December 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Crappy health insurance, Jack's tree, Macaulay Culkin & doll babies
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Ukraine/Russia war & corruption
- Mailbag!
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And the music of that middle school band sums up
the attitude as you heading it into a brand new week.
You wish you had prepared more task it and aren't
you doing your best to hit the note that is,
whatever you're trying to accomplish. That almost got there live
from studio. See you dim leave and you're deep within
(00:42):
the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And
hey y'all today getting novel close to Christmas r under the.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Your crappy, frustrating health insurance. You're crappy, confusing, dissatisfying overlea
expreend of health insurance.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And why is that my general manager?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, the Republicans in Congress are struggling with the end
of the temporary Apparently we've forgotten what that word means
extra subsidies for Obama Care and are reckoning with the
fact that the Democrats are demagoguing issue and saying.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Everybody's health insurance is going to go up.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well again, if it was a temporary subsidy, yes, that
is the inevitable result. But they don't know what to
do about it. They don't have a plan of their own.
They don't have a reform that they can all agree on.
It's a mess. Look forward to that conversation over the
next couple of weeks or into January. That'll be a
good thing to come back to on January.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And that so fun are the rest of our miserable
lives before they sorted out? Got my tree up on Saturday,
Me and the boys we went and got our tree
at the boy Scout lot because my son is a
boy Scout, so we went to a different place this
year and we got our tree there and he's working
at the Boy Scout lot. A couple of shifts and
got it up, decorated, had some snacks while we did it,
(02:01):
watch had Home Alone on the television while we decorated.
Very face nice. I hadn't seen the original Home Alone
in quite some time. McCauley Culkin's talent among them, but
his biggest talent is his ability to scream and be funny.
He does it like nine times in that movie where
he opens his mouth really widened, screams, Yeah, that's his
(02:23):
real talent. It's it's hilarious when he does it. Charming
holiday movie about a child alone being terrorized by two
career criminals. When the van, Oh, when Joe Peshey almost
hits him with the van and he turns around in
the van's right in his face, and he opens up
his mouth and screams. I watched that like ten times
in a row. Just see why this is so funny.
The timing is just so good. It made me laugh
every single time. They're great mccaullay Culkin, McCauley, We tip
(02:47):
our caps to you. I didn't mention to my kids
that he was ended up being friends with Michael Jackson
because that might have sullied the whole.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You don't want to start thinking about that. That's not Chris,
I guess not. Who is the other guy, Joe Pesci's cohort.
He's another fine comedic actor, just not as well known
as the great.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was trying to think of his name the whole movie,
and I never checked. Gpt'd it. Katie is going to
right now. There's a lot of stars in that first
home alone movie. And John Candy of course is so
freaking funny, always vocal, big and Sheboygan huh no. Anyway,
got the tree up and it's so festive in the house.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Really really enjoy you? Who is it? Katie, Daniel Stern,
Daniel Stoe.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Of course, Daniel, we apologize, but so where we are
out spending money? Apparently lots of other people were the
the economic news in terms of the spending continues.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
To look good despite our attitudes.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday
getting to this conversation the cranky shopper or the cranky consumer.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was called how our attitude is My life sucks.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm going broke, I can't make my payments, but I'm
gonna spend the same amount I always.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do for some reason that seems to be our attitude. Hm.
And we'll see how that works out when the bills
come in January. Well, yeah, I guess you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Once you get to a certain level of spending on
gifts for what's probably a mostly static list of human beings,
I could see people feeling like, you know, if they
decline from that number, they're they're cheaping out and they
don't want to do that, but that's that's a dangerous,
you know, pattern to lock yourself into. Katie is with child,
(04:29):
much like Mary was. This time of year, are you buying?
Do you have gifts under the tree for the baby?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, okay, no, I do not. He's not here yet, gotcha.
Well that's right, I understand.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Check his schedule, check the calendar. Can't make it right
just Christmas. We do have a story later about people
that are into dolls for babies, women that kind of
take on these dolls and treat them like babies. Yeah,
for a like over the long term. Yeah, So we
have about that later and continues down that road of
(05:02):
people pushing pets around and strollers and having doll babies.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
If you, if you, if you push your stroller up
to me and show me your dollar doll baby. I
don't think I can stop from saying something sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
They're gonna put AI in those dollar babies soon, right.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh my god, the an otld goo goo ga gay.
With the help of h chat GPT God, I saw
some who put out a video over the weekend try
to convince you to kill yourself. One of your news
publications over the weekend had the latest girlfriend chat bot thingy.
Oh my god, it was disturbing how realistic it looked.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh my god. Now, yeah, you should start planning now for.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
A son, a friend, an uncle, whoever. Oh yeah, they
have a pook that you're gonna find out they've got
an AI chat girlfriend chatbot Hi friend and silicone girlfriend.
Of how you're going to speaking of you know, I'm
gonna say something sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Are you just gonna say it's nice to meet you, Linda,
She's lovely?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jim, you get to did you spring for the extended warranty?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
See?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I would say something like that, and then if there
it would be a rift?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Or do you just start right off with what are
you doing? You freaking whack a doodle? Yeah, but that's coming.
You are going to know someone who's got a whatever
you're gonna call it this one. I saw from which
news organization it might have been the BBC unbelievable and
the way it talks and then gets to know you
(06:40):
and remembers your conversations, the way chat GPT and everything does. Sure, sure, yeah,
how'd that game go last night?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Honey?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh yeah, you could come home and talk to you
in this particular one was ridiculous. It was like looked
like it was like twenty one years old and it's
wearing it cheerleader outfit or whatever, sitting on the couch,
because that's why your wife's supposed to dress.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And then where do you order those?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You come home and you're twenty one year old cheerleader
girlfriend wife person says, So what was Jim like at
work today?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Was he the same old, same old?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know, because they understand what's going on in your
life and you can have really connecting conversations like.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right, that's not at all disturbing. All right, here's the question.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What what euphemism will the industry and enthusiasts come up
for the artificial wife girlfriend? So the people you don't
normalize slash sell them, yeah exactly, yeah yeah. And the
users who don't want to just openly admit I'm I'm
an odd.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Duck, I'm a pathetic loser. Yeah. Well I wasn't gonna
go there, but I.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Did, ah sin synth lover.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
They won't use the term artificial.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No no, no, no, no no, but it will be
something like that will be euphemized in a way you're right,
that's coming soon, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, some sort of term.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this Monday. So we got today this
week and then till next Thursday, right till Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Because I haven't started shopping yet. That's why I'm saying this.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's Monday, December eighth of the year twenty twenty five,
wore Armstrong and getting we approve of this program Next
Thursday's the eighteenth, So we got this week next.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Week and then yes, okay, cool, I'm in great shape.
