December 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in Hour Two of the Thursday December 25, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Ukraine/Don't Become Europe
- Jack's Monthly Meme Movie Theater
- Dating Sites & Jack's Nazi Invite
- Music for Donations
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
President now claiming quote some progress in the effort to
end the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks Putin quote
has had enough, but Putin giving no indications Russia is
any closer to a ceasefire. President Trump now saying he
will leave it up to Ukraine and Russia to negotiate
for now.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What about the Putin call?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Remember we had a clip of that. What was that about?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Show years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
About the Putin call?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's from like eight years ago, So I don't know.
At the very beginning of Trump one. Yeah, any who,
Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin for about
two hours yesterday, and the takeaway seems to be I'm
gonna let them work it out, which pooh, where does
that leave things? It leaves it as a win for Putin?
I think, yes, although the ball is in Trump's court
(00:45):
because he has not said, at least as of yet, Okay,
if you're going to let them work that out, does
that mean them working it out while we continue to
give a tremendous amount of aid and telling maybe being
the most important to Ukraine or not, Because if it's
or not, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I feel like those of us who would like to
see the US backing Ukraine. Are digging through about our
fifteenth pile of manure looking for the pony in Trump's negotiations,
just this, maybe he's got this up his sleeve, you know,
feeling or hope. It's just it's been dashed over and
(01:28):
over again.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Well, he does have to go one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We are either going to continue to back Ukraine the
way we have for three years or not. And if
we're not, that's a major change. I think it's more
likely that one happens. Will he announce it or will
it will it just become evident at some point, I
don't know, after this period of Zelensky in Ukraine and
(01:52):
Europe doing everything conceivable conceivable to make it clear we
want peace too. We're with you on this, and put
never giving a single sign that he has any interest
in Trump's piece to you.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
No, if the US policy becomes well, then y'all are
on your own.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're not going to support a Ukraine. Well then we've
but it's not a nothing. We've sided with Ruia. In
my opinion, I know one hundred that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, And what seemed to be the lean is indeed
coming true.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It was less than Putin showing you wasn't interested in
peace right now. He gave Trump a long lecture about
why Ukraine belongs to Russia and all the He said,
this will not end until the underlying problems are solved. Well,
the underlying problems will not be solved until he has
Ukraine correct. Yeah. Yeah, As Rich Lowry writes in The
(02:45):
National Review, the play for the Kremlin is obvious here.
It wants to keep pinching ahead with territorial gains, and
if it continues to string along the negotiations, has to
hope that Trump tires of the whole thing and cuts
off USA to Ukraine. That would reward Putin's intransigent with
an important diplomatic victory split between the US and Europe,
and a chance to make major advances against an increasingly
hard pressed Ukraine. And the only reference really to Trump
(03:10):
being tired of Putin and understanding that he's being played
was that reference to Putin's tapping me along. But I
mean to come out of the call yesterday and say, yeah,
I think we made progress. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Jd Vance presented it as as well. If you guys
aren't interested, then.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hey, we're out.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
As if that is actually a neutral position. That is
not a neutral position, that's a taking the side of
Russian position. So I don't know if they're just trying,
if they're trying to fool people by presenting it is
like we're staying neutral on this or what.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So the ball is.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
First off, I think, in Trump's court, but then absolutely
in Europe's court as they got to figure out what
to do. So they had a big meeting over the
weekend of European leaders with a couple of interesting things
that came out of it. A big defense meeting of
the Germany, the big people Germany, Britain, France, poland a
couple of things. They announced Germany is gonna lift their
(04:07):
prohibition on nuclear energy that they've had since World War Two,
so they are going to, like France, start using nuclear
energy so that they don't have to buy energy from Russia.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So that's a pretty big deal economically for Russia.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, they also announced in that meeting that Russia will
does not present NATO a dilemma in five years, had
previously been thought if the war were to end soon,
but could within a year, like they could be back
up to speed enough within a year to present NATO
(04:42):
a real dilemma of what do we do now? If
they move on Estonia, they would be strong enough. That's
what the European countries announced over the weekend. And then
I really liked this quote that came out of it.
I think from the leader of Poland. Russia has been
playing hockey for years. We are not going to figure
skate our way out of this. Oh that's some good
(05:02):
ice sport metaphor slinging there, Sir Adam.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well done.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That went with also one of the leaders saying the
years of two percent funding of our military are over.
It's going to have to be more like five percent. Yeah,
if there were days. I wish we had unlimited time
for this sort of thing because it's so interesting. I
have all sorts of interesting. Uh well, I suppose you
all will be the judge of that when I delivered it.
But I found it really really intriguing analysis of Europe
(05:31):
and everything that's wrong with it. I think the Russia
attack on Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea and the
attack on Georgia and everything else has has and Germany
continuing to buy oil from Russia after that happened and
all those kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well, right, I think it's finally gotten to the point
that it's shaken the dopey, dopey Euros out of their
torpoor there, their sleepiness. They're fantom sea land that they've
been living in for the past a bunch of years.
After you know, the US security umbrella enabled them to
invest vast sums of money into welfare states and socialism
(06:11):
and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And I would like.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
To issue a hammering indictment against them for all of
that crap. But I think they're right about Russian and Ukraine.
We're not going to figure skate our way out of this.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I love that. Here's the takeaway.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And this was going to be the takeaway after I
built a case over many, many minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But I'll give you the takeaway. We need to work
every day as a country to not become Europe. And
there are a couple of examples of a great piece
by Walter Russell Meade about why democracy is in retreat,
and he cites several cases in Europe about anybody who
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does not go along with the very very main s
dream view of who ought to get elected, and what
policies ought to be passed is decried as undemocratic and dangerous,
like the AfD party in Germany. And I could go
into detail on that. The more I learned, the more
interested I get. But their definition of democracy is the
(07:18):
results I want, and anything that challenges that is swept aside.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Like the AfD ought to be in an alliance with
the party that won the most seats. It's obvious the
efforts to keep them out because of a few crack
pots and being a little soft on Russia or whatever
is just it's twisting the German political system into knots
obsessed with it.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The men declared a terrorist organization or whatever so people
can listen to their phone calls and read their emails.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, yes, but actually, as long as we're talking about
this is let me click over.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think it's right there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So last week the German government officially designated the opposition
party AfD as a confirmed extremist organization. The announcement came
from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,
their domestic intelligence agency blah blah blah been On Wednesday,
they abruptly withdrew the extremist label they will now monitor
(08:17):
the party only as a suspected case, which still allows
some surveillance in a way Americans would find repugnant, but
under much stricter judicial oversight. And somebody leaked the report
and it reveals that the evidence against the AfD consisted
not of plans for violence or insurrection, but just controversial
(08:38):
rhetoric and deeply nationalist views, none of which should have
triggered that designation. So it was the quote unquote mainstream
powers that be trying to label as extremist anybody who
dared shake their hold on power, which is exactly what
I was driving at. Their definition of democracies democracy with
(09:01):
the right results.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And that's terrible. The other thing I really wanted to
talk about is the Wall Street Journal had a great
piece about how huge tech is in the world economy
right now, technology in general, and how tiny Europe's share
of it is the EU rivals. I mean, it's in
(09:26):
the same weight class more or less.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
If you take it as a whole, the US economy
and the Chinese economy. It's a juggernaut. But you want
to talk tech, Oh, it's sad, it's pathetic. Apple's market
value is bigger than the entire German stock market, for instance,
There's no Google, there's no Amazon, there's no Meta. In Europe,
there's nothing even slightly close. And this journal article goes
(09:49):
into depth and has a bunch of different examples of
native born tech people, German tech people who brought what
they learned back from Silicon.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Valley to Europe.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We were immediately crushed by strict labor laws, a risk
averse business culture, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
lackluster economic growth, no demographic growth.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And said no, and back to California they went, or
other places. Yeah and so, and you know that list.
