Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jacky and Key Armrong.
Speaker 2: Wow, you should not have to pay for today's episode.
Speaker 2: I mean barely going through the motions.
Speaker 1: He's fairly barely going through the motions, so fulfilling the
Speaker 1: least can.
Speaker 2: Cratch contractual requirement would be considered working today.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going for. Wow. I am, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, have loaded for.
Speaker 2: There, barely barely doing it at all live from studio
Speaker 2: c S something or other ump another. And today we're
Speaker 2: under the tutelage of our General Manager, Donald J. Trumph
Speaker 2: my Resident of the United States right now, clearly.
Speaker 1: Everything but the keys of the Oval Office.
Speaker 2: And then soon Biden may wander off anyway, so Trump
Speaker 2: might actually sit behind the desk. I promised yesterday we
Speaker 2: would not talk about the government shutdown and all that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff. But so they had that bill that
Speaker 2: was gonna try to take care of all that, and uh.
Speaker 1: Speaker john Holy as always, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson was pushing hard to let's get to signed
Speaker 2: and go off for Christmas and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: And looking good, and Elon had over one hundred don't
Speaker 2: sign this bill, don't vote for this bill tweets yesterday
Speaker 2: from him explaining all the different parts of it that
Speaker 2: he hated and that stirred up enough stuff and Trump
Speaker 2: got on board. And so now the bill has been
Speaker 2: pulled and my big government shut down, and I don't care.
Speaker 2: I just don't care at all. Maybe that makes me
Speaker 2: a child, I don't know. But this is all. This
Speaker 2: is all such a DC thing.
Speaker 1: How many no, no, I must step in there.
Speaker 2: This is wildly different than anything that has ever happened
Speaker 2: in the history of the United States government.
Speaker 1: No, that is insane.
Speaker 2: That part I agree with, the the crisis of the
Speaker 2: government shutting down. Oh how many times have I lived
Speaker 2: through this? And it's just no memory of it whatsoever.
Speaker 2: It just it comes and goes and whatever, no threat.
Speaker 1: In the history of threats. Yeah, I know, I know. Whatever.
Speaker 2: But the other part, yeah, is for better or worse.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of uh hair on fire. This
Speaker 2: is we have a co president, an unelected co president,
Speaker 2: who is an oligarch. The richest man on earth is
Speaker 2: our co president. Blah blah blah. Elon Musk with so
Speaker 2: much power. On the other hand, but he listens to
Speaker 2: you people anymore. You lost badly, it was just last month.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, you got the world's richest man
Speaker 2: who knows about business, weighing in on stories and having
Speaker 2: some and getting some attention about it, and the aspect
Speaker 2: of it that I'm really enjoying him. I'm so curious
Speaker 2: to see where it goes going forward, obviously into Trump's
Speaker 2: actually actual term is that the Republican Party heads through
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be a little sympathetic here through just
Speaker 2: fatigue because there's almost no constituency for it. Abandoned the
Speaker 2: idea of constantly calling for fiscal restraint and calling out
Speaker 2: the excess of spending, and just they were going along
Speaker 2: to get along these days, let's face it. And Elon's like,
Speaker 2: I don't need to get elected in two years. I
Speaker 2: don't care what anybody thinks of me.
Speaker 1: Here's the truth.
Speaker 2: And he's hurling truth bombs around like he's the Israeli military.
Speaker 1: On this stuff.
Speaker 2: This is where I'm the most maga, if maga could
Speaker 2: be defined as let's just tear it down. That's I
Speaker 2: was kind of there in twenty sixteen, and I now
Speaker 2: look back on it and think that's ridiculous. You can't
Speaker 2: you can't just be breaking every norm and tearing everything down.
Speaker 1: It's not good.
Speaker 2: It's the opposite of conservative, and there's and you just
Speaker 2: you don't know what's gonna come out of it. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to the way we spend, I'm full
Speaker 2: maga freaking tear it down, do it a different way.
Speaker 1: How could it possibly be worse?
Speaker 2: And every single time there's some reason that the Republican
Speaker 2: Party or the Democratic Party explains, just this one, we
Speaker 2: need to get this one passed. I know it's full
Speaker 2: of a lot of things spending that people don't like,
Speaker 2: but this one we have to get passed.
Speaker 1: And again I have a shutdown, will be blamed for
Speaker 1: the shot.
Speaker 2: Right, and then we'll come back after Christmas and then
Speaker 2: we'll we'll blah blah blah, and the blah.
Speaker 1: Blah blah never ever happens.
