December 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Funny Scouts donor names & religious beliefs
- Language translation glasses & the Bondi Beach terror attack
- Campus Chaos: Gender reproduction in Gaza
- Holiday spending & Scouts donations!
Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
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 Gatty and Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
A tech company is taking cockroaches aka Nature's Restaurant Review
System and and outfitting the cockroaches with cameras and tiny microphones.
The company also says that the bugs can be used.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
For search and rescue missions.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All right, everybody, We've been trapped in this cave for days,
but I've got some good news. A bunch of roaches
just crawled in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Cockroaches are having a moment. As we mentioned sixty minutes
last Sunday night. They have a German military He's got
cockroaches little backpacks on them and you can steer them
around with a joystick. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Carrying cameras, bombs, whatever you need them to carry, microphones.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So I am amazed by every aspect of scouting that
I've come across since my son became a boy scout,
and just seeing really mature young men who got these
mature skills through scouting and leadership and patriotism and morals.
Sort of thing that we're going to talk about again.
(01:25):
We were talking about last hour. Can a country survive
if it doesn't have certain kinds of morals? Well, they
teach those in scouting still and I absolutely love that.
And we want as many kids to be able to join.
If you want your kid to join, don't be held
back by the couple hundred dollars it costs to sign up.
We're trying to raise money so that that can be covered,
and we're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars and
(01:46):
we'll hit you at the gold total in just a
little bit. People regularly, you can use your name, you
can be anonymous, or you can come up with a
funny name when you don't want to donate money. For instance,
we got twenty five dollars from Jack's twelve point nine
second sixty yard dash.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's a story from way.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, illegitimate.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mentioned a got one hundred dollars from Stomping the
Joy out of Life, the Armstrong in Getty Show. We're
gonna let's let's just try to do less of that
in the year twenty six. That'd be a good resolution.
Let's try to do less stomping the joy out of life, you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Know, for me, it's an instinct. Jack, I see Joey.
I want to stop it. I'll try. I'll try, but
I make no promises other people's happiness. It just makes
me so angry. Right Armstrong in Getty the most depressing
radio show ever.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, there's something to that. Uh twenty five bucks from
We're Scouting Armor. Got it? Kind of take off on
the Joe Biden thing. I should have had you get
this clip, Michael, two hundred dollars from I'm Gonna call
my lawyer. Gonna means going to love that clip.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Why should consider a two hundred dollars like a dolphin.
It's not a whale, but maybe a dolphin. It's a
sea beast of some sort. Dolphin is actually a whale.
It's a small whale. So I think that dolphin sound
is utterly appropriate. Michael, well done.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You're like talking to my son with these things.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's just very pontic. My oldest daughter was crazy into
whales there for in her childhood, and we made it
a common enthusiasm. It brought us together. Was wonderful, called pedantic,
I call useful whale knowledge.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Very fifty bucks from United States of America, got it?
Uh one hundred bucks from Jackson neglected toothbrush, Hey, twenty
five bucks from fight It, and then here we got
a certainly a dolphin. Weide in with two hundred and
fifty dollars from Gay I mean gay, he's blind interview
(03:51):
Eric wyhan Mayer, who climbed the highest mountain in the world,
Mount Everest.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But he's gay, I mean he's gay. Excuse me, he's blind.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So we'll hear about that. I mean, okay, this one
of the funniest things that this ever.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Does he crave man? Or is he sightless? Let's let's
nail this down.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Can he drive? Or is he just need some Vitamin D?
If you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What? Oh my, I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We got twenty five bucks from should be a clip
of the year. You drive in, you drive out, your moron, you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Drive and you drive out. That's why people do. Then
their driveways. You more on.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we do have the Clips of the Year's show
on Friday, Tomorrow's our last real show, and then Clips
of the Year show on Friday, where we go through
the best clips of every month and then we pick
our clip of the Year at the.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
End of the show.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So that's my brother's favorite clip that you drive in,
you drive out, you more on.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Dri drive out. That's why people do. Then they're driveways
you more.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's the exasperation that makes it so funny. That whole
exchange is just priceless. It is definitely one of the
best things ever. So then let's get a total that
we're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars so as
many kids can get involved in Scouts as they want,
and we are currently at Thank you Gladys sixty and
sixteen dollars, just short of seventy grand.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
If I might do some fundamental mathematics here, my friends,
we could be changing the lives of hundreds and hundreds
of kids with this. You could be thank you Armstrong
and Getty dot com look for the donate now a button.
It's super easy to find.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So to end last hour, we got into the conversation
through Glenn Beck and interviewing AI George Washington about whether
or not this country can succeed or not without some
sort of cultural moral basis to keep us all in line.
(06:01):
Because you can write a constitution, you can have all
the laws you want, but if people aren't moral it
ain't gonna work. That's my belief, right, I think that's
clearly true A lot of my you see, that's where
my libertarianism breaks down.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Is I just.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think culturally you need to conserve that Judeo Christian
basis of living to make this all work. We got
this text. Why are you afraid to say Christian religious beliefs.
You just said religious beliefs. Our country's morals were not
from Buddhism, not Hindu, not Islam. It was Judeo Christian,
(06:40):
Judeo because it is the same God, the same story,
the Old Testament, which declares Jesus throughout blah blah blah.
That kind of gets to what we were talking about
a week or so ago. We kept referencing the book
Dominion by Tom Holland. He's not religious, but he is
a big believer that Western civilization is success, continues to
(07:00):
be successful, and it continues to be very Christian in
terms of its culture, even without as many people call
themselves Christians or going to church. But that is going
to wear off little by little.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And well, just if I might interject, just to for instance,
a principle as foundational as all men are created equal
is straight out of Christianity.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The thing that always pops into my head when we
have this topic because I didn't know this. I was
reading one of the many Lyndon Johnson books I've read
from Robert Carrow. Is that his name greatest political biography
in US history. Fantastic books. Pick any volume you want,
they're all great. But this was the version from the
(07:41):
late fifties, early sixties, I think. And he was trying
to get some sort of bill through Congress when he
was either the Master or the Senate or the President,
I don't remember which. And the hold up was Republicans
and Democrats who ran the various important finance committees that
dealt with money. It was just a given, you are
not going to in debt the United States. In other words,
(08:06):
if if there's no way to pay for this through
taxes or or offsets or cut this program, d at
this program, you don't just take on debt. That's just.
And it was all out of a Christian belief that
it is immoral to go into debt. You don't buy
something nless you can afford to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Particularly given the nature of government debt, which tends to
make other people pay people down the line, which is
utterly horrific. But this was the feeling from children, But
this was their personal beliefs.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Also, I mean, I think you got to admit that
the fact that just in our personal lives were much
more willing to go into debt on everything and spend
beyond our means has transferred into the government doing the
same thing. It seems pretty clear to me. I mean responsibility, sure, yeah,
And how do you how do you bring that back?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't know that you can.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I mean, seventy years ago, sixty five, seventy years ago
that they felt that way. I don't know little by
little how it drifted away when those people were replaced
by people who didn't give a crap about going into debt.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, boy. There are a lot of
things that work here, lack of common moral belief systems. Also,
how easy credit has become, both personally and governmentally. It
just flows much more easily than it used to. Every
single aspect of credit is much much, much more easy
(09:37):
than it used to be, and so there's more of
it and aggressive advertising of it.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And just like back in the day when people save
I mean, I should ask my parents when people saved
money to buy a refrigerator or washing machine or a
car as opposed to bought it on payments. Was that
because nobody had invented the idea of payments yet, or
because there just wasn't a demand for it. There wasn't
(10:03):
a populace that was willing to do payments. That's just
not what people wanted to do. I know, my parents
were like super just anti credit cards was just like
an evil idea. They finally had to get a credit
card because we've made the world so you can't get
a hotel room, you can't get rent a car, you
can't do anything without a credit card. But just the
idea of having a credit card was just bad. The
(10:23):
kind of people who used credit cards were living, you know,
irresponsible lives. Who nobody feels that way about credit anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, right, Well, to answer your question, I think it's
probably a combination of moral and the moral and the practical.
