December 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Travel ban, mindfulness & Gary Busey
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Stealing a cat, Scouts of America & boat strike video
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And he arms Anget.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was from the studio Snchez and your We have
a camel in the studio today because it's Wednesday at topday.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're almost done. We signed a one year deal with
having a camel in here as a promotion on Wednesdays.
Thank you, and uh, this is.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The last week of it, thank god. In twenty six
we won't have the camelon in the studio, which I
don't like.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It seem like a good idea. It's one of that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's a classic example of seemed like a good idea
at the time. Right, how y'all doing? It is the
last live week of the Armstrong in Getty Show. And
we today are under the tutelage of our general managers, honers.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Ah, what are they up to now?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's a big new travel band. Trump just announced a
bunch of countries. Just don't even bother replying you can't
come in?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Is that to keep out? Uh? Let's keep out what.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Bad people in generals, people that aren't white.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh lord, that's right. It's a Muslim travelman.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Let's see, citizens of Burkina, Fasso, Molli, Nizier, South Sudan
and Syria are joining the list of countries whose citizens
are already nearly banned from immigrating.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'll tell you what, at least half of that list.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You give me a comfortable pair of shoes in a compass,
and I can't find them.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I don't know where they.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Are Astinians or banned Lao, Sierra Leone. In addition, fifteen
countries will face new partial bands and Gola Antigua and
Barbuda Antigua. Okay, but Barbudha. Come on, tell you who
doesn't like a Barbouden. You got an antigue at dinner?
Count your silverware, then an Ivory coast, Dominica, Gabone, the Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania,
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enders I could keep going.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's a bunch of African countries.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Mostly I don't know where these places are, like, yeah, Africa,
it's funny. I was just reading out about a place
that I've never heard of. That's what I've been doing
the last five minutes or so because I just heard
this story came across it. Bhutan it's actually a landlocked,
tiny little country in the Himalayas, which I never Oh. Yeah,
that's been a big story because the tariffs. Oh really, Anyway,
(02:39):
they're building a mindfulness city, the world's first mindfulness city,
built all around that concept, which I don't think I
fully understand. Well, how would you define mindfulness based on it?
You're not mindful of mindfulness? Clearly, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Being aware of what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I had a book about it, but I had an
antiguan or for dinner, and I think he stolen, as
they will pastwards. I think it's being aware of what
you are doing and doing it intentionally, as opposed to
just being a creature of patterns and habits.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And and you know, just reacting. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, I know it's something that alcoholics are not good at,
which could get us back into one of the headlines yesterday,
Trump's alcoholic personality and what the hell that means? And
doesn't it The mainstream media has no knowledge of that whatsoever. Clearly,
but yeah, I'm not good at mindfulness, neither many people
in my tribe. Maybe I should move to this town Bhutan. Yeah,
(03:37):
I'm gonna hear a good definition of mindfulness if somebody
can dig that up. So they're trying to design this
mindfulness city where architects are going to blend innovation with
Bhutan's g MH. That's their gross national happiness principles. Now
that's got to be a translation problem, right the word
(03:57):
gross here.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Or a bad play on words gross national product.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, maybe that's it. Okay, that makes more sense, gross
national happiness. Okay, they're just trying to measure the whole
country's happiness.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
There you go. Okay, if you're more mindful, you'd have
gotten that show. It's not a good nun.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But if I have an alcoholics personality, I'm sure how
that relates. But the so I'll have to read more
about their gross national Happiness principles.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What they are.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They're probably things like turn that frown upside down? Why
don't you smile more? Stuff like that, turn lemonades into
lemon or the other. I guess it's the other way.
You can turn lemonade into lemons. You got a trick
going there, You do you can form a religion. Uh,
they're building inhabitable bridges, spiritual centers, economic friendly infrastructure. I
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don't know, but that makes me happier an inhabitable bridge, Yeah,
I can always be loss over you. I know California's
got those generally under the bridge. That's what I first thought.
I thought, like, so bridges designed that people can live
under them if they need to. I wonder if that's
what they actually mean. Anyway, I like the idea of
a mindfulness city. How's your mindfulness coming today, Jim? Pretty good?
(05:06):
How about you jack off the charts?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They were a controversial story early in the tariff discussion,
and that's probably worth reminding everybody. Remember the Supreme Court
might just flush the whole thing, the tiff thing.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
At any moment at some point. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, But anyway, So Bhutan is this landlocked, mountainous little kingdom,
republic whatever it is, and they have like no economy
except for exporting I can't remember what it is, rugs
or blankets or something to the United States. And we
slapped them with these punitive tariffs, even though you know,
we've got a trade imbalance because they've got like one
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hundred bucks between them the entire country. So how are
you not going to have a trade imbalance? It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Where'd you come up with mindfulness?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
There?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Katie, this is a perfect.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Thing heading into the you know, the holiday season, Chris
Messina or anything like that. Maybe a lot of people
going to have some free time, be off work. I
need to know about mindfulness, Katie.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All Right.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
A mindfulness a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness
on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts.
Bodily sensations being used as a therapet peutic technique.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'll accept my bodily sensations all day long. I knew
that was going to bring that. Yeah, he never fails
to disappoint Katie. No, that's kind of interesting. So I
don't know how far I want to go down this
road or not. As I'm an alcoholic, I know lots
of alcoholics. And so the story that broke yesterday of
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Trump's chiefest staff saying he's got an alcoholic personality misinterpreted
by absolutely everyone.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
He doesn't drink, and that's because people just don't understand
what most alcoholics feel like alcoholism is all about. And
she Susie Wilde's a p who said that to whatever
author she was talking to. She's aware of that sort
of language because her dad was a sober alcoholic pat
some are all the famous football announcer who worked with
John Madden all those years. He had been sober for
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like thirty years when he died, So I'm sure she
was aware of the language of sober alcoholics. And that's
you know, understanding that there are traits that go along
with being an alcoholic that have nothing to do with
drinking whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So it's you know.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It didn't the number of news conversations I heard yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It doesn't make sense because he doesn't drink.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Is he drinking She's suggesting that he drinks at night
or just said no, it's good, nothing to do with
But anyway, the reason I bring that in talking about mindfulness,
I'd say one of the main traits, and I think
this is fascinating. It'd be interesting if they could ever
like figure this out with brain waves or something like
that is alcoholics inability to live in today, which is,
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you know the opposite of mindfulness. You're either thinking about
yesyesterday usually aggrievance, or tomorrow, dreaming about tomorrow, never today.
