January 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Hostage return agreement & the birthrate decline
- Having a cold sucks & other health notes
- The Tiktok phase out & China's Rednote
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What we are looking at here that will be signed
tonight a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that will
implement a pause in fighting between the two sides for
forty two days.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is a six week agreement that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Will ultimately see thirty three hostages released from Hamas captivity
in Gaza. We are told by a number of sources
some of those hostages were killed and their bodies will
be returned to Israel, but at least twenty three of
them are believed to be alive. This is critical information
for the Israelis. They have been negotiating over the past
(00:58):
several weeks trying to get together the details of such
an agreement.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's pretty damned interesting. We'll be signed tonight. They're
reporting right there, and all news outlets are reporting this
as breaking news. Hamas and Israel agree to see Spire
hostage deal to be signed today. I can understand why
Hamas is doing it. I'm not exactly sure why why
Israel's doing it. Other than what I was talking about earlier.
(01:26):
I think they're ready to move on to their big
project as soon as Trump's in office, and that's attacking Iran.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, there's absolutely truth to that. I think the
other side of it is that they all along they
wanted to get the hostages back dead or alive, but
the leadership made the quite sane calculation that we're only
going to give Hamas what they want to get the
hostages back when it doesn't hurt our overall effort to
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decimate them, because we've got to decimate them. And at
this point Hamas is so week in Israel thinks, okay,
we can do this.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Another interesting part of it, I mean, there would be
tremendous blowback on the international world stage against Israel, which
there always is no matter what they do. But if
a week from now Hamas wants to I mean, so,
if they give back to hostage, Hamas.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Can't start back up. Really, Israel can easily.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, Hamas can regroup and improve their situation, but not
by leaps and bounds. You know, the media is going
crazy over this story, which is fine. It's a big
story and it could be a very very big story.
But I guess I'm a little cynical and a little
annoyed because they have been howling for a ceasefire since
October eighth of twenty three.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Israel must stop firing, they.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Must stand down, which is just absurd and obscene. You're
talking about a ceasefire with Islamist monsters, murderers, rapists, torturers,
and their word cannot be taken at any face value whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I don't know if Hamas or has will A can
ramp back up anymore the way they used to without
the help from Iran that they've been used to getting
for all these years.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Now, will you prevent that in the long term is
good governance, and that's a hell of a task.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Trump is going to portray this as a huge win
for him, and he might be completely accurate because that
has a lot to do with it. Hamas believes the
gloves to which to what extent gloves were still on,
would really be off when Trump is the president. Ain't
nobody gonna give net Yahoo a tongue lashing for bomb
and Hamas wants a Trump's.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
At office right absolutely, and Biden and company are desperately
trying to portray it as a victory of theirs, but
I don't think anybody buys that.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Those Trump's ambassador to the UN was Nicki Haley last time.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Who is it this time? At least Stephonic Oh right, yeah,
oh okay, cool.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, you get approved pretty easily too, according to what
I see and hear and read.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
According to all of the mainstream media, hegxeth is now
going to get approved. He's going to be the Secretary Defense.
Marco Rubio is never in doubt as Secretary of State.
Pam Bondi not in doubt according to NPR and others,
for being the Attorney General. So we're gonna get to
the dicey ones. Tomorrow is tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Rfk jr. That one?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Is that what the Democrats are gonna hold out for
because they gotta they gotta make their voters excited by
really fighting somebody, right, Is it gonna be rfk JR.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, probably so? Or's it gonna be U Tulsi.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Some of the anti Tulsi fire has been taken out
of the discussion. She's moderated various stances and come off
as reasonably saying you get your behind the scenes story
about she screwed up one question with one senator behind
the scenes, but then did better with a you know,
let's just let's get to the hearings and see how
it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think the RFK Junior hearings could be great. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
He's a smart guy, he's a Kennedy. He's been in
you know, high profile his whole life. Maybe he's just
really good at moderating his answers. But sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he just says what he thinks, and it's very exciting.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Noted Bear corpse abuser Robert F. Kennedy Junior. I read
this morning that a couple of his advisors who are
a little more out there in terms of being anti vax,
have been quietly asked by the Trump team to pursue
other employment. They're trying to bring his team a little
closer to Trump's view, which is mainstream.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I don't know, just not as anti vax. Now. Kennedy
himself says, I'm not anti vax.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm anti playing down the risks of some vaccination.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
There are quite a few quotes out of there of
him being really anti vax.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But maybe it's correct. Maybe he just speaking to a
certain crowd.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The thing that to me, and we've talked about this, lady,
But the thing that's most amazing that he's got such
the embrace of the Republican Party on this is his
stance on abortion. He's a abortions for everybody up to
birth guy and always has been mm hm. And his
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position would play a role in funding for various things
that you care about.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
In the world of abortion right right now.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
He will moderate those views because he serves at the
pleasure of the president. Although Trump's views on abortion or
you know, pick whatever word you want, they're they're considerably
more moderate than past Republican Oh sure, absolutely, he's he's
the most pro abortion Republican president ever. Not that he's
pro abortion, but he's closer to that side than any
Republican president.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, I appreciate you walking back your comments the gentleman
from Kansas the rest of my time.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, and honestly, the pro life that's
a better way to say. He's at least pro life
Republican president we've ever had.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
As reprehensible as I find the idea of casual abortion
on demand, I've also made it fairly clear through the
years that I think a more in line with America's
mainstream view of a mari of abortion would be good
for the Republican Party because A, we can get done
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all the other stuff that we can't get done if
we lose elections, and B to me, I would like
to see it. While there are certain legal limitations that
I believe for one hundred percent justified in terms of
early term abortions, I would like to see it become
a moral issue that we talk about and spend less
time screaming at each other about elections and judges.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I just think it would be more useful. Trump's closer to.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Where the American people are than most Republican presidents have
been to that like two thirds of Americans that are
okay with it first trimester.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Anyway, I think the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
For a lot of the day, this ceasefire agreement is
going to obliterate any of the hearings coverage, which might
be good for the candidates.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So it's just the way that works. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Because it's an innocent until proven guilty situation, isn't it.
The president nominated you, I got to show good cause
for not letting you in. So yeah, I think that's
probably true.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Just saw the Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections
for the US population over the next thirty years to
three hundred and seventy two million residents, a two point
eight percent dropped from last year, citing less expected immigration
change in policy, which I would hope given the highest
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percentage of foreign born people in America we've ever had
a nation's history, and nobody voted for that. That was
not up for a vote anyway. Also lower birth rate,
declining birth rates. Talk about an under a reported story.
