December 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Paul Helman from Scouting America talks to A&G
- A decolonized Christmas
- Rob Reiner and wife murdered & "globalize the intifada"
- Jack's Christmas cookies & A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty and now
he Armstrong and Getty Helio.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome, last live week of The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Before we take obviously a much deserved.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Break because it is so taxing to do this job.
I'm near the snapping points pass for myself.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So a couple of news stories we're gonna update you
on soon. They do have Rob Reiner's kid in custody. Yeah,
so that's what a lot of people were suspecting. We'll
get to that a little bit later. They have strict
grun rules in Australia, but somebody with terrorist ties who
the police were aware of, is able to get what
six firearms legally?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What is going on there? Talk about that story.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't think the story is primarily about guns are
going control. But if you've got that system well and
it doesn't get them.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A tear plot in Los Angeles that was planned for
New Year's Eve has been broken up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Four people have been arrested.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Definitely have to talk about that, and I can't wait
to see who was behind it. But so what was
I remember, we came up with this quite a few
years ago, Joe and I did.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
One.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We thought we had the sort of audience that was
giving so we could raise money for good causes. And
I think it was just sort of a like this
time of year, you know, you're throwing money around on
all kinds of different things. How about, just from my
own personal standpoint, how about I throw a little money
(01:45):
towards something good this time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think you know lots of people do that, oh right,
And we wanted to advocate for the things we hold
most dear. And it turns out it just coincided quite
beautifully with the.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Y'all's yeah yeah, and a number of organizations through the
years where we've raised a lot of money. This year,
we're going to try to raise a lot of money
for the Scouts. And the reason for that is you've
heard me talk about this a lot. My youngest joined
the Boy Scouts I think last March, and it's been
the best thing that's ever happened to him. And then
just being around Scouting, I have become aware of things
(02:18):
that I didn't know. I was a Boy Scout for
a couple of years. Many many many many years ago,
because I'm quite old, but watching Scouts and realizing how
much more there is to it than learning about notts
and putting up a tent and all that sort of
stuff and hiking and they do all that stuff and
it's really really cool. But learning about values and leadership
(02:39):
and teamwork and all these different things and seeing it
up clothes. I've been so amazed and finding out that
it costs a little bit to get into scouting and
do a lot of things you want to do. And
maybe we could raise some money some more people could
get it involved in Scouting. And we'd like to welcome
into the studio today our guest, Paul Hellman. Paul is
a noted member of Scouting America with over fifty years
of volunteers service to Scouting. Paul, You've been in almost
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every role in Scouting, from a unit leader to a
unit commissioner to now you've been a council president at
various times. Now you're on the executive committee and board
of directors for a council. Paul, welcome into the Armstrong
and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Thank you. What what What'd be the number one thing
you would say?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Scouting's trying to do create leaders for tomorrow, Create leaders
for tomorrow, leaders for tomorrow. Who's going to be our
elected officials in twenty years from now. That's what we're creating.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It is amazing how many times I hear people running
for office who say they were an eagle scout or
in scouting or whatever. That does come up a lot.
But here's here's what I found out and noticed that
I didn't know before on how the adults just kind
of stand back and watch because the kids are in charge.
And he got like the fifteen year olds who've been
(03:52):
around for a while helping direct the you know, the
younger kids, and then the younger kids grow into that
and everything like that. Just the self sustained model that
you've got. And then these kids, and I said this
on the air after the first Scouting thing I did,
these kids don't act like other kids I've seen. They
(04:12):
seem like they're in their twenties. A lot of these
fifteen year olds.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
How does scouting do that?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Excellent observation that you've made there. What we are really
creating here in Scouting America is a laboratory of learning.
You learn from the process, you learn from being experiencing
the model that we're trying to create, which is, let's
create an environment with which you need to make decisions
and you have to take care of others. And it's
a boy lead process of our scout led process. Excuse me,
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boy or girl ed. And so you'll have a twelve
year old that becomes the patrol leader in a scout troop.
That patrol leader that is responsible for the activities that
the youth and his patrol will do on a camp out,
for instance, thirty two hours or more. What are we
going to do? How are we going to prepare our food?
So that leader, that twelve years leader will then help
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the other scouts make decisions, also do their rank advancements
and learn some very basic things. What's the process about
where do we set up our tent? Not only how
do you set it up, but where do you set
it up? How do you make sure it's in a
safe position. Also, someday you should sit to a patrol
leader council meeting. That's when the youth get together and
they decide their program. What are we going to do
(05:25):
for the next two or three months during our meeting.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, my son just had that meeting recently. No, I
did not sit in and watch it, but that sounds
really really interesting. And they vote themselves on what they're
going to do in the coming year and what they'll
need yes and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, Joe.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, it strikes me, Paul, that there's an old
saying you never learned so much as when you're teaching,
and you're never as much of a servant as when
you're leading, because you realize, oh, this isn't about me,
this is about everybody but me. That's why I'm leading.
I mean, my gods, you learned so much about human
beings in a.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Role like that.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Absolutely to the leadership model that we try to use.
It's called servant leadership, something that was created by Robert
Greenleaf what twenty five thirty years ago, and that's the
model that we portray and convey over to our adults,
who then translate that to the youth. In the youth
training also uses the model and what we call National
Youth Leadership Training, and YLT is where the youth go
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and learn the techniques and leadership. The adults do the
same thing when they go to Woodbadge Wood Badge training
usually corporate leadership training in a wonderful environment in a
Scout camp.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Location.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But like I said, my experience has been you want
to talk about teenagers who look you in the eye
and give you a firm handshake and refer to you
as mister, and all that sort of stuff that you.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Don't see that much in modern America. Man, it is
around Scouting. I'll tell you that it's true. You think
about the values we have in Scouting. Scout Oath and
Scout Law teaches you to have respect for all that
you're around and the environment, your fellow Scouts.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And everyone in the community.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
My son got elected whatever the first step is patrol
leader for his little group recently, and he's taking it
so seriously, and I'm so proud of him and just
amazed by that he feels the responsibility of showing up
to the extra meeting and being there and doing the
things he's supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It's absolutely credible. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
One of the things we do in Scout in America,
and I think we do this extremely well, is providing
those environments for twelve year olds to then be responsible
for other youth, other human beings, making phone calls, doing
whatever they need to do and you're going to bring
the right.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Who's going to bring to food.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
The entire structure in the organization of their outings are
going to be basically managed by the patroller, who might
be twelve years old. See what other things I like
to tell people is what we teach at Boy Scouts
of America is exactly what you learn.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
When you go get an MBA. So take your pick.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You're going to be in Scouts to that you're eighteen
years old, or you're going to go to someplace and
learn the same techniques and you're twenty four, you're going
to learn the same things and Scouting that you would
need a higher education.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And Joe and I have talked about this a lot
over the years.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Joe was bringing it up just a couple of weeks
ago on how whenever you hear these stories about like
inner city schools that were struggling and they turn it around,
it's always because some hard ass principle or something like
that demanded more out of the kids. And when they
demand more out of the kids, the kids rise to
the occasion. And that's what I've seen just being around
(08:24):
Scouts like this, Like my son, I know what my
son is like and like a couple of weeks ago,
he was headed to his first meeting where he's now,
you know, in charge of his little group of guys.
