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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and and He Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And from Studio ce Signor.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is a dimly lit room where Deep put them
the bowels of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound. And
hey y'all, today, brand new week, back from Thanksgiving vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We're under the tutelage of our general manager, Hunter Biden.
Convicted criminal. Pardon me, Hunter Biden, model citizen, model, citizen
zero discipline, Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Wow, Gali Gally, Gally got it.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I do you know what my favorite aspect of this is,
and it's I hate to get into the meat of it,
but I've got to the fact that the pardon goes
back to what is a December of twenty fourteen, going
back at twenty three Yeah, yeah, yeah, to the very
month Hunter became a director at Barismoin just coincidence.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Ten year pardons are normal. Oh that's right, they aren't. Okay, sorry,
I'm spoke.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Before we get to that. I've got so many things
to say about that. Did anybody beat me? And did
anybody beat me? In weight gain?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Since we were last on the air.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm not me.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I am a full three and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It comes three and a half pounds heavier than I
was when I last joined you. There's more of me
to love, is the way I look at it. Pretty good,
pretty respected. Yeah, how three and a half pounds in
a week is not bad. But like Wall Street, you'd
failed to meet expectations.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I thought I was gonna hear five honestly, little disappointment
on the.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Road travel failed to meet expectations. Your earnings were excellent,
but failed. The good thing is that even though I
was at Arrowhead Stadium on a cold winter day Friday
for the Chiefs Raiders game, it's colder in the studio
right now than it was there, so hopefully it will
burn off some of these pounds. Trying to stay alive.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, three and a half pounds. My PI can feel it.
My pants are tighter. Yeah, I got the whole thing going.
That's a good start, though, that's a good start. I
got several weeks now before Christmas and then a week
in between New Year. I mean, I really I could
hit double digits. I could easily gain ten pounds, So
that's not the goal.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But well, in a shocking revelation, I am down a
pound and a half, which means either my practice of
eating my big meal in the middle of the day
and that are very light dinners paying off, or I'm
dying because I don't quite get how I'm down, but
I'm down.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't want to have the darkest joke of all time,
but there was a time when I thought, wow, I
am really doing well with this that Oh I have cancer.
Oh okay, that's why the way it's just melting away. Yeah,
let's hope it's not that. Let's hope it does exercised
a lot. So back to Hunter Biden. So you're telling
me that the party of the rich get away, particularly
(03:51):
white males. I mean, it's the rich in general that
get to abuse the system with all kinds of different
ways and don't pay their taxes. And then guns, Oh
my god, nobody should even be allowed to have a gun.
But then the people breaking the lava gun. You're telling
me the party of that just the president just pardoned
a rich white guy so he doesn't go to jail
(04:13):
over tax evasion because he was getting so rich, probably illegally,
but in regard no conspiratory he didn't pay his taxes.
He gets pardoned and doesn't have to pay a price
for it, And you're gonna you were going to campaign
on the rich don't pay their fair share, and then
when what you want of your own rich and again
white guys does it, he gets pardoned by the President.
(04:34):
That's freaking, freaking unbelievable. Well, it's the truth laid there.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean, on the rank and file level of the
college kids and the over educated gender studies, suburban moms
who vote Democrats, they're sincere. They're deluded and dopey, but
they're sincere. On the elite level, not a single word
of that is sincere not a word. It's merely a brand.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It means as much as always Coca cola? Does that
mean how about sometimes Coca cola?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, always? So does that mean that for the rest
of my life? When I hear a Democrat saying the
rich don't pay their fair share?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Why other rich gonna except for Honor Biden?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Can we just chant that back at whoever's giving us
the rich don't pay their fair share next time for
Hunter Biden. That would be delightful.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, it's sort of like I've been saying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm happy that an entire new generation of young people
coming out of the presidential election learned that, oh, it's
all phony, since they went on and on about it
was Hitler, and then as soon as he wins, they're like, oh, well,
we'll get him next time and let's go down there
and visit him. So okay, So you're just lying to
me about the Hitler stuff. And then this another generation
will think, oh, okay, they're all hypocrites. The rich don't
(05:54):
pay their fair share. And when our guys who's rich,
really rich, whole family is rich, doesn't pay his taxes,
pays zero taxes, not only isn't paying a high enough
tax rate, doesn't pay any taxes, we pardon him.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And despite Joe Biden's claims that it was all about
addiction and a bad habit and all, he signed all
of those tax returns post sobriety, okay, worth mentioning.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So to me, this is I didn't realize it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know what, JT and Livermore, maybe a matthe Idaho farmhand, Jeff,
some of our Jeff the honorary producer. I need you
to remind me of this regularly place or maybe my
wife can do it. I need to gamble on politics.
I was dead certain he would pardon Hunter. I didn't
(06:40):
even have any doubt, no doubt. This is the absolute
definition of shocking yet unsurprising. It was a certainty, and
I need to start profiting from that. But it is
also and I'm heartened somewhat by the fact that the
truce will.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Absolutely come out at some point.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's not all about electoral cycles and and momentary political gains.
I think historians will dig their teeth into this. Joe
Biden's serial liar and money launderer will be exposed eventually
as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.
It'll be eventually he'll be long, cold and dead in
(07:18):
the grave, But yeah, soon enough.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Is there anybody who wouldn't pardon their own kid if
they had the chances they were heading out the door
for the offenses before us. Specifically, if you assumed, as
he does, that your kid had their act together. Now,
it'd be pretty hard to not pardon mem go with
the you know what, tough love. Everybody has to blah
blah blah.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It's my kid. Everybody's going to be mad.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But I can let him get on with his life,
or he can go to prison for maybe the rest
of his life. I mean, he's in his mid fifties.
If he gets fifteen twenty years, that could be the
rest of your life. I'm Joe Biden. I'm about dead.
I'm thinking to Hella, Oh you're mad at me. Okay,
you know what. I'm going to be dead soon, so
don't worry about it. Yeah, I could see No, if
you know, God forbids somebody's kid like axe murdered eleven
(08:04):
people or something like that. No, no, I wouldn't pardon them.
But yeah, it's it's it's hypocrisy laid there. It's practically
a guilty plead of money laundering in my mind. Oh yeah,
that's interesting. I don't remember Jonathan Earli or somebody I
heard say there's practically an admission here that there are
(08:24):
more things we don't know about that he hasn't been.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Charged with that are out there.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
If you're going with the whole, not specific to these
you know charges, you're going just any and everything for
ten years, right right, Well, there are a couple of
reasons he played guilty eventually. Number one, he was guilty
as sixteen dogs, as hunter Thompson would have put it.
And secondly, to put this all on trial, you get
into where did the money come from and where did
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it go, which is what I was hankering for the
whole time. Yeah, and he does get to go with
the uh who what father wouldn't pardon their son and
ignore the fact that it was going to bring down
the whole family.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Then final brief irony, and I will read you the
utterly vomit inducing letter of pardon from the President in
a minute. But the fact that a couple of Trump
aids got charged with the operating is undeclared unlicensed lobbyists
for foreign powers during the Russian collusion hoax, and Hunter
(09:24):
labored for millions of dollars for a variety of loathsome
foreign regimes and was clearly lobbying for them. But he
doesn't get so much as a traffic ticket for it.