Then what about all worried about? What are you druid
the eighteenth? Honey? I get plenty of time. Did you
got seventeen days? I'm no prank you, Michael. Why am
I even worried about it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Besides, my synth bride will remind me that I'll volt
the shopping on you.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That would be kind of handy.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Hey, synth wife, I can't remember who do I still
have to shop for? You still have to shop for
your cousin Bill and your daughter Jenny, And she's got
the list in her head and can contact Amazon and
deal with all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
There'd be advantages. Remember Jenny wanted a new hutch her rabbit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, wow, I'm starting to warm to
the idea cheerleader outfit.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You say, all right, let's begin the show officially now.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
According to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
This holiday season.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
While some shoppers splurrege, others are digging for deals, experts
say they're seeing consumers going in two different directions what
they're calling a K shaped economy.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, I've heard that a bunch of times. K shaped.
Why what's the K? I don't quite get way. It's
K shaped?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You got your spine of the K. That's your straight
up line. Forget about that, it's the other two lines.
Oh ok, It's like a less than sign right in math. Right,
look at I'm making like an alligator mouth with my
hands for the rest of the crew.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And that means what it's going in two different directions.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The bottom sixty percent of consumers are spending less and
less and hunting for big bargains. The more affluent folks
are spending like lunatics, what some are calling a K
shaped economy. If I hear that one more time, I'm
going to vomit. Okay, fantastic. Somebody came up with a
new something or other to call the economy whoop de do.
(10:11):
We gotta wait till everything pans out to see how
this is.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
If people are.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Spending beyond their means, as is being suggested by some
news publications, there's gonna be a reckoning, come bill paying time.
I think these cable news peoples they all say the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's like they have a script.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's a good point. Computer wife here, pretty clever and observant.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's because I can take in all media simultaneously through
my electrodes. Don't mention your electrodes. It weirds me. Oh boy,
it gets in the way of the magic. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, uh So we got Katie's headlines on the way,
and we'll catch up on some of the news of
the day. Is the video gonna come out this week?
The double tap video? That's what a lot of people
are waiting for. There's still two very different views of
how that video looked. I'm kind of anxious myself to
see who's been misleading me about whether or not these
were combatants trying to reconfigure their ability to bring drugs
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in the country or they were too badly injured, people
clinging to a couple of pieces of balsa wood floating
in the ocean, signaling for help. Very different views of
the same key shaped analysis. Jack, Yeah, I would say
so anyway, lots on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
President Zelenski's gun with.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Cars starmer today in Great Britain among other people to
try to decide whether or not he wants to accept
this peace deal that's being pushed his way.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
We'll keep our eye on that story, see if any
news comes out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He is hurting for certain New York Times big article
over the weekend about corruption in Ukraine and haw Zelinsky's government.
It turned a blind eye and allowed it. God, that's
got to be tough. Assuming he's not corrupt himself, that's
got to be tough. You see some of your friends
like you're really you're stealing during a war.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, well it's it's as old as war. Anyway, more
on that to come. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's lead story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Katie all righty, let's start with the big story. The
boat strikes. Three headlines on this one, NBC admiral told
lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list
of military targets from PBS. US boat strike backlash continues
as Lawmaker's Way. In an NPR heg Seth says Defense
(12:36):
Department is reviewing.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Boat strike video for possible release.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So I watched some of the Sunday shows yesterday completely
different views or takeaways from people who have seen that video.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So when the video comes out, I think one side.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Or the other is going to have some serious explaining
to do as to why you interpreted it the way
you did. I mean, they're so far apart, it's hard
to imagine that it's one of those ror shock tests
where you can see it different ways.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's hard to imagine that that's the case.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Right, I wonder, I wonder if it'll be that clear
Katie indicating there that they're considering releasing it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Right, Trump said get everything out, but maybe the War
Department decides not to. Why would they hold it back?
They put out plenty of videos of yeah, boat's getting exploded.
I think that would be suspicious.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Is there a speculation that releasing the videos would show
some of our tactics and they're worried about putting that
on display?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Dropping a bomb on people's head. Is that I don't know.
I don't know. That was on one of the weekend shows.
Hmmm from ABC.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Zelenski calls for quote, collective pressure on Russia amid fresh strikes.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Guy's watching News Nation Today and they're analyst on there said,
Trump's not Trump or geez, what a terrible mistake. Putin
is not going to stop with Ukraine or where he is.
He wont if they agree to this chunk of land
that he says belongs to him, even though he has
won on the battlefield. He's going to go to Kiev
next chance he gets, and then he's got other countries
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in mind.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
That was their analysis on News Nation Today.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, he's absolutely going to insist on a Lackey government
for Ukraine like the one that was in place before,
one that is unquestionably Russia leaning and not West leaning.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
From the New York Post, mystery deepens as to why
it took the FBI nearly five years to finally bust
the suspected j six pipe bomber.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
His parents says, near autistic the kid. I don't know
what that means. I'm not shocked by that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
From the Wall Street Journal, China's trade surplus tops one
trillion dollars, underscoring its export dominance.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It was considered a big deal last year when they
announced in January that they'd hit a trillion dollars. This time,
they're a trillion point eight just through November.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
From People magazine. Woman attacked by geese at local park
suffers broken pelvis and internal bleeding.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Broken pelvis. How big were these geese?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well? I don't know, but she apparently was on the
ground and they like they wouldn't let her get up.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Wow. Yeah, she probably injured herself in the fall.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I don't think geese can break your pelvis, but yeah, yeah,
I've been amongst aggressive geese and they're they're terrifying birds.
And they're pretty large too, So if she was frail
or old or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
This one from study fines Americans have a new holiday
gift wish please pay my bills?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Mm oof. They did a poll. Cash was at the top.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Wow, that'd be an interesting thing to offer, particularly young people.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
How about I make a pay your electric bill first month?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Can people see that as a nice gift or kind
of condescending?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Trust me? They need it? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, And Finally, the Babylon Bee husband issues travel ban
on any trucks from Amazon.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Travel ban.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I found this funny because my dad says, it's not
a normal day if an Amazon truck doesn't show up
at the house.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Or five in the my cul de sac.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah yeah, and sometimes driving way too fast.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, what is the delio?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I know you got a lot of deliveries to make. Okay,
we'll get some more news coming up. If you missed
a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
A growing number of studies show that watching short form
videos can lead to mental cognition problems.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
So if you're watching this on tiktoko.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, how you doing? There is something wrong with Saturday
Night Live. I've been want since it first came on
the air in the mid seventies, and there's something broken there.
The bits aren't working most of the time. And you know,
I just like through years where people.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Said Saturday and Alive sucks. I hung with it. I
don't know if they changed all their writers or what,
but something is just off. It's Saturday Night Live. It's weird.
