November 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Cheney's funeral, Kremlin media guidelines & Chicago schools
- Tech to steal cars & the fed
- The Russian drone era
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arms Strong
and Jettie and no He Armstrong and Yetty. George W.
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Bush speaking at the funeral of Dick Cheney not long ago.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm reminder of Renow Senator who once gave this advice
to a junior colleague. Perhaps you said you could occasionally
allow yourself the luxury of an unexpressed thought. Dick Cheney
was like there, sparing and measured with words, and a
profession that attracts talkers. He was a thinker and a listener,
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and when he do speak up, conveying thoughts in that
even tone of voice, that orderly, unexcited animal manner, you
knew you were getting the best of a highly disciplined mine.
No colleague, no legislator, or no foreign leader who ever
met Dick Cheney ever doubted that they were dealing with
a serious man.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, I heard you've all. Levin one of the heroes
to conservative writers out there. He was a young staffer
and had to bring Dick Cheney up to speed on
some policy stuff way back in the day. And he
said it was terrifying. Everybody was terrified of talking to
Dick Cheney. One he was so serious, and two he
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was so knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, oh, I'm scared thinking about it. And George w
with a little more insight into his old and close friend.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Dick was funny and easy going in a style that
his public image never caught up with. So we can
all agree, won't your standard issue politician. If Anny voters
came hoping for a kind word in a hug, they'd
have to settle for the kind word.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm always amazed by people like Dick Cheney that they
got elected in the first place, because you can't picture
them doing the normal, raw, raw campaign speech with people
cheering and hands in the air and hugging.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
People right right. I don't think he could get elected
in a variety of states. I think Wyoming was the
right state for him, which is why he moved there.
I think, yeah, yeah, perhaps, yeah. Plus it's just really
nice but a fairly serious people who don't screw around.
(02:37):
They've they've you know, it's the environment is forbidding at times,
and the work is hard and etc. Etca. So they
liked the cut of his jib.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We talked to the other day about it, and we
posted it on Twitter. The Russian robot that walked out
on stage and fell over. Yeah, I don't know how
many of you've seen that video. There's a new video
out today, apparently they put out to try to cover
that one up, where putin watching this robot dance and
it does it fairly successfully.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You're probably trying.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
To erase the memory of that Russian robot that teetered
out there right then fell over.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Had dinner last night with a handful of people, including
one gen who lived and worked in Europe for a
number of years and he's very very knowledgeable about Europe
and European politics and that sort of thing. And he
sent me a link to this news service. It's English
language Russian news, but not from the Kremlin. It's I
(03:34):
think you'd call it free press fans reporting on Russia,
and it's so interesting. Here's one story how Swarovski Optic
is still sending sniperscopes to Russia despite Austria's policy of neutrality.
Life matters more than your wallet, MEDUSA. That's the website
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takes a look at the Kremlin's new media guidelines for
spinning Russia's ax hikes really interesting. Speaking of Russia.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
So Joe had a story last hour about Chicago's schools
and unions and wasted money that we got quite a
detailed pushback on. Can you bring us up to speed
on that real quick before I read the text?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh yeah. The story, which was actually from NBC Chicago,
was about a handful of schools, eight schools that used
a tremendous amount of CPS funds Chicago Public Schools funds
for out of state overnight travel and including some really
impressive luxury travel to Hawaii for a four day quote
unquote seminar. How most of the travel they didn't even
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start the approval process that's required by the rules. Thirteen
out of fifteen were not pre approved as required. One
trip was even rejected, but the employees went anyway. And
I we suggested that there is no accountability, partly because
the Chicago Public Schools and indeed the government of Chicago
Brandon Johnson are completely mobbed up and under the rule
of the Teachers' union. Is that more or less what
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you're looking for exactly?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And we got this text which is longer and more
detailed than usual.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So I'm reading it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Hey, I was just listening to your show because I'm
forced to by my boyfriend. He listens to your garbage
propaganda every morning, and I.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Want job, sir, well done. She'll come around sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I went and checked out that Chicago story online
about the teachers, and it had nothing to do with
the X. The entire district, has nothing to do with
the unions, has nothing to do with the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It was eight.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Schools out of one hundred and ninety seven or two
hundred or something. I read that a story that actually
sounded like you were reading directly from it except adding
the words democrats and unions after every sentence.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You guys are effing hacks. You spread propaganda.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I can tell when I listened to you, when you
guys know you're saying BS. I can tell when you
guys cut out, or change the subject or go to
a joke so only your fans and your listeners believe
your s Just so you guys know that, just want
to fill you in. Have a great thing day, Armstrong,
and getdy.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I hope you go off the air soon.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm thinking the only reason you haven't is because some
he wants you to keep spreading your BS.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Because radio is dead and you suck. Wow. Perhaps if
you'd ever attended a school, you'd be familiar with the
term ad hominem attack. Are you seriously, my darling? I
hope God made you pretty, sweetheart. Are you seriously disputing
the power of the teachers' unions in Chicago? Are you
kidding me? They practically single handedly elected a union hack
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as mayor. He's ruining the city, Brandon Johnson.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Fun Wow, and you were reading from You were reading
from the local NBC news affiliate, which is correct, fairly
unlikely a right wing organization.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah. Yeah, she's absolutely correct. It is eight schools in
particular that really really built the system. But that does
that does not prove because it was only eight. Therefore
everything else I said isn't true. That's just a logic,
another logical fallacy. Again, I hope God made you pretty.
(07:00):
Probably did whould? Probably? Why are boyfriends with her?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Because obviously she doesn't agree with his politics and he
listens to us every single day. I think this screed
was at least a little bit of a release valve
of how much she hates the fact that she has
to listen to the show when she's riding in the
car with him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I hope you go off the air soon.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm thinking the only reason you haven't is because someone
wants you to keep spreading your BS because radio is
dead and you suck.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah wow, so fine argument, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yes here, I wonder how many boyfriends are looking over
at their girlfriends that listen to the show in the
car like.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You just did she? Yeah, you were you texting a
minute ago.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, you're annoying and kind of hot, and I put
up with it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So what it was you? Well, here's some more right
wing tripe from NBC Chicago. A spokesperson for the districts
that it is taking the report seriously and intends to
ensure employees act in the best interests of students and
the city going forward. But no, no, that's funny. The
spokesperson for the district must have been misled by our
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fascist right wing nonsense.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I read this story that sounded like the one you
were reading directly. You guys are effing hacks. You add
the words democrat and unions after a resentence. Oh man,
I enjoyed that sort of thing. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And now they've instituted a travel freeze restrictions to all
Chicago public schools funded employee travel, but no, again they
were misled that the actual school district was misled by
my hackery, And I apologize.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'm always interested by that because I am. I think
maybe I'm wrong. I think that if I was given ah,
what do you call that an expense card, but that
third party spending or whatever, I'm spending somebody else's money.
