Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie
Speaker 1: and now he arms Did anybody else walk into work.
Speaker 2: With a fiddle? Today? Did you.
Speaker 3: Live from Studio C Season R, a dimly lit room
Speaker 3: deeper in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications
Speaker 3: Compound on a little Friday.
Speaker 2: It's Thursday. It's the last show of the year.
Speaker 3: Really, we got our clips of the year show tomorrow,
Speaker 3: but it's the last pre flowing show.
Speaker 2: And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Speaker 2: the President. I guess why's the president's general manager? Because
Speaker 2: he gave a big speech. He was yelling at me.
Speaker 2: I would argue with the word big. I don't I
Speaker 2: don't like I'm yelling at me. He was yelling at me.
Speaker 2: I'd argue with the word big. It was a primetime address,
Speaker 2: Jack was it? It's the matter with you?
Speaker 3: That's right right there in the middle of the primetime
Speaker 3: he addressed us. How is that a term that has
Speaker 3: any meaning primetime television? I don't think it probably does not, really, no,
Speaker 3: because all the meaning was built around this is when
Speaker 3: the most watched shows were on in the evening.
Speaker 2: But between dinner and bedtime.
Speaker 3: But nobody watches shows when they're on anymore, like nobody,
Speaker 3: So I don't know if that's a term, that's an
Speaker 3: anachronistic term.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose it's a fairly convenient time for most
Speaker 3: people to watch it live if they had the inclination.
Speaker 2: If there's a sporting event on or something like that,
Speaker 2: well sure, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: For instance, they're a presidential address, I didn't watch. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I forgot what was happening. And I do this for
Speaker 3: a living. Well, you know, we'll remember this tomorrow. Nobody
Speaker 3: so well, in spite of that, we've got hours of
Speaker 3: analysis of the president's aggressive speech.
Speaker 2: Stay with us.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll put in my earbuds and listen to the
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift CD.
Speaker 2: I did hear. And this kind of fits in with
Speaker 2: what I just brought up.
Speaker 3: The Oscars announced starting in a couple of years, it's
Speaker 3: no longer going to be on television, it's going to
Speaker 3: be on YouTube. And I can't tell if that's a
Speaker 3: recognition that it's over and nobody cares anymore, or if
Speaker 3: that's just like being modern and cool and moving over
Speaker 3: to the platform where everybody is. I don't know if
Speaker 3: that would be a good means that it's on YouTube,
Speaker 3: you know, it'd be a good publicity stunt. You see
Speaker 3: this once in a while. I remember there have been
Speaker 3: like concerts and stuff that are like a nationwide simulcast
Speaker 3: in theaters. Mm hmm. Tell you what, Hollywood, you can
Speaker 3: have that for free. I'd appreciate an invite maybe to
Speaker 3: the ceremony, but I can't go because y'all sicking me,
Speaker 3: all sicking me. Yeah, that'd be a good idea. Uh oh,
Speaker 3: the changing nature of media. That was our theme there,
Speaker 3: and uh wasn't How would you so if the oscars
Speaker 3: are on YouTube, you would go to YouTube and then
Speaker 3: there'd be a live something there'd yeah, live.
Speaker 2: Stream and then you could watch it later.
Speaker 3: Clearly, Yeah, okay, we're going to be on YouTube starting
Speaker 3: next year, right, I believe?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is that is that a secret in some form?
Speaker 2: And I don't think so. I don't know how it
Speaker 2: could be a secret.
Speaker 3: We're using our own money to buy cameras, so it
Speaker 3: feel like if I use my own money to buy something,
Speaker 3: I can say whatever the hell I want.
Speaker 2: Well, oh, I thought you were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't give a crap what anybody thanks for us,
Speaker 3: And I can't imagine why we would want to keep
Speaker 3: it secret right others than you know we we we
Speaker 3: give a date and then keep failing to meet it,
Speaker 3: because that could happen this. Michael, you have a question
Speaker 3: about us being on YouTube starting in twenty six a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we have time to get the holiday weight off,
Speaker 2: because I.
Speaker 3: Just that's a good question. We don't want to start
Speaker 3: at jan five when we come back. Let's wait till
Speaker 3: we get that holiday weight off. Well, we've invested a
Speaker 3: good five six million dollars in CGI, Michael, so I
Speaker 3: myself will be looking like a Hemsworth when we debut,
Speaker 3: so we can craft whatever look you like for you. Seriously,
Speaker 3: I know people that use filters, and I'm familiar with
Speaker 3: the filters you use, like if you take a picture
Speaker 3: if you want to do something, but I don't know
Speaker 3: how people do it on video, but they do where
Speaker 3: you just you look thinner on your video, and we
Speaker 3: got to do that. Why wouldn't we whatever, Why wouldn't
Speaker 3: we handsome ourselves up a little bit lit? You know,
Speaker 3: little eye candy, go go go right ahead, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure what good that would do. I can't imagine. Do
Speaker 3: we need to start dressing better when I mean I
Speaker 3: wear a suit to work a lot anyway.
