December 16, 2024 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong,
Andy and he Armstrong and from studio scene, please sing
(01:06):
picking off the final week of Armstrong and getting new
broadcasts in the year twenty twenty four. We started a
year twenty twenty four. It feels like it, doesn't it.
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Drone mania. It was the drones last week. That was
(01:28):
drone mania.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is We've completely lost the thread and it's just silly now,
is it? Is it just the coverage is silly. It
is a slow news day, there is no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's a slow news day when every source you go
to has a different lead story and that has been
the case since I got up this morning, and every
single version of a lead story is just an update
on an existing story. So what is a slow news day?
The exciting thing about that is means we can certainly
talk about whatever we want and really stretch out and
enjoy ourselves on a number of topics of our own
making well.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And it means, you know, speaking metaphorically, nothing in particular
is on fire.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
At the moment, which is a rare pleasure. Yeah. Well,
you know, it ignores a couple of things that are
going on around the world that are major problems. But
I guess there's nothing that jumps out as a reason
to elevate it to the highest level.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, it's the what's the layer they call in forest
fires that like can keep burning for.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Weeks and you don't see it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's like smoldering and in kerb blowy it fires up again.
We've got a handful of those, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah. Yeah, So why do you say drone mania is
our lead story? I was. I was fascinated by it
over the weekend. I showed it to both my kids,
who don't take in a lot of news coverage, because
every newscast, certainly on Friday night, and I think Saturday
night led with the drone story right right.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The reason I said that was one moment in particular,
because there are some significant stories about like that Chinese
national who was flying a drone over one of our
Space Force bases on the West Coast then tried to
escape to China.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's significant.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The Vandenberg Air Force Base the New Jersey there by,
the base I don't recall the name of but that
stuff's great.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But then I was watching the news I think it
was could have been last night, and Aaron Katirsky in
his sonorous.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Voice, saying, and now drone sightings have been reported in
a dozen Northeastern states. I'm like, yet, it's not that
people are like that there are things in the air.
We know there are things in the air. Do we
have drones massing over a critical nevermind?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, all the denials bother me and we'll get to
that a little bit later. As freaking waste of skin.
DHS Secretary of Mariorcus was on one of the shows yesterday,
and that is he should be skinned for the use
of others. As usual, I've got nothing to say, but
I'd like to assure you there's nothing to worry about.
And blah blah blah. Most of the drones are airplanes. Okay,
(03:57):
I get that. Since the own story got hot, now
everybody's calling in every airplane they see as a drone. Yes,
but what about the original drones that everybody seems to
think we're drones? How about we talk about those like
grown ups and said exactly, most of the reports are planes.
That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic. Right, Hey, hey,
(04:20):
what about the ones.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That aren't huh yeah, well most of them are planes, Yeah,
but what about the ones that aren't right?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right? Which is something that's going on? I think, I well,
I don't know that I know. But Josh Rogan put
out an interesting retweet that I was reading in the
middle of the night. Would you like to hear that now?
I want to read all the details. I'll do that
later because it's a pretty long thread, but it's pretty interesting.
It's a guy from some agency that or a corporation
that made these kind of drones, and he lays out
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while he doesn't know that that's what this is, he's
pretty sure that what it is it's a drone sweep
of areas to see if they can detect dirty bomb.
And he suspects that it's a test of our capability
around ports and any sort of populated area or government
installation or whatever to detect a dirty bomb. He thinks
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it's both a psyops program psychological operation to see how
the public would react to all these drones showing up
somewhere all of a sudden, which they need to do
if there's a suspicion that you know, they get some
intel that Orion wants to get a dirty bomb into
the Port of San Diego or whatever, and so you
send over all of our drones that can pick this
information up. There will that freaked people out. And so
(05:36):
it's a combination syops and testing out our dirty bomb
sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct, but
that would explain it. That could be the thing. That
sort of thing could be the thing. Yet, that sort
of thing, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I interacted with a number of folks over the weekend,
both during my Jay Gatsby like social life as we
had holiday gatherings and on the golf course, and one
thing that was agreed widely was that the answer is,
we don't know what it is, but everything's fine. Indicates
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something classified, right, something YEA know that they can't talk about.
But no, it's not killer drones come for you, your children.
It's fine. It's our stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, that's why that dirty bomb thing that Josh Rogan,
who we really like from the Washington Post, he retweeted
that because he obviously thinks it's significant. That's why that
would fit that people at certain levels know it's nothing
to worry about, and it's a good thing. It's a
good thing that we have this technology.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But we just one other suggestion I've heard that that
seemed very reasonable was some sort of test of drone vulnerability,
drone tracking equipment, that sort of thing. There's only one
way to do it. Team A flies drones, Team B
keeps an eye on them. Then you see if teammate
can elude Team B. It's a classic military training exercise.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So it's interesting you mentioned your Jay Gatsby like social life.
I remember before I had children and Gladys, could you
play the harp last week? Last week, Gladys, we don't
know if we're bringing you back in twenty five? Contract
was honey, wow? Contract? Huh, I don't know if God's
bringing her back in twenty five. Oh wow. I remember
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when I had a Jay Gatsby like social life before
I had children, and you get close to Christmas, it'd
just be all kinds of different gatherings and parties and
stuff like that, and it was just running around. I'd
be so exhausted from the fun and oh man, this
is almost work. I had one of the most annoying
weekends of my life just running kids around running errands
in the traffic of this time of year. I mean,
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it's first word world problems, annoying. It's not Ukraine or Syria,
but just everything was a hassle. Nothing was enjoyable. And
I thought, there's got to be a better way to
do the Christmas season than this. There's just got to be.
It was miserable. Everything is difficult this time of year.
The slightest errand is difficult because you can't park there,
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There's a long line. It's just everything's insane.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it does have more of a final exams field
than a joyous celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Right. I thought, what am I doing wrong? How do
I get my head straight on this? Because I'd hear
Christmas week it's the most wonderful time. And I'm in
line and just found a bread. Just go home, you mother. God.
We were at a kia ikia. I wanted to just
I wanted to do the TikTok prank and climb behind
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some of the furniture and sleep there. I was just
we couldn't get find our way out. The lines were
so long, it was so crowded, the parking, the traffic
in a kill me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yes, Michael you can live on the Swedish meatballs exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I was just so annoying, and I thought, I've got
to find some joy in this, or at least neutral
in this, because I'm so angry. Kids were angry, the
other customers were angry. It was just lots of anger.
