1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Not pandering Congress people. Real life. It's one more thing, 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: I'm strong Andy, one more thing. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 2: Before we get out to whatever. Joe's deal is a 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: couple of things. First of all, real life. Well you're 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: gonna put off real life, are you, son? I don't 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: know if I did as long as I could. I 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: don't know if I've heard the term bottle the throttle before. 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: I just came across that with the whole Southwest Airlines 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: and the pilot that got arrested in the cockpit. Had 10 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: you heard that before, bottle to throttle? Eight hours, bottled 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: the throttle, Like, is that of the rule or is 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 2: that the guideline? Just advice they give each other. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. 14 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd come across that before. If 15 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: you didn't hear that they they arrested a Southwest pilot 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 2: in the cockpit because they'd smell booze on his breath. 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: I haven't heard yet if they you know, if he 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 2: actually ended up being drunk or not. 19 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: It mmm, so yeah, I could see that. Look eight 20 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: hours bottle to throttle, throttle or you're in trouble. It 21 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: takes eight hours to metabolize all the alcohol or something 22 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: or something. 23 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we also got this thing. I haven't 24 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: heard this. This is somebody who is using AI apparently 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: in a college class. You've got that done in thirteen minutes, Yes, 26 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 2: I did. 27 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: Oh have you read one hundred pages and thirteen minutes? Yeah? No, 28 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: how did you do that? 29 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: Simmed it? And then I did the assignment. 30 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's not how we do this. You're supposed 31 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: to read the hundred pages, but I found better way 32 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: to do it. Better way to do it. 33 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: Pull up your laptop. No, come on, pull up your laptop. 34 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: I'm getting tired of this. 35 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 2: I know what this is. You give us one hundred 36 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 2: I know what this is already. This is a damn 37 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 2: cheating tool. It's not you gave us one hundred pages 38 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 2: to read. 39 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: This is only a forty five minute call you. It's 40 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: the other students using this junk too. Dad. 41 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 3: This would have taken me three hours to read. 42 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: So all I did was ask this AI tutor. It's 43 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: called a tutor for a reason. 44 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: It helps me learn. I asked what I needed to know, 45 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 2: and I extract all that and then I'm good. Miss 46 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: Burt's get out that quest. I have all information that 47 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: sounds real to me, does that sound real to you? 48 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: It does absolutely? Yeh, it looked real. 49 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 2: Huh. Interesting. So she she's not denying that she did it, 50 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: she's just trying to make the argument. I use I 51 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: can't read one hundred pages, or I didn't want to 52 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: read the hundred pages. This summarizes it for me, and 53 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: then I'm ready to go, which, hmm, I don't know 54 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 2: what I think of that. 55 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to know more about the context of 56 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: what tools kids are using it in what way, and 57 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: why he's unhappy about it. Unlike the Internet, I don't 58 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: feel any need to leap to who's the a hole 59 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: who's not. But I can see her point. 60 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 2: Joe and I have said for years, I don't remember 61 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: what your number is. More fifty page books or more 62 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 2: seventy five page books. Because somebody, somebody, somebody will write 63 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: a great book about a topic we're interested in, but 64 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: it's a six hundred page book, I'm not going to 65 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 2: get around to it. You can only read so many 66 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: six hundred page books if you got a real wife. 67 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 2: But I would love to know eighty pages worth of it. 68 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: I'd love to. I'd find a way to make that fit. 69 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: Is I wonder if how good AI is going to 70 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 2: be at doing that for us all I want, very 71 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: very good, I would think, Yeah, I woul think so too. 72 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: There are a number of the classics of conservative thought 73 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 2: or you know, history or perspective, and I'm not going 74 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: to name them because I'm very fond of the authors. 75 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: But you read the introduction the first three. 76 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: Chapters, You're good. You're good to go, right, I mean, 77 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: unless you need them to like drill down to examples 78 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: of how that would work in five different places. But 79 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: often you don't. 80 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: That professor seemed to think it was important to read 81 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: all one hundred pages. I guess, yes, kat oh no, 82 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 2: I just watching the video. 83 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 3: I mean she she it continues on a little bit 84 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 3: past that, but she just had a total attitude on 85 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 3: her too with that. 86 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Interesting she was. 87 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: I don't know why you mentioned this in the notes 88 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: that she was in her twenties. 89 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: Oh twenties. 90 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: She looks like mid twenties. Oh okay, Yet I meant 91 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 2: she only looks mid twenties. 92 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: She's not. 93 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 3: Okay, guys, Yeah, I don't know how old she is, 94 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 3: but I it wasn't. I didn't want it to come 95 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 3: off like it was a child. You know this is 96 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: you know, a young adult, gotcha? 