And I've never really had that situation at all in
my career. But if I had that, especially if it
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was tax payer money where people aren't paying that much intentional,
I just feel like I wouldn't abuse it. I wouldn't
stay in like nicer than I normally do hotels, or
eat it more, buy more expensive bottles of wine or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But I would I'd milk it like a dairy cow.
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But I had a friend who when we were young, Gladys.
Gladys has carpal tunnel. She hates playing that thing. Hey,
read your contract, huh exactly, take some sign bad villa
or something and play your damn harp. But uh, So
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I had this friend and he got a job. I'm
going to be very vague, but he got a job
working for an entity that was taxpayer money. He immediately
started abusing it, like immediately. We were like twenty years old.
I remember the first time. This is back when you
had full service gas stations.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I mean it was a many many years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
When you had to pay a lot more you pulled
in there instead of pumping it yourself. You'd pay like
an extra twenty cents a gallon because somebody had come
out and puppet for you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I said, what are you doing? He said, I'm not
paying for this. I thought, wow.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Immediately he thought, I'm going to live a better lifestyle
than I've ever lived in my life because somebody else,
taxpayers are paying for it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, culture upbringing are so powerful. I'm thinking
of an acquaintance who I found out he did something
irresponsible and is losing his job. And I had no idea.
The guy had four kids. I said, wow, hey, I
had no idea. He never mentioned it, and another acquaintance said, yeah,
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he doesn't live with them. It's one of those just
just knock swimming up. And you know, we were talking
about how to both of us. That's anathema. I can't
imagine it. Yeah, I got a kid over there with
her and a kid over there with her or whatever,
and you don't think about it all day. Every day.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It consumes your life, wondering how they're doing now, how
they're going to do in the future.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The very idea of it is gut wrenching. But for him,
and the point was made, that's what he grew up with.
Oh yeah, that's sad anyway. Yeah, thank you for your
fair criticism. Honey, evings. Oh you should see my text return.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh jeez, oh my god, I think sometimes I do suck.
So I'm with you, honey, Oh please sometimes.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh that's out question. Okay, we got more. Always stay here.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Armstrong Canaheim Police Detective Heather Skaglioni says the thieves used
a tablet meant for locksmiths that can connect to technology
and newer vehicles.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
He's being handed a like a locksmith tool, a computer
device that plugs into the computer system in the car
so you can quickly reprogram it and turn the car.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
On so you can leave with the truck.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Thieves are also using antennas to pick up signals from
keyfobs inside homes.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Once they pick up that signal, they send it to
somebody standing by the car opens a car right up,
gets in, push the star button, and off they go.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Wow, wait a minute, dang, Yeah, need go back to
metal keys that just stick in the ignition and twist.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
In the in the video attached to that news article,
it actually showed a ring camera at the front door
and the thieves were holding an antenna and they had
some kind of device tucked in their pocket that this
thing was connected to, and when they.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Held it up, they just touched the house and.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then the car that was parked in the driveway started
because somebody had already was able to get into it
and start the car just by using the key fob signal.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I remember two cars ago. I think it was.
Was that your trains AMU? Yeah, yeah, with the the
t tops. Yeah, my fob keyfob kept the better. He
kept dying.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I said where do you keep it relative to your garage?
And it was too close to the garage. They said,
you either got to shield it or move it. Because
the car and the keyfob keep talking to each other.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I didn't know that. That's why my battery runs down
so fast and my keyfob. I feel like every place
it every two weeks and nobody's ever told me that.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, yeah, anyway, so yeah, obviously they are putting out
signals and uh, you know, well putting out signals all
the time. So yeah, you can sniff them and use
them to break into a car. What the heck? Death
penalty for car thieves. There, you go, hang them. They're
the modern horse thieves. Hang them. That's right right outside
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General Motors, you know, forarder whatever it. Maybe it's your
local dealer, I don't know. Come on down, bring the kids,
we'll spin the wheel of prizes. Hang a car thief.
They're actually making these free hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
They're making these keychains now too, that you can get
on like Amazon or whatever. That you just put on
there and then you can tuck your key fob in
that middle block that signal I saw.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, good, yeah, excellent. There, you know, simple solutions, Kadie
life hack.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So we got some of that economic news today. That
was good news. So it's bad news. Here's Trump talking
about Chairman Powell.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
The mortgage rates are down despite the FED. I mean, Scott,
you got to work in this guy. He's got some
real mental problems. No, he's something wrong with him. I'll
be honest, I'd love to fire his ass.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He should be.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Fine, So Powell, he's got to be thinking how did
I end up in this situation in my life? He
is probably not going to lower interest rates next month
because the job numbers came out today twice as high
as people were expecting.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So that's good.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
News, but it's bad news if you want in the
interest rates to go down.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, I got to take those numbers with a shaker assault.
But yeah, that's definitely got an influence on the FED.
Something wrong with that guy. Wasn't wrong with the fired's ass,
like talking to it, shure, not very presidential. I'm not
to speaking of figures of salt, how America's hottest chicken
chain keeps its secret sauce a secret going up? Do
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we have time for this? No, we don't. I have
a handful a popery jack if you will, of defense
related stories, military laid stories from the United States. Which
is your priority for when we come back? The lessons
of Ukraine's drone warfare, m Trump, Hegzeth and the new
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Arsenal of Freedom. It's about Hegzeth saying this is a
nineteen thirty nine moment and we've got to be much
more nimble with our military technology. That's a good one.
Kind of fits in with that first story. The Pentagon
can't trust GPS anymore. Boy, that's interesting. Is quantum physics
the answer?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Oh wow, I know something about that first story because
the Secretary of War was on one of the talk
shows over the weekend talking about how we're trying to
catch up drone wise, Ukraine is the world world leader
out of necessity, necessity, the mother of all invention. Ukraine
has had more necessity than anybody on planet Earth to
figure out how the drone thing. And they are the
world leader. You know who's right behind them? Flip in
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China and we are way behind China in the number
of drones produced, not even close.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah. I think part of the problem is, and Pete
Hegswath is dealing with this, is that we are enamored
with the high tech, amazing device, whereas lots and lots
and lots and lots of mediocre stuff is better. Right,
So China will this particular realm.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
If China at some point sends twenty thousand drones at
an air base that they set up in a bunch
of containers on some land, they bought right next to
the military installation. All our nuclear missiles are going to
be of no.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Use to stop that, right right, So why don't we
touch on all of those things if we can squeeze
them in, including the secret sauce it. I think it's
Cane's chicken. Cane's chicken. That's my kid's favorite. I've never
eaten at Cane's chicken. Oh delicious. Remember the first time
we were driving around the road with my niece and
she said, they've got a Cane's chicken. We gotta stop.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
She was so oldlighted. That's the first time I'd ever
heard of it. Oh yeah, the young people love the Canes.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Chicken, Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Death and destruction in Ukraine at least twenty five people killed,
eighty wounded as a Russia fire hundreds of drones and
fifty missiles at the country overnight. A Russian drone cross
the border with NATO member Romania fighter jets scrambled there
and in next door Poland. Polish airports temporarily closed.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, giant giant rocket and drone attack on Ukraine overnight
from Russia killed a whole bunch of people and you know,
blashed an apartment complexes and civilian structures and stuff the
way they do.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Jillian Melchior has written a really interesting piece entitled the
Lessons of Ukraine's drone Warfare, and among other things, she
points out that there have been all sorts of drunk
incursions into the airspace of various European countries, from Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Estonia,
Poland we've mentioned, and she says Eurof's response has not
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inspired confidence. Belgium's attempts to jam and shoot down the
drones were ineffective. Britain and Germany realized a lack of
legal authority could hinder the police or military from taking
the drones down. And in Poland allies used missiles that
cost around a million dollars or more against drones that
cost around ten thousand dollars. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, drone warfare
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is evolving with astonishing speed and lethality, and she mentioned
she was talking to drone experts in Ukraine who said
the West is so far behind they have no idea
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, well, that's what US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said
on one of the talk shows over the weekend, how
far ahead Ukraine is of everybody, but then just drone production.
