January 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured within Hour 1 of the Tuesday January 7, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show...
- Billionaires, free speech & the depths of amorality...
- A thought-provoking Quote of the Day & Mailbag...
- Guess who's the most important government lobbyist?
- Should be we concerned about the Bird Flu...
- Biden sings a beautiful rendition of Happy Birthday!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Getti and he.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Arms drawn from Studio C see Senior A dimly lit
room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
the way I said bowels too.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know what it was, but it was.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Good, the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager. Let's be honest.
Elon Musk, you're talking space travel, obviously it is Elon Musk.
You're talking cars is Elon Musk. Tech often Elon Musk.
You're talking to European politics. Today it's Elon must the doge.
That's all. I expect him to become the offensive coordinator
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for the Chiefs next call the plays in the Super Bowl.
So you're arguing that he is the unelected co president.
I don't think I am oh Oh a tech billionaire
who has an inordinate political influence.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
How terrifying I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I thought that when I heard that Biden gave George
Soros whatever medal of freedom. That is because you're billionaire
who's been influencing politics. By the way, he's the guy
that got Alvin Bragg and uh, what's his name in
Los Angeles, Gascone and all those people elected, and is
like crime room rampant in these big cities that has
been rejected by Democrats also, But anyway, your billionaire medal
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of freedom on the right, you have a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh my god, it's the end of democracy whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So many, virtually all of the arguments you hear that
sound moral or sound like real concern, they're just a
quest for power. The only proper response is, yeah, whatever,
your policies suck. This headline from today backs your Elon
Musk argument. This is the New York Times Meta. That's
Zuckerberg's thing. I hate calling it meta. Can we go
(02:20):
back to call it Facebook or whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Anyway? Meta?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
To end fact checking program and shift a head of
Trump term. The sub paragraph is the social networking giant
will stop using, will stop using third party fact checkers
and instead rely solely on users to add notes to posts.
It's likely to please President elect Trump and his conservative allies. Hmm,
what does that sound like? What model does that sound like?
(02:44):
He's emulating right there, It's exactly what Elon does on Twitter,
having been absolutely humiliated for the overt bias that Facebook
showed in their quote unquote fact checking through COVID and
beyond good. Look, here's the headline for you. Elon Musk
is royaling European politics. Trump ally is flooded x with
posts criticizing European politicians, causing diplomatic conundrum for continence leaders.
(03:07):
The only thing I don't like about that angle, and
I just heard it on NPR is instead of Republicans pounce,
it's an Elon Musk pounce. Elon Musk pounces instead of
the story itself. I caught the tail end of the
story when I turned on NPR and got in my
car today, But it was Elon Musk's latest obsession is
the story that happened over a decade ago of girls
(03:30):
being raped by Muslim men in England and Elon Musk
blah blah blah, Elon Musk, And it was all about
how he's obsessed with this story, rather than that story
is real and occurred, and many people believe it's still
going on. Right, Yes, it's still occurring over a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh my god, don't get me started.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You know, what's incredible is the depths of the amorality.
If children are being raped to death, but it's being
called to our attention by somebody of the center right
or admittedly on the trumpion right now, at this point,
whatever that means, NPR will poo poo it. Children being
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raped becomes a nothing. If there's somebody on the center
right bringing your attention to it. The amorality is spectacular.
It is satanic, it is evil, and one more Elon
Musk thing, since we're being all in love with Elon
Musk right now. I saw Tesla the other day in
my town that had a Elon.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Musk circle with a line through it on their Tesla.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So it's like, I'm gonna keep it driving my Tesla,
got but I gotta make it clear just because I'm
driving Tesla doesn't mean I'm up with Elon Musk. I
was listening to the End of the Year National Review
podcast over the break, and somebody made the comment that
it's a good possibility that the only name currently in
circulation that will be remembered five hundred years from now
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is Elon Musk, based around his space exploration stuff. Particularly,
they were talking about how the rocket thing, and you
know how he caught that rocket when it came back
down with the chopsticks, and that's such a leap forward
for space exploration. It might be like Christopher Columbus is
like the only name you know from fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Elon Musk could be that way now and that's possible.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, certainly that was an amazing achievement, right, Yeah,
I missed that podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'll have to check that. We end up going to Mars.
I was in something else.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Who knows what other option might open up as the
technology develops.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And that's the thing about.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I've been harping on this for years, how often
on the left, going back to the Apollo program, they're like, no, no,
don't explore space, don't develop science, Just spend the money
on America's streets and give people money. You don't know
what the result is when you go boldly forth to explore,
to develop, to learn. You think you're on this path,
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turns out you might be on another path that's ten
times as great. That's why you always have to keep
striving as a society. And that's why the United States
continues to kick the world's ass economically and in innovation
and all sorts of things. Because we have that spirit.
We can't lose that spirit. Of course, we'll have full
team coverage on our lead story today. Kim Jong un
has banned hot dogs in North Korea. What they're too well,
(06:15):
now I am outraged. There is just play they're too western.
He said two things there. Either he wants all the
hot dogs. I don't need to hear choice two. Or
he caught a look at himself and he was looking
at a family photo and thought, wow, I've let myself go.
And the only way he thinks he can stop eating
hot dogs is to ban them in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Is the power to do that? And be like, if
I could ban donuts in the whole nation, I would,
So that's a dictator. You can do that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So I'm not dumpty by them, right. So it's one
of those two. Clearly, he either wants to eat them
all he wants none around him. Some candid pixture of
a fat boy at some New Year's Eve, Catherine, where
he's just turning the look and he just looks like
a moon on a stick his head, his big head.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And he thought, oh my god, I've got to do something.
The moon on a stick.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Let's start the show officially, because we got a good one.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday,
January the seventh year, twenty twenty five, where Armstrong and
getting and we approve of this program. Let's begin exploring
the outer reaches of the events of our time, precisely
according to FCC rules.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Rags. Here we go at Mark Donald J.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Trump of the State of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamlade Harris, that's got a sting.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
She's like, I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
God, it's like attending your own funeral, and even the
mourners are like got I watched the opening fifteen minutes
of the Daily Show on the drive in, and Jon
Stewart is freaking brilliant. He's the best at that ever.
And I know a lot of you can't handle it.
