Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Good to hear it. I got a couple of sick
Speaker 2: kids in my house. Always a dragon.
Speaker 1: Oh man, there's so many bugs going around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one includes vomiting, which hasn't happened yet in
Speaker 2: my home. Thank goodness. That's that's a that's a long night.
Speaker 2: Whenever that happens.
Speaker 1: Stop at the wall, murder the tarja your choice. Buy
Speaker 1: a bunch of bathroom sized trash cans, litter them around,
Speaker 1: seat them around the house everywhere.
Speaker 2: I got one kid that can make it to a
Speaker 2: trash can when that happens, but one that can't. I've
Speaker 2: never been in instant like as mentioned, this happened at
Speaker 2: band practice. I'm sorry this is gross, but somebody at
Speaker 2: the band practice the other night vomited all over their
Speaker 2: drum and then the band teacher was running around. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, oh my god. Oh but I've never took
Speaker 2: so gross. I've never had the out of nowhere. Mine's
Speaker 2: always like way lead up. It's almost like I get
Speaker 2: an email you're gonna vomit in about a half an hour,
Speaker 2: and I mean I got a tremendous lead up in
Speaker 2: time to deal it. You end up having to root
Speaker 2: for it. Yeah, he can, we get this over with place, right.
Speaker 2: I've never had to just out of nowhere. Surprises me. Uh,
Speaker 2: unless it was drinking. Apparently, I've been told that I
Speaker 2: had had that happen a few times when I was drinking.
Speaker 2: I'm not aware of this situation, but that's would have
Speaker 2: been described to me all over the inside of my
Speaker 2: friend's new car.
Speaker 1: Yep, oh boy, oh boy, this is apropos nothing. Then
Speaker 1: we can get onto the business of the day. But
Speaker 1: JP in Central Illinois where I used to live, just
Speaker 1: sent this this tweet from this woman I've never heard of.
Speaker 1: But this is the entire thing. Violence is not the answer.
Speaker 1: The answer is opens history book.
Speaker 2: Uh oh.
Speaker 1: Frantically starts flipping through the pages. Oh oh, oh, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: uh oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get to the point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, violence has never solved anything except Nazism, communism,
Speaker 1: England's oppression of the colonies, on and on and on
Speaker 1: and on.
Speaker 2: Ending slavery, all kinds of different things. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so much is being made of the moment Trump is
Speaker 2: having right now where he's never been higher in his
Speaker 2: life than he is at age seventy eight, the highest
Speaker 2: approval ratings, the highest people from all quarters coming to
Speaker 2: try to get, you know, his approval or wanting his approval.
Speaker 2: It's just stunning. It's quite stunning. And I'll read through
Speaker 2: some of the analysis of this today in Mark Alpern's
Speaker 2: newsletter that I thought was really really interesting and you're
Speaker 2: gonna like it if you're a Trump fan. But here's
Speaker 2: an example of a different Trump, because you can picture
Speaker 2: other ways he would have answered this. There was I
Speaker 2: don't know if the questions in this or not. I'll
Speaker 2: mention it just in case. It's about Republican senators who
Speaker 2: don't vote for your cabinet picks. Are you going to
Speaker 2: go after them? Are you going to try to you know,
Speaker 2: boot them out of office? Here's Trump senators who.
Speaker 3: Oppose your nominees, your cabinet nominee.
Speaker 2: Should they be.
Speaker 4: Promer If they are unreasonable, I'll give you a different
Speaker 4: answer and answer that you'll be shocked to hear. If
Speaker 4: they're unreasonable, if they're opposing somebody for political reasons or
Speaker 4: stupid reasons, I would say, has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 4: I would say they probably would be primary. But if
Speaker 4: they're reasonable, fair and really disagree with something or somebody, I.
Speaker 2: Could see that happening.
Speaker 4: But I do believe that if they're unre I think
Speaker 4: we have great people. I think we have a great
Speaker 4: group of people.
Speaker 2: That's not Donald Trump of the last nine years.
Speaker 1: No, No, as long as you're reasonable, yeah, we can
Speaker 1: talk about it.
Speaker 2: That is just a new thing. And who convinced him
Speaker 2: of this? Well, you could ask, how did it take
Speaker 2: you this long to figure out this is a better
Speaker 2: way of speaking about things? But who convinced of this?
Speaker 2: Is it Susie Wilds as it is? Campaign manager now
Speaker 2: chief of staff? Who is the breshwous death? Maybe maybe both.