This year we mentioned this.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
President Zelensky is going to be in ten Downing Street
in London, that's where their government is based. Meeting with McCrone,
Starmer of Great Britain and Fred Mertz from Germany about
this whole peace plan thing. And Donald Trump yesterday is
very unhappy that Zelensky has not yet agreed to the
peace plan. Trump criticized President Zelensky, claiming the Ukrainian leader
(17:48):
had not read the latest version of the peace proposals.
He hasn't even read it yet, and that Putin is
on board.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, yeah, Putin's on board because it gives him everything
he wants.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's one of the reason Zelinsky's not on board for
all of Donald Jay's good qualities, he is so obsessed
with getting the win. Like some of the other peace
deals he's broken have fallen apart, because.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You know, they were good.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They stopped the fighting for a while, but just for
a little while, and he claimed the win that he
brought peace, and now they're back to killing the hell
out of each other. And this is the problem with
this deal is in the long term, it has no
significant guarantees for the safety of Ukraine. Well, it would
start with Russia having control over all of the eastern
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Ukrainian region known as the Donbass which they have not
gained on the ground in going on four years of war.
So give that to him. And then if they ever
unleash an attack again, which they would, man, they'd be
in Key by the afternoon, especially if there are no
guarantees like you just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So I mean, I don't know. I don't see how
Ukraine could possibly do agree to that deal. Yeah, I know,
it's awful.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's awful, and I think they are heading toward a
terrible result honestly, whether it is through the auspices of
Trump and some sort of peace plan or on the
battlefield going. Well, and let me throw this in before
we go on, just for our you know, it's not
our business. We don't need to be involved in that
land dispute, crowd. I think it makes it more likely
(19:24):
we end up in a nuclear war, not less if
Ukraine is forced to agree to this peace plan, because
then Putin is going to take Kiev, and then he's
on the border of a bunch of NATO nations, which
lots of people think he's going to try to take again,
and then we're facing you know, Article five of our
NATO agreement blah blah blah. I think ending the war
(19:50):
in Ukraine on Russia's terms makes it more likely we
get pulled into a European war.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Not less. Yeah, well, that's one of the great points
of disagreement.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I actually found a not a devil's advocate, they didn't
see it that way, but an argument that we, the
United States and the West, and particularly the Obama administration,
caused the chain of events that ended with the Russian
invasion of Ukraine by deposing the twenty fourteen government of what.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The hell was his name?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That's funny, It just flit it out of my head.
They had a very Russian leaning government that was seen
by the West as corrupt lackeys and slaves of Putin Well,
and it was utterly corrupt, right, and then there was
an uprising, a coup, if you will, revolution, in which
(20:44):
a much more Western facing regime was put in place.
And there are those that blame the West for promoting
that and threatening Russia's security and safety. Unleashing that chain
of events is a pretty interesting analysis. There's a lot
of the eye of the beholder, though. What Livchenko is
that his name Livchenko? Was he a lackey in a
(21:05):
stooge and corrupt and all or was he a sensible
man trying to balance the needs of uh oh Yanikovich.
That's right, I'm thinking of the wrong guy. But he
was lazily charactered, caricatured as a Russian puppet. But in
reality he was doing what any Ukrainian leader should be doing,
balancing Ukraine's existence as a buffer state between Western Europe
(21:27):
and Russia. But even if all that's true, even if
it's one hundred percent true, what difference does that make?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Now? Go ahead, write history books blaming or whoever.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, it matters because it suggests that Putin, having re
established an eastern leaning Ukraine and getting rid of the
neo khan obsessed with the West types, will we'll have
his security again and we'll be fine. This was all
about a threat to Russian security, which will definitely don't
believe that. Yeah, So, anyway, sung the other losses that
(22:02):
Ukraine has sustained lately, this is a big one. They've
lost the New York Times, Zelenski's government sabotaged oversight, allowing
corruption to fester. And they talk about how when Russia
invaded Ukraine and the Western Allies were willing to pony
up billions and billions of dollars. They knew that a
great challenge would be to fund the military without watching
(22:28):
the money vanish into the pockets of corrupt managers and
government officials. To protect their money, the US and European
nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups
of outside experts known as supervisory boards to monitor everything
and protect prevent corruption. Over the past four years, the
New York's Times investigation found the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged
(22:48):
that oversight, allowing graft to flourish. President Vladimir Zelensky's administration
has stacked boards with loyalists, left seats empty, or stalled
them from being set up at all. Well, Zelensky's right
hand man, I mean, his closest advisor, and he was
basically the second deaf and lead negotiator throughout most of this.
(23:11):
He resigned. Now he claims that he's not corrupt and
people are out to get him and they're all lying
about it. But he resigned, and Zelenski no longer has
him on his side. He's the guy right next to
him in that video from the very beginning of the war.
Remember they're in the dark alley. Basically putting out a
video saying We're still here, we ain't going nowhere. He's
the guy right next to Zelensky in prison. Zelensky has
(23:35):
lost that dude in his efforts now Emotionally, that's got
to be just brutal, no matter what's happening in terms
of the corruption.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, and the question is and always has been, is
the corruption at a level, as I've made the point
many times, in a former Soviet republic, you're gonna have
a lot of corruption, you just are. That was the
only way to get things done for a very long time,
and it's culturally accepted. Is it at a level that
you're unhappy about, you're trying to limit but you can tolerate.
(24:07):
Or has it just gotten to a point where you
just can't justify the expenditure anymore. I don't know the
fact that The New York Times went big with this story.
It was like top of the fold of the website
for a while anyway, and is long and complete and scathing.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It's not a good sign. No, But you're still in
the same situation.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So even if Ukraine is incredibly corrupt, it's not good
for the United States and Europe. If Putin takes Ukraine
with his eyes on other countries, so I don't know
what we do.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
At that point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, it reminds me in some ways of the South
Vietnamese regime during the Vietnam War period, where they were
utterly corrupt and lacking popular support in a lot of
ways too, And there's just they couldn't stand without gigantic
Western support. And I'm worth pointing out for people on
the other side of my argument, the dominoes did not begin.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
To fall after that. That's where it's right, right.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Communism did not spread all across countries as we abandoned that.
Now it's just spread to the college campuses. Anyway, I
thought this was interesting, speaking of the old gray lady.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Have you followed it all?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The Trump administration national security strategy that they put out.
