Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong,
Speaker 1: Andy and he Armstrong and from studio scene, please sing
Speaker 1: picking off the final week of Armstrong and getting new
Speaker 1: broadcasts in the year twenty twenty four. We started a
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty four. It feels like it, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: Drone mania. It was the drones last week. That was
Speaker 1: drone mania.
Speaker 2: Is We've completely lost the thread and it's just silly now,
Speaker 2: is it? Is it just the coverage is silly. It
Speaker 2: is a slow news day, there is no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: It's a slow news day when every source you go
Speaker 1: to has a different lead story and that has been
Speaker 1: the case since I got up this morning, and every
Speaker 1: single version of a lead story is just an update
Speaker 1: on an existing story. So what is a slow news day?
Speaker 1: The exciting thing about that is means we can certainly
Speaker 1: talk about whatever we want and really stretch out and
Speaker 1: enjoy ourselves on a number of topics of our own
Speaker 1: making well.
Speaker 2: And it means, you know, speaking metaphorically, nothing in particular
Speaker 2: is on fire.
Speaker 1: At the moment, which is a rare pleasure. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it ignores a couple of things that are
Speaker 1: going on around the world that are major problems. But
Speaker 1: I guess there's nothing that jumps out as a reason
Speaker 1: to elevate it to the highest level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the what's the layer they call in forest
Speaker 2: fires that like can keep burning for.
Speaker 1: Weeks and you don't see it.
Speaker 2: It's like smoldering and in kerb blowy it fires up again.
Speaker 2: We've got a handful of those, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So why do you say drone mania is
Speaker 1: our lead story? I was. I was fascinated by it
Speaker 1: over the weekend. I showed it to both my kids,
Speaker 1: who don't take in a lot of news coverage, because
Speaker 1: every newscast, certainly on Friday night, and I think Saturday
Speaker 1: night led with the drone story right right.
Speaker 2: The reason I said that was one moment in particular,
Speaker 2: because there are some significant stories about like that Chinese
Speaker 2: national who was flying a drone over one of our
Speaker 2: Space Force bases on the West Coast then tried to
Speaker 2: escape to China.
Speaker 1: That's significant.
Speaker 2: The Vandenberg Air Force Base the New Jersey there by,
Speaker 2: the base I don't recall the name of but that
Speaker 2: stuff's great.
Speaker 1: But then I was watching the news I think it
Speaker 1: was could have been last night, and Aaron Katirsky in
Speaker 1: his sonorous.
Speaker 2: Voice, saying, and now drone sightings have been reported in
Speaker 2: a dozen Northeastern states. I'm like, yet, it's not that
Speaker 2: people are like that there are things in the air.
Speaker 2: We know there are things in the air. Do we
Speaker 2: have drones massing over a critical nevermind?
Speaker 1: Well, all the denials bother me and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that a little bit later. As freaking waste of skin.
Speaker 1: DHS Secretary of Mariorcus was on one of the shows yesterday,
Speaker 1: and that is he should be skinned for the use
Speaker 1: of others. As usual, I've got nothing to say, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to assure you there's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: And blah blah blah. Most of the drones are airplanes. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get that. Since the own story got hot, now
Speaker 1: everybody's calling in every airplane they see as a drone. Yes,
Speaker 1: but what about the original drones that everybody seems to
Speaker 1: think we're drones? How about we talk about those like
Speaker 1: grown ups and said exactly, most of the reports are planes.
Speaker 1: That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic. Right, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: what about the ones.
Speaker 2: That aren't huh yeah, well most of them are planes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but what about the ones that aren't right?
Speaker 1: Right? Which is something that's going on? I think, I well,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I know. But Josh Rogan put
Speaker 1: out an interesting retweet that I was reading in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night. Would you like to hear that now?
Speaker 1: I want to read all the details. I'll do that
Speaker 1: later because it's a pretty long thread, but it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: It's a guy from some agency that or a corporation
Speaker 1: that made these kind of drones, and he lays out
Speaker 1: while he doesn't know that that's what this is, he's
Speaker 1: pretty sure that what it is it's a drone sweep
Speaker 1: of areas to see if they can detect dirty bomb.