Speaker 2: I'll read you a couple of these things I thought
Speaker 2: were really really interesting. What's happening during this second Trump
Speaker 2: transition is notable and maybe historic, seminal and auguring for
Speaker 2: the future of this country. Going through some of the
Speaker 2: examples here, Trump's underappreciated human intelligence has allowed him to
Speaker 2: size up the macro situation in some of the individual
Speaker 2: relationships and herd behavior of certain categories of Homo sapiens,
Speaker 2: business leaders, heads of government, congressional big wigs, et cetera.
Speaker 2: To figure out what they want and need from him.
Speaker 2: He's always had that, but maybe he's just utilizing it
Speaker 2: better now. While as many opponents in the press and
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party still amazingly don't get this, Trump's issue
Speaker 2: agenda has significant appeal beyond the say it with me
Speaker 2: extreme magabase, and is backed by a broad center right
Speaker 2: coalition in this country, border energy, forever, wars, taxes, deregulation, woke,
Speaker 2: and much much more. That's probably the number one thing
Speaker 2: the press doesn't get. He's on the right side of
Speaker 2: like all the biggest issues in the country, right right.
Speaker 1: And we looked at poll after poll of issues before
Speaker 1: the election, and you know, in retrospect, it's like, how
Speaker 1: could Trump lose?
Speaker 2: He talks about how Trump is just flat out the
Speaker 2: second greatest political athlete since Reagan, second only to Bill Clinton,
Speaker 2: and is using those skills. Points out that Trump went
Speaker 2: five for six in nomination and generator and general election
Speaker 2: contests YEP. Three nomination contests got the three nominations, three
Speaker 2: presidents got two out of three, and almost that other one.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty impressive record. Actually, and that's your only
Speaker 2: political record. Trump is a great student of how to
Speaker 2: obtain and use power in general and within the specific
Speaker 2: context of the presidency. Is his goal is to accomplish things,
Speaker 2: to accomplish the things he wants. It only makes sense
Speaker 2: that if he is determined at some point, oh, I
Speaker 2: will be more likely to be successful this way than
Speaker 2: that way, that he changes his way of doing right.
Speaker 1: And even I have to remind myself why did I say?
Speaker 1: Even I have to remind myself What Trump says can
Speaker 1: make you insane at times, although he's been much more
Speaker 1: measured as we're discussing. But if you look at the
Speaker 1: record of things he actually did and accomplished and the
Speaker 1: way he approached various problems, it's very solid.
Speaker 2: It is hard to fit this all together with the
Speaker 2: guy who claimed, you know, the two thousand mules elections stolen,
Speaker 2: took it all the way to the matt you know,
Speaker 2: on all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he is an odd and complex dude.
Speaker 2: I'd say another point, but I'd.
Speaker 1: Rather have that odd and complex dude in the seat
Speaker 1: when China does something ugly than Joe Biden, not even close.
Speaker 2: This is a good one. The cultural moment that we
Speaker 2: are experiencing, with the decline of woke culture and the
Speaker 2: rise of all the attitude's ideas, characters, themes, and memes
Speaker 2: of the Trump moment is the supercharger on the ascent
Speaker 2: of Trump's political power. No doubt, the dominant media is
Speaker 2: weaker and more defanged than ever, making Trump's familiar litany
Speaker 2: of charges against how they operate now seem to many
Speaker 2: years less like sour grapes and more like righteous truth.
Speaker 2: From the cover up of Biden's loss of acuity to
Speaker 2: the ABC News settlement the other day, to the distruction
Speaker 2: of their business model for newspapers and TV, to the
Speaker 2: rise of alternative media, to the laws of public trust,
Speaker 2: all has given Trump the whipand the ox Whipand if
Speaker 2: you were listening to.
Speaker 1: The weapon of Joyce on today's Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 1: not only that, but and I'm reminded, I keep going
Speaker 1: back to the various polls we saw prior to the
Speaker 1: election about the issue as opposed to the candidates, and
Speaker 1: there was widespread perception among all sorts of people that
Speaker 1: the law fair against Trump was political and unfair. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people who even you know,
Speaker 1: still hung with the mainstream media, saw all the coverage
Speaker 1: of the coverage of all of those those cases, and
Speaker 1: never heard of George Stephanopolis say, of course, all of
Speaker 1: this stuff is just going after Trump because for political reasons,
Speaker 1: and I just I think that factored in along with
Speaker 1: you know, the covering up for Biden's senility the rest
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: God, some of these are good. I won't read all
Speaker 2: of them, and borrio with him, but just a couple
Speaker 2: more of my favorites. Joe Biden's pardon of Hunter has
Speaker 2: leveled much of the high ground Democrats thought they stood
Speaker 2: on to try to diminish Trump regarding democracy, special treatment,
Speaker 2: rules of the game for diligited principle. Absolutely, really really
Speaker 2: took a lot of the power that they might have
Speaker 2: had to be, you know, above Trump away.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the eleven year pardon is one of
Speaker 1: the most transparently evil things ever done by a president
Speaker 1: in it certainly in the realm of pardons.
