December 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack is treeless, some delicious candy & the boat strike video
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & kids addicted to smart phones
- Mailbag!
Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Arms
live from studio. CE say, it's priy, Well, I got
(00:34):
what two fridays left before Christmas? As today is the
fifth Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Deeper than
the Bowels, et cetera, et cetera. And today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager. Dump boy. Eh m,
I don't know you got a nominee. Yeah, I gotta
get a tree. That's my general manager. I don't have
(00:56):
a tree up yet. We don't have a tree up yet.
How tree was that?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's the fifth of December and we don't have a
tree up yet. That makes me a bad parent. You'd
have showed up at the manger and and and then
spit on the baby. Jesus, you know what. I'd have
had a little Strong No Franklinson, no gold Mumura gift card.
I showed up with a gift card for the baby,
Gee's Starbucks gift card. Yeah, picked this up as a
village station. An infant can't go to Starbucks. They had
(01:23):
that at the convenience store. I got this gift card
for you. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Three wise men would
have whooped up on you. So I didn't plan ahead.
Got to get a tree this weekend, had vacation, been sick,
my son's been sick, so yeah, we gotta get a
tree this weekend, get decorated. Here's my big mistake. Well
it's not a mistake. I was donating to the high
school band. But my son's band had their big Christmas
(01:47):
winter concert last night, Loveless. I know you've attended many
of those, and everybody's all dressed up everything like that
and playing their music and it was very, very nice.
But they also do a bake sale where they raise
money for the band and parents bake stuff and then
people bid win, win, People bid ridiculous amounts of money
because it's not about the bag good. It's about donating
to the band, right right. So I paid one hundred
(02:08):
bucks for this toffee, homemade toffee. It's like a ten
pound box of toffee, and I thought, I'll bet this
is going to be pretty good. I had a piece
on the way home. It's like, this is the best
thing I've ever had in my life? What am I
going to do with ten pounds of the best candy
I've ever had in my life? It's soul. And as
(02:31):
you're eating for two, Katie, you can probably I'm pretending
I'm eating. They're really good job of putting in them
in small enough pieces that you can think one, one
little piece, one little more. You're back in the kitchen
because you forgot something. I'll want one moral piece for
I go to bed. I call those drive bytes. Drive bytes.
That's good. You got to get that clever, you should
(02:53):
get that patented. That is a good there is There
is when food gets to a certain size. Because some
sizes are too big. You're not gonna grab one of those, yeah,
just on a whim at that size. But there's some
size that mentally you think it doesn't really even count.
At this size, that's not hurting anything. And then you
take in five of them, which, of course, if you
(03:14):
understand the community properties of something or other, they add
it up to a bigger size. Yeah, there is some
sort of principle here, an important one incrementalist something or other.
I don't know, the insignificant incrementalist principle. Drive bites. Yeah,
so I meant to bring it into work, and I thought,
(03:35):
I'll bring it into work and people will eat it
really fast. And in this morning, when I was looking
at it, I thought, this is too good to take
to work people. Oh no, thanks a lot, Jack, Oh stop, Jack, Wow,
mine mine, I'm exactly. I'm daffy doc by my mine
standing on the pile of gold. I'm not good enough
for you. I wasn't thinking of you a Michael, wouldn't
(03:57):
think of our little crowd. I mean those people out there.
I don't want them eat in disc food. It's too
good for that. I guess you're right, the peasants exactly.
So we have occasionally gone with the only in the
control room. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know distribution center.
That would work if I put it in out the
word that the chosen few. Heypes on a piece of this.
It's a right next to the mic. Yeah, that that
(04:19):
I would do. Don't tell anybody, Okay, So we're going
to start to show officially a little earlier than we
usually do because we got a couple of interesting clips
that I think are worth talking about. It's a said
that they played the video of the second strike yesterday
in front of a bunch of people in Congress, and
they came out with completely different partisan views of what
(04:41):
they saw, which you're about to hear. So let's start
to show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Friday, December, fifth year, twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong,
you're getting, we approve of this program. All right, let's
begin officially now according to FCC rules and rags, here
we go at.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Mark, what I saw in that room was one of
the most troubling things I've seen in my time in
public service.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
No, I didn't see anything disturbing about it. Which disturbing
to me is that millions of Americans have died from
drugs being run to America by these cartels. There you
go consensus. So you got the chair, the Democratic chair
of the committee, who says it's the most disturbing thing
he's ever seen in public life. He said, you saw
two people with no means of going anywhere, clinging to debris,
(05:22):
no way to be part of Tom Cotton the longer
versions of these clips, saying you saw exactly what was described.
You saw two people that were still clearly combatants. This
is absolutely righteous. I would have ordered the same thing
myself in my military career. How do you possibly have
two people see the same video and come away with
such different views dishonesty? Well, okay, so which one of
(05:45):
them is being dishonest? I haven't seen the video, nor
have I although certainly from fairly neutral accounts I've read.
It's not as was described by Hines. Two helpless men
clinging only to one. There was a cork on the boat,
and both men were clean to the same cork and
praying for mercy. No, they're trying to flip the boat
(06:07):
over and keep going. I would say that the New
York Times coverage of it, let me look it over
real quick. New York Times coverage does not quote Hines.
It quotes Cotton and a couple other people. So they
don't they Their big headline is not Tom Cotton lies about. No,
(06:29):
they're they're they're they're getting into other angles of the story,
but they're not they're not disputing what had leaked out
previously that you got a couple of people on a
boat that's still body and uh, you know, radioing for
help and blah blah blah. I don't know hinz act.
But many many people were briefed and saw the videos,
(06:50):
and he's the only guy coming up with coming out
with the sobsystract, right. And well, as you pointed out,
you heard on one of our radio stations, they they
played his clip as if that was just the sum
total of the views of things. That's the news of
the day. Here. Congress saw the video and this is
what they thought. Well, this is what one guy thought,
(07:11):
and maybe nobody else. I know. I was watching ms
NOW last night formerly MSNBC soon to be called Twitter
then x MSNBC last night went with their panel discussion
as if what the Hindz guy said was one hundred
percent true. Yeah, and the war crimes and what needs
to be done and everything like that. I do think
it's interesting that the New York Times is not taking
(07:32):
that angle. They still have enough integrity that they're not
going to cloud at that much. One point the New
York Times makes today, Well, first of all, the Wall
Street Journal editorial board is pretty big on the this
isn't a real war, we shouldn't be doing this, this
is this is not cool. They're they're fair enough backing
up a step. But the New York Times says, and
I thought this was interesting. The focus on the second
(07:53):
strike and the nuances of the law of armed conflict
could end up being a favor to the Trump administration.
The idea that some was bad about that particular strike
implicitly suggests that the first one on the boat and
all the other attacks on the other boats were fine,
and its premise reinforces at the idea that, yeah, we're
at war with these people, and now we're arguing over
whether or not that second strike in a war was okay,
(08:15):
kind of jumping past the first conversation. What point I've
made repeatedly right? For what it's worth. The News Nation
headline video shows survivors killed and follow up strike alarming.
Lawmakers come on News Nation and then they quote Hines.