Speaker 2: Every single time, every twice a year or every two
Speaker 2: years or whatever, you have one of these giant, gargantuan bills,
Speaker 2: All this crap gets thrown in there, they all vote
Speaker 2: for it, spending money on everything in the world that
Speaker 2: we don't have. So this is where I'm the most maggat,
Speaker 2: just freaking burn there. Let Washington d C be shut
Speaker 2: down for a months where people are crying in the
Speaker 2: streets to.
Speaker 1: Get enough attention. Something has to change.
Speaker 2: Yes, public weeping, Yes, yes, Hey Michael.
Speaker 1: I die. I hate to chew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this close to Christmas. Can we get an explosion
Speaker 2: sound or something. Every time mister Armstrong screams blow it up,
Speaker 2: blow it up, I want to hear it more.
Speaker 1: Public crying, Yes, that's our aid. Public weeping.
Speaker 2: Yes, you won't have gone far enough until you see
Speaker 2: people weeping in the streets. Dash a soft country. Well,
Speaker 2: but it's just so annoying. I was listened to Speaker Johnson,
Speaker 2: who I'm sure's a good guy and everything like that,
Speaker 2: but I listened to him yesterday. Well, it's very important we
Speaker 2: get this passed, and we only have one half of
Speaker 2: one branch. But coming back after the year and after
Speaker 2: the neouguration, and yeah, that's what everybody says every single
Speaker 2: time on why you got to pass this unholy bill.
Speaker 2: I've heard this, I don't know sixty times since we've
Speaker 2: been doing talk radio.
Speaker 1: Just we got to pass this one.
Speaker 2: There's reasons for this one because of the war, of
Speaker 2: the pandemic, the oil crisis, the dot com miltdown, whatever,
Speaker 2: with this one, we have to pass.
Speaker 1: But then we're no, you're never ever going.
Speaker 2: To stop spending wildly.
Speaker 1: You're just never gonna stop.
Speaker 2: Well, he says, knowing full well he's about to get
Speaker 2: yelled at. He could make the argument, Hey, we've got
Speaker 2: the Senate in January, after Trump gets elected. We've got
Speaker 2: all three branches, so this just funds it through march. Marshall,
Speaker 2: come and go before you know it, like like pages
Speaker 2: of a book, like leaves in the wind. And then
Speaker 2: we'll get down to brast eggs, right, with help of
Speaker 2: the Doge brothers. Sure they will. And it's never this one.
Speaker 2: It's never this gargantuan bill full of crap. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's always the next one. All of the above so frustrating.
Speaker 2: So just blow it up. Blow it up, Mike, Yes,
Speaker 2: until there is PW public weeping.
Speaker 1: And oh my god, the endless the government shut down?
Speaker 2: Well whatever, I tell you what, Yeah, shut it down
Speaker 2: for six months.
Speaker 1: Let's see how we do out here in the private sex.
Speaker 2: And if you close the national parks, we will fight
Speaker 2: our way in. And I okay, and I fully get
Speaker 2: the grown ups when they push back it. Here's why
Speaker 2: you can't shut down the government and the things that happen.
Speaker 2: The problem is this, you never ever stop spending wildly.
Speaker 1: It never happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is utterly you know, at the risk
Speaker 2: of repeating ourselves for the millions of time, but it
Speaker 2: is no less true. It is utterly immoral. What we
Speaker 2: are doing, we the people, what we are doing right
Speaker 2: now is indefensible, fiscally, morally, patriotically, it's it's it's treasonous.
Speaker 2: I am not exaggerating, I'm not kidding. We are spending
Speaker 2: future generations into oblivion. It's incredibly selfish and evil. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll be a much weaker country and our children will
Speaker 2: have much higher taxes and less services. Hey, seriously, if
Speaker 2: I were a congressman and I like it was a
Speaker 2: mole for the Chinese for a decade, you know, unless
Speaker 2: I was on an extra had an extremely high security clearance,
Speaker 2: on an extremely important committee, for instance, I could not
Speaker 2: possibly do more damage to the country twenty years from
Speaker 2: now than I would do by simply continuing to vote
Speaker 2: for wildly irresponsible spending and deficit spending. That is treasonous.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you pull out of it with
Speaker 2: the each party can claim the other parties to blame.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you end the spiral, the downward spiral,
Speaker 2: because there's always a well you started it with this,
Speaker 2: will you started it with that? On everything, on absolutely everything,
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I hate to do this. During the show. I've got
Speaker 1: to take a call.
Speaker 2: Hello Joe Getty here, Yes, History, it's History calling.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's what can we do for you? Okay, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. Thanks. Yeah, yeah, very Christmas too. Yeah. History
Speaker 1: called and said, the way you stopped the downward spiral,
Speaker 1: he's your hit bottom.
Speaker 2: You have a disaster, you have a cataclysm, and that's
Speaker 2: the only option.
Speaker 1: Where's the eggnog?
