December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Theft scandal, Christmas spending and the Dell family donation
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Dell family donates $6.25bil to US kids & drunk raccoons
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Caddy arm
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
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need umbrellas. Apparently might wan to wear a rain jacket.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Okay, live drum studios, see dimly lit room. He put
them in the ball bowels balls of the studios. Something
or anyway just keeps getting better. Yes, today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Some Molly fraudsters. Yeah, that's a good story.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's a good story. It's been a good story. It's
a story we've been on and it is finally getting
a little bit of attention. I can't wait to get
started on this. But I tell you what, even I
Joe Getty Cold Warrior, which has nothing to do with
this hardcore critic of the utterly dishonest, moronic, whoke, stupid media,
(01:55):
I think it say that was two stupid. More or less,
Sometimes I fall prey to the this is a giant story.
Why is nobody talking about it? Gosh, maybe it's not
that important. I don't know. I mean, I don't wobble
like that much, but I've got to admit there are
(02:15):
times there are stories that are of gargantuan significance that
get ignored by the mainstream media, and after a while
you start to think, well, I don't know, maybe never mind, Well.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
What's the long and I mean the short version of it,
just to let people know and then we can get
into details later.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Perhaps the most egregious, enormous theft of funds during the
unforgivable spraying of taxpayer dollars during COVID by the Biden
administration was the theft of a billion plus dollars by
Somali immigrants and those who were working with them in
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the Minnesota area. The Minneapolis area, and I think the
bigger picture question is super interesting. Of how the whole.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Welfare state idea works. If you've got.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
If you've got a citizenry that you know everybody's trying
hard and believes they should do their best.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And ripping and has cultural norms of honesty and cooperation,
well we.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Don't even My point is we don't even have that
in our own country anymore to the same extent that
we used to where.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know, it's funny. My kids were on this topic
the other day.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
We saw somebody begging in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and
my oldest son and I'm happy he said this. He said,
I would starve to death before I would beg somebody
for money for food.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm the same way.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I can't, but there are plenty of people that I
got money. I just need more money to buy booze.
They're perfectly okay with pretending they're broke to take your money.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They have no shame.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We eliminated shame in this country, and a lot of
people thought that was a good idea.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You shouldn't be ashamed of this, and that no, you
should be. You should be very ashamed.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You can't raise your kids, you can't support yourself. I
want you to be ashamed. Shame the baby shame is.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
A great driver. It makes it makes it makes lots
of people do the right That makes me do the
right thing.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh heck, that's maybe the biggest influence in my life
was shame.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And so we already are moving that way with our
own citizenry, where people are perfectly okay with getting on
the government dole and not working, and they think other
people are punks for supporting them and going out and
working every day.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now we're importing a whole groups of people from various
parts of the world where they think I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Not part of this, I don't care if I take
government money, and why about it? Why would I care?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Right, And I want to talk about this all day
and I can't wait too. The the power of cultural norms.
But and we became aware of this years and years
and years ago. Russian Emma grace to the United States,
many of whom had grown up under the Soviet Union.
Just like the Somalis that we're talking about, they came
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from a society in which ripping off the government was
not only in the Norman encouraged, and everybody did it.
But that was more or less the only way to
get by or at least get beyond kind of a
very very modest standard of living.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That's what you do, of course, that's what you do.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
And the fact that we as Americans, led by the
just the politically correct intellectual lightweights in our media, the
fact that we can't reckon with that and say, Okay,
we're importing a bunch of people who have a completely
different idea of the relationship with the government and fraud
and theft than we have traditionally as a a society.
How are we going to confront that, The fact that
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we can't even reckon with that question, much less answer
it in an intelligent way.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean, yet another example of if we're going to.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Be that dumb and soft, we deserve to disappear as
a republic. Oh Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Every one throwing a little Christmas cheer? Oh that's right.
A lot of that.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
People hate Christianity too. They'd wipe out Christians if they could.
We haven't even gotten to the M word once again,
as I throw in some more Christmas chair and you
can whole hole all you want. I'm here to guard
the nation. Joe Getty cold Warrior, which again Joe getty
like right cold warrior that only tangentially involved. We're twenty
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two days from Christmas Day, and uh, we're gonna take
a little look at where the spending is and some
of the theories around that, because the whole thing is
not matching up consumer attitudes and reality doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Seem to be matching up with spending, and what the
hell is.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
That all about is a big question out there. Yeah,
I just yeah, I am intrigued. I just don't know
that I can trust the spending numbers. I think there
are so many reasons to spin, well, the this or
that number.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I think the spending number that doesn't get enough attention.
We had this couple months ago when it came out.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Ten percent of earners, the top ten percent are doing
fifty percent of the consumer spending.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So when if you hear any.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Amount of money about Black Friday or whatever, that might
just be the tiny slice of people that have money,
and the rest of people are holding back because their
paycheck to paycheck and behind on their car payment and
worried about.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Their healthcare costs and all those stats that we keep hearing.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So it's a little misleading to make it seem like
everybody's out shopping when it's just the top ten percent.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, maybe you got a hedge fund guide buys each
one of his alienated kids a half million dollar Mercedes.
You don't know that's enough to tweaks then, Oh, speaking
of a half million dollar Mercedes, that's a nice Mercedes.
We need to talk about that Dell thing, the Dell
family and the big computer, and there billions of dollars,
the trump Bucks that they gave out that lots of
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kids across.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm sure you're going to be getting for years. It's
quite interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I love this idea.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, some pretty impressive philanthropy going on right there about.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
But there's a risk, Jack, I'll tell you about the risk.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Stay with us, Okay, gotta throwing a risk.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Oh there's a risk.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Wow, let's start to show officially, just because I want
to hear the clip, and then we can discuss that.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It is already Wednesday, December third man, Christmas is sneaking
up on me the year twenty twenty five or Armstrong
and getting and we.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Let's be getting then official. According to FCC rules and regulations.
The show starts officially at Mark.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
These are people that work. These are people that say,
let's go, come on, let's make this place great. These
are people that do nothing but complain. But when they
come from hell and they complain and do.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country
talking about smalling.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Sorry, President, yeah, about your whine and bitches?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What complaining bitch? Probably won't have it. I don't know
that you're gonna join in.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
You're gonna grab the rope and start pulling, you know,
put on your helmet and getting the game, mount up
on that horse.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
What huh? I don't are you gonna bitch?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I don't like the idea of someone, for some coming
here from some other country and complaining and bitching. But
it's not really my concern. My main concern is whether
you're gonna get on board with the way we do
things around here.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
And that's the that's the crux of the matter. Here's
another question for you, answer this one for me. You're
a refugee from the hellhole that is your country, war
torn Somalia, and it is a hell hole. But other
than a brief military presence, the nightmarish Blackhawk down incident.