Woh how angry setting fire to Santa's beard? Angry or
the only angel and I got out of Ikea that
drove my kids crazy was using some sort of fake
(09:04):
Swedish word for everything we were looking. We had come
around the corner. Oh, look the lampenfergens and there's the
couch and cold concern. Well, as long as you annoyed
the boys, it was worth it. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We do that, Jack, There's a good chance that a
lot of your fellow shoppers were Republicans. Psychologists have studied
how spending habits are affected by election results.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'll be darned. Uh, that doesn't surprise me. Actually, I'm
Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
December sixteenth, year, twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and
getting we approve of this program. Let's leap into action.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, ho ho
hauling our way through the show at mark.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. Some
are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. It
is our job to be vigilant in the federal government,
with our state and local partners on behalf of the
American public, and we can assure their safety by reason
of that vigilance.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Did Biden find that lame ow by the roadside and
take pity.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
On him or something? How did he ascend to the
any level? Much less the level is that that was
Mayorchis the DHS secretary, sounding the same way about drones
as he sounded about the border. He is the ultimate bureaucrat.
He could rise to the top of any sort of bureaucracy,
giant healthcare or state government or anything. It just we
(10:30):
are on top of this. We have all the functions
in place, we have the matrixes lined up, and all
the results are going to just he says nothing. He
kills a couple of minutes. Oh, I hate you so much,
donate your organs before you die, and then we'll start
taking them now. And then you need to recede away
from a waste of exactly a waste of skin. Burn victims,
(10:50):
those who have been lacerated can better use his skin.
Can you imagine you're running some sort of enterprise and
you got ten people in a room and he's the
best of them. Interview I would fire my recruiting firm.
So that was may Orcus on ABC this week. Right
after him Stephanopolis, who just got sued by Trump and
Trump won. More on that later. Chris Christie, former governor
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of New Jersey, who's seeing drones all over the place,
said may Orcus is full of crap. So I thought
that was really good. We'll get to that later. How
does mailbag look strong? Good start to the week? Tell
us to see a drome? You were to textas four one, five,
two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm glad it's a slow newsday because it allows us
to do a number of things that it might not
made to cut otherwise from my list, including over the weekend,
I came across this site that has compiled it's bad news,
but it's funny. All the fraudsters that were able to
get PP money PPP money during the COVID giveaway where
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we just shoveled trillions of dollars out the door, and
the way different people applied and actually got tens of
thousands of dollars in chunks all across America to the
tune of billions of dollars. It's actually pretty funny how
little effort they put into it. It almost makes me
wish I'd done.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It, and given the way all that crap fed inflation,
this is definitely laughing to keep from crying.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, but yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And we have a list of some of the folks
that Joe Biden granted clemency to. That list of fifteen
hundred people have finally gotten a chance to take a
look at and assess and it's revealing and strange and
utterly inappropriate. But what are you gonna do. He's the
president for now. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Excuse me, I love this. Michael and Haystack, Nebraska sent
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this along.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Is that real? Is that really a place in Nebraska?
I don't know. Is that like Jeff and Hoggs Nipple Tennis?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It might be, yeah, but it's from Churchill and I
absolutely love it on the idea of presentism straight up.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Out of orwell as well as Churchill.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past,
it will lose the future. Ooh, presentism is pathetic.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Adolescent egomania. It's easy.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh my gosh, it's so transparently self serving.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I'm like a way better person than Link. It was
because I believe this.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh okay, good lord, since it's insulting to everyone's intelligence mailbag?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Who Brian from Houston? What if the.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Drones are being controlled by clowns at the edge of
the woods, right, getcha? Oh, this is out of order, guys.
The oh this is Anna Louise and La Mesa California. Right, say, guys,
the drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like
the Salem Witch Trials. Maybe everyone needs to read or
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watch Arthur Miller's The Crucible and calm the hell down.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, funny you said that. That's what I said on
Thursday or Friday, that mass hysteria thing. But the difference
is there were no actual witches. There are actual drones.
I think that started this whole thing, right.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It reminds me of the murder investigation where you know,
somebody killed somebody, and the guys out there and then
the public because for whatever reason, floods the authorities with
fifteen thousand tips.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's not helping.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Barry from Thailand Rights wishing you and your staff and
all the listeners are very merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Never gets old here listening to American Christmas music in
the shopping centers malls. Oh boy, then I can't do
that joke, A funny joke about anam and e even
apparently his state of sexual readiness.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But again, what I'm telling you, I'm walking around the Ikea,
the best Buy Christmas music is playing about it's a
jing jingjingle. I'm looking around and there's not a smile
on anybody's face anywhere. Are we all doing this wrong?
Or what is going on? Wait?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
At some point you think people will begin to associate
that music with being grim and angry.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Our stress just a endless list of unpleasant tasks.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Right, yeah, but thank you for the note, Barry. Moving along,
here's something from John. I'm watching Sunday night football commercial
comes on. It's well meaning, I'm only Hamiman after all, Jesus.
It takes all of us, et cetera. Many clips of
people arguing and fighting over whatever. I assume you've seen it.
I actually have. Yeah, I'm tired. I think the biggest
problem in our society is that everyone thinks what they
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think is important. Get over yourself. You're not the most
important person in the world. You're important to yourself, your
family and friends. The rest of the world doesn't give
two poops.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What you think. A little more humility would help all
of us.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, there's truth to that. The ability to have your
words seen by the world online, no matter how inane,
is an interesting development mankind.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's never existed before.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
How about this Ryan from Houston, Jack Joe, I know
you have personal Jahad's mine is to get the world
to treat the Time magazine Person of the Year the
same as the MTV movie Award winner.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
For Best fight Scene aka not at all.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Nobody thinks about Time three hundred and sixty four days
a year, So why give the hind end of a
rat when they tweet out a picture.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Of a magazine. I don't think most people do. It's
immediate armstrongation.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Now if Armstrong you GETTI are declared the Time Magazine
Person of the year long overdue. Then my comments are
null and void, and then he makes some uh Christmas
song suggestions. Oh you know, I don't think we have
time for this, and it's a shame, but it's a
note from Julie. I want to get back to about
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the disappearance of the Coexist Coexist bumper sticker that we
use to mock and why that might be significant.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Really thought provoking. Interesting. Yeah, speaking of coexisting, check in
on Siria, which has a lot of interesting stories going on,
and I hope those people can keep their smiles on
their faces. They're smiling more this weekend than I was
a lot other news to get to, so stay with us,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
After police arrest and suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangioni, they
found a note on him expressing anger at Corporate America.
Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then
was caught at McDonald's, So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, that numb nuts is view of the world is
just well, not as smart as he thought he was.
Maybe more on that later.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, surprise, we don't have a name for that sort
of person, although it is I'm smarter and better than everyone.