Goodness sakes, they quote anybody. They quote Tom Cotton down
(08:35):
saying the mission was lawful and the strikes are justified
and righteous. But come on, I don't know. I'm pretty
comfortable that we didn't commit a war crime there, So
that's good. That would be good for anybody. Yeah, I'm
much more interested in the bigger question that the editorial
(08:56):
board was bringing up there from the journal, are we
at war with Venezuz? Wela or Venezuela cartels are narco
terrorists or whatever we're gonna call them. The idea that
war has morphed into armed conflict with terrorist groups, which
has morphed into terrorist groups, can include admittedly armed drug cartels,
(09:19):
and therefore we can be at war with them no
matter what they're doing. And that's one interesting aspect of this.
It's indisputable that if you're in a war, you can
take out their you know, the rail lines, your your
enemy's rail lines or manufacturing centers or whatever to weaken
their war effort. Are we all comfortable with the idea that, Okay,
(09:44):
we're going to take out these drug boats because that's
how they finance their nefarious operations. And by the way,
they're poisoning Americans and killing us by the tens of thousands,
you know, with our own you know, assent in a
lot of cases. But is that all appropriate for the military.
You know what's funny is I just laid it out there.
I was starting to think, yeah, that makes sense. Well,
(10:07):
as a National Review wrote the other day, if this
is how the war on drugs is morphed, bad news.
If you're on the wrong end of the war, on
poverty when we go there. Yeah, that's kind of a
funny thing to say, start striking hungry people. Yes, yes,
that is a funny thing to say. That's one way
to end hunger. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
(10:29):
know either. You finished your Christmas shopping? How long ago?
A couple of weeks ago. Actually, I just finished wrapping
my presence yesterday. They're all under the tree. God, I
don't even have a tree up yet. I'm a bad person. Well,
no doubt, but yeah, we're we're tardy on that ourselves.
(10:51):
But that's because we got a remodel going on and
it's case. Oh you got an excuse for not honoring
Jesus birth. Okay, fine, Oh, speaking of sniping, this is
one of my favorite things I've come across. And getting
ready for the show. So The Atlantic was doing this
interview with Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, frequently mentioned presidential
hopeful and he interviewed for the VEEP slot with Kamala Harris. Well,
(11:16):
they were interviewing him like the day or the week
the book came out and he hadn't seen it yet,
and this reporter was hitting him with some of the
quotes from the book, and Shapiro, who is famously very measured,
very even keeled, very strategic, kind of lost his ass
and then immediately felt bad about it. We'll hit you
(11:37):
with some of those delightful excerpts coming up. It's a
good Kamala kicking, so you know that'll be enjoying that.
So it always feels good on a Friday. Come on, now,
it's Friday. Let's enjoy ourselves. I haven't bought a prison yet, Michael,
not a single one. So everybody's can get gift cards
this year? Huh No, I can't do that. Can't do
that with kids. That'd be horrible the look on their
(11:58):
face when they get a gift card. I can't do that. Yeah,
the whole buying gifts thing is in my rearview mirror mostly. Yeah,
when I look at my to do list for the weekend.
So can I just stay at work? How about I
do a show on Saturday and Sunday and tell everybody
I gotta work. Oh, we got Katie's headlines on the way,
(12:20):
clips of the week pretty soon and more news of
the day. I hope you can stay here. Somebody just
hit me with a list of things you can get
at the seven eleven for Christmas if you want to.
They're like stocked up for like people who really fumble
the ball and aren't ready to go in terms of
(12:40):
like you know, quickie gifts or ornaments or that sort
of thing, like kind of the shop of shame. Wow,
what does that mean about society that the seven eleven
knows there's a big enough crowd of people like that
just to screwed up. So here we got we got
your back with some really cheap crap and something scratchers,
some small and teddy bear holding the heart. Here's something
(13:03):
that looks like an ornament. If you're supposed to show
up to your party with an ornament, you know that
sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
One of those rolling hot dogs, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Rotissery dog. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Katie all right, the lead headline.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Leave this. This joke is similarly. This joke is similarly
yesterday's my Grandpa had the heart of a lion and
a lifetime ban from the zoo. That is, yeah, cut
from the same cloth as yesterday's disturbing dolphin DNA joke. Okay,
back to Katie, All right.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Of course, the boat story is the top headline. So
here's a few sources from CNN. Survivors clinging to capsized
boat didn't radio for backup. CBS lawmakers see video of
second strike on boat. Survivors say Admiral testified that there
was no kill order. And the Guardian video shows US
air strike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour
(14:00):
before second deadly attack.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wow, that's interesting. As the testimony said it was minutes. Yesterday,
that's what Tom Tom Cotton came out saying, yeah, it
was just minutes between the first strike and the second strike.
Having watched the video, now that does go against Pete
heggsath what he said, like earlier in the week, he said, look,
I'm a very busy man. I don't have hours to
(14:22):
sit there and watch how this plays out. And Tom
Cotton said it happened. All happened within a couple of minutes.
But all right, goodness sakes, can we get the facts.
Please show everybody the video so we can watch. Then
we'll mo from bright.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Bart, Tom Bondy says evidence leading to j six pipe
bomber bomber arrest was collecting dust at Biden's FBI.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
For four years. I do want to talk about this
more later. Fascinating and I wonder if AI can play
a role in this in the future where you just
plug in everything at AAI and they can connect it
can connect the dots. Well. I think that the the
what's being claimed is that the FI FBI, the Biden
Justice Department neglected this intentionally, and I haven't heard any
(15:06):
serious pushback on that yet. That is interesting that they
cracked it this, you know, early in their term. Maybe
it's coincidence, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
From the Washington Post, Supreme Court hands Trump victory and
fight over Texas congressional map.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Some I missed this story. So that court that came
out the other day and said now Texas can't do that.
The Supreme Court six y three said you're wrong. Correct. Yeah,
it happened yesterday evening last Stephen. Wow, that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
From New York Times, Putin basks in praise from Modi
on India visit. Yeah, apparently, Putin also saying he's going
to share some of their military tech with India.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Not quite the pariah we were hoping he'd be, well,
you were hoping, but not Trump the Trump administration, and
I'll give you the very short version of this is
out with their official old foreign policy statement, and it is, uh,
we're making nice with Russia and will negotiate between Russia
and Europe. NATO's already too big, it's not going to
(16:11):
get any bigger. It's a mark difference than his first term.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
From NBC, parents say school issued iPads are causing chaos
with their kids. How come behavioral problems because they want
to use one at home?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
All right, study fines week long social media detox actually
leads young adults to spending even more time on their phones.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So you get away from social media, but you spend
more time looking at other.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Stuff, all right, And then you spend a lot of
time on social media when you come back to it,
trying to catch up.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And finally the Babylon b Minnesota added to Trump's third
World travel them, Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
We got to catch you up on a bunch of
different news stories. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what.
Why don't they release the video that second strike? Then
we'll all just know we can all watch it and
make our own determination. Right, are there two people clinging
to barely alive or they look like they're active participants.
We'd all know right away Armstrong and Getty. Oh good
(17:26):
news for me. I just saw our friend Tim Sanderver's
review of the Revolutionary War documentary from Ken Burns, in
which Tim says finished watching the Ken Burns Revolutionary Documentary,
I liked it exclamation point. A few of my friends
on here were complaining about it, but I thought it
was great. Yeah. There were a few howlers we played one,
(17:46):
but there always is in a Burns documentary, and they
were outweighed by the good stuff. Well, that'll get me
back into it, because in the first three minutes there
were a couple of things where I was like, oh
my god. But if and Tim is as anti woke
around the revolutionary crowds anybody in America, if he overall
liked it, I'm gonna give it a watch. Then Okay. Yeah,
(18:07):
that's the question, especially if it leads with that sort
of thing. Is this going to be a drum beat
of woke crap or is it just the occasional oh boy,
eyes and stuff, right right right, So so much to
talk about today. Oh my gosh, the giant climate scam
is really on the rocks really really struggling, and they're
(18:31):
floundering to try to keep the magic going as economies
ruined themselves, et cetera. Among other things to talk about.
