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