January 5, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features:
- We're back, weight gain over break & New Year's resolutions
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- The NFL & Maduro capture
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jettie
and now he is Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
My half drunk coffee from two weeks ago is still
sitting here a ship.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh no, should I drink that or probably know for it?
Probably not? I don't know. Are you plussy live? We're
back from Studio Sea. This stuff still work, Say saint.
You're a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey y'all today, starting the brand new year, getting back
to real life. We're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Usually it's Armstrong and Getty, tanned, rested and ready. But
I gotta go with Nicholas Maduro?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who dad? You know? And you know all of the
news at all, You know who that is.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But how many of the eighty million people that voted
for Donald Trump could have told you who either the
president of Nicaragua was or who Nicholas Maduro was when
they went and cast a vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Throw it in Nicaragua's or Venezuela. Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I Venezuela. So many countries. Oh a small, small percentage. Yeah,
I'd be surprised it was one percent, but here we
are ladies him. Anyway, we will, we will be talking
about that. I am so excited about getting back to
regular life. I don't know if it's because I'm getting
older or what, but I am happy to get back
to the regular routine, going to the same place, and
(01:40):
the kids are going to school and not eating at restaurants,
and just the regular life returning today.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
How yeah, interesting, I had a routine. I had a
very low key vacation, and so I don't feel that relief,
but I remember what it feels like, the travel and
the eating out and the kind of inventing your day,
every day thing. Yeah yeah, And you know, kid activities,
which are glorious and wonderful. I'll miss them when they're gone,
but incredibly tiring, incredibly tiring. I know, I've said I
(02:13):
remember when my kids were of the launching age that
I realized that while I love these people more than
I can possibly describe, I'm about at the point where
I've had.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Enough of them. So this is God's plan, and it
is a wise one. Yeah, I want to talk about
that later.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We did what we call cousin Christmas, where everybody gets
together in Kansas and extended family and my brothers and
new kids and stuff like that. And he had a
different groups. You had finish college out in the world
dealing with real life and actual bosses and that sort
of stuff. You got people still in college trying to
figure out what to do with their life. And then
you got my kids who are teenagers frightened to death
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of what they keep hearing about.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The changing world and everything like that. Oh, I'm sorry
to hear that. It is got to be.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There's no way you could make the claim that it's
the same now as it always has been for kids
going out into the world and trying to make a
living and whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
If you went back, you wouldn't have to go back
that many years, and a lot of kids were gonna
go out and do the same thing their dad did. Probably, Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, it's funny. I think it's a bit
of a complex thought. But we're starting to get used
to this just unbelievably quick pace of change. Everything changes,
then changes again, then changes again, and so.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We forget how crazy that is.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean, like you said, when was it that kids
who often would grow up and do what their dad did?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What forty years ago? Forty years ago? Is nothing right? Right?
Any who?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Looking forward to getting back to it in my regular life.
And how did you do scale wise over the two
weeks off?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh, well, that depends on what the goal was.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
If the goal was to get a blue ribbon hung
around my neck at the state fair, I did great.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Michael outed you up. I think I did. Okay, I
said about the same. Oh, you don't get on the scale. Okay,
you got the diabetes. That's true. That's I did have
a bad meal or two though, or Tom just trying
to get diabetes? Kid?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Lord?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He bought five solid pounds, by the way, is the answer?
Five solid pounds since the day before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah? Wow? Up? Five since Thanksgiving? It was six yesterday.
Nice work. I had a good day yesterday. I got
after it. All I know is this.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So we're all sitting around in this big room going
through New Year's resolutions everybody's making. And I think I
went last anyway, and I said, my new Year's resolution
is to no desserts in twenty six and everybody threw
back their heads and laughter. Immediately, I'd say, if everybody
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reacts to your new Year's resolution with oh my.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
God, that was funny. Okay, now tell us what your
real new Year's resolution is, that you've got a problem.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's like if I stood up and said no more
yelling about communists, everybody even think why?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, why idiot? I just I'm trying to think. What
what situation would you ever have where people laugh at
your new Year's resolution?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh my gosh, that is I've never heard of that.
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I know if anybody says I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Gonna try to quit smoking, or you know, I'm gonna
work before my drop a right, yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm gonna try to you know, quit drugs. Finally I'm
going to be a better husband than my wife. Right right.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was mocked roundly for that's stuff that's not right,
which I think has only given me strength.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh, it's strengthened your resolve, I think.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes, first they laughed at you, then they kicked you
or something.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't remember the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't remember the rest of the saying either, but
right well, I'm don't have five days in and I've
done it. Yes, Mike, this is what we ate more
laughter and shaming, Yes, shaming and shaming. Wait became so ugly.
We went out to eat at Cracker Barrel. We loved
the Cracker Barrel, had a delicious meal, but I had
the apples, the spiced apples, and then Jip were jumping
on me. That's apple by filling. That's clearly a dessert.
(06:16):
I said, it's a fruit cup. And it just got
ugly very quickly. Wow, wow, now we're splitting hairs or apples.
I know I am often often in years past I
should say I've said, yeah, I'm not really that into
new Year's resolutions. I'm kind of the mind that when
you decide it's time, it's time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No matter what time.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I actually maybe it was because having two weeks off
and a lot of quiet time, I just I reappraised,
you know, a lot of things, and was thinking, all right,
let's start the new year. And I actually have new
Year's resolution. But I, hey, Katie, are you available?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You didn't decide you feel like a woman? Do you? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Some days I do a little bit, yeah, but not
enough to make the change.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Katie, did you decide on a New Year's.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So, sir, No, I decided that I've got so much
change headed my way that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I having a baby, yeah baby and raise it. Yeah. Yeah,
Now that's a resolution. If you all throw back your
heads and laughter, we have a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
My My brother's big on the New Year's same me.
That's what he says every New Year. But what is
your That's that's like a two decade resolution kids made?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
No kidding? Yeah, how about you, Michael? Did you make
a resolution specifically?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Better time management and organization? O good one.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, executive function. I was gonna I was
thinking that's one of mine to try to do better
with my executive function, which is kind of baked in
a little bit with human beings.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But I'm gonna work on.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
How do you find that I've heard the term that's
the hot new term for just floundering, flounder, give it
a fancy name. Yeah, exactly, feel better about it. But
it tends to go with personality types. It's not it's
and I think knowing that helps. In fact, doctor was
talking about that recently with one of my children. It's
if you know that it's it's actually a thing. Some
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people are better at this, some people are that some
people are better at executive function. Once you know you're
not good at it, then you have to come up
with workarounds. And my doctor talks about his daughter who
just graduated from medical school, but all the workarounds she
had to come up with her executive function because she
just was not good at you know, getting the form
signed or remembering this or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, two thoughts. Number one quit f and up was
the old way to put it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But now it has a fancy name, so that's not
But secondly, I've been saying that for years. You probably
remember this if you realize you're an idiot. The key
is not to like wish you're not an idiot. The
key is to come up with ways to compensate for it.
