December 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour three of the Wednesday December 31, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Reading Ulysses, Bowling & Trump's Ai Strategy
- France's Debt Denial
- Ukraine/Russia Conflict & Remote Control Cockroaches
- Torture for Donations
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and No Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong
twenty twenty five. What a year? Huh? That was something.
We're not here right now.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're playing you the best of what we call like
to call Armstrong and Getty replays.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, and the staff is still shell shocked. They're still
crying quietly in the corner. It takes so much work
to get this together and present it to you in
as entertaining a form as it is.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's the Armstrong in Getty replay.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I was scrolling Instagram last night in bed when I
should have been trying to get to sleep, but I
couldn't get to sleep because this dang cough.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I keep coughing myself. Awek.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I wondered why you texted me at the hour you did.
I don no, I got medicine. I keep coughing AnyWho.
And I'm also I should be reading, but I'm at
the most difficult chapter in Ulysses to continue to try
to read this book. It's it's where most people stop
if they ever make it that far. It is so
freaking hard, and it's an hard hour and a half
(01:11):
read according to my kindle.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So that's a long chapter.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh chapter, Oh can you describe why it's so hard?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Okay, So the scene and I only know this because
I went to like a crib notes tutor. I wouldn't
have figured this out from the content. They're at a
hospital where a woman is in laboring going to have
a baby.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So the chapter both.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh mimics the nine months of a pregnancy, including the birth.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
While.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Demonstrating the evolution of the English language starting at the
very beginning of the written word till now what the
hell with the language of the after is progressing in
a way analogous to a pregnancy progressing right, good lord?
And it's impossible to have any idea what's going on anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Whatever happened to boy meets Girl?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
So anyway, so I didn't feel like reading that last night,
and I was scrolling through and I came across this
comedian and I want her to get all the credit
because this is so funny. Should just play the clip.
Elena Hershey is her name. She's making the point and
I've never hear anybody say this before about how she
has no respect for pro bowlers because she, like most people,
goes bowling like once a year, and even then, being
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no good at it. Going once a year, not paying attention,
she usually rolls a strike at some point, which is
the best thing you can do in bowling. Right, There's
no other sport where like, once a year you can
go out and accidentally, half drunk, not paying attention, do
the best thing you can do in that sport. You
don't once a year go to an ice skating rink,
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because she said, and land a triple a.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Right, just randomly.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Have a beer, step into the batting cage and just
rip one hundred mile per hour fastball in the left center. Yeah,
that's not happening. No other sports like that, you know. Uh,
you know, I thought that was pretty funny. Back to reality.
So h.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
This is from the Wall Street Journal today. Somehow I
missed this truth social from early in the week Donald
Trump just a couple of weeks ago. The guy that
runs in video that always wears the cool tom Ford
leather jacket, the most valuable company in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I think.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He told Donald Trump that this patchwork of AI laws
across the country. Every you know, fifty states with a
gazillion different kind of laws is really going to slow
down our ability to maximize AI and stay ahead of China.
And that got Trump's attention a pairarent And it's a
(04:02):
decent argument.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I mean, it's beyond a decent argument. It makes perfectly
good sense. Yeah, that the.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
US needs to avoid a collection of disparate state rules
for AI, setting off a month long frenzy that is
expected to culminate this week in the signing of an
executive order.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That will fix that somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Trump truthed out, you can't expect a company to get
fifty approvals every time they want to do anything, Trump
posted Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That will never work.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And he's expected to sign some executive order and I
don't know how they're gonna word it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
In such a way that that can't happen anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But it's really going to unshackle these AI companies and
let him scream forward with whatever it is they're trying
to do, for.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Better or worse.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I'm extremely skeptical about how successful an executive order
would be in preempting state laws.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Some general Hey, don't mess with AI. It sounds so.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
That's funny Governor Ron DeSantis has said an executive order
doesn't can't preempt state legislative action.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Me and Ron high five, Ron.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah. Others in the Republican Party seem open to supporting
Trump's approach, despite their opposition to a moratorium on state
AI laws. A spokesman for Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabe Sanders,
who's pretty darn Trumpey, who like DeSantis, has criticized state preemption,
said she backs Trump's AI strategy and looks forward to
working with him to win the AI rice while protecting Americans,
(05:30):
which is a nice phrase that doesn't get anywhere near
a solution for the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I can see her chief staff saying, Governor Trump's made
an announcement, do you want to go with the standard
I'm with him gung ho statement because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And she said, yeah, that's perfect. Well, so what do
you think it's going to happen? I mean, it is true.
How in the world are we going to not get
surpassed by China if you have to deal with fifty
different states rules for everything you try to do?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Right? Yeah, I should have made my sentiments more clear.
They are as follows. He's right, He's absolutely right. It's true.
But the executive order won't accomplish much other than saying, hey,
let's look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It's like one of his truths.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Could Congress pass a law, then, yeah, they could pass
a federal law, but I think the chances of that
happened in about zero. There are too many smart people
in Congress who would realize any law we passed today
would be outdated tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We're wasting our time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Republicans have been promoting the preempting of state AI rules
for years. The idea gained momentum in the last year
and a half when Democratic states such as Colorado, here
in California, and New York signed laws imposing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Guardrails on tech companies.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And of course, these guardrails are being put in place
by people who have no idea what they're talking about,
because nobody really does, or they're just responding to people's
concerns about in a way that won't do any good,
but they can portray themselves as hey, we're trying, we're
protecting you and your families.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
An executive order is a clear signal of the administration's
robust commitment to a federal AI governance framework.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The question now is what that framework will be.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, I would say we better do it flipping fast,
like by next week.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh. Speaking of tech stuff, I came across this the
other day. I thought it was super interesting. Now the
source is way Mo.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
My only finally final comment I would throw in on
what we were just talking about, is China aint worried
about this at all?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, at all, no, no, could not give a crap.
So we're going to try to break on time. I'll
squeeze this in very very quickly. Speaking of artificial intelligence
and that sort of thing, self driving cars are clearly
the future, according to Waymo, which is imperfect, absolutely funny.
Videos surface virtually every day of three way mo's looking
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at each other.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
At an intersection for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But crashes in intersections come compaired to human drivers over
an equal number of miles driven, Crashes in intersections ninety
six percent lower, crashes with pedestrians ninety two percent lower,
crashes with cyclists or motorcyclists eighty three percent lower. Anybody
who rides a bike a motorcycle can tell you, because
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we you all know if people are looking for cars,
they don't see motorcycles. Nobody can exactly explain it, but
people will turn left right in front of a motorcycle
that's got a blazing headlight and it's coming at them anyway,
lateral crashes. It's merely a seventy three percent decrease. And
as one writer commented after these statistics, challenge you to
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go for a walk around in any American city. See
what the drivers are doing while they drive texting. They're
all texting. It's no longer texting while driving. People are
driving while texting.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
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Speaker 3 (09:01):
France's government collapsed in a spectacular fashion yesterday after mccrone's
hand picked leader tried to reign in public debt. McCrone
understands that they're on a course of disaster, and he
has been choosing people to be in his government that
agree with him, and uh, not enough voters agree. I guess,
(09:25):
so France's government. I'm reading for the New York Post
some of it and from other publications. France's government was
toppled in a vote of no confidence yesterday, forcing Emmanuel
Macron to search for his fourth prime minister in the
last year and throwing EU's second largest economy into chaos.