(08:03):
The jokes run against your politics, but he is so
good at crafton jokes anyway. One of the points he made,
and I thought this was really good, is about how
we all act like we've always known. January sixth, Well,
there's a big important day in the whole process of
the elga Oh We're only this many hours away from
the certification. Like we all ever talked about the certification
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ever in our lives. Let's not act like this is
some brand new I've studied this stuff in university and
on my own, and I had either forgotten or was
unaware of it, or it was just a ceremonial thing
of me jiggy that happens right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Right right until four years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Obviously, here is the flower I will throw on the
political grave of Kamala Harris. She quite clearly made it
unmistakable to all of you who have mispronounced her name
that her name is pronounced Kamala.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Here's all you need to know about her.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
When Obama was hot back in the day, she told
the Sacramento, California the Capitol Press Corps, it's pronounced Kamala,
so it would sound like Obama. She actually did that,
and then later on went back to Kamala, that's all
you need to know about that woman. Well, I'll say this,
(09:18):
and I'm not supposed to say this. Apparently, based on
the news I took in yesterday from the right, I
thought it was really great the way she handled that
and everything. And yeah, I thought that was absolutely fantastic.
She didn't have to do that. She didn't and well,
constitutionally she has to do that, but she didn't have
to have the tone that she had and everything. And
(09:40):
I thought that was fantastic. I thought that was really
good for the country. I need more of that, not
less of that. Was that bashed from the right. I
missed that, all kinds of different examples of how awful
she was. So okay, anyway, how does the mailbag look?
What's it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's it's coming together.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
As you said last year, it's a work in progress. Oh,
here's what I need from you the text. But I
also vowed yesterday we're all We're gonna be honest. I'm
gonna be honest every single day this year. I'm going
to tell you exactly what I think. No sugarcoating, no pandering.
Mail bag is coming together. Could go either way. So
last year it was life will not be a bor
in twenty four? Do you have any ideas for twenty five?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Text me at the text?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Did you see my tweet? I had some? I had
some pretty good ones. No, I did not off to
tell take a look at those later. Yeah, I don't
look at our Twitter.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And neither does anyone else. There was no settle down.
Now there was. There was one in particular that was
pretty popular.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
There were just a couple hundred people away from forty
thousand followers on Twitter and just I really want to
get there, so could you? Would you please? I don't
know why that matters to me.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You don't have to use it at all. Just go
on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yountimes called X. You don't have to put the strong
e giddy. It's effortless to find. This is the text
line for if you can come up with something clever
that rhymes with five, The number is four one, five
two nine five k FTC.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just saw an interesting argument from Van Jones about
Canada be in our fifty first state. He said, hey, Republicans,
it would be a very blue state and it's about
the size of California.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So that's a good point from me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
They're so worn out by the woke agenda, woke Elvis.
That's what Matt tayeebie Pierre Trudeau of Justin Trudeau. I
saw a clip of Pierre Trudeau from years ago. I
didn't realize he's been Prime minister for ten years. Justin Trudeau,
the Yes guy. Yeah, Pierce's old dad, right, Justin Trudeau
the prime minister. Ten years he's been prime minister anyway.
(11:51):
I saw a clip of him where he's taken a
question from somebody and the person used the term mankind
in the question.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He said, excuse me, excuse me. I prefer person kind like.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got to you gotta be kidding me. And he
lasted ten years with that attitude. Yeah, that would be
a very very lefty blue state with as many electoral
votes as California. So no thanks, LGDP, LGT LBG, LGBTQ
(12:23):
two plus what an annoying weasel. I swear, don't get
me started. I have already started. Here's your thought provoking
quote of the day. And I had a bunch of
great choices looking at a series of quotes about beginnings.
Francis Drake the explorer, there must speaking of this spirit
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of exploring and expanding your horizons and going into the unknown.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
There must poor Man's Magellan in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Wow, don't please, don't get he gets so militant about this.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but
the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished.
Yields the true glory. Yeah, yeah, thanks for your input.
Francis mailbag, So true, so true. Oh the big splashy
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beginning the ribbon cutting. Yeah, that ain't the hard part, right.
Let's see a number of people reacting to my getting
a tick on Christmas Eve story. You can drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
A good story, including it when you present it that
way with that sort of title. Remember the time I
got a tick on Christmas Eve? Kids gather around? Oh yeah,
(13:43):
well that was a good time. Let's see Charlotte with
a cute note. She went to the emergency room. The
doctor walks into the room and says, do you have
a tick or any starts like convulsing or a tick?
I was like, that's not a prow that's that good humor.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
A tick like a like a twitch, like a seizure. Wow,
that's not funny doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Then this from Sean while shooting a tick will always
resolve the medical issue.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One must aim the.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Weapon so that the round strikes only the tick, not
the person the tick is feeding on. I recommend a
nine millimeter round, or if you don't trust your spouse's aim,
you can always dump two mags or three California sized
mags rack to slide back and press the heated barrel
against the tick. It's a rather militaristic approach there, Sean,
thanks for the advice. Oh and then he says, if
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performing either of these medical techniques indoors, say in a bathroom,
be sure to wear ear protection.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Don't risk your hearing. Wow, what is the matter with you, Sean?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Uh? Let's see, this is a very serious indeed from
Tom about the British child rape story, the Muslim immigrants
and the child rape rings and the cover up by
the British authorities who were embarrassed at they're immigration policies
were so miserable, and also they wanted to keep the
Muslim votes in those beleaguered rust belt towns. He points out,
(15:09):
you get speculated as to why these rapists would not
have committed these atrocities in the countries they come from.
What's not being discussed enough about these crimes as a
central role that religion plays. Their home countries have almost
no unbelievers living in them.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You want to talk about a bigoted apartheid society, look
at every Muslim country on earth virtually almost everyone according
to the tenets of their religion. It's forbidden even look
at a covered Muslim woman other than your wife, much
less touch or molest one. However, anything goes with an
Infidel woman or girl, it is perfectly acceptable to use
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and abuse them sexually. In fact, it's seen as a
good thing to do. Infidels are considered less than human,
and when people who adhere to this belief system are important,
large numbers into a culture like the one in Great
Britain and has become, it is inevitable that poor, powerless
young girls will be victimized wholesale. Again, this would not
be happening in the absence of one particular religion. It
is time for people to get honest about fundamentalist Islam.
(16:08):
They're pretty wonderful Muslim people living in the country. I
have no quarrel with them whatsoever. But fundamentalist Islam is
an incredibly bigoted religion of conquest.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That just is.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's undeniable. I saw a quote and I didn't verify
it or not. It claimed it was from Winston Churchill
saying Moslems, which was the term back in the day
when they are in the minority minority rights are very
important when they are in the majority.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
There are no.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Minority rights, that's correct, which is interesting. Yeah, the history
of the world would back that up. And then a
note I want to talk maybe more later from our
old friend Camper, who says some very very nice things
about the way we were talking about a couple of topics.