It's just like it's a processing disorder, practically almost impossible
to think about today. I can dwell on yesterday. I
can fantasize about tomorrow, but I can't think about today.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It's just almost you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And I could see that that's why Trump fires off
stuff in.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
The middle of the night, because he's dwelling on the
past all the time. I have two thoughts.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Number One, I'm reminded of the words of the philosopher
and teenage girl toucher Stephen Perry Stephen Tyler of Arrows.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh easy. You can't say that and then just get
the names wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I just well, I corrected it as I combined the
singer and guitar player. They're old, they don't care sing
with me, sing for today, never tomorrow. The Good Lord
will take it away anyway. And the second thought is
what you were saying about the alcoholic personality and not
being about alcohol is I think totally unknown outside of
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the alcoholic in counseling communities. I've never heard in my
whole life anybody expressed any awareness of that. And I
was only dimly dimly aware of it myself, having worked
with you for these many years, and I still don't
quite understand it. So I think I wish that what
Susie Wilds said, instead of just being the usual Washington
pissing match, might mean to a discussion of it. It's
(09:23):
an expression, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Not an actual contest. No, no, let it go un set?
Which channel has that? I don't want that channel? Oh boy,
YESPN eleven.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Ah, maybe it could be a discussion of that. I
find it so interesting that volume or distance depends on
the event. You got your sprint, you got your distance,
you got your steeple chase. Now that's one to watch. Okay,
we got to start the show officially. We have gone
far afield. Maybe we can get back into that field later,
(09:56):
because it's an interesting field. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is? Is it Wednesday, December seventeenth,
your twenty twenty five where I'm strung and getting and
we approved this program?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Sorry Gebone, no visiting.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
All right, let's begin the show officially now according to
FCC rules and REGs.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Hey, it's scary, Busey and I have got a great
Christmas pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Ha ha. That's what a Goose shows like, where they're fine,
they let you know they're up there ha, oh, get
a bush your geche together, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
This is talking in the air. This is our all time.
There'll be a TF opening clip.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
What in the whole was the acid in my coffee?
So that was actually the actor Gary Busey. Yeah, Oscar
nominee actor.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I am brilliant, brilliant artist. Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And last time he is in the news. He was
sitting on a park bench working as man. Wasn't he
was his pants around his ankles?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I was Is that right? I think so?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Or it was something untoward, but that was It was
a lovely rendition of what geese sound.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But here's a Christmas present for you. That's the odd transition. Wow.
His entire social media is quite entertaining.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
My Christmas present is an old crazy man doing goose sounds.
That's my Christmas present to you.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Wow. Oh and I didn't get you anything? Did you
take that gift out of me? Can I return that
for something else? A pair of.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Socks or something that was that was weirdly disorienting?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Wasn't?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
His Twitter feet is full of stuff like that, Katie.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's always shooting.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Videos that just well, okay, now I kind of admire
it's like you're into the I don't care about anything
portion of your life. You've you've you know, you've done
your thing. Now I'm just gonna let my freak flag fly. Well, yeah,
he's like the Dolly of social media. So he's into
surrealistic art now, or he's just a fruit looking could
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be just.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A nut job.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way and lots
of stuff to talk about today, and also we'll get
an update on where we aren't raising money for Scouting
this week, hoping to raise one hundred thousand dollars and
see where we are.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What's coming up? Stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
This is this, Michael, opposite of you. I have done
literally zero Christmas shopping. With the caveat of I did
get something big for my son whose birthdays two days
before Christmas, that counts as both I did buy that.
(12:43):
But I've really done no Christmas shopping and I need
to get on that. Keep saying that, keep saying what
you haven't started. It's like, it's not like you've forgotten. No,
I ain't got a lot of free time.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Maybe just to get online stuff this week. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Then you do get into that buying the whole trying
to pay extra expedited shipping thing. Let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Well.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The lead is the Rob Reiner story. First ABC video
shows moments leading up to Nick Reiner's arrest after parents
deaths NBC. Nick Reiner charged with murder in death of parents,
death penalty is possible and TMZ. Rob Reiner's daughter found
his body but didn't initially realize her mom had also
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been murdered.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
So the death penalty thing would be interesting if it
was a state where we actually kill people. The death
penalty in California means you're going to die of old age,
but it be much more expensive for the taxpayer. That's
one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty in California.
But mayn'd be something if they executed Rob Reiner's son,
But it ain't.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Gonna happen in California.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is so.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
At the Conan O'Brien Christmas party, he was walking around
asking people crazy questions. Everybody was like, really weirded out
because he was clearly nuts so angry God, that'd be
an uncomfortable situation of being right one of your guests
kids who you know is troubled, is walking around the
party being super weird. Oh yeah, there's a picture of
them recently, the whole family in Las Vegas. Then everybody's smiling,
(14:16):
having a great time, and he is just glowering at
the camera he usually is in recentation.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I read a maybe.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'll share some of it with you later, but a
surprisingly sympathetic piece about so called Nepo babies and how
so many people of like fame and wealth in entertainment
in particular and up miserable, miserably unhappy, not all of them.
But do you think that's being born the son of
some big star is like a launching pad toward happiness
(14:45):
and you're wrong. Well, I also think it'd be really
really hard to raise a normal kid if you were
a big star.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That'd be tough. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
CBS employers added sixty four thousand jobs in November, but
unemployment rate to the highest in four years.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Michael Keaton, at the height of his fame, guy who
played Batman and everything like that, moved to Montana and
Wyoming to raise his kid and just like got out
of everything because of this. Just the idea of trying
to raise in Hollywood with the paparazzi round and the
fancy restaurants and all the things that aren't normal.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What a beautiful thing to do.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
From the Free Beacon, Chinese investment firm funded by Yale
and Princeton, by a slice of Shanghai tech company.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That works with China's military.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, between all of the Chinese communists spies on our campuses,
and the unholy alliances between those colleges and universities and
the Chinese, we have a fifth column right now in
the US.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And it's big, and.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's super well established and connected, and nobody seems to care.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
From the New York Post, last US pennies ever minted?
Fetch wopping sixteen zero point seven million dollars at auction.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow Wow. From the Wall streets.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
There's somebody who is that, somebody who think that's a
good investment, or somebody you just thinks would be really
cool to have the last penny. I almost think it's
got to be you think it's gonna be worth something someday,
because it's not that cool to have the last penny.