Speaker 1: And he suspects that it's a test of our capability
Speaker 1: around ports and any sort of populated area or government
Speaker 1: installation or whatever to detect a dirty bomb. He thinks
Speaker 1: it's both a psyops program psychological operation to see how
Speaker 1: the public would react to all these drones showing up
Speaker 1: somewhere all of a sudden, which they need to do
Speaker 1: if there's a suspicion that you know, they get some
Speaker 1: intel that Orion wants to get a dirty bomb into
Speaker 1: the Port of San Diego or whatever, and so you
Speaker 1: send over all of our drones that can pick this
Speaker 1: information up. There will that freaked people out. And so
Speaker 1: it's a combination syops and testing out our dirty bomb
Speaker 1: sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct, but
Speaker 1: that would explain it. That could be the thing. That
Speaker 1: sort of thing could be the thing. Yet, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing, I would agree.
Speaker 2: I interacted with a number of folks over the weekend,
Speaker 2: both during my Jay Gatsby like social life as we
Speaker 2: had holiday gatherings and on the golf course, and one
Speaker 2: thing that was agreed widely was that the answer is,
Speaker 2: we don't know what it is, but everything's fine. Indicates
Speaker 2: something classified, right, something YEA know that they can't talk about.
Speaker 2: But no, it's not killer drones come for you, your children.
Speaker 2: It's fine. It's our stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why that dirty bomb thing that Josh Rogan,
Speaker 1: who we really like from the Washington Post, he retweeted
Speaker 1: that because he obviously thinks it's significant. That's why that
Speaker 1: would fit that people at certain levels know it's nothing
Speaker 1: to worry about, and it's a good thing. It's a
Speaker 1: good thing that we have this technology.
Speaker 2: But we just one other suggestion I've heard that that
Speaker 2: seemed very reasonable was some sort of test of drone vulnerability,
Speaker 2: drone tracking equipment, that sort of thing. There's only one
Speaker 2: way to do it. Team A flies drones, Team B
Speaker 2: keeps an eye on them. Then you see if teammate
Speaker 2: can elude Team B. It's a classic military training exercise.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting you mentioned your Jay Gatsby like social life.
Speaker 1: I remember before I had children and Gladys, could you
Speaker 1: play the harp last week? Last week, Gladys, we don't
Speaker 1: know if we're bringing you back in twenty five? Contract
Speaker 1: was honey, wow? Contract? Huh, I don't know if God's
Speaker 1: bringing her back in twenty five. Oh wow. I remember
Speaker 1: when I had a Jay Gatsby like social life before
Speaker 1: I had children, and you get close to Christmas, it'd
Speaker 1: just be all kinds of different gatherings and parties and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and it was just running around. I'd
Speaker 1: be so exhausted from the fun and oh man, this
Speaker 1: is almost work. I had one of the most annoying
Speaker 1: weekends of my life just running kids around running errands
Speaker 1: in the traffic of this time of year. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's first word world problems, annoying. It's not Ukraine or Syria,
Speaker 1: but just everything was a hassle. Nothing was enjoyable. And
Speaker 1: I thought, there's got to be a better way to
Speaker 1: do the Christmas season than this. There's just got to be.
Speaker 1: It was miserable. Everything is difficult this time of year.
Speaker 1: The slightest errand is difficult because you can't park there,
Speaker 1: There's a long line. It's just everything's insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does have more of a final exams field
Speaker 2: than a joyous celebration.
Speaker 1: Right. I thought, what am I doing wrong? How do
Speaker 1: I get my head straight on this? Because I'd hear
Speaker 1: Christmas week it's the most wonderful time. And I'm in
Speaker 1: line and just found a bread. Just go home, you mother. God.
Speaker 1: We were at a kia ikia. I wanted to just
Speaker 1: I wanted to do the TikTok prank and climb behind
Speaker 1: some of the furniture and sleep there. I was just
Speaker 1: we couldn't get find our way out. The lines were
Speaker 1: so long, it was so crowded, the parking, the traffic
Speaker 1: in a kill me.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael you can live on the Swedish meatballs exactly.
Speaker 1: I was just so annoying, and I thought, I've got
Speaker 1: to find some joy in this, or at least neutral
Speaker 1: in this, because I'm so angry. Kids were angry, the
Speaker 1: other customers were angry. It was just lots of anger.
Speaker 1: Woh how angry setting fire to Santa's beard? Angry or
Speaker 1: the only angel and I got out of Ikea that
Speaker 1: drove my kids crazy was using some sort of fake
Speaker 1: Swedish word for everything we were looking. We had come
Speaker 1: around the corner. Oh, look the lampenfergens and there's the
Speaker 1: couch and cold concern. Well, as long as you annoyed
Speaker 1: the boys, it was worth it. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: We do that, Jack, There's a good chance that a
Speaker 2: lot of your fellow shoppers were Republicans. Psychologists have studied
Speaker 2: how spending habits are affected by election results.