But then he said, sixty years ago we'd not only
express outrage, but would also engage and make a collective
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and individual effort to fix things and make righteous as happen.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And he's suggesting more we have we give you more.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Avenues for getting involved, recommend groups to join or where
a ballot initiative is going.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
We can try to do that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We have a very small crew and to get the
show ready every single day, and like give you your
marching orders would be a challenge, but it's a great thought.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
We'll work on it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
We got some more of the news of the day,
and I hope you can join us, and I would
like your recommendations for things at rhyme with twenty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Five are strong and getty.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, I just was looking at our Twitter feed and
saw your tweet. It was right above my retweet of
somebody saying people are too casual about the fact that
parrots can talk.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Since I was a kid, I thought that, Wait a minute,
we're just taking this in stride on anyway, your suggestions
for the theme when we open the show every single day,
stay alive in twenty five, just survive?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Cut the jibe? Will we arrive picking the hive? Yeah? Yeah,
I will tell you that.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Judging by the comments, and there were hundreds of them,
cut the jive number one, Cut the jive in twenty five?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wow jive? Has anybody under fifty heard that term?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And kicking the hive was pretty popular too. It's draining
the swamp the ESK news of the day. As we mentioned,
we'll hear from Mark Zuckerberg a little bit later. He's
doing some interviews. He's changing Facebook from fact checkers to
community notes, and he says specifically he modeled it after
Elon Musk's deal on Twitter. So interesting, and I think
(18:40):
is there step forward? Has there been in recent American
history a phrase more contemptible than fact checker? Yeah, and
welcome to the party, Mark Zuckerberg. That fact checker to
me means okay, here, I'm about to be spun one
way or the other. One more thing I wanted to
mention before we get to this news clip.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
We need to.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Discuss A friend of mine who works for the federal
government said, texted me this yesterday. President Biden just gave
all federal employees Thursday off to honor and remember President
Carter paid holiday.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Thank you, dear taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Wow, what the hell? Please get Biden out of office?
How soon can we do that?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
A week? That's pretty soon? Please someone a week?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I'm sorry, someone explained to me, how you justify that
so that segment of society gets a day off? No
big deal. It's all paid for by all the other people,
which is a vast majority of us, like almost all
of us, who are paying for it, and we have
to go to work, of course we do. Someday I
(19:51):
will be recognized. Let's make this about me, and the
Getty principle will be spoken of far and wide, and
that is that the government, and more specifically, particularly in
blue states, unionized government workers have become the most important
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lobbyist of government. They now run the government for themselves
to a large extent, and that is perverted our politics
in this country. I gotta believe so. I spend else
with Biden do that? Why name a single damn reason.
Come on, I spent a lot of time thinking about
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the overall structure of our country. Over the break, I
listened to a long podcast with some law professors about
the Constitution and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Then ended up going to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And seeing the Founding documents in person and reading various
quotes from the Founding fathers, I gotta believe that universally,
as much as they fought with each other, and they
solidly disagreed with each other on so many issues, like
you're going to destroy the country we've already been started.
I mean, they really believe the other side was wrong.
But I got to believe that they would all be
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an agreement that it's completely too big and into too
much of our lives.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
At this point, I gotta believe every one of them.
I think you're a hundred percent right.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, Because and there are I don't know two three
four central principles that informed everything that went into the Constitution, and.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
One of those was power always.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Wants to centralize, and the Constitution was built to resist
that impulse. It's been true since the days of the cavemen.
It was truth through the Middle Ages. It's true now.
Power wants to accumulate, it wants to centralize, and we
the people have been seduced into letting that happen because
we've been promised that a powerful central government will give
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us everything we dream and paraphrase Jefferson, it is therefore
powerful enough to take away everything we have.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But we've been seduced.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I got into the argument, and I won't get into
it here. Maybe later that Madison was strongly against the
Bill of Rights, just thought it was a terrible idea,
argued so strongly to try to convince all of his
fellow voters there at the Constitutional Convention that the Bill
of Rights was a terrible idea, but he lost the argument.
And then say, okay, I lost the argument. Here's how
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we ought to do it, if we're going to do it,
which I just thought I could, if we could do that,
now where you just.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You lost the argument.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Okay, fine, now I'm going to get on board with
Let's try to make this the best it can be.
Since this is what the majority of you have decided.
We're so far from that now. Anyway, another day, this
could be the story that dominates the year.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I hope it's not here.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
We go health officials reporting the first death from bird
flu in the US. The patient, who was over sixty
five with underlying health conditions, had been hospitalized in Louisiana
since mid December after being exposed to the virus through
a flock of birds in a backyard. The CDC analyzed
the virus in that Louisiana patient and found concerning new
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mutations which could help the virus infect people more easily,
but so far, there has been no evidence of human
to human spread. Health officials urging the public to avoid
consuming unpasteurized dairy products. Public health officials are also warning
not to feed your pets raw food after at least
one cat in Oregon died from the virus.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So is this an attempt by me to scare you
bubbling is no? I just think you need to know
that story is out there and the media is on it,
and once again, having learned nothing, apparently from the coverage
of the whole COVID thing, this person with horrible health,
who is also quite old and already in the hospital
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for a long time, died with bird flu. Not of
bird flu, but with bird flu. There's a big difference.
It's Scott Anthony Faucis issued a statement to ordering everyone
to wear mittens and begin all sentences with verbs, because
that's the science. Go get some mittens, for instance, said
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the great doctor who represents science. Al Right, bird first,
bird flu death. Somebody with really bad health who had
gotten bird flu died, God rested their souls couldn't have
withstood home mine.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, bird size, well, it's illustrative.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yes, okay, some oldster who God bless their souls couldn't
have survived any infection.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Fair enough. You know, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Worried about the damn bird flu. I'm worried about the
damn man eaten worm in Texas.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
The New World screw worm, which is a pretty good name.
It's it's Latin name Haman novorax means man eater, and
it's it's spreading up from Mexico. We eradicated it in
the US years and years ago, nineteen sixty six. It's horrific.
It screws its way. It's a slow down. I'm sorry,
(25:07):
I'm a little excited about this. I am just becoming
aware of this. I need to take it in a
way that I can digest it. So there is a
worm that can kill larva. Yeah, yes, and it's in
Texas and it's spreading, yes northward, all right, yes it's
and again we eradicated it in nineteen sixty six after
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an extensive federal and states sterilization product.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's the larva of a fly. The what's the name
of the fly? You fly? Don't bother me, I can't
remember some damn fly. Anyway, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
It is evidence that God has forsaken us. It is
the worst thing I've ever heard of. It is the
worst insect on Earth's bar.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
None.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Uh. Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine said, hey, it's
gonna it could have devastating effects on the health of
our livestock. But the screwworm begins its rain of terror
when the female lays her eggs into the into an
open wound or orifice. The female flies are drawn to
the open wounds and orifices by the odors they emit.
They can be as small as a tick bite, oh,
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a nasal or eye opening, a navel of a newborn,
or genitalia. I tend to keep my genitalia covered, so
I think I'm okay, there, and we appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
These eggs then hatch into dangerous larvae that burrow into
the wound like screws.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Females can lay two hundred to three hundred eggs at once.