So we promised we're going to ramp up our drone
production to about ten thousand a month, which would be
one hundred and twenty thousand a year China's currently making.
Remember I just said we're gonna ramp up our production,
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and that's an aspiration to get to one hundred and
twenty thousand a year. China is currently producing over eight
million drones annually.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Holy cry Yeah, you got to give me a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I know, I heard that number on the Sunday talk show.
I was like, Holy yeah, I said the same thing, Holy.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Kron, Yeah, you got to give me the standing eight count.
So here are the lessons that the Ukrainians wish the
West would learn. Number One, drones make battlefields nearly transparent.
You can see everything operationally. It's really hard to keep
the catch the enemy by surprise, easier to interdict, and
harder to preserve the logistics that support troops at the front,
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and there are only limited things they can do about
it at this point. With bigger, more useful drones, drones
collect Another lesson, drones collect huge amounts of battlefield information,
but the West needs better tools to analyze that data.
The stuff we're using right now antiquated, it's not it's
not appropriate. Oh, the West process for identifying your target,
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assigning someone to go after it, and carrying out this
strike is too centralized and too slow for the drone era,
among other things, says a member of the supervisory board
of the nonprofit that supports the development of this drone
they're talking about. Another lesson, the front line is no
longer a line. Drones have turned it into a kill
zone of about twenty five miles wide. Because forces can't
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move safely in big groups or vehicles. Troops now move
in small numbers. If you picture the Russians like invading
the Baltic States with a line of tanks. No, it's
going to be small groups of infantry.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Couple dudes on motorcys possible if you haven't seen those videos.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And the fact I think Ukraine did this first and
now Russia's doing it. Why they're they're putting fiber optic
cables on the drones because everybody's figured out the radio
jam thing for drones, so you have to hardwire them
so you can't interrupt the communication. So have these thin,
really long fiber optic lines that they attached to the
drones on both sides now sending them into battle. Yeah,
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it's haste for me to imagine that that works, but
obviously it does.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh yeah, I've seen it done. It's an enormous rule
of a role rather of a very very fine like
fishing line that they just spool out. It seems crazy,
seems too old school. But back to the front line
is no longer a line thought. Several soldiers sketched in
her notebook and new geography the battlefield, marking dots to
represent Ukrainian and Russian positions intermingled within the kill zone.
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One guy for the American Enterprise Institute is dubbed this
a point to list battlefield. It's not about lines, it's
just little points. Training can't be won and done another
one of the lessons. It's ongoing because drone technology and
tactics can become obsolete in months or weeks. Cost is
king Ukrainians where a Western procurement doesn't yet reflect how
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the math favors plentiful, cheap drones over scarce and costly ones,
as the Poland example. Illustrates that's what China's up to.
They've learned the lesson tanks and armored vehicles need better protection.
They're just so vulnerable from above and don't rely on
a drone wall for air defense. That's how Europeans are
describing their air defense aspirations after Russia did that big
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incursion into Poland. She says. The Ukrainian thing is layered
over distance and altitude, includes a wide range of kinetic
and electronic countermeasures. The idea is if one defense fails,
the next may succeed, So it's a gauntlet.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Now, maybe the most successful drone attack of all time
was that one that Ukraine pulled off a while back.
Remember they had sent those shipping containers into Russia and
planted them there, and then all of a sudden they
opened up and the drones came out and they blasted
all those planes, and it ended up being like one
hundred and ten million dollars worth of equipment damage or
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destroyed for the cost of tens of thousands of dollars
worth of druns. That's the asymmetry in that whole thing.
But I feel like one of these days, Russia or
Ukraine or China or somebody is gonna pull off the
big Iran because they've tried it multiple times. Somebody's gonna
pull off the big we overwhelmed the system we got
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in thing because so far it hasn't happened. They send
the one hundreds and thousands of drones in like ninety
percent of them are shot down. Some point, somebody is
gonna get the big win, aren't they. Where they just
overwhelmed the defenses, whether it's like technologically or just in
terms of numbers of counter drones and counter missiles and
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just like destroy Tel Aviv or Kiev or someplace or
hopefully not Omaha.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Right, yeah, yeah, And we don't have nearly the air
defenses we need because partly it's such a vast country.
