January 16, 2025 • 18 mins
- A new take on Joe's beloved Key Lime Pie...
- An email from the mother of 3 who serve in the U.S. Army...
- The history of Lucy Love.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Not pandering Congress people. Real life. It's one more thing,
I'm strong Andy, one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Before we get out to whatever. Joe's deal is a
couple of things. First of all, real life. Well you're
gonna put off real life, are you, son? I don't
know if I did as long as I could. I
don't know if I've heard the term bottle the throttle before.
I just came across that with the whole Southwest Airlines
and the pilot that got arrested in the cockpit. Had
you heard that before, bottle to throttle? Eight hours, bottled
(00:31):
the throttle, Like, is that of the rule or is
that the guideline? Just advice they give each other.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I don't know if i'd come across that before. If
you didn't hear that they they arrested a Southwest pilot
in the cockpit because they'd smell booze on his breath.
I haven't heard yet if they you know, if he
actually ended up being drunk or not.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It mmm, so yeah, I could see that. Look eight
hours bottle to throttle, throttle or you're in trouble. It
takes eight hours to metabolize all the alcohol or something
or something.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and then we also got this thing. I haven't
heard this. This is somebody who is using AI apparently
in a college class. You've got that done in thirteen minutes, Yes,
I did.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh have you read one hundred pages and thirteen minutes? Yeah? No,
how did you do that?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Simmed it? And then I did the assignment.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Okay, yeah, that's not how we do this. You're supposed
to read the hundred pages, but I found better way
to do it. Better way to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Pull up your laptop. No, come on, pull up your laptop.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm getting tired of this.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I know what this is. You give us one hundred
I know what this is already. This is a damn
cheating tool. It's not you gave us one hundred pages
to read.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
This is only a forty five minute call you. It's
the other students using this junk too. Dad.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
This would have taken me three hours to read.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So all I did was ask this AI tutor. It's
called a tutor for a reason.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It helps me learn. I asked what I needed to know,
and I extract all that and then I'm good. Miss
Burt's get out that quest. I have all information that
sounds real to me, does that sound real to you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It does absolutely? Yeh, it looked real.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Huh. Interesting. So she she's not denying that she did it,
she's just trying to make the argument. I use I
can't read one hundred pages, or I didn't want to
read the hundred pages. This summarizes it for me, and
then I'm ready to go, which, hmm, I don't know
what I think of that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I'd like to know more about the context of
what tools kids are using it in what way, and
why he's unhappy about it. Unlike the Internet, I don't
feel any need to leap to who's the a hole
who's not. But I can see her point.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Joe and I have said for years, I don't remember
what your number is. More fifty page books or more
seventy five page books. Because somebody, somebody, somebody will write
a great book about a topic we're interested in, but
it's a six hundred page book, I'm not going to
get around to it. You can only read so many
six hundred page books if you got a real wife.
But I would love to know eighty pages worth of it.
(02:58):
I'd love to. I'd find a way to make that fit.
Is I wonder if how good AI is going to
be at doing that for us all I want, very
very good, I would think, Yeah, I woul think so too.
There are a number of the classics of conservative thought
or you know, history or perspective, and I'm not going
to name them because I'm very fond of the authors.
(03:19):
But you read the introduction the first three.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Chapters, You're good. You're good to go, right, I mean,
unless you need them to like drill down to examples
of how that would work in five different places. But
often you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That professor seemed to think it was important to read
all one hundred pages. I guess, yes, kat oh no,
I just watching the video.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean she she it continues on a little bit
past that, but she just had a total attitude on
her too with that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. Interesting she was.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't know why you mentioned this in the notes
that she was in her twenties.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh twenties.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She looks like mid twenties. Oh okay, Yet I meant
she only looks mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
She's not.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Okay, guys, Yeah, I don't know how old she is,
but I it wasn't. I didn't want it to come
off like it was a child. You know this is
you know, a young adult, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And you know what I had in my head is
from when I taught a few college classes, like intro
classes in college, when I was in a master's program.