Oh my god, I'm gonna faint.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But the country is on edge.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So did you say somebody has died of it? No, no,
it's but it's it's creeping its way north. It primarily
affects live stock, but it can infect humans.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Okay, good god, run for your lives.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The fact that the bird flew death was one of
the lead teases on all the evening national newscasts concerned me,
Like they get so excited about that sort of thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, people don't tune out of being frightened.
It's a ratings ploy to constantly keep you frightened. It
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works politically too, As Menkin said, you know, politics is
trotting out an endless series hob goblins to terrify you
into voting one way or another. We won't do it here,
except for the screwworm. It is terrifying. Tell your children
just before they try to go to sleep tonight about
this worm that burrows its way into your orifices. Well,
(27:38):
the country is on edge on the exactly the country
is on the country is on.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Edge on the bird flu thing. Now. I know some
people on the right.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Believe this is an effort the government wants to get
the bird flu thing going as a scare to try
to really limit a lot of livestock stuff or take
control of that because the government wants to have more
control over the food.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Thank you. There you go, the.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Food source that we have in America, particularly people that
provide their own food. So right, right, an excuse to
take more control. Yeah, isn't that that that needs to
be the same. I think cut the Jive in twenty
five might be the right theme. And Michael, the fabulous
clip you keep playing.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Go ahead. The country is on edge the.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Never ending drum beat of trying to motivates politically or
sociologically or whatever by these fake harum scareum things.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's all right, I'm on the I'm on the beat.
I'm on the hunt.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You can only do that so many times, though, can't
you have? Before people start saying, ah, whatever, bring it on. Well,
we're at like four billion I think and counting in
this country. Okay, so uh, we got no, we don't
have k Katie's ill. She's got the I heard her
sneeze it you call. I think it might be the
(29:00):
BF the bird, certainly, hope not. But we've got more
news of the day on the way. I really want
to get into some of the stuff that went on
yesterday around the big certification really constitutional box checking.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, no, kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It was. It was all the drama of like, you know,
filling out your car rental agreement and other stuff on
the way, so stay here.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yesterday, during an event at the White House, President Biden
brought a young man up on stage just say him
happy birthday, and well just watch.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
This, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
At birthday all right? Well he still got it. That's good,
he said. I ended up in a situation like that
over the break. Who was it?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Obviously wasn't my son his birthday. I was at some
birthday thing and people started singing. In about two lines
into the song, I realized, I do not remember this
person's name, Happy birthdayed Bell. You know. When he sang
happy birthday my son who turned thirteen. I ended with
(30:31):
here comes puberty and uh and I got bad looks.
Oh no, wonder why I thought there was again. No,
oh no, no, too big a thing. No, puberty is
too big a thing. Yeah, you don't throw in a
witty line at the end of a song. My son's
excited about puberty. He's constantly asking. He says, do you
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see any here on my lip?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And he hear my lip? This is my voice? Sound
any deeper? Today? He's all right.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
He wants because he saw go through it, and his
brother seems like a grown man, and girls seemed.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
To get and all that sort of thing, so he wants.
He's looking forward to it. Excellent.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Actually, yesterday, my thirteen year old he said, do you
think I'm taller? And I said you might be. He said,
I was looking at my feet in the shower today
and they just seem further away.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
A couple of things from my notes before I get
to something somewhat serious and thoughtful. First quote from Albert
Einstein that I thought was really good. Two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about
the universe, yeah, which is pretty good. And I came
across this, which is finding out stripper poles spin in
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place instead of strippers around the poles. Is the grown
ups finding out Santa isn't real.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I
didn't know that either.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
But now that I think about it, the few times
I've seen strippers on stripper poles, which is not very
many times, that's how you do it. The poll spins.
You're not spinning around the pole. The poll spins which holes,
which is much easier to do.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Hanging on the pole.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
That's spinning much easier than I'm spinning around it with
Like my I always wondered how you get your legs
to not squeak against the metal bowl or your hands
or whatever. So that explains it, you know, I hadn't
given it a moment's thought. Kind of ashamed of that
because now that you pointed out, yeah, it's practically a
physical impossibility to what they seem to be doing growing
(32:30):
up their exotic dancers.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
By the way, growing up Aquillan finding out sand isn't real.
That's so there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'm trying to be more big picture in the year
twenty twenty five as opposed to some of the daily
nonsense that gets so much attention in some media, and
it's meaningless big picture and this is a big picture thing.
I remember how much time I got Michael, I want
to lunch into a big picture thing, and I got
no time.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'd be ironic, wouldn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
It a half, no problem perfect. So I remember, Oh,
Gladys Gladys working in twenty five? Did we because Joe
and I renewed our contract. We're going to be around
for several more years?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
What what?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
But I didn't know if Gladys signed on too. Gladys
signed on too, cool, So Gladys is going to be
with us for the next several years.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
God Willing.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I remember when Barack Obama was elected in two thousand
and eight and George Will saying on the TV, it's
interesting that this sticks in my mind, saying the treat.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Gotta get the line right.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He said, the retreat of the state is over, and
I thought, wow, that is fascinating. So he was looking
at when Ronald Reagan came into office, through two terms
of Reagan, Bush and even two terms of Clinton. When
Bill Clinton ran on, the era of big government is over.
The state was in retreat and it ended with Barack Obama.
(33:56):
And it has been that way now for a couple
of decades with just the growth of the government through
des and rs, bigger and more expensive everything. And then
this article in the Wall Street Journal that I came
across over the weekend, the progressive moment in global politics
is over, at least for now. This past year showed
that the progressive politics that have dominated most industrialized countries
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over the past two decades, so the period of time
since Barack Obama, after you know, several decades of a
retreat of the state, the state has been growing, and
in our face that dominated over the past two decades
is more is shifting to the right because of working
class anxieties, economy, immigration, fatigue with issues from climate change
to identity politics, all that sort of stuff. So it
(34:43):
looks like we're it is flipped back to the other
side again, at least for now and hopefully for a
couple of decades at least.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
At the risk of.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Being a sounding smug, the Wall Street Journal could have
saved some ink by just saying the backlash was because
progressive policies yield miserable results. The problem is that a
lot of that spending and growth is locked in. Yes,
that is a huge problem, A lot, I mean nothing
(35:11):
is permanent, at least in a republic democracy like we've got,
but a lot of it would be really really hard
to undo. And of course money spent is money spent.
There's nothing you do about that. You got to pay
it back, right right. Yeah. The great danger of democracy
is that a benefit that wasn't imagined for the past
five hundred years given on Tuesday, if you try to
(35:32):
take it back the next day, realize you've made a mistake,
people will howl like you're skinning them. So, to paraphrase
George Will, it looks like the retreat of the working
man is over, which is good news.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
We've got more to come. Stay with us, Armstrong and
Getty
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Arms drawn from Studio C see Senior A dimly lit
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the way I said bowels too.
