1 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong, 3 00:00:48,000 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 1: Andy and he Armstrong and from studio scene, please sing 4 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: picking off the final week of Armstrong and getting new 5 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: broadcasts in the year twenty twenty four. We started a 6 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: year twenty twenty four. It feels like it, doesn't it. 7 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager. 8 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: Drone mania. It was the drones last week. That was 9 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: drone mania. 10 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: Is We've completely lost the thread and it's just silly now, 11 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: is it? Is it just the coverage is silly. It 12 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: is a slow news day, there is no doubt about it. 13 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: It's a slow news day when every source you go 14 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: to has a different lead story and that has been 15 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: the case since I got up this morning, and every 16 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,279 Speaker 1: single version of a lead story is just an update 17 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: on an existing story. So what is a slow news day? 18 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: The exciting thing about that is means we can certainly 19 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: talk about whatever we want and really stretch out and 20 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: enjoy ourselves on a number of topics of our own 21 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: making well. 22 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: And it means, you know, speaking metaphorically, nothing in particular 23 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: is on fire. 24 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: At the moment, which is a rare pleasure. Yeah. Well, 25 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: you know, it ignores a couple of things that are 26 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: going on around the world that are major problems. But 27 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: I guess there's nothing that jumps out as a reason 28 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: to elevate it to the highest level. 29 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the what's the layer they call in forest 30 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: fires that like can keep burning for. 31 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: Weeks and you don't see it. 32 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 2: It's like smoldering and in kerb blowy it fires up again. 33 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: We've got a handful of those, no doubt. 34 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So why do you say drone mania is 35 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: our lead story? I was. I was fascinated by it 36 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:42,839 Speaker 1: over the weekend. I showed it to both my kids, 37 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: who don't take in a lot of news coverage, because 38 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: every newscast, certainly on Friday night, and I think Saturday 39 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: night led with the drone story right right. 40 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: The reason I said that was one moment in particular, 41 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: because there are some significant stories about like that Chinese 42 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 2: national who was flying a drone over one of our 43 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: Space Force bases on the West Coast then tried to 44 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 2: escape to China. 45 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: That's significant. 46 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 2: The Vandenberg Air Force Base the New Jersey there by, 47 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: the base I don't recall the name of but that 48 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: stuff's great. 49 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: But then I was watching the news I think it 50 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: was could have been last night, and Aaron Katirsky in 51 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: his sonorous. 52 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: Voice, saying, and now drone sightings have been reported in 53 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 2: a dozen Northeastern states. I'm like, yet, it's not that 54 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 2: people are like that there are things in the air. 55 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: We know there are things in the air. Do we 56 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: have drones massing over a critical nevermind? 57 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: Well, all the denials bother me and we'll get to 58 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: that a little bit later. As freaking waste of skin. 59 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: DHS Secretary of Mariorcus was on one of the shows yesterday, 60 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: and that is he should be skinned for the use 61 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: of others. As usual, I've got nothing to say, but 62 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: I'd like to assure you there's nothing to worry about. 63 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: And blah blah blah. Most of the drones are airplanes. Okay, 64 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: I get that. Since the own story got hot, now 65 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: everybody's calling in every airplane they see as a drone. Yes, 66 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: but what about the original drones that everybody seems to 67 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: think we're drones? How about we talk about those like 68 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: grown ups and said exactly, most of the reports are planes. 69 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic. Right, Hey, hey, 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: what about the ones. 71 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: That aren't huh yeah, well most of them are planes, Yeah, 72 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: but what about the ones that aren't right? 73 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: Right? Which is something that's going on? I think, I well, 74 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: I don't know that I know. But Josh Rogan put 75 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: out an interesting retweet that I was reading in the 76 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: middle of the night. Would you like to hear that now? 77 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: I want to read all the details. I'll do that 78 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: later because it's a pretty long thread, but it's pretty interesting. 