And then the great irony, sorry, the sickening irony and
the letter of pardon is that is that Biden makes
it clear that his son's been treated unfairly. This is
(09:45):
gotten noney, even treatment he'd been treated more harshly than.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Anyone else would have without his name. It's absurd yeah, yeah,
one sentence on that. But after we start the show
officially so we don't get in trouble with the FCC.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty, that Tell guy or
whatever his name is, Kutel. You know he and some
charge the FBI. We're not starting our show in time.
We could end up in prison. You don't know the retribution.
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
(10:11):
brand new month, ran his dude, December second, my mom's birthday,
the year twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong in Getty
and we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
All let's begin officially now according to FCC rules and regulations.
Leaping into action at Mark, Have you.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes, but the
commute his.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Son, I was very clear and I said no.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've been very clear. The President has been very clear
when we've been asked us question, and he.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Said he would not pardon his son. Always made up.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It's still a no.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It will be a no. It is a no. And
I don't have anything else to add. Will he pardon
his son?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Breaking news tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
President Biden has made a decision to pardon his son Hunter.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, so's going to read from Biden's letter, But including
that letter, Biden talks about how politics corrupted the justice system.
Oh wit a second, that's interesting. So Trump's bringing all
these people in saying you got to clean out the
justice department because it's been corrupted, corrupted by politics. Oh no, no,
you all been claiming he's a fascist for one to
do that. Now you say Hunter Biden wrongly attacked because
(11:17):
politics corrupted the justice department? How are you gonna square
that circle? Convicted by a jury of his peers.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Have some more on that coming up in a little bit.
Three and a half.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Pounds of square anything the lying thief and hypocrites.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Three and a half pounds.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I'm not happy about it, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Joe and I used to live in Salina, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I don't know if you remember this place called Bogi's Burgers,
who had like one hundred and fifty different flavors of
shakes too.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I remember it, blueberry cheesecake. That's my I should have
texted you. Yeah, that's getting people what their favorite was.
Because I got peanut butter one night and the next night,
because I went back again because who doesn't have a
milkshake two nights in a row, even though they're eating
Thanksgiving style meals.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
In additions of growing ass man, Yes, right, child, So
trying to figure out where how am I getting through
to f Powells?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I understand must be by metabolism.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Uh, how does mailbag look?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That's quite good? Good start to the monk cool. Our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
But apparently the new thing in college football is after
the game you all go to beating on each other
until the uh and fans until the police have to
come in in pepper spreea. So apparently that's a new
college tradition. Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Wow, Well it's the new tearing down the goldposts apparently. Yeah,
all right, so more on that to come. Uh, campus madness,
a gender bendit. We got everything for you, plus all
the news of the day. Naturally, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day. It comes from Henry Brooks Adams,
an American historian, a member of the Adams political family,
descended from q US presidents.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh yeah, quinc Yeah, the right of some people will
say the best nonfiction book of the twentieth century, The
Education of Henry Adams, which he wrote himself. Excellent. So
here is his quote as I click back.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
To that chaos was the law of nature, order was
the dream of man. Yet another reminder that the natural
state of everything is chaos and decay and violence. Order compassionate,
of course, order that respects the human rights. It's a miracle.
(13:34):
Don't give it away, Mailbag. You can write us a note,
would you? Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Gary Musquite,
Nevada writes, and I agree, obviously, proving what we already know,
Biden is the most corrupt president in our history. When
the stories come out over the next several years, his
name will be synonymous with the worst and most corrupt.
(13:54):
Let's see, this is John Obviously Hunter made a deal
with his dad. Daddy promised to pardon if you would
plead guilty to tax charges, then Joe would avoid accountability
for receiving ten percent of the dirty millions.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Let's go, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
We got this text.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I think I've seen this in a couple of lames.
So Joe Biden pardoned three turkeys.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Hauh, what I got it? That's kind of an old
timey con there, you're a loser. Calling somebody a turkey
not exactly modern insult. Yeah, that's rather mild by today's standards.
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
This is from jishn Wright's Glad you lazy bastards are
back to work.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I've read multiple articles now in regard to Trump's appointees.
They all talk about how these people are going to
bring a campaign of retribution. But they failed to tell
me what the retribution is for. If I'm seeking retribution
because it's someone has wronged me, are they saying he
was wronged?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
If I'm seeking retribution it's because someone has wronged me.
Are they saying he was wronged and is now going
to seek retribution. Well, if he was wronged, why shouldn't
he seek retribution? Get these people out of government. Please
tell me what the retribution is for. Maybe he should
be seeking it.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah. The New York Times writes about that today. We'll
talk about that later. There's a paragraph in there that
says this is going to make it more difficult for
Democrats to complain about Donald Trump going after the Justice Department,
since the current Democratic president just said the Justice Department
has been doing things for political reasons.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
All right, In cash Patel, who's been nominated to run
the FBI.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Very controversial choice. We'll talk about that some. He will
just quote Jo.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Widen please you wrote him hisistimony, right right, A total
change of topic.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'd like this.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
David and Umquah, a beautiful organ who's supplied to a
number of interesting things about education. Parents write to know
solution to teachers grooming children and doctrinating them, sexualizing them,
and man, we have stories about all that stuff in
different ways. The cure for that is parents' access to classrooms,
video proof, real time proof of what school are teaching.
(16:00):
Government teachers need to be monitored by parents. Should the
government schools be operating without scrutiny? I mean, I realized
there are children involved, and you can't, you know, have
generally available videotapes of children doing stuff. It's just it's
full of problems. But our justice system famously is absolutely
(16:28):
ironclad in its openness. Everything happens in front of the people,
and you're judged by a jury of your peers.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Why wouldn't your schools.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Are a darklyistered environment where are secrets unfolded.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Why wouldn't you have a nannycam in every classroom? You
can just log on and seeing what's going on in
your kid's class. Why wouldn't it be that way?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I get the logistical problems in the modern age, teachers
would go viral and like the so called Karen who
had a legitimate complaint or it was out of context
or whatever, all of a sudden, they'd be and doxed
and terrified or whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I don't know. Maybe it would it's a conundry. Maybe
it would protect you as a teacher if everybody got
to see how unruly students are out of control. Blah
blah blah.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The other to absolutely be an upside, that's an interesting question.
We've got a lot of news to catch up on.
We've been gone for a week. Stay with us if
you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I have to mention the most embarrassing part of the
whole milkshake fiasco that probably helped me gain.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Three and a half pounds over the last week. I'll
get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh, Joe is going to read from Joe Biden's letter
explaining his pardon, in which he is getting beaten up
by lots of people on the left also on how
this opens the door for Trump and a lot of
arguments that Trump makes, So we'll get to.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
That coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I can't believe we're a half hour into the show
and we haven't mentioned cyber Monday. Everybody, It's cyber Monday.
