December 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Featured in hour two of the Monday December 29, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- YouGov Study: Perception of Words Score
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Getty, arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and
Getty Strong and.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Not live from studio. Seeing we're still not back at work.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You can't make us come back until the year twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay. So I love this.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
This is funny. I like words.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.
And I came across this article that's just terrific. The
guy starts with, go shopping online. Just about everything you
look at. We'll have a star rating based on you know,
previous customers, right, any of them phony, which makes shopping
online a bit difficult. But and he says it's less
easy to quantify things in such a way in day
(00:54):
to day life. For instance, if your friend was telling
you about a product or a restaurant or whatever, where
would their description fall on the star scale? Blah blah blah. Well,
he said, you're in the dark no longer. A new
Yugov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population
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perceives various words or descriptions to be.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
They have a few dozen words, then.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ask people to score them on a scale from zero
to ten, with zero being very negative to ten being
very positive. And as an explanation, I will tell you
that of the forty words tested.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Abysmal was seen as the most negative.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, So this is like, so you asked me, how
how is that restaurant you went to? And I say great?
They figured out what great means to people. Yes, okay,
right where it fits on the scale.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So abysmal is seen as the most negative.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well to you, So when you think of that restaurant
it was abysmal, I wouldn't try it.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I mean, it's not like I would. I think, Oh,
that's just his opinion. Would there be any doubt as
to what my opinion is using the word abysmal? No,
slightly less bad comes the closely clustered fighting it out
for second place. Awful, terrible and very bad. Now on
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the other end of the scale, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So awful, terrible and very bad obviously a fairly negative
review and the.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Story of but measurably above abysmal. Yeah, abysmal is the
clear winner, clear winner. I'm trying to imagine that happened
at a restaurant before I would say that, I mean
the waiter would have to punch me in the face
and give me rancid meat, I think as I was
being attacked by rats. Yes, abysmal was my experience. At
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the other end of the scale, perfect is the most
positively regarded word, with an average score at nine point
one six. Only one other word managed to break the
nine point barrier. Remember we're on a zero to ten scale,
which was outstanding, just edging out excellent for second place.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Perfect is similar to abysmo. It'd be hard to reach. Also,
they gave me Kobe's steak, didn't charge me, and I
had an orgasm.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I hope you excused yourself before that last one. Anyway,
I had one. I've had a couple dining experiences I
probably have described as perfect or something close to it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
But they also went with an enormous price tag.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Right, Yes, somebody like your anniversary and not like your
twenty first, only like your twentieth and twenty fist that
sort of place you go. Yeah, that is a good
point too.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, say that to the kids a lot because I
rarely complain about service, but like sometimes if we're in
a really, really fancy place. I don't expect to sit
around thirsty for very long if I'm gonna drop a
whole bunch of money, you know what I'm saying. And
uh right, See, you have different standards. I met Denny's.
They don't come back to refilm my water. That's what
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I expected.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, all right, So let's I think it would
be better, more entertaining to go from the best to
the worst the words as rated by thousands of people.
All right, we'll start with perfect and ork our way
down perfect, included, orgasm. As we remember, each one gets
less and less appealing, perfect, outstanding, excellent, incredible. I would
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have incredible ahead of excellent. But this is a poles
some of the crowns. Yeah, brilliant, superb. This is getting
less impressive as we go. I've never used I don't
think I've ever used the word superb, but oh I
do it constantly. I'm superb at using the word superb.
The differences between these various words very very I'd say,
(05:09):
do you use it seriously or sarcastic? No, I mean,
like the point total depends on my setting, on the setting.
He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment.
For me, it's always made me laugh. Super oh super,
but this is super This is SUPERB with the B
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shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along, fantastic, awesome, very good, really good,
which is not as good as very good, great good.
Oh that's right. I forgot to tell you. It's it's
actually bang in the middle is average? I mean that
is exactly in the middle of these descriptors.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Average.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Isn't that funny, you know? I mean, of course it is,
but it's funny that it is.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And I will go to a place if somebody tells
me it's average, if the price is low, probably and
it's convenient to me.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy and Delaney
and I went to the other day, and and a
lot of our friends go to it, and once again
we're like, it's okay. But the one word people use
constantly describe it as consistent.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Their food is really consistent. We have a place like
a B minus every time you go.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, we have a place it's like a B minus.