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I don't know what it was, but it was.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Good, the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager. Let's be honest.
Elon Musk, you're talking space travel, obviously it is Elon Musk.
You're talking cars is Elon Musk. Tech often Elon Musk.
You're talking to European politics. Today it's Elon must the doge.
That's all. I expect him to become the offensive coordinator
(01:06):
for the Chiefs next call the plays in the Super Bowl.
So you're arguing that he is the unelected co president.
I don't think I am oh Oh a tech billionaire
who has an inordinate political influence.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
How terrifying I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I thought that when I heard that Biden gave George
Soros whatever medal of freedom. That is because you're billionaire
who's been influencing politics. By the way, he's the guy
that got Alvin Bragg and uh, what's his name in
Los Angeles, Gascone and all those people elected, and is
like crime room rampant in these big cities that has
been rejected by Democrats also, But anyway, your billionaire medal
(01:49):
of freedom on the right, you have a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh my god, it's the end of democracy whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So many, virtually all of the arguments you hear that
sound moral or sound like real concern, they're just a
quest for power. The only proper response is, yeah, whatever,
your policies suck. This headline from today backs your Elon
Musk argument. This is the New York Times Meta. That's
Zuckerberg's thing. I hate calling it meta. Can we go
(02:20):
back to call it Facebook or whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Anyway? Meta?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
To end fact checking program and shift a head of
Trump term. The sub paragraph is the social networking giant
will stop using, will stop using third party fact checkers
and instead rely solely on users to add notes to posts.
It's likely to please President elect Trump and his conservative allies. Hmm,
what does that sound like? What model does that sound like?
(02:44):
He's emulating right there, It's exactly what Elon does on Twitter,
having been absolutely humiliated for the overt bias that Facebook
showed in their quote unquote fact checking through COVID and
beyond good. Look, here's the headline for you. Elon Musk
is royaling European politics. Trump ally is flooded x with
posts criticizing European politicians, causing diplomatic conundrum for continence leaders.
(03:07):
The only thing I don't like about that angle, and
I just heard it on NPR is instead of Republicans pounce,
it's an Elon Musk pounce. Elon Musk pounces instead of
the story itself. I caught the tail end of the
story when I turned on NPR and got in my
car today, But it was Elon Musk's latest obsession is
the story that happened over a decade ago of girls
(03:30):
being raped by Muslim men in England and Elon Musk
blah blah blah, Elon Musk, And it was all about
how he's obsessed with this story, rather than that story
is real and occurred, and many people believe it's still
going on. Right, Yes, it's still occurring over a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh my god, don't get me started.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You know, what's incredible is the depths of the amorality.
If children are being raped to death, but it's being
called to our attention by somebody of the center right
or admittedly on the trumpion right now, at this point,
whatever that means, NPR will poo poo it. Children being
(04:12):
raped becomes a nothing. If there's somebody on the center
right bringing your attention to it. The amorality is spectacular.
It is satanic, it is evil, and one more Elon
Musk thing, since we're being all in love with Elon
Musk right now. I saw Tesla the other day in
my town that had a Elon.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Musk circle with a line through it on their Tesla.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So it's like, I'm gonna keep it driving my Tesla,
got but I gotta make it clear just because I'm
driving Tesla doesn't mean I'm up with Elon Musk. I
was listening to the End of the Year National Review
podcast over the break, and somebody made the comment that
it's a good possibility that the only name currently in
circulation that will be remembered five hundred years from now
(04:53):
is Elon Musk, based around his space exploration stuff. Particularly,
they were talking about how the rocket thing, and you
know how he caught that rocket when it came back
down with the chopsticks, and that's such a leap forward
for space exploration. It might be like Christopher Columbus is
like the only name you know from fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Elon Musk could be that way now and that's possible.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, certainly that was an amazing achievement, right, Yeah,
I missed that podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'll have to check that. We end up going to Mars.
I was in something else.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Who knows what other option might open up as the
technology develops.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And that's the thing about.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I've been harping on this for years, how often
on the left, going back to the Apollo program, they're like, no, no,
don't explore space, don't develop science, Just spend the money
on America's streets and give people money. You don't know
what the result is when you go boldly forth to explore,
to develop, to learn. You think you're on this path,
(05:52):
turns out you might be on another path that's ten
times as great. That's why you always have to keep
striving as a society. And that's why the United States
continues to kick the world's ass economically and in innovation
and all sorts of things. Because we have that spirit.
We can't lose that spirit. Of course, we'll have full
team coverage on our lead story today. Kim Jong un
has banned hot dogs in North Korea. What they're too well,
(06:15):
now I am outraged. There is just play they're too western.
He said two things there. Either he wants all the
hot dogs. I don't need to hear choice two. Or
he caught a look at himself and he was looking
at a family photo and thought, wow, I've let myself go.
And the only way he thinks he can stop eating
hot dogs is to ban them in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Is the power to do that? And be like, if
I could ban donuts in the whole nation, I would,
So that's a dictator. You can do that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So I'm not dumpty by them, right. So it's one
of those two. Clearly, he either wants to eat them
all he wants none around him. Some candid pixture of
a fat boy at some New Year's Eve, Catherine, where
he's just turning the look and he just looks like
a moon on a stick his head, his big head.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And he thought, oh my god, I've got to do something.
The moon on a stick.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Let's start the show officially, because we got a good one.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday,
January the seventh year, twenty twenty five, where Armstrong and
getting and we approve of this program. Let's begin exploring
the outer reaches of the events of our time, precisely
according to FCC rules.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Rags. Here we go at Mark Donald J.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Trump of the State of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamlade Harris, that's got a sting.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
She's like, I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
God, it's like attending your own funeral, and even the
mourners are like got I watched the opening fifteen minutes
of the Daily Show on the drive in, and Jon
Stewart is freaking brilliant. He's the best at that ever.
And I know a lot of you can't handle it.
(08:03):
The jokes run against your politics, but he is so
good at crafton jokes anyway. One of the points he made,
and I thought this was really good, is about how
we all act like we've always known. January sixth, Well,
there's a big important day in the whole process of
the elga Oh We're only this many hours away from
the certification. Like we all ever talked about the certification
(08:25):
ever in our lives. Let's not act like this is
some brand new I've studied this stuff in university and
on my own, and I had either forgotten or was
unaware of it, or it was just a ceremonial thing
of me jiggy that happens right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Right right until four years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Obviously, here is the flower I will throw on the
political grave of Kamala Harris. She quite clearly made it
unmistakable to all of you who have mispronounced her name
that her name is pronounced Kamala.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Here's all you need to know about her.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
When Obama was hot back in the day, she told
the Sacramento, California the Capitol Press Corps, it's pronounced Kamala,
so it would sound like Obama. She actually did that,
and then later on went back to Kamala, that's all
you need to know about that woman. Well, I'll say this,
(09:18):
and I'm not supposed to say this. Apparently, based on
the news I took in yesterday from the right, I
thought it was really great the way she handled that
and everything. And yeah, I thought that was absolutely fantastic.