I'm just thinking about other currencies that have been discontinued,
and I don't remember hearing about a big auction, about
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the last Buffalo nickel or what have you. I'm over
at your house and you say, hey, I've got the
last penny. Every minuted you want to see it, I'd
say no unless I which would.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It be in polite to say no?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And if you said you paid you know, ten thousand bucks,
I'd think Wow, Okay, I called millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Seems insane. If you said you paid ten thousand bucks,
I think you're an idiot.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
And finally from the babylon Bee, California family still waiting
for permit to build gingerbread house.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hey, it's a commentary on red tape and around the Fires.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, that's a long story. Rampant corruption.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes, are we going to go to war with Venezuela
over Christmas?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Break Ah? There could be some shooting.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Certainly we're blockading them, an actual blockade. Wow, got a
lot of stories to update you on.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
If you miss it, get the.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So I thought he was just petting her for a second.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I had to rewatch it a couple of times because
it is hard to see it's dark, Andie doesn't carry
her very nicely.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I see her little tail and I'm like, oh my god,
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So that's the
story of an Amazon driver who took somebody's cat.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Is what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Ly cat rustlers, So you deliver a packaging and think, well,
that's a particularly good looking cat.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
All cats are more or less the same.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
You gotta git, you gotta hang cat rustlers. There's a
lot of cats around. You don't need to steal that
person's cat. You're a nut. Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I think Amazon throws a pretty wide net when it
comes to drivers this time of year.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's Michael. That's It's terrible way to put it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
They've identified the driver, but for some reason they can't
find him.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I think if you can fog a mirror, you probably
qualify to drive for Amazon.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That would be my guest. Yes, yes, boy.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
So I've talked a lot about how great being a
boy Scout has been for my son. It's maybe literally
the best thing that has happened in his life, and
it is for a lot of kids. And I've witnessed
to myself and then at the very beginning of Scouting,
And it's what got me started on thinking of raising
money for the Scouts so we could get involved. Is
talking to one of the dads there, and one of
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the dads saying, yeah, a lot of it's too bad.
A lot of families just can't afford to get their
kid into Scouting because it is going to be several
hundred dollars to join, variety of fees and stuff like that.
So what we're trying to do is raise money so
that you can bypass that fee. He got a kid
that wants to be in Scouting or girl, but it's
mostly boys. I mean, just in my experience, that we
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can pick up the tab on the join in the
Scouts so that you can do that. And like last night,
I was observing some of the last of the meeting
they meet weekly and they were celebrating Henry's birthday because
his birthday is next week, and he brought some troops
and the treats and they all saying happy Birthday, and
they did the flag ceremony and blah blah.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Blah, just all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's so freaking awesome and the just for me just
seeing a whole bunch of in this case it's all
young men saying the pledge of allegiance and saluting the flag.
Jesus fills me with the warmth I can't imagine because
it's just so not what you see in the year
twenty twenty five, learning self reliance, taking the initiative becoming
men to help them learn how to become men, which
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is like taboo and a lot of our perverse society.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So yeah, I love it. I love the influence.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I went to a really big like award ceremony they
had for top level people that are involved in the
organization anyway. I was at this big ballroom like one
of those of things. People dressed up, drinks, meal, that
whole thing. But I went and they had all kinds
of Scouts manning the doors and these little kids in
some cases Hello, sir, welcome. Is there anything I can
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get you with? The drinks are over there, and just
to look you in the eye, shake your hand. I'm
not used to that sort of thing out of modern kids,
and seeing it coming out of Scouting, I just think
is awesome. And I don't want anybody to not be
able to have their kids joined Scouts because what it
costs to join and that's why we're trying to raise
money and go to Armstrong and getty dot com. We
made it super easy to donate. We're shooting for one
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hundred thousand dollars. I don't want to go negative here.
I'm trying to say this as a reason to motivate people.
We had a pretty slow twenty four hours. Let's do
a total let us roll the roll the drums here,
I'll point out while she's getting her drums texture, it's
often the kids who can't afford scouting that the effects
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will be immeasurable in putting them on the right passage, absolute, abolutely.
I'm sure that is true that the trend lines on
that match up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
So we got off the air yesterday about fifty grand.
That was our goal yesterday and we are currently at
sixty and forty three dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Now, that is a ton of money, that's right. That
is love s ton of money.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
As a lot of people say, how did that phrase
get start say that sort of thing in scouting.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
By the way, you wouldn't be welcome with your potty mouth.
I don't know who started that phrase. It's a is
that metricer? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's a lot of money. But we're we're shooting for
one hundred thousand dollars and we're almost done with the week.
So please go to Armstrong in geddy dot com and donate.
If it's ten bucks, twenty bucks. If every we're on
all over the country, if everybody kicked ten ten dollars,
obviously we would get there easily. So help a lot
of young kids. Yeah, so would you could jump on?
That would appreciated. Armstrong in getty dot com. So here's
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some interesting news. The President of the United States, who's
the guy from The Apprentice anyway, He on Tuesday ordered
a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers
entering and leaving Venezuela, and it is described as a
major escalation of his pressure campaign against the country's leader,
kleptomaniac Nicholas Maduro. So it's just the oil tankers. It's
(22:15):
not it's not a full on blockade, like nothing, nothing
can come or go, correct, you just the sanctioned oil tankers,
said Trump on truth social which is again a bit
of an odd way to make presidential proclamations.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Venezuela. Is that what he said? Oh boy, that was.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yikes, Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever
assembled in the history of South America, Trump said, helpfully,
using a Spanish term for the giant assemblage of ships.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Hdn't I didn't pick up on that.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's pretty help to help understand what's going exactly, He threatened,
the US military presidence would quote only get bigger, and
the shock to them will be like nothing they have
ever seen before unless Maduro's regime regime returned quote oil,
land and other assets that they previously stole from US,
an apparent reference to Venezuela's nationalization of US linked holdings
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in the country.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, that was Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I had to ask a question when he said they
got to give back our oil in our land, I thought,
in what senses that are oil? And I really wondered,
and what how did how did Venezuela end up with
some of our land? I didn't understand that at all.
Half a Phoenix, Yeah, it's a scandal. It's amazing Venezuela
took half of Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
How did I miss that? They're occupying it? Seems like
I could be a big news story.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
No celebrities involved, so uh no, so Yeah, it's it
has to do with nationalizing oil. Interestingly, Chevron, which has
been a presence in Venezuela for I think over one
hundred years, is excluded from any sort of blockading or
sanctioning or anything like that, and they're sailing in and
out of Venezuelan points of ports with oil as they
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have for many moons. They have an agreement with the
US and it's kind of a carve out, which is
interesting m because it's obviously revenue for the Venezuelans. It's
a complicated relationship. I started to read about it and thought,
there's no way I can accurately communicate this to the
good people. But just suffice it to say it's complicated,
and we'll say. He keeps hinting that there will be
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land strikes. I don't know why that hits people as
an escalation, because blasting a boat in the water is
not much different than hitting somebody walking down a dirt road. Yeah,
there's something about on our land, our country, our dirt
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that's especially offensive to human beings.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
For some reason.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
If we're out there on the water, we don't like it,
but just don't blow up our dirt. Yeah, I haven't
got even a slightly educated guests as to where this
is going.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So I guess we'll sit back and watch.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Is there anything Maduro can promise concede to Trump without
leaving power that will ratchet this down? Well? Who was
I watching the other day? Is somebody I really like
saying this is obviously a regime regime change policy?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
For whatever reason, they don't want to say it out loud,
or maybe just because it's got such a nasty hangover
from a couple of regime changes that haven't exactly gone
our way, and lots of them don't, because once you
change regimes, you have no idea what's going to replace it,
and it's often not something better.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Sometimes it's something worse or just as bad.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
In fact, frequently power vacuums reward the most vicious, most auspicious.