Speaker 1: I'll be darned. Uh, that doesn't surprise me. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: December sixteenth, year, twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and
Speaker 1: getting we approve of this program. Let's leap into action.
Speaker 2: Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, ho ho
Speaker 2: hauling our way through the show at mark.
Speaker 3: Some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. Some
Speaker 3: are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. It
Speaker 3: is our job to be vigilant in the federal government,
Speaker 3: with our state and local partners on behalf of the
Speaker 3: American public, and we can assure their safety by reason
Speaker 3: of that vigilance.
Speaker 2: Did Biden find that lame ow by the roadside and
Speaker 2: take pity.
Speaker 1: On him or something? How did he ascend to the
Speaker 1: any level? Much less the level is that that was
Speaker 1: Mayorchis the DHS secretary, sounding the same way about drones
Speaker 1: as he sounded about the border. He is the ultimate bureaucrat.
Speaker 1: He could rise to the top of any sort of bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: giant healthcare or state government or anything. It just we
Speaker 1: are on top of this. We have all the functions
Speaker 1: in place, we have the matrixes lined up, and all
Speaker 1: the results are going to just he says nothing. He
Speaker 1: kills a couple of minutes. Oh, I hate you so much,
Speaker 1: donate your organs before you die, and then we'll start
Speaker 1: taking them now. And then you need to recede away
Speaker 1: from a waste of exactly a waste of skin. Burn victims,
Speaker 1: those who have been lacerated can better use his skin.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine you're running some sort of enterprise and
Speaker 1: you got ten people in a room and he's the
Speaker 1: best of them. Interview I would fire my recruiting firm.
Speaker 1: So that was may Orcus on ABC this week. Right
Speaker 1: after him Stephanopolis, who just got sued by Trump and
Speaker 1: Trump won. More on that later. Chris Christie, former governor
Speaker 1: of New Jersey, who's seeing drones all over the place,
Speaker 1: said may Orcus is full of crap. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was really good. We'll get to that later. How
Speaker 1: does mailbag look strong? Good start to the week? Tell
Speaker 1: us to see a drome? You were to textas four one, five,
Speaker 1: two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 3: I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's a slow newsday because it allows us
Speaker 1: to do a number of things that it might not
Speaker 1: made to cut otherwise from my list, including over the weekend,
Speaker 1: I came across this site that has compiled it's bad news,
Speaker 1: but it's funny. All the fraudsters that were able to
Speaker 1: get PP money PPP money during the COVID giveaway where
Speaker 1: we just shoveled trillions of dollars out the door, and
Speaker 1: the way different people applied and actually got tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in chunks all across America to the
Speaker 1: tune of billions of dollars. It's actually pretty funny how
Speaker 1: little effort they put into it. It almost makes me
Speaker 1: wish I'd done.
Speaker 2: It, and given the way all that crap fed inflation,
Speaker 2: this is definitely laughing to keep from crying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2: And we have a list of some of the folks
Speaker 2: that Joe Biden granted clemency to. That list of fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred people have finally gotten a chance to take a
Speaker 2: look at and assess and it's revealing and strange and
Speaker 2: utterly inappropriate. But what are you gonna do. He's the
Speaker 2: president for now. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, I love this. Michael and Haystack, Nebraska sent
Speaker 2: this along.
Speaker 1: Is that real? Is that really a place in Nebraska?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is that like Jeff and Hoggs Nipple Tennis?
Speaker 2: It might be, yeah, but it's from Churchill and I
Speaker 2: absolutely love it on the idea of presentism straight up.
Speaker 1: Out of orwell as well as Churchill.
Speaker 2: If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past,
Speaker 2: it will lose the future. Ooh, presentism is pathetic.
Speaker 1: Adolescent egomania. It's easy.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's so transparently self serving.
Speaker 1: I'm like a way better person than Link. It was
Speaker 1: because I believe this.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, good lord, since it's insulting to everyone's intelligence mailbag?
Speaker 1: Who Brian from Houston? What if the.
Speaker 2: Drones are being controlled by clowns at the edge of
Speaker 2: the woods, right, getcha? Oh, this is out of order, guys.