79 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: It's a guy from some agency that or a corporation 80 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: that made these kind of drones, and he lays out 81 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: while he doesn't know that that's what this is, he's 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: pretty sure that what it is it's a drone sweep 83 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: of areas to see if they can detect dirty bomb. 84 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: And he suspects that it's a test of our capability 85 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: around ports and any sort of populated area or government 86 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: installation or whatever to detect a dirty bomb. He thinks 87 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: it's both a psyops program psychological operation to see how 88 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: the public would react to all these drones showing up 89 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: somewhere all of a sudden, which they need to do 90 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: if there's a suspicion that you know, they get some 91 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: intel that Orion wants to get a dirty bomb into 92 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: the Port of San Diego or whatever, and so you 93 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: send over all of our drones that can pick this 94 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: information up. There will that freaked people out. And so 95 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: it's a combination syops and testing out our dirty bomb 96 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct, but 97 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: that would explain it. That could be the thing. That 98 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: sort of thing could be the thing. Yet, that sort 99 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: of thing, I would agree. 100 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 2: I interacted with a number of folks over the weekend, 101 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: both during my Jay Gatsby like social life as we 102 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 2: had holiday gatherings and on the golf course, and one 103 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: thing that was agreed widely was that the answer is, 104 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: we don't know what it is, but everything's fine. Indicates 105 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: something classified, right, something YEA know that they can't talk about. 106 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: But no, it's not killer drones come for you, your children. 107 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,239 Speaker 2: It's fine. It's our stuff. 108 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why that dirty bomb thing that Josh Rogan, 109 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: who we really like from the Washington Post, he retweeted 110 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: that because he obviously thinks it's significant. That's why that 111 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: would fit that people at certain levels know it's nothing 112 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: to worry about, and it's a good thing. It's a 113 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: good thing that we have this technology. 114 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 2: But we just one other suggestion I've heard that that 115 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: seemed very reasonable was some sort of test of drone vulnerability, 116 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 2: drone tracking equipment, that sort of thing. There's only one 117 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: way to do it. Team A flies drones, Team B 118 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: keeps an eye on them. Then you see if teammate 119 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 2: can elude Team B. It's a classic military training exercise. 120 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: So it's interesting you mentioned your Jay Gatsby like social life. 121 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: I remember before I had children and Gladys, could you 122 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: play the harp last week? Last week, Gladys, we don't 123 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: know if we're bringing you back in twenty five? Contract 124 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: was honey, wow? Contract? Huh, I don't know if God's 125 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: bringing her back in twenty five. Oh wow. I remember 126 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: when I had a Jay Gatsby like social life before 127 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: I had children, and you get close to Christmas, it'd 128 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: just be all kinds of different gatherings and parties and 129 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: stuff like that, and it was just running around. I'd 130 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: be so exhausted from the fun and oh man, this 131 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: is almost work. I had one of the most annoying 132 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: weekends of my life just running kids around running errands 133 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: in the traffic of this time of year. I mean, 134 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: it's first word world problems, annoying. It's not Ukraine or Syria, 135 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: but just everything was a hassle. Nothing was enjoyable. And 136 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: I thought, there's got to be a better way to 137 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: do the Christmas season than this. There's just got to be. 138 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: It was miserable. Everything is difficult this time of year. 139 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: The slightest errand is difficult because you can't park there, 140 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: There's a long line. It's just everything's insane. 141 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, it does have more of a final exams field 142 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: than a joyous celebration. 143 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: Right. I thought, what am I doing wrong? How do 144 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: I get my head straight on this? Because I'd hear 145 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: Christmas week it's the most wonderful time. And I'm in 146 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: line and just found a bread. Just go home, you mother. God. 147 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: We were at a kia ikia. I wanted to just 148 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to do the TikTok prank and climb behind 149 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: some of the furniture and sleep there. I was just 150 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: we couldn't get find our way out. The lines were 151 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: so long, it was so crowded, the parking, the traffic 152 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: in a kill me. 153 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 3: Ah. 154 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 2: Yes, Michael you can live on the Swedish meatballs exactly. 155 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: I was just so annoying, and I thought, I've got 156 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: to find some joy in this, or at least neutral 157 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: in this, because I'm so angry. Kids were angry, the 158 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: other customers were angry. It was just lots of anger. 159 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: Woh how angry setting fire to Santa's beard? Angry or 160 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: the only angel and I got out of Ikea that 161 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: drove my kids crazy was using some sort of fake 162 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: Swedish word for everything we were looking. We had come 163 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: around the corner. Oh, look the lampenfergens and there's the 164 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: couch and cold concern. Well, as long as you annoyed 165 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: the boys, it was worth it. Let's start the show officially. 