And what were we talking about earlier? Oh, we got
onto AI who put this on our feed Katie on
our own personal text feed. There's this crazy AI video
(09:21):
thing that was disturbing, with Biden and Nancy Pelosi squatting
in a bikini and just all kinds of things that
I found I'll never be able to get. I gotta
I need bleach to pour in my eyes. But we're
just talking about how weirdly it affects your brain when
you watch some of this AI stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And I'm not even exactly sure why.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I today's the first day I, like ever really recognized
watching some of these AI videos gives me a weird something.
I don't know, have to put a word on it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It just.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
My brain is having trouble stay in this is fake
zone while it looks so real or something.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Maybe that's it. That's a big part of it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But you combine that with those sex robots they had
last week at the Computer Consumer Electronics Show, and AI's
ability to have the sex robots figure out what you're
interested in, like TikTok and Instagram does what are your interests?
You know, what's the best way to talk to you
to make you like me? Those sex robots are gonna
know that. I just I can't even know.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I hope I live long.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Enough to see this play out. I almost guarantee it's
going to be a bad ending. But I just want
to see it. I want to see it happen. Yeah,
it will be troubling. I mean already.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The CBO forecast sharply lower population growth in the US
over the next three decades. They're reflecting lower rates of
immigration and fertility. As the results of the changes. Deaths
are expected to exceed births in twenty twenty three, first time,
eight years from now, twenty three years earlier than they
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had projected just a year ago.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Were you really going backwards then when you got more
deads and birds?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Obviously? Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
And if we make immigration more sane, that means you know,
population loss at some point significant.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There's no turning that around either. I don't think, no.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
No, And that would really be fine mostly were it
not for a social safety net system that relies entirely
on working youngsters significantly outnumbering ulsters getting the benefits. But
that's a big problem. That's you know, two thirds or
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whatever it is of the federal budget.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's a short turmish problem though, because I mean, guess,
if you're young, you got another sixty years to live
in this country, eighty seventy years depending on how old
you are, so I guess you know you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Live in whatever that country is.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But after that there won't be anybody here, or they'll
be from other lands.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And we have a planet of the apes, or you know.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I guess my point is it's hard to be concerned
about people that will never exist.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Right, And you know, I'm concerned about the idea of
and this is inevitable, a third world people of whatever
belief and culture who are continuing to have babies eventually
will come north and take over the land mass that
is currently called the United States of America in the
way that you know, ten thousand years ago, the place
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looks significantly different than it does now.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But our kids or our kids' kids won't your kids kids'
kids won't exist, So it's not like they have to put.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Up with it. They aren't gonna be here, and I
feel terrible.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It might be bad for humanity, but I mean, there's
nobody I'm related to that it's gonna be bothered because
they won't be here.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
To not exist is the worst of faiths to me. Okay,
we got more on stay here.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
President Biden will deliver his farewell address to the nation.
Biden will say goodbye to the nation. Well, the nation
will say, oh wow, you're still here, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Biden's speech is expected to be twenty minutes long, but
forecasters say he feels like will be three hours.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's a pretty good joke.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Along with his accomplishments as president, Biden will also reflect
on his years as Vice president, senator, and Thomas Jefferson's
chief of staff.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That should be interesting. Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Even NPR was reporting on how Joe Biden leaves with
very low approval rating among Americans and in his own party,
and new polls NPR said, we've talked about this last week.
New polls show that Americans feel that Biden will be
seen as a failure of a president in historical terms.
So yeah, the old polls said that as well. Yeah,
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everybody's just figuring it out for sure. Yeah, goodbye, mummy.
Slightly ironic.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was ready to do a couple of pretty damned
interesting health notes here. We were, Judy and I were
scheduled to get together with some very good friends of
ours to do as what we often do, play some cards,
have a little dinner, a couple of glasses of wine
or something. And we got the call, hey, just so
you know, missus blank has a cold, and so it's
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up to you and all and well we went back
and forth and we're like, yeah, you know, what are
we gonna do? Not live our lives, these are our
best friends.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We're gonna go. So we went over and sure enough,
three four days later, I have a.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Cold, very mild, shouldn't very very I'll let that pass,
very mild symptoms. And I thought, this is not so bad,
it's not a big deal. I remember having colds, and
they made me all of a sudden about fifteen minutes ago,
my energy level just went whoo.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I just want to lie down? Can I? Can I
lie down? Michael? Do you have a blanket?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Having a cultural sucks just so tiring. Yeah, And I'm
surprised that more of us don't wear masks just to
avoid getting colds. Were around somebody of the cold and
now a lot of years so anti mask because of
the way they forced it, honest, and I was mad.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
About it too, and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But just in general, if somebody has a cold in
my house or around me, I don't want it. I
really don't want it. It makes like another week and
a half miserable.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
As we learn though, or certainly should have, it's got
to be an incredibly advanced mask to prevent a virus
passing through. But if it has to be on a droplet,
that's a different case. And so I don't know if
any sort of mask would do any good for a colt.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Anyway, So the couple of really interesting health notes I
have for you Alzheimer's terrifying, heartbreaking situation.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
As everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
There is a big news study this out on Alzheimer's,
and there is one group of people that has a
disproportionately low incidence of Alzheimer's disease, and that is taxi
drivers and uber drivers particular. You know your higher drivers,
particularly those who do not or did not when they
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started use navigation systems using your brain to picture spatial relationships,
realize that street is closed. Here are my alternatives. I'll
go this way. For reasons they don't quite get yet,
are so good. That sort of activity is so good
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for your brain. It actually seems to be to some
extent insulating these people from Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Wow, you had another example of use it or lose
it when it comes to your brain.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, it's not a huge difference, but it's significant. It
is statistically significant. I thought that was interesting. I'd like
to get microplastics, which I think are causing a hell
of a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
And I'm no paranoiac.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
But maybe we can get into that later today or
a subsequent show.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
RFK Junior will probably be talking about that in his hearing. Actually,
that's one of his big topics shows arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well, everyone's talking about the TikTok band that's going into
effect this weekend. Yeah, and I read that TikTok users
are now downloading a different Chinese social media app called
Red Note. People are downloading another Chinese app right now.
American tech company is like, hey, we also spy on you.