I'm gonna hit it one more time and we free marketers,
sold all dragon fans. I know we're sad, and we
ought to have industrial planning in tariffs and the rest
of it. But Europe is crushed by a timid and
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risk averse business culture, strict labor laws, suffocating regulations, smaller
pool of venture capital, and lackluster economic growth. Don't become Europe.
That's what we as a country need to repeat to
ourselves every morning. You gotta make your bed. It's a
small act of discipline and positive something or other. I
(10:58):
believe in it very much and say, let's not become
Europe today.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So like when you get up in the morning, US,
I'm going to be a good person today or or
whatever your mantra is, right, I'm going to get kindness, whatever,
do God's will today and stay positive.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Let's not become Europe today.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yes, we're going to build a utopia through a million regulations. Yes.
Hour two I'll get into a little of what I
pulled out of the first part of Jake Tapper's book
that I started reading last night when I was in
bed again unintentionally hilarious, along with some interesting nuggets about
(11:42):
what was going on there. It's the biggest failure of
media in our nation's history, and it should not just
disappear as a minor thing. Luckily it has not been
for at least the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong sell.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The answer I got on chat GBT about I just
asked chat GPT was the Minecraft movie a financial success?
Its answer so much better and thorough than googling it.
I mean, not even clothes, So I gotta get out
of the habit of googling anyway. A Minecraft movie has
made almost a billion dollars worldwide after a budget to
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make it of only one hundred and fifty million dollars,
which I gotta believe all of the filming of the
acting of that movie could have been done in an
afternoon probably. I mean, there wasn't much to it, and
it was all so much was green screen. It was
all CGI stuff and everything like that. And like I mentioned,
(12:47):
Jack Black, what an interesting dude. I don't know is
he married or not. I've seen him in various interviews.
He's certainly not trying to impress chicks. He wears ill
fitting clothes, he doesn't wash his face or coma's hair.
He rolls in, does his lines brilliantly because he's really good,
and then uh collects his money and goes home. What
an interesting thing that is? What movie star has never
(13:09):
wanted to care how they look like Jack Black? He
keeps getting fatter and greasier anyway. I mean, you aint
gonna be fat if you want. Maybe you think that's
part of your appeal.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You can wash your face AnyWho. The Minecraft movie, first
of all, way better than I expected it to be.
I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was only an hour forty five, but I thought, uh,
I thought, this is gonna be kind of tough to
sit through, and it was quite entertaining, pretty dang funny
by the end it had it reminded me of like
all your Lord of the Rings movies. Okay, another giant
fight sequence. I just I can't do fight sequences like
a lot of people can, apparently endlessly.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But my main takeaway was, and if I was rich,
I would start like really like Elon Rich, I would
come up with this idea today. It was basically a
series of of popular memes that young people get strung
together so that everybody could laugh together about Hey, I
(14:08):
get this meme and feel part of something.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's what it seemed like to me.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And I'll bet you could put one of those out
once a month of just whatever the most recent hot
memes were, right, I make it like ninety minutes long.
It's just a series of meme jokes that every teenager
gets and things to the hilarious, and it would be
super popular because that's basically what the Minecraft movie was,
(14:35):
So just a recognition slash belonging fest. Yeah, because other
things aren't really working, but partially because this is a
reason to be together in the theater. It's fun to
recognize the memes together. It was clear from my older
son when he went and saw it in the theater
that that was a lot of the appeal. It was
all these inside jokes that they get and laugh at,
(14:57):
and it's fun to see him in a group.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I think this is a way to rescue it's it's
gonna kill old time movies.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But like just I don't know the most popular memes
put together ninety minutes with a loose script. I think
that would make somebody steal that idea and make it work. Well.
It's either like irony or a perpetual motion machine or
something that online memes. The enjoyment of online memes together yeah,
in a room might convince kids, hey this is really fun.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Wow, good point. Hello Mike.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Constantly, my son was saying, I know you don't get that,
but to various things that were happening, characters and lines
and stuff like that, because they're here today. I mean,
you could have had a movie where the Hawktua girl
was you know, a co star there for a couple
of coffee. Oh please don't.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You and people would have go fought with laughter though
you know they want.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
In the studios. Yes, oh yes, now you gotta start
producing these. This is your ten million dollar idea. It's fine.
I thought, I'll get another co host.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I thought of Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I thought, this is actual brilliant idea. It would just
take a lot of money to get a going. You know,
you'd have to pay for rights, but you'd have lawyers
to do that. That'd be easy.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Uh yeah, wow, that's a great idea. Just your monthly
meme cinema.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah yeah, and all the teenagers you get together and
feel cooler and smarter than the rest of us because
they get.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
All the jokes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We bought it though, cost twenty bucks. So Minecraft's available
at home now for streaming. But it was twenty bucks
to in it. I think it's got about a six
month run.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Your idea, Oh really, don't like.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Don't invest too heavily, thinking next year will be even bigger.