Everything like that, we got to be there on time.
You know, I have responsibilities now and just that he
never talked like that before. People rise to your.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Expectations, especially kids over It's one of the great lessons
I think we've forgotten in America.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Paul. I'm sure you've seen that a million times. And
I have a tenacity that's a sort of grit.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The two things that sometimes we talk about is what
we teach in SCOUTI you got a I don't know,
thirty thirty five forty pound pack on your back. We
got to get some before you can set up camp,
and you got to get there. You got to get
there somehow. You just learn how to just make it
happen and lead your scouts so that you show up
and can set up your camp. One of the greatest
adventures that we do in Scouted in America our summertime,
(09:15):
the fifty mile hikes or going to Filmont or some
of the other high adventure camps that we have where
you do these tricks.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
As I said, I've seen I've seen sixteen year olds
that are so much more impressive than so many thirty
year olds I know in terms of just being adults
that look like they can.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Take on life. It's absolutely impressive. So here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Let's get to where the rubber meets the road, because
we're trying to raise money this week. I would love
it if every because the boys and girls, but every
kid out there, had the opportunity to be in scouting.
But it costs something to be in scouting, and not
everybody can afford it. What's it cost just generally, do
you have any idea across America what it costs to
get involved in scouting for a family.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, you have your or so its pences, which would
be the uniform one hundred hundred and fifty dollars totally
when you get downe the equipment that you need to
go camping. There's also the support for the local councils
and the administration of the Scouting program in your area,
which is generally going to be about another eighty five
to one hundred dollars a year. So I would tell
(10:18):
you it's a couple hundred dollars a year to be
involved in scouting.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, which is enough to keep a lot of people
from doing it.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh and given the unbelievable effect it can have on
their young lives. I mean, that's just it's tragic that
any kid would not be involved in scouting. For questions
of costs.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, so if we can cover here today, if we
can cover that cost by raising some money, go to
Armstrong in getty dot com. We've got to donate now
on there, and we'll see how much money we can
raise this week, and then a whole bunch of people
can get exposed to scouting. And you know, I guess
COVID is really hard on scouting.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, COVID causes us the inability to meet as a group,
and so some of our units to stop meeting and
no longer are in existence because of that. And so
we're working hard. And this is where the funds that
were going to gain a help us, because now we
could get professionals in the field to rebuild those units
to go to the sponsoring institutions. Hey, we need to
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recreate pack act pack Y and then be able to
provide scouting for the congregations.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Hey, Paul, we've just got like thirty more seconds. But
can you speak quickly to Scouting and patriotism? Is that
still a fundamental part.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Of what you do? Absolutely is what we party. We
have the American flag on our uniform.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We recite the Pledge of Allegiance before every single meeting,
we salute the flag, and we're one of the few
organizations in the United States is allowed to retire American flags.
We have a very respectful ceremony that we go through
when we retire the flags and.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Burn them and bury them as they need to be.
I see that every week.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
What do you call the thing when they bring out
the people and they take the flags down and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Flag ceremony. Yeah, the flags are many.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I see that every week, and it's so cool and
having you know, seeing these kids do it and take
it so serious, lee and quietly and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It's just awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
They standard attention and salute. They very much take it
very seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Paul Helman, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Thanks first of all, thanks for your time all the
years he had donated to Scouting and you know, just
helping out youth all across America and all the people,
all the volunteers that I've seen that work so hard
We're going to raise as much.
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Speaker 2 (13:32):
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the news stories we mentioned coming up right after this here.
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Speaker 1 (13:44):
So we got to put a minimum on donating money
to the Scouts for you getting mentioned for your funny name,
because that we've had that happen in the past.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
We love it when people with funny names donate.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But for instance, a donation from a succulent Chinese meal,
it was all only five bucks, so you just wanted
the joke right, right right.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Five bucks ain't nothing, right, but it's close to enough.
Since inflation it is pretty damn and close to nothing. Yeah, yeah,
I lose a five dollar bill. I'll never think of
it again anyway. So, yeah, what twenty five dollars minimum
to have your funny name mentioned?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, exactly, because if everybody gave twenty five dollars, we'd
reach our goal today.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So yeah, yeah, you know, I I absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Love talking to Paul about an organization that is so
great supporting traditional American values in the way we're discussing.
Then you have a bunch of allegiance for crying out loud,
And then you have this young woman who goes by
the name of gluten Free girlfriend on social media, oh boy,
who is sharing tips to her TikTok and substack subscribers
(14:52):
on the ways she is decolonizing Christmas.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, I bet you're a long day.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'd like to take my law just wow, I'm a man,
holy and like a nice warm fire and explain to
her how she's been misguided unique threats in she showered
different recipes to her social media accounts that were gluten
free because wheat, barley, and rye are not native to
the Americas.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
All right, a decolonized Christmas.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The perfect Christmas cookie is griddle massa made from a
form of corn flour mixed with lime or culinary ash. Hmmm,
sounds delicious and quote, it's nutrients become more bioavailable and
it becomes more tender.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
What's just chick?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Look like I'm curious exactly like you think she does, Katie,
Can you describe her for me as you can say exactly? Yeah, yeah,
decolonize your Christmas?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And is twenty something white girl hottie? Of course? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And is she serious? Is she just trying to get clicks?
Because I know people that are pretty close to series
about that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah she is. She's said.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
A colonize Christmas takes shape in many ways, including the
gifts which she is purchasing from native owned businesses. The
shop list includes indigenous, Hispanic and woman owned tea businesses.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Hispanic, which literally means from the Spanish. So the Spanish
conquistadors are not colonizers in your mind, you dip ass,
even though they quite literally colonized millions and hundreds of
thousands of square miles.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, you can't look for consistency out of these people.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Do you think the Native Peruvians just decided Spanish was
a pretty language. The Mexicans, Guatemalans, and they thought they
would say, or were they forced its spear point.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Ninny, what's she look like, Katie? Well, i'm looking at
her social she's she's cute. But I will say she's
got those crazy eyes. She's got them real to her eyes. Yeah,
she got them with a dash of like I'm going
to kill you behind them. Yes, not hinged.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not going to decolonize my Christmas. I'm going to
keep it exactly the same as it has been since.
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, and go back three hundred years and explain to
the native people's that you're going to decolonize Christmas, and
they'll see, you're going to decolonize what now? So you're
returning Christmas to its Native American roots? Sweetheart, you are
America's greatest comedian. Now, I believe we set a standard.