Speaker 2: The oh this is Anna Louise and La Mesa California. Right, say, guys,
Speaker 2: the drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like
Speaker 2: the Salem Witch Trials. Maybe everyone needs to read or
Speaker 2: watch Arthur Miller's The Crucible and calm the hell down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, funny you said that. That's what I said on
Speaker 1: Thursday or Friday, that mass hysteria thing. But the difference
Speaker 1: is there were no actual witches. There are actual drones.
Speaker 1: I think that started this whole thing, right.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of the murder investigation where you know,
Speaker 2: somebody killed somebody, and the guys out there and then
Speaker 2: the public because for whatever reason, floods the authorities with
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand tips.
Speaker 1: It's not helping.
Speaker 2: Barry from Thailand Rights wishing you and your staff and
Speaker 2: all the listeners are very merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Never gets old here listening to American Christmas music in
Speaker 2: the shopping centers malls. Oh boy, then I can't do
Speaker 2: that joke, A funny joke about anam and e even
Speaker 2: apparently his state of sexual readiness.
Speaker 1: But again, what I'm telling you, I'm walking around the Ikea,
Speaker 1: the best Buy Christmas music is playing about it's a
Speaker 1: jing jingjingle. I'm looking around and there's not a smile
Speaker 1: on anybody's face anywhere. Are we all doing this wrong?
Speaker 1: Or what is going on? Wait?
Speaker 2: At some point you think people will begin to associate
Speaker 2: that music with being grim and angry.
Speaker 1: Our stress just a endless list of unpleasant tasks.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, but thank you for the note, Barry. Moving along,
Speaker 2: here's something from John. I'm watching Sunday night football commercial
Speaker 2: comes on. It's well meaning, I'm only Hamiman after all, Jesus.
Speaker 2: It takes all of us, et cetera. Many clips of
Speaker 2: people arguing and fighting over whatever. I assume you've seen it.
Speaker 2: I actually have. Yeah, I'm tired. I think the biggest
Speaker 2: problem in our society is that everyone thinks what they
Speaker 2: think is important. Get over yourself. You're not the most
Speaker 2: important person in the world. You're important to yourself, your
Speaker 2: family and friends. The rest of the world doesn't give
Speaker 2: two poops.
Speaker 1: What you think. A little more humility would help all
Speaker 1: of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's truth to that. The ability to have your
Speaker 2: words seen by the world online, no matter how inane,
Speaker 2: is an interesting development mankind.
Speaker 1: It's never existed before.
Speaker 2: How about this Ryan from Houston, Jack Joe, I know
Speaker 2: you have personal Jahad's mine is to get the world
Speaker 2: to treat the Time magazine Person of the Year the
Speaker 2: same as the MTV movie Award winner.
Speaker 1: For Best fight Scene aka not at all.
Speaker 2: Nobody thinks about Time three hundred and sixty four days
Speaker 2: a year, So why give the hind end of a
Speaker 2: rat when they tweet out a picture.
Speaker 1: Of a magazine. I don't think most people do. It's
Speaker 1: immediate armstrongation.
Speaker 2: Now if Armstrong you GETTI are declared the Time Magazine
Speaker 2: Person of the year long overdue. Then my comments are
Speaker 2: null and void, and then he makes some uh Christmas
Speaker 2: song suggestions. Oh you know, I don't think we have
Speaker 2: time for this, and it's a shame, but it's a
Speaker 2: note from Julie. I want to get back to about
Speaker 2: the disappearance of the Coexist Coexist bumper sticker that we
Speaker 2: use to mock and why that might be significant.
Speaker 1: Really thought provoking. Interesting. Yeah, speaking of coexisting, check in
Speaker 1: on Siria, which has a lot of interesting stories going on,
Speaker 1: and I hope those people can keep their smiles on
Speaker 1: their faces. They're smiling more this weekend than I was
Speaker 1: a lot other news to get to, so stay with us,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: After police arrest and suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangioni, they
Speaker 4: found a note on him expressing anger at Corporate America.
Speaker 4: Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then
Speaker 4: was caught at McDonald's, So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that numb nuts is view of the world is
Speaker 1: just well, not as smart as he thought he was.
Speaker 1: Maybe more on that later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, surprise, we don't have a name for that sort
Speaker 2: of person, although it is I'm smarter and better than everyone.
Speaker 2: Therefore judgment as ironclad. Therefore I may do anything to
Speaker 2: execute my plan for society, including murdering someone in cold blood,
Speaker 2: and I will be justified.