I'm a big believer in that I can leave everything
important to me in the most bizarre places, you know,
car keys, wallet, glasses, whatever, And so I've just I've
(08:51):
tried to always, always, always leave everything in exactly the
same place.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That's what I must do before it's a work around.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Before we get to our opening clip, are you going
to share any of your major change thoughts? My new
Year's resolution is read and write. I am going to
read books and I am going to get back to writing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Both the the prose and music. That's a great one.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And and Jack, I know this will resolute resonate with you.
I dug into the AI of various AI bots to
do a little counseling work and I told it, and
you know, I probably ought to read it at some point,
maybe for a podcast one of these days. I said,
I'm not writing music for like the first time in
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my life. I've got this feeling of why bother? And
and blah blah blah, you know, what do you think?
And it unleashed the most amazing and and apropos thoughts.
And oh I also said, what is good psychologically and
neurologically about writing and recording music? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Wow, to give you a reason to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Oh? But and it but you know, the the like
emotional stuff was every bit as powerful as a psychological
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I didn't know that. Oh it was.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
It was.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It was like you sat down with the wisest human
that's ever walked the earth and they put their arm
around you and gave you an hour of their time.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And it'll take everybody's jobs and ruin the world, But
for now, it's a pretty good tool.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We will have to talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's a good one if your New year's resolution was
don't have you know paratroopers drop into your bedroom and
snatch you up the bad news. Let's start the show officially, Romster,
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It is Monday, Back to Life, January fifthy year twenty
twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We are armstrong in getting we approve this group.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, let's leap into action for twenty twenty six precisely
according the FCC rules or eggs at mark.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
We're going to run the country until such time as
we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So
we don't want to be involved with having somebody else
get in. And we have the same situation that we
had for the last long period of years. So we
are going to run the country until such time as
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we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And
it has to be judicious, because that's what we're all about.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I know, that's what I'm holl mister judicious. They call me.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
That is one of the heavier sentences in a long time.
If you're old enough to remember a whole bunch of
other situations. We are going to run the country. Holy crap,
What does that mean? What does that entail?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
How long? And what have.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
These subsequent statements? How have they colored that statement in
a very odd and interesting way?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And is there a country?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
If I just saw up on Fox just now it
said what countries may be next? What Marco Rubio on
the talk shows yesterday saying if I was the president
of Cuba, I'd be nervous.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What are we going to take over? A whole bunch
of countries? Run them all?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Washington poster is referring to Marco Rubio as the Viceroy
of Venezuela. Anyway, we're gonna talk to Mike Leines about
this from a military standpoint. A little bit later, we
got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
How y'all doing.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We are back live and very excited to talk about
all kinds of different stuff. I want to talk about
some of the vacationing I did and things I learned
and saw, including the World War Two Museum in New Orleans,
which was fantastic. Oh I've heard that, Yeah, yeah, you know,
our very brief discussion of the Meadua thing in the
last segment. The one thing we left out was the
absolutely hilarious, hilarious protestations on the left. So I can't
(12:48):
wait to talk about that. But first let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Graeme.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Katie Alrighty's starting with the alphabet news stations CNN erupt
worldwide against US operation in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
ABC.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Trump says, quote, We're in charge of Venezuela and claims
VP Rodriguez is cooperating, and NBC US allies and foes
fear Maduro's capture sets precedent for more American intervention.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now, the latest polling I saw yesterday afternoon, I think
on CNN about two thirds of American support the operation.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Now we all, you know, a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Of those people are barely paying attention, but just in general,
about two thirds are are fine with it. Well, and
I heard I think it was sixty eight percent of
Independence say yeah, it's fine, he's a drug lord.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Great.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
From the New York Times, Tim Walls to drop bid
for third term and Amy Klobasjar may run instead.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, this is breaking news.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And we'll talk about this more, probably later in the week,
because we got all this other big international news going on.
But that Minnesota thing has turned out to be way bigger.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Oh yeah, then we know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I remember we had that breaking news on the Friday
before we left that it wasn't just a.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Billion dollars, it was many, many, many, many billions dollars.
And now Walls is not going to run again.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And the significance of it, I think the greater significance
is that it's it's not unique, really, it's just an
especially easy to understand and huge, egregious, sharp focus example
of what's wrong with all these systems.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think it could actually end up being a good thing.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
From The Washington post Man in custody after windows broken
at JD Vance's.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Home, end Boy from the Wall Street.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Journal, hospitals are approving ground for what AI can do
and what it can't.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'd like to hear that part of a multifaceted AI
update I have ready for later.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Pool from CBS, Subway and bus fares rise to three
dollars in New York City.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, a lot of things kicked in at the first
of the year around country.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I mean, we'll hit. A list of those later.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And those of us who are rooting for mamdannie to
be an unmitigated disaster.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
A lot of positive signs stay with us. From the
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Loose monkey caught in Tennessee after rampaging through music shop
and destroying guitars.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Wow, Wow, bad monkey, bad bad monkey.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So much wild as so many monkeys loosen the South. Yeah,
what's going on? Live Team cover? Looks like that with us.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Looks like our national monkey problem is gonna continue into twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Six right.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Study fines phone calls, even hands free can slow driving reactions?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well, okay, then does that mean conversations in the car?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Slow driver reactions? Also?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I think really, anything that detracts from your attention does.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
It's like I turn the music down when I'm parking.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I still don't know why I do that, but I do.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, I think everybody everybody does. I remember my dad
as a kid, were pulling into a big city. You
have to turn the music down. He got pay attention. Then, yeah, yeah,
I think that's that's indicative of something.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Democrats confused why Venezuelan's cheering
downfall of nice warm collectivists.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, that's the quote from Mondami Mundami move to commie Mundami. Uh,
if you haven't heard his inauguration speech, we got to
talk about that. That got a lot of attention over there. Yeah,
oh as well it should.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, no kidding. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Orwell is going to rise from the grave like something
out of a Halloween movie and start swinging his acts.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Does Orwell have an axe? I don't know why would
he have an axe. He's not known for his acts.
I don't know what you're talking about. Gotta get one
armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Tyler.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
He knows a.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Chance to win the division for the Ravens the final
playoff the regular season for the final spot in the playoffs,
Tyler look from forty four.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
To the North.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
That was something. Man, The NFL has it going on.