166 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong. 167 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 2: We do that, Jack, There's a good chance that a 168 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 2: lot of your fellow shoppers were Republicans. Psychologists have studied 169 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 2: how spending habits are affected by election results. 170 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: I'll be darned. Uh, that doesn't surprise me. Actually, I'm 171 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, 172 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: December sixteenth, year, twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and 173 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: getting we approve of this program. Let's leap into action. 174 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, ho ho 175 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 2: hauling our way through the show at mark. 176 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,719 Speaker 3: Some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. Some 177 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 3: are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. It 178 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 3: is our job to be vigilant in the federal government, 179 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 3: with our state and local partners on behalf of the 180 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 3: American public, and we can assure their safety by reason 181 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 3: of that vigilance. 182 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 2: Did Biden find that lame ow by the roadside and 183 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: take pity. 184 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,479 Speaker 1: On him or something? How did he ascend to the 185 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: any level? Much less the level is that that was 186 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: Mayorchis the DHS secretary, sounding the same way about drones 187 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,239 Speaker 1: as he sounded about the border. He is the ultimate bureaucrat. 188 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: He could rise to the top of any sort of bureaucracy, 189 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: giant healthcare or state government or anything. It just we 190 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: are on top of this. We have all the functions 191 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 1: in place, we have the matrixes lined up, and all 192 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: the results are going to just he says nothing. He 193 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: kills a couple of minutes. Oh, I hate you so much, 194 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: donate your organs before you die, and then we'll start 195 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: taking them now. And then you need to recede away 196 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: from a waste of exactly a waste of skin. Burn victims, 197 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: those who have been lacerated can better use his skin. 198 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: Can you imagine you're running some sort of enterprise and 199 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: you got ten people in a room and he's the 200 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: best of them. Interview I would fire my recruiting firm. 201 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: So that was may Orcus on ABC this week. Right 202 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: after him Stephanopolis, who just got sued by Trump and 203 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: Trump won. More on that later. Chris Christie, former governor 204 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 1: of New Jersey, who's seeing drones all over the place, 205 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: said may Orcus is full of crap. So I thought 206 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: that was really good. We'll get to that later. How 207 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: does mailbag look strong? Good start to the week? Tell 208 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,839 Speaker 1: us to see a drome? You were to textas four one, five, 209 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 1: two nine five KFTC. 210 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 3: I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on. 211 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: I'm glad it's a slow newsday because it allows us 212 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: to do a number of things that it might not 213 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: made to cut otherwise from my list, including over the weekend, 214 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: I came across this site that has compiled it's bad news, 215 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: but it's funny. All the fraudsters that were able to 216 00:11:53,559 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: get PP money PPP money during the COVID giveaway where 217 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: we just shoveled trillions of dollars out the door, and 218 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: the way different people applied and actually got tens of 219 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in chunks all across America to the 220 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: tune of billions of dollars. It's actually pretty funny how 221 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: little effort they put into it. It almost makes me 222 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: wish I'd done. 223 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,559 Speaker 2: It, and given the way all that crap fed inflation, 224 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: this is definitely laughing to keep from crying. 225 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I get that. 226 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 2: And we have a list of some of the folks 227 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 2: that Joe Biden granted clemency to. That list of fifteen 228 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 2: hundred people have finally gotten a chance to take a 229 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 2: look at and assess and it's revealing and strange and 230 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: utterly inappropriate. But what are you gonna do. He's the 231 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 2: president for now. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. 232 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 2: Excuse me, I love this. Michael and Haystack, Nebraska sent 233 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 2: this along. 234 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: Is that real? Is that really a place in Nebraska? 235 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. Is that like Jeff and Hoggs Nipple Tennis? 236 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 2: It might be, yeah, but it's from Churchill and I 237 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: absolutely love it on the idea of presentism straight up. 238 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: Out of orwell as well as Churchill. 239 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 2: If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, 240 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 2: it will lose the future. Ooh, presentism is pathetic. 241 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: Adolescent egomania. It's easy. 242 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's so transparently self serving. 243 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: I'm like a way better person than Link. It was 244 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 1: because I believe this. 245 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 2: Oh okay, good lord, since it's insulting to everyone's intelligence mailbag? 