But it's the charm that.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We go for. It's not like the food.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, okay, anyway, so remember these words are getting less
impressive great, good, pretty good, above average, decent, quite good,
somewhat good, fine, satisfactory.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Fine is yeah, okay, all right, fair, not bad, average,
And again that was the average score.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Weird, mediocre, below average.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We've definitely departed thumbs up folks, we're in thumbs down territory.
We're in probably not going back territory. Yeah, so all right,
so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad, pretty bad, quite bad, poor,
and then just bad, unsatisfactory, rubbish. The original version of
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this poll was in Britain, then they did it in America.
Slight differences but not meaningful enough to mention rubbish.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Really bad, very bad, very bad.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Is seen as zero point nine percent worse than very bad.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
There was really bad.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
There was a hair in my soup, there was more
hair in my salad, and then once again hair in
my mentree. The experience went from really bad to very bad, terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling,
Can I get a razor to shave some of my food?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Everything has their in it?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Finally appalling, bismal, abysmal.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The wors although if somebody told me our experience was appalling,
I mean even clear enough, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Who decided to rank these words?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, the great thing about appalling and abysmal experiences is
they make for a good story.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's almost better than.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Slightly below average, because then you just you know, you
don't have a story. You wasted your money, you're not satisfied.
But something that's like abysmal, you're gonna be telling people
about it having laughs.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I tell that story way more than like a perfect dinner.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh yeah, like my kids and I have a coincidentally,
because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona. Ones
from way way back when they tried to get these
when they were a little kids. So they tried to get
these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made
like a Santa out of the pancakes. Anyway, that's when
I we never got our food, and I went up
to the kitchen to try to figure out what was
going on, and the waitress was yelling at the cook,
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and the cook quent and left right in front of me.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It was really quite the thing to see.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But I still talk about that because it was an
appalling experience, but it was entertaining.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So all right, finally, final note, so if you've had
an experience that was just completely average but slightly better,
you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse, not bad.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, that story, Katie quickly is. So we sat there,
We sat there, We sat there with that there, like
what's going on? I go up to the kitchen where
you can like you know, there's a like a bar
there and you can see into the kitchen in a
place like d the made or d say it's a diner,
and the waitress is standing there and the cook is
in there completely ignoring her with a blank look his face,
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like flipping burgers and baking stuff like, and she keeps saying,
can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Are you going to are you going to make the food?
What are you doing? What is happening here? And he
just kept looking straight ahead and kind of doing things slowly,
And then pretty soon he just walked out and I
assume he left.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know what happened, but that had been bruined
for a while. I have a feeling she couldn't get
a response.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Out of him. That's dreadful.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
He kept me awful sandwich a turd sandwich.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But we didn't ask about that one. We still laugh
about that experience of Denny's. Oh so I got something
out of it. Again, I'd rather have appalling than below average.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What would be worse A ts I'm not going to
repeat the phrase, or a fuster cluck.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Mine was really more of a fuster cluck than the
food being bad.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Because we never got food. We had to go somewhere else.
That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's the I'm Strong and Getty show.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Arm Strong. I thought he was just petting her for
a second.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I had to rewatch it a couple of times because
it is hard to see.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's dark, and he doesn't carry her very nicely. I
see her little tail and I'm like, oh my god.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So that's the story of an Amazon driver who took
somebody's cat.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
So what happened? Cat rustlers?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So you deliver a packaging and think, well, that's a
particularly good looking cat. All cats are more or less
the same. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You gotta you gotta hang cat rustlers.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
There's a lot of cats around. You don't need to
steal that person's cat.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You're a nut. Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I think Amazon throws a pretty wide net when it
comes to drivers this time of year, it is Michael.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That's a terrible way to put it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
They've identified the driver, but for some reason they can't
find him. Now I think if you can fog a mirror,
you probably qualify to drive for Amazon.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
That would be my guest. Yes, yes, boy.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
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, boy or girl, But
it's mostly boys.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I mean, just in my experience.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That we 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 1 (13:21):
Blah, just all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
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.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Five, learning self reliance, taking the initiative becoming.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Men to help them learn how to become men.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Which is like taboo and a lot of our perverse society.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
So yeah, I love it. I love the influence.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
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 sorts 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.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Is there anything I can 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 kid
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.
