WEBVTT - He Should Be Skinned For The Use Of Others 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:01:05.119 Andy and he Armstrong and from studio scene, please sing 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.840 picking off the final week of Armstrong and getting new 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:16.080 broadcasts in the year twenty twenty four. We started a 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.680 year twenty twenty four. It feels like it, doesn't it. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.120 Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:28.480 Drone mania. It was the drones last week. That was 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:29.640 drone mania. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.360 Is We've completely lost the thread and it's just silly now, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.640 is it? Is it just the coverage is silly. It 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.880 is a slow news day, there is no doubt about it. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.880 It's a slow news day when every source you go 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.840 to has a different lead story and that has been 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.440 the case since I got up this morning, and every 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.279 single version of a lead story is just an update 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.320 on an existing story. So what is a slow news day? 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.320 The exciting thing about that is means we can certainly 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.160 talk about whatever we want and really stretch out and 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.640 enjoy ourselves on a number of topics of our own 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.080 making well. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.640 And it means, you know, speaking metaphorically, nothing in particular 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:06.400 is on fire. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.360 At the moment, which is a rare pleasure. Yeah. Well, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.280 you know, it ignores a couple of things that are 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.760 going on around the world that are major problems. But 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.079 I guess there's nothing that jumps out as a reason 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.800 to elevate it to the highest level. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.600 Yeah, it's the what's the layer they call in forest 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.720 fires that like can keep burning for. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.520 Weeks and you don't see it. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.240 It's like smoldering and in kerb blowy it fires up again. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.400 We've got a handful of those, no doubt. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.920 Yeah. Yeah, So why do you say drone mania is 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.880 our lead story? I was. I was fascinated by it 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.839 over the weekend. I showed it to both my kids, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.760 who don't take in a lot of news coverage, because 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.400 every newscast, certainly on Friday night, and I think Saturday 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.359 night led with the drone story right right. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.080 The reason I said that was one moment in particular, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.480 because there are some significant stories about like that Chinese 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.840 national who was flying a drone over one of our 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.160 Space Force bases on the West Coast then tried to 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:05.920 escape to China. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:06.720 That's significant. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.400 The Vandenberg Air Force Base the New Jersey there by, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.800 the base I don't recall the name of but that 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:12.400 stuff's great. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.840 But then I was watching the news I think it 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.240 was could have been last night, and Aaron Katirsky in 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:19.799 his sonorous. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:23.720 Voice, saying, and now drone sightings have been reported in 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.040 a dozen Northeastern states. I'm like, yet, it's not that 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.639 people are like that there are things in the air. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.840 We know there are things in the air. Do we 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.760 have drones massing over a critical nevermind? 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.440 Well, all the denials bother me and we'll get to 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.440 that a little bit later. As freaking waste of skin. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.960 DHS Secretary of Mariorcus was on one of the shows yesterday, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.520 and that is he should be skinned for the use 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.080 of others. As usual, I've got nothing to say, but 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.400 I'd like to assure you there's nothing to worry about. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.840 And blah blah blah. Most of the drones are airplanes. Okay, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.480 I get that. Since the own story got hot, now 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.080 everybody's calling in every airplane they see as a drone. Yes, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.200 but what about the original drones that everybody seems to 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.920 think we're drones? How about we talk about those like 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.160 grown ups and said exactly, most of the reports are planes. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:19.640 That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic. Right, Hey, hey, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:20.919 what about the ones. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.120 That aren't huh yeah, well most of them are planes, Yeah, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.880 but what about the ones that aren't right? 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.560 Right? Which is something that's going on? I think, I well, 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.680 I don't know that I know. But Josh Rogan put 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.040 out an interesting retweet that I was reading in the 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.520 middle of the night. Would you like to hear that now? 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.279 I want to read all the details. I'll do that 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.680 later because it's a pretty long thread, but it's pretty interesting. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:47.159 It's a guy from some agency that or a corporation 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.120 that made these kind of drones, and he lays out 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.960 while he doesn't know that that's what this is, he's 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.960 pretty sure that what it is it's a drone sweep 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.000 of areas to see if they can detect dirty bomb. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.400 And he suspects that it's a test of our capability 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.960 around ports and any sort of populated area or government 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.320 installation or whatever to detect a dirty bomb. He thinks 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.080 it's both a psyops program psychological operation to see how 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.920 the public would react to all these drones showing up 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.680 somewhere all of a sudden, which they need to do 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.120 if there's a suspicion that you know, they get some 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.200 intel that Orion wants to get a dirty bomb into 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.240 the Port of San Diego or whatever, and so you 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.359 send over all of our drones that can pick this 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.080 information up. There will that freaked people out. And so 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.880 it's a combination syops and testing out our dirty bomb 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.720 sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct, but 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.080 that would explain it. That could be the thing. That 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.560 sort of thing could be the thing. Yet, that sort 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:49.359 of thing, I would agree. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.240 I interacted with a number of folks over the weekend, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.400 both during my Jay Gatsby like social life as we 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.839 had holiday gatherings and on the golf course, and one 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:05.120 thing that was agreed widely was that the answer is, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:12.440 we don't know what it is, but everything's fine. Indicates 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.200 something classified, right, something YEA know that they can't talk about. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.200 But no, it's not killer drones come for you, your children. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:21.239 It's fine. It's our stuff. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.119 Yeah, that's why that dirty bomb thing that Josh Rogan, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.760 who we really like from the Washington Post, he retweeted 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.680 that because he obviously thinks it's significant. That's why that 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.159 would fit that people at certain levels know it's nothing 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.159 to worry about, and it's a good thing. It's a 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.560 good thing that we have this technology. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.279 But we just one other suggestion I've heard that that 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.240 seemed very reasonable was some sort of test of drone vulnerability, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.240 drone tracking equipment, that sort of thing. There's only one 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.240 way to do it. Team A flies drones, Team B 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.880 keeps an eye on them. Then you see if teammate 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.240 can elude Team B. It's a classic military training exercise. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.560 So it's interesting you mentioned your Jay Gatsby like social life. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.880 I remember before I had children and Gladys, could you 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.800 play the harp last week? Last week, Gladys, we don't 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.960 know if we're bringing you back in twenty five? Contract 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.840 was honey, wow? Contract? Huh, I don't know if God's 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:16.600 bringing her back in twenty five. Oh wow. I remember 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.760 when I had a Jay Gatsby like social life before 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.600 I had children, and you get close to Christmas, it'd 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.920 just be all kinds of different gatherings and parties and 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.760 stuff like that, and it was just running around. I'd 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.800 be so exhausted from the fun and oh man, this 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.360 is almost work. I had one of the most annoying 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.320 weekends of my life just running kids around running errands 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.480 in the traffic of this time of year. I mean, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.120 it's first word world problems, annoying. It's not Ukraine or Syria, 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.360 but just everything was a hassle. Nothing was enjoyable. And 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.480 I thought, there's got to be a better way to 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.680 do the Christmas season than this. There's just got to be. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.600 It was miserable. Everything is difficult this time of year. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.440 The slightest errand is difficult because you can't park there, 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.200 There's a long line. It's just everything's insane. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.800 Yeah, it does have more of a final exams field 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.800 than a joyous celebration. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.880 Right. I thought, what am I doing wrong? How do 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.480 I get my head straight on this? Because I'd hear 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.160 Christmas week it's the most wonderful time. And I'm in 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:24.400 line and just found a bread. Just go home, you mother. God. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.760 We were at a kia ikia. I wanted to just 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.840 I wanted to do the TikTok prank and climb behind 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.040 some of the furniture and sleep there. I was just 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.960 we couldn't get find our way out. The lines were 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.280 so long, it was so crowded, the parking, the traffic 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.760 in a kill me. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:39.800 Ah. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.160 Yes, Michael you can live on the Swedish meatballs exactly. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.600 I was just so annoying, and I thought, I've got 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.360 to find some joy in this, or at least neutral 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.800 in this, because I'm so angry. Kids were angry, the 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.760 other customers were angry. It was just lots of anger. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.079 Woh how angry setting fire to Santa's beard? Angry or 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.720 the only angel and I got out of Ikea that 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.079 drove my kids crazy was using some sort of fake 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.360 Swedish word for everything we were looking. We had come 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.440 around the corner. Oh, look the lampenfergens and there's the 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.480 couch and cold concern. Well, as long as you annoyed 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.480 the boys, it was worth it. Let's start the show officially. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:17.640 I'm Jack Armstrong. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.040 We do that, Jack, There's a good chance that a 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.920 lot of your fellow shoppers were Republicans. Psychologists have studied 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.880 how spending habits are affected by election results. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.080 I'll be darned. Uh, that doesn't surprise me. Actually, I'm 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.280 Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.800 December sixteenth, year, twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.440 getting we approve of this program. Let's leap into action. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.560 Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, ho ho 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.679 hauling our way through the show at mark. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.719 Some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. Some 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.600 are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. It 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.640 is our job to be vigilant in the federal government, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.559 with our state and local partners on behalf of the 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.480 American public, and we can assure their safety by reason 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.400 of that vigilance. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.560 Did Biden find that lame ow by the roadside and 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:08.640 take pity. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.479 On him or something? How did he ascend to the 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.080 any level? Much less the level is that that was 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.880 Mayorchis the DHS secretary, sounding the same way about drones 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.239 as he sounded about the border. He is the ultimate bureaucrat. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.559 He could rise to the top of any sort of bureaucracy, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.480 giant healthcare or state government or anything. It just we 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.280 are on top of this. We have all the functions 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.079 in place, we have the matrixes lined up, and all 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.600 the results are going to just he says nothing. He 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.120 kills a couple of minutes. Oh, I hate you so much, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.280 donate your organs before you die, and then we'll start 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.880 taking them now. And then you need to recede away 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.920 from a waste of exactly a waste of skin. Burn victims, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.559 those who have been lacerated can better use his skin. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.600 Can you imagine you're running some sort of enterprise and 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.720 you got ten people in a room and he's the 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.480 best of them. Interview I would fire my recruiting firm. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.960 So that was may Orcus on ABC this week. Right 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.680 after him Stephanopolis, who just got sued by Trump and 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.160 Trump won. More on that later. Chris Christie, former governor 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.439 of New Jersey, who's seeing drones all over the place, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.320 said may Orcus is full of crap. So I thought 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.280 that was really good. We'll get to that later. How 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.240 does mailbag look strong? Good start to the week? Tell 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.839 us to see a drome? You were to textas four one, five, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.319 two nine five KFTC. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.360 I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.000 I'm glad it's a slow newsday because it allows us 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.520 to do a number of things that it might not 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.240 made to cut otherwise from my list, including over the weekend, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:48.920 I came across this site that has compiled it's bad news, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.520 but it's funny. All the fraudsters that were able to 0:11:53.559 --> 0:12:00.320 get PP money PPP money during the COVID giveaway where 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.600 we just shoveled trillions of dollars out the door, and 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.280 the way different people applied and actually got tens of 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.800 thousands of dollars in chunks all across America to the 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.200 tune of billions of dollars. It's actually pretty funny how 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.600 little effort they put into it. It almost makes me 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:17.400 wish I'd done. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.559 It, and given the way all that crap fed inflation, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.760 this is definitely laughing to keep from crying. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.960 Yeah, but yeah, I get that. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.160 And we have a list of some of the folks 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.920 that Joe Biden granted clemency to. That list of fifteen 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.120 hundred people have finally gotten a chance to take a 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.679 look at and assess and it's revealing and strange and 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.720 utterly inappropriate. But what are you gonna do. He's the 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.880 president for now. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.679 Excuse me, I love this. Michael and Haystack, Nebraska sent 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.199 this along. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.520 Is that real? Is that really a place in Nebraska? 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.240 I don't know. Is that like Jeff and Hoggs Nipple Tennis? 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.520 It might be, yeah, but it's from Churchill and I 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.880 absolutely love it on the idea of presentism straight up. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.400 Out of orwell as well as Churchill. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.720 If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:15.360 it will lose the future. Ooh, presentism is pathetic. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.520 Adolescent egomania. It's easy. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.200 Oh my gosh, it's so transparently self serving. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.720 I'm like a way better person than Link. It was 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.319 because I believe this. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:35.320 Oh okay, good lord, since it's insulting to everyone's intelligence mailbag? 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:40.959 Who Brian from Houston? What if the. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.560 Drones are being controlled by clowns at the edge of 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:53.400 the woods, right, getcha? Oh, this is out of order, guys. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.760 The oh this is Anna Louise and La Mesa California. Right, say, guys, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.720 the drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.559 the Salem Witch Trials. Maybe everyone needs to read or 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.560 watch Arthur Miller's The Crucible and calm the hell down. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.000 Yeah, funny you said that. That's what I said on 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:13.760 Thursday or Friday, that mass hysteria thing. But the difference 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.720 is there were no actual witches. There are actual drones. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.400 I think that started this whole thing, right. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.120 It reminds me of the murder investigation where you know, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.440 somebody killed somebody, and the guys out there and then 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.480 the public because for whatever reason, floods the authorities with 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:30.920 fifteen thousand tips. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:32.160 It's not helping. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.800 Barry from Thailand Rights wishing you and your staff and 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.960 all the listeners are very merry Christmas, Happy New Year. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.320 Never gets old here listening to American Christmas music in 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:48.800 the shopping centers malls. Oh boy, then I can't do 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.760 that joke, A funny joke about anam and e even 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.280 apparently his state of sexual readiness. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.040 But again, what I'm telling you, I'm walking around the Ikea, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.040 the best Buy Christmas music is playing about it's a 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.880 jing jingjingle. I'm looking around and there's not a smile 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.320 on anybody's face anywhere. Are we all doing this wrong? 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.400 Or what is going on? Wait? 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.960 At some point you think people will begin to associate 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.600 that music with being grim and angry. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.320 Our stress just a endless list of unpleasant tasks. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.360 Right, yeah, but thank you for the note, Barry. Moving along, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.600 here's something from John. I'm watching Sunday night football commercial 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.520 comes on. It's well meaning, I'm only Hamiman after all, Jesus. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.800 It takes all of us, et cetera. Many clips of 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.400 people arguing and fighting over whatever. I assume you've seen it. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.120 I actually have. Yeah, I'm tired. I think the biggest 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.520 problem in our society is that everyone thinks what they 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.560 think is important. Get over yourself. You're not the most 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.360 important person in the world. You're important to yourself, your 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.320 family and friends. The rest of the world doesn't give 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.400 two poops. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.520 What you think. A little more humility would help all 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:53.840 of us. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.960 Yeah, there's truth to that. The ability to have your 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.600 words seen by the world online, no matter how inane, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.720 is an interesting development mankind. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:07.840 It's never existed before. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.400 How about this Ryan from Houston, Jack Joe, I know 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.800 you have personal Jahad's mine is to get the world 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.120 to treat the Time magazine Person of the Year the 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.720 same as the MTV movie Award winner. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.040 For Best fight Scene aka not at all. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.400 Nobody thinks about Time three hundred and sixty four days 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.120 a year, So why give the hind end of a 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.760 rat when they tweet out a picture. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.600 Of a magazine. I don't think most people do. It's 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:32.720 immediate armstrongation. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.120 Now if Armstrong you GETTI are declared the Time Magazine 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.480 Person of the year long overdue. Then my comments are 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:46.760 null and void, and then he makes some uh Christmas 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.440 song suggestions. Oh you know, I don't think we have 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:50.960 time for this, and it's a shame, but it's a 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.080 note from Julie. I want to get back to about 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:59.720 the disappearance of the Coexist Coexist bumper sticker that we 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.800 use to mock and why that might be significant. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.359 Really thought provoking. Interesting. Yeah, speaking of coexisting, check in 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.840 on Siria, which has a lot of interesting stories going on, 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.199 and I hope those people can keep their smiles on 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.960 their faces. They're smiling more this weekend than I was 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.680 a lot other news to get to, so stay with us, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.000 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.880 After police arrest and suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangioni, they 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.439 found a note on him expressing anger at Corporate America. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.040 Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:40.920 was caught at McDonald's, So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.800 Yeah, that numb nuts is view of the world is 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.439 just well, not as smart as he thought he was. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.200 Maybe more on that later. 