(17:38):
Come on, hey. Meanwhile, the red Note app is actually,
by the way, it's actually in Chinese.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Right, Americans would literally rather.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Learn Mandarin than use Instagram reels.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, that's a funny joke.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, TikTok, as we knew, it comes to an end
midnight Sunday night. But I just learned recently, as we
talked about yesterday, it's not going away. Really, It's gonna
be a real slow go away because if you have
the app on your phone, it'll still be on your
phone and it'll still exist. It's just you won't be
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able to update the app and it will start to
get bugs. And then, like when you get the new
Apple update on your iPhone, it won't work with the
old app, but there won't be a new app, And
that's the way it's gonna get phased out. I was
I had all along, were you all along? I'd been
picturing it like disappearing or I don't know. No, you
thought it was going to be phased out the whole time.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I've been reading about it. Yeah, but I'm in a
tiny minority of Americans. I think most people, including young people,
think the big mean government is going to end my
amusing videos that I'm addicted to, and I hate the
government so much. I'm going to download a Chinese app
that's named after Chairman Mouse, Little Red Book, despite my government,
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because the communist Chinese give me funny videos all day long.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Anyway, it's troubling development. But before we get.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Into the whole Red Note app, because it's both troubling
and annoying and kind of hilarious, why don't we dip
into Grady Trimble of Fox News reporting on the latest
with the quote unquote TikTok band twenty six.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Michael will go from there.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
The Wall Street Journal reports Chinese officials discuss letting Elon
Musk invest in or take control of TikTok's US operations.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder has a good relationship with
President elect Trump, of course, and with top Chinese officials
because of the business he does in China. The app
must be sold to a US owner or face of
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ban effective January nineteenth. Still, TikTok is throwing cold water
on the idea of a Musk takeover, telling Fox the
company quote can't be expected to comment on pure fiction.
Investor Kevin O'Leary, who's interested in buying the app alongside
billionaire Frank McCort, also says such a move would be
unlikely to get regulatory approval because Mosque already owns X.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
The speculation when there's a void of information is like
a wildfire. It's just all I know. And Frank would
say the same thing. We're in a partnership where the
only syndicate that put a real bit in front of
the company, in front of the bankers, in front of
the shareholders, and in front of the Chinese government.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm surprised we haven't been able to steal that algorithm.
China's stolen everything from us, including our F thirty five.
They built a plane that looks exactly like it with
the same technology. How have we not stolen the algorithm
of TikTok so we can really have our own TikTok.
That's every bit is good because.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
We don't indulge in industrial espionage, Jack, and we ought
to start soon.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So what was I gonna say?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Oh? Oh, the mention of Elon Musk and company reminded
me of something kind of amusing. A red in the
Free Press yesterday, Jeff Bezos Space Company Blue or Origin
had to postpone the debut launch of its big three
hundred and twenty foot rocket due to some sort of
last minute technical issues. So it's a real setback for them.
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And they point out, obviously the Amazon CEO is jealous
of Elon Musk SpaceX, which has been doing this for years.
Then they point out, but go easy on yourself, Jeff,
Elon's never delivered me Q tips in under twenty four hours.
I go Amazon. I thought that was cute. One more
note from Grady Trimble. Next clip, Michael And.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
With just five days until TikTok potentially goes dark in
the US, some of its users are flocking to a
Shanghai based social media platform known as Red Note to
protest the possible ban and show they don't care about
ties to China. It is the number one free app
in the United States right now on Apple's App Store
and the Google Play Store.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Well, in my misunderstanding, this still TikTok's not going dark
on Monday. It's gonna look exactly the same on your
phone and behave exactly the same for quite a while, maybe,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, you just can't download the app and it won't update,
as we've been discussing, although it.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Be weeks or months before it really is a problem.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The ability of addicted teens to get around virtually every
safeguard put in their way is astounding. It's like, you know,
water seeking its own level. It's one of the laws
of the universe anyway. So they point out that these
people flocking to red note is odd. It seems to
just be an anti US government gesture. But this was
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pretty amusing. Again the Free Press. Ever since Biden signed
the bill, zoomers have been sardonically bidding farewell to the
Chinese spies assigned to monitor their online activities.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Quote it's been real my Chinese friend.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I posted another imagined trote quote trying to reconnect with
my Chinese spy on the dark web after the band
because I never felt more seen and understood than I
did with him.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's funny, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
If snark, if you could put snark in your gas
tank in bern It America could power the universe.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It's our greatest resource.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
So the joke is carried over to Red Note, with
some Americans posting that they're looking for a new Chinese spy.
But the Chinese users on Red notes seem bemused by
these TikTok refugees, asking questions like why are you here?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Is it because your TikTok has been banned?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
But overall they're we welcoming the Americans posting videos with
titles like hello from your new Chinese spy. They only
have one demand, and this is so social media, this
is so Internet. Just go with it, folks. They have
only one demand, Americans, show me your cat. The origin
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of this request is uncertain and it's not entirely clear
why they want to see our feline friends. But these
so called cat tax has become a ubiquitous refrain in
the comments, and so far Americans have complied. So the
Chinese people demand show me your cat, and they picture
pic They post pictures or videos of the cats, this
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one wearing an FBI badge around its neck in compliance
with it anyway, and beyond our cats, that's that's right, sir.
Our new Chinese friends are also curious about our lives,
asking Americans questions on red note, like do US people
really have to sell their house to pay their hospital bills?
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Because that's obviously the propaganda they've gotten, And it occurs
to me just now because I have a cold and
my mind is moving very slowly. That Hijin Ping will
shut this down as quickly as he can because it
appears to be unfiltered communication between Chinese and Americans.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, keeping in mind that their TikTok in China is
like math lessons.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
They will write right, but on red note they're asking,
I want to know if the National Guard is part
of the American Army? And does everyone have to pay
property tax to the Irs every year? They also want
help with their English homework. Americans are asking questions too.
One TikTok refuge asked what the Chinese people thought of
Americans and got a flurry of responses like we don't
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like American politicians, but we welcome the friendly American people.
Free Luigi, good lord, that's that cold hearted murder of
the poor healthcare exect, Coca cola sometimes war what I
don't care, Give me your data and if you have
a cat, then we are friends.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Get back to the cat tax, Pat Herbert.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Have you seen the pictures of Iran musk floating around
on the internet.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I have not, So that's an unfortunate linguistic slur against
Asian languages in which some people portray ours as l's
and reverse. We do not find funny or agree with.
But there is an Asian dude who looks like an
Asian version of Elon Musk, and people take pictures of
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him everywhere he goes. I don't even know what country
it is, and say, spotted Eroon Musk again, and I
don't think it's funny. I brought it to you because
I think it's so not funny that it should be
mentioned on the air. Here's Eroon Musk at a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
The internet is obviously fascinating. That's not much of a joke. No,
but it caught on exactly. Yeah, in times a million,
it starts to get kind of funny, right, show me
your cat is not funny until everybody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Then it kind of is a formula that Lorne Michael's
invented or discovered. I don't know how many Saturday Night
Live skits I've seen in the last sixty years now
or is it fifty six that weren't the least bit funny.
But they do it ten and pretty people. Pretty soon
people are laughing at Oh, really, isn't that special? Why
(27:07):
is that funny? Because you've seen it ten times? I
guess he did the catchphrase. He did the catchphrase. So
how's this TikTok thing going to play out?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do you see? I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
One interesting aspect of this is that the Bike Dance
has said, yeah, if you do this, we'll just shut
down TikTok. We'll just end it, which learned commentators have
pointed out is pretty much an admission sure that it
only exists as a surveillance and propaganda tool.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's the reason it exists.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
We don't care about it as a money making social
media app. We are only into it for spine on you.