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Perhaps you recall it aside from a fairly minor military
presence for a fairly short time hoping to help that
worn torn land. The United States of America does not
have a real like relationship with Somalia. It's not one
of those we broke it, we bought it things, or
they're a long time ally, or the long history between
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our people's. What the hell are those people doing in Minneapolis.
Why aren't they settling in the country, Well, yeah, that too,
but why aren't they settling in a country near Africa
where they might have a common language or certainly a
common faith, a common understanding of culture and government and
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What the hell did they come to the United.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
States just because we have lots and lots and lots
of money and they wanted some.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Is that the policy that we ought to have? Oh
you're a biggot.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
No, you can't fall for those stupid knee jerk arguments anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's not bigo trade, it's practicality. It'd be tough. I
heard somebody bring up the idea that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Crazy person, scumbag murderer who shot the two National Guards
people from Afghanistan, so he comes from Afghanistan ends up
in suburb of Seattle somewhere somewhere in Washington. Can you
imagine how difficult that would be?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Somebody put the example of doing the reverse moving from
you know, Suburbia, United States to Afghanistan. You don't speak
the language, you just land there all of a sudden,
good luck, make a goal of it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Can you imagine to make it go over difficulty?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Obviously it'd be easier to make a go of it
in the United States than Afghanistan, just flat out period.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But they're a welcome wagon as they shoot you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But the the cultural.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Difference and everything like that, we just be completely different
universe and only language. It would be so hard. Yeah, oh,
I have enormous sympathy for those people. It's terrible. Yeah,
you don't get to shoot our national guardsmen. Well, of
course they kind of went nuts or got to radicalized
or something. But we need to we need to figure
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out this whole assimilation thing. How many, how fast from
where all and in what way do we assimilate them.
It's seen as somehow you know, bigoted or wrong or
nationalists to a insists that they be assimilated and b
designed a system for doing that, well, I feel not
just trusting like charities, although I hate to put it
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in the hands of government because they'll squander zillions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
The mainstream media version of is that I'm supposed to
assimilate to them as opposed to the.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Other way round.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Oh yeah, learn to speak Spanish for instance. Uh so
we get a lot on that coming up Katie's headlines
and just a little bit stay here. So somebody said
this joke, and it is Uh my grandpa said that when.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
One door closes, another one open. Smart man, but a.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Horrible cabinet maker, which reminds me of we're at a hotel.
We're at a hotel where you had to you had
to close one door to be able to open another
door or something like that. It's like, I thought, how
did this happen?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You know it's a bad design.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, I guess, but you wouldn't think that happened. It's
somebody designing a hotel. Yeah, that's a funny joke. It
takes a minute to land, though, you gotta do it
like a loft laugh. Pause. They're exactly good. Hey, let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green Katie talk.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
All right, the Hegseet stories at the top of all
the alphabet networks.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So here we go NBC Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Said he didn't see survivors in the September boat strike
because the quote fog of war CNN.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Trump and heg Seth.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Insist they didn't know of follow up strike that killed
survivors on suspected drug boat and ABC family of Columbian
fishermen killed in US boat strike files a complaint alleging.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He was murdered.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
We are absolutely in the flogging this to get at
Trump's zone. It's an interesting story and an important one.
Inquiries are being held, move on. I was watching that yesterday.
If you've seen the video where Hexets is answering questions
and Trump's sitting there.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I felt like Trump had a look on his face.
I'm not sure I'm buying this. That's what I read
from the way he looked like, I don't know if
I think you're on the wall.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Okay, Well, speaking of the meeting New York Times, Trump
appears to fight sleep during cabinet meeting.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, I had there on this weak narrative.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I read their quote unquote big story about how Trump
is getting older and showing signs.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And it was there was no meet in the stew
I haven't seen this.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I haven't seen the supposed video where he looks like
he's asleep during a some meeting.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I haven't seen that abusing that.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, it kind of looks naughty off you a
little bit. But what's wrong and boring what drives me crazy,
And this is what was going through the entire when
Biden was president. People would point out when Trump stuggled,
stumbled over a word or whatever like that, say Trump's
come on, are you really trying to claim that Trump
is anywhere in the.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Same zip code as where Biden was mentally come on?
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Right from the Wall Street Journal Marathon Russia US meeting
yields no Ukraine peace deal.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, I am, I just I find it hard to
believe that Putin has any interest whatsoever in this, that
it's not just him, as Trump once said tapping me along,
that he's just going through the motions so he can
continue to persecute his war.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
We'll see from NPR holiday shoppers are opting to buy
now and pay later.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, that's it's part of the statistics that I'm worried about.
We'll get into that later.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
USA today is college worthwhile two thirds of Americans say no, Well.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Two thirds is right, and the other third needs to
get on board, or that other third has kids who
are like, you know, engineers or some other like specific
thing that does make sense. It's a small area, and
there are certain number of Americans who haven't caught on
to the fact that a quote unquote college education is different.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Than it used to be.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
A gallon of milk. If a gallon of milk all
of a sudden mean like a couple of courts and
a few more drops, you shouldn't call that a gallon
of milk anymore. Kids showing up to some institution and
occasionally going to class and doing very little work for
professors who don't give a crap and give everybody a's.
That's not the same gallon of milk it was twenty thirty,
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forty years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, it's interesting though, Like in high school, the teachers
are just constantly when you're in college, you're gonna need.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
To blah blah blah as if that you're not get
it away with this right, If that's what everybody's path is,
and you got two thirds of Americans saying I'm not
sending my kid to college.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
We might have to rethink this.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
The New York post Men are getting breast reductions and
it's now the most popular plastic surgery among guys in
the US.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Really well, it goes along with the whole obesity thing,
the weight game, surely. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
And finally, the Babylon be Chicago kicks off the holiday
season by unveiling festive, red and green crime scene tape.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
There's a little twist at the end there.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
If you haven't heard this donation, this philanthropy from the
Dell family, the Dell Computer family, it's really quite something.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
A among other things we've got for you coming up
still do Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
An extraordinary gift of the family behind Dell Computers donating
a massive six point two five billion dollars directly to
twenty five million American children. The Dell donation will build
on what's being called Trump Accounts, which will give one
thousand dollars in federal money to every baby born between
January first, twenty twenty five, and the end of twenty
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twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's an interesting idea.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I feel like having Donald Trump's name attached to it
automatically makes it controversial for some people. Of course. Yeah,
this is in a small way what we desperately needed
to happen under George W.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Bush.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
And you remember virtually everybody on the left and in
the media teamed up to say it was a terrible idea,
which is the idea of encouraging privatized savings, privatized investments,
privatized even retirement planning, as opposed to letting the government
squander a bunch of money, pretend to keep it for
you and just continue the pyramid scheme.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I love this idea. How do you know whether your
child is eligible to get to two.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Hundred and fifty dollars from the Dell family For now,
the money will go in to children who were born
in twenty sixteen through twenty twenty four. You have to
live in zip codes where the median household incomes are
below one hundred and.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Fifty thousand dollars per year. Obviously the problem with that
is that those national numbers for poverty don't make any sense.