I mean, that system would be expensive, to say the least,
although they're working on it, I know. So speaking of
working on it, the editorial board of the journal, says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently made a bracing remark that
received almost no attention. He told defense executives in a speech,
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this is a nineteen thirty nine moment, or hopefully in
nineteen eighty one moment, a moment of mounting urgency, and
he was talking about the desperate need to get the
bureaucracy to move faster in buying everything from drones to
missiles to ships. They bring up this stuff we've all
heard about Pentagon, woe's late expensive new aircraft carriers, an
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eight thousand percent price markup on a soap dispenser inside
a C seventeen bathroom, and all sorts of stuff. He says,
the administration is aiming to build a rebuild the arsenal
of freedom and the dysfunctions over regulation, diffused accountability, and
insufficient competition. Every process, every board, every review must justify
its existence. The Secretary said, I hope he's successful. I
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hope so too.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And that's one of the problems of the You know,
the Defense Department is always claiming they're underfunded, and now
is the most crucial time ever.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This time it's true, is the thing? Yeah, yeah, I remember,
and I've mentioned this many times, but Robert Gates Fabulous
Autobiography's memoir, it shocked me at the time. He was
talking about when he's the Secretary of Defense, he couldn't
get anything done in the Pentagon because it was such
a giant, slow moving bureaucracy, that bureaucrats could stemy him
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and prevent him from doing what he wanted to do
as the secretary, they just slow walked everything, lost memos,
didn't return calls. I thought, good lord, that's no way
to run anything, much less the Department or Defense. If
it was the Department of the Interior, whatever they do,
that would be bad defense. It's unthinkable.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well, the big lumbering giant that is that ends up
being tied down if you follow the old allegory of
the Gulliver's travels.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Little divisions, bastards, little bastards.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And the quick, nimble, hungrier entity will end up defeating us.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah. So a final note, one of the stories we
teased was in the Ukraine War, especially Russia is jamming
and spoofing GPS signals so frequently that satellite navigation is
not dependable, and other potential adversaries like China and North
Korea possessed similar capabilities. They can render all of our
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US drones, aircraft, and ship GPS systems useless. And so
we are working urgently to develop backup systems. And they're
talking about this experiment at a tiny airport in the
Australian countryside. Last month, a small plane took off carrying
a device that could transform how all of our fight
machines navigated across future battlefields. The flight carried an instrument
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that then, and this is it's funny every time I
come across a story like this, when you're talking about,
you know, splitting atoms and hydron supercliders and the rest
of it, it could be one hundred percent made up
and I would never know. And then we superclide these
atoms at a million miles per hour, then measure the
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quatron vector that they traveled. I'm like, duh, okay, I
get you good anyway. The flight carries an instrument that
shines lasers at atoms which behave like compass needles to
measure Earth's magnetic field in real time. Readings from the
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device can be compared to a magnetic field map, helping
a user determine their location and offering a backup to
satellite based navigation like GPS, which is entirely dependent on
signals to and from satellites. So maybe they're shining lasers
at adams. Maybe they're not. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Maybe they just ask a guy go up there. And
take a left turn left at the Big Tree.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Hey, where are we We're over Adelaide. I think, yep,
there's the football stadium. Okay. And I remember talking to
my brother in a completely non classified capacity, as he
was fairly high up in the United States Navy, talking
about the challenge of developing communication redundancy because all of
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the you know, all of the message we used to
communicate with the folks in the field and ships at
sea can be jammed or screwed around or messed with.
So if one doesn't work, you got to go to
level two. If level two doesn't work, you got to
have a third alternative, and on down the line. And
how that's getting harder and harder is the technology changes.
Maybe it's hardwired telephones in the future, like the drones
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you mentioned right.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
And when I was in handwritten notes, when I was
reading up back in April, May and June about the
eightieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, I
was reading all about our navy, the way we built
up during World War Two. I mean, we were not
really very technologically advanced or very good at the point
when Japan attacked us, but by the end of the war,
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we were so far ahead of everybody else technologically. I
mean just we're doing things in gold and places, at
speeds and in ways that just nobody had ever even
thought of.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
We're so far ahead. Well, that's not the situation we're
in now. For all my studying of the Third Reich,
I heard something just absolutely fascinating that long ago. I'm
pretty sure it was Neil Ferguson, the great Scotch American historian,
talking about one of the reasons the blitzkrieg was so
incredibly successful the early days of World War Two when
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Germany was rolling over various countries was that they had radios.
They had really useful, dependable radios, and so their field
communications were multiple times faster or fractions of the time
spent getting instructions and feedback and condition of the battlefield
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reports from their commanders.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You combine that with the fact that they were on meth,
which has only been known since the mid nineties that
they were all on meth. Hitler's genius doctors figured out
the whole meth thing, and the Brits and the French
were all like, don't these guys ever get tired?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
How do you go that far in three days? He
got to sleep. No, you don't not. If you're meth up,
you don't right right, you're tweaking and you're communicating. You
run rough, shot over poland oof.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Okay, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Well.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Speaking on Monday at the McDonald's Impact Summit of franchise
owners and suppliers, President Trump bragged that he got Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior to eat
a big mac. All he had to do was run
it over with his car first.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I was at a brewery that has a restaurant. We
weren't drinking, me and my boys, but we were eating
the food at this brewery in our town. And their
french fries tasted exactly like McDonald's fries. I've went up
to the manager and I said, your fries tastes exactly
like McDonald's fries.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I've never had that anywhere. Obviously, that's a good thing,
he said. I know. And I don't go back in
the kitchen. I don't ask. I don't know how we
do it. I don't want to know. Wow, do they
like boil panda fat or what they got? A guy,
it's got to be a copyrighted something or other. But
I wonder which brings us to Raising Cane's Chicken fingers.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Raising Cane popular chicken joint step way. It's fast food,
but it's a step way above KFC. Never been and
I had never been. Either we're driving down or driving
through Arizona, going through flag Staff. My niece, who was
at the University of Kansas at that time, said, they.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Have a cage chicken. They have a cage chicken.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
We have to stop because that's where she ate in Lawrence,
Kansas with the Cain's Chicken. She loved it so much,
and I'd never been to one before, and now he
got one in my town and there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
There was a line.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Down the block for months when it first opened. It's
still the most popular fast food jointed down by far.
People love the Cane's Chicken.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well. Take two locked in is safe at an undisclosed location.
Sin's the key to the success of America's How does
Chicken Jane? It is the handwritten thirty year old recipe
for their sauce, the chain's famous sauce, and they don't
have any other sauce.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's not like one of those you can get barbecue
or honey mustard or whatever, you can only eat that sauce.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
They ship out the formula with no ingredients listed, and
the managers who actually mix it up have to sign
an NDA that they will never speak a word.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
That's my kids will be really interested in that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I'll be darn. Jackie Clark, kiss Tim stop. Jack and Joe.
They've got to go. And if they don't give Canda bets.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And tastes like mayonnaise with old pepper in, I know.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
beginning with our technical director Michael Angelo. Michael, what's your
final time? All right? My wife sent this to me.
I'm supposed to read it as my final thought.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
A taco is a beef love letter in a corn
envelope that you mailed to your stomach.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
That's good stuff. That is beautiful stuff, right there, Katie Greener,
Steve Muswoman as a final thought, Katie, because.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
My algorithm thinks I'm a fat ass. I always see
these videos of people getting soda sized cups of the
canes sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, my kids always want the extra extra canes.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Wow, Jack, do you have a final thought for us?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeahs it this restaurant last night I got the pulled
pork sandwich. I don't think I've ever been anywhere where
if they offer a pulled pork on the menu, I
don't order it. That's a guarantee. I'm getting that. No
matter the other joys can't go wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
My final thought is actually back to the ca Raisin
Kane's chicken thing. It was found in nineteen ninety six
by a couple of college classmates who had a business
class where they had to propose a business wow. They
went with a chicken restaurant, then decided you want to
actually try this? That gone rather well over one thousand,
almost a thousand locations. God, I would say, what an
interesting story that is. They'll prey make a movie about
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that someday.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Armstrong and Getdy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
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Speaker 3 (34:49):
You guys are epping hacks. Just so you guys know that,
just want to fill you in. Have a great thing day,
Armstrong and Giddy.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I hope you go off the air soon.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I'm thinking the only the reason you haven't is because
somebody wants you to keep spreading your BS because radio
is dead and you suck.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
W Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arms Strong
and Jettie and no He Armstrong and Yetty. George W.