But I don't know if we need that sound hopefully
he's lost his mind. That seems like an odd sound
for cyber Monday. It's like, oh, is that a warning?
It's like when there's a tornado or a train coming
or something. Uh, it's cyber Monday's ever been very stressed today?
(18:12):
Cyber Monday. Up, It's cyber Monday. Of course this follows
Black Friday. Yes, Michael, I'm surprised we're not running best
of I thought cyber Monday we'd be off to Why
aren't we home holding our children and singing cyber Monday songs? Well,
because cyber Monday is when you buy a lot of
stuff online at work, because you have a faster internet
connection at work than you do at home. Heading back
(18:32):
to nineteen eighty nine, cyber Monday stopping.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
So.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I just wanted to mention this relating to I went
to an outlet mall yesterday and I was so frustrated.
There was not a parking spot anywhere. There were just
cars circling around this gigantic place, everybody frustrated, so many
people walking you could barely draw. I have never in
(19:02):
my life, I've been going to this same giant outlet
mall for twenty five years, never seen a crowd like this,
even close yesterday afternoon. So I mean that is as
anecdotal as anecdotal evidence can get about where people are
with shopping and consumer confidence and all that sort of stuff.
But it was nuts, absolutely nuts, And all the stories
(19:24):
in there, I said, has it been like this the
whole weekend? When I finally got the park and go in,
So oh yeah, it's been crazy Friday, Saturday and today
just crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
what's happening.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You know, Black Friday, the name of it is ridiculous,
but it is a time.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's the first time that kmart goes into the black
for the year because so many people got in shop
after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
But you know, after Thanksgiving you do think start thinking
about Christmas shopping and the rest of it. But as
an informal measure, Black Friday sales were up significantly from
last year. So boys, trying to get your wrap your
arms around this economy and who it's good for and
who it's not for. It's it's definitely not a simple picture. No.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I was watching all this and thinking about all those
stats we've heard about people have run out of money
and they've maxed out their credit cards, and thinking, so,
did you open a new credit card? Did you get
a raise? I mean, is what is going on with everybody?
But I mean, it's just nuts. I didn't declare to
my kids this is the last time I will be
at a retail outlet until January. I will not do
that under any circumstances. Again, it was miserable, Absolutely miserable.
(20:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, I have no doubt whatsoever. But that's
consumer spending is two thirds of the economy, So that's
good for the economy. Although if everybody's putting on their
credit cards and can't actually afford it, it's not so.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I read a pretty detailed and persuasive account a few
weeks ago from the Wall Streets Journal that said, there's
a real demarcation between homeowners and owners of stocks and
mutual funds and stuff like that who feel very, very wealthy,
and the other chunk of the economy that does not
feel wealthy at all and is struggling to keep their
(21:09):
heads above water and running up their credit cards, not
on lavish gifts for each.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Other, but indeed for you know, the basics. And they've said,
yesterday Sunday, come home day from Thanksgiving, with the busiest
travel day in US history.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Wow, so people were getting out and about there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it could it be going on at the same
time that we're all shocked and horrified by inflation.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I was talking to my family about this or my
brother about this anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And yet I don't think enough of us, including myself,
recognize that unless you've got to raise in the last
couple of years, you've taken.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Like a twenty five to thirty percent pay cut.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But I think we all ignore that that we've taken
a thirty percent pay cut.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, I think we sense it our in our bones.
But yeah, that's absolutely a correct way to put it.
And that's why inflation is a tax. It's the way
the government gets to spend out more money than they
have send out more money they have to their cronies,
thereby reducing the value of your dollars, and all of
(22:12):
a sudden you have to pay, you know, twenty thirty
percent more for stuff over the span of a couple
of years, making you that much poorer.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You have been taxed. It's just indirect. It is cyber Monday.
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Speaker 1 (24:01):
You see the pictures that came out of Trump's Thanksgiving
when everybody was down there and he's walking around. There's
de Sylvester Saloon. There's Elon Musk again, who practically lives there,
sitting next to Trump at the big table, and all
this sudden they're playing the music and they're all dancing.
I mean, that whole toga He's president again. Thing is
just on fire.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I have never seen a higher profile transition than Trump's.
I mean, he's the president at this point, he's meeting
with foreign dignitaries, he's got him on the phone, or
they're coming to mar A Lago.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, Trudeau from Canada went down there to talk to him.
Zuckerberg from Facebook went and had dinner with Trump.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I mean, occasionally he's got to have to say, look,
I can't help you. You got to talk to the corpse.
He's still in office or whatever. He calls him, the Mummy.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I'm not actually president. Yeah, the Mummy's president.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He's gonna talk to the corpse. The way people are
coming down there to meet with him to try to
get on his good side before he takes office has
got to be making him feel pretty good about himself.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yes, to the extent that he needs a bollstring of
his eg Oh yeah, Oh, speaking of which, next hour.
I'm sure we will get into this in earnest Trump's
appointees or his nominees nominating appointees, and there are a
variety of them.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The pattern has continued. About fifty percent seem rock solid.
About twenty five percent are huh, that's interesting. But I'll
look forward to the hearings and about twenty five percent
are badass nuts if you ask me. But you know,
the Senate is there to advise and consent, and they
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will get together and chat behind the scenes and say, hey,
we have these concerns. And to quote who was it,
was it Janet Yellen? What was her name? The system worked,
The system's working. It's gonna be fine. So polling from
last Sunday, CBS News, and this is another one of
(25:56):
those don't get your feeling about the electorate through the
media because you'll be misled. This was last Sunday, So
I don't know if the polls have changed since his
FBI nomination at all, which just happened on Saturday. I
guess sixty percent of Americans approved of Trump's choices, his
(26:18):
cabinet picks. So that's the CBS News poll. So after
all of the you know, oh my God, he's so
crazy and out of control. Can you believe he's doing
these awful things? Or on a RFK Junior and Telsea Gabbard,
everything like that. As of last Sunday, after all those
names are out and through the whole Matt Gates is
a thing with Caman went and everything like that. Sixty
(26:39):
percent of Americans approved of Trump's choices. Yeah, I think
you're risty forty. That's a pretty big win when you
hear that's on our media against you, right, Yeah, it's
a good point.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Once again, the media representing a tiny swath of weird America.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But I think it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Also is an expression of what I was talking about
people and maybe they think this consciously, but they thought, yeah,
I've heard there's some good, some bad, but the Senate
and that's a couple of months from now, and I'm
not worried about it. That's an expression of I have
faith in this country and our systems, which I think
you should. And I say that having said that, about
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a quarter of his nominations or nuts to my mind.
But they'll get weeded out, or they'll try and they'll
fail and and and we'll move on as a country.