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
It's the arm Strong in Getty show.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Armstrong in Getty, So.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Armstrong listen to this.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Tender just added a new feature that let's use this
coordinate double dates.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Three people you don't like. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
His negative joke about Tender and online dating app and
then people laughing and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I don't know anything like I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Have I have no practical knowledge of online dating because
I've never done it or seen a website or I mean,
I only know what I've heard people talk about. But
I've I've heard almost entirely negative stuff, at least in
the last couple of years, about how awful.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It is and and and the.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Number of people I've heard who deleted all their apps
and have given up on it because.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's it's a it's a.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's only you know a handful of guys trying to
have sex and the end.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yes, Katie uh drama makes the stories.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
I have several friends that have met the loves of
their lives and gotten married thanks.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
To quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what,
jacket's what you describe the big story, this is hot,
this is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot,
and then backlash against what's hot. It's actually terrible, it's terrible,
over and over tame. But I only know my own
personal experience with just people I know, and it's anecdotal,
one hundred percent anecdotal, and the plural anecdote is not data,
(18:13):
but anecdotally. I know lots of people who say, and
it's all, it was good, what happened. Well, I can
tell you one thing that did happen that you might
not know of match dot com, but every single one
of the other UH forums they own, like practically all
(18:35):
of them now. Match dot Com owns Tender and I've
heard of these.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
In the news.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Okay, cubid and and I think Hinge and a bunch
of other stuff, maybe e harmony, But they own almost
all of them now. And there's some belief that they
have a reason to not have you match because if
you match with somebody you stay with, you're done as
a customer.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah,
there is some reason to you know, just string you along,
get you kind of close or not give you many
and you stay desperate and you stay on the I mean,
of course there's an incentive for that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say, you've
got a monopoly uncoupling.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
We can't have this. Wish you could just meet somebody
at the library or something like that. So the library,
it's likely to be a junkie. But anyway, depending where
you live, you meet somebody at the library is a
particularly bad choice in the modern world.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Who's sleep upped in my head? Who's meeting someone at
the library?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
People who read books? Sir? The library is for washing
your feet in the sink and we all know that.
Or looking at porn on a taxpayer funded computer. I
guess researching how do I hide a body? Not on
your own computer? Right, But looking at the charts through
(20:03):
the years, back in the nineteen thirties, nobody met online.
I think that's an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
But for for.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
All of mankind time it was the ice cream social
and friends and then church and that.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
So that was big enough to think look at.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But the way online has exploded, it dwarfs every other
way of people meeting currently, at least according to all
these studies. So you know that contradicts my anecdotal evidence.
Although it could have gotten a lot worse just in
the last couple of years, and these charts would still
be true, especially if match dot Com bought all the
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companies and has some reason to you have zero reason
to like perfect your algorithm, you know, like TikTok perfected
the algorithm to keep you engaged. I don't know if
match dot com or well, they're all match dot com now,
but if match dot com could do that, even if
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somebody came in boss, I've done it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I've figured out.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
The algorithm that uh, nine times out of ten will
put people together that they'll be happy the rest of
their lives.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Would you use that? I think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
the library online, of course, to make sure that that
did not get out. No, at the very least, change
them in a radiator in the basement. There are many
options to keep this from coming out, but we don't
have to go through the various macab examples exactly. There
are several hipop to mind. Ah right, wow, okay, well
(21:39):
it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I saw the New York Times article a while back.
I think I talked about this on their breakdown. Was
it's it's like, I don't remember the exact numbers, but
this is close enough to write.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's like ten to one women to men, first of
all on there and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Secondly of the men, it's like the same ten best
looking guys who get all the dates with like ninety
percent of the women, and they're not interested in a
in a relationship past like you know, a night or two,
and so, I mean, that's and that's what most of
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it is, at least according to that New York Times article.
Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Do that right right, right, right right right, or.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
To you know, continually match you up with somebody who
you're never going to connect with full time but close.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Huh, that would be evil. Yeah, yeah, And then they varying,
and then this article had a whole bunch of stuff
in there.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
This all sounds horrible to me. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Just it just sounds like setting yourself up for the
worst rejection you can imagine in your life, to to like,
you know, to put all this effort and everything like
that and get like no results. In some of the websites,
people can give you thumbs down and stuff like why
am I going back to high school? Are you gonna
make me go back to high school and live this again?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
the nonfiction section of the library. Say, I see you're
looking at a book about fungus. I too, am interested
in the fungus.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
For instance. You know, let me transition quickly to my
favorite library story before we do something differently. I once
was in the library, Gladys. This is my one of
my favorite stories. I've told him many times, but we
have a lot of new nisms. Katie's never heard this story.
I'm sure I'm in the library. It matters, wasn't when
you were in the stacks of the college library in
the toilet.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
This is a different story, totally different. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I've got library library stories that I've told many times.
The other one was somebody trying to have a male hookup.
Is a very complicated I talked about it on the
One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling all
my library stories this.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Week for some reason.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
This one, I'm in the live very dressed like me,
but in me is shaved head, and I'm more in
Doc Martin's, which is a very common look for me.
I'm in the library and I'm in the World War
two section, which is not uncommon either. I was talking
about a book from World War two earlier in the show,
I'm constantly reading books about World War Two. When I'm
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in the World War two section, shaved head black Doc Martins,
and a guy walks by me and kind of gives
me the look. Now, having had the previous library experience
that I mentioned on one more thing, I think he's
just interested in me, and I'm not interested in him
because I'm heterosexual and I don't think.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Much beyond it. I walk out of the library.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the like the
cement railing. He said, see, you like World War two.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Books, huh, Like you like.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Reading about hit Ler and stuff like that. We're having
a meeting Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Just let you know. It's at seven o'clock and it's
at the whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
He thought I was a neo Nazi. I got invited
by a neo Nazi to a Nazi party.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
My god, I know, in retrospect, I told this on
the air like the next day.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
In retrospect, I kind of wish i'd ha gone, Yeah,
I just could have investigated it out, but I was
so weirded out. I was so weirded out, oh you know,
and then I get my picture taken and somebody recognized me.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It's on the evening news, no.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
On butzi that's how they start the meeting.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
But yeah, guy actually invited me to a neo Nazi party.