The premiere was ousted overwhelmingly huge vote three sixty four
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to one to ninety four, not even close against him
losing an apparent gamble the lawmakers would back his push
for France to slash public spending to repay its debts.
That's the crazy idea that he had. Let's cut our
spending so we can pay down our debts. And he
got overwhelmingly trounced. He was voted out, ending his short
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lived minority government after being appointed by Macron just in December.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, left wing and right wing joined together and said, yeah,
let's toss out the moderates and we'll fight for the scraps.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The former president now admitted Monday that his last speech
as prime minister was a gamble to tackle France's debt
crisis by standing by his unpopular economic plan, and it
didn't pay off. At the end of the first quarter
of twenty twenty five, Francis public debt started three point
nine three trillion, hilarious number by US standards. Obviously about
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four trillion dollars, but that's one hundred and fourteen percent
of gross domestic product. When you go over one hundred percent,
that's supposed to be like serious doomsday spiral. By the way,
just in case you were wondering, the US debt to
GDP ratio is one hundred and nineteen percent. France is
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doing better than US at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wow wow wow.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The former president hoped to cut debt. Included a bid
to push a fifty one billion dollars savings plan that
called for scrapping two public holidays. They have a public
holiday a week practically in France. He wanted to get
rid of two of them.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
No, you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And freezing government spending at its current level, not cutting
like this is what happened with the Tea Party. You're
not even trying to cut, You're just trying to cut
the rate of growth, and you get killed for it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
They're doomed, they are, and so are we. True.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The greatest risk was not to take a chance, he said,
to let things go on without changing anything, to go
on doing politics as usual. He said in his final speech,
the nation is facing a silent, underground, invisible and unbearable
hemorrhage of excessive public borrowing. Submission to debt is like
submission through military force, dominated by weapons, dominated by our creditors,
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because of a debt that is submerging us. In both cases,
we lose our freedom. That's what got voted against.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And the unions and the leftists said no, we want
to keep getting stuff. And here's my favorite thing, he
said in his final speech.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You have the power to overthrow my government, but you
do not have the power.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
To erase reality. Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That is some good ass right there. Wow, reality remains inexorable.
Spending will continue to increase, and the debt burden, already unbearable,
will grow heavier and more costly. Good lord, how are
there so few grown ups in Western civilization willing to
stand up and say this? Well, they do, and you
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get voted out immediately by by the left and the right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I was thinking about you know, the US obviously reading
about France, and we're just a couple of generations. I
guess away from politicians who would not vote for unsustainable debt,
they would consider that a horrible betrayal of the trust
placed in them. They would consider it personally immoral and
and and a crime against.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The kids and then the grandkids. You just you could
not get somebody to vote for what everybody votes for now,
and I find myself wondering whether a democracy with our
current you know, a moral view of overspending, can save itself.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
By the way, just back to France briefly, that the
decision to boot boot him out created means there's no
dominant political block for the first time in France's modern
political history. I don't quite understand those systems, but they
are in a lot of turmoil over there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But back to you've got.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
To cobble together a multi party coalition that you can't
get anything done.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
But back to his quote that I love so much.
You had the power to overthrow the government, you do
not have the power to erase reality. God dang it,
that's the whole reality. Bats last.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You can.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Ignore the growing debt and how it's unsustainable and all
these programs are going to go broke for a while,
but the pain only gets worse. The pain that you will,
not may will suffer at some point is only going
to be worse the longer you wait.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Meanwhile, there's a new report out in France about their
educational system and how it's just failing miserably.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Sound familiar.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And for the first time now experts, educators. There's a
book out that's made a huge wave in France. It said, look,
we've had rampant immigration, just unfettered immigration, and now one
in five grade five actually students speak a language other
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than French at home, and forty one percent of under
fours are immigrants or immigrants children's and they're transforming the schools.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That number on speaking French at home is astounding.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, more than one in five year five pupils speak
a language other than French at home. And much like
in Britain, we've been discussing this and Germany, and Germany's
a little behind Britain, but they're heading in the same
direction in France too, where it was just agreed upon.
(15:40):
It was literally agreed upon. I think it was in Germany.
I've got that around here somewhere by all of the
major parties that we won't blame this on immigration, all right,
you don't bring it up, and we won't bring it up.
And they made a behind the scenes agreement. But now
the people in Britain and France and Germany, you're like, yeah,
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we are talking about it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Loudly and things are nutty in Europe right now, politically speaking,
where it goes nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, you combine.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Popular disgust with being betrayed by the elites, the immigration
thing especially, and the Islamization of European countries. They've allowed,
you know, enormous numbers of people who despise their very
principles in their way of life. Anyway, you combine that
with the populist Once I get a benefit, I will
never accept you scaling anything back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Where does that go?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Why is there such a small number of us who
are willing to accept the pain that has to happen
Right now? I realize my taxes are going to go up,
and I hate my taxes going up, and I'm not
on many government services, so I wouldn't notice those being cut.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But it's got to happen, So bring it on, like tomorrow.
Let's do it tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, because those who profit from the status quo are
very very good at spinning the politics. It is so
much easier to say, not only do you deserve it,
but I'm going to give.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It to you, and say we can't give it to
you anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And here's why taxes or nails pitch is so easy to.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Me. The number one story around that whole thing was
the first story in sixty minutes last night. Did you
see that about how Germany's re arming and how serious
they are about it all because of the whole Ukraine
Russia thing, And I loved I want to get the
clip the Defense Minister of Germany. The last thing said
on that story last night was, Hey, if you like
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being able to demonstrate in the street and worship whoever
God you want, or love whoever you want, and like
this sort of freedom, you have to fight for it.
That's Germany saying that the pass just my whole life.
Pacifist Germany saying if you want freedom, you need to
be able willing to fight for it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And they are.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
They are, as he pointed out, the number three economy
in the world, and they're pouring tons of money into this,
and they they've got lots of recruits, and it was
really really interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
But also did you see the part with the cockroaches.