Non trads, the non trads are the people that are
going to be a pain in the ass. You know why,
because they got real lives, They're paying for it with
their own money, and they are way more demanding than
(04:35):
the college kids are. Just you could say care, they
care in other words, yeah, in other words, to the
regular kids, you could say, you know what, we're gonna
cut it short today and get out of here, and
they'd be all like, whoa the non Treadslingho, No, wait
a second, I got a sitter. I took an hour
of work. We're gonna be here the whole hour, and
you're gonna teach me.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Something, right? Yeah? Yeah, totally gets that.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah I did too, Yes, Michael, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I have mixed feelings about that clip because some professors
I've dealt with, they just though they do not like
the idea that things have changed, that the way you
learn has changed, and they just they want to be
stuck in the library days and they can't accept the
fact that it's not like that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Certain.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, and there's just there are some people who read
much more quickly than others, and I always resented it.
As a left hander, I wrote more slowly and painstakingly
than all the writing's in my classes. And I was
in a program where the final exam was here's your question.
You got three hours tell me everything you know, and
it would just be a frantic ritathon. And man, I
(05:38):
was just desperate to be able to type. But you
couldn't do that back in the day for no good
reason either, for no good reason. Yeah, I can't help,
but I was born left handed. There were moments I
was thinking, you know, I always thought it was cruel
and horrific the parents who forced their kid to learn
to write right handed. I kind of wish my parents
had Anyway, I got over the trauma and have done
all right in life.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You have a stutter or a blinking on or something.
If they'd done that, that doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Interest some sort of problem with pooping or who knows,
manifest itself in any different ways.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So, yes, Kitty, I had I have one short thing.
I want to take it back to Booze. Really fast.
You guys are talking about the drunk pilot throttle. I
went to a local watering hole yesterday, awesome, and I
had a key Lime Pie shot.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Do tell members of the staff are still doing shots.
That's fantastic, you do, key Lime Pie show a key
and I thought of Joe instantly because it was booze
and key lime Pie put together, sleeze.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I tell you what, when I'm on my deathbed, bring
me one of those. Did you get it? It was?
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Did it taste like key Lime Pie?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh yeah, actually like scarily similar?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And did it make boring people more interesting? Of course
it did? It was. I had to mention during the show,
the show, I hit the booze last night after two
weeks off, just had a little bit of scotch. It
was nice. It was fine.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So it was dry half of January.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Do you get to make up your own roles?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh? Hell yeah? Do whatever I want. You want to
fight me, huh? Sober, but I'm still belligerent.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Do you have to grow a beard in Provember? No
you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, No, I do what I want. I'm an individual,
a bunch of sheep anyway, so first of all, a
serious note from a beloved listener, and then some dessert,
perhaps a keelm pie shot if you will. That has
to do with eroon musk.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, I brought that up.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Which we discussed during the One More Thing? Was it yesterday?
It doesn't matter. A terrible story an elon musk look
alike in Asia, and the joke is because in many
Asian languages the L sound doesn't exist, and so Asian
struggle to pronounce it correctly and often go with an
R instead because it's close eeron musk a reference to
that which is historically fascinating.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, seriously, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
But first, this from Momnonymous. I think she sets it
up quite beautifully. She says, thank you for all you
do to support our troops and those who serve. You're welcome.
It is the least we can do. I know I'm
a little late to the discussion about Pete Heggss, you're
not at all, but life happens. My husband and I
have three sons, all of whom are in the army.
I could share many stories, but I'll keep this brief.
Our oldest is doing well. Our middle son is currently
(08:30):
on a training deployment in Europe. The country he and
his unit were in, things went well. The country they
are now in has been an awful experience. They are
on a foreign base and those foreign troops do not
want them there. Ooh, that has been made perfectly clear
to them. The first three weeks they were there, the
barracks were empty, but our troops stayed intense in the
freezing rain and fog. Everyone was getting sick because they
(08:52):
couldn't keep anything dry. They were moved finally to the
barracks and that helped. However, they they are being fed
bulk mre type food and child's eye portions. Our son
has lost almost twenty pounds in less than two months
they've been there.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No, No, that should not happen. No, no, Now what
country is this? And how badly do we need to
have our troops there? That's horrible.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
They are supposed to be their training and is a
show of force. I think I could guess where they are,
but they are in horrible condition, not ready for anything,
much less they show a force. Excuse me while I sneeze.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
H oh, bird flow, and where do you think they are?
Because she didn't tell you? So that's not going to
give anything away.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
No, I don't. She chose not to say, and I
will honor that. Let's see. Oh, here's the part that
gets back to Pete Hegsath. The leadership our middle and
youngest sons have been experiencing in their units has been atrocious.