I don't know how it works this way, because it
doesn't seem like it should with.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
A sport like that.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But the number of times it comes down to the
final player, the final drive is just stunning. After wild action,
you know, for the previous hour of clock time.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah great, Yeah, it's incredible. Of course, I'm not a.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Football fan, really, I don't watch the sport anymore because
I'm done with it. What happened, well, I'd rather not
talk about it. But since you've asked. Since the Mighty
Mighty Seahawks of Seattle, by the way, there's no such
thing as a Seahawks, they're clearly Osprey's anyway, since the
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Mighty Seahawks of Seattle absolutely pasted the forty nine ers
the other day. Yeah, oh forty nine in the playoffs though,
so you get a restart and you know all that
sort of.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Stuff, but you got done and done.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The last game of the entire season comes down to
when you're in, lose, you're out, and the final play
of the game.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, that's it's fuck, it's scripted. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Anyway, It's gonna be a fun playoffs with a lot
of different teams this year. I mean, I don't know
if the NFL is excited about a Houston Seattle super
Bowl if I would draw the eyeballs that they wanted.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Here's my transition. I wonder what team Nicholas Maduro's rooting for.
Speaking of Nicholas Maduro, the guy who ran Venezuela, did
I just see a picture of him with his head
and mustache shaved.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Is that what is?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It? Was floating around on Fox because he made his
first appearance in court.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I think that was him. You might hide a knife
in that thing that Hanson says that was Mickey Rourke.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, the thing is he did what all dictators do
as they get old, They dye their hair black to
look younger.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And he had a big thick mustache.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I had of hair that was dyed black, and
they shaved it all off because when you're when you're
in jail, you don't get to sport whatever look you want.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And he just now he looks like.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
A really old man with gray stubble on his head
and on his face.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You don't get support whatever look you want unless you
can claim it's part of some religion, right, and they
have to want you keep it. Yeah, you know, hey, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Catholic.
She got to come up with a signature hairstyle because
then you get to keep it in prison like the
you know, the Rastafarians and the Sikhs and whoever else.
So I was thinking about this over the weekend after
this all happened. We talked about this quite a bit.
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I don't know that I heard it anywhere else. Mark
Halprin was writing in his newsletter that we read every
single day. She's practically a year ago, that all the
buzz in Washington, d C. The only thing all the
heavy think tanks could talk about was the dividing up
of the spheres in the world between China and the
United States. That it's just become accepted that China's gonna
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get their big chunk of the world, including Taiwan.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's just gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
There's no stopping it, and we're gonna get our big
chunk of the world. And that's just the way things
are gonna be for the next century or however long.
And I thought it was interesting that it was all
the buzz in the think tanks, because I never heard
another word about it other really than what Mark Halpern
wrote in his newsletter. I think that's what we saw
over the weekend. I think I think that's what's going on.
I think Trump feels like China's gonna take Taiwan at
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some point in the world, ain't gonna be able to
stop them.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
We're gonna take control of our part of the world.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And a quote from Marco Rubio yesterday on one of
the shows, and he went on all the shows, this
is the Western Hemisphere, this is where we live. We're
not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a
base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the
United States. It's simple as that. Absolutely great policy. In
my opinion, Venezuela was a warm, welcoming port to the Chinese,
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the Iranians, the Russians who were sowing their influence there
and building a base of anti American activism.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean, take a look at the map right there
across the newly renamed Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's a giant, potentially rich country that is a base
of operations.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
For I ran in China. That's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And I don't know how I didn't know this, or
I probably heard it and forgot it. But everyone should
know that Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world,
and by quite a bit. It's amazing. How did we
not take Venezuela back in the seventies and eighties when
oil was really the most important thing in the world.
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I don't know, but heit so they're number one at that.
Here's something they're number two at. Did you know this
the number or the percentage of their population that has fled.
They're number two behind Syria. It's like a third of
their population has fled. The communists. Whole that that country
has become it's a nightmare. Now, I want to say
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this very quickly. You almost have to compartmentalize this discussion
because whatever your gripe is, and there's some legitimate gripes
about the whole thing, everybody wants to go right there
real quick. Like, for instance, a person might say, by
we're going to run the country.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What exactly do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And that's that's a perfectly legitimate discussion, which we will have.
Also the left hilarious, hypocritical protest of removing Medora coming up.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But yeah, it's it is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
A horrific human rights nightmare, war import for our adversaries
right off our our coast there.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's it's one hundred things.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It should not have been allowed to exist and now
it doesn't any or it maybe I was texting with
a buddy of mine and you know, a little a
little bit of the difficulties of the we're gonna run
the thing, and are we allowed to just go take
countries and various things like that. But how can you
not be excited for a million people in the streets
with tears in their eyes. They're so freaking happy that
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the guy has gone. And it's funny. I had the
experience of you. There is such a thing as Trump
derangement syndrome. If you your immediate reaction is is it?
This is a terrible thing when you see.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All those people crying, hugging each other.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Right, And a perfect example of So I did a
little door dash to our family gathering, and the name
of the door dash driver I didn't recognize, as like,
where is this name from?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Weird?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
So I chat gpt it and the name of the
door dash driver was Venezuelan. I said, oh cool, And
I said, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give
a twenty, give him a twenty as a tip and
say thanks, keep the regime change.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
That was gonna be my line. Oh, very droll.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Anyway, some of the younger, you know, the politics of
young college type people, said, oh, you mentioned that he's
gonna spit in your food. I no, he's not. They're
thrilled that this happened. They're not angry that this happened.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner have you heard her talking?
She's over the moon about this. Right, you lefties love
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the Nobel Peace Prize. You raise all these people up
to the highest level. She thinks this is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
How do you not get this? Yeah, I know, it's amazing.
It's it shows that.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, I want to get into this in depth, in
a little bit about how every topic, every claim, every
fake principle that they espouse is really just a way
to get power. They will state the opposite of what
they stated today tomorrow if it gets the more power.
But the Free Press with some great coverage, including Venezuelan's
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dance in the streets and ask Trump to finish the job.
And then this one Venezuelan New Yorker's to Mamdani, you're crazy,
and they talk about the well, this one gal said
of Mumdani, he's crazy. He needs to live in Venezuela
for one year. He wouldn't be saying that anymore, protesting
against getting rid of Meduro. But then they described Since Saturday,
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split screen reaction has played out in New York City,
where Venezuelans have made up the largest number of migrants
immigrants since twenty twenty two. On Saturday, dueling rallies took
over Times Square with celebratory Venezuelans dancing through the streets,
just hours after demonstrators showed up chanting hands off Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
How perfect is that? It's incredible?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
The people, you know what she lived there are having
a demonstration about happy.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
They are college.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Kids who were born here, angry on their behalf are
having their own protest.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
How perfect is this?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It is exactly like white elver educated suburbanites telling a
Hispanic peace that they need to start using the term LATINX,
even though the actual Hispanic people are like, that's a
stupid term and we're not going to use it. Yes
you should we because we're against white supremacy. As activist
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white people will tell you how to live.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Good Lord, these people are insane.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well, and there's a lot of this bouncing around the
stuff where people would talk about Trump's love of Maduro
because he likes all strong men. The tweet from Joe
Biden roughly a year ago or so. Trump talks tough
on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicholas Maduro
as president. I will stand with the Venezuelan people.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well that I had a kef care uh.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, so I'm happy that those people don't have that
guy as their dictator anymore. But if you're of a
certain age, you have seen these people with tears in
their eyes, celebrating in the street in lots of countries, oh,
all over the world when somebody gets their leader overthrown
the entire Arab Spring, Iraq, Afghanistan obviously, and yeah, so
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it doesn't always work.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Out there, you go.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Almost immediately as news of Maduro's capture began to spread online,
the Democratic Socialists of America started to organize against the
Trump administration. Of course, that's what Mundami's belonged to him
for now going on ten years. On Saturday, they released
a statement to demanding the return of Maduro and the
first Lady to power, an end of the failed War
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on drugs, and a US foreign policy centered on pace, multilateralism,
and respect for national sovereignty and self determination. They're calling
for the return of Maduro as his victims dance in
the streets. Ah, We're going to talk to Mike Lyones,
whose Twitter feed has been really interesting with all this
going on. I ended up being up in the middle
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of the night because it broke Central News time right
when I went to bed the other night, and I
couldn't get off my watching the updates.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, it had. Twitter's amazing for this sort of.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Stuff, and videos of the freaking Apache helicopters flying low
over cities, you know, as it was going on. Quite amazing.