They it's kind of a funny aside because the other
stuff was very serious and very real. But then they
also they figured out a way to steer cockroaches. They
put a little like backpack on cockroaches and then you
have a little steering wheel and you can steer them around.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And you found that funny. There's nothing funny about armed cockroaches.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I just thought, so you lord, do you find them
in your kitchen, you decide to kill them, they decided
to kill you back. It's like driving a remote control car,
except for driving these cockroaches around. And they showed, they
demonstrated it cockroach walking.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Across the floor and you can make it turn left
or right or do whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
But you saw that promotional video from the company doing
those experiments. How you know you could outfit those cockroaches
with cameras and all and just have them swarm into
some enemy you know the area the layer hideout famously hard.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
To kill, can squeeze through any crack, practically nothing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Kills them, right right, Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The one more common on the Germany thing that I
want to get to a really interesting story about the
American military, but the German thing.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Look, I realize not.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Everybody is a history freak, okay, but you're talking. Anytime
anybody brings up the German military, everybody's got to say,
but his people are uncomfortable about this because.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Of the Nazis.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I was in Germany's unfortunate history, and there was
some concern given that.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That was eighty years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Eighty well, and really the rise of that ideology was
one hundred freaking years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I mean, come on, right, right, it's fine, Hey, don't
go Nazi, right, so we eve own'd Okay, there we go,
We're fine, let's defend ourselves now. I know.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I was surprised by that too, the amount of time.
I mean, it's clearly a thing there in Germany. They
worry about it all the time, and it's a serious.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Scar on their national identity, definitely, But at some points.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Like I mean, like normal Norm m MacDonald's bit. Actually
it was on the last episode of Letterman when Norm
McDonald di is thing about Germany started a war with
the world twice, and as he said, you know, the
more I learned about Adolf Hitler, the more I don't
care for him.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
If you are a sixty year old German leader of
you know, whatever, politics, the military, whatever, right now, you
were born twenty years after the war ends, I'm not
blaming you for it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You weren't there. Yeah, that is interesting. The long assurance
were infants.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
The long shadow of that. Yeah, well it was pretty horrible,
but it's fine. Let's it over it. Look, don't be Nazis. Okay, Okay,
we won't again. It's solved. There, we go.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well, especially since they're spending all this money there in
Germany and rearming and retraining and all this sort of
stuff with you know, with the statements of if you
like freedom, this is why we need to be strong.
If you hate the Jews, here's why we need to
be strong. Or if you hate France, this is why
we need to be strong.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
If you would enjoy a forthrike with some Laban's realm, yeah,
everything we deserve.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, No, they're not saying that anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So we have many times asked the question is the
US military adapting quickly enough to the modern battlefield, whether
it's the cyber stuff or more specifically, and more relevant
to today's news, all the drone warfare and counter drone
warfare in Ukraine, the fast moving, light, cheap battlefield of
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today versus gigantic tanks and artillery systems there are you know,
the guns of Navrone might still matter in the next
big conflict, but a lot of it's going to be
fought quickly and lightly.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Are they doing enough?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Wall Street Journal with a great feature over the weekend
talking about these massive maneuvers taking place, well massive, massively
important in Hawaii as our guys the Army specifically are
trying out all sorts of different drone technologies in the
hot humid jungles because there's a certain giant country that's
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hostile that if we have to get into shooting more
with them, a lot of it's going to be in
hot humid jungles on islands specifically.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Do we have remote control cockroaches? Not yet, but we're
working with the Gentlemans.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Are those going to be available for Christmas? I mean
Christmas is next Thursday. If I could get those for
the kids and they could steer the cockroaches around the
living room and have battles whatever, I mean, trust me,
wait for the next generation.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
They're just beta testing the Revoca cockroaches. They'll be crashing
into your lamps and stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Like that, or it doesn't work in All you've done
is bring a bunch of cockroaches in your house, right, They.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Shake off their little packs and then go hide in
the shadows.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So you got these guys running around with really realistic
drone encounter drone exercises, trying all sorts of different systems.
And it also goes into how the military is really
changing its procurement protocols, which is something everybody says they
need to do so that you know, you're not signing
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five year deals with one big, you know, defense company
and by two months from now their drones are out
of date. There they've been counter you know whatever, countered
by the enemy. And I came away from reading this
with a couple of impressions, and it's funny. I don't
think they mentioned him specifically. I have not heard a
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single person say anything negative about Pete Hegzeth and his
leadership of the Pentagon, purely in terms of readiness to fight.
I've never heard anybody even question his seriousness on the
innovation and protecting our troops and being smart in warfare.
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So far, it seems like he gets very high marks
in that. I don't know, I could be wrong, but again,
nobody's even questioned it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, they criticize him in general sense, or he's too
mouthy or whatever, he fires people too fast, I don't know.
But anyway, but the last aspect of this, I we're
talking about is having the technology is one thing. Being
able to build it really, really fast is the other thing.
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Because Ukraine and Russia are making millions of drones a year,
China can outproduce them both, and so the armies hope
to spur domestic drone production over the next few years
by you know, hooking up with the best, most innovative
companies and saying, look, we're going to need you to
change with the technology. We'll change with the technology. Let's
(25:11):
let's get into bed.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
When I read the other day how many drones China
is creating compared to us.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It was very troubling. Very well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And then the clip we started with is Zelenski saying, sure,
we'll give up the getting in NATO if we get
guarantees from the United States. Do you think we're going
to give them the sort of guarantees he's wanting. Where
we would come to I mean, we'll go to war
with Russia if he reinvades. I had to be a
hell of a thing. Yeah, I'm highly skeptical. Well, I
would think it would. I'm not exactly sure what I
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think of it as a policy. I mean that basically
be the policy. If Ukraine joined NATO or if or today,
if Russia invades to NATO country, that's the business into NATO.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So in what sense are they not in NATO. They
don't get to come to the cocktail parties. We'll have
mutual defense treatings, but they're not in NATO. What does
that even mean?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And I know some of you feel like surrounding Russia
with NATO is what caused this, and we pushed Putin
into feeling like he had no choice but to evade
U crate that whole thing. But it would be an
interesting move given Trump's history. It would be the opposite
of what he's been saying running on for all these years.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
One of the flaws in the United States as an ally,
especially when you make a promise like that that everybody's
looking at and saying, really, they're really going to do that,
is the next administration might not feel the same and
might not be ready to put their guns with their mouths.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
O oh, Biden, endlessly, We're with you to the end,
to the end. The crowd cheers endlessly, okay or argently
kind of sort of or depends on public polling and
the next administration.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, Ukraine gave up their nukes because we said we
would protect their sovereignty and then we didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Former Charger star Philip Rivers. Because the Indianapolis Colts needed
a quarterback. They tapped him at age forty four, hadn't
played in years. It just shows you how few people
can do that job.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, to some extent. Also, Rivers was good friends with
the head coach and he knew the offense. He even
installed it he was coaching high school football. He even
installed that offense in his at his high school.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Simplified obviously. But and I'm sure the coach.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Said, hey, Phil, are you doing like physically and stuff?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You haven't gained seventy five pounds you because he knew.