It's a fairly readable, not very long document. I can't
remember how many pages it is, forty eight or something
like that. But one of the things that it says
came out Friday that Europe was facing the stark prospect
of civilizational erasure and pledged that the US would support
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like minded patriotic parties across the continent to prevent a
future in which quote certain NATO members will become majority
non European. The starkest and highest level statement ever that hey,
letting in rampant immigration from Africa the Middle East is
fundamentally changing who you are and you soon will be
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unrecognizable and unworthy as ally.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
A lot of which is true now.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Donald Tusk, the guy who runs Poland, put out a
statement over the weekend basically saying, note to Trump, we're
your number one ally in Europe.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
We're not a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
But it could be both, right, it could be an
ally and a problem. Well yeah, in all the future,
very very very different country than France, for instance, in
policies and the rest of it. You know, we received
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do you think.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That if Putin's given everything he wanted in this piece deal,
he stops where he is. He lost so many men,
it cost him so much money.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He's done. Or do you think he waits six months
to a year, reinvades Ukraine, takes Kiev.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It kind of depends how Ukrainian politics go. If they
become a vassal state of Russia, he's probably good good
with that. I mean, he'll have effective control as they
continue to be West leaning and armed by the Europeans.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And the Americans. Yeah, he takes Kiev in a couple of.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Years, So then would your wish be that he gets
to install some sort of friendly government and calls it
good and we never think about it again. I don't know,
I really don't. You have to have an answer, I do.
It is a very tough nut to crack. It's a
very difficult situation. How about he's got his state, he
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doesn't need to go any farther into Kiev because he's
basically in Kiev. Does he go to a stony Air
or whatever those other little countries around there that nobody
has ever heard of?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I certainly hope not. Yeah, I hope not either. Yeah.
I'm one of.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The intelligence services that if you really want a conclusion.
I'll give you one, but it's with that low level
of certainty.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's a guess.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Or does Trump think maybe it happens, but I won't
be president when it happens. Or does that fat old
commy bastard finally have a heart attack? Putin then next?
What's next? He's getting a little roundish. Yeah, it's all
that Kev's all that caviar and borsch. Like I always say,
when I standing at the hotel in Moscow, I think
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I get up in the morning. The breakfast buffet at
this hotel had like twenty different kinds of cavia, of.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Which I ate none. Do people like it that much
in Russia? Been spend a lot of time in Russia?
Have you?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Harvey Armstrong? Demand an investigation. We got email on the
way more news of the day.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I hope you can stick around. The color of the
year has been announced, and people on the internet are angry.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I have no idea what either one of those sentences mean.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Also, I'm thinking about putting Christmas bells on my scale,
so when I step on and that thing smacks up
to the top because I'm heavier than the day before,
and it goes jingle, jingle, jingle, Maybe put me in
a better mood.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Wow, Wow, I like it. Boy. That couple of sentences
you unleashed on us.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I picture a man of say the forties or fifties,
a woman of the sixties hearing that sentence. They might think,
I don't know what that second thing is, but I'm
gonna punch you just to be safe.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You seem like you need to be punched. Here's your freedom.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Loving quote of the day from the Great Dwight D. Eisenhower,
sent along by Brian. People that values its privileges above
its principles soon loses both.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Too late, Ike, Too late mailbag.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
This is from unofficial show historian Mike in San Francisco
on the anniversary of the day that we'll live in
infamy yesterday, the attack on Pearl Harbor. Really moving note
about his dad and his dad's service in the Navy,
and he mentions that his dad was actually stationed in Alameda,
(31:30):
California on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor
and more of more than half of his boot camp
class died on battleships more to.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
At Pearl Harbor that day. Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, amazing, very very very few Pearl Harbor survivors left.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Obviously, they're all over one hundred years old. Let's see.
Moving along. Jay in La.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
On the UK experimenting on children these days, Michael let
music sounds louder than north Is that.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Just my headphones? I feel like I'm having to shout
over it. I just been playing the normal way.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, you know, I hear cocaine is back in? Is
the band the show band here in the studio? Are
they coked up? Play an extra loud or drunk?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
All right? Moving along?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
So the UK is now reinstituted under the Labor Party,
some of the cruel experiments on children who are momentarily
confused about their gender, and Jay sends this along with
the UK unbelievably contemplating hormone experiments on hundreds of children.
I wish someone would point out to them that East
Germany ran these experiments for decades and the outcomes are
known and from I believe it's Wikipedia. While doping brought
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East Germany impressive results in sporting events, it was often
devastating to the health of the athletes involved. Sure, gender
bending hormones. Yeah, it's terrible, terrible for you. Let's see,
I Henry writes, I'm watching Sunday news shows waiting for
the left to protest Trump dumping tons of a cocaine
into the ocean in those drug boat at teens. Yeah,
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you got a bunch of coked up whales swimming around
the ocean. I think the ocean is big enough to
take a little cocaine dissolving in it. Alloh, I don't
know if I'm you know, some sort of sea creature
and all of this sudden I'm a washing in the coca?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Oof? How about Greg from Detroit? Uh, Guys, consider this.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Young women aren't interested in having sex with men nor
marrying men, and are flocking to social justice causes like
feeding the hungry, housing the board, advocating for Palestinian statehood,
and stopping climate change. Perhaps we should simply view them
and refer to them as postmodern nuns. Obviously, they aren't
Christian nuns, but they've clearly have the same sort of calling,
with all the trappings of sisterhood, a rejection of high
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paying careers and a wardrobe of highwaisted jeans and doc martins.
Are the modern liberal arts universities really any different from
a traditional convent in terms of indoctrination.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I read something the other day about how, you know,
millions and millions of young women not having kids. You
got to turn that biological need to nurture and take
care of towards something, and if it gets pointed toward
climate change or trends or whatever, you have a lot
of energy for it, because you're designed to have a
lot of energy for some sort of nurturing protection thing.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Have some more news on the Omnikaus coming up. It's
pretty amusing. I love this, Anya says, listen to your
discussion of cheap Chinese crap. It reminded me of something
my mother always told me growing up. Quote, we are
too poor to buy cheap things.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Ah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Actually, we grew up in Ukraine, so Soviet poor. I
didn't really get what she meant until later. You only
have so many resources and mind, something cheap and of
horrible quality will cripple you. Better off saving your money
for something that will last. That is your Ukrainian listener
for over ten years.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
We're too poor to go out and buy cheap, crappy
tools that are going to be worthless.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Let's wait until we can afford good ones, for instance.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, and then finally alien Anonymous with a story about
a great family that gave their twelve year old son
a smartphone. Soon addicted to pornography, running with a bad crowd,
they ended up being sent away to a teen rehab camp.
And then she makes the point I find it ironic
that parents can be so hyper vigilant about their children,
not letting them be free range. They hover over their
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every move until they get these devices. Then they basically
become absentee parents at the worst possible moment, let the
Internet raise their child. That factors in a little bit
to that second story on sixty minutes last night about
that poor girl who killed herself talking to chatbots.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oh, talk about that later, right right.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
The trend in hovering helicopter snowplow parenting coinciding with just
turning your kids loose with the smartphone's crazy. Yeah, it
really is. I thought that as I was watching sixty
minutes last night. We'll talk about that later and a
whole bunch of other stuff. I hope you can stick
around
Speaker 3 (35:50):
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And the music of that middle school band sums up
the attitude as you heading it into a brand new week.