Speaker 2: I want to say that one for last because it's
Speaker 2: one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: You're not boring anybody, by the way, I'm enjoying this list.
Speaker 2: I'd never heard this before. Trump is a practitioner. Oh,
Speaker 2: this is the one I definitely wanted to get on
Speaker 2: because I'd never heard before. Trump is a very hard
Speaker 2: worker when he needs to be. Unlike George W. Bush
Speaker 2: and Barack Obama, who did in many instances what they
Speaker 2: perceived to be just enough to get the task done
Speaker 2: at hand, Trump leaves his leads, his shoulder on the
Speaker 2: grindstone several extra beats to make sure if he wants
Speaker 2: something done. I thought that was interesting. I've never heard
Speaker 2: that before. Trump is a practitioner of the dictum that
Speaker 2: if one political actor is constantly moving at eight hundred
Speaker 2: miles per hour, then his adversaries cannot keep up with him.
Speaker 2: In fact, they fall further and further behind. It just
Speaker 2: goes hard and fast. Yeah. But this is the one
Speaker 2: I absolutely wanted to do because I think it is
Speaker 2: so true. And I was actually thinking about this in
Speaker 2: my car the other day. You find it because I
Speaker 2: got a long list.
Speaker 1: Here, he's making a list, He's checking it twice. Gotta
Speaker 1: tell us why Trump is so nice?
Speaker 2: Oh, this one. I love this one. And I was
Speaker 2: thinking about this when I was hearing more people talk,
Speaker 2: just endless talk on MSNBC about whether Pete hegseeth is
Speaker 2: going to get confirmed or not. Trump is not afraid
Speaker 2: of failure, which means he can take the risks necessary
Speaker 2: for success. Another transitioning president would be crying over the
Speaker 2: spilt milk of Matt Gates, whereas Trump moved on with
Speaker 2: the same consideration one would experience and moved from meeting
Speaker 2: the fourth tortilla chip to the fifth. Trump, as a
Speaker 2: guy who had the number one TV show an America,
Speaker 2: understands media better. He understands the culture and media better
Speaker 2: than any of these politicians who he knows this as crap,
Speaker 2: these inside the Beltway Washington battles where somebody wins and
Speaker 2: somebody loses. He knows, no real person pays attention to this.
Speaker 2: You can talk all day long and cable news about
Speaker 2: whether they'll get confirmed, whether it's a Supreme Court justice
Speaker 2: or Cabinet nominee or whatever, and where they won't and
Speaker 2: who will win and who will lose, and then when
Speaker 2: it ends, nobody freaking cares except for you DC pundits.
Speaker 2: Trump knows that he's so much more right about this
Speaker 2: than they are. You know how many real Looking back
Speaker 2: to George W. Bush, he had some thing and I
Speaker 2: only know this because I'm in this business. He had
Speaker 2: some famous Supreme Court nominee that he put out and
Speaker 2: got shot down real fast. No real person thinks about
Speaker 2: that ever, ever, ever, ever, and hasn't since that day.
Speaker 2: And Trump understands that while DC plays the game of ooh,
Speaker 2: his nominee might not, might not, might might not make
Speaker 2: it through, he knows that just doesn't matter. He put
Speaker 2: up a different one. They do.
Speaker 1: Right. It's high school gossip in a very real way.
Speaker 1: And add to those factors the fact that Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: who he's so close with right now, he is the
Speaker 1: king of let's try it. If it doesn't work, we'll
Speaker 1: learn from it. Don't be afraid of failure. So I
Speaker 1: think you were gonna see that spirit, yeah, which I
Speaker 1: think is great because I tell you what if you
Speaker 1: if you could pick one. The problem with the federal
Speaker 1: government is that it's too bold and innovative and willing
Speaker 1: to change itself or the opposite, Which would you choose.
Speaker 2: Right, they're having the first DOGE meeting today with various
Speaker 2: congressional people. I saw one congress person I forget the name,
Speaker 2: who went and told Mike Johnson, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be on any committees but the DOE Committee. So I
Speaker 2: hope there's like a fever to be part of the
Speaker 2: fixing of this problem.
Speaker 1: Is that actually going to be a committee, because I mean,
Speaker 1: DOGE is outside the government, but.
Speaker 2: Right they're going to be I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: a I don't know if you call the committee or
Speaker 2: whatever they're going to be. They're going to be Congress
Speaker 2: people involved in I think a committee, and then they
Speaker 2: report to the DOGE people. The DOGE people will have
Speaker 2: no power to actually get anything done. It's just it's,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's basically people want to pay attention
Speaker 2: to how things are spent and not spent and make
Speaker 2: recommendations to DOGE.