It is omnipresent and easy, and we've lost that sense
that is much smarter, and it is it's unquestionably smarter
to save up for something than buy it, than to
buy it for the same price and then pay interest
on it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, you'll also buy a cheaper version. This is just true.
I've done it in my own life. You will buy
a cheaper one if you pay cash for something, yeah,
as opposed to breaking it down into yeah. Anyway, here's
something there's plenty of demand for of fantasy sports that
doesn't involve a big, giant draft and then your team
immediately sucks and your season is over and you have
to wait till the next year's draft.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No. With Prize Picks, they let you play fantasy football
every week, pick your favorite players, and win when they
hit their projections every week, no draft required.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah that's pretty cool. So throughout the entire season, whatever
sport it is you're following, you can stay active no
matter how your players, team's injuries, whatever happened. And how
about this new feature. Prize Picks now has early payouts.
If your lineup gets off to a hot start, you
might have the option to cash out those winnings before
the game even finishes. How cool is that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Download the Prize Picks at today. Use the code armstrong
to get fifty dollars in lineups after you play your
first five dollars lineup again, that's the code armstrong to
get fifty bucks in lineups after you play your first
five dollars lineup prize picks. It's good to be right,
and it's easy and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I would like to know that if anybody has any
knowledge of the history of that, Dad Banks just never
come up with the idea, or car companies prior to
however many decades ago, or was there just not a
demand for making payments. Was there not a mechanism for it,
or something like I said, I think it's both.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
There was a widespread belief that that was unwise or immoral,
and the mechanics of it were just more difficult. As
I said before, every aspect checking someone's credit, getting them
the cash, you know, finding them if they don't pay,
you know, just the repayment options you don't have to
mail checks, just everything upon It is easier and faster.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Huh. That's interesting. Okay, we got other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
One of my favorite actors, Oscar nominee Gary Busey, posted
this on his Twitter feed.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Hey, scary of busy and I have got a great
christis pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
A That's what a goose shows like. But they're fine.
They let you know they're up there. You get a
bunch of geese together, they're hawking.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In the air. You know it's magical is when he
did the multiple geese. That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's known as bats crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's crazy. Wow. Randy Quaid is like, dude, take a
look at yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Wow wow.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Speaking of animals, let me see how how how close
I can come for this. Spanish speakers, I hope you
enjoy this. No entrey sin el permiso del proprietario los
gatos necessiton sir contentedos. We have a number of folks
working on the house who speaks Spanish apparently, and Judy's
(14:02):
not comfortable translating stuff quickly on her MacBook, so I
just sent this to her. That is Spanish for do
not enter without permission. Cats need to be contained. Hm
hm My daughter's cats are in her upstairs rooms. Some
got no entrace in el permiso del proprietario, los gatto's
necessiton sir contenidos.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You can't have your cats uncontained.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hey, that's one of those things those new Array band
glasses with the screen in the lens. People said that
feature is really good, the translation feature, So somebody talking
to you in another language, it gets translated and it's
right there in your eyes. Say one way, for instance,
it shows up right in front of your eye. They
can't tell you're using that. You don't have to look
(14:45):
at your phone. It be a lot better for the
whole translation thing.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, yeah, Katie.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That would be. That would be so helpful getting my
nails done. Yeah, or obviously traveling around foreign countries.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Plus famously from Seinfeld, which went off the year thirty
years ago. Right, you can tell when the nail texts
are talking about.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Wow, wow wow, or the cab driver or you know,
for anybody who still take together. There are lots of
different situations. That's what those glasses would be good for. Now,
all of a sudden, I know what everybody's saying about me,
el Baldo yep.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I thought, Michael, I thought, you gestured, Michael, what was
that night?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is a green? That would be awesome?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That a Nazi salute? No, you're a screen Okay, that's right.
Calling everything a Nazi salute is so twenty twenty four. Ah,
what was I gonna say? We were talking about the
Spanish speakers. Damn it, flit it out of my head.
What are you gonna do? Campus chaos update coming up?
Stay with us. On a much much more serious note,
(15:48):
According to eyewitnesses from Sunday's massacre at Bondai Beach in Sydney, Australia,
which was absolutely a Muslim slaughter of Jewish people in
a free country, eyewitnesses are saying that the cops froze,
They hesitated for long minutes. What ten return fire? It
(16:09):
went on for ten minutes. Yeah, and it appears that
they the murderers of the Islamist murderers began firing no
later than six forty two, and police did not begin
returning fire until six forty eight, six minutes ish. It's
(16:31):
possible the Aussie police just don't have enough training for
mass shooter events because of they don't have many I
don't know, but it was. It was absolutely the opposite
of what American police have learned to now do, which
is your return fire immediate as quickly as you humanly can,
because that engages the shooter. They're no longer about slaughtering,
(16:54):
they're about not getting shot by you anyway. That's troubling.
I cannot say that. That's what a counts are saying. Yeah,
just terrible, terrible. And then this a really interesting angle.
The OSSI authorities are trekking to the Philippines, the Southern Philippines,
because the two shooters spent time in the Southern Philippines
(17:15):
a few weeks I think before they slaughtered those poor people,
and they think they probably made contact with radical Islamists
because the Southern Philippines a very rural, remote islands and
they're known as a hotbed of Islamist activity.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I know I heard this, but that that almost portrays it,
Like you know, if I would run into an ISIS
member at the cafeteria, they convinced me to join ISIS. What. No,
they went there to get training and such, so you
don't think they were radicalized there. They just got their
training there.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh No, they went there and.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I heard it traded. That's where they got radicalized, which
didn't make any sense to me. Oh, they might have
gotten their marching orders. By the way, A quick reminder.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
In twenty seventeen, militants loyal to the Islamic State laid
sea to the city of Marawi and the Philippines. Months
long battle left over one thousand dead and three hundred
and fifty thousand displaced.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, you had, and Isis killed some of our troops
last week, which Trump is vowing revenge.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
For Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Can I remember to mention how to donate if you
want to donate to help us send as many kids
into scoutings want to sign up so they're not held
back by the UH A couple hundred dollars cost to
join good Armstrong in getty dot com. Armstrong in getty
dot com. We'll do an update a little bit later.
We're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars this week. Yeah,
there's a donate now button that you cannot miss. Indeed
(18:36):
coming up.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
How do we feel about somebody who does something, says
something morally abhorrent and then the internet comes down on them?
How do does it have to do with proportion or
how much effect there is? Well, we'll give you a
(18:59):
case study and we can talk about that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
My initial thought would be, if you posted on the
internet you're wanting a reaction.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What if somebody else does what do you mean you
you are being morally abhorrent? Somebody records it and puts
it on the internet. Oh I don't like that? Hmm,
you don't so you're okay with amorl behavior. Interesting. Wow,
I'll just go ahead and conclude that to save time. Anyway,
(19:26):
we'll talk about that going forward, but right now, it's
a campus chaos update. Oh lord, the camps up.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
If poor woman? What happened to her?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I like the old one with the Yeah, what's a
pumping circumstance? Yeah? Anyway, Oh so story number one. Listen
to this, would you? If there's some sort of a
word for this, I think it may win it. Princeton University,
far from reforming itself, is launching a new anthropology class
(20:03):
on gender reproduction and Genocide in Gaza, a class whose
description puts the Israeli Hamas War on par with Holocaust.