Depends on where you lie live, and even within a
zip code, there's going to be a lot of variation.
I think that's probably just a very smart guy's effort
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to come as close as you can without getting buried
and paralyzed by the paperwork.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
According to The New York Times, the Dell Foundation does
not yet have a tool that potential recipients can use
to determine if their neighborhood qualifies. So I guess there
is a little more to it than that to figure
out the poverty level or low income level wherever you live.
To get a rough sense of where.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You might whether you qualify or not, you'll need to
open a Trump account, because that's what it's actually called.
You need to open a Trump account before you can
get the money from the Dells, and they're working with
the Treasury Department.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
To make things seamless after that.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
They intend to have the two hundred and fifty dollars
deposited automatically, so account holders do not have to opt
in or request the money.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It just automatically goes in.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Then what about the one thousand dollars that the government
will deposit in some accounts. The government will make a
one time contribution of one thousand dollars to each account
for US citizens born between Jen one, twenty twenty five.
And December thirty first, twenty twenty eight. The money will
come via a tax credit and there's no income.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Restriction with this deposit.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
The Dell deposit is for older children.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
So there's a couple of different things going on at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Right, I think the Dell's and I just was reading
a piece by Michael Dell explaining why he did this.
He knows that program is going to start soon on
thousand dollars, and he just thought, all right, how about
all the other kids who are already here. I've got
zillions of dollars I can't possibly spend. What do I
want to do? And he was extra enthusiastic about this
because when he was six or seven years old, his
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parents encouraged him to order or to open a passbook
savings account. I think a lot of us had that
experience with the little blue book that they would stand
when he went into the bank and he would watch
his once grow. The compounding interest, even if it was
a few cents, fascinated him and caught his imagination. He
had grew an enthusiasm for business, commerce, the free market,
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which I vastly prefer to the term capitalism, and part
of what he's trying to do is help kids understand, Hey,
to save and invest and work is cool and it's fun.
I love the spirit of this.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, well, sure, what's not to like. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
It's it because kids are in school all the time
being tall told that capitalism is evil. We need socialism.
Oh my god, what a horror. Sorry, thank to you.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It reminds me of when I read the biography of JD. Rockefeller,
which is a really good book Titan.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's called.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
He got crazy wealthy, like among the wealthiest people that
have ever lived on earth, really fast. So he retired
at a fairly young age, middle aged, and went into
full on trying to give his money away. And it
was a harder job than the job was to make
the money in the first place. It is really hard
to give money away in a way that is going
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to do any good. You have to work like constantly
to keep your eye on whatever project you came up with,
our id you came up with, to make sure one
it's instituted the way you want, you get the results
you actually wanted. The people aren't stealing from you, either
your own people or the people on the receiving it. Well,
and as we're about to discuss the next hour, as
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we go a little deeper into the giant Somali theft
ring story, where there are large pools of money, there
will be theft and fraud and greed. It's just absolutely inevitable.
By the way, if you're wondering if people are just
gonna take the money out right away and spend it, no,
you generally can't take the money out until the child
is eighteen. On this new Dell family play, m h,
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there are exception if a child dies or various other things.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well let's not get into that, but h yeah, in general,
I like the what I do. That's cool. So greedy
billionaires who need to be taxed out of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Existence place place, Yeah, give the money to the government.
They will administer it fairly and generously. Good lord, people
are fools. By the time a child turns eighteen, writes
mister Dell, their account could be worth thousands, and that
balance can open up real options like paying for school,
entering a job training program, putting a down payment on
a home, or continuing to invest. This isn't just about
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unlocking potential. It's about creating tangible pathways. Tangible pathways. You
say yes, yes, Now, learning anything about compound interest is
a good idea. The way it can work for you
and the way it works against you, which is just
as extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh yeah, it's just as extraordinary the way it works
against you.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
See your credit card bill now putting a sign like
dumb or lazy? No, no, kids too dumb to understand this,
or kids who are just smoking pot all the time?
How can any kid get out of high school not
being able to explain how compound interest works? What an
egregious failure? That is?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, I remember learning it, like learning how to calculated.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
It was basically a math problem, but like fully understanding
in reality how it works for you.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, I don't think I had that when I got
out of high school.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, you could teach kids in an hour, I mean
the upside in the downside to compound interest. I mean,
in fact, an hour is probably overkill. You can do
it in half an hour.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Do we have an ad?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Michael? Okay, after this ad, we're going to shift gears
in a way that is just unimaginable.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We're gonna we're gonna take a look from various angles
of the menace of drunken raccoons.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Wow in just a mo while.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
But first, Wow, boost up trash pannas who saw this coming?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah Jack, you say, ad.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I prefer to think of it as fabulous opportunity, an
opportunity to protect your home, your family, everything you've worked
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look like criminals to start with, they got that mask on.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I mean, you got it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
What are they hiding?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
A right?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Or what are you up to?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I mean, you look at a raccoon, the first thing
you think is what are you up to? So apparently
this raccoon breaks into a liquor store, gets drunk and
makes a mess. Let So let's hear version of one.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Call let an ABC store in central Virginia.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
It happens Saturday in Ashland, and according to social media post,
a raccoon broke into the store the night of Black
Friday and ransacked several shelves. The animal became intoxicated, then passed.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Out in the bath room head right near the toilet.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
An officer brought the mass bandit back to the county
animal shelter to recover. Officers release the raccoon.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Back into the wild.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
That story hit a little close to home.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yeah, I haven't broken into a liquor store. But other
than that, it's the similarities.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
A chapter right out of my autobiography. I never want
to see yourself in a news story.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I can cut you, I can relate mister raccoon. The
question is how much fun did you have? Was it
a good time? That's the question you got asked the raccoon.