Speaker 2: But when we're going to be on YouTube and the
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 3: I'm willing to discuss it. I don't care about the
Speaker 3: clothing or anything like that. I care about the lighting.
Speaker 3: I hate that washed out looks like you're doing it
Speaker 3: from your basement in nineteen seventy eight. Look that sometimes
Speaker 3: you get with videos, right, but you insist on working
Speaker 3: in the dark, nos Feratu, So I'm not sure what
Speaker 3: sort of lighting you will consent to.
Speaker 2: Very dark.
Speaker 3: I want people to barely people to tell us a
Speaker 3: person there, like a hostage tape, fair enough, like when
Speaker 3: sixty minutes has somebody on and trying to conceal their identity.
Speaker 2: That's what I want. Like my video feed to look
Speaker 2: like beautiful. Yeah, like I said, I'm willing to discuss it.
Speaker 2: I don't you know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: There are people making zillions of dollars in T shirts
Speaker 3: on your video and stuff, and I don't know why
Speaker 3: you do that, though I mean I know people do,
Speaker 3: I just I don't know why you'd go.
Speaker 2: Out of your way to look as horrible as possible.
Speaker 3: I mean, Joe Rogan makes a gazillion dollars, but I
Speaker 3: feel like he goes out not.
Speaker 2: A blood stained T shirt horrible.
Speaker 3: He feels like he seems like he goes out of
Speaker 3: his way to look like he just changed the oil
Speaker 3: in his car before he walked into work. I think
Speaker 3: that's part of his thing, need not be part of
Speaker 3: our thing. I'm just saying. I think is every he's
Speaker 3: every man, average guy, just said er talking to folks.
Speaker 3: The lighting on his show is horrible, and he's got
Speaker 3: endless money to spend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: Obviously doesn't care and it seems to work for him.
Speaker 2: So we're raising money for scouting this week.
Speaker 3: You know that, if you've been listening, we're trying to
Speaker 3: hit one hundred thousand dollars. We clearly need to up
Speaker 3: our goal, which I'm happy to do because we're going
Speaker 3: to hit that this hour, I hope, and we'll get
Speaker 3: to some of the funny donations that came in since
Speaker 3: we got off the air yesterday. But we got a
Speaker 3: couple of fun stunts planned, some cunning stunts, yes, that
Speaker 3: we have planned for the show that include playing motivators.
Speaker 3: I call them Joe playing the trombone, me playing the
Speaker 3: fiddle on Christmas songs until we get a certain amount
Speaker 3: of money. We get these instruments out once per year.
Speaker 3: I know we've asked you nicely. Now we're gonna have
Speaker 3: to get tough, right, and then I think we should
Speaker 3: give this away because it's just it's funny. Katie is
Speaker 3: going to later. We've done many incarnations of this. Way
Speaker 3: back in the day. Our crazy producer who's now dead,
Speaker 3: thank god, because he's a bad person, Dominic. He used
Speaker 3: to sing show tunes and we'd like have him sing
Speaker 3: show tunes and until he raised you know, ten thousand
Speaker 3: dollars or something like that, and he loved singing show tunes.
Speaker 2: Man, he would built him out. He was evil, but
Speaker 2: he was talented.
Speaker 3: No doubt, very very talented, positive sean or old producer.
Speaker 3: He would discuss video games until he reached a certain amount.
Speaker 2: Oh that was torturous.
Speaker 3: And I think her planing today is Katie is going
Speaker 3: to read the legal language of licensing agreements that everybody
Speaker 3: clicks I agree on the terms of use, because he
Speaker 3: got no choice to do anything. She's going to read
Speaker 3: those until we reach a certain amount of money later,
Speaker 3: so that'll be in the right. That's a punishing thing.
Speaker 3: I'm actually kind of interested in hearing some of that,
Speaker 3: since I never read them. Your eyes look gloss over,
Speaker 3: and you will cease comprehending it a sentence and a half.
Speaker 2: In no kidding, that's how they get him.
Speaker 3: We'll get to why you should donate the scouting and
Speaker 3: and where we are and all that sort of stuff
Speaker 3: a little bit later, and we do have some news
Speaker 3: of the day, we should start the show officially. Yes,
Speaker 3: your mouth, you know it's It's just he could tell
Speaker 3: by the look on my face. It just occurred to me.
Speaker 3: We should have an on air meeting about what look
Speaker 3: we should present for the YouTube thing. We should talk
Speaker 3: about it, I mean, because there it occurs to me.
Speaker 3: All right, look, what's our thing. We're both reasonable guys,
Speaker 3: Midwestern guys. We just we don't particularly like being bamboozled.
Speaker 3: We're not so tribal, our sides always right, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: We're reasonable. I think that's.
Speaker 3: More or less our image. Any any dissent in a
Speaker 3: comment to feel free, anybody can jump in. Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 3: So you know there's nothing wrong with looking nice, because
Speaker 3: if you look nice, you can act like a clown.