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Bush speaking at the funeral of Dick Cheney not long ago.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm reminder of Renow Senator who once gave this advice
to a junior colleague. Perhaps you said you could occasionally
allow yourself the luxury of an unexpressed thought. Dick Cheney
was like there, sparing and measured with words, and a
profession that attracts talkers. He was a thinker and a listener,
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and when he do speak up, conveying thoughts in that
even tone of voice, that orderly, unexcited animal manner, you
knew you were getting the best of a highly disciplined mine.
No colleague, no legislator, or no foreign leader who ever
met Dick Cheney ever doubted that they were dealing with
a serious man.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, I heard you've all. Levin one of the heroes
to conservative writers out there. He was a young staffer
and had to bring Dick Cheney up to speed on
some policy stuff way back in the day. And he
said it was terrifying. Everybody was terrified of talking to
Dick Cheney. One he was so serious, and two he
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was so knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, oh, I'm scared thinking about it. And George w
with a little more insight into his old and close friend.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Dick was funny and easy going in a style that
his public image never caught up with. So we can
all agree, won't your standard issue politician. If Anny voters
came hoping for a kind word in a hug, they'd
have to settle for the kind word.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm always amazed by people like Dick Cheney that they
got elected in the first place, because you can't picture
them doing the normal, raw, raw campaign speech with people
cheering and hands in the air and hugging.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
People right right. I don't think he could get elected
in a variety of states. I think Wyoming was the
right state for him, which is why he moved there.
I think, yeah, yeah, perhaps, yeah. Plus it's just really
nice but a fairly serious people who don't screw around.
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They've they've you know, it's the environment is forbidding at times,
and the work is hard and etc. Etca. So they
liked the cut of his jib.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We talked to the other day about it, and we
posted it on Twitter. The Russian robot that walked out
on stage and fell over. Yeah, I don't know how
many of you've seen that video. There's a new video
out today, apparently they put out to try to cover
that one up, where putin watching this robot dance and
it does it fairly successfully.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You're probably trying.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
To erase the memory of that Russian robot that teetered
out there right then fell over.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Had dinner last night with a handful of people, including
one gen who lived and worked in Europe for a
number of years and he's very very knowledgeable about Europe
and European politics and that sort of thing. And he
sent me a link to this news service. It's English
language Russian news, but not from the Kremlin. It's I
(03:34):
think you'd call it free press fans reporting on Russia,
and it's so interesting. Here's one story how Swarovski Optic
is still sending sniperscopes to Russia despite Austria's policy of neutrality.
Life matters more than your wallet, MEDUSA. That's the website
(03:56):
takes a look at the Kremlin's new media guidelines for
spinning Russia's ax hikes really interesting. Speaking of Russia.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
So Joe had a story last hour about Chicago's schools
and unions and wasted money that we got quite a
detailed pushback on. Can you bring us up to speed
on that real quick before I read the text?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh yeah. The story, which was actually from NBC Chicago,
was about a handful of schools, eight schools that used
a tremendous amount of CPS funds Chicago Public Schools funds
for out of state overnight travel and including some really
impressive luxury travel to Hawaii for a four day quote
unquote seminar. How most of the travel they didn't even
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start the approval process that's required by the rules. Thirteen
out of fifteen were not pre approved as required. One
trip was even rejected, but the employees went anyway. And
I we suggested that there is no accountability, partly because
the Chicago Public Schools and indeed the government of Chicago
Brandon Johnson are completely mobbed up and under the rule
of the Teachers' union. Is that more or less what
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you're looking for exactly?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And we got this text which is longer and more
detailed than usual.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So I'm reading it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Hey, I was just listening to your show because I'm
forced to by my boyfriend. He listens to your garbage
propaganda every morning, and I.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Want job, sir, well done. She'll come around sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I went and checked out that Chicago story online
about the teachers, and it had nothing to do with
the X. The entire district, has nothing to do with
the unions, has nothing to do with the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It was eight.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Schools out of one hundred and ninety seven or two
hundred or something. I read that a story that actually
sounded like you were reading directly from it except adding
the words democrats and unions after every sentence.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You guys are effing hacks. You spread propaganda.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I can tell when I listened to you, when you
guys know you're saying BS. I can tell when you
guys cut out, or change the subject or go to
a joke so only your fans and your listeners believe
your s Just so you guys know that, just want
to fill you in. Have a great thing day, Armstrong,
and getdy.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I hope you go off the air soon.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm thinking the only reason you haven't is because some
he wants you to keep spreading your BS.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Because radio is dead and you suck. Wow. Perhaps if
you'd ever attended a school, you'd be familiar with the
term ad hominem attack. Are you seriously, my darling? I
hope God made you pretty, sweetheart. Are you seriously disputing
the power of the teachers' unions in Chicago? Are you
kidding me? They practically single handedly elected a union hack
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as mayor. He's ruining the city, Brandon Johnson.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Fun Wow, and you were reading from You were reading
from the local NBC news affiliate, which is correct, fairly
unlikely a right wing organization.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah. Yeah, she's absolutely correct. It is eight schools in
particular that really really built the system. But that does
that does not prove because it was only eight. Therefore
everything else I said isn't true. That's just a logic,
another logical fallacy. Again, I hope God made you pretty.
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Probably did whould? Probably? Why are boyfriends with her?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Because obviously she doesn't agree with his politics and he
listens to us every single day. I think this screed
was at least a little bit of a release valve
of how much she hates the fact that she has
to listen to the show when she's riding in the
car with him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I hope you go off the air soon.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm thinking the only reason you haven't is because someone
wants you to keep spreading your BS because radio is
dead and you suck.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah wow, so fine argument, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yes here, I wonder how many boyfriends are looking over
at their girlfriends that listen to the show in the
car like.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You just did she? Yeah, you were you texting a
minute ago.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, you're annoying and kind of hot, and I put
up with it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So what it was you? Well, here's some more right
wing tripe from NBC Chicago. A spokesperson for the districts
that it is taking the report seriously and intends to
ensure employees act in the best interests of students and
the city going forward. But no, no, that's funny. The
spokesperson for the district must have been misled by our
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fascist right wing nonsense.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I read this story that sounded like the one you
were reading directly. You guys are effing hacks. You add
the words democrat and unions after a resentence. Oh man,
I enjoyed that sort of thing. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And now they've instituted a travel freeze restrictions to all
Chicago public schools funded employee travel, but no, again they
were misled that the actual school district was misled by
my hackery, And I apologize.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'm always interested by that because I am. I think
maybe I'm wrong. I think that if I was given ah,
what do you call that an expense card, but that
third party spending or whatever, I'm spending somebody else's money.
And I've never really had that situation at all in
my career. But if I had that, especially if it
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was tax payer money where people aren't paying that much intentional,
I just feel like I wouldn't abuse it. I wouldn't
stay in like nicer than I normally do hotels, or
eat it more, buy more expensive bottles of wine or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But I would I'd milk it like a dairy cow.