As a woman. I have nothing against women being in charge,
(09:51):
but competence matters. At one ceremony we attended some time ago,
the brigade commander was a woman. She looked and spoke
like a sorority girl. Un said, none of the guys
in training nor the drill sergeants had any respect for her.
She was a graduate from West Point and may have
been very good at her academics, but she had no
real experience to help her lead a brigade of infantrymen.
One unit we have some knowledge of has several trends.
(10:14):
Individuals in leadership positions. These individuals several really, these individuals
have been incredibly difficult and hostile to work with and
make the issue an issue constantly. Oh shocking. I could
go on and on. I guess my point in writing
is to say we desperately need change at the top
of our military. I know it is a monstrous bureaucracy,
(10:36):
and change is so difficult. Difficult, However, I'm looking forward
to what can possibly be done to get back to
basics and having Pete Hegsweth work to strengthen the lethality
and competence of our troops. And then she says some
really nice things, including that her fellows like to listen
to the show whenever they can. We got them all
shirts from your store for Christmas. They love them. Thanks Mom, Anonymous,
(10:59):
Thank you to Mononymous as sons. And I wish there
was more we could do for you, But I would
love to hear more stories from the bottom up about
the woke leadership, the sense of the branches of the
(11:21):
military being social experiments as opposed to branches of the
military or job programs or what have you. I think
it's incredibly, incredibly important, not just to those of you serving,
but to the strength and endurance of the United States.
So yeah, hit us with emails, mail bag at Armstrong
and getdy dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So is this one of those situations where we're putting
our troops somewhere where it's not a surprise they don't
want us, but it helps the United States? Or is
it some country that wants us there.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Both. There are some governments currently serving in various parts
of Europe that are NATO allies and alleged allies, but
the current regimes are very chilly to the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Then you.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Secretary of State Jack Armstrong there with a strong statement,
I hear you. You're gonna treat our guys like that.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Good luck fighting the Russians.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Good solid slapping is in order of some sort, whether
diplomatic or financial or whatever. All Right, I promised the
key lime shot of mirth or or perspective perspective.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I said, what was last night? A Wednesday? So you're drinking?
You're doing shots on a Wednesday night?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I did a shot. That's a Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
We went to dinner with some friends and stopped in
this this it's a bar that used to be a
bank back in the nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Love those a couple of these days. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Yeah,
and a good time was had by all clearly. Oh yeah,
it was awesome. That's good. That's super.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Do a key lime shot or is that not a
kind of because not a very I'm not doing key
lime shots.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Probably I believe he did, because the bartender we didn't
get you judging.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, I would just I would take off my jacket
like a girl and drink whiskey like a man.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, it wasn't an order.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
He the bartender was more of the bartender coming over
and go hey, look what I can do, and made
us all one of his signature drinks.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I guess yeah, I tell you, you know, what's the
best shots I've ever enjoyed in my life. And I'm
not a shot guy, because I'm an old man. I like,
you know, lovingly sipping a reasonably high dollar scotch. But
if you're on the golf course playing on a cold
day and somebody buys some you know, like what's the
cinnamon whiskey? Fireball? Fireball? Fireball shot at the turn, that's
(13:43):
a happy thing. That's not a bad thing at all,
depending on the hour of the day. Of course, let's
be decent about this and how soon you have to
pilot a plane? All right? Exactly? Thank god, I don't
alert listener. Diane has sent this along, faithful listener. She
signs off, says some very nice things about the show.
(14:04):
Thank you very much, Diane. My dad fought in w
W two, She writes, he didn't talk much about his experiences.
Oh and her headliner title or subject is true story
re Iran Musk. He didn't talk much about his experiences,
as most survivors of World War Two didn't. But one
(14:25):
thing he told me that was for their safety and
he served in the Pacific Campaign. Their safe words, their
code words, were frequently lucy love because the Japanese, no
matter how fluent they were in English, could not pronounce
(14:48):
that phrase correctly. If they were called to use the
safe words and the response was rusy rove. They were
facing Japanese soldiers. It does not sound pc out of context,
but they were life savers during the war.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right. I don't know what Eroon Musk would think of
that now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And Katie, I've been fascinated by this since I was
a kid, partly as have a student of World War
Two and a German student for many many years. I
just became fascinated with the Riisenfollen, Third Raich, World War two,
the rest of it, and the concept of during these
confused battles in the dark in the woods, where one
side would advance and then maybe fall back a little bit,
(15:28):
but they were in front of where the other guys
were and it got really confused where the quote unquote
lines were because there were lines, and you had spies
and people trained in the other language all over the battlefield.
