Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Joe, Katty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Jackie and he arms wrong. That'st Little Friday
Speaker 3: from a dimly lit room.
Speaker 1: Keep it from the bowels of the Armstrong a Geddy
Speaker 1: communications compound.
Speaker 3: And today we are under the tutelage of art general managers.
Speaker 1: Pete hegsts who's saying.
Speaker 3: The right thing, doing the right thing? Secretary at Defense
Speaker 3: if you need him, Peter.
Speaker 1: Hess Oh but he was drunk at work in the
Speaker 1: evening once fifteen years ago. No sure, how did that
Speaker 1: get too much attention to the fact that RFK Junior
Speaker 1: was a heroin addict for what a dozeneeen years?
Speaker 3: Fourteen year?
Speaker 1: He was drunk quants he had won too many Sharton nays,
Speaker 1: Oh no, he can't work in the government. What the
Speaker 1: hell ball a heroin addict for fourteen years, fourteen months
Speaker 1: would be a hell of a deal. Oh heck, yeah, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's amazing he survived that. Keith Richards is listening saying,
Speaker 1: dude has a problem. Wow, that is interesting. That just
Speaker 1: shows you the depths of a TDS Trump derangement. Syndromere
Speaker 1: where you get into various things that you care about.
Speaker 1: You know, fourteen year heroin addict doesn't even really come up.
Speaker 1: Oh right, you were bowling and you had too many
Speaker 1: beers and you had to defend yourself, etcetera. I enjoy
Speaker 1: bowling and sometimes there's beer served. But I believe this
Speaker 1: country is all the better or something something. Dude over
Speaker 1: here has been a smack addict for fourteen years.
Speaker 3: Nobody's talking about it.
Speaker 1: First of all, I'd like to say anybody who has
Speaker 1: not been drunk when they're bowling, get out. I don't
Speaker 1: want you working in the government. You're too something. You're
Speaker 1: above the age of twelve years old. You've never been
Speaker 1: drunk in a bowling alley. That hell got a life
Speaker 1: were you living?
Speaker 3: Boy? Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say one more note about it,
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseath. Not only is he sounding so many great notes,
Speaker 1: and you're about to hear one about the way the
Speaker 1: Pentagon and our militaries ought to be approaching their jobs.
Speaker 1: But yesterday, I think it was the day before, he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to appoint deputies who really adept at running
Speaker 1: a bureaucracy and understand the Pentagon Cash Purtel said something
Speaker 1: very similar. By the way, I am nothing but intrigued
Speaker 1: by these choices. I don't believe for a second there's
Speaker 1: going to be some sort of cataclysmic, you know, miscalculation
Speaker 1: where Pete Hegxas sells off the Navy to buy more
Speaker 1: drinks so he can be somewhat buzzed, you know. And
Speaker 1: I just the harem scare them stuff, And this is
Speaker 1: a good thing. The boy who cried wolfisms are just
Speaker 1: so thick in the air right now, it's getting easier
Speaker 1: and easier to ignore them, and people are well.
Speaker 4: All that stuff pales in comparison to the fact that
Speaker 4: we may have discovered yesterday where life came from, which
Speaker 4: has been one of the big mysteries of the planet forever.
Speaker 3: Why did life start? Nobody knows.
Speaker 4: Well, they found some organic matter on a meteorite that
Speaker 4: they were able to prove that was released yesterday by
Speaker 4: scientific paper that the theory that many have had for
Speaker 4: many years that there was life on some other planet somewhere,
Speaker 4: piece of it broke off, traveled through space, hit our planet,
Speaker 4: and you know, put into the ground some of the
Speaker 4: building blocks of getting life going that might be how
Speaker 4: all the whole thing started, which is just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: If I may.
Speaker 1: Interject, to save hundreds of people writing emails, jacket was
Speaker 1: the hand of God that decided there should be life
Speaker 1: on Earth. And you know what's funny about that, that
Speaker 1: that quote unquote debate is that never, that's never been
Speaker 1: a paradox for me.
Speaker 3: This is never I'm a god in opposition, I'm a
Speaker 3: god guy. That does not that.
Speaker 4: I don't find a rubbing point there where I've got
Speaker 4: right if you.
Speaker 1: Believe in the Almighty, that is the mechanism by which
Speaker 1: God Almighty did it. But how freaking fascinating is that? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's crazy interesting from how far away?