Speaker 1: Biggest football news of yesterday Patrick Mahomes leaving the game
Speaker 1: at the end hurt and saying he might not play
Speaker 1: next week and complaining about the NFL making him play
Speaker 1: three games and eleven days over the Christmas break because
Speaker 1: of the scheduling, working out, wanting to play the Black
Speaker 1: Friday game and fitting and thanks all the different stuff. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a lot of this. That's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. Your body can't take that, and now he's hurt.
Speaker 1: So AnyWho, here's your end of the year's stat of
Speaker 1: the hour, because we'll have a lot of end of
Speaker 1: the year stats for you this week. How big of
Speaker 1: an industry is the video game industry? Total worldwide revenues
Speaker 1: for video games seven times that of recorded music. That
Speaker 1: is amazing. Now, part of that might be you can
Speaker 1: get recorded music for fourteen dollars of subscription and you
Speaker 1: can't do that with video games. But uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say you can't.
Speaker 2: Well, you can get obviously, you know this, but it's
Speaker 2: a subscription model for video games. I still picture you
Speaker 2: go down to GameStop, you buy a thing, you plug
Speaker 2: it in your computer, You're done.
Speaker 1: But now it's all subscriptions.
Speaker 2: I was just going to ask, does that include the
Speaker 2: revenue to music streaming services?
Speaker 1: I actually don't know that Spotify, Apple, et cetera. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be curious to know. Probably a lot of kids
Speaker 1: are going to be getting video games for Christmas this year.
Speaker 1: And one other economic note, as President she and China,
Speaker 1: because they're facing some serious economic problems, gave a speech
Speaker 1: the other day where he said people are going to
Speaker 1: have to learn to eat bitterness. Wow.
Speaker 2: You pair that with the what's our famous tape Michael
Speaker 2: of the drone there during COVID suspend your soul's desire
Speaker 2: for freedom or whatever, tell your soul to shut the
Speaker 2: hell up. Yeah, So now I got to learn to
Speaker 2: eat bitterness on top of starting to wonder about this
Speaker 2: system of yours Winnie Winnie the Pooh. So our economy
Speaker 2: is better than China's. Definitely, Oh they I'm I've been
Speaker 2: banging this drum for a long time. I remember I'm
Speaker 2: old enough to remember the great the journalists for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: they getting a herd and they charge like panicking wildebeests.
Speaker 2: But during the eighties, whenever, it was in the nineties,
Speaker 2: how Japan and the Japanese system and they were going
Speaker 2: to rule the world, and they were far superior to
Speaker 2: the United States. And then Japan collapsed and entered a
Speaker 2: thirty year period of economic Melee's well, it's very similar
Speaker 2: to the whole Tom Friedman falling in love with the
Speaker 2: communist Chinese and their spectacular efficiency and their bullet trains,
Speaker 2: and look how quickly they can build the development.
Speaker 1: They have horrific problems.
Speaker 2: They have built this giant hollow economy of overproduction and
Speaker 2: over capacity and manufacturing, and it's.
Speaker 1: All about to go. Kirt blewey, trust me, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be a communist. I can show your soul's
Speaker 1: desire for freedom. Oh thanks for that. Now, eat bitterness,
Speaker 1: yum yum.
Speaker 2: Hey kids, it's bitterness for dinner tonight. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: we have something like a democracy here, Jack, and we
Speaker 2: have elections from time to time, and sometimes the way
Speaker 2: they come out has some interesting after effects. For instance,
Speaker 2: scientists are quite confident when your side, when's the election,
Speaker 2: you feel more positive in general, more positive about the
Speaker 2: economy specifically, and the winning side spends more aggressively.
Speaker 1: That is obvious. Never thought about it before, but of
Speaker 1: course you would. Obviously you would feel better about things.
Speaker 1: Your vision of the way the country ought to be
Speaker 1: run is going to happen as opposed to one that
Speaker 1: you think is bad news. Yeah, yeah, I wish.
Speaker 2: I'd learned this earlier because how crazy competitive as a
Speaker 2: young person. But when you win, you get a surge
Speaker 2: of testosterone and you feel like you're on top of
Speaker 2: the world. It makes you bold, it makes you confident,
Speaker 2: it makes you happy, it makes you want to have
Speaker 2: friends and shake hands. And when you lose, you have
Speaker 2: a drop in testosterone and it makes you feel very
Speaker 2: you know, kind of weird and closed off and pissed
Speaker 2: off and the rest of it. And it's not just
Speaker 2: the pride of it or whatever. It causes serious hormonal
Speaker 2: changes in your body. And it makes sense that if
Speaker 2: you win a benk of election, you're charged up and.