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We're shooting for one hundred thousand dollars. I don't want
to go negative here. I'm trying to say this as
a 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 drumsticks there. It's often the kids
who can't afford Scouting that the effects will be immeasurable
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in putting them on the right passage absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I'm sure that is true that the trend lines on
that match up pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah. So we got off the air yesterday about fifty grand.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
That was our goal yesterday and we are currently at
sixty and forty three dollars. Now, that is a ton
of money, that's right, That is s ton of money.
As a lot of people say, how did that phrase
get start? Say that sort of thing in scouting. 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 1 (15:30):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
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 in ten dollars, obviously would get there easily.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
So help a lot of young kids.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, so would if you could jump on that would appreciated.
Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
So here's some interesting news.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So it's just the oil tankers. It's not it's not
a full on blockade, like nothing nothing can come or go.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, just the sanctioned oil tankers, said Trump on truth
social which is again a bit of an odd way
to make presidential proclamations.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Venezuela, is that what he said? Oh boy, that was yikes.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
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. Didn't
I didn't pick up on that. That's pretty help to
help understand what's going exactly, He threatened. The US military
presence would quote only get bigger, and the shock to
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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 in the country. Okay, Yeah,
I had to ask a question.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Half a Phoenix. Yeah, it's a scandal. It's amazing Venezuela
took half of Phoenix. How did I miss that? It's
occupying it seems like I could be a big news story.
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
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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 have.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
For many moons.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
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 Venezuela. 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 well, say.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He keeps hinting that there will be 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.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, there's something about on our land, our country, our
dirt that's especially offensive to human beings for some reason.
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.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
A slightly educated guess as to where this is going,
So I guess we'll sit back and watch.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Is there anything Maduro can promise concede to Trump without
leaving power that will ratchet this down? Who was I
watching the other day? Is somebody I really like saying
this is obviously a regime regime change policy, right? For
whatever reason, they don't want to say it out loud,
or maybe just because it's got such a nasty hangover
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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. Sometimes it's something worse
or just as bad. In fact, frequently power vacuums reward
the most vicious, most auspicious.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I'm rapping a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
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 in Americans. We haven't had to. But you have
a lot of disorder. People welcome anybody. I don't care.
IS's fine, come in. If you can stop the crime
in the streets and get somebody to pick up the garbage, fine.
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And that's how Hamas or 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 comedian I guess I just think of
him as a thinker, honestly, Constantine Kissen, who is talking
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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, the slaughter has been unimaginable,
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and then a strong leader will come in and bring
order and stop the killing.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Now that strong leader might do a fair amount of killing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
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? I
remember how regime change can to something worse. So yeah, yeah,
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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
freaking morons. But 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
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anybody talked about ever we were at the Republican Convention.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Don't remember it coming up a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No, I suspect it has something to do with the uh,
the quasi, well, the whole we want to control our neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, the quasi Monroe doctor, 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.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, and a feeling like, all right, we've got this
incredibly beautiful, ought to be incredibly bitch country right across
the Gulf of America, and they'd be a great ally
and all, but they got this tin horned jackass dictator
run of the place, doing nobody any good? And why
are we putting up with that? What's the point of
power if we permit that right in our backyard? I
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think that's the thing here.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
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 Trump's speech tonight because.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We have a theme.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
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 you would touch on Venezuela. That'd be a
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good way to get the networks to take your speech,
as if you promised some information to the American people
on what the hell we're doing. But as way, when
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. It's staged.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, it's it's impressive and lethal. It is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You know anything about this, Katie, Let's take all the
major networks, okayry, Okay, So they said his newsworthy.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I'm kind of surprised. 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 4 (23:26):