Therefore judgment as ironclad. Therefore I may do anything to
execute my plan for society, including murdering someone in cold blood,
and I will be justified.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Biggest football news of yesterday Patrick Mahomes leaving the game
at the end hurt and saying he might not play
next week and complaining about the NFL making him play
three games and eleven days over the Christmas break because
of the scheduling, working out, wanting to play the Black
Friday game and fitting and thanks all the different stuff. Oh,
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that's a hell of a lot of this. That's what
he's saying. Your body can't take that, and now he's hurt.
So AnyWho, here's your end of the year's stat of
the hour, because we'll have a lot of end of
the year stats for you this week. How big of
an industry is the video game industry? Total worldwide revenues
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for video games seven times that of recorded music. That
is amazing. Now, part of that might be you can
get recorded music for fourteen dollars of subscription and you
can't do that with video games. But uh yeah, I
was gonna say you can't.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, you can get obviously, you know this, but it's
a subscription model for video games. I still picture you
go down to GameStop, you buy a thing, you plug
it in your computer, You're done.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But now it's all subscriptions.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I was just going to ask, does that include the
revenue to music streaming services?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I actually don't know that Spotify, Apple, et cetera. Yeah,
I'd be curious to know. Probably a lot of kids
are going to be getting video games for Christmas this year.
And one other economic note, as President she and China,
because they're facing some serious economic problems, gave a speech
the other day where he said people are going to
have to learn to eat bitterness. Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You pair that with the what's our famous tape Michael
of the drone there during COVID suspend your soul's desire
for freedom or whatever, tell your soul to shut the
hell up. Yeah, So now I got to learn to
eat bitterness on top of starting to wonder about this
system of yours Winnie Winnie the Pooh. So our economy
is better than China's. Definitely, Oh they I'm I've been
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banging this drum for a long time. I remember I'm
old enough to remember the great the journalists for whatever reason,
they getting a herd and they charge like panicking wildebeests.
But during the eighties, whenever, it was in the nineties,
how Japan and the Japanese system and they were going
to rule the world, and they were far superior to
the United States. And then Japan collapsed and entered a
thirty year period of economic Melee's well, it's very similar
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to the whole Tom Friedman falling in love with the
communist Chinese and their spectacular efficiency and their bullet trains,
and look how quickly they can build the development.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
They have horrific problems.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
They have built this giant hollow economy of overproduction and
over capacity and manufacturing, and it's.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All about to go. Kirt blewey, trust me, you don't
want to be a communist. I can show your soul's
desire for freedom. Oh thanks for that. Now, eat bitterness,
yum yum.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Hey kids, it's bitterness for dinner tonight. On the other hand,
we have something like a democracy here, Jack, and we
have elections from time to time, and sometimes the way
they come out has some interesting after effects. For instance,
scientists are quite confident when your side, when's the election,
you feel more positive in general, more positive about the
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economy specifically, and the winning side spends more aggressively.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That is obvious. Never thought about it before, but of
course you would. Obviously you would feel better about things.
Your vision of the way the country ought to be
run is going to happen as opposed to one that
you think is bad news. Yeah, yeah, I wish.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'd learned this earlier because how crazy competitive as a
young person. But when you win, you get a surge
of testosterone and you feel like you're on top of
the world. It makes you bold, it makes you confident,
it makes you happy, it makes you want to have
friends and shake hands. And when you lose, you have
a drop in testosterone and it makes you feel very
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you know, kind of weird and closed off and pissed
off and the rest of it. And it's not just
the pride of it or whatever. It causes serious hormonal
changes in your body. And it makes sense that if
you win a benk of election, you're charged up and.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah oooo, this is let's get that boat, honey. This
is somewhat different because when the Kansas City Chiefs win,
while I have those physiological responses that you just described,
I don't have the addition of and because the chiefs won,
I'm more optimistic about my stocks like I am when
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the Republicans are in charge.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, indeed, so I thought this was funny. Republicans' views
on the future of their finances and the economy jumped
about forty five points to one oh five point nine.
As if anybody knows what this scale is.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The eagle ninety eagle playing six and as you drive
to work.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right, stop it from the University of Michigan surveys
and consumers compared to with October, so up forty five
points to one oh five. So that would be roughly,
you know, fifty percent before the presidential election. Democrats outlook
fell by the same amount, about forty nine percent, based
on data released earlier this month. The surveys first to
exclusively measure post elections sentiment.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
HM, So you're not spending as much for Christmas because
the country elected Hitler. That makes sense, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You know what's not about that is from a purely
objective point of view, which I am able to achieve.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's bonkers. If you are on the government.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Dole, it's not going to change because Republicans can't cut
benefits apparently anymore. It's not a big enough priority. You
lose too many votes, and then huge numbers of Democrats. Actually, well,
at least a significant majority of Americans believe Trump would
handle the economy better. So why in the world, as
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a Democrat would you be much more negative about your
economic prospects?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Doesn't make any sense. I don't know, but I know
I personally know people who are beside themselves with grief still, so.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, well, get over it, grow up. You know what
it could be the percentage of.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
People who believe the utter horse.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Crap that the Trump tax cuts, which are probably going
to be made permanent next year, perhaps with a tweak
or two, but not many. They believe that garbage, that
that was just for millionaires and billionaires, when it was
mostly for the middle class percentage wise, really rich people
gained well because they pay way, way, way more taxes
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than the middle class, but it was mostly a middle
class tax cut. I wonder if they just they believe
the worst rhetoric of their their ideological brethren.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Did you see the guest essay in the New York
Times over the weekend about China. It was from some
think tank guy. I don't remember his name. I didn't
know his name, but he's one of your think tank
economic geniuses who really thinks Trump is on the right
track with the tariff thing and taken on China, and
that China's just just needs a little shove over the
edge to like really be destroyed. But it's going to
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be painful for us for a while. But he thinks
that it's pain Trump is willing to take a hit
to his political capital, and that it will ultimately benefit
the United States. I hope he's right. Yeah, I missed that.
I would love to read it. It's interesting to take
a look. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah. Judging by everything I've been reading about it, there's
a lot of truth to that they are fragile, and
that was in the New York stas. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. More stabbings and runnings, over hundreds of them
that are little reported and we don't hear about in
the United States, but lots of signs of anger and discontent. Anyway,
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one more thing on the whole election.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Delio.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I thought this was interesting. Nearly a quarter of people
looking to buy their first house we're asked last September
about their you know, their their plans and priorities, and
nearly a quarter of them said we're gonna wait until
after the votes are in.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Interesting, I would never think that. I wouldn't either. I
was looking at a house and it never crossed my
mind that maybe I should wait until after the election. Huh. Yeah,
that's funny.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've bought and sold more houses than any three normal
people combined. And and I'm really really into politics. But
that I wouldn't even think about that unless somebody had
proposed some sort of specific policy. But I don't recall
that happening anyway. It's true country to country. Uh, just
an interesting effect of politics.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well, since we were beating up on China and the
trouble that they're in, how about some positive news for China.