But we'll talk about the military stuff with Mike Mike Leines.
But interesting to grab the guy's wife. That's kind of
a new thing, not just because she was there, because
she's an active participant.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
In the whole thing. Interesting in yeah, part of the
family business. I didn't know that she's an evil person too,
I'll be darn't.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
We got a mail bag on the way, just got
an extra special Freedom Living quote of the day, and
all that sort of stuff that we should definitely discuss
at length at some point, and everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
New York Times reporting the Ayatola and his friends are
ready to flee around first sign of their security forces
turning on them, so that might easily surpass Venezuela as
the biggest story in the world.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Wow, that is true. Huh.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And there are a lot of really significant protests going
on in Iran right now too.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Very it's very significant.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yes, it's been in play before, but it feels like
it's in play very briefly. I want to say I
gave short shrift to the story of Tim Waltz announcing
he would not run for reelection. I don't even know
what shrift is. I wouldn't know it if I got
poked in the eye with a handful of it, I
don't know. But anyway, that's because he's an ass clown
and a joke. He has of no significance other than
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on the receiving end of mockery.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
On the American scene. He has no significance.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The I'm a knucklehead at times, the first declaring someone
an ac of the year.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's correct. Now, there are others.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Mamdani, for instance, is a clown, but he's a different
sort of clown. He's a dangerous clown, and in city's
clown like a killer clown lurking at the edge of
the woods. But Waltz is a joke. Here is your
and this is our theme at least for the week,
maybe for a couple weeks, it's your freedom hating quote
of the day. We're gonna draw a little kung trast
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with those of us who love liberty those who are
pitching philosophies that hate liberty, and certainly if you'd like
to contribute one, you can drop us a note mail
bag at armstrong in geddy dot com your favorite quote
from the dictators and communists and socialists the history mail
bag at armstrong getday dot com. Anyway, this is a
special audio version of the freedom Hating Quote of the Day.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Michael, I'm sorry, it's clip number seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
This is the newly elected always got a winning smile
Mayor of New York zre on Mom Donne.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
We will draw this city closer together.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
If our whoa, that's the end cam.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That got so much attention in all the circles I
read in and I can't wait to talk about that
more or later. Did he choose collectivism on purpose out
of ignorance? Oh no, no, he is one of those
hyper educated, you know. Would Matt Tayebi say, I actually
kept it around. I liked it so much. We're now
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in the upper class twits promoting revolution space. Wow, he
knows exactly what he's talking about, mailbag.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I mean, you don't know why that's a big deal.
We'll talk about it. Labor collectivism is a dirty word.
I mean, it's a dirty word, and you choose that carefully.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's the real sea bomb in my mind anyway, just
because it killed hundreds of millions is why let's see
drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong in Getting
dot Com got a lot of notes like this one
from John Gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I'm an eighth grade teacher in Vegas, and after two.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Weeks off, I'm not exactly jazzed about the reality of
Monday morning. However, at least I can start the day
with an hour of Angie. Thank you for the note, John.
We've got a lot of really really nice notes like that.
Very kind of.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Y'all to pass on your good wishes. And then this from.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Molly and San Diego, who passed on the official list
of the full moons we'll be seeing.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Dear flower moon, your beaver moon, your hunter's moon, your
buck moon, your sturgeon moon, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
We got a flower moon and a beaver moon in
the same year. Very exciting. What a year? What a year.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
But haven't we all gotten hipped to the fact that
all these moon names are just what a pre scientific
society the Native American people called like the like the
March third is the worm moon? Why do you think
that's the worm They didn't because they didn't have Netflix.
They had nothing else to do but name their wacky
moons well, and they had no damn science. And so
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they say, oh, the soil is starting to melt. Look
there's a full moon, and look the worms are starting
to move. Why don't you call it the worm moon.
Then the pink moon is because the pink bob blossoms started,
and the flower moon a month later, why do you
think that might be?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Again, it's it's a scam.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's all a scam, scam, the moon scam. The socialists
are trying to drag the critical theory crowd because they
want to return to a pre Enlightenment point of view, right,
they're trying to sell us it's all.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It's like the critical race theory crap.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
You definitely are leading the charge on the angry about
named moons.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They fraud.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Let's see speaking of fraud, why is government fraud so easy?
Writes Ryan from Houston. I don't believe Democrats believe in fraud.
They just send out the money and it doesn't solve
the problem. So that's even better. They'll send out more
money next time. In other words, the point is spending
the money. Republicans go to DC to do good and
end up doing well, as the old saying goes, fighting
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fraud just slows down their personal grift as well. Ryan
from Houston, who welcome, welcomes us back to work.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
And then this this I need to squeeze in JT
and Livermore, one of many people who pointed this out.
First he wants to know how to return of the sausages,
not make clips of the year.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Wasn't that the previous year? That was the previous year's
click of the year.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
But then he points out, oh, he suggests we have
two categories for clips of the year, a zeitgeist clip
of the year and then a news clip of the
year about a changing history clip of the year.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I think that's a pretty good idea. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
But then he said, what happened to band names? Original
air names and things Jack has never done.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I forgot. That's wow.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I take partial, no, wait, full responsibility for that oversight.
I have that list from the wonderful Invaluable Mary.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
In the hoe. Maybe we can squeeze it in later.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Belatedly, Oh, we got to get that in later, maybe
fourth hour when we're like going through the motions. By
the fourth hour, we're just we're really phoning it in,
already tired. And if you don't get all the hours
of the segments, you can get through to our podcast
if you're if you're new to this whole technology armstrong
and getting on demand, that's where you find it.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
To take off.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Hour two, we're gonna talk to Mike Lyons, who's been
following the military aspecack to the whole Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Thing, and it's danged interesting, so I hope you can
join them and getty m
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jettie
and now he is Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
My half drunk coffee from two weeks ago is still
sitting here a ship.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh no, should I drink that or probably know for it?