I'm rapping a little bit. Part of it is you
get rid of whoever's in charge, and you have a
lot of disorder. And when you have a lot of disorder,
thank god I've never lived through it, and Americans we
haven't had to. But you have a lot of disorder.
People welcome anybody. I don't care. ICE's fine, come in
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if you can stop the crime in the streets and
get somebody to pick up the garbage. Fine, And that's
how or isis or whoever. The bath party in Iraq
they get over because people want order. At some point
you're willing to put up with pretty much anything for order.
One of the most interesting things I've heard read in
the last couple of years has been the British commentators
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comedian I guess I just think of him as a thinker, honestly,
Constantine Kissen, who is talking about the history of Russian
how it differs so starkly from the history of the
United States. And I talked about this when I first
read it, but that in the last you know, few
hundred years of Russian history there have been strong leaders,
then periods of unrest, and during those periods of unrest,
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the slaughter has been unimaginable. And then a strong leader
will come in and bring order and stop the killing.
Now that strong leader might do a fair amount of
killing too, but so the Russian people, their whole history,
yearns for a strong leader to just quash the conflict.
And anyway, I'm sorry, how do we get into that conversation?
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I remember how regime change can to something worse. So yeah, yeah,
a lack of stability is one of the worst things
you can have. And you know who doesn't appreciate that
or never thinks about it. A country that's been extremely
stable for a very long time, and you have your
college kids in the streets screaming for revolution because they're
(27:26):
frigging morons. Well, what do you think is our main
reason for wanting regime change in Venezuela. I mean, that
is not an issue that President Trump ran on or
anybody talked about ever. We were at the Republican Convention.
Don't remember it coming up a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No. I suspect it has.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Something to do with the uh, the quasi, well, the
whole we want to control our neighborhood. Yeah, the quasi
Monroe doctor. So that's a big picture, like, Okay, China,
you're gonna run that part of the world, We're going
to run this part of the world. Yeah, And a
feeling like, all right, we've got this incredibly beautiful, ought
to be incredible rich country right across the Gulf of America,
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and they'd be a great.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Ally and all, but they got this tin horned jackass.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Dictator run of the place doing nobody any good, and
why are we putting up with That's what's the point
of power? If we permit that right in our backyard.
I think that's the thing here. Trump's given a primetime
live speech tonight. I have no idea how many networks
are planning to take it. Fox is taking, but I
don't know if like ABC, CBSNBC, R. Can you look
into that, Katie, see if the big networks are taking
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Trump's speech tonight because we have a theme, well, the
theme is supposed to be We're back baby, the economy
is roaring. It's the same theme he's taken on the
road to his rallies across the country. And I'm not
sure if I'm a network president, I consider that news.
It seems like more of a campaign speech. But we'll
see if they take it. And I just wondered if
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you would touch on Venezuela. That'd be a good way
to get the networks to take your speech, as if
you promised some information to the American people on what.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The we're doing his way? When?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Why because we haven't had a lot of that. But
the other thing, we do have a hell of a force.
I'm sorry, I was just reading about it's staged. Yeah,
it's it's impressive and lethal. It is absolutely incredible. You
know anything about this, Katie, take all the major networks, okay,
carry it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Okay, So they said his newsworthy. I'm kind of surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I thought I thought some of your networks would say,
we're not going to let him do a campaign speech
on our channel.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But there so cool.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You want to hear what they're thinking. It's not charitable
for better ratings. They're thinking, A, it'll get a lot
of attention and B. Trump always unschools plenty of rope
to hang himself with.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh, they think it'll be the rist for.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Our commentators to criticize the crap out of them for
the next three days.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I don't know if I think you're right about that,
because they often don't take Trump stuff. And I've and
I've thought for years that I think if I'm running MSNBC,
I put Trump on all the time for my audience. Anyway,
speaking of Venezuela, remember we hit that boat and there
are a couple of scumbags left in the water ready
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to attack the United States again, and so we blasted
them real good.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Make sure they were dead. Uh, that video is not
going to be released.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
The Secretary of War Pete Haggs that announced there's too
much national security at stake, so we will not see
the second video, which to me means that he feels
like this particular little scandal has died down enough that
he could make that announcement and isn't even nobody's really
even talking about it, and on we go with our
lives and nobody will ever think about it again. Or
my cynical, cynical friend, he might be thinking, no, this
(30:38):
would threaten our national security? Be changed my mind about
Oh really, did somebody smart explain that to you? I know,
I figured it out for myself. Okay, well what could
I don't know? I read all day long. Something may
have penetrated my contrace. What could be our national secrets?
And seeing yet? I mean, because how many videos have
we seen of boats being blasted? What would be different
about this one? I will open your eyes. I will
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bring eyesight to the blind next hour when.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We talk about this.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
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Boundary Water wilderness between Minnesota and Canada. We had a
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living comfortably. Day two, some of the other boys wanted
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Well, what if we pushed it to this.
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Lake out here? The boy said. It was the same boy.
It was twenty six miles. We'll be able to see
more before we get back. When I asked him, what changed,
he said, mister anonymous, I'm never gonna say I can't
do something ever again. Who I have heard a dozen
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Excellent reminder from m who just wrote.
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Following up on our discussion just a couple of minutes ago, Venezuela, guys,
is about China and preventing China from establishing a stronghold
in the West, an hemisphere other than that inside US campuses.
Excellent point, my lad or deer or the neither. Perhaps
you're asexual anyway, it's a great point. Yeah, yeah, the
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Maduro Regimei is playing foot seat with China. Following up
on our discussion of Amazon drivers, John Wrights guys had
a far from nice car full.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Of packages.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
In the backseat with an Amazon vested driver pull up
in San Diego's North Country supporting Mexican plates.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Blow so like.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Suspect Mexican nationals are now delivering Amazon packages in San
Diego County. Hmm, okay, all right, let's see how about this. Oh,
that's a really politically incorrect joke. I may have to
run this one by Jack and decide if we can
even I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
That's a good tease for Hour two.
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for a grieving family. He only needed to give his
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hate speech proves otherwise.
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It's a classic example of seemed like a good idea
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
Ah, what are they up to now?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's a big new travel band. Trump just announced a
bunch of countries. Just don't even bother replying you can't
come in?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Is that to keep out? Uh? Let's keep out what.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Bad people in generals, people that aren't white.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh lord, that's right. It's a Muslim travelman.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Let's see, citizens of Burkina, Fasso, Molli, Nizier, South Sudan
and Syria are joining the list of countries whose citizens
are already nearly banned from immigrating.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'll tell you what, at least half of that list.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You give me a comfortable pair of shoes in a compass,
and I can't find them.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I don't know where they.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Are Astinians or banned Lao, Sierra Leone. In addition, fifteen
countries will face new partial bands and Gola Antigua and
Barbuda Antigua. Okay, but Barbudha. Come on, tell you who
doesn't like a Barbouden. You got an antigue at dinner?