Speaker 1: Sure, it's an independent commission has a bully pulpit. That's great,
Speaker 1: that's very American, right, and.
Speaker 2: A bully put put as we talked about earlier. According
Speaker 2: to The Washington Post, the bully pulpit in America through
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, He's got the loudest political voice in the
Speaker 2: whole country and can reach the most people the most quickly.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't say I'm optimistic, but I'm more optimistic
Speaker 2: than any other way to go about this. We've got
Speaker 2: more on the way. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: The food company Post has announced it's launching a new
Speaker 5: Oreo themed cereal, which features crunchy and chocolate he puffs
Speaker 5: with mini marshmallows. Oh cool, that sounds awesome, said dentists.
Speaker 2: Ah, that sounded horrible. Oh hm, I made my teeth hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just yeah, yeah. Don't like pump vitamins into candy
Speaker 1: and feed it to kids and call it cereal.
Speaker 2: A bowl of candy for breakfast. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: At the opposite end of the spectrum of the very
Speaker 1: adult drinking of guinness, apparently there is a worldwide shortage
Speaker 1: of delicious Guinness.
Speaker 2: I went through a Guinness face really enjoyed it. The
Speaker 2: Black and Tan oh Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, pumps up and down the UK are saying
Speaker 1: the running lawn Guinness after a surgeon demand that caught
Speaker 1: the beer's brewers off guard. Jack. Like everything, it has
Speaker 1: to do with an Internet trend or craze or sensation
Speaker 1: or viral something or other.
Speaker 2: A challenge called exactly it's.
Speaker 1: Called splitting the g Splitting the g the social media
Speaker 1: phenomenon which requires drinkers to down enough guinness in a
Speaker 1: single gulf so that the beer sits halfway across the
Speaker 1: g on the branded Guinness glass.
Speaker 2: Gotcha in.
Speaker 1: Evidently the sheep of the Internet are so numerous and
Speaker 1: so enthused about whatever craze is put in front of them,
Speaker 1: it's now caused a like a UK wide shortage of Guinness.
Speaker 2: Do you like it with the nitrogen or without? Uh?
Speaker 2: Either way?
Speaker 1: Not a huge fan. There are other things I'd rather have.
Speaker 2: It'll definitely make you fat if you drink much guiness.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of calories.
Speaker 1: I don't need much help in that. But Begora, they've
Speaker 1: got to brew up more guinness, he says in a
Speaker 1: terrible Irish brogue, which brings me to this.
Speaker 2: The Irish and Scots.
Speaker 1: Are some of the best on earth of picking out
Speaker 1: a fake accent. Science for some reason, in the Journal
Speaker 1: of Evolutionary Human Sciences tested a bunch of people from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin,
Speaker 1: Northeast England, Central England, London, Essex, Bristol if they could
Speaker 1: pick out who was faking their accent. And you can't fool.
Speaker 2: Irishmen or scotsmen.
Speaker 1: Interesting, probably because it's much more homogenous in London. You
Speaker 1: got a dozen accents fifteen ethnicities whatever. But you go
Speaker 1: to Scotland fake a Scottish accent, you're gonna be on
Speaker 1: the receive an end of the chiley.
Speaker 2: Or is that Ireland? I can't remember. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: figure out evolutionary, evolution wise, why that would be.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a reason. Yeah, I guess it'd be.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll heave that big trunk they throw around in Scotland,
Speaker 1: a big red haired man, a skirtle hitch over the
Speaker 1: head with a big trunk.
Speaker 2: I know, I like it. In time, people do an
Speaker 2: American accent. I love that Armstrong and getty. The council
Speaker 2: meeting got ugly.
Speaker 6: They narrowly approved Mayor Johnson's twenty twenty five budget, which
Speaker 6: includes a controversial forty million dollars short term loan for
Speaker 6: a city already swimming in debt, all part of a
Speaker 6: chaotic hearing last night got so heated. Mayor Johnson actually
Speaker 6: kicked out the public.
Speaker 2: This meeting will spending releaseless.
Speaker 5: Arms dependent.
Speaker 2: That's Chicago, Mayor. Let's go Brendon Johnson and people very
Speaker 2: upset about how much money they're spending on illegals. The
Speaker 2: report on Fox goes on One of.
Speaker 6: The main reasons residents are so upset is the Democratic
Speaker 6: mayor's lack of transparency when it comes to using taxpayer
Speaker 6: funds to take care of illegal immigrants. Under Mayor Johnson,
Speaker 6: Chicago has already spent a whopping five hundred twenty seven
Speaker 6: million taxpayer dollars on the tens of thousands of illegal
Speaker 6: immigrants living there.