Just got a head, short hair and wore Doc Martins like,
you know, like every lesbian in America.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean, so what are they all Nazis?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
What did he look like? He looked like me.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He was in a T shirt, doc short hair, except
he's a Nazi. Did he have the white laces in
his Doc Martins?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
That?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Now he wasn't the time. I think that's two. I mean,
you're really outing yourself if you go there, aren't you. Yeah, okay,
I'm unaware of this. Yeah that that's a full on
I'm racist Nazi if you have white lace supremacist. Yeah,
but oh really I did not know that. Yeah, I've
always I've always kind of wished I had to check
it out.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
But you know, it might be one of those things
you get in and you know some people and and
and and it's it's harder to untangle yourself from that
than you think.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, I was. I can think of all sorts of
things that would go wrong there. I mean, not like
like deadly wrong, but just really really wrong.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Walking your campus, all the Nazis are waving at you,
you know.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Hey Jack, hey, j.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well somebody recognizes here or whatever. I mean, that's they
were doomed.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, they're walking down through the park with their big
swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey, that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And you're saying, you know, as the news shows up
at your front door, I just went out of curiosity.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You were curious about near Nazism.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, yeah, I mean it's it's it's terrible, obviously, but
I wanted to go to the meeting and meet some
of the fellas.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I like the footwear.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I don't know what to say, Oh I'm Nazi Germany fortunate.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Oh yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You get to the meeting and like, right off the bat,
it's you got to put your arm in the air
and say, we blame the Jews, we hate the Jews.
Our goal is to have the Jews annihilated. And IM
mean and me and I like, I can't be here.
Uh and then what are you gonna just turn around
and walk out the tour and where.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Are you going?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah again, so I probably made the right decision and
just getting wide eyed and uh, no, and walking away
from the guy. So you like World War two books,
don't you? Yeah, me and every other male in America.
What the hell is this? You're casting a pretty well
in that garb. Please, I male pattern baldness.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I keep my hair short. Michael Jordan made it popular.
That's not make does make you a Nazi? You doubled
down with the Doc Martins.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging around
in Oregon.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
We're in a pink tutu and some guy assume as
I swing his way, you can't fault him.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's more in the uniform, huh.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
More in heels in a short skirt, and they made
all kinds of assumptions.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That's not bad for having not picked up the violin
in a year.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Blood and you're years of studying. I mean you like,
never even taking a lesson, right, No.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
No, I've practiced a total of like an hour on
the violin in my entire life presses. You know, it's
a friendless instrument. So I pulled off a scale there whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
It's actually pretty good.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I wouldn't like put on my
hard shoes to go see you in a concert hall.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
But what you might be if you just tuned in,
you might be wondering why Jack, who can't play the
violin practicing.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
A scale on a fiddle.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh, it's a beloved, armstrong and getty tradition as we
raise money for wonderful causes, in this case, scholarships for
young lads and girls who'd want to be Scouts and
maybe don't have the money, and Scouting is such a
positive influence in their lives, who want to make sure
they have that experience. And we've offered plenty of carrot,
nice interviews stories from Scouts and how it's changed their
lives and inspired them to become the people they've become.
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But for some of you that hasn't been enough. The
carrot has passed uneaten. So out comes the stick, right,
and the stick is a fiddle and a trombone, right
without music, playing beloved Christmas classics until we raise how
much did we decide? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Probably three grand?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
All right, you need to get.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Three thousand dollars together starting right now, Jack, I will
call the first tune if you don't mind about the
And we have no music, and I've oh, I haven't
even mentioned. I've got my beloved a trombone in hand,
many many years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I could play this thing. Not now well, and you
don't have any music? Yeah, like you said, so right,
I suggest the Christmas Classic. It came upon a midnight?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Do I even know how that goes? It came upon okay.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I mean night?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Two three? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
This isn't gonna until we get three. Let's see.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
We've got Jack's podcast audibleve mouth slurp.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'm sorry about that one. That was a mistake.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
All right, since this has begun a different song, Kathy,
I think I need a different song?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Can something? I know the melody better? I think i'd
be much better there. How's the money coming in? And
go to Armstrong and getty dot com. It's easy to donate.
I know it gets jammed up a little bit, but
but you can do it. Here we go, all right,
I'm sorry, what's the tune?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Jingle bells?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Okay, jingle bells? What what temple do we want? Jingle bells?
Jingle bells? Two? Three?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Four?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, Well, we just.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Got Robert, who donated fifty dollars clearly wants this to
come to an end. Blatness song blattice twenty six dollars
even this night, I was ten coming in with twenty six,
Nancy with fifty two.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Say now the dashing through the snow part, we're on
our way, ha ha ha, I'm through.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
In the That was very important. Okay, what's more?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Even more painful than it says? Let's get one more
good song as we and if you donated Armstrong, you
getty dot com.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
This all can come to.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
A store stop. Yeah, all right, do you have an idea?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Oh? Come on, come.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
On, silent night?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Here you go?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
It'ld be a silent for the mouth.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And it's walls two three.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Oh that was almost right.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
That was good.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
So what's the It was a silent night, Michaels find out.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
All to make this a silent night?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, Michael got a beautiful.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
The baby Jesus have got to throw the first punch
of his life.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Where are we at for our total? Did you refresh?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'm refreshing. Okay, I think that I think that might
be good. You're stupid?
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Did hurt just contributed fifty bucks?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh? Thank you very much? Stupid? Did hurt? In for fifty.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Now I could I could be talked into playing a
little more.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
No, but no any requests of events I would like more. Yeah,
I could do more of this every year.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I think, you know what, I'm gonna start practicing a
little bit and get a little then and I ever do.
I literally had not opened the case since this day
last year.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
When I put it away.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
You know, other than the people I love, music has
meant more to me than anything in my life. And
I have no idea how I got talked into playing
the trombone.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It was a bad idea. It's a fine instrument in
this symphotic setting, sure, but unless you're James Pancow of Chicago,
it won't do you a damn bit of good of
rock and roll? What do you wish you had played?
And it spent as much time practicing if you could
start over, honestly, like a piano or like saxophone. I mean,
I've played zillions hours of guitar and I still stink.
(33:55):
But yeah, something that was more useful in rock and roll, honestly.
But it's okay. Oh boy, A great twenty five dollars
donation from needed this when I was ten. That's a
great one, as in, I wish I'd had Scouts when
I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, that's that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Raging tromboner in for twenty five dollars, appreciate everybody donating.
Really hoping to hit one hundred and fifty grand by
the end of the show. We do have a whale
we know that's coming in at some point, which is
gonna help. We're at about one twenty nine right now,
so we need a pretty decent chunk of money. I mean,
we need about twenty grand to get to our goal
by the end of the hour. That's interesting about the
musical instrument. I think a lot of people, if they
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ever play at all, just kind of randomly end up
on one. I wish I had taken it way more
seriously when I'm younger, if I had to practice like
I practice now, I would have loved to have seen,
you know, what I could have done. Not that I
ever wanted to make money or be professional or anything
like that, just the enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
It's more enjoyable to play better.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Uh yeah, absolutely, yeah. I was super motivated. Actually I
was a pretty good brass player, but
Speaker 4 (35:01):
And it was funny, and I met a lot of
nice people, no regrets, Armstrong and Getty
President now claiming quote some progress in the effort to
end the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks Putin quote
has had enough, but Putin giving no indications Russia is
any closer to a ceasefire. President Trump now saying he
will leave it up to Ukraine and Russia to negotiate
for now.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What about the Putin call?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Remember we had a clip of that. What was that about?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Show years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
About the Putin call?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's from like eight years ago, So I don't know.
