December 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour Four of the Friday December 26, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Dog Shoots Man & Legal Pot Woes
- Killer Robots & Eye Color
- TEMU Spying/Wrong Hayek
- Renaming Military Bases
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
get kid, I know he.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Armstrong and yeah Getty Strong and we're at home enjoying
the gifts we got for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I got a pony finally, so I've just been riding
it all around the house.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm not gonna kid yet. I got the post Christmas letdown.
I'm down, man, I'm sad. I'm into the nong heavily.
Things are not going where I'm spiraling anyway. Hope you're
doing well. We've got some carefully selected a curated Armstrong
and Getty segments six the Armstrong and Getty replay. Let's
all enjoy it again.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at
Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being
shot in the leg overnight if his police say he
was shot by.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
His dog.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Seriously, I don't think that's right. This happened just before
four a m at a home on Whitney Avenue in
Fraser Wow. Police say the man was lying in the
bed with a girl with a gun on the bed.
Police say his dog jumped up on the bed, got
his paul stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting
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the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Wow accident.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the
tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one
too many times?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the
bed next to you. And who's this? Huh?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You cheating bastard. When's the last time I went for
a walk? Can you even remember?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Wow, bad boy, bad dog. My dog ties him to
a chair like reservoir dogs. I'm not putting up with
this anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael, do we have that
the two rappers were talking and gunshots went off? That's
a candidate for clip of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So I like the way.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a
kent Brockman Will Ferrell vibe, Yes he does. Apparently was
just handed this breaking news not knowing he was about
to do a story about a man who.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Was shot by a dog at four am.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, so could happen.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's also possible that he was messing around with his gun,
or she shot him or something.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
They don't want to tell. Anybody what actually happened.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's
not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where
you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who
wrote that story? Do they need a woman? Quote hope?
And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you
can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living
the sort of lifestyle where your dog shoots.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at
them during their romantic times. Oh good lord, remember seeing
no I remember seeing that in the Sopranos, Remember of them?
Somebody liked having a gun to their head? Turn tawdry's
way too tawdry. A dog just shot someone. This is
time for friend talk the pastor rising up.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
As I predicted. Go ahead, Michael, and choices we got
in life? Those were your choices. Somebody got shot? How good?
The dirty dead? What do I want with my idea?
Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody that's the sort of
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guy who's in bed with a girl and a dog shoots.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
In the room on fire, shootings in.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The room and it's not even an accidental shooting at
the range or outdoors or something. We're in a room
with a number of people. A gun gotsing. Somebody's been shot.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You good, I've been shot?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You good?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You good?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Everybody good?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, So as I was saying, wow, you've.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Different different lifestyle than I have.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Who shot who? Somebody got shot? All right? Anyway, what
are your plans today? You guys are hungry. I'm hungry. Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Can I want to hear that other one, just the
beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh, because
I just find this funny.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We want to get you to some breaking news just
out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man
is in the hospital after being shot in the leg overnight.
If his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously,
I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
This happened just before four a m. Yeah, you don't
know the dog Getney Avenue in the Fraser Wow. Police
say the man was lying in the bed with a
girl with a gun on the bed. Police say his
dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul stuck
in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger, shooting
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the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Wow, four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and
rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it
a hunting dog?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So there's actual and of course some background checks. We
don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went
on there?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Wow? Wow? Well, and if I was going to make
a serious point about it, that's the very sort of
person that Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against.
They howl for more gun laws constantly, and then they confused.
You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes,
you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to
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other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv
names to features sets of stories, but I do. Jack.
So you get the choice between golden state of confusion
or how markets really work. I'll go with a second one,
much more sober up, just because the lack of jiviness.
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I'm just curiousity after the dog ridiculousness. Yeah, okay, So
story number one why the US keeps losing to China
in the battle over critical minerals, because everybody knows that
the minerals the rarest the metals. Everybody's talking about. That
go into so much new technology. He or they who
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control access to those things controls the world economy to
a large extent. And the obvious issue with that is
that if we continue to be highly dependent on China
to come up with those materials, we're screwed as an
economy the minute they decide to tweak us or bring
us to our knees. So you have this story of
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the effort to get a big giant New America and
our allies run graphite mine and the goal to challenge
China's dominance over the world supply of a critical mineral
used in everything from electric vehicles to submarine hubs. And
so this Australia based mining company, backed by more than
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one hundred million dollars of US government financing, maybe a
worthy goal. Kind of funny, there wasn't any discussion of this,
but this is what our giant government does. Opened a
mine in Mozambique and built a graphight processing plant in Louisiana,
the first of its type in the US, and also
signed a sales deal with Tesla, which has historically brought
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graph height for cars from China for the battery specifically.
But then things started to go off the rails. China,
which provides more than ninety percent of the world's battery
grade graph height supply, jacked up its production. How many
what did the market?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How many stories include China supplies ninety eight percent of
this or that way too many?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether
He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is
anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing
that he and his advisors are trying to wean us
from this sort of dependence. But anyway, the gist of
the story is so China, which provides more ninety percent
of the world's battery grade graphight supply, jacked up its production,
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flooding the market and driving prices so low that this mine,
this company could not mine profitably. Wow. Last May, the
Biden administration delayed new rules that would have penalized US
buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons that I don't recall,
probably because they were trying to get hijin paying to
do something. In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's
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mind staged protests, shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant,
now open for a year, has yet to make its
first commercial sale, and the company's stock is plunged by
around ninety percent since the start of twenty twenty three. Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's really interesting, and once again the difficulties of a
an authoritarian country where one guy can make decisions in
a democracy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's tough. Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more
detail and nuance to it, but we'll leave it here.
I love, love, love, love love the free market in
so many ways. It's lifted billions of people out of poverty,
on lace new medicines across the globe. It has profit
is the reason for charity. It's the reason charity exists.
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You have to have more than you need to feed
yourself to give to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from
the dream of globalization, though, there are going to be
some rainings in of the free market, and it's going
to be stops and starts. It's going to be really
difficult anyway not to get hung up on that, because
you could talk about it for a year and a
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half and write five thousand page books on it and
not cover it. I thought this was interesting, how markets
really werek Jack The rise and fall of the Napa
Valley of Cannabis when Colorado became one of the first
states to legalize the recreational marriage. You wanna and an
enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said he wanted Pueblo to
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become the Napa Valley of cannabis. And they talk a
little bit in the Wall Street Journal about the situation.
Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier, steel mill had been
shedding workers. They're really hurting for jobs and tax revenue,
and a cannabis boom would do that for them. The
streets were going to be paved with gold, recalled one resident.
The elementary schools were going to be the greatest in
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the country. Then they talk about, you know, the classic meme,
how it started, how it's going. In the first weeks,
the only two shops then licensed in the county round
rang up a combined one million dollars in sales the
first month, wow sending fifty six thousand dollars in taxes
to the county Colorado, pont everybody was just thrilled and happy.
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Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up
in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and
cannabis oil extractors. There were more than two hundred of
these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county, more than
two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain. State records
indicate county tax revenue plunged from more than seven point
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one million dollars to four point eight million twenty twenty three,
which is still a pretty significant amount of money. And
you could argue that they're just thinning the herd and
the stronger surviving the way it goes in capitalism. But
here's the problem. In California knows this too. It's been
a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise is made
to Californians. In Colorado is alike. Even after legalization, illicit
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growers and sellers thrived, even right in Pueblo. Last year,
they accounted for seventy percent of the US market, according
to research companies. The black market dealers, unlike licensed ones,
face neither Texas nor red tape, so they're more efficient
and they're cheaper, and it's bad for your brain. That's interesting. Man.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
If you're if you're counting on enough people smoking enough
pot to you know, make your schools great.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And everything like that. That's just that's an interesting thing.
It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to
run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal
cannabis businesses are profitable, which is two percent just three
years ago. Did not know that. Yeah, investment is dried up,
restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo, sentiment about legal pot
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has swung the other way, fueling a backlash against the
county's embrace of the industry. And again, it's kind of
complicated and a lot of nuance to it, but it's
just it's not nearly the dream it was sold to be. Elo,
I'm sorry, and the one the one aspect you should
understand it's kind of intuitive is that if it's legal,
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enforcing laws against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because
you know, half of it, sixty percent of it, depending
on where you are, is legal. And so what are
the cops supposed to do if they see a bunch
of guys smoking pot? Right? The Armstrong and Getty show,
Yeah or Jack or show podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Another moment with one of these humanoid robots, this time
kicking its CEO. It as simulated face off in China,
the robot landing quite a forceful strike, appearing to knock
the CEO of Engine AI right to the ground. The
CEO covered and padded gear for the battle, appearing to
be unharmed. The company says the moment of man versus
robot was about shutting down claims that other videos of
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this same humanoid robot and its capabilities were just CGI.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, so the CEO got its ass kicked by the
robot to prove.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That some Ah, you're watching the video, I am. Did
you take a pretty good smacking? Yeah? Well, and the
swiftness with which this thing moves is unbelievable. I never
thought about that. Yeah. Oh boy, Chinese killer robots. Good moment.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Uh chet gpt open Aye made a giant announcement yesterday
that could have an effect on the world. We'll talk
about that later, but first, Okay, did you have a
preference and eye color.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
For your baby yet to be born? No, don't care.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, I didn't care either, but my son yesterday, I
have two blue eyed kids, or I did have two
blue eyed kids. My thirteen year old said to me,
he said, my eyes aren't blue anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I said, what ah? He said they're a different color now.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I guess I hadn't looked deeply into his eyes for
quite a while, because he walked up to me and
he said, I think they're hazel now, and I looked them.
You're right, they aren't blue anymore. And I didn't really
knew what hazel meant as a word, so I had
to google it and I got the eye chart and
everything like that, and damn right, his eyes are no
longer blue.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They are hazel. I had amazing eyes until I was
a teenager. They were hazel. They were green and brown,
and then in adolescence they just went all brown, brown,
which is bead. I could add a completely different life.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Brown is the most popular eye color in the world
at eighty percent four out of five.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Life of the hazel eyed, I could have lived it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Four out of five people on planet Earth have brown eyes,
is very common. The next most popular is blue, which
I have eight to ten percent, then hazel. Then only
five percent of people have hazel eyes, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The room lost it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The rarest of eyes outside of like you're some sort
of freak born with purple eyes or two different color
eyes or whatever, like.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
For normal Lizz Taylor lavender eyes.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Two percent of the world's population is green eyes, So
green hazel, then blue.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Brine are blue and green?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
What about bloodshell? But I got those. Is one of
your eyes blue and the other one's green or they're
blue green?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
They start they start blue on the outside and they're
green closer to the pupil.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, so pay extra for that. I didn't know price.
We wondered if we missed something. So we went back
and looked at pictures of him on my phone before
me was little. I know he had bright blue eyes
when he was little. Now they're hazel, which so.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm sorry they're blue and at this point blue and
what whatever?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hazel is like a light brown?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, it's kind of brown green brown. I would say, Okay, interesting,
I didn't know your eyes changed color.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Can it happen again later in life or is it
pretty much in your teenager years and then you're done.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I'm guessing what you just said there, But I don't know.
I would like to find deep black eyes. I want
red ones, red eyes, the pupils bright red. Hello, how's
your soul? I mean? Interested in an offer? It's the
Armstrong in Getty Show.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Strong Israel has had it up to here with fighting
Iran's proxies, and the giant raid on Iran on their
military facilities, on their nuclear facilities, killed their top three
military commanders. Predictably, Hesballah, that's one of Iran's proxies. They
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condemned the attack and they said they were awaiting instructions
and how to respond.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Check your pagers, guys, now.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Crowd applauds like crazy, which is kind of interesting because
I was everybody has thought this not an original thought.
I never I don't know if I've ever had an
original thought. But I'd like to go to a parallel
universe where Kamala Harris won the presidential election and she
see how she would be dealing with this whole thing
between Israel and Iran. You know that she would be
daily lecturing Israel and telling them they need to stop.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And responding to her wokeust you know, fifteen percent of supporters.
I'm sure. Yeah, I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't think
of this myself, but it's a lot going on in
the world these days. Regular correspondent to JT in Livermore, California. Guys,
if China can build secret prisons within the US, they're
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more like police stations withholding cells. But yeah, you know
they're going to be building drone armies here in the US,
maybe stored on those properties they're buying next to military bases.