You wish you had prepared more task it and aren't
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Tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Your crappy, frustrating health insurance. You're crappy, confusing, dissatisfying overlea
expreend of health insurance.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And why is that my general manager?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, the Republicans in Congress are struggling with the end
of the temporary Apparently we've forgotten what that word means
extra subsidies for Obama Care and are reckoning with the
fact that the Democrats are demagoguing issue and saying.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Everybody's health insurance is going to go up.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well again, if it was a temporary subsidy, yes, that
is the inevitable result. But they don't know what to
do about it. They don't have a plan of their own.
They don't have a reform that they can all agree on.
It's a mess. Look forward to that conversation over the
next couple of weeks or into January. That'll be a
good thing to come back to on January.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And that so fun are the rest of our miserable
lives before they sorted out? Got my tree up on Saturday,
Me and the boys we went and got our tree
at the boy Scout lot because my son is a
boy Scout, so we went to a different place this
year and we got our tree there and he's working
at the Boy Scout lot. A couple of shifts and
got it up, decorated, had some snacks while we did it,
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watch had Home Alone on the television while we decorated.
Very face nice. I hadn't seen the original Home Alone
in quite some time. McCauley Culkin's talent among them, but
his biggest talent is his ability to scream and be funny.
He does it like nine times in that movie where
he opens his mouth really widened, screams, Yeah, that's his
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real talent. It's it's hilarious when he does it. Charming
holiday movie about a child alone being terrorized by two
career criminals. When the van, Oh, when Joe Peshey almost
hits him with the van and he turns around in
the van's right in his face, and he opens up
his mouth and screams. I watched that like ten times
in a row. Just see why this is so funny.
The timing is just so good. It made me laugh
every single time. They're great mccaullay Culkin, McCauley, We tip
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our caps to you. I didn't mention to my kids
that he was ended up being friends with Michael Jackson
because that might have sullied the whole.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You don't want to start thinking about that. That's not Chris,
I guess not. Who is the other guy, Joe Pesci's cohort.
He's another fine comedic actor, just not as well known
as the great.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was trying to think of his name the whole movie,
and I never checked. Gpt'd it. Katie is going to
right now. There's a lot of stars in that first
home alone movie. And John Candy of course is so
freaking funny, always vocal, big and Sheboygan huh no. Anyway,
got the tree up and it's so festive in the house.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Really really enjoy you? Who is it? Katie, Daniel Stern,
Daniel Stoe.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Of course, Daniel, we apologize, but so where we are
out spending money? Apparently lots of other people were the
the economic news in terms of the spending continues.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
To look good despite our attitudes.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday
getting to this conversation the cranky shopper or the cranky consumer.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was called how our attitude is My life sucks.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm going broke, I can't make my payments, but I'm
gonna spend the same amount I always.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do for some reason that seems to be our attitude. Hm.
And we'll see how that works out when the bills
come in January. Well, yeah, I guess you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Once you get to a certain level of spending on
gifts for what's probably a mostly static list of human beings,
I could see people feeling like, you know, if they
decline from that number, they're they're cheaping out and they
don't want to do that, but that's that's a dangerous,
you know, pattern to lock yourself into. Katie is with child,
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much like Mary was. This time of year, are you buying?
Do you have gifts under the tree for the baby?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, okay, no, I do not. He's not here yet, gotcha.
Well that's right, I understand.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Check his schedule, check the calendar. Can't make it right
just Christmas. We do have a story later about people
that are into dolls for babies, women that kind of
take on these dolls and treat them like babies. Yeah,
for a like over the long term. Yeah, So we
have about that later and continues down that road of
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people pushing pets around and strollers and having doll babies.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
If you, if you, if you push your stroller up
to me and show me your dollar doll baby. I
don't think I can stop from saying something sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
They're gonna put AI in those dollar babies soon, right.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh my god, the an otld goo goo ga gay.
With the help of h chat GPT God, I saw
some who put out a video over the weekend try
to convince you to kill yourself. One of your news
publications over the weekend had the latest girlfriend chat bot thingy.
Oh my god, it was disturbing how realistic it looked.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh my god. Now, yeah, you should start planning now for.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
A son, a friend, an uncle, whoever. Oh yeah, they
have a pook that you're gonna find out they've got
an AI chat girlfriend chatbot Hi friend and silicone girlfriend.
Of how you're going to speaking of you know, I'm
gonna say something sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Are you just gonna say it's nice to meet you, Linda,
She's lovely?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jim, you get to did you spring for the extended warranty?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
See?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I would say something like that, and then if there
it would be a rift?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Or do you just start right off with what are
you doing? You freaking whack a doodle? Yeah, but that's coming.
You are going to know someone who's got a whatever
you're gonna call it this one. I saw from which
news organization it might have been the BBC unbelievable and
the way it talks and then gets to know you
(06:40):
and remembers your conversations, the way chat GPT and everything does. Sure, sure, yeah,
how'd that game go last night?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Honey?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh yeah, you could come home and talk to you
in this particular one was ridiculous. It was like looked
like it was like twenty one years old and it's
wearing it cheerleader outfit or whatever, sitting on the couch,
because that's why your wife's supposed to dress.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And then where do you order those?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You come home and you're twenty one year old cheerleader
girlfriend wife person says, So what was Jim like at
work today?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Was he the same old, same old?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know, because they understand what's going on in your
life and you can have really connecting conversations like.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right, that's not at all disturbing. All right, here's the question.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What what euphemism will the industry and enthusiasts come up
for the artificial wife girlfriend? So the people you don't
normalize slash sell them, yeah exactly, yeah yeah. And the
users who don't want to just openly admit I'm I'm
an odd.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Duck, I'm a pathetic loser. Yeah. Well I wasn't gonna
go there, but I.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Did, ah sin synth lover.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
They won't use the term artificial.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No no, no, no, no no, but it will be
something like that will be euphemized in a way you're right,
that's coming soon, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, some sort of term.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this Monday. So we got today this
week and then till next Thursday, right till Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Because I haven't started shopping yet. That's why I'm saying this.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's Monday, December eighth of the year twenty twenty five,
wore Armstrong and getting we approve of this program Next
Thursday's the eighteenth, So we got this week next.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Week and then yes, okay, cool, I'm in great shape.
