December 11, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Oil tanker seized, Nobel Peace Prize winner & woke mind virus
- Being white is bad
- NATO says we're Russia's next target & why ice is slippery
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This scene that you saw off the coast of Venezuela
really underscores just how dynamic this whole situation is, in
which you see US forces being brought over to that
ship by helicopter, repelling down onto the deck, seizing the ship,
taking it into custody. The Attorney General's Office says that
this ship was carrying sanctioned oil and contends that it
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has done so for Venezuela and Iran in the past,
and this is certainly an escalation, you know, a major
move that is being made by the administration here in
the region.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, Venezuela and Iran. This is a report on NEWSNAY
this morning. I thought thought was so interesting. Then they
went to a military guy who said, obviously this involves Venezuela,
but it's also got to do with Russia and China
and the war in Ukraine and everything else, and that
there are many many oil tankers around the world that
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just fly under false flags illegally transporting oil around to
get around the various sanctions that the countries that are
part of the world order try to put on bad countries.
And you always wonder how they get around these sanctions. Well,
it's these sort of oil tankers. And was this at
least the analysis on News Nation was this wasn't just
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you know, the ongoing trying to force Venezuela out. This
was dealing with a separate problem also of we got
to do something about these illegal oil shipments that have
been going on forever, I mean forever.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
We just not hear about these seizures or are they
really really rare? They never happened, That's what the guy
was talking about, the world has just been letting this
happen forever.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And maybe Trump has decided that's enough of that. And
I wonder, now this is getting into the giving Trump
credit for nine dimensional chess thing, is part of the
build up around Venezuela. To do this without specifically saying
out loud of Vladimir Putin to poke him or whatever,
(02:26):
that your daisy getting around the oil sanctions are coming
to an end.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Mmm. M. Realize that's a bit of a stretch, but
a bit of a stretch, but not crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I don't know. Yeah, I call it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You know, it's a minority likelihood less than fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But conspirable. Lord, it's the Jews. There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I saved you the trouble. Ah oh yeah. And what's
the what's the latest one? Oh that the US government
killed Charlie Kirk. Yeah, the help of the Jews and
erin Kirk.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh back to.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The uh So, we we landed a bunch of our
our military geniuses on the repelled down onto the oil tanker,
took it over. The people in the oil tanker didn't
fight back. That was a good move since the US,
you know, a quarter of the US navies in the area.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
But Trump was asked, what's going to happen to the oil?
This was his answer, It's unfortunate what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I mean, I know exactly what happened. He kind of
started a little bit. But we'll see if we can
put it out. We're interested in the world where we
keep it. I guess when you have to follow the tanker,
you know, here a good judgement, just followed the tanker,
follow follow with the keep it. I guess that's another
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that point. I can't understand what they're saying anyway, we
keep it. I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Hey are oil now you know finder scapers? Uh, so,
finder escapers. We found this. Speaking of Venezuela, have you
heard the story of Ria Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace
Prize winner. She was trying to get to Norway by
Wednesday in time to receive the prize, but she couldn't
quite get there in time. So she's been hiding in
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this suburb of Caracas for a year.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But first she.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Had to get from there to a coastal fishing village.
Over the course of ten nerve wracking hours, Mahado and
two people helping her escape, they hit ten military checkpoints,
avoiding capture each time. She was wearing a wig in
in disguise. Finally reached the coast by midnight, rested a
couple hours, then launched off on a perilous trip across
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the open Caribbean Sea to Kasau.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now why does she have to do this?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Is would she be arrested by the government if they
could get a hold of her.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, especially if she's trying to leave or come back
into the country or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
She's in hiding, but there are strong winds, choppy seas,
slowed them down.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I mean, prior to her becoming a big name, I
could see how that was the case. But after she
won the Nobel Peace Prize. God, he would bring down
so much international pressure if he arrested her, certainly if
he hurt her. But so well, right right, so hang
with me here now. So at five a m.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
She and her two companions set out on a high
speed boat trip across choppy seas and strong winds. All right,
so what was somebody luckily said, you know what we
ought to do. We ought to kill Call the US. Yeah,
let the military know this is US where we're launching from.
And when drawing a strike on the Nobel Peace Prize
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winner would not look good. And as you can see,
the Nobel Peace Prize winner is still bobbing in the ocean,
clinging to balsa woods.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We hit her again, yeah, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So they warned American forces in the region of the
vessel's occupents to avoid the kind of air strike that's
hit more than twenty similar vessels in.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The past three months. Perhaps you've heard about it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So it was all coordinated and her her daughter accepted
the Peace Prize, but she got to Oslo the next
day and was vetted or not vetted, but vetted and celebrated,
and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Vet vetted very different situations. Yeah, yeah, well she's probably
fetted too.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
You can't have any joker walking off the street claiming
they're the Nobel Priest Prize winner.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But anyway, she got that show up in a city
hoping to be fetted and they say, where's your birth certificate?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I misread it, right, So then'd be unfortunate, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
So moving along to other news, this is not getting
any coverage, but I think it's really really interesting, particularly
because this has been one of my many, many jihads
through the years, and honestly, the confusion the reporting of
it's been so confusing. Unless you know what they're talking about,
you wouldn't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
There is a measure.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
A bill to overturn one of Trump's executive orders. The
executive orders set no federal employee collective bargaining with the
unions can't do that at an array of federal agencies,
including parts of the Department of Defense, State Veterans Affairs, Justice,
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and Energy. Trump saying essentially we can't have the Department
of Defense over a barrel because the union wants better
benefits of the public employee union. And from Franklin D.
Roosevelt on, most people with sanity know that there should
not be collective bargaining for public employees, including one might.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Argue school teachers. We could argue about that another day.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It's just fraught with difficulties because the taxpayers are on
the other side of the table, and generally nobody represents
their interests anyway. Having said that, so there's this law
to overturn Trump's executive order that the leadership won't the
House leadership won't support, and so they're trying to pull
off this discharge petition where you get another votes and
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whether the House leaders want it on the floor or not,
it's coming to the floor for a vote.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Here's the interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
The thirteen Republicans joined Democrats to advance that bill to
end Trump's efforts to cut down on the collective bargaining
of unions, screwing up the government.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Why did that happen? I found this interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
A couple of these people, several of them are like
in swing districts, and a couple of them just directly
get a lot of union support. But here's where the
thirteen were from. The thirteen congress people New Jersey, New York,
New York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
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New Jersey, Minnesota, and Ida and Ohio.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
They're just all in big Union states.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You'd hope Republicans would stand up for principle.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
NA, it's not gonna happen. So moving along.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Mentioned this early in the show, this is a huge,
huge story. We played the whole audio of the Attorney
General of Florida announcing this, James Huttmeyer.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But the state of Florida's filed.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Two blockbuster lawsuits, one against Starbucks for discriminating against white
people in the post George Floyd madness era. But secondly,
Florida's filed suit against three medical groups that have pushed
children being mutilated in these sex change experiments that kids
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can't possibly consent to. The w path Maniacs, the World
Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Endocrine Society, and the
American Academy of Pediatrics. And he just absolutely blasts him.