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But I had a friend who when we were young, Gladys.
Gladys has carpal tunnel. She hates playing that thing. Hey,
read your contract, huh exactly, take some sign bad villa
or something and play your damn harp. But uh, So
(09:40):
I had this friend and he got a job. I'm
going to be very vague, but he got a job
working for an entity that was taxpayer money. He immediately
started abusing it, like immediately. We were like twenty years old.
I remember the first time. This is back when you
had full service gas stations.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I mean it was a many many years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
When you had to pay a lot more you pulled
in there instead of pumping it yourself. You'd pay like
an extra twenty cents a gallon because somebody had come
out and puppet for you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I said, what are you doing? He said, I'm not
paying for this. I thought, wow.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Immediately he thought, I'm going to live a better lifestyle
than I've ever lived in my life because somebody else,
taxpayers are paying for it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, culture upbringing are so powerful. I'm thinking
of an acquaintance who I found out he did something
irresponsible and is losing his job. And I had no idea.
The guy had four kids. I said, wow, hey, I
had no idea. He never mentioned it, and another acquaintance said, yeah,
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he doesn't live with them. It's one of those just
just knock swimming up. And you know, we were talking
about how to both of us. That's anathema. I can't
imagine it. Yeah, I got a kid over there with
her and a kid over there with her or whatever,
and you don't think about it all day. Every day.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It consumes your life, wondering how they're doing now, how
they're going to do in the future.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The very idea of it is gut wrenching. But for him,
and the point was made, that's what he grew up with.
Oh yeah, that's sad anyway. Yeah, thank you for your
fair criticism. Honey, evings. Oh you should see my text return.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh jeez, oh my god, I think sometimes I do suck.
So I'm with you, honey, Oh please sometimes.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh that's out question. Okay, we got more. Always stay here.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Armstrong Canaheim Police Detective Heather Skaglioni says the thieves used
a tablet meant for locksmiths that can connect to technology
and newer vehicles.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
He's being handed a like a locksmith tool, a computer
device that plugs into the computer system in the car
so you can quickly reprogram it and turn the car.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
On so you can leave with the truck.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Thieves are also using antennas to pick up signals from
keyfobs inside homes.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Once they pick up that signal, they send it to
somebody standing by the car opens a car right up,
gets in, push the star button, and off they go.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Wow, wait a minute, dang, Yeah, need go back to
metal keys that just stick in the ignition and twist.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
In the in the video attached to that news article,
it actually showed a ring camera at the front door
and the thieves were holding an antenna and they had
some kind of device tucked in their pocket that this
thing was connected to, and when they.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Held it up, they just touched the house and.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then the car that was parked in the driveway started
because somebody had already was able to get into it
and start the car just by using the key fob signal.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I remember two cars ago. I think it was.
Was that your trains AMU? Yeah, yeah, with the the
t tops. Yeah, my fob keyfob kept the better. He
kept dying.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I said where do you keep it relative to your garage?
And it was too close to the garage. They said,
you either got to shield it or move it. Because
the car and the keyfob keep talking to each other.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I didn't know that. That's why my battery runs down
so fast and my keyfob. I feel like every place
it every two weeks and nobody's ever told me that.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, yeah, anyway, so yeah, obviously they are putting out
signals and uh, you know, well putting out signals all
the time. So yeah, you can sniff them and use
them to break into a car. What the heck? Death
penalty for car thieves. There, you go, hang them. They're
the modern horse thieves. Hang them. That's right right outside
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General Motors, you know, forarder whatever it. Maybe it's your
local dealer, I don't know. Come on down, bring the kids,
we'll spin the wheel of prizes. Hang a car thief.
They're actually making these free hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
They're making these keychains now too, that you can get
on like Amazon or whatever. That you just put on
there and then you can tuck your key fob in
that middle block that signal I saw.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, good, yeah, excellent. There, you know, simple solutions, Kadie
life hack.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So we got some of that economic news today. That
was good news. So it's bad news. Here's Trump talking
about Chairman Powell.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
The mortgage rates are down despite the FED. I mean, Scott,
you got to work in this guy. He's got some
real mental problems. No, he's something wrong with him. I'll
be honest, I'd love to fire his ass.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He should be.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Fine, So Powell, he's got to be thinking how did
I end up in this situation in my life? He
is probably not going to lower interest rates next month
because the job numbers came out today twice as high
as people were expecting.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So that's good.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
News, but it's bad news if you want in the
interest rates to go down.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, I got to take those numbers with a shaker assault.
But yeah, that's definitely got an influence on the FED.
Something wrong with that guy. Wasn't wrong with the fired's ass,
like talking to it, shure, not very presidential. I'm not
to speaking of figures of salt, how America's hottest chicken
chain keeps its secret sauce a secret going up? Do
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we have time for this? No, we don't. I have
a handful a popery jack if you will, of defense
related stories, military laid stories from the United States. Which
is your priority for when we come back? The lessons
of Ukraine's drone warfare, m Trump, Hegzeth and the new
(15:29):
Arsenal of Freedom. It's about Hegzeth saying this is a
nineteen thirty nine moment and we've got to be much
more nimble with our military technology. That's a good one.
Kind of fits in with that first story. The Pentagon
can't trust GPS anymore. Boy, that's interesting. Is quantum physics
the answer?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Oh wow, I know something about that first story because
the Secretary of War was on one of the talk
shows over the weekend talking about how we're trying to
catch up drone wise, Ukraine is the world world leader
out of necessity, necessity, the mother of all invention. Ukraine
has had more necessity than anybody on planet Earth to
figure out how the drone thing. And they are the
world leader. You know who's right behind them? Flip in
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China and we are way behind China in the number
of drones produced, not even close.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah. I think part of the problem is, and Pete
Hegswath is dealing with this, is that we are enamored
with the high tech, amazing device, whereas lots and lots
and lots and lots of mediocre stuff is better. Right,
So China will this particular realm.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
If China at some point sends twenty thousand drones at
an air base that they set up in a bunch
of containers on some land, they bought right next to
the military installation. All our nuclear missiles are going to
be of no.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Use to stop that, right right, So why don't we
touch on all of those things if we can squeeze
them in, including the secret sauce it. I think it's
Cane's chicken. Cane's chicken. That's my kid's favorite. I've never
eaten at Cane's chicken. Oh delicious. Remember the first time
we were driving around the road with my niece and
she said, they've got a Cane's chicken. We gotta stop.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
She was so oldlighted. That's the first time I'd ever
heard of it. Oh yeah, the young people love the Canes.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Chicken, Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Death and destruction in Ukraine at least twenty five people killed,
eighty wounded as a Russia fire hundreds of drones and
fifty missiles at the country overnight. A Russian drone cross
the border with NATO member Romania fighter jets scrambled there
and in next door Poland. Polish airports temporarily closed.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, giant giant rocket and drone attack on Ukraine overnight
from Russia killed a whole bunch of people and you know,
blashed an apartment complexes and civilian structures and stuff the
way they do.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Jillian Melchior has written a really interesting piece entitled the
Lessons of Ukraine's drone Warfare, and among other things, she
points out that there have been all sorts of drunk
incursions into the airspace of various European countries, from Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Estonia,
Poland we've mentioned, and she says Eurof's response has not
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inspired confidence. Belgium's attempts to jam and shoot down the
drones were ineffective. Britain and Germany realized a lack of
legal authority could hinder the police or military from taking
the drones down. And in Poland allies used missiles that
cost around a million dollars or more against drones that
cost around ten thousand dollars. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, drone warfare
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is evolving with astonishing speed and lethality, and she mentioned
she was talking to drone experts in Ukraine who said
the West is so far behind they have no idea
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, well, that's what US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said
on one of the talk shows over the weekend, how
far ahead Ukraine is of everybody, but then just drone production.