246 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: Who Brian from Houston? What if the. 247 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 2: Drones are being controlled by clowns at the edge of 248 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: the woods, right, getcha? Oh, this is out of order, guys. 249 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 2: The oh this is Anna Louise and La Mesa California. Right, say, guys, 250 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 2: the drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like 251 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 2: the Salem Witch Trials. Maybe everyone needs to read or 252 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 2: watch Arthur Miller's The Crucible and calm the hell down. 253 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, funny you said that. That's what I said on 254 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: Thursday or Friday, that mass hysteria thing. But the difference 255 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: is there were no actual witches. There are actual drones. 256 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: I think that started this whole thing, right. 257 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: It reminds me of the murder investigation where you know, 258 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 2: somebody killed somebody, and the guys out there and then 259 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 2: the public because for whatever reason, floods the authorities with 260 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: fifteen thousand tips. 261 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: It's not helping. 262 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 2: Barry from Thailand Rights wishing you and your staff and 263 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: all the listeners are very merry Christmas, Happy New Year. 264 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: Never gets old here listening to American Christmas music in 265 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 2: the shopping centers malls. Oh boy, then I can't do 266 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 2: that joke, A funny joke about anam and e even 267 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 2: apparently his state of sexual readiness. 268 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: But again, what I'm telling you, I'm walking around the Ikea, 269 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: the best Buy Christmas music is playing about it's a 270 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: jing jingjingle. I'm looking around and there's not a smile 271 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: on anybody's face anywhere. Are we all doing this wrong? 272 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: Or what is going on? Wait? 273 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 2: At some point you think people will begin to associate 274 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 2: that music with being grim and angry. 275 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: Our stress just a endless list of unpleasant tasks. 276 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, but thank you for the note, Barry. Moving along, 277 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 2: here's something from John. I'm watching Sunday night football commercial 278 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: comes on. It's well meaning, I'm only Hamiman after all, Jesus. 279 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 2: It takes all of us, et cetera. Many clips of 280 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 2: people arguing and fighting over whatever. I assume you've seen it. 281 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 2: I actually have. Yeah, I'm tired. I think the biggest 282 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 2: problem in our society is that everyone thinks what they 283 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 2: think is important. Get over yourself. You're not the most 284 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 2: important person in the world. You're important to yourself, your 285 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 2: family and friends. The rest of the world doesn't give 286 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 2: two poops. 287 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: What you think. A little more humility would help all 288 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: of us. 289 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's truth to that. The ability to have your 290 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 2: words seen by the world online, no matter how inane, 291 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: is an interesting development mankind. 292 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: It's never existed before. 293 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 2: How about this Ryan from Houston, Jack Joe, I know 294 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 2: you have personal Jahad's mine is to get the world 295 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: to treat the Time magazine Person of the Year the 296 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: same as the MTV movie Award winner. 297 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: For Best fight Scene aka not at all. 298 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 2: Nobody thinks about Time three hundred and sixty four days 299 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 2: a year, So why give the hind end of a 300 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 2: rat when they tweet out a picture. 301 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: Of a magazine. I don't think most people do. It's 302 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: immediate armstrongation. 303 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: Now if Armstrong you GETTI are declared the Time Magazine 304 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 2: Person of the year long overdue. Then my comments are 305 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 2: null and void, and then he makes some uh Christmas 306 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: song suggestions. Oh you know, I don't think we have 307 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: time for this, and it's a shame, but it's a 308 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: note from Julie. I want to get back to about 309 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 2: the disappearance of the Coexist Coexist bumper sticker that we 310 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 2: use to mock and why that might be significant. 311 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: Really thought provoking. Interesting. Yeah, speaking of coexisting, check in 312 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: on Siria, which has a lot of interesting stories going on, 313 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 1: and I hope those people can keep their smiles on 314 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: their faces. They're smiling more this weekend than I was 315 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: a lot other news to get to, so stay with us, 316 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. 317 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 4: After police arrest and suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangioni, they 318 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 4: found a note on him expressing anger at Corporate America. 319 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 4: Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then 320 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 4: was caught at McDonald's, So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy. 321 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, that numb nuts is view of the world is 322 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: just well, not as smart as he thought he was. 323 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: Maybe more on that later. 324 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, surprise, we don't have a name for that sort 325 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 2: of person, although it is I'm smarter and better than everyone. 326 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: Therefore judgment as ironclad. Therefore I may do anything to 327 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 2: execute my plan for society, including murdering someone in cold blood, 328 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 2: and I will be justified. 