Speaker 2: History kept calling me. I blocked them. They they can
Speaker 2: no longer get there. I don't want to hear from history.
Speaker 2: And if you considered a set of history related encyclopedias, encyclopedias,
Speaker 2: it's twenty thirty four and I live in La La
Speaker 2: Land and ignore history, which apparently we're going to do.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially. That'll be fun.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Thursday,
Speaker 2: December nineteenth. You're twenty twenty four. We are armstrong in
Speaker 2: getting We approve of this program. Okay, let's leap indection.
Speaker 2: Then officially, according to CC rules and regulations, here we
Speaker 2: go at Mark.
Speaker 3: Sell Hackey to steal me here and see all you
Speaker 3: wonderful people. And that's had a good time well out there.
Speaker 3: You see, my family always had.
Speaker 1: A lot of fun.
Speaker 3: We always we always had a lot of fun. And
Speaker 3: I never got over that.
Speaker 1: What was that, Michael.
Speaker 2: That's one hundred and six year old woman, Florence Hackman,
Speaker 2: and her secret is fireball whiskey.
Speaker 1: That's what's kept her alive. One hundred and sixty six.
Speaker 2: Sound like you said one hundred and sixty, but I
Speaker 2: doubt that's the case. Yeah, one hundred and six years old.
Speaker 2: That's that's old. And she drinks the fireball.
Speaker 1: Good for her.
Speaker 2: Wow, and Judy brought home a meme or a birthday
Speaker 2: It might have been a birthday card. Actually, happy birthday, sweetheart,
Speaker 2: it's my darling bride's at birthday today. I've certainly wished
Speaker 2: her that in person already, but ah, she brought home
Speaker 2: a birthday card that said, hey, they have candles. This
Speaker 2: woman sniffing a decorative candle. Hey, they have candles that
Speaker 2: smell like fire, Paul whiskey, and her friend replies, or
Speaker 2: is we non alcoholic?
Speaker 1: Non alcoholics call it cinnamon. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how many of your super ancient people, when
Speaker 2: they're asked about keys to life or what they do,
Speaker 2: ever include drinking.
Speaker 1: It's missed now and again. It seems that happened quite often.
Speaker 2: It's involved some beverage, alcoholic beverage of some sort. Well,
Speaker 2: when the world, family whatever is about to make you
Speaker 2: completely insane, eh, you stop, Karen.
Speaker 1: It's probably good for you. I would like to know
Speaker 1: when then we you got to take a break. But
Speaker 1: I would like to.
Speaker 2: Don't wonder how many of the people that get to
Speaker 2: that age are people that don't pay super close attention
Speaker 2: to what's going on in the world, because you would
Speaker 2: go crazy.
Speaker 1: This is not good for business. I hear what you're
Speaker 1: driving at.
Speaker 2: Another sixty years of paying attention to this level would make.
Speaker 1: Me insane right fast.
Speaker 2: The fireball. How does mailbag look? Oh it's very nice. Yes,
Speaker 2: well that's on the way and our text line is
Speaker 2: four one, five, two nine five KFTC new poll just
Speaker 2: out from Marquette University, sixty four percent support deporting illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: So it continues to pull very very well. And uh,
Speaker 2: that's going to be one of the biggest stories of
Speaker 2: next year. I was at a lovely gathering last night
Speaker 2: and one of my friends, who lean's somewhat left politically speaking, Uh,
Speaker 2: he agreed that anybody who thinks Trump is going to
Speaker 2: like root out the guy who's been in the country
Speaker 2: twenty years, has two kids in schools, he's a successful
Speaker 2: small businessman or something like that, and it has followed
Speaker 2: the law.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: Those black medcenarios are not going to happen. But if
Speaker 2: one of those people accidentally does get deported, that is
Speaker 2: going to be the only story in America. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: much to talk about today, including lead story in the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal. They are talking, They have begun talking.
Speaker 2: Biden Aid's saying, oh yay, Senile as hell, here's how
Speaker 2: we dealt with it. The leaks have begun at First
Speaker 2: Freedom Loving Quota of the Day, Timoyer. Tim Sanderfer sent
Speaker 2: this in my way. It's John Adams writing in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four.
Speaker 1: Apparently is tim put it.
Speaker 2: He's talking about how getting beyond the constitution, specifically to
Speaker 2: tax people and then redistribute money income to people, is
Speaker 2: wildly outside the bounds of the constitution, according to Adams,
Speaker 2: and he says, the nature of the encroachment upon the
Speaker 2: American Constitution is such as to grow every day more
Speaker 2: and more encroaching, Like a cancer. It eats faster and
Speaker 2: faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners
Speaker 2: urge for more revenue. The people grow less, steady, spirited
Speaker 2: and virtual us, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt,
Speaker 2: and every day increases the circle of their dependence and expectance,
Speaker 2: until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, frugality become the objects
Speaker 2: of ridicule and scorn and vanity, luxury, foppery, too damn
Speaker 2: much foppery and oh my god, hot and cold running foppery, selfishness, meanness,
Speaker 2: and downright venality, swallow up the whole society.