We hope they haven't already. Well, right, obviously, the spring
board of this is the knowledge that Ukraine had facilities
within Russia in which they were constructing and or storing
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drones and waiting for the right to attack. And JT
helpfully sent along a link to an article I believe
we talked about at the time. Maps showed Chinese owned
farmland next to nineteen US military bases in alarming threat
to national security.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Even if they hadn't come up with that plan prior
to what Ukraine did and what Israel just did, they
started a week ago, they're doing now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The New York Post identified nineteen bases across the US
from Florida, Hawaii to Hawaii which were in close proximity
to land bought by Chinese entities and could be exploited
by spies working for the communist nation. And if they
can be, they will be. You know, get that tattooed
somewhere where you can look at it regularly. If the
Chinese communists can use a capability against us, they will use.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It's just the question of when I gotta admit. If
I ever took off my shirt and someone said, what
does that to tattoos?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Say?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
And I say it says if the Chinese government can
exploit a situation, think will that's your tattoo?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yes, I just don't want to forget it, don't just
Robert Spaulding retired to US State's Air Force Brigadier general,
Brigadier general who's work focused on US general relations. Still
the post. It's concerning due to the proximity of its
strategic or to our strategic location, we are a big, rich,
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naive moron as a country in a lot of ways.
Contrast that with Israel, if you will. Oh, speaking of which,
on a similar theme, I was thinking of going into
this in a playful way. Uh you know, maybe I will.
All right, go ahead. What is the app Tamu's business?
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Is it Timu or tamu U? Katie? Do you know
t e m U?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I've heard it both ways. I say, team Timu. Okay,
fire enough, What is Timu's real business? Okay, hang on,
now there's more. What is TikTok's real business. There's one
more for you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's Shine right, that's the cheap clothing. What is Shines
real business? I've never even heard of that one. Or
here's Pin Duo Duo. What is that app's real business?
A trick question. The answer for all of them is
collecting your data. They include a service along with that.
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That's why you download the app.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They are data collection and surveillance apps for instanday all Chinese,
yeah okay, for instance pin Doo, although certainly the Chinese
are not the only voracious collectors of.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Data, I mean, Mark Zuckerberg, please. The Timu and Pin
Duo Duo represent themselves as e commerce apps that offer
in inexpensive merchandise, but they're also in the business of
data collection. The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Mike Hilgers
of Nebraska says, according to an IT security report firm report,
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Pinduo Duo requests as many as eighty three permissions, including
access to biometrics, Bluetooth, Wi Fi network information, and well
obviously seventy or eighty more things. As an aside, why
is TikTok still happening in America, Mister President? Because they
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gave you a big giant contribution to your your campaign
or your inauguration. Them and their lobbyists are paying off
the administration get rid of TikTok. Congress passed the law.
It's time.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Isn't there a way for since Congress did pass a
lot to force the executive to do what you're supposed
to do legally.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, somebody's gotta like prove standing in that they've been
damaged by it and go to the courts. I guess
you'd think there'd be kind of a blanket. The law
said that and it's not happening lawsuit that you could
file an ex post miranda or corpus lawsuit or something.
I don't know, but crazy. Uh. An investigation found by
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Montana found that the team app is designed to hide
its collection of sensitive information from users and from any
researcher who might be investigating the apps functionality. That's part
of its programming is to hide what it is doing.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Timu also has code that quote allows it to reconfigure
itself after being downloaded.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
What do you use TM move for?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What's it? It's a what dental hygiene? What do you
use for?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You can you can buy anything on it. It's it's
like China's Amazon.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh okay, then why do we use in the United
States Because there's just a lot of cheap crap on it,
super cheap okay, yeah wow, yeah wow. They are really
hoisting this on our own retards with the whole we
like cheap crap. Okay, so we'll develop an app that
can spy on every single American in the United States
who wants to buy extra cheap crap. And they're so
hungry for their cheap crap and it is crap most
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of it, that they'll allow us to.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Spy on everybody, right exactly. And keep in mind what
I just said. Tamu has code that allows it to
reconfigure itself after you download it, so it becomes something
different than you downloaded. Blah blah blah. This is the
part I wanted to get to. The fear is that
consumer products marketed on Timu are the bait to get
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Americans to download an app that gives the company and
thereby the Communist party, access to personal data, location tracking,
and other sensitive information. Article seven of the National Intelligence
Law of China is the Chinese communists on their own.
You know, I'm tempted to dig up that great piece
we had by was it? Oh, no, no, no, no, no,
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who is the guy who wrote his name? Is flitted
out of my head? An unbelievable piece quoting Chinese Intelligence
Service officials on how valuable a resource TikTok is. It
quoted them chapter and verse, quote after quote after quote
from internal memorandum and meetings where the Chinese intelligence services said, wow,
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TikTok is an unbelievable boon to what we're doing. But anyway,
here's article seven of the National Intelligence Law in China. Quote.
Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with
the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and
keep the secrets of the national intelligence work from becoming
known to the public. They are bound by law to
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report anything that Chinese communists want to know. Well, we're fools,
we are, we want we freaking are. That's very maddening.
I know, you know, we've said enough. When the pooh
hits the fan and whatever shape or array of flung
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pooh results, everybody will say, how did that happen? I
don't will I be some some sort of grimly satisfied.
Now I want to just be horrified. No, just horrified.
On a cheerier note, Love this, Andy Kessler, writing in
the Journal, Javier Malay's gift for Pope Leo. On June
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the seventh, the new Pope, the Chicago Guy, met with
Argentine President j Javier Malay at the Vatican. Malay gave
the Pope a historical document from sixteen forty two. Cool,
a hand woven Vicunya poncho.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
That's a quargetine.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh did you got your machine woven vicunya? Please throw
it in the trash. You're hand woven gorgeous. And he
also gave him Friedrich Hayek's book from nineteen eighty eight,
The Fatal Conceit, The Errors of Socialism. The book costs
less than nineteen dollars on Amazon, but it was the
most valuable gift, says Kessler. And he explains with some
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just fabulous quotes from the book, which I need to read.
I've read quotes from it in my whole life. But
high K's fatal conceit is that quote. Man is able
to shape the world around him according to his wishes.