Speaker 2: Half a billion dollars they've spent on illegals so far.
Speaker 2: It could really be argued.
Speaker 1: Chicago, the city of Chicago has, checking the constitution, zero
Speaker 1: constitutional responsibility for the border, So why would they spend
Speaker 1: any local money. Why wouldn't they loudly petition the federal government.
Speaker 1: You caused this, you fix this. I get that there
Speaker 1: are people on the streets. You can't have children starving,
Speaker 1: But why isn't everybody outraged by this.
Speaker 2: Here's a reporter in Chicago, these.
Speaker 3: Real Chicagoans, they made their voices heard. They made it
Speaker 3: clear they don't trust Brandy Johnson. Mayor Johnson with fifty cents, okay,
Speaker 3: they know he's just going to spend that money on
Speaker 3: migrants and violent teenagers. And Brandon Johnson says it himself.
Speaker 2: To your question, I think at least initially it was
Speaker 2: probably holy crap, we're a sanctuary city, and now we've
Speaker 2: got these people here. We got to get them off
Speaker 2: the streets and put them somewhere or this is going
Speaker 2: to become a problem and everybody's going to know that
Speaker 2: the whole sanctuary thing don't work. Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just reading about San Diego's decision to
Speaker 1: become some sort of sanctuary city on steroids where there
Speaker 1: is no cooperation with Ice. You've got the most horrendous
Speaker 1: character ever in your jail, and you've got to turn
Speaker 1: them loose for whatever reason. You will just never inform ICE.
Speaker 1: There will never be any voluntary transfer, no notification that
Speaker 1: somebody's going to get released. You know, you got to
Speaker 1: get a warrant or we're not going to tell you
Speaker 1: whether this murder is in our jail.
Speaker 2: Like I said Friday when we covered this, or yesterday,
Speaker 2: or I always say, I don't understand how you make
Speaker 2: this your cause. My cause in life, with my limited
Speaker 2: time and resources, is going to be making sure criminal
Speaker 2: don't get deported who aren't supposed to be here in
Speaker 2: the first place. That's my cause, not foster kids, not
Speaker 2: you know, pick all the great causes exists. This is
Speaker 2: my one. Some guy who's a rapist who comes in
Speaker 2: the United States and rape somebody. They're illegal. I don't
Speaker 2: want them deported. That's what I'm gonna make my cause
Speaker 2: you people are weird, very weird. I would say, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, put a randomly assembled list of one hundred
Speaker 1: different causes in front of people and they would choose
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: That's very strange. Different topic. I just came across this.
Speaker 2: PolitiFact is some sort of political something or other. They
Speaker 2: released their lie of the Year, their political lie of
Speaker 2: the Year, a lie that marked a town and its
Speaker 2: residence in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd,
Speaker 2: it was consequential. Our lie of the Year goes to
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and JD. Vans for false claims that Haitian
Speaker 2: immigrants in Springfield were eating pet dogs and cats. I
Speaker 2: don't know who this pundit is who responded, but they're right.
Speaker 2: I would have gone with Joe Biden is perfectly fine
Speaker 2: and fit to serve as president again is my lie
Speaker 2: of the year. But that's just me.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to blow the punchline or anything, but yeah,
Speaker 1: political political, what is it?
Speaker 2: Political PolitiFact?
Speaker 1: PolitiFact is a left wing media hack outfit.
Speaker 2: They're honestly on both sides all the way around. There
Speaker 2: are a lot of lies to compete with Lie of
Speaker 2: the Year. I mean, you could discuss, but seriously, how
Speaker 2: does it get much bigger than the current president is
Speaker 2: okay to be president in another four years when you
Speaker 2: know he's not holy crap.
Speaker 1: When he's seen island dying. But I don't remember the
Speaker 1: whole eating the pets thing, Michael, Do we have any
Speaker 1: audio that Mighty eating.
Speaker 2: The people that came in.
Speaker 4: They're eating the cats, they're eating, they're eating of the people.
Speaker 2: That live there. So he said that in the second debate,
Speaker 2: which was the first Kamala Harris debate, Yeah, which she
Speaker 2: roundly trounced him, as everyone saw, and of course was
Speaker 2: going to go on to victory at that point.
Speaker 1: Getting back to sweet home Chicago. I grew up right
Speaker 1: outside the city. I love Chicago. Was just talking about
Speaker 1: some talking to rather some fellow part time Chicagoans who
Speaker 1: are telling stories of crime and how their kids don't
Speaker 1: want to go to their place anymore. And there was
Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible incident involving a friend of a friend
Speaker 1: in which and I'll keep it vague because it was
Speaker 1: very traumatic. But their daughter was hassled by Guy A
Speaker 1: on the street corner. Guy B walks up, shoots Guy
Speaker 1: A dead and keeps walking.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And they were like, I didn't see nothing. I got
Speaker 1: no part in this. We're just standing here. Really, hey,
Speaker 1: guy with gun, I can't identify you. Goodbye.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do in that circumstance.