Speaker 3: But if you look like a clown, you'll never get
Speaker 3: the perception of you know, your you're a respectable person.
Speaker 2: That's always been our philosophy, Katie.
Speaker 3: Through the years, We've always shown up to events looking
Speaker 3: really nice, because then we can be jackasses and we
Speaker 3: get away with it. There's also you just I think
Speaker 3: you get taken more seriously immediately if you look better.
Speaker 3: That's and I've been trying to convince my son of that,
Speaker 3: as he complains, sometimes they followed me around the storeline
Speaker 3: when we're criminal. You know why you look like a criminal.
Speaker 3: You dress exactly like a criminal dresses. That's why they're
Speaker 3: following you around the store. To the math, I've just
Speaker 3: gott to figure out who do I admire? Who does
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff on camera? Neil Ferguson of the
Speaker 3: late Chris Hitchins, who went often went with the like
Speaker 3: nice dress shirt. He stopped wearing a couple of buttons
Speaker 3: and button. Well, that's when he got fat when he
Speaker 3: was younger. If you watch younger videos, he was off
Speaker 3: in mini suit. Yes, well he got too fat to
Speaker 3: button the top button. Yeah, there'll be no tie.
Speaker 2: I'm not wearing a tie. But I wear a suit
Speaker 2: a lot of times. I don't.
Speaker 3: I suppose I'm not gonna change your way a dress
Speaker 3: at all. I wear a suit a lot of days
Speaker 3: and then some days I don't.
Speaker 2: So whatever I don't, that's probably the end of the
Speaker 2: thought I will put into that. Again. I'm more concerned
Speaker 2: about that. That's why we fail. Your lack of thought.
Speaker 3: I'm more concerned about the lighting and dim dimly lit,
Speaker 3: barely see me across the room. All right, let's not
Speaker 3: let's listen reporting live from the blackout.
Speaker 2: We have Jack Armstrong. Let's not put it all out
Speaker 2: there and horrified people. All right. I want to do that.
Speaker 3: Like the scandalous Vanity Fair pictures, that whole Susie Wilds interview.
Speaker 3: That's the other part we didn't talk about yesterday. The
Speaker 3: Vanity Fair intentionally made all the pictures make the members
Speaker 3: of the cabinet and staff look extra ugly.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know anything about that. I want to
Speaker 2: talk about that later. Hit piece, totally hit piece.
Speaker 3: I want to be like Blanche and street car named Desire,
Speaker 3: always over in the corner in the dark, trying to
Speaker 3: preserve our youthful look so people can't see how I've aged.
Speaker 2: Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this it is Thursday, December eighteenth,
Speaker 3: he or twenty twenty five, where Armstrong in getting We
Speaker 3: approve of this program. Okay, let's begin officially then, according
Speaker 3: to FCC rules of regulations here, we are leaving into
Speaker 3: action at mark.
Speaker 2: Any wear red any red shirt but Charlie kirkshirt. Yes,
Speaker 2: oh yes, I know. Are you stupid?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Why the would you wear that? You're at work at Target?
Speaker 2: Your support a racist and it's not racist? Yes, So we.
Speaker 3: Talked about this yesterday. That might be the worst person
Speaker 3: in America. Certainly ranks up there. You're a horrible, horrible
Speaker 3: human being. Anyway, And it happened actually locally to us.
Speaker 3: It's become a giant national story that happened locally to us.
Speaker 3: We're huge in Chico where this happened. Yeah, I love Chico.
Speaker 3: Hey Chico. Yeah, this awful, awful, mean woman chewing out
Speaker 3: an obscene fashion and elderly Target worker because the worker
Speaker 3: dared to have a.
Speaker 2: T shirt on that had Charlie Kirk's name.
Speaker 3: On there and the woman who started dropping f bombs
Speaker 3: on a nice old lady working probably holiday shifts to
Speaker 3: make a little extra money. She posted this herself, so
Speaker 3: he was so certain she was on the right side
Speaker 3: of this topic, to make it so everybody could see
Speaker 3: how cool she is. Didn't quite work out that way
Speaker 3: for her. As the Internet gets its own revenge. We'll
Speaker 3: talk more about that coming up. Play the whole thing.
Speaker 3: If you haven't heard it, God, that got me all
Speaker 3: worked up hearing it again. I heard it yesterday.
Speaker 2: What a horrible human being.
Speaker 3: Well in the sweet old gal from Target who handled
Speaker 3: it as well as any human being possibly could. She
Speaker 3: has weighed in on the controversy, so we'll have that
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: And then there's a go fundme.
Speaker 3: For her, of course, because that's the way we have
Speaker 3: to do things at mont America. She should a financial
Speaker 3: losses what we got Katie's headlines on the way. If
Speaker 3: you want to donate to the Scouts before we get
Speaker 3: to our next update and go to Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: dot com.
Speaker 2: So love the funny names people come up with.