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.840 Yeah, surprise, we don't have a name for that sort 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.240 of person, although it is I'm smarter and better than everyone. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:04.200 Therefore judgment as ironclad. Therefore I may do anything to 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.119 execute my plan for society, including murdering someone in cold blood, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:09.160 and I will be justified. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.040 Biggest football news of yesterday Patrick Mahomes leaving the game 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.280 at the end hurt and saying he might not play 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:23.080 next week and complaining about the NFL making him play 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.560 three games and eleven days over the Christmas break because 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.200 of the scheduling, working out, wanting to play the Black 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.240 Friday game and fitting and thanks all the different stuff. Oh, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:33.760 that's a hell of a lot of this. That's what 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.920 he's saying. Your body can't take that, and now he's hurt. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:41.560 So AnyWho, here's your end of the year's stat of 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.520 the hour, because we'll have a lot of end of 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.000 the year stats for you this week. How big of 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.520 an industry is the video game industry? Total worldwide revenues 0:18:53.520 --> 0:19:00.119 for video games seven times that of recorded music. That 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.159 is amazing. Now, part of that might be you can 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.600 get recorded music for fourteen dollars of subscription and you 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.840 can't do that with video games. But uh yeah, I 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:08.760 was gonna say you can't. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.960 Well, you can get obviously, you know this, but it's 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.560 a subscription model for video games. I still picture you 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.400 go down to GameStop, you buy a thing, you plug 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:16.880 it in your computer, You're done. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:18.320 But now it's all subscriptions. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:19.960 I was just going to ask, does that include the 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.000 revenue to music streaming services? 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.320 I actually don't know that Spotify, Apple, et cetera. Yeah, 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.280 I'd be curious to know. Probably a lot of kids 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.200 are going to be getting video games for Christmas this year. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.920 And one other economic note, as President she and China, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:38.840 because they're facing some serious economic problems, gave a speech 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.520 the other day where he said people are going to 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.160 have to learn to eat bitterness. Wow. 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.040 You pair that with the what's our famous tape Michael 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.840 of the drone there during COVID suspend your soul's desire 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.280 for freedom or whatever, tell your soul to shut the 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.399 hell up. Yeah, So now I got to learn to 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.679 eat bitterness on top of starting to wonder about this 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:04.160 system of yours Winnie Winnie the Pooh. So our economy 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.400 is better than China's. Definitely, Oh they I'm I've been 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.440 banging this drum for a long time. I remember I'm 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.920 old enough to remember the great the journalists for whatever reason, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.560 they getting a herd and they charge like panicking wildebeests. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.480 But during the eighties, whenever, it was in the nineties, 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.719 how Japan and the Japanese system and they were going 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.840 to rule the world, and they were far superior to 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.639 the United States. And then Japan collapsed and entered a 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.159 thirty year period of economic Melee's well, it's very similar 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.520 to the whole Tom Friedman falling in love with the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:37.959 communist Chinese and their spectacular efficiency and their bullet trains, 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.920 and look how quickly they can build the development. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.840 They have horrific problems. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:47.719 They have built this giant hollow economy of overproduction and 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.600 over capacity and manufacturing, and it's. 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.080 All about to go. Kirt blewey, trust me, you don't 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.600 want to be a communist. I can show your soul's 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.040 desire for freedom. Oh thanks for that. Now, eat bitterness, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.040 yum yum. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.680 Hey kids, it's bitterness for dinner tonight. On the other hand, 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.639 we have something like a democracy here, Jack, and we 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.160 have elections from time to time, and sometimes the way 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.120 they come out has some interesting after effects. For instance, 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:21.960 scientists are quite confident when your side, when's the election, 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.080 you feel more positive in general, more positive about the 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:29.320 economy specifically, and the winning side spends more aggressively. 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.520 That is obvious. Never thought about it before, but of 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.439 course you would. Obviously you would feel better about things. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.879 Your vision of the way the country ought to be 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.639 run is going to happen as opposed to one that 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.600 you think is bad news. Yeah, yeah, I wish. 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.080 I'd learned this earlier because how crazy competitive as a 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.679 young person. But when you win, you get a surge 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.199 of testosterone and you feel like you're on top of 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.800 the world. It makes you bold, it makes you confident, 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:00.920