But first, it's the Friday tradition. Time to take fond
look back at the week that was. It's cow clips
of the week. Now, what is an example of rage bait?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It might be I'll offer this sentence for you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I hate Santa. Everybody talks about this place. Man, a
dad gum swamp on a swamp. This is a sewer.
This is created by man. You burnt my house down.
Don't say anything crazy man. As I have said before,
(19:15):
if the judge picks through all of that hair and
finds only one eye, he's got the wrong end of
the dark.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
An animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday,
passed out next to the store's toilet.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Because the man slides down, the lioness begins to claw,
and when the man is close enough, the animal pounces,
dragging him to the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Most T shirts worn for half marathon previous wrecked one
twenty seven. I've got one hundred thirty seven shirts on
forty seven yards ry now by Young Way courity stumbled
two years. I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh
my god, what is that way thout doing? Because they're
(20:05):
in a constant state of dopamine. With Jerald School, they
behave like addicts.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them off.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Last night, President Trump posted over one hundred and sixty
times on Truth's social averaging more than one post a minute.
Who well, I think we know where Venezuela's cocaine is
been going.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Peg sat saying the military acted in compliance with the
law of armed conflict, and Pete.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Said he did not want them. He didn't even know
what people were talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
And by the way, had mulready made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
When people want to surrender, you don't kill off.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
As I've said, I'll say again, we've only just begun
striking darko votes.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
How Republicans launch an investigation into widespread COVID era fraud
involving some members of Minnesota's large Somali community.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
The President's obsession with me is really unhealthy. It's creepy.
Your omar is garbage, Jesus garbage once again got erect arrested,
not the first time. You almost said a woman got erected,
which in these cases can happen. No, I said a teacher,
which you assumed was a woman, because you're sexist. Moving along,
(21:37):
it's clips of the week. Here is the question before us.
Since the double tap story is about over over over over,
except for a few individuals attempts to flog it further.
When the Democrats stopped pretending to care about this, will
they go back to pretending to care about Epstein? Good question.
(22:00):
The list using my finger quotes is supposed to come
out within two weeks a week ago, so we got
a week to go for all the Epstein stuff to
come out. So that'll be the story next week. I
believe what a Christmas present?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
That is.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Two things from clips of the week. One reminded me
of so Martha Raddits had information what two days ago
that was the lead on the EBC evening news, people
who had seen the video now reporting there were two
men clinging on the boats blah, blah blah. So where
(22:39):
did that information come from? Is that the same video
that they were watching yesterday? I still don't understand people
are selectively leaking obviously as always happens. Yeah, that's the
only thing that's left to the story to me is
just who's lying and so egregiously lying about what they
just saw? AnyWho, I would agree. The other thing that
(22:59):
is more interesting to me at this moment is the
teacher on there talking about how hard it is to
teach kids today with their dopamine addiction that we all
have from our smartphones and the pace of life, and
how you just can't hold a kid's attention. That should
get way more attention as a that's a very poorly
structured sentence that should get more discussion. Not only is
(23:25):
our curriculum a mess at the schools, but even if
you had the curriculum that I liked, How in the
world is any teacher going to stand up in front
of a twelve year old in the modern world and
talk to them about, you know, the Declaration of Independence
and hold their attention when their brains have been crafted
to take in information in a completely different way. It's
(23:46):
a horrific problem. It is, and this sounds like her hyperbole.
I don't think it is. I remember, you know, in
our teenage years, our parents were worried about us, you know,
smoking pot and having sex or whatever. I would far
rather have my kid smoke a little pot, have sex,
and not be addicted to the endorphin thing with the smartphone,
(24:09):
I think it's far more damaging. I wouldn't want them
to become like a raving, everyday pothead. I'm not saying
that you can do terrible damage, especially to adolescents, but
I think it's a bigger threat to their health and
happiness than the hazards of old.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
You could be if you want to be like a
real boomer, you can just well, they need to learn
to sit there and pay attention. But that ain't gonna work.
It just is not going to work. I think we're
going to have to restructure all teaching in like video
form and little snippets. I think if you taught like
both of my kids, if you were teaching them in
the style that TikTok videos are, where the information comes
(24:44):
fast and in little snippets, much more likely to hold
their attention and have them walk away after an hour
of that having learned something than a teacher standing in
that they're drowning on not even close. And then when
I I was talking a couple of weeks ago about
how we may have ended the era of literacy, literacy
(25:05):
didn't really start in the world until around seventeen hundred,
when the printing press had been around long enough and
enough people had learned to read, and people got into
books and reading. It may be over now. In fact,
all indications are it is over. Book sales, long form
reading is down so much that it's over. It was
about three hundred years of people reading and it's just over. Yeah,
(25:27):
and it ain't coming back too and it ain't really
coming back. So you can either claim that you can
yell at the world and they'll get back on board
with reading or something, or to adjust to it. I
think those are your two choices. I think it's possible, unlikely,
but possible, that we as a society could decide in
the same way we did with drunk driving and cigarette smoking,
(25:50):
that kids addicted to the endorphin just shot after shot
after shot after shot of the smartphone is a terrible
thing to do to a child. Again, it's possible we
could do that it's unlikely. I really hate to admit
that you're probably right with your zingbang poo educational model,
but that may be the only choice. Well. One of
(26:10):
the problems with your plan, and this is one of
my biggest beliefs in the world. The generation that remembers
any other way is going to be dead before you
know it, and there won't be anybody left who remembers
what a brain felt like before smartphones came along. There
(26:31):
won't be many people. Pretty soon, there won't be anybody left.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I barely remember myself when I could just sit there
in quiet with a book for long periods of time,
and there was my brain screaming for more entertainment. Well, yeah,
I think it's more profound than that. Just because they
don't have real friends. Some of a lot of kids,
and they never get together with anybody of the opposite sex,
and they have no interest in family or children or
(26:56):
anything like that will die out and it'll be a
planet of the ants. Oh. I just fatalists on some
of these things. But for today, to try to fix today,
I think, yeah, definitely, the education is gonna have to
go the direction of bingpoo zoom TikTok style. That's the
way you spread information. I think that's your only hope,
which would be a lot of work of the teacher. Well, yeah,
you're gonna have to have you know, I don't know,
(27:17):
You're gonna have to have to hire TikTok to design
you your curriculum. Then the Chinese just have a direct
pipeline into our elementary schools. That's just great. Well, happy
Friday everybody. Uh here's a word from our friends at
Omaha Steakes speaking and gifts. You know you're in a conundrum.
You's have somebody you care about, but they don't need stuff.
Give them the deliciousness of Omaha Steaks, especially right now
(27:41):
during the Sizzle all the Way sale last night, and
put the burgers out to thaw. So we're having Omaha
Steak burgers tonight. I know my son is very very
excited about that because we love the Omaha Steak burgers.
Steaks are great. The apple tartlets do I want to
do those? I think I'm gonna hold onto those a
little a little closer for Christmas because those are so good. Anyway,
you got to take advantage of this deal right now.
Our listeners getting extra thirty five dollars off with the
(28:03):
promo code Armstrong at checkout. How cool is that? And
the Sizzle All the Way sale, As I started to say,
you get fifty percent off site wide at Omaha Stakes.