Speaker 3: The donate money to our causes every single year, and
Speaker 3: this year, trying to raise money for the scouts.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you more about that a little bit.
Speaker 3: But we got sixty five dollars from Adam Carolla's sink.
Speaker 2: Well you know that story. Enjoy it.
Speaker 3: But wow, Kudo's friend for that deep poll. Oh, we
Speaker 3: had at it. We interviewed Adam Caroll or we were
Speaker 3: on his show, or he was on our show, I
Speaker 3: don't remember what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking to him about a book that I
Speaker 2: think he had coming out.
Speaker 3: He was on our show, and then he told a
Speaker 3: story on his show about how he was doing an
Speaker 3: interview with a couple of disjockeys or whatever and he
Speaker 3: had to urinate and he went over and urinated in
Speaker 3: the sink while he was doing the interview. And somebody
Speaker 3: was listening to our interview of him and was able
Speaker 3: to pick out the point where he did it well,
Speaker 3: because he got really distracted because he he peed on
Speaker 3: his shirt. As I recall, hmmm, that was last that.
Speaker 3: That was not a sign I like Adam Carol, but
Speaker 3: it was not a sign. That was not a sign
Speaker 3: of respect for us. Well, that was a sign of
Speaker 3: a full bladder. Wow, he's an older fellow. Listen, are
Speaker 3: you judging?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Speaker 3: Katy Green and Katie all.
Speaker 5: Right, Trump's truck Boo Take two. Trump's primetime speech. Is
Speaker 5: it the top of the list today NBC. Trump seeks
Speaker 5: to defend his economy in primetime speech to the nation
Speaker 5: USA Today. Trump plays the blame game in White House
Speaker 5: address and CNN fact JACKA Wow, I am having a
Speaker 5: rough time today CNN fact check. Trump repeats numerous false
Speaker 5: claims in primetime address.
Speaker 3: I want to go over some of the big newspapers
Speaker 3: in their coverage as well. The New York Times was
Speaker 3: more or less lying. Trump lies to nation as incompetent boob,
Speaker 3: yells at people and deflex blame. And then you got
Speaker 3: the New York Post who said Trump's used lots of charts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And obviously if Joe Biden stands up there and does
Speaker 3: like most presidents do and says things that aren't true.
Speaker 2: They don't mention it in his case, right, of course.
Speaker 5: ABC inflation drops to lowest level in months, defying expectations
Speaker 5: of uptick.
Speaker 3: By the way, I just saw a poll quinnipiax out
Speaker 3: Democrats in Congress lowest approval they've ever had at eighteen percent,
Speaker 3: So there's lots of unpopularity to go around.
Speaker 5: Wow, from Wired, people are paying to get their chat
Speaker 5: bots high on drugs?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: There is an online marketplace that is selling codes that
Speaker 5: simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol
Speaker 5: when they're uploaded into chat GPT.
Speaker 2: I don't understand that. I gotta admit to being a
Speaker 2: little curious about this. That's that's an insane idea. Now
Speaker 2: I am too. I don't know why you'd want to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: I have to look into that story from the New
Speaker 3: York Post, Welcome to your steamy new holiday fetish, Santa Claus.
Speaker 2: Santa Claus is a holiday fetish. These people are called Santaphiles.
Speaker 2: Oh are they?
Speaker 3: And there's three of them in the world And somebody
Speaker 3: did a story on it. Act like it's sweeping the nation.
Speaker 3: Straight out of your favorite holiday movie. Bad Santa Katie.
Speaker 2: I know it.
Speaker 5: From study Fines, screen Time officially tops chores as America's
Speaker 5: number one family fight.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt that a bit. I haven't. It's interesting.
Speaker 5: And finally, from the Babylon Bee Struggling Chiefs trade Taylor
Speaker 5: Swift for New It Girl Sydney Sweeney in a bid
Speaker 5: to save their season.
Speaker 3: I saw the other day it's the end of the
Speaker 3: Mahomes Kelsey era. Is that the idea that Kelsey's going
Speaker 3: to retire? Yeah, well there's a lot of speculation around that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Mahomes ain't going anywhere. You wouldn't think. We
Speaker 2: got some news of the day to catch you up on.
Speaker 3: We'll do another pitch in case you haven't heard of
Speaker 3: why donating to the Scouts is a really good idea.
Speaker 3: And we'll see where we can get today and where
Speaker 3: we are with the total and got some fun things
Speaker 3: planned for a little bit later. We're still on the
Speaker 3: cusp of going to war with Venezuela, it looks like.
Speaker 3: And I was kind of interested that the President didn't
Speaker 3: mention that at all last night. I thought maybe he
Speaker 3: would sell that policy a little bit in his address,
Speaker 3: but he didn't get into that at all.
Speaker 2: Just the economy. More on that coming up. If you
Speaker 2: miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: It was just anounced that after fifty years, the Oscars
Speaker 4: will soon leave ABC an air on YouTube, So now
Speaker 4: you'll hear and the Oscar goes to and then have
Speaker 4: to watch the thirty second ads for.