Speaker 1: That is really, really good.
Speaker 2: My pushback would be, yeah, but it's unfair that there
Speaker 2: are billionaires.
Speaker 1: And poor people. John Adams for the win. That's really good,
Speaker 1: That is really good.
Speaker 2: They they they understood the long game on so many
Speaker 2: of these things.
Speaker 1: The Founding Fathers Human Nature mailbag.
Speaker 2: Drops a Nope mail bag at Armstrong e Getty dot towncal.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was driving around yesterday. Foppery everywhere.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, where you look? Thomas Sokaw with some
Speaker 2: gift ideas. Jack always says he can't wait to read
Speaker 2: books written about the Biden administration. Here's some titles I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to reading. There's not a single thing that
Speaker 2: comes to mind. The Kamala Harris Story, an automography, I've
Speaker 2: Got a Busy Day, A Daily Calendar and Planner by
Speaker 2: Alejandro Mamon, Jailee Calendar, Pardon Me Brother, A Guide to
Speaker 2: Plausible Deniability by Jim Biden, Padwey, Tasty Recipes for San
Speaker 2: Antonio Breakfast Britos by not a real doctor Jill Biden.
Speaker 2: And finally, You're Gonna In for a Problem, a novel
Speaker 2: by Joe Biden. I recommend the audiobook version where he
Speaker 2: whispers the entire story.
Speaker 1: That's some good that's some good material right there. That's
Speaker 1: some good comedy. Thomas, So call nice job, buddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Senile, Joe Biden, stay with us next hout.
Speaker 1: You're Gonna in for a Problem, That's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite clips.
Speaker 2: Side show Bah excuse me, asking why on earth would
Speaker 2: Jack even consider giving up baked goods. It's the only
Speaker 2: thing that truly sets us apart from the apes. That's true,
Speaker 2: apes are almost never seen eating pie. Got us talking
Speaker 2: to the kids about this at dinner. This is my
Speaker 2: most challenging New Year's resolution ever. I'm almost a little scared.
Speaker 2: Well and jt and Livermore asks a question that I've
Speaker 2: wondered myself at times. He says, primarily, I don't understand
Speaker 2: why Jack is even eating baked goods, dessert styles, sugar bombs,
Speaker 2: given that he lost his sense of sweet from COVID. Yeah,
Speaker 2: people ask me that all the time. I eat more
Speaker 2: because I lost my tents ability to tast sweet. I
Speaker 2: eat more sweets than I did before. It is your
Speaker 2: brain wants sweet for some reason. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: and I can't get that. I don't get that I eat.
Speaker 2: It don't like, and I don't My brain doesn't recognize
Speaker 2: that I took in sweets, so it wants more. And
Speaker 2: I am attracted to more sweets than ever in my
Speaker 2: life because of the COVID sweet thing.
Speaker 1: It's weird. I would have thought it'd been the other
Speaker 1: way around, like most people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very strange. I wish we had more time. We've
Speaker 2: got some amusing emails, but we'll drop them in throughout
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: We've got all sorts of stuff to talk about. Elon Muskin,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, running the government from mar A Lago already. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so much today. I'm going through the motions barely but
Speaker 2: a lot, so stay.
Speaker 4: Tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Starbucks announced this week it's doubled it's paid parental leave
Speaker 2: policy for baristas, while Duncan employees are still insisting they're
Speaker 2: not the father.
Speaker 1: What is that? What is that? That's some sort of
Speaker 1: lack Coast thing. I don't get.
Speaker 2: Wow, what sort of odd snobbery the elite elite is? Oh,
Speaker 2: speaking of the elite, you know, I know you wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about something, and we will, by God, we will.
Speaker 2: But you know I'm a big Brett Bear fan. It's
Speaker 2: an article in the Wall Street Journal. The incoming Secretary
Speaker 2: of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, just bought Brett Bay's home in
Speaker 2: DC for twenty nine million dollars. Brett Baar of Fox
Speaker 2: Yeah is selling a home for twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's because he bought one in Palm Springs a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago where he lives now, apparently for thirty
Speaker 2: seven million, so he owned Brett doing pretty well. So
Speaker 2: he's been owning a thirty seven million dollar home while
Speaker 2: owning another thirty million dollar home, least for a little.