You know, he's got it up in his head.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And you know, the bottom line of the story is
forty four year old Philip Rivers hadn't played in five years.
He came back and he achieved the average quarterback ranking
for all the quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, that's really an amazing story. He's a hell of
a nice fella too, so he's easy to root for.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Didn't get his legs broken or anything like that. No. No.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Also, one of my favorite sports writers, Jason Gay the
Wall Street Journal, said, especially early in the game, he
looked like he was stumbling around like your uncle trying
to make a sandwich in the dark kind of phrases.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's unfair. That's an unfair phrase. That's what it is. Okay,
we got mailbag.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And I'll say one thing too, as I think I
may have a better body than him right now, or get.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Out there and improve it. He can't play for the Raiders.
They need somebody. That's a funny comment.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Michael, So in a shirts off competition, you like your chances?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Wow, that's old. Raising money for Scouts this week.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I've been talking since my son joined the Boy Scouts
back in last spring or whatever. That's one of the
most impressive things I've ever seen. Its best thing that's
happened in his life. I've talked to other dads in
his Scout group and what it's done for their kids,
seeing the mature and learn patriotism and the flag ceremony
and saying the Pledge of Allegiance and just all this
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different good stuff that I like about Scouting.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And we can talk more about a little bit later.
And the idea is that it costs a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Definitely per family, get the uniform and all the different
fees and everything like that to sign up, and not
everybody can afford it, So we're raising money that then
the Scouts could say to a family, hey, we'll cover
it and your kid can be in Scouting, which sounds
pretty dangnice.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We want every kid, no matter their financial status, to
be able to enjoy the benefits of Scouting.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
So the more money we raise, the more kids we
can get into Scouting. Go to Armstrong and getty dot
com to gifts. We're currently at about one hundred and
ten thousand dollars, would love to hit one hundred and
fifty by the end of the show. Today at about
one hundred and ten thousand dollars. So here's what we've
got planned now. Later in the show, Joe's going to
play the trombone and I'm going to play the violin.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Correct, yes, Christmas songs, playing beloved Christmas classic.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't actually play the violin.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And I haven't picked up my trombone since last year,
and we have no music, but I'm sure as musicians
we can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
And play it by ears to stay turned.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And the idea, well, we'll play songs and it will
sound horrible, and we are not going to stop until
you raise a certain amount of money. And that's what
we're going to do here with Katie Green, except she's
not going to play an instrument. She is just going
to read from a licensing agreement from a variety of
different things, that thing that you check I agree on
without actually reading.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Right because you know they're going to steal your data
and your money.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
But it's too painful to read.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And this we're going to do to ratchet it up,
not that it's not boring and annoying enough just to
hear her read it. She's going to start adopting different
voices like valley girl, up talk, screeching as we go
along to make it more and more indolerable. Had some
minutes go by, so I think we do with a
little mini goal of five thousand dollars until we get
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to one fifteen, it's going to be Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Go the Netflix materials license agreement. We're starting off normal
by downloading or otherwise receiving from Netflix the Netflix artwork, images, graphics, photographs, clips, video.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Whoever thinks no, just keep going. I'm just speaking. You
just keep reading going, you just keep reading, Just keep going.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Photographs, clips, videos for second about Netflix.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Or content on the Netflix brand. S.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Imagine if one human being in the three to.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Be bound by the following terms and conditions, and here
comes the vocal fry and some up speak.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
You like, agree to comply. You are.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Brand asset terms, and I set forth on the Netflix brand.
You are a California as long as you do, and
provided you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Are a Netflix, it is right off of my current
flicks ink and it's affiliate.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
That's hard to take you a little low pitch worldwide
money coming in.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Five hundred dollars or twenty five dollars at the time,
license to use Netflix material way there already as approved
by Netflix.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
We got about twenty five hundred bucks. We need another
two thousand made. This stock no pits. The Netflix materials
are retorts.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Looks like hits by the right then the least intellectual
property or otherwise.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yes, these materials all uses. The money is coming in.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
We get some textra people whore saying it's clogged up
they can't donate, which I appreciate of netflil boys, car
it's designs.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You always can help me do a sex kit and Katie.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But I'm afraid we'd get a million dollars in stock
objectionable to Netflix.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
If you want to donate, Netflix, we're very close to
getting your five thousand dollars that we needed.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Determinator modify. You're pretty this would be bad. This is
our work. Just one more, one more good donations will
be there. This is this was any intellectual problem. Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, god,
we've got there. We're there. We're there. We're there. We
made it. We made it. We made it, we made it,
we made it. Wait, wait a minute. She didn't even
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get to food and Mountain. I ain't got food good
goose like this.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I'm glad you stopped. I would have had to leave
the room for food and mount.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I know That's why I wanted to hear it, because
it would make you sick. I can't listen to someone
talk and eat. I just hey, guys, that was a
lot of fun. Thank you. That's a good idea. Wow,
we got to do that next year.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Just right off the bat, somebody talking while they eat,
maybe soup, maybe having a bowl of soup while they talk.
Thanks for going to Armstrong and Getty dot com. We'll
hit you with a toe a little bit later, because
I know it's hard for the Internet to keep up
with the donations when they start coming in really fast
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think, what the
go ahead?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The gravel in Gavin Newsom's voice donated twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I appreciate that. I hate monopoly for twenty five bucks.
What is this the olden days? One hundred dollars? A
lot of different versions.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Of the f F youolican party which Joe and hunted.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yes, yes, a lot of donations. Bat is crazy for
twenty five dollars. But anyway, we'll hit a toe a
little bit later and really appreciate it, and particularly the
Scouts and Society appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
So go to Armstrong in Getty dot com, Katie.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
When you hit that high pitched voice, it looks like
the money really started to flow in.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Wait, I hope, So that definitely work. So we do
this thing when you know, when we raise money where
you can donate money. You can be anonymous, you can
use your name, or you can come up with a
funny name. For instance, twenty five bucks from Gladys's kindergarten teacher,
Why you are old?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, we got twenty five bucks from I'm not going
to do the whole name, but the first name is Haywood.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You're probably familiar with the term. I think we went
to school together.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
I believe they're from a former Soviet block based on
the last name. I don't know, blow me, where would
that be from? Maybe it's Italian, I don't know. We
have a sixty eight year old Eagle Scout husband just
did thirty pushups.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Nice job, good man.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Wait, a kick ass seventy two year old Walnut Grove
Eagle Scout also very cool.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and No Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong
twenty twenty five. What a year? Huh? That was something.