She didn't have to do that. She didn't and well,
constitutionally she has to do that, but she didn't have
to have the tone that she had and everything. And
(09:40):
I thought that was fantastic. I thought that was really
good for the country. I need more of that, not
less of that. Was that bashed from the right. I
missed that, all kinds of different examples of how awful
she was. So okay, anyway, how does the mailbag look?
What's it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's it's coming together.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
As you said last year, it's a work in progress. Oh,
here's what I need from you the text. But I
also vowed yesterday we're all We're gonna be honest. I'm
gonna be honest every single day this year. I'm going
to tell you exactly what I think. No sugarcoating, no pandering.
Mail bag is coming together. Could go either way. So
last year it was life will not be a bor
in twenty four? Do you have any ideas for twenty five?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Text me at the text?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Did you see my tweet? I had some? I had
some pretty good ones. No, I did not off to
tell take a look at those later. Yeah, I don't
look at our Twitter.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And neither does anyone else. There was no settle down.
Now there was. There was one in particular that was
pretty popular.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
There were just a couple hundred people away from forty
thousand followers on Twitter and just I really want to
get there, so could you? Would you please? I don't
know why that matters to me.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You don't have to use it at all. Just go
on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yountimes called X. You don't have to put the strong
e giddy. It's effortless to find. This is the text
line for if you can come up with something clever
that rhymes with five, The number is four one, five
two nine five k FTC.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just saw an interesting argument from Van Jones about
Canada be in our fifty first state. He said, hey, Republicans,
it would be a very blue state and it's about
the size of California.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So that's a good point from me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
They're so worn out by the woke agenda, woke Elvis.
That's what Matt tayeebie Pierre Trudeau of Justin Trudeau. I
saw a clip of Pierre Trudeau from years ago. I
didn't realize he's been Prime minister for ten years. Justin Trudeau,
the Yes guy. Yeah, Pierce's old dad, right, Justin Trudeau
the prime minister. Ten years he's been prime minister anyway.
(11:51):
I saw a clip of him where he's taken a
question from somebody and the person used the term mankind
in the question.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He said, excuse me, excuse me. I prefer person kind like.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got to you gotta be kidding me. And he
lasted ten years with that attitude. Yeah, that would be
a very very lefty blue state with as many electoral
votes as California. So no thanks, LGDP, LGT LBG, LGBTQ
(12:23):
two plus what an annoying weasel. I swear, don't get
me started. I have already started. Here's your thought provoking
quote of the day. And I had a bunch of
great choices looking at a series of quotes about beginnings.
Francis Drake the explorer, there must speaking of this spirit
(12:48):
of exploring and expanding your horizons and going into the unknown.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
There must poor Man's Magellan in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Wow, don't please, don't get he gets so militant about this.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but
the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished.
Yields the true glory. Yeah, yeah, thanks for your input.
Francis mailbag, So true, so true. Oh the big splashy
(13:21):
beginning the ribbon cutting. Yeah, that ain't the hard part, right.
Let's see a number of people reacting to my getting
a tick on Christmas Eve story. You can drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
A good story, including it when you present it that
way with that sort of title. Remember the time I
got a tick on Christmas Eve? Kids gather around? Oh yeah,
(13:43):
well that was a good time. Let's see Charlotte with
a cute note. She went to the emergency room. The
doctor walks into the room and says, do you have
a tick or any starts like convulsing or a tick?
I was like, that's not a prow that's that good humor.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
A tick like a like a twitch, like a seizure. Wow,
that's not funny doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Then this from Sean while shooting a tick will always
resolve the medical issue.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One must aim the.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Weapon so that the round strikes only the tick, not
the person the tick is feeding on. I recommend a
nine millimeter round, or if you don't trust your spouse's aim,
you can always dump two mags or three California sized
mags rack to slide back and press the heated barrel
against the tick. It's a rather militaristic approach there, Sean,
thanks for the advice. Oh and then he says, if
(14:33):
performing either of these medical techniques indoors, say in a bathroom,
be sure to wear ear protection.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Don't risk your hearing. Wow, what is the matter with you, Sean?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Uh? Let's see, this is a very serious indeed from
Tom about the British child rape story, the Muslim immigrants
and the child rape rings and the cover up by
the British authorities who were embarrassed at they're immigration policies
were so miserable, and also they wanted to keep the
Muslim votes in those beleaguered rust belt towns. He points out,
(15:09):
you get speculated as to why these rapists would not
have committed these atrocities in the countries they come from.
What's not being discussed enough about these crimes as a
central role that religion plays. Their home countries have almost
no unbelievers living in them.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You want to talk about a bigoted apartheid society, look
at every Muslim country on earth virtually almost everyone according
to the tenets of their religion. It's forbidden even look
at a covered Muslim woman other than your wife, much
less touch or molest one. However, anything goes with an
Infidel woman or girl, it is perfectly acceptable to use
(15:44):
and abuse them sexually. In fact, it's seen as a
good thing to do. Infidels are considered less than human,
and when people who adhere to this belief system are important,
large numbers into a culture like the one in Great
Britain and has become, it is inevitable that poor, powerless
young girls will be victimized wholesale. Again, this would not
be happening in the absence of one particular religion. It
is time for people to get honest about fundamentalist Islam.
(16:08):
They're pretty wonderful Muslim people living in the country. I
have no quarrel with them whatsoever. But fundamentalist Islam is
an incredibly bigoted religion of conquest.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That just is.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's undeniable. I saw a quote and I didn't verify
it or not. It claimed it was from Winston Churchill
saying Moslems, which was the term back in the day
when they are in the minority minority rights are very
important when they are in the majority.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
There are no.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Minority rights, that's correct, which is interesting. Yeah, the history
of the world would back that up. And then a
note I want to talk maybe more later from our
old friend Camper, who says some very very nice things
about the way we were talking about a couple of topics.