Count your silverware, then an Ivory coast, Dominica, Gabone, the Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania,
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enders I could keep going.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's a bunch of African countries.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Mostly I don't know where these places are, like, yeah, Africa,
it's funny. I was just reading out about a place
that I've never heard of. That's what I've been doing
the last five minutes or so because I just heard
this story came across it. Bhutan it's actually a landlocked,
tiny little country in the Himalayas, which I never Oh. Yeah,
that's been a big story because the tariffs. Oh really, Anyway,
(02:39):
they're building a mindfulness city, the world's first mindfulness city,
built all around that concept, which I don't think I
fully understand. Well, how would you define mindfulness based on it?
You're not mindful of mindfulness? Clearly, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Being aware of what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I had a book about it, but I had an
antiguan or for dinner, and I think he stolen, as
they will pastwards. I think it's being aware of what
you are doing and doing it intentionally, as opposed to
just being a creature of patterns and habits.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And and you know, just reacting. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, I know it's something that alcoholics are not good at,
which could get us back into one of the headlines yesterday,
Trump's alcoholic personality and what the hell that means? And
doesn't it The mainstream media has no knowledge of that whatsoever. Clearly,
but yeah, I'm not good at mindfulness, neither many people
in my tribe. Maybe I should move to this town Bhutan. Yeah,
(03:37):
I'm gonna hear a good definition of mindfulness if somebody
can dig that up. So they're trying to design this
mindfulness city where architects are going to blend innovation with
Bhutan's g MH. That's their gross national happiness principles. Now
that's got to be a translation problem, right the word
(03:57):
gross here.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Or a bad play on words gross national product.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, maybe that's it. Okay, that makes more sense, gross
national happiness. Okay, they're just trying to measure the whole
country's happiness.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
There you go. Okay, if you're more mindful, you'd have
gotten that show. It's not a good nun.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But if I have an alcoholics personality, I'm sure how
that relates. But the so I'll have to read more
about their gross national Happiness principles.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What they are.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They're probably things like turn that frown upside down? Why
don't you smile more? Stuff like that, turn lemonades into
lemon or the other. I guess it's the other way.
You can turn lemonade into lemons. You got a trick
going there, You do you can form a religion. Uh,
they're building inhabitable bridges, spiritual centers, economic friendly infrastructure. I
(04:45):
don't know, but that makes me happier an inhabitable bridge, Yeah,
I can always be loss over you. I know California's
got those generally under the bridge. That's what I first thought.
I thought, like, so bridges designed that people can live
under them if they need to. I wonder if that's
what they actually mean. Anyway, I like the idea of
a mindfulness city. How's your mindfulness coming today, Jim? Pretty good?
(05:06):
How about you jack off the charts?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They were a controversial story early in the tariff discussion,
and that's probably worth reminding everybody. Remember the Supreme Court
might just flush the whole thing, the tiff thing.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
At any moment at some point. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, But anyway, So Bhutan is this landlocked, mountainous little kingdom,
republic whatever it is, and they have like no economy
except for exporting I can't remember what it is, rugs
or blankets or something to the United States. And we
slapped them with these punitive tariffs, even though you know,
we've got a trade imbalance because they've got like one
(05:47):
hundred bucks between them the entire country. So how are
you not going to have a trade imbalance? It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Where'd you come up with mindfulness?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
There?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Katie, this is a perfect.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Thing heading into the you know, the holiday season, Chris
Messina or anything like that. Maybe a lot of people
going to have some free time, be off work. I
need to know about mindfulness, Katie.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All Right.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
A mindfulness a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness
on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts.
Bodily sensations being used as a therapet peutic technique.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'll accept my bodily sensations all day long. I knew
that was going to bring that. Yeah, he never fails
to disappoint Katie. No, that's kind of interesting. So I
don't know how far I want to go down this
road or not. As I'm an alcoholic, I know lots
of alcoholics. And so the story that broke yesterday of
(06:42):
Trump's chiefest staff saying he's got an alcoholic personality misinterpreted
by absolutely everyone.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
He doesn't drink, and that's because people just don't understand
what most alcoholics feel like alcoholism is all about. And
she Susie Wilde's a p who said that to whatever
author she was talking to. She's aware of that sort
of language because her dad was a sober alcoholic pat
some are all the famous football announcer who worked with
John Madden all those years. He had been sober for
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like thirty years when he died, So I'm sure she
was aware of the language of sober alcoholics. And that's
you know, understanding that there are traits that go along
with being an alcoholic that have nothing to do with
drinking whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So it's you know.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It didn't the number of news conversations I heard yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It doesn't make sense because he doesn't drink.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Is he drinking She's suggesting that he drinks at night
or just said no, it's good, nothing to do with
But anyway, the reason I bring that in talking about mindfulness,
I'd say one of the main traits, and I think
this is fascinating. It'd be interesting if they could ever
like figure this out with brain waves or something like
that is alcoholics inability to live in today, which is,
(07:57):
you know the opposite of mindfulness. You're either thinking about
yesyesterday usually aggrievance, or tomorrow, dreaming about tomorrow, never today.
It's just like it's a processing disorder, practically almost impossible
to think about today. I can dwell on yesterday. I
can fantasize about tomorrow, but I can't think about today.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It's just almost you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And I could see that that's why Trump fires off
stuff in.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
The middle of the night, because he's dwelling on the
past all the time. I have two thoughts.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Number One, I'm reminded of the words of the philosopher
and teenage girl toucher Stephen Perry Stephen Tyler of Arrows.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh easy. You can't say that and then just get
the names wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I just well, I corrected it as I combined the
singer and guitar player. They're old, they don't care sing
with me, sing for today, never tomorrow. The Good Lord
will take it away anyway. And the second thought is
what you were saying about the alcoholic personality and not
being about alcohol is I think totally unknown outside of
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the alcoholic in counseling communities. I've never heard in my
whole life anybody expressed any awareness of that. And I
was only dimly dimly aware of it myself, having worked
with you for these many years, and I still don't
quite understand it. So I think I wish that what
Susie Wilds said, instead of just being the usual Washington
pissing match, might mean to a discussion of it. It's
(09:23):
an expression, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Not an actual contest. No, no, let it go un set?
Which channel has that? I don't want that channel? Oh boy,
YESPN eleven.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Ah, maybe it could be a discussion of that. I
find it so interesting that volume or distance depends on
the event. You got your sprint, you got your distance,
you got your steeple chase. Now that's one to watch. Okay,
we got to start the show officially. We have gone
far afield. Maybe we can get back into that field later,
(09:56):
because it's an interesting field. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is? Is it Wednesday, December seventeenth,
your twenty twenty five where I'm strung and getting and
we approved this program?
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Sorry Gebone, no visiting.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
All right, let's begin the show officially now according to
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Speaker 2 (10:10):
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Hey, it's scary, Busey and I have got a great
Christmas pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Ha ha. That's what a Goose shows like, where they're fine,
they let you know they're up there ha, oh, get
a bush your geche together, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
This is talking in the air. This is our all time.