We're not here right now.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're playing you the best of what we call like
to call Armstrong and Getty replays.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, and the staff is still shell shocked. They're still
crying quietly in the corner. It takes so much work
to get this together and present it to you in
as entertaining a form as it is.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's the Armstrong in Getty replay.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I was scrolling Instagram last night in bed when I
should have been trying to get to sleep, but I
couldn't get to sleep because this dang cough.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I keep coughing myself. Awek.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I wondered why you texted me at the hour you did.
I don no, I got medicine. I keep coughing AnyWho.
And I'm also I should be reading, but I'm at
the most difficult chapter in Ulysses to continue to try
to read this book. It's it's where most people stop
if they ever make it that far. It is so
freaking hard, and it's an hard hour and a half
(01:11):
read according to my kindle.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So that's a long chapter.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh chapter, Oh can you describe why it's so hard?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Okay, So the scene and I only know this because
I went to like a crib notes tutor. I wouldn't
have figured this out from the content. They're at a
hospital where a woman is in laboring going to have
a baby.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So the chapter both.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh mimics the nine months of a pregnancy, including the birth.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
While.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Demonstrating the evolution of the English language starting at the
very beginning of the written word till now what the
hell with the language of the after is progressing in
a way analogous to a pregnancy progressing right, good lord?
And it's impossible to have any idea what's going on anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Whatever happened to boy meets Girl?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
So anyway, so I didn't feel like reading that last night,
and I was scrolling through and I came across this
comedian and I want her to get all the credit
because this is so funny. Should just play the clip.
Elena Hershey is her name. She's making the point and
I've never hear anybody say this before about how she
has no respect for pro bowlers because she, like most people,
goes bowling like once a year, and even then, being
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no good at it. Going once a year, not paying attention,
she usually rolls a strike at some point, which is
the best thing you can do in bowling. Right, There's
no other sport where like, once a year you can
go out and accidentally, half drunk, not paying attention, do
the best thing you can do in that sport. You
don't once a year go to an ice skating rink,
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because she said, and land a triple a.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Right, just randomly.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Have a beer, step into the batting cage and just
rip one hundred mile per hour fastball in the left center. Yeah,
that's not happening. No other sports like that, you know. Uh,
you know, I thought that was pretty funny. Back to reality.
So h.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
This is from the Wall Street Journal today. Somehow I
missed this truth social from early in the week Donald
Trump just a couple of weeks ago. The guy that
runs in video that always wears the cool tom Ford
leather jacket, the most valuable company in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I think.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He told Donald Trump that this patchwork of AI laws
across the country. Every you know, fifty states with a
gazillion different kind of laws is really going to slow
down our ability to maximize AI and stay ahead of China.
And that got Trump's attention a pairarent And it's a
(04:02):
decent argument.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I mean, it's beyond a decent argument. It makes perfectly
good sense. Yeah, that the.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
US needs to avoid a collection of disparate state rules
for AI, setting off a month long frenzy that is
expected to culminate this week in the signing of an
executive order.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That will fix that somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Trump truthed out, you can't expect a company to get
fifty approvals every time they want to do anything, Trump
posted Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That will never work.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And he's expected to sign some executive order and I
don't know how they're gonna word it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
In such a way that that can't happen anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But it's really going to unshackle these AI companies and
let him scream forward with whatever it is they're trying
to do, for.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Better or worse.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I'm extremely skeptical about how successful an executive order
would be in preempting state laws.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Some general Hey, don't mess with AI. It sounds so.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
That's funny Governor Ron DeSantis has said an executive order
doesn't can't preempt state legislative action.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Me and Ron high five, Ron.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah. Others in the Republican Party seem open to supporting
Trump's approach, despite their opposition to a moratorium on state
AI laws. A spokesman for Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabe Sanders,
who's pretty darn Trumpey, who like DeSantis, has criticized state preemption,
said she backs Trump's AI strategy and looks forward to
working with him to win the AI rice while protecting Americans,
(05:30):
which is a nice phrase that doesn't get anywhere near
a solution for the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I can see her chief staff saying, Governor Trump's made
an announcement, do you want to go with the standard
I'm with him gung ho statement because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And she said, yeah, that's perfect. Well, so what do
you think it's going to happen? I mean, it is true.
How in the world are we going to not get
surpassed by China if you have to deal with fifty
different states rules for everything you try to do?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Right? Yeah, I should have made my sentiments more clear.
They are as follows. He's right, He's absolutely right. It's true.
But the executive order won't accomplish much other than saying, hey,
let's look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It's like one of his truths.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Could Congress pass a law, then, yeah, they could pass
a federal law, but I think the chances of that
happened in about zero. There are too many smart people
in Congress who would realize any law we passed today
would be outdated tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We're wasting our time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Republicans have been promoting the preempting of state AI rules
for years. The idea gained momentum in the last year
and a half when Democratic states such as Colorado, here
in California, and New York signed laws imposing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Guardrails on tech companies.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And of course, these guardrails are being put in place
by people who have no idea what they're talking about,
because nobody really does, or they're just responding to people's
concerns about in a way that won't do any good,
but they can portray themselves as hey, we're trying, we're
protecting you and your families.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
An executive order is a clear signal of the administration's
robust commitment to a federal AI governance framework.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The question now is what that framework will be.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, I would say we better do it flipping fast,
like by next week.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh. Speaking of tech stuff, I came across this the
other day. I thought it was super interesting. Now the
source is way Mo.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
My only finally final comment I would throw in on
what we were just talking about, is China aint worried
about this at all?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, at all, no, no, could not give a crap.
So we're going to try to break on time. I'll
squeeze this in very very quickly. Speaking of artificial intelligence
and that sort of thing, self driving cars are clearly
the future, according to Waymo, which is imperfect, absolutely funny.
Videos surface virtually every day of three way mo's looking
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at each other.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
At an intersection for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But crashes in intersections come compaired to human drivers over
an equal number of miles driven, Crashes in intersections ninety
six percent lower, crashes with pedestrians ninety two percent lower,
crashes with cyclists or motorcyclists eighty three percent lower. Anybody
who rides a bike a motorcycle can tell you, because
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we you all know if people are looking for cars,
they don't see motorcycles. Nobody can exactly explain it, but
people will turn left right in front of a motorcycle
that's got a blazing headlight and it's coming at them anyway,
lateral crashes. It's merely a seventy three percent decrease. And
as one writer commented after these statistics, challenge you to
(08:44):
go for a walk around in any American city. See
what the drivers are doing while they drive texting. They're
all texting. It's no longer texting while driving. People are
driving while texting.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Thee Armstrong and Getty Show, Mordia on Your Show, podcasts,
and our hot links.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
France's government collapsed in a spectacular fashion yesterday after mccrone's
hand picked leader tried to reign in public debt. McCrone
understands that they're on a course of disaster, and he
has been choosing people to be in his government that
agree with him, and uh, not enough voters agree. I guess,
(09:25):
so France's government. I'm reading for the New York Post
some of it and from other publications. France's government was
toppled in a vote of no confidence yesterday, forcing Emmanuel
Macron to search for his fourth prime minister in the
last year and throwing EU's second largest economy into chaos.