But then he said, sixty years ago we'd not only
express outrage, but would also engage and make a collective
(16:57):
and individual effort to fix things and make righteous as happen.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And he's suggesting more we have we give you more.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Avenues for getting involved, recommend groups to join or where
a ballot initiative is going.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
We can try to do that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We have a very small crew and to get the
show ready every single day, and like give you your
marching orders would be a challenge, but it's a great thought.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
We'll work on it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
We got some more of the news of the day,
and I hope you can join us, and I would
like your recommendations for things at rhyme with twenty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Five are strong and getty.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, I just was looking at our Twitter feed and
saw your tweet. It was right above my retweet of
somebody saying people are too casual about the fact that
parrots can talk.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Since I was a kid, I thought that, Wait a minute,
we're just taking this in stride on anyway, your suggestions
for the theme when we open the show every single day,
stay alive in twenty five, just survive?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Cut the jibe? Will we arrive picking the hive? Yeah? Yeah,
I will tell you that.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Judging by the comments, and there were hundreds of them,
cut the jive number one, Cut the jive in twenty five?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wow jive? Has anybody under fifty heard that term?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And kicking the hive was pretty popular too. It's draining
the swamp the ESK news of the day. As we mentioned,
we'll hear from Mark Zuckerberg a little bit later. He's
doing some interviews. He's changing Facebook from fact checkers to
community notes, and he says specifically he modeled it after
Elon Musk's deal on Twitter. So interesting, and I think
(18:40):
is there step forward? Has there been in recent American
history a phrase more contemptible than fact checker? Yeah, and
welcome to the party, Mark Zuckerberg. That fact checker to
me means okay, here, I'm about to be spun one
way or the other. One more thing I wanted to
mention before we get to this news clip.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
We need to.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Discuss A friend of mine who works for the federal
government said, texted me this yesterday. President Biden just gave
all federal employees Thursday off to honor and remember President
Carter paid holiday.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Thank you, dear taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Wow, what the hell? Please get Biden out of office?
How soon can we do that?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
A week? That's pretty soon? Please someone a week?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I'm sorry, someone explained to me, how you justify that
so that segment of society gets a day off? No
big deal. It's all paid for by all the other people,
which is a vast majority of us, like almost all
of us, who are paying for it, and we have
to go to work, of course we do. Someday I
(19:51):
will be recognized. Let's make this about me, and the
Getty principle will be spoken of far and wide, and
that is that the government, and more specifically, particularly in
blue states, unionized government workers have become the most important
(20:11):
lobbyist of government. They now run the government for themselves
to a large extent, and that is perverted our politics
in this country. I gotta believe so. I spend else
with Biden do that? Why name a single damn reason.
Come on, I spent a lot of time thinking about
(20:32):
the overall structure of our country. Over the break, I
listened to a long podcast with some law professors about
the Constitution and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Then ended up going to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And seeing the Founding documents in person and reading various
quotes from the Founding fathers, I gotta believe that universally,
as much as they fought with each other, and they
solidly disagreed with each other on so many issues, like
you're going to destroy the country we've already been started.
I mean, they really believe the other side was wrong.
But I got to believe that they would all be
(21:06):
an agreement that it's completely too big and into too
much of our lives.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
At this point, I gotta believe every one of them.
I think you're a hundred percent right.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, Because and there are I don't know two three
four central principles that informed everything that went into the Constitution, and.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
One of those was power always.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Wants to centralize, and the Constitution was built to resist
that impulse. It's been true since the days of the cavemen.
It was truth through the Middle Ages. It's true now.
Power wants to accumulate, it wants to centralize, and we
the people have been seduced into letting that happen because
we've been promised that a powerful central government will give
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us everything we dream and paraphrase Jefferson, it is therefore
powerful enough to take away everything we have.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But we've been seduced.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I got into the argument, and I won't get into
it here. Maybe later that Madison was strongly against the
Bill of Rights, just thought it was a terrible idea,
argued so strongly to try to convince all of his
fellow voters there at the Constitutional Convention that the Bill
of Rights was a terrible idea, but he lost the argument.
And then say, okay, I lost the argument. Here's how
(22:18):
we ought to do it, if we're going to do it,
which I just thought I could, if we could do that,
now where you just.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You lost the argument.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Okay, fine, now I'm going to get on board with
Let's try to make this the best it can be.
Since this is what the majority of you have decided.
We're so far from that now. Anyway, another day, this
could be the story that dominates the year.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I hope it's not here.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
We go health officials reporting the first death from bird
flu in the US. The patient, who was over sixty
five with underlying health conditions, had been hospitalized in Louisiana
since mid December after being exposed to the virus through
a flock of birds in a backyard. The CDC analyzed
the virus in that Louisiana patient and found concerning new
(23:08):
mutations which could help the virus infect people more easily,
but so far, there has been no evidence of human
to human spread. Health officials urging the public to avoid
consuming unpasteurized dairy products. Public health officials are also warning
not to feed your pets raw food after at least
one cat in Oregon died from the virus.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So is this an attempt by me to scare you
bubbling is no? I just think you need to know
that story is out there and the media is on it,
and once again, having learned nothing, apparently from the coverage
of the whole COVID thing, this person with horrible health,
who is also quite old and already in the hospital
(23:50):
for a long time, died with bird flu. Not of
bird flu, but with bird flu. There's a big difference.
It's Scott Anthony Faucis issued a statement to ordering everyone
to wear mittens and begin all sentences with verbs, because
that's the science. Go get some mittens, for instance, said
(24:13):
the great doctor who represents science. Al Right, bird first,
bird flu death. Somebody with really bad health who had
gotten bird flu died, God rested their souls couldn't have
withstood home mine.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, bird size, well, it's illustrative.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yes, okay, some oldster who God bless their souls couldn't
have survived any infection.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Fair enough. You know, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Worried about the damn bird flu. I'm worried about the
damn man eaten worm in Texas.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
The New World screw worm, which is a pretty good name.
It's it's Latin name Haman novorax means man eater, and
it's it's spreading up from Mexico. We eradicated it in
the US years and years ago, nineteen sixty six. It's horrific.
It screws its way. It's a slow down. I'm sorry,
(25:07):
I'm a little excited about this. I am just becoming
aware of this. I need to take it in a
way that I can digest it. So there is a
worm that can kill larva. Yeah, yes, and it's in
Texas and it's spreading, yes northward, all right, yes it's
and again we eradicated it in nineteen sixty six after
(25:28):
an extensive federal and states sterilization product.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's the larva of a fly. The what's the name
of the fly? You fly? Don't bother me, I can't
remember some damn fly. Anyway, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
It is evidence that God has forsaken us. It is
the worst thing I've ever heard of. It is the
worst insect on Earth's bar.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
None.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Uh. Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine said, hey, it's
gonna it could have devastating effects on the health of
our livestock. But the screwworm begins its rain of terror
when the female lays her eggs into the into an
open wound or orifice. The female flies are drawn to
the open wounds and orifices by the odors they emit.
They can be as small as a tick bite, oh,
(26:15):
a nasal or eye opening, a navel of a newborn,
or genitalia. I tend to keep my genitalia covered, so
I think I'm okay, there, and we appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
These eggs then hatch into dangerous larvae that burrow into
the wound like screws.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Females can lay two hundred to three hundred eggs at once.