If we can't do that, well then forget it. Yeah
that's something.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, so I don't. I don't given the weird motivations.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I mean, if it were like a car company that
was merely a car company, I could predict the way
the negotiations would play out.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But this I really don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, Domia, correct though, we're shutting it down because of
the spying on us, not because of the informing our
young people improperly. Yeah, the content, it's.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
The well, and specifically it's because of the ownership by
a hostile foreign government.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
We hate the content, But you could have an American
app that had exactly the same content and that would
be fine.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Well, who was it? Was it?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Charlie Cook or one of the geniuses at the National
Review said, come on, this is America. We need to
come up with an as good or better way to
melt our children's minds and turn them into uneducated slobs
so the communists can't do it.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, well that's where you know.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I heard one of my favorite commentators, Sarah Isger, a
Harvard Law dispatched person, say she had TikTok for a
while back in the day. She said, you can't imagine
how great it is and how addictive it is. She
got rid of it because it was addictive before the
government said you couldn't have it anymore. She was in
the Justice Department, so she had had to get rid
of it anyway. She said, it's so much different than
Instagram and all that other stuff you can't imagine. I
(29:14):
almost wish, I mean, I wish I could have the
experience without you know, turning all over.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
My stuff to the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I would like to see how the algorithm would work
on me and the stuff it would feed me that
it thinks I'm interested in.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, I'm curious too. My daughter said she got rid
of the app. She said, this is the world's most
insidious time suck.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
But like so on Instagram, I started getting fed like
softcore porn. Like whenever I go to the Instagram app
to check on anything, all of the recommendations are.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I've never searched for anyone hardcore.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I've never searched for anything sexual ever on Instagram or never.
And I don't know why it, Like did it read
my email or my thoughts or what made it decide
thing he wants to see boobies? Where did that come from?
Or did you just go with them?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
A male of a certain age I can't hurt.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I guess I never click on him because I
don't want to get more of them anyway. You can't
say trolling when you're talking about the Internet, meaning the
fishing technique That's what I meant.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They're just seeing if you'll bite right, we'll finish strong.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Next, Mark Zuckerberg ordered the removal of tampons for men's
bathrooms at Meta, Tim Waltz said this means war, which
means he then ran away.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Play Tim Walls now because nobody's gonna catch the reference
in about six minutes.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Not exactly a top of mind kicking.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's amazing that Facebook still had, or ever had, but
had tampons in the men's room care.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, men don't need them, is the thing.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
While you're circumstances, tiny slice of politics and a zero
likes of human beings, practically speaking, a slice of activist
lunatics online, honestly working up from horrible to less horrible before.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
We call it a day.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
The United Nations says, now in Haiti there are more
than a million displaced people because of gang violence, half
of them kids. Half a million kids out in the
street because of gang violence. Be thankful for law and
order to the extent that you have it, Jeez, Civilization,
law and order, representative, the government is a miracle.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
The fact that you have it doesn't make it less
of a miracle.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
No, Megan Kelly getting some blowback.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
She's been covering the fires and said stop sending obese
lesbians to fight wildfires.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, I find a funny slam.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Speaking of the fire, I didn't realize the fire got
within six feet of the Getty Museum. Yeah, And I
didn't read about how to what extent they got artwork
out of there? Had they started moving artwork out of there?
Or were they just open for the best.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Well, we're planning for the worst, jack and ready for
it there at my museum. And so I was there
sprang a fire hose on the flames. I don't know that. Actually,
through past years, a tremendous amount of work has been
done to fireproof the building and grounds of the museum.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
As a whole.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And then the what's the other the like house outlet
that they have.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I love the getting awesome.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Well, they have practically unlimited budget. Their endowment is enormous.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, but you know I've mentioned before, I'm reading about
Paris in eighteen seventy, but the Germans had gotten so
close to Paris that they were taking all the artwork
off the louver, rolling up the paintings and like putting
them in feedbags and stuff to hide them and shipping
them out.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But I just wondered what they did at the getty
with the fire getting the close. You can't let that
stuff burn out, obviously, And then a more lighthearted thing
to end with a French woman speaking of France, thought
she was in a romantic relationship with Brad Pitt online.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And was she turns out she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
She ended up, unfortunately, sending eight hundred and fifty five
thousand dollars to some scammer as a part of an
elaborate year long con that involved an AI generated version
of the actor she was talking to AI video. Brad
Pitt thought they were in a relationship. Somehow was also
(33:29):
wealthy and sent my dang near a million dollars to
this out kit.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
And somehow led to believe brad Pitt was desperately in
need of large sums of cash. He's number one, horny
Brad Pitt is not hitting on you online.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Number two. If he is, he's got.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Plenty of money and in a year, you probably ought
to meet up at some point.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
If you're that's a long relationship.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Wow, uneck, I'd like to know more about that.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
At what point did she realize it wasn't Brad Pitton. Like,
how flabbergasted was she? I mean like it was a
really shocking to find out.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It wasn't Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Here's good was the imitation or the manifestation or whatever
you call him.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the day. There he is our technical director,
Michael Agelain. Michael final thought.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
I love getting a check in the mail unexpectedly, and
so my Warehouse Club, my membership. They gave me my
check back yesterday and it was a little over two
hundred dollars, which means I spend way too much money there.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
But wow, yeah, I'll go buy something fun. Are you
a costco or a costco person? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
On the other end, you have the largest privately held
collection of sweatpants in What's Journey?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's right, it's stright. You go and eat the samples
I forgot? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, not at all.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
In person, Katie Green are esteemed to muse woman as
a final thought, Katie, I feel like.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
You have to be seventy five years or older to
get any sympathy if you fall for Brad Pitt being
in love with you kind of a thing. Okay, then
you got to believe you're eighty years old and fifty
year old Brad Pitt's hot for you for some reason.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Well, yeah, I've known people who just lack the skeptical
gene and it's hard to believe or understand, but they exist.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'll continue with that theme. Did she have any friends?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
She was saying, Yeah, Brad Pitt's in love with me,
so we're gonna talk this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I mean, she tell anybody, did they just go along
with it or what?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah, he's filming a movie in Tunisia, so we're not
gonna be able to get together until next month.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
At oie. Wow, I'm strong.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
And getty rapping up another ruling, four hour work.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
They see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'm strong and getty. The country is on edge.