The premiere was ousted overwhelmingly huge vote three sixty four
(09:46):
to one to ninety four, not even close against him
losing an apparent gamble the lawmakers would back his push
for France to slash public spending to repay its debts.
That's the crazy idea that he had. Let's cut our
spending so we can pay down our debts. And he
got overwhelmingly trounced. He was voted out, ending his short
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lived minority government after being appointed by Macron just in December.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, left wing and right wing joined together and said, yeah,
let's toss out the moderates and we'll fight for the scraps.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The former president now admitted Monday that his last speech
as prime minister was a gamble to tackle France's debt
crisis by standing by his unpopular economic plan, and it
didn't pay off. At the end of the first quarter
of twenty twenty five, Francis public debt started three point
nine three trillion, hilarious number by US standards. Obviously about
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four trillion dollars, but that's one hundred and fourteen percent
of gross domestic product. When you go over one hundred percent,
that's supposed to be like serious doomsday spiral. By the way,
just in case you were wondering, the US debt to
GDP ratio is one hundred and nineteen percent. France is
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doing better than US at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wow wow wow.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The former president hoped to cut debt. Included a bid
to push a fifty one billion dollars savings plan that
called for scrapping two public holidays. They have a public
holiday a week practically in France. He wanted to get
rid of two of them.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
No, you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And freezing government spending at its current level, not cutting
like this is what happened with the Tea Party. You're
not even trying to cut, You're just trying to cut
the rate of growth, and you get killed for it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
They're doomed, they are, and so are we. True.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The greatest risk was not to take a chance, he said,
to let things go on without changing anything, to go
on doing politics as usual. He said in his final speech,
the nation is facing a silent, underground, invisible and unbearable
hemorrhage of excessive public borrowing. Submission to debt is like
submission through military force, dominated by weapons, dominated by our creditors,
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because of a debt that is submerging us. In both cases,
we lose our freedom. That's what got voted against.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And the unions and the leftists said no, we want
to keep getting stuff. And here's my favorite thing, he
said in his final speech.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You have the power to overthrow my government, but you
do not have the power.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
To erase reality. Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That is some good ass right there. Wow, reality remains inexorable.
Spending will continue to increase, and the debt burden, already unbearable,
will grow heavier and more costly. Good lord, how are
there so few grown ups in Western civilization willing to
stand up and say this? Well, they do, and you
(12:45):
get voted out immediately by by the left and the right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I was thinking about you know, the US obviously reading
about France, and we're just a couple of generations. I
guess away from politicians who would not vote for unsustainable debt,
they would consider that a horrible betrayal of the trust
placed in them. They would consider it personally immoral and
and and a crime against.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The kids and then the grandkids. You just you could
not get somebody to vote for what everybody votes for now,
and I find myself wondering whether a democracy with our
current you know, a moral view of overspending, can save itself.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
By the way, just back to France briefly, that the
decision to boot boot him out created means there's no
dominant political block for the first time in France's modern
political history. I don't quite understand those systems, but they
are in a lot of turmoil over there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But back to you've got.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
To cobble together a multi party coalition that you can't
get anything done.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
But back to his quote that I love so much.
You had the power to overthrow the government, you do
not have the power to erase reality. God dang it,
that's the whole reality. Bats last.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You can.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Ignore the growing debt and how it's unsustainable and all
these programs are going to go broke for a while,
but the pain only gets worse. The pain that you will,
not may will suffer at some point is only going
to be worse the longer you wait.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Meanwhile, there's a new report out in France about their
educational system and how it's just failing miserably.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Sound familiar.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And for the first time now experts, educators. There's a
book out that's made a huge wave in France. It said, look,
we've had rampant immigration, just unfettered immigration, and now one
in five grade five actually students speak a language other
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than French at home, and forty one percent of under
fours are immigrants or immigrants children's and they're transforming the schools.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That number on speaking French at home is astounding.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, more than one in five year five pupils speak
a language other than French at home. And much like
in Britain, we've been discussing this and Germany, and Germany's
a little behind Britain, but they're heading in the same
direction in France too, where it was just agreed upon.
(15:40):
It was literally agreed upon. I think it was in Germany.
I've got that around here somewhere by all of the
major parties that we won't blame this on immigration, all right,
you don't bring it up, and we won't bring it up.
And they made a behind the scenes agreement. But now
the people in Britain and France and Germany, you're like, yeah,
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we are talking about it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Loudly and things are nutty in Europe right now, politically speaking,
where it goes nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, you combine.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Popular disgust with being betrayed by the elites, the immigration
thing especially, and the Islamization of European countries. They've allowed,
you know, enormous numbers of people who despise their very
principles in their way of life. Anyway, you combine that
with the populist Once I get a benefit, I will
never accept you scaling anything back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Where does that go?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Why is there such a small number of us who
are willing to accept the pain that has to happen
Right now? I realize my taxes are going to go up,
and I hate my taxes going up, and I'm not
on many government services, so I wouldn't notice those being cut.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But it's got to happen, So bring it on, like tomorrow.
Let's do it tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, because those who profit from the status quo are
very very good at spinning the politics. It is so
much easier to say, not only do you deserve it,
but I'm going to give.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It to you, and say we can't give it to
you anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And here's why taxes or nails pitch is so easy to.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Me. The number one story around that whole thing was
the first story in sixty minutes last night. Did you
see that about how Germany's re arming and how serious
they are about it all because of the whole Ukraine
Russia thing, And I loved I want to get the
clip the Defense Minister of Germany. The last thing said
on that story last night was, Hey, if you like
(17:48):
being able to demonstrate in the street and worship whoever
God you want, or love whoever you want, and like
this sort of freedom, you have to fight for it.
That's Germany saying that the pass just my whole life.
Pacifist Germany saying if you want freedom, you need to
be able willing to fight for it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And they are.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
They are, as he pointed out, the number three economy
in the world, and they're pouring tons of money into this,
and they they've got lots of recruits, and it was
really really interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
But also did you see the part with the cockroaches.