97 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 2: And you know what I had in my head is 98 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 2: from when I taught a few college classes, like intro 99 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: classes in college, when I was in a master's program. 100 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: Non trads, the non trads are the people that are 101 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 2: going to be a pain in the ass. You know why, 102 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 2: because they got real lives, They're paying for it with 103 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 2: their own money, and they are way more demanding than 104 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 2: the college kids are. Just you could say care, they 105 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: care in other words, yeah, in other words, to the 106 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 2: regular kids, you could say, you know what, we're gonna 107 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: cut it short today and get out of here, and 108 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,479 Speaker 2: they'd be all like, whoa the non Treadslingho, No, wait 109 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: a second, I got a sitter. I took an hour 110 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: of work. We're gonna be here the whole hour, and 111 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 2: you're gonna teach me. 112 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: Something, right? Yeah? Yeah, totally gets that. 113 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 2: Yeah I did too, Yes, Michael, Yes, Michael. 114 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 4: I have mixed feelings about that clip because some professors 115 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 4: I've dealt with, they just though they do not like 116 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 4: the idea that things have changed, that the way you 117 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 4: learn has changed, and they just they want to be 118 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 4: stuck in the library days and they can't accept the 119 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 4: fact that it's not like that anymore. 120 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: Certain. 121 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's just there are some people who read 122 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: much more quickly than others, and I always resented it. 123 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: As a left hander, I wrote more slowly and painstakingly 124 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: than all the writing's in my classes. And I was 125 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: in a program where the final exam was here's your question. 126 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: You got three hours tell me everything you know, and 127 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: it would just be a frantic ritathon. And man, I 128 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: was just desperate to be able to type. But you 129 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: couldn't do that back in the day for no good 130 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: reason either, for no good reason. Yeah, I can't help, 131 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: but I was born left handed. There were moments I 132 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, I always thought it was cruel 133 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: and horrific the parents who forced their kid to learn 134 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: to write right handed. I kind of wish my parents 135 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: had Anyway, I got over the trauma and have done 136 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: all right in life. 137 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 2: You have a stutter or a blinking on or something. 138 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: If they'd done that, that doesn't. 139 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: Interest some sort of problem with pooping or who knows, 140 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: manifest itself in any different ways. 141 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 3: So, yes, Kitty, I had I have one short thing. 142 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 3: I want to take it back to Booze. Really fast. 143 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 3: You guys are talking about the drunk pilot throttle. I 144 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 3: went to a local watering hole yesterday, awesome, and I 145 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 3: had a key Lime Pie shot. 146 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 2: Do tell members of the staff are still doing shots. 147 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: That's fantastic, you do, key Lime Pie show a key 148 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: and I thought of Joe instantly because it was booze 149 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 2: and key lime Pie put together, sleeze. 150 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: I tell you what, when I'm on my deathbed, bring 151 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: me one of those. Did you get it? It was? 152 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: It was so good. 153 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: Did it taste like key Lime Pie? 154 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, actually like scarily similar? 155 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: And did it make boring people more interesting? Of course 156 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: it did? It was. I had to mention during the show, 157 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: the show, I hit the booze last night after two 158 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: weeks off, just had a little bit of scotch. It 159 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: was nice. It was fine. 160 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 2: So it was dry half of January. 161 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: Uh yeah yeah. 162 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: Do you get to make up your own roles? 163 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: Oh? Hell yeah? Do whatever I want. You want to 164 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: fight me, huh? Sober, but I'm still belligerent. 165 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: Do you have to grow a beard in Provember? No 166 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 2: you don't have to. 167 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: No, No, I do what I want. I'm an individual, 168 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of sheep anyway, so first of all, a 169 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: serious note from a beloved listener, and then some dessert, 170 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: perhaps a keelm pie shot if you will. That has 171 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: to do with eroon musk. 172 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 2: Okay, I brought that up. 173 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: Which we discussed during the One More Thing? Was it yesterday? 174 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. A terrible story an elon musk look 175 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: alike in Asia, and the joke is because in many 176 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: Asian languages the L sound doesn't exist, and so Asian 177 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: struggle to pronounce it correctly and often go with an 178 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: R instead because it's close eeron musk a reference to 179 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: that which is historically fascinating. 180 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 2: Okay, seriously, I believe it. 181 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: But first, this from Momnonymous. I think she sets it 182 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: up quite beautifully. She says, thank you for all you 183 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: do to support our troops and those who serve. You're welcome. 184 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: It is the least we can do. I know I'm 185 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: a little late to the discussion about Pete Heggss, you're 186 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: not at all, but life happens. My husband and I 187 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 1: have three sons, all of whom are in the army. 188 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: I could share many stories, but I'll keep this brief. 