Speaker 2: I think insanity, would you do? I think I might
Speaker 2: do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, well, especially since he has a gun and
Speaker 1: I don't. I'd be like, dude, you and me are
Speaker 1: never going to meet again.
Speaker 2: See you later. Plus they helped me. I hate to
Speaker 2: go like wild West sort of you know, rules of
Speaker 2: the game, but you helped me out, so good on you.
Speaker 1: It was a neighborhood beef, by the way, as it
Speaker 1: turns out, But anyway.
Speaker 2: They had several beaves over the years.
Speaker 1: Okay, folks, that was just an excuse for Jack to
Speaker 1: use the plural of beef, which he's again beavs.
Speaker 2: Look it up. It is so this is so interesting.
Speaker 1: They did a study of people who carry guns, including
Speaker 1: in Chicago. They found that nearly one third of urban
Speaker 1: residents have carried a concealed fire arm by the time
Speaker 1: they each by the time they reach age forty. But
Speaker 1: there are yes, but there are very different patterns between
Speaker 1: those who began carrying as teenagers versus adults. The teens
Speaker 1: were carrying guns because they had a serious need to
Speaker 1: protect themselves from other teens with guns.
Speaker 2: Well, can you imagine parenting in a neighborhood where you think, well,
Speaker 2: I don't want you involved in this sort of stuff,
Speaker 2: but I think for your own safety, you need to
Speaker 2: carry a gun. You say to your sixteen year old Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And this for what it is worth, this study has
Speaker 1: been going on for some like thirty years. Is it
Speaker 1: follows people into adulthood and that sort of thing. Participants
Speaker 1: from eighty of Chicago's three hundred and forty three different neighborhoods. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they say, among adolescents, we've found a strong association between
Speaker 1: either witnessing a shooting or being shot or shot at
Speaker 1: and beginning to carry soon after. The research shows that
Speaker 1: teenagers witnessed or experienced gun violence were twice as likely
Speaker 1: to start carrying a gun themselves. Of course, however, once
Speaker 1: those teens hit adulthood, large numbers of them stopped carrying guns.
Speaker 1: They thought, I don't need it anymore. I've got a job,
Speaker 1: I've got a family, whatever, I'm not in that life anymore.
Speaker 1: Whereas people who started as adult carriers started because of
Speaker 1: a generalized concern about crime and violence, they were not
Speaker 1: victims of or witnesses to gun violence, no direct link
Speaker 1: that they could find, a direct exposure, and they kept
Speaker 1: carrying and carrying and carrying.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. So some of those young people who give
Speaker 2: up carrying a gun would say to some of those adults,
Speaker 2: I think, what are you doing carrying a gun? You
Speaker 2: don't need a gun around here.
Speaker 1: Right, Unless you're living a life where people engage in
Speaker 1: gun play fairly routinely, you're not gonna need it.
Speaker 2: Hm. That's interesting provoking. How different is that kid's childhood
Speaker 2: than mine? Who needs to carry a gun?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, no kidding. I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Chicago so troubled, so desperately in need of law enforcement,
Speaker 1: better education. The teachers unions are standing in the way
Speaker 1: of that. By the way, the school.
Speaker 2: Stats out of Chicago or what are the most amazing
Speaker 2: to me, Even with all the shootings on, how many
Speaker 2: of the schools you could shut down and there would
Speaker 2: be no negligible it'd be negligible difference from the schools
Speaker 2: being open other than it would save a lot of money.
Speaker 2: So then at least maybe taxpayers would get back some
Speaker 2: money to buy tutor for their kid because your kids
Speaker 2: were learning literally nothing at school. That's amazing. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what. Somebody remind me.
Speaker 1: I want to bring this up again tomorrow at some
Speaker 1: point during the show of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Speaker 1: And there are some statistics that have come out recently
Speaker 1: from medical schools, and another place is the punchline of
Speaker 1: it is the response to black kids not achieving is
Speaker 1: to give them the fruits of achievement, whether they've earned
Speaker 1: them or not, in my opinion, and I'm right, because
Speaker 1: actually solving the problems would be uncomfortable and politically incorrect.
Speaker 1: You would have to say things and do things that
Speaker 1: make people feel bad. And so instead of doing that,
Speaker 1: you have bunches of folks graduating medical school, for instance,
Speaker 1: who got no business being doctors. It's horrible and it
Speaker 1: dooms and here's the part that matters. It dooms more
Speaker 1: generations of young kids, particularly of color in urban areas,
Speaker 1: to crappy educations.