They it's kind of a funny aside because the other
stuff was very serious and very real. But then they
also they figured out a way to steer cockroaches. They
put a little like backpack on cockroaches and then you
have a little steering wheel and you can steer them around.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And you found that funny. There's nothing funny about armed cockroaches.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I just thought, so you lord, do you find them
in your kitchen, you decide to kill them, they decided
to kill you back. It's like driving a remote control car,
except for driving these cockroaches around. And they showed, they
demonstrated it cockroach walking.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Across the floor and you can make it turn left
or right or do whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
But you saw that promotional video from the company doing
those experiments. How you know you could outfit those cockroaches
with cameras and all and just have them swarm into
some enemy you know the area the layer hideout famously hard.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
To kill, can squeeze through any crack, practically nothing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Kills them, right right, Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The one more common on the Germany thing that I
want to get to a really interesting story about the
American military, but the German thing.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Look, I realize not.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Everybody is a history freak, okay, but you're talking. Anytime
anybody brings up the German military, everybody's got to say,
but his people are uncomfortable about this because.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Of the Nazis.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I was in Germany's unfortunate history, and there was
some concern given that.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That was eighty years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Eighty well, and really the rise of that ideology was
one hundred freaking years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I mean, come on, right, right, it's fine, Hey, don't
go Nazi, right, so we eve own'd Okay, there we go,
We're fine, let's defend ourselves now. I know.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I was surprised by that too, the amount of time.
I mean, it's clearly a thing there in Germany. They
worry about it all the time, and it's a serious.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Scar on their national identity, definitely, But at some points.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Like I mean, like normal Norm m MacDonald's bit. Actually
it was on the last episode of Letterman when Norm
McDonald di is thing about Germany started a war with
the world twice, and as he said, you know, the
more I learned about Adolf Hitler, the more I don't
care for him.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
If you are a sixty year old German leader of
you know, whatever, politics, the military, whatever, right now, you
were born twenty years after the war ends, I'm not
blaming you for it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You weren't there. Yeah, that is interesting. The long assurance
were infants.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
The long shadow of that. Yeah, well it was pretty horrible,
but it's fine. Let's it over it. Look, don't be Nazis. Okay, Okay,
we won't again. It's solved. There, we go.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well, especially since they're spending all this money there in
Germany and rearming and retraining and all this sort of
stuff with you know, with the statements of if you
like freedom, this is why we need to be strong.
If you hate the Jews, here's why we need to
be strong. Or if you hate France, this is why
we need to be strong.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
If you would enjoy a forthrike with some Laban's realm, yeah,
everything we deserve.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, No, they're not saying that anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So we have many times asked the question is the
US military adapting quickly enough to the modern battlefield, whether
it's the cyber stuff or more specifically, and more relevant
to today's news, all the drone warfare and counter drone
warfare in Ukraine, the fast moving, light, cheap battlefield of
(22:01):
today versus gigantic tanks and artillery systems there are you know,
the guns of Navrone might still matter in the next
big conflict, but a lot of it's going to be
fought quickly and lightly.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Are they doing enough?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Wall Street Journal with a great feature over the weekend
talking about these massive maneuvers taking place, well massive, massively
important in Hawaii as our guys the Army specifically are
trying out all sorts of different drone technologies in the
hot humid jungles because there's a certain giant country that's
(22:35):
hostile that if we have to get into shooting more
with them, a lot of it's going to be in
hot humid jungles on islands specifically.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Do we have remote control cockroaches? Not yet, but we're
working with the Gentlemans.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Are those going to be available for Christmas? I mean
Christmas is next Thursday. If I could get those for
the kids and they could steer the cockroaches around the
living room and have battles whatever, I mean, trust me,
wait for the next generation.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
They're just beta testing the Revoca cockroaches. They'll be crashing
into your lamps and stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Like that, or it doesn't work in All you've done
is bring a bunch of cockroaches in your house, right, They.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Shake off their little packs and then go hide in
the shadows.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So you got these guys running around with really realistic
drone encounter drone exercises, trying all sorts of different systems.
And it also goes into how the military is really
changing its procurement protocols, which is something everybody says they
need to do so that you know, you're not signing
(23:38):
five year deals with one big, you know, defense company
and by two months from now their drones are out
of date. There they've been counter you know whatever, countered
by the enemy. And I came away from reading this
with a couple of impressions, and it's funny. I don't
think they mentioned him specifically. I have not heard a
(23:59):
single person say anything negative about Pete Hegzeth and his
leadership of the Pentagon, purely in terms of readiness to fight.
I've never heard anybody even question his seriousness on the
innovation and protecting our troops and being smart in warfare.
(24:20):
So far, it seems like he gets very high marks
in that. I don't know, I could be wrong, but again,
nobody's even questioned it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, they criticize him in general sense, or he's too
mouthy or whatever, he fires people too fast, I don't know.
But anyway, but the last aspect of this, I we're
talking about is having the technology is one thing. Being
able to build it really, really fast is the other thing.
(24:50):
Because Ukraine and Russia are making millions of drones a year,
China can outproduce them both, and so the armies hope
to spur domestic drone production over the next few years
by you know, hooking up with the best, most innovative
companies and saying, look, we're going to need you to
change with the technology. We'll change with the technology. Let's
(25:11):
let's get into bed.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
When I read the other day how many drones China
is creating compared to us.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It was very troubling. Very well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And then the clip we started with is Zelenski saying, sure,
we'll give up the getting in NATO if we get
guarantees from the United States. Do you think we're going
to give them the sort of guarantees he's wanting. Where
we would come to I mean, we'll go to war
with Russia if he reinvades. I had to be a
hell of a thing. Yeah, I'm highly skeptical. Well, I
would think it would. I'm not exactly sure what I
(25:42):
think of it as a policy. I mean that basically
be the policy. If Ukraine joined NATO or if or today,
if Russia invades to NATO country, that's the business into NATO.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So in what sense are they not in NATO. They
don't get to come to the cocktail parties. We'll have
mutual defense treatings, but they're not in NATO. What does
that even mean?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And I know some of you feel like surrounding Russia
with NATO is what caused this, and we pushed Putin
into feeling like he had no choice but to evade
U crate that whole thing. But it would be an
interesting move given Trump's history. It would be the opposite
of what he's been saying running on for all these years.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
One of the flaws in the United States as an ally,
especially when you make a promise like that that everybody's
looking at and saying, really, they're really going to do that,
is the next administration might not feel the same and
might not be ready to put their guns with their mouths.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
O oh, Biden, endlessly, We're with you to the end,
to the end. The crowd cheers endlessly, okay or argently
kind of sort of or depends on public polling and
the next administration.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, Ukraine gave up their nukes because we said we
would protect their sovereignty and then we didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Former Charger star Philip Rivers. Because the Indianapolis Colts needed
a quarterback. They tapped him at age forty four, hadn't
played in years. It just shows you how few people
can do that job.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, to some extent. Also, Rivers was good friends with
the head coach and he knew the offense. He even
installed it he was coaching high school football. He even
installed that offense in his at his high school.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Simplified obviously. But and I'm sure the coach.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Said, hey, Phil, are you doing like physically and stuff?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You haven't gained seventy five pounds you because he knew.