But there so cool. You want to hear what they're thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's not charitable for better ratings there, they're thinking, A,
it'll get a lot of attention and V Trump always
on schools, plenty of rope to hang himself with. Oh,
they think it'll be more arm the risk for our
commentators to criticize the crap out of them for the
next three days. Well, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
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
to attack the United States again, and so we blasted
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them real good, make sure they were dead.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Uh, that video is not going to be released.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
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 everythink about it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Or my cynical, cynical friend he might be thinking, no,
this would threaten our national security. I don't believe that
changed my mind about Oh, really, DIDs somebody smart explain
that to you? I know, I figured it out for myself. Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Never before published Doctor Seuss book has now been discovered
Singing to fifty United States. We published in June to
mark the country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Author Theodore
Geisel died in nineteen ninety one. The manuscript was found
earlier this year at the Guys of Library at uc
San Diego.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
What crazy is that.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
They found a new Doctor Seuss book and the USA
related for the So that's cool. Yeah, So you came
across more information that Bill Gates has had a major
change of heart about climate change.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I mean back in the day he was one of
the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
This could be.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Important for those of us who think it's been overblown
for a long time.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, he said way back in the day that blah
blah blah, the climate change will be one of the
greatest challenges humans have ever taken on. Greater than landing
on the moon, greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than
putting a computer on every desk, and then the enormous
(26:04):
loss of life. And now he says that never mind.
Well no, he essentially he said, look, poverty and disease
are the biggest problems, as they've always been understanding this,
lets us focus our limited resources on interventions that will
have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people. In
other words, don't spend all your time and money and
effort on climate change. Help people where they are. Yeah,
(26:26):
we know, Bill, we know, so he's come around. I
wonder if will this be reported in the New York
Times and who will criticize him bitterly for it?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
How many people do we have who wear any of
the metaglasses. Our agent, the greatest agent in the world,
Eric wears them. There ray bands, but they you can
make phone calls, you can listen to music, you can
do a variety of things. And the reason I mentioned
this is they got the new version out, generation two
that has a little screen that shows up in one
(26:58):
of the lens and you can see it like a
little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other
versions like Google, what was the one that wants Yeah,
people could see it and it was a little off putting.
Everything like these. It looks like you're just wearing glasses.
They can't see on their side that you're looking at
(27:18):
screen that just shows on your side. And I saw
it demonstrated, and the couple of reviewers talking about how
it's amazing it is. For instance, directions they were just
walking around the town and they put up the directions
of like, hey, you walk up to this corner and
you turn left and you're following your way to get
someplace wherever.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Just one example.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Or they had somebody they were cooking in the kitchen
and they had in their lens. Instead of regularly look
at your phone or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're
making was right there. While you can also be looking
at whatever you're doing anyway, reading something that closed your eyeball.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
How does that work?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It must work. They all say it was great.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
But and these weren't people working for the company selling it.
These were independent reviewers who have said they haven't liked
past versions and that they think this is finally crossed
over into that this might be something that people start
to use. But one of the reviewers I said this said,
she said, this is gonna divide us even more into
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not paying attention to each other, or listening to each other,
or living in our own worlds. As you can sit
there with your glasses on and you know, reading something
else or watching a video or whatever the hell you're
doing instead of paying attention to your friend.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
The Journal just had a big article about CEOs and
executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds and
whatever during meetings, and they can tell that they're not
really present, and you won't be able to tell. Now
you'll be checking your text in a little thing in
your eye, your lens.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Until somebody says, Jack, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And you say, oh, I agree with most of what's
been said.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I mean to study it further. Let's not be hasty.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
There's nuance, though, and so that it requires a second look.
I think we should put a pin on it and
circle back. But I realized a long time ago with texting.
I told this story a bunch of times. The first
time I heard about texting, I thought that that's stupid.
Why wouldn't you just call them? And then you know,
finding out it takes over my life like it did
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everybody else. So I realized I don't have the ability
to predict even what I am interested in doing or
not doing, let alone the rest of humanity. I don't
see like a need or use for these glasses, but
for all I know, everybody will be wearing them in
two years.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
The Armstrong and Getty Show
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Getty, arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and
Getty Strong and.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Not live from studio. Seeing we're still not back at work.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You can't make us come back until the year twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay. So I love this.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
This is funny. I like words.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.