I'm not I refuse to act as if my heart
is on fire every news story that comes out, like
most of the media.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Oh, we got to take a break and come back
with eighties headlines. I'm sory.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm a little choked up because it's Cyber Monday and
it always gets to me and what it means to
the Cyber Monday memories and the Carrol's times with my
grandparents on Cyber Monday, long before.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Day, my dad put his arm around my shoulders and said, son.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
You got a double click.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Becoming a man, right right. We got a lot of
the way.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I hope you can stay with us text line four ONEFTC.
A number of texts about the idea. I don't remember
how we got on the topic of cameras in the classroom.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
We got a number of interesting texts about that. Maybe
we'll get back into that later.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Great upside, huge downside. It's an intriguing idea.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
We did it for Slash two Cops and it seems
to be accepted.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
And there was all the hue and cry before it happened.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
So again, three and a half pounds over Thanksgiving, and
at least part of it was my back to back
milkshake nights in addition to a lot of ridiculous family
eating where I drove across town and went to this
famous milkshake place in the town I was in on
the trial. And the first night we all ate there
because we just rolled into town, and my kids got
milkshakes also. But then the second night, when I was
(28:47):
going to go back, who wants to get a milkshake?
Both my teenage boys said no, Nah, that's too unhealthy.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I just I don't think I should do a milkshaking.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So I went by myself because young who are not
famous for their judgment, decided, Nah, that's just overdoing it
to have milkshake after today.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
So what does that say about me?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I still don't understand how you're not on that my
six hundred pound life show.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I'm making a chapter of overeaters anonymous or something.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I don't know. My kids. I think it was practically
an intervention for my kids to try to convince me
not to go and get I did any so much
sugar well, and then I appreciated.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Jack sent me a picture of the truck stop by
the highway that we used to sneak off to grab
a slice of pie and plan what would become the
Armstrong e Getty Show. When we were working for competing stations,
we had to slink around like we're having an affair
and good times if they have not updated the decor.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, but why would you? Had some pie is good
and had some pie?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Had some pie, which is why I'm three and a half.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
There's more of me to love as I keep saying,
yeah pie as well, Yes, of course lots of pie. Jack,
You're amazing. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the
leak story with Katie Green. All right, let me start
with NBC News.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden, despite saying he wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
So that part people are making a big deal out of.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I didn't. Most people assume he would pardon him, and
that's just something he had to say.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
So that part doesn't bother me much.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But the politics around it and the message it sends man,
some of the critics in the mainstream media really interesting.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
We'll read from some of that a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Also, it was a full throated statement that yes, some
people are above the law. Are people period?
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Bengo ABC News IDF confirms death of another US Israeli hostage.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Oh, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
From CNN, Putin approves record defense spending a third of
Russia's entire budget.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah, they're spending thirty some percent of their GDP on
the military. To weigh your war against a country that
they don't need to be fighting, right.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Right, with enormous loss of life and the brain drained
of the country. What this looks like ten years from
now will be really interesting to observe.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
From The New York Times, Germany pledges extra six hundred
and eighty million dollars to Ukraine in effort at reassurance.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's been a bad week for Ukraine. Russia's taken a
bunch of land. We'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
From Politico, delete cfpv Elon Musk calls for elimination of
Consumer Bureau.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Oh yeah, that's the Liz Warren project, right. Yeah, I
haven't done me any good as far as I can tell,
but don't feel strongly about it.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
CBS News postgame fights erupt across Rivalry Reek Right, Wow,
rivalry week as four teams attempt to plant flags on
opponents field.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So is this a new thing where you win the
game on the road and you take your team's flag
and you try to stick it in the middle of
the field, and then the other teams says, yes, no way,
and they start pulling out numbchucks and knives and bottles,
and there's a pull on fight and the cops come in.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah, it's happened a handful of times across the recent years,
and with the obvious response. If I was a college
football player somebody tried that s on my field, I'd
beat them down.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I would go out there and fight them. You're right,
And it was at Michigan, Ohio State the cops were
actually pepper spraying players. Wow.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
From the New York Post, women including only fans model
are getting sterilized and blaming Trump for their.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Decision sharelie so they can't have kids.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, they're getting their tubes tied.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Because of Trump.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
M hmm, whatever, you nutjobs. You got more on I've
got more on the number of people that are threatening
to leave or actually leaving or adjusting their lifestyles because
of the fear of Trump. Get to that we're getting
their tubes tied? What lest Eric mountain them or what?
And what is the fear? What is that you know what.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
In spite of myself, Katie, I would like to hear
more about this story later.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
NBC was fear mongering yesterday at I couldn't believe it
with this idea that gay couples are rushing to the
altar to get married before Trump is inaugurated. If you
think the right for gay people to get married is
gonna go away because Trump is president, you're a crazy person.
You need to acknowledge the you've gone nuts, and or
(33:33):
you need to acknowledge that, like so many of those
people who fell apart completely in the way of the election,
you have believed the most ridiculous hyper believe your side
the stuff, it's crap. Don't believe it, it's made up.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
And finally, the.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Babylon b quote, don't let anyone take your power. Tipsy
at Kamala tells confused five year olds at Thanksgivings.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Kids table, that's a funny scenario. So did you see
Rob Reiner, the actor director. He is in some sort
of like mental rehab thingy. He posted over the weekend.
He said, I need a break to be able to
recover from this blow to blah blah blah because of
Trump's election. So he's in some sort of take space
(34:19):
healing thingy for crazy people, lots of puppies and coloring books,
and an actual human being in my real life said
and they said it like it made sense that a
friend of theirs had had their phone on notifications only
since the election, but because they just couldn't take any
calls or texts. Wow, wow, I pity you. Yeah, you
(34:45):
know you're right. Instead of calling people crazy, I should
I should embrace the fact that you just believed the
media that you take in and if you believe it.
If the media you believe in, you know, is saying
this stuff, you should be very upset because they're saying
some crazy, crazy ass.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
But it's it's a Venn diagram. You got crazy over here,
you got believed the hype over here. You got a
fair amount of overlap, but not you know, that's not
all craziness.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah. Alec Baldwin, who's now in another country, gave some
big speech about how stupid the Electric electorate is. Whatever.
Cut the crap, Cut the crap, Cut the crap. T
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out you use the code. Cut the crap, cut the crap.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, and perhaps you'd like to pick up a hot
Dogs Are Dogs t shirt in honor of the Colorado Buffalo's.
I think who beat the mixed San Jose State team
that has both boys and girls?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So I followed this. I was on a plane, but
I was getting updates. San Jose State women's volleyball lost
in the finals. So they got to the finals because
of a boycott one team that wasn't going to play
against a dude, but they made the finals lost and
the team that one though the star player and the
other players kneeled at the national anthem.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
So hard to find a team to root for in
that one. I had such a great joke ready to
go too, but you ruined it with that.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Just gonna say, I would say San Jose State's loss
was a real kick in the balls, besmirching the name
of women's college volleyball, which you hate to see done.