(17:46):
You have to not date at least twenty five dollars
to get your funny name mentioned. Although we didn't just
get ten dollars from the guy who sneezed in Joe's backswing.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Wow, but that's you violated our rules. It's going to
be twenty five of the law.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
From now on, nobody gets mentioned in the leasi donate
unless you donate at least twenty five dollars to the
Scouts to help more people get involved in scouting that
might not otherwise be able to afford. They got a
suspect in the stabbing of Rob Reiner.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
The initial coll came in yesterday afternoon. LAFD and the
LAPD responding found those two people dead, but police so
far remaining very tight lipped about their investigation and saying
nothing about a potential suspect.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, well that was yesterday. They do have their suspect
and probably the person who did it. Nick Reiner, thirty
two year old son of Rob Reiner, taken into custody
held on four million dollars bail, so as was immediately
suspected by people who knew the family situation. Their often
homeless drug addicts struggled his whole life. Son looks like
(19:01):
came into the house and slit the throats of his
mom and dad. That's pretty rough.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, yeah, the particulars of it almost don't matter. No, no,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, that's just awful. So this is kind of interesting.
I'd heard reference to this, but I hadn't seen it.
So after the news broke that movie star director actor
Rob Reiner and his wife had been stabbed to death,
and then I saw headlines where it is being looked
at as a homicide. Yeah, you don't usually have a
(19:35):
murder suicide with stabbings, and then the term passed away
or have died. Okay, well that's accurate, but kind of
leaves out a lot if you say that. I would
say anyway, Donald J. Trump, he's the president of the
United States. True this out as soon as the news
broke yesterday. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.
(19:58):
I guess he saw it. This morning was after midnight.
Rob Reiner a torture.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This is after a guy is stabbed to death in
his own home. Rob Reiner a tortured and struggling but
once very talented movie director and comedy star. I don't
know that he was tortured and struggling. I don't think
he would have described himself that way. Recent interviews publishing
or pushing the new spinal Tap movie. He seemed untortured.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I hated Rob Reiner's politics too, and I wish he
had to shut up about it. But to say he
was not successful, or that he was struggling or whatever. Anyway,
Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented
movie director in comedy star, has passed away together with
his wife.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Passed away. Got stabbed to death reportedly.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
This is what he actually truthed out as the president,
reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome sometimes referred to as TS.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
So that hinted that somebody took him out because of
his being anti Trump. Knit in a hand, he stated
it reportedly due to the anger he caused others through
his Trump Derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So that's why he died.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It got stabbed to death because he you know, because
he hated me so much, had nothing to do with
it whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Sorry, folks, that's unhinged. That's an odd thing to do.
That's an odd thing to do. Then he ends.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
May Robin Michelle, rest in peace. That's an odd thing
to do, even though rest in peace. Even though I
just blamed you for your own death because you criticized me.
You caused somebody to stab you to death. That's what
an amazing thing to do. Wow, Okay, as I opened
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the show with, that's among the more stories today, the
whole Rob Ryner and his wife stabbed to death. It's
not as interesting now that we know it's the sun.
I mean, we got it solved, and it's just a horrible,
horrible story there. But for the grace of God go
any of us and their kids going off the rails.
(22:17):
But it's not of any significance to anybody, you know.
And then you got the Brown University thing. It's interesting
that the shooter is on the loose after a mass
shooting there at the university campus over the weekend, but
it's not gonna end up being of any significance probably
to anybody.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Now, just one more of the tiring, exhausting, horrible, angry
loser decides other people should hurt too.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Variety of attacks here, which is certainly its own major
social problem, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh yeah, but the one in Australia where you got
a couple of guys who it appears, pledge their allegiance
to ISIS before they for ten minutes, How did they
do this for ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
For ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They were up on a rooftop shooting Jews at a
big gathering in Australia and killed a whole bunch of
people and wounded a.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Whole bunch of people. Just horrific, horrific. Father son, father son,
dad's dad, kids in custody.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Kid had come to the attention to the authorities a
couple of years back for his associations, but they decided
that there was no real risk of him committing an
act of violence.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They were wrong. The Intefada was globalized to Sydney that day.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
My friend, do you understand that globalize the Intifada?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's those two guys shooting Jews clear of their in Australia,
a long way away from Gaza. That's globalized the Intifada.
That kids are chanting on campuses and in parades and
everybody's acting like that's okay.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, yeah, And people are quite rightfully looking at Australia
and Australia is just so European. Oh we're doing it
some two in this country. It would cause even more
conflict by calling out what this actually is. So they've
danced around anti semitism, called it marginal It's an important pathology.
(24:13):
These incidents are unrelated, but Jewish Australians have reported a
sharp rise in harassment, intimidation, vandalism, threats at schools, universities,
workplaces and public spaces. Anti Semitic Greek graffiti had already
appeared in this part of Sydney in the weeks before
the attack.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
The violence did not emerge from nowhere.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It was the most extreme expression of a wound to
the body politic that has been allowed to fester, writes
Peter Kirti.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, so, like I said, this story has huge global significance.
This might be what we're dealing with as a planet
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Speaking of which, So Columbia University just came out with
the fourth section or whatever it is, of their report
on an Thai Semitism at Columbia in the wake of
a couple of horrifying incidents which we reported on at
the time. Violence against students, takeovers of classrooms, takeovers of
the library.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You had an infamous incident where.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Staff members were at a meeting and were texting each
other making fun of Jews, the rest of it. So
the fourth and you know, kudos whoever was involved in
this at Columbia. This is pretty strong stuff that they
went ahead and included in the report, Brace Yourselves. It
paints a disturbing picture of life as a Jewish student
at the Ivy League institution. Here are some of the examples.
(25:40):
The report recounts a number of disturbing incidents in the classroom.
Some of the incidents, like the January storming of Israeli
history classes by cafia clad students who distributed pro Hamas
leaflets and harassed Jews, were publicized when they happened.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Other were unknown until the report's release. This section, entitled.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Scapegoating Jewish and Israeli students for their ties to Israel
detail scores of incidents.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
A score is twenty friends, so it's.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Dozens and dozens and dozens of incidents in which I'm quoting.
Colombia instructors singled out Jewish and Israeli students for personal
scapegoating because of their real or perceived ties to Israel,
which by the way, violates federal law. One Israeli student
was told you must know a lot about settler colonialism.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
How do you feel about that? This is by an instructor.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Another was called an occupier A third was told that
because she served in Israel's army of murderers, she should
be considered as one of those murderers.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's by her teacher.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
One Jewish student was told by an instructor quote, it's
a shame that your people survived in order to commit
mass genocide.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
It's impossible to imagine that this actually happened.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh yeah, oh, and again there are scores of examples
just from Colombia just in the last year or so,
year or.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Two, so that you know, we can probably talk about
that all day long.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
But so that leads to this headlines stry one more note,
every class, every section of the university was infected by
this as the teachers, the woke teachers, with their intersectional training,
their neo Marxist training, tried to incorporate it into everything.
And they had a unit in an introductory astronomy class
(27:26):
including astronomy in Palestine. Writing on the class of syllabus.