Speaker 1: While, waiting for that to clear the market.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, there aren't that many buyers at that level.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, wouldn't that. That's got to be something.
Speaker 2: There's got to be like five people in the entire country,
Speaker 2: maybe not even that many, because you'd have to be
Speaker 2: conceivably able to afford it and then have any interest
Speaker 2: in buying a home at that moment. So it might
Speaker 2: be like two people in the nation at any given
Speaker 2: moment that could and want to buy a home at
Speaker 2: the price range. I realize if you have to ask,
Speaker 2: you can't afford it. But what the hell are the
Speaker 2: property Texas on a house like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hi, karamba, yeah bear, thanks for that, Michael H A
Speaker 2: couple things for you.
Speaker 1: You can't over sell. I don't think what a big
Speaker 1: deal it is.
Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal has this big piece on Joe
Speaker 2: Biden's brain and how they've been hiding it forever. Here's
Speaker 2: an interesting thing, just teasing it because we're gonna talk
Speaker 2: about it to kick off hour two. We got to
Speaker 2: talk about it every hour the whole show today because
Speaker 2: it's it's a big deal. A couple of things that
Speaker 2: I've come across in terms of just teasing the story
Speaker 2: for later is Matt Welch pointing out PolitiFact said the
Speaker 2: lie of the year is they're eating the dogs. They're
Speaker 2: eating the cats from Donald Trump, that's the lie of
Speaker 2: the year, and links the Wall Street Journal story saying
Speaker 2: White House meetings were frequently canceled because Joe Biden's brain
Speaker 2: didn't work. Yeah, yeah, the dogs and cats saying bigger
Speaker 2: lie than the high eating the fact that they had
Speaker 2: to cancel meetings all the time because the presidents.
Speaker 1: Of brain didn't act.
Speaker 2: And where am I seeing most of the stuff the
Speaker 2: little snippets of the Wall Street Journal piece from James
Speaker 2: Homan of The Washington Post, who's retweeting all the most
Speaker 2: juicy stuff from the Wall Street Journal story, probably because
Speaker 2: he didn't like being lied to all this time, his
Speaker 2: initial tweet being and again, we're gonna kick off our
Speaker 2: two of this blockbuster reporting this Morning from and he
Speaker 2: lists all the reporters. They have fifty sources detailing various
Speaker 2: ways that Biden's inner circle was hiding his decline going
Speaker 2: back to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: And that's going back to the very beginning.
Speaker 2: But that's a Washington Post guy saying that about the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal article. I think that's notable. And Nate
Speaker 2: Silver also retweeting that story and saying, if you said
Speaker 2: any of this before June twenty twenty four, you'd get
Speaker 2: accused of peddling misinformation, Like there was literally an entirely
Speaker 2: new category of misinform invented cheap fakes concerning videos of
Speaker 2: Biden's decline that they would accuse you of. Now it's
Speaker 2: out in the open, and it's interesting that all these
Speaker 2: other people are retweeting this stuff.
Speaker 1: I find that unique.
Speaker 2: Indeed, I will point out, at the risk of self congratulations,
Speaker 2: if you've been listening to this show, you knew. I mean,
Speaker 2: we didn't even I didn't even take seriously the denials.
Speaker 2: I thought they were hilarious, just idiotic. And it's all
Speaker 2: been born out again, you know, final punchline, and then
Speaker 2: we'll get to the story next hour in full, because
Speaker 2: it's well worth hearing. There are still those within the
Speaker 2: White House who were responding to this story and the
Speaker 2: various accusations observations Joe Biden seriously diminished.
Speaker 1: Noise not.
Speaker 2: You need to keep meetings short and simple with them. No,
Speaker 2: you don't, he's very old men. Noise not.
Speaker 1: There's still one hundred percent denying it.
Speaker 2: So again we'll kick off hour two with that, and
Speaker 2: then there's a lot interesting stuff in that. I can't
Speaker 2: believe I'm talking about government shut down, debt ceiling stuff.
Speaker 2: But there are a couple of interesting things happening. As
Speaker 2: we've already mentioned, Trump has come out and said he
Speaker 2: wants to fully get rid of the debt ceiling, which
Speaker 2: we have said many times before. Trump saying today the
Speaker 2: Democrats have said they want to get.
Speaker 1: Rid of it.
Speaker 2: If they want to get rid of it, I would
Speaker 2: lead the charge. It's a fake thing. There's no real
Speaker 2: value in terms of debt control, and we've been saying
Speaker 2: that for years. It doesn't actually do anything. It just
Speaker 2: puts us in this weird bickering back and forth, weird
Speaker 2: political handcuff situation every once in a while, but so
Speaker 2: far it's never accomplished anything.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's it's hilarious. You could it's in first
Speaker 1: new clothes.