And I came across this article that's just terrific. The
guy starts with, go shopping online. Just about everything you
look at. We'll have a star rating based on you know,
previous customers, right, any of them phony, which makes shopping
online a bit difficult. But and he says it's less
easy to quantify things in such a way in day
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to day life. For instance, if your friend was telling
you about a product or a restaurant or whatever, where
would their description fall on the star scale? Blah blah blah. Well,
he said, you're in the dark no longer. A new
Yugov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population
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perceives various words or descriptions to be.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
They have a few dozen words, then.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ask people to score them on a scale from zero
to ten, with zero being very negative to ten being
very positive. And as an explanation, I will tell you
that of the forty words tested.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Abysmal was seen as the most negative.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, So this is like, so you asked me, how
how is that restaurant you went to? And I say great?
They figured out what great means to people. Yes, okay,
right where it fits on the scale.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So abysmal is seen as the most negative.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well to you, So when you think of that restaurant
it was abysmal, I wouldn't try it.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I mean, it's not like I would. I think, Oh,
that's just his opinion. Would there be any doubt as
to what my opinion is using the word abysmal? No,
slightly less bad comes the closely clustered fighting it out
for second place. Awful, terrible and very bad. Now on
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the other end of the scale, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So awful, terrible and very bad obviously a fairly negative
review and the.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Story of but measurably above abysmal. Yeah, abysmal is the
clear winner, clear winner. I'm trying to imagine that happened
at a restaurant before I would say that, I mean
the waiter would have to punch me in the face
and give me rancid meat, I think as I was
being attacked by rats. Yes, abysmal was my experience. At
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the other end of the scale, perfect is the most
positively regarded word, with an average score at nine point
one six. Only one other word managed to break the
nine point barrier. Remember we're on a zero to ten scale,
which was outstanding, just edging out excellent for second place.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Perfect is similar to abysmo. It'd be hard to reach. Also,
they gave me Kobe's steak, didn't charge me, and I
had an orgasm.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I hope you excused yourself before that last one. Anyway,
I had one. I've had a couple dining experiences I
probably have described as perfect or something close to it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
But they also went with an enormous price tag.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Right, Yes, somebody like your anniversary and not like your
twenty first, only like your twentieth and twenty fist that
sort of place you go. Yeah, that is a good
point too.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, say that to the kids a lot because I
rarely complain about service, but like sometimes if we're in
a really, really fancy place. I don't expect to sit
around thirsty for very long if I'm gonna drop a
whole bunch of money, you know what I'm saying. And
uh right, See, you have different standards. I met Denny's.
They don't come back to refilm my water. That's what
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I expected.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, all right, So let's I think it would
be better, more entertaining to go from the best to
the worst the words as rated by thousands of people.
All right, we'll start with perfect and ork our way
down perfect, included, orgasm. As we remember, each one gets
less and less appealing, perfect, outstanding, excellent, incredible. I would
(04:47):
have incredible ahead of excellent. But this is a poles
some of the crowns. Yeah, brilliant, superb. This is getting
less impressive as we go. I've never used I don't
think I've ever used the word superb, but oh I
do it constantly. I'm superb at using the word superb.
The differences between these various words very very I'd say,
(05:09):
do you use it seriously or sarcastic? No, I mean,
like the point total depends on my setting, on the setting.
He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment.
For me, it's always made me laugh. Super oh super,
but this is super This is SUPERB with the B
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shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along, fantastic, awesome, very good, really good,
which is not as good as very good, great good.
Oh that's right. I forgot to tell you. It's it's
actually bang in the middle is average? I mean that
is exactly in the middle of these descriptors.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Average.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Isn't that funny, you know? I mean, of course it is,
but it's funny that it is.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And I will go to a place if somebody tells
me it's average, if the price is low, probably and
it's convenient to me.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy and Delaney
and I went to the other day, and and a
lot of our friends go to it, and once again
we're like, it's okay. But the one word people use
constantly describe it as consistent.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Their food is really consistent. We have a place like
a B minus every time you go.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, we have a place it's like a B minus.