189 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: Our oldest is doing well. Our middle son is currently 190 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: on a training deployment in Europe. The country he and 191 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: his unit were in, things went well. The country they 192 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: are now in has been an awful experience. They are 193 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: on a foreign base and those foreign troops do not 194 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: want them there. Ooh, that has been made perfectly clear 195 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: to them. The first three weeks they were there, the 196 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: barracks were empty, but our troops stayed intense in the 197 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: freezing rain and fog. Everyone was getting sick because they 198 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: couldn't keep anything dry. They were moved finally to the 199 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: barracks and that helped. However, they they are being fed 200 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: bulk mre type food and child's eye portions. Our son 201 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: has lost almost twenty pounds in less than two months 202 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: they've been there. 203 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: No, No, that should not happen. No, no, Now what 204 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 2: country is this? And how badly do we need to 205 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 2: have our troops there? That's horrible. 206 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: They are supposed to be their training and is a 207 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: show of force. I think I could guess where they are, 208 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: but they are in horrible condition, not ready for anything, 209 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: much less they show a force. Excuse me while I sneeze. 210 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: H oh, bird flow, and where do you think they are? 211 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: Because she didn't tell you? So that's not going to 212 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 2: give anything away. 213 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: No, I don't. She chose not to say, and I 214 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: will honor that. Let's see. Oh, here's the part that 215 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: gets back to Pete Hegsath. The leadership our middle and 216 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: youngest sons have been experiencing in their units has been atrocious. 217 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: As a woman. I have nothing against women being in charge, 218 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: but competence matters. At one ceremony we attended some time ago, 219 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: the brigade commander was a woman. She looked and spoke 220 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 1: like a sorority girl. Un said, none of the guys 221 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: in training nor the drill sergeants had any respect for her. 222 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: She was a graduate from West Point and may have 223 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: been very good at her academics, but she had no 224 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: real experience to help her lead a brigade of infantrymen. 225 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: One unit we have some knowledge of has several trends. 226 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:21,479 Speaker 1: Individuals in leadership positions. These individuals several really, these individuals 227 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: have been incredibly difficult and hostile to work with and 228 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: make the issue an issue constantly. Oh shocking. I could 229 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: go on and on. I guess my point in writing 230 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: is to say we desperately need change at the top 231 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: of our military. I know it is a monstrous bureaucracy, 232 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: and change is so difficult. Difficult, However, I'm looking forward 233 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: to what can possibly be done to get back to 234 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: basics and having Pete Hegsweth work to strengthen the lethality 235 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: and competence of our troops. And then she says some 236 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: really nice things, including that her fellows like to listen 237 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: to the show whenever they can. We got them all 238 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 1: shirts from your store for Christmas. They love them. Thanks Mom, Anonymous, 239 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: Thank you to Mononymous as sons. And I wish there 240 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: was more we could do for you, But I would 241 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: love to hear more stories from the bottom up about 242 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: the woke leadership, the sense of the branches of the 243 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: military being social experiments as opposed to branches of the 244 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: military or job programs or what have you. I think 245 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: it's incredibly, incredibly important, not just to those of you serving, 246 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: but to the strength and endurance of the United States. 247 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: So yeah, hit us with emails, mail bag at Armstrong 248 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: and getdy dot com. 249 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: So is this one of those situations where we're putting 250 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 2: our troops somewhere where it's not a surprise they don't 251 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 2: want us, but it helps the United States? Or is 252 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 2: it some country that wants us there. 253 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: Both. There are some governments currently serving in various parts 254 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: of Europe that are NATO allies and alleged allies, but 255 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: the current regimes are very chilly to the United States. 256 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 2: Then you. 257 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: Secretary of State Jack Armstrong there with a strong statement, 258 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: I hear you. You're gonna treat our guys like that. 259 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: Good luck fighting the Russians. 260 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: Good solid slapping is in order of some sort, whether 261 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: diplomatic or financial or whatever. All Right, I promised the 262 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: key lime shot of mirth or or perspective perspective. 263 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: I said, what was last night? A Wednesday? So you're drinking? 264 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 2: You're doing shots on a Wednesday night? 265 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: I did a shot. That's a Wednesday night. 266 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 3: We went to dinner with some friends and stopped in 267 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 3: this this it's a bar that used to be a 268 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 3: bank back in the nineteen twenty. 269 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: Love those a couple of these days. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Yeah, 270 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: and a good time was had by all clearly. Oh yeah, 271 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: it was awesome. That's good. That's super. 272 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 2: Do a key lime shot or is that not a 273 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 2: kind of because not a very I'm not doing key 274 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: lime shots. 275 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 3: Probably I believe he did, because the bartender we didn't 276 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 3: get you judging. 