That's just true China's car production share in the world
for the global car production. I wish this chart went
back to like the fifties and sixties. I got to
believe the United States was like practice all of them.
It was like eighty five percent of cars on earth
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were made in Detroit, the United States. This is going
back to two thousand. The United States has gone from
about thirteen percent of the population of the all the
cars in the world to three percent, So we've dropped
from about thirteen to three. Japan has gone down, Europe
has gone down a lot. China has gone from one
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percent at the start of the century to forty percent. Wow,
of the worldwide car production or car sold. Isn't that amazing?
It's stunning.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
That is something A lot of it is, you know,
from a capitalist point of view, artificial propping up of
their industry and subsidizing it by the government and just
crazy manufacturing for foreign markets, exports, consumer spending is really
lagging in China.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But yeah, that's it's amazing. So we can get into
the details a bit later. But George Stephanopolis, he didn't
pay it himself. ABC paid it, but got hit for
was it fifteen million dollars for continually saying and I
remember that episode of ABC this Week where he kept
referring to Trump as a convicted rapist after that trial
(28:18):
and Trump was not convicted of rape, but Stephanopolis said
it multiple times and Trump sued, and now ABC is
paying fifteen million dollars and Stephanopolis had to offer up
an ABC A Weasley apology. But that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Speaking of the after effects of elections and ratings and
money wholly crap some of the recent numbers from MSNBC
and CNN. How are they keeping the lights on? How
are they paying their halfwits were on that to come?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And will they ever recover? Probably not not.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
If there is a God, God probably doesn't concern himself
with cable news.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
He probably hates it. My son's birthday is a week
from today, then Christmas is a week in two days
from today. I have many things I haven't finished yet.
I'm feeling tremendous pressure. My wife's birthdays in three days.
I'd like to have a word with their parents, God
rest their souls. Stop having children in December. Well, it's
(29:19):
inconvenient for the rest of us. You gotta think ahead.
We should have thought ahead. I don't know what happened
to it. It's just, yeah, it is incredibly inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We start feeling randy in March. You put it off,
all right? Did you take a cold shower? As they
used to say, does that work? He ever actually done that.
You're really wanting sex and you take a cold jower,
it would do the trick. I think maybe being in
anguish in general, punch yourself in the face that works too.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
We've got Gid's headlines on the way next, first snow,
but the children he had a snow brain, permanent brain
freeze never went away. Frosty, who's a moron? Silk hat
a nice enough. I keep seeing minding loyal friends, listen
(30:08):
to you. I keep seeing the headlines from the left
on how the Trump sues Stephanopolis and wins is going
to have a chilling effect on news media coverage for
the presidency. Well, or you can't call somebody who's a
rapist who's not a rapist, or that's it.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's the sum total of it, all right, Yeah, get
your fat straight jack.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Well about like it's serious. That's not like a minor fact.
Either am I a convicted rapist or not? Oh I'm not? Well,
then stop saying I am yi.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the there's more to that story, and
it's it's pretty interesting. We've got a bunch of media
stories today, among other things. But first let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green
Katie Well, speaking of ABC, let's start there.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Feds are urged to deploy high tech drone hunter to
solve mystery behind sightings yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So, I mean you got Trump calling for him to
be shot down. Chris Christie said yesterday, we need to
bring one of these down and figure out what they are.
Former governor of Maryland over the weekend said the same thing.
At some point, if it's a government operation that they're
kind of keeping secret, don't they have to say, hey,
before you start shooting these things down and somebody gets
(31:25):
hurt or we lose millions of dollars, maybe we should
let you know. And this is on purpose and nothing
to be afraid of.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm going to quote a great American who said this
after a couple of eggnogs Friday night. Every red blooded
American patriot must train their guns on the sky and
be ready to do what must be done.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Across the untation. Yeah. The problem with that is you're
going to be shooting down planes. Yeh, please don't do that.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
From Newsweek, Luigi Menjona pictures met with cheers at Boston concert.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
They were playing some Miley Cyrus song and apparently the
DJ put a bunch of pictures up on the screen
behind him and everybody just went nuts.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The decision to put the picks up is weird and
then the crowd cheering. Wow, it's just a dopey internet age.
I can say anything.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Everybody's anonymous, and you've got to go way over the
top to convey how you feel. Well, it's all those
things coming together and how.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Much of it is, Like Chris Rock said on Saturday
Night Live, because he's hot. Chris Rock said, if this
guy looked like Jonah Hill, we'd already executed him. From
the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually a
notorious ASSAD regime torturer.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I saw this. He is one of the best known,
like legend around the country torturers that worked for ASSAD
and somehow when they are escaping from the prison, they
threw him in a cell and locked him in there
and got out. But he's the guy that was freed
by Clarsa Ward the other day. Wow. Yeah, she's a
terrific reporter. Yeah it's not her fault. No, But nice
(33:04):
job CNN. Actually perfect if you think about it. From
Fox News.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Cleanup underway after rare tornado hits Scott's Valley, California.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, in my real life I heard a lot about this.
There are a lot of people saying no way. A
tornado hit. Yeah, it actually hit the ground and flipping
cars and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, thank god, nobody's
hurt any more than they.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Were from the Free Beacon. New York Times puts menstrual
products in men's bathrooms to quote support transgender and non
binary colleague, do you gotta be kidding at the New
York Times?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
At the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I'm telling you, while in the same parts of the country,
all of this stuff that DEI, the gender betting madness
is on the back foot in your progressive organizations.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's growing from NBC meme.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Coins like fart coin are writing Trump's victory to huge valuations,
and experts say it's only just begun.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And we're both just shaking our heads the idea. Yeah,
oh of course they are. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I get the idea of of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and
stuff like that is a form of payment outside the
government system. I get that completely, But right now it's
just wild speculation. You launch these coins fark coin, for instance,
and it goes up as people are thinking, all right,
when does the bubble burst? When are the sucker is
gonna get out? I'm gonna get out now. And they
(34:37):
make their money. Then those poor suckers who get in.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
At the end they lose their shirts.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
And finally the Babylon b Joe Biden Pardon's wife Jill
for impersonating a doctor.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
God dang it, and you had another cryptocurrency that I got.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Uh yeah, I gotta get in, No Sloan, stay the race, Jack,
slow and steady. Stick with your IBM stock, your GM
stock and American steel.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
How's that doing. I haven't checked lately, Us Steele, I
don't know. We'll catch you up on the news, That's
what we'll do an hour two, three and four. I
got like an amazing culture war story. I can't wait
to get to later and see all your responses on that.
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(01:06):
picking off the final week of Armstrong and getting new
broadcasts in the year twenty twenty four. We started a
year twenty twenty four. It feels like it, doesn't it.