As we watched the Jennifer Aside Unfoldinggaza dot dot dot Well.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Speaking of that, the FBI announced in the last hour
that they stopped a planned New Year's Eve Los Angeles
terror attack by a pro Palestinian cell. Quite the theme
we've got going all weekend long here.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Pro Palestinian, which is a euphemism for radical.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Islamic FBI arresting, arresting, So I mean they you know,
this isn't just suspicion. They were actually arrested five members
of a pro Palestinian extremist group accused of planning attacks
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Their plan was to.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Uh unleash a massive and horrific terror plot in LA
that would include bombings and multiple targets beginning New Year's Eve.
So that's fantastic, and I'm sure we'll get more details
throughout the day on that the Law of Press conference
at some point and tell us what they found out.
So between that report out of Columbia, what happened in
(28:30):
Australia over the weekend, this terror plot, Yeah, that's a
much more significant story than Rob Reiner being.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Stabbed right to the wine.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Troubling god, I would say, So that's one of these
I actually said to Joe earlier off the year, I said,
I'm glad this is a week we're raising money for
something good because this there's a lot of bad news
and I'm kind of tired of it. So we put
a limit, a minimum. If you're going to donate money
to scouting, and we'll you with the total here in
just a second. And you want to have a funny name,
you got to donate at least twenty five bucks. For instance,
(29:05):
twenty five bucks came from Gavin's handgame. That's people who
have been talking about Gavin Newsoman is the way he
uses his hands too.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, Gavin's hand run in constant gesturing yes.
Twenty five dollars from Jack's next wife, ooh wow, thank
you dear. Fifty bucks from Prune runs.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I oh wow, I like that one.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Surely that that refers to going to the store quickly
to get some Prince.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, not sure that's exactly right. I'm not you know,
when we come back, because we're getting close to a
very good round number. When we come back, maybe we'll
hit our first total of the week as we try
to raise money for Scouting and uh, and we're already
off to a good start.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Specifically, it's it's scholarships to make sure kids who want
to get into scouting can because it has such amazing
effects on their lives.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, and I'll be talking more throughout the week.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
About things I've seen from my kid being in scout
scouting and how impressed I am.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We have more news of the day to get to.
I hope you can stick around. Oh, any Christmas movies
the years watched?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yes, we used to always watch Home Alone and as
a Latino kid, that movie was unbelievable because this kid
misses the plane, destroys the house, and ruins the vacation
and somehow this movie doesn't end in a.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Historic ass beating.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
In the first scene, the mom is like, go to
your room, Kevin, and he goes, shut up, Mom, and
I'm like, if that was me, That's where the movie ends.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
All the credits in memory of Marcelo. That is a
decent point.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Marcello Hernan is, by the way, one of the more
hilarious people they've ever had on Saturday Night Live in
my opinion.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
But it's very funny. He destroyed the house, he did
all these different things. You told mom to shut up,
and it just doesn't end with a historic gas beating.
That's pretty funny. Weft as a parenting of today.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Thirty years ago exactly that did that movie come out
in nineteen ninety one. I think I think it's thirty
three years old. I think I read last night. AnyWho
I watched We watched a show that was sixty years old.
It was made the same here.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I was born.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
A Charlie Brown Christmas last night kind of just accidentally,
like I was, just Henry was Henry. Henry took charge
of the Christmas cookies and he did He did everything,
absolutely the whole thing, making the cookies, mix them all up,
made them from scratch, including the frosting, and they were good.
But when we were finishing them all off, he said,
let's put on a Christmas movie. I was on to
(31:40):
put on something short on a school night, and so
I just went to Apple TV and right there was
a Charlie Brown Christmas and I thought, Okay, that's kind
of cool. Watched it, watched it for the I don't know,
it's been on sixty years of my life. I've probably
seen it fifty seven times. Probably. It is really quite
the amazing art if you haven't seen it in a while.
(32:01):
I read a lot about it last night. It almost
didn't get on the air in nineteen sixty five because
they thought it was too religious.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, hated it.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's also weird at that period of time, all sitcoms
had laugh tracks. As we all remember, laugh tracks were
ubiquitous up until what early two thousands and and something
that's a comedy without a laugh track stood out then
as now.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I mean, there are like various kind of jokes and then.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
It's just dead silent for like five seconds and they
all just look at each other as cartoon characters, you know.
And the animation is so everything that is Charlie Brown
and the voiceover by the kids who were not trained actors,
and they look like they're just going through the sound,
like they're just going through the motions. Kind of adds
(32:54):
to the art somehow. It's it's a very unique piece
of world, know.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
What you mean.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do you think we should do now? I mean, there's
no acting involved whatsoever. But it kind of adds to
it since the theme of it is the on wei
Charlie Brown's feeling around Christmas, and he's kind of sad
and doesn't understand what the point is and he hates
the commercialization of it all. And and but the main
(33:23):
thing that sticks out to me is my kids, who
I have trouble getting to watch anything that's more than
ten years old. Just because the pacing is too slow
for them. They both willingly because I was observing them
without you know, me making them, sat there and watched
the whole bang thing. There was something about the layout
of that story and the art of it that is
(33:45):
compelling still today, sixty years later.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I found, I don't know, that's that's quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
You know. Your observation about the lack of acting and
how that actually improves it in a way is super intriguing.
I you know, I thinking back to watching it many
many times, it's as if it strips away the artifice
and just gives you the ideas.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
And I also think it's interesting that in nineteen sixty five,
sixty years ago, they felt like Christmas had gotten too commercial.
And then there's the part about, oh, Charlie Brown gone.
I know, in nineteen sixty five they thought Christmas was
too commercial. And then Charlie Brown going to get a tree,
and he's surrounded by all these metal trees because I
guess artificial trees had just become a thing. I know,
(34:34):
my parents have a picture of their first tree. It
was artificial.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Because it was the sixties, everything was groovy, groovy colors
and groovy metallic finish and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, and it was so wild that Charlie Brown picked
out a real tree, even though it was this pathetic
tree sixty years ago. That is a pretty religious show.
I mean, he's reading from I'd forget which of the
Gospels he's reading from. Linus is there at the end,
but I mean it's It's Mark.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I could be wrong. I've got a twenty five percent chance.
Nice job. It's a serious Bible sort of thing. It
still airs. Oh yeah, yeah, I think it's fantastic. I
haven't watched it in years. I should.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
By contrast, Judy suggested, Katie, you'll be pleased with this
over the weekend that we watch your favorite holiday movie,
Bad Santa Yeh, which is arguably a holiday movie, but
inarguably unbelievably dark and mean and nasty. It's you know,
you got a horrifying character who you know is going
(35:35):
to get redeemed at some point, scrooge like, right, And
so you sit to about forty minutes, a horror, here
comes the redemp. No, ten more minutes, a horror here
it comes. Surely he will be No, let's pile on
a little more misery and it's just and finally at
the end he kind of sort of comes around somewhat.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
But man, is that irreverent? Now in all of your descriptions,
you've never word hilarious. Oh, it is frequently very very funny. Yeah,
that reminds me. We paired the.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Very earnest Charlie Brown Christmas with one of the Family
Guy Christmas episodes that we really really love where Stewie
plays the baby Jesus and Peter gets drunk and gives
away all the presents. That's a damn funny episode. Another
great recommendation for the family.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
We got more to come.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
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Before we take obviously a much deserved.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Break because it is so taxing to do this job.