They failed to disclose the risks, limits and evidence when
promoting promoting so called gender affirming care for children. For years,
these groups insisted the recommendations were set up science, but
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behind the closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak,
they said, So they knew the outcomes are uncertain and
the risk was real, and parents were not told the
full story. In fact, many of them were emotionally blackmailed
that if you did not turn Johnny into Jenny, Jenny
would commit suicide.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So is the key proving that they knew there were
doing the wrong thing or known you're allowed to be wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
But yeah, but if you're a medical association pushing say
some heart surgery, that there's no statistical evidence that it's
a good idea, yeah, you're absolutely liable. I was just
wondering if it's like the tobacco companies, if they got
emails or whatever, were people communicating where it's pretty clear
that they knew they were pushing bs that was your help,
I would think, although, I mean, if it's just gross negligent,
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I think they actually believed it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I mean, I've heard people say it out loud that
the whole you have to you have.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
To you know, do the.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What do they call that addictomy or yeah, or the
kid woke commit suicide. So you got no, but you
said people, and I think it's absolutely imperative. You recognize
we're talking about medical professionals and their groups. I mean,
removing healthy genitalia from children unsupported by any reasonable evidence
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based science is horrific. Can I believe that they took
the very specific small study about suicide and extrapolated it
in their own minds to get the woke mind virus
and believed it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah? I do believe that. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So where this goes should be really really interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
My virus is a real thing. I agree with Elan
on that sense. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I just read actually a different study about how so
much of the transgender stuff was just a signal of
political position, political attitudes, and that the kids are so
susceptible to that sort of thing tribal signaling or fashion
signaling or I want to be in the in crowd signaling.
That makes it all the more monstrous that you would
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seize on that sort of thing among children and alter
their bodies forever.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's monstrous.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's like that buddy of mine here is his daughter,
high school daughter, Herne. All her friends, like nine of
them decided they were gay. At school and he was
telling her statistically, that's really just not possible.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And also statistically, in just a few years, the vast
majority of you, we will say never mind, if not
all of them.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, so go Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Jimmy Fallon joke just came across on Twitter. I don't
know how old it is. It doesn't make any difference.
It's really interesting, among other things.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
This is kind of apropos and nothing, and we don't
need to dwell on it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And I don't know how long ago this.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Was guessing since they were talking about the twenty twenty census.
It was when do we get that information year year
or two later, something like that. Yeah, AnyWho, And there's scary.
There's music behind this because I came across it on
Twitter and they wanted to be scary.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It actually is scary.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
But this is a joke from the Tonight Show and
Jimmy Fallon when he was talking about census data.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Some more news.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
The results of the twenty twenty census just came out
and for the first time in American history, the number
of white people went down.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
That's the whole clip. Just and Jimmy Fallon had a
look on his face. He looked at the band and
made this confused face, like, why are you cheering that?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Wow? What great? Being weird? How often has that ever happened?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I've asked this question many times. How often has this
ever happened in world history? We're any group of people,
because I guarantee a lot of those people cheering were
cheers their own diminishing power or existence or whatever.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
As I started to say, that is a really great
emblem of how sick that time was, where self hatred
among white people was so fashionable. Some have clung onto that,
but they're sick. I think it's still around, and I
don't care what the percentage of white people are. Doesn't
make any difference to me. If you believe in you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Know, self governance and limited government, low taxes, The hue
of your.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Skin got nothing to do with it. But fewer white people,
no matter your color, day is.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Strange, subhorrent, sick And obviously don't even need to say this. Obviously,
if you said that about any other skin color or
religion or anything like that and people cheered.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It would be a national crisis. Might they would end
your career, take away your children. Oh, speaking of which,
let's play this now, it goes along great. This is
a Congresswoman, Sarah Stalker, Democrat of Kentucky at an education
hearing eleven Michael.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I don't feel good about being white every day for
a lot of reasons, because it's a point of privilege
that I get to move through the world in a
way that so many of my other colleagues and friends
and family members of the community don't get the privilege
to do. And I'm just a female, but just a woman,
just a white woman. If I was a white man,
I would be functioning from a point of.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Even greater privilege.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I think we're missing an opportunity when kids have a
moment to reflect about how the color of their skin
does and does not allow them to move through the world,
running to them and trying to stifle that and trying
to say you shouldn't feel bad, so we don't want
to ever expose you to something that is going to
make you have to pause and have maybe some internal feelings.
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It's a missed opportunity for some really good diale.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh my god, what a favor of making white children
feel bad for the color of their skin in every
class And she.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Is a what what is her position of power? Is
she a congress person or is that a state legislator?
She's a state representative. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
She's a hot dog vendor on the corner. That attitude
is unbelievable. Yeah, so she went from uh, she not
only is going with the you need to recognize it,
which I've never understood what the hell that means?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
What? What what am I supposed to do with that?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It is somewhat easier to be a white person than
a black person, for instance, Okay, some of the time, probably.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Depending on how what do you want me to do?
Just now feel bad?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But then she took it to if kids aren't feeling bad,
that's a problem, right, you are so nuts? Well, yeah,
certainly misled. But she's a useful idiot of neo Marxism
that seeks to pit all of us against each other,
victim and oppressor at every moment. And how do you
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get power away from the patriarchy or the white supremacists
as they see it, by shaming them into giving away,
you know, virtually everything they have.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'll bet she actually believes this also, though play that
very first part again, though I thought that was interesting,
just the first like sentence A useful idiot.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I don't feel good about being white every day?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You go through every day of your life not feeling
good about your skin color.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You're so crazy. I mean that's on your mind every day.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
How Wow, I'd like to crawl inside her brain for
a while.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Live that way. So people are sick and they're teaching
their kids. Wow, different topic.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
The NATO Secretary General just gave one hell of a
speech in Berlin that we ought to pay attention to
no matter your skin.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Color, and I will finally pay off. Why is ice slippery?
Science thinks they've figured it out. They didn't know why
we can fall on our heads happily knowing science can
explain it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Lucia has bought We're back into Europe and he must
be prepared for the skill of our grandparents and great
grandparents and Jeordan.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That's part of quite a speech that was given today
in Berlin by the current NATO Secretary General. That's Mark Root.
I don't know what his nationality is. The commander of
NATO is always an American because we are NATO, and
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NATO will only succeed.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
With US, at least so far.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
But the Secretary General said today we are Russia's next target.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
We must shift to a wartime mindset. Ukraine must have
what it needs to defend itself. Russia's losing twelve hundred
soldiers a day. If Putin's willing to sacrifice ordinary Russians
like this, what is he prepared to do to us?