Speaker 8 (35:50):
Have any of you guys asked him to step down
and resign for their job?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers, it's like, well,
we're on the breakit it's sure.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
Yeah, and you know, we really need to pace ourselves
if we're going to freak out.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Hold on, give me a joke. He't nobody got time
for this. And child, listen I watch. I have the
child to do. Not call me a child. I Am
no child. Bye bye, Armstrong and getdy.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What we are looking at here that will be signed
tonight a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that will
implement a pause in fighting between the two sides for
forty two days.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is a six week agreement that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Will ultimately see thirty three hostages released from Hamas captivity
in Gaza. We are told by a number of sources
some of those hostages were killed and their bodies will
be returned to Israel, but at least twenty three of
them are believed to be alive. This is critical information
for the Israelis. They have been negotiating over the past
(00:58):
several weeks trying to get together the details of such
an agreement.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's pretty damned interesting. We'll be signed tonight. They're
reporting right there, and all news outlets are reporting this
as breaking news. Hamas and Israel agree to see Spire
hostage deal to be signed today. I can understand why
Hamas is doing it. I'm not exactly sure why why
Israel's doing it. Other than what I was talking about earlier.
(01:26):
I think they're ready to move on to their big
project as soon as Trump's in office, and that's attacking Iran.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, there's absolutely truth to that. I think the
other side of it is that they all along they
wanted to get the hostages back dead or alive, but
the leadership made the quite sane calculation that we're only
going to give Hamas what they want to get the
hostages back when it doesn't hurt our overall effort to
(01:54):
decimate them, because we've got to decimate them. And at
this point Hamas is so week in Israel thinks, okay,
we can do this.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Another interesting part of it, I mean, there would be
tremendous blowback on the international world stage against Israel, which
there always is no matter what they do. But if
a week from now Hamas wants to I mean, so,
if they give back to hostage, Hamas.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Can't start back up. Really, Israel can easily.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, Hamas can regroup and improve their situation, but not
by leaps and bounds. You know, the media is going
crazy over this story, which is fine. It's a big
story and it could be a very very big story.
But I guess I'm a little cynical and a little
annoyed because they have been howling for a ceasefire since
October eighth of twenty three.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Israel must stop firing, they.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Must stand down, which is just absurd and obscene. You're
talking about a ceasefire with Islamist monsters, murderers, rapists, torturers,
and their word cannot be taken at any face value whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I don't know if Hamas or has will A can
ramp back up anymore the way they used to without
the help from Iran that they've been used to getting
for all these years.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Now, will you prevent that in the long term is
good governance, and that's a hell of a task.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Trump is going to portray this as a huge win
for him, and he might be completely accurate because that
has a lot to do with it. Hamas believes the
gloves to which to what extent gloves were still on,
would really be off when Trump is the president. Ain't
nobody gonna give net Yahoo a tongue lashing for bomb
and Hamas wants a Trump's.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
At office right absolutely, and Biden and company are desperately
trying to portray it as a victory of theirs, but
I don't think anybody buys that.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Those Trump's ambassador to the UN was Nicki Haley last time.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Who is it this time? At least Stephonic Oh right, yeah,
oh okay, cool.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, you get approved pretty easily too, according to what
I see and hear and read.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
According to all of the mainstream media, hegxeth is now
going to get approved. He's going to be the Secretary Defense.
Marco Rubio is never in doubt as Secretary of State.
Pam Bondi not in doubt according to NPR and others,
for being the Attorney General. So we're gonna get to
the dicey ones. Tomorrow is tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Rfk jr. That one?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Is that what the Democrats are gonna hold out for
because they gotta they gotta make their voters excited by
really fighting somebody, right, Is it gonna be rfk JR.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, probably so? Or's it gonna be U Tulsi.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Some of the anti Tulsi fire has been taken out
of the discussion. She's moderated various stances and come off
as reasonably saying you get your behind the scenes story
about she screwed up one question with one senator behind
the scenes, but then did better with a you know,
let's just let's get to the hearings and see how
it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think the RFK Junior hearings could be great. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
He's a smart guy, he's a Kennedy. He's been in
you know, high profile his whole life. Maybe he's just
really good at moderating his answers. But sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he just says what he thinks, and it's very exciting.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Noted Bear corpse abuser Robert F. Kennedy Junior. I read
this morning that a couple of his advisors who are
a little more out there in terms of being anti vax,
have been quietly asked by the Trump team to pursue
other employment. They're trying to bring his team a little
closer to Trump's view, which is mainstream.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I don't know, just not as anti vax. Now. Kennedy
himself says, I'm not anti vax.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm anti playing down the risks of some vaccination.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
There are quite a few quotes out of there of
him being really anti vax.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But maybe it's correct. Maybe he just speaking to a
certain crowd.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The thing that to me, and we've talked about this, lady,
But the thing that's most amazing that he's got such
the embrace of the Republican Party on this is his
stance on abortion. He's a abortions for everybody up to
birth guy and always has been mm hm. And his
(06:24):
position would play a role in funding for various things
that you care about.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
In the world of abortion right right now.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
He will moderate those views because he serves at the
pleasure of the president. Although Trump's views on abortion or
you know, pick whatever word you want, they're they're considerably
more moderate than past Republican Oh sure, absolutely, he's he's
the most pro abortion Republican president ever. Not that he's
pro abortion, but he's closer to that side than any
Republican president.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, I appreciate you walking back your comments the gentleman
from Kansas the rest of my time.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, and honestly, the pro life that's
a better way to say. He's at least pro life
Republican president we've ever had.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
As reprehensible as I find the idea of casual abortion
on demand, I've also made it fairly clear through the
years that I think a more in line with America's
mainstream view of a mari of abortion would be good
for the Republican Party because A, we can get done
(07:29):
all the other stuff that we can't get done if
we lose elections, and B to me, I would like
to see it. While there are certain legal limitations that
I believe for one hundred percent justified in terms of
early term abortions, I would like to see it become
a moral issue that we talk about and spend less
time screaming at each other about elections and judges.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I just think it would be more useful. Trump's closer to.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Where the American people are than most Republican presidents have
been to that like two thirds of Americans that are
okay with it first trimester.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Anyway, I think the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
For a lot of the day, this ceasefire agreement is
going to obliterate any of the hearings coverage, which might
be good for the candidates.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So it's just the way that works. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Because it's an innocent until proven guilty situation, isn't it.
The president nominated you, I got to show good cause
for not letting you in. So yeah, I think that's
probably true.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Just saw the Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections
for the US population over the next thirty years to
three hundred and seventy two million residents, a two point
eight percent dropped from last year, citing less expected immigration
change in policy, which I would hope given the highest
(08:56):
percentage of foreign born people in America we've ever had
a nation's history, and nobody voted for that. That was
not up for a vote anyway. Also lower birth rate,
declining birth rates. Talk about an under a reported story.
And what were we talking about earlier? Oh, we got
onto AI who put this on our feed Katie on
our own personal text feed. There's this crazy AI video
(09:21):
thing that was disturbing, with Biden and Nancy Pelosi squatting
in a bikini and just all kinds of things that
I found I'll never be able to get. I gotta
I need bleach to pour in my eyes. But we're
just talking about how weirdly it affects your brain when
you watch some of this AI stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And I'm not even exactly sure why.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I today's the first day I, like ever really recognized
watching some of these AI videos gives me a weird something.