That is the fatal conceit of humans. It's a hearty
defense of free markets and of classical liberalism, and Kessler
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mentions that his friend and colleague Matthew Hennessy got taken
to task by Vice President Vance for defending free markets
on these pages. In twenty twenty five, Hiak pounds home
the point that markets are about price discovery, wealth creation.
Quote is determined not by objective physical facts known to
any one mind, but by the separate differing information of millions,
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which is precipitated in prices that serve to guide further decisions.
Catch that by buying and selling in free markets to
determined prices, you and I and millions who are connected
but only by signals resulting from long and infinitely ramified
chains of trade, we drive the economy, and we do
it better than self selecting know it alls who really
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know nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And he gave that book to the pope. He did
because he thinks the pope or popes tend to lean
a little too socialist.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yes, indeed, I think that was his purpose. Let me
hit you with one or two more quotes from Hayek.
This is maybe my favorite. One's initial surprise at finding
that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes,
of course, that intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence. Ah,
the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
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how little they really know about what they imagine they
can design. Planners are ill informed quote. To the naive
mind that can conceive of order only as the product
of deliberate arrangement. It might seem absurd that order and
economic growth can be achieved more effectively by decentralized decisions,
he notes, And he notes that the fallacy because quote,
(29:04):
decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account
man by millions of people who don't even know they're
doing it.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Salma Hayak for the win there, that would be Friedrich
Hayek wrong, Hyak right, very different, Hyak.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I love that, Love that Jack Armstrong and Joe the
Armstrong and Getty Show. So this is a really good
piece from the National Review talking about how in politics
and government, clever is not always the same thing as good.
(29:44):
Sometimes you use cleverness to deceive and to pull off
crap that shouldn't be happening. They're talking about the Trump administration,
the Department of Defense renaming nine major military bases. You
remember back in twenty three, the Biden Department of Defense
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changed the names of all of these forts because they
were named after Confederates.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So that happened in twenty three. It's interesting because that happened.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It started under George Floyd, where all kinds of things
were getting taken off schools and rivers and statues and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
But it took the twenty three that they changed the forts.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well right exactly, and so they named they renamed Fort Benning,
Fort Bragg, Fort Gordon, Fort ap Hill, Fort Hood, Fort Lee,
Fort Pickett, Fort Polk, and Fort Rucker. And then some
of the new Biden era installation names were worthy individuals
General hal Moore and his wife Julia Compton Moore, who
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were the same namesakes of Fort Moore, and some of
the other ones they named for some pretty good people.
Others were less inspired. Fort Bragg merely became Fort Liberty,
whatever that means. I mean, I'm in favor of Liberty, certainly.
But so now the are Army has announced and this
is the clever part. And I want to dislike this,
(31:06):
because I think the editors in National Review want to
dislike it too, but I think I like it. The
Army has announced it will redesignate these installations back to
their previous names, but with a twist. Fort Benning is
going back to Fort Benning, but this time it's named
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for Corporal Fred G. Benning, a first no you idiot,
Fred Benning, a First World War hero instead of Henry Benning,
a general in the Confederate Army. Fort Gordon is back
to be in Fort Gordon. It's now named to honor
Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, a Delta Force sniper awarded the
Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions at the Battle
(31:48):
of Mogadishu. It's your Blackhawk down Mayhem. So they've found
great admirable Americans and the list, I mean it gives
you a chill, it warms your heart. Distinguished Service Cross
the recipient Colonel Robert B. Hood, who showed extraordinary heroism
(32:08):
in France during WW two. Oh I'm sorry he was
WW one. Fort Hood is now named after Robert B. Hood.
So they found great loyal Americans with the same last
names and change the fort's back.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Fort Lee now named after.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Peggy Lee, who's sang how much is that Doggy in
the Window? A timeless classic, no doubt? All right? So Jack,
Come on, what do you think of this maneuver? Don't
make it seems jyvy as hell if but Fort Bragg
is now Fort Bragg again, but it's a different brag.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Okay, So I guess I have to start at the
premise that we need the forts to have the same name, because.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I'm not sure i'd buy that. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And then but if I accept that, it still doesn't
it still doesn't it change the fact.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
That if you are an actual racist and or fan
of the Confederacy and believe something should be named for
Robert E. Lee, that you know, Okay, I know what
we're doing. You got to say this for the other
people live. We know, we know that you named it
after the Confederates. So cool, cool, We're with you.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I mean, is it?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I mean, I hate the term dog whistle.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
I think ninety percent of the time when I hear
dog whistle it's inaccurate or overbooln But Smitcher actually be one?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. They mentioned in the National
Review that very few Americans who resisted the changing names
in twenty three did it out of affection for the
Confederacy right.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
They resisted because of the.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Spate of renaming seem to be part of the pro
woke cultural true it all.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Came with taking Thomas Jefferson's name off of school and everything.
It was all happening at the same time.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Right, which is why at the beginning of the show
I think it is, we have a recording saying from
the Abraham Lincoln Studios that the George Washington, uh you know,
broadcast complex. That was a reaction to that, and the
idea was that no, no, no, if we let you
start with the Confederate generals, you're gonna end up turning
the Washington Monument into the transsexual monos or whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Sure, just the next thing, you know, that's yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I don't know. This is clever, but is it smart?
I don't know. Well it just yeah, they'll just go
you know what, Yeah, that's that's kind of a head scratcher.
Different people have different opinions. You want to email us
about this mail bag at Armstrong e Getty dot com
or drop us a note four one five, two nine
five KFTC.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
To the idea that it wasn't actually, you know, fans
of the Confederacy or racists that were fighting this. How
many people ever thought for a second about who Fort
Bragg was named after?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You just referred to it as Fort Bragg.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That's what you knew it was called.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I mean, it's just I didn't do they look back
on it, and then how how many buildings, bridges, whatever
do you encounter every day in your life?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know it crosses the Robinson Bridge as back up today? Robinson?
Who Robinson? I don't know why it's the Robinson Bridge.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Nobody ever asks or cares, right, Yeah, Judy and I'll
actually occasionally search on that sort of thing when we're
taking road trips. Wow, the John G. Robinson Bridge, I want,
uh you figure out who John G. Robinson was, just
to make the miles go by. And it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
I got a pony finally, so I've just been riding
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm not gonna kid yet. I got the post Christmas letdown.