And so it's in the dark in the Battle of
the Bulge, You're in the Ardennes forest and you have
(15:50):
somebody approaching your line saying don't shoot, don't shoot, speaking
perfect English, and the way they had safe words and
codewords and would ask questions. You know, how many World
series did Babe Ruth win with the Mets. Of course,
the Mets didn't exist at that point, but that sort
(16:11):
of thing. They would ask questions like that because you
could study like everything you thought you needed to know,
and everybody freaking knew Babe Ruth had never played with
the I'm trying to think what teams existed the Cubs
at that time, but they would ask each other questions
like that, wow, while holding the guy a gunpoint Yeah,
(16:31):
and if the guy said two World series with the
Cubs shooting Louie Bluey exact Blue Blue or are you
taking prisoner if you could? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Have you guys ever seen this show The Lucy.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Lucy rub the show The Man in the High Castle.
I did. I watched the first, like two seasons.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh, that was such a great show.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
When you talk about World War Two, I just I
remember watching that and how vastly different the world.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Could have been. And your capsule is the Axis Powers
win World War two and have occupied America and split it.
The Japanese run the western US, the Nazis run the
Eastern US roughly, and their conflicts between them too. You
know what, Katie, I stopped watching it because it was
so relentlessly gut wrenchingly, grindingly suspenseful and.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Wow, wow, it sounds like something I would like. I
love that sort of thing. I want to turn off
a show and think that was I'm miserable, now that's
what I want.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, you would be. Yeah, it was just it was
so suspenseful and just and miserable because the country had
been taken over and these people were trying to survive
and fight back. They're part of the resistance or whatever,
and we're getting betrayed or they didn't know who to trust.
And again it was beautifully done. But you know, I
find life a bit stressful and frightening. I prefer lighter,
(17:55):
fair in the evening and then a nice lumpie shot.
So good just it just is you fall asleep.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I only watch sitcoms with a laugh track, so I
know when to laugh. Well, I guess that's it.
Not pandering Congress people. Real life. It's one more thing,
I'm strong Andy, one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Before we get out to whatever. Joe's deal is a
couple of things. First of all, real life. Well you're
gonna put off real life, are you, son? I don't
know if I did as long as I could. I
don't know if I've heard the term bottle the throttle before.
I just came across that with the whole Southwest Airlines
and the pilot that got arrested in the cockpit. Had
you heard that before, bottle to throttle? Eight hours, bottled
(00:31):
the throttle, Like, is that of the rule or is
that the guideline? Just advice they give each other.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I don't know if i'd come across that before. If
you didn't hear that they they arrested a Southwest pilot
in the cockpit because they'd smell booze on his breath.
I haven't heard yet if they you know, if he
actually ended up being drunk or not.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It mmm, so yeah, I could see that. Look eight
hours bottle to throttle, throttle or you're in trouble. It
takes eight hours to metabolize all the alcohol or something
or something.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and then we also got this thing. I haven't
heard this. This is somebody who is using AI apparently
in a college class. You've got that done in thirteen minutes, Yes,
I did.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh have you read one hundred pages and thirteen minutes? Yeah? No,
how did you do that?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Simmed it? And then I did the assignment.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Okay, yeah, that's not how we do this. You're supposed
to read the hundred pages, but I found better way
to do it. Better way to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Pull up your laptop. No, come on, pull up your laptop.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm getting tired of this.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I know what this is. You give us one hundred
I know what this is already. This is a damn
cheating tool. It's not you gave us one hundred pages
to read.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
This is only a forty five minute call you. It's
the other students using this junk too. Dad.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
This would have taken me three hours to read.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So all I did was ask this AI tutor. It's
called a tutor for a reason.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It helps me learn. I asked what I needed to know,
and I extract all that and then I'm good. Miss
Burt's get out that quest. I have all information that
sounds real to me, does that sound real to you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It does absolutely? Yeh, it looked real.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Huh. Interesting. So she she's not denying that she did it,
she's just trying to make the argument. I use I
can't read one hundred pages, or I didn't want to
read the hundred pages. This summarizes it for me, and
then I'm ready to go, which, hmm, I don't know
what I think of that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I'd like to know more about the context of
what tools kids are using it in what way, and
why he's unhappy about it. Unlike the Internet, I don't
feel any need to leap to who's the a hole
who's not. But I can see her point.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Joe and I have said for years, I don't remember
what your number is. More fifty page books or more
seventy five page books. Because somebody, somebody, somebody will write
a great book about a topic we're interested in, but
it's a six hundred page book, I'm not going to
get around to it. You can only read so many
six hundred page books if you got a real wife.