Did he wake up the next morning say that was awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I don't feel so good, but that was awesome, or
you know, decide to take a long, a long look
at your tail and decide whether or not you're living
a life the way you want to live.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
It right right. Here's yet another angle of the same story.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and
drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend. An
animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday, passed.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Out next to the store's toilet.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
The officer says the raccoon then sober up after a
few hours. Official says, they release him back into the wire.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Oh okay, I have so many questions. Number one, why
is an Indian accented AI girl telling me the story
over weird oompa music.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
With kind of weird grammar. Officers say, raccoon sober up?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Says Officer says, raccoon sober up? Okay, great, Katie.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I want to know if they gave the raccoon like
a big greasy cheeseburger after.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This, right exactly?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah, a nice big mugg of coffee. Yeah, and uh
I need this.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You point to the raccoon and say that was your
companion last night, and the raccoon says, oh, wow, that's
not the way I remember it.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Some hedgehog?
Speaker 10 (28:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh is that a possum? What was I thinking?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Oh, explains my It was like she was playing dead. Anyway,
Perhaps we just move on, Yeah, we've got mail dog,
or we're discussing last week you remember, and or the
week before. And it was funny people brought this up
in real life over and over and over again, the
notion that raccoons are becoming domesticated, and talking about how
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dogs became domesticated over many thousands of years, and that
sort of thing. I mean, if raccoons are grabbing a
cocktail now and again getting a little hammered and passing
out by the toilet, I mean that's pretty domesticated. Well, yeah,
so as we got into this conversation, actually, my whole
family while we were going for our family.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Walk, me, my brothers, and my dad. I'll go for
a walk after Thanksgiving meal.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
On the whole evolution raccoon thing. And somebody brought up
a evolution happens very slowly. There's no way the raccoons
are getting, you know, changing that quickly. And then my
dad brought up and he actually studied this in college.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
It can happen very quickly.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I mean, if you take two very short people, they
have a kid that's probably gonna be s in one generation.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean, it happens immediately. So well.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
And the raccoons, for instance, are the dogs in the
case of the proto dogs way back in the day,
those who were not made to venture close to campfire
and maybe be friendly to the humans.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
They're off in the woods.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
We're not talking about every raccoon on earth, sober or drunk,
or we're talking about the ones we observe in in
urban settings.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Anyway, It's too bad that raccoons, being short, had to
drink the low shelf stuff and couldn't reach They couldn't
get some Johnny Walker blue.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Right, you drinking got down there in the bottom. You're
getting a completely distorted view of what booze can be.
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from Paolo in Santa Cruz. Just gonna do a few
topics today. Guys, the more I listen to you, the
more the Venezuelan story doesn't add up. The drug cartel
justification doesn't add up. I'm talking about the giant military
build up. Everyone agrees we shouldn't allowed narcotics to pour
into the US, but that alone doesn't explain the massive
(32:35):
display of military build up, regional standoff, et cetera. Meduro's
sketchy election humanitarian angle don't fully explain it even either,
though I'm sorry, don't explain it either, even with the
Nobel Peace winner on board with Trump's pushing for Medora's AUSTA,
what does fit is a mix of oil and geopolitics.
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Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. America will need
far more energy to power ai an industry long term
and short term, addressed to cost of living challenges. China
has been creeping into our hemisphere for years. Securing influence
over that oil, either Maduro or his accessor while pushing
Beijing out makes strategic sense. This fits with Trump's usual
hardball first approach to negotiations.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
I would agree that there's got to be more to
it than just they're sending drugs here, so we're gonna
send an aircraft carrier in fifty thousand troops and the
Marines and everything.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But yeah, it.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Seems really clear that with Marco Rubio's able assistance and advice,
Trump has really embraced a Monroe doctrine two point zero,
where we will be in charge of our neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
We are not going to.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Let communists and narco states move in next door uncomfortably enough,
we actually have one next door. It's called Mexico. But yeah,
a much more assertive presence in our region. China might
be taking advantage of that in certain ways, but that
would complicate the story. Yeah, I think you're right, Pallo.
Let's see here's another note about.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, what is Venezuela doing that Mexico isn't?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Well, yeah, the difference is Venezuela is a problem we
might be able to solve and Mexico probably not. But anyway,
we can talk more about that in a bit. Here's
a different Powello. Interestingly enough, Jack was talking about AI
experts not being able to predict things so well. Great
example from Marvin Minsky, the American cognitive and computer science
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often called the father of AI. He received many accolades
and honors, including the nineteen sixty nine Touring Award. He
said this in a nineteen seventy Life magazine interview. Famously,
in three to eight years, we'll have a machine with
the general intelligence of an average human being. Fifty plus
years later, here we are. Maybe he was too busy
with underage girls. Turns out he was tied to the
(34:51):
whole Epstein thing. Oh really, yeah, yeah, anyway, Okay, on
the topic of taming AI as well. Guys, you seem
to be leading hard into AI will be the end
of us? Why not that it mightn't be true, but
it certainly isn't a faate accompany. If you're willing to
believe that AI can do scary things that will be
the end of us, why can't you believe that it
can do good things.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
That will be our salvation. That's what we need to
strive for.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yeah, what I don't get in lots of your leading
AI people say that very thing.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Okay, great, so it cures every cancer and blah blah
blah blah blah and wipes out mankind.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
The curing cancer doesn't really matter at that point.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, I think our best hope with AI is to
tainment learn as much as we can, as fast as
we can, to use that knowledge to form an intelligence
that serves us.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Our brains have gotten us to where we are today.
It's what we do.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I'd rather we go down with what got us here,
our brains, than to whimp out because we're afraid to
make a mistake. Well, and China's not going to wimp
out anyway, So that's an image that's a red herring.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
If we f it up. So what, We've had a
pretty good run nature, We'll start over and try again.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Out.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
You are way more blase about the extinction of humankind
than I am. Yeah, I don't know. She had a
good run, Yeah, a good run. And Joe the Marine
wants to weigh in on the drug boat attack and
he has a really important point of view. We'll squeeze
that in the next hour. From a fighting man, not
(36:15):
an armchair tussa, you know, moost haired media chair, but
a fighting man exactly, somebody who's had skin in the game.
We're talking about something important an hour or two. I
don't remember what it is, but we'll talk about a
billion dollars Somali rip off in Minnesota.