I'm near the snapping points pass for myself.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So a couple of news stories we're gonna update you
on soon. They do have Rob Reiner's kid in custody. Yeah,
so that's what a lot of people were suspecting. We'll
get to that a little bit later. They have strict
grun rules in Australia, but somebody with terrorist ties who
the police were aware of, is able to get what
six firearms legally?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What is going on there? Talk about that story.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't think the story is primarily about guns are
going control. But if you've got that system well and
it doesn't get them.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A tear plot in Los Angeles that was planned for
New Year's Eve has been broken up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Four people have been arrested.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Definitely have to talk about that, and I can't wait
to see who was behind it. But so what was
I remember, we came up with this quite a few
years ago, Joe and I did.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
One.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We thought we had the sort of audience that was
giving so we could raise money for good causes. And
I think it was just sort of a like this
time of year, you know, you're throwing money around on
all kinds of different things. How about, just from my
own personal standpoint, how about I throw a little money
(01:45):
towards something good this time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think you know lots of people do that, oh right,
And we wanted to advocate for the things we hold
most dear. And it turns out it just coincided quite
beautifully with the.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Y'all's yeah yeah, and a number of organizations through the
years where we've raised a lot of money. This year,
we're going to try to raise a lot of money
for the Scouts. And the reason for that is you've
heard me talk about this a lot. My youngest joined
the Boy Scouts I think last March, and it's been
the best thing that's ever happened to him. And then
just being around Scouting, I have become aware of things
(02:18):
that I didn't know. I was a Boy Scout for
a couple of years. Many many many many years ago,
because I'm quite old, but watching Scouts and realizing how
much more there is to it than learning about notts
and putting up a tent and all that sort of
stuff and hiking and they do all that stuff and
it's really really cool. But learning about values and leadership
(02:39):
and teamwork and all these different things and seeing it
up clothes. I've been so amazed and finding out that
it costs a little bit to get into scouting and
do a lot of things you want to do. And
maybe we could raise some money some more people could
get it involved in Scouting. And we'd like to welcome
into the studio today our guest, Paul Hellman. Paul is
a noted member of Scouting America with over fifty years
of volunteers service to Scouting. Paul, You've been in almost
(03:02):
every role in Scouting, from a unit leader to a
unit commissioner to now you've been a council president at
various times. Now you're on the executive committee and board
of directors for a council. Paul, welcome into the Armstrong
and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Thank you. What what What'd be the number one thing
you would say?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Scouting's trying to do create leaders for tomorrow, Create leaders
for tomorrow, leaders for tomorrow. Who's going to be our
elected officials in twenty years from now. That's what we're creating.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It is amazing how many times I hear people running
for office who say they were an eagle scout or
in scouting or whatever. That does come up a lot.
But here's here's what I found out and noticed that
I didn't know before on how the adults just kind
of stand back and watch because the kids are in charge.
And he got like the fifteen year olds who've been
(03:52):
around for a while helping direct the you know, the
younger kids, and then the younger kids grow into that
and everything like that. Just the self sustained model that
you've got. And then these kids, and I said this
on the air after the first Scouting thing I did,
these kids don't act like other kids I've seen. They
(04:12):
seem like they're in their twenties. A lot of these
fifteen year olds.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
How does scouting do that?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Excellent observation that you've made there. What we are really
creating here in Scouting America is a laboratory of learning.
You learn from the process, you learn from being experiencing
the model that we're trying to create, which is, let's
create an environment with which you need to make decisions
and you have to take care of others. And it's
a boy lead process of our scout led process. Excuse me,
(04:40):
boy or girl ed. And so you'll have a twelve
year old that becomes the patrol leader in a scout troop.
That patrol leader that is responsible for the activities that
the youth and his patrol will do on a camp out,
for instance, thirty two hours or more. What are we
going to do? How are we going to prepare our food?
So that leader, that twelve years leader will then help
(05:03):
the other scouts make decisions, also do their rank advancements
and learn some very basic things. What's the process about
where do we set up our tent? Not only how
do you set it up, but where do you set
it up? How do you make sure it's in a
safe position. Also, someday you should sit to a patrol
leader council meeting. That's when the youth get together and
they decide their program. What are we going to do
(05:25):
for the next two or three months during our meeting.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, my son just had that meeting recently. No, I
did not sit in and watch it, but that sounds
really really interesting. And they vote themselves on what they're
going to do in the coming year and what they'll
need yes and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, Joe.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, it strikes me, Paul, that there's an old
saying you never learned so much as when you're teaching,
and you're never as much of a servant as when
you're leading, because you realize, oh, this isn't about me,
this is about everybody but me. That's why I'm leading.
I mean, my gods, you learned so much about human
beings in a.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Role like that.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Absolutely to the leadership model that we try to use.
It's called servant leadership, something that was created by Robert
Greenleaf what twenty five thirty years ago, and that's the
model that we portray and convey over to our adults,
who then translate that to the youth. In the youth
training also uses the model and what we call National
Youth Leadership Training, and YLT is where the youth go
(06:21):
and learn the techniques and leadership. The adults do the
same thing when they go to Woodbadge Wood Badge training
usually corporate leadership training in a wonderful environment in a
Scout camp.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Location.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But like I said, my experience has been you want
to talk about teenagers who look you in the eye
and give you a firm handshake and refer to you
as mister, and all that sort of stuff that you.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Don't see that much in modern America. Man, it is
around Scouting. I'll tell you that it's true. You think
about the values we have in Scouting. Scout Oath and
Scout Law teaches you to have respect for all that
you're around and the environment, your fellow Scouts.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And everyone in the community.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
My son got elected whatever the first step is patrol
leader for his little group recently, and he's taking it
so seriously, and I'm so proud of him and just
amazed by that he feels the responsibility of showing up
to the extra meeting and being there and doing the
things he's supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It's absolutely credible. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
One of the things we do in Scout in America,
and I think we do this extremely well, is providing
those environments for twelve year olds to then be responsible
for other youth, other human beings, making phone calls, doing
whatever they need to do and you're going to bring
the right.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Who's going to bring to food.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
The entire structure in the organization of their outings are
going to be basically managed by the patroller, who might
be twelve years old. See what other things I like
to tell people is what we teach at Boy Scouts
of America is exactly what you learn.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
When you go get an MBA. So take your pick.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You're going to be in Scouts to that you're eighteen
years old, or you're going to go to someplace and
learn the same techniques and you're twenty four, you're going
to learn the same things and Scouting that you would
need a higher education.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And Joe and I have talked about this a lot
over the years.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Joe was bringing it up just a couple of weeks
ago on how whenever you hear these stories about like
inner city schools that were struggling and they turn it around,
it's always because some hard ass principle or something like
that demanded more out of the kids. And when they
demand more out of the kids, the kids rise to
the occasion. And that's what I've seen just being around
(08:24):
Scouts like this, Like my son, I know what my
son is like and like a couple of weeks ago,
he was headed to his first meeting where he's now,
you know, in charge of his little group of guys.