The four credit graded course being taught by a noted
Palestinian feminist who has made provably false claims that Hamas
did not kill any babies or rape women on October seventh,
(20:23):
Oh my god, and also calls for an end to
the Jewish state. Wow again, this course being taught at Princeton,
which has learned nothing and has no shame is gender
reproduction and genocide in Gaza isn't here as a description?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I think Princeton is one of the colleges that really
gets a lot of money from Qatar.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Uh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Drawing on decolonial see if listen,
we gotta have a game here, a drinking game or so,
I don't know something, count how many bulls critical theory
terms are in this course description. Drawing on decolonial, indigenous
and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life,
(21:03):
sexual and familial structures, and community survival. Students will engage
reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony, and Palestinian feminist critiques of
colonial violence while situating Gaza within comparative histories of the
Armenian genocide, the Holocaust in genocide against black and indigenous populations.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Wow, somebody's paying a lot of money to have their
kid take that class.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Undergrads who take the class can get credit toward an
anthropology major or toward a minor in gender and sexuality studies.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
An anthropology major. That's what my son's really interested in,
that sort of stuff. And I was wondering, is there
a university you can go to where it just isn't
all that courting kind of crap?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, here's another fun game you might play I'm going
to quote the woman who teaches this, who claimed that
there were no rapes or killing of children on October seventh.
Interject or substitute any word in place of Zionism. You
want Islam, black people, anything, and see if anybody in
(22:09):
America could get away with saying this what she said,
it's time to abolish Zionism. It can't continue. It's criminal.
Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue. They will use
any lie. They started with babies, they continue with rape,
and they will continue with a million other lies. We
stop believing them. I hope the world stops believing them.
And it's unbelievable. So moving along, and again, as you said, Jack,
(22:34):
dewey eyed fools will take this course and believe it,
and they might just be having that hey a lot
for it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
They might only have that clash to keep the millions
pulled flowing in from Qatar and other places like that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, okay, I gotta go a little more. Then we'll
move on. But among the required readings is an essay
titled repro Side in Gaza. That's a new one. Repro
Side in Gaza The gendered strategy of genocide through reproductive
violence by Holla Showman, a former Gazen dentist and self
described social activist. Reprosides, she writes, quote, is the systematic
(23:12):
targeting of a group's reproductive capacities as a deliberate strategy
of erasure. Israel has weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting,
siege conditions, force displacement, environmental toxis, said toxicity, and gendered violence,
thereby creating conditions in Gaza that make pregnancy dangerously high risk.
(23:32):
Therefore the title of the class gender reproduction and genocide
in Gaza. Moving along, this is a really good essay.
I wish we had time for the whole thing from
that jeff yass who donated one hundred million dollars to
the University of Austin, and he explains why if you're
not familiar with the University of Austin, and it is
(23:53):
a wonderful back to what a university ought to be
project with a lot of our favorite people involved. Anyway,
he says, I'm giving a hundred million dollars through the
University of Austin because the feedback feedback mechanisms of higher
education are broken. Almost every system that works works because
of feedback Evolution works because helpful mutation survival, Harmful ones
(24:14):
die off. Democracy works because voters support effective leaders and
remove ineffective ones. Then he talks about markets and science
works how it works. Most systems or institutions that don't
work at broken feedback mechanisms corupt politicians, crony capitalists, ideological
echo chambers. Unfortunately, higher education belongs in this category. The
purpose of higher education should be to instill in students knowledge, skills, judgment,
(24:38):
and characters so they can flourish and contribute to society.
By that standard, success should be measured by how graduates
are doing, and that's not happening anymore. He wants the
success of education to be measured in terms of success.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Imagine that.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Success in the person's chosen field, in their not did
they get anything out of this is the question he
wants asked. When you say it out loud, it almost
sounds like you're trying to explain it to a not
very bright child or something like that, because it's so
freaking obvious. But we've lost it completely. You go, University
(25:17):
of Austin and Jeff, thank you for doing the right things.
Absolutely fantastic. Speaking of Texas, Texas Tech is pissing off
the woke crowd. I found this interesting. On December one,
the new chancellor of Texas Tech sent professors a diagram
laying out a chain of approval for course material. It
accompanied a memo with rules for teaching about race and gender,
(25:39):
including a ban on quote advocacy or promotion of race
or sex based prejudice. The chart asked professors to first
ask if the course material quote is relevant and necessary
for classroom instruction, then details the review process that starts
with the department chair and can go all the way
up to the Board of Regents, the system's governing board.
(26:00):
Of a wider national campaign by conservatives to reverse years
of what they see. What they see what anybody could
see as left leaning faculty in indoctrination across higher education.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Hmmm do they see that?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Uh? Yeah, that's what they see, in the same way
that people going to the circus said they see an elephant. Yeah,
because there's an effing elephant there. Sorry anyway, es Geese.
The Free Press was writing about how a systematic analysis
of various classes that purported to have both sides of
(26:36):
arguments would have the Big Book representing the Marcus point
of view and then like everybody in the field knows
what the counter book is, the respected or there might
be several of them, and they just don't teach it.
You don't read it, you don't have to. It's just
utterly biased. And Texas Tech, to their credit, is going
to finally do something about it. Final note, Jack, you
mentioned the kataris. I would like to mention the kami Chinese.
(27:00):
Here's the adline for you. University of Michigan's partnership with
the CCP link Shanghai School brought Chinese spies to campus,
and dozens of US universities have similar arrangements. Elite schools
like Columbian Yale maintained joint institute's dual degrees and exchange
programs with Shanghai Xiaotong University. Since October twenty fourth, Department
(27:23):
of Justice has charged at least twelve University of Michigan students, researchers,
and recent grads. That's just the University of Michigan folks.
At least twelve all Chinese nationals with national security related offenses,
a scale far out pacing any other US school. Five
of them were accused of taking photographs of military drills.
(27:47):
At a military camp. They all belong to an engineering
partnership between Michigan and Shanghai Xiaotong, which House Select Committee
on China. Rep. Jason Molinar Michigan said, quote was helping
the CCP modernize its military and allegedly sits on the
People's Liberation Army base in Uh what's the town? Did
(28:10):
I say? It's in Shanghai. Michigan, under pressure from Molinar,
went on to and it's twenty year partnership. But other
top units universities maintained ties to the Chinese schools. Between
the Katari's pumping money in so schools teach up with
the Muslim brotherhood and down with the jew and the
(28:30):
communists Chinese sending their spies to America masquerading as scholars.
It is some serious rot. It's campus chaos campus day.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Thank you for that. Okay, we got to tell you
about Omaha stakes. But as soon as we're done, I
got a question, Katie. You can weigh on this about
my neighbors bringing me cookies and whether or not I
got to bring them something. Now, maybe I bring them
Omaha steaks. I got quite a few. Here's a frozen steak.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Mary Class Ribbi down on the counter.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Now, I handam a frozen steak in the plastic from
Omaha Steaks, and I'll just say, you need to put
this back in the freezer or let it thaw. Your choice.