But it's the charm that.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We go for. It's not like the food.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, okay, anyway, so remember these words are getting less
impressive great, good, pretty good, above average, decent, quite good,
somewhat good, fine, satisfactory.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Fine is yeah, okay, all right, fair, not bad, average,
And again that was the average score.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Weird, mediocre, below average.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We've definitely departed thumbs up folks, we're in thumbs down territory.
We're in probably not going back territory. Yeah, so all right,
so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad, pretty bad, quite bad, poor,
and then just bad, unsatisfactory, rubbish. The original version of
(07:29):
this poll was in Britain, then they did it in America.
Slight differences but not meaningful enough to mention rubbish.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Really bad, very bad, very bad.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Is seen as zero point nine percent worse than very bad.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
There was really bad.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
There was a hair in my soup, there was more
hair in my salad, and then once again hair in
my mentree. The experience went from really bad to very bad, terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling,
Can I get a razor to shave some of my food?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Everything has their in it?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Finally appalling, bismal, abysmal.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The wors although if somebody told me our experience was appalling,
I mean even clear enough, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Who decided to rank these words?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, the great thing about appalling and abysmal experiences is
they make for a good story.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's almost better than.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Slightly below average, because then you just you know, you
don't have a story. You wasted your money, you're not satisfied.
But something that's like abysmal, you're gonna be telling people
about it having laughs.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I tell that story way more than like a perfect dinner.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh yeah, like my kids and I have a coincidentally,
because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona. Ones
from way way back when they tried to get these
when they were a little kids. So they tried to get
these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made
like a Santa out of the pancakes. Anyway, that's when
I we never got our food, and I went up
to the kitchen to try to figure out what was
going on, and the waitress was yelling at the cook,
(09:15):
and the cook quent and left right in front of me.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It was really quite the thing to see.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But I still talk about that because it was an
appalling experience, but it was entertaining.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So all right, finally, final note, so if you've had
an experience that was just completely average but slightly better,
you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse, not bad.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, that story, Katie quickly is. So we sat there,
We sat there, We sat there with that there, like
what's going on? I go up to the kitchen where
you can like you know, there's a like a bar
there and you can see into the kitchen in a
place like d the made or d say it's a diner,
and the waitress is standing there and the cook is
in there completely ignoring her with a blank look his face,
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like flipping burgers and baking stuff like, and she keeps saying,
can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Are you going to are you going to make the food?
What are you doing? What is happening here? And he
just kept looking straight ahead and kind of doing things slowly,
And then pretty soon he just walked out and I
assume he left.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know what happened, but that had been bruined
for a while. I have a feeling she couldn't get
a response.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Out of him. That's dreadful.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
He kept me awful sandwich a turd sandwich.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But we didn't ask about that one. We still laugh
about that experience of Denny's. Oh so I got something
out of it. Again, I'd rather have appalling than below average.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What would be worse A ts I'm not going to
repeat the phrase, or a fuster cluck.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Mine was really more of a fuster cluck than the
food being bad.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Because we never got food. We had to go somewhere else.
That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's the I'm Strong and Getty show.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Arm Strong. I thought he was just petting her for
a second.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I had to rewatch it a couple of times because
it is hard to see.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's dark, and he doesn't carry her very nicely. I
see her little tail and I'm like, oh my god.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So that's the story of an Amazon driver who took
somebody's cat.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
So what happened? Cat rustlers?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So you deliver a packaging and think, well, that's a
particularly good looking cat. All cats are more or less
the same. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You gotta you gotta hang cat rustlers.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
There's a lot of cats around. You don't need to
steal that person's cat.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You're a nut. Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I think Amazon throws a pretty wide net when it
comes to drivers this time of year, it is Michael.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That's a terrible way to put it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
They've identified the driver, but for some reason they can't
find him. Now I think if you can fog a mirror,
you probably qualify to drive for Amazon.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
That would be my guest. Yes, yes, boy.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
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, boy or girl, But
it's mostly boys.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I mean, just in my experience.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That we 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 1 (13:21):
Blah, just all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
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.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Five, learning self reliance, taking the initiative becoming.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Men to help them learn how to become men.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Which is like taboo and a lot of our perverse society.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
So yeah, I love it. I love the influence.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
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 sorts 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.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Is there anything I can 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 kid
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.