Then what about all worried about? What are you druid
the eighteenth? Honey? I get plenty of time. Did you
got seventeen days? I'm no prank you, Michael. Why am
I even worried about it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Besides, my synth bride will remind me that I'll volt
the shopping on you.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That would be kind of handy.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Hey, synth wife, I can't remember who do I still
have to shop for? You still have to shop for
your cousin Bill and your daughter Jenny, And she's got
the list in her head and can contact Amazon and
deal with all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
There'd be advantages. Remember Jenny wanted a new hutch her rabbit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, wow, I'm starting to warm to
the idea cheerleader outfit.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You say, all right, let's begin the show officially now.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
According to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
This holiday season.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
While some shoppers splurrege, others are digging for deals, experts
say they're seeing consumers going in two different directions what
they're calling a K shaped economy.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, I've heard that a bunch of times. K shaped.
Why what's the K? I don't quite get way. It's
K shaped?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You got your spine of the K. That's your straight
up line. Forget about that, it's the other two lines.
Oh ok, It's like a less than sign right in math. Right,
look at I'm making like an alligator mouth with my
hands for the rest of the crew.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And that means what it's going in two different directions.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The bottom sixty percent of consumers are spending less and
less and hunting for big bargains. The more affluent folks
are spending like lunatics, what some are calling a K
shaped economy. If I hear that one more time, I'm
going to vomit. Okay, fantastic. Somebody came up with a
new something or other to call the economy whoop de do.
(10:11):
We gotta wait till everything pans out to see how
this is.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
If people are.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Spending beyond their means, as is being suggested by some
news publications, there's gonna be a reckoning, come bill paying time.
I think these cable news peoples they all say the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's like they have a script.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's a good point. Computer wife here, pretty clever and observant.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's because I can take in all media simultaneously through
my electrodes. Don't mention your electrodes. It weirds me. Oh boy,
it gets in the way of the magic. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, uh So we got Katie's headlines on the way,
and we'll catch up on some of the news of
the day. Is the video gonna come out this week?
The double tap video? That's what a lot of people
are waiting for. There's still two very different views of
how that video looked. I'm kind of anxious myself to
see who's been misleading me about whether or not these
were combatants trying to reconfigure their ability to bring drugs
(11:08):
in the country or they were too badly injured, people
clinging to a couple of pieces of balsa wood floating
in the ocean, signaling for help. Very different views of
the same key shaped analysis. Jack, Yeah, I would say
so anyway, lots on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
President Zelenski's gun with.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Cars starmer today in Great Britain among other people to
try to decide whether or not he wants to accept
this peace deal that's being pushed his way.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
We'll keep our eye on that story, see if any
news comes out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He is hurting for certain New York Times big article
over the weekend about corruption in Ukraine and haw Zelinsky's government.
It turned a blind eye and allowed it. God, that's
got to be tough. Assuming he's not corrupt himself, that's
got to be tough. You see some of your friends
like you're really you're stealing during a war.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, well it's it's as old as war. Anyway, more
on that to come. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's lead story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Katie all righty, let's start with the big story. The
boat strikes. Three headlines on this one, NBC admiral told
lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list
of military targets from PBS. US boat strike backlash continues
as Lawmaker's Way. In an NPR heg Seth says Defense
(12:36):
Department is reviewing.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Boat strike video for possible release.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So I watched some of the Sunday shows yesterday completely
different views or takeaways from people who have seen that video.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So when the video comes out, I think one side.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Or the other is going to have some serious explaining
to do as to why you interpreted it the way
you did. I mean, they're so far apart, it's hard
to imagine that it's one of those ror shock tests
where you can see it different ways.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's hard to imagine that that's the case.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Right, I wonder, I wonder if it'll be that clear
Katie indicating there that they're considering releasing it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Right, Trump said get everything out, but maybe the War
Department decides not to. Why would they hold it back?
They put out plenty of videos of yeah, boat's getting exploded.
I think that would be suspicious.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Is there a speculation that releasing the videos would show
some of our tactics and they're worried about putting that
on display?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Dropping a bomb on people's head. Is that I don't know.
I don't know. That was on one of the weekend shows.
Hmmm from ABC.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Zelenski calls for quote, collective pressure on Russia amid fresh strikes.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Guy's watching News Nation Today and they're analyst on there said,
Trump's not Trump or geez, what a terrible mistake. Putin
is not going to stop with Ukraine or where he is.
He wont if they agree to this chunk of land
that he says belongs to him, even though he has
won on the battlefield. He's going to go to Kiev
next chance he gets, and then he's got other countries
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in mind.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
That was their analysis on News Nation Today.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, he's absolutely going to insist on a Lackey government
for Ukraine like the one that was in place before,
one that is unquestionably Russia leaning and not West leaning.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
From the New York Post, mystery deepens as to why
it took the FBI nearly five years to finally bust
the suspected j six pipe bomber.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
His parents says, near autistic the kid. I don't know
what that means. I'm not shocked by that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
From the Wall Street Journal, China's trade surplus tops one
trillion dollars, underscoring its export dominance.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It was considered a big deal last year when they
announced in January that they'd hit a trillion dollars. This time,
they're a trillion point eight just through November.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
From People magazine. Woman attacked by geese at local park
suffers broken pelvis and internal bleeding.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Broken pelvis. How big were these geese?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well? I don't know, but she apparently was on the
ground and they like they wouldn't let her get up.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Wow. Yeah, she probably injured herself in the fall.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I don't think geese can break your pelvis, but yeah, yeah,
I've been amongst aggressive geese and they're they're terrifying birds.
And they're pretty large too, So if she was frail
or old or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
This one from study fines Americans have a new holiday
gift wish please pay my bills?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Mm oof. They did a poll. Cash was at the top.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Wow, that'd be an interesting thing to offer, particularly young people.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
How about I make a pay your electric bill first month?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Can people see that as a nice gift or kind
of condescending?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Trust me? They need it? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, And Finally, the Babylon Bee husband issues travel ban
on any trucks from Amazon.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Travel ban.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I found this funny because my dad says, it's not
a normal day if an Amazon truck doesn't show up
at the house.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Or five in the my cul de sac.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah yeah, and sometimes driving way too fast.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, what is the delio?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I know you got a lot of deliveries to make. Okay,
we'll get some more news coming up. If you missed
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
A growing number of studies show that watching short form
videos can lead to mental cognition problems.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
So if you're watching this on tiktoko.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, how you doing? There is something wrong with Saturday
Night Live. I've been want since it first came on
the air in the mid seventies, and there's something broken there.
The bits aren't working most of the time. And you know,
I just like through years where people.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Said Saturday and Alive sucks. I hung with it. I
don't know if they changed all their writers or what,
but something is just off. It's Saturday Night Live. It's weird.
This year we mentioned this.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
President Zelensky is going to be in ten Downing Street
in London, that's where their government is based. Meeting with McCrone,
Starmer of Great Britain and Fred Mertz from Germany about
this whole peace plan thing. And Donald Trump yesterday is
very unhappy that Zelensky has not yet agreed to the
peace plan. Trump criticized President Zelensky, claiming the Ukrainian leader
(17:48):
had not read the latest version of the peace proposals.