Probably not? I don't know. Are you plussy live? We're
back from Studio Sea. This stuff still work, Say saint.
You're a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey y'all today, starting the brand new year, getting back
to real life. We're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Usually it's Armstrong and Getty, tanned, rested and ready. But
I gotta go with Nicholas Maduro?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who dad? You know? And you know all of the
news at all, You know who that is.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But how many of the eighty million people that voted
for Donald Trump could have told you who either the
president of Nicaragua was or who Nicholas Maduro was when
they went and cast a vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Throw it in Nicaragua's or Venezuela. Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I Venezuela. So many countries. Oh a small, small percentage. Yeah,
I'd be surprised it was one percent, but here we
are ladies him. Anyway, we will, we will be talking
about that. I am so excited about getting back to
regular life. I don't know if it's because I'm getting
older or what, but I am happy to get back
to the regular routine, going to the same place, and
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the kids are going to school and not eating at restaurants,
and just the regular life returning today.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
How yeah, interesting, I had a routine. I had a
very low key vacation, and so I don't feel that relief,
but I remember what it feels like, the travel and
the eating out and the kind of inventing your day,
every day thing. Yeah yeah, And you know, kid activities,
which are glorious and wonderful. I'll miss them when they're gone,
but incredibly tiring, incredibly tiring. I know, I've said I
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remember when my kids were of the launching age that
I realized that while I love these people more than
I can possibly describe, I'm about at the point where
I've had.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Enough of them. So this is God's plan, and it
is a wise one. Yeah, I want to talk about
that later.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We did what we call cousin Christmas, where everybody gets
together in Kansas and extended family and my brothers and
new kids and stuff like that. And he had a
different groups. You had finish college out in the world
dealing with real life and actual bosses and that sort
of stuff. You got people still in college trying to
figure out what to do with their life. And then
you got my kids who are teenagers frightened to death
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of what they keep hearing about.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The changing world and everything like that. Oh, I'm sorry
to hear that. It is got to be.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There's no way you could make the claim that it's
the same now as it always has been for kids
going out into the world and trying to make a
living and whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
If you went back, you wouldn't have to go back
that many years, and a lot of kids were gonna
go out and do the same thing their dad did. Probably, Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, it's funny. I think it's a bit
of a complex thought. But we're starting to get used
to this just unbelievably quick pace of change. Everything changes,
then changes again, then changes again, and so.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We forget how crazy that is.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean, like you said, when was it that kids
who often would grow up and do what their dad did?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What forty years ago? Forty years ago? Is nothing right? Right?
Any who?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Looking forward to getting back to it in my regular life.
And how did you do scale wise over the two
weeks off?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh, well, that depends on what the goal was.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
If the goal was to get a blue ribbon hung
around my neck at the state fair, I did great.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Michael outed you up. I think I did. Okay, I
said about the same. Oh, you don't get on the scale. Okay,
you got the diabetes. That's true. That's I did have
a bad meal or two though, or Tom just trying
to get diabetes? Kid?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Lord?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He bought five solid pounds, by the way, is the answer?
Five solid pounds since the day before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah? Wow? Up? Five since Thanksgiving? It was six yesterday.
Nice work. I had a good day yesterday. I got
after it. All I know is this.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So we're all sitting around in this big room going
through New Year's resolutions everybody's making. And I think I
went last anyway, and I said, my new Year's resolution
is to no desserts in twenty six and everybody threw
back their heads and laughter. Immediately, I'd say, if everybody
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reacts to your new Year's resolution with oh my.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
God, that was funny. Okay, now tell us what your
real new Year's resolution is, that you've got a problem.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's like if I stood up and said no more
yelling about communists, everybody even think why?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, why idiot? I just I'm trying to think. What
what situation would you ever have where people laugh at
your new Year's resolution?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh my gosh, that is I've never heard of that.
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I know if anybody says I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Gonna try to quit smoking, or you know, I'm gonna
work before my drop a right, yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm gonna try to you know, quit drugs. Finally I'm
going to be a better husband than my wife. Right right.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was mocked roundly for that's stuff that's not right,
which I think has only given me strength.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh, it's strengthened your resolve, I think.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes, first they laughed at you, then they kicked you
or something.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't remember the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't remember the rest of the saying either, but
right well, I'm don't have five days in and I've
done it. Yes, Mike, this is what we ate more
laughter and shaming, Yes, shaming and shaming. Wait became so ugly.
We went out to eat at Cracker Barrel. We loved
the Cracker Barrel, had a delicious meal, but I had
the apples, the spiced apples, and then Jip were jumping
on me. That's apple by filling. That's clearly a dessert.
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I said, it's a fruit cup. And it just got
ugly very quickly. Wow, wow, now we're splitting hairs or apples.
I know I am often often in years past I
should say I've said, yeah, I'm not really that into
new Year's resolutions. I'm kind of the mind that when
you decide it's time, it's time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No matter what time.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I actually maybe it was because having two weeks off
and a lot of quiet time, I just I reappraised,
you know, a lot of things, and was thinking, all right,
let's start the new year. And I actually have new
Year's resolution. But I, hey, Katie, are you available?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You didn't decide you feel like a woman? Do you? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Some days I do a little bit, yeah, but not
enough to make the change.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Katie, did you decide on a New Year's.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So, sir, No, I decided that I've got so much
change headed my way that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I having a baby, yeah baby and raise it. Yeah. Yeah,
Now that's a resolution. If you all throw back your
heads and laughter, we have a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
My My brother's big on the New Year's same me.
That's what he says every New Year. But what is
your That's that's like a two decade resolution kids made?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
No kidding? Yeah, how about you, Michael? Did you make
a resolution specifically?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Better time management and organization? O good one.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, executive function. I was gonna I was
thinking that's one of mine to try to do better
with my executive function, which is kind of baked in
a little bit with human beings.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But I'm gonna work on.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
How do you find that I've heard the term that's
the hot new term for just floundering, flounder, give it
a fancy name. Yeah, exactly, feel better about it. But
it tends to go with personality types. It's not it's
and I think knowing that helps. In fact, doctor was
talking about that recently with one of my children. It's
if you know that it's it's actually a thing. Some
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people are better at this, some people are that some
people are better at executive function. Once you know you're
not good at it, then you have to come up
with workarounds. And my doctor talks about his daughter who
just graduated from medical school, but all the workarounds she
had to come up with her executive function because she
just was not good at you know, getting the form
signed or remembering this or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, two thoughts. Number one quit f and up was
the old way to put it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But now it has a fancy name, so that's not
But secondly, I've been saying that for years. You probably
remember this if you realize you're an idiot. The key
is not to like wish you're not an idiot. The
key is to come up with ways to compensate for it.