I don't know, have to put a word on it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It just.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
My brain is having trouble stay in this is fake
zone while it looks so real or something.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Maybe that's it. That's a big part of it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But you combine that with those sex robots they had
last week at the Computer Consumer Electronics Show, and AI's
ability to have the sex robots figure out what you're
interested in, like TikTok and Instagram does what are your interests?
You know, what's the best way to talk to you
to make you like me? Those sex robots are gonna
know that. I just I can't even know.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I hope I live long.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Enough to see this play out. I almost guarantee it's
going to be a bad ending. But I just want
to see it. I want to see it happen. Yeah,
it will be troubling. I mean already.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The CBO forecast sharply lower population growth in the US
over the next three decades. They're reflecting lower rates of
immigration and fertility. As the results of the changes. Deaths
are expected to exceed births in twenty twenty three, first time,
eight years from now, twenty three years earlier than they
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had projected just a year ago.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Were you really going backwards then when you got more
deads and birds?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Obviously? Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
And if we make immigration more sane, that means you know,
population loss at some point significant.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There's no turning that around either. I don't think, no.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
No, And that would really be fine mostly were it
not for a social safety net system that relies entirely
on working youngsters significantly outnumbering ulsters getting the benefits. But
that's a big problem. That's you know, two thirds or
(11:46):
whatever it is of the federal budget.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's a short turmish problem though, because I mean, guess,
if you're young, you got another sixty years to live
in this country, eighty seventy years depending on how old
you are, so I guess you know you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Live in whatever that country is.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But after that there won't be anybody here, or they'll
be from other lands.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And we have a planet of the apes, or you know.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I guess my point is it's hard to be concerned
about people that will never exist.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Right, And you know, I'm concerned about the idea of
and this is inevitable, a third world people of whatever
belief and culture who are continuing to have babies eventually
will come north and take over the land mass that
is currently called the United States of America in the
way that you know, ten thousand years ago, the place
(12:35):
looks significantly different than it does now.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But our kids or our kids' kids won't your kids kids'
kids won't exist, So it's not like they have to put.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Up with it. They aren't gonna be here, and I
feel terrible.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It might be bad for humanity, but I mean, there's
nobody I'm related to that it's gonna be bothered because
they won't be here.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
To not exist is the worst of faiths to me. Okay,
we got more on stay here.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
President Biden will deliver his farewell address to the nation.
Biden will say goodbye to the nation. Well, the nation
will say, oh wow, you're still here, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Biden's speech is expected to be twenty minutes long, but
forecasters say he feels like will be three hours.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's a pretty good joke.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Along with his accomplishments as president, Biden will also reflect
on his years as Vice president, senator, and Thomas Jefferson's
chief of staff.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That should be interesting. Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Even NPR was reporting on how Joe Biden leaves with
very low approval rating among Americans and in his own party,
and new polls NPR said, we've talked about this last week.
New polls show that Americans feel that Biden will be
seen as a failure of a president in historical terms.
So yeah, the old polls said that as well. Yeah,
(13:55):
everybody's just figuring it out for sure. Yeah, goodbye, mummy.
Slightly ironic.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was ready to do a couple of pretty damned
interesting health notes here. We were, Judy and I were
scheduled to get together with some very good friends of
ours to do as what we often do, play some cards,
have a little dinner, a couple of glasses of wine
or something. And we got the call, hey, just so
you know, missus blank has a cold, and so it's
(14:24):
up to you and all and well we went back
and forth and we're like, yeah, you know, what are
we gonna do? Not live our lives, these are our
best friends.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We're gonna go. So we went over and sure enough,
three four days later, I have a.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Cold, very mild, shouldn't very very I'll let that pass,
very mild symptoms. And I thought, this is not so bad,
it's not a big deal. I remember having colds, and
they made me all of a sudden about fifteen minutes ago,
my energy level just went whoo.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I just want to lie down? Can I? Can I
lie down? Michael? Do you have a blanket?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Having a cultural sucks just so tiring. Yeah, And I'm
surprised that more of us don't wear masks just to
avoid getting colds. Were around somebody of the cold and
now a lot of years so anti mask because of
the way they forced it, honest, and I was mad.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
About it too, and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But just in general, if somebody has a cold in
my house or around me, I don't want it. I
really don't want it. It makes like another week and
a half miserable.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
As we learn though, or certainly should have, it's got
to be an incredibly advanced mask to prevent a virus
passing through. But if it has to be on a droplet,
that's a different case. And so I don't know if
any sort of mask would do any good for a colt.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Anyway, So the couple of really interesting health notes I
have for you Alzheimer's terrifying, heartbreaking situation.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
As everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
There is a big news study this out on Alzheimer's,
and there is one group of people that has a
disproportionately low incidence of Alzheimer's disease, and that is taxi
drivers and uber drivers particular. You know your higher drivers,
particularly those who do not or did not when they
(16:20):
started use navigation systems using your brain to picture spatial relationships,
realize that street is closed. Here are my alternatives. I'll
go this way. For reasons they don't quite get yet,
are so good. That sort of activity is so good
(16:41):
for your brain. It actually seems to be to some
extent insulating these people from Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Wow, you had another example of use it or lose
it when it comes to your brain.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, it's not a huge difference, but it's significant. It
is statistically significant. I thought that was interesting. I'd like
to get microplastics, which I think are causing a hell
of a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
And I'm no paranoiac.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
But maybe we can get into that later today or
a subsequent show.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
RFK Junior will probably be talking about that in his hearing. Actually,
that's one of his big topics shows arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well, everyone's talking about the TikTok band that's going into
effect this weekend. Yeah, and I read that TikTok users
are now downloading a different Chinese social media app called
Red Note. People are downloading another Chinese app right now.
American tech company is like, hey, we also spy on you.
(17:38):
Come on, hey. Meanwhile, the red Note app is actually,
by the way, it's actually in Chinese.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Right, Americans would literally rather.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Learn Mandarin than use Instagram reels.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, that's a funny joke.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, TikTok, as we knew, it comes to an end
midnight Sunday night. But I just learned recently, as we
talked about yesterday, it's not going away. Really, It's gonna
be a real slow go away because if you have
the app on your phone, it'll still be on your
phone and it'll still exist. It's just you won't be
(18:14):
able to update the app and it will start to
get bugs. And then, like when you get the new
Apple update on your iPhone, it won't work with the
old app, but there won't be a new app, And
that's the way it's gonna get phased out. I was
I had all along, were you all along? I'd been
picturing it like disappearing or I don't know. No, you
thought it was going to be phased out the whole time.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I've been reading about it. Yeah, but I'm in a
tiny minority of Americans. I think most people, including young people,
think the big mean government is going to end my
amusing videos that I'm addicted to, and I hate the
government so much. I'm going to download a Chinese app
that's named after Chairman Mouse, Little Red Book, despite my government,
(18:57):
because the communist Chinese give me funny videos all day long.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Anyway, it's troubling development. But before we get.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Into the whole Red Note app, because it's both troubling
and annoying and kind of hilarious, why don't we dip
into Grady Trimble of Fox News reporting on the latest
with the quote unquote TikTok band twenty six.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Michael will go from there.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
The Wall Street Journal reports Chinese officials discuss letting Elon
Musk invest in or take control of TikTok's US operations.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder has a good relationship with
President elect Trump, of course, and with top Chinese officials
because of the business he does in China. The app
must be sold to a US owner or face of
(19:42):
ban effective January nineteenth. Still, TikTok is throwing cold water
on the idea of a Musk takeover, telling Fox the
company quote can't be expected to comment on pure fiction.