Speaker 2: Ish you could make the argument that at least once
Speaker 2: a year, twice a year, it makes you have the
Speaker 2: conversation about debt, and without it we won't. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but so far it's never it's never helped, and it
Speaker 2: is completely made up.
Speaker 1: It's a man made thing. For what it's worth.
Speaker 2: Newt Gingrich just tweeted President Trump and Republicans should not
Speaker 2: be afraid of a government shutdown. The next election is
Speaker 2: two years away. We had two shutdowns in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: five and became the first re elected GOP House majority
Speaker 2: since nineteen twenty eight. It may take shock therapy for
Speaker 2: Schumer and Democrats to learn President Trump is serious about
Speaker 2: training the swamp. And a number of people pointed out
Speaker 2: that during that time, when Bill Clinton was the president,
Speaker 2: that was our last budget surpluses as a country.
Speaker 1: They had a balanced budget multiple years.
Speaker 2: So in ninety five I was barely following politics at all.
Speaker 2: I don't remember I remember hearing stuff about Newton the shutdown.
Speaker 2: I didn't think about it, ever, so how much of
Speaker 2: the population would even be aware. DC goes nuts over
Speaker 2: this stuff? Oh, if you didn't have the media acting
Speaker 2: like it's akin to the nationwide wildfire or something, screeching
Speaker 2: about it constantly.
Speaker 1: No, you'd never notice, right, And it's always the thing
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 2: Many government ployees will miss a check, yeah, and then
Speaker 2: they'll get the rest of it, like three days later.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. They go with veterans.
Speaker 2: It'll be veterans, disabled veterans, blind, disabled veterans will not
Speaker 2: get their checks.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And the old, the very old, the soul they can't
Speaker 2: even lift their hand to feed themselves. Trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what sort of thing I want to talk about today.
Speaker 2: Remind the mood for various things.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, you mentioned Fox News and Brett Baer.
Speaker 2: How much money he makes, yeah or not how much
Speaker 2: money makes, But he's selling one thirty million dollar house
Speaker 2: since he moved into a thirty five million dollars roughly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which means you have both at the same time, which
Speaker 2: is crazy. Fox News dominated twenty twenty four so much
Speaker 2: it beat easily CNN and MSNBC added together for.
Speaker 1: The end of the year ratings. That is something I'd
Speaker 1: like to know.
Speaker 2: What News Nation and Oan and some of the other
Speaker 2: ones are are what sort of traction they're getting? Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that I don't want to bring that up. I
Speaker 2: can't I find it interesting. Maybe i'll bring it up later.
Speaker 2: I just can't make.
Speaker 1: Myself talk about this. Wow, all right, it's a downer.
Speaker 1: It's a conflicted man. We're listening to folks. So do
Speaker 1: you know anything about this Yun?
Speaker 2: The president of South Korea who's now gone because he
Speaker 2: pulled that whole I'm going to become emperor thing and
Speaker 2: martial law and all that.
Speaker 1: Luckily suck, even suck.
Speaker 2: Luckily they were able to get back in there and
Speaker 2: vote him down and open the streets back up and
Speaker 2: then impeach him. Ian Brummer tweeted this out yesterday, and I
Speaker 2: know nothing about this. Yun's presidential campaign relied heavily on
Speaker 2: ai deep fake version of him that was much more
Speaker 2: engaging and sociable than the real him and got him elected.
Speaker 2: The real Yun's capability turned out to be a rude
Speaker 2: awakening to people. How did hell how did the world
Speaker 2: miss the story? Did a guy get elected in a
Speaker 2: major economicly powerful country? Ian is implying through deep fake
Speaker 2: videos portraying him in a way he's not at all
Speaker 2: wow and misled people. And then when he became president,
Speaker 2: people are like, who are you? You're you're a weird,
Speaker 2: off putting angry. Exactly did that happen?
Speaker 1: Think if Kamala had the videos.
Speaker 2: Out of her gliding around the room merely throwing out
Speaker 2: clever bond Mo after bond Mo, making perfect sense, not
Speaker 2: giggling like a moron, Yeah, it could have changed things,
Speaker 2: huh much.
Speaker 1: But they don't Hilary now Hillary.
Speaker 2: If they'd had deep fakes of Hillary seeming youthful and
Speaker 2: likable and whatever, that could have turned the tide of history. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: yes they didn't have They don't have a media there
Speaker 2: in South Korea where there are sources that could come
Speaker 2: out and say that that never happened.
Speaker 1: Look, I was in the room that night. That is
Speaker 1: not what happened or something.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. This is this story's brand new
Speaker 2: to me. I'm fascinating. I saw it late last night
Speaker 2: and I thought I got to dig into that because
Speaker 2: if that happened, that's a major turning point in world history.