Eighty percent of the critical components in Russians drones and
missiles are made in China.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
China is a lifeline for Russia's war.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO
within five years. Conflict is at our door. And then
what you just heard, we must be prepared for the
scale of war our grandparents and great grandparents endured.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Wow. Wow is right.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well, and that's Samed at least partly right at Trump too,
with that recent security document that came out that honestly
its significance is overrated. But yeah, I think Europe is
really really concerned about Trump's attitude toward Russia and Europe.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Of course, what are they willing to do about it? Well?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I like what he's saying that Europe needs to be
ready to well, it needs to be ready for war
on that scale, should it come as opposed to being
a fat, lazy old you know, you know family pet
of the United States that does nothing to protect the homestead.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
As I pointed out before, I forget what thinker said
were for European countries in this battle. There are those
that can but won't, and there are those that can't
and won't. That's pretty much your choices.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You got a handful of countries that can't even reform
their entitlements and the rest of the things. The socialism
in short, that's dragging them down to balance their budget,
never mind dedicating another two three four percent of their
GDP to defense.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, how about that shot at China? What was what's
the intention there? Eighty percent of the critic components in
Russians drones and missiles are made in China. China is
a lifeline for Russia's.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
War message in that new foreign policy document that the
Trump administration put out, they kissed up to China. They
made it all about, hey, we got to do business
with channelists. Do business with them there, buddy, And Europe
needs to straighten up, including the best new Navidia chips
yea and Ukraine needs to give up and the rest
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of it. Yeah, the Euros are not happy with the
state of American foreign policy right now.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm not happy with their foreign policy. I want you
to do something about it. As I've said eighty times,
I'm on Donald Tusk of Poland's side.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Why are we.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Equal economy to the United States counting on them to defend.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Ourselves against Russia. Well, that's what Ruth's saying. That's exactly
what he's saying. Yeah, well, you're turning it into Trump.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm standing up for America about Europe does something about
their own backyard.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And then that was beautiful. That was really good and
a nice saying. I think. I think that's when. I
think that's when Lee Greenwood comes on the stage.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Or something, eagle flies by or I'm not sure really,
but yeah, probably the balls hit rock punches you in
the balls exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Anyway, a couple old guys fighting.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Here's my best slipping on the ice story before you
explain to us why ice is slippery. And I've fallen
down on ice many many times in my life. Having
grown up in South Dakota, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Kansas, I've
slipped on the ice many many times, but my best
slipping on the ice that hurt the most and was
the most embarrassing. I'm in a tuxedo, I think for
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a wedding, and uh.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hard shoes are bad on ice, man, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
And the worst of hard shoes cheap rental tuxedo shoes,
which aren't likely.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
To have any rubber grips on them or anything like that.
They're just the smooth leather.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Somehow, like it was like a cartoon. I could feel it,
and it feels like there was a pause in mid air.
Both my feet went out and I feel like I
was horizontal in the air at about eye height. That's
what it felt like to me for like a second
with music bellying in the background, before I came down
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to the ground, completely flat on the sidewalk. It was just, oh,
did that hurt?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
She don't know how that happened, Auchie, Because ice is slippery, Jack,
But why is ice slippery? I had no idea, We
didn't know. It had never occurred to me to ask.
Everybody knows it's slippery because ice is got a thin,
watery layer on top of it. Well's gonna say if
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you put a thin watery layer on anything, pavement, anything,
it's slippery.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So that seems to answer the question, it's more slippery.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
But why is there a See, this is why you're
not a scientist. Why is there a thin watery layer. Well,
three main theories about the phenomenon have been debated over
the past two centuries. This is one of the great
questions confronting mankind and one that frankly, could go un
answered for the rest of time and everybody'd continue to
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fall and break their elbow. But anyway, earlier this year,
researchers in Germany who ought to have a better defense,
put forward a fourth hypothesis that they say solves the
puzzle all right. So hypothesis number one was pressure, Like
if you're skating or you step on it, the pressure
melts the surface, making its slippery. Now, in the nineteen
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thirties they disproved that they calculated to me the average
skier exerts way too little pressure to significantly alter ICE's
melting point. To do so, the skier would have to
weigh thousands of kilograms, and certainly that five thousand pounds
skier would need specially designed skis moving along. How about friction, Yes,
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it's the friction that melts the ice as you step
on it. They tested Zeri and Round official ice cave
in the Swiss Alps, using a complex contraption to measure
the friction between ice and other materials. Although this explanation
still appears in textbooks, many scientists disagree with it. The
problem is that you only melt the ice behind you,
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not the ice you're actually skating on. Ah right, exactly,
you haven't.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You haven't had friction on the stuff that your skating
blade is about to hit, and it's already slippery.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
And to test the friction hypothesis, these scientists created a
microscopic ice skating rink. They rotated a piece of metal
standing in for a blade of a skate at different speeds,
measuring the force required to move the metal and force
the metal exerted onto the ice.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Measure that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It turns out, I was assuming that, like all scientific experts,
experiments that involved mice.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
So they put mice in tiny little ice skits. Couldn't
get them laced up. Try it over and over again,
couldn't get them on type. The mice's ankles just bent sideways.
Sound they gave it up anyway, that didn't work. In short,
there's another possibility the ice surface is wet before anything
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makes contact with it. That's called the pre melting theory,
which is getting close but hypothesis number four. Recently, a
team of researchers in Germany identified arguments against all three
prevailing theories for pressure to be high enough to melt
eight surfaces.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
In short, it doesn't. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
So my biggest question is, and I'll bet there's an
answer to this. It seems like a lot of time, effort,
and money is being spent on trying to figure this out.
So there must be some reason they think if they
could figure out why, and I bet it's got to
do with some sort of cheap transportation or something, why
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they need the answer to this question.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, And there was another explanation that I kind of skipped, that,
being that surface molecules don't have as many neighbors as
low lying molecules, and so they don't have enough energy
to overcome the strong bonds with solid ice molecules. And
that's what they're looking at right now. Gemstone polishers have
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long known from experience that some sides of a diamond
are easier to polish or softer than others. In twenty eleven,
another German research group published paper explaining this phenomenon. They
created computer simulations of two diamonds sliding against each other.
Atoms on the surface were mechanically pulled out of their bonds,
which allowed them to move form new bonds and so on.
This sliding formed a structureless amorphous layer, and in contrast
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to the liquid nature of the diamond, this layer is
disordered and behaves more like a liquid than a solid.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So it gets go ahead. I'll think about that the
next time I'm polishing in the diamond. Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
So they argue that a similar mechanism happens in ice.
They simulated ice surfaces sliding against each other. Blah blah blah.
It's at a molecular level. It's just more unstable at
the edges. And so you know, I've I've played pond
hockey on days that were so bitterly cold it was
a risk for frostbite at every moment. There's no melting
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of the surface of the ice under any circumstances. Yet
it was slippery as hell. They should have asked a
young pond hockey player.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Our pond. Yeah, that's true. I've been on ice. It's
not slippery.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Our pond nearby when I lived in one time moved
a lot and when we lived in a near Hazel Green, Wisconsin,
tiny little time, the pond that we'd go out on
was actually the sewage that's where all the sewage would go,
and then it would freeze over and have a ice
on the top and we'd.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Go out there and skate around stuff like that. But
occasionally it would break and I don't remember anybody ever
fallen in, but like you could throw rocks in that
pond and the water that would splash up would be brown.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I was disgusting.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Oh and it horrible, But we would go out on
that when it was frozen winter.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wonderland. Mmm, We're lucky.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Our little town in Chicago Land we had a big,
big park at the time. It's kind of gotten squashed
by building a school in the middle of it and
that sort of thing. But they would just flood these large,
large surfaces of the park and it would freeze like
for most of the winter. That was great to play on.