So we promised we're going to ramp up our drone
production to about ten thousand a month, which would be
one hundred and twenty thousand a year China's currently making.
Remember I just said we're gonna ramp up our production,
(19:05):
and that's an aspiration to get to one hundred and
twenty thousand a year. China is currently producing over eight
million drones annually.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Holy cry Yeah, you got to give me a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I know, I heard that number on the Sunday talk show.
I was like, Holy yeah, I said the same thing, Holy.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Kron, Yeah, you got to give me the standing eight count.
So here are the lessons that the Ukrainians wish the
West would learn. Number One, drones make battlefields nearly transparent.
You can see everything operationally. It's really hard to keep
the catch the enemy by surprise, easier to interdict, and
harder to preserve the logistics that support troops at the front,
(19:46):
and there are only limited things they can do about
it at this point. With bigger, more useful drones, drones
collect Another lesson, drones collect huge amounts of battlefield information,
but the West needs better tools to analyze that data.
The stuff we're using right now antiquated, it's not it's
not appropriate. Oh, the West process for identifying your target,
(20:09):
assigning someone to go after it, and carrying out this
strike is too centralized and too slow for the drone era,
among other things, says a member of the supervisory board
of the nonprofit that supports the development of this drone
they're talking about. Another lesson, the front line is no
longer a line. Drones have turned it into a kill
zone of about twenty five miles wide. Because forces can't
(20:32):
move safely in big groups or vehicles. Troops now move
in small numbers. If you picture the Russians like invading
the Baltic States with a line of tanks. No, it's
going to be small groups of infantry.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Couple dudes on motorcys possible if you haven't seen those videos.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And the fact I think Ukraine did this first and
now Russia's doing it. Why they're they're putting fiber optic
cables on the drones because everybody's figured out the radio
jam thing for drones, so you have to hardwire them
so you can't interrupt the communication. So have these thin,
really long fiber optic lines that they attached to the
drones on both sides now sending them into battle. Yeah,
(21:13):
it's haste for me to imagine that that works, but
obviously it does.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh yeah, I've seen it done. It's an enormous rule
of a role rather of a very very fine like
fishing line that they just spool out. It seems crazy,
seems too old school. But back to the front line
is no longer a line thought. Several soldiers sketched in
her notebook and new geography the battlefield, marking dots to
represent Ukrainian and Russian positions intermingled within the kill zone.
(21:40):
One guy for the American Enterprise Institute is dubbed this
a point to list battlefield. It's not about lines, it's
just little points. Training can't be won and done another
one of the lessons. It's ongoing because drone technology and
tactics can become obsolete in months or weeks. Cost is
king Ukrainians where a Western procurement doesn't yet reflect how
(22:03):
the math favors plentiful, cheap drones over scarce and costly ones,
as the Poland example. Illustrates that's what China's up to.
They've learned the lesson tanks and armored vehicles need better protection.
They're just so vulnerable from above and don't rely on
a drone wall for air defense. That's how Europeans are
describing their air defense aspirations after Russia did that big
(22:25):
incursion into Poland. She says. The Ukrainian thing is layered
over distance and altitude, includes a wide range of kinetic
and electronic countermeasures. The idea is if one defense fails,
the next may succeed, So it's a gauntlet.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Now, maybe the most successful drone attack of all time
was that one that Ukraine pulled off a while back.
Remember they had sent those shipping containers into Russia and
planted them there, and then all of a sudden they
opened up and the drones came out and they blasted
all those planes, and it ended up being like one
hundred and ten million dollars worth of equipment damage or
(23:01):
destroyed for the cost of tens of thousands of dollars
worth of druns. That's the asymmetry in that whole thing.
But I feel like one of these days, Russia or
Ukraine or China or somebody is gonna pull off the
big Iran because they've tried it multiple times. Somebody's gonna
pull off the big we overwhelmed the system we got
(23:22):
in thing because so far it hasn't happened. They send
the one hundreds and thousands of drones in like ninety
percent of them are shot down. Some point, somebody is
gonna get the big win, aren't they. Where they just
overwhelmed the defenses, whether it's like technologically or just in
terms of numbers of counter drones and counter missiles and
(23:44):
just like destroy Tel Aviv or Kiev or someplace or
hopefully not Omaha.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Right, yeah, yeah, And we don't have nearly the air
defenses we need because partly it's such a vast country.