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Some towels. A sponger was a low moment. We all
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Okay, live drum studios, see dimly lit room. He put
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the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Some Molly fraudsters. Yeah, that's a good story.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's a good story. It's been a good story. It's
a story we've been on and it is finally getting
a little bit of attention. I can't wait to get
started on this. But I tell you what, even I
Joe Getty Cold Warrior, which has nothing to do with
this hardcore critic of the utterly dishonest, moronic, whoke, stupid media,
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I think it say that was two stupid. More or less,
Sometimes I fall prey to the this is a giant story.
Why is nobody talking about it? Gosh, maybe it's not
that important. I don't know. I mean, I don't wobble
like that much, but I've got to admit there are
(02:15):
times there are stories that are of gargantuan significance that
get ignored by the mainstream media, and after a while
you start to think, well, I don't know, maybe never mind, Well.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
What's the long and I mean the short version of it,
just to let people know and then we can get
into details later.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Perhaps the most egregious, enormous theft of funds during the
unforgivable spraying of taxpayer dollars during COVID by the Biden
administration was the theft of a billion plus dollars by
Somali immigrants and those who were working with them in
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the Minnesota area. The Minneapolis area, and I think the
bigger picture question is super interesting. Of how the whole.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Welfare state idea works. If you've got.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
If you've got a citizenry that you know everybody's trying
hard and believes they should do their best.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And ripping and has cultural norms of honesty and cooperation,
well we.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Don't even My point is we don't even have that
in our own country anymore to the same extent that
we used to where.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know, it's funny. My kids were on this topic
the other day.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
We saw somebody begging in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and
my oldest son and I'm happy he said this. He said,
I would starve to death before I would beg somebody
for money for food.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm the same way.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I can't, but there are plenty of people that I
got money. I just need more money to buy booze.
They're perfectly okay with pretending they're broke to take your money.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They have no shame.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We eliminated shame in this country, and a lot of
people thought that was a good idea.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You shouldn't be ashamed of this, and that no, you
should be. You should be very ashamed.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You can't raise your kids, you can't support yourself. I
want you to be ashamed. Shame the baby shame is.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
A great driver. It makes it makes it makes lots
of people do the right That makes me do the
right thing.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh heck, that's maybe the biggest influence in my life
was shame.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And so we already are moving that way with our
own citizenry, where people are perfectly okay with getting on
the government dole and not working, and they think other
people are punks for supporting them and going out and
working every day.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now we're importing a whole groups of people from various
parts of the world where they think I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Not part of this, I don't care if I take
government money, and why about it? Why would I care?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Right, And I want to talk about this all day
and I can't wait too. The the power of cultural norms.
But and we became aware of this years and years
and years ago. Russian Emma grace to the United States,
many of whom had grown up under the Soviet Union.
Just like the Somalis that we're talking about, they came
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from a society in which ripping off the government was
not only in the Norman encouraged, and everybody did it.
But that was more or less the only way to
get by or at least get beyond kind of a
very very modest standard of living.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That's what you do, of course, that's what you do.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
And the fact that we as Americans, led by the
just the politically correct intellectual lightweights in our media, the
fact that we can't reckon with that and say, Okay,
we're importing a bunch of people who have a completely
different idea of the relationship with the government and fraud
and theft than we have traditionally as a a society.
How are we going to confront that, The fact that
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we can't even reckon with that question, much less answer
it in an intelligent way.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean, yet another example of if we're going to.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Be that dumb and soft, we deserve to disappear as
a republic. Oh Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Every one throwing a little Christmas cheer? Oh that's right.
A lot of that.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
People hate Christianity too. They'd wipe out Christians if they could.
We haven't even gotten to the M word once again,
as I throw in some more Christmas chair and you
can whole hole all you want. I'm here to guard
the nation. Joe Getty cold Warrior, which again Joe getty
like right cold warrior that only tangentially involved. We're twenty
(06:30):
two days from Christmas Day, and uh, we're gonna take
a little look at where the spending is and some
of the theories around that, because the whole thing is
not matching up consumer attitudes and reality doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Seem to be matching up with spending, and what the
hell is.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
That all about is a big question out there. Yeah,
I just yeah, I am intrigued. I just don't know
that I can trust the spending numbers. I think there
are so many reasons to spin, well, the this or
that number.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I think the spending number that doesn't get enough attention.
We had this couple months ago when it came out.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Ten percent of earners, the top ten percent are doing
fifty percent of the consumer spending.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So when if you hear any.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Amount of money about Black Friday or whatever, that might
just be the tiny slice of people that have money,
and the rest of people are holding back because their
paycheck to paycheck and behind on their car payment and
worried about.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Their healthcare costs and all those stats that we keep hearing.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So it's a little misleading to make it seem like
everybody's out shopping when it's just the top ten percent.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, maybe you got a hedge fund guide buys each
one of his alienated kids a half million dollar Mercedes.
You don't know that's enough to tweaks then, Oh, speaking
of a half million dollar Mercedes, that's a nice Mercedes.
We need to talk about that Dell thing, the Dell
family and the big computer, and there billions of dollars,
the trump Bucks that they gave out that lots of
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kids across.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm sure you're going to be getting for years. It's
quite interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I love this idea.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, some pretty impressive philanthropy going on right there about.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
But there's a risk, Jack, I'll tell you about the risk.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Stay with us, Okay, gotta throwing a risk.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Oh there's a risk.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Wow, let's start to show officially, just because I want
to hear the clip, and then we can discuss that.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this.
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It is already Wednesday, December third man, Christmas is sneaking
up on me the year twenty twenty five or Armstrong
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Approve of this program.
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Let's be getting then official. According to FCC rules and regulations.
The show starts officially at Mark.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
These are people that work. These are people that say,
let's go, come on, let's make this place great. These
are people that do nothing but complain. But when they
come from hell and they complain and do.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country
talking about smalling.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Sorry, President, yeah, about your whine and bitches?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What complaining bitch? Probably won't have it. I don't know
that you're gonna join in.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
You're gonna grab the rope and start pulling, you know,
put on your helmet and getting the game, mount up
on that horse.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
What huh? I don't are you gonna bitch?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I don't like the idea of someone, for some coming
here from some other country and complaining and bitching. But
it's not really my concern. My main concern is whether
you're gonna get on board with the way we do
things around here.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
And that's the that's the crux of the matter. Here's
another question for you, answer this one for me. You're
a refugee from the hellhole that is your country, war
torn Somalia, and it is a hell hole. But other
than a brief military presence, the nightmarish Blackhawk down incident.