Come on, Colorado, you're all chicks, but you're woke. Come on,
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and and He Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And from Studio ce Signor.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is a dimly lit room where Deep put them
the bowels of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound. And
hey y'all, today, brand new week, back from Thanksgiving vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We're under the tutelage of our general manager, Hunter Biden.
Convicted criminal. Pardon me, Hunter Biden, model citizen, model, citizen
zero discipline, Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Wow, Gali Gally, Gally got it.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I do you know what my favorite aspect of this is,
and it's I hate to get into the meat of it,
but I've got to the fact that the pardon goes
back to what is a December of twenty fourteen, going
back at twenty three Yeah, yeah, yeah, to the very
month Hunter became a director at Barismoin just coincidence.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Ten year pardons are normal. Oh that's right, they aren't. Okay, sorry,
I'm spoke.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Before we get to that. I've got so many things
to say about that. Did anybody beat me? And did
anybody beat me? In weight gain?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Since we were last on the air.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm not me.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I am a full three and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It comes three and a half pounds heavier than I
was when I last joined you. There's more of me
to love, is the way I look at it. Pretty good,
pretty respected. Yeah, how three and a half pounds in
a week is not bad. But like Wall Street, you'd
failed to meet expectations.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I thought I was gonna hear five honestly, little disappointment
on the.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Road travel failed to meet expectations. Your earnings were excellent,
but failed. The good thing is that even though I
was at Arrowhead Stadium on a cold winter day Friday
for the Chiefs Raiders game, it's colder in the studio
right now than it was there, so hopefully it will
burn off some of these pounds. Trying to stay alive.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, three and a half pounds. My PI can feel it.
My pants are tighter. Yeah, I got the whole thing going.
That's a good start, though, that's a good start. I
got several weeks now before Christmas and then a week
in between New Year. I mean, I really I could
hit double digits. I could easily gain ten pounds, So
that's not the goal.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But well, in a shocking revelation, I am down a
pound and a half, which means either my practice of
eating my big meal in the middle of the day
and that are very light dinners paying off, or I'm
dying because I don't quite get how I'm down, but
I'm down.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't want to have the darkest joke of all time,
but there was a time when I thought, wow, I
am really doing well with this that Oh I have cancer.
Oh okay, that's why the way it's just melting away. Yeah,
let's hope it's not that. Let's hope it does exercised
a lot. So back to Hunter Biden. So you're telling
me that the party of the rich get away, particularly
(03:51):
white males. I mean, it's the rich in general that
get to abuse the system with all kinds of different
ways and don't pay their taxes. And then guns, Oh
my god, nobody should even be allowed to have a gun.
But then the people breaking the lava gun. You're telling
me the party of that just the president just pardoned
a rich white guy so he doesn't go to jail
(04:13):
over tax evasion because he was getting so rich, probably illegally,
but in regard no conspiratory he didn't pay his taxes.
He gets pardoned and doesn't have to pay a price
for it, And you're gonna you were going to campaign
on the rich don't pay their fair share, and then
when what you want of your own rich and again
white guys does it, he gets pardoned by the President.
(04:34):
That's freaking, freaking unbelievable. Well, it's the truth laid there.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean, on the rank and file level of the
college kids and the over educated gender studies, suburban moms
who vote Democrats, they're sincere. They're deluded and dopey, but
they're sincere. On the elite level, not a single word
of that is sincere not a word. It's merely a brand.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It means as much as always Coca cola? Does that
mean how about sometimes Coca cola?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, always? So does that mean that for the rest
of my life? When I hear a Democrat saying the
rich don't pay their fair share?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Why other rich gonna except for Honor Biden?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Can we just chant that back at whoever's giving us
the rich don't pay their fair share next time for
Hunter Biden. That would be delightful.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, it's sort of like I've been saying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm happy that an entire new generation of young people
coming out of the presidential election learned that, oh, it's
all phony, since they went on and on about it
was Hitler, and then as soon as he wins, they're like, oh, well,
we'll get him next time and let's go down there
and visit him. So okay, So you're just lying to
me about the Hitler stuff. And then this another generation
will think, oh, okay, they're all hypocrites. The rich don't
(05:54):
pay their fair share. And when our guys who's rich,
really rich, whole family is rich, doesn't pay his taxes,
pays zero taxes, not only isn't paying a high enough
tax rate, doesn't pay any taxes, we pardon him.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And despite Joe Biden's claims that it was all about
addiction and a bad habit and all, he signed all
of those tax returns post sobriety, okay, worth mentioning.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So to me, this is I didn't realize it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know what, JT and Livermore, maybe a matthe Idaho farmhand, Jeff,
some of our Jeff the honorary producer. I need you
to remind me of this regularly place or maybe my
wife can do it. I need to gamble on politics.
I was dead certain he would pardon Hunter. I didn't
(06:40):
even have any doubt, no doubt. This is the absolute
definition of shocking yet unsurprising. It was a certainty, and
I need to start profiting from that. But it is
also and I'm heartened somewhat by the fact that the
truce will.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Absolutely come out at some point.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's not all about electoral cycles and and momentary political gains.
I think historians will dig their teeth into this. Joe
Biden's serial liar and money launderer will be exposed eventually
as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.
It'll be eventually he'll be long, cold and dead in
(07:18):
the grave, But yeah, soon enough.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Is there anybody who wouldn't pardon their own kid if
they had the chances they were heading out the door
for the offenses before us. Specifically, if you assumed, as
he does, that your kid had their act together. Now,
it'd be pretty hard to not pardon mem go with
the you know what, tough love. Everybody has to blah
blah blah.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It's my kid. Everybody's going to be mad.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But I can let him get on with his life,
or he can go to prison for maybe the rest
of his life. I mean, he's in his mid fifties.
If he gets fifteen twenty years, that could be the
rest of your life. I'm Joe Biden. I'm about dead.
I'm thinking to Hella, Oh you're mad at me. Okay,
you know what. I'm going to be dead soon, so
don't worry about it. Yeah, I could see No, if
you know, God forbids somebody's kid like axe murdered eleven
(08:04):
people or something like that. No, no, I wouldn't pardon them.
But yeah, it's it's it's hypocrisy laid there. It's practically
a guilty plead of money laundering in my mind. Oh yeah,
that's interesting. I don't remember Jonathan Earli or somebody I
heard say there's practically an admission here that there are
(08:24):
more things we don't know about that he hasn't been.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Charged with that are out there.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
If you're going with the whole, not specific to these
you know charges, you're going just any and everything for
ten years, right right, Well, there are a couple of
reasons he played guilty eventually. Number one, he was guilty
as sixteen dogs, as hunter Thompson would have put it.
And secondly, to put this all on trial, you get
into where did the money come from and where did
(08:50):
it go, which is what I was hankering for the
whole time. Yeah, and he does get to go with
the uh who what father wouldn't pardon their son and
ignore the fact that it was going to bring down
the whole family.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Then final brief irony, and I will read you the
utterly vomit inducing letter of pardon from the President in
a minute. But the fact that a couple of Trump
aids got charged with the operating is undeclared unlicensed lobbyists
for foreign powers during the Russian collusion hoax, and Hunter
(09:24):
labored for millions of dollars for a variety of loathsome
foreign regimes and was clearly lobbying for them. But he
doesn't get so much as a traffic ticket for it.