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Things are not going where I'm spiraling anyway. Hope you're
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Speaker 4 (00:41):
Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at
Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being
shot in the leg overnight if his police say he
was shot by.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
His dog.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Seriously, I don't think that's right. This happened just before
four a m at a home on Whitney Avenue in
Fraser Wow. Police say the man was lying in the
bed with a girl with a gun on the bed.
Police say his dog jumped up on the bed, got
his paul stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting
(01:15):
the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Wow accident.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the
tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one
too many times?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the
bed next to you. And who's this? Huh?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You cheating bastard. When's the last time I went for
a walk? Can you even remember?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Wow, bad boy, bad dog. My dog ties him to
a chair like reservoir dogs. I'm not putting up with
this anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael, do we have that
the two rappers were talking and gunshots went off? That's
a candidate for clip of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So I like the way.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a
kent Brockman Will Ferrell vibe, Yes he does. Apparently was
just handed this breaking news not knowing he was about
to do a story about a man who.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Was shot by a dog at four am.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, so could happen.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's also possible that he was messing around with his gun,
or she shot him or something.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
They don't want to tell. Anybody what actually happened.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's
not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where
you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who
wrote that story? Do they need a woman? Quote hope?
And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you
can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living
the sort of lifestyle where your dog shoots.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at
them during their romantic times. Oh good lord, remember seeing
no I remember seeing that in the Sopranos, Remember of them?
Somebody liked having a gun to their head? Turn tawdry's
way too tawdry. A dog just shot someone. This is
time for friend talk the pastor rising up.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
As I predicted. Go ahead, Michael, and choices we got
in life? Those were your choices. Somebody got shot? How good?
The dirty dead? What do I want with my idea?
Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody that's the sort of
(03:41):
guy who's in bed with a girl and a dog shoots.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
In the room on fire, shootings in.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The room and it's not even an accidental shooting at
the range or outdoors or something. We're in a room
with a number of people. A gun gotsing. Somebody's been shot.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You good, I've been shot?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You good?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You good?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Everybody good?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, So as I was saying, wow, you've.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Different different lifestyle than I have.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Who shot who? Somebody got shot? All right? Anyway, what
are your plans today? You guys are hungry. I'm hungry. Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Can I want to hear that other one, just the
beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh, because
I just find this funny.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We want to get you to some breaking news just
out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man
is in the hospital after being shot in the leg overnight.
If his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously,
I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
This happened just before four a m. Yeah, you don't
know the dog Getney Avenue in the Fraser Wow. Police
say the man was lying in the bed with a
girl with a gun on the bed. Police say his
dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul stuck
in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger, shooting
(05:13):
the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Wow, four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and
rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it
a hunting dog?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So there's actual and of course some background checks. We
don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went
on there?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Wow? Wow? Well, and if I was going to make
a serious point about it, that's the very sort of
person that Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against.
They howl for more gun laws constantly, and then they confused.
You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes,
you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to
(05:57):
other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv
names to features sets of stories, but I do. Jack.
So you get the choice between golden state of confusion
or how markets really work. I'll go with a second one,
much more sober up, just because the lack of jiviness.
(06:19):
I'm just curiousity after the dog ridiculousness. Yeah, okay, So
story number one why the US keeps losing to China
in the battle over critical minerals, because everybody knows that
the minerals the rarest the metals. Everybody's talking about. That
go into so much new technology. He or they who
(06:39):
control access to those things controls the world economy to
a large extent. And the obvious issue with that is
that if we continue to be highly dependent on China
to come up with those materials, we're screwed as an
economy the minute they decide to tweak us or bring
us to our knees. So you have this story of
(07:01):
the effort to get a big giant New America and
our allies run graphite mine and the goal to challenge
China's dominance over the world supply of a critical mineral
used in everything from electric vehicles to submarine hubs. And
so this Australia based mining company, backed by more than
(07:24):
one hundred million dollars of US government financing, maybe a
worthy goal. Kind of funny, there wasn't any discussion of this,
but this is what our giant government does. Opened a
mine in Mozambique and built a graphight processing plant in Louisiana,
the first of its type in the US, and also
signed a sales deal with Tesla, which has historically brought
(07:46):
graph height for cars from China for the battery specifically.
But then things started to go off the rails. China,
which provides more than ninety percent of the world's battery
grade graph height supply, jacked up its production. How many
what did the market?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How many stories include China supplies ninety eight percent of
this or that way too many?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether
He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is
anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing
that he and his advisors are trying to wean us
from this sort of dependence. But anyway, the gist of
the story is so China, which provides more ninety percent
of the world's battery grade graphight supply, jacked up its production,
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flooding the market and driving prices so low that this mine,
this company could not mine profitably. Wow. Last May, the
Biden administration delayed new rules that would have penalized US
buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons that I don't recall,
probably because they were trying to get hijin paying to
do something. In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's
(08:55):
mind staged protests, shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant,
now open for a year, has yet to make its
first commercial sale, and the company's stock is plunged by
around ninety percent since the start of twenty twenty three. Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's really interesting, and once again the difficulties of a
an authoritarian country where one guy can make decisions in
a democracy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's tough. Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more
detail and nuance to it, but we'll leave it here.
I love, love, love, love love the free market in
so many ways. It's lifted billions of people out of poverty,
on lace new medicines across the globe. It has profit
is the reason for charity. It's the reason charity exists.
(09:42):
You have to have more than you need to feed
yourself to give to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from
the dream of globalization, though, there are going to be
some rainings in of the free market, and it's going
to be stops and starts. It's going to be really
difficult anyway not to get hung up on that, because
you could talk about it for a year and a
(10:03):
half and write five thousand page books on it and
not cover it. I thought this was interesting, how markets
really werek Jack The rise and fall of the Napa
Valley of Cannabis when Colorado became one of the first
states to legalize the recreational marriage. You wanna and an
enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said he wanted Pueblo to
(10:23):
become the Napa Valley of cannabis. And they talk a
little bit in the Wall Street Journal about the situation.
Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier, steel mill had been
shedding workers. They're really hurting for jobs and tax revenue,
and a cannabis boom would do that for them. The
streets were going to be paved with gold, recalled one resident.