(09:45):
Perhaps you recall it aside from a fairly minor military
presence for a fairly short time hoping to help that
worn torn land. The United States of America does not
have a real like relationship with Somalia. It's not one
of those we broke it, we bought it things, or
they're a long time ally, or the long history between
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our people's. What the hell are those people doing in Minneapolis.
Why aren't they settling in the country, Well, yeah, that too,
but why aren't they settling in a country near Africa
where they might have a common language or certainly a
common faith, a common understanding of culture and government and
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What the hell did they come to the United.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
States just because we have lots and lots and lots
of money and they wanted some.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Is that the policy that we ought to have? Oh
you're a biggot.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
No, you can't fall for those stupid knee jerk arguments anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's not bigo trade, it's practicality. It'd be tough. I
heard somebody bring up the idea that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Crazy person, scumbag murderer who shot the two National Guards
people from Afghanistan, so he comes from Afghanistan ends up
in suburb of Seattle somewhere somewhere in Washington. Can you
imagine how difficult that would be?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Somebody put the example of doing the reverse moving from
you know, Suburbia, United States to Afghanistan. You don't speak
the language, you just land there all of a sudden,
good luck, make a goal of it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Can you imagine to make it go over difficulty?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Obviously it'd be easier to make a go of it
in the United States than Afghanistan, just flat out period.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But they're a welcome wagon as they shoot you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But the the cultural.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Difference and everything like that, we just be completely different
universe and only language. It would be so hard. Yeah, oh,
I have enormous sympathy for those people. It's terrible. Yeah,
you don't get to shoot our national guardsmen. Well, of
course they kind of went nuts or got to radicalized
or something. But we need to we need to figure
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out this whole assimilation thing. How many, how fast from
where all and in what way do we assimilate them.
It's seen as somehow you know, bigoted or wrong or
nationalists to a insists that they be assimilated and b
designed a system for doing that, well, I feel not
just trusting like charities, although I hate to put it
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in the hands of government because they'll squander zillions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
The mainstream media version of is that I'm supposed to
assimilate to them as opposed to the.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Other way round.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Oh yeah, learn to speak Spanish for instance. Uh so
we get a lot on that coming up Katie's headlines
and just a little bit stay here. So somebody said
this joke, and it is Uh my grandpa said that when.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
One door closes, another one open. Smart man, but a.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Horrible cabinet maker, which reminds me of we're at a hotel.
We're at a hotel where you had to you had
to close one door to be able to open another
door or something like that. It's like, I thought, how
did this happen?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You know it's a bad design.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, I guess, but you wouldn't think that happened. It's
somebody designing a hotel. Yeah, that's a funny joke. It
takes a minute to land, though, you gotta do it
like a loft laugh. Pause. They're exactly good. Hey, let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green Katie talk.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
All right, the Hegseet stories at the top of all
the alphabet networks.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So here we go NBC Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Said he didn't see survivors in the September boat strike
because the quote fog of war CNN.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Trump and heg Seth.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Insist they didn't know of follow up strike that killed
survivors on suspected drug boat and ABC family of Columbian
fishermen killed in US boat strike files a complaint alleging.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He was murdered.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
We are absolutely in the flogging this to get at
Trump's zone. It's an interesting story and an important one.
Inquiries are being held, move on. I was watching that yesterday.
If you've seen the video where Hexets is answering questions
and Trump's sitting there.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I felt like Trump had a look on his face.
I'm not sure I'm buying this. That's what I read
from the way he looked like, I don't know if
I think you're on the wall.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Okay, Well, speaking of the meeting New York Times, Trump
appears to fight sleep during cabinet meeting.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, I had there on this weak narrative.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I read their quote unquote big story about how Trump
is getting older and showing signs.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And it was there was no meet in the stew
I haven't seen this.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I haven't seen the supposed video where he looks like
he's asleep during a some meeting.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I haven't seen that abusing that.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, it kind of looks naughty off you a
little bit. But what's wrong and boring what drives me crazy,
And this is what was going through the entire when
Biden was president. People would point out when Trump stuggled,
stumbled over a word or whatever like that, say Trump's
come on, are you really trying to claim that Trump
is anywhere in the.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Same zip code as where Biden was mentally come on?
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Right from the Wall Street Journal Marathon Russia US meeting
yields no Ukraine peace deal.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, I am, I just I find it hard to
believe that Putin has any interest whatsoever in this, that
it's not just him, as Trump once said tapping me along,
that he's just going through the motions so he can
continue to persecute his war.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
We'll see from NPR holiday shoppers are opting to buy
now and pay later.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, that's it's part of the statistics that I'm worried about.
We'll get into that later.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
USA today is college worthwhile two thirds of Americans say no, Well.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Two thirds is right, and the other third needs to
get on board, or that other third has kids who
are like, you know, engineers or some other like specific
thing that does make sense. It's a small area, and
there are certain number of Americans who haven't caught on
to the fact that a quote unquote college education is different.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Than it used to be.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
A gallon of milk. If a gallon of milk all
of a sudden mean like a couple of courts and
a few more drops, you shouldn't call that a gallon
of milk anymore. Kids showing up to some institution and
occasionally going to class and doing very little work for
professors who don't give a crap and give everybody a's.
That's not the same gallon of milk it was twenty thirty,
(16:26):
forty years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, it's interesting though, Like in high school, the teachers
are just constantly when you're in college, you're gonna need.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
To blah blah blah as if that you're not get
it away with this right, If that's what everybody's path is,
and you got two thirds of Americans saying I'm not
sending my kid to college.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
We might have to rethink this.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
The New York post Men are getting breast reductions and
it's now the most popular plastic surgery among guys in
the US.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Really well, it goes along with the whole obesity thing,
the weight game, surely. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
And finally, the Babylon be Chicago kicks off the holiday
season by unveiling festive, red and green crime scene tape.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
There's a little twist at the end there.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
If you haven't heard this donation, this philanthropy from the
Dell family, the Dell Computer family, it's really quite something.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
A among other things we've got for you coming up
still do Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
An extraordinary gift of the family behind Dell Computers donating
a massive six point two five billion dollars directly to
twenty five million American children. The Dell donation will build
on what's being called Trump Accounts, which will give one
thousand dollars in federal money to every baby born between
January first, twenty twenty five, and the end of twenty
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twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's an interesting idea.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I feel like having Donald Trump's name attached to it
automatically makes it controversial for some people. Of course. Yeah,
this is in a small way what we desperately needed
to happen under George W.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Bush.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
And you remember virtually everybody on the left and in
the media teamed up to say it was a terrible idea,
which is the idea of encouraging privatized savings, privatized investments,
privatized even retirement planning, as opposed to letting the government
squander a bunch of money, pretend to keep it for
you and just continue the pyramid scheme.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I love this idea. How do you know whether your
child is eligible to get to two.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Hundred and fifty dollars from the Dell family For now,
the money will go in to children who were born
in twenty sixteen through twenty twenty four. You have to
live in zip codes where the median household incomes are
below one hundred and.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Fifty thousand dollars per year. Obviously the problem with that
is that those national numbers for poverty don't make any sense.