Speaker 1: Yeah oooo, this is let's get that boat, honey. This
Speaker 1: is somewhat different because when the Kansas City Chiefs win,
Speaker 1: while I have those physiological responses that you just described,
Speaker 1: I don't have the addition of and because the chiefs won,
Speaker 1: I'm more optimistic about my stocks like I am when
Speaker 1: the Republicans are in charge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, so I thought this was funny. Republicans' views
Speaker 2: on the future of their finances and the economy jumped
Speaker 2: about forty five points to one oh five point nine.
Speaker 2: As if anybody knows what this scale is.
Speaker 1: The eagle ninety eagle playing six and as you drive
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 2: All right, stop it from the University of Michigan surveys
Speaker 2: and consumers compared to with October, so up forty five
Speaker 2: points to one oh five. So that would be roughly,
Speaker 2: you know, fifty percent before the presidential election. Democrats outlook
Speaker 2: fell by the same amount, about forty nine percent, based
Speaker 2: on data released earlier this month. The surveys first to
Speaker 2: exclusively measure post elections sentiment.
Speaker 1: HM, So you're not spending as much for Christmas because
Speaker 1: the country elected Hitler. That makes sense, you know.
Speaker 2: You know what's not about that is from a purely
Speaker 2: objective point of view, which I am able to achieve.
Speaker 1: That's bonkers. If you are on the government.
Speaker 2: Dole, it's not going to change because Republicans can't cut
Speaker 2: benefits apparently anymore. It's not a big enough priority. You
Speaker 2: lose too many votes, and then huge numbers of Democrats. Actually, well,
Speaker 2: at least a significant majority of Americans believe Trump would
Speaker 2: handle the economy better. So why in the world, as
Speaker 2: a Democrat would you be much more negative about your
Speaker 2: economic prospects?
Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense. I don't know, but I know
Speaker 1: I personally know people who are beside themselves with grief still, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, get over it, grow up. You know what
Speaker 2: it could be the percentage of.
Speaker 1: People who believe the utter horse.
Speaker 2: Crap that the Trump tax cuts, which are probably going
Speaker 2: to be made permanent next year, perhaps with a tweak
Speaker 2: or two, but not many. They believe that garbage, that
Speaker 2: that was just for millionaires and billionaires, when it was
Speaker 2: mostly for the middle class percentage wise, really rich people
Speaker 2: gained well because they pay way, way, way more taxes
Speaker 2: than the middle class, but it was mostly a middle
Speaker 2: class tax cut. I wonder if they just they believe
Speaker 2: the worst rhetoric of their their ideological brethren.
Speaker 1: Did you see the guest essay in the New York
Speaker 1: Times over the weekend about China. It was from some
Speaker 1: think tank guy. I don't remember his name. I didn't
Speaker 1: know his name, but he's one of your think tank
Speaker 1: economic geniuses who really thinks Trump is on the right
Speaker 1: track with the tariff thing and taken on China, and
Speaker 1: that China's just just needs a little shove over the
Speaker 1: edge to like really be destroyed. But it's going to
Speaker 1: be painful for us for a while. But he thinks
Speaker 1: that it's pain Trump is willing to take a hit
Speaker 1: to his political capital, and that it will ultimately benefit
Speaker 1: the United States. I hope he's right. Yeah, I missed that.
Speaker 1: I would love to read it. It's interesting to take
Speaker 1: a look. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Judging by everything I've been reading about it, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of truth to that they are fragile, and
Speaker 2: that was in the New York stas. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah. More stabbings and runnings, over hundreds of them
Speaker 2: that are little reported and we don't hear about in
Speaker 2: the United States, but lots of signs of anger and discontent. Anyway,
Speaker 2: one more thing on the whole election.
Speaker 1: Delio.
Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting. Nearly a quarter of people
Speaker 2: looking to buy their first house we're asked last September
Speaker 2: about their you know, their their plans and priorities, and
Speaker 2: nearly a quarter of them said we're gonna wait until
Speaker 2: after the votes are in.
Speaker 1: Interesting, I would never think that. I wouldn't either. I
Speaker 1: was looking at a house and it never crossed my
Speaker 1: mind that maybe I should wait until after the election. Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny.
Speaker 2: I've bought and sold more houses than any three normal
Speaker 2: people combined. And and I'm really really into politics. But
Speaker 2: that I wouldn't even think about that unless somebody had
Speaker 2: proposed some sort of specific policy. But I don't recall
Speaker 2: that happening anyway. It's true country to country. Uh, just
Speaker 2: an interesting effect of politics.