Investor Kevin O'Leary, who's interested in buying the app alongside
billionaire Frank McCort, also says such a move would be
unlikely to get regulatory approval because Mosque already owns X.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
The speculation when there's a void of information is like
a wildfire. It's just all I know. And Frank would
say the same thing. We're in a partnership where the
only syndicate that put a real bit in front of
the company, in front of the bankers, in front of
the shareholders, and in front of the Chinese government.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm surprised we haven't been able to steal that algorithm.
China's stolen everything from us, including our F thirty five.
They built a plane that looks exactly like it with
the same technology. How have we not stolen the algorithm
of TikTok so we can really have our own TikTok.
That's every bit is good because.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
We don't indulge in industrial espionage, Jack, and we ought
to start soon.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So what was I gonna say?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Oh? Oh, the mention of Elon Musk and company reminded
me of something kind of amusing. A red in the
Free Press yesterday, Jeff Bezos Space Company Blue or Origin
had to postpone the debut launch of its big three
hundred and twenty foot rocket due to some sort of
last minute technical issues. So it's a real setback for them.
(21:12):
And they point out, obviously the Amazon CEO is jealous
of Elon Musk SpaceX, which has been doing this for years.
Then they point out, but go easy on yourself, Jeff,
Elon's never delivered me Q tips in under twenty four hours.
I go Amazon. I thought that was cute. One more
note from Grady Trimble. Next clip, Michael And.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
With just five days until TikTok potentially goes dark in
the US, some of its users are flocking to a
Shanghai based social media platform known as Red Note to
protest the possible ban and show they don't care about
ties to China. It is the number one free app
in the United States right now on Apple's App Store
and the Google Play Store.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Well, in my misunderstanding, this still TikTok's not going dark
on Monday. It's gonna look exactly the same on your
phone and behave exactly the same for quite a while, maybe,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, you just can't download the app and it won't update,
as we've been discussing, although it.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Be weeks or months before it really is a problem.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The ability of addicted teens to get around virtually every
safeguard put in their way is astounding. It's like, you know,
water seeking its own level. It's one of the laws
of the universe anyway. So they point out that these
people flocking to red note is odd. It seems to
just be an anti US government gesture. But this was
(22:33):
pretty amusing. Again the Free Press. Ever since Biden signed
the bill, zoomers have been sardonically bidding farewell to the
Chinese spies assigned to monitor their online activities.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Quote it's been real my Chinese friend.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I posted another imagined trote quote trying to reconnect with
my Chinese spy on the dark web after the band
because I never felt more seen and understood than I
did with him.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's funny, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
If snark, if you could put snark in your gas
tank in bern It America could power the universe.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It's our greatest resource.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
So the joke is carried over to Red Note, with
some Americans posting that they're looking for a new Chinese spy.
But the Chinese users on Red notes seem bemused by
these TikTok refugees, asking questions like why are you here?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Is it because your TikTok has been banned?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
But overall they're we welcoming the Americans posting videos with
titles like hello from your new Chinese spy. They only
have one demand, and this is so social media, this
is so Internet. Just go with it, folks. They have
only one demand, Americans, show me your cat. The origin
(23:51):
of this request is uncertain and it's not entirely clear
why they want to see our feline friends. But these
so called cat tax has become a ubiquitous refrain in
the comments, and so far Americans have complied. So the
Chinese people demand show me your cat, and they picture
pic They post pictures or videos of the cats, this
(24:11):
one wearing an FBI badge around its neck in compliance
with it anyway, and beyond our cats, that's that's right, sir.
Our new Chinese friends are also curious about our lives,
asking Americans questions on red note, like do US people
really have to sell their house to pay their hospital bills?
(24:34):
Because that's obviously the propaganda they've gotten, And it occurs
to me just now because I have a cold and
my mind is moving very slowly. That Hijin Ping will
shut this down as quickly as he can because it
appears to be unfiltered communication between Chinese and Americans.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, keeping in mind that their TikTok in China is
like math lessons.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
They will write right, but on red note they're asking,
I want to know if the National Guard is part
of the American Army? And does everyone have to pay
property tax to the Irs every year? They also want
help with their English homework. Americans are asking questions too.
One TikTok refuge asked what the Chinese people thought of
Americans and got a flurry of responses like we don't
(25:18):
like American politicians, but we welcome the friendly American people.
Free Luigi, good lord, that's that cold hearted murder of
the poor healthcare exect, Coca cola sometimes war what I
don't care, Give me your data and if you have
a cat, then we are friends.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Get back to the cat tax, Pat Herbert.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Have you seen the pictures of Iran musk floating around
on the internet.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I have not, So that's an unfortunate linguistic slur against
Asian languages in which some people portray ours as l's
and reverse. We do not find funny or agree with.
But there is an Asian dude who looks like an
Asian version of Elon Musk, and people take pictures of
(26:09):
him everywhere he goes. I don't even know what country
it is, and say, spotted Eroon Musk again, and I
don't think it's funny. I brought it to you because
I think it's so not funny that it should be
mentioned on the air. Here's Eroon Musk at a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
The internet is obviously fascinating. That's not much of a joke. No,
but it caught on exactly. Yeah, in times a million,
it starts to get kind of funny, right, show me
your cat is not funny until everybody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Then it kind of is a formula that Lorne Michael's
invented or discovered. I don't know how many Saturday Night
Live skits I've seen in the last sixty years now
or is it fifty six that weren't the least bit funny.
But they do it ten and pretty people. Pretty soon
people are laughing at Oh, really, isn't that special? Why
(27:07):
is that funny? Because you've seen it ten times? I
guess he did the catchphrase. He did the catchphrase. So
how's this TikTok thing going to play out?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do you see? I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
One interesting aspect of this is that the Bike Dance
has said, yeah, if you do this, we'll just shut
down TikTok. We'll just end it, which learned commentators have
pointed out is pretty much an admission sure that it
only exists as a surveillance and propaganda tool.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's the reason it exists.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
We don't care about it as a money making social
media app. We are only into it for spine on you.