That was the purpose. Oh yeah, yeah, for pond hockey.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Could you get away with that anymore? Or would you
get sued? Because somebody fell and hurt their arm, or.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh, now you're making me sangry, sad and angry. Yeaheah,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, but oh yeah, god.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
We'd be out there for hours and hours and hours and.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Hours and at risk of getting a bruise or I
took a couple of bucks off the face of maybe
bleeding a little bit. And all we got out of
it was constant exercise, inventing games, inventing rules, adjudicating disputes
for those rules, and just.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All without adult supervision.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
And when we did get our heads split open, we thought,
ow huh. And we made our way home and our
mom said, oh my god, what happened, and they dealt
with our wounds, and we thought, yeah, it's no big
deal to get hurt.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're generally pretty okay. It's a good thing we didn't
do that when we were kids. My grade school in
high school had a steep hill that we skate. We
slid down on our shoes in the middle of the winter,
and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Everybody would wear their Sunday school shoes on the bus
in the winter. See have your slipperiest shoes on and
get at the top of the hill and you just
kind of squat down and go flying down that thing
and crash at the bottom, and.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Everybody loved it. Yeah, there's no way you'd come close
to doing that sort of thing. Now.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'll visit at that school when we were at the convention,
the Republican Convention and Madison, I drove over and checked.
That school still has the hill, But I'll bet they
don't let people sled down it on.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Their shoes anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I would bet you any sum of money you're right,
and does any Is there a single human being that
thinks that's better? There might be sort of moms that
go to the skate park and make kids fill out
forms to make sure they have a helmet on before
they have any fun. The fact that Jack played on sewage, Yeah,
that's where I'm stuck. Okay, sewage hockey. It's not like
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we've lost in America. And the fact that that was
the sliding down the hill generation one World War two
all right, didn't really It was several generators, remember though, huh,
I don't remember dashing Grenada.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So playing on the sewage pond is surprising to you.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
It's surprising to me looking back on it a lot.
I don't know that any there were any parents that
were aware we were doing it, so they might not
have been in.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Favor of it either. I don't It was.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Off far away. What was the best toll exactly? The
death toll was zero. Luckily we were still still around
to win World War two. According to Joe in the seventies,
we will finish ship strong next. I swear our goal
on this show every day is not how could we
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depress people the most? Though sometimes it seems like that
is our raison dat track for this program.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Stike you sad, scared or depressed. I don't know, It's
just our personalities, I guess.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Anyway, there's this article that would would be uplifting if
it weren't for I'm going to throw in there, here's
why you shouldn't be so happy. Oh No, four oh
one k's are minting a generation of millionaires. Many Americans
are peaking that the retirement counts and cheering higher balances.
I had to for legal reasons, actually take a look
(32:53):
at my four on one K yesterday, and it was
pretty pleased at where it was compared to the last
place I looked at it. Because, as you know, the
stock market is been setting a record practically every day
for quite a while now, and it's a lot higher.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
As of the.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Third quarter, there were six hundred and fifty four thousand
millionaires in the brokerage fadility, just from their four to
one k, highest level they've ever had. My first thought
when I read that was yeah, but with inflation, it
don't quite mean the same as it used to.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So I got out my inflation calculator and here's.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Where I take what was supposed to be an uplifting
story about how many of us are millionaires and turn
it into it's not quite the same. It depends on
how far back you want to go. But if you
go back to nineteen eighty, like you know, were you
a kid or whatever you were in nineteen eighty and
you had a view of what a millionaire was, well,
that person that'd be like a someone a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars back then, two hundred and fifty
(33:45):
thousand dollars, a two hundred and fifty thousand there, or
another way to look at it, was a millionaire back then,
you'd have to have four million dollars now to reach
what you thought of as a millionaire back then in
nineteen eighty or Okay, that's too far back, you're not
that old. Let's just go back to two thousand, in
the beginning of the century. Still about half a million.
(34:06):
She still got to have about wow million dollars to
be the same as what a millionaire was in the
year two thousand.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Keep pumping currency into the economy and devaluing everything we've
worked for a government.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'm not actually, my goal actually isn't to make me
or anyone said. My goal is let and this is
one of the cores of conservative is to live in reality.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
There's no point in going around thinking I'm a millionaire.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
If your view of a millionaire is a little outdated
given the inflation over the.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Last several years.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Well, yeah, I mean to the extent that I have
a philosophy of this show at all.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It's what is the truth? What's reality? That's something, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
The nineteen eighty number was interesting, The two year two
thousand number was shocking.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, cutting in half Pikes final, Oh gee, are you
ready to soft rock? Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Joe getting Let's get a final time from everybody on
the crew. To wrap up the day, there is Michael
Angelo pressing the buttons in the control room.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Michael final thought, you.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Know, we did a news story about cheeseburgers and then
it turned into it we need to get a cheeseburger
for lunch. I'm just thinking, how often do we do
stories about food.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
And it ends up becoming lunch after the show? A lot?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
A lot? Yeah, indeed, Katie Green are a steam newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well, on that note, I have already planned my cheeseburger
for later today.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
He wants me talk about it. I have to have it. Yeah,
me too, heah yeah, and you're cheeseburgering for two yes.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Jack. A final thought, Ah, the way I.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Have started to do it is to I'll indulge the cheeseburger,
but no fries. There's really no reason for me eating
French fries. I love French fries, are delicious, but I
mean they're just there's just like no.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Health benefit to eating French fries. Yeah. I love the cheeseburger,
love it, love it, love it like everybody does.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
But if I had one food, I had to eat
only that the rest of my life, no question. Be
like supreme pizza. Number one, I'm a pizza freak. Number two.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I get tired of sausage, I just pick off the sausage.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
I get tired of green peppers and just pick off
the peppers.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
So it's a bit of a cheating, is what you're doing.
It's not cheating at all, it's thinking. Do you consider
thinking cheating? Do you do you?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Oh that's funny Armstrong in Geeddy wrapping up, But oh
they're grueling four hour work there.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I would eat pizza five daytes a week. Ah, so
many people who thinks so a little time ago. At
Armstrong and geddy dot com, the swag store is still open.
Put a picture of the really cool T shirt. You're
gonna get your loved one under the tree. That's good enough.
Drop is a oak nail bag. At Armstrong and Getdy
dot com, I give.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Them a picture of their gift. They'll get us soon enough.