Omah Steaks. I have a lot because I ordered regularly
to make sure that we never run out, whether it's
steaks or burgers or apple tartlets which I love, or
whatever else it is. Right now is a good time
to buy because you know us. Go to Omaha Steaks
(29:21):
dot com. Our listeners getting extra thirty five dollars off
with the code Armstrong at checkout.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Grass fed grain, finished beef more marbling for exceptional flavor
is the choice of steakhouses and professional chefs around the world.
You are gonna love these steaks. They are so good.
Family owned company, over one hundred years of expertise in
the meat industry. Not only steaks and burgers and franks
Jack mentioned, but chicken, pork, seafood, delectable desserts. They're so good,
say big on gourmet gifts. Use that code Armstrong at
(29:48):
checkout to save thirty five dollars off. Visit Omaha Steaks
dot com terms applica site for details. Omaha Steaks dot
Com use that promo code Armstrong at checkout.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'm sixty years old. I should probably give up the
idea that but I'm ever going to send out Christmas
cards because I never have, and every year when I
start getting them from other people, I feel guilty and
think next year I will. But at some point I
should just decide clearly, I'm never going to send Christmas
cards anybody, and so I don't take on the guilt.
But this one is slightly different. As my neighbors. I
(30:17):
live in a cul de sac and two of the
main houses that like face me are next to me.
One family brought over some nice what are your Christmasy flowers?
The red ones, all those points sets? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I don't throw in that extra syllable am I supposed
to throw in the extra syllable set? Y? I just
I can't do that. It's too much for me. But
they brought over points sets in a card. And then
our other neighbors they're two little kids, the perfect family
that I talk about on a regular basis. They're like
the perfect family, and uh, and I feel like they're
being perfect just to make me feel bad about myself,
which is normal. They brought over cookies. They're cute little kids,
(30:53):
and uh, mom, they brought over cookies. So where am
I on the obligation list to bring them something I would?
I think I'm going nice. I think I'm going to
I'm gonna go with cookies. But then why were they
Did they bake.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
The cookies for you?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah, well they baked cookies. I don't know that they
baked them for me. They baked cookies and get the
homemade Yeah, homemade cookies. Okay, So here's my other problem.
I actually said, you know, we're gonna bring cookies over
to you. We end up eating them all, which is true,
and uh, I said, we'll make some more.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
My son made them from scratch, absolutely from scratch, the
sugar cookies and the butter cream frosting. Looked up the recipe,
we bought the ingredients. He did every single thing. I
didn't do one thing. They're not very good, so I
gotta figure out do I intervene? And I haven't said
(31:50):
that to him. These are delicious, they're good enough to eat.
I mean, my my bar for how good a cookie
sugar cookies got to be before I eat it is
you know right here. I mean I've had them where
at the bar, way up you know, the deliciousness is
up here. I'm still gonna eat it down here though.
I mean they were still north of Labrador retriever in
your bar. But it's like the old sex joke. He's
like a sugar cookies and sex. You know, even when
(32:11):
it's bad, it's pretty good. So do I have my
son make another batch of really not that very good cookies?
And if I do, I'm going to make it clear
that he made them.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I would tell you this as the husband of an
avid avid baker, knowing that didn't go quite right. Just
figuring out why is part of bacon.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I'm yeah, I'm sure nobody there that turns out great.
The first time most people are giving you their great
sugar cookies, it's like the fiftieth time they've made them,
right exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I mean, it's not like you're gonna go great Santinians
throw them at the boy and scream that you're no good.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It just fine. But now that we're going to give
him the neighbors, I'm just feeling like I'm gonna give
him these cookies and they're gonna take a bite him
and say, what the hell is this? I just pictured
him holding out a plate and Jack smacking it into
the air.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Is a crap?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, I just I don't know. Yeah, he'll get better
next time, and maybe maybe they'll be good the second
time around. I don't know if he noticed that they
weren't that great though. He hasn't said anything about it.
He hasn't said he's a little dry or anything like that.
You have your yeah, do you still have your weird
COVID thing?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, but the uh, they were clearly too dry. I mean,
you know, that's got to do nothing to do with
the ability to say.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Sweet, Maybe make them a meat loaf or something something
completely different.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
There, you go, go get some free donuts from the store,
hand them a meat loaf. Okay, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You could plate it. I'm sure they'd returned the plate.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
All right. If anybody's got an idea text line, we
need to do an update on the raising money for
the Scouts. See where we are got some funny donations
and other stuff to get Douce to stay here.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
A recent survey found forty Americans planned to spend less
this holiday season compared to last year. Of those forty
nine percent are buying fewer gifts, thirty eight percent are
choosing less expensive gifts, and twenty percent say they aren't
buying any gifts at all.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Twenty percent of people aren't buying any gifts at all.
Of course, I don't know what the number normally is. Well,
if your kids are all grown up and you're living
alone and everything like that, maybe you're maybe you're not
buying any gifts.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I don't know. Not a very useful statistic.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
But forty two percent of people spending less this year
is a useful statistic and not surprising to me given
a lot of other numbers we've heard with maxed out
credit cards and record numbers of people being behind on
their car payments. I realized that's the environment we're in
when it comes from us asking you to donate a
little money to scouting. My son got involved in the
(34:47):
Boy Scouts. I've seen what it's done for him and
a lot of other kids in terms of leadership qualities
and how they emphasize, you know, the morals and the
pledge of allegiance and American history and all of different
stuff that I just think it is amazing. But it
costs some money to join up. And sometimes the difference
(35:08):
between become having your kid become a Scout and not
is whether or not you have the money. So we're
trying to raise money so we can cover the cost
for as many people as possible. We'd love it if
we could raise one hundred thousand dollars. So that's what
we're trying to do this week, and we'll hit a
total here in just a little bit. When you go
to Armstrong and Getty dot com, it is super easy
to donate, and then you can use your name or
(35:30):
be anonymous or come up with a name like twenty
five dollars from They're Eating the Dogs and Eating the Cats.
We got twenty five bucks from Gavin's rehab hookup?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did he walk up with somebody in rehab? Is that
a thing? I don't even know if he went.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
To rehab, that might be completely made up?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
This is not that sounds right. I don't remember the
details though. Not a whale but a dolphin. Two hundred
and fifty bucks from I Don't Watch the Moves, twenty
five bucks from loud Gas leaf Blower, fifty bucks from
Unburdened from what has been Oh that's a good ball
back nice fifty bucks from Jacks mccrib sandwich. Fifty bucks
(36:10):
from Jack's Morning Urine Drink. I don't know what that
means is they may know what that means, what to
call the reference and I wish you hadn't brought it
up me too. Thirty bucks from wool They made me
give back the money, which is pretty good. Thank you
for that. And we also had a whale Jim Merriman
one thousand dollars donation. Thank you, mum.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Actually, that's got to change a lot of lives, a
lot of kids' lives, the influence of scouting on them fantastic.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So if you're running around and you are spending money
this year, make yourself feel better by throwing a couple
of bucks toward doing some good. I mean twenty five bucks.
If everybody did that, we'd hit our goal easily. Let's
get a total, Gladys before we take a break, Thank
you Gladys for the drummer all. We are currently at
seventy fifty seven dollars. There you go. We're gonna wrap
(36:58):
this up at the end of the show tomorrow. Can
we make that last twenty five grand between now and
the end of the show tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Oh yeah yeah I think so. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Next Hour.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'd love to read a note from one of our
beloved listeners who achieved Eagle Scout status. A lot of
stuff coming next hour. If you don't get Next Hour,
you got to go somewhere. Grab it fire podcast, follow us,
Subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Gatty and Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
A tech company is taking cockroaches aka Nature's Restaurant Review
System and and outfitting the cockroaches with cameras and tiny microphones.