Speaker 4: What plenty we were talking about this a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago, and how the leading theory, a hot theory,
Speaker 4: seems to be now among your physicists astron astronomers that
Speaker 4: there is no other intelligent life out there. There actually
Speaker 4: isn't and mathematically may have reasons why they think that is.
Speaker 4: Part of it is very little on Earth too, I know,
Speaker 4: I was watching Jeopardy last night. Part of that is
Speaker 4: just the idea that there's only been life on this
Speaker 4: planet for a blink of an eye of the four
Speaker 4: and a half billion years that we've been around, And
Speaker 4: so you could have some other planet where they had
Speaker 4: is thriving society as we did, but it was three
Speaker 4: billion years ago and it destroyed itself the way we're
Speaker 4: going to destroy ourselves someday. And to get the timing
Speaker 4: to match up to where there's some currently would be
Speaker 4: mathematically pretty difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the ships that did not pass in the night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but for to be the organic matter that could
Speaker 4: bring life here to get it started, I mean, geez,
Speaker 4: something had to start it well, you know, and a
Speaker 4: god however that happened, whatever, But I found that to
Speaker 4: be a very interesting story.
Speaker 1: I imagine the difficulties of conceiving if you are the
Speaker 1: father of us all and the sperm of life flies
Speaker 1: into the Solar System and has to hit a hospitable
Speaker 1: planet to begin the lovely process.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exciting frost.
Speaker 4: You got to hit a Goldilocks planet, because it doesn't
Speaker 4: work on a planet that's you know, on mercury eight
Speaker 4: hundred degrees in sunny today that doesn't work, or someplace
Speaker 4: that's you know, frozen solid four thousand degrees below zero
Speaker 4: that ain't gonna work at it. My favorite story of yesterday, though,
Speaker 4: is just because I hate this guy so much. Democratic
Speaker 4: Senator Menindez, the guy with the gold bars and the
Speaker 4: fancy cars, his wife's wearing fur coats and everything like that,
Speaker 4: had been taking money for me the Egyptians, and stealing
Speaker 4: and been lying his entire career. Finally got sentenced eleven
Speaker 4: years in prison. And my favorite part is, and this
Speaker 4: is so freaking pathetic.
Speaker 1: Have some testicles, man, he cries in the courtroom, begging
Speaker 1: for a lower sentence.
Speaker 3: I've suffered enough, he says, which has just done more
Speaker 3: good than bad. I've been a public service.
Speaker 1: So freaking pathetic. I just, oh, I almost throw up
Speaker 1: when I saw that. Yes, why don't more people have
Speaker 1: the cajones to sit there and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I like cars, I like cash, I like gold bars,
Speaker 1: I like nice houses, I like expensive wine. I got
Speaker 1: away with it for a long time. Sorry I got caught.
Speaker 1: Smell you later. Why don't more people say that? I
Speaker 1: guess it was a lobster and a career criminal, and
Speaker 1: I kept it going for like forty five years. It's
Speaker 1: a shame it's ended now, but that's you know, what folks,
Speaker 1: that's the odds. Anyway, thanks for coming right at least
Speaker 1: take it.
Speaker 3: Like a man.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess, I guess you have no scruples, or
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have done it in the first place. You're
Speaker 1: that he's gonna spend the rest of his miserable life
Speaker 1: in a cage. Good is that you're the lowest level
Speaker 1: of scumbag. So of course you're not gonna say that.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cry off I've suffered enough. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: how embarrassing is that? But oh and on the other turn,
Speaker 1: this was pretty clever on his part. He said Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was right. The deep state is a powerful force
Speaker 1: that is out there to bring and he's trying to
Speaker 1: get a little of that mag of love on him.
Speaker 3: See if people would go for hole. Yes, either doing
Speaker 3: to me what they tried to do to Trump.
Speaker 1: Huh, nobody anybody? Nah crap, He tried to get that
Speaker 1: going at the end. That didn't catch on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, Bob. He does.
Speaker 1: His argument that he was making back when he was
Speaker 1: still in the courtroom and is pretty decent, is there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people getting a lot of stuff from
Speaker 1: a lot of places and getting rich here in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: that are you living way beyond their salaries? Explain? And
Speaker 1: maybe I went this is what he should have said.
Speaker 1: Maybe I went farther than they did, but we ought
Speaker 1: to to figure out what the lines are and this
Speaker 1: stuff because I know a lot of rich people in government.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny you should bring that up.
Speaker 1: I was just the topic of sugar and high fruit tooks,
Speaker 1: corn syrups came up yesterday, will come up again today.