At the very beginning of Trump one. Yeah, any who,
Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin for about
two hours yesterday, and the takeaway seems to be I'm
gonna let them work it out, which pooh, where does
that leave things? It leaves it as a win for Putin?
I think, yes, although the ball is in Trump's court
(00:45):
because he has not said, at least as of yet, Okay,
if you're going to let them work that out, does
that mean them working it out while we continue to
give a tremendous amount of aid and telling maybe being
the most important to Ukraine or not, Because if it's
or not, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I feel like those of us who would like to
see the US backing Ukraine. Are digging through about our
fifteenth pile of manure looking for the pony in Trump's negotiations,
just this, maybe he's got this up his sleeve, you know,
feeling or hope. It's just it's been dashed over and
(01:28):
over again.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Well, he does have to go one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We are either going to continue to back Ukraine the
way we have for three years or not. And if
we're not, that's a major change. I think it's more
likely that one happens. Will he announce it or will
it will it just become evident at some point, I
don't know, after this period of Zelensky in Ukraine and
(01:52):
Europe doing everything conceivable conceivable to make it clear we
want peace too. We're with you on this, and put
never giving a single sign that he has any interest
in Trump's piece to you.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
No, if the US policy becomes well, then y'all are
on your own.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're not going to support a Ukraine. Well then we've
but it's not a nothing. We've sided with Ruia. In
my opinion, I know one hundred that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, And what seemed to be the lean is indeed
coming true.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It was less than Putin showing you wasn't interested in
peace right now. He gave Trump a long lecture about
why Ukraine belongs to Russia and all the He said,
this will not end until the underlying problems are solved. Well,
the underlying problems will not be solved until he has
Ukraine correct. Yeah. Yeah, As Rich Lowry writes in The
(02:45):
National Review, the play for the Kremlin is obvious here.
It wants to keep pinching ahead with territorial gains, and
if it continues to string along the negotiations, has to
hope that Trump tires of the whole thing and cuts
off USA to Ukraine. That would reward Putin's intransigent with
an important diplomatic victory split between the US and Europe,
and a chance to make major advances against an increasingly
hard pressed Ukraine. And the only reference really to Trump
(03:10):
being tired of Putin and understanding that he's being played
was that reference to Putin's tapping me along. But I
mean to come out of the call yesterday and say, yeah,
I think we made progress. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Jd Vance presented it as as well. If you guys
aren't interested, then.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hey, we're out.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
As if that is actually a neutral position. That is
not a neutral position, that's a taking the side of
Russian position. So I don't know if they're just trying,
if they're trying to fool people by presenting it is
like we're staying neutral on this or what.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So the ball is.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
First off, I think, in Trump's court, but then absolutely
in Europe's court as they got to figure out what
to do. So they had a big meeting over the
weekend of European leaders with a couple of interesting things
that came out of it. A big defense meeting of
the Germany, the big people Germany, Britain, France, poland a
couple of things. They announced Germany is gonna lift their
(04:07):
prohibition on nuclear energy that they've had since World War Two,
so they are going to, like France, start using nuclear
energy so that they don't have to buy energy from Russia.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So that's a pretty big deal economically for Russia.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, they also announced in that meeting that Russia will
does not present NATO a dilemma in five years, had
previously been thought if the war were to end soon,
but could within a year, like they could be back
up to speed enough within a year to present NATO
(04:42):
a real dilemma of what do we do now? If
they move on Estonia, they would be strong enough. That's
what the European countries announced over the weekend. And then
I really liked this quote that came out of it.
I think from the leader of Poland. Russia has been
playing hockey for years. We are not going to figure
skate our way out of this. Oh that's some good
(05:02):
ice sport metaphor slinging there, Sir Adam.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well done.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That went with also one of the leaders saying the
years of two percent funding of our military are over.
It's going to have to be more like five percent. Yeah,
if there were days. I wish we had unlimited time
for this sort of thing because it's so interesting. I
have all sorts of interesting. Uh well, I suppose you
all will be the judge of that when I delivered it.
But I found it really really intriguing analysis of Europe
(05:31):
and everything that's wrong with it. I think the Russia
attack on Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea and the
attack on Georgia and everything else has has and Germany
continuing to buy oil from Russia after that happened and
all those kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well, right, I think it's finally gotten to the point
that it's shaken the dopey, dopey Euros out of their
torpoor there, their sleepiness. They're fantom sea land that they've
been living in for the past a bunch of years.
After you know, the US security umbrella enabled them to
invest vast sums of money into welfare states and socialism
(06:11):
and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And I would like.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
To issue a hammering indictment against them for all of
that crap. But I think they're right about Russian and Ukraine.
We're not going to figure skate our way out of this.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I love that. Here's the takeaway.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And this was going to be the takeaway after I
built a case over many, many minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But I'll give you the takeaway. We need to work
every day as a country to not become Europe. And
there are a couple of examples of a great piece
by Walter Russell Meade about why democracy is in retreat,
and he cites several cases in Europe about anybody who
(06:56):
does not go along with the very very main s
dream view of who ought to get elected, and what
policies ought to be passed is decried as undemocratic and dangerous,
like the AfD party in Germany. And I could go
into detail on that. The more I learned, the more
interested I get. But their definition of democracy is the
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results I want, and anything that challenges that is swept aside.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Like the AfD ought to be in an alliance with
the party that won the most seats. It's obvious the
efforts to keep them out because of a few crack
pots and being a little soft on Russia or whatever
is just it's twisting the German political system into knots
obsessed with it.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The men declared a terrorist organization or whatever so people
can listen to their phone calls and read their emails.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, yes, but actually, as long as we're talking about
this is let me click over.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think it's right there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So last week the German government officially designated the opposition
party AfD as a confirmed extremist organization. The announcement came
from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,
their domestic intelligence agency blah blah blah been On Wednesday,
they abruptly withdrew the extremist label they will now monitor
(08:17):
the party only as a suspected case, which still allows
some surveillance in a way Americans would find repugnant, but
under much stricter judicial oversight. And somebody leaked the report
and it reveals that the evidence against the AfD consisted
not of plans for violence or insurrection, but just controversial
(08:38):
rhetoric and deeply nationalist views, none of which should have
triggered that designation. So it was the quote unquote mainstream
powers that be trying to label as extremist anybody who
dared shake their hold on power, which is exactly what
I was driving at. Their definition of democracies democracy with
(09:01):
the right results.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And that's terrible. The other thing I really wanted to
talk about is the Wall Street Journal had a great
piece about how huge tech is in the world economy
right now, technology in general, and how tiny Europe's share
of it is the EU rivals. I mean, it's in
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the same weight class more or less.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
If you take it as a whole, the US economy
and the Chinese economy. It's a juggernaut. But you want
to talk tech, Oh, it's sad, it's pathetic. Apple's market
value is bigger than the entire German stock market, for instance,
There's no Google, there's no Amazon, there's no Meta. In Europe,
there's nothing even slightly close. And this journal article goes
(09:49):
into depth and has a bunch of different examples of
native born tech people, German tech people who brought what
they learned back from Silicon.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Valley to Europe.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We were immediately crushed by strict labor laws, a risk
averse business culture, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
lackluster economic growth, no demographic growth.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And said no, and back to California they went, or
other places. Yeah and so, and you know that list.