But I would love to know eighty pages worth of it.
(02:58):
I'd love to. I'd find a way to make that fit.
Is I wonder if how good AI is going to
be at doing that for us all I want, very
very good, I would think, Yeah, I woul think so too.
There are a number of the classics of conservative thought
or you know, history or perspective, and I'm not going
to name them because I'm very fond of the authors.
(03:19):
But you read the introduction the first three.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Chapters, You're good. You're good to go, right, I mean,
unless you need them to like drill down to examples
of how that would work in five different places. But
often you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That professor seemed to think it was important to read
all one hundred pages. I guess, yes, kat oh no,
I just watching the video.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean she she it continues on a little bit
past that, but she just had a total attitude on
her too with that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. Interesting she was.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't know why you mentioned this in the notes
that she was in her twenties.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh twenties.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She looks like mid twenties. Oh okay, Yet I meant
she only looks mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
She's not.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Okay, guys, Yeah, I don't know how old she is,
but I it wasn't. I didn't want it to come
off like it was a child. You know this is
you know, a young adult, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And you know what I had in my head is
from when I taught a few college classes, like intro
classes in college, when I was in a master's program.
Non trads, the non trads are the people that are
going to be a pain in the ass. You know why,
because they got real lives, They're paying for it with
their own money, and they are way more demanding than
(04:35):
the college kids are. Just you could say care, they
care in other words, yeah, in other words, to the
regular kids, you could say, you know what, we're gonna
cut it short today and get out of here, and
they'd be all like, whoa the non Treadslingho, No, wait
a second, I got a sitter. I took an hour
of work. We're gonna be here the whole hour, and
you're gonna teach me.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Something, right? Yeah? Yeah, totally gets that.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah I did too, Yes, Michael, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I have mixed feelings about that clip because some professors
I've dealt with, they just though they do not like
the idea that things have changed, that the way you
learn has changed, and they just they want to be
stuck in the library days and they can't accept the
fact that it's not like that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Certain.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, and there's just there are some people who read
much more quickly than others, and I always resented it.
As a left hander, I wrote more slowly and painstakingly
than all the writing's in my classes. And I was
in a program where the final exam was here's your question.
You got three hours tell me everything you know, and
it would just be a frantic ritathon. And man, I
(05:38):
was just desperate to be able to type. But you
couldn't do that back in the day for no good
reason either, for no good reason. Yeah, I can't help,
but I was born left handed. There were moments I
was thinking, you know, I always thought it was cruel
and horrific the parents who forced their kid to learn
to write right handed. I kind of wish my parents
had Anyway, I got over the trauma and have done
all right in life.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You have a stutter or a blinking on or something.
If they'd done that, that doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Interest some sort of problem with pooping or who knows,
manifest itself in any different ways.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So, yes, Kitty, I had I have one short thing.
I want to take it back to Booze. Really fast.
You guys are talking about the drunk pilot throttle. I
went to a local watering hole yesterday, awesome, and I
had a key Lime Pie shot.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Do tell members of the staff are still doing shots.
That's fantastic, you do, key Lime Pie show a key
and I thought of Joe instantly because it was booze
and key lime Pie put together, sleeze.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I tell you what, when I'm on my deathbed, bring
me one of those. Did you get it? It was?
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Did it taste like key Lime Pie?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh yeah, actually like scarily similar?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And did it make boring people more interesting? Of course
it did? It was. I had to mention during the show,
the show, I hit the booze last night after two
weeks off, just had a little bit of scotch. It
was nice. It was fine.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So it was dry half of January.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Do you get to make up your own roles?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh? Hell yeah? Do whatever I want. You want to
fight me, huh? Sober, but I'm still belligerent.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Do you have to grow a beard in Provember? No
you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, No, I do what I want. I'm an individual,
a bunch of sheep anyway, so first of all, a
serious note from a beloved listener, and then some dessert,
perhaps a keelm pie shot if you will. That has
to do with eroon musk.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, I brought that up.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Which we discussed during the One More Thing? Was it yesterday?