Speaker 1: Well, since we were beating up on China and the
Speaker 1: trouble that they're in, how about some positive news for China.
Speaker 1: That's just true China's car production share in the world
Speaker 1: for the global car production. I wish this chart went
Speaker 1: back to like the fifties and sixties. I got to
Speaker 1: believe the United States was like practice all of them.
Speaker 1: It was like eighty five percent of cars on earth
Speaker 1: were made in Detroit, the United States. This is going
Speaker 1: back to two thousand. The United States has gone from
Speaker 1: about thirteen percent of the population of the all the
Speaker 1: cars in the world to three percent, So we've dropped
Speaker 1: from about thirteen to three. Japan has gone down, Europe
Speaker 1: has gone down a lot. China has gone from one
Speaker 1: percent at the start of the century to forty percent. Wow,
Speaker 1: of the worldwide car production or car sold. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1: It's stunning.
Speaker 2: That is something A lot of it is, you know,
Speaker 2: from a capitalist point of view, artificial propping up of
Speaker 2: their industry and subsidizing it by the government and just
Speaker 2: crazy manufacturing for foreign markets, exports, consumer spending is really
Speaker 2: lagging in China.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's it's amazing. So we can get into
Speaker 1: the details a bit later. But George Stephanopolis, he didn't
Speaker 1: pay it himself. ABC paid it, but got hit for
Speaker 1: was it fifteen million dollars for continually saying and I
Speaker 1: remember that episode of ABC this Week where he kept
Speaker 1: referring to Trump as a convicted rapist after that trial
Speaker 1: and Trump was not convicted of rape, but Stephanopolis said
Speaker 1: it multiple times and Trump sued, and now ABC is
Speaker 1: paying fifteen million dollars and Stephanopolis had to offer up
Speaker 1: an ABC A Weasley apology. But that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the after effects of elections and ratings and
Speaker 2: money wholly crap some of the recent numbers from MSNBC
Speaker 2: and CNN. How are they keeping the lights on? How
Speaker 2: are they paying their halfwits were on that to come?
Speaker 1: And will they ever recover? Probably not not.
Speaker 2: If there is a God, God probably doesn't concern himself
Speaker 2: with cable news.
Speaker 1: He probably hates it. My son's birthday is a week
Speaker 1: from today, then Christmas is a week in two days
Speaker 1: from today. I have many things I haven't finished yet.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling tremendous pressure. My wife's birthdays in three days.
Speaker 1: I'd like to have a word with their parents, God
Speaker 1: rest their souls. Stop having children in December. Well, it's
Speaker 1: inconvenient for the rest of us. You gotta think ahead.
Speaker 1: We should have thought ahead. I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: to it. It's just, yeah, it is incredibly inconvenient.
Speaker 2: We start feeling randy in March. You put it off,
Speaker 2: all right? Did you take a cold shower? As they
Speaker 2: used to say, does that work? He ever actually done that.
Speaker 2: You're really wanting sex and you take a cold jower,
Speaker 2: it would do the trick. I think maybe being in
Speaker 2: anguish in general, punch yourself in the face that works too.
Speaker 1: We've got Gid's headlines on the way next, first snow,
Speaker 1: but the children he had a snow brain, permanent brain
Speaker 1: freeze never went away. Frosty, who's a moron? Silk hat
Speaker 1: a nice enough. I keep seeing minding loyal friends, listen
Speaker 1: to you. I keep seeing the headlines from the left
Speaker 1: on how the Trump sues Stephanopolis and wins is going
Speaker 1: to have a chilling effect on news media coverage for
Speaker 1: the presidency. Well, or you can't call somebody who's a
Speaker 1: rapist who's not a rapist, or that's it.
Speaker 2: That's the sum total of it, all right, Yeah, get
Speaker 2: your fat straight jack.
Speaker 1: Well about like it's serious. That's not like a minor fact.
Speaker 1: Either am I a convicted rapist or not? Oh I'm not? Well,
Speaker 1: then stop saying I am yi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the there's more to that story, and
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty interesting. We've got a bunch of media
Speaker 2: stories today, among other things. But first let's figure out
Speaker 2: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green
Speaker 2: Katie Well, speaking of ABC, let's start there.