Fifty percent off and that super bonus. Just use the
code armstrong at checkout you get to knock another thirty
five bucks off. Say big on gourmet gifts and more
holiday favorites with Omaha Steaks. Visit Omaha Stakes dot com
(28:23):
for fifty percent off site wide during their Sizzle All
the Way sale, and again an extra thirty five bucks
off with the promo code Armstrong at checkout. Terms apply
sea site for details Omaha Steaks dot com. The code
is armstrong. Am I wrong? I take in quite a
bit of media. I don't hear this conversation come up
really anywhere else. This whole nobody reads anymore. They need
(28:46):
a different way of teaching, et cetera, et cetera. I
don't really hear the conversation anywhere. No, I think the
American educational system and this is a great failing of
boomers and Gen X in particular. Whatever to millennials, whatever,
you people are a little younger than me. Actually, that'd
(29:06):
be most gen x. Our great failing is that we
saw education as a set it and forget it part
of society, because that's what it was when we were
growing up. There were some issues and tweaks that were needed,
you know, we could go into those, but it was
mostly a really solid institution that functioned at a high level.
Witnessed the fact that the American university system, and hilariously
(29:29):
in particular the University of California system, were the envies
of the world, and rightfully so. Now they're crap. Wow,
Joe dropped a sea bomb on our university. Damn right,
wake up and smell it. Smell the iguano just disappointing.
(29:50):
In our two, we're going to talk a little bit
about that pipe bomber that they caught and what the
deal is with him. There's not that much known. Surprisingly
little about the guys known to twenty four hours after
this story broke, but we do know something about the investigation.
Kind of interesting. We've got mail bag on the way.
I hope you can stay here. Totally crap. How have
(30:11):
I missed the attempted drone attack on Zelensky's plane in
Dublin the other day? There's so much going on in
the world that nobody can keep track of everything too much.
Stop it, stop creating news. Here's your freedom loving quote
of the day. This is so good from Hilaire Belleck,
paraphrasing Great George Orwell. A people that has forgotten its traditions,
(30:35):
its ancestors, and the sacrifices that brought its freedom is
a people already conquered. For the man without memory is
easily ruled, and the man without roots is easily led.
That's why they're trying to completely obliterate the history of
the country in schools. The postmodernists, the neo Marxists, they
(30:55):
know this. I know it's true. Well send then two
thumbs up to Ken Burns for reaching a lot of
America with pretty much the traditional story of our founding them.
Happy to hear that, Yeah, I would agree. Mailbag taught
us a note. Mailbag and Armstrong and Geddy dot Com. Joe,
you're not doing James Garfield quote today. You're saying to yourselves,
(31:16):
let's write because we've got a fascinating James Garfield fact
to kick off Mailbag. Garfield was ambidextrous and had the
rare ability to write in two languages simultaneously. What to
impress his guests at White House dinners, Garfield would often
write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other,
all while holding a casual conversation. That is some crazyss.
(31:41):
Most people can't write in their native language at all. Now, wow,
So he and Da Vinci are the only people I've
ever heard of that could do that. That's crazy. Yeah,
I know, it's it's absolute madness. Moving along, Kellen from
Rohnert Park, CA. Hey, A G and crew. Had a
conversation with my boys in the car the other day,
(32:01):
my eldest sophomore in high school, talking about interesting professions
like how actors are professional pretenders, politicians, professional talkers? Had
you guys playing on the podcast at the time. My
six creator added, yeah, and these guys are professional complainers.
I had laugh. You get a yuke too? Yeah, thanks
for your thoughtful and educational complaining for helping us all
age a little faster. I believe that to be sarcasm, Kellen.
(32:24):
If I complained for a living, I was born to
this job, no doubt about it. Well. Being a critic
of you know, the overreach and abuse and just threats
to the country I'm happy to accept that critic of
modern society sounds much better than professional coplain. Yeah. Anyway,
let's say this is from PJ. I hadn't heard this.
(32:46):
The Minnesota Vikings have changed their name. Here's the new
new logo. Can you see that? To the Somali pirates.
I hadn't heard that. That's funny. Uh, let's see oh
in our sarcastic email of the day from a forest. Hey, guys,
to follow the back and forth around the strikes on
the Venezuelan drug votes, what's who's allowed to do what?
(33:08):
And why is it what law or law enforcement or
war and the rest of it. I was getting confused,
But then I had an idea. I think it's brilliant.
But since Joe almost went to law school, I'd like
your take. What if there was some way the president
could request some sort of authorization for the use of
military force. This we'll call it an AUMF, could outline
which assets are involved, what the objectives are. Now, we
(33:29):
wouldn't want to just hand these out willy nilly, So
maybe you ought to have a group of like five
hundred and thirty five people who have to vote yes
or no, approving it or maybe do it in two votes,
one with a group of four hundred and thirty five
and the other with one hundred. I don't know. I
haven't worked out all the details yet, but I feel
like I'm onto something here anyway, ohing too to be
fair to Trump several presidents in a row, including Barack Obama,
(33:50):
I have done all kinds of things without going out
and getting what you just described, But in general I
agree on a completely different topic. Brian from Santa Rose rights,
I drive six hundred to one thousand miles a week.
The number of idiots on their phones is staggering. And
then he introduces this brilliant idea, required self driving vehicles
(34:12):
for people who proved themselves to be jackasses behind the wheel.
If you need to text and use social media, blah blah,
you're in a cell driving vehicle. Same with slow drivers
in the fast lane, people that cannot get up to
freeway speed when entering said freeway when I'm sure you
have plenty to add yourself. H muttering in the dark.
(34:36):
All right, thanks for the note. Ony has a great,
great Dwight Eisenhower quote. Will use that next week. Yes,
we were riding with an uber driver the other day
on vacation and he is getting onto the Interstate and
he's coming down the ramp and I'm thinking, are you
gonna go any faster than this before you get on
the Interstate? And we were going forty eight miles an
hour when he joined the eighty mile an hour traffic
(34:57):
on the Interstate. He's being safe, I know, And I
wanted to say him, you think you're being safe? Don't
you think you're the safest person out here? And then
back to the question of the double tap, excuse me,
JT And Livermore writes to me, there's a bigger scandal.
That's the scandal of the same old dem playbook, in
which a lefty paper starts terrible and probably false accusations
(35:18):
by another, single anonymous source. How many times can the
Dems hurt our country based on the lives of a
single unnamed source. How many times can a WAPPO or
other paper fail to get corroboration before running their garbage story.
Who are the Democrats serving if not themselves? As certainly
isn't the country they've sworn to protect and defend. I
think they had two sources for this allegedly, And you know,
(35:39):
you're right in your greater statement. I agree with But
as we've seen, people will watch the video this Heinz character,
for instance, the Senator and come out and say, it's
the most troubling thing I've ever seen in my life.
It's just terrible, terrible, And so it's you know, you
can it's either honestly difference in the eye of the beholder,
(36:01):
or it's so easy to pose as being disturbed and
horrified that well, Admiral Dude testified yesterday no, there was
never any kill them all order. So he just flat
out denies under oath that that ever happened, which was
part of the reporting from the Washington Post on Monday
that had everybody all stirred up. Right, it's over. You
(36:23):
think the controversy is over, I'm declaring it over. I
hope you're right. We got a lot more an hour two,
like the pipe bomber and other stuff. If you miss
a segment, gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Arms
live from studio. CE say, it's priy, Well, I got
(00:34):
what two fridays left before Christmas? As today is the
fifth Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Deeper than
the Bowels, et cetera, et cetera. And today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager. Dump boy. Eh m,
I don't know you got a nominee. Yeah, I gotta
get a tree. That's my general manager. I don't have
(00:56):
a tree up yet. We don't have a tree up yet.