Speaker 2: Royal Kingdom Save the King.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you think the Oscars on YouTube is strange,
Speaker 4: it has heard the Tonys are moving to OnlyFans.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So we're raising money this week with the idea that
Speaker 3: more kids will have access to Scouting as we can
Speaker 3: pay the.
Speaker 2: Fee of a couple hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: It takes a family to get their kid into scouting,
Speaker 3: and sometimes that's enough to keep you know, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got a kid that you'd like to get into Scouting
Speaker 3: or they'd like to get into Scouting, and you don't
Speaker 3: have the money. So we're trying to come up with
Speaker 3: the money to cover that, and a lot of people donating.
Speaker 3: We got a donation a little bit ago from somebody
Speaker 3: who said, former Scout who joined the Marines, And it's
Speaker 3: quite common for people to have that track scouting to
Speaker 3: the military because there's a lot of similar sorts of
Speaker 3: things in there, serving your country, patriotism, all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: And I really really like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And one of the things I noticed since my
Speaker 3: kid got into scouting is it's they try to teach
Speaker 3: it as a lifestyle, is like you're a Scout kind
Speaker 3: of like, you know, the way marines talk about always
Speaker 3: being a marine. You're a scout, and my son, I
Speaker 3: see my scout, and I've seen some of the other
Speaker 3: scouts that he's around act this way where my son's
Speaker 3: at home. I'm a scout, so I have to take
Speaker 3: the trash out. What else can I help you with
Speaker 3: that sort of thing? Oh, Whi's a sense of identity
Speaker 3: divorced from our perverse, you know, popular culture that comes
Speaker 3: with a duty and responsibility. It's just that's fantastic. And again,
Speaker 3: as I said, what other thing you got out there
Speaker 3: where they're saying the Pledge of Allegiance every week and
Speaker 3: putting up the US flag. That's kind of disappeared from
Speaker 3: from our life. Anyway, we'll talk more about scouting a
Speaker 3: little bit later. Just wanted to hit you with a total.
Speaker 3: Oh and so we had some whales come in since
Speaker 3: we got off the air yesterday.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael Wales, I think off the starbow tis the
Speaker 2: pod a lot of Whalesjeez, a whole pot of whales.
Speaker 3: Sean Hansen, thanks for a thousand bucks, double Mousie, one
Speaker 3: thousand bucks. Jim Merriman, also a grand Brian Shannon came
Speaker 3: in with a grand and if we missed anybody, any
Speaker 3: of the whales, apologize.
Speaker 2: Those are some good numbers. And then some of you
Speaker 2: jokers out there, because I know how you are.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling the whales aren't doing it for
Speaker 3: a claim. I think they're fine. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: more than noticiated. Yes, no doubt may year blubber remain
Speaker 3: blubbery bleeding.
Speaker 2: From my ends and A contributed twenty five dollars. We
Speaker 2: had that worry. What caused that? Well, certainly ebola.
Speaker 3: No, we had a story just recently that it was
Speaker 3: some something caused like one of those bugs that's out
Speaker 3: that just got imported to the United States or something.
Speaker 2: There was something out there that caused that happened.
Speaker 3: Wasn't the monkey pox or the bird floor or the
Speaker 3: marmot fever.
Speaker 2: I don't remember, I don't remember.
Speaker 3: One of our favorites from yesterday was one hundred bucks
Speaker 3: Stomping the Joy out of Life, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: We're going to try to really do less of that
Speaker 3: in the year twenty twenty six. Hell Return the Sausages
Speaker 3: donated one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Was that our clip of the year. Last year, it
Speaker 2: might have been.
Speaker 3: I think it wasn't it second place to Well, it
Speaker 3: may have been. I don't know, I can't remember. I'm
Speaker 3: really looking forward to this year's Clips of the Year
Speaker 3: show tomorrow, in particular, trying to figure out what is
Speaker 3: the clip of the year, because you know, it's such
Speaker 3: a whirlwind of things that happened, stories and clips and
Speaker 3: sound bites and all all year long. I've got to
Speaker 3: be reminded of what the heck we were talking about
Speaker 3: and laughing about. It's always fun. Yeah, that's tomorrow's show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: look forward to that. Corn Pop donated fifty bucks. Thank you,
Speaker 3: corn Pop. I ain't got time for that. In for
Speaker 3: one hundred kama is word salad dressing twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, it's tangy yet spicy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes no sense. That's pretty fantastic anyway, So
Speaker 3: let's get a total here on our way too. And
Speaker 3: I was on another radio station yesterday, very popular radio station.
Speaker 2: They had me on.
Speaker 3: It was very nice of them, as the host had
Speaker 3: recently been involved in an Eagle Scout ceremony, which I
Speaker 3: talked about yesterday. Those are just amazingly impressive, and he
Speaker 3: wanted to help out and I shot my mouth off
Speaker 3: with a new goal. Oh no, So we are currently
Speaker 3: at ninety eight hundred and fifty eight dollars and appreciate.