Everything like that, we got to be there on time.
You know, I have responsibilities now and just that he
never talked like that before. People rise to your.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Expectations, especially kids over It's one of the great lessons
I think we've forgotten in America.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Paul. I'm sure you've seen that a million times. And
I have a tenacity that's a sort of grit.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The two things that sometimes we talk about is what
we teach in SCOUTI you got a I don't know,
thirty thirty five forty pound pack on your back. We
got to get some before you can set up camp,
and you got to get there. You got to get
there somehow. You just learn how to just make it
happen and lead your scouts so that you show up
and can set up your camp. One of the greatest
adventures that we do in Scouted in America our summertime,
(09:15):
the fifty mile hikes or going to Filmont or some
of the other high adventure camps that we have where
you do these tricks.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
As I said, I've seen I've seen sixteen year olds
that are so much more impressive than so many thirty
year olds I know in terms of just being adults
that look like they can.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Take on life. It's absolutely impressive. So here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Let's get to where the rubber meets the road, because
we're trying to raise money this week. I would love
it if every because the boys and girls, but every
kid out there, had the opportunity to be in scouting.
But it costs something to be in scouting, and not
everybody can afford it. What's it cost just generally, do
you have any idea across America what it costs to
get involved in scouting for a family.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, you have your or so its pences, which would
be the uniform one hundred hundred and fifty dollars totally
when you get downe the equipment that you need to
go camping. There's also the support for the local councils
and the administration of the Scouting program in your area,
which is generally going to be about another eighty five
to one hundred dollars a year. So I would tell
(10:18):
you it's a couple hundred dollars a year to be
involved in scouting.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, which is enough to keep a lot of people
from doing it.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh and given the unbelievable effect it can have on
their young lives. I mean, that's just it's tragic that
any kid would not be involved in scouting. For questions
of costs.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, so if we can cover here today, if we
can cover that cost by raising some money, go to
Armstrong in getty dot com. We've got to donate now
on there, and we'll see how much money we can
raise this week, and then a whole bunch of people
can get exposed to scouting. And you know, I guess
COVID is really hard on scouting.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, COVID causes us the inability to meet as a group,
and so some of our units to stop meeting and
no longer are in existence because of that. And so
we're working hard. And this is where the funds that
were going to gain a help us, because now we
could get professionals in the field to rebuild those units
to go to the sponsoring institutions. Hey, we need to
(11:11):
recreate pack act pack Y and then be able to
provide scouting for the congregations.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Hey, Paul, we've just got like thirty more seconds. But
can you speak quickly to Scouting and patriotism? Is that
still a fundamental part.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Of what you do? Absolutely is what we party. We
have the American flag on our uniform.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We recite the Pledge of Allegiance before every single meeting,
we salute the flag, and we're one of the few
organizations in the United States is allowed to retire American flags.
We have a very respectful ceremony that we go through
when we retire the flags and.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Burn them and bury them as they need to be.
I see that every week.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
What do you call the thing when they bring out
the people and they take the flags down and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Flag ceremony. Yeah, the flags are many.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I see that every week, and it's so cool and
having you know, seeing these kids do it and take
it so serious, lee and quietly and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It's just awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
They standard attention and salute. They very much take it
very seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Paul Helman, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Thanks first of all, thanks for your time all the
years he had donated to Scouting and you know, just
helping out youth all across America and all the people,
all the volunteers that I've seen that work so hard
We're going to raise as much.
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We're gonna see how much money we can rate. We're
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Speaker 2 (13:32):
We just started.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I realized we got to get that number up, so
please do that. We're gonna catch up on some of
the news stories we mentioned coming up right after this here.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Strong.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So we got to put a minimum on donating money
to the Scouts for you getting mentioned for your funny name,
because that we've had that happen in the past.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
We love it when people with funny names donate.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But for instance, a donation from a succulent Chinese meal,
it was all only five bucks, so you just wanted
the joke right, right right.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Five bucks ain't nothing, right, but it's close to enough.
Since inflation it is pretty damn and close to nothing. Yeah, yeah,
I lose a five dollar bill. I'll never think of
it again anyway. So, yeah, what twenty five dollars minimum
to have your funny name mentioned?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, exactly, because if everybody gave twenty five dollars, we'd
reach our goal today.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So yeah, yeah, you know, I I absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Love talking to Paul about an organization that is so
great supporting traditional American values in the way we're discussing.
Then you have a bunch of allegiance for crying out loud,
And then you have this young woman who goes by
the name of gluten Free girlfriend on social media, oh boy,
who is sharing tips to her TikTok and substack subscribers
(14:52):
on the ways she is decolonizing Christmas.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, I bet you're a long day.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'd like to take my law just wow, I'm a man,
holy and like a nice warm fire and explain to
her how she's been misguided unique threats in she showered
different recipes to her social media accounts that were gluten
free because wheat, barley, and rye are not native to
the Americas.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
All right, a decolonized Christmas.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The perfect Christmas cookie is griddle massa made from a
form of corn flour mixed with lime or culinary ash. Hmmm,
sounds delicious and quote, it's nutrients become more bioavailable and
it becomes more tender.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
What's just chick?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Look like I'm curious exactly like you think she does, Katie,
Can you describe her for me as you can say exactly? Yeah, yeah,
decolonize your Christmas?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And is twenty something white girl hottie? Of course? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And is she serious? Is she just trying to get clicks?
Because I know people that are pretty close to series
about that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah she is. She's said.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
A colonize Christmas takes shape in many ways, including the
gifts which she is purchasing from native owned businesses. The
shop list includes indigenous, Hispanic and woman owned tea businesses.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Hispanic, which literally means from the Spanish. So the Spanish
conquistadors are not colonizers in your mind, you dip ass,
even though they quite literally colonized millions and hundreds of
thousands of square miles.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, you can't look for consistency out of these people.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Do you think the Native Peruvians just decided Spanish was
a pretty language. The Mexicans, Guatemalans, and they thought they
would say, or were they forced its spear point.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Ninny, what's she look like, Katie? Well, i'm looking at
her social she's she's cute. But I will say she's
got those crazy eyes. She's got them real to her eyes. Yeah,
she got them with a dash of like I'm going
to kill you behind them. Yes, not hinged.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not going to decolonize my Christmas. I'm going to
keep it exactly the same as it has been since.
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, and go back three hundred years and explain to
the native people's that you're going to decolonize Christmas, and
they'll see, you're going to decolonize what now? So you're
returning Christmas to its Native American roots? Sweetheart, you are
America's greatest comedian. Now, I believe we set a standard.