How tree was that?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's the fifth of December and we don't have a
tree up yet. That makes me a bad parent. You'd
have showed up at the manger and and and then
spit on the baby. Jesus, you know what. I'd have
had a little Strong No Franklinson, no gold Mumura gift card.
I showed up with a gift card for the baby,
Gee's Starbucks gift card. Yeah, picked this up as a
village station. An infant can't go to Starbucks. They had
(01:23):
that at the convenience store. I got this gift card
for you. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Three wise men would
have whooped up on you. So I didn't plan ahead.
Got to get a tree this weekend, had vacation, been sick,
my son's been sick, so yeah, we gotta get a
tree this weekend, get decorated. Here's my big mistake. Well
it's not a mistake. I was donating to the high
school band. But my son's band had their big Christmas
(01:47):
winter concert last night, Loveless. I know you've attended many
of those, and everybody's all dressed up everything like that
and playing their music and it was very, very nice.
But they also do a bake sale where they raise
money for the band and parents bake stuff and then
people bid win, win, People bid ridiculous amounts of money
because it's not about the bag good. It's about donating
to the band, right right. So I paid one hundred
(02:08):
bucks for this toffee, homemade toffee. It's like a ten
pound box of toffee, and I thought, I'll bet this
is going to be pretty good. I had a piece
on the way home. It's like, this is the best
thing I've ever had in my life? What am I
going to do with ten pounds of the best candy
I've ever had in my life? It's soul. And as
(02:31):
you're eating for two, Katie, you can probably I'm pretending
I'm eating. They're really good job of putting in them
in small enough pieces that you can think one, one
little piece, one little more. You're back in the kitchen
because you forgot something. I'll want one moral piece for
I go to bed. I call those drive bytes. Drive bytes.
That's good. You got to get that clever, you should
(02:53):
get that patented. That is a good there is There
is when food gets to a certain size. Because some
sizes are too big. You're not gonna grab one of those, yeah,
just on a whim at that size. But there's some
size that mentally you think it doesn't really even count.
At this size, that's not hurting anything. And then you
take in five of them, which, of course, if you
(03:14):
understand the community properties of something or other, they add
it up to a bigger size. Yeah, there is some
sort of principle here, an important one incrementalist something or other.
I don't know, the insignificant incrementalist principle. Drive bites. Yeah,
so I meant to bring it into work, and I thought,
(03:35):
I'll bring it into work and people will eat it
really fast. And in this morning, when I was looking
at it, I thought, this is too good to take
to work people. Oh no, thanks a lot, Jack, Oh stop, Jack, Wow,
mine mine, I'm exactly. I'm daffy doc by my mine
standing on the pile of gold. I'm not good enough
for you. I wasn't thinking of you a Michael, wouldn't
(03:57):
think of our little crowd. I mean those people out there.
I don't want them eat in disc food. It's too
good for that. I guess you're right, the peasants exactly.
So we have occasionally gone with the only in the
control room. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know distribution center.
That would work if I put it in out the
word that the chosen few. Heypes on a piece of this.
It's a right next to the mic. Yeah, that that
(04:19):
I would do. Don't tell anybody, Okay, So we're going
to start to show officially a little earlier than we
usually do because we got a couple of interesting clips
that I think are worth talking about. It's a said
that they played the video of the second strike yesterday
in front of a bunch of people in Congress, and
they came out with completely different partisan views of what
(04:41):
they saw, which you're about to hear. So let's start
to show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Friday, December, fifth year, twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong,
you're getting, we approve of this program. All right, let's
begin officially now according to FCC rules and rags, here
we go at.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Mark, what I saw in that room was one of
the most troubling things I've seen in my time in
public service.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
No, I didn't see anything disturbing about it. Which disturbing
to me is that millions of Americans have died from
drugs being run to America by these cartels. There you
go consensus. So you got the chair, the Democratic chair
of the committee, who says it's the most disturbing thing
he's ever seen in public life. He said, you saw
two people with no means of going anywhere, clinging to debris,
(05:22):
no way to be part of Tom Cotton the longer
versions of these clips, saying you saw exactly what was described.
You saw two people that were still clearly combatants. This
is absolutely righteous. I would have ordered the same thing
myself in my military career. How do you possibly have
two people see the same video and come away with
such different views dishonesty? Well, okay, so which one of
(05:45):
them is being dishonest? I haven't seen the video, nor
have I although certainly from fairly neutral accounts I've read.
It's not as was described by Hines. Two helpless men
clinging only to one. There was a cork on the boat,
and both men were clean to the same cork and
praying for mercy. No, they're trying to flip the boat
(06:07):
over and keep going. I would say that the New
York Times coverage of it, let me look it over
real quick. New York Times coverage does not quote Hines.
It quotes Cotton and a couple other people. So they
don't they Their big headline is not Tom Cotton lies about. No,
(06:29):
they're they're they're they're getting into other angles of the story,
but they're not they're not disputing what had leaked out
previously that you got a couple of people on a
boat that's still body and uh, you know, radioing for
help and blah blah blah. I don't know hinz act.
But many many people were briefed and saw the videos,
(06:50):
and he's the only guy coming up with coming out
with the sobsystract, right. And well, as you pointed out,
you heard on one of our radio stations, they they
played his clip as if that was just the sum
total of the views of things. That's the news of
the day. Here. Congress saw the video and this is
what they thought. Well, this is what one guy thought,
(07:11):
and maybe nobody else. I know. I was watching ms
NOW last night formerly MSNBC soon to be called Twitter
then x MSNBC last night went with their panel discussion
as if what the Hindz guy said was one hundred
percent true. Yeah, and the war crimes and what needs
to be done and everything like that. I do think
it's interesting that the New York Times is not taking
(07:32):
that angle. They still have enough integrity that they're not
going to cloud at that much. One point the New
York Times makes today, Well, first of all, the Wall
Street Journal editorial board is pretty big on the this
isn't a real war, we shouldn't be doing this, this
is this is not cool. They're they're fair enough backing
up a step. But the New York Times says, and
I thought this was interesting. The focus on the second
(07:53):
strike and the nuances of the law of armed conflict
could end up being a favor to the Trump administration.
The idea that some was bad about that particular strike
implicitly suggests that the first one on the boat and
all the other attacks on the other boats were fine,
and its premise reinforces at the idea that, yeah, we're
at war with these people, and now we're arguing over
whether or not that second strike in a war was okay,
(08:15):
kind of jumping past the first conversation. What point I've
made repeatedly right? For what it's worth. The News Nation
headline video shows survivors killed and follow up strike alarming.
Lawmakers come on News Nation and then they quote Hines.
Goodness sakes, they quote anybody. They quote Tom Cotton down
(08:35):
saying the mission was lawful and the strikes are justified
and righteous. But come on, I don't know. I'm pretty
comfortable that we didn't commit a war crime there, So
that's good. That would be good for anybody. Yeah, I'm
much more interested in the bigger question that the editorial
(08:56):
board was bringing up there from the journal, are we
at war with Venezuz? Wela or Venezuela cartels are narco
terrorists or whatever we're gonna call them. The idea that
war has morphed into armed conflict with terrorist groups, which
has morphed into terrorist groups, can include admittedly armed drug cartels,
(09:19):
and therefore we can be at war with them no
matter what they're doing. And that's one interesting aspect of this.