If we can't do that, well then forget it. Yeah
that's something.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, so I don't. I don't given the weird motivations.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I mean, if it were like a car company that
was merely a car company, I could predict the way
the negotiations would play out.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But this I really don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, Domia, correct though, we're shutting it down because of
the spying on us, not because of the informing our
young people improperly. Yeah, the content, it's.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
The well, and specifically it's because of the ownership by
a hostile foreign government.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
We hate the content, But you could have an American
app that had exactly the same content and that would
be fine.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Well, who was it? Was it?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Charlie Cook or one of the geniuses at the National
Review said, come on, this is America. We need to
come up with an as good or better way to
melt our children's minds and turn them into uneducated slobs
so the communists can't do it.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, well that's where you know.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I heard one of my favorite commentators, Sarah Isger, a
Harvard Law dispatched person, say she had TikTok for a
while back in the day. She said, you can't imagine
how great it is and how addictive it is. She
got rid of it because it was addictive before the
government said you couldn't have it anymore. She was in
the Justice Department, so she had had to get rid
of it anyway. She said, it's so much different than
Instagram and all that other stuff you can't imagine. I
(29:14):
almost wish, I mean, I wish I could have the
experience without you know, turning all over.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
My stuff to the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I would like to see how the algorithm would work
on me and the stuff it would feed me that
it thinks I'm interested in.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, I'm curious too. My daughter said she got rid
of the app. She said, this is the world's most
insidious time suck.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
But like so on Instagram, I started getting fed like
softcore porn. Like whenever I go to the Instagram app
to check on anything, all of the recommendations are.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I've never searched for anyone hardcore.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I've never searched for anything sexual ever on Instagram or never.
And I don't know why it, Like did it read
my email or my thoughts or what made it decide
thing he wants to see boobies? Where did that come from?
Or did you just go with them?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
A male of a certain age I can't hurt.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I guess I never click on him because I
don't want to get more of them anyway. You can't
say trolling when you're talking about the Internet, meaning the
fishing technique That's what I meant.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They're just seeing if you'll bite right, we'll finish strong.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Next, Mark Zuckerberg ordered the removal of tampons for men's
bathrooms at Meta, Tim Waltz said this means war, which
means he then ran away.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Play Tim Walls now because nobody's gonna catch the reference
in about six minutes.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Not exactly a top of mind kicking.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's amazing that Facebook still had, or ever had, but
had tampons in the men's room care.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, men don't need them, is the thing.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
While you're circumstances, tiny slice of politics and a zero
likes of human beings, practically speaking, a slice of activist
lunatics online, honestly working up from horrible to less horrible before.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
We call it a day.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
The United Nations says, now in Haiti there are more
than a million displaced people because of gang violence, half
of them kids. Half a million kids out in the
street because of gang violence. Be thankful for law and
order to the extent that you have it, Jeez, Civilization,
law and order, representative, the government is a miracle.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
The fact that you have it doesn't make it less
of a miracle.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
No, Megan Kelly getting some blowback.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
She's been covering the fires and said stop sending obese
lesbians to fight wildfires.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, I find a funny slam.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Speaking of the fire, I didn't realize the fire got
within six feet of the Getty Museum. Yeah, And I
didn't read about how to what extent they got artwork
out of there? Had they started moving artwork out of there?
Or were they just open for the best.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Well, we're planning for the worst, jack and ready for
it there at my museum. And so I was there
sprang a fire hose on the flames. I don't know that. Actually,
through past years, a tremendous amount of work has been
done to fireproof the building and grounds of the museum.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
As a whole.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And then the what's the other the like house outlet
that they have.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I love the getting awesome.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Well, they have practically unlimited budget. Their endowment is enormous.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, but you know I've mentioned before, I'm reading about
Paris in eighteen seventy, but the Germans had gotten so
close to Paris that they were taking all the artwork
off the louver, rolling up the paintings and like putting
them in feedbags and stuff to hide them and shipping
them out.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But I just wondered what they did at the getty
with the fire getting the close. You can't let that
stuff burn out, obviously, And then a more lighthearted thing
to end with a French woman speaking of France, thought
she was in a romantic relationship with Brad Pitt online.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And was she turns out she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
She ended up, unfortunately, sending eight hundred and fifty five
thousand dollars to some scammer as a part of an
elaborate year long con that involved an AI generated version
of the actor she was talking to AI video. Brad
Pitt thought they were in a relationship. Somehow was also
(33:29):
wealthy and sent my dang near a million dollars to
this out kit.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
And somehow led to believe brad Pitt was desperately in
need of large sums of cash. He's number one, horny
Brad Pitt is not hitting on you online.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Number two. If he is, he's got.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Plenty of money and in a year, you probably ought
to meet up at some point.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
If you're that's a long relationship.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Wow, uneck, I'd like to know more about that.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
At what point did she realize it wasn't Brad Pitton. Like,
how flabbergasted was she? I mean like it was a
really shocking to find out.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It wasn't Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Here's good was the imitation or the manifestation or whatever
you call him.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the day. There he is our technical director,
Michael Agelain. Michael final thought.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
I love getting a check in the mail unexpectedly, and
so my Warehouse Club, my membership. They gave me my
check back yesterday and it was a little over two
hundred dollars, which means I spend way too much money there.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
But wow, yeah, I'll go buy something fun. Are you
a costco or a costco person? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
On the other end, you have the largest privately held
collection of sweatpants in What's Journey?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's right, it's stright. You go and eat the samples
I forgot? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, not at all.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
In person, Katie Green are esteemed to muse woman as
a final thought, Katie, I feel like.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
You have to be seventy five years or older to
get any sympathy if you fall for Brad Pitt being
in love with you kind of a thing. Okay, then
you got to believe you're eighty years old and fifty
year old Brad Pitt's hot for you for some reason.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Well, yeah, I've known people who just lack the skeptical
gene and it's hard to believe or understand, but they exist.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'll continue with that theme. Did she have any friends?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
She was saying, Yeah, Brad Pitt's in love with me,
so we're gonna talk this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I mean, she tell anybody, did they just go along
with it or what?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah, he's filming a movie in Tunisia, so we're not
gonna be able to get together until next month.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
At oie. Wow, I'm strong.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
And getty rapping up another ruling, four hour work.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
They see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'm strong and getty. The country is on edge.
Speaker 8 (35:50):
Have any of you guys asked him to step down
and resign for their job?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers, it's like, well,
we're on the breakit it's sure.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
Yeah, and you know, we really need to pace ourselves
if we're going to freak out.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Hold on, give me a joke. He't nobody got time
for this. And child, listen I watch. I have the
child to do. Not call me a child. I Am
no child. Bye bye, Armstrong and getdy.
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