329 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: Biggest football news of yesterday Patrick Mahomes leaving the game 330 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: at the end hurt and saying he might not play 331 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: next week and complaining about the NFL making him play 332 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: three games and eleven days over the Christmas break because 333 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: of the scheduling, working out, wanting to play the Black 334 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: Friday game and fitting and thanks all the different stuff. Oh, 335 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: that's a hell of a lot of this. That's what 336 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: he's saying. Your body can't take that, and now he's hurt. 337 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: So AnyWho, here's your end of the year's stat of 338 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: the hour, because we'll have a lot of end of 339 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: the year stats for you this week. How big of 340 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: an industry is the video game industry? Total worldwide revenues 341 00:18:53,520 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: for video games seven times that of recorded music. That 342 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: is amazing. Now, part of that might be you can 343 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: get recorded music for fourteen dollars of subscription and you 344 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: can't do that with video games. But uh yeah, I 345 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: was gonna say you can't. 346 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 2: Well, you can get obviously, you know this, but it's 347 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 2: a subscription model for video games. I still picture you 348 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 2: go down to GameStop, you buy a thing, you plug 349 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 2: it in your computer, You're done. 350 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: But now it's all subscriptions. 351 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 2: I was just going to ask, does that include the 352 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: revenue to music streaming services? 353 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: I actually don't know that Spotify, Apple, et cetera. Yeah, 354 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: I'd be curious to know. Probably a lot of kids 355 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: are going to be getting video games for Christmas this year. 356 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: And one other economic note, as President she and China, 357 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: because they're facing some serious economic problems, gave a speech 358 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: the other day where he said people are going to 359 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: have to learn to eat bitterness. Wow. 360 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 2: You pair that with the what's our famous tape Michael 361 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 2: of the drone there during COVID suspend your soul's desire 362 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: for freedom or whatever, tell your soul to shut the 363 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 2: hell up. Yeah, So now I got to learn to 364 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 2: eat bitterness on top of starting to wonder about this 365 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 2: system of yours Winnie Winnie the Pooh. So our economy 366 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 2: is better than China's. Definitely, Oh they I'm I've been 367 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 2: banging this drum for a long time. I remember I'm 368 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 2: old enough to remember the great the journalists for whatever reason, 369 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 2: they getting a herd and they charge like panicking wildebeests. 370 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 2: But during the eighties, whenever, it was in the nineties, 371 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,719 Speaker 2: how Japan and the Japanese system and they were going 372 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 2: to rule the world, and they were far superior to 373 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 2: the United States. And then Japan collapsed and entered a 374 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 2: thirty year period of economic Melee's well, it's very similar 375 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 2: to the whole Tom Friedman falling in love with the 376 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,959 Speaker 2: communist Chinese and their spectacular efficiency and their bullet trains, 377 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 2: and look how quickly they can build the development. 378 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: They have horrific problems. 379 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 2: They have built this giant hollow economy of overproduction and 380 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 2: over capacity and manufacturing, and it's. 381 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: All about to go. Kirt blewey, trust me, you don't 382 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: want to be a communist. I can show your soul's 383 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: desire for freedom. Oh thanks for that. Now, eat bitterness, 384 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: yum yum. 385 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 2: Hey kids, it's bitterness for dinner tonight. On the other hand, 386 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 2: we have something like a democracy here, Jack, and we 387 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 2: have elections from time to time, and sometimes the way 388 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 2: they come out has some interesting after effects. For instance, 389 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 2: scientists are quite confident when your side, when's the election, 390 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 2: you feel more positive in general, more positive about the 391 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 2: economy specifically, and the winning side spends more aggressively. 392 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: That is obvious. Never thought about it before, but of 393 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: course you would. Obviously you would feel better about things. 394 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: Your vision of the way the country ought to be 395 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: run is going to happen as opposed to one that 396 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: you think is bad news. Yeah, yeah, I wish. 397 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 2: I'd learned this earlier because how crazy competitive as a 398 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 2: young person. But when you win, you get a surge 399 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 2: of testosterone and you feel like you're on top of 400 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 2: the world. It makes you bold, it makes you confident, 401 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 2: it makes you happy, it makes you want to have 402 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 2: friends and shake hands. And when you lose, you have 403 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: a drop in testosterone and it makes you feel very 404 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 2: you know, kind of weird and closed off and pissed 405 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 2: off and the rest of it. And it's not just 406 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 2: the pride of it or whatever. It causes serious hormonal 407 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: changes in your body. And it makes sense that if 408 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 2: you win a benk of election, you're charged up and. 409 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,239 Speaker 1: Yeah oooo, this is let's get that boat, honey. This 410 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: is somewhat different because when the Kansas City Chiefs win, 411 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: while I have those physiological responses that you just described, 412 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,360 Speaker 1: I don't have the addition of and because the chiefs won, 413 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: I'm more optimistic about my stocks like I am when 414 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: the Republicans are in charge. 