It doesn't matter. A terrible story an elon musk look
alike in Asia, and the joke is because in many
Asian languages the L sound doesn't exist, and so Asian
struggle to pronounce it correctly and often go with an
R instead because it's close eeron musk a reference to
that which is historically fascinating.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, seriously, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
But first, this from Momnonymous. I think she sets it
up quite beautifully. She says, thank you for all you
do to support our troops and those who serve. You're welcome.
It is the least we can do. I know I'm
a little late to the discussion about Pete Heggss, you're
not at all, but life happens. My husband and I
have three sons, all of whom are in the army.
I could share many stories, but I'll keep this brief.
Our oldest is doing well. Our middle son is currently
(08:30):
on a training deployment in Europe. The country he and
his unit were in, things went well. The country they
are now in has been an awful experience. They are
on a foreign base and those foreign troops do not
want them there. Ooh, that has been made perfectly clear
to them. The first three weeks they were there, the
barracks were empty, but our troops stayed intense in the
freezing rain and fog. Everyone was getting sick because they
(08:52):
couldn't keep anything dry. They were moved finally to the
barracks and that helped. However, they they are being fed
bulk mre type food and child's eye portions. Our son
has lost almost twenty pounds in less than two months
they've been there.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No, No, that should not happen. No, no, Now what
country is this? And how badly do we need to
have our troops there? That's horrible.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
They are supposed to be their training and is a
show of force. I think I could guess where they are,
but they are in horrible condition, not ready for anything,
much less they show a force. Excuse me while I sneeze.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
H oh, bird flow, and where do you think they are?
Because she didn't tell you? So that's not going to
give anything away.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
No, I don't. She chose not to say, and I
will honor that. Let's see. Oh, here's the part that
gets back to Pete Hegsath. The leadership our middle and
youngest sons have been experiencing in their units has been atrocious.
As a woman. I have nothing against women being in charge,
(09:51):
but competence matters. At one ceremony we attended some time ago,
the brigade commander was a woman. She looked and spoke
like a sorority girl. Un said, none of the guys
in training nor the drill sergeants had any respect for her.
She was a graduate from West Point and may have
been very good at her academics, but she had no
real experience to help her lead a brigade of infantrymen.
One unit we have some knowledge of has several trends.
(10:14):
Individuals in leadership positions. These individuals several really, these individuals
have been incredibly difficult and hostile to work with and
make the issue an issue constantly. Oh shocking. I could
go on and on. I guess my point in writing
is to say we desperately need change at the top
of our military. I know it is a monstrous bureaucracy,
(10:36):
and change is so difficult. Difficult, However, I'm looking forward
to what can possibly be done to get back to
basics and having Pete Hegsweth work to strengthen the lethality
and competence of our troops. And then she says some
really nice things, including that her fellows like to listen
to the show whenever they can. We got them all
shirts from your store for Christmas. They love them. Thanks Mom, Anonymous,
(10:59):
Thank you to Mononymous as sons. And I wish there
was more we could do for you, But I would
love to hear more stories from the bottom up about
the woke leadership, the sense of the branches of the
(11:21):
military being social experiments as opposed to branches of the
military or job programs or what have you. I think
it's incredibly, incredibly important, not just to those of you serving,
but to the strength and endurance of the United States.
So yeah, hit us with emails, mail bag at Armstrong
and getdy dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So is this one of those situations where we're putting
our troops somewhere where it's not a surprise they don't
want us, but it helps the United States? Or is
it some country that wants us there.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Both. There are some governments currently serving in various parts
of Europe that are NATO allies and alleged allies, but
the current regimes are very chilly to the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Then you.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Secretary of State Jack Armstrong there with a strong statement,
I hear you. You're gonna treat our guys like that.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Good luck fighting the Russians.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Good solid slapping is in order of some sort, whether
diplomatic or financial or whatever. All Right, I promised the
key lime shot of mirth or or perspective perspective.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I said, what was last night? A Wednesday? So you're drinking?