And then the great irony, sorry, the sickening irony and
the letter of pardon is that is that Biden makes
it clear that his son's been treated unfairly. This is
(09:45):
gotten noney, even treatment he'd been treated more harshly than.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Anyone else would have without his name. It's absurd yeah, yeah,
one sentence on that. But after we start the show
officially so we don't get in trouble with the FCC.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty, that Tell guy or
whatever his name is, Kutel. You know he and some
charge the FBI. We're not starting our show in time.
We could end up in prison. You don't know the retribution.
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
(10:11):
brand new month, ran his dude, December second, my mom's birthday,
the year twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong in Getty
and we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
All let's begin officially now according to FCC rules and regulations.
Leaping into action at Mark, Have you.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes, but the
commute his.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Son, I was very clear and I said no.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've been very clear. The President has been very clear
when we've been asked us question, and he.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Said he would not pardon his son. Always made up.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It's still a no.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It will be a no. It is a no. And
I don't have anything else to add. Will he pardon
his son?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Breaking news tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
President Biden has made a decision to pardon his son Hunter.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, so's going to read from Biden's letter, But including
that letter, Biden talks about how politics corrupted the justice system.
Oh wit a second, that's interesting. So Trump's bringing all
these people in saying you got to clean out the
justice department because it's been corrupted, corrupted by politics. Oh no, no,
you all been claiming he's a fascist for one to
do that. Now you say Hunter Biden wrongly attacked because
(11:17):
politics corrupted the justice department? How are you gonna square
that circle? Convicted by a jury of his peers.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Have some more on that coming up in a little bit.
Three and a half.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Pounds of square anything the lying thief and hypocrites.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Three and a half pounds.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I'm not happy about it, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Joe and I used to live in Salina, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I don't know if you remember this place called Bogi's Burgers,
who had like one hundred and fifty different flavors of
shakes too.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I remember it, blueberry cheesecake. That's my I should have
texted you. Yeah, that's getting people what their favorite was.
Because I got peanut butter one night and the next night,
because I went back again because who doesn't have a
milkshake two nights in a row, even though they're eating
Thanksgiving style meals.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
In additions of growing ass man, Yes, right, child, So
trying to figure out where how am I getting through
to f Powells?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I understand must be by metabolism.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Uh, how does mailbag look?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That's quite good? Good start to the monk cool. Our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
But apparently the new thing in college football is after
the game you all go to beating on each other
until the uh and fans until the police have to
come in in pepper spreea. So apparently that's a new
college tradition. Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Wow, Well it's the new tearing down the goldposts apparently. Yeah,
all right, so more on that to come. Uh, campus madness,
a gender bendit. We got everything for you, plus all
the news of the day. Naturally, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day. It comes from Henry Brooks Adams,
an American historian, a member of the Adams political family,
descended from q US presidents.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh yeah, quinc Yeah, the right of some people will
say the best nonfiction book of the twentieth century, The
Education of Henry Adams, which he wrote himself. Excellent. So
here is his quote as I click back.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
To that chaos was the law of nature, order was
the dream of man. Yet another reminder that the natural
state of everything is chaos and decay and violence. Order compassionate,
of course, order that respects the human rights. It's a miracle.
(13:34):
Don't give it away, Mailbag. You can write us a note,
would you? Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Gary Musquite,
Nevada writes, and I agree, obviously, proving what we already know,
Biden is the most corrupt president in our history. When
the stories come out over the next several years, his
name will be synonymous with the worst and most corrupt.
(13:54):
Let's see, this is John Obviously Hunter made a deal
with his dad. Daddy promised to pardon if you would
plead guilty to tax charges, then Joe would avoid accountability
for receiving ten percent of the dirty millions.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Let's go, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
We got this text.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I think I've seen this in a couple of lames.
So Joe Biden pardoned three turkeys.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Hauh, what I got it? That's kind of an old
timey con there, you're a loser. Calling somebody a turkey
not exactly modern insult. Yeah, that's rather mild by today's standards.
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
This is from jishn Wright's Glad you lazy bastards are
back to work.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I've read multiple articles now in regard to Trump's appointees.
They all talk about how these people are going to
bring a campaign of retribution. But they failed to tell
me what the retribution is for. If I'm seeking retribution
because it's someone has wronged me, are they saying he
was wronged?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
If I'm seeking retribution it's because someone has wronged me.
Are they saying he was wronged and is now going
to seek retribution. Well, if he was wronged, why shouldn't
he seek retribution? Get these people out of government. Please
tell me what the retribution is for. Maybe he should
be seeking it.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah. The New York Times writes about that today. We'll
talk about that later. There's a paragraph in there that
says this is going to make it more difficult for
Democrats to complain about Donald Trump going after the Justice Department,
since the current Democratic president just said the Justice Department
has been doing things for political reasons.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
All right, In cash Patel, who's been nominated to run
the FBI.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Very controversial choice. We'll talk about that some. He will
just quote Jo.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Widen please you wrote him hisistimony, right right, A total
change of topic.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'd like this.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
David and Umquah, a beautiful organ who's supplied to a
number of interesting things about education. Parents write to know
solution to teachers grooming children and doctrinating them, sexualizing them,
and man, we have stories about all that stuff in
different ways. The cure for that is parents' access to classrooms,
video proof, real time proof of what school are teaching.
(16:00):
Government teachers need to be monitored by parents. Should the
government schools be operating without scrutiny? I mean, I realized
there are children involved, and you can't, you know, have
generally available videotapes of children doing stuff. It's just it's
full of problems. But our justice system famously is absolutely
(16:28):
ironclad in its openness. Everything happens in front of the people,
and you're judged by a jury of your peers.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Why wouldn't your schools.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Are a darklyistered environment where are secrets unfolded.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Why wouldn't you have a nannycam in every classroom? You
can just log on and seeing what's going on in
your kid's class. Why wouldn't it be that way?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I get the logistical problems in the modern age, teachers
would go viral and like the so called Karen who
had a legitimate complaint or it was out of context
or whatever, all of a sudden, they'd be and doxed
and terrified or whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I don't know. Maybe it would it's a conundry. Maybe
it would protect you as a teacher if everybody got
to see how unruly students are out of control. Blah
blah blah.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The other to absolutely be an upside, that's an interesting question.
We've got a lot of news to catch up on.
We've been gone for a week. Stay with us if
you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I have to mention the most embarrassing part of the
whole milkshake fiasco that probably helped me gain.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Three and a half pounds over the last week. I'll
get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh, Joe is going to read from Joe Biden's letter
explaining his pardon, in which he is getting beaten up
by lots of people on the left also on how
this opens the door for Trump and a lot of
arguments that Trump makes, So we'll get to.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
That coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I can't believe we're a half hour into the show
and we haven't mentioned cyber Monday. Everybody, It's cyber Monday.