(14:32):
We're shooting for one hundred thousand dollars. I don't want
to go negative here. I'm trying to say this as
a 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 drumsticks there. It's often the kids
who can't afford Scouting that the effects will be immeasurable
(14:56):
in putting them on the right passage absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I'm sure that is true that the trend lines on
that match up pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah. So we got off the air yesterday about fifty grand.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
That was our goal yesterday and we are currently at
sixty and forty three dollars. Now, that is a ton
of money, that's right, That is s ton of money.
As a lot of people say, how did that phrase
get start? Say that sort of thing in scouting. 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 1 (15:30):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
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 in ten dollars, obviously would get there easily.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
So help a lot of young kids.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, so would if you could jump on that would appreciated.
Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
So here's some interesting news.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So it's just the oil tankers. It's not it's not
a full on blockade, like nothing nothing can come or go.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, just the sanctioned oil tankers, said Trump on truth
social which is again a bit of an odd way
to make presidential proclamations.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Venezuela, is that what he said? Oh boy, that was yikes.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
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. Didn't
I didn't pick up on that. That's pretty help to
help understand what's going exactly, He threatened. The US military
presence would quote only get bigger, and the shock to
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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 in the country. Okay, Yeah,
I had to ask a question.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Half a Phoenix. Yeah, it's a scandal. It's amazing Venezuela
took half of Phoenix. How did I miss that? It's
occupying it seems like I could be a big news story.
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
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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 have.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
For many moons.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
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 Venezuela. 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 well, say.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He keeps hinting that there will be 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.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, there's something about on our land, our country, our
dirt that's especially offensive to human beings for some reason.
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.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
A slightly educated guess as to where this is going,
So I guess we'll sit back and watch.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Is there anything Maduro can promise concede to Trump without
leaving power that will ratchet this down? Who was I
watching the other day? Is somebody I really like saying
this is obviously a regime regime change policy, right? For
whatever reason, they don't want to say it out loud,
or maybe just because it's got such a nasty hangover
(19:15):
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. Sometimes it's something worse
or just as bad. In fact, frequently power vacuums reward
the most vicious, most auspicious.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I'm rapping a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
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 in Americans. We haven't had to. But you have
a lot of disorder. People welcome anybody. I don't care.
IS's fine, come in. If you can stop the crime
in the streets and get somebody to pick up the garbage, fine.
(19:58):
And that's how Hamas or 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 comedian I guess I just think of
him as a thinker, honestly, Constantine Kissen, who is talking
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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, the slaughter has been unimaginable,
(20:43):
and then a strong leader will come in and bring
order and stop the killing.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Now that strong leader might do a fair amount of killing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
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? I
remember how regime change can to something worse. So yeah, yeah,
(21:11):
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
freaking morons. But 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
(21:34):
anybody talked about ever we were at the Republican Convention.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Don't remember it coming up a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No, I suspect it has something to do with the uh,
the quasi, well, the whole we want to control our neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, the quasi Monroe doctor, 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.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, and a feeling like, all right, we've got this
incredibly beautiful, ought to be incredibly bitch country right across
the Gulf of America, and they'd be a great ally
and all, but they got this tin horned jackass dictator
run of the place, doing nobody any good? And why
are we putting up with that? What's the point of
power if we permit that right in our backyard? I
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think that's the thing here.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
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 Trump's speech tonight because.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We have a theme.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
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 you would touch on Venezuela. That'd be a
(22:52):
good way to get the networks to take your speech,
as if you promised some information to the American people
on what the hell we're doing. But as way, when
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. It's staged.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, it's it's impressive and lethal. It is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You know anything about this, Katie, Let's take all the