Speaker 2: And no chance to actually earn.
Speaker 1: The good stuff in life.
Speaker 2: It's not kind. That's what hurts my heart is that
Speaker 2: in parents who are either not I don't know what
Speaker 2: the right word would be with it enough or just
Speaker 2: too busy working a couple of jobs or whatever. You're
Speaker 2: assuming and you should be able to assume that your
Speaker 2: kid going to school is learning to read and write
Speaker 2: and be able to go out in the world when
Speaker 2: they graduate high school. Nothing wrong with you assuming that.
Speaker 2: You should be able to assume that you said you're
Speaker 2: kidding to grade school, junior high, and high school, and
Speaker 2: they're going to graduate. You should be able to assume
Speaker 2: that they learned. But because you weren't paying attention, you
Speaker 2: don't know that they didn't learn any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: There are schools in Chicago where they have zero percent
Speaker 2: people that meet the proficiency in math and reading and writing. Again, nobody,
Speaker 2: nobody does. And those poor parents think they got they
Speaker 2: made their kid go to school, they did the right things,
Speaker 2: and their kids are gonna be doomed. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just awful.
Speaker 1: And then when those parents say, hey, my kid has
Speaker 1: learned nothing three years in a row. I want the
Speaker 1: right to take him to a different school. Brandon Johnson
Speaker 1: and his teacher union buddies all across the country, Randy
Speaker 1: Weingarten will say, no, frickin way, no way you'd take
Speaker 1: that kid out of that miserable failure of a school.
Speaker 2: We won't let you.
Speaker 1: And they're the progressives, They're the folks who are concerned
Speaker 1: about young black kids.
Speaker 2: What a crock of crap, right, it's just horrifying. I
Speaker 2: wish you know that.
Speaker 1: There are days I just I wish I could reach
Speaker 1: more people with that knowledge. I mean, because once you're
Speaker 1: aware of it, it's inescapable. I mean, what would be
Speaker 1: better for the kids. It's just there's no argument there.
Speaker 1: But people persist in thinking, yeah, public schools are such
Speaker 1: a gift to the poor kids and all.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know how you sleep at night running
Speaker 2: schools where nobody is learning anything and is going to
Speaker 2: graduate and then just be standing there looking at the world.
Speaker 2: How am I supposed to make it? I don't know
Speaker 2: how you sleep at night. Being part of continuing that,
Speaker 2: I know they're evil. They are evil, They're absolutely evil.
Speaker 2: We will an a strong next state. The FBI Newark office.
Speaker 7: Now, warning, don't try to shoot a drone out of
Speaker 7: the sky. You may be hitting a helicopter, a plane,
Speaker 7: a legitimate drone.
Speaker 2: It's a felony.
Speaker 7: In addition, that debris could cause serious injury or kill
Speaker 7: somebody on the.
Speaker 2: Ground or Santa. It's December. Hello, somebody's gonna shoot Santa.
Speaker 2: This guy shh.
Speaker 1: So, Kirby, everybody knows that the bottom of Santa slays bulletproof.
Speaker 2: John Kirby, probably the best spokesman the Biden administration has,
Speaker 2: was out there yesterday and saying a lot of these
Speaker 2: are commercial drones doing nothing illegal. And I know a
Speaker 2: lot of them are, but what about all of them?
Speaker 2: What about the ones that aren't, that's the question. And
Speaker 2: they say, we still don't exactly know what it is,
Speaker 2: but there's nothing to worry about. Okay. That drives me
Speaker 2: nuts because those two sentences don't fit together and still
Speaker 2: might be something illegal. He said. So here's a mayor
Speaker 2: of a town in New Jersey responding to Kirby's press conference.
Speaker 8: We had the briefing yesterday with the White House, FBI, DHS, FAA,
Speaker 8: and they said the same thing. I don't want to speculate,
Speaker 8: but someone is making a really bad, really bad decision
Speaker 8: by not coming clean and say that these are our drones.
Speaker 8: We're doing some sort of an operation. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 8: They are safe, that they're saying they're safe, but we
Speaker 8: see them on top of our reservoir, the schools, the grid.
Speaker 8: And these are large drones. These are not small drones.
Speaker 8: These are probate car size, a small dining room table size,
Speaker 8: flying at night with lights on.
Speaker 2: So that's one of the best answers I've heard yet
Speaker 2: from this mayor saying somebody's making a bad decision. I'm
Speaker 2: not telling it. It's just kind of what Trump said yesterday.