(17:46):
You have to not date at least twenty five dollars
to get your funny name mentioned. Although we didn't just
get ten dollars from the guy who sneezed in Joe's backswing.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Wow, but that's you violated our rules. It's going to
be twenty five of the law.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
From now on, nobody gets mentioned in the leasi donate
unless you donate at least twenty five dollars to the
Scouts to help more people get involved in scouting that
might not otherwise be able to afford. They got a
suspect in the stabbing of Rob Reiner.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
The initial coll came in yesterday afternoon. LAFD and the
LAPD responding found those two people dead, but police so
far remaining very tight lipped about their investigation and saying
nothing about a potential suspect.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, well that was yesterday. They do have their suspect
and probably the person who did it. Nick Reiner, thirty
two year old son of Rob Reiner, taken into custody
held on four million dollars bail, so as was immediately
suspected by people who knew the family situation. Their often
homeless drug addicts struggled his whole life. Son looks like
(19:01):
came into the house and slit the throats of his
mom and dad. That's pretty rough.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, yeah, the particulars of it almost don't matter. No, no,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, that's just awful. So this is kind of interesting.
I'd heard reference to this, but I hadn't seen it.
So after the news broke that movie star director actor
Rob Reiner and his wife had been stabbed to death,
and then I saw headlines where it is being looked
at as a homicide. Yeah, you don't usually have a
(19:35):
murder suicide with stabbings, and then the term passed away
or have died. Okay, well that's accurate, but kind of
leaves out a lot if you say that. I would
say anyway, Donald J. Trump, he's the president of the
United States. True this out as soon as the news
broke yesterday. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.
(19:58):
I guess he saw it. This morning was after midnight.
Rob Reiner a torture.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This is after a guy is stabbed to death in
his own home. Rob Reiner a tortured and struggling but
once very talented movie director and comedy star. I don't
know that he was tortured and struggling. I don't think
he would have described himself that way. Recent interviews publishing
or pushing the new spinal Tap movie. He seemed untortured.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I hated Rob Reiner's politics too, and I wish he
had to shut up about it. But to say he
was not successful, or that he was struggling or whatever. Anyway,
Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented
movie director in comedy star, has passed away together with
his wife.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Passed away. Got stabbed to death reportedly.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
This is what he actually truthed out as the president,
reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome sometimes referred to as TS.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
So that hinted that somebody took him out because of
his being anti Trump. Knit in a hand, he stated
it reportedly due to the anger he caused others through
his Trump Derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So that's why he died.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It got stabbed to death because he you know, because
he hated me so much, had nothing to do with
it whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Sorry, folks, that's unhinged. That's an odd thing to do.
That's an odd thing to do. Then he ends.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
May Robin Michelle, rest in peace. That's an odd thing
to do, even though rest in peace. Even though I
just blamed you for your own death because you criticized me.
You caused somebody to stab you to death. That's what
an amazing thing to do. Wow, Okay, as I opened
(21:57):
the show with, that's among the more stories today, the
whole Rob Ryner and his wife stabbed to death. It's
not as interesting now that we know it's the sun.
I mean, we got it solved, and it's just a horrible,
horrible story there. But for the grace of God go
any of us and their kids going off the rails.
(22:17):
But it's not of any significance to anybody, you know.
And then you got the Brown University thing. It's interesting
that the shooter is on the loose after a mass
shooting there at the university campus over the weekend, but
it's not gonna end up being of any significance probably
to anybody.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Now, just one more of the tiring, exhausting, horrible, angry
loser decides other people should hurt too.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Variety of attacks here, which is certainly its own major
social problem, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh yeah, but the one in Australia where you got
a couple of guys who it appears, pledge their allegiance
to ISIS before they for ten minutes, How did they
do this for ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
For ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They were up on a rooftop shooting Jews at a
big gathering in Australia and killed a whole bunch of
people and wounded a.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Whole bunch of people. Just horrific, horrific. Father son, father son,
dad's dad, kids in custody.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Kid had come to the attention to the authorities a
couple of years back for his associations, but they decided
that there was no real risk of him committing an
act of violence.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They were wrong. The Intefada was globalized to Sydney that day.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
My friend, do you understand that globalize the Intifada?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's those two guys shooting Jews clear of their in Australia,
a long way away from Gaza. That's globalized the Intifada.
That kids are chanting on campuses and in parades and
everybody's acting like that's okay.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, yeah, And people are quite rightfully looking at Australia
and Australia is just so European. Oh we're doing it
some two in this country. It would cause even more
conflict by calling out what this actually is. So they've
danced around anti semitism, called it marginal It's an important pathology.
(24:13):
These incidents are unrelated, but Jewish Australians have reported a
sharp rise in harassment, intimidation, vandalism, threats at schools, universities,
workplaces and public spaces. Anti Semitic Greek graffiti had already
appeared in this part of Sydney in the weeks before
the attack.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
The violence did not emerge from nowhere.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It was the most extreme expression of a wound to
the body politic that has been allowed to fester, writes
Peter Kirti.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, so, like I said, this story has huge global significance.
This might be what we're dealing with as a planet
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Speaking of which, So Columbia University just came out with
the fourth section or whatever it is, of their report
on an Thai Semitism at Columbia in the wake of
a couple of horrifying incidents which we reported on at
the time. Violence against students, takeovers of classrooms, takeovers of
the library.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You had an infamous incident where.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Staff members were at a meeting and were texting each
other making fun of Jews, the rest of it. So
the fourth and you know, kudos whoever was involved in
this at Columbia. This is pretty strong stuff that they
went ahead and included in the report, Brace Yourselves. It
paints a disturbing picture of life as a Jewish student
at the Ivy League institution. Here are some of the examples.
(25:40):
The report recounts a number of disturbing incidents in the classroom.
Some of the incidents, like the January storming of Israeli
history classes by cafia clad students who distributed pro Hamas
leaflets and harassed Jews, were publicized when they happened.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Other were unknown until the report's release. This section, entitled.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Scapegoating Jewish and Israeli students for their ties to Israel
detail scores of incidents.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
A score is twenty friends, so it's.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Dozens and dozens and dozens of incidents in which I'm quoting.
Colombia instructors singled out Jewish and Israeli students for personal
scapegoating because of their real or perceived ties to Israel,
which by the way, violates federal law. One Israeli student
was told you must know a lot about settler colonialism.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
How do you feel about that? This is by an instructor.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Another was called an occupier A third was told that
because she served in Israel's army of murderers, she should
be considered as one of those murderers.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's by her teacher.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
One Jewish student was told by an instructor quote, it's
a shame that your people survived in order to commit
mass genocide.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
It's impossible to imagine that this actually happened.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh yeah, oh, and again there are scores of examples
just from Colombia just in the last year or so,
year or.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Two, so that you know, we can probably talk about
that all day long.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
But so that leads to this headlines stry one more note,
every class, every section of the university was infected by
this as the teachers, the woke teachers, with their intersectional training,
their neo Marxist training, tried to incorporate it into everything.
And they had a unit in an introductory astronomy class
(27:26):
including astronomy in Palestine. Writing on the class of syllabus.
As we watched the Jennifer Aside Unfoldinggaza dot dot dot Well.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Speaking of that, the FBI announced in the last hour
that they stopped a planned New Year's Eve Los Angeles
terror attack by a pro Palestinian cell. Quite the theme
we've got going all weekend long here.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Pro Palestinian, which is a euphemism for radical.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Islamic FBI arresting, arresting, So I mean they you know,
this isn't just suspicion. They were actually arrested five members
of a pro Palestinian extremist group accused of planning attacks
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Their plan was to.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Uh unleash a massive and horrific terror plot in LA
that would include bombings and multiple targets beginning New Year's Eve.