The elementary schools were going to be the greatest in
(10:46):
the country. Then they talk about, you know, the classic meme,
how it started, how it's going. In the first weeks,
the only two shops then licensed in the county round
rang up a combined one million dollars in sales the
first month, wow sending fifty six thousand dollars in taxes
to the county Colorado, pont everybody was just thrilled and happy.
(11:10):
Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up
in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and
cannabis oil extractors. There were more than two hundred of
these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county, more than
two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain. State records
indicate county tax revenue plunged from more than seven point
(11:33):
one million dollars to four point eight million twenty twenty three,
which is still a pretty significant amount of money. And
you could argue that they're just thinning the herd and
the stronger surviving the way it goes in capitalism. But
here's the problem. In California knows this too. It's been
a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise is made
to Californians. In Colorado is alike. Even after legalization, illicit
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growers and sellers thrived, even right in Pueblo. Last year,
they accounted for seventy percent of the US market, according
to research companies. The black market dealers, unlike licensed ones,
face neither Texas nor red tape, so they're more efficient
and they're cheaper, and it's bad for your brain. That's interesting. Man.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
If you're if you're counting on enough people smoking enough
pot to you know, make your schools great.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And everything like that. That's just that's an interesting thing.
It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to
run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal
cannabis businesses are profitable, which is two percent just three
years ago. Did not know that. Yeah, investment is dried up,
restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo, sentiment about legal pot
(12:45):
has swung the other way, fueling a backlash against the
county's embrace of the industry. And again, it's kind of
complicated and a lot of nuance to it, but it's
just it's not nearly the dream it was sold to be. Elo,
I'm sorry, and the one the one aspect you should
understand it's kind of intuitive is that if it's legal,
(13:08):
enforcing laws against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because
you know, half of it, sixty percent of it, depending
on where you are, is legal. And so what are
the cops supposed to do if they see a bunch
of guys smoking pot? Right? The Armstrong and Getty show,
Yeah or Jack or show podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Another moment with one of these humanoid robots, this time
kicking its CEO. It as simulated face off in China,
the robot landing quite a forceful strike, appearing to knock
the CEO of Engine AI right to the ground. The
CEO covered and padded gear for the battle, appearing to
be unharmed. The company says the moment of man versus
robot was about shutting down claims that other videos of
(13:49):
this same humanoid robot and its capabilities were just CGI.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, so the CEO got its ass kicked by the
robot to prove.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That some Ah, you're watching the video, I am. Did
you take a pretty good smacking? Yeah? Well, and the
swiftness with which this thing moves is unbelievable. I never
thought about that. Yeah. Oh boy, Chinese killer robots. Good moment.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Uh chet gpt open Aye made a giant announcement yesterday
that could have an effect on the world. We'll talk
about that later, but first, Okay, did you have a
preference and eye color.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
For your baby yet to be born? No, don't care.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, I didn't care either, but my son yesterday, I
have two blue eyed kids, or I did have two
blue eyed kids. My thirteen year old said to me,
he said, my eyes aren't blue anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I said, what ah? He said they're a different color now.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I guess I hadn't looked deeply into his eyes for
quite a while, because he walked up to me and
he said, I think they're hazel now, and I looked them.
You're right, they aren't blue anymore. And I didn't really
knew what hazel meant as a word, so I had
to google it and I got the eye chart and
everything like that, and damn right, his eyes are no
longer blue.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They are hazel. I had amazing eyes until I was
a teenager. They were hazel. They were green and brown,
and then in adolescence they just went all brown, brown,
which is bead. I could add a completely different life.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Brown is the most popular eye color in the world
at eighty percent four out of five.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Life of the hazel eyed, I could have lived it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Four out of five people on planet Earth have brown eyes,
is very common. The next most popular is blue, which
I have eight to ten percent, then hazel. Then only
five percent of people have hazel eyes, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The room lost it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The rarest of eyes outside of like you're some sort
of freak born with purple eyes or two different color
eyes or whatever, like.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
For normal Lizz Taylor lavender eyes.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Two percent of the world's population is green eyes, So
green hazel, then blue.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Brine are blue and green?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
What about bloodshell? But I got those. Is one of
your eyes blue and the other one's green or they're
blue green?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
They start they start blue on the outside and they're
green closer to the pupil.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, so pay extra for that. I didn't know price.
We wondered if we missed something. So we went back
and looked at pictures of him on my phone before
me was little. I know he had bright blue eyes
when he was little. Now they're hazel, which so.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm sorry they're blue and at this point blue and
what whatever?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hazel is like a light brown?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, it's kind of brown green brown. I would say, Okay, interesting,
I didn't know your eyes changed color.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Can it happen again later in life or is it
pretty much in your teenager years and then you're done.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I'm guessing what you just said there, But I don't know.
I would like to find deep black eyes. I want
red ones, red eyes, the pupils bright red. Hello, how's
your soul? I mean? Interested in an offer? It's the
Armstrong in Getty Show.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Strong Israel has had it up to here with fighting
Iran's proxies, and the giant raid on Iran on their
military facilities, on their nuclear facilities, killed their top three
military commanders. Predictably, Hesballah, that's one of Iran's proxies. They
(17:37):
condemned the attack and they said they were awaiting instructions
and how to respond.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Check your pagers, guys, now.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Crowd applauds like crazy, which is kind of interesting because
I was everybody has thought this not an original thought.
I never I don't know if I've ever had an
original thought. But I'd like to go to a parallel
universe where Kamala Harris won the presidential election and she
see how she would be dealing with this whole thing
between Israel and Iran. You know that she would be
daily lecturing Israel and telling them they need to stop.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And responding to her wokeust you know, fifteen percent of supporters.
I'm sure. Yeah, I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't think
of this myself, but it's a lot going on in
the world these days. Regular correspondent to JT in Livermore, California. Guys,
if China can build secret prisons within the US, they're
(18:33):
more like police stations withholding cells. But yeah, you know
they're going to be building drone armies here in the US,
maybe stored on those properties they're buying next to military bases.