He hasn't even read it yet, and that Putin is
on board.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, yeah, Putin's on board because it gives him everything
he wants.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's one of the reason Zelinsky's not on board for
all of Donald Jay's good qualities, he is so obsessed
with getting the win. Like some of the other peace
deals he's broken have fallen apart, because.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You know, they were good.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They stopped the fighting for a while, but just for
a little while, and he claimed the win that he
brought peace, and now they're back to killing the hell
out of each other. And this is the problem with
this deal is in the long term, it has no
significant guarantees for the safety of Ukraine. Well, it would
start with Russia having control over all of the eastern
(18:34):
Ukrainian region known as the Donbass which they have not
gained on the ground in going on four years of war.
So give that to him. And then if they ever
unleash an attack again, which they would, man, they'd be
in Key by the afternoon, especially if there are no
guarantees like you just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So I mean, I don't know. I don't see how
Ukraine could possibly do agree to that deal. Yeah, I know,
it's awful.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's awful, and I think they are heading toward a
terrible result honestly, whether it is through the auspices of
Trump and some sort of peace plan or on the
battlefield going. Well, and let me throw this in before
we go on, just for our you know, it's not
our business. We don't need to be involved in that
land dispute, crowd. I think it makes it more likely
(19:24):
we end up in a nuclear war, not less if
Ukraine is forced to agree to this peace plan, because
then Putin is going to take Kiev, and then he's
on the border of a bunch of NATO nations, which
lots of people think he's going to try to take again,
and then we're facing you know, Article five of our
NATO agreement blah blah blah. I think ending the war
(19:50):
in Ukraine on Russia's terms makes it more likely we
get pulled into a European war.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Not less. Yeah, well, that's one of the great points
of disagreement.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I actually found a not a devil's advocate, they didn't
see it that way, but an argument that we, the
United States and the West, and particularly the Obama administration,
caused the chain of events that ended with the Russian
invasion of Ukraine by deposing the twenty fourteen government of what.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The hell was his name?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That's funny, It just flit it out of my head.
They had a very Russian leaning government that was seen
by the West as corrupt lackeys and slaves of Putin Well,
and it was utterly corrupt, right, and then there was
an uprising, a coup, if you will, revolution, in which
(20:44):
a much more Western facing regime was put in place.
And there are those that blame the West for promoting
that and threatening Russia's security and safety. Unleashing that chain
of events is a pretty interesting analysis. There's a lot
of the eye of the beholder, though. What Livchenko is
that his name Livchenko? Was he a lackey in a
(21:05):
stooge and corrupt and all or was he a sensible
man trying to balance the needs of uh oh Yanikovich.
That's right, I'm thinking of the wrong guy. But he
was lazily charactered, caricatured as a Russian puppet. But in
reality he was doing what any Ukrainian leader should be doing,
balancing Ukraine's existence as a buffer state between Western Europe
(21:27):
and Russia. But even if all that's true, even if
it's one hundred percent true, what difference does that make?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Now? Go ahead, write history books blaming or whoever.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, it matters because it suggests that Putin, having re
established an eastern leaning Ukraine and getting rid of the
neo khan obsessed with the West types, will we'll have
his security again and we'll be fine. This was all
about a threat to Russian security, which will definitely don't
believe that. Yeah, So, anyway, sung the other losses that
(22:02):
Ukraine has sustained lately, this is a big one. They've
lost the New York Times, Zelenski's government sabotaged oversight, allowing
corruption to fester. And they talk about how when Russia
invaded Ukraine and the Western Allies were willing to pony
up billions and billions of dollars. They knew that a
great challenge would be to fund the military without watching
(22:28):
the money vanish into the pockets of corrupt managers and
government officials. To protect their money, the US and European
nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups
of outside experts known as supervisory boards to monitor everything
and protect prevent corruption. Over the past four years, the
New York's Times investigation found the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged
(22:48):
that oversight, allowing graft to flourish. President Vladimir Zelensky's administration
has stacked boards with loyalists, left seats empty, or stalled
them from being set up at all. Well, Zelensky's right
hand man, I mean, his closest advisor, and he was
basically the second deaf and lead negotiator throughout most of this.
(23:11):
He resigned. Now he claims that he's not corrupt and
people are out to get him and they're all lying
about it. But he resigned, and Zelenski no longer has
him on his side. He's the guy right next to
him in that video from the very beginning of the war.
Remember they're in the dark alley. Basically putting out a
video saying We're still here, we ain't going nowhere. He's
the guy right next to Zelensky in prison. Zelensky has
(23:35):
lost that dude in his efforts now Emotionally, that's got
to be just brutal, no matter what's happening in terms
of the corruption.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, and the question is and always has been, is
the corruption at a level, as I've made the point
many times, in a former Soviet republic, you're gonna have
a lot of corruption, you just are. That was the
only way to get things done for a very long time,
and it's culturally accepted. Is it at a level that
you're unhappy about, you're trying to limit but you can tolerate.
(24:07):
Or has it just gotten to a point where you
just can't justify the expenditure anymore. I don't know the
fact that The New York Times went big with this story.
It was like top of the fold of the website
for a while anyway, and is long and complete and scathing.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It's not a good sign. No, But you're still in
the same situation.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So even if Ukraine is incredibly corrupt, it's not good
for the United States and Europe. If Putin takes Ukraine
with his eyes on other countries, so I don't know
what we do.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
At that point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, it reminds me in some ways of the South
Vietnamese regime during the Vietnam War period, where they were
utterly corrupt and lacking popular support in a lot of
ways too, And there's just they couldn't stand without gigantic
Western support. And I'm worth pointing out for people on
the other side of my argument, the dominoes did not begin.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
To fall after that. That's where it's right, right.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Communism did not spread all across countries as we abandoned that.
Now it's just spread to the college campuses. Anyway, I
thought this was interesting, speaking of the old gray lady.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Have you followed it all?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The Trump administration national security strategy that they put out.