Speaker 2: That a lot.
Speaker 3: We had a goal this week of one hundred grand.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping we're going to meet that this hour. But
Speaker 3: I shot my mouth up with a goal yesterday of
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty. We got to raise fifty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars during the show today, which I think we can
Speaker 3: with our contests and everything like that. And I'm just
Speaker 3: hoping that there's a lot of you out there that
Speaker 3: all week long have been Yeah, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do that. You just haven't gotten around
Speaker 3: to it yet. Get around to it. It takes just
Speaker 3: a couple of minutes. Go to Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 3: End of speech for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta create some sort of standard. What do
Speaker 3: your routinely spend for a dinner out?
Speaker 2: What are you spending coffee every week? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, whatever you think small amount tiff things are tight,
Speaker 3: or if you're having a great year and you got
Speaker 3: money laying around, you're looking for a good cause given kids,
Speaker 3: you know, role models and discipline and patriotism, all the
Speaker 3: stuff we've talked about.
Speaker 2: What a great thing to do. Anyway, I know it
Speaker 2: was going to be.
Speaker 3: A bit of a slog, and this is a transition
Speaker 3: into the economy and the president talking last night. Knew
Speaker 3: it was going to be a bit of a slog
Speaker 3: raising money based on all the polling around people's attitudes
Speaker 3: about the economy. And it's even worse. There's some new
Speaker 3: polls that came out yesterday and this morning. People are
Speaker 3: sour on the economy. It's gonna be really interesting to
Speaker 3: see where holidays spending lands as a total. Of course,
Speaker 3: you have to keep in mind that the top ten
Speaker 3: percent of income earners are spending half the money out there,
Speaker 3: so it's a little misleading.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm thinking let's go big on the president's address,
Speaker 3: big ish next hour, top next hour. Maybe got some
Speaker 3: interesting commentary and the contrast and coverage I have found
Speaker 3: very very amusing. But to your point, Jack, a couple
Speaker 3: of stories, the second of which is also very amusing.
Speaker 3: One of the headlines I've seen over and over again
Speaker 3: the Wall Street journals on it a lot, obviously, is
Speaker 3: office workers are filled with anxiety. Tuesday's job report an
Speaker 3: o'minous sign in the era of big corporate layoff announcements,
Speaker 3: chief executives warning that our artificial intelligence will replace workers.
Speaker 2: Overall, unemployment is ticked up.
Speaker 3: A lot of white collar not top of the heap,
Speaker 3: you know, z squite workers are getting laid off or
Speaker 3: are not getting hired. And a lot of folks are
Speaker 3: really really concerned. And that's no joke. That's not the
Speaker 3: amusing part. Obviously, nobody's quite sure where this is going
Speaker 3: to go. And that's AI related already. Indeed, yeah wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: and some of it now, a lot of it has
Speaker 3: not yet come home to roost. We're talking mostly about concern.
Speaker 3: There has been some actual layoff for halting and hiring
Speaker 3: based on a related AI. But just a couple more stats.
Speaker 3: Americans with bachelor's degrees are higher. This is asking them now.
Speaker 3: They put the average probability of losing their jobs in
Speaker 3: the next year at fifteen percent, which is up from
Speaker 3: eleven percent three years ago.
Speaker 2: Again, it's a perception thing.
Speaker 3: Workers in this group now think losing a job is
Speaker 3: more likely than those with less education.
Speaker 2: Do, a striking reversal from the past.
Speaker 3: And also they're growing more pessimistic about their ability to
Speaker 3: find a new job if they do get laid off.
Speaker 3: In that same survey, college educated workers say they have
Speaker 3: on average forty seven percent chance of finding a job
Speaker 3: in the next three months if they lost their job today,
Speaker 3: a little less than half, down from sixty percent three
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. It just anecdotally.
Speaker 3: I have someone in my life who does a forklift
Speaker 3: sort of thing in a big warehouse who said, AI
Speaker 3: ain't gonna be able to do what I do for
Speaker 3: quite a while. And I know somebody else in my
Speaker 3: life who's got kind of a cubical job, who thinks
Speaker 3: AI is going to be able to do what I
Speaker 3: do in like a month.
Speaker 2: So, in a related story.
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal, with a very interesting and funny piece
Speaker 3: by Johanna Stern, who does a lot of their tech writing,
Speaker 3: we let AI run our office vending machine. Anthropics Claude
Speaker 3: ran a snack operation in the Wall Street Journal newsroom. Exactually,
Speaker 3: sure what that means? Are you about to tell us
Speaker 3: what that means? Precisely exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In mid November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic contested
Speaker 3: a vending machine powered by its clawed AI model in
Speaker 3: its own offices and asked whether we'd like to be
Speaker 3: the first outsiders to try new or supposedly smarter version Claudius.