The company also says that the bugs can be used.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
For search and rescue missions.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All right, everybody, We've been trapped in this cave for days,
but I've got some good news. A bunch of roaches
just crawled in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Cockroaches are having a moment. As we mentioned sixty minutes
last Sunday night. They have a German military He's got
cockroaches little backpacks on them and you can steer them
around with a joystick. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Carrying cameras, bombs, whatever you need them to carry, microphones.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So I am amazed by every aspect of scouting that
I've come across since my son became a boy scout,
and just seeing really mature young men who got these
mature skills through scouting and leadership and patriotism and morals.
Sort of thing that we're going to talk about again.
(01:25):
We were talking about last hour. Can a country survive
if it doesn't have certain kinds of morals? Well, they
teach those in scouting still and I absolutely love that.
And we want as many kids to be able to join.
If you want your kid to join, don't be held
back by the couple hundred dollars it costs to sign up.
We're trying to raise money so that that can be covered,
and we're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars and
(01:46):
we'll hit you at the gold total in just a
little bit. People regularly, you can use your name, you
can be anonymous, or you can come up with a
funny name when you don't want to donate money. For instance,
we got twenty five dollars from Jack's twelve point nine
second sixty yard dash.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's a story from way.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, illegitimate.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mentioned a got one hundred dollars from Stomping the
Joy out of Life, the Armstrong in Getty Show. We're
gonna let's let's just try to do less of that
in the year twenty six. That'd be a good resolution.
Let's try to do less stomping the joy out of life, you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Know, for me, it's an instinct. Jack, I see Joey.
I want to stop it. I'll try. I'll try, but
I make no promises other people's happiness. It just makes
me so angry. Right Armstrong in Getty the most depressing
radio show ever.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, there's something to that. Uh twenty five bucks from
We're Scouting Armor. Got it? Kind of take off on
the Joe Biden thing. I should have had you get
this clip, Michael, two hundred dollars from I'm Gonna call
my lawyer. Gonna means going to love that clip.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Why should consider a two hundred dollars like a dolphin.
It's not a whale, but maybe a dolphin. It's a
sea beast of some sort. Dolphin is actually a whale.
It's a small whale. So I think that dolphin sound
is utterly appropriate. Michael, well done.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You're like talking to my son with these things.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's just very pontic. My oldest daughter was crazy into
whales there for in her childhood, and we made it
a common enthusiasm. It brought us together. Was wonderful, called pedantic,
I call useful whale knowledge.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Very fifty bucks from United States of America, got it?
Uh one hundred bucks from Jackson neglected toothbrush, Hey, twenty
five bucks from fight It, and then here we got
a certainly a dolphin. Weide in with two hundred and
fifty dollars from Gay I mean gay, he's blind interview
(03:51):
Eric wyhan Mayer, who climbed the highest mountain in the world,
Mount Everest.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But he's gay, I mean he's gay. Excuse me, he's blind.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So we'll hear about that. I mean, okay, this one
of the funniest things that this ever.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Does he crave man? Or is he sightless? Let's let's
nail this down.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Can he drive? Or is he just need some Vitamin D?
If you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What? Oh my, I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We got twenty five bucks from should be a clip
of the year. You drive in, you drive out, your moron, you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Drive and you drive out. That's why people do. Then
their driveways. You more on.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we do have the Clips of the Year's show
on Friday, Tomorrow's our last real show, and then Clips
of the Year show on Friday, where we go through
the best clips of every month and then we pick
our clip of the Year at the.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
End of the show.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So that's my brother's favorite clip that you drive in,
you drive out, you more on.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Dri drive out. That's why people do. Then they're driveways
you more.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's the exasperation that makes it so funny. That whole
exchange is just priceless. It is definitely one of the
best things ever. So then let's get a total that
we're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars so as
many kids can get involved in Scouts as they want,
and we are currently at Thank you Gladys sixty and
sixteen dollars, just short of seventy grand.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
If I might do some fundamental mathematics here, my friends,
we could be changing the lives of hundreds and hundreds
of kids with this. You could be thank you Armstrong
and Getty dot com look for the donate now a button.
It's super easy to find.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So to end last hour, we got into the conversation
through Glenn Beck and interviewing AI George Washington about whether
or not this country can succeed or not without some
sort of cultural moral basis to keep us all in line.
(06:01):
Because you can write a constitution, you can have all
the laws you want, but if people aren't moral it
ain't gonna work. That's my belief, right, I think that's
clearly true A lot of my you see, that's where
my libertarianism breaks down.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Is I just.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think culturally you need to conserve that Judeo Christian
basis of living to make this all work. We got
this text. Why are you afraid to say Christian religious beliefs.
You just said religious beliefs. Our country's morals were not
from Buddhism, not Hindu, not Islam. It was Judeo Christian,
(06:40):
Judeo because it is the same God, the same story,
the Old Testament, which declares Jesus throughout blah blah blah.
That kind of gets to what we were talking about
a week or so ago. We kept referencing the book
Dominion by Tom Holland. He's not religious, but he is
a big believer that Western civilization is success, continues to
(07:00):
be successful, and it continues to be very Christian in
terms of its culture, even without as many people call
themselves Christians or going to church. But that is going
to wear off little by little.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And well, just if I might interject, just to for instance,
a principle as foundational as all men are created equal
is straight out of Christianity.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The thing that always pops into my head when we
have this topic because I didn't know this. I was
reading one of the many Lyndon Johnson books I've read
from Robert Carrow. Is that his name greatest political biography
in US history. Fantastic books. Pick any volume you want,
they're all great. But this was the version from the
(07:41):
late fifties, early sixties, I think. And he was trying
to get some sort of bill through Congress when he
was either the Master or the Senate or the President,
I don't remember which. And the hold up was Republicans
and Democrats who ran the various important finance committees that
dealt with money. It was just a given, you are
not going to in debt the United States. In other words,
(08:06):
if if there's no way to pay for this through
taxes or or offsets or cut this program, d at
this program, you don't just take on debt. That's just.
And it was all out of a Christian belief that
it is immoral to go into debt. You don't buy
something nless you can afford to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Particularly given the nature of government debt, which tends to
make other people pay people down the line, which is
utterly horrific. But this was the feeling from children, But
this was their personal beliefs.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Also, I mean, I think you got to admit that
the fact that just in our personal lives were much
more willing to go into debt on everything and spend
beyond our means has transferred into the government doing the
same thing. It seems pretty clear to me. I mean responsibility, sure, yeah,
And how do you how do you bring that back?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't know that you can.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I mean, seventy years ago, sixty five, seventy years ago
that they felt that way. I don't know little by
little how it drifted away when those people were replaced
by people who didn't give a crap about going into debt.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, boy. There are a lot of
things that work here, lack of common moral belief systems. Also,
how easy credit has become, both personally and governmentally. It
just flows much more easily than it used to. Every
single aspect of credit is much much, much more easy
(09:37):
than it used to be, and so there's more of
it and aggressive advertising of it.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And just like back in the day when people save
I mean, I should ask my parents when people saved
money to buy a refrigerator or washing machine or a
car as opposed to bought it on payments. Was that
because nobody had invented the idea of payments yet, or
because there just wasn't a demand for it. There wasn't
(10:03):
a populace that was willing to do payments. That's just
not what people wanted to do. I know, my parents
were like super just anti credit cards was just like
an evil idea. They finally had to get a credit
card because we've made the world so you can't get
a hotel room, you can't get rent a car, you
can't do anything without a credit card. But just the
idea of having a credit card was just bad. The
(10:23):
kind of people who used credit cards were living, you know,
irresponsible lives. Who nobody feels that way about credit anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, right, Well, to answer your question, I think it's
probably a combination of moral and the moral and the practical.