415 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, so I thought this was funny. Republicans' views 416 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: on the future of their finances and the economy jumped 417 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: about forty five points to one oh five point nine. 418 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 2: As if anybody knows what this scale is. 419 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: The eagle ninety eagle playing six and as you drive 420 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: to work. 421 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 2: All right, stop it from the University of Michigan surveys 422 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 2: and consumers compared to with October, so up forty five 423 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,719 Speaker 2: points to one oh five. So that would be roughly, 424 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: you know, fifty percent before the presidential election. Democrats outlook 425 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 2: fell by the same amount, about forty nine percent, based 426 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 2: on data released earlier this month. The surveys first to 427 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 2: exclusively measure post elections sentiment. 428 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: HM, So you're not spending as much for Christmas because 429 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: the country elected Hitler. That makes sense, you know. 430 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 2: You know what's not about that is from a purely 431 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 2: objective point of view, which I am able to achieve. 432 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 1: That's bonkers. If you are on the government. 433 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 2: Dole, it's not going to change because Republicans can't cut 434 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 2: benefits apparently anymore. It's not a big enough priority. You 435 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 2: lose too many votes, and then huge numbers of Democrats. Actually, well, 436 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 2: at least a significant majority of Americans believe Trump would 437 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: handle the economy better. So why in the world, as 438 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: a Democrat would you be much more negative about your 439 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 2: economic prospects? 440 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense. I don't know, but I know 441 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: I personally know people who are beside themselves with grief still, so. 442 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, get over it, grow up. You know what 443 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 2: it could be the percentage of. 444 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: People who believe the utter horse. 445 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: Crap that the Trump tax cuts, which are probably going 446 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 2: to be made permanent next year, perhaps with a tweak 447 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 2: or two, but not many. They believe that garbage, that 448 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 2: that was just for millionaires and billionaires, when it was 449 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: mostly for the middle class percentage wise, really rich people 450 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 2: gained well because they pay way, way, way more taxes 451 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 2: than the middle class, but it was mostly a middle 452 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 2: class tax cut. I wonder if they just they believe 453 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 2: the worst rhetoric of their their ideological brethren. 454 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: Did you see the guest essay in the New York 455 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: Times over the weekend about China. It was from some 456 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: think tank guy. I don't remember his name. I didn't 457 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: know his name, but he's one of your think tank 458 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: economic geniuses who really thinks Trump is on the right 459 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: track with the tariff thing and taken on China, and 460 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: that China's just just needs a little shove over the 461 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: edge to like really be destroyed. But it's going to 462 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: be painful for us for a while. But he thinks 463 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: that it's pain Trump is willing to take a hit 464 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: to his political capital, and that it will ultimately benefit 465 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 1: the United States. I hope he's right. Yeah, I missed that. 466 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,959 Speaker 1: I would love to read it. It's interesting to take 467 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: a look. Yeah. 468 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. Judging by everything I've been reading about it, there's 469 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 2: a lot of truth to that they are fragile, and 470 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 2: that was in the New York stas. Oh yeah, yeah, 471 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: yeah yeah. More stabbings and runnings, over hundreds of them 472 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 2: that are little reported and we don't hear about in 473 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 2: the United States, but lots of signs of anger and discontent. Anyway, 474 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 2: one more thing on the whole election. 475 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: Delio. 476 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting. Nearly a quarter of people 477 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 2: looking to buy their first house we're asked last September 478 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 2: about their you know, their their plans and priorities, and 479 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: nearly a quarter of them said we're gonna wait until 480 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 2: after the votes are in. 481 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: Interesting, I would never think that. I wouldn't either. I 482 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: was looking at a house and it never crossed my 483 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: mind that maybe I should wait until after the election. Huh. Yeah, 484 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: that's funny. 