There'll be a TF opening clip.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
What in the whole was the acid in my coffee?
So that was actually the actor Gary Busey. Yeah, Oscar
nominee actor.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I am brilliant, brilliant artist. Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And last time he is in the news. He was
sitting on a park bench working as man. Wasn't he
was his pants around his ankles?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I was Is that right? I think so?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Or it was something untoward, but that was It was
a lovely rendition of what geese sound.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But here's a Christmas present for you. That's the odd transition. Wow.
His entire social media is quite entertaining.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
My Christmas present is an old crazy man doing goose sounds.
That's my Christmas present to you.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Wow. Oh and I didn't get you anything? Did you
take that gift out of me? Can I return that
for something else? A pair of.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Socks or something that was that was weirdly disorienting?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Wasn't?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
His Twitter feet is full of stuff like that, Katie.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's always shooting.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Videos that just well, okay, now I kind of admire
it's like you're into the I don't care about anything
portion of your life. You've you've you know, you've done
your thing. Now I'm just gonna let my freak flag fly. Well, yeah,
he's like the Dolly of social media. So he's into
surrealistic art now, or he's just a fruit looking could
(12:10):
be just.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A nut job.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way and lots
of stuff to talk about today, and also we'll get
an update on where we aren't raising money for Scouting
this week, hoping to raise one hundred thousand dollars and
see where we are.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What's coming up? Stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
This is this, Michael, opposite of you. I have done
literally zero Christmas shopping. With the caveat of I did
get something big for my son whose birthdays two days
before Christmas, that counts as both I did buy that.
(12:43):
But I've really done no Christmas shopping and I need
to get on that. Keep saying that, keep saying what
you haven't started. It's like, it's not like you've forgotten. No,
I ain't got a lot of free time.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Maybe just to get online stuff this week. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Then you do get into that buying the whole trying
to pay extra expedited shipping thing. Let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Well.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The lead is the Rob Reiner story. First ABC video
shows moments leading up to Nick Reiner's arrest after parents
deaths NBC. Nick Reiner charged with murder in death of parents,
death penalty is possible and TMZ. Rob Reiner's daughter found
his body but didn't initially realize her mom had also
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been murdered.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
So the death penalty thing would be interesting if it
was a state where we actually kill people. The death
penalty in California means you're going to die of old age,
but it be much more expensive for the taxpayer. That's
one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty in California.
But mayn'd be something if they executed Rob Reiner's son,
But it ain't.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Gonna happen in California.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is so.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
At the Conan O'Brien Christmas party, he was walking around
asking people crazy questions. Everybody was like, really weirded out
because he was clearly nuts so angry God, that'd be
an uncomfortable situation of being right one of your guests
kids who you know is troubled, is walking around the
party being super weird. Oh yeah, there's a picture of
them recently, the whole family in Las Vegas. Then everybody's smiling,
(14:16):
having a great time, and he is just glowering at
the camera he usually is in recentation.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I read a maybe.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'll share some of it with you later, but a
surprisingly sympathetic piece about so called Nepo babies and how
so many people of like fame and wealth in entertainment
in particular and up miserable, miserably unhappy, not all of them.
But do you think that's being born the son of
some big star is like a launching pad toward happiness
(14:45):
and you're wrong. Well, I also think it'd be really
really hard to raise a normal kid if you were
a big star.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That'd be tough. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
CBS employers added sixty four thousand jobs in November, but
unemployment rate to the highest in four years.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Michael Keaton, at the height of his fame, guy who
played Batman and everything like that, moved to Montana and
Wyoming to raise his kid and just like got out
of everything because of this. Just the idea of trying
to raise in Hollywood with the paparazzi round and the
fancy restaurants and all the things that aren't normal.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What a beautiful thing to do.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
From the Free Beacon, Chinese investment firm funded by Yale
and Princeton, by a slice of Shanghai tech company.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That works with China's military.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, between all of the Chinese communists spies on our campuses,
and the unholy alliances between those colleges and universities and
the Chinese, we have a fifth column right now in
the US.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And it's big, and.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's super well established and connected, and nobody seems to care.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
From the New York Post, last US pennies ever minted?
Fetch wopping sixteen zero point seven million dollars at auction.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow Wow. From the Wall streets.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
There's somebody who is that, somebody who think that's a
good investment, or somebody you just thinks would be really
cool to have the last penny. I almost think it's
got to be you think it's gonna be worth something someday,
because it's not that cool to have the last penny.
I'm just thinking about other currencies that have been discontinued,
and I don't remember hearing about a big auction, about
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the last Buffalo nickel or what have you. I'm over
at your house and you say, hey, I've got the
last penny. Every minuted you want to see it, I'd
say no unless I which would.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It be in polite to say no?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And if you said you paid you know, ten thousand bucks,
I'd think Wow, Okay, I called millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Seems insane. If you said you paid ten thousand bucks,
I think you're an idiot.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
And finally from the babylon Bee, California family still waiting
for permit to build gingerbread house.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hey, it's a commentary on red tape and around the Fires.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, that's a long story. Rampant corruption.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes, are we going to go to war with Venezuela
over Christmas?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Break Ah? There could be some shooting.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Certainly we're blockading them, an actual blockade. Wow, got a
lot of stories to update you on.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
If you miss it, get the.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So I thought he was just petting her for a second.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I had to rewatch it a couple of times because
it is hard to see it's dark, Andie doesn't carry
her very nicely.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I see her little tail and I'm like, oh my god,
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So that's the
story of an Amazon driver who took somebody's cat.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Is what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Ly cat rustlers, So you deliver a packaging and think, well,
that's a particularly good looking cat.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
All cats are more or less the same.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
You gotta git, you gotta hang cat rustlers. There's a
lot of cats around. You don't need to steal that
person's cat. You're a nut. Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I think Amazon throws a pretty wide net when it
comes to drivers this time of year.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's Michael. That's It's terrible way to put it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
They've identified the driver, but for some reason they can't
find him.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I think if you can fog a mirror, you probably
qualify to drive for Amazon.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That would be my guest. Yes, yes, boy.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
So I've talked a lot about how great being a
boy Scout has been for my son. It's maybe literally
the best thing that has happened in his life, and
it is for a lot of kids. And I've witnessed
to myself and then at the very beginning of Scouting,
And it's what got me started on thinking of raising
money for the Scouts so we could get involved. Is
talking to one of the dads there, and one of
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the dads saying, yeah, a lot of it's too bad.
A lot of families just can't afford to get their
kid into Scouting because it is going to be several
hundred dollars to join, variety of fees and stuff like that.
So what we're trying to do is raise money so
that you can bypass that fee. He got a kid
that wants to be in Scouting or girl, but it's
mostly boys. I mean, just in my experience, that we
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can pick up the tab on the join in the
Scouts so that you can do that. And like last night,
I was observing some of the last of the meeting
they meet weekly and they were celebrating Henry's birthday because
his birthday is next week, and he brought some troops
and the treats and they all saying happy Birthday, and
they did the flag ceremony and blah blah.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Blah, just all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's so freaking awesome and the just for me just
seeing a whole bunch of in this case it's all
young men saying the pledge of allegiance and saluting the flag.