I'm gonna hit it one more time and we free marketers,
sold all dragon fans. I know we're sad, and we
ought to have industrial planning in tariffs and the rest
of it. But Europe is crushed by a timid and
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risk averse business culture, strict labor laws, suffocating regulations, smaller
pool of venture capital, and lackluster economic growth. Don't become Europe.
That's what we as a country need to repeat to
ourselves every morning. You gotta make your bed. It's a
small act of discipline and positive something or other. I
(10:58):
believe in it very much and say, let's not become
Europe today.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So like when you get up in the morning, US,
I'm going to be a good person today or or
whatever your mantra is, right, I'm going to get kindness, whatever,
do God's will today and stay positive.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Let's not become Europe today.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yes, we're going to build a utopia through a million regulations. Yes.
Hour two I'll get into a little of what I
pulled out of the first part of Jake Tapper's book
that I started reading last night when I was in
bed again unintentionally hilarious, along with some interesting nuggets about
(11:42):
what was going on there. It's the biggest failure of
media in our nation's history, and it should not just
disappear as a minor thing. Luckily it has not been
for at least the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong sell.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The answer I got on chat GBT about I just
asked chat GPT was the Minecraft movie a financial success?
Its answer so much better and thorough than googling it.
I mean, not even clothes, So I gotta get out
of the habit of googling anyway. A Minecraft movie has
made almost a billion dollars worldwide after a budget to
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make it of only one hundred and fifty million dollars,
which I gotta believe all of the filming of the
acting of that movie could have been done in an
afternoon probably. I mean, there wasn't much to it, and
it was all so much was green screen. It was
all CGI stuff and everything like that. And like I mentioned,
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Jack Black, what an interesting dude. I don't know is
he married or not. I've seen him in various interviews.
He's certainly not trying to impress chicks. He wears ill
fitting clothes, he doesn't wash his face or coma's hair.
He rolls in, does his lines brilliantly because he's really good,
and then uh collects his money and goes home. What
an interesting thing that is? What movie star has never
(13:09):
wanted to care how they look like Jack Black? He
keeps getting fatter and greasier anyway. I mean, you aint
gonna be fat if you want. Maybe you think that's
part of your appeal.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You can wash your face AnyWho. The Minecraft movie, first
of all, way better than I expected it to be.
I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was only an hour forty five, but I thought, uh,
I thought, this is gonna be kind of tough to
sit through, and it was quite entertaining, pretty dang funny
by the end it had it reminded me of like
all your Lord of the Rings movies. Okay, another giant
fight sequence. I just I can't do fight sequences like
a lot of people can, apparently endlessly.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But my main takeaway was, and if I was rich,
I would start like really like Elon Rich, I would
come up with this idea today. It was basically a
series of of popular memes that young people get strung
together so that everybody could laugh together about Hey, I
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get this meme and feel part of something.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's what it seemed like to me.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And I'll bet you could put one of those out
once a month of just whatever the most recent hot
memes were, right, I make it like ninety minutes long.
It's just a series of meme jokes that every teenager
gets and things to the hilarious, and it would be
super popular because that's basically what the Minecraft movie was,
(14:35):
So just a recognition slash belonging fest. Yeah, because other
things aren't really working, but partially because this is a
reason to be together in the theater. It's fun to
recognize the memes together. It was clear from my older
son when he went and saw it in the theater
that that was a lot of the appeal. It was
all these inside jokes that they get and laugh at,
(14:57):
and it's fun to see him in a group.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I think this is a way to rescue it's it's
gonna kill old time movies.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But like just I don't know the most popular memes
put together ninety minutes with a loose script. I think
that would make somebody steal that idea and make it work. Well.
It's either like irony or a perpetual motion machine or
something that online memes. The enjoyment of online memes together yeah,
in a room might convince kids, hey this is really fun.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Wow, good point. Hello Mike.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Constantly, my son was saying, I know you don't get that,
but to various things that were happening, characters and lines
and stuff like that, because they're here today. I mean,
you could have had a movie where the Hawktua girl
was you know, a co star there for a couple
of coffee. Oh please don't.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You and people would have go fought with laughter though
you know they want.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
In the studios. Yes, oh yes, now you gotta start
producing these. This is your ten million dollar idea. It's fine.
I thought, I'll get another co host.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I thought of Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I thought, this is actual brilliant idea. It would just
take a lot of money to get a going. You know,
you'd have to pay for rights, but you'd have lawyers
to do that. That'd be easy.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Uh yeah, wow, that's a great idea. Just your monthly
meme cinema.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah yeah, and all the teenagers you get together and
feel cooler and smarter than the rest of us because
they get.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
All the jokes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We bought it though, cost twenty bucks. So Minecraft's available
at home now for streaming. But it was twenty bucks
to in it. I think it's got about a six
month run.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Your idea, Oh really, don't like.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Don't invest too heavily, thinking next year will be even bigger.