485 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 2: I've bought and sold more houses than any three normal 486 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 2: people combined. And and I'm really really into politics. But 487 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,959 Speaker 2: that I wouldn't even think about that unless somebody had 488 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: proposed some sort of specific policy. But I don't recall 489 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 2: that happening anyway. It's true country to country. Uh, just 490 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 2: an interesting effect of politics. 491 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: Well, since we were beating up on China and the 492 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: trouble that they're in, how about some positive news for China. 493 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: That's just true China's car production share in the world 494 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: for the global car production. I wish this chart went 495 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: back to like the fifties and sixties. I got to 496 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: believe the United States was like practice all of them. 497 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: It was like eighty five percent of cars on earth 498 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: were made in Detroit, the United States. This is going 499 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: back to two thousand. The United States has gone from 500 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: about thirteen percent of the population of the all the 501 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: cars in the world to three percent, So we've dropped 502 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 1: from about thirteen to three. Japan has gone down, Europe 503 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: has gone down a lot. China has gone from one 504 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: percent at the start of the century to forty percent. Wow, 505 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: of the worldwide car production or car sold. Isn't that amazing? 506 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: It's stunning. 507 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 2: That is something A lot of it is, you know, 508 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 2: from a capitalist point of view, artificial propping up of 509 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 2: their industry and subsidizing it by the government and just 510 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 2: crazy manufacturing for foreign markets, exports, consumer spending is really 511 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 2: lagging in China. 512 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, that's it's amazing. So we can get into 513 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: the details a bit later. But George Stephanopolis, he didn't 514 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: pay it himself. ABC paid it, but got hit for 515 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 1: was it fifteen million dollars for continually saying and I 516 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: remember that episode of ABC this Week where he kept 517 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: referring to Trump as a convicted rapist after that trial 518 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: and Trump was not convicted of rape, but Stephanopolis said 519 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: it multiple times and Trump sued, and now ABC is 520 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: paying fifteen million dollars and Stephanopolis had to offer up 521 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: an ABC A Weasley apology. But that's kind of interesting. 522 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 2: Speaking of the after effects of elections and ratings and 523 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 2: money wholly crap some of the recent numbers from MSNBC 524 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 2: and CNN. How are they keeping the lights on? How 525 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 2: are they paying their halfwits were on that to come? 526 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: And will they ever recover? Probably not not. 527 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 2: If there is a God, God probably doesn't concern himself 528 00:28:58,520 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 2: with cable news. 529 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: He probably hates it. My son's birthday is a week 530 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: from today, then Christmas is a week in two days 531 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: from today. I have many things I haven't finished yet. 532 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: I'm feeling tremendous pressure. My wife's birthdays in three days. 533 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 1: I'd like to have a word with their parents, God 534 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: rest their souls. Stop having children in December. Well, it's 535 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: inconvenient for the rest of us. You gotta think ahead. 536 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: We should have thought ahead. I don't know what happened 537 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: to it. It's just, yeah, it is incredibly inconvenient. 538 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 2: We start feeling randy in March. You put it off, 539 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 2: all right? Did you take a cold shower? As they 540 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 2: used to say, does that work? He ever actually done that. 541 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 2: You're really wanting sex and you take a cold jower, 542 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 2: it would do the trick. I think maybe being in 543 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 2: anguish in general, punch yourself in the face that works too. 544 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: We've got Gid's headlines on the way next, first snow, 545 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: but the children he had a snow brain, permanent brain 546 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: freeze never went away. Frosty, who's a moron? Silk hat 547 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: a nice enough. I keep seeing minding loyal friends, listen 548 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: to you. I keep seeing the headlines from the left 549 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: on how the Trump sues Stephanopolis and wins is going 550 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: to have a chilling effect on news media coverage for 551 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: the presidency. Well, or you can't call somebody who's a 552 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: rapist who's not a rapist, or that's it. 553 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 2: That's the sum total of it, all right, Yeah, get 554 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 2: your fat straight jack. 555 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: Well about like it's serious. That's not like a minor fact. 556 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: Either am I a convicted rapist or not? Oh I'm not? Well, 557 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: then stop saying I am yi. 558 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the there's more to that story, and 559 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 2: it's it's pretty interesting. We've got a bunch of media 560 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 2: stories today, among other things. But first let's figure out 561 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 2: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green 562 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 2: Katie Well, speaking of ABC, let's start there. 563 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 5: Feds are urged to deploy high tech drone hunter to 564 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 5: solve mystery behind sightings yeah. 565 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: So, I mean you got Trump calling for him to 566 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: be shot down. Chris Christie said yesterday, we need to 567 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: bring one of these down and figure out what they are. 568 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: Former governor of Maryland over the weekend said the same thing. 