
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they're having a meeting. It was recorded. I have the
quotes talking about how to get the kids to be
pro Palestinian elementary school.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, but let's move on.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
An Oregon school district closed all schools and offices after
it was revealed that they did not report to law
enforcement at least six instances of documented cases of children
reporting allegedly being sexually abused by teachers. It emerged after
a couple of teachers were actually arrested for sex crimes.
But the administration and the unions and the teachers themselves,
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instead of saying yeah, they're molesting kids and coming on
to them and sexualizing them, they kept it all quiet
to protect their thing. I guess one is reminded of
the Catholic Church in a way.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
For the women's volleyball or women's swimming are all kinds
of different organizations. Yeah, for the sake of the argument.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
San Francisco tried to Shudder, one of the few successful
schools in the district because it had disproportionately Asian and
white kids excelling. They are trying to close that in
favor of keeping open the utterly failing schools. But we'll
skip that because California again. Students at districts SEV forty
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five in Minnesota received a questionnaire asking them how they
would communicate their desire to be more adventurous in bed?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
What what age? Let's see mean, no age is appropriate.
I don't even want that for the seniors. I mean,
what role is the school? Happened that?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I'm pretty sure it's high school. The superintendent of the
school district admitted that the questionnaire was inappropriate and that
the teacher would be subject to a disciplinary process. But
as part of the questionnaire of the students, you want
your partner to be more adventurous in the bedroom, How
do you communicate your desire?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How are your choices at high school? How do you
get so crazy that you think that's part of your
job as a high school teacher.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, that's part of my purpose in bringing this up.
But so and it's not just that. How do you
communicate your desire? First choice? Handcuff them to the bed
and take matters into your own hands.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Two you don't it's too awkward to talk about.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Three, tell them you love your sex life, but have
some ideas to spice things up. Or four leave your
laptop open to a sex toy website for them to
accidentally see sexualizing kids. Oh here we are back in California.
Teachers UNI uniforms. It's not controversial for four year old
boys to wear dresses to school, and that kindergarten teachers
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should actively.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Bring up sex roles.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And gender expression to kids as young as kindergarten. They
should initiate the discussion.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Get into detail. Crazy, you're so nuts. I know I'm
not talking to any of you because you're not. You
wouldn't listen to the show. But what the hell did
that person always exist? That crowd always exists. They just
hadn't been able to get into mainstream life, and now
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we've allowed them into mainstream life for all kinds of
stupid reasons. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
They dared not say what they had in mind because
they knew what the rest of the world thought of it.
And this, finally is a story from Newton, Massachusetts. You
had another blue state, which I do not think is
a coincidence. It's a teacher writing quite movingly about their
school district launching into this near religious fervor for education equity,
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and how they wouldn't have elite classes anymore. They would
put the advanced math kids in with the slowest math kids,
and that way the other guys would get up to
speed and there wouldn't How would that happen, exactly inequity,
There wouldn't. There would be equity in grading in school
and everybody would learn. And it was a heartbreaking, miserable
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failure for everybody concerned.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
That shocks teachers seen openly.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Weeping in the hallways because it was such a miserable failure,
But the activists made them continue on.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Kind of shocking, because I really thought that would work,
that the kids wud struggle with mac with would all
of a sudden be better at it if they were
in the same class with the people that are really
good at it.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It ends with the concept of anti racism often cited
by administration officials. Should not involve blindly insisting that these
classes are working simply because they make administrators feel good.
Effective anti racism shouldn't entail the should have I'm sorry,
should intail having the courage to admit they're not working
and finding something better. There's no shame in failure. There
is shame and failing over and over again and calling
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it success.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So we're going to check in on Uh, we're not
real big on the whole government shut down, continuing a
resolution talk around here, But there was a giant bill
yesterday that was going to succeed and then Elon and
Trump turned against it and it did not succeed.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Is that trickling sounds you're hearing? Perhaps the swamp starting
to drain? It could be hmmm, we'll get into that
a little bit coming up. Hope you can stay here
if you missing now gets podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Musk calling a shutdown infinitely better than passing a horrible bill,
threatening that any lawmaker who supports it deserves to be
voted out. The bipartisan deal that would keep the government
up and running for three months was brokered by Republican
House Speaker Mike Johnson Musk, who President elect Donald Trump
has tapped to lead a new Department on Government Efficiency,
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posting on X this spending bill is a crime. The
bill would fund the government through mid March among other things,
it includes one hundred billion dollars in disaster relief and
billions more in assistance for farmers. But Musk says it's
also bloated with wasteful spending.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
It's like me describing my trip to a horror house
and a strip club and a opium den and the
drug store on the way home to my wife is,
among other things, I'll be stopping at the drug store
to pick up your lipstick for you.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Come on, nice news coverage. Boo. Right, So Tuesday night,
I spent ten thousand dollars, ninety five hundred of it
at the Indian casino, and then five hundred dollars on
medicine for the children.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Exactly, My expenditures included medicine for the children.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Boo. I say, again, terrible coverage. Uh. Before we get
into some of the details, Elon tweeting out over one
hundred times yesterday flaws he sees with the bill that
ended up not passing or got yanked and threatening people
who were going to vote for it. But here is
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Democratic leader Jeffries, who took over for Nancy Pelosi first
a Democrat, explaining on why it is just awful that
this bill is not going to pass, and then a
Representative Andy Harris, who I do not know, go ahead.
House Republicans will now own any.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Harm that is visited upon the American people that results
from a government shutdown or worse.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Well, I don't know. I'm only one.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
I'm only one vote out of two hundred and twenty. Look,
I think the Speaker could have handled this differently. At
this point. I'm still supportive of the Speaker, but I
will tell you that voices both inside the House Freedom
Caucus and outside the Freedom Caucus have been very disappointed
at what's happened this week.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Before I get to my opinions on this, a couple
of things I read in the wide world of news today.
I thought this was interesting analysis I'd never thought of before.
Too big to fail can become too big to succeed
in Congress in the blink of an eye. What they
try to do with these big, giant bills is you
put in enough stuff for enough people that people say,
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you know, I I hate this, but my district gets,
you know, another twenty million dollars for this, and so
you got enough yes votes that you pass the thing through.
But you can go too far where there's just too
many things and it crosses a line into I can't
possibly support this, And that's with the help of Elon,
you know, whipping against it yesterday. That's apparently what happened.
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As Mark Alprin writes in his newsletter, thanks to social media,
it's easier than ever to turn provisions at a piece
of legislation into populace bugaboos, whether said charges are true
or not. And once the wildfire starts, everything can become,
you know, a big point of contention. As we talked
about a little bit earlier, this is where I'm the
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most maga is on this whole spending thing. Nothing has
worked in my lifetime. Every time one of these bills
comes up, whatever party's in charge, whether Republicans that inferior,
the fiscally conservative party though they haven't shown that in
recent years, or the Democrats, it's always next time, we've
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got to pass this one because the government will shut
down and blind veterans won't get their medicine and all
kinds of different stuff. But we've got to pass this one.
But the next one, we're gonna get our act together
and starting in March will blah blah blah, blah blah,
and it never ever happens. So current my current emotion is, yeah,
freaking shut down the government, have a crisis, have things
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blow have things blow up, have bad things happen. Maybe
he will do something differently going forward.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
As Newt Gingrish pointed out via Twitter quite appropriately, Look,
you don't have to run for reelection for two years.
We had multiple shutdowns when he was in charge. They
ended up with a balanced budget. Yeah, you got two years.
Go ahead, make your stand now. A number of people
have pointed out various loathsome things in the bill, not surprisingly.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Especially angering to me.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
It contains another year of funding for the State Department's
Global Engagement Center, which is a orwell you name for
the agency that was funding speech suppression efforts, joining with
that weird English nonprofit and all this is what Matt
Tayebe and others were reporting on with the Twitter papers
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and all that to censorship by proxy by the government.
You got this from bright Bart. Congress gives itself a
raise in its last minute fifteen hundred and forty seven
page spending deal. So that's nice. You managed to squeezed
that in. You got this from the Free Beacon Democrat
lawmakers are actively hindering a federal investigation in the Biden
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administration's four hundred billion dollar green energy loans. They're actively
standing in the way of trying to nail down where
that four hundred billion dollars went and if it did
any good. It's the idea that, well, we can't have
a government shutdown. I mean, I understand that may cause
promise you mentioned the great Republican fraud. We gotta pass
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this one. Then we're gonna do the hard work to
get ready for March. Will have real Well, the Democrat fraud,
like haw Keen Jeffries, is, if there's a government shut down,
the trains will stop, the sun will not rise.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Electricity will not be able to turn on. We will die.
We will all die. God, all of you shut up.
Hospitals will be forced to unplug incubators. Uh, I forget who.
I can't find my note on. It might have been Elon,
But somebody said, so to the stuff that's good and
great and necessary, pass it separately, pass it separately. Why
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don't you just pass it separately? If you gotta have
this farm stuff in there, but the farm stuff is important,
everybody grees don't pass it separately.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
There is a federal government fence in South Florida that
keeps the alligators away from the newborn babies. That fence
will have to be torn down if there's a government
shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's practically that bad.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Do you want alligators eating babies live human babies but
then vote against this Republican shutdown?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So this is honestly the question, the thing I don't
understand the most on the super important things, why don't
they vote on them separately because they're the such only
because they're the leverage that helps get the things through
one hundred As the kids say, it drives me nuts.
So again this is where I'm the most maga, which
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I define maga is kind of, you know, tear it
all down. I don't like tearing it all down because
tearing down things that work in the United States mostly
works leaves you with who knows what you're gonna get
in its place. But our spending thing is broken, broken, broken.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I was gonna say, how about tearing down things that
are so effed up they're going to doom future generations
to a miserable standard of living in sky high taxes.
That needs to be torn down or it needs to
be stopped, It needs to seriously be reformed. What's really
going to be interes here? Because watching the will of
the electorate filtered through Washington. D C then expressed his
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policy is not always a smooth journey.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And I'm curious to see with.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The momentum of you know, the dose thing in Elon,
especially Elon Musk's high profile and his bully pulpit and
the rest of it, to what extent are average Americans
actually the hogs at the trough that it seems like
that nobody cares about deficit spending and we're more than
willing to screw our kids and grandkids.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
To what extent is that actually true?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Or given an eloquent spokesman for fiscal responsibility, whether the
country would rally to that cause. Maybe I'm just naive,
but I'd at least like to find out.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I go back and forth on the theory that the
American electorate is smart and sophisticated and much more so
than politicians getting credit for. I go back and forth
in that because sometimes I'm shocked by the choices the
electorate makes, like in California with a couple of the
props that passed like, wow, you really understood it, or
people getting you know, their attitudes on Biden's age and
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the border. The media was telling them the opposite. Yet
people figured it out somehow in overwhelming numbers. Right, But
on this question, I feel like, what percentage of people
understand that government money is tax money? I think it's
like eight percent. I also agree with that.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I think, well, and then what percentage of that eight
percent who understands it would say, well, but it's okay
that they take people's money and give it to others
rent like me because of inequity, and the rich should.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Pay their fair share. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So even if they understand the factual part of it,
that their ideology has blinded them to, you know, the
actual reality.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Here's Josh Holly, who is a bit of a grand
standard super smart guy on Hannity last night.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Senate, it is fifteen hundred pages of pork barrel spending,
and worse than that, it's all the woke garbage. It's
the censorship boards they're getting funded in this There's hundred
millions of dollars for a recycling access center in this bill.
There's also the pay raise for members of Congress is
the Obamacare carve out for members of Congress. Here's the
thing that really gets me. Republicans negotiated this The Speaker
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of the House negotiated this bill. I'm a hard no
on this thing. It is a joke, It is a travesty,
and they need to go back to square one.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, But then you've had the situations where the Freedom Caucus,
that's the people that are supposed to care about spending,
wouldn't agree to anything, although they're closer to right than wrong,
because again, we keep going further down the road of
more debt. At what point do you say that's enough?
And apparently Josh Holly's in favor of not building that
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fence between the alligator pit and the kindergarten class.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yeah, and Johnson, Mike Johnson, the Speaker, saying, all right,
I got three members are not going to vote for
anything unless it's, you know, something so drastic. I don't
think it can happen. All right, Democrats, what's it gonna
take to get three of your votes? And he believes
that's what he needs to do. I don't care if
the government shuts down. I do not freaking care what
percentage of American cares if the government shuts down, it's
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probably about roughly what the election was. It's probably like
forty nine forty eight. Yes, I'll bet you're right. Yeah,
so I would. I will openly call for this. No violence,
no hurting any poor son of a gun who's an
hourly employee of the federal government or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Like you know, it might happen.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
If they attempt to shut down the World War II
Memorial again.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Which is just an open plaza. You go in it.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
We need rampant civil disobedience again, no violence of any sort.
You lift up the barrier, you put it aside, you
walk in, and you pay trip to those we've lost
defending this country. If they try to shut down a
natural national park, all you're gonna do is wander through
the forest or wander along the seashore. And like during
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Obama's years, they put up barriers saying this park is
closed because of the government's shutdown. Go in the park, trespass,
get arrested. I will do it.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I will lead you.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
We can't have that crap. I mean, that is seriously
Boston Tea Party stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Social Security checks will not go out. Old people were
starved again. They'll start unplugging incubators, and then single bombs
will be pushed downstairs all across America for some reason.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Not the married ones, right, well, right, And when the
babies realize their incubator is off, they'll crawl out of it,
and that's when the gators get them. So, I mean,
you want a government shutdown? You do elon you, you
you ultra mega fascist.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
If I can be serious for one second, I honestly
do not understand why they don't vote for the stuff
that needs to happen, that is overwhelmingly popular, separately, just
do it. Why does Mike Johnson do that?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, because they need votes and the other guys say
that you got to put in one hundred million dollars
for the Recycling Access Center.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Whatever the hell that is? Right? If you know anything
about this arga, you could text us four one five
two nine five KFTC. I'll tell you what government shuts
down while we're on vacation. I'm paying zero attention zero. Oh,
I'm gonna have a vigil.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'm going to put marks on my wall like I'm
an inmate in some ancient prison.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Of course, marks the times passage. Of course, I'll be
driving across the country with my kids, and they'll probably
close some parks that we were going to go to,
or oh, interstate rest stops or something.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You were a first person reporter, weren't you that they
put up cones so you couldn't stop and look at
Mount Rushmore. F that's that's when we need civil disobedience.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Wow more on the waist to hear Armstrong, I need
to hire You're.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Supposed to sigh when you hear Christmas music like that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm not that say I got to hire a secretary
to deal with my children while I'm at work, because
I'm at work. You see what are we doing? Oh yeah,
this is from the Babylon Bee. I haven't heard this yet,
but it's a song. It's supposed to encourage people to
visit California, so it sounds charming. Here we go.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
California is a premium state with premium ideas. We've got
the highest housing prices, gas and taxes of any state.
There are always plenty of free campsites, and the best part,
you can go to the bathroom anywhere you want, no
questions asked.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Want to meet new people, We've got.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
You covered with a huge wave of illegal immigrants coming
over the border each and every day. Pull us in
yours diversity is our elf stream. Though you may have
heard it's expensive year, But not to worry. Try smash
and grab. We want to stop you. So come on
down to a state where the possibilities are endless, and
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so are the taxis and crime and cost of living
and regulations and woke nonsense in schools and blackouts and
the brown outs and the wildfires, and the earthquakes and
the sewage fills and the droughts and much more.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Now a lot of that many blackouts, Well, it depends
on where you live. Yeah, how many is a lot?
One a year seems like a lot to me my
whole life, everywhere I lived, including places that have the
worst weather in America. You didn't have it every year.
You have multiple per year, like where our farm is. Yeah,
(32:46):
tridicular Erica is Haiti, California. You can't blame the government
for the earthquakes. That's about the only equippal I have
with it. Fair point. We got some more news to
get to in the final hour, which is coming up.
If you miss a get the podcast Arms and Getty
on demand. As I mentioned a little bit ago, I
took the kids to a mid grade restaurant last night.
We were out running around errands and we were hungry,
(33:07):
and we went to like I won't mention the name,
but you know the I don't know what do you
call those brass and glass type of places. They're all
in the same category. Yeah, mid price. I think we're
all getting yet about the same price, about the same menu.
They got some ribs, they got some sort of chicken
strip salad, they got you know, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
An actual menu menu, but no white tablecloths. Probably something
weird and sticky on the surface here table.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's funny you would use that word, because that was
my big thing, and I was trying to decide whether
I wanted to make a deal out of it or
not because they were busy and it was having trouble
getting a hold of it. My fork was super sticky.
Oh no, I hate sticky. And I was trying to
just power through and go ahead and eat with the
sticky fork because I couldn't get ahold of I was
hungry and there wasn't anybody available the place was.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I mean, you assume you eat like most people, you
put it in your mouth, dick.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, the the times. Is that the word for those things?
That's the times they are changing the tines on the fork.
I don't believe they were sticky, but the handle was sticky.
Did you just say to your sons these are the
best of times? These are the worst of times. I
didn't say, Oh, the handle's sticky, and they said, oh, gross, Dad,
you gotta get different fork. And I kind of looked
(34:27):
around and I could see I was not gonna be
able to get the waitress soon, and my food was there,
and I was hungry, and just so I just wanted
it poffer through it. The sticky fork. God, so gross.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Nobody will ever accuse you of being high maintenance. No,
you have that going for it.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, I just went ahead and ate with the sticky fork.
That is gross. I didn't wash my hands as soon
as done eating though, whatever, who knows what that was.
And then of course my mind starts turning. I wonder
what's causing the stickiness. Hmm. Number of options, yes, yes, Katie, No,
we have no time. Just your looks says it all
to La is amazing. She's a guest, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Mm hmm.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jettiety and he
Armstrong and Yetty Well think that they are seeing a drone.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is actually an airplane and they're using a high
powered laser pointer pointing it at the cockpit of an airplane.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's called a laser strike.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The FAA has just given us new data that says
that there is a massive uptick in these laser strikes, typically.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
On a night nationwide.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Just last night, the FA tells me that pilots reported
one hundred and twenty three laser strikes nationwide. No doubt
people thinking they are drone hunting. So many people have
been warned about this already. The problem here is that
folks can really get caught relatively easily.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You don't want to do this.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You can blind pilots during the most critical time that
they're flying down low takeoff or landing to an eleven
one thousand dollars Fine, if the FA catches you and
it is a felony, it could land you with jail time.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
So yeah, this is clearly progressed from a probably legitimate
news story to a craze now to just madness.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I wonder if it'll be a resolution on this story
or it'll just disappear during the next two weeks when
we kind of all go into Christmas New Year's mode
and we'll come back and wonder, I wonder what happened
with that drone thing. That's my prediction that choice. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, these things just go away like smoke. These big
stories that really ought to have a resolution. You could
list half a dozen of them. They just kind of
peter out.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Different story, which I don't think is really a big deal,
but this is about Amazon and a strike.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We are now part of that ticket. We're in it
and we're going through it. These are drivers that are
trying to say that we need better pay and we
need better benefits, and Amazon is basically saying that they're
not in charge.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
This is with the Teamsters.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Union, and we'll go on for the entire day here masks.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So the I'm not into this, but the Teamsters, which
aren't actually in Amazon, are trying to get into Amazon,
and then they're involved in this blah blah blah, and
that'll turn out. However, it's going to turn out, but
our executive producer Hansen says the chanting is particularly good.
Here is the thousands of people out of one point
however many million Amazon employees, but thousands of people that
(02:25):
are striking today and the workers and drivers chanting. Wow,
that's the most annoying chance I've ever heard. I'm never
(02:47):
going to get anybody to your son, who are we? Huh?
Who are we? We're still teamsterairs. I will do whatever
I've got to do to make that quit. I will
join your union or outlaw or whatever will make you stop. Wow.
That is one of the most annoying chants I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hey, let me do this just so I can close
the tab. I'd miss this in the fairly long article
about the top secret gift shops like the one at
the CIA in Washington, DC. The CIA does have a
pink and white striped baby onesie that's emblazoned with the
words the result of an undercover operation.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Ah. That's kind of funny. Ah, that is funny. I'm
still running around trying to get my to do list
finished before birthday and Christmas happens. Yeah, yeah, I'm just
not keeping up. I don't know, did get mocked the
(03:52):
other day online with the too bad you couldn't see
this coming on the calendar.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh wow, online mockery. The man is suffering. You'd think
you'd get more mercy and kindness out of the internet.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, okay, that's hilarious. More compassion. And I'm going to
do some traveling, going to drive halfway cross country as
I usually do, back to Kansas with the kids, and
we'll do what we call cousin Christmas and that'll be
a lot of fun. But got to be all prepared
for that, helping the weather holds out. Trying to figure
out where to spend New Year's Eve? Where the should
(04:29):
the kids and I spend New Year's Eve? I got
one son that really wants to do Vegas and the
other kid who hates Vegas so much?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh wow, I don't know if I can't please him,
perhaps the third or a second location.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I kind of want to do Vegas, so put my
thumb on the scale. Maybe I get the Vegas hating
kid if I could somehow get him into the room,
getting him past all the craziness. His OCD really does
not work well with the whole Vegas noise lights, everything
that goes on if I could, like maybe put a
(05:00):
blanket over his head and sedate him and then get
him too the room.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
That sort of thing is a fairly common thing in Vegas,
I think so, or at least it was back in
the sixties. I say, you go, hey, there's a guy
carrying another guy down the street in a blanket.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Don't even look right, no kidding, here's Michael. Go all out.
Go to Times Square, go to New York. Yeah, freaking
no way. I never wanted to do that when I
was young, especially now I do have. I think my
niece did it a couple of years ago. The biggest
problem with the whole Time Square New Year's Eve thing
is no bathrooms. You gotta be there for like six hours,
(05:37):
and there's no like leaving and coming back, and very
very few opportunities to peace. You just kind of got
to hold it. Adult diaper is your other option? Do
people do that? I don't know. And you're gonna and
you're gonna pass that off as a good expenditure of
your time or how you want to live your life.
You're going to stand out in the probably cold in
(05:58):
a diaper, a wet diaper full of your own urine,
or maybe worse.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, it wakes it away from the skin to leave
you feeling dry jack.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So that you can see Ariana Grande sing something close
to Midnight with Ryan Seacrest, think something with the ball drop.
I did see CNN as advertising Big Anderson Cooper and
his gay compatriot. They're both gay. But every I've watched
the have you ever actually watched any of that? Everyone
(06:27):
I've watched it, I thought, well, this is the last
year doing that, because they're they're they're completely out of control.
I mean, they're just drunk and giggling, and whenever they
do talk they say really inappropriate things, and I think, well,
that'll be the end of this. But they're promoing it
more than ever this year, so I wonder if it,
like actually gets ratings and they make money off of
it because CNN's dying. And then I think, I don't care.
(06:50):
Bring back the drunk gay guys saying inappropriate things. It's
the only show we've got to get to any ratings.
I shouldn't judge because I've never done it. But the
New Year's Eve Time Square thing strikes me very much.
Is the sort of person who would say, oh, yeah,
I've done that, and it is amazing. Who hangs out
with people who say, Oh, that is so cool. I
(07:10):
wish I could do that. I'm so jealous. And neither
one of them means a word.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They say, that's the sort of people I think who
do it, But I don't know. I don't like big
gatherings and just forced cheer. God we obligatory high spirits.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Usually usually the timing works out where I'm with my
brother and his daughter, who is like super snarky also,
and if you want to be snarky and sarcastic, those
New Year's Eve shows are fantastic, flowing between Ryan Seacrest,
CNN the Country one. They're just so lame. I mean,
just the lamest things that are ever in front of
you ever are on New Year's Eve on network television.
(07:51):
Now you got my attention. That's so embarrassing, lelame. We
have this for you. If you got your kids in
public school, you have to be concerned, learned about them, work,
and woke nuttiness into every class, including math. We've got
an unbelievable example for you, and a whole bunch of
stuff around that topic and other stuff on the waisis
stay here.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Armstrong and Getty, it's humiliating to undress next to For
perspective here, let me be very clear. A six foot four,
twenty two year old man, fully naked, fully intact, fully
exposing himself inches away from where we as women were
simultaneously fully undressed. I mean, this isn't a hypothetical. That's
(08:33):
the reality that myself, my teammates, my competitors from around
the country, and girls, I mean, and various sports across
the nation continue to face at the hands of the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
So the competing is one thing.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I mean, anyone with any amount of brain activity knows
that that's unfair, they know that that's wrong. But what
you couldn't possibly grasp or wrap your head around is
the violation of the locker room.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So amazing it's Riley Gains, a great Riley Gains, a
female swimmer who's been speaking out against trans athletes being
involved in her sport.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And as I always must point out, the real insidious
part of this is then a young woman like Riley
Ganes and all our teammates looking upon that fully intact,
six foot four male are told say that's a woman.
Oh wow, say it's a woman, and they are in
serious trouble until they submit and say yes, that's a woman.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And if you're uncomfortable, there's something wrong with you with
a bad person. You're a bad person. If you're uncomfortable
with this. Speaking of gender bending madness really nuts. Yeah
it is. That's why I am so fired up about it.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So speaking of gender bending madness, this is kind of
a public service feature because awareness is upstream, as they say,
of action, and so much of the madness that's going
on in schools.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
People aren't aware of. They assume what's being taught to.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Their kids is virtually the same as what they were
taught as kids. And there's so much sickness in America's
public schools right now. It's inclusive places you might be surprised.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, we'll start.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
In not surprisingly California, specifically Rancho Buena Vista.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
This is James. He is a parent.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
I am here to talk about an assignment that was
showed into my daughter's classroom.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm going to read the assignment.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I do have a picture, but that's you know, never
hear whether it says stand in a circle, each of
you is now gay or lesbian, and you're about to
begin your coming out process. You cannot talk for the
rest of this activity. I don't see how this is
part of the California curriculum for education. There's nothing that
it does other than groom children.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
So in math class you have to stand in a
circle and practice coming out.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I would hate that if it were in some sort
of sexuality and health class. The fact that it's in
math class when you've got such low proficiency in math
is beyond disturbing. Now this is all in California. We
mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
There's a new law that makes it extremely difficult to
get pornography out of California libraries, including school libraries. If
it involves a black person, or a gay person or
a gender non what the hell person, You can have
as much porn as you want. It's sick and unbelievable,
but again that's California. Abigail Shreier, The Fabulous Abigail Shreier
(11:25):
wrote a great story about the It's entitled The Kindergarten
into Fada. This happens to be in La as well
in Siksi, California, where all of the teachers at the
Big Teachers' Union meeting are talking about how to get
kids as young as kindergarteners to understand the evil colonial
oppressor Zionist state and what it's doing to the poor Palestinians. Kindergarteners. Literally,
(11:50):
they're having a meeting. It was recorded. I have the
quotes talking about how to get the kids to be
pro Palestinian elementary school.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, but let's move on.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
An Oregon school district closed all schools and offices after
it was revealed that they did not report to law
enforcement at least six instances of documented cases of children
reporting allegedly being sexually abused by teachers. It emerged after
a couple of teachers were actually arrested for sex crimes.
But the administration and the unions and the teachers themselves,
(12:24):
instead of saying yeah, they're molesting kids and coming on
to them and sexualizing them, they kept it all quiet
to protect their thing. I guess one is reminded of
the Catholic Church in a way.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
For the women's volleyball or women's swimming are all kinds
of different organizations. Yeah, for the sake of the argument.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
San Francisco tried to Shudder, one of the few successful
schools in the district because it had disproportionately Asian and
white kids excelling. They are trying to close that in
favor of keeping open the utterly failing schools. But we'll
skip that because California again. Students at districts SEV forty
(13:08):
five in Minnesota received a questionnaire asking them how they
would communicate their desire to be more adventurous in bed?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
What what age? Let's see mean, no age is appropriate.
I don't even want that for the seniors. I mean,
what role is the school? Happened that?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I'm pretty sure it's high school. The superintendent of the
school district admitted that the questionnaire was inappropriate and that
the teacher would be subject to a disciplinary process. But
as part of the questionnaire of the students, you want
your partner to be more adventurous in the bedroom, How
do you communicate your desire?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How are your choices at high school? How do you
get so crazy that you think that's part of your
job as a high school teacher.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, that's part of my purpose in bringing this up.
But so and it's not just that. How do you
communicate your desire? First choice? Handcuff them to the bed
and take matters into your own hands.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Two you don't it's too awkward to talk about.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Three, tell them you love your sex life, but have
some ideas to spice things up. Or four leave your
laptop open to a sex toy website for them to
accidentally see sexualizing kids. Oh here we are back in California.
Teachers UNI uniforms. It's not controversial for four year old
boys to wear dresses to school, and that kindergarten teachers
(14:31):
should actively.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Bring up sex roles.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And gender expression to kids as young as kindergarten. They
should initiate the discussion.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Get into detail. Crazy, you're so nuts. I know I'm
not talking to any of you because you're not. You
wouldn't listen to the show. But what the hell did
that person always exist? That crowd always exists. They just
hadn't been able to get into mainstream life, and now
(15:07):
we've allowed them into mainstream life for all kinds of
stupid reasons. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
They dared not say what they had in mind because
they knew what the rest of the world thought of it.
And this, finally is a story from Newton, Massachusetts. You
had another blue state, which I do not think is
a coincidence. It's a teacher writing quite movingly about their
school district launching into this near religious fervor for education equity,
(15:35):
and how they wouldn't have elite classes anymore. They would
put the advanced math kids in with the slowest math kids,
and that way the other guys would get up to
speed and there wouldn't How would that happen, exactly inequity,
There wouldn't. There would be equity in grading in school
and everybody would learn. And it was a heartbreaking, miserable
(15:56):
failure for everybody concerned.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
That shocks teachers seen openly.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Weeping in the hallways because it was such a miserable failure,
But the activists made them continue on.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Kind of shocking, because I really thought that would work,
that the kids wud struggle with mac with would all
of a sudden be better at it if they were
in the same class with the people that are really
good at it.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It ends with the concept of anti racism often cited
by administration officials. Should not involve blindly insisting that these
classes are working simply because they make administrators feel good.
Effective anti racism shouldn't entail the should have I'm sorry,
should intail having the courage to admit they're not working
and finding something better. There's no shame in failure. There
is shame and failing over and over again and calling
(16:38):
it success.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So we're going to check in on Uh, we're not
real big on the whole government shut down, continuing a
resolution talk around here, But there was a giant bill
yesterday that was going to succeed and then Elon and
Trump turned against it and it did not succeed.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Is that trickling sounds you're hearing? Perhaps the swamp starting
to drain? It could be hmmm, we'll get into that
a little bit coming up. Hope you can stay here
if you missing now gets podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Musk calling a shutdown infinitely better than passing a horrible bill,
threatening that any lawmaker who supports it deserves to be
voted out. The bipartisan deal that would keep the government
up and running for three months was brokered by Republican
House Speaker Mike Johnson Musk, who President elect Donald Trump
has tapped to lead a new Department on Government Efficiency,
(17:34):
posting on X this spending bill is a crime. The
bill would fund the government through mid March among other things,
it includes one hundred billion dollars in disaster relief and
billions more in assistance for farmers. But Musk says it's
also bloated with wasteful spending.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
It's like me describing my trip to a horror house
and a strip club and a opium den and the
drug store on the way home to my wife is,
among other things, I'll be stopping at the drug store
to pick up your lipstick for you.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Come on, nice news coverage. Boo. Right, So Tuesday night,
I spent ten thousand dollars, ninety five hundred of it
at the Indian casino, and then five hundred dollars on
medicine for the children.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Exactly, My expenditures included medicine for the children.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Boo. I say, again, terrible coverage. Uh. Before we get
into some of the details, Elon tweeting out over one
hundred times yesterday flaws he sees with the bill that
ended up not passing or got yanked and threatening people
who were going to vote for it. But here is
(18:48):
Democratic leader Jeffries, who took over for Nancy Pelosi first
a Democrat, explaining on why it is just awful that
this bill is not going to pass, and then a
Representative Andy Harris, who I do not know, go ahead.
House Republicans will now own any.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Harm that is visited upon the American people that results
from a government shutdown or worse.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Well, I don't know. I'm only one.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
I'm only one vote out of two hundred and twenty. Look,
I think the Speaker could have handled this differently. At
this point. I'm still supportive of the Speaker, but I
will tell you that voices both inside the House Freedom
Caucus and outside the Freedom Caucus have been very disappointed
at what's happened this week.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Before I get to my opinions on this, a couple
of things I read in the wide world of news today.
I thought this was interesting analysis I'd never thought of before.
Too big to fail can become too big to succeed
in Congress in the blink of an eye. What they
try to do with these big, giant bills is you
put in enough stuff for enough people that people say,
(19:59):
you know, I I hate this, but my district gets,
you know, another twenty million dollars for this, and so
you got enough yes votes that you pass the thing through.
But you can go too far where there's just too
many things and it crosses a line into I can't
possibly support this, And that's with the help of Elon,
you know, whipping against it yesterday. That's apparently what happened.
(20:22):
As Mark Alprin writes in his newsletter, thanks to social media,
it's easier than ever to turn provisions at a piece
of legislation into populace bugaboos, whether said charges are true
or not. And once the wildfire starts, everything can become,
you know, a big point of contention. As we talked
about a little bit earlier, this is where I'm the
(20:43):
most maga is on this whole spending thing. Nothing has
worked in my lifetime. Every time one of these bills
comes up, whatever party's in charge, whether Republicans that inferior,
the fiscally conservative party though they haven't shown that in
recent years, or the Democrats, it's always next time, we've
(21:06):
got to pass this one because the government will shut
down and blind veterans won't get their medicine and all
kinds of different stuff. But we've got to pass this one.
But the next one, we're gonna get our act together
and starting in March will blah blah blah, blah blah,
and it never ever happens. So current my current emotion is, yeah,
freaking shut down the government, have a crisis, have things
(21:27):
blow have things blow up, have bad things happen. Maybe
he will do something differently going forward.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
As Newt Gingrish pointed out via Twitter quite appropriately, Look,
you don't have to run for reelection for two years.
We had multiple shutdowns when he was in charge. They
ended up with a balanced budget. Yeah, you got two years.
Go ahead, make your stand now. A number of people
have pointed out various loathsome things in the bill, not surprisingly.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Especially angering to me.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
It contains another year of funding for the State Department's
Global Engagement Center, which is a orwell you name for
the agency that was funding speech suppression efforts, joining with
that weird English nonprofit and all this is what Matt
Tayebe and others were reporting on with the Twitter papers
(22:16):
and all that to censorship by proxy by the government.
You got this from bright Bart. Congress gives itself a
raise in its last minute fifteen hundred and forty seven
page spending deal. So that's nice. You managed to squeezed
that in. You got this from the Free Beacon Democrat
lawmakers are actively hindering a federal investigation in the Biden
(22:41):
administration's four hundred billion dollar green energy loans. They're actively
standing in the way of trying to nail down where
that four hundred billion dollars went and if it did
any good. It's the idea that, well, we can't have
a government shutdown. I mean, I understand that may cause
promise you mentioned the great Republican fraud. We gotta pass
(23:03):
this one. Then we're gonna do the hard work to
get ready for March. Will have real Well, the Democrat fraud,
like haw Keen Jeffries, is, if there's a government shut down,
the trains will stop, the sun will not rise.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Electricity will not be able to turn on. We will die.
We will all die. God, all of you shut up.
Hospitals will be forced to unplug incubators. Uh, I forget who.
I can't find my note on. It might have been Elon,
But somebody said, so to the stuff that's good and
great and necessary, pass it separately, pass it separately. Why
(23:38):
don't you just pass it separately? If you gotta have
this farm stuff in there, but the farm stuff is important,
everybody grees don't pass it separately.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
There is a federal government fence in South Florida that
keeps the alligators away from the newborn babies. That fence
will have to be torn down if there's a government
shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's practically that bad.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Do you want alligators eating babies live human babies but
then vote against this Republican shutdown?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So this is honestly the question, the thing I don't
understand the most on the super important things, why don't
they vote on them separately because they're the such only
because they're the leverage that helps get the things through
one hundred As the kids say, it drives me nuts.
So again this is where I'm the most maga, which
(24:30):
I define maga is kind of, you know, tear it
all down. I don't like tearing it all down because
tearing down things that work in the United States mostly
works leaves you with who knows what you're gonna get
in its place. But our spending thing is broken, broken, broken.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I was gonna say, how about tearing down things that
are so effed up they're going to doom future generations
to a miserable standard of living in sky high taxes.
That needs to be torn down or it needs to
be stopped, It needs to seriously be reformed. What's really
going to be interes here? Because watching the will of
the electorate filtered through Washington. D C then expressed his
(25:08):
policy is not always a smooth journey.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And I'm curious to see with.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The momentum of you know, the dose thing in Elon,
especially Elon Musk's high profile and his bully pulpit and
the rest of it, to what extent are average Americans
actually the hogs at the trough that it seems like
that nobody cares about deficit spending and we're more than
willing to screw our kids and grandkids.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
To what extent is that actually true?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Or given an eloquent spokesman for fiscal responsibility, whether the
country would rally to that cause. Maybe I'm just naive,
but I'd at least like to find out.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I go back and forth on the theory that the
American electorate is smart and sophisticated and much more so
than politicians getting credit for. I go back and forth
in that because sometimes I'm shocked by the choices the
electorate makes, like in California with a couple of the
props that passed like, wow, you really understood it, or
people getting you know, their attitudes on Biden's age and
(26:10):
the border. The media was telling them the opposite. Yet
people figured it out somehow in overwhelming numbers. Right, But
on this question, I feel like, what percentage of people
understand that government money is tax money? I think it's
like eight percent. I also agree with that.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I think, well, and then what percentage of that eight
percent who understands it would say, well, but it's okay
that they take people's money and give it to others
rent like me because of inequity, and the rich should.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Pay their fair share. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So even if they understand the factual part of it,
that their ideology has blinded them to, you know, the
actual reality.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Here's Josh Holly, who is a bit of a grand
standard super smart guy on Hannity last night.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Senate, it is fifteen hundred pages of pork barrel spending,
and worse than that, it's all the woke garbage. It's
the censorship boards they're getting funded in this There's hundred
millions of dollars for a recycling access center in this bill.
There's also the pay raise for members of Congress is
the Obamacare carve out for members of Congress. Here's the
thing that really gets me. Republicans negotiated this The Speaker
(27:23):
of the House negotiated this bill. I'm a hard no
on this thing. It is a joke, It is a travesty,
and they need to go back to square one.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, But then you've had the situations where the Freedom Caucus,
that's the people that are supposed to care about spending,
wouldn't agree to anything, although they're closer to right than wrong,
because again, we keep going further down the road of
more debt. At what point do you say that's enough?
And apparently Josh Holly's in favor of not building that
(27:53):
fence between the alligator pit and the kindergarten class.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yeah, and Johnson, Mike Johnson, the Speaker, saying, all right,
I got three members are not going to vote for
anything unless it's, you know, something so drastic. I don't
think it can happen. All right, Democrats, what's it gonna
take to get three of your votes? And he believes
that's what he needs to do. I don't care if
the government shuts down. I do not freaking care what
percentage of American cares if the government shuts down, it's
(28:23):
probably about roughly what the election was. It's probably like
forty nine forty eight. Yes, I'll bet you're right. Yeah,
so I would. I will openly call for this. No violence,
no hurting any poor son of a gun who's an
hourly employee of the federal government or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Like you know, it might happen.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
If they attempt to shut down the World War II
Memorial again.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Which is just an open plaza. You go in it.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
We need rampant civil disobedience again, no violence of any sort.
You lift up the barrier, you put it aside, you
walk in, and you pay trip to those we've lost
defending this country. If they try to shut down a
natural national park, all you're gonna do is wander through
the forest or wander along the seashore. And like during
(29:10):
Obama's years, they put up barriers saying this park is
closed because of the government's shutdown. Go in the park, trespass,
get arrested. I will do it.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I will lead you.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
We can't have that crap. I mean, that is seriously
Boston Tea Party stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Social Security checks will not go out. Old people were
starved again. They'll start unplugging incubators, and then single bombs
will be pushed downstairs all across America for some reason.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Not the married ones, right, well, right, And when the
babies realize their incubator is off, they'll crawl out of it,
and that's when the gators get them. So, I mean,
you want a government shutdown? You do elon you, you
you ultra mega fascist.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
If I can be serious for one second, I honestly
do not understand why they don't vote for the stuff
that needs to happen, that is overwhelmingly popular, separately, just
do it. Why does Mike Johnson do that?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, because they need votes and the other guys say
that you got to put in one hundred million dollars
for the Recycling Access Center.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Whatever the hell that is? Right? If you know anything
about this arga, you could text us four one five
two nine five KFTC. I'll tell you what government shuts
down while we're on vacation. I'm paying zero attention zero. Oh,
I'm gonna have a vigil.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'm going to put marks on my wall like I'm
an inmate in some ancient prison.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Of course, marks the times passage. Of course, I'll be
driving across the country with my kids, and they'll probably
close some parks that we were going to go to,
or oh, interstate rest stops or something.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You were a first person reporter, weren't you that they
put up cones so you couldn't stop and look at
Mount Rushmore. F that's that's when we need civil disobedience.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Wow more on the waist to hear Armstrong, I need
to hire You're.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Supposed to sigh when you hear Christmas music like that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm not that say I got to hire a secretary
to deal with my children while I'm at work, because
I'm at work. You see what are we doing? Oh yeah,
this is from the Babylon Bee. I haven't heard this yet,
but it's a song. It's supposed to encourage people to
visit California, so it sounds charming. Here we go.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
California is a premium state with premium ideas. We've got
the highest housing prices, gas and taxes of any state.
There are always plenty of free campsites, and the best part,
you can go to the bathroom anywhere you want, no
questions asked.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Want to meet new people, We've got.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
You covered with a huge wave of illegal immigrants coming
over the border each and every day. Pull us in
yours diversity is our elf stream. Though you may have
heard it's expensive year, But not to worry. Try smash
and grab. We want to stop you. So come on
down to a state where the possibilities are endless, and
(32:08):
so are the taxis and crime and cost of living
and regulations and woke nonsense in schools and blackouts and
the brown outs and the wildfires, and the earthquakes and
the sewage fills and the droughts and much more.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Now a lot of that many blackouts, Well, it depends
on where you live. Yeah, how many is a lot?
One a year seems like a lot to me my
whole life, everywhere I lived, including places that have the
worst weather in America. You didn't have it every year.
You have multiple per year, like where our farm is. Yeah,
(32:46):
tridicular Erica is Haiti, California. You can't blame the government
for the earthquakes. That's about the only equippal I have
with it. Fair point. We got some more news to
get to in the final hour, which is coming up.
If you miss a get the podcast Arms and Getty
on demand. As I mentioned a little bit ago, I
took the kids to a mid grade restaurant last night.
We were out running around errands and we were hungry,
(33:07):
and we went to like I won't mention the name,
but you know the I don't know what do you
call those brass and glass type of places. They're all
in the same category. Yeah, mid price. I think we're
all getting yet about the same price, about the same menu.
They got some ribs, they got some sort of chicken
strip salad, they got you know, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
An actual menu menu, but no white tablecloths. Probably something
weird and sticky on the surface here table.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's funny you would use that word, because that was
my big thing, and I was trying to decide whether
I wanted to make a deal out of it or
not because they were busy and it was having trouble
getting a hold of it. My fork was super sticky.
Oh no, I hate sticky. And I was trying to
just power through and go ahead and eat with the
sticky fork because I couldn't get ahold of I was
hungry and there wasn't anybody available the place was.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I mean, you assume you eat like most people, you
put it in your mouth, dick.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, the the times. Is that the word for those things?
That's the times they are changing the tines on the fork.
I don't believe they were sticky, but the handle was sticky.
Did you just say to your sons these are the
best of times? These are the worst of times. I
didn't say, Oh, the handle's sticky, and they said, oh, gross, Dad,
you gotta get different fork. And I kind of looked
(34:27):
around and I could see I was not gonna be
able to get the waitress soon, and my food was there,
and I was hungry, and just so I just wanted
it poffer through it. The sticky fork. God, so gross.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Nobody will ever accuse you of being high maintenance. No,
you have that going for it.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, I just went ahead and ate with the sticky fork.
That is gross. I didn't wash my hands as soon
as done eating though, whatever, who knows what that was.
And then of course my mind starts turning. I wonder
what's causing the stickiness. Hmm. Number of options, yes, yes, Katie, No,
we have no time. Just your looks says it all
to La is amazing. She's a guest, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Mm hmm.
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