I mean, that system would be expensive, to say the least,
although they're working on it, I know. So speaking of
working on it, the editorial board of the journal, says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently made a bracing remark that
received almost no attention. He told defense executives in a speech,
(24:15):
this is a nineteen thirty nine moment, or hopefully in
nineteen eighty one moment, a moment of mounting urgency, and
he was talking about the desperate need to get the
bureaucracy to move faster in buying everything from drones to
missiles to ships. They bring up this stuff we've all
heard about Pentagon, woe's late expensive new aircraft carriers, an
(24:39):
eight thousand percent price markup on a soap dispenser inside
a C seventeen bathroom, and all sorts of stuff. He says,
the administration is aiming to build a rebuild the arsenal
of freedom and the dysfunctions over regulation, diffused accountability, and
insufficient competition. Every process, every board, every review must justify
its existence. The Secretary said, I hope he's successful. I
(25:05):
hope so too.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And that's one of the problems of the You know,
the Defense Department is always claiming they're underfunded, and now
is the most crucial time ever.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This time it's true, is the thing? Yeah, yeah, I remember,
and I've mentioned this many times, but Robert Gates Fabulous
Autobiography's memoir, it shocked me at the time. He was
talking about when he's the Secretary of Defense, he couldn't
get anything done in the Pentagon because it was such
a giant, slow moving bureaucracy, that bureaucrats could stemy him
(25:38):
and prevent him from doing what he wanted to do
as the secretary, they just slow walked everything, lost memos,
didn't return calls. I thought, good lord, that's no way
to run anything, much less the Department or Defense. If
it was the Department of the Interior, whatever they do,
that would be bad defense. It's unthinkable.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well, the big lumbering giant that is that ends up
being tied down if you follow the old allegory of
the Gulliver's travels.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Little divisions, bastards, little bastards.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And the quick, nimble, hungrier entity will end up defeating us.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah. So a final note, one of the stories we
teased was in the Ukraine War, especially Russia is jamming
and spoofing GPS signals so frequently that satellite navigation is
not dependable, and other potential adversaries like China and North
Korea possessed similar capabilities. They can render all of our
(26:40):
US drones, aircraft, and ship GPS systems useless. And so
we are working urgently to develop backup systems. And they're
talking about this experiment at a tiny airport in the
Australian countryside. Last month, a small plane took off carrying
a device that could transform how all of our fight
machines navigated across future battlefields. The flight carried an instrument
(27:04):
that then, and this is it's funny every time I
come across a story like this, when you're talking about,
you know, splitting atoms and hydron supercliders and the rest
of it, it could be one hundred percent made up
and I would never know. And then we superclide these
atoms at a million miles per hour, then measure the
(27:24):
quatron vector that they traveled. I'm like, duh, okay, I
get you good anyway. The flight carries an instrument that
shines lasers at atoms which behave like compass needles to
measure Earth's magnetic field in real time. Readings from the
(27:45):
device can be compared to a magnetic field map, helping
a user determine their location and offering a backup to
satellite based navigation like GPS, which is entirely dependent on
signals to and from satellites. So maybe they're shining lasers
at adams. Maybe they're not. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Maybe they just ask a guy go up there. And
take a left turn left at the Big Tree.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Hey, where are we We're over Adelaide. I think, yep,
there's the football stadium. Okay. And I remember talking to
my brother in a completely non classified capacity, as he
was fairly high up in the United States Navy, talking
about the challenge of developing communication redundancy because all of
(28:33):
the you know, all of the message we used to
communicate with the folks in the field and ships at
sea can be jammed or screwed around or messed with.
So if one doesn't work, you got to go to
level two. If level two doesn't work, you got to
have a third alternative, and on down the line. And
how that's getting harder and harder is the technology changes.
Maybe it's hardwired telephones in the future, like the drones
(28:54):
you mentioned right.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
And when I was in handwritten notes, when I was
reading up back in April, May and June about the
eightieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, I
was reading all about our navy, the way we built
up during World War Two. I mean, we were not
really very technologically advanced or very good at the point
when Japan attacked us, but by the end of the war,
(29:18):
we were so far ahead of everybody else technologically. I
mean just we're doing things in gold and places, at
speeds and in ways that just nobody had ever even
thought of.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
We're so far ahead. Well, that's not the situation we're
in now. For all my studying of the Third Reich,
I heard something just absolutely fascinating that long ago. I'm
pretty sure it was Neil Ferguson, the great Scotch American historian,
talking about one of the reasons the blitzkrieg was so
incredibly successful the early days of World War Two when
(29:48):
Germany was rolling over various countries was that they had radios.
They had really useful, dependable radios, and so their field
communications were multiple times faster or fractions of the time
spent getting instructions and feedback and condition of the battlefield
(30:09):
reports from their commanders.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You combine that with the fact that they were on meth,
which has only been known since the mid nineties that
they were all on meth. Hitler's genius doctors figured out
the whole meth thing, and the Brits and the French
were all like, don't these guys ever get tired?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
How do you go that far in three days? He
got to sleep. No, you don't not. If you're meth up,
you don't right right, you're tweaking and you're communicating. You
run rough, shot over poland oof.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Okay, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Well.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Speaking on Monday at the McDonald's Impact Summit of franchise
owners and suppliers, President Trump bragged that he got Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior to eat
a big mac. All he had to do was run
it over with his car first.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I was at a brewery that has a restaurant. We
weren't drinking, me and my boys, but we were eating
the food at this brewery in our town. And their
french fries tasted exactly like McDonald's fries. I've went up
to the manager and I said, your fries tastes exactly
like McDonald's fries.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I've never had that anywhere. Obviously, that's a good thing,
he said. I know. And I don't go back in
the kitchen. I don't ask. I don't know how we
do it. I don't want to know. Wow, do they
like boil panda fat or what they got? A guy,
it's got to be a copyrighted something or other. But
I wonder which brings us to Raising Cane's Chicken fingers.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Raising Cane popular chicken joint step way. It's fast food,
but it's a step way above KFC. Never been and
I had never been. Either we're driving down or driving
through Arizona, going through flag Staff. My niece, who was
at the University of Kansas at that time, said, they.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Have a cage chicken. They have a cage chicken.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
We have to stop because that's where she ate in Lawrence,
Kansas with the Cain's Chicken. She loved it so much,
and I'd never been to one before, and now he
got one in my town and there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
There was a line.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Down the block for months when it first opened. It's
still the most popular fast food jointed down by far.
People love the Cane's Chicken.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well. Take two locked in is safe at an undisclosed location.
Sin's the key to the success of America's How does
Chicken Jane? It is the handwritten thirty year old recipe
for their sauce, the chain's famous sauce, and they don't
have any other sauce.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's not like one of those you can get barbecue
or honey mustard or whatever, you can only eat that sauce.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
They ship out the formula with no ingredients listed, and
the managers who actually mix it up have to sign
an NDA that they will never speak a word.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
That's my kids will be really interested in that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I'll be darn. Jackie Clark, kiss Tim stop. Jack and Joe.
They've got to go. And if they don't give Canda bets.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And tastes like mayonnaise with old pepper in, I know.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
beginning with our technical director Michael Angelo. Michael, what's your
final time? All right? My wife sent this to me.
I'm supposed to read it as my final thought.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
A taco is a beef love letter in a corn
envelope that you mailed to your stomach.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
That's good stuff. That is beautiful stuff, right there, Katie Greener,
Steve Muswoman as a final thought, Katie, because.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
My algorithm thinks I'm a fat ass. I always see
these videos of people getting soda sized cups of the
canes sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, my kids always want the extra extra canes.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Wow, Jack, do you have a final thought for us?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeahs it this restaurant last night I got the pulled
pork sandwich. I don't think I've ever been anywhere where
if they offer a pulled pork on the menu, I
don't order it. That's a guarantee. I'm getting that. No
matter the other joys can't go wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
My final thought is actually back to the ca Raisin
Kane's chicken thing. It was found in nineteen ninety six
by a couple of college classmates who had a business
class where they had to propose a business wow. They
went with a chicken restaurant, then decided you want to
actually try this? That gone rather well over one thousand,
almost a thousand locations. God, I would say, what an
interesting story that is. They'll prey make a movie about
(34:20):
that someday.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Armstrong and Getdy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 3 (34:49):
You guys are epping hacks. Just so you guys know that,
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Armstrong and Giddy.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I hope you go off the air soon.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I'm thinking the only the reason you haven't is because
somebody wants you to keep spreading your BS because radio
is dead and you suck.
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