Sure we will see tomorrow with all the news. Oh
tomorrow's Friday. I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
We'll see then, God us America. I'm strong and Jetty
stole bluff the show. Listen there there get a six.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Sons all honey yet song. Benny Foot Song, Benny Foot,
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
This scene that you saw off the coast of Venezuela
really underscores just how dynamic this whole situation is, in
which you see US forces being brought over to that
ship by helicopter, repelling down onto the deck, seizing the ship,
taking it into custody. The Attorney General's Office says that
this ship was carrying sanctioned oil and contends that it
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has done so for Venezuela and Iran in the past,
and this is certainly an escalation, you know, a major
move that is being made by the administration here in
the region.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, Venezuela and Iran. This is a report on NEWSNAY
this morning. I thought thought was so interesting. Then they
went to a military guy who said, obviously this involves Venezuela,
but it's also got to do with Russia and China
and the war in Ukraine and everything else, and that
there are many many oil tankers around the world that
(01:17):
just fly under false flags illegally transporting oil around to
get around the various sanctions that the countries that are
part of the world order try to put on bad countries.
And you always wonder how they get around these sanctions. Well,
it's these sort of oil tankers. And was this at
least the analysis on News Nation was this wasn't just
(01:40):
you know, the ongoing trying to force Venezuela out. This
was dealing with a separate problem also of we got
to do something about these illegal oil shipments that have
been going on forever, I mean forever.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
We just not hear about these seizures or are they
really really rare? They never happened, That's what the guy
was talking about, the world has just been letting this
happen forever.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And maybe Trump has decided that's enough of that. And
I wonder, now this is getting into the giving Trump
credit for nine dimensional chess thing, is part of the
build up around Venezuela. To do this without specifically saying
out loud of Vladimir Putin to poke him or whatever,
(02:26):
that your daisy getting around the oil sanctions are coming
to an end.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Mmm. M. Realize that's a bit of a stretch, but
a bit of a stretch, but not crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I don't know. Yeah, I call it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You know, it's a minority likelihood less than fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But conspirable. Lord, it's the Jews. There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I saved you the trouble. Ah oh yeah. And what's
the what's the latest one? Oh that the US government
killed Charlie Kirk. Yeah, the help of the Jews and
erin Kirk.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh back to.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The uh So, we we landed a bunch of our
our military geniuses on the repelled down onto the oil tanker,
took it over. The people in the oil tanker didn't
fight back. That was a good move since the US,
you know, a quarter of the US navies in the area.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
But Trump was asked, what's going to happen to the oil?
This was his answer, It's unfortunate what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I mean, I know exactly what happened. He kind of
started a little bit. But we'll see if we can
put it out. We're interested in the world where we
keep it. I guess when you have to follow the tanker,
you know, here a good judgement, just followed the tanker,
follow follow with the keep it. I guess that's another
(03:44):
that point. I can't understand what they're saying anyway, we
keep it. I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Hey are oil now you know finder scapers? Uh, so,
finder escapers. We found this. Speaking of Venezuela, have you
heard the story of Ria Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace
Prize winner. She was trying to get to Norway by
Wednesday in time to receive the prize, but she couldn't
quite get there in time. So she's been hiding in
(04:11):
this suburb of Caracas for a year.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But first she.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Had to get from there to a coastal fishing village.
Over the course of ten nerve wracking hours, Mahado and
two people helping her escape, they hit ten military checkpoints,
avoiding capture each time. She was wearing a wig in
in disguise. Finally reached the coast by midnight, rested a
couple hours, then launched off on a perilous trip across
(04:37):
the open Caribbean Sea to Kasau.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now why does she have to do this?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Is would she be arrested by the government if they
could get a hold of her.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, especially if she's trying to leave or come back
into the country or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
She's in hiding, but there are strong winds, choppy seas,
slowed them down.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I mean, prior to her becoming a big name, I
could see how that was the case. But after she
won the Nobel Peace Prize. God, he would bring down
so much international pressure if he arrested her, certainly if
he hurt her. But so well, right right, so hang
with me here now. So at five a m.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
She and her two companions set out on a high
speed boat trip across choppy seas and strong winds. All right,
so what was somebody luckily said, you know what we
ought to do. We ought to kill Call the US. Yeah,
let the military know this is US where we're launching from.
And when drawing a strike on the Nobel Peace Prize
(05:39):
winner would not look good. And as you can see,
the Nobel Peace Prize winner is still bobbing in the ocean,
clinging to balsa woods.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We hit her again, yeah, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So they warned American forces in the region of the
vessel's occupents to avoid the kind of air strike that's
hit more than twenty similar vessels in.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The past three months. Perhaps you've heard about it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So it was all coordinated and her her daughter accepted
the Peace Prize, but she got to Oslo the next
day and was vetted or not vetted, but vetted and celebrated,
and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Vet vetted very different situations. Yeah, yeah, well she's probably
fetted too.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
You can't have any joker walking off the street claiming
they're the Nobel Priest Prize winner.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But anyway, she got that show up in a city
hoping to be fetted and they say, where's your birth certificate?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I misread it, right, So then'd be unfortunate, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
So moving along to other news, this is not getting
any coverage, but I think it's really really interesting, particularly
because this has been one of my many, many jihads
through the years, and honestly, the confusion the reporting of
it's been so confusing. Unless you know what they're talking about,
you wouldn't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
There is a measure.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
A bill to overturn one of Trump's executive orders. The
executive orders set no federal employee collective bargaining with the
unions can't do that at an array of federal agencies,
including parts of the Department of Defense, State Veterans Affairs, Justice,
(07:13):
and Energy. Trump saying essentially we can't have the Department
of Defense over a barrel because the union wants better
benefits of the public employee union. And from Franklin D.
Roosevelt on, most people with sanity know that there should
not be collective bargaining for public employees, including one might.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Argue school teachers. We could argue about that another day.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It's just fraught with difficulties because the taxpayers are on
the other side of the table, and generally nobody represents
their interests anyway. Having said that, so there's this law
to overturn Trump's executive order that the leadership won't the
House leadership won't support, and so they're trying to pull
off this discharge petition where you get another votes and
(08:00):
whether the House leaders want it on the floor or not,
it's coming to the floor for a vote.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Here's the interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
The thirteen Republicans joined Democrats to advance that bill to
end Trump's efforts to cut down on the collective bargaining
of unions, screwing up the government.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Why did that happen? I found this interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
A couple of these people, several of them are like
in swing districts, and a couple of them just directly
get a lot of union support. But here's where the
thirteen were from. The thirteen congress people New Jersey, New York,
New York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
(08:51):
New Jersey, Minnesota, and Ida and Ohio.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
They're just all in big Union states.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You'd hope Republicans would stand up for principle.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
NA, it's not gonna happen. So moving along.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Mentioned this early in the show, this is a huge,
huge story. We played the whole audio of the Attorney
General of Florida announcing this, James Huttmeyer.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But the state of Florida's filed.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Two blockbuster lawsuits, one against Starbucks for discriminating against white
people in the post George Floyd madness era. But secondly,
Florida's filed suit against three medical groups that have pushed
children being mutilated in these sex change experiments that kids
(09:38):
can't possibly consent to. The w path Maniacs, the World
Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Endocrine Society, and the
American Academy of Pediatrics. And he just absolutely blasts him.