Speaker 2: He said, the military knows what they are. We have
Speaker 2: the ability to know what they are. He said, I
Speaker 2: don't know why they're not saying anything.
Speaker 1: Let me tweak the John Kirby exchange slightly. Nine one one.
Speaker 1: I just got home. There's a man in my house.
Speaker 1: Most of the people who come into your house are
Speaker 1: friends and neighbors.
Speaker 2: Or okay, I won't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Then nine one one, Hey, I just got home and
Speaker 1: there's a man in my house. Well, we don't know
Speaker 1: who he is, but we're sure you're not at risk.
Speaker 2: What the hell.
Speaker 1: Of course, we just found out that there's going to
Speaker 1: be a classified briefing, Yes, of the Intelligence Committee.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Uh, who is a briefing somebody? But there's
Speaker 2: so white to brief Obviously, the White House is briefing
Speaker 2: a House Intelligence Committee today a little late. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: is it going to be innocuous? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be significant, not not significant
Speaker 2: like it was a thread or anything like that. I
Speaker 2: think we're gonna find out about some significant military program
Speaker 2: or technology or threat we're worried about or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or test of our abilities, which I hope we're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but well why wouldn't they tell us, No,
Speaker 2: we have this drone capability. You know, you've seen what's
Speaker 2: happening when you see what a ran did to Israel.
Speaker 2: We just were testing our ability to intercept these sorts
Speaker 2: of things. Well, there's Jack can there's joke man. It's
Speaker 2: kind of because the show, with the help of Katie
Speaker 2: Green and Michael Langelobe, there are friends. They're like fans
Speaker 2: a dad, they're on our radio. So let's hear their
Speaker 2: final thoughts before they have to go.
Speaker 1: Oh Jack, the creep freaky horror.
Speaker 2: Show villain's thing.
Speaker 1: He's swaying back and forth with a weird hypnotized look
Speaker 1: on his face.
Speaker 2: Oh that was too creep. I'll see that in my nightmares.
Speaker 1: Katie's not gonna be able to sleep tonight.
Speaker 2: They see here. It's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everyone on the crew
Speaker 1: and to wrap things up for the day, Michae Langelow,
Speaker 1: what's your final thought?
Speaker 7: I had my wife give me some Christmas parts, maybe
Speaker 7: to pass out coworkers or something.
Speaker 1: But I opened up and read it and said, and
Speaker 1: the best feelings are those of the heart.
Speaker 2: And I thought, no, this is just too sappy.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Oh, Katie Green are esteemed to Newswoman. As a
Speaker 1: final thought, Katie, I have decided to send out Christmas cards,
Speaker 1: and I gave myself too big of a task and
Speaker 1: I'm now regretting it, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, yeah, guilt guilt feelings. I've been saying
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it next year for like twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Jack final thought, that's funny you'd say that. I figured
Speaker 1: you did do it. I figured you were that sort
Speaker 1: of person.
Speaker 2: I just I admire other people that do every year,
Speaker 2: and they send one every single year. They not only
Speaker 2: got their act together to get the family picture, but
Speaker 2: then they got it in the mail and got it
Speaker 2: to me. And I think, you know, I'd like to
Speaker 2: be that kind of person. Apparently I know I wouldn't
Speaker 2: like to be that kind of person enough to actually
Speaker 2: do it, because I still have it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to do it next year. Anyway, came
Speaker 1: across this, mentioned it earlier in the show. My final
Speaker 1: thought is daily cal he's consumed by Americans. In nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty one, it was twenty nine hundred. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the recommended daily calorie intake for women's two thousand, for
Speaker 1: men twenty five hundred. But it was twenty nine hundred
Speaker 1: back in the day. It's now thirty seven hundred.
Speaker 2: The average calorie intake is thirty seven hundred.
Speaker 1: Where is the obesity coming from? I don't get it.
Speaker 2: That's amazing Armstrong in Getty wrapping up another grueling four
Speaker 2: hour workday.
Speaker 1: It may not be just that, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: So many people, thanks so a little time. Good Armstrong
Speaker 1: in getty dot com. Many pleasures await you there, see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Getty. It has to stop like the
Speaker 2: day before yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, are you sure?
Speaker 2: Oh? Dead sure. I've been thinking that we really all
Speaker 2: need a tremendous hug. Good the hell out of here.
Speaker 2: Don't you think it's a little hot? It's one hundred
Speaker 2: on the crazy meter. Sure, are you shut?
Speaker 1: Yep? So let's go with it.
Speaker 2: Wow, they need pageant. They killed their own pageant by
Speaker 2: going woke. It takes a lot of balls to run
Speaker 2: for Miss Universe as a guy that I know. Bye
Speaker 2: Bye Armstrong and Getty.