October 16, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- US conflict with Venezuela & airports hacked
- Mailbag!
- Katie Green's Headlines & hackers stealing our information
- Price of cars & Hamas in Gaza
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and dictating and he arms one.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
From studio scene. See we are in a dimly lit
room to put them the bowels of the Armstrong and
getting communications compound on little Friday. You can smell the
weekend from here. And today we're under the tutelage of
our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Senor Nicholas Maduro, who dat Maduro.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The unelected dictator of Venezuela. Okay, and thanks for getting
spicier and spicier between the.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
US and the Venezuelans.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Giving in mind those were Venezuelan drug runner boats allegedly
that Trump and company blew out of the water, and
things are about to get spicier, you think, yeah, that's
certainly moving in that direction, Okay, and warranted in your opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
In a way.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, that would require a long answer. The drug boat
thing I still consider a little iffy, honestly. But the
idea that we would just sit by and permit a
cross high communist mob dictatorship to run a big country
(01:39):
right across the Caribbean from US and flood US with
gang members and drugs and the rest of it. Why
not project American power. I know that sort of thinking
is a little out of favor these days, but I
say do it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't suppose you can claim it's just for political reasons,
because I don't feel like Venezuelan drug policy in their
country is high in a lot of people's lists of
topics every single day of their lives.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well, and if eight percent of Americans knew what was
going on between us and Venezuela right now, I would
be shocked.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No way, it's a high.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, I know, and there's some major stuff going on.
We've assembled the ships and groups of marines and a
weaponry in the Caribbean ready to go. Go do what
is not clear?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, that's exciting. We'll have more. So it needs to
be done. Nuts what.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
We'll have more on that story later, obviously. You know,
my one of my favorite stories from yesterday is and
I think this is being reported completely wrong. As a
matter of fact. Play this is not our opening clip.
Play this, Michael, it's the This.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is an unofficial early clip. I saw it just a
minute ago. Where did I put it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Play twelve this. This was broadcast at airports across the country.
You don't have twelve yet, Okay, it's on the list.
So yesterday multiple airports a friendly, free free Palstine.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Okay, you can cut it off. So that's what it
sounded like.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was a f Netanyahu and Trump free free Palestine
broadcast at multiple airports across the country. And every report
I'm I'm hearing they get into the you know netnya
who is actually trying to help the palaestin No, no, no, no.
The story here is that some numb nuts were able
to hack into multiple airports at the same time, and
(03:30):
they put on the screens in the airport the same message.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's the story to me.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, given what we were talking about the last several
days and China being able to hack and everything China,
what if you know, as part of the takedown, the
water plants turn off the cell phone towers all of
a sudden, all our airports across the country. You got
who knows what message being broadcast over the loudspeaker, and
all the TVs say something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Both the Russians and the Chinese one of their top
goals is spread divisiveness, get Americans at each other's throats.
It's their unity that is their strength. So they've got
to threaten that. Isn't that the head fear our unity
more than they feel fear our weapons.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But isn't that the headline out of that story?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah? Somebody, Yes, I assume it's a low level, like
mad college kids or something. We're able to hack into
multiple airports and broadcast stuff through the loudspeakers of the
airport man and put it on the screens.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's amazing. How are we that vulnerable? Why?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I guess I'm not that I'm not as shocked as
you are. Just because jackasses chanting idiot slogans in a
handful of airports, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, through the they got a hold the loudspeaker machine
that was a recorded message so they could run. So
China could have hacked in there and said off lights
are canceled and put up on the screen.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Off cats. Imagine the chaos would you would be? Would cause?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. Run for your lives that sort
of thing. God, how are we? I wonder how many
of our systems are this hackable?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All of them? All of them?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Just like the story ons in sixty minutes. It's from
Sunday night. You know, your local water plant depending on
the city you live in. It's just like any any
numbnuts with the slightest skill apparently could hack into that
and turn the water to poison.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I would love to see some sort of pie
chart pie about you know what percentage of our systems
are absolutely hardcore, state of the art, practically unhackable.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How many are that second tier?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Then how many of them are the really a child
could hack into this? And then then there's probably a
pretty decent chunk that are like completely unprotected. We don't
even have a password here. John's County water Processing right.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, apparently enough airports are that one category of even
a child could do it, and our water plants and
everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So people are gonna start sending birthday wishes, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh no, not sad pranks, because then everybody's gonna want
it pranks. I'm fine with China, Russia and Iran doing
whatever they want to do is part of another attack
I'm not fine with anyway. I hope we pay attention
to that, uh and do something about it. The New
York City's having their mayoral debate tonight, their first general
election mayoral debate where mam Dami the Kami will be
up there against Cuomo the groper and uh, what's his
(06:13):
name in the break? Really the least of his sins?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, no kidding, And I love you unwanted sexual advances,
which gives you an idea of the guy's character. But
my god, could there be a worse matchup? Hasn't there
been a wor worse mash up in American political history for.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
A race at that level? Boy, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
An Islamist communist versus a groping old people killing lion mobster. Yeah,
excel all.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Right, Yeah, that's a heck of a choice.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And normally I hate when national media talks about this
sort of thing, because you know, we all don't all
live in New.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
York like you do.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But I definitely think the mum Dami thing is going
to have a tail all across the country.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Things that he's oh garin ted. Yeah, I can't wait
to play the clips tomorrow. By the way, I figured
out how to consistently pronounce his name correctly.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Uh, which is Mumdanni And that is.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Your brother Donnie is asking you or just told you
we're having steak for dinner and you say, who told
you that? And he says, and then I would say, Mom, Donnie,
I got the characters wrong. But you get the point.
Who Donnie would ask me who told you that?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Mom? Donnie?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There you go, there you go. Now see now I
don't forget. But I like Mundami because the rhymes with kami.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So that's that's why I like that better. The judges
will allow it. Mana Donnie was nice.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Try Letitia you half with, Uh, that's funny. So yeah,
so we got all those stories going on. We should
start the show officially before we get in trouble with
the FCC. Oh what the let's see that the Transportation
secretary he's going to do to California.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's an interesting story I can tell you about after this.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Uh, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe get on this. It
is Thursday, October sixteenth, year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong
in getting and.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We approve of this program. And one more side note.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
There are actually a couple of other stories, including the
IRS is going to take a serious look at leftist
political groups and see whether they're living up to their
tax exempt status.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It is a huge story.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But in the blizzard of activity coming out of the
Trump administration. You just got to figure out which stuff
you can get to and which you don't have time
to get to it. It's really amazing the level of action. Okay,
so let's begin chronicling it as only we can precisely
according the FCC rules.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Rags at mark.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Regime change may or may not be on the table.
But the president says, the US is at war with
Venezuelan drug traffickers.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We are certainly looking at land now because we've got
to see very well under control.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Just yesterday, the Pentagon launched another strike on an alleged
drug boat off Venezuela's coast. This is the fifth such
strike in recent weeks that have killed more than twenty
suspected narco terrorists in international waters.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
On One of the headlines out of yesterday was Trump
has authorized CIA activity in the country of Venezuela, including
the wet work, as they say in the business wet work,
potential lethal activities. It's not the first time the CIA
is messed around south of our border and various things.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Announcing it's about a bit of a twist.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's what I thought was interesting that so Trump often
gets beat up because he says things out loud that
we've done many, many times with different administrations. It's kind
of like the targeting of political opponents. Lots of presidents
have done that in different ways with their Justice Department.