It is omnipresent and easy, and we've lost that sense
that is much smarter, and it is it's unquestionably smarter
to save up for something than buy it, than to
buy it for the same price and then pay interest
on it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, you'll also buy a cheaper version. This is just true.
I've done it in my own life. You will buy
a cheaper one if you pay cash for something, yeah,
as opposed to breaking it down into yeah. Anyway, here's
something there's plenty of demand for of fantasy sports that
doesn't involve a big, giant draft and then your team
immediately sucks and your season is over and you have
to wait till the next year's draft.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No. With Prize Picks, they let you play fantasy football
every week, pick your favorite players, and win when they
hit their projections every week, no draft required.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah that's pretty cool. So throughout the entire season, whatever
sport it is you're following, you can stay active no
matter how your players, team's injuries, whatever happened. And how
about this new feature. Prize Picks now has early payouts.
If your lineup gets off to a hot start, you
might have the option to cash out those winnings before
the game even finishes. How cool is that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Download the Prize Picks at today. Use the code armstrong
to get fifty dollars in lineups after you play your
first five dollars lineup again, that's the code armstrong to
get fifty bucks in lineups after you play your first
five dollars lineup prize picks. It's good to be right,
and it's easy and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I would like to know that if anybody has any
knowledge of the history of that, Dad Banks just never
come up with the idea, or car companies prior to
however many decades ago, or was there just not a
demand for making payments. Was there not a mechanism for it,
or something like I said, I think it's both.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
There was a widespread belief that that was unwise or immoral,
and the mechanics of it were just more difficult. As
I said before, every aspect checking someone's credit, getting them
the cash, you know, finding them if they don't pay,
you know, just the repayment options you don't have to
mail checks, just everything upon It is easier and faster.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Huh. That's interesting. Okay, we got other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
One of my favorite actors, Oscar nominee Gary Busey, posted
this on his Twitter feed.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Hey, scary of busy and I have got a great
christis pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
A That's what a goose shows like. But they're fine.
They let you know they're up there. You get a
bunch of geese together, they're hawking.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In the air. You know it's magical is when he
did the multiple geese. That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's known as bats crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's crazy. Wow. Randy Quaid is like, dude, take a
look at yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Wow wow.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Speaking of animals, let me see how how how close
I can come for this. Spanish speakers, I hope you
enjoy this. No entrey sin el permiso del proprietario los
gatos necessiton sir contentedos. We have a number of folks
working on the house who speaks Spanish apparently, and Judy's
(14:02):
not comfortable translating stuff quickly on her MacBook, so I
just sent this to her. That is Spanish for do
not enter without permission. Cats need to be contained. Hm
hm My daughter's cats are in her upstairs rooms. Some
got no entrace in el permiso del proprietario, los gatto's
necessiton sir contenidos.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You can't have your cats uncontained.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hey, that's one of those things those new Array band
glasses with the screen in the lens. People said that
feature is really good, the translation feature, So somebody talking
to you in another language, it gets translated and it's
right there in your eyes. Say one way, for instance,
it shows up right in front of your eye. They
can't tell you're using that. You don't have to look
(14:45):
at your phone. It be a lot better for the
whole translation thing.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, yeah, Katie.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That would be. That would be so helpful getting my
nails done. Yeah, or obviously traveling around foreign countries.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Plus famously from Seinfeld, which went off the year thirty
years ago. Right, you can tell when the nail texts
are talking about.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Wow, wow wow, or the cab driver or you know,
for anybody who still take together. There are lots of
different situations. That's what those glasses would be good for. Now,
all of a sudden, I know what everybody's saying about me,
el Baldo yep.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I thought, Michael, I thought, you gestured, Michael, what was
that night?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is a green? That would be awesome?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That a Nazi salute? No, you're a screen Okay, that's right.
Calling everything a Nazi salute is so twenty twenty four. Ah,
what was I gonna say? We were talking about the
Spanish speakers. Damn it, flit it out of my head.
What are you gonna do? Campus chaos update coming up?
Stay with us. On a much much more serious note,
(15:48):
According to eyewitnesses from Sunday's massacre at Bondai Beach in Sydney, Australia,
which was absolutely a Muslim slaughter of Jewish people in
a free country, eyewitnesses are saying that the cops froze,
They hesitated for long minutes. What ten return fire? It
(16:09):
went on for ten minutes. Yeah, and it appears that
they the murderers of the Islamist murderers began firing no
later than six forty two, and police did not begin
returning fire until six forty eight, six minutes ish. It's
(16:31):
possible the Aussie police just don't have enough training for
mass shooter events because of they don't have many I
don't know, but it was. It was absolutely the opposite
of what American police have learned to now do, which
is your return fire immediate as quickly as you humanly can,
because that engages the shooter. They're no longer about slaughtering,
(16:54):
they're about not getting shot by you anyway. That's troubling.
I cannot say that. That's what a counts are saying. Yeah,
just terrible, terrible. And then this a really interesting angle.
The OSSI authorities are trekking to the Philippines, the Southern Philippines,
because the two shooters spent time in the Southern Philippines
(17:15):
a few weeks I think before they slaughtered those poor people,
and they think they probably made contact with radical Islamists
because the Southern Philippines a very rural, remote islands and
they're known as a hotbed of Islamist activity.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I know I heard this, but that that almost portrays it,
Like you know, if I would run into an ISIS
member at the cafeteria, they convinced me to join ISIS. What. No,
they went there to get training and such, so you
don't think they were radicalized there. They just got their
training there.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh No, they went there and.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I heard it traded. That's where they got radicalized, which
didn't make any sense to me. Oh, they might have
gotten their marching orders. By the way, A quick reminder.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
In twenty seventeen, militants loyal to the Islamic State laid
sea to the city of Marawi and the Philippines. Months
long battle left over one thousand dead and three hundred
and fifty thousand displaced.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, you had, and Isis killed some of our troops
last week, which Trump is vowing revenge.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
For Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Can I remember to mention how to donate if you
want to donate to help us send as many kids
into scoutings want to sign up so they're not held
back by the UH A couple hundred dollars cost to
join good Armstrong in getty dot com. Armstrong in getty
dot com. We'll do an update a little bit later.
We're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars this week. Yeah,
there's a donate now button that you cannot miss. Indeed
(18:36):
coming up.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
How do we feel about somebody who does something, says
something morally abhorrent and then the internet comes down on them?
How do does it have to do with proportion or
how much effect there is? Well, we'll give you a
(18:59):
case study and we can talk about that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
My initial thought would be, if you posted on the
internet you're wanting a reaction.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What if somebody else does what do you mean you
you are being morally abhorrent? Somebody records it and puts
it on the internet. Oh I don't like that? Hmm,
you don't so you're okay with amorl behavior. Interesting. Wow,
I'll just go ahead and conclude that to save time. Anyway,
(19:26):
we'll talk about that going forward, but right now, it's
a campus chaos update. Oh lord, the camps up.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
If poor woman? What happened to her?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I like the old one with the Yeah, what's a
pumping circumstance? Yeah? Anyway, Oh so story number one. Listen
to this, would you? If there's some sort of a
word for this, I think it may win it. Princeton University,
far from reforming itself, is launching a new anthropology class
(20:03):
on gender reproduction and Genocide in Gaza, a class whose
description puts the Israeli Hamas War on par with Holocaust.