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
It's the arm Strong in Getty show.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Armstrong in Getty, So.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Armstrong listen to this.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Tender just added a new feature that let's use this
coordinate double dates.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Three people you don't like. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
His negative joke about Tender and online dating app and
then people laughing and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I don't know anything like I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Have I have no practical knowledge of online dating because
I've never done it or seen a website or I mean,
I only know what I've heard people talk about. But
I've I've heard almost entirely negative stuff, at least in
the last couple of years, about how awful.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It is and and and the.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Number of people I've heard who deleted all their apps
and have given up on it because.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's it's a it's a.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's only you know a handful of guys trying to
have sex and the end.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yes, Katie uh drama makes the stories.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
I have several friends that have met the loves of
their lives and gotten married thanks.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
To quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what,
jacket's what you describe the big story, this is hot,
this is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot,
and then backlash against what's hot. It's actually terrible, it's terrible,
over and over tame. But I only know my own
personal experience with just people I know, and it's anecdotal,
one hundred percent anecdotal, and the plural anecdote is not data,
(18:13):
but anecdotally. I know lots of people who say, and
it's all, it was good, what happened. Well, I can
tell you one thing that did happen that you might
not know of match dot com, but every single one
of the other UH forums they own, like practically all
(18:35):
of them now. Match dot Com owns Tender and I've
heard of these.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
In the news.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Okay, cubid and and I think Hinge and a bunch
of other stuff, maybe e harmony, But they own almost
all of them now. And there's some belief that they
have a reason to not have you match because if
you match with somebody you stay with, you're done as
a customer.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah,
there is some reason to you know, just string you along,
get you kind of close or not give you many
and you stay desperate and you stay on the I mean,
of course there's an incentive for that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say, you've
got a monopoly uncoupling.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
We can't have this. Wish you could just meet somebody
at the library or something like that. So the library,
it's likely to be a junkie. But anyway, depending where
you live, you meet somebody at the library is a
particularly bad choice in the modern world.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Who's sleep upped in my head? Who's meeting someone at
the library?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
People who read books? Sir? The library is for washing
your feet in the sink and we all know that.
Or looking at porn on a taxpayer funded computer. I
guess researching how do I hide a body? Not on
your own computer? Right, But looking at the charts through
(20:03):
the years, back in the nineteen thirties, nobody met online.
I think that's an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
But for for.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
All of mankind time it was the ice cream social
and friends and then church and that.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
So that was big enough to think look at.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But the way online has exploded, it dwarfs every other
way of people meeting currently, at least according to all
these studies. So you know that contradicts my anecdotal evidence.
Although it could have gotten a lot worse just in
the last couple of years, and these charts would still
be true, especially if match dot Com bought all the
(20:40):
companies and has some reason to you have zero reason
to like perfect your algorithm, you know, like TikTok perfected
the algorithm to keep you engaged. I don't know if
match dot com or well, they're all match dot com now,
but if match dot com could do that, even if
(21:02):
somebody came in boss, I've done it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I've figured out.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
The algorithm that uh, nine times out of ten will
put people together that they'll be happy the rest of
their lives.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Would you use that? I think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
the library online, of course, to make sure that that
did not get out. No, at the very least, change
them in a radiator in the basement. There are many
options to keep this from coming out, but we don't
have to go through the various macab examples exactly. There
are several hipop to mind. Ah right, wow, okay, well
(21:39):
it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I saw the New York Times article a while back.
I think I talked about this on their breakdown. Was
it's it's like, I don't remember the exact numbers, but
this is close enough to write.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's like ten to one women to men, first of
all on there and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Secondly of the men, it's like the same ten best
looking guys who get all the dates with like ninety
percent of the women, and they're not interested in a
in a relationship past like you know, a night or two,
and so, I mean, that's and that's what most of
(22:17):
it is, at least according to that New York Times article.
Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Do that right right, right, right right right, or.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
To you know, continually match you up with somebody who
you're never going to connect with full time but close.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Huh, that would be evil. Yeah, yeah, And then they varying,
and then this article had a whole bunch of stuff
in there.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
This all sounds horrible to me. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Just it just sounds like setting yourself up for the
worst rejection you can imagine in your life, to to like,
you know, to put all this effort and everything like
that and get like no results. In some of the websites,
people can give you thumbs down and stuff like why
am I going back to high school? Are you gonna
make me go back to high school and live this again?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
the nonfiction section of the library. Say, I see you're
looking at a book about fungus. I too, am interested
in the fungus.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
For instance. You know, let me transition quickly to my
favorite library story before we do something differently. I once
was in the library, Gladys. This is my one of
my favorite stories. I've told him many times, but we
have a lot of new nisms. Katie's never heard this story.
I'm sure I'm in the library. It matters, wasn't when
you were in the stacks of the college library in
the toilet.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
This is a different story, totally different. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I've got library library stories that I've told many times.
The other one was somebody trying to have a male hookup.
Is a very complicated I talked about it on the
One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling all
my library stories this.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Week for some reason.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
This one, I'm in the live very dressed like me,
but in me is shaved head, and I'm more in
Doc Martin's, which is a very common look for me.
I'm in the library and I'm in the World War
two section, which is not uncommon either. I was talking
about a book from World War two earlier in the show,
I'm constantly reading books about World War Two. When I'm
(24:20):
in the World War two section, shaved head black Doc Martins,
and a guy walks by me and kind of gives
me the look. Now, having had the previous library experience
that I mentioned on one more thing, I think he's
just interested in me, and I'm not interested in him
because I'm heterosexual and I don't think.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Much beyond it. I walk out of the library.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the like the
cement railing. He said, see, you like World War two.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Books, huh, Like you like.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Reading about hit Ler and stuff like that. We're having
a meeting Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Just let you know. It's at seven o'clock and it's
at the whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
He thought I was a neo Nazi. I got invited
by a neo Nazi to a Nazi party.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
My god, I know, in retrospect, I told this on
the air like the next day.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
In retrospect, I kind of wish i'd ha gone, Yeah,
I just could have investigated it out, but I was
so weirded out. I was so weirded out, oh you know,
and then I get my picture taken and somebody recognized me.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It's on the evening news, no.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
On butzi that's how they start the meeting.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
But yeah, guy actually invited me to a neo Nazi party.
Just got a head, short hair and wore Doc Martins like,
you know, like every lesbian in America.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean, so what are they all Nazis?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
What did he look like? He looked like me.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He was in a T shirt, doc short hair, except
he's a Nazi. Did he have the white laces in
his Doc Martins?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
That?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Now he wasn't the time. I think that's two. I mean,
you're really outing yourself if you go there, aren't you. Yeah, okay,
I'm unaware of this. Yeah that that's a full on
I'm racist Nazi if you have white lace supremacist. Yeah,
but oh really I did not know that. Yeah, I've
always I've always kind of wished I had to check
it out.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
But you know, it might be one of those things
you get in and you know some people and and
and and it's it's harder to untangle yourself from that
than you think.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, I was. I can think of all sorts of
things that would go wrong there. I mean, not like
like deadly wrong, but just really really wrong.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Walking your campus, all the Nazis are waving at you,
you know.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Hey Jack, hey, j.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well somebody recognizes here or whatever. I mean, that's they
were doomed.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, they're walking down through the park with their big
swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey, that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And you're saying, you know, as the news shows up
at your front door, I just went out of curiosity.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You were curious about near Nazism.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, yeah, I mean it's it's it's terrible, obviously, but
I wanted to go to the meeting and meet some
of the fellas.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I like the footwear.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I don't know what to say, Oh I'm Nazi Germany fortunate.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Oh yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You get to the meeting and like, right off the bat,
it's you got to put your arm in the air
and say, we blame the Jews, we hate the Jews.