We hope they haven't already. Well, right, obviously, the spring
board of this is the knowledge that Ukraine had facilities
within Russia in which they were constructing and or storing
(18:57):
drones and waiting for the right to attack. And JT
helpfully sent along a link to an article I believe
we talked about at the time. Maps showed Chinese owned
farmland next to nineteen US military bases in alarming threat
to national security.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Even if they hadn't come up with that plan prior
to what Ukraine did and what Israel just did, they
started a week ago, they're doing now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The New York Post identified nineteen bases across the US
from Florida, Hawaii to Hawaii which were in close proximity
to land bought by Chinese entities and could be exploited
by spies working for the communist nation. And if they
can be, they will be. You know, get that tattooed
somewhere where you can look at it regularly. If the
Chinese communists can use a capability against us, they will use.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It's just the question of when I gotta admit. If
I ever took off my shirt and someone said, what
does that to tattoos?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Say?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
And I say it says if the Chinese government can
exploit a situation, think will that's your tattoo?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yes, I just don't want to forget it, don't just
Robert Spaulding retired to US State's Air Force Brigadier general,
Brigadier general who's work focused on US general relations. Still
the post. It's concerning due to the proximity of its
strategic or to our strategic location, we are a big, rich,
(20:27):
naive moron as a country in a lot of ways.
Contrast that with Israel, if you will. Oh, speaking of which,
on a similar theme, I was thinking of going into
this in a playful way. Uh you know, maybe I will.
All right, go ahead. What is the app Tamu's business?
(20:49):
Is it Timu or tamu U? Katie? Do you know
t e m U?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I've heard it both ways. I say, team Timu. Okay,
fire enough, What is Timu's real business? Okay, hang on,
now there's more. What is TikTok's real business. There's one
more for you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's Shine right, that's the cheap clothing. What is Shines
real business? I've never even heard of that one. Or
here's Pin Duo Duo. What is that app's real business?
A trick question. The answer for all of them is
collecting your data. They include a service along with that.
(21:29):
That's why you download the app.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They are data collection and surveillance apps for instanday all Chinese,
yeah okay, for instance pin Doo, although certainly the Chinese
are not the only voracious collectors of.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Data, I mean, Mark Zuckerberg, please. The Timu and Pin
Duo Duo represent themselves as e commerce apps that offer
in inexpensive merchandise, but they're also in the business of
data collection. The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Mike Hilgers
of Nebraska says, according to an IT security report firm report,
(22:11):
Pinduo Duo requests as many as eighty three permissions, including
access to biometrics, Bluetooth, Wi Fi network information, and well
obviously seventy or eighty more things. As an aside, why
is TikTok still happening in America, Mister President? Because they
(22:31):
gave you a big giant contribution to your your campaign
or your inauguration. Them and their lobbyists are paying off
the administration get rid of TikTok. Congress passed the law.
It's time.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Isn't there a way for since Congress did pass a
lot to force the executive to do what you're supposed
to do legally.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, somebody's gotta like prove standing in that they've been
damaged by it and go to the courts. I guess
you'd think there'd be kind of a blanket. The law
said that and it's not happening lawsuit that you could
file an ex post miranda or corpus lawsuit or something.
I don't know, but crazy. Uh. An investigation found by
(23:17):
Montana found that the team app is designed to hide
its collection of sensitive information from users and from any
researcher who might be investigating the apps functionality. That's part
of its programming is to hide what it is doing.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Timu also has code that quote allows it to reconfigure
itself after being downloaded.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
What do you use TM move for?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What's it? It's a what dental hygiene? What do you
use for?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You can you can buy anything on it. It's it's
like China's Amazon.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh okay, then why do we use in the United
States Because there's just a lot of cheap crap on it,
super cheap okay, yeah wow, yeah wow. They are really
hoisting this on our own retards with the whole we
like cheap crap. Okay, so we'll develop an app that
can spy on every single American in the United States
who wants to buy extra cheap crap. And they're so
hungry for their cheap crap and it is crap most
(24:13):
of it, that they'll allow us to.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Spy on everybody, right exactly. And keep in mind what
I just said. Tamu has code that allows it to
reconfigure itself after you download it, so it becomes something
different than you downloaded. Blah blah blah. This is the
part I wanted to get to. The fear is that
consumer products marketed on Timu are the bait to get
(24:37):
Americans to download an app that gives the company and
thereby the Communist party, access to personal data, location tracking,
and other sensitive information. Article seven of the National Intelligence
Law of China is the Chinese communists on their own.
You know, I'm tempted to dig up that great piece
we had by was it? Oh, no, no, no, no, no,
(24:57):
who is the guy who wrote his name? Is flitted
out of my head? An unbelievable piece quoting Chinese Intelligence
Service officials on how valuable a resource TikTok is. It
quoted them chapter and verse, quote after quote after quote
from internal memorandum and meetings where the Chinese intelligence services said, wow,
(25:20):
TikTok is an unbelievable boon to what we're doing. But anyway,
here's article seven of the National Intelligence Law in China. Quote.
Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with
the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and
keep the secrets of the national intelligence work from becoming
known to the public. They are bound by law to
(25:41):
report anything that Chinese communists want to know. Well, we're fools,
we are, we want we freaking are. That's very maddening.
I know, you know, we've said enough. When the pooh
hits the fan and whatever shape or array of flung
(26:02):
pooh results, everybody will say, how did that happen? I
don't will I be some some sort of grimly satisfied.
Now I want to just be horrified. No, just horrified.
On a cheerier note, Love this, Andy Kessler, writing in
the Journal, Javier Malay's gift for Pope Leo. On June
(26:25):
the seventh, the new Pope, the Chicago Guy, met with
Argentine President j Javier Malay at the Vatican. Malay gave
the Pope a historical document from sixteen forty two. Cool,
a hand woven Vicunya poncho.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
That's a quargetine.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh did you got your machine woven vicunya? Please throw
it in the trash. You're hand woven gorgeous. And he
also gave him Friedrich Hayek's book from nineteen eighty eight,
The Fatal Conceit, The Errors of Socialism. The book costs
less than nineteen dollars on Amazon, but it was the
most valuable gift, says Kessler. And he explains with some
(27:07):
just fabulous quotes from the book, which I need to read.
I've read quotes from it in my whole life. But
high K's fatal conceit is that quote. Man is able
to shape the world around him according to his wishes.