Speaker 2: I think, sure, Yeah, they do have to figure out
Speaker 2: the AI. Some scientists needs to figure out what percentage
Speaker 2: of perfect faces can the brain handle and still think
Speaker 2: it's real or not because the perfect symmetry. I feel
Speaker 2: like I can look at the AI created.
Speaker 1: People and to me, that's AI.
Speaker 2: They're too perfect. Nobody looks like that. Nobody's perfectly symmetrical.
Speaker 2: Even really good looking people aren't perfectly symmetrical. But the
Speaker 2: A people are the chicks usually because they got them everywhere,
Speaker 2: and it just they're they're obviously fake. Yeah. What's interesting
Speaker 2: is I know in digital recording, like music recording, you
Speaker 2: can fix something to a grid so it's perfectly in rhythm,
Speaker 2: and then you can instruct it to insert fifteen percent variation. Interesting,
Speaker 2: and I'll bet that sort of thing's come into visual.
Speaker 1: And you add to it, and you would do that
Speaker 1: to what mimic real humans?
Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially, it's like you fix something and then you
Speaker 2: unfix it a little bit so it sounds more human. Interesting.
Speaker 2: So I was a club DJ briefly when I was younger.
Speaker 2: I knowed I like that.
Speaker 1: Gladys huh, And.
Speaker 2: It was nineteen seventy seven. Disco was king many decades
Speaker 2: after that. But so I would have to mix songs
Speaker 2: together and like your your rap or hip hop music
Speaker 2: or whatever they use what they call a click track.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a computer dram. It's perfect, and so
Speaker 2: you can mix beats together. But any rock and roll song,
Speaker 2: if you'd try to mix it there, like you know,
Speaker 2: back in Black ACDC or whatever, you can't, cause the
Speaker 2: tempo varies, rolling stones, any of the beat varies. They
Speaker 2: get a little faster toward the end, or slow down
Speaker 2: in the middle or whatever, because it's human beings involved.
Speaker 1: And I always thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 2: Some of the most popular songs of all time, they
Speaker 2: didn't keep a perfectly steady beat through it. Of course
Speaker 2: you wouldn't, right, right, And I kind of regret being
Speaker 2: mostly recording during the year of click tracks, because when
Speaker 2: you listen to those songs and just pointed out to
Speaker 2: you, you think that's why the last chorus sounds more exciting.
Speaker 2: They picked up a pace, sped up a little, they
Speaker 2: got excited, or they slowed down before it, just because
Speaker 2: they were all looking at each other. And yeah, there
Speaker 2: was human emotion involved, exactly. They got excited. Now I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Everybody's excited. That'll be the difficult thing for AI to mimic,
Speaker 2: although they'll figure it out soon enough. Also, looking at
Speaker 2: some of the Elon headlines. He is a guy who
Speaker 2: is not concerned what other people think about him. No,
Speaker 2: I don't think it ever crosses his mind. I mean
Speaker 2: he is, he is the all time king of I
Speaker 2: have no e fs to give mine ego, wealth and autism.
Speaker 2: I think there's plenty of people positioned, plenty of people
Speaker 2: with ego and wealth, but they seem to be very
Speaker 2: concerned what other people think.
Speaker 1: He's not one.
Speaker 2: And I said it yesterday you were gone somewhere that
Speaker 2: I wonder how much of his ability. Oh, it was
Speaker 2: the conversation we had about so Katie, you got the
Speaker 2: name for me, some big business leader, gazillionaire also who
Speaker 2: worked with Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk was talking about
Speaker 2: the signal the noise.
Speaker 1: Ratio thing that I'm kind of fascinated with, and he was.
Speaker 2: He was talking about how Steve Jobs was ninety percent
Speaker 2: signal ten percent noise, as in, ninety percent of everything
Speaker 2: he did was focused on getting something accomplished with very
Speaker 2: little extraneous whatever, and he worked twenty hours a day.
Speaker 2: He said, Elon is one hundred percent signal.
Speaker 1: Wow, just the way he is, like twenty hours a day.
Speaker 2: And I wondered how much of that is his aspergers,
Speaker 2: just his ability to stay focused without like, screw this,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do something else. I'm gonna drink margaritas and
Speaker 2: flip through, you know, a porn or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I wish you could step on a scale or get
Speaker 2: a scan or something and they could say, well, Joe,
Speaker 2: you're twenty.
Speaker 1: Two percent signal. I'd be like, what, yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1: Do you remember who that was? Katie? Yeah, Kevin O'Leary,
Speaker 1: also big on Shark Tank. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny on that topic.