I'm a big believer in that I can leave everything
important to me in the most bizarre places, you know,
car keys, wallet, glasses, whatever, And so I've just I've
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tried to always, always, always leave everything in exactly the
same place.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That's what I must do before it's a work around.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Before we get to our opening clip, are you going
to share any of your major change thoughts? My new
Year's resolution is read and write. I am going to
read books and I am going to get back to writing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Both the the prose and music. That's a great one.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And and Jack, I know this will resolute resonate with you.
I dug into the AI of various AI bots to
do a little counseling work and I told it, and
you know, I probably ought to read it at some point,
maybe for a podcast one of these days. I said,
I'm not writing music for like the first time in
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my life. I've got this feeling of why bother? And
and blah blah blah, you know, what do you think?
And it unleashed the most amazing and and apropos thoughts.
And oh I also said, what is good psychologically and
neurologically about writing and recording music? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Wow, to give you a reason to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Oh? But and it but you know, the the like
emotional stuff was every bit as powerful as a psychological
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I didn't know that. Oh it was.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
It was.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It was like you sat down with the wisest human
that's ever walked the earth and they put their arm
around you and gave you an hour of their time.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And it'll take everybody's jobs and ruin the world, But
for now, it's a pretty good tool.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We will have to talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's a good one if your New year's resolution was
don't have you know paratroopers drop into your bedroom and
snatch you up the bad news. Let's start the show officially, Romster,
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It is Monday, Back to Life, January fifthy year twenty
twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We are armstrong in getting we approve this group.
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Okay, let's leap into action for twenty twenty six precisely
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Speaker 3 (10:46):
We're going to run the country until such time as
we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So
we don't want to be involved with having somebody else
get in. And we have the same situation that we
had for the last long period of years. So we
are going to run the country until such time as
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we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And
it has to be judicious, because that's what we're all about.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I know, that's what I'm holl mister judicious. They call me.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
That is one of the heavier sentences in a long time.
If you're old enough to remember a whole bunch of
other situations. We are going to run the country. Holy crap,
What does that mean? What does that entail?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
How long? And what have.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
These subsequent statements? How have they colored that statement in
a very odd and interesting way?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And is there a country?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
If I just saw up on Fox just now it
said what countries may be next? What Marco Rubio on
the talk shows yesterday saying if I was the president
of Cuba, I'd be nervous.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What are we going to take over? A whole bunch
of countries? Run them all?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Washington poster is referring to Marco Rubio as the Viceroy
of Venezuela. Anyway, we're gonna talk to Mike Leines about
this from a military standpoint. A little bit later, we
got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
How y'all doing.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We are back live and very excited to talk about
all kinds of different stuff. I want to talk about
some of the vacationing I did and things I learned
and saw, including the World War Two Museum in New Orleans,
which was fantastic. Oh I've heard that, Yeah, yeah, you know,
our very brief discussion of the Meadua thing in the
last segment. The one thing we left out was the
absolutely hilarious, hilarious protestations on the left. So I can't
(12:48):
wait to talk about that. But first let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Graeme.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Katie Alrighty's starting with the alphabet news stations CNN erupt
worldwide against US operation in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
ABC.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Trump says, quote, We're in charge of Venezuela and claims
VP Rodriguez is cooperating, and NBC US allies and foes
fear Maduro's capture sets precedent for more American intervention.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now, the latest polling I saw yesterday afternoon, I think
on CNN about two thirds of American support the operation.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Now we all, you know, a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Of those people are barely paying attention, but just in general,
about two thirds are are fine with it. Well, and
I heard I think it was sixty eight percent of
Independence say yeah, it's fine, he's a drug lord.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Great.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
From the New York Times, Tim Walls to drop bid
for third term and Amy Klobasjar may run instead.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, this is breaking news.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And we'll talk about this more, probably later in the week,
because we got all this other big international news going on.
But that Minnesota thing has turned out to be way bigger.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Oh yeah, then we know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I remember we had that breaking news on the Friday
before we left that it wasn't just a.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Billion dollars, it was many, many, many, many billions dollars.
And now Walls is not going to run again.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And the significance of it, I think the greater significance
is that it's it's not unique, really, it's just an
especially easy to understand and huge, egregious, sharp focus example
of what's wrong with all these systems.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think it could actually end up being a good thing.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
From The Washington post Man in custody after windows broken
at JD Vance's.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Home, end Boy from the Wall Street.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Journal, hospitals are approving ground for what AI can do
and what it can't.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'd like to hear that part of a multifaceted AI
update I have ready for later.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Pool from CBS, Subway and bus fares rise to three
dollars in New York City.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, a lot of things kicked in at the first
of the year around country.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I mean, we'll hit. A list of those later.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And those of us who are rooting for mamdannie to
be an unmitigated disaster.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
A lot of positive signs stay with us. From the
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Loose monkey caught in Tennessee after rampaging through music shop
and destroying guitars.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Wow, Wow, bad monkey, bad bad monkey.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So much wild as so many monkeys loosen the South. Yeah,
what's going on? Live Team cover? Looks like that with us.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Looks like our national monkey problem is gonna continue into twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Six right.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Study fines phone calls, even hands free can slow driving reactions?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well, okay, then does that mean conversations in the car?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Slow driver reactions? Also?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I think really, anything that detracts from your attention does.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
It's like I turn the music down when I'm parking.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I still don't know why I do that, but I do.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, I think everybody everybody does. I remember my dad
as a kid, were pulling into a big city. You
have to turn the music down. He got pay attention. Then, yeah, yeah,
I think that's that's indicative of something.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Democrats confused why Venezuelan's cheering
downfall of nice warm collectivists.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, that's the quote from Mondami Mundami move to commie Mundami. Uh,
if you haven't heard his inauguration speech, we got to
talk about that. That got a lot of attention over there. Yeah,
oh as well it should.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, no kidding. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Orwell is going to rise from the grave like something
out of a Halloween movie and start swinging his acts.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Does Orwell have an axe? I don't know why would
he have an axe. He's not known for his acts.
I don't know what you're talking about. Gotta get one
armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Tyler.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
He knows a.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Chance to win the division for the Ravens the final
playoff the regular season for the final spot in the playoffs,
Tyler look from forty four.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
To the North.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
That was something. Man, The NFL has it going on.
I don't know how it works this way, because it
doesn't seem like it should with.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
A sport like that.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But the number of times it comes down to the
final player, the final drive is just stunning. After wild action,
you know, for the previous hour of clock time.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah great, Yeah, it's incredible. Of course, I'm not a.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Football fan, really, I don't watch the sport anymore because
I'm done with it. What happened, well, I'd rather not
talk about it. But since you've asked. Since the Mighty
Mighty Seahawks of Seattle, by the way, there's no such
thing as a Seahawks, they're clearly Osprey's anyway, since the
(17:57):
Mighty Seahawks of Seattle absolutely pasted the forty nine ers
the other day. Yeah, oh forty nine in the playoffs though,
so you get a restart and you know all that
sort of.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Stuff, but you got done and done.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The last game of the entire season comes down to
when you're in, lose, you're out, and the final play
of the game.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, that's it's fuck, it's scripted. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Anyway, It's gonna be a fun playoffs with a lot
of different teams this year. I mean, I don't know
if the NFL is excited about a Houston Seattle super
Bowl if I would draw the eyeballs that they wanted.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Here's my transition. I wonder what team Nicholas Maduro's rooting for.