That is the fatal conceit of humans. It's a hearty
defense of free markets and of classical liberalism, and Kessler
(27:29):
mentions that his friend and colleague Matthew Hennessy got taken
to task by Vice President Vance for defending free markets
on these pages. In twenty twenty five, Hiak pounds home
the point that markets are about price discovery, wealth creation.
Quote is determined not by objective physical facts known to
any one mind, but by the separate differing information of millions,
(27:50):
which is precipitated in prices that serve to guide further decisions.
Catch that by buying and selling in free markets to
determined prices, you and I and millions who are connected
but only by signals resulting from long and infinitely ramified
chains of trade, we drive the economy, and we do
it better than self selecting know it alls who really
(28:10):
know nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And he gave that book to the pope. He did
because he thinks the pope or popes tend to lean
a little too socialist.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yes, indeed, I think that was his purpose. Let me
hit you with one or two more quotes from Hayek.
This is maybe my favorite. One's initial surprise at finding
that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes,
of course, that intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence. Ah,
the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
(28:42):
how little they really know about what they imagine they
can design. Planners are ill informed quote. To the naive
mind that can conceive of order only as the product
of deliberate arrangement. It might seem absurd that order and
economic growth can be achieved more effectively by decentralized decisions,
he notes, And he notes that the fallacy because quote,
(29:04):
decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account
man by millions of people who don't even know they're
doing it.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Salma Hayak for the win there, that would be Friedrich
Hayek wrong, Hyak right, very different, Hyak.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I love that, Love that Jack Armstrong and Joe the
Armstrong and Getty Show. So this is a really good
piece from the National Review talking about how in politics
and government, clever is not always the same thing as good.
(29:44):
Sometimes you use cleverness to deceive and to pull off
crap that shouldn't be happening. They're talking about the Trump administration,
the Department of Defense renaming nine major military bases. You
remember back in twenty three, the Biden Department of Defense
(30:05):
changed the names of all of these forts because they
were named after Confederates.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So that happened in twenty three. It's interesting because that happened.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It started under George Floyd, where all kinds of things
were getting taken off schools and rivers and statues and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
But it took the twenty three that they changed the forts.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well right exactly, and so they named they renamed Fort Benning,
Fort Bragg, Fort Gordon, Fort ap Hill, Fort Hood, Fort Lee,
Fort Pickett, Fort Polk, and Fort Rucker. And then some
of the new Biden era installation names were worthy individuals
General hal Moore and his wife Julia Compton Moore, who
(30:44):
were the same namesakes of Fort Moore, and some of
the other ones they named for some pretty good people.
Others were less inspired. Fort Bragg merely became Fort Liberty,
whatever that means. I mean, I'm in favor of Liberty, certainly.
But so now the are Army has announced and this
is the clever part. And I want to dislike this,
(31:06):
because I think the editors in National Review want to
dislike it too, but I think I like it. The
Army has announced it will redesignate these installations back to
their previous names, but with a twist. Fort Benning is
going back to Fort Benning, but this time it's named
(31:26):
for Corporal Fred G. Benning, a first no you idiot,
Fred Benning, a First World War hero instead of Henry Benning,
a general in the Confederate Army. Fort Gordon is back
to be in Fort Gordon. It's now named to honor
Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, a Delta Force sniper awarded the
Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions at the Battle
(31:48):
of Mogadishu. It's your Blackhawk down Mayhem. So they've found
great admirable Americans and the list, I mean it gives
you a chill, it warms your heart. Distinguished Service Cross
the recipient Colonel Robert B. Hood, who showed extraordinary heroism
(32:08):
in France during WW two. Oh I'm sorry he was
WW one. Fort Hood is now named after Robert B. Hood.
So they found great loyal Americans with the same last
names and change the fort's back.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Fort Lee now named after.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Peggy Lee, who's sang how much is that Doggy in
the Window? A timeless classic, no doubt? All right? So Jack,
Come on, what do you think of this maneuver? Don't
make it seems jyvy as hell if but Fort Bragg
is now Fort Bragg again, but it's a different brag.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Okay, So I guess I have to start at the
premise that we need the forts to have the same name, because.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I'm not sure i'd buy that. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And then but if I accept that, it still doesn't
it still doesn't it change the fact.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
That if you are an actual racist and or fan
of the Confederacy and believe something should be named for
Robert E. Lee, that you know, Okay, I know what
we're doing. You got to say this for the other
people live. We know, we know that you named it
after the Confederates. So cool, cool, We're with you.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I mean, is it?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I mean, I hate the term dog whistle.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
I think ninety percent of the time when I hear
dog whistle it's inaccurate or overbooln But Smitcher actually be one?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. They mentioned in the National
Review that very few Americans who resisted the changing names
in twenty three did it out of affection for the
Confederacy right.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
They resisted because of the.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Spate of renaming seem to be part of the pro
woke cultural true it all.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Came with taking Thomas Jefferson's name off of school and everything.
It was all happening at the same time.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Right, which is why at the beginning of the show
I think it is, we have a recording saying from
the Abraham Lincoln Studios that the George Washington, uh you know,
broadcast complex. That was a reaction to that, and the
idea was that no, no, no, if we let you
start with the Confederate generals, you're gonna end up turning
the Washington Monument into the transsexual monos or whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Sure, just the next thing, you know, that's yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I don't know. This is clever, but is it smart?
I don't know. Well it just yeah, they'll just go
you know what, Yeah, that's that's kind of a head scratcher.
Different people have different opinions. You want to email us
about this mail bag at Armstrong e Getty dot com
or drop us a note four one five, two nine
five KFTC.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
To the idea that it wasn't actually, you know, fans
of the Confederacy or racists that were fighting this. How
many people ever thought for a second about who Fort
Bragg was named after?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You just referred to it as Fort Bragg.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That's what you knew it was called.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I mean, it's just I didn't do they look back
on it, and then how how many buildings, bridges, whatever
do you encounter every day in your life?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know it crosses the Robinson Bridge as back up today? Robinson?
Who Robinson? I don't know why it's the Robinson Bridge.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Nobody ever asks or cares, right, Yeah, Judy and I'll
actually occasionally search on that sort of thing when we're
taking road trips. Wow, the John G. Robinson Bridge, I want,
uh you figure out who John G. Robinson was, just
to make the miles go by. And it's kind of fun.
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