Our goal is to have the Jews annihilated. And IM
mean and me and I like, I can't be here.
Uh and then what are you gonna just turn around
and walk out the tour and where.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Are you going?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah again, so I probably made the right decision and
just getting wide eyed and uh, no, and walking away
from the guy. So you like World War two books,
don't you? Yeah, me and every other male in America.
What the hell is this? You're casting a pretty well
in that garb. Please, I male pattern baldness.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I keep my hair short. Michael Jordan made it popular.
That's not make does make you a Nazi? You doubled
down with the Doc Martins.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging around
in Oregon.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
We're in a pink tutu and some guy assume as
I swing his way, you can't fault him.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's more in the uniform, huh.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
More in heels in a short skirt, and they made
all kinds of assumptions.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That's not bad for having not picked up the violin
in a year.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Blood and you're years of studying. I mean you like,
never even taking a lesson, right, No.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
No, I've practiced a total of like an hour on
the violin in my entire life presses. You know, it's
a friendless instrument. So I pulled off a scale there whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
It's actually pretty good.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I wouldn't like put on my
hard shoes to go see you in a concert hall.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
But what you might be if you just tuned in,
you might be wondering why Jack, who can't play the
violin practicing.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
A scale on a fiddle.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh, it's a beloved, armstrong and getty tradition as we
raise money for wonderful causes, in this case, scholarships for
young lads and girls who'd want to be Scouts and
maybe don't have the money, and Scouting is such a
positive influence in their lives, who want to make sure
they have that experience. And we've offered plenty of carrot,
nice interviews stories from Scouts and how it's changed their
lives and inspired them to become the people they've become.
(29:26):
But for some of you that hasn't been enough. The
carrot has passed uneaten. So out comes the stick, right,
and the stick is a fiddle and a trombone, right
without music, playing beloved Christmas classics until we raise how
much did we decide? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Probably three grand?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
All right, you need to get.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Three thousand dollars together starting right now, Jack, I will
call the first tune if you don't mind about the
And we have no music, and I've oh, I haven't
even mentioned. I've got my beloved a trombone in hand,
many many years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I could play this thing. Not now well, and you
don't have any music? Yeah, like you said, so right,
I suggest the Christmas Classic. It came upon a midnight?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Do I even know how that goes? It came upon okay.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I mean night?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Two three? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
This isn't gonna until we get three. Let's see.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
We've got Jack's podcast audibleve mouth slurp.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'm sorry about that one. That was a mistake.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
All right, since this has begun a different song, Kathy,
I think I need a different song?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Can something? I know the melody better? I think i'd
be much better there. How's the money coming in? And
go to Armstrong and getty dot com. It's easy to donate.
I know it gets jammed up a little bit, but
but you can do it. Here we go, all right,
I'm sorry, what's the tune?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Jingle bells?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Okay, jingle bells? What what temple do we want? Jingle bells?
Jingle bells? Two? Three?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Four?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, Well, we just.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Got Robert, who donated fifty dollars clearly wants this to
come to an end. Blatness song blattice twenty six dollars
even this night, I was ten coming in with twenty six,
Nancy with fifty two.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Say now the dashing through the snow part, we're on
our way, ha ha ha, I'm through.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
In the That was very important. Okay, what's more?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Even more painful than it says? Let's get one more
good song as we and if you donated Armstrong, you
getty dot com.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
This all can come to.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
A store stop. Yeah, all right, do you have an idea?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Oh? Come on, come.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
On, silent night?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Here you go?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
It'ld be a silent for the mouth.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And it's walls two three.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Oh that was almost right.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
That was good.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
So what's the It was a silent night, Michaels find out.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
All to make this a silent night?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, Michael got a beautiful.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
The baby Jesus have got to throw the first punch
of his life.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Where are we at for our total? Did you refresh?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'm refreshing. Okay, I think that I think that might
be good. You're stupid?
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Did hurt just contributed fifty bucks?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh? Thank you very much? Stupid? Did hurt? In for fifty.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Now I could I could be talked into playing a
little more.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
No, but no any requests of events I would like more. Yeah,
I could do more of this every year.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I think, you know what, I'm gonna start practicing a
little bit and get a little then and I ever do.
I literally had not opened the case since this day
last year.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
When I put it away.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
You know, other than the people I love, music has
meant more to me than anything in my life. And
I have no idea how I got talked into playing
the trombone.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It was a bad idea. It's a fine instrument in
this symphotic setting, sure, but unless you're James Pancow of Chicago,
it won't do you a damn bit of good of
rock and roll? What do you wish you had played?
And it spent as much time practicing if you could
start over, honestly, like a piano or like saxophone. I mean,
I've played zillions hours of guitar and I still stink.
(33:55):
But yeah, something that was more useful in rock and roll, honestly.
But it's okay. Oh boy, A great twenty five dollars
donation from needed this when I was ten. That's a
great one, as in, I wish I'd had Scouts when
I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, that's that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Raging tromboner in for twenty five dollars, appreciate everybody donating.
Really hoping to hit one hundred and fifty grand by
the end of the show. We do have a whale
we know that's coming in at some point, which is
gonna help. We're at about one twenty nine right now,
so we need a pretty decent chunk of money. I mean,
we need about twenty grand to get to our goal
by the end of the hour. That's interesting about the
musical instrument. I think a lot of people, if they
(34:35):
ever play at all, just kind of randomly end up
on one. I wish I had taken it way more
seriously when I'm younger, if I had to practice like
I practice now, I would have loved to have seen,
you know, what I could have done. Not that I
ever wanted to make money or be professional or anything
like that, just the enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
It's more enjoyable to play better.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Uh yeah, absolutely, yeah. I was super motivated. Actually I
was a pretty good brass player, but
Speaker 4 (35:01):
And it was funny, and I met a lot of
nice people, no regrets, Armstrong and Getty
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