Speaking of Nicholas Maduro, the guy who ran Venezuela, did
I just see a picture of him with his head
and mustache shaved.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Is that what is?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It? Was floating around on Fox because he made his
first appearance in court.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I think that was him. You might hide a knife
in that thing that Hanson says that was Mickey Rourke.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, the thing is he did what all dictators do
as they get old, They dye their hair black to
look younger.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And he had a big thick mustache.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I had of hair that was dyed black, and
they shaved it all off because when you're when you're
in jail, you don't get to sport whatever look you want.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And he just now he looks like.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
A really old man with gray stubble on his head
and on his face.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You don't get support whatever look you want unless you
can claim it's part of some religion, right, and they
have to want you keep it. Yeah, you know, hey, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Catholic.
She got to come up with a signature hairstyle because
then you get to keep it in prison like the
you know, the Rastafarians and the Sikhs and whoever else.
So I was thinking about this over the weekend after
this all happened. We talked about this quite a bit.
(19:47):
I don't know that I heard it anywhere else. Mark
Halprin was writing in his newsletter that we read every
single day. She's practically a year ago, that all the
buzz in Washington, d C. The only thing all the
heavy think tanks could talk about was the dividing up
of the spheres in the world between China and the
United States. That it's just become accepted that China's gonna
(20:11):
get their big chunk of the world, including Taiwan.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's just gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
There's no stopping it, and we're gonna get our big
chunk of the world. And that's just the way things
are gonna be for the next century or however long.
And I thought it was interesting that it was all
the buzz in the think tanks, because I never heard
another word about it other really than what Mark Halpern
wrote in his newsletter. I think that's what we saw
over the weekend. I think I think that's what's going on.
I think Trump feels like China's gonna take Taiwan at
(20:38):
some point in the world, ain't gonna be able to
stop them.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
We're gonna take control of our part of the world.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And a quote from Marco Rubio yesterday on one of
the shows, and he went on all the shows, this
is the Western Hemisphere, this is where we live. We're
not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a
base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the
United States. It's simple as that. Absolutely great policy. In
my opinion, Venezuela was a warm, welcoming port to the Chinese,
(21:06):
the Iranians, the Russians who were sowing their influence there
and building a base of anti American activism.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean, take a look at the map right there
across the newly renamed Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's a giant, potentially rich country that is a base
of operations.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
For I ran in China. That's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And I don't know how I didn't know this, or
I probably heard it and forgot it. But everyone should
know that Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world,
and by quite a bit. It's amazing. How did we
not take Venezuela back in the seventies and eighties when
oil was really the most important thing in the world.
(21:48):
I don't know, but heit so they're number one at that.
Here's something they're number two at. Did you know this
the number or the percentage of their population that has fled.
They're number two behind Syria. It's like a third of
their population has fled. The communists. Whole that that country
has become it's a nightmare. Now, I want to say
(22:09):
this very quickly. You almost have to compartmentalize this discussion
because whatever your gripe is, and there's some legitimate gripes
about the whole thing, everybody wants to go right there
real quick. Like, for instance, a person might say, by
we're going to run the country.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What exactly do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And that's that's a perfectly legitimate discussion, which we will have.
Also the left hilarious, hypocritical protest of removing Medora coming up.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But yeah, it's it is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
A horrific human rights nightmare, war import for our adversaries
right off our our coast there.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's it's one hundred things.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It should not have been allowed to exist and now
it doesn't any or it maybe I was texting with
a buddy of mine and you know, a little a
little bit of the difficulties of the we're gonna run
the thing, and are we allowed to just go take
countries and various things like that. But how can you
not be excited for a million people in the streets
with tears in their eyes. They're so freaking happy that
(23:14):
the guy has gone. And it's funny. I had the
experience of you. There is such a thing as Trump
derangement syndrome. If you your immediate reaction is is it?
This is a terrible thing when you see.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All those people crying, hugging each other.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Right, And a perfect example of So I did a
little door dash to our family gathering, and the name
of the door dash driver I didn't recognize, as like,
where is this name from?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Weird?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
So I chat gpt it and the name of the
door dash driver was Venezuelan. I said, oh cool, And
I said, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give
a twenty, give him a twenty as a tip and
say thanks, keep the regime change.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
That was gonna be my line. Oh, very droll.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Anyway, some of the younger, you know, the politics of
young college type people, said, oh, you mentioned that he's
gonna spit in your food. I no, he's not. They're
thrilled that this happened. They're not angry that this happened.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner have you heard her talking?
She's over the moon about this. Right, you lefties love
(24:23):
the Nobel Peace Prize. You raise all these people up
to the highest level. She thinks this is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
How do you not get this? Yeah, I know, it's amazing.
It's it shows that.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, I want to get into this in depth, in
a little bit about how every topic, every claim, every
fake principle that they espouse is really just a way
to get power. They will state the opposite of what
they stated today tomorrow if it gets the more power.
But the Free Press with some great coverage, including Venezuelan's
(24:56):
dance in the streets and ask Trump to finish the job.
And then this one Venezuelan New Yorker's to Mamdani, you're crazy,
and they talk about the well, this one gal said
of Mumdani, he's crazy. He needs to live in Venezuela
for one year. He wouldn't be saying that anymore, protesting
against getting rid of Meduro. But then they described Since Saturday,
(25:19):
split screen reaction has played out in New York City,
where Venezuelans have made up the largest number of migrants
immigrants since twenty twenty two. On Saturday, dueling rallies took
over Times Square with celebratory Venezuelans dancing through the streets,
just hours after demonstrators showed up chanting hands off Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
How perfect is that? It's incredible?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
The people, you know what she lived there are having
a demonstration about happy.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
They are college.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Kids who were born here, angry on their behalf are
having their own protest.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
How perfect is this?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It is exactly like white elver educated suburbanites telling a
Hispanic peace that they need to start using the term LATINX,
even though the actual Hispanic people are like, that's a
stupid term and we're not going to use it. Yes
you should we because we're against white supremacy. As activist
(26:13):
white people will tell you how to live.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Good Lord, these people are insane.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well, and there's a lot of this bouncing around the
stuff where people would talk about Trump's love of Maduro
because he likes all strong men. The tweet from Joe
Biden roughly a year ago or so. Trump talks tough
on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicholas Maduro
as president. I will stand with the Venezuelan people.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well that I had a kef care uh.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, so I'm happy that those people don't have that
guy as their dictator anymore. But if you're of a
certain age, you have seen these people with tears in
their eyes, celebrating in the street in lots of countries, oh,
all over the world when somebody gets their leader overthrown
the entire Arab Spring, Iraq, Afghanistan obviously, and yeah, so
(27:08):
it doesn't always work.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Out there, you go.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Almost immediately as news of Maduro's capture began to spread online,
the Democratic Socialists of America started to organize against the
Trump administration. Of course, that's what Mundami's belonged to him
for now going on ten years. On Saturday, they released
a statement to demanding the return of Maduro and the
first Lady to power, an end of the failed War
(27:32):
on drugs, and a US foreign policy centered on pace, multilateralism,
and respect for national sovereignty and self determination. They're calling
for the return of Maduro as his victims dance in
the streets. Ah, We're going to talk to Mike Lyones,
whose Twitter feed has been really interesting with all this
going on. I ended up being up in the middle
(27:53):
of the night because it broke Central News time right
when I went to bed the other night, and I
couldn't get off my watching the updates.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, it had. Twitter's amazing for this sort of.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Stuff, and videos of the freaking Apache helicopters flying low
over cities, you know, as it was going on. Quite amazing.