277 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just I would take off my jacket 278 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: like a girl and drink whiskey like a man. 279 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't an order. 280 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 3: He the bartender was more of the bartender coming over 281 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 3: and go hey, look what I can do, and made 282 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 3: us all one of his signature drinks. 283 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I tell you, you know, what's the 284 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: best shots I've ever enjoyed in my life. And I'm 285 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: not a shot guy, because I'm an old man. I like, 286 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: you know, lovingly sipping a reasonably high dollar scotch. But 287 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: if you're on the golf course playing on a cold 288 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: day and somebody buys some you know, like what's the 289 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: cinnamon whiskey? Fireball? Fireball? Fireball shot at the turn, that's 290 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: a happy thing. That's not a bad thing at all, 291 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: depending on the hour of the day. Of course, let's 292 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: be decent about this and how soon you have to 293 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: pilot a plane? All right? Exactly? Thank god, I don't 294 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: alert listener. Diane has sent this along, faithful listener. She 295 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: signs off, says some very nice things about the show. 296 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Diane. My dad fought in w 297 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,479 Speaker 1: W two, She writes, he didn't talk much about his experiences. 298 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 1: Oh and her headliner title or subject is true story 299 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: re Iran Musk. He didn't talk much about his experiences, 300 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: as most survivors of World War Two didn't. But one 301 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: thing he told me that was for their safety and 302 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: he served in the Pacific Campaign. Their safe words, their 303 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: code words, were frequently lucy love because the Japanese, no 304 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: matter how fluent they were in English, could not pronounce 305 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: that phrase correctly. If they were called to use the 306 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: safe words and the response was rusy rove. They were 307 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,119 Speaker 1: facing Japanese soldiers. It does not sound pc out of context, 308 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: but they were life savers during the war. 309 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 2: Right. I don't know what Eroon Musk would think of 310 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: that now. 311 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: And Katie, I've been fascinated by this since I was 312 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: a kid, partly as have a student of World War 313 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: Two and a German student for many many years. I 314 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: just became fascinated with the Riisenfollen, Third Raich, World War two, 315 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: the rest of it, and the concept of during these 316 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: confused battles in the dark in the woods, where one 317 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: side would advance and then maybe fall back a little bit, 318 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: but they were in front of where the other guys 319 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: were and it got really confused where the quote unquote 320 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: lines were because there were lines, and you had spies 321 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: and people trained in the other language all over the battlefield. 322 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: And so it's in the dark in the Battle of 323 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: the Bulge, You're in the Ardennes forest and you have 324 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: somebody approaching your line saying don't shoot, don't shoot, speaking 325 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: perfect English, and the way they had safe words and 326 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: codewords and would ask questions. You know, how many World 327 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: series did Babe Ruth win with the Mets. Of course, 328 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: the Mets didn't exist at that point, but that sort 329 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: of thing. They would ask questions like that because you 330 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: could study like everything you thought you needed to know, 331 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: and everybody freaking knew Babe Ruth had never played with 332 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: the I'm trying to think what teams existed the Cubs 333 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: at that time, but they would ask each other questions 334 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: like that, wow, while holding the guy a gunpoint Yeah, 335 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: and if the guy said two World series with the 336 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: Cubs shooting Louie Bluey exact Blue Blue or are you 337 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: taking prisoner if you could? Yeah? 338 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: Have you guys ever seen this show The Lucy. 339 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: Lucy rub the show The Man in the High Castle. 340 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: I did. I watched the first, like two seasons. 341 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 2: Oh, that was such a great show. 342 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: When you talk about World War Two, I just I 343 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 3: remember watching that and how vastly different the world. 344 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: Could have been. And your capsule is the Axis Powers 345 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: win World War two and have occupied America and split it. 346 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: The Japanese run the western US, the Nazis run the 347 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: Eastern US roughly, and their conflicts between them too. You 348 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 1: know what, Katie, I stopped watching it because it was 349 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: so relentlessly gut wrenchingly, grindingly suspenseful and. 350 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 2: Wow, wow, it sounds like something I would like. I 351 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 2: love that sort of thing. I want to turn off 352 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 2: a show and think that was I'm miserable, now that's 353 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 2: what I want. 354 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, you would be. Yeah, it was just it was 355 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: so suspenseful and just and miserable because the country had 356 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: been taken over and these people were trying to survive 357 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: and fight back. They're part of the resistance or whatever, 358 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: and we're getting betrayed or they didn't know who to trust. 359 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: And again it was beautifully done. But you know, I 360 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: find life a bit stressful and frightening. I prefer lighter, 361 00:17:55,480 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: fair in the evening and then a nice lumpie shot. 362 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: So good just it just is you fall asleep. 363 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 4: I only watch sitcoms with a laugh track, so I 364 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 4: know when to laugh. Well, I guess that's it.