It's indisputable that if you're in a war, you can
take out their you know, the rail lines, your your
enemy's rail lines or manufacturing centers or whatever to weaken
their war effort. Are we all comfortable with the idea that, Okay,
(09:44):
we're going to take out these drug boats because that's
how they finance their nefarious operations. And by the way,
they're poisoning Americans and killing us by the tens of thousands,
you know, with our own you know, assent in a
lot of cases. But is that all appropriate for the military.
You know what's funny is I just laid it out there.
I was starting to think, yeah, that makes sense. Well,
(10:07):
as a National Review wrote the other day, if this
is how the war on drugs is morphed, bad news.
If you're on the wrong end of the war, on
poverty when we go there. Yeah, that's kind of a
funny thing to say, start striking hungry people. Yes, yes,
that is a funny thing to say. That's one way
to end hunger. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
(10:29):
know either. You finished your Christmas shopping? How long ago?
A couple of weeks ago. Actually, I just finished wrapping
my presence yesterday. They're all under the tree. God, I
don't even have a tree up yet. I'm a bad person. Well,
no doubt, but yeah, we're we're tardy on that ourselves.
(10:51):
But that's because we got a remodel going on and
it's case. Oh you got an excuse for not honoring
Jesus birth. Okay, fine, Oh, speaking of sniping, this is
one of my favorite things I've come across. And getting
ready for the show. So The Atlantic was doing this
interview with Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, frequently mentioned presidential
hopeful and he interviewed for the VEEP slot with Kamala Harris. Well,
(11:16):
they were interviewing him like the day or the week
the book came out and he hadn't seen it yet,
and this reporter was hitting him with some of the
quotes from the book, and Shapiro, who is famously very measured,
very even keeled, very strategic, kind of lost his ass
and then immediately felt bad about it. We'll hit you
(11:37):
with some of those delightful excerpts coming up. It's a
good Kamala kicking, so you know that'll be enjoying that.
So it always feels good on a Friday. Come on, now,
it's Friday. Let's enjoy ourselves. I haven't bought a prison yet, Michael,
not a single one. So everybody's can get gift cards
this year? Huh No, I can't do that. Can't do
that with kids. That'd be horrible the look on their
(11:58):
face when they get a gift card. I can't do that. Yeah,
the whole buying gifts thing is in my rearview mirror mostly. Yeah,
when I look at my to do list for the weekend.
So can I just stay at work? How about I
do a show on Saturday and Sunday and tell everybody
I gotta work. Oh, we got Katie's headlines on the way,
(12:20):
clips of the week pretty soon and more news of
the day. I hope you can stay here. Somebody just
hit me with a list of things you can get
at the seven eleven for Christmas if you want to.
They're like stocked up for like people who really fumble
the ball and aren't ready to go in terms of
(12:40):
like you know, quickie gifts or ornaments or that sort
of thing, like kind of the shop of shame. Wow,
what does that mean about society that the seven eleven
knows there's a big enough crowd of people like that
just to screwed up. So here we got we got
your back with some really cheap crap and something scratchers,
some small and teddy bear holding the heart. Here's something
(13:03):
that looks like an ornament. If you're supposed to show
up to your party with an ornament, you know that
sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
One of those rolling hot dogs, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Rotissery dog. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Katie all right, the lead headline.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Leave this. This joke is similarly. This joke is similarly
yesterday's my Grandpa had the heart of a lion and
a lifetime ban from the zoo. That is, yeah, cut
from the same cloth as yesterday's disturbing dolphin DNA joke. Okay,
back to Katie, All right.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Of course, the boat story is the top headline. So
here's a few sources from CNN. Survivors clinging to capsized
boat didn't radio for backup. CBS lawmakers see video of
second strike on boat. Survivors say Admiral testified that there
was no kill order. And the Guardian video shows US
air strike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour
(14:00):
before second deadly attack.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wow, that's interesting. As the testimony said it was minutes. Yesterday,
that's what Tom Tom Cotton came out saying, yeah, it
was just minutes between the first strike and the second strike.
Having watched the video, now that does go against Pete
heggsath what he said, like earlier in the week, he said, look,
I'm a very busy man. I don't have hours to
(14:22):
sit there and watch how this plays out. And Tom
Cotton said it happened. All happened within a couple of minutes.
But all right, goodness sakes, can we get the facts.
Please show everybody the video so we can watch. Then
we'll mo from bright.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Bart, Tom Bondy says evidence leading to j six pipe
bomber bomber arrest was collecting dust at Biden's FBI.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
For four years. I do want to talk about this
more later. Fascinating and I wonder if AI can play
a role in this in the future where you just
plug in everything at AAI and they can connect it
can connect the dots. Well. I think that the the
what's being claimed is that the FI FBI, the Biden
Justice Department neglected this intentionally, and I haven't heard any
(15:06):
serious pushback on that yet. That is interesting that they
cracked it this, you know, early in their term. Maybe
it's coincidence, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
From the Washington Post, Supreme Court hands Trump victory and
fight over Texas congressional map.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Some I missed this story. So that court that came
out the other day and said now Texas can't do that.
The Supreme Court six y three said you're wrong. Correct. Yeah,
it happened yesterday evening last Stephen. Wow, that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
From New York Times, Putin basks in praise from Modi
on India visit. Yeah, apparently, Putin also saying he's going
to share some of their military tech with India.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Not quite the pariah we were hoping he'd be, well,
you were hoping, but not Trump the Trump administration, and
I'll give you the very short version of this is
out with their official old foreign policy statement, and it is, uh,
we're making nice with Russia and will negotiate between Russia
and Europe. NATO's already too big, it's not going to
(16:11):
get any bigger. It's a mark difference than his first term.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
From NBC, parents say school issued iPads are causing chaos
with their kids. How come behavioral problems because they want
to use one at home?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
All right, study fines week long social media detox actually
leads young adults to spending even more time on their phones.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So you get away from social media, but you spend
more time looking at other.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Stuff, all right, And then you spend a lot of
time on social media when you come back to it,
trying to catch up.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And finally the Babylon b Minnesota added to Trump's third
World travel them, Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
We got to catch you up on a bunch of
different news stories. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what.
Why don't they release the video that second strike? Then
we'll all just know we can all watch it and
make our own determination. Right, are there two people clinging
to barely alive or they look like they're active participants.
We'd all know right away Armstrong and Getty. Oh good
(17:26):
news for me. I just saw our friend Tim Sanderver's
review of the Revolutionary War documentary from Ken Burns, in
which Tim says finished watching the Ken Burns Revolutionary Documentary,
I liked it exclamation point. A few of my friends
on here were complaining about it, but I thought it
was great. Yeah. There were a few howlers we played one,
(17:46):
but there always is in a Burns documentary, and they
were outweighed by the good stuff. Well, that'll get me
back into it, because in the first three minutes there
were a couple of things where I was like, oh
my god. But if and Tim is as anti woke
around the revolutionary crowds anybody in America, if he overall
liked it, I'm gonna give it a watch. Then Okay. Yeah,
(18:07):
that's the question, especially if it leads with that sort
of thing. Is this going to be a drum beat
of woke crap or is it just the occasional oh boy,
eyes and stuff, right right right, So so much to
talk about today. Oh my gosh, the giant climate scam
is really on the rocks really really struggling, and they're
(18:31):
floundering to try to keep the magic going as economies
ruined themselves, et cetera. Among other things to talk about.