Speaker 3: The customized version of the model would run the machine,
Speaker 3: ordering inventory, setting prices, responding to customers setting prices yeah
Speaker 3: via workplace the workplace chat app slack. Sure, I said
Speaker 3: it sounded fun. If nothing else, we'll have snacks, yeah,
Speaker 3: setting prices I imagine which are more or less geared
Speaker 3: to break even. I would think in an office setting anyway.
Speaker 3: So then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given
Speaker 3: away nearly all of its inventory for free, including a
Speaker 3: PlayStation five that had been talked into buying for marketing purposes.
Speaker 2: It ordered a live fish, it.
Speaker 3: Offered device stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes, and underwear. Profits collapsed,
Speaker 3: newsroom morale sword uh yeah. So this was supposed to
Speaker 3: be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software
Speaker 3: would go out into the world and do things for us.
Speaker 3: But two agents Claudius and it's overseeing CEO bots Seymour Cash.
Speaker 3: That's a that's really that's funny. It's dumb, but it's funny.
Speaker 3: Became a case study and how inadequate and easily distracted
Speaker 3: the software can be. Leave it to a business journalist
Speaker 3: to successfully stage the boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.
Speaker 3: So like, I'm running an insurance operation here and I
Speaker 3: decide to sign on claud and everything like that, in
Speaker 3: Claude says, the first thing we need to do is
Speaker 3: get a live fish. You know, why don't we devote
Speaker 3: a good long segment to this story later on?
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny, because yeah, well yeah it is.
Speaker 3: It is funny and interesting and kind of reveals, at
Speaker 3: least to some extent, the current state of AI systems,
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Speaker 3: It's fun to mock the failures when AI fails, but
Speaker 3: just to keep it real. Joe and I were in
Speaker 3: a text conversation with a friend of the show yesterday,
Speaker 3: a very successful, smart guy who understands how to use
Speaker 3: the latest versions of Chat GPT, and it sure looked
Speaker 3: impressive the way of what he was getting out of
Speaker 3: it as a as an assistant to do his work.
Speaker 3: Yes those who process information in one way or another
Speaker 3: for a living. I think they can hear the footsteps
Speaker 3: behind them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that carry way. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Talking with our friend yesterday and the way he was
Speaker 3: using AI, it was reminding me of the what's the
Speaker 3: CEO runs in video the most Valuable company in the world, Worston,
Speaker 3: Where's the cool tom Ford leather jackets. He says, you're
Speaker 3: only going to be replaced by AI if you don't
Speaker 3: jump on right now figuring out how to use AI.
Speaker 3: That's his claim. That's not exactly right, but there's some
Speaker 3: truth to it. You're better off like in engaging what
Speaker 3: is coming, whether you like it or not, and figuring
Speaker 3: out how to use it. Oh yeah, absolutely, No, I
Speaker 3: think that's really good advice. It's not one hundred percent accurate,
Speaker 3: but yeah, those who can use AI to the advantage
Speaker 3: of their company are they most likely to hang on
Speaker 3: to their gigs, clearly, But there's a lot of jobs
Speaker 3: that are going to be uh, that are gonna go away, Yes.
Speaker 2: Katie, Hey guys, Hey, guys, guys, I have a big
Speaker 2: announcement for you. Okay, you had your baby, yes, just now.
Speaker 5: No, we have finally passed one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Now that's a big that's a big news with a
Speaker 2: total of one and sixty eight dollars. That's what I
Speaker 2: like Scouts.
Speaker 3: He had beautiful hair, came in with twenty bucks. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: in honor of the Daisy the Bulldog, five hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five dollars. What's Daisy the bulldog? We had a
Speaker 3: story on that recently. I think was this just their
Speaker 3: own dog? And and here's my favorite, twenty five bucks
Speaker 3: from things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast,
Speaker 3: which I believe was our clip of the year or
Speaker 3: last year or the year before, because it's years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dang true, true things are getting weird and they
Speaker 2: can't wear it fast.
Speaker 3: Fits in with that whole AI conversation. And they've kept
Speaker 3: getting weird and they ain't gonna slow down getting weird
Speaker 3: anytime soon.
Speaker 2: We got we got.
Speaker 3: If you want to donate to the Scouts, go to
Speaker 3: on I'm strong in geddy dot com mail bag on
Speaker 3: the way. So, I don't know if you can hear
Speaker 3: this or how we're playing the do they know it's
Speaker 3: Christmas time at all? When they raised money for hungry
Speaker 3: Africa kids back in the eighties with the band Aid
Speaker 3: Christmas Song, which gets played a lot this time of year.
Speaker 3: And Joe brought up the idea the other day which
Speaker 3: I'd never really thought of before, the whole do they
Speaker 3: know it's Christmas time at all? No? No, And it's
Speaker 3: not because they're hungry. It's because they're Muslim exactly. Certainly
Speaker 3: large majorities are there.
Speaker 2: Which is fine. It's just suck the fun out of it.