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Drone mania. It was the drones last week. That was
(01:28):
drone mania.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is We've completely lost the thread and it's just silly now,
is it? Is it just the coverage is silly. It
is a slow news day, there is no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's a slow news day when every source you go
to has a different lead story and that has been
the case since I got up this morning, and every
single version of a lead story is just an update
on an existing story. So what is a slow news day?
The exciting thing about that is means we can certainly
talk about whatever we want and really stretch out and
enjoy ourselves on a number of topics of our own
making well.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And it means, you know, speaking metaphorically, nothing in particular
is on fire.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
At the moment, which is a rare pleasure. Yeah. Well,
you know, it ignores a couple of things that are
going on around the world that are major problems. But
I guess there's nothing that jumps out as a reason
to elevate it to the highest level.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, it's the what's the layer they call in forest
fires that like can keep burning for.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Weeks and you don't see it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's like smoldering and in kerb blowy it fires up again.
We've got a handful of those, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah. Yeah, So why do you say drone mania is
our lead story? I was. I was fascinated by it
over the weekend. I showed it to both my kids,
who don't take in a lot of news coverage, because
every newscast, certainly on Friday night, and I think Saturday
night led with the drone story right right.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The reason I said that was one moment in particular,
because there are some significant stories about like that Chinese
national who was flying a drone over one of our
Space Force bases on the West Coast then tried to
escape to China.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's significant.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The Vandenberg Air Force Base the New Jersey there by,
the base I don't recall the name of but that
stuff's great.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But then I was watching the news I think it
was could have been last night, and Aaron Katirsky in
his sonorous.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Voice, saying, and now drone sightings have been reported in
a dozen Northeastern states. I'm like, yet, it's not that
people are like that there are things in the air.
We know there are things in the air. Do we
have drones massing over a critical nevermind?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, all the denials bother me and we'll get to
that a little bit later. As freaking waste of skin.
DHS Secretary of Mariorcus was on one of the shows yesterday,
and that is he should be skinned for the use
of others. As usual, I've got nothing to say, but
I'd like to assure you there's nothing to worry about.
And blah blah blah. Most of the drones are airplanes. Okay,
(03:57):
I get that. Since the own story got hot, now
everybody's calling in every airplane they see as a drone. Yes,
but what about the original drones that everybody seems to
think we're drones? How about we talk about those like
grown ups and said exactly, most of the reports are planes.
That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic. Right, Hey, hey,
(04:20):
what about the ones.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That aren't huh yeah, well most of them are planes, Yeah,
but what about the ones that aren't right?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right? Which is something that's going on? I think, I well,
I don't know that I know. But Josh Rogan put
out an interesting retweet that I was reading in the
middle of the night. Would you like to hear that now?
I want to read all the details. I'll do that
later because it's a pretty long thread, but it's pretty interesting.
It's a guy from some agency that or a corporation
that made these kind of drones, and he lays out
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while he doesn't know that that's what this is, he's
pretty sure that what it is it's a drone sweep
of areas to see if they can detect dirty bomb.
And he suspects that it's a test of our capability
around ports and any sort of populated area or government
installation or whatever to detect a dirty bomb. He thinks
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it's both a psyops program psychological operation to see how
the public would react to all these drones showing up
somewhere all of a sudden, which they need to do
if there's a suspicion that you know, they get some
intel that Orion wants to get a dirty bomb into
the Port of San Diego or whatever, and so you
send over all of our drones that can pick this
information up. There will that freaked people out. And so
(05:36):
it's a combination syops and testing out our dirty bomb
sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct, but
that would explain it. That could be the thing. That
sort of thing could be the thing. Yet, that sort
of thing, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I interacted with a number of folks over the weekend,
both during my Jay Gatsby like social life as we
had holiday gatherings and on the golf course, and one
thing that was agreed widely was that the answer is,
we don't know what it is, but everything's fine. Indicates
(06:12):
something classified, right, something YEA know that they can't talk about.
But no, it's not killer drones come for you, your children.
It's fine. It's our stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, that's why that dirty bomb thing that Josh Rogan,
who we really like from the Washington Post, he retweeted
that because he obviously thinks it's significant. That's why that
would fit that people at certain levels know it's nothing
to worry about, and it's a good thing. It's a
good thing that we have this technology.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But we just one other suggestion I've heard that that
seemed very reasonable was some sort of test of drone vulnerability,
drone tracking equipment, that sort of thing. There's only one
way to do it. Team A flies drones, Team B
keeps an eye on them. Then you see if teammate
can elude Team B. It's a classic military training exercise.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So it's interesting you mentioned your Jay Gatsby like social life.
I remember before I had children and Gladys, could you
play the harp last week? Last week, Gladys, we don't
know if we're bringing you back in twenty five? Contract
was honey, wow? Contract? Huh, I don't know if God's
bringing her back in twenty five. Oh wow. I remember
(07:16):
when I had a Jay Gatsby like social life before
I had children, and you get close to Christmas, it'd
just be all kinds of different gatherings and parties and
stuff like that, and it was just running around. I'd
be so exhausted from the fun and oh man, this
is almost work. I had one of the most annoying
weekends of my life just running kids around running errands
in the traffic of this time of year. I mean,
(07:37):
it's first word world problems, annoying. It's not Ukraine or Syria,
but just everything was a hassle. Nothing was enjoyable. And
I thought, there's got to be a better way to
do the Christmas season than this. There's just got to be.
It was miserable. Everything is difficult this time of year.
The slightest errand is difficult because you can't park there,
(07:59):
There's a long line. It's just everything's insane.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it does have more of a final exams field
than a joyous celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Right. I thought, what am I doing wrong? How do
I get my head straight on this? Because I'd hear
Christmas week it's the most wonderful time. And I'm in
line and just found a bread. Just go home, you mother. God.
We were at a kia ikia. I wanted to just
I wanted to do the TikTok prank and climb behind
(08:29):
some of the furniture and sleep there. I was just
we couldn't get find our way out. The lines were
so long, it was so crowded, the parking, the traffic
in a kill me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yes, Michael you can live on the Swedish meatballs exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I was just so annoying, and I thought, I've got
to find some joy in this, or at least neutral
in this, because I'm so angry. Kids were angry, the
other customers were angry. It was just lots of anger.