They failed to disclose the risks, limits and evidence when
promoting promoting so called gender affirming care for children. For years,
these groups insisted the recommendations were set up science, but
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behind the closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak,
they said, So they knew the outcomes are uncertain and
the risk was real, and parents were not told the
full story. In fact, many of them were emotionally blackmailed
that if you did not turn Johnny into Jenny, Jenny
would commit suicide.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So is the key proving that they knew there were
doing the wrong thing or known you're allowed to be wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
But yeah, but if you're a medical association pushing say
some heart surgery, that there's no statistical evidence that it's
a good idea, yeah, you're absolutely liable. I was just
wondering if it's like the tobacco companies, if they got
emails or whatever, were people communicating where it's pretty clear
that they knew they were pushing bs that was your help,
I would think, although, I mean, if it's just gross negligent,
(10:52):
I think they actually believed it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I mean, I've heard people say it out loud that
the whole you have to you have.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
To you know, do the.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What do they call that addictomy or yeah, or the
kid woke commit suicide. So you got no, but you
said people, and I think it's absolutely imperative. You recognize
we're talking about medical professionals and their groups. I mean,
removing healthy genitalia from children unsupported by any reasonable evidence
(11:29):
based science is horrific. Can I believe that they took
the very specific small study about suicide and extrapolated it
in their own minds to get the woke mind virus
and believed it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah? I do believe that. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So where this goes should be really really interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
My virus is a real thing. I agree with Elan
on that sense. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I just read actually a different study about how so
much of the transgender stuff was just a signal of
political position, political attitudes, and that the kids are so
susceptible to that sort of thing tribal signaling or fashion
signaling or I want to be in the in crowd signaling.
That makes it all the more monstrous that you would
(12:21):
seize on that sort of thing among children and alter
their bodies forever.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's monstrous.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's like that buddy of mine here is his daughter,
high school daughter, Herne. All her friends, like nine of
them decided they were gay. At school and he was
telling her statistically, that's really just not possible.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And also statistically, in just a few years, the vast
majority of you, we will say never mind, if not
all of them.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, so go Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Jimmy Fallon joke just came across on Twitter. I don't
know how old it is. It doesn't make any difference.
It's really interesting, among other things.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
This is kind of apropos and nothing, and we don't
need to dwell on it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And I don't know how long ago this.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Was guessing since they were talking about the twenty twenty census.
It was when do we get that information year year
or two later, something like that. Yeah, AnyWho, And there's scary.
There's music behind this because I came across it on
Twitter and they wanted to be scary.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It actually is scary.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
But this is a joke from the Tonight Show and
Jimmy Fallon when he was talking about census data.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Some more news.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
The results of the twenty twenty census just came out
and for the first time in American history, the number
of white people went down.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
That's the whole clip. Just and Jimmy Fallon had a
look on his face. He looked at the band and
made this confused face, like, why are you cheering that?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Wow? What great? Being weird? How often has that ever happened?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I've asked this question many times. How often has this
ever happened in world history? We're any group of people,
because I guarantee a lot of those people cheering were
cheers their own diminishing power or existence or whatever.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
As I started to say, that is a really great
emblem of how sick that time was, where self hatred
among white people was so fashionable. Some have clung onto that,
but they're sick. I think it's still around, and I
don't care what the percentage of white people are. Doesn't
make any difference to me. If you believe in you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Know, self governance and limited government, low taxes, The hue
of your.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Skin got nothing to do with it. But fewer white people,
no matter your color, day is.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Strange, subhorrent, sick And obviously don't even need to say this. Obviously,
if you said that about any other skin color or
religion or anything like that and people cheered.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It would be a national crisis. Might they would end
your career, take away your children. Oh, speaking of which,
let's play this now, it goes along great. This is
a Congresswoman, Sarah Stalker, Democrat of Kentucky at an education
hearing eleven Michael.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I don't feel good about being white every day for
a lot of reasons, because it's a point of privilege
that I get to move through the world in a
way that so many of my other colleagues and friends
and family members of the community don't get the privilege
to do. And I'm just a female, but just a woman,
just a white woman. If I was a white man,
I would be functioning from a point of.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Even greater privilege.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I think we're missing an opportunity when kids have a
moment to reflect about how the color of their skin
does and does not allow them to move through the world,
running to them and trying to stifle that and trying
to say you shouldn't feel bad, so we don't want
to ever expose you to something that is going to
make you have to pause and have maybe some internal feelings.
(15:57):
It's a missed opportunity for some really good diale.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh my god, what a favor of making white children
feel bad for the color of their skin in every
class And she.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Is a what what is her position of power? Is
she a congress person or is that a state legislator?
She's a state representative. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
She's a hot dog vendor on the corner. That attitude
is unbelievable. Yeah, so she went from uh, she not
only is going with the you need to recognize it,
which I've never understood what the hell that means?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
What? What what am I supposed to do with that?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It is somewhat easier to be a white person than
a black person, for instance, Okay, some of the time, probably.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Depending on how what do you want me to do?
Just now feel bad?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But then she took it to if kids aren't feeling bad,
that's a problem, right, you are so nuts? Well, yeah,
certainly misled. But she's a useful idiot of neo Marxism
that seeks to pit all of us against each other,
victim and oppressor at every moment. And how do you
(17:03):
get power away from the patriarchy or the white supremacists
as they see it, by shaming them into giving away,
you know, virtually everything they have.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'll bet she actually believes this also, though play that
very first part again, though I thought that was interesting,
just the first like sentence A useful idiot.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I don't feel good about being white every day?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You go through every day of your life not feeling
good about your skin color.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You're so crazy. I mean that's on your mind every day.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
How Wow, I'd like to crawl inside her brain for
a while.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Live that way. So people are sick and they're teaching
their kids. Wow, different topic.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
The NATO Secretary General just gave one hell of a
speech in Berlin that we ought to pay attention to
no matter your skin.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Color, and I will finally pay off. Why is ice slippery?
Science thinks they've figured it out. They didn't know why
we can fall on our heads happily knowing science can
explain it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Lucia has bought We're back into Europe and he must
be prepared for the skill of our grandparents and great
grandparents and Jeordan.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That's part of quite a speech that was given today
in Berlin by the current NATO Secretary General. That's Mark Root.
I don't know what his nationality is. The commander of
NATO is always an American because we are NATO, and
(18:49):
NATO will only succeed.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
With US, at least so far.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
But the Secretary General said today we are Russia's next target.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
We must shift to a wartime mindset. Ukraine must have
what it needs to defend itself. Russia's losing twelve hundred
soldiers a day. If Putin's willing to sacrifice ordinary Russians
like this, what is he prepared to do to us?