You know, he's got it up in his head.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And you know, the bottom line of the story is
forty four year old Philip Rivers hadn't played in five years.
He came back and he achieved the average quarterback ranking
for all the quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, that's really an amazing story. He's a hell of
a nice fella too, so he's easy to root for.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Didn't get his legs broken or anything like that. No. No.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Also, one of my favorite sports writers, Jason Gay the
Wall Street Journal, said, especially early in the game, he
looked like he was stumbling around like your uncle trying
to make a sandwich in the dark kind of phrases.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's unfair. That's an unfair phrase. That's what it is. Okay,
we got mailbag.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And I'll say one thing too, as I think I
may have a better body than him right now, or get.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Out there and improve it. He can't play for the Raiders.
They need somebody. That's a funny comment.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Michael, So in a shirts off competition, you like your chances?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Wow, that's old. Raising money for Scouts this week.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I've been talking since my son joined the Boy Scouts
back in last spring or whatever. That's one of the
most impressive things I've ever seen. Its best thing that's
happened in his life. I've talked to other dads in
his Scout group and what it's done for their kids,
seeing the mature and learn patriotism and the flag ceremony
and saying the Pledge of Allegiance and just all this
(29:13):
different good stuff that I like about Scouting.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And we can talk more about a little bit later.
And the idea is that it costs a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Definitely per family, get the uniform and all the different
fees and everything like that to sign up, and not
everybody can afford it, So we're raising money that then
the Scouts could say to a family, hey, we'll cover
it and your kid can be in Scouting, which sounds
pretty dangnice.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We want every kid, no matter their financial status, to
be able to enjoy the benefits of Scouting.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
So the more money we raise, the more kids we
can get into Scouting. Go to Armstrong and getty dot
com to gifts. We're currently at about one hundred and
ten thousand dollars, would love to hit one hundred and
fifty by the end of the show. Today at about
one hundred and ten thousand dollars. So here's what we've
got planned now. Later in the show, Joe's going to
play the trombone and I'm going to play the violin.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Correct, yes, Christmas songs, playing beloved Christmas classic.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't actually play the violin.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And I haven't picked up my trombone since last year,
and we have no music, but I'm sure as musicians
we can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
And play it by ears to stay turned.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And the idea, well, we'll play songs and it will
sound horrible, and we are not going to stop until
you raise a certain amount of money. And that's what
we're going to do here with Katie Green, except she's
not going to play an instrument. She is just going
to read from a licensing agreement from a variety of
different things, that thing that you check I agree on
without actually reading.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Right because you know they're going to steal your data
and your money.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
But it's too painful to read.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And this we're going to do to ratchet it up,
not that it's not boring and annoying enough just to
hear her read it. She's going to start adopting different
voices like valley girl, up talk, screeching as we go
along to make it more and more indolerable. Had some
minutes go by, so I think we do with a
little mini goal of five thousand dollars until we get
(31:00):
to one fifteen, it's going to be Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Go the Netflix materials license agreement. We're starting off normal
by downloading or otherwise receiving from Netflix the Netflix artwork, images, graphics, photographs, clips, video.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Whoever thinks no, just keep going. I'm just speaking. You
just keep reading going, you just keep reading, Just keep going.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Photographs, clips, videos for second about Netflix.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Or content on the Netflix brand. S.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Imagine if one human being in the three to.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Be bound by the following terms and conditions, and here
comes the vocal fry and some up speak.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
You like, agree to comply. You are.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Brand asset terms, and I set forth on the Netflix brand.
You are a California as long as you do, and
provided you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Are a Netflix, it is right off of my current
flicks ink and it's affiliate.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
That's hard to take you a little low pitch worldwide
money coming in.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Five hundred dollars or twenty five dollars at the time,
license to use Netflix material way there already as approved
by Netflix.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
We got about twenty five hundred bucks. We need another
two thousand made. This stock no pits. The Netflix materials
are retorts.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Looks like hits by the right then the least intellectual
property or otherwise.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yes, these materials all uses. The money is coming in.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
We get some textra people whore saying it's clogged up
they can't donate, which I appreciate of netflil boys, car
it's designs.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You always can help me do a sex kit and Katie.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But I'm afraid we'd get a million dollars in stock
objectionable to Netflix.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
If you want to donate, Netflix, we're very close to
getting your five thousand dollars that we needed.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Determinator modify. You're pretty this would be bad. This is
our work. Just one more, one more good donations will
be there. This is this was any intellectual problem. Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, god,
we've got there. We're there. We're there. We're there. We
made it. We made it. We made it, we made it,
we made it. Wait, wait a minute. She didn't even
(33:28):
get to food and Mountain. I ain't got food good
goose like this.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I'm glad you stopped. I would have had to leave
the room for food and mount.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I know That's why I wanted to hear it, because
it would make you sick. I can't listen to someone
talk and eat. I just hey, guys, that was a
lot of fun. Thank you. That's a good idea. Wow,
we got to do that next year.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Just right off the bat, somebody talking while they eat,
maybe soup, maybe having a bowl of soup while they talk.
Thanks for going to Armstrong and Getty dot com. We'll
hit you with a toe a little bit later, because
I know it's hard for the Internet to keep up
with the donations when they start coming in really fast
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think, what the
go ahead?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The gravel in Gavin Newsom's voice donated twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I appreciate that. I hate monopoly for twenty five bucks.
What is this the olden days? One hundred dollars? A
lot of different versions.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Of the f F youolican party which Joe and hunted.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yes, yes, a lot of donations. Bat is crazy for
twenty five dollars. But anyway, we'll hit a toe a
little bit later and really appreciate it, and particularly the
Scouts and Society appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
So go to Armstrong in Getty dot com, Katie.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
When you hit that high pitched voice, it looks like
the money really started to flow in.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Wait, I hope, So that definitely work. So we do
this thing when you know, when we raise money where
you can donate money. You can be anonymous, you can
use your name, or you can come up with a
funny name. For instance, twenty five bucks from Gladys's kindergarten teacher,
Why you are old?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, we got twenty five bucks from I'm not going
to do the whole name, but the first name is Haywood.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You're probably familiar with the term. I think we went
to school together.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
I believe they're from a former Soviet block based on
the last name. I don't know, blow me, where would
that be from? Maybe it's Italian, I don't know. We
have a sixty eight year old Eagle Scout husband just
did thirty pushups.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Nice job, good man.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Wait, a kick ass seventy two year old Walnut Grove
Eagle Scout also very cool.
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