Woh how angry setting fire to Santa's beard? Angry or
the only angel and I got out of Ikea that
drove my kids crazy was using some sort of fake
(09:04):
Swedish word for everything we were looking. We had come
around the corner. Oh, look the lampenfergens and there's the
couch and cold concern. Well, as long as you annoyed
the boys, it was worth it. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We do that, Jack, There's a good chance that a
lot of your fellow shoppers were Republicans. Psychologists have studied
how spending habits are affected by election results.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'll be darned. Uh, that doesn't surprise me. Actually, I'm
Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
December sixteenth, year, twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and
getting we approve of this program. Let's leap into action.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, ho ho
hauling our way through the show at mark.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. Some
are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. It
is our job to be vigilant in the federal government,
with our state and local partners on behalf of the
American public, and we can assure their safety by reason
of that vigilance.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Did Biden find that lame ow by the roadside and
take pity.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
On him or something? How did he ascend to the
any level? Much less the level is that that was
Mayorchis the DHS secretary, sounding the same way about drones
as he sounded about the border. He is the ultimate bureaucrat.
He could rise to the top of any sort of bureaucracy,
giant healthcare or state government or anything. It just we
(10:30):
are on top of this. We have all the functions
in place, we have the matrixes lined up, and all
the results are going to just he says nothing. He
kills a couple of minutes. Oh, I hate you so much,
donate your organs before you die, and then we'll start
taking them now. And then you need to recede away
from a waste of exactly a waste of skin. Burn victims,
(10:50):
those who have been lacerated can better use his skin.
Can you imagine you're running some sort of enterprise and
you got ten people in a room and he's the
best of them. Interview I would fire my recruiting firm.
So that was may Orcus on ABC this week. Right
after him Stephanopolis, who just got sued by Trump and
Trump won. More on that later. Chris Christie, former governor
(11:12):
of New Jersey, who's seeing drones all over the place,
said may Orcus is full of crap. So I thought
that was really good. We'll get to that later. How
does mailbag look strong? Good start to the week? Tell
us to see a drome? You were to textas four one, five,
two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm glad it's a slow newsday because it allows us
to do a number of things that it might not
made to cut otherwise from my list, including over the weekend,
I came across this site that has compiled it's bad news,
but it's funny. All the fraudsters that were able to
get PP money PPP money during the COVID giveaway where
(12:00):
we just shoveled trillions of dollars out the door, and
the way different people applied and actually got tens of
thousands of dollars in chunks all across America to the
tune of billions of dollars. It's actually pretty funny how
little effort they put into it. It almost makes me
wish I'd done.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It, and given the way all that crap fed inflation,
this is definitely laughing to keep from crying.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, but yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And we have a list of some of the folks
that Joe Biden granted clemency to. That list of fifteen
hundred people have finally gotten a chance to take a
look at and assess and it's revealing and strange and
utterly inappropriate. But what are you gonna do. He's the
president for now. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Excuse me, I love this. Michael and Haystack, Nebraska sent
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this along.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Is that real? Is that really a place in Nebraska?
I don't know. Is that like Jeff and Hoggs Nipple Tennis?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It might be, yeah, but it's from Churchill and I
absolutely love it on the idea of presentism straight up.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Out of orwell as well as Churchill.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past,
it will lose the future. Ooh, presentism is pathetic.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Adolescent egomania. It's easy.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh my gosh, it's so transparently self serving.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I'm like a way better person than Link. It was
because I believe this.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh okay, good lord, since it's insulting to everyone's intelligence mailbag?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Who Brian from Houston? What if the.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Drones are being controlled by clowns at the edge of
the woods, right, getcha? Oh, this is out of order, guys.
The oh this is Anna Louise and La Mesa California. Right, say, guys,
the drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like
the Salem Witch Trials. Maybe everyone needs to read or
(14:01):
watch Arthur Miller's The Crucible and calm the hell down.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, funny you said that. That's what I said on
Thursday or Friday, that mass hysteria thing. But the difference
is there were no actual witches. There are actual drones.
I think that started this whole thing, right.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It reminds me of the murder investigation where you know,
somebody killed somebody, and the guys out there and then
the public because for whatever reason, floods the authorities with
fifteen thousand tips.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's not helping.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Barry from Thailand Rights wishing you and your staff and
all the listeners are very merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Never gets old here listening to American Christmas music in
the shopping centers malls. Oh boy, then I can't do
that joke, A funny joke about anam and e even
apparently his state of sexual readiness.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But again, what I'm telling you, I'm walking around the Ikea,
the best Buy Christmas music is playing about it's a
jing jingjingle. I'm looking around and there's not a smile
on anybody's face anywhere. Are we all doing this wrong?
Or what is going on? Wait?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
At some point you think people will begin to associate
that music with being grim and angry.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Our stress just a endless list of unpleasant tasks.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Right, yeah, but thank you for the note, Barry. Moving along,
here's something from John. I'm watching Sunday night football commercial
comes on. It's well meaning, I'm only Hamiman after all, Jesus.
It takes all of us, et cetera. Many clips of
people arguing and fighting over whatever. I assume you've seen it.
I actually have. Yeah, I'm tired. I think the biggest
problem in our society is that everyone thinks what they
(15:42):
think is important. Get over yourself. You're not the most
important person in the world. You're important to yourself, your
family and friends. The rest of the world doesn't give
two poops.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What you think. A little more humility would help all
of us.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, there's truth to that. The ability to have your
words seen by the world online, no matter how inane,
is an interesting development mankind.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's never existed before.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
How about this Ryan from Houston, Jack Joe, I know
you have personal Jahad's mine is to get the world
to treat the Time magazine Person of the Year the
same as the MTV movie Award winner.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
For Best fight Scene aka not at all.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Nobody thinks about Time three hundred and sixty four days
a year, So why give the hind end of a
rat when they tweet out a picture.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Of a magazine. I don't think most people do. It's
immediate armstrongation.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Now if Armstrong you GETTI are declared the Time Magazine
Person of the year long overdue. Then my comments are
null and void, and then he makes some uh Christmas
song suggestions. Oh you know, I don't think we have
time for this, and it's a shame, but it's a
note from Julie. I want to get back to about
(16:54):
the disappearance of the Coexist Coexist bumper sticker that we
use to mock and why that might be significant.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Really thought provoking. Interesting. Yeah, speaking of coexisting, check in
on Siria, which has a lot of interesting stories going on,
and I hope those people can keep their smiles on
their faces. They're smiling more this weekend than I was
a lot other news to get to, so stay with us,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
After police arrest and suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangioni, they
found a note on him expressing anger at Corporate America.
Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then
was caught at McDonald's, So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, that numb nuts is view of the world is
just well, not as smart as he thought he was.
Maybe more on that later.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, surprise, we don't have a name for that sort
of person, although it is I'm smarter and better than everyone.
Therefore judgment as ironclad. Therefore I may do anything to
execute my plan for society, including murdering someone in cold blood,
and I will be justified.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Biggest football news of yesterday Patrick Mahomes leaving the game
at the end hurt and saying he might not play
next week and complaining about the NFL making him play
three games and eleven days over the Christmas break because
of the scheduling, working out, wanting to play the Black
Friday game and fitting and thanks all the different stuff. Oh,
(18:32):
that's a hell of a lot of this. That's what
he's saying. Your body can't take that, and now he's hurt.