But first, it's the Friday tradition. Time to take fond
look back at the week that was. It's cow clips
of the week. Now, what is an example of rage bait?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It might be I'll offer this sentence for you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I hate Santa. Everybody talks about this place. Man, a
dad gum swamp on a swamp. This is a sewer.
This is created by man. You burnt my house down.
Don't say anything crazy man. As I have said before,
(19:15):
if the judge picks through all of that hair and
finds only one eye, he's got the wrong end of
the dark.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
An animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday,
passed out next to the store's toilet.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Because the man slides down, the lioness begins to claw,
and when the man is close enough, the animal pounces,
dragging him to the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Most T shirts worn for half marathon previous wrecked one
twenty seven. I've got one hundred thirty seven shirts on
forty seven yards ry now by Young Way courity stumbled
two years. I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh
my god, what is that way thout doing? Because they're
(20:05):
in a constant state of dopamine. With Jerald School, they
behave like addicts.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them off.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Last night, President Trump posted over one hundred and sixty
times on Truth's social averaging more than one post a minute.
Who well, I think we know where Venezuela's cocaine is
been going.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Peg sat saying the military acted in compliance with the
law of armed conflict, and Pete.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Said he did not want them. He didn't even know
what people were talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
And by the way, had mulready made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
When people want to surrender, you don't kill off.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
As I've said, I'll say again, we've only just begun
striking darko votes.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
How Republicans launch an investigation into widespread COVID era fraud
involving some members of Minnesota's large Somali community.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
The President's obsession with me is really unhealthy. It's creepy.
Your omar is garbage, Jesus garbage once again got erect arrested,
not the first time. You almost said a woman got erected,
which in these cases can happen. No, I said a teacher,
which you assumed was a woman, because you're sexist. Moving along,
(21:37):
it's clips of the week. Here is the question before us.
Since the double tap story is about over over over over,
except for a few individuals attempts to flog it further.
When the Democrats stopped pretending to care about this, will
they go back to pretending to care about Epstein? Good question.
(22:00):
The list using my finger quotes is supposed to come
out within two weeks a week ago, so we got
a week to go for all the Epstein stuff to
come out. So that'll be the story next week. I
believe what a Christmas present?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
That is.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Two things from clips of the week. One reminded me
of so Martha Raddits had information what two days ago
that was the lead on the EBC evening news, people
who had seen the video now reporting there were two
men clinging on the boats blah, blah blah. So where
(22:39):
did that information come from? Is that the same video
that they were watching yesterday? I still don't understand people
are selectively leaking obviously as always happens. Yeah, that's the
only thing that's left to the story to me is
just who's lying and so egregiously lying about what they
just saw? AnyWho, I would agree. The other thing that
(22:59):
is more interesting to me at this moment is the
teacher on there talking about how hard it is to
teach kids today with their dopamine addiction that we all
have from our smartphones and the pace of life, and
how you just can't hold a kid's attention. That should
get way more attention as a that's a very poorly
structured sentence that should get more discussion. Not only is
(23:25):
our curriculum a mess at the schools, but even if
you had the curriculum that I liked, How in the
world is any teacher going to stand up in front
of a twelve year old in the modern world and
talk to them about, you know, the Declaration of Independence
and hold their attention when their brains have been crafted
to take in information in a completely different way. It's
(23:46):
a horrific problem. It is, and this sounds like her hyperbole.
I don't think it is. I remember, you know, in
our teenage years, our parents were worried about us, you know,
smoking pot and having sex or whatever. I would far
rather have my kid smoke a little pot, have sex,
and not be addicted to the endorphin thing with the smartphone,
(24:09):
I think it's far more damaging. I wouldn't want them
to become like a raving, everyday pothead. I'm not saying
that you can do terrible damage, especially to adolescents, but
I think it's a bigger threat to their health and
happiness than the hazards of old.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
You could be if you want to be like a
real boomer, you can just well, they need to learn
to sit there and pay attention. But that ain't gonna work.
It just is not going to work. I think we're
going to have to restructure all teaching in like video
form and little snippets. I think if you taught like
both of my kids, if you were teaching them in
the style that TikTok videos are, where the information comes
(24:44):
fast and in little snippets, much more likely to hold
their attention and have them walk away after an hour
of that having learned something than a teacher standing in
that they're drowning on not even close. And then when
I I was talking a couple of weeks ago about
how we may have ended the era of literacy, literacy
(25:05):
didn't really start in the world until around seventeen hundred,
when the printing press had been around long enough and
enough people had learned to read, and people got into
books and reading. It may be over now. In fact,
all indications are it is over. Book sales, long form
reading is down so much that it's over. It was
about three hundred years of people reading and it's just over. Yeah,
(25:27):
and it ain't coming back too and it ain't really
coming back. So you can either claim that you can
yell at the world and they'll get back on board
with reading or something, or to adjust to it. I
think those are your two choices. I think it's possible, unlikely,
but possible, that we as a society could decide in
the same way we did with drunk driving and cigarette smoking,
(25:50):
that kids addicted to the endorphin just shot after shot
after shot after shot of the smartphone is a terrible
thing to do to a child. Again, it's possible we
could do that it's unlikely. I really hate to admit
that you're probably right with your zingbang poo educational model,
but that may be the only choice. Well. One of
(26:10):
the problems with your plan, and this is one of
my biggest beliefs in the world. The generation that remembers
any other way is going to be dead before you
know it, and there won't be anybody left who remembers
what a brain felt like before smartphones came along. There
(26:31):
won't be many people. Pretty soon, there won't be anybody left.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I barely remember myself when I could just sit there
in quiet with a book for long periods of time,
and there was my brain screaming for more entertainment. Well, yeah,
I think it's more profound than that. Just because they
don't have real friends. Some of a lot of kids,
and they never get together with anybody of the opposite sex,
and they have no interest in family or children or
(26:56):
anything like that will die out and it'll be a
planet of the ants. Oh. I just fatalists on some
of these things. But for today, to try to fix today,
I think, yeah, definitely, the education is gonna have to
go the direction of bingpoo zoom TikTok style. That's the
way you spread information. I think that's your only hope,
which would be a lot of work of the teacher. Well, yeah,
you're gonna have to have you know, I don't know,
(27:17):
You're gonna have to have to hire TikTok to design
you your curriculum. Then the Chinese just have a direct
pipeline into our elementary schools. That's just great. Well, happy
Friday everybody. Uh here's a word from our friends at
Omaha Steakes speaking and gifts. You know you're in a conundrum.
You's have somebody you care about, but they don't need stuff.
Give them the deliciousness of Omaha Steaks, especially right now
(27:41):
during the Sizzle all the Way sale last night, and
put the burgers out to thaw. So we're having Omaha
Steak burgers tonight. I know my son is very very
excited about that because we love the Omaha Steak burgers.
Steaks are great. The apple tartlets do I want to
do those? I think I'm gonna hold onto those a
little a little closer for Christmas because those are so good. Anyway,
you got to take advantage of this deal right now.
Our listeners getting extra thirty five dollars off with the
(28:03):
promo code Armstrong at checkout. How cool is that? And
the Sizzle All the Way sale, As I started to say,
you get fifty percent off site wide at Omaha Stakes.