Oh my god, I'm gonna faint.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But the country is on edge.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So did you say somebody has died of it? No, no,
it's but it's it's creeping its way north. It primarily
affects live stock, but it can infect humans.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Okay, good god, run for your lives.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The fact that the bird flew death was one of
the lead teases on all the evening national newscasts concerned me,
Like they get so excited about that sort of thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, people don't tune out of being frightened.
It's a ratings ploy to constantly keep you frightened. It
(27:15):
works politically too, As Menkin said, you know, politics is
trotting out an endless series hob goblins to terrify you
into voting one way or another. We won't do it here,
except for the screwworm. It is terrifying. Tell your children
just before they try to go to sleep tonight about
this worm that burrows its way into your orifices. Well,
(27:38):
the country is on edge on the exactly the country
is on the country is on.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Edge on the bird flu thing. Now. I know some
people on the right.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Believe this is an effort the government wants to get
the bird flu thing going as a scare to try
to really limit a lot of livestock stuff or take
control of that because the government wants to have more
control over the food.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Thank you. There you go, the.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Food source that we have in America, particularly people that
provide their own food. So right, right, an excuse to
take more control. Yeah, isn't that that that needs to
be the same. I think cut the Jive in twenty
five might be the right theme. And Michael, the fabulous
clip you keep playing.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Go ahead. The country is on edge the.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Never ending drum beat of trying to motivates politically or
sociologically or whatever by these fake harum scareum things.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's all right, I'm on the I'm on the beat.
I'm on the hunt.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You can only do that so many times, though, can't
you have? Before people start saying, ah, whatever, bring it on. Well,
we're at like four billion I think and counting in
this country. Okay, so uh, we got no, we don't
have k Katie's ill. She's got the I heard her
sneeze it you call. I think it might be the
(29:00):
BF the bird, certainly, hope not. But we've got more
news of the day on the way. I really want
to get into some of the stuff that went on
yesterday around the big certification really constitutional box checking.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, no, kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It was. It was all the drama of like, you know,
filling out your car rental agreement and other stuff on
the way, so stay here.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yesterday, during an event at the White House, President Biden
brought a young man up on stage just say him
happy birthday, and well just watch.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
This, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
At birthday all right? Well he still got it. That's good,
he said. I ended up in a situation like that
over the break. Who was it?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Obviously wasn't my son his birthday. I was at some
birthday thing and people started singing. In about two lines
into the song, I realized, I do not remember this
person's name, Happy birthdayed Bell. You know. When he sang
happy birthday my son who turned thirteen. I ended with
(30:31):
here comes puberty and uh and I got bad looks.
Oh no, wonder why I thought there was again. No,
oh no, no, too big a thing. No, puberty is
too big a thing. Yeah, you don't throw in a
witty line at the end of a song. My son's
excited about puberty. He's constantly asking. He says, do you
(30:53):
see any here on my lip?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And he hear my lip? This is my voice? Sound
any deeper? Today? He's all right.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
He wants because he saw go through it, and his
brother seems like a grown man, and girls seemed.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
To get and all that sort of thing, so he wants.
He's looking forward to it. Excellent.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Actually, yesterday, my thirteen year old he said, do you
think I'm taller? And I said you might be. He said,
I was looking at my feet in the shower today
and they just seem further away.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
A couple of things from my notes before I get
to something somewhat serious and thoughtful. First quote from Albert
Einstein that I thought was really good. Two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about
the universe, yeah, which is pretty good. And I came
across this, which is finding out stripper poles spin in
(31:45):
place instead of strippers around the poles. Is the grown
ups finding out Santa isn't real.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I
didn't know that either.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
But now that I think about it, the few times
I've seen strippers on stripper poles, which is not very
many times, that's how you do it. The poll spins.
You're not spinning around the pole. The poll spins which holes,
which is much easier to do.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Hanging on the pole.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
That's spinning much easier than I'm spinning around it with
Like my I always wondered how you get your legs
to not squeak against the metal bowl or your hands
or whatever. So that explains it, you know, I hadn't
given it a moment's thought. Kind of ashamed of that
because now that you pointed out, yeah, it's practically a
physical impossibility to what they seem to be doing growing
(32:30):
up their exotic dancers.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
By the way, growing up Aquillan finding out sand isn't real.
That's so there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'm trying to be more big picture in the year
twenty twenty five as opposed to some of the daily
nonsense that gets so much attention in some media, and
it's meaningless big picture and this is a big picture thing.
I remember how much time I got Michael, I want
to lunch into a big picture thing, and I got
no time.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'd be ironic, wouldn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
It a half, no problem perfect. So I remember, Oh,
Gladys Gladys working in twenty five? Did we because Joe
and I renewed our contract. We're going to be around
for several more years?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
What what?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
But I didn't know if Gladys signed on too. Gladys
signed on too, cool, So Gladys is going to be
with us for the next several years.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
God Willing.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I remember when Barack Obama was elected in two thousand
and eight and George Will saying on the TV, it's
interesting that this sticks in my mind, saying the treat.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Gotta get the line right.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He said, the retreat of the state is over, and
I thought, wow, that is fascinating. So he was looking
at when Ronald Reagan came into office, through two terms
of Reagan, Bush and even two terms of Clinton. When
Bill Clinton ran on, the era of big government is over.
The state was in retreat and it ended with Barack Obama.
(33:56):
And it has been that way now for a couple
of decades with just the growth of the government through
des and rs, bigger and more expensive everything. And then
this article in the Wall Street Journal that I came
across over the weekend, the progressive moment in global politics
is over, at least for now. This past year showed
that the progressive politics that have dominated most industrialized countries
(34:20):
over the past two decades, so the period of time
since Barack Obama, after you know, several decades of a
retreat of the state, the state has been growing, and
in our face that dominated over the past two decades
is more is shifting to the right because of working
class anxieties, economy, immigration, fatigue with issues from climate change
to identity politics, all that sort of stuff. So it
(34:43):
looks like we're it is flipped back to the other
side again, at least for now and hopefully for a
couple of decades at least.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
At the risk of.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Being a sounding smug, the Wall Street Journal could have
saved some ink by just saying the backlash was because
progressive policies yield miserable results. The problem is that a
lot of that spending and growth is locked in. Yes,
that is a huge problem, A lot, I mean nothing
(35:11):
is permanent, at least in a republic democracy like we've got,
but a lot of it would be really really hard
to undo. And of course money spent is money spent.
There's nothing you do about that. You got to pay
it back, right right. Yeah. The great danger of democracy
is that a benefit that wasn't imagined for the past
five hundred years given on Tuesday, if you try to
(35:32):
take it back the next day, realize you've made a mistake,
people will howl like you're skinning them. So, to paraphrase
George Will, it looks like the retreat of the working
man is over, which is good news.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
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