Depends on where you lie live, and even within a
zip code, there's going to be a lot of variation.
I think that's probably just a very smart guy's effort
(19:08):
to come as close as you can without getting buried
and paralyzed by the paperwork.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
According to The New York Times, the Dell Foundation does
not yet have a tool that potential recipients can use
to determine if their neighborhood qualifies. So I guess there
is a little more to it than that to figure
out the poverty level or low income level wherever you live.
To get a rough sense of where.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You might whether you qualify or not, you'll need to
open a Trump account, because that's what it's actually called.
You need to open a Trump account before you can
get the money from the Dells, and they're working with
the Treasury Department.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
To make things seamless after that.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
They intend to have the two hundred and fifty dollars
deposited automatically, so account holders do not have to opt
in or request the money.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It just automatically goes in.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Then what about the one thousand dollars that the government
will deposit in some accounts. The government will make a
one time contribution of one thousand dollars to each account
for US citizens born between Jen one, twenty twenty five.
And December thirty first, twenty twenty eight. The money will
come via a tax credit and there's no income.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Restriction with this deposit.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
The Dell deposit is for older children.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
So there's a couple of different things going on at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Right, I think the Dell's and I just was reading
a piece by Michael Dell explaining why he did this.
He knows that program is going to start soon on
thousand dollars, and he just thought, all right, how about
all the other kids who are already here. I've got
zillions of dollars I can't possibly spend. What do I
want to do? And he was extra enthusiastic about this
because when he was six or seven years old, his
(20:48):
parents encouraged him to order or to open a passbook
savings account. I think a lot of us had that
experience with the little blue book that they would stand
when he went into the bank and he would watch
his once grow. The compounding interest, even if it was
a few cents, fascinated him and caught his imagination. He
had grew an enthusiasm for business, commerce, the free market,
(21:12):
which I vastly prefer to the term capitalism, and part
of what he's trying to do is help kids understand, Hey,
to save and invest and work is cool and it's fun.
I love the spirit of this.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, well, sure, what's not to like. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
It's it because kids are in school all the time
being tall told that capitalism is evil. We need socialism.
Oh my god, what a horror. Sorry, thank to you.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It reminds me of when I read the biography of JD. Rockefeller,
which is a really good book Titan.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's called.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
He got crazy wealthy, like among the wealthiest people that
have ever lived on earth, really fast. So he retired
at a fairly young age, middle aged, and went into
full on trying to give his money away. And it
was a harder job than the job was to make
the money in the first place. It is really hard
to give money away in a way that is going
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to do any good. You have to work like constantly
to keep your eye on whatever project you came up with,
our id you came up with, to make sure one
it's instituted the way you want, you get the results
you actually wanted. The people aren't stealing from you, either
your own people or the people on the receiving it. Well,
and as we're about to discuss the next hour, as
(22:34):
we go a little deeper into the giant Somali theft
ring story, where there are large pools of money, there
will be theft and fraud and greed. It's just absolutely inevitable.
By the way, if you're wondering if people are just
gonna take the money out right away and spend it, no,
you generally can't take the money out until the child
is eighteen. On this new Dell family play, m h,
(22:56):
there are exception if a child dies or various other things.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well let's not get into that, but h yeah, in general,
I like the what I do. That's cool. So greedy
billionaires who need to be taxed out of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Existence place place, Yeah, give the money to the government.
They will administer it fairly and generously. Good lord, people
are fools. By the time a child turns eighteen, writes
mister Dell, their account could be worth thousands, and that
balance can open up real options like paying for school,
entering a job training program, putting a down payment on
a home, or continuing to invest. This isn't just about
(23:29):
unlocking potential. It's about creating tangible pathways. Tangible pathways. You
say yes, yes, Now, learning anything about compound interest is
a good idea. The way it can work for you
and the way it works against you, which is just
as extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh yeah, it's just as extraordinary the way it works
against you.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
See your credit card bill now putting a sign like
dumb or lazy? No, no, kids too dumb to understand this,
or kids who are just smoking pot all the time?
How can any kid get out of high school not
being able to explain how compound interest works? What an
egregious failure? That is?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, I remember learning it, like learning how to calculated.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
It was basically a math problem, but like fully understanding
in reality how it works for you.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, I don't think I had that when I got
out of high school.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, you could teach kids in an hour, I mean
the upside in the downside to compound interest. I mean,
in fact, an hour is probably overkill. You can do
it in half an hour.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
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look like criminals to start with, they got that mask on.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I mean, you got it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
What are they hiding?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
A right?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Or what are you up to?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I mean, you look at a raccoon, the first thing
you think is what are you up to? So apparently
this raccoon breaks into a liquor store, gets drunk and
makes a mess. Let So let's hear version of one.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Call let an ABC store in central Virginia.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
It happens Saturday in Ashland, and according to social media post,
a raccoon broke into the store the night of Black
Friday and ransacked several shelves. The animal became intoxicated, then passed.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Out in the bath room head right near the toilet.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
An officer brought the mass bandit back to the county
animal shelter to recover. Officers release the raccoon.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Back into the wild.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
That story hit a little close to home.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yeah, I haven't broken into a liquor store. But other
than that, it's the similarities.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
A chapter right out of my autobiography. I never want
to see yourself in a news story.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I can cut you, I can relate mister raccoon. The
question is how much fun did you have? Was it
a good time? That's the question you got asked the raccoon.
Did he wake up the next morning say that was awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I don't feel so good, but that was awesome, or
you know, decide to take a long, a long look
at your tail and decide whether or not you're living
a life the way you want to live.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
It right right. Here's yet another angle of the same story.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and
drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend. An
animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday, passed.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Out next to the store's toilet.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
The officer says the raccoon then sober up after a
few hours. Official says, they release him back into the wire.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Oh okay, I have so many questions. Number one, why
is an Indian accented AI girl telling me the story
over weird oompa music.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
With kind of weird grammar. Officers say, raccoon sober up?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Says Officer says, raccoon sober up? Okay, great, Katie.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I want to know if they gave the raccoon like
a big greasy cheeseburger after.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This, right exactly?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah, a nice big mugg of coffee. Yeah, and uh
I need this.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You point to the raccoon and say that was your
companion last night, and the raccoon says, oh, wow, that's
not the way I remember it.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Some hedgehog?