Fifty percent off and that super bonus. Just use the
code armstrong at checkout you get to knock another thirty
five bucks off. Say big on gourmet gifts and more
holiday favorites with Omaha Steaks. Visit Omaha Stakes dot com
(28:23):
for fifty percent off site wide during their Sizzle All
the Way sale, and again an extra thirty five bucks
off with the promo code Armstrong at checkout. Terms apply
sea site for details Omaha Steaks dot com. The code
is armstrong. Am I wrong? I take in quite a
bit of media. I don't hear this conversation come up
really anywhere else. This whole nobody reads anymore. They need
(28:46):
a different way of teaching, et cetera, et cetera. I
don't really hear the conversation anywhere. No, I think the
American educational system and this is a great failing of
boomers and Gen X in particular. Whatever to millennials, whatever,
you people are a little younger than me. Actually, that'd
(29:06):
be most gen x. Our great failing is that we
saw education as a set it and forget it part
of society, because that's what it was when we were
growing up. There were some issues and tweaks that were needed,
you know, we could go into those, but it was
mostly a really solid institution that functioned at a high level.
Witnessed the fact that the American university system, and hilariously
(29:29):
in particular the University of California system, were the envies
of the world, and rightfully so. Now they're crap. Wow,
Joe dropped a sea bomb on our university. Damn right,
wake up and smell it. Smell the iguano just disappointing.
(29:50):
In our two, we're going to talk a little bit
about that pipe bomber that they caught and what the
deal is with him. There's not that much known. Surprisingly
little about the guys known to twenty four hours after
this story broke, but we do know something about the investigation.
Kind of interesting. We've got mail bag on the way.
I hope you can stay here. Totally crap. How have
(30:11):
I missed the attempted drone attack on Zelensky's plane in
Dublin the other day? There's so much going on in
the world that nobody can keep track of everything too much.
Stop it, stop creating news. Here's your freedom loving quote
of the day. This is so good from Hilaire Belleck,
paraphrasing Great George Orwell. A people that has forgotten its traditions,
(30:35):
its ancestors, and the sacrifices that brought its freedom is
a people already conquered. For the man without memory is
easily ruled, and the man without roots is easily led.
That's why they're trying to completely obliterate the history of
the country in schools. The postmodernists, the neo Marxists, they
(30:55):
know this. I know it's true. Well send then two
thumbs up to Ken Burns for reaching a lot of
America with pretty much the traditional story of our founding them.
Happy to hear that, Yeah, I would agree. Mailbag taught
us a note. Mailbag and Armstrong and Geddy dot Com. Joe,
you're not doing James Garfield quote today. You're saying to yourselves,
(31:16):
let's write because we've got a fascinating James Garfield fact
to kick off Mailbag. Garfield was ambidextrous and had the
rare ability to write in two languages simultaneously. What to
impress his guests at White House dinners, Garfield would often
write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other,
all while holding a casual conversation. That is some crazyss.
(31:41):
Most people can't write in their native language at all. Now, wow,
So he and Da Vinci are the only people I've
ever heard of that could do that. That's crazy. Yeah,
I know, it's it's absolute madness. Moving along, Kellen from
Rohnert Park, CA. Hey, A G and crew. Had a
conversation with my boys in the car the other day,
(32:01):
my eldest sophomore in high school, talking about interesting professions
like how actors are professional pretenders, politicians, professional talkers? Had
you guys playing on the podcast at the time. My
six creator added, yeah, and these guys are professional complainers.
I had laugh. You get a yuke too? Yeah, thanks
for your thoughtful and educational complaining for helping us all
age a little faster. I believe that to be sarcasm, Kellen.
(32:24):
If I complained for a living, I was born to
this job, no doubt about it. Well. Being a critic
of you know, the overreach and abuse and just threats
to the country I'm happy to accept that critic of
modern society sounds much better than professional coplain. Yeah. Anyway,
let's say this is from PJ. I hadn't heard this.
(32:46):
The Minnesota Vikings have changed their name. Here's the new
new logo. Can you see that? To the Somali pirates.
I hadn't heard that. That's funny. Uh, let's see oh
in our sarcastic email of the day from a forest. Hey, guys,
to follow the back and forth around the strikes on
the Venezuelan drug votes, what's who's allowed to do what?
(33:08):
And why is it what law or law enforcement or
war and the rest of it. I was getting confused,
But then I had an idea. I think it's brilliant.
But since Joe almost went to law school, I'd like
your take. What if there was some way the president
could request some sort of authorization for the use of
military force. This we'll call it an AUMF, could outline
which assets are involved, what the objectives are. Now, we
(33:29):
wouldn't want to just hand these out willy nilly, So
maybe you ought to have a group of like five
hundred and thirty five people who have to vote yes
or no, approving it or maybe do it in two votes,
one with a group of four hundred and thirty five
and the other with one hundred. I don't know. I
haven't worked out all the details yet, but I feel
like I'm onto something here anyway, ohing too to be
fair to Trump several presidents in a row, including Barack Obama,
(33:50):
I have done all kinds of things without going out
and getting what you just described, But in general I
agree on a completely different topic. Brian from Santa Rose rights,
I drive six hundred to one thousand miles a week.
The number of idiots on their phones is staggering. And
then he introduces this brilliant idea, required self driving vehicles
(34:12):
for people who proved themselves to be jackasses behind the wheel.
If you need to text and use social media, blah blah,
you're in a cell driving vehicle. Same with slow drivers
in the fast lane, people that cannot get up to
freeway speed when entering said freeway when I'm sure you
have plenty to add yourself. H muttering in the dark.
(34:36):
All right, thanks for the note. Ony has a great,
great Dwight Eisenhower quote. Will use that next week. Yes,
we were riding with an uber driver the other day
on vacation and he is getting onto the Interstate and
he's coming down the ramp and I'm thinking, are you
gonna go any faster than this before you get on
the Interstate? And we were going forty eight miles an
hour when he joined the eighty mile an hour traffic
(34:57):
on the Interstate. He's being safe, I know, And I
wanted to say him, you think you're being safe? Don't
you think you're the safest person out here? And then
back to the question of the double tap, excuse me,
JT And Livermore writes to me, there's a bigger scandal.
That's the scandal of the same old dem playbook, in
which a lefty paper starts terrible and probably false accusations
(35:18):
by another, single anonymous source. How many times can the
Dems hurt our country based on the lives of a
single unnamed source. How many times can a WAPPO or
other paper fail to get corroboration before running their garbage story.
Who are the Democrats serving if not themselves? As certainly
isn't the country they've sworn to protect and defend. I
think they had two sources for this allegedly, And you know,
(35:39):
you're right in your greater statement. I agree with But
as we've seen, people will watch the video this Heinz character,
for instance, the Senator and come out and say, it's
the most troubling thing I've ever seen in my life.
It's just terrible, terrible, And so it's you know, you
can it's either honestly difference in the eye of the beholder,
(36:01):
or it's so easy to pose as being disturbed and
horrified that well, Admiral Dude testified yesterday no, there was
never any kill them all order. So he just flat
out denies under oath that that ever happened, which was
part of the reporting from the Washington Post on Monday
that had everybody all stirred up. Right, it's over. You
(36:23):
think the controversy is over, I'm declaring it over. I
hope you're right. We got a lot more an hour two,
like the pipe bomber and other stuff. If you miss
a segment, gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Armstrong and Getty
Hosts And Creators
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Are You A Charlotte?
In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.