It's a fairly readable, not very long document. I can't
remember how many pages it is, forty eight or something
like that. But one of the things that it says
came out Friday that Europe was facing the stark prospect
of civilizational erasure and pledged that the US would support
(25:37):
like minded patriotic parties across the continent to prevent a
future in which quote certain NATO members will become majority
non European. The starkest and highest level statement ever that hey,
letting in rampant immigration from Africa the Middle East is
fundamentally changing who you are and you soon will be
(25:57):
unrecognizable and unworthy as ally.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
A lot of which is true now.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Donald Tusk, the guy who runs Poland, put out a
statement over the weekend basically saying, note to Trump, we're
your number one ally in Europe.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
We're not a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
But it could be both, right, it could be an
ally and a problem. Well yeah, in all the future,
very very very different country than France, for instance, in
policies and the rest of it. You know, we received
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do you think.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That if Putin's given everything he wanted in this piece deal,
he stops where he is. He lost so many men,
it cost him so much money.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He's done. Or do you think he waits six months
to a year, reinvades Ukraine, takes Kiev.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It kind of depends how Ukrainian politics go. If they
become a vassal state of Russia, he's probably good good
with that. I mean, he'll have effective control as they
continue to be West leaning and armed by the Europeans.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And the Americans. Yeah, he takes Kiev in a couple of.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Years, So then would your wish be that he gets
to install some sort of friendly government and calls it
good and we never think about it again. I don't know,
I really don't. You have to have an answer, I do.
It is a very tough nut to crack. It's a
very difficult situation. How about he's got his state, he
(29:00):
doesn't need to go any farther into Kiev because he's
basically in Kiev. Does he go to a stony Air
or whatever those other little countries around there that nobody
has ever heard of?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I certainly hope not. Yeah, I hope not either. Yeah.
I'm one of.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The intelligence services that if you really want a conclusion.
I'll give you one, but it's with that low level
of certainty.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's a guess.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Or does Trump think maybe it happens, but I won't
be president when it happens. Or does that fat old
commy bastard finally have a heart attack? Putin then next?
What's next? He's getting a little roundish. Yeah, it's all
that Kev's all that caviar and borsch. Like I always say,
when I standing at the hotel in Moscow, I think
(29:45):
I get up in the morning. The breakfast buffet at
this hotel had like twenty different kinds of cavia, of.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Which I ate none. Do people like it that much
in Russia? Been spend a lot of time in Russia?
Have you?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Harvey Armstrong? Demand an investigation. We got email on the
way more news of the day.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I hope you can stick around. The color of the
year has been announced, and people on the internet are angry.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I have no idea what either one of those sentences mean.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Also, I'm thinking about putting Christmas bells on my scale,
so when I step on and that thing smacks up
to the top because I'm heavier than the day before,
and it goes jingle, jingle, jingle, Maybe put me in
a better mood.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Wow, Wow, I like it. Boy. That couple of sentences
you unleashed on us.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I picture a man of say the forties or fifties,
a woman of the sixties hearing that sentence. They might think,
I don't know what that second thing is, but I'm
gonna punch you just to be safe.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You seem like you need to be punched. Here's your freedom.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Loving quote of the day from the Great Dwight D. Eisenhower,
sent along by Brian. People that values its privileges above
its principles soon loses both.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Too late, Ike, Too late mailbag.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
This is from unofficial show historian Mike in San Francisco
on the anniversary of the day that we'll live in
infamy yesterday, the attack on Pearl Harbor. Really moving note
about his dad and his dad's service in the Navy,
and he mentions that his dad was actually stationed in Alameda,
(31:30):
California on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor
and more of more than half of his boot camp
class died on battleships more to.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
At Pearl Harbor that day. Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, amazing, very very very few Pearl Harbor survivors left.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Obviously, they're all over one hundred years old. Let's see.
Moving along. Jay in La.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
On the UK experimenting on children these days, Michael let
music sounds louder than north Is that.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Just my headphones? I feel like I'm having to shout
over it. I just been playing the normal way.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, you know, I hear cocaine is back in? Is
the band the show band here in the studio? Are
they coked up? Play an extra loud or drunk?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
All right? Moving along?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
So the UK is now reinstituted under the Labor Party,
some of the cruel experiments on children who are momentarily
confused about their gender, and Jay sends this along with
the UK unbelievably contemplating hormone experiments on hundreds of children.
I wish someone would point out to them that East
Germany ran these experiments for decades and the outcomes are
known and from I believe it's Wikipedia. While doping brought
(32:39):
East Germany impressive results in sporting events, it was often
devastating to the health of the athletes involved. Sure, gender
bending hormones. Yeah, it's terrible, terrible for you. Let's see,
I Henry writes, I'm watching Sunday news shows waiting for
the left to protest Trump dumping tons of a cocaine
into the ocean in those drug boat at teens. Yeah,
(33:01):
you got a bunch of coked up whales swimming around
the ocean. I think the ocean is big enough to
take a little cocaine dissolving in it. Alloh, I don't
know if I'm you know, some sort of sea creature
and all of this sudden I'm a washing in the coca?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Oof? How about Greg from Detroit? Uh, Guys, consider this.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Young women aren't interested in having sex with men nor
marrying men, and are flocking to social justice causes like
feeding the hungry, housing the board, advocating for Palestinian statehood,
and stopping climate change. Perhaps we should simply view them
and refer to them as postmodern nuns. Obviously, they aren't
Christian nuns, but they've clearly have the same sort of calling,
with all the trappings of sisterhood, a rejection of high
(33:42):
paying careers and a wardrobe of highwaisted jeans and doc martins.
Are the modern liberal arts universities really any different from
a traditional convent in terms of indoctrination.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I read something the other day about how, you know,
millions and millions of young women not having kids. You
got to turn that biological need to nurture and take
care of towards something, and if it gets pointed toward
climate change or trends or whatever, you have a lot
of energy for it, because you're designed to have a
lot of energy for some sort of nurturing protection thing.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Have some more news on the Omnikaus coming up. It's
pretty amusing. I love this, Anya says, listen to your
discussion of cheap Chinese crap. It reminded me of something
my mother always told me growing up. Quote, we are
too poor to buy cheap things.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Ah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Actually, we grew up in Ukraine, so Soviet poor. I
didn't really get what she meant until later. You only
have so many resources and mind, something cheap and of
horrible quality will cripple you. Better off saving your money
for something that will last. That is your Ukrainian listener
for over ten years.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
We're too poor to go out and buy cheap, crappy
tools that are going to be worthless.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Let's wait until we can afford good ones, for instance.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, and then finally alien Anonymous with a story about
a great family that gave their twelve year old son
a smartphone. Soon addicted to pornography, running with a bad crowd,
they ended up being sent away to a teen rehab camp.
And then she makes the point I find it ironic
that parents can be so hyper vigilant about their children,
not letting them be free range. They hover over their
(35:14):
every move until they get these devices. Then they basically
become absentee parents at the worst possible moment, let the
Internet raise their child. That factors in a little bit
to that second story on sixty minutes last night about
that poor girl who killed herself talking to chatbots.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oh, talk about that later, right right.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
The trend in hovering helicopter snowplow parenting coinciding with just
turning your kids loose with the smartphone's crazy. Yeah, it
really is. I thought that as I was watching sixty
minutes last night. We'll talk about that later and a
whole bunch of other stuff. I hope you can stick
around
Speaker 3 (35:50):
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