Speaker 10 (28:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh is that a possum? What was I thinking?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Oh, explains my It was like she was playing dead. Anyway,
Perhaps we just move on, Yeah, we've got mail dog,
or we're discussing last week you remember, and or the
week before. And it was funny people brought this up
in real life over and over and over again, the
notion that raccoons are becoming domesticated, and talking about how
(29:18):
dogs became domesticated over many thousands of years, and that
sort of thing. I mean, if raccoons are grabbing a
cocktail now and again getting a little hammered and passing
out by the toilet, I mean that's pretty domesticated. Well, yeah,
so as we got into this conversation, actually, my whole
family while we were going for our family.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Walk, me, my brothers, and my dad. I'll go for
a walk after Thanksgiving meal.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
On the whole evolution raccoon thing. And somebody brought up
a evolution happens very slowly. There's no way the raccoons
are getting, you know, changing that quickly. And then my
dad brought up and he actually studied this in college.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
It can happen very quickly.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I mean, if you take two very short people, they
have a kid that's probably gonna be s in one generation.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean, it happens immediately. So well.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
And the raccoons, for instance, are the dogs in the
case of the proto dogs way back in the day,
those who were not made to venture close to campfire
and maybe be friendly to the humans.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
They're off in the woods.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
We're not talking about every raccoon on earth, sober or drunk,
or we're talking about the ones we observe in in
urban settings.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Anyway, It's too bad that raccoons, being short, had to
drink the low shelf stuff and couldn't reach They couldn't
get some Johnny Walker blue.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Right, you drinking got down there in the bottom. You're
getting a completely distorted view of what booze can be.
We've got mail bag on the way. Stay here. I
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Speaker 5 (30:48):
I do not wear it in my own personal life.
I do not advertise myself in a mountain about It
makes me feel weird. But I am wearing an armstrung
and getty hat which you can get an armstrung and getting.
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Garfield.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education,
without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Got to have an educated populace, and yet we've allowed
kids to get in doctrinating to hate their country. It
may be the most important issue in America.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Yeah, and you need some I don't know, quotes or
parentheses or something around the word educated, because it means
different things to different people.
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Right indeed, and every despot, fascist, communist, and progressive postmodernist
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Mail bag at Armstrong and Geddi dot com. Like this
from Paolo in Santa Cruz. Just gonna do a few
topics today. Guys, the more I listen to you, the
more the Venezuelan story doesn't add up. The drug cartel
justification doesn't add up. I'm talking about the giant military
build up. Everyone agrees we shouldn't allowed narcotics to pour
into the US, but that alone doesn't explain the massive
(32:35):
display of military build up, regional standoff, et cetera. Meduro's
sketchy election humanitarian angle don't fully explain it even either,
though I'm sorry, don't explain it either, even with the
Nobel Peace winner on board with Trump's pushing for Medora's AUSTA,
what does fit is a mix of oil and geopolitics.
(32:55):
Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. America will need
far more energy to power ai an industry long term
and short term, addressed to cost of living challenges. China
has been creeping into our hemisphere for years. Securing influence
over that oil, either Maduro or his accessor while pushing
Beijing out makes strategic sense. This fits with Trump's usual
hardball first approach to negotiations.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
I would agree that there's got to be more to
it than just they're sending drugs here, so we're gonna
send an aircraft carrier in fifty thousand troops and the
Marines and everything.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But yeah, it.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Seems really clear that with Marco Rubio's able assistance and advice,
Trump has really embraced a Monroe doctrine two point zero,
where we will be in charge of our neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
We are not going to.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Let communists and narco states move in next door uncomfortably enough,
we actually have one next door. It's called Mexico. But yeah,
a much more assertive presence in our region. China might
be taking advantage of that in certain ways, but that
would complicate the story. Yeah, I think you're right, Pallo.
Let's see here's another note about.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, what is Venezuela doing that Mexico isn't?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Well, yeah, the difference is Venezuela is a problem we
might be able to solve and Mexico probably not. But anyway,
we can talk more about that in a bit. Here's
a different Powello. Interestingly enough, Jack was talking about AI
experts not being able to predict things so well. Great
example from Marvin Minsky, the American cognitive and computer science
(34:30):
often called the father of AI. He received many accolades
and honors, including the nineteen sixty nine Touring Award. He
said this in a nineteen seventy Life magazine interview. Famously,
in three to eight years, we'll have a machine with
the general intelligence of an average human being. Fifty plus
years later, here we are. Maybe he was too busy
with underage girls. Turns out he was tied to the
(34:51):
whole Epstein thing. Oh really, yeah, yeah, anyway, Okay, on
the topic of taming AI as well. Guys, you seem
to be leading hard into AI will be the end
of us? Why not that it mightn't be true, but
it certainly isn't a faate accompany. If you're willing to
believe that AI can do scary things that will be
the end of us, why can't you believe that it
can do good things.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
That will be our salvation. That's what we need to
strive for.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yeah, what I don't get in lots of your leading
AI people say that very thing.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Okay, great, so it cures every cancer and blah blah
blah blah blah and wipes out mankind.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
The curing cancer doesn't really matter at that point.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, I think our best hope with AI is to
tainment learn as much as we can, as fast as
we can, to use that knowledge to form an intelligence
that serves us.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Our brains have gotten us to where we are today.
It's what we do.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I'd rather we go down with what got us here,
our brains, than to whimp out because we're afraid to
make a mistake. Well, and China's not going to wimp
out anyway, So that's an image that's a red herring.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
If we f it up. So what, We've had a
pretty good run nature, We'll start over and try again.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Out.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
You are way more blase about the extinction of humankind
than I am. Yeah, I don't know. She had a
good run, Yeah, a good run. And Joe the Marine
wants to weigh in on the drug boat attack and
he has a really important point of view. We'll squeeze
that in the next hour. From a fighting man, not
(36:15):
an armchair tussa, you know, moost haired media chair, but
a fighting man exactly, somebody who's had skin in the game.
We're talking about something important an hour or two. I
don't remember what it is, but we'll talk about a
billion dollars Somali rip off in Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
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