So AnyWho, here's your end of the year's stat of
the hour, because we'll have a lot of end of
the year stats for you this week. How big of
an industry is the video game industry? Total worldwide revenues
(18:53):
for video games seven times that of recorded music. That
is amazing. Now, part of that might be you can
get recorded music for fourteen dollars of subscription and you
can't do that with video games. But uh yeah, I
was gonna say you can't.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, you can get obviously, you know this, but it's
a subscription model for video games. I still picture you
go down to GameStop, you buy a thing, you plug
it in your computer, You're done.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But now it's all subscriptions.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I was just going to ask, does that include the
revenue to music streaming services?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I actually don't know that Spotify, Apple, et cetera. Yeah,
I'd be curious to know. Probably a lot of kids
are going to be getting video games for Christmas this year.
And one other economic note, as President she and China,
because they're facing some serious economic problems, gave a speech
the other day where he said people are going to
have to learn to eat bitterness. Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You pair that with the what's our famous tape Michael
of the drone there during COVID suspend your soul's desire
for freedom or whatever, tell your soul to shut the
hell up. Yeah, So now I got to learn to
eat bitterness on top of starting to wonder about this
system of yours Winnie Winnie the Pooh. So our economy
is better than China's. Definitely, Oh they I'm I've been
(20:07):
banging this drum for a long time. I remember I'm
old enough to remember the great the journalists for whatever reason,
they getting a herd and they charge like panicking wildebeests.
But during the eighties, whenever, it was in the nineties,
how Japan and the Japanese system and they were going
to rule the world, and they were far superior to
the United States. And then Japan collapsed and entered a
thirty year period of economic Melee's well, it's very similar
(20:31):
to the whole Tom Friedman falling in love with the
communist Chinese and their spectacular efficiency and their bullet trains,
and look how quickly they can build the development.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
They have horrific problems.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
They have built this giant hollow economy of overproduction and
over capacity and manufacturing, and it's.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All about to go. Kirt blewey, trust me, you don't
want to be a communist. I can show your soul's
desire for freedom. Oh thanks for that. Now, eat bitterness,
yum yum.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Hey kids, it's bitterness for dinner tonight. On the other hand,
we have something like a democracy here, Jack, and we
have elections from time to time, and sometimes the way
they come out has some interesting after effects. For instance,
scientists are quite confident when your side, when's the election,
you feel more positive in general, more positive about the
(21:25):
economy specifically, and the winning side spends more aggressively.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That is obvious. Never thought about it before, but of
course you would. Obviously you would feel better about things.
Your vision of the way the country ought to be
run is going to happen as opposed to one that
you think is bad news. Yeah, yeah, I wish.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'd learned this earlier because how crazy competitive as a
young person. But when you win, you get a surge
of testosterone and you feel like you're on top of
the world. It makes you bold, it makes you confident,
it makes you happy, it makes you want to have
friends and shake hands. And when you lose, you have
a drop in testosterone and it makes you feel very
(22:08):
you know, kind of weird and closed off and pissed
off and the rest of it. And it's not just
the pride of it or whatever. It causes serious hormonal
changes in your body. And it makes sense that if
you win a benk of election, you're charged up and.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah oooo, this is let's get that boat, honey. This
is somewhat different because when the Kansas City Chiefs win,
while I have those physiological responses that you just described,
I don't have the addition of and because the chiefs won,
I'm more optimistic about my stocks like I am when
(22:42):
the Republicans are in charge.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, indeed, so I thought this was funny. Republicans' views
on the future of their finances and the economy jumped
about forty five points to one oh five point nine.
As if anybody knows what this scale is.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The eagle ninety eagle playing six and as you drive
to work.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right, stop it from the University of Michigan surveys
and consumers compared to with October, so up forty five
points to one oh five. So that would be roughly,
you know, fifty percent before the presidential election. Democrats outlook
fell by the same amount, about forty nine percent, based
on data released earlier this month. The surveys first to
exclusively measure post elections sentiment.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
HM, So you're not spending as much for Christmas because
the country elected Hitler. That makes sense, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You know what's not about that is from a purely
objective point of view, which I am able to achieve.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's bonkers. If you are on the government.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Dole, it's not going to change because Republicans can't cut
benefits apparently anymore. It's not a big enough priority. You
lose too many votes, and then huge numbers of Democrats. Actually, well,
at least a significant majority of Americans believe Trump would
handle the economy better. So why in the world, as
(24:00):
a Democrat would you be much more negative about your
economic prospects?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Doesn't make any sense. I don't know, but I know
I personally know people who are beside themselves with grief still, so.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, well, get over it, grow up. You know what
it could be the percentage of.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
People who believe the utter horse.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Crap that the Trump tax cuts, which are probably going
to be made permanent next year, perhaps with a tweak
or two, but not many. They believe that garbage, that
that was just for millionaires and billionaires, when it was
mostly for the middle class percentage wise, really rich people
gained well because they pay way, way, way more taxes
(24:44):
than the middle class, but it was mostly a middle
class tax cut. I wonder if they just they believe
the worst rhetoric of their their ideological brethren.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Did you see the guest essay in the New York
Times over the weekend about China. It was from some
think tank guy. I don't remember his name. I didn't
know his name, but he's one of your think tank
economic geniuses who really thinks Trump is on the right
track with the tariff thing and taken on China, and
that China's just just needs a little shove over the
edge to like really be destroyed. But it's going to
(25:14):
be painful for us for a while. But he thinks
that it's pain Trump is willing to take a hit
to his political capital, and that it will ultimately benefit
the United States. I hope he's right. Yeah, I missed that.
I would love to read it. It's interesting to take
a look. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah. Judging by everything I've been reading about it, there's
a lot of truth to that they are fragile, and
that was in the New York stas. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. More stabbings and runnings, over hundreds of them
that are little reported and we don't hear about in
the United States, but lots of signs of anger and discontent. Anyway,
(25:49):
one more thing on the whole election.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Delio.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I thought this was interesting. Nearly a quarter of people
looking to buy their first house we're asked last September
about their you know, their their plans and priorities, and
nearly a quarter of them said we're gonna wait until
after the votes are in.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Interesting, I would never think that. I wouldn't either. I
was looking at a house and it never crossed my
mind that maybe I should wait until after the election. Huh. Yeah,
that's funny.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've bought and sold more houses than any three normal
people combined. And and I'm really really into politics. But
that I wouldn't even think about that unless somebody had
proposed some sort of specific policy. But I don't recall
that happening anyway. It's true country to country. Uh, just
an interesting effect of politics.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well, since we were beating up on China and the
trouble that they're in, how about some positive news for China.