Speaker 3: There are plenty of Christians in Africa are now being
Speaker 3: murdered by the Muslims. Yeah, but yeah, do they know
Speaker 3: it's Christmas? Well it might be vaguely aware of it,
Speaker 3: but they certainly don't care. They're Muslims. Here's your freedom
Speaker 3: loving quote of the day in honor of Glenn Beck
Speaker 3: interviewing AI George Washington, which actually was pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, I mean, it's it's funny.
Speaker 3: The lefties criticized it as Glenn Beck interviewing Glenn Beck
Speaker 3: just having George Washington says you had shut up. I
Speaker 3: wish I had a sword right now anyway, not try
Speaker 3: to like the old general George Wood. The broadside of it.
Speaker 3: I'd give him a spanking with him. Anybody through I'm
Speaker 3: no murderer anyway. So here's my favorite quote from George Washington,
Speaker 3: and it offers a little more context than the form
Speaker 3: you usually hear it him. He was addressing the officers
Speaker 3: of the army in March of seventeen eighty three, as
Speaker 3: the war was winding down. He was actually responding to
Speaker 3: an anonymous petition which encouraged officers to protest if Congress
Speaker 3: did not provide the promised pay and pensions. And he
Speaker 3: told his troops that they had some valid points, that
Speaker 3: he supported his officers, but the author's proposed solution to
Speaker 3: mutiny was not the answer. And so the context was very,
Speaker 3: very serious, and he was defending the rights to defend themselves.
Speaker 3: He said, for if men are to be precluded from
Speaker 3: offering their sentiments on him, matter which may involve the
Speaker 3: most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration
Speaker 3: of mankind, reason is of no use to us. The
Speaker 3: freedom of a speech may be taken away, and dumb
Speaker 3: and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.
Speaker 2: Woo. That's a heavy speech.
Speaker 3: So, as he was looking at mutiny, he said, freedom
Speaker 3: of de speech demands you be able to say how
Speaker 3: pissed off you are, and I support that. On the
Speaker 3: other hand, let's not be mutinying. But anyway, it's great
Speaker 3: speech from a great man mailbag.
Speaker 2: And the Internet didn't get a chance to clap back.
Speaker 3: Drump's note mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Mike
Speaker 3: on how we should dress when we're on YouTube supert
Speaker 3: impressions Joe and T shirt and jeans is the deep
Speaker 3: intellectual thinker type Jack in suits as the pie eater?
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a little That sound unfair. The
Speaker 2: man has a love for pie.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that is your being. Is he's the
Speaker 3: pie eater? Well, I'll have done in my life.
Speaker 2: That's dismissive. A parent's a citizen. It's all been reduced
Speaker 2: to the pie eater. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, Well you can't control your own legacy, just like Washington.
Speaker 3: He geta told you that, then he has slap you
Speaker 3: with his sword. Let's see Ryan in Houston. Always good
Speaker 3: to hear from Ryan. Thank you for another year. Well,
Speaker 3: your topics sometimes made me want to stick my head
Speaker 3: in the oven. The show has been a solid rock,
Speaker 3: has helped me keep going. Joe enjoyed the nog. You
Speaker 3: can read the newspaper through while you continue to be
Speaker 3: the cold warrior.
Speaker 2: I can't drink eggnog like that anymore. I just know.
Speaker 3: No, it's much milder than he used to be. Jack,
Speaker 3: be as fancy as you want to be. Thanks for
Speaker 3: showing how powerful a good single dad can be. Michael
Speaker 3: Angelo continued to be a national treasure. Katie enjoyed Jack
Speaker 3: Joe Mike Mike Hanson continued to be the world's leader of.
Speaker 2: Wacky a music.
Speaker 3: Don't lose the Fist in twenty six I have no
Speaker 3: idea what that means, don't lose the We were putting
Speaker 3: the fist back in sophistication. Oh that was our sl
Speaker 3: logan for a long time. We put the fist back
Speaker 3: in sophistication. Whatever that way that means. Sorry, quick a
Speaker 3: sip of coffee, let's see uh. Joel the Ocean Side
Speaker 3: Marine pointing out that remember, Gary Busey was involved in
Speaker 3: a serious motorcycle accident in the late eighties. Yeah, uh suffered.
Speaker 3: TBI became a staunch advocate of helmet laws, but had
Speaker 3: some real brain damage. And then he says his harmless
Speaker 3: social media post may bring him joy, So I say
Speaker 3: let him do it until he starts revealing his Social
Speaker 3: Security number of personal address. As a goose hunter, I
Speaker 3: appreciate him trying to attract birds from me.
Speaker 2: I B YJG. Keep honking if it brings you joy. Gary.
Speaker 3: I'd rather he does that than continues to masturbate on
Speaker 3: La Park benches allegedly, Joel, I think there was video.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what. I didn't have time to get
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 3: We've had we've had this company offer to dub our
Speaker 3: podcast in foreign languages. Yes, finally for foreign audiences, so
Speaker 3: we can become a global media power.
Speaker 2: Good for news for you, Bangladesh.
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