But I don't know if we need that sound hopefully
he's lost his mind. That seems like an odd sound
for cyber Monday. It's like, oh, is that a warning?
It's like when there's a tornado or a train coming
or something. Uh, it's cyber Monday's ever been very stressed today?
(18:12):
Cyber Monday. Up, It's cyber Monday. Of course this follows
Black Friday. Yes, Michael, I'm surprised we're not running best
of I thought cyber Monday we'd be off to Why
aren't we home holding our children and singing cyber Monday songs? Well,
because cyber Monday is when you buy a lot of
stuff online at work, because you have a faster internet
connection at work than you do at home. Heading back
(18:32):
to nineteen eighty nine, cyber Monday stopping.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
So.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I just wanted to mention this relating to I went
to an outlet mall yesterday and I was so frustrated.
There was not a parking spot anywhere. There were just
cars circling around this gigantic place, everybody frustrated, so many
people walking you could barely draw. I have never in
(19:02):
my life, I've been going to this same giant outlet
mall for twenty five years, never seen a crowd like this,
even close yesterday afternoon. So I mean that is as
anecdotal as anecdotal evidence can get about where people are
with shopping and consumer confidence and all that sort of stuff.
But it was nuts, absolutely nuts, And all the stories
(19:24):
in there, I said, has it been like this the
whole weekend? When I finally got the park and go in,
So oh yeah, it's been crazy Friday, Saturday and today
just crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
what's happening.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You know, Black Friday, the name of it is ridiculous,
but it is a time.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's the first time that kmart goes into the black
for the year because so many people got in shop
after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
But you know, after Thanksgiving you do think start thinking
about Christmas shopping and the rest of it. But as
an informal measure, Black Friday sales were up significantly from
last year. So boys, trying to get your wrap your
arms around this economy and who it's good for and
who it's not for. It's it's definitely not a simple picture. No.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I was watching all this and thinking about all those
stats we've heard about people have run out of money
and they've maxed out their credit cards, and thinking, so,
did you open a new credit card? Did you get
a raise? I mean, is what is going on with everybody?
But I mean, it's just nuts. I didn't declare to
my kids this is the last time I will be
at a retail outlet until January. I will not do
that under any circumstances. Again, it was miserable, Absolutely miserable.
(20:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, I have no doubt whatsoever. But that's
consumer spending is two thirds of the economy, So that's
good for the economy. Although if everybody's putting on their
credit cards and can't actually afford it, it's not so.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I read a pretty detailed and persuasive account a few
weeks ago from the Wall Streets Journal that said, there's
a real demarcation between homeowners and owners of stocks and
mutual funds and stuff like that who feel very, very wealthy,
and the other chunk of the economy that does not
feel wealthy at all and is struggling to keep their
(21:09):
heads above water and running up their credit cards, not
on lavish gifts for each.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Other, but indeed for you know, the basics. And they've said,
yesterday Sunday, come home day from Thanksgiving, with the busiest
travel day in US history.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Wow, so people were getting out and about there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it could it be going on at the same
time that we're all shocked and horrified by inflation.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I was talking to my family about this or my
brother about this anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And yet I don't think enough of us, including myself,
recognize that unless you've got to raise in the last
couple of years, you've taken.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Like a twenty five to thirty percent pay cut.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But I think we all ignore that that we've taken
a thirty percent pay cut.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, I think we sense it our in our bones.
But yeah, that's absolutely a correct way to put it.
And that's why inflation is a tax. It's the way
the government gets to spend out more money than they
have send out more money they have to their cronies,
thereby reducing the value of your dollars, and all of
(22:12):
a sudden you have to pay, you know, twenty thirty
percent more for stuff over the span of a couple
of years, making you that much poorer.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You have been taxed. It's just indirect. It is cyber Monday.
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Man, Yes, this is actually true.
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Speaker 1 (24:01):
You see the pictures that came out of Trump's Thanksgiving
when everybody was down there and he's walking around. There's
de Sylvester Saloon. There's Elon Musk again, who practically lives there,
sitting next to Trump at the big table, and all
this sudden they're playing the music and they're all dancing.
I mean, that whole toga He's president again. Thing is
just on fire.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I have never seen a higher profile transition than Trump's.
I mean, he's the president at this point, he's meeting
with foreign dignitaries, he's got him on the phone, or
they're coming to mar A Lago.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, Trudeau from Canada went down there to talk to him.
Zuckerberg from Facebook went and had dinner with Trump.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I mean, occasionally he's got to have to say, look,
I can't help you. You got to talk to the corpse.
He's still in office or whatever. He calls him, the Mummy.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I'm not actually president. Yeah, the Mummy's president.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He's gonna talk to the corpse. The way people are
coming down there to meet with him to try to
get on his good side before he takes office has
got to be making him feel pretty good about himself.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yes, to the extent that he needs a bollstring of
his eg Oh yeah, Oh, speaking of which, next hour.
I'm sure we will get into this in earnest Trump's
appointees or his nominees nominating appointees, and there are a
variety of them.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The pattern has continued. About fifty percent seem rock solid.
About twenty five percent are huh, that's interesting. But I'll
look forward to the hearings and about twenty five percent
are badass nuts if you ask me. But you know,
the Senate is there to advise and consent, and they
(25:36):
will get together and chat behind the scenes and say, hey,
we have these concerns. And to quote who was it,
was it Janet Yellen? What was her name? The system worked,
The system's working. It's gonna be fine. So polling from
last Sunday, CBS News, and this is another one of
(25:56):
those don't get your feeling about the electorate through the
media because you'll be misled. This was last Sunday, So
I don't know if the polls have changed since his
FBI nomination at all, which just happened on Saturday. I
guess sixty percent of Americans approved of Trump's choices, his
(26:18):
cabinet picks. So that's the CBS News poll. So after
all of the you know, oh my God, he's so
crazy and out of control. Can you believe he's doing
these awful things? Or on a RFK Junior and Telsea Gabbard,
everything like that. As of last Sunday, after all those
names are out and through the whole Matt Gates is
a thing with Caman went and everything like that. Sixty
(26:39):
percent of Americans approved of Trump's choices. Yeah, I think
you're risty forty. That's a pretty big win when you
hear that's on our media against you, right, Yeah, it's
a good point.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Once again, the media representing a tiny swath of weird America.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But I think it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Also is an expression of what I was talking about
people and maybe they think this consciously, but they thought, yeah,
I've heard there's some good, some bad, but the Senate
and that's a couple of months from now, and I'm
not worried about it. That's an expression of I have
faith in this country and our systems, which I think
you should. And I say that having said that, about
(27:17):
a quarter of his nominations or nuts to my mind.
But they'll get weeded out, or they'll try and they'll
fail and and and we'll move on as a country.