Speaker 5: Feds are urged to deploy high tech drone hunter to
Speaker 5: solve mystery behind sightings yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I mean you got Trump calling for him to
Speaker 1: be shot down. Chris Christie said yesterday, we need to
Speaker 1: bring one of these down and figure out what they are.
Speaker 1: Former governor of Maryland over the weekend said the same thing.
Speaker 1: At some point, if it's a government operation that they're
Speaker 1: kind of keeping secret, don't they have to say, hey,
Speaker 1: before you start shooting these things down and somebody gets
Speaker 1: hurt or we lose millions of dollars, maybe we should
Speaker 1: let you know. And this is on purpose and nothing
Speaker 1: to be afraid of.
Speaker 2: I'm going to quote a great American who said this
Speaker 2: after a couple of eggnogs Friday night. Every red blooded
Speaker 2: American patriot must train their guns on the sky and
Speaker 2: be ready to do what must be done.
Speaker 1: Across the untation. Yeah. The problem with that is you're
Speaker 1: going to be shooting down planes. Yeh, please don't do that.
Speaker 5: From Newsweek, Luigi Menjona pictures met with cheers at Boston concert.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5: They were playing some Miley Cyrus song and apparently the
Speaker 5: DJ put a bunch of pictures up on the screen
Speaker 5: behind him and everybody just went nuts.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: The decision to put the picks up is weird and
Speaker 1: then the crowd cheering. Wow, it's just a dopey internet age.
Speaker 1: I can say anything.
Speaker 2: Everybody's anonymous, and you've got to go way over the
Speaker 2: top to convey how you feel. Well, it's all those
Speaker 2: things coming together and how.
Speaker 1: Much of it is, Like Chris Rock said on Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live, because he's hot. Chris Rock said, if this
Speaker 1: guy looked like Jonah Hill, we'd already executed him. From
Speaker 1: the New York Post.
Speaker 5: Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually a
Speaker 5: notorious ASSAD regime torturer.
Speaker 1: I saw this. He is one of the best known,
Speaker 1: like legend around the country torturers that worked for ASSAD
Speaker 1: and somehow when they are escaping from the prison, they
Speaker 1: threw him in a cell and locked him in there
Speaker 1: and got out. But he's the guy that was freed
Speaker 1: by Clarsa Ward the other day. Wow. Yeah, she's a
Speaker 1: terrific reporter. Yeah it's not her fault. No, But nice
Speaker 1: job CNN. Actually perfect if you think about it. From
Speaker 1: Fox News.
Speaker 5: Cleanup underway after rare tornado hits Scott's Valley, California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in my real life I heard a lot about this.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people saying no way. A
Speaker 1: tornado hit. Yeah, it actually hit the ground and flipping
Speaker 1: cars and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, thank god, nobody's
Speaker 1: hurt any more than they.
Speaker 5: Were from the Free Beacon. New York Times puts menstrual
Speaker 5: products in men's bathrooms to quote support transgender and non
Speaker 5: binary colleague, do you gotta be kidding at the New
Speaker 5: York Times?
Speaker 1: At the New York Times.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, while in the same parts of the country,
Speaker 2: all of this stuff that DEI, the gender betting madness
Speaker 2: is on the back foot in your progressive organizations.
Speaker 1: It's growing from NBC meme.
Speaker 5: Coins like fart coin are writing Trump's victory to huge valuations,
Speaker 5: and experts say it's only just begun.
Speaker 1: And we're both just shaking our heads the idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh of course they are. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I get the idea of of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and
Speaker 2: stuff like that is a form of payment outside the
Speaker 2: government system. I get that completely, But right now it's
Speaker 2: just wild speculation. You launch these coins fark coin, for instance,
Speaker 2: and it goes up as people are thinking, all right,
Speaker 2: when does the bubble burst? When are the sucker is
Speaker 2: gonna get out? I'm gonna get out now. And they
Speaker 2: make their money. Then those poor suckers who get in.
Speaker 1: At the end they lose their shirts.
Speaker 5: And finally the Babylon b Joe Biden Pardon's wife Jill
Speaker 5: for impersonating a doctor.
Speaker 1: God dang it, and you had another cryptocurrency that I got.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I gotta get in, No Sloan, stay the race, Jack,
Speaker 2: slow and steady. Stick with your IBM stock, your GM
Speaker 2: stock and American steel.
Speaker 1: How's that doing. I haven't checked lately, Us Steele, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll catch you up on the news, That's
Speaker 1: what we'll do an hour two, three and four. I
Speaker 1: got like an amazing culture war story. I can't wait
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