But we'll talk about the military stuff with Mike Mike Leines.
But interesting to grab the guy's wife. That's kind of
a new thing, not just because she was there, because
she's an active participant.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
In the whole thing. Interesting in yeah, part of the
family business. I didn't know that she's an evil person too,
I'll be darn't.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
We got a mail bag on the way, just got
an extra special Freedom Living quote of the day, and
all that sort of stuff that we should definitely discuss
at length at some point, and everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
New York Times reporting the Ayatola and his friends are
ready to flee around first sign of their security forces
turning on them, so that might easily surpass Venezuela as
the biggest story in the world.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Wow, that is true. Huh.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And there are a lot of really significant protests going
on in Iran right now too.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Very it's very significant.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yes, it's been in play before, but it feels like
it's in play very briefly. I want to say I
gave short shrift to the story of Tim Waltz announcing
he would not run for reelection. I don't even know
what shrift is. I wouldn't know it if I got
poked in the eye with a handful of it, I
don't know. But anyway, that's because he's an ass clown
and a joke. He has of no significance other than
(29:32):
on the receiving end of mockery.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
On the American scene. He has no significance.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The I'm a knucklehead at times, the first declaring someone
an ac of the year.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's correct. Now, there are others.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Mamdani, for instance, is a clown, but he's a different
sort of clown. He's a dangerous clown, and in city's
clown like a killer clown lurking at the edge of
the woods. But Waltz is a joke. Here is your
and this is our theme at least for the week,
maybe for a couple weeks, it's your freedom hating quote
of the day. We're gonna draw a little kung trast
(30:06):
with those of us who love liberty those who are
pitching philosophies that hate liberty, and certainly if you'd like
to contribute one, you can drop us a note mail
bag at armstrong in geddy dot com your favorite quote
from the dictators and communists and socialists the history mail
bag at armstrong getday dot com. Anyway, this is a
special audio version of the freedom Hating Quote of the Day.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Michael, I'm sorry, it's clip number seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
This is the newly elected always got a winning smile
Mayor of New York zre on Mom Donne.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
We will draw this city closer together.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
If our whoa, that's the end cam.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That got so much attention in all the circles I
read in and I can't wait to talk about that
more or later. Did he choose collectivism on purpose out
of ignorance? Oh no, no, he is one of those
hyper educated, you know. Would Matt Tayebi say, I actually
kept it around. I liked it so much. We're now
(31:10):
in the upper class twits promoting revolution space. Wow, he
knows exactly what he's talking about, mailbag.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I mean, you don't know why that's a big deal.
We'll talk about it. Labor collectivism is a dirty word.
I mean, it's a dirty word, and you choose that carefully.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's the real sea bomb in my mind anyway, just
because it killed hundreds of millions is why let's see
drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong in Getting
dot Com got a lot of notes like this one
from John Gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I'm an eighth grade teacher in Vegas, and after two.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Weeks off, I'm not exactly jazzed about the reality of
Monday morning. However, at least I can start the day
with an hour of Angie. Thank you for the note, John.
We've got a lot of really really nice notes like that.
Very kind of.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Y'all to pass on your good wishes. And then this from.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Molly and San Diego, who passed on the official list
of the full moons we'll be seeing.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Dear flower moon, your beaver moon, your hunter's moon, your
buck moon, your sturgeon moon, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
We got a flower moon and a beaver moon in
the same year. Very exciting. What a year? What a year.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
But haven't we all gotten hipped to the fact that
all these moon names are just what a pre scientific
society the Native American people called like the like the
March third is the worm moon? Why do you think
that's the worm They didn't because they didn't have Netflix.
They had nothing else to do but name their wacky
moons well, and they had no damn science. And so
(32:38):
they say, oh, the soil is starting to melt. Look
there's a full moon, and look the worms are starting
to move. Why don't you call it the worm moon.
Then the pink moon is because the pink bob blossoms started,
and the flower moon a month later, why do you
think that might be?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Again, it's it's a scam.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's all a scam, scam, the moon scam. The socialists
are trying to drag the critical theory crowd because they
want to return to a pre Enlightenment point of view, right,
they're trying to sell us it's all.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It's like the critical race theory crap.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
You definitely are leading the charge on the angry about
named moons.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They fraud.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Let's see speaking of fraud, why is government fraud so easy?
Writes Ryan from Houston. I don't believe Democrats believe in fraud.
They just send out the money and it doesn't solve
the problem. So that's even better. They'll send out more
money next time. In other words, the point is spending
the money. Republicans go to DC to do good and
end up doing well, as the old saying goes, fighting
(33:39):
fraud just slows down their personal grift as well. Ryan
from Houston, who welcome, welcomes us back to work.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
And then this this I need to squeeze in JT
and Livermore, one of many people who pointed this out.
First he wants to know how to return of the sausages,
not make clips of the year.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Wasn't that the previous year? That was the previous year's
click of the year.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
But then he points out, oh, he suggests we have
two categories for clips of the year, a zeitgeist clip
of the year and then a news clip of the
year about a changing history clip of the year.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I think that's a pretty good idea. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
But then he said, what happened to band names? Original
air names and things Jack has never done.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I forgot. That's wow.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I take partial, no, wait, full responsibility for that oversight.
I have that list from the wonderful Invaluable Mary.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
In the hoe. Maybe we can squeeze it in later.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Belatedly, Oh, we got to get that in later, maybe
fourth hour when we're like going through the motions. By
the fourth hour, we're just we're really phoning it in,
already tired. And if you don't get all the hours
of the segments, you can get through to our podcast
if you're if you're new to this whole technology armstrong
and getting on demand, that's where you find it.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
To take off.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Hour two, we're gonna talk to Mike Lyons, who's been
following the military aspecack to the whole Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Thing, and it's danged interesting, so I hope you can
join them and getty m
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