So that's fantastic, and I'm sure we'll get more details
throughout the day on that the Law of Press conference
at some point and tell us what they found out.
So between that report out of Columbia, what happened in
(28:30):
Australia over the weekend, this terror plot, Yeah, that's a
much more significant story than Rob Reiner being.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Stabbed right to the wine.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Troubling god, I would say, So that's one of these
I actually said to Joe earlier off the year, I said,
I'm glad this is a week we're raising money for
something good because this there's a lot of bad news
and I'm kind of tired of it. So we put
a limit, a minimum. If you're going to donate money
to scouting, and we'll you with the total here in
just a second. And you want to have a funny name,
you got to donate at least twenty five bucks. For instance,
(29:05):
twenty five bucks came from Gavin's handgame. That's people who
have been talking about Gavin Newsoman is the way he
uses his hands too.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, Gavin's hand run in constant gesturing yes.
Twenty five dollars from Jack's next wife, ooh wow, thank
you dear. Fifty bucks from Prune runs.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I oh wow, I like that one.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Surely that that refers to going to the store quickly
to get some Prince.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, not sure that's exactly right. I'm not you know,
when we come back, because we're getting close to a
very good round number. When we come back, maybe we'll
hit our first total of the week as we try
to raise money for Scouting and uh, and we're already
off to a good start.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Specifically, it's it's scholarships to make sure kids who want
to get into scouting can because it has such amazing
effects on their lives.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, and I'll be talking more throughout the week.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
About things I've seen from my kid being in scout
scouting and how impressed I am.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We have more news of the day to get to.
I hope you can stick around. Oh, any Christmas movies
the years watched?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yes, we used to always watch Home Alone and as
a Latino kid, that movie was unbelievable because this kid
misses the plane, destroys the house, and ruins the vacation
and somehow this movie doesn't end in a.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Historic ass beating.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
In the first scene, the mom is like, go to
your room, Kevin, and he goes, shut up, Mom, and
I'm like, if that was me, That's where the movie ends.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
All the credits in memory of Marcelo. That is a
decent point.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Marcello Hernan is, by the way, one of the more
hilarious people they've ever had on Saturday Night Live in
my opinion.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
But it's very funny. He destroyed the house, he did
all these different things. You told mom to shut up,
and it just doesn't end with a historic gas beating.
That's pretty funny. Weft as a parenting of today.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Thirty years ago exactly that did that movie come out
in nineteen ninety one. I think I think it's thirty
three years old. I think I read last night. AnyWho
I watched We watched a show that was sixty years old.
It was made the same here.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I was born.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
A Charlie Brown Christmas last night kind of just accidentally,
like I was, just Henry was Henry. Henry took charge
of the Christmas cookies and he did He did everything,
absolutely the whole thing, making the cookies, mix them all up,
made them from scratch, including the frosting, and they were good.
But when we were finishing them all off, he said,
let's put on a Christmas movie. I was on to
(31:40):
put on something short on a school night, and so
I just went to Apple TV and right there was
a Charlie Brown Christmas and I thought, Okay, that's kind
of cool. Watched it, watched it for the I don't know,
it's been on sixty years of my life. I've probably
seen it fifty seven times. Probably. It is really quite
the amazing art if you haven't seen it in a while.
(32:01):
I read a lot about it last night. It almost
didn't get on the air in nineteen sixty five because
they thought it was too religious.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, hated it.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's also weird at that period of time, all sitcoms
had laugh tracks. As we all remember, laugh tracks were
ubiquitous up until what early two thousands and and something
that's a comedy without a laugh track stood out then
as now.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I mean, there are like various kind of jokes and then.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
It's just dead silent for like five seconds and they
all just look at each other as cartoon characters, you know.
And the animation is so everything that is Charlie Brown
and the voiceover by the kids who were not trained actors,
and they look like they're just going through the sound,
like they're just going through the motions. Kind of adds
(32:54):
to the art somehow. It's it's a very unique piece
of world, know.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
What you mean.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do you think we should do now? I mean, there's
no acting involved whatsoever. But it kind of adds to
it since the theme of it is the on wei
Charlie Brown's feeling around Christmas, and he's kind of sad
and doesn't understand what the point is and he hates
the commercialization of it all. And and but the main
(33:23):
thing that sticks out to me is my kids, who
I have trouble getting to watch anything that's more than
ten years old. Just because the pacing is too slow
for them. They both willingly because I was observing them
without you know, me making them, sat there and watched
the whole bang thing. There was something about the layout
of that story and the art of it that is
(33:45):
compelling still today, sixty years later.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I found, I don't know, that's that's quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
You know. Your observation about the lack of acting and
how that actually improves it in a way is super intriguing.
I you know, I thinking back to watching it many
many times, it's as if it strips away the artifice
and just gives you the ideas.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
And I also think it's interesting that in nineteen sixty five,
sixty years ago, they felt like Christmas had gotten too commercial.
And then there's the part about, oh, Charlie Brown gone.
I know, in nineteen sixty five they thought Christmas was
too commercial. And then Charlie Brown going to get a tree,
and he's surrounded by all these metal trees because I
guess artificial trees had just become a thing. I know,
(34:34):
my parents have a picture of their first tree. It
was artificial.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Because it was the sixties, everything was groovy, groovy colors
and groovy metallic finish and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, and it was so wild that Charlie Brown picked
out a real tree, even though it was this pathetic
tree sixty years ago. That is a pretty religious show.
I mean, he's reading from I'd forget which of the
Gospels he's reading from. Linus is there at the end,
but I mean it's It's Mark.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I could be wrong. I've got a twenty five percent chance.
Nice job. It's a serious Bible sort of thing. It
still airs. Oh yeah, yeah, I think it's fantastic. I
haven't watched it in years. I should.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
By contrast, Judy suggested, Katie, you'll be pleased with this
over the weekend that we watch your favorite holiday movie,
Bad Santa Yeh, which is arguably a holiday movie, but
inarguably unbelievably dark and mean and nasty. It's you know,
you got a horrifying character who you know is going
(35:35):
to get redeemed at some point, scrooge like, right, And
so you sit to about forty minutes, a horror, here
comes the redemp. No, ten more minutes, a horror here
it comes. Surely he will be No, let's pile on
a little more misery and it's just and finally at
the end he kind of sort of comes around somewhat.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
But man, is that irreverent? Now in all of your descriptions,
you've never word hilarious. Oh, it is frequently very very funny. Yeah,
that reminds me. We paired the.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Very earnest Charlie Brown Christmas with one of the Family
Guy Christmas episodes that we really really love where Stewie
plays the baby Jesus and Peter gets drunk and gives
away all the presents. That's a damn funny episode. Another
great recommendation for the family.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
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Speaker 1 (36:23):
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