That's just true China's car production share in the world
for the global car production. I wish this chart went
back to like the fifties and sixties. I got to
believe the United States was like practice all of them.
It was like eighty five percent of cars on earth
(27:04):
were made in Detroit, the United States. This is going
back to two thousand. The United States has gone from
about thirteen percent of the population of the all the
cars in the world to three percent, So we've dropped
from about thirteen to three. Japan has gone down, Europe
has gone down a lot. China has gone from one
(27:24):
percent at the start of the century to forty percent. Wow,
of the worldwide car production or car sold. Isn't that amazing?
It's stunning.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
That is something A lot of it is, you know,
from a capitalist point of view, artificial propping up of
their industry and subsidizing it by the government and just
crazy manufacturing for foreign markets, exports, consumer spending is really
lagging in China.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But yeah, that's it's amazing. So we can get into
the details a bit later. But George Stephanopolis, he didn't
pay it himself. ABC paid it, but got hit for
was it fifteen million dollars for continually saying and I
remember that episode of ABC this Week where he kept
referring to Trump as a convicted rapist after that trial
(28:18):
and Trump was not convicted of rape, but Stephanopolis said
it multiple times and Trump sued, and now ABC is
paying fifteen million dollars and Stephanopolis had to offer up
an ABC A Weasley apology. But that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Speaking of the after effects of elections and ratings and
money wholly crap some of the recent numbers from MSNBC
and CNN. How are they keeping the lights on? How
are they paying their halfwits were on that to come?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And will they ever recover? Probably not not.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
If there is a God, God probably doesn't concern himself
with cable news.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
He probably hates it. My son's birthday is a week
from today, then Christmas is a week in two days
from today. I have many things I haven't finished yet.
I'm feeling tremendous pressure. My wife's birthdays in three days.
I'd like to have a word with their parents, God
rest their souls. Stop having children in December. Well, it's
(29:19):
inconvenient for the rest of us. You gotta think ahead.
We should have thought ahead. I don't know what happened
to it. It's just, yeah, it is incredibly inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We start feeling randy in March. You put it off,
all right? Did you take a cold shower? As they
used to say, does that work? He ever actually done that.
You're really wanting sex and you take a cold jower,
it would do the trick. I think maybe being in
anguish in general, punch yourself in the face that works too.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
We've got Gid's headlines on the way next, first snow,
but the children he had a snow brain, permanent brain
freeze never went away. Frosty, who's a moron? Silk hat
a nice enough. I keep seeing minding loyal friends, listen
(30:08):
to you. I keep seeing the headlines from the left
on how the Trump sues Stephanopolis and wins is going
to have a chilling effect on news media coverage for
the presidency. Well, or you can't call somebody who's a
rapist who's not a rapist, or that's it.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's the sum total of it, all right, Yeah, get
your fat straight jack.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Well about like it's serious. That's not like a minor fact.
Either am I a convicted rapist or not? Oh I'm not? Well,
then stop saying I am yi.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the there's more to that story, and
it's it's pretty interesting. We've got a bunch of media
stories today, among other things. But first let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green
Katie Well, speaking of ABC, let's start there.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Feds are urged to deploy high tech drone hunter to
solve mystery behind sightings yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So, I mean you got Trump calling for him to
be shot down. Chris Christie said yesterday, we need to
bring one of these down and figure out what they are.
Former governor of Maryland over the weekend said the same thing.
At some point, if it's a government operation that they're
kind of keeping secret, don't they have to say, hey,
before you start shooting these things down and somebody gets
(31:25):
hurt or we lose millions of dollars, maybe we should
let you know. And this is on purpose and nothing
to be afraid of.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm going to quote a great American who said this
after a couple of eggnogs Friday night. Every red blooded
American patriot must train their guns on the sky and
be ready to do what must be done.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Across the untation. Yeah. The problem with that is you're
going to be shooting down planes. Yeh, please don't do that.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
From Newsweek, Luigi Menjona pictures met with cheers at Boston concert.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
They were playing some Miley Cyrus song and apparently the
DJ put a bunch of pictures up on the screen
behind him and everybody just went nuts.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The decision to put the picks up is weird and
then the crowd cheering. Wow, it's just a dopey internet age.
I can say anything.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Everybody's anonymous, and you've got to go way over the
top to convey how you feel. Well, it's all those
things coming together and how.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Much of it is, Like Chris Rock said on Saturday
Night Live, because he's hot. Chris Rock said, if this
guy looked like Jonah Hill, we'd already executed him. From
the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually a
notorious ASSAD regime torturer.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I saw this. He is one of the best known,
like legend around the country torturers that worked for ASSAD
and somehow when they are escaping from the prison, they
threw him in a cell and locked him in there
and got out. But he's the guy that was freed
by Clarsa Ward the other day. Wow. Yeah, she's a
terrific reporter. Yeah it's not her fault. No, But nice
(33:04):
job CNN. Actually perfect if you think about it. From
Fox News.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Cleanup underway after rare tornado hits Scott's Valley, California.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, in my real life I heard a lot about this.
There are a lot of people saying no way. A
tornado hit. Yeah, it actually hit the ground and flipping
cars and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, thank god, nobody's
hurt any more than they.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Were from the Free Beacon. New York Times puts menstrual
products in men's bathrooms to quote support transgender and non
binary colleague, do you gotta be kidding at the New
York Times?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
At the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I'm telling you, while in the same parts of the country,
all of this stuff that DEI, the gender betting madness
is on the back foot in your progressive organizations.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's growing from NBC meme.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Coins like fart coin are writing Trump's victory to huge valuations,
and experts say it's only just begun.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And we're both just shaking our heads the idea. Yeah,
oh of course they are. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I get the idea of of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and
stuff like that is a form of payment outside the
government system. I get that completely, But right now it's
just wild speculation. You launch these coins fark coin, for instance,
and it goes up as people are thinking, all right,
when does the bubble burst? When are the sucker is
gonna get out? I'm gonna get out now. And they
(34:37):
make their money. Then those poor suckers who get in.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
At the end they lose their shirts.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
And finally the Babylon b Joe Biden Pardon's wife Jill
for impersonating a doctor.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
God dang it, and you had another cryptocurrency that I got.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Uh yeah, I gotta get in, No Sloan, stay the race, Jack,
slow and steady. Stick with your IBM stock, your GM
stock and American steel.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
How's that doing. I haven't checked lately, Us Steele, I
don't know. We'll catch you up on the news, That's
what we'll do an hour two, three and four. I
got like an amazing culture war story. I can't wait
to get to later and see all your responses on that.
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