Eighty percent of the critical components in Russians drones and
missiles are made in China.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
China is a lifeline for Russia's war.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO
within five years. Conflict is at our door. And then
what you just heard, we must be prepared for the
scale of war our grandparents and great grandparents endured.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Wow. Wow is right.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well, and that's Samed at least partly right at Trump too,
with that recent security document that came out that honestly
its significance is overrated. But yeah, I think Europe is
really really concerned about Trump's attitude toward Russia and Europe.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Of course, what are they willing to do about it? Well?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I like what he's saying that Europe needs to be
ready to well, it needs to be ready for war
on that scale, should it come as opposed to being
a fat, lazy old you know, you know family pet
of the United States that does nothing to protect the homestead.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
As I pointed out before, I forget what thinker said
were for European countries in this battle. There are those
that can but won't, and there are those that can't
and won't. That's pretty much your choices.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You got a handful of countries that can't even reform
their entitlements and the rest of the things. The socialism
in short, that's dragging them down to balance their budget,
never mind dedicating another two three four percent of their
GDP to defense.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, how about that shot at China? What was what's
the intention there? Eighty percent of the critic components in
Russians drones and missiles are made in China. China is
a lifeline for Russia's.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
War message in that new foreign policy document that the
Trump administration put out, they kissed up to China. They
made it all about, hey, we got to do business
with channelists. Do business with them there, buddy, And Europe
needs to straighten up, including the best new Navidia chips
yea and Ukraine needs to give up and the rest
(21:25):
of it. Yeah, the Euros are not happy with the
state of American foreign policy right now.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm not happy with their foreign policy. I want you
to do something about it. As I've said eighty times,
I'm on Donald Tusk of Poland's side.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Why are we.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Equal economy to the United States counting on them to defend.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Ourselves against Russia. Well, that's what Ruth's saying. That's exactly
what he's saying. Yeah, well, you're turning it into Trump.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm standing up for America about Europe does something about
their own backyard.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And then that was beautiful. That was really good and
a nice saying. I think. I think that's when. I
think that's when Lee Greenwood comes on the stage.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Or something, eagle flies by or I'm not sure really,
but yeah, probably the balls hit rock punches you in
the balls exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Anyway, a couple old guys fighting.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Here's my best slipping on the ice story before you
explain to us why ice is slippery. And I've fallen
down on ice many many times in my life. Having
grown up in South Dakota, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Kansas, I've
slipped on the ice many many times, but my best
slipping on the ice that hurt the most and was
the most embarrassing. I'm in a tuxedo, I think for
(22:37):
a wedding, and uh.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hard shoes are bad on ice, man, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
And the worst of hard shoes cheap rental tuxedo shoes,
which aren't likely.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
To have any rubber grips on them or anything like that.
They're just the smooth leather.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Somehow, like it was like a cartoon. I could feel it,
and it feels like there was a pause in mid air.
Both my feet went out and I feel like I
was horizontal in the air at about eye height. That's
what it felt like to me for like a second
with music bellying in the background, before I came down
(23:16):
to the ground, completely flat on the sidewalk. It was just, oh,
did that hurt?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
She don't know how that happened, Auchie, Because ice is slippery, Jack,
But why is ice slippery? I had no idea, We
didn't know. It had never occurred to me to ask.
Everybody knows it's slippery because ice is got a thin,
watery layer on top of it. Well's gonna say if
(23:48):
you put a thin watery layer on anything, pavement, anything,
it's slippery.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So that seems to answer the question, it's more slippery.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
But why is there a See, this is why you're
not a scientist. Why is there a thin watery layer. Well,
three main theories about the phenomenon have been debated over
the past two centuries. This is one of the great
questions confronting mankind and one that frankly, could go un
answered for the rest of time and everybody'd continue to
(24:17):
fall and break their elbow. But anyway, earlier this year,
researchers in Germany who ought to have a better defense,
put forward a fourth hypothesis that they say solves the
puzzle all right. So hypothesis number one was pressure, Like
if you're skating or you step on it, the pressure
melts the surface, making its slippery. Now, in the nineteen
(24:41):
thirties they disproved that they calculated to me the average
skier exerts way too little pressure to significantly alter ICE's
melting point. To do so, the skier would have to
weigh thousands of kilograms, and certainly that five thousand pounds
skier would need specially designed skis moving along. How about friction, Yes,
(25:02):
it's the friction that melts the ice as you step
on it. They tested Zeri and Round official ice cave
in the Swiss Alps, using a complex contraption to measure
the friction between ice and other materials. Although this explanation
still appears in textbooks, many scientists disagree with it. The
problem is that you only melt the ice behind you,
(25:23):
not the ice you're actually skating on. Ah right, exactly,
you haven't.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You haven't had friction on the stuff that your skating
blade is about to hit, and it's already slippery.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
And to test the friction hypothesis, these scientists created a
microscopic ice skating rink. They rotated a piece of metal
standing in for a blade of a skate at different speeds,
measuring the force required to move the metal and force
the metal exerted onto the ice.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Measure that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It turns out, I was assuming that, like all scientific experts,
experiments that involved mice.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
So they put mice in tiny little ice skits. Couldn't
get them laced up. Try it over and over again,
couldn't get them on type. The mice's ankles just bent sideways.
Sound they gave it up anyway, that didn't work. In short,
there's another possibility the ice surface is wet before anything
(26:17):
makes contact with it. That's called the pre melting theory,
which is getting close but hypothesis number four. Recently, a
team of researchers in Germany identified arguments against all three
prevailing theories for pressure to be high enough to melt
eight surfaces.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
In short, it doesn't. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
So my biggest question is, and I'll bet there's an
answer to this. It seems like a lot of time, effort,
and money is being spent on trying to figure this out.
So there must be some reason they think if they
could figure out why, and I bet it's got to
do with some sort of cheap transportation or something, why
(27:00):
they need the answer to this question.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, And there was another explanation that I kind of skipped, that,
being that surface molecules don't have as many neighbors as
low lying molecules, and so they don't have enough energy
to overcome the strong bonds with solid ice molecules. And
that's what they're looking at right now. Gemstone polishers have
(27:23):
long known from experience that some sides of a diamond
are easier to polish or softer than others. In twenty eleven,
another German research group published paper explaining this phenomenon. They
created computer simulations of two diamonds sliding against each other.
Atoms on the surface were mechanically pulled out of their bonds,
which allowed them to move form new bonds and so on.
This sliding formed a structureless amorphous layer, and in contrast
(27:47):
to the liquid nature of the diamond, this layer is
disordered and behaves more like a liquid than a solid.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So it gets go ahead. I'll think about that the
next time I'm polishing in the diamond. Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
So they argue that a similar mechanism happens in ice.
They simulated ice surfaces sliding against each other. Blah blah blah.
It's at a molecular level. It's just more unstable at
the edges. And so you know, I've I've played pond
hockey on days that were so bitterly cold it was
a risk for frostbite at every moment. There's no melting
(28:25):
of the surface of the ice under any circumstances. Yet
it was slippery as hell. They should have asked a
young pond hockey player.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Our pond. Yeah, that's true. I've been on ice. It's
not slippery.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Our pond nearby when I lived in one time moved
a lot and when we lived in a near Hazel Green, Wisconsin,
tiny little time, the pond that we'd go out on
was actually the sewage that's where all the sewage would go,
and then it would freeze over and have a ice
on the top and we'd.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Go out there and skate around stuff like that. But
occasionally it would break and I don't remember anybody ever
fallen in, but like you could throw rocks in that
pond and the water that would splash up would be brown.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I was disgusting.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Oh and it horrible, But we would go out on
that when it was frozen winter.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wonderland. Mmm, We're lucky.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Our little town in Chicago Land we had a big,
big park at the time. It's kind of gotten squashed
by building a school in the middle of it and
that sort of thing. But they would just flood these large,
large surfaces of the park and it would freeze like
for most of the winter. That was great to play on.
That was the purpose. Oh yeah, yeah, for pond hockey.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Could you get away with that anymore? Or would you
get sued? Because somebody fell and hurt their arm, or.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh, now you're making me sangry, sad and angry. Yeaheah,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, but oh yeah, god.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
We'd be out there for hours and hours and hours and.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Hours and at risk of getting a bruise or I
took a couple of bucks off the face of maybe
bleeding a little bit. And all we got out of
it was constant exercise, inventing games, inventing rules, adjudicating disputes
for those rules, and just.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All without adult supervision.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
And when we did get our heads split open, we thought,
ow huh. And we made our way home and our
mom said, oh my god, what happened, and they dealt
with our wounds, and we thought, yeah, it's no big
deal to get hurt.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're generally pretty okay. It's a good thing we didn't
do that when we were kids. My grade school in
high school had a steep hill that we skate. We
slid down on our shoes in the middle of the winter,
and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Everybody would wear their Sunday school shoes on the bus
in the winter. See have your slipperiest shoes on and
get at the top of the hill and you just
kind of squat down and go flying down that thing
and crash at the bottom, and.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Everybody loved it. Yeah, there's no way you'd come close
to doing that sort of thing. Now.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'll visit at that school when we were at the convention,
the Republican Convention and Madison, I drove over and checked.
That school still has the hill, But I'll bet they
don't let people sled down it on.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Their shoes anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I would bet you any sum of money you're right,
and does any Is there a single human being that
thinks that's better? There might be sort of moms that
go to the skate park and make kids fill out
forms to make sure they have a helmet on before
they have any fun. The fact that Jack played on sewage, Yeah,
that's where I'm stuck. Okay, sewage hockey. It's not like
(31:29):
we've lost in America. And the fact that that was
the sliding down the hill generation one World War two
all right, didn't really It was several generators, remember though, huh,
I don't remember dashing Grenada.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So playing on the sewage pond is surprising to you.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
It's surprising to me looking back on it a lot.
I don't know that any there were any parents that
were aware we were doing it, so they might not
have been in.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Favor of it either. I don't It was.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Off far away. What was the best toll exactly? The
death toll was zero. Luckily we were still still around
to win World War two. According to Joe in the seventies,
we will finish ship strong next. I swear our goal
on this show every day is not how could we
(32:19):
depress people the most? Though sometimes it seems like that
is our raison dat track for this program.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Stike you sad, scared or depressed. I don't know, It's
just our personalities, I guess.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Anyway, there's this article that would would be uplifting if
it weren't for I'm going to throw in there, here's
why you shouldn't be so happy. Oh No, four oh
one k's are minting a generation of millionaires. Many Americans
are peaking that the retirement counts and cheering higher balances.
I had to for legal reasons, actually take a look
(32:53):
at my four on one K yesterday, and it was
pretty pleased at where it was compared to the last
place I looked at it. Because, as you know, the
stock market is been setting a record practically every day
for quite a while now, and it's a lot higher.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
As of the.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Third quarter, there were six hundred and fifty four thousand
millionaires in the brokerage fadility, just from their four to
one k, highest level they've ever had. My first thought
when I read that was yeah, but with inflation, it
don't quite mean the same as it used to.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So I got out my inflation calculator and here's.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Where I take what was supposed to be an uplifting
story about how many of us are millionaires and turn
it into it's not quite the same. It depends on
how far back you want to go. But if you
go back to nineteen eighty, like you know, were you
a kid or whatever you were in nineteen eighty and
you had a view of what a millionaire was, well,
that person that'd be like a someone a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars back then, two hundred and fifty
(33:45):
thousand dollars, a two hundred and fifty thousand there, or
another way to look at it, was a millionaire back then,
you'd have to have four million dollars now to reach
what you thought of as a millionaire back then in
nineteen eighty or Okay, that's too far back, you're not
that old. Let's just go back to two thousand, in
the beginning of the century. Still about half a million.
(34:06):
She still got to have about wow million dollars to
be the same as what a millionaire was in the
year two thousand.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Keep pumping currency into the economy and devaluing everything we've
worked for a government.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'm not actually, my goal actually isn't to make me
or anyone said. My goal is let and this is
one of the cores of conservative is to live in reality.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
There's no point in going around thinking I'm a millionaire.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
If your view of a millionaire is a little outdated
given the inflation over the.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Last several years.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Well, yeah, I mean to the extent that I have
a philosophy of this show at all.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It's what is the truth? What's reality? That's something, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
The nineteen eighty number was interesting, The two year two
thousand number was shocking.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, cutting in half Pikes final, Oh gee, are you
ready to soft rock? Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Joe getting Let's get a final time from everybody on
the crew. To wrap up the day, there is Michael
Angelo pressing the buttons in the control room.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Michael final thought, you.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Know, we did a news story about cheeseburgers and then
it turned into it we need to get a cheeseburger
for lunch. I'm just thinking, how often do we do
stories about food.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
And it ends up becoming lunch after the show? A lot?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
A lot? Yeah, indeed, Katie Green are a steam newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well, on that note, I have already planned my cheeseburger
for later today.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
He wants me talk about it. I have to have it. Yeah,
me too, heah yeah, and you're cheeseburgering for two yes.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Jack. A final thought, Ah, the way I.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Have started to do it is to I'll indulge the cheeseburger,
but no fries. There's really no reason for me eating
French fries. I love French fries, are delicious, but I
mean they're just there's just like no.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Health benefit to eating French fries. Yeah. I love the cheeseburger,
love it, love it, love it like everybody does.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
But if I had one food, I had to eat
only that the rest of my life, no question. Be
like supreme pizza. Number one, I'm a pizza freak. Number two.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I get tired of sausage, I just pick off the sausage.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
I get tired of green peppers and just pick off
the peppers.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
So it's a bit of a cheating, is what you're doing.
It's not cheating at all, it's thinking. Do you consider
thinking cheating? Do you do you?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Oh that's funny Armstrong in Geeddy wrapping up, But oh
they're grueling four hour work there.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I would eat pizza five daytes a week. Ah, so
many people who thinks so a little time ago. At
Armstrong and geddy dot com, the swag store is still open.
Put a picture of the really cool T shirt. You're
gonna get your loved one under the tree. That's good enough.
Drop is a oak nail bag. At Armstrong and Getdy
dot com, I give.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Them a picture of their gift. They'll get us soon enough.
Sure we will see tomorrow with all the news. Oh
tomorrow's Friday. I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
We'll see then, God us America. I'm strong and Jetty
stole bluff the show. Listen there there get a six.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
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