Trump just says it out loud, which obviously is another
step down the road, and.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Or it could be a loud and clear message to
Maduro that look, if you haven't gotten the idea by now,
we are not playing.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We are serious. We're about to give you a phone call.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You take the call, and you get ready to do
some serious negotiating.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And I was reading piece yesterday, was speculating on how
Mexican cartels, which are big businesses. This isn't like you know,
venezuela style drug running. These cartels are giant corporations bringing
in billions of dollars, and how they're reacting to this
or adjusting or wondering when when their time is coming.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So that's a good story. Oh, I wanted to mention
the English thing briefly. We'll do more details on this,
but Secretary Duffy of the Transportation Department, he is going
to withhold a whole bunch of money from California, because
he says California is the only state in the country
that doesn't enforce the English only truck driver thing that
is supposed to be the law. You can't give driver's
(10:43):
licenses to truck drivers unless they can read and speak English,
and we do it all the time in California. I
don't know if you've noticed all of our road signs
are in English, for instance.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, So that's that's an interesting one. We got lots
to get to.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I got mail bag on the way for a reason
we can explain at some point, I suppose, and lots
of news today, so hope you can stigre around. Here's
our text line four one five nine five k FTC.
A lot of things I'm looking at excited about talking
about today, and usually I'm not. Usually just going through
the motions, don't really want to be here, but today
(11:20):
plenty of things actually excited to talk about.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, So a quick explanation of the change of schedule.
We're doing our freedom loving quote of the day and
mailbag here and then Katie will do the headlines in
the next half hour, so as I Joe need to
jet off for a band in my show and it's
time of need for more pleasure. Yeah, I wish it
was a minor skin cancer procedure. It's not the scary kind,
(11:45):
it's the get it in time and your fine kind.
So anyway, I apologize for having skin cancer. I will
be back in a couple of hours, God willing. So anyway,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day. I have
gone with a pair from So Sue, a great Chinese
warrior and thinker, because we are at cyber war with
(12:07):
China at this point. We're at psychological war with them,
or they are with us anyway, and we're damn near
at a trade war with them.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I was thinking about how legitimate it was to say that.
And if you are in the processes of in the
process of moving your forces positioning them to attack, aren't
you already at war as one of the parties.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, I think so. So I just looked up Sun
Sue because.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You hear from cyberwise there are one hundred percent doing that.
You hear from Sun Zu regularly and quotes are often brilliant.
And I just chat gpt'd what year did he write
this stuff?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Five hundred BC. Wow, it's amazing. Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, it's right there with human nature never changes anyway.
Here your freedom of the quotes of the day from
Sun Su two of them. The supreme art of war
is to have subdued the enemy without fighting, which is
what they are trying to do cyber psychologically, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And then this one.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need
not fear the result of one hundred battles. I'm afraid
that one of our great faults here is that we
don't know ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You remember the way we used to be.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And we have a decent enough idea of China, but
not a good one like we were talking about yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
They're psychological warfare tactics. Nobody's talking about it. They're doing
it as hard as they can, as fully as they
can right now through social media and other means.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That, ladies and gentlemen, is Joe Getty cold warrior.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Thank you, we have that handy. That was some good
Hanson did it the end anyway? A mailbagoo, drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com
on the topic of the idiotic six and craze among
the youngsters. Steve and Eugene Oregon WTF. This is why
(14:06):
I deleted all my social media accounts. Like you guys,
I was born and lived a good portion of my
life pre computer, pre cell phone, pre internet, pre social media.
I figure I can manage up most without most of that.
Just fine, that's a I'm going to go read a book,
a paper book.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That's fine. I understand doing that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
But are you committed to just giving up on the
next generations of people.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Giving up on their crazes? I think you would say uh.
And the truth is, unless you are a school teacher, you'd.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Never bump up against this stuff, really unless you had
kids in that age, right, your parent obviously right. Ricky writes,
how long before the Democrats make some sort of cringey
video with the six seventh thing?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Ricky, The answer to that is three two one. It
just got posted to the internet af As the kids
might say, let's see, this is a drew the millennial guys.
Elon's whole shtick that his life's mission is to save
humanity is a bunch of crap. First, if you're concerned
with declining population birth rates, then you wouldn't be focused
(15:14):
on creating AI sex bots for people to have intimate
relationships with I think it's just his cover for making
dozens of kids that he doesn't have to raise.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I'm not sure it's dozens plural. Elon's not committed to
making AI sex bots, sexy companions yeah, sexy, Yeah, yeah,
the chat companions he's just started. That second is obsession
with colonizing Mars. Mars, the peak of Mount Everest is
infinitely more hospitable to humans than Mars is or could
(15:45):
ever be. Also, what it isn't a two hundred and
thirty million miles space rocket ride away. We'll all be
dead long before we made Earth half as inhospitable to
humans as Mars is. So how the hell does it
make any sense to try to start a new civilization
on a planet that's all already way worse than the
Earth would ever be. Why not just endeavor to improve
the Earth? I just think he likes putting his name
(16:05):
on giant phallic objects. Well, his argument is any species
that wants to survive in the universe needs to be multiplanetary. Yeah,
you can't just live on one planet because you will
either destroy yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Or it will get destroyed.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I too, am highly skeptical of that philosophy. But let's
see Steve Wrights. You know how the Democrat left media
always phrases, always talks about voter fraud. They always qualify
it is there is no widespread voter fraud. Technically, in
that regard, they are correct. The problem is, you don't
need widespread voter fraud to cause mischief. If you look
across the country, you can identify specific counties in specific
(16:42):
states where the vote will be very close. If it
flips one way or the other, it makes a huge
difference in the outcome in a congressional or presidential election.
Target your vote fraud to a few votes in those counties.
Flip the county by a few votes, flip the state,
flip the election. There was no widespread voter fraud. Repeat
as needed, based on this story out of Minnesota that
(17:03):
they're now giving driver's licenses to illegals, just like California,
who can show those driver's licenses and vote.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Getting back to that Elon thing, it's funny with the
AI stuff. I worry about the next couple generations. I
don't worry about humanity five hundred years from now. It
doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The good luck, good luck.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I didn't have time to fully make my thought makes
sense before we went to break.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So we were talking.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
About AI and then where we regularly talk about AI
as everyone should, and Elon's idea on trying to get
to Mars to have a multi planetary species because he
thinks we're gonna destroy Earth or whatever. I don't worry
about that one for so So I do worry about
AI because I care about my kids' lives and their kids' lives.
(17:53):
So I don't want to just, you know, say well,
what are you going to do? Live the rest of
my life about it? Because I want to have some
influence over this maybe if I can in what way
for the next generation or two. But in terms of
the Earth mankind destroying itself from five.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Hundred years whatever, I don't care. I just who cares.
That's so far away. I just I can't imagine wrapping
my head around that whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
All right, So we're doing this new feature with the
Katie headline thing where I do a joke. Yes, this
one's slightly different structure than the riddles of the last
several days, all right, And that I had one of
those deals the other day where somebody's waving at you
and you can't tell if they're waving at you or
the person behind you. And other news, I lost my
lifeguard job. Very good, come on, very good. Okay, let's
(18:44):
ig know what the headlines are with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
The news lady. I don't know a big time wise ass.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Wow, that's dramatic, Katie, Katie the news lady, big time
Why that ass?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
What are people you see in other news? I lost
my lifeguard job. You see you're a terrible lifeguard?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That was good?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Someone drowned right? Wow? That that hurts the humor. Okay,
so what are the headlines?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Starting with NBC News, Hamas says it needs more time
to recover the hostages remains.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I think the announcement this morning was they said they've
returned everybody they can, so there are nineteen still left.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Right. It kind of ruins the whole return all the bodies.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
If there were twenty two to return and nineteen of them,
you say we got we got nothing. So I don't
know what happens now.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You would think that that would have been brought up
in the meeting too, like do you know where they
are for starters?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Right, yeah, or they misled the people they are negotiating
with or something.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But man, that so this is gonna be a huge
sticking point. Right from the Washington Post.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Judge orders Trump administration to pause all shut down layoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Okay, that's the one judge makes a ruling for everybody thing,
and then a different judge will to say a different thing.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Okay, fine.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
ABC man suspected of starting Palisades fire indicted on federal
charges and faces forty five years in prison.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That should be longer than that. That'll light that.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, that'll be some trial to follow as the details
come out on that crazy person from.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
AI data centers desperate for electricity are.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Building their own power plants. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
As we've talked about before, one of the underappreciated things
about AIS how much energy it takes for some reason,
and I haven't got the slightest idea why, but it
takes gazillions of a watts of energy that no town
or state is prepared for. And so the smart people
like Zuckerberg or Elon or Sam Altman or whoever to
(21:00):
start these big AI planes are having to come up
with their own power sources too.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Speaking of Zuckerberg. From the Associated.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Press, Meta removes ice tracking Facebook page in Chicago at
request of.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The Justice Department. Okay, yeah, so Apple. Last week, remember
we reported that they took the app out of their
app store for tracking ice agents, and now Facebook is
playing along too.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
From the New York Times, the Pentagon is blocking out
news organizations.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
We didn't talk about this yesterday. I was just reading
in Mark Calprin's newsletter. He thinks this is the first
war on the media that Trump is going to lose
because there are a lot of people on the right
who are not happy about this development, with the Pentagon
not being as transparent as it ought to be.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So we can talk more about that later. This one
from the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Florida team arrested for staging his abduction and shooting himself
as a hoax ignites a frantic search.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Wow, he actually shot himself. He shot himself. How wounded
did he get?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It was, you know, a surface wound. But still, my god,
desperate for attention.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's rough. Oh my god? Raising teenagers? Good lord? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
From TMZ porn site offering fans crude and uncommon sexual
device giveaway in honor of Big Dumper.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Oh that's the catcher for the Mariners, the Big Dumper.
But you're gonna hear a lot more about because I
think they're headed to the World Series.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
All right, But we have this porn site offering fans
a crude and uncommon sexual device in a giveaway in
honor of the Big Dump.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
If I want to go further down that road of
what that is, some call it a Chuck Schumer if
you will.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Okay, uh yeah, we got we gotta what's your next headline?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Prep study finds we did one similar to this with
your mental ability, but this one saying people hit their
functional peak at sixty according to research.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Uh oh, it's all downhill from here, Jack.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Exactly, I'm what not eight months past by prime? Oh yeah,
sim to give me that story. I want to talk
about that later. I love those kind of stories of like,
whatever it is, how many push ups you should be
able to do, whatever age, or what puzzles you should
be able to solve, or whatever like that, so everybody
can kind of check and see how they're doing with
their aging.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
And finally, this one from the Babylon Bee Exhausted government
employees hoping to go back to work soon so they
can get some rest.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I have a friend who works for the government, and
she has really been enjoying her vacation doing all.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Kinds of different stuff like she's on a vacation.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Although people are going to start missing paychecks any day now.
Depends on who you work for and what your situation is,
but the paychecks are gonna actually be missed. You get
caught up. Usually you get caught up once the shutdown ends.
But if you're living in a situation where you need
each paycheck to make your house payment, car payment, whatever,
(24:11):
that could be quite a strain. And that's gonna start
hitting really next week, so there'll be a lot more
pressure on both sides. I supposed to end this ridiculous shutdown,
And that is the entirety of what I'm going to
say about the shutdown, because it is not a topic
that I care to talk about much. There's a possibility
we can talk to your dad later, do I understand, Katie.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, I'm going to give him a call if you'd like.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So. Katie's dad was a judge for many, many years,
but we found out the other day that he also
had a job previous in his life as an Embalmer
An Embalmer, Yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
He was a paramedic for a funeral home, so he
would go pick up the bodies, bring him back, embalm them,
spend the night there and dress.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Them and dress them.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, that's what I want to ask about. How do
you put the socks on a corpse? He has the
answer for that, fantastic, So maybe we'll get to that
later in the show. Thank you, Katie. It is Cybersecurity's
awareness Month. That should be every month of the year.
How many times is somebody trying to hack you? I
don't know about me, but my cell phone, my email,
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year round. I was thinking about that today when I
got up this morning. I don't know about all y'all,
but you know, I checked my email and there's I
don't know a third of the emails I get are
some sort of attempts to rip me off. They're a
fake PayPal thing or some you know, your accounts is
overdue for something I don't have an account, or whatever
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it is. It's amazing. And then phone calls that get
through the day, texts I get through the day, it's
a many amazing how many times somebody is trying to
rip you off or hack you, and you really have
to be aware of that. In the modern world, it's annoying.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I commonly get one from a geek squad telling me
that I got that yesterday. Yeah, I get that one
all and it looks legit, but I'm sure I haven't
used that.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah yeah, and I actually have geek Squad, but so yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
For instance, yesterday I got hit with the we charged
your card, we renewed your your renewal was up four
hundred and forty nine dollars for your Geek Squad renewal.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And then you're supposed to say, oh.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
My god, I didn't sign up for that, and then
you click on it, and then all of a sudden,
the bad guys, some Russian hackers into your account and
has stolen all your money and maybe your kidneys, and
you're in a bathtub full ice.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The whole thing falls apart very quickly. Yes, Michael, I
get the fake Amazon where they want your personal information
to confirm your account. Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I fell for the EBA one many years ago. This
is like twenty some years ago when people weren't as
hip to this. But I was doing a lot of
stuff on eBay and I had an email from eBay
saying something and I thought, oh crap, and I clicked
on it, and I don't know whatever eventually happened to me.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I don't know. I don't think anything happened.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But we've all had our information stolen so many times.
Pretty much every adult in America has had their information
stolen two to three times. I was reading about this
the other day, whether it's the Experience hack or Chinese
hack or whoever it is. You know, data leaks from
the government, so our information's floating around out there. Not
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continuing the commercial for Webroote, but one of the things
Webroot does and somebody needs to do is be out
there on the dark web, which I don't know how
to get onto the dark web, because to figure out
if your information's floating around out there and people will
sell it, so somebodys maybe somebody has got your name, address,
phone number, email, and social security number and they have
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a site where they sell that stuff. And it's nice
to know if it's out there. Very frustrating. I hope
the modern world figures out a way to fix this. Anyway,
we got a lot of on the way. We're going
to talk to one of our military analysts later. Since
Trump is talking about sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, what
is a Tomahawk missile? How much more advantage would Ukraine
have if they got them? Should we be in favor
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of this or not, and a bunch of other stuff
on the way.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Stay here.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
It's never been more expensive to buy a new car.
According to a report from Kelly Blue Book, the average
price for a new vehicle has cracked the fifty thousand
dollars mark for the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And that's just what people paid. The average asking.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Price, the MSRP for twenty twenty six models is even high,
more than fifty two thousand dollars, and experts say consumers
looking to used cars to save money are also out
of luck.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
For when I looked up the cost of a twenty
twenty one a Nissan CenTra versus a brand new one,
the cost difference is roughly one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, used cars continue to be expensive.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
The pandemic man through the whole car thing out of whack,
and it hasn't come back yet, just like the housing market.
And what did we hear the other day The average
loan rate for a new car is nine percent, So
the average new car is fifty grand and the average
person's paying nine percent on that loan. No wonder people
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are maxing out the credit cards trying to keep up.
And again we had the stat the other day that
the highest number people ever are sixty to ninety days
behind on their car payments. So how this plays out
over time, I do not know. Wanted to hit this
story real quick before we get to something like Hamasa's
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military wing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
This is from the New York Times. The Cassam Brigades.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Said ye last night that it had handed over all
the remains of Israeli hostages that had it been able
to recover without additional equipment, potentially putting a ceasefire with
Israel on the Gaza Strip at risk. In a statement,
the Palestinian Militant Group said that it has committed to
what was agreed upon and handed over everyone had had
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in terms of living captives and what it had in
terms of bodies that it could recover, which apparently was
a total of three. But it said that it needed
special equipment in quotes to find and extract the remains
of the rest of the deceased captives, adding that it
was making great efforts. Egypt has said that they're willing
to send over some bulldozers and cranes or whatever else
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and a team to try to help find the remains.
I just can't even imagine what that process is going
to be. Like, I mean, if you had a tunnel
destroyed with a building on top of it, how would
you dig through that rubble to try to find, you know,
the body that takes up this much space in all
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of that chunks of cement and dirt and everything else.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well on how long they've been down there.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Right, I can't even imagine that that's going to happen.
But we will see, and more importantly and more urgently,
I suppose we'll see what that does to the ceasefire.
Does that completely break it or I don't know. Also
from the Washington Post on that topic, Hamas may have
stopped fighting Israel, but it has launched a new violent
campaign to reassert control over local families and militias that
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had been challenging its power during the last two years
of war. We've been talking about this. AMAS is trying
to send a clear message that after hiding from Israel
for all these months, they are back and in charge.
And the way that they're doing that is they're going
around and dragging people out of homes and executing him
in the streets after so called trials to make it
clear that hey, we're still the big dogs. We're still
the biggest gang in towns. So don't think you can
(31:58):
shosh that video.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
It was obviously edited and rolling around all the major
news networks last night.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
But just this public execution with this big group of
people around, I mean, it's it's like barbaric to be
honest with and cheering.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah right, what does that says?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So that big group that cheering Hamas executing people who
supposedly spied for Israel or tried to challenge Hamas's authority,
that's troubling.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
So Mark Alvin writes in his newsletter today, Uh, this
whole thing is about if Witkoff and Jared actually have
a real plan to stand up a peacekeeping force that
is well funded, well organized, and possessed of a clear
mission and workable rules of engagement.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Until that happens, no idea, what's going to happen?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, who's going to go in and calm that thing down,
stop the executions and put somebody else in charge and
in theory, disarmed Hamas. Remember Trump said yesterday Jimas must
disarm or we will disarm them. So more to come on.
I'm sure wanted to get to this because Katie brought
it up. This is an interesting headline from a new study.
People hit their functional peak around sixty. Research suggests this
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is either good news or bad news depending on your age.
New research shows that people reach their all around mental
and emotional peak around sixty, not in their twenties. According
to this, it had long been believed that you have
your mental peak in your twenties, which depends on what
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do you mean by mental I mean I think my
brain worked faster. I was able to remember things better.
I didn't forget people's names all the time when I
was in my twenties. But certainly not wiser.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Definitely not wiser.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, if you're talking about mental peak, definitely not wiser
and emotional peak.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Who thinks their emotional peak was in their twenties? That
was my emotional low points? Oh my god, it says here.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
While quick thinking slows with age, experience, judgment and emotional
balance keep improving through midlife. So if you're gonna, you know,
judge it based on you know, Katie's word wisdom, clearly
it gets better. The fact that it drops off after
around sixty is troubling. Between about forty and sixty five,
most adults show the best mix of intelligence, stability, and
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decision making. Okay, I definitely have been better since age forty.
I'm not looking forward to dropping off. Am I going
to become more emotional again like my twenties and dumber?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I can't wait to be at that age where I
just have the biggest case of the efforts, right, you
know when.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You're older and you just don't care. I'm getting close.
I love that stage. I can't wait. Yeah, my dad's
definitely My dad is definitely there.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Same with my parents after the mid sixties, averages on
their scores dip on both emotional and that's so wisdom
and judgment starts to drop after age sixty. I never
thought that would be true, varying from person to person.
And then if that is true, and I don't I
don't know that I believe it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
But if that is.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
True, why is everybody in government over sixty? In fact,
most of the people who we got in charge.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Are over seventy point? Great point. If your emotional and
mental peak is.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
South of sixty, why is everybody in charge over sixty
ft I don't know if that I buy this study anyway,
It's hard for me to picture my judgment getting worse
at this point in my life.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
God, I hope not. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Maybe, like you're I'm stuck on the efforts, like I'm
thinking about judgment of like should I or shouldn't I
say that?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Like, you know, yeah, I don't really do that, but
I talk to everybody now. Drives my kids crazy, and
I like my dad used to do that and when
I was younger, and it thought not just his personality.
Something happened in the last couple of years where I
just talk to everybody now all the time, Like you know,
walking down the side, I talked to somebody about their
their dog or their lawn, or the person at the
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check out stand at the grocery store or whatever. I
talk to everybody and ask them questions like that. So
that's a certain level of the efforts. It's just like
I no longer care what people think of me, so
I just engage them in conversation. It's really awesome. It's
very freeing. I wish I could have taken that on
when I was younger, instead of waiting to be old
and in the winter of my life before I could
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enjoy it. We're going to talk to Tim sand Stand
for a legal expert about the Supreme Court and other
things an hour two. I hope you can be around
for that.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and dictating and he arms one.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
From studio scene. See we are in a dimly lit
room to put them the bowels of the Armstrong and
getting communications compound on little Friday. You can smell the
weekend from here. And today we're under the tutelage of
our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Senor Nicholas Maduro, who dat Maduro.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The unelected dictator of Venezuela. Okay, and thanks for getting
spicier and spicier between the.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
US and the Venezuelans.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Giving in mind those were Venezuelan drug runner boats allegedly
that Trump and company blew out of the water, and
things are about to get spicier, you think, yeah, that's
certainly moving in that direction, Okay, and warranted in your opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
In a way.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, that would require a long answer. The drug boat
thing I still consider a little iffy, honestly. But the
idea that we would just sit by and permit a
cross high communist mob dictatorship to run a big country
(01:39):
right across the Caribbean from US and flood US with
gang members and drugs and the rest of it. Why
not project American power. I know that sort of thinking
is a little out of favor these days, but I
say do it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't suppose you can claim it's just for political reasons,
because I don't feel like Venezuelan drug policy in their
country is high in a lot of people's lists of
topics every single day of their lives.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well, and if eight percent of Americans knew what was
going on between us and Venezuela right now, I would
be shocked.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No way, it's a high.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, I know, and there's some major stuff going on.
We've assembled the ships and groups of marines and a
weaponry in the Caribbean ready to go. Go do what
is not clear?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, that's exciting. We'll have more. So it needs to
be done. Nuts what.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
We'll have more on that story later, obviously. You know,
my one of my favorite stories from yesterday is and
I think this is being reported completely wrong. As a
matter of fact. Play this is not our opening clip.
Play this, Michael, it's the This.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is an unofficial early clip. I saw it just a
minute ago. Where did I put it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Play twelve this. This was broadcast at airports across the country.
You don't have twelve yet, Okay, it's on the list.
So yesterday multiple airports a friendly, free free Palstine.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Okay, you can cut it off. So that's what it
sounded like.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was a f Netanyahu and Trump free free Palestine
broadcast at multiple airports across the country. And every report
I'm I'm hearing they get into the you know netnya
who is actually trying to help the palaestin No, no, no, no.
The story here is that some numb nuts were able
to hack into multiple airports at the same time, and
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they put on the screens in the airport the same message.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's the story to me.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, given what we were talking about the last several
days and China being able to hack and everything China,
what if you know, as part of the takedown, the
water plants turn off the cell phone towers all of
a sudden, all our airports across the country. You got
who knows what message being broadcast over the loudspeaker, and
all the TVs say something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Both the Russians and the Chinese one of their top
goals is spread divisiveness, get Americans at each other's throats.
It's their unity that is their strength. So they've got
to threaten that. Isn't that the head fear our unity
more than they feel fear our weapons.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But isn't that the headline out of that story?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah? Somebody, Yes, I assume it's a low level, like
mad college kids or something. We're able to hack into
multiple airports and broadcast stuff through the loudspeakers of the
airport man and put it on the screens.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's amazing. How are we that vulnerable? Why?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I guess I'm not that I'm not as shocked as
you are. Just because jackasses chanting idiot slogans in a
handful of airports, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, through the they got a hold the loudspeaker machine
that was a recorded message so they could run. So
China could have hacked in there and said off lights
are canceled and put up on the screen.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Off cats. Imagine the chaos would you would be? Would cause?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. Run for your lives that sort
of thing. God, how are we? I wonder how many
of our systems are this hackable?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All of them? All of them?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Just like the story ons in sixty minutes. It's from
Sunday night. You know, your local water plant depending on
the city you live in. It's just like any any
numbnuts with the slightest skill apparently could hack into that
and turn the water to poison.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I would love to see some sort of pie
chart pie about you know what percentage of our systems
are absolutely hardcore, state of the art, practically unhackable.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How many are that second tier?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Then how many of them are the really a child
could hack into this? And then then there's probably a
pretty decent chunk that are like completely unprotected. We don't
even have a password here. John's County water Processing right.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, apparently enough airports are that one category of even
a child could do it, and our water plants and
everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So people are gonna start sending birthday wishes, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh no, not sad pranks, because then everybody's gonna want
it pranks. I'm fine with China, Russia and Iran doing
whatever they want to do is part of another attack
I'm not fine with anyway. I hope we pay attention
to that, uh and do something about it. The New
York City's having their mayoral debate tonight, their first general
election mayoral debate where mam Dami the Kami will be
up there against Cuomo the groper and uh, what's his
(06:13):
name in the break? Really the least of his sins?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, no kidding, And I love you unwanted sexual advances,
which gives you an idea of the guy's character. But
my god, could there be a worse matchup? Hasn't there
been a wor worse mash up in American political history for.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
A race at that level? Boy, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
An Islamist communist versus a groping old people killing lion mobster. Yeah,
excel all.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Right, Yeah, that's a heck of a choice.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And normally I hate when national media talks about this
sort of thing, because you know, we all don't all
live in New.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
York like you do.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But I definitely think the mum Dami thing is going
to have a tail all across the country.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Things that he's oh garin ted. Yeah, I can't wait
to play the clips tomorrow. By the way, I figured
out how to consistently pronounce his name correctly.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Uh, which is Mumdanni And that is.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Your brother Donnie is asking you or just told you
we're having steak for dinner and you say, who told
you that? And he says, and then I would say, Mom, Donnie,
I got the characters wrong. But you get the point.
Who Donnie would ask me who told you that?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Mom? Donnie?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There you go, there you go. Now see now I
don't forget. But I like Mundami because the rhymes with kami.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So that's that's why I like that better. The judges
will allow it. Mana Donnie was nice.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Try Letitia you half with, Uh, that's funny. So yeah,
so we got all those stories going on. We should
start the show officially before we get in trouble with
the FCC. Oh what the let's see that the Transportation
secretary he's going to do to California.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's an interesting story I can tell you about after this.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Uh, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe get on this. It
is Thursday, October sixteenth, year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong
in getting and.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We approve of this program. And one more side note.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
There are actually a couple of other stories, including the
IRS is going to take a serious look at leftist
political groups and see whether they're living up to their
tax exempt status.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It is a huge story.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But in the blizzard of activity coming out of the
Trump administration. You just got to figure out which stuff
you can get to and which you don't have time
to get to it. It's really amazing the level of action. Okay,
so let's begin chronicling it as only we can precisely
according the FCC rules.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Rags at mark.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Regime change may or may not be on the table.
But the president says, the US is at war with
Venezuelan drug traffickers.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We are certainly looking at land now because we've got
to see very well under control.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Just yesterday, the Pentagon launched another strike on an alleged
drug boat off Venezuela's coast. This is the fifth such
strike in recent weeks that have killed more than twenty
suspected narco terrorists in international waters.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
On One of the headlines out of yesterday was Trump
has authorized CIA activity in the country of Venezuela, including
the wet work, as they say in the business wet work,
potential lethal activities. It's not the first time the CIA
is messed around south of our border and various things.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Announcing it's about a bit of a twist.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's what I thought was interesting that so Trump often
gets beat up because he says things out loud that
we've done many, many times with different administrations. It's kind
of like the targeting of political opponents. Lots of presidents
have done that in different ways with their Justice Department.
Trump just says it out loud, which obviously is another
step down the road, and.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Or it could be a loud and clear message to
Maduro that look, if you haven't gotten the idea by now,
we are not playing.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We are serious. We're about to give you a phone call.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You take the call, and you get ready to do
some serious negotiating.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And I was reading piece yesterday, was speculating on how
Mexican cartels, which are big businesses. This isn't like you know,
venezuela style drug running. These cartels are giant corporations bringing
in billions of dollars, and how they're reacting to this
or adjusting or wondering when when their time is coming.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So that's a good story. Oh, I wanted to mention
the English thing briefly. We'll do more details on this,
but Secretary Duffy of the Transportation Department, he is going
to withhold a whole bunch of money from California, because
he says California is the only state in the country
that doesn't enforce the English only truck driver thing that
is supposed to be the law. You can't give driver's
(10:43):
licenses to truck drivers unless they can read and speak English,
and we do it all the time in California. I
don't know if you've noticed all of our road signs
are in English, for instance.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, So that's that's an interesting one. We got lots
to get to.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I got mail bag on the way for a reason
we can explain at some point, I suppose, and lots
of news today, so hope you can stigre around. Here's
our text line four one five nine five k FTC.
A lot of things I'm looking at excited about talking
about today, and usually I'm not. Usually just going through
the motions, don't really want to be here, but today
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plenty of things actually excited to talk about.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, So a quick explanation of the change of schedule.
We're doing our freedom loving quote of the day and
mailbag here and then Katie will do the headlines in
the next half hour, so as I Joe need to
jet off for a band in my show and it's
time of need for more pleasure. Yeah, I wish it
was a minor skin cancer procedure. It's not the scary kind,
(11:45):
it's the get it in time and your fine kind.
So anyway, I apologize for having skin cancer. I will
be back in a couple of hours, God willing. So anyway,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day. I have
gone with a pair from So Sue, a great Chinese
warrior and thinker, because we are at cyber war with
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China at this point. We're at psychological war with them,
or they are with us anyway, and we're damn near
at a trade war with them.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I was thinking about how legitimate it was to say that.
And if you are in the processes of in the
process of moving your forces positioning them to attack, aren't
you already at war as one of the parties.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, I think so. So I just looked up Sun
Sue because.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You hear from cyberwise there are one hundred percent doing that.
You hear from Sun Zu regularly and quotes are often brilliant.
And I just chat gpt'd what year did he write
this stuff?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Five hundred BC. Wow, it's amazing. Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, it's right there with human nature never changes anyway.
Here your freedom of the quotes of the day from
Sun Su two of them. The supreme art of war
is to have subdued the enemy without fighting, which is
what they are trying to do cyber psychologically, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And then this one.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need
not fear the result of one hundred battles. I'm afraid
that one of our great faults here is that we
don't know ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You remember the way we used to be.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And we have a decent enough idea of China, but
not a good one like we were talking about yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
They're psychological warfare tactics. Nobody's talking about it. They're doing
it as hard as they can, as fully as they
can right now through social media and other means.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That, ladies and gentlemen, is Joe Getty cold warrior.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Thank you, we have that handy. That was some good
Hanson did it the end anyway? A mailbagoo, drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com
on the topic of the idiotic six and craze among
the youngsters. Steve and Eugene Oregon WTF. This is why
(14:06):
I deleted all my social media accounts. Like you guys,
I was born and lived a good portion of my
life pre computer, pre cell phone, pre internet, pre social media.
I figure I can manage up most without most of that.
Just fine, that's a I'm going to go read a book,
a paper book.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That's fine. I understand doing that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
But are you committed to just giving up on the
next generations of people.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Giving up on their crazes? I think you would say uh.
And the truth is, unless you are a school teacher, you'd.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Never bump up against this stuff, really unless you had
kids in that age, right, your parent obviously right. Ricky writes,
how long before the Democrats make some sort of cringey
video with the six seventh thing?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Ricky, The answer to that is three two one. It
just got posted to the internet af As the kids
might say, let's see, this is a drew the millennial guys.
Elon's whole shtick that his life's mission is to save
humanity is a bunch of crap. First, if you're concerned
with declining population birth rates, then you wouldn't be focused
(15:14):
on creating AI sex bots for people to have intimate
relationships with I think it's just his cover for making
dozens of kids that he doesn't have to raise.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I'm not sure it's dozens plural. Elon's not committed to
making AI sex bots, sexy companions yeah, sexy, Yeah, yeah,
the chat companions he's just started. That second is obsession
with colonizing Mars. Mars, the peak of Mount Everest is
infinitely more hospitable to humans than Mars is or could
(15:45):
ever be. Also, what it isn't a two hundred and
thirty million miles space rocket ride away. We'll all be
dead long before we made Earth half as inhospitable to
humans as Mars is. So how the hell does it
make any sense to try to start a new civilization
on a planet that's all already way worse than the
Earth would ever be. Why not just endeavor to improve
the Earth? I just think he likes putting his name
(16:05):
on giant phallic objects. Well, his argument is any species
that wants to survive in the universe needs to be multiplanetary. Yeah,
you can't just live on one planet because you will
either destroy yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Or it will get destroyed.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I too, am highly skeptical of that philosophy. But let's
see Steve Wrights. You know how the Democrat left media
always phrases, always talks about voter fraud. They always qualify
it is there is no widespread voter fraud. Technically, in
that regard, they are correct. The problem is, you don't
need widespread voter fraud to cause mischief. If you look
across the country, you can identify specific counties in specific
(16:42):
states where the vote will be very close. If it
flips one way or the other, it makes a huge
difference in the outcome in a congressional or presidential election.
Target your vote fraud to a few votes in those counties.
Flip the county by a few votes, flip the state,
flip the election. There was no widespread voter fraud. Repeat
as needed, based on this story out of Minnesota that
(17:03):
they're now giving driver's licenses to illegals, just like California,
who can show those driver's licenses and vote.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Getting back to that Elon thing, it's funny with the
AI stuff. I worry about the next couple generations. I
don't worry about humanity five hundred years from now. It
doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The good luck, good luck.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I didn't have time to fully make my thought makes
sense before we went to break.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So we were talking.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
About AI and then where we regularly talk about AI
as everyone should, and Elon's idea on trying to get
to Mars to have a multi planetary species because he
thinks we're gonna destroy Earth or whatever. I don't worry
about that one for so So I do worry about
AI because I care about my kids' lives and their kids' lives.
(17:53):
So I don't want to just, you know, say well,
what are you going to do? Live the rest of
my life about it? Because I want to have some
influence over this maybe if I can in what way
for the next generation or two. But in terms of
the Earth mankind destroying itself from five.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Hundred years whatever, I don't care. I just who cares.
That's so far away. I just I can't imagine wrapping
my head around that whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
All right, So we're doing this new feature with the
Katie headline thing where I do a joke. Yes, this
one's slightly different structure than the riddles of the last
several days, all right, And that I had one of
those deals the other day where somebody's waving at you
and you can't tell if they're waving at you or
the person behind you. And other news, I lost my
lifeguard job. Very good, come on, very good. Okay, let's
(18:44):
ig know what the headlines are with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
The news lady. I don't know a big time wise ass.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Wow, that's dramatic, Katie, Katie the news lady, big time
Why that ass?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
What are people you see in other news? I lost
my lifeguard job. You see you're a terrible lifeguard?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That was good?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Someone drowned right? Wow? That that hurts the humor. Okay,
so what are the headlines?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Starting with NBC News, Hamas says it needs more time
to recover the hostages remains.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I think the announcement this morning was they said they've
returned everybody they can, so there are nineteen still left.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Right. It kind of ruins the whole return all the bodies.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
If there were twenty two to return and nineteen of them,
you say we got we got nothing. So I don't
know what happens now.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You would think that that would have been brought up
in the meeting too, like do you know where they
are for starters?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Right, yeah, or they misled the people they are negotiating
with or something.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But man, that so this is gonna be a huge
sticking point. Right from the Washington Post.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Judge orders Trump administration to pause all shut down layoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Okay, that's the one judge makes a ruling for everybody thing,
and then a different judge will to say a different thing.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Okay, fine.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
ABC man suspected of starting Palisades fire indicted on federal
charges and faces forty five years in prison.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That should be longer than that. That'll light that.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, that'll be some trial to follow as the details
come out on that crazy person from.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
AI data centers desperate for electricity are.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Building their own power plants. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
As we've talked about before, one of the underappreciated things
about AIS how much energy it takes for some reason,
and I haven't got the slightest idea why, but it
takes gazillions of a watts of energy that no town
or state is prepared for. And so the smart people
like Zuckerberg or Elon or Sam Altman or whoever to
(21:00):
start these big AI planes are having to come up
with their own power sources too.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Speaking of Zuckerberg. From the Associated.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Press, Meta removes ice tracking Facebook page in Chicago at
request of.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The Justice Department. Okay, yeah, so Apple. Last week, remember
we reported that they took the app out of their
app store for tracking ice agents, and now Facebook is
playing along too.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
From the New York Times, the Pentagon is blocking out
news organizations.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
We didn't talk about this yesterday. I was just reading
in Mark Calprin's newsletter. He thinks this is the first
war on the media that Trump is going to lose
because there are a lot of people on the right
who are not happy about this development, with the Pentagon
not being as transparent as it ought to be.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So we can talk more about that later. This one
from the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Florida team arrested for staging his abduction and shooting himself
as a hoax ignites a frantic search.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Wow, he actually shot himself. He shot himself. How wounded
did he get?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It was, you know, a surface wound. But still, my god,
desperate for attention.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's rough. Oh my god? Raising teenagers? Good lord? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
From TMZ porn site offering fans crude and uncommon sexual
device giveaway in honor of Big Dumper.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Oh that's the catcher for the Mariners, the Big Dumper.
But you're gonna hear a lot more about because I
think they're headed to the World Series.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
All right, But we have this porn site offering fans
a crude and uncommon sexual device in a giveaway in
honor of the Big Dump.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
If I want to go further down that road of
what that is, some call it a Chuck Schumer if
you will.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Okay, uh yeah, we got we gotta what's your next headline?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Prep study finds we did one similar to this with
your mental ability, but this one saying people hit their
functional peak at sixty according to research.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Uh oh, it's all downhill from here, Jack.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Exactly, I'm what not eight months past by prime? Oh yeah,
sim to give me that story. I want to talk
about that later. I love those kind of stories of like,
whatever it is, how many push ups you should be
able to do, whatever age, or what puzzles you should
be able to solve, or whatever like that, so everybody
can kind of check and see how they're doing with
their aging.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
And finally, this one from the Babylon Bee Exhausted government
employees hoping to go back to work soon so they
can get some rest.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I have a friend who works for the government, and
she has really been enjoying her vacation doing all.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Kinds of different stuff like she's on a vacation.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Although people are going to start missing paychecks any day now.
Depends on who you work for and what your situation is,
but the paychecks are gonna actually be missed. You get
caught up. Usually you get caught up once the shutdown ends.
But if you're living in a situation where you need
each paycheck to make your house payment, car payment, whatever,
(24:11):
that could be quite a strain. And that's gonna start
hitting really next week, so there'll be a lot more
pressure on both sides. I supposed to end this ridiculous shutdown,
And that is the entirety of what I'm going to
say about the shutdown, because it is not a topic
that I care to talk about much. There's a possibility
we can talk to your dad later, do I understand, Katie.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, I'm going to give him a call if you'd like.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So. Katie's dad was a judge for many, many years,
but we found out the other day that he also
had a job previous in his life as an Embalmer
An Embalmer, Yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
He was a paramedic for a funeral home, so he
would go pick up the bodies, bring him back, embalm them,
spend the night there and dress.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Them and dress them.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, that's what I want to ask about. How do
you put the socks on a corpse? He has the
answer for that, fantastic, So maybe we'll get to that
later in the show. Thank you, Katie. It is Cybersecurity's
awareness Month. That should be every month of the year.
How many times is somebody trying to hack you? I
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(25:12):
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year round. I was thinking about that today when I
got up this morning. I don't know about all y'all,
but you know, I checked my email and there's I
don't know a third of the emails I get are
some sort of attempts to rip me off. They're a
fake PayPal thing or some you know, your accounts is
overdue for something I don't have an account, or whatever
(26:23):
it is. It's amazing. And then phone calls that get
through the day, texts I get through the day, it's
a many amazing how many times somebody is trying to
rip you off or hack you, and you really have
to be aware of that. In the modern world, it's annoying.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I commonly get one from a geek squad telling me
that I got that yesterday. Yeah, I get that one
all and it looks legit, but I'm sure I haven't
used that.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah yeah, and I actually have geek Squad, but so yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
For instance, yesterday I got hit with the we charged
your card, we renewed your your renewal was up four
hundred and forty nine dollars for your Geek Squad renewal.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And then you're supposed to say, oh.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
My god, I didn't sign up for that, and then
you click on it, and then all of a sudden,
the bad guys, some Russian hackers into your account and
has stolen all your money and maybe your kidneys, and
you're in a bathtub full ice.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The whole thing falls apart very quickly. Yes, Michael, I
get the fake Amazon where they want your personal information
to confirm your account. Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I fell for the EBA one many years ago. This
is like twenty some years ago when people weren't as
hip to this. But I was doing a lot of
stuff on eBay and I had an email from eBay
saying something and I thought, oh crap, and I clicked
on it, and I don't know whatever eventually happened to me.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I don't know. I don't think anything happened.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But we've all had our information stolen so many times.
Pretty much every adult in America has had their information
stolen two to three times. I was reading about this
the other day, whether it's the Experience hack or Chinese
hack or whoever it is. You know, data leaks from
the government, so our information's floating around out there. Not
(27:55):
continuing the commercial for Webroote, but one of the things
Webroot does and somebody needs to do is be out
there on the dark web, which I don't know how
to get onto the dark web, because to figure out
if your information's floating around out there and people will
sell it, so somebodys maybe somebody has got your name, address,
phone number, email, and social security number and they have
(28:15):
a site where they sell that stuff. And it's nice
to know if it's out there. Very frustrating. I hope
the modern world figures out a way to fix this. Anyway,
we got a lot of on the way. We're going
to talk to one of our military analysts later. Since
Trump is talking about sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, what
is a Tomahawk missile? How much more advantage would Ukraine
have if they got them? Should we be in favor
(28:37):
of this or not, and a bunch of other stuff
on the way.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Stay here.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
It's never been more expensive to buy a new car.
According to a report from Kelly Blue Book, the average
price for a new vehicle has cracked the fifty thousand
dollars mark for the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And that's just what people paid. The average asking.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Price, the MSRP for twenty twenty six models is even high,
more than fifty two thousand dollars, and experts say consumers
looking to used cars to save money are also out
of luck.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
For when I looked up the cost of a twenty
twenty one a Nissan CenTra versus a brand new one,
the cost difference is roughly one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, used cars continue to be expensive.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
The pandemic man through the whole car thing out of whack,
and it hasn't come back yet, just like the housing market.
And what did we hear the other day The average
loan rate for a new car is nine percent, So
the average new car is fifty grand and the average
person's paying nine percent on that loan. No wonder people
(29:40):
are maxing out the credit cards trying to keep up.
And again we had the stat the other day that
the highest number people ever are sixty to ninety days
behind on their car payments. So how this plays out
over time, I do not know. Wanted to hit this
story real quick before we get to something like Hamasa's
(30:01):
military wing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
This is from the New York Times. The Cassam Brigades.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Said ye last night that it had handed over all
the remains of Israeli hostages that had it been able
to recover without additional equipment, potentially putting a ceasefire with
Israel on the Gaza Strip at risk. In a statement,
the Palestinian Militant Group said that it has committed to
what was agreed upon and handed over everyone had had
(30:26):
in terms of living captives and what it had in
terms of bodies that it could recover, which apparently was
a total of three. But it said that it needed
special equipment in quotes to find and extract the remains
of the rest of the deceased captives, adding that it
was making great efforts. Egypt has said that they're willing
to send over some bulldozers and cranes or whatever else
(30:46):
and a team to try to help find the remains.
I just can't even imagine what that process is going
to be. Like, I mean, if you had a tunnel
destroyed with a building on top of it, how would
you dig through that rubble to try to find, you know,
the body that takes up this much space in all
(31:06):
of that chunks of cement and dirt and everything else.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well on how long they've been down there.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Right, I can't even imagine that that's going to happen.
But we will see, and more importantly and more urgently,
I suppose we'll see what that does to the ceasefire.
Does that completely break it or I don't know. Also
from the Washington Post on that topic, Hamas may have
stopped fighting Israel, but it has launched a new violent
campaign to reassert control over local families and militias that
(31:35):
had been challenging its power during the last two years
of war. We've been talking about this. AMAS is trying
to send a clear message that after hiding from Israel
for all these months, they are back and in charge.
And the way that they're doing that is they're going
around and dragging people out of homes and executing him
in the streets after so called trials to make it
clear that hey, we're still the big dogs. We're still
the biggest gang in towns. So don't think you can
(31:58):
shosh that video.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
It was obviously edited and rolling around all the major
news networks last night.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
But just this public execution with this big group of
people around, I mean, it's it's like barbaric to be
honest with and cheering.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah right, what does that says?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So that big group that cheering Hamas executing people who
supposedly spied for Israel or tried to challenge Hamas's authority,
that's troubling.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
So Mark Alvin writes in his newsletter today, Uh, this
whole thing is about if Witkoff and Jared actually have
a real plan to stand up a peacekeeping force that
is well funded, well organized, and possessed of a clear
mission and workable rules of engagement.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Until that happens, no idea, what's going to happen?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, who's going to go in and calm that thing down,
stop the executions and put somebody else in charge and
in theory, disarmed Hamas. Remember Trump said yesterday Jimas must
disarm or we will disarm them. So more to come on.
I'm sure wanted to get to this because Katie brought
it up. This is an interesting headline from a new study.
People hit their functional peak around sixty. Research suggests this
(33:10):
is either good news or bad news depending on your age.
New research shows that people reach their all around mental
and emotional peak around sixty, not in their twenties. According
to this, it had long been believed that you have
your mental peak in your twenties, which depends on what
(33:32):
do you mean by mental I mean I think my
brain worked faster. I was able to remember things better.
I didn't forget people's names all the time when I
was in my twenties. But certainly not wiser.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Definitely not wiser.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, if you're talking about mental peak, definitely not wiser
and emotional peak.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Who thinks their emotional peak was in their twenties? That
was my emotional low points? Oh my god, it says here.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
While quick thinking slows with age, experience, judgment and emotional
balance keep improving through midlife. So if you're gonna, you know,
judge it based on you know, Katie's word wisdom, clearly
it gets better. The fact that it drops off after
around sixty is troubling. Between about forty and sixty five,
most adults show the best mix of intelligence, stability, and
(34:18):
decision making. Okay, I definitely have been better since age forty.
I'm not looking forward to dropping off. Am I going
to become more emotional again like my twenties and dumber?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I can't wait to be at that age where I
just have the biggest case of the efforts, right, you
know when.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You're older and you just don't care. I'm getting close.
I love that stage. I can't wait. Yeah, my dad's
definitely My dad is definitely there.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Same with my parents after the mid sixties, averages on
their scores dip on both emotional and that's so wisdom
and judgment starts to drop after age sixty. I never
thought that would be true, varying from person to person.
And then if that is true, and I don't I
don't know that I believe it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
But if that is.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
True, why is everybody in government over sixty? In fact,
most of the people who we got in charge.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Are over seventy point? Great point. If your emotional and
mental peak is.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
South of sixty, why is everybody in charge over sixty
ft I don't know if that I buy this study anyway,
It's hard for me to picture my judgment getting worse
at this point in my life.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
God, I hope not. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Maybe, like you're I'm stuck on the efforts, like I'm
thinking about judgment of like should I or shouldn't I
say that?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Like, you know, yeah, I don't really do that, but
I talk to everybody now. Drives my kids crazy, and
I like my dad used to do that and when
I was younger, and it thought not just his personality.
Something happened in the last couple of years where I
just talk to everybody now all the time, Like you know,
walking down the side, I talked to somebody about their
their dog or their lawn, or the person at the
(36:04):
check out stand at the grocery store or whatever. I
talk to everybody and ask them questions like that. So
that's a certain level of the efforts. It's just like
I no longer care what people think of me, so
I just engage them in conversation. It's really awesome. It's
very freeing. I wish I could have taken that on
when I was younger, instead of waiting to be old
and in the winter of my life before I could
(36:25):
enjoy it. We're going to talk to Tim sand Stand
for a legal expert about the Supreme Court and other
things an hour two. I hope you can be around
for that.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
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