The four credit graded course being taught by a noted
Palestinian feminist who has made provably false claims that Hamas
did not kill any babies or rape women on October seventh,
(20:23):
Oh my god, and also calls for an end to
the Jewish state. Wow again, this course being taught at Princeton,
which has learned nothing and has no shame is gender
reproduction and genocide in Gaza isn't here as a description?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I think Princeton is one of the colleges that really
gets a lot of money from Qatar.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Uh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Drawing on decolonial see if listen,
we gotta have a game here, a drinking game or so,
I don't know something, count how many bulls critical theory
terms are in this course description. Drawing on decolonial, indigenous
and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life,
(21:03):
sexual and familial structures, and community survival. Students will engage
reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony, and Palestinian feminist critiques of
colonial violence while situating Gaza within comparative histories of the
Armenian genocide, the Holocaust in genocide against black and indigenous populations.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Wow, somebody's paying a lot of money to have their
kid take that class.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Undergrads who take the class can get credit toward an
anthropology major or toward a minor in gender and sexuality studies.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
An anthropology major. That's what my son's really interested in,
that sort of stuff. And I was wondering, is there
a university you can go to where it just isn't
all that courting kind of crap?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, here's another fun game you might play I'm going
to quote the woman who teaches this, who claimed that
there were no rapes or killing of children on October seventh.
Interject or substitute any word in place of Zionism. You
want Islam, black people, anything, and see if anybody in
(22:09):
America could get away with saying this what she said,
it's time to abolish Zionism. It can't continue. It's criminal.
Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue. They will use
any lie. They started with babies, they continue with rape,
and they will continue with a million other lies. We
stop believing them. I hope the world stops believing them.
And it's unbelievable. So moving along, and again, as you said, Jack,
(22:34):
dewey eyed fools will take this course and believe it,
and they might just be having that hey a lot
for it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
They might only have that clash to keep the millions
pulled flowing in from Qatar and other places like that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, okay, I gotta go a little more. Then we'll
move on. But among the required readings is an essay
titled repro Side in Gaza. That's a new one. Repro
Side in Gaza The gendered strategy of genocide through reproductive
violence by Holla Showman, a former Gazen dentist and self
described social activist. Reprosides, she writes, quote, is the systematic
(23:12):
targeting of a group's reproductive capacities as a deliberate strategy
of erasure. Israel has weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting,
siege conditions, force displacement, environmental toxis, said toxicity, and gendered violence,
thereby creating conditions in Gaza that make pregnancy dangerously high risk.
(23:32):
Therefore the title of the class gender reproduction and genocide
in Gaza. Moving along, this is a really good essay.
I wish we had time for the whole thing from
that jeff yass who donated one hundred million dollars to
the University of Austin, and he explains why if you're
not familiar with the University of Austin, and it is
(23:53):
a wonderful back to what a university ought to be
project with a lot of our favorite people involved. Anyway,
he says, I'm giving a hundred million dollars through the
University of Austin because the feedback feedback mechanisms of higher
education are broken. Almost every system that works works because
of feedback Evolution works because helpful mutation survival, Harmful ones
(24:14):
die off. Democracy works because voters support effective leaders and
remove ineffective ones. Then he talks about markets and science
works how it works. Most systems or institutions that don't
work at broken feedback mechanisms corupt politicians, crony capitalists, ideological
echo chambers. Unfortunately, higher education belongs in this category. The
purpose of higher education should be to instill in students knowledge, skills, judgment,
(24:38):
and characters so they can flourish and contribute to society.
By that standard, success should be measured by how graduates
are doing, and that's not happening anymore. He wants the
success of education to be measured in terms of success.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Imagine that.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Success in the person's chosen field, in their not did
they get anything out of this is the question he
wants asked. When you say it out loud, it almost
sounds like you're trying to explain it to a not
very bright child or something like that, because it's so
freaking obvious. But we've lost it completely. You go, University
(25:17):
of Austin and Jeff, thank you for doing the right things.
Absolutely fantastic. Speaking of Texas, Texas Tech is pissing off
the woke crowd. I found this interesting. On December one,
the new chancellor of Texas Tech sent professors a diagram
laying out a chain of approval for course material. It
accompanied a memo with rules for teaching about race and gender,
(25:39):
including a ban on quote advocacy or promotion of race
or sex based prejudice. The chart asked professors to first
ask if the course material quote is relevant and necessary
for classroom instruction, then details the review process that starts
with the department chair and can go all the way
up to the Board of Regents, the system's governing board.
(26:00):
Of a wider national campaign by conservatives to reverse years
of what they see. What they see what anybody could
see as left leaning faculty in indoctrination across higher education.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Hmmm do they see that?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Uh? Yeah, that's what they see, in the same way
that people going to the circus said they see an elephant. Yeah,
because there's an effing elephant there. Sorry anyway, es Geese.
The Free Press was writing about how a systematic analysis
of various classes that purported to have both sides of
(26:36):
arguments would have the Big Book representing the Marcus point
of view and then like everybody in the field knows
what the counter book is, the respected or there might
be several of them, and they just don't teach it.
You don't read it, you don't have to. It's just
utterly biased. And Texas Tech, to their credit, is going
to finally do something about it. Final note, Jack, you
mentioned the kataris. I would like to mention the kami Chinese.
(27:00):
Here's the adline for you. University of Michigan's partnership with
the CCP link Shanghai School brought Chinese spies to campus,
and dozens of US universities have similar arrangements. Elite schools
like Columbian Yale maintained joint institute's dual degrees and exchange
programs with Shanghai Xiaotong University. Since October twenty fourth, Department
(27:23):
of Justice has charged at least twelve University of Michigan students, researchers,
and recent grads. That's just the University of Michigan folks.
At least twelve all Chinese nationals with national security related offenses,
a scale far out pacing any other US school. Five
of them were accused of taking photographs of military drills.
(27:47):
At a military camp. They all belong to an engineering
partnership between Michigan and Shanghai Xiaotong, which House Select Committee
on China. Rep. Jason Molinar Michigan said, quote was helping
the CCP modernize its military and allegedly sits on the
People's Liberation Army base in Uh what's the town? Did
(28:10):
I say? It's in Shanghai. Michigan, under pressure from Molinar,
went on to and it's twenty year partnership. But other
top units universities maintained ties to the Chinese schools. Between
the Katari's pumping money in so schools teach up with
the Muslim brotherhood and down with the jew and the
(28:30):
communists Chinese sending their spies to America masquerading as scholars.
It is some serious rot. It's campus chaos campus day.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Thank you for that. Okay, we got to tell you
about Omaha stakes. But as soon as we're done, I
got a question, Katie. You can weigh on this about
my neighbors bringing me cookies and whether or not I
got to bring them something. Now, maybe I bring them
Omaha steaks. I got quite a few. Here's a frozen steak.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Mary Class Ribbi down on the counter.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Now, I handam a frozen steak in the plastic from
Omaha Steaks, and I'll just say, you need to put
this back in the freezer or let it thaw. Your choice.