569 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: At some point, if it's a government operation that they're 570 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 1: kind of keeping secret, don't they have to say, hey, 571 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: before you start shooting these things down and somebody gets 572 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: hurt or we lose millions of dollars, maybe we should 573 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: let you know. And this is on purpose and nothing 574 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: to be afraid of. 575 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 2: I'm going to quote a great American who said this 576 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 2: after a couple of eggnogs Friday night. Every red blooded 577 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 2: American patriot must train their guns on the sky and 578 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 2: be ready to do what must be done. 579 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: Across the untation. Yeah. The problem with that is you're 580 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: going to be shooting down planes. Yeh, please don't do that. 581 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 5: From Newsweek, Luigi Menjona pictures met with cheers at Boston concert. 582 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. 583 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 5: They were playing some Miley Cyrus song and apparently the 584 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 5: DJ put a bunch of pictures up on the screen 585 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 5: behind him and everybody just went nuts. 586 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 2: Wow. 587 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: The decision to put the picks up is weird and 588 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: then the crowd cheering. Wow, it's just a dopey internet age. 589 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: I can say anything. 590 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 2: Everybody's anonymous, and you've got to go way over the 591 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 2: top to convey how you feel. Well, it's all those 592 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 2: things coming together and how. 593 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: Much of it is, Like Chris Rock said on Saturday 594 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: Night Live, because he's hot. Chris Rock said, if this 595 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: guy looked like Jonah Hill, we'd already executed him. From 596 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: the New York Post. 597 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 5: Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually a 598 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 5: notorious ASSAD regime torturer. 599 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: I saw this. He is one of the best known, 600 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: like legend around the country torturers that worked for ASSAD 601 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: and somehow when they are escaping from the prison, they 602 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: threw him in a cell and locked him in there 603 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: and got out. But he's the guy that was freed 604 00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: by Clarsa Ward the other day. Wow. Yeah, she's a 605 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: terrific reporter. Yeah it's not her fault. No, But nice 606 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: job CNN. Actually perfect if you think about it. From 607 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,479 Speaker 1: Fox News. 608 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 5: Cleanup underway after rare tornado hits Scott's Valley, California. 609 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, in my real life I heard a lot about this. 610 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people saying no way. A 611 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 1: tornado hit. Yeah, it actually hit the ground and flipping 612 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: cars and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, thank god, nobody's 613 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: hurt any more than they. 614 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 5: Were from the Free Beacon. New York Times puts menstrual 615 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 5: products in men's bathrooms to quote support transgender and non 616 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 5: binary colleague, do you gotta be kidding at the New 617 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 5: York Times? 618 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: At the New York Times. 619 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, while in the same parts of the country, 620 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 2: all of this stuff that DEI, the gender betting madness 621 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 2: is on the back foot in your progressive organizations. 622 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 1: It's growing from NBC meme. 623 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 5: Coins like fart coin are writing Trump's victory to huge valuations, 624 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 5: and experts say it's only just begun. 625 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: And we're both just shaking our heads the idea. Yeah, 626 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,919 Speaker 1: oh of course they are. Yeah. 627 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 2: I get the idea of of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and 628 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 2: stuff like that is a form of payment outside the 629 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,919 Speaker 2: government system. I get that completely, But right now it's 630 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 2: just wild speculation. You launch these coins fark coin, for instance, 631 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 2: and it goes up as people are thinking, all right, 632 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 2: when does the bubble burst? When are the sucker is 633 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,399 Speaker 2: gonna get out? I'm gonna get out now. And they 634 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 2: make their money. Then those poor suckers who get in. 635 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: At the end they lose their shirts. 636 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 5: And finally the Babylon b Joe Biden Pardon's wife Jill 637 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:48,840 Speaker 5: for impersonating a doctor. 638 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: God dang it, and you had another cryptocurrency that I got. 639 00:34:55,239 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I gotta get in, No Sloan, stay the race, Jack, 640 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 2: slow and steady. Stick with your IBM stock, your GM 641 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 2: stock and American steel. 642 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: How's that doing. I haven't checked lately, Us Steele, I 643 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 1: don't know. We'll catch you up on the news, That's 644 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 1: what we'll do an hour two, three and four. I 645 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: got like an amazing culture war story. I can't wait 646 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: to get to later and see all your responses on that. 647 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: If you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and 648 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty