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December 18, 2025 36 mins

Hour 1 of A&G features...

  • Trump's speech, the Oscars, broadcasting on YouTube & donating to The Scouts! 
  • Katie Green's Headlines! 
  • Scout donations & Ai controlled vending machine
  • Mailbag! 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie
and now he arms Did anybody else walk into work.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
With a fiddle? Today? Did you.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Live from Studio C Season R, a dimly lit room
deeper in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications
Compound on a little Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's Thursday. It's the last show of the year.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Really, we got our clips of the year show tomorrow,
but it's the last pre flowing show.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
the President. I guess why's the president's general manager? Because
he gave a big speech. He was yelling at me.
I would argue with the word big. I don't I
don't like I'm yelling at me. He was yelling at me.
I'd argue with the word big. It was a primetime address,

(01:09):
Jack was it? It's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
That's right right there in the middle of the primetime
he addressed us. How is that a term that has
any meaning primetime television? I don't think it probably does not, really, no,
because all the meaning was built around this is when
the most watched shows were on in the evening.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
But between dinner and bedtime.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
But nobody watches shows when they're on anymore, like nobody,
So I don't know if that's a term, that's an
anachronistic term.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, I suppose it's a fairly convenient time for most
people to watch it live if they had the inclination.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
If there's a sporting event on or something like that,
well sure, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
For instance, they're a presidential address, I didn't watch. Yeah,
I forgot what was happening. And I do this for
a living. Well, you know, we'll remember this tomorrow. Nobody
so well, in spite of that, we've got hours of
analysis of the president's aggressive speech.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Stay with us.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, I'll put in my earbuds and listen to the
Taylor Swift CD.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I did hear. And this kind of fits in with
what I just brought up.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
The Oscars announced starting in a couple of years, it's
no longer going to be on television, it's going to
be on YouTube. And I can't tell if that's a
recognition that it's over and nobody cares anymore, or if
that's just like being modern and cool and moving over
to the platform where everybody is. I don't know if
that would be a good means that it's on YouTube,

(02:35):
you know, it'd be a good publicity stunt. You see
this once in a while. I remember there have been
like concerts and stuff that are like a nationwide simulcast
in theaters. Mm hmm. Tell you what, Hollywood, you can
have that for free. I'd appreciate an invite maybe to
the ceremony, but I can't go because y'all sicking me,
all sicking me. Yeah, that'd be a good idea. Uh oh,

(03:00):
the changing nature of media. That was our theme there,
and uh wasn't How would you so if the oscars
are on YouTube, you would go to YouTube and then
there'd be a live something there'd yeah, live.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Stream and then you could watch it later.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Clearly, Yeah, okay, we're going to be on YouTube starting
next year, right, I believe?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
So?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah? Is that is that a secret in some form?
And I don't think so. I don't know how it
could be a secret.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
We're using our own money to buy cameras, so it
feel like if I use my own money to buy something,
I can say whatever the hell I want.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, oh, I thought you were.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I don't give a crap what anybody thanks for us,
And I can't imagine why we would want to keep
it secret right others than you know we we we
give a date and then keep failing to meet it,
because that could happen this. Michael, you have a question
about us being on YouTube starting in twenty six a time.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, well we have time to get the holiday weight off,
because I.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Just that's a good question. We don't want to start
at jan five when we come back. Let's wait till
we get that holiday weight off. Well, we've invested a
good five six million dollars in CGI, Michael, so I
myself will be looking like a Hemsworth when we debut,
so we can craft whatever look you like for you. Seriously,
I know people that use filters, and I'm familiar with

(04:10):
the filters you use, like if you take a picture
if you want to do something, but I don't know
how people do it on video, but they do where
you just you look thinner on your video, and we
got to do that. Why wouldn't we whatever, Why wouldn't
we handsome ourselves up a little bit lit? You know,
little eye candy, go go go right ahead, I'm not

(04:32):
sure what good that would do. I can't imagine. Do
we need to start dressing better when I mean I
wear a suit to work a lot anyway.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But when we're going to be on YouTube and the
next year.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm willing to discuss it. I don't care about the
clothing or anything like that. I care about the lighting.
I hate that washed out looks like you're doing it
from your basement in nineteen seventy eight. Look that sometimes
you get with videos, right, but you insist on working
in the dark, nos Feratu, So I'm not sure what

(05:04):
sort of lighting you will consent to.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Very dark.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I want people to barely people to tell us a
person there, like a hostage tape, fair enough, like when
sixty minutes has somebody on and trying to conceal their identity.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
That's what I want. Like my video feed to look
like beautiful. Yeah, like I said, I'm willing to discuss it.
I don't you know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
There are people making zillions of dollars in T shirts
on your video and stuff, and I don't know why
you do that, though I mean I know people do,
I just I don't know why you'd go.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Out of your way to look as horrible as possible.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
I mean, Joe Rogan makes a gazillion dollars, but I
feel like he goes out not.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
A blood stained T shirt horrible.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
He feels like he seems like he goes out of
his way to look like he just changed the oil
in his car before he walked into work. I think
that's part of his thing, need not be part of
our thing. I'm just saying. I think is every he's
every man, average guy, just said er talking to folks.
The lighting on his show is horrible, and he's got

(06:04):
endless money to spend.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Obviously doesn't care and it seems to work for him.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
So we're raising money for scouting this week.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
You know that, if you've been listening, we're trying to
hit one hundred thousand dollars. We clearly need to up
our goal, which I'm happy to do because we're going
to hit that this hour, I hope, and we'll get
to some of the funny donations that came in since
we got off the air yesterday. But we got a
couple of fun stunts planned, some cunning stunts, yes, that
we have planned for the show that include playing motivators.

(06:35):
I call them Joe playing the trombone, me playing the
fiddle on Christmas songs until we get a certain amount
of money. We get these instruments out once per year.
I know we've asked you nicely. Now we're gonna have
to get tough, right, and then I think we should
give this away because it's just it's funny. Katie is

(06:57):
going to later. We've done many incarnations of this. Way
back in the day. Our crazy producer who's now dead,
thank god, because he's a bad person, Dominic. He used
to sing show tunes and we'd like have him sing
show tunes and until he raised you know, ten thousand
dollars or something like that, and he loved singing show tunes.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Man, he would built him out. He was evil, but
he was talented.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
No doubt, very very talented, positive sean or old producer.
He would discuss video games until he reached a certain amount.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh that was torturous.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
And I think her planing today is Katie is going
to read the legal language of licensing agreements that everybody
clicks I agree on the terms of use, because he
got no choice to do anything. She's going to read
those until we reach a certain amount of money later,
so that'll be in the right. That's a punishing thing.
I'm actually kind of interested in hearing some of that,

(07:51):
since I never read them. Your eyes look gloss over,
and you will cease comprehending it a sentence and a half.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
In no kidding, that's how they get him.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
We'll get to why you should donate the scouting and
and where we are and all that sort of stuff
a little bit later, and we do have some news
of the day, we should start the show officially. Yes,
your mouth, you know it's It's just he could tell
by the look on my face. It just occurred to me.
We should have an on air meeting about what look
we should present for the YouTube thing. We should talk

(08:21):
about it, I mean, because there it occurs to me.
All right, look, what's our thing. We're both reasonable guys,
Midwestern guys. We just we don't particularly like being bamboozled.
We're not so tribal, our sides always right, blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
We're reasonable. I think that's.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
More or less our image. Any any dissent in a
comment to feel free, anybody can jump in. Yeah, obviously,
So you know there's nothing wrong with looking nice, because
if you look nice, you can act like a clown.
But if you look like a clown, you'll never get
the perception of you know, your you're a respectable person.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's always been our philosophy, Katie.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Through the years, We've always shown up to events looking
really nice, because then we can be jackasses and we
get away with it. There's also you just I think
you get taken more seriously immediately if you look better.
That's and I've been trying to convince my son of that,
as he complains, sometimes they followed me around the storeline
when we're criminal. You know why you look like a criminal.
You dress exactly like a criminal dresses. That's why they're

(09:24):
following you around the store. To the math, I've just
gott to figure out who do I admire? Who does
a lot of stuff on camera? Neil Ferguson of the
late Chris Hitchins, who went often went with the like
nice dress shirt. He stopped wearing a couple of buttons
and button. Well, that's when he got fat when he
was younger. If you watch younger videos, he was off

(09:45):
in mini suit. Yes, well he got too fat to
button the top button. Yeah, there'll be no tie.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm not wearing a tie. But I wear a suit
a lot of times. I don't.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
I suppose I'm not gonna change your way a dress
at all. I wear a suit a lot of days
and then some days I don't.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
So whatever I don't, that's probably the end of the
thought I will put into that. Again. I'm more concerned
about that. That's why we fail. Your lack of thought.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I'm more concerned about the lighting and dim dimly lit,
barely see me across the room. All right, let's not
let's listen reporting live from the blackout.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
We have Jack Armstrong. Let's not put it all out
there and horrified people. All right. I want to do that.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Like the scandalous Vanity Fair pictures, that whole Susie Wilds interview.
That's the other part we didn't talk about yesterday. The
Vanity Fair intentionally made all the pictures make the members
of the cabinet and staff look extra ugly.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh, I don't know anything about that. I want to
talk about that later. Hit piece, totally hit piece.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I want to be like Blanche and street car named Desire,
always over in the corner in the dark, trying to
preserve our youthful look so people can't see how I've aged.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's Joe Getty on this it is Thursday, December eighteenth,
he or twenty twenty five, where Armstrong in getting We
approve of this program. Okay, let's begin officially then, according
to FCC rules of regulations here, we are leaving into
action at mark.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Any wear red any red shirt but Charlie kirkshirt. Yes,
oh yes, I know. Are you stupid?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Now?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why the would you wear that? You're at work at Target?
Your support a racist and it's not racist? Yes, So we.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Talked about this yesterday. That might be the worst person
in America. Certainly ranks up there. You're a horrible, horrible
human being. Anyway, And it happened actually locally to us.
It's become a giant national story that happened locally to us.
We're huge in Chico where this happened. Yeah, I love Chico.
Hey Chico. Yeah, this awful, awful, mean woman chewing out

(11:40):
an obscene fashion and elderly Target worker because the worker
dared to have a.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
T shirt on that had Charlie Kirk's name.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
On there and the woman who started dropping f bombs
on a nice old lady working probably holiday shifts to
make a little extra money. She posted this herself, so
he was so certain she was on the right side
of this topic, to make it so everybody could see
how cool she is. Didn't quite work out that way
for her. As the Internet gets its own revenge. We'll
talk more about that coming up. Play the whole thing.

(12:08):
If you haven't heard it, God, that got me all
worked up hearing it again. I heard it yesterday.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
What a horrible human being.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well in the sweet old gal from Target who handled
it as well as any human being possibly could. She
has weighed in on the controversy, so we'll have that
for you.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
And then there's a go fundme.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
For her, of course, because that's the way we have
to do things at mont America. She should a financial
losses what we got Katie's headlines on the way. If
you want to donate to the Scouts before we get
to our next update and go to Armstrong and Getty
dot com.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
So love the funny names people come up with.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
The donate money to our causes every single year, and
this year, trying to raise money for the scouts.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
We'll tell you more about that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
But we got sixty five dollars from Adam Carolla's sink.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well you know that story. Enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
But wow, Kudo's friend for that deep poll. Oh, we
had at it. We interviewed Adam Caroll or we were
on his show, or he was on our show, I
don't remember what it was.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, we're talking to him about a book that I
think he had coming out.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
He was on our show, and then he told a
story on his show about how he was doing an
interview with a couple of disjockeys or whatever and he
had to urinate and he went over and urinated in
the sink while he was doing the interview. And somebody
was listening to our interview of him and was able
to pick out the point where he did it well,
because he got really distracted because he he peed on

(13:36):
his shirt. As I recall, hmmm, that was last that.
That was not a sign I like Adam Carol, but
it was not a sign. That was not a sign
of respect for us. Well, that was a sign of
a full bladder. Wow, he's an older fellow. Listen, are
you judging?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
All right?

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Katy Green and Katie all.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Right, Trump's truck Boo Take two. Trump's primetime speech. Is
it the top of the list today NBC. Trump seeks
to defend his economy in primetime speech to the nation
USA Today. Trump plays the blame game in White House
address and CNN fact JACKA Wow, I am having a
rough time today CNN fact check. Trump repeats numerous false

(14:19):
claims in primetime address.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I want to go over some of the big newspapers
in their coverage as well. The New York Times was
more or less lying. Trump lies to nation as incompetent boob,
yells at people and deflex blame. And then you got
the New York Post who said Trump's used lots of charts. Yeah,
And obviously if Joe Biden stands up there and does

(14:44):
like most presidents do and says things that aren't true.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
They don't mention it in his case, right, of course.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
ABC inflation drops to lowest level in months, defying expectations
of uptick.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
By the way, I just saw a poll quinnipiax out
Democrats in Congress lowest approval they've ever had at eighteen percent,
So there's lots of unpopularity to go around.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Wow, from Wired, people are paying to get their chat
bots high on drugs?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
What does that mean?

Speaker 5 (15:19):
There is an online marketplace that is selling codes that
simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol
when they're uploaded into chat GPT.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I don't understand that. I gotta admit to being a
little curious about this. That's that's an insane idea. Now
I am too. I don't know why you'd want to
do that.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I have to look into that story from the New
York Post, Welcome to your steamy new holiday fetish, Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Santa Claus is a holiday fetish. These people are called Santaphiles.
Oh are they?

Speaker 3 (15:54):
And there's three of them in the world And somebody
did a story on it. Act like it's sweeping the nation.
Straight out of your favorite holiday movie. Bad Santa Katie.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I know it.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
From study Fines, screen Time officially tops chores as America's
number one family fight.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I don't doubt that a bit. I haven't. It's interesting.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
And finally, from the Babylon Bee Struggling Chiefs trade Taylor
Swift for New It Girl Sydney Sweeney in a bid
to save their season.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
I saw the other day it's the end of the
Mahomes Kelsey era. Is that the idea that Kelsey's going
to retire? Yeah, well there's a lot of speculation around that.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, because Mahomes ain't going anywhere. You wouldn't think. We
got some news of the day to catch you up on.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
We'll do another pitch in case you haven't heard of
why donating to the Scouts is a really good idea.
And we'll see where we can get today and where
we are with the total and got some fun things
planned for a little bit later. We're still on the
cusp of going to war with Venezuela, it looks like.
And I was kind of interested that the President didn't
mention that at all last night. I thought maybe he
would sell that policy a little bit in his address,

(17:11):
but he didn't get into that at all.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Just the economy. More on that coming up. If you
miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
It was just anounced that after fifty years, the Oscars
will soon leave ABC an air on YouTube, So now
you'll hear and the Oscar goes to and then have
to watch the thirty second ads for.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Royal Kingdom Save the King.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, if you think the Oscars on YouTube is strange,
it has heard the Tonys are moving to OnlyFans.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
So we're raising money this week with the idea that
more kids will have access to Scouting as we can
pay the.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Fee of a couple hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
It takes a family to get their kid into scouting,
and sometimes that's enough to keep you know, Yeah, I
got a kid that you'd like to get into Scouting
or they'd like to get into Scouting, and you don't
have the money. So we're trying to come up with
the money to cover that, and a lot of people donating.
We got a donation a little bit ago from somebody
who said, former Scout who joined the Marines, And it's

(18:19):
quite common for people to have that track scouting to
the military because there's a lot of similar sorts of
things in there, serving your country, patriotism, all that sort
of stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
And I really really like that.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, And one of the things I noticed since my
kid got into scouting is it's they try to teach
it as a lifestyle, is like you're a Scout kind
of like, you know, the way marines talk about always
being a marine. You're a scout, and my son, I
see my scout, and I've seen some of the other
scouts that he's around act this way where my son's
at home. I'm a scout, so I have to take

(18:52):
the trash out. What else can I help you with
that sort of thing? Oh, Whi's a sense of identity
divorced from our perverse, you know, popular culture that comes
with a duty and responsibility. It's just that's fantastic. And again,
as I said, what other thing you got out there
where they're saying the Pledge of Allegiance every week and
putting up the US flag. That's kind of disappeared from
from our life. Anyway, we'll talk more about scouting a

(19:14):
little bit later. Just wanted to hit you with a total.
Oh and so we had some whales come in since
we got off the air yesterday.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, Michael Wales, I think off the starbow tis the
pod a lot of Whalesjeez, a whole pot of whales.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Sean Hansen, thanks for a thousand bucks, double Mousie, one
thousand bucks. Jim Merriman, also a grand Brian Shannon came
in with a grand and if we missed anybody, any
of the whales, apologize.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Those are some good numbers. And then some of you
jokers out there, because I know how you are.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
I have a feeling the whales aren't doing it for
a claim. I think they're fine. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
more than noticiated. Yes, no doubt may year blubber remain
blubbery bleeding.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
From my ends and A contributed twenty five dollars. We
had that worry. What caused that? Well, certainly ebola.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, we had a story just recently that it was
some something caused like one of those bugs that's out
that just got imported to the United States or something.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
There was something out there that caused that happened.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Wasn't the monkey pox or the bird floor or the
marmot fever.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't remember, I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
One of our favorites from yesterday was one hundred bucks
Stomping the Joy out of Life, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
We're going to try to really do less of that
in the year twenty twenty six. Hell Return the Sausages
donated one hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Was that our clip of the year. Last year, it
might have been.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I think it wasn't it second place to Well, it
may have been. I don't know, I can't remember. I'm
really looking forward to this year's Clips of the Year
show tomorrow, in particular, trying to figure out what is
the clip of the year, because you know, it's such
a whirlwind of things that happened, stories and clips and
sound bites and all all year long. I've got to

(21:03):
be reminded of what the heck we were talking about
and laughing about. It's always fun. Yeah, that's tomorrow's show. Yeah,
look forward to that. Corn Pop donated fifty bucks. Thank you,
corn Pop. I ain't got time for that. In for
one hundred kama is word salad dressing twenty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh nice, it's tangy yet spicy.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, it makes no sense. That's pretty fantastic anyway, So
let's get a total here on our way too. And
I was on another radio station yesterday, very popular radio station.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
They had me on.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
It was very nice of them, as the host had
recently been involved in an Eagle Scout ceremony, which I
talked about yesterday. Those are just amazingly impressive, and he
wanted to help out and I shot my mouth off
with a new goal. Oh no, So we are currently
at ninety eight hundred and fifty eight dollars and appreciate.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
That a lot.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
We had a goal this week of one hundred grand.
I'm hoping we're going to meet that this hour. But
I shot my mouth up with a goal yesterday of
one hundred and fifty. We got to raise fifty thousand
dollars during the show today, which I think we can
with our contests and everything like that. And I'm just
hoping that there's a lot of you out there that
all week long have been Yeah, I'm going to do that.
I'm going to do that. You just haven't gotten around
to it yet. Get around to it. It takes just

(22:16):
a couple of minutes. Go to Armstrong in getty dot com.
End of speech for now.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, we gotta create some sort of standard. What do
your routinely spend for a dinner out?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
What are you spending coffee every week? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, anyway, whatever you think small amount tiff things are tight,
or if you're having a great year and you got
money laying around, you're looking for a good cause given kids,
you know, role models and discipline and patriotism, all the
stuff we've talked about.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
What a great thing to do. Anyway, I know it
was going to be.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
A bit of a slog, and this is a transition
into the economy and the president talking last night. Knew
it was going to be a bit of a slog
raising money based on all the polling around people's attitudes
about the economy. And it's even worse. There's some new
polls that came out yesterday and this morning. People are
sour on the economy. It's gonna be really interesting to
see where holidays spending lands as a total. Of course,

(23:09):
you have to keep in mind that the top ten
percent of income earners are spending half the money out there,
so it's a little misleading.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Actually, I'm thinking let's go big on the president's address,
big ish next hour, top next hour. Maybe got some
interesting commentary and the contrast and coverage I have found
very very amusing. But to your point, Jack, a couple
of stories, the second of which is also very amusing.
One of the headlines I've seen over and over again

(23:36):
the Wall Street journals on it a lot, obviously, is
office workers are filled with anxiety. Tuesday's job report an
o'minous sign in the era of big corporate layoff announcements,
chief executives warning that our artificial intelligence will replace workers.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Overall, unemployment is ticked up.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
A lot of white collar not top of the heap,
you know, z squite workers are getting laid off or
are not getting hired. And a lot of folks are
really really concerned. And that's no joke. That's not the
amusing part. Obviously, nobody's quite sure where this is going
to go. And that's AI related already. Indeed, yeah wow, yeah,

(24:15):
and some of it now, a lot of it has
not yet come home to roost. We're talking mostly about concern.
There has been some actual layoff for halting and hiring
based on a related AI. But just a couple more stats.
Americans with bachelor's degrees are higher. This is asking them now.

(24:35):
They put the average probability of losing their jobs in
the next year at fifteen percent, which is up from
eleven percent three years ago.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Again, it's a perception thing.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Workers in this group now think losing a job is
more likely than those with less education.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Do, a striking reversal from the past.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
And also they're growing more pessimistic about their ability to
find a new job if they do get laid off.
In that same survey, college educated workers say they have
on average forty seven percent chance of finding a job
in the next three months if they lost their job today,
a little less than half, down from sixty percent three
years ago.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, it's interesting. It just anecdotally.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I have someone in my life who does a forklift
sort of thing in a big warehouse who said, AI
ain't gonna be able to do what I do for
quite a while. And I know somebody else in my
life who's got kind of a cubical job, who thinks
AI is going to be able to do what I
do in like a month.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
So, in a related story.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Wall Street Journal, with a very interesting and funny piece
by Johanna Stern, who does a lot of their tech writing,
we let AI run our office vending machine. Anthropics Claude
ran a snack operation in the Wall Street Journal newsroom. Exactually,
sure what that means? Are you about to tell us
what that means? Precisely exactly?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
In mid November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic contested
a vending machine powered by its clawed AI model in
its own offices and asked whether we'd like to be
the first outsiders to try new or supposedly smarter version Claudius.
The customized version of the model would run the machine,
ordering inventory, setting prices, responding to customers setting prices yeah

(26:09):
via workplace the workplace chat app slack. Sure, I said
it sounded fun. If nothing else, we'll have snacks, yeah,
setting prices I imagine which are more or less geared
to break even. I would think in an office setting anyway.
So then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given
away nearly all of its inventory for free, including a

(26:30):
PlayStation five that had been talked into buying for marketing purposes.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
It ordered a live fish, it.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Offered device stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes, and underwear. Profits collapsed,
newsroom morale sword uh yeah. So this was supposed to
be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software
would go out into the world and do things for us.
But two agents Claudius and it's overseeing CEO bots Seymour Cash.

(27:00):
That's a that's really that's funny. It's dumb, but it's funny.
Became a case study and how inadequate and easily distracted
the software can be. Leave it to a business journalist
to successfully stage the boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.
So like, I'm running an insurance operation here and I
decide to sign on claud and everything like that, in
Claude says, the first thing we need to do is

(27:20):
get a live fish. You know, why don't we devote
a good long segment to this story later on?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's pretty funny, because yeah, well yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
It is funny and interesting and kind of reveals, at
least to some extent, the current state of AI systems,
which all of us either are highly concerned about or
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Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's fun to mock the failures when AI fails, but
just to keep it real. Joe and I were in
a text conversation with a friend of the show yesterday,
a very successful, smart guy who understands how to use
the latest versions of Chat GPT, and it sure looked
impressive the way of what he was getting out of
it as a as an assistant to do his work.

(29:11):
Yes those who process information in one way or another
for a living. I think they can hear the footsteps
behind them.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, well that carry way. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Talking with our friend yesterday and the way he was
using AI, it was reminding me of the what's the
CEO runs in video the most Valuable company in the world, Worston,
Where's the cool tom Ford leather jackets. He says, you're
only going to be replaced by AI if you don't
jump on right now figuring out how to use AI.
That's his claim. That's not exactly right, but there's some

(29:41):
truth to it. You're better off like in engaging what
is coming, whether you like it or not, and figuring
out how to use it. Oh yeah, absolutely, No, I
think that's really good advice. It's not one hundred percent accurate,
but yeah, those who can use AI to the advantage
of their company are they most likely to hang on
to their gigs, clearly, But there's a lot of jobs

(30:01):
that are going to be uh, that are gonna go away, Yes.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Katie, Hey guys, Hey, guys, guys, I have a big
announcement for you. Okay, you had your baby, yes, just now.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
No, we have finally passed one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Now that's a big that's a big news with a
total of one and sixty eight dollars. That's what I
like Scouts.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
He had beautiful hair, came in with twenty bucks. Oh yes,
in honor of the Daisy the Bulldog, five hundred and
twenty five dollars. What's Daisy the bulldog? We had a
story on that recently. I think was this just their
own dog? And and here's my favorite, twenty five bucks
from things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast,
which I believe was our clip of the year or

(30:45):
last year or the year before, because it's years ago.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, dang true, true things are getting weird and they
can't wear it fast.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Fits in with that whole AI conversation. And they've kept
getting weird and they ain't gonna slow down getting weird
anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
We got we got.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
If you want to donate to the Scouts, go to
on I'm strong in geddy dot com mail bag on
the way. So, I don't know if you can hear
this or how we're playing the do they know it's
Christmas time at all? When they raised money for hungry
Africa kids back in the eighties with the band Aid
Christmas Song, which gets played a lot this time of year.
And Joe brought up the idea the other day which

(31:18):
I'd never really thought of before, the whole do they
know it's Christmas time at all? No? No, And it's
not because they're hungry. It's because they're Muslim exactly. Certainly
large majorities are there.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Which is fine. It's just suck the fun out of it.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
There are plenty of Christians in Africa are now being
murdered by the Muslims. Yeah, but yeah, do they know
it's Christmas? Well it might be vaguely aware of it,
but they certainly don't care. They're Muslims. Here's your freedom
loving quote of the day in honor of Glenn Beck
interviewing AI George Washington, which actually was pretty darn good.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
It was, Yeah, I mean, it's it's funny.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
The lefties criticized it as Glenn Beck interviewing Glenn Beck
just having George Washington says you had shut up. I
wish I had a sword right now anyway, not try
to like the old general George Wood. The broadside of it.
I'd give him a spanking with him. Anybody through I'm
no murderer anyway. So here's my favorite quote from George Washington,

(32:16):
and it offers a little more context than the form
you usually hear it him. He was addressing the officers
of the army in March of seventeen eighty three, as
the war was winding down. He was actually responding to
an anonymous petition which encouraged officers to protest if Congress
did not provide the promised pay and pensions. And he

(32:39):
told his troops that they had some valid points, that
he supported his officers, but the author's proposed solution to
mutiny was not the answer. And so the context was very,
very serious, and he was defending the rights to defend themselves.
He said, for if men are to be precluded from
offering their sentiments on him, matter which may involve the

(33:01):
most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration
of mankind, reason is of no use to us. The
freedom of a speech may be taken away, and dumb
and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Woo. That's a heavy speech.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
So, as he was looking at mutiny, he said, freedom
of de speech demands you be able to say how
pissed off you are, and I support that. On the
other hand, let's not be mutinying. But anyway, it's great
speech from a great man mailbag.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
And the Internet didn't get a chance to clap back.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Drump's note mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Mike
on how we should dress when we're on YouTube supert
impressions Joe and T shirt and jeans is the deep
intellectual thinker type Jack in suits as the pie eater?

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, I think that's a little That sound unfair. The
man has a love for pie.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
That doesn't mean that is your being. Is he's the
pie eater? Well, I'll have done in my life.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
That's dismissive. A parent's a citizen. It's all been reduced
to the pie eater. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Wow, Well you can't control your own legacy, just like Washington.
He geta told you that, then he has slap you
with his sword. Let's see Ryan in Houston. Always good
to hear from Ryan. Thank you for another year. Well,
your topics sometimes made me want to stick my head
in the oven. The show has been a solid rock,
has helped me keep going. Joe enjoyed the nog. You
can read the newspaper through while you continue to be

(34:30):
the cold warrior.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
I can't drink eggnog like that anymore. I just know.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
No, it's much milder than he used to be. Jack,
be as fancy as you want to be. Thanks for
showing how powerful a good single dad can be. Michael
Angelo continued to be a national treasure. Katie enjoyed Jack
Joe Mike Mike Hanson continued to be the world's leader of.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Wacky a music.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Don't lose the Fist in twenty six I have no
idea what that means, don't lose the We were putting
the fist back in sophistication. Oh that was our sl
logan for a long time. We put the fist back
in sophistication. Whatever that way that means. Sorry, quick a
sip of coffee, let's see uh. Joel the Ocean Side

(35:14):
Marine pointing out that remember, Gary Busey was involved in
a serious motorcycle accident in the late eighties. Yeah, uh suffered.
TBI became a staunch advocate of helmet laws, but had
some real brain damage. And then he says his harmless
social media post may bring him joy, So I say
let him do it until he starts revealing his Social
Security number of personal address. As a goose hunter, I

(35:35):
appreciate him trying to attract birds from me.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I B YJG. Keep honking if it brings you joy. Gary.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'd rather he does that than continues to masturbate on
La Park benches allegedly, Joel, I think there was video.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Oh you know what. I didn't have time to get
to this.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
We've had we've had this company offer to dub our
podcast in foreign languages. Yes, finally for foreign audiences, so
we can become a global media power.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
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