Jesus fills me with the warmth I can't imagine because
it's just so not what you see in the year
twenty twenty five, learning self reliance, taking the initiative becoming
men to help them learn how to become men, which
(19:46):
is like taboo and a lot of our perverse society.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So yeah, I love it. I love the influence.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I went to a really big like award ceremony they
had for top level people that are involved in the
organization anyway. I was at this big ballroom like one
of those of things. People dressed up, drinks, meal, that
whole thing. But I went and they had all kinds
of Scouts manning the doors and these little kids in
some cases Hello, sir, welcome. Is there anything I can
(20:12):
get you with? The drinks are over there, and just
to look you in the eye, shake your hand. I'm
not used to that sort of thing out of modern kids,
and seeing it coming out of Scouting, I just think
is awesome. And I don't want anybody to not be
able to have their kids joined Scouts because what it
costs to join and that's why we're trying to raise
money and go to Armstrong and getty dot com. We
made it super easy to donate. We're shooting for one
(20:33):
hundred thousand dollars. I don't want to go negative here.
I'm trying to say this as a reason to motivate people.
We had a pretty slow twenty four hours. Let's do
a total let us roll the roll the drums here,
I'll point out while she's getting her drums texture, it's
often the kids who can't afford scouting that the effects
(20:54):
will be immeasurable in putting them on the right passage, absolute, abolutely.
I'm sure that is true that the trend lines on
that match up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
So we got off the air yesterday about fifty grand.
That was our goal yesterday and we are currently at
sixty and forty three dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Now, that is a ton of money, that's right. That
is love s ton of money.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
As a lot of people say, how did that phrase
get start say that sort of thing in scouting.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
By the way, you wouldn't be welcome with your potty mouth.
I don't know who started that phrase. It's a is
that metricer? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's a lot of money. But we're we're shooting for
one hundred thousand dollars and we're almost done with the week.
So please go to Armstrong in geddy dot com and donate.
If it's ten bucks, twenty bucks. If every we're on
all over the country, if everybody kicked ten ten dollars,
obviously we would get there easily. So help a lot
of young kids. Yeah, so would you could jump on?
That would appreciated. Armstrong in getty dot com. So here's
(21:52):
some interesting news. The President of the United States, who's
the guy from The Apprentice anyway, He on Tuesday ordered
a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers
entering and leaving Venezuela, and it is described as a
major escalation of his pressure campaign against the country's leader,
kleptomaniac Nicholas Maduro. So it's just the oil tankers. It's
(22:15):
not it's not a full on blockade, like nothing, nothing
can come or go, correct, you just the sanctioned oil tankers,
said Trump on truth social which is again a bit
of an odd way to make presidential proclamations.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Venezuela. Is that what he said? Oh boy, that was.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yikes, Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever
assembled in the history of South America, Trump said, helpfully,
using a Spanish term for the giant assemblage of ships.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Hdn't I didn't pick up on that.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's pretty help to help understand what's going exactly, He threatened,
the US military presidence would quote only get bigger, and
the shock to them will be like nothing they have
ever seen before unless Maduro's regime regime returned quote oil,
land and other assets that they previously stole from US,
an apparent reference to Venezuela's nationalization of US linked holdings
(23:07):
in the country.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, that was Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I had to ask a question when he said they
got to give back our oil in our land, I thought,
in what senses that are oil? And I really wondered,
and what how did how did Venezuela end up with
some of our land? I didn't understand that at all.
Half a Phoenix, Yeah, it's a scandal. It's amazing Venezuela
took half of Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
How did I miss that? They're occupying it? Seems like
I could be a big news story.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
No celebrities involved, so uh no, so Yeah, it's it
has to do with nationalizing oil. Interestingly, Chevron, which has
been a presence in Venezuela for I think over one
hundred years, is excluded from any sort of blockading or
sanctioning or anything like that, and they're sailing in and
out of Venezuelan points of ports with oil as they
(23:51):
have for many moons. They have an agreement with the
US and it's kind of a carve out, which is
interesting m because it's obviously revenue for the Venezuelans. It's
a complicated relationship. I started to read about it and thought,
there's no way I can accurately communicate this to the
good people. But just suffice it to say it's complicated,
and we'll say. He keeps hinting that there will be
(24:13):
land strikes. I don't know why that hits people as
an escalation, because blasting a boat in the water is
not much different than hitting somebody walking down a dirt road. Yeah,
there's something about on our land, our country, our dirt
(24:35):
that's especially offensive to human beings.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
For some reason.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
If we're out there on the water, we don't like it,
but just don't blow up our dirt. Yeah, I haven't
got even a slightly educated guests as to where this
is going.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So I guess we'll sit back and watch.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Is there anything Maduro can promise concede to Trump without
leaving power that will ratchet this down? Well? Who was
I watching the other day? Is somebody I really like
saying this is obviously a regime regime change policy?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
For whatever reason, they don't want to say it out loud,
or maybe just because it's got such a nasty hangover
from a couple of regime changes that haven't exactly gone
our way, and lots of them don't, because once you
change regimes, you have no idea what's going to replace it,
and it's often not something better.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Sometimes it's something worse or just as bad.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
In fact, frequently power vacuums reward the most vicious, most auspicious.
I'm rapping a little bit. Part of it is you
get rid of whoever's in charge, and you have a
lot of disorder. And when you have a lot of disorder,
thank god I've never lived through it, and Americans we
haven't had to. But you have a lot of disorder.
People welcome anybody. I don't care. ICE's fine, come in
(25:53):
if you can stop the crime in the streets and
get somebody to pick up the garbage. Fine, And that's
how or isis or whoever. The bath party in Iraq
they get over because people want order. At some point
you're willing to put up with pretty much anything for order.
One of the most interesting things I've heard read in
the last couple of years has been the British commentators
(26:17):
comedian I guess I just think of him as a thinker, honestly,
Constantine Kissen, who is talking about the history of Russian
how it differs so starkly from the history of the
United States. And I talked about this when I first
read it, but that in the last you know, few
hundred years of Russian history there have been strong leaders,
then periods of unrest, and during those periods of unrest,
(26:40):
the slaughter has been unimaginable. And then a strong leader
will come in and bring order and stop the killing.
Now that strong leader might do a fair amount of
killing too, but so the Russian people, their whole history,
yearns for a strong leader to just quash the conflict.
And anyway, I'm sorry, how do we get into that conversation?
(27:05):
I remember how regime change can to something worse. So yeah, yeah,
a lack of stability is one of the worst things
you can have. And you know who doesn't appreciate that
or never thinks about it. A country that's been extremely
stable for a very long time, and you have your
college kids in the streets screaming for revolution because they're
(27:26):
frigging morons. Well, what do you think is our main
reason for wanting regime change in Venezuela. I mean, that
is not an issue that President Trump ran on or
anybody talked about ever. We were at the Republican Convention.