You're doing shots on a Wednesday night?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I did a shot. That's a Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
We went to dinner with some friends and stopped in
this this it's a bar that used to be a
bank back in the nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Love those a couple of these days. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Yeah,
and a good time was had by all clearly. Oh yeah,
it was awesome. That's good. That's super.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Do a key lime shot or is that not a
kind of because not a very I'm not doing key
lime shots.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Probably I believe he did, because the bartender we didn't
get you judging.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, I would just I would take off my jacket
like a girl and drink whiskey like a man.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, it wasn't an order.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
He the bartender was more of the bartender coming over
and go hey, look what I can do, and made
us all one of his signature drinks.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I guess yeah, I tell you, you know, what's the
best shots I've ever enjoyed in my life. And I'm
not a shot guy, because I'm an old man. I like,
you know, lovingly sipping a reasonably high dollar scotch. But
if you're on the golf course playing on a cold
day and somebody buys some you know, like what's the
cinnamon whiskey? Fireball? Fireball? Fireball shot at the turn, that's
(13:43):
a happy thing. That's not a bad thing at all,
depending on the hour of the day. Of course, let's
be decent about this and how soon you have to
pilot a plane? All right? Exactly? Thank god, I don't
alert listener. Diane has sent this along, faithful listener. She
signs off, says some very nice things about the show.
(14:04):
Thank you very much, Diane. My dad fought in w
W two, She writes, he didn't talk much about his experiences.
Oh and her headliner title or subject is true story
re Iran Musk. He didn't talk much about his experiences,
as most survivors of World War Two didn't. But one
(14:25):
thing he told me that was for their safety and
he served in the Pacific Campaign. Their safe words, their
code words, were frequently lucy love because the Japanese, no
matter how fluent they were in English, could not pronounce
(14:48):
that phrase correctly. If they were called to use the
safe words and the response was rusy rove. They were
facing Japanese soldiers. It does not sound pc out of context,
but they were life savers during the war.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right. I don't know what Eroon Musk would think of
that now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And Katie, I've been fascinated by this since I was
a kid, partly as have a student of World War
Two and a German student for many many years. I
just became fascinated with the Riisenfollen, Third Raich, World War two,
the rest of it, and the concept of during these
confused battles in the dark in the woods, where one
side would advance and then maybe fall back a little bit,
(15:28):
but they were in front of where the other guys
were and it got really confused where the quote unquote
lines were because there were lines, and you had spies
and people trained in the other language all over the battlefield.
And so it's in the dark in the Battle of
the Bulge, You're in the Ardennes forest and you have
(15:50):
somebody approaching your line saying don't shoot, don't shoot, speaking
perfect English, and the way they had safe words and
codewords and would ask questions. You know, how many World
series did Babe Ruth win with the Mets. Of course,
the Mets didn't exist at that point, but that sort
(16:11):
of thing. They would ask questions like that because you
could study like everything you thought you needed to know,
and everybody freaking knew Babe Ruth had never played with
the I'm trying to think what teams existed the Cubs
at that time, but they would ask each other questions
like that, wow, while holding the guy a gunpoint Yeah,
(16:31):
and if the guy said two World series with the
Cubs shooting Louie Bluey exact Blue Blue or are you
taking prisoner if you could? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Have you guys ever seen this show The Lucy.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Lucy rub the show The Man in the High Castle.
I did. I watched the first, like two seasons.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh, that was such a great show.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
When you talk about World War Two, I just I
remember watching that and how vastly different the world.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Could have been. And your capsule is the Axis Powers
win World War two and have occupied America and split it.
The Japanese run the western US, the Nazis run the
Eastern US roughly, and their conflicts between them too. You
know what, Katie, I stopped watching it because it was
so relentlessly gut wrenchingly, grindingly suspenseful and.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Wow, wow, it sounds like something I would like. I
love that sort of thing. I want to turn off
a show and think that was I'm miserable, now that's
what I want.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, you would be. Yeah, it was just it was
so suspenseful and just and miserable because the country had
been taken over and these people were trying to survive
and fight back. They're part of the resistance or whatever,
and we're getting betrayed or they didn't know who to trust.
And again it was beautifully done. But you know, I
find life a bit stressful and frightening. I prefer lighter,
(17:55):
fair in the evening and then a nice lumpie shot.
So good just it just is you fall asleep.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I only watch sitcoms with a laugh track, so I
know when to laugh. Well, I guess that's it.
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