major networks, okayry, Okay, So they said his newsworthy.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I'm kind of surprised. 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 4 (23:26):
But there so cool. You want to hear what they're thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's not charitable for better ratings there, they're thinking, A,
it'll get a lot of attention and V Trump always
on schools, plenty of rope to hang himself with. Oh,
they think it'll be more arm the risk for our
commentators to criticize the crap out of them for the
next three days. Well, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
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
to attack the United States again, and so we blasted
(24:11):
them real good, make sure they were dead.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Uh, that video is not going to be released.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
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 everythink about it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Or my cynical, cynical friend he might be thinking, no,
this would threaten our national security. I don't believe that
changed my mind about Oh, really, DIDs somebody smart explain
that to you? I know, I figured it out for myself. Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Never before published Doctor Seuss book has now been discovered
Singing to fifty United States. We published in June to
mark the country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Author Theodore
Geisel died in nineteen ninety one. The manuscript was found
earlier this year at the Guys of Library at uc
San Diego.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
What crazy is that.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
They found a new Doctor Seuss book and the USA
related for the So that's cool. Yeah, So you came
across more information that Bill Gates has had a major
change of heart about climate change.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I mean back in the day he was one of
the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
This could be.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Important for those of us who think it's been overblown
for a long time.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, he said way back in the day that blah
blah blah, the climate change will be one of the
greatest challenges humans have ever taken on. Greater than landing
on the moon, greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than
putting a computer on every desk, and then the enormous
(26:04):
loss of life. And now he says that never mind.
Well no, he essentially he said, look, poverty and disease
are the biggest problems, as they've always been understanding this,
lets us focus our limited resources on interventions that will
have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people. In
other words, don't spend all your time and money and
effort on climate change. Help people where they are. Yeah,
(26:26):
we know, Bill, we know, so he's come around. I
wonder if will this be reported in the New York
Times and who will criticize him bitterly for it?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
How many people do we have who wear any of
the metaglasses. Our agent, the greatest agent in the world,
Eric wears them. There ray bands, but they you can
make phone calls, you can listen to music, you can
do a variety of things. And the reason I mentioned
this is they got the new version out, generation two
that has a little screen that shows up in one
(26:58):
of the lens and you can see it like a
little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other
versions like Google, what was the one that wants Yeah,
people could see it and it was a little off putting.
Everything like these. It looks like you're just wearing glasses.
They can't see on their side that you're looking at
(27:18):
screen that just shows on your side. And I saw
it demonstrated, and the couple of reviewers talking about how
it's amazing it is. For instance, directions they were just
walking around the town and they put up the directions
of like, hey, you walk up to this corner and
you turn left and you're following your way to get
someplace wherever.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Just one example.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Or they had somebody they were cooking in the kitchen
and they had in their lens. Instead of regularly look
at your phone or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're
making was right there. While you can also be looking
at whatever you're doing anyway, reading something that closed your eyeball.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
How does that work?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It must work. They all say it was great.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
But and these weren't people working for the company selling it.
These were independent reviewers who have said they haven't liked
past versions and that they think this is finally crossed
over into that this might be something that people start
to use. But one of the reviewers I said this said,
she said, this is gonna divide us even more into
(28:18):
not paying attention to each other, or listening to each other,
or living in our own worlds. As you can sit
there with your glasses on and you know, reading something
else or watching a video or whatever the hell you're
doing instead of paying attention to your friend.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
The Journal just had a big article about CEOs and
executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds and
whatever during meetings, and they can tell that they're not
really present, and you won't be able to tell. Now
you'll be checking your text in a little thing in
your eye, your lens.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Until somebody says, Jack, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And you say, oh, I agree with most of what's
been said.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I mean to study it further. Let's not be hasty.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
There's nuance, though, and so that it requires a second look.
I think we should put a pin on it and
circle back. But I realized a long time ago with texting.
I told this story a bunch of times. The first
time I heard about texting, I thought that that's stupid.
Why wouldn't you just call them? And then you know,
finding out it takes over my life like it did
(29:20):
everybody else. So I realized I don't have the ability
to predict even what I am interested in doing or
not doing, let alone the rest of humanity. I don't
see like a need or use for these glasses, but
for all I know, everybody will be wearing them in
two years.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
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