Speaker 2: I I've got just a minor health thing on everything's fine,
Speaker 2: but they wanted to do an MRI of my brain
Speaker 2: to make sure it wasn't a brain tumor. And how
Speaker 2: do you say I got a health thing. It's no
Speaker 2: big deal. They did an MRI to see if I
Speaker 2: got a brain tumor. That seems like a big deal.
Speaker 2: I just the details of it aren't interesting, and we're
Speaker 2: up against a break. It's it's a hearing thing, but
Speaker 2: it's it's I think I know what it is going
Speaker 2: to be fine. But anyway, I thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 2: That I got the results. I actually saw them at
Speaker 2: getting Ready with the show for the show today. Uh,
Speaker 2: and it said please to share the patient and his
Speaker 2: MRI looks normal and his brain showed nothing exceptional. And
Speaker 2: I thought, well, that's pretty much confirmed by the trajectory
Speaker 2: of my life. Exceptional the Joe Getty story.
Speaker 1: That could be the title of your book.
Speaker 2: We see nothing exceptional, the Joe Getty story. We've got
Speaker 2: Katie's headlines next. I like reading the style section of
Speaker 2: various newspapers because I find them hilarious and they're so
Speaker 2: out of touch with my real life. Anyway, here's one.
Speaker 2: What is the hottest scent in perfumes right now? According
Speaker 2: to the Wall Street Journal, it is pistachio, just a
Speaker 2: hint of pistachio and all the most expensive scents out there.
Speaker 2: And also their suggestion for the holidays, forego the hackneyed
Speaker 2: holiday beanie, which I wore to work today to keep
Speaker 2: my head warm. Foregoing it's hackneyed, you see, in favor
Speaker 2: of the equally practical fullard fou l A R D flard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got three of them.
Speaker 2: Some triangle thing you tie around your head. I hope
Speaker 2: you're not wearing a hackneyed beanie this weekend.
Speaker 1: Full hard. I wouldn't know one if you shoved it
Speaker 1: up my chimney.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead
Speaker 2: story with Katie Green Katie starting with ABC.
Speaker 4: The FAA temporarily bands drums and parts of New Jersey
Speaker 4: notice threatens quote deadly force for imminent security threat.
Speaker 2: There is as Joe is saying, this will go away
Speaker 2: when Travis proposes to Taylor, or you know, something happens
Speaker 2: Christmas will make this story go away, right, We'll all
Speaker 2: forget about it. We'll come back in January sixth and
Speaker 2: will have gone.
Speaker 1: Away and nobody will remember how it got resolved, and
Speaker 1: that'll be the end of it. The latest is you
Speaker 1: got a bunch of New Jersey eights saying the.
Speaker 2: Thing passed over my house and now I can't stop coughing.
Speaker 1: Oh, any get weird symptoms?
Speaker 2: Maybe you need a fillard to keep your head warm.
Speaker 4: From The New York Post, Luigi Mangione arrives at courthouse
Speaker 4: as hundreds of protesters gather outside to show support.
Speaker 1: For killer freaking weirdos.
Speaker 4: From The Washington Post, Amazon hit by teamsters strikes during
Speaker 4: holiday rush.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's thousands of people, and Amazon has one point
Speaker 2: eight million employees or something like that. But in the
Speaker 2: locations where they're centered, like San Francisco and see, if
Speaker 2: you're expecting something, you know, overnight last minute rush, it
Speaker 2: could happen.
Speaker 1: Effect woops from.
Speaker 4: The Associated Press, NASA's two struck as two stuck astronauts
Speaker 4: face more time in space, with return delayed now until.
Speaker 1: At least March.
Speaker 2: That'd be a heck of bad news to get you
Speaker 2: think you're coming back from space after being stuck up
Speaker 2: there forever much change it again. Yeah, even if it
Speaker 2: was kind of exciting that they would be up there
Speaker 2: for an extended period, at first, they'd think, well, what
Speaker 2: the hell I get to live in space for all?
Speaker 1: They're probably good and sick of it now, unless you
Speaker 1: don't like your family and you're thinking, oh right.
Speaker 4: From CNN, humanoid robot that can do your laundry, dishes
Speaker 4: and make you coffee could.
Speaker 1: Be yours as early as next year. Awesome.
Speaker 4: And finally, the Batlon Bee RFK Junior advises children to
Speaker 4: leave out eight strips of bacon and a bowl of beef.
Speaker 2: Tallow for s this year, which publication had the headline
Speaker 2: about that you might have a robot next year CNN. Okay,
Speaker 2: I have to look into that story. I need one
Speaker 2: between AI and robots. We're spend a lot of time
Speaker 2: and money on designing things that we could just do ourselves.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We're going to make ourselves obsolete. The president is senile
Speaker 2: and now everybody's admitting it. Major Wall Street Journal story
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