Omah Steaks. I have a lot because I ordered regularly
to make sure that we never run out, whether it's
steaks or burgers or apple tartlets which I love, or
whatever else it is. Right now is a good time
to buy because you know us. Go to Omaha Steaks
(29:21):
dot com. Our listeners getting extra thirty five dollars off
with the code Armstrong at checkout.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Grass fed grain, finished beef more marbling for exceptional flavor
is the choice of steakhouses and professional chefs around the world.
You are gonna love these steaks. They are so good.
Family owned company, over one hundred years of expertise in
the meat industry. Not only steaks and burgers and franks
Jack mentioned, but chicken, pork, seafood, delectable desserts. They're so good,
say big on gourmet gifts. Use that code Armstrong at
(29:48):
checkout to save thirty five dollars off. Visit Omaha Steaks
dot com terms applica site for details. Omaha Steaks dot
Com use that promo code Armstrong at checkout.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'm sixty years old. I should probably give up the
idea that but I'm ever going to send out Christmas
cards because I never have, and every year when I
start getting them from other people, I feel guilty and
think next year I will. But at some point I
should just decide clearly, I'm never going to send Christmas
cards anybody, and so I don't take on the guilt.
But this one is slightly different. As my neighbors. I
(30:17):
live in a cul de sac and two of the
main houses that like face me are next to me.
One family brought over some nice what are your Christmasy flowers?
The red ones, all those points sets? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I don't throw in that extra syllable am I supposed
to throw in the extra syllable set? Y? I just
I can't do that. It's too much for me. But
they brought over points sets in a card. And then
our other neighbors they're two little kids, the perfect family
that I talk about on a regular basis. They're like
the perfect family, and uh, and I feel like they're
being perfect just to make me feel bad about myself,
which is normal. They brought over cookies. They're cute little kids,
(30:53):
and uh, mom, they brought over cookies. So where am
I on the obligation list to bring them something I would?
I think I'm going nice. I think I'm going to
I'm gonna go with cookies. But then why were they
Did they bake.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
The cookies for you?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah, well they baked cookies. I don't know that they
baked them for me. They baked cookies and get the
homemade Yeah, homemade cookies. Okay, So here's my other problem.
I actually said, you know, we're gonna bring cookies over
to you. We end up eating them all, which is true,
and uh, I said, we'll make some more.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
My son made them from scratch, absolutely from scratch, the
sugar cookies and the butter cream frosting. Looked up the recipe,
we bought the ingredients. He did every single thing. I
didn't do one thing. They're not very good, so I
gotta figure out do I intervene? And I haven't said
(31:50):
that to him. These are delicious, they're good enough to eat.
I mean, my my bar for how good a cookie
sugar cookies got to be before I eat it is
you know right here. I mean I've had them where
at the bar, way up you know, the deliciousness is
up here. I'm still gonna eat it down here though.
I mean they were still north of Labrador retriever in
your bar. But it's like the old sex joke. He's
like a sugar cookies and sex. You know, even when
(32:11):
it's bad, it's pretty good. So do I have my
son make another batch of really not that very good cookies?
And if I do, I'm going to make it clear
that he made them.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I would tell you this as the husband of an
avid avid baker, knowing that didn't go quite right. Just
figuring out why is part of bacon.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I'm yeah, I'm sure nobody there that turns out great.
The first time most people are giving you their great
sugar cookies, it's like the fiftieth time they've made them,
right exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I mean, it's not like you're gonna go great Santinians
throw them at the boy and scream that you're no good.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It just fine. But now that we're going to give
him the neighbors, I'm just feeling like I'm gonna give
him these cookies and they're gonna take a bite him
and say, what the hell is this? I just pictured
him holding out a plate and Jack smacking it into
the air.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Is a crap?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, I just I don't know. Yeah, he'll get better
next time, and maybe maybe they'll be good the second
time around. I don't know if he noticed that they
weren't that great though. He hasn't said anything about it.
He hasn't said he's a little dry or anything like that.
You have your yeah, do you still have your weird
COVID thing?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, but the uh, they were clearly too dry. I mean,
you know, that's got to do nothing to do with
the ability to say.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Sweet, Maybe make them a meat loaf or something something
completely different.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
There, you go, go get some free donuts from the store,
hand them a meat loaf. Okay, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You could plate it. I'm sure they'd returned the plate.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
All right. If anybody's got an idea text line, we
need to do an update on the raising money for
the Scouts. See where we are got some funny donations
and other stuff to get Douce to stay here.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
A recent survey found forty Americans planned to spend less
this holiday season compared to last year. Of those forty
nine percent are buying fewer gifts, thirty eight percent are
choosing less expensive gifts, and twenty percent say they aren't
buying any gifts at all.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Twenty percent of people aren't buying any gifts at all.
Of course, I don't know what the number normally is. Well,
if your kids are all grown up and you're living
alone and everything like that, maybe you're maybe you're not
buying any gifts.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I don't know. Not a very useful statistic.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
But forty two percent of people spending less this year
is a useful statistic and not surprising to me given
a lot of other numbers we've heard with maxed out
credit cards and record numbers of people being behind on
their car payments. I realized that's the environment we're in
when it comes from us asking you to donate a
little money to scouting. My son got involved in the
(34:47):
Boy Scouts. I've seen what it's done for him and
a lot of other kids in terms of leadership qualities
and how they emphasize, you know, the morals and the
pledge of allegiance and American history and all of different
stuff that I just think it is amazing. But it
costs some money to join up. And sometimes the difference
(35:08):
between become having your kid become a Scout and not
is whether or not you have the money. So we're
trying to raise money so we can cover the cost
for as many people as possible. We'd love it if
we could raise one hundred thousand dollars. So that's what
we're trying to do this week, and we'll hit a
total here in just a little bit. When you go
to Armstrong and Getty dot com, it is super easy
to donate, and then you can use your name or
(35:30):
be anonymous or come up with a name like twenty
five dollars from They're Eating the Dogs and Eating the Cats.
We got twenty five bucks from Gavin's rehab hookup?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did he walk up with somebody in rehab? Is that
a thing? I don't even know if he went.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
To rehab, that might be completely made up?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
This is not that sounds right. I don't remember the
details though. Not a whale but a dolphin. Two hundred
and fifty bucks from I Don't Watch the Moves, twenty
five bucks from loud Gas leaf Blower, fifty bucks from
Unburdened from what has been Oh that's a good ball
back nice fifty bucks from Jacks mccrib sandwich. Fifty bucks
(36:10):
from Jack's Morning Urine Drink. I don't know what that
means is they may know what that means, what to
call the reference and I wish you hadn't brought it
up me too. Thirty bucks from wool They made me
give back the money, which is pretty good. Thank you
for that. And we also had a whale Jim Merriman
one thousand dollars donation. Thank you, mum.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Actually, that's got to change a lot of lives, a
lot of kids' lives, the influence of scouting on them fantastic.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So if you're running around and you are spending money
this year, make yourself feel better by throwing a couple
of bucks toward doing some good. I mean twenty five bucks.
If everybody did that, we'd hit our goal easily. Let's
get a total, Gladys before we take a break, Thank
you Gladys for the drummer all. We are currently at
seventy fifty seven dollars. There you go. We're gonna wrap
(36:58):
this up at the end of the show tomorrow. Can
we make that last twenty five grand between now and
the end of the show tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Oh yeah yeah I think so. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Next Hour.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'd love to read a note from one of our
beloved listeners who achieved Eagle Scout status. A lot of
stuff coming next hour. If you don't get Next Hour,
you got to go somewhere. Grab it fire podcast, follow us,
Subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty
Hosts And Creators
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!