Don't remember it coming up a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No. I suspect it has.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Something to do with the uh, the quasi, well, the
whole we want to control our neighborhood. Yeah, the quasi
Monroe doctor. So that's a big picture, like, Okay, China,
you're gonna run that part of the world, We're going
to run this part of the world. Yeah, And a
feeling like, all right, we've got this incredibly beautiful, ought
to be incredible rich country right across the Gulf of America,
(28:04):
and they'd be a great.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Ally and all, but they got this tin horned jackass.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Dictator run of the place doing nobody any good, and
why are we putting up with That's what's the point
of power? If we permit that right in our backyard.
I think that's the thing here. Trump's given a primetime
live speech tonight. I have no idea how many networks
are planning to take it. Fox is taking, but I
don't know if like ABC, CBSNBC, R. Can you look
into that, Katie, see if the big networks are taking
(28:30):
Trump's speech tonight because we have a theme, well, the
theme is supposed to be We're back baby, the economy
is roaring. It's the same theme he's taken on the
road to his rallies across the country. And I'm not
sure if I'm a network president, I consider that news.
It seems like more of a campaign speech. But we'll
see if they take it. And I just wondered if
(28:51):
you would touch on Venezuela. That'd be a good way
to get the networks to take your speech, as if
you promised some information to the American people on what.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The we're doing his way? When?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Why because we haven't had a lot of that. But
the other thing, we do have a hell of a force.
I'm sorry, I was just reading about it's staged. Yeah,
it's it's impressive and lethal. It is absolutely incredible. You
know anything about this, Katie, take all the major networks, okay,
carry it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Okay, So they said his newsworthy. I'm kind of surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I thought I thought some of your networks would say,
we're not going to let him do a campaign speech
on our channel.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But there so cool.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You want to hear what they're thinking. It's not charitable
for better ratings. They're thinking, A, it'll get a lot
of attention and B. Trump always unschools plenty of rope
to hang himself with.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh, they think it'll be the rist for.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Our commentators to criticize the crap out of them for
the next three days.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I don't know if I think you're right about that,
because they often don't take Trump stuff. And I've and
I've thought for years that I think if I'm running MSNBC,
I put Trump on all the time for my audience. Anyway,
speaking of Venezuela, remember we hit that boat and there
are a couple of scumbags left in the water ready
(30:09):
to attack the United States again, and so we blasted
them real good.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Make sure they were dead. Uh, that video is not
going to be released.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
The Secretary of War Pete Haggs that announced there's too
much national security at stake, so we will not see
the second video, which to me means that he feels
like this particular little scandal has died down enough that
he could make that announcement and isn't even nobody's really
even talking about it, and on we go with our
lives and nobody will ever think about it again. Or
my cynical, cynical friend, he might be thinking, no, this
(30:38):
would threaten our national security? Be changed my mind about
Oh really, did somebody smart explain that to you? I know,
I figured it out for myself. Okay, well what could
I don't know? I read all day long. Something may
have penetrated my contrace. What could be our national secrets?
And seeing yet? I mean, because how many videos have
we seen of boats being blasted? What would be different
about this one? I will open your eyes. I will
(31:00):
bring eyesight to the blind next hour when.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We talk about this.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Okay, fantastic, All right, we got mail bag on the way,
lots of other stuff to talk about. Hey, donate to
the scouting go to Armstrong and Getty dot com. We
got a twenty five dollars donation from Thistle Be Awesome.
Appreciate that. That's the name of my someday Thistle Museum
(31:24):
as I pay tribute to the humble Thistle. I feel
like it deserves a museum, and the name of it
is going to be Thistle be Awesome, fantastic. You know what,
I don't have a freedom loving quote of the day.
You know, hang out, watch this, watch what I do here.
Our freedom loving quote of the day is going.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
To be an email wow from mailbag, devastating combining the two.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's like when the stars of happy Days would be
on ourn and surelier sus.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Just like this promotion. It is just like that. All right,
here's your freedom loving.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Email of the day, Sleepless in Danville. Call him al anonymous,
right Jack Joe. I am an Eagle Scout, went back
as a volunteer for years to repay the many gifts
scouting gave me. I wanted to share a bit of
inspiration with you that still drives me today. On a
trip to Northern Tier, a Scout camp canoeing in the
(32:14):
Boundary Water wilderness between Minnesota and Canada. We had a
scout with us who was let's say you sed to
living comfortably. Day two, some of the other boys wanted
to go ten miles that day. No way we can
go that far, the boy said, and we didn't. Day eight,
we were out there pretty deep into Canada and we
had two days to get back to camp.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Well, what if we pushed it to this.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Lake out here? The boy said. It was the same boy.
It was twenty six miles. We'll be able to see
more before we get back. When I asked him, what changed,
he said, mister anonymous, I'm never gonna say I can't
do something ever again. Who I have heard a dozen
stories exactly like that since my kid has been around scouting.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Wow. Wow, Wow, I know what armstrong again.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Donate now help more kids experience that and become Americans.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
The number one lesson.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Though, and it's something we know we just we don't
valued enough is people, not just kids. But since we're
talking about kids, kids rise to you know the challenge
you give them if you make everything soft and easy,
and you don't have to do that, if you don't
want to, or if it's triggering or it's too hard
or whatever, then nobody accomplishes anything, but if you really
(33:30):
challenge them for whatever reason, the human spirit is I'm
gonna see if I can.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Do it right right. That reminds me.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Let's talk about gentle parenting later. But Armstrong in getty
dot com. Give whatever you can, even if it's a
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Speaker 2 (33:50):
Excellent reminder from m who just wrote.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Following up on our discussion just a couple of minutes ago, Venezuela, guys,
is about China and preventing China from establishing a stronghold
in the West, an hemisphere other than that inside US campuses.
Excellent point, my lad or deer or the neither. Perhaps
you're asexual anyway, it's a great point. Yeah, yeah, the
(34:13):
Maduro Regimei is playing foot seat with China. Following up
on our discussion of Amazon drivers, John Wrights guys had
a far from nice car full.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Of packages.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
In the backseat with an Amazon vested driver pull up
in San Diego's North Country supporting Mexican plates.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Blow so like.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Suspect Mexican nationals are now delivering Amazon packages in San
Diego County. Hmm, okay, all right, let's see how about this. Oh,
that's a really politically incorrect joke. I may have to
run this one by Jack and decide if we can
even I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
That's a good tease for Hour two.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Boy and Mary Ann from Eagle, Idaho, long time listener
blasting Trump's Rob Reiner truth out of line, disrespectful, unkind
for a grieving family. He only needed to give his
condolence this period. He brags about being a Christian, but
hate speech proves otherwise.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
There is no support for what he said about Rob Reiner. None.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
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