I'm not I refuse to act as if my heart
is on fire every news story that comes out, like
most of the media.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Oh, we got to take a break and come back
with eighties headlines. I'm sory.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm a little choked up because it's Cyber Monday and
it always gets to me and what it means to
the Cyber Monday memories and the Carrol's times with my
grandparents on Cyber Monday, long before.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Day, my dad put his arm around my shoulders and said, son.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
You got a double click.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Becoming a man, right right. We got a lot of
the way.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I hope you can stay with us text line four ONEFTC.
A number of texts about the idea. I don't remember
how we got on the topic of cameras in the classroom.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
We got a number of interesting texts about that. Maybe
we'll get back into that later.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Great upside, huge downside. It's an intriguing idea.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
We did it for Slash two Cops and it seems
to be accepted.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
And there was all the hue and cry before it happened.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
So again, three and a half pounds over Thanksgiving, and
at least part of it was my back to back
milkshake nights in addition to a lot of ridiculous family
eating where I drove across town and went to this
famous milkshake place in the town I was in on
the trial. And the first night we all ate there
because we just rolled into town, and my kids got
milkshakes also. But then the second night, when I was
(28:47):
going to go back, who wants to get a milkshake?
Both my teenage boys said no, Nah, that's too unhealthy.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I just I don't think I should do a milkshaking.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So I went by myself because young who are not
famous for their judgment, decided, Nah, that's just overdoing it
to have milkshake after today.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
So what does that say about me?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I still don't understand how you're not on that my
six hundred pound life show.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I'm making a chapter of overeaters anonymous or something.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I don't know. My kids. I think it was practically
an intervention for my kids to try to convince me
not to go and get I did any so much
sugar well, and then I appreciated.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Jack sent me a picture of the truck stop by
the highway that we used to sneak off to grab
a slice of pie and plan what would become the
Armstrong e Getty Show. When we were working for competing stations,
we had to slink around like we're having an affair
and good times if they have not updated the decor.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, but why would you? Had some pie is good
and had some pie?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Had some pie, which is why I'm three and a half.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
There's more of me to love as I keep saying,
yeah pie as well, Yes, of course lots of pie. Jack,
You're amazing. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the
leak story with Katie Green. All right, let me start
with NBC News.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden, despite saying he wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
So that part people are making a big deal out of.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I didn't. Most people assume he would pardon him, and
that's just something he had to say.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
So that part doesn't bother me much.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But the politics around it and the message it sends man,
some of the critics in the mainstream media really interesting.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
We'll read from some of that a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Also, it was a full throated statement that yes, some
people are above the law. Are people period?
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Bengo ABC News IDF confirms death of another US Israeli hostage.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Oh, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
From CNN, Putin approves record defense spending a third of
Russia's entire budget.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah, they're spending thirty some percent of their GDP on
the military. To weigh your war against a country that
they don't need to be fighting, right.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Right, with enormous loss of life and the brain drained
of the country. What this looks like ten years from
now will be really interesting to observe.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
From The New York Times, Germany pledges extra six hundred
and eighty million dollars to Ukraine in effort at reassurance.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's been a bad week for Ukraine. Russia's taken a
bunch of land. We'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
From Politico, delete cfpv Elon Musk calls for elimination of
Consumer Bureau.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Oh yeah, that's the Liz Warren project, right. Yeah, I
haven't done me any good as far as I can tell,
but don't feel strongly about it.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
CBS News postgame fights erupt across Rivalry Reek Right, Wow,
rivalry week as four teams attempt to plant flags on
opponents field.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So is this a new thing where you win the
game on the road and you take your team's flag
and you try to stick it in the middle of
the field, and then the other teams says, yes, no way,
and they start pulling out numbchucks and knives and bottles,
and there's a pull on fight and the cops come in.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah, it's happened a handful of times across the recent years,
and with the obvious response. If I was a college
football player somebody tried that s on my field, I'd
beat them down.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I would go out there and fight them. You're right,
And it was at Michigan, Ohio State the cops were
actually pepper spraying players. Wow.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
From the New York Post, women including only fans model
are getting sterilized and blaming Trump for their.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Decision sharelie so they can't have kids.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, they're getting their tubes tied.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Because of Trump.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
M hmm, whatever, you nutjobs. You got more on I've
got more on the number of people that are threatening
to leave or actually leaving or adjusting their lifestyles because
of the fear of Trump. Get to that we're getting
their tubes tied? What lest Eric mountain them or what?
And what is the fear? What is that you know what.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
In spite of myself, Katie, I would like to hear
more about this story later.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
NBC was fear mongering yesterday at I couldn't believe it
with this idea that gay couples are rushing to the
altar to get married before Trump is inaugurated. If you
think the right for gay people to get married is
gonna go away because Trump is president, you're a crazy person.
You need to acknowledge the you've gone nuts, and or
(33:33):
you need to acknowledge that, like so many of those
people who fell apart completely in the way of the election,
you have believed the most ridiculous hyper believe your side
the stuff, it's crap. Don't believe it, it's made up.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
And finally, the.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Babylon b quote, don't let anyone take your power. Tipsy
at Kamala tells confused five year olds at Thanksgivings.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Kids table, that's a funny scenario. So did you see
Rob Reiner, the actor director. He is in some sort
of like mental rehab thingy. He posted over the weekend.
He said, I need a break to be able to
recover from this blow to blah blah blah because of
Trump's election. So he's in some sort of take space
(34:19):
healing thingy for crazy people, lots of puppies and coloring books,
and an actual human being in my real life said
and they said it like it made sense that a
friend of theirs had had their phone on notifications only
since the election, but because they just couldn't take any
calls or texts. Wow, wow, I pity you. Yeah, you
(34:45):
know you're right. Instead of calling people crazy, I should
I should embrace the fact that you just believed the
media that you take in and if you believe it.
If the media you believe in, you know, is saying
this stuff, you should be very upset because they're saying
some crazy, crazy ass.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
But it's it's a Venn diagram. You got crazy over here,
you got believed the hype over here. You got a
fair amount of overlap, but not you know, that's not
all craziness.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah. Alec Baldwin, who's now in another country, gave some
big speech about how stupid the Electric electorate is. Whatever.
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Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, and perhaps you'd like to pick up a hot
Dogs Are Dogs t shirt in honor of the Colorado Buffalo's.
I think who beat the mixed San Jose State team
that has both boys and girls?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So I followed this. I was on a plane, but
I was getting updates. San Jose State women's volleyball lost
in the finals. So they got to the finals because
of a boycott one team that wasn't going to play
against a dude, but they made the finals lost and
the team that one though the star player and the
other players kneeled at the national anthem.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
So hard to find a team to root for in
that one. I had such a great joke ready to
go too, but you ruined it with that.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Just gonna say, I would say San Jose State's loss
was a real kick in the balls, besmirching the name
of women's college volleyball, which you hate to see done.
Come on, Colorado, you're all chicks, but you're woke. Come on,
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