Speaker 1: And I'm fairly aware of the sugar lobby and all
Speaker 1: that they have done through the years and all the
Speaker 1: money that has flowed to the absolutely critical American sugar industry.
Speaker 1: And those guys they get like a trailer truck full
Speaker 1: of gold bars. They're like, we've been handing these out
Speaker 1: since like nineteen forty five, Right, is this not good now?
Speaker 1: Or what somebody's gonna tell me the rules?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: Or Google for instance, probably going you know, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they've spent one hundred and forty five million dollars on lobbying.
Speaker 3: Wink wink, Yeah, funny.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like we always talk about busting hookers
Speaker 4: and cities. Every once in a while, you got to
Speaker 4: bust a couple to show the blue hairs that you're trying,
Speaker 4: but then you go back to letting it go because
Speaker 4: it's going to go everywhere.
Speaker 3: It's probably what they're doing there.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, you got to bust a
Speaker 1: congress person claim your keeping an eye on corruption. Well
Speaker 1: my theory of it, and I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Speaker 1: If you disagree, I would love to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Mail Bag and armstrung and giddy dot com. They bust
Speaker 1: people occasionally doing eighty five miles per hour to make
Speaker 1: sure nobody's doing ninety five right, well, exactly right. Token
Speaker 1: enforcement to put the seat of doubt into would be
Speaker 1: criminals heads.
Speaker 4: But going seventy five and getting moderately rich throughout your
Speaker 4: career in ways that most people wouldn't think was cool, Biden,
Speaker 4: nobody's even looking at that.
Speaker 1: Let's start show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
Speaker 1: on his Thursday. We're running out of January here, people,
Speaker 1: your dry January is almost over. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a big egg xcept like party this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Oh, you're twenty twenty five, we're Armstrong
Speaker 1: and getting We approve of this program. All right, let's
Speaker 1: begin then officially lining up for duty, snapping to attention
Speaker 1: at mark.
Speaker 5: One of the dumbest phrases in military history is our
Speaker 5: diversity is our strength. Our diversity is not our strength.
Speaker 5: Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength. And
Speaker 5: the Pentagon is excited to get back to that core mission.
Speaker 3: It's happening rapidly.
Speaker 5: The services are responding and those that don't want to
Speaker 5: respond can work somewhere else. So diversity, equity, inclusion will
Speaker 5: not be a part of the Defense Department.
Speaker 3: Not a minute long wow.
Speaker 1: It's like I got a pointed Secretary of Defense, which
Speaker 1: would be a mistake.
Speaker 3: It's great. It's like we're listening to our show coming
Speaker 3: out of the sect death. I love it.
Speaker 4: I feel like Pete Hegseth has listened to the Armstrong
Speaker 4: and Getty show because I've heard those first phrase out
Speaker 4: of your mouth.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many times. Diversity is not our strength.
Speaker 3: Unity is our strength.
Speaker 1: Right, Diversity is fine, it's interesting, but no unity is
Speaker 1: utterly in dispensing that is maybe the dumbest phrase of
Speaker 1: all time. Diversity is our strength. It's just dumb, and
Speaker 1: it may be the perfect illustration of the greeting card style.
Speaker 3: Vaguely, you know, how would you describe it. It's kind of.
Speaker 1: Vaguely uplifting statement that even the most basic examination of
Speaker 1: it falsifies it. But if it sounds good and it
Speaker 1: makes you feel good to say, people say it and
Speaker 1: they believe it, and they preach it as if it's truth.
Speaker 1: So we've been watching it for decades.
Speaker 4: Now we got more to say about that, and a
Speaker 4: whole bunch of other stuff. And now that we know
Speaker 4: where life came from, everything is different. How does mailbag look? Oh,
Speaker 4: it's fine, finding the handy. Can't wait, col.
Speaker 3: That's on the way.
Speaker 4: Here's our text line four one, five, two nine five KFDC.
Speaker 1: Clear skies around Reagan Airport last night.
Speaker 4: Even so, a black Hawk helicopter crashed into a commercial plane.
Speaker 3: Sixty some people are dead. More on that coming up.
Speaker 3: How the heck does that happen with some of the
Speaker 3: most trained people in the world. Mistakes happen, I guess.
Speaker 1: And some of the most controlled carefully dealt with airspace
Speaker 1: in the world. Right, terrible, terrible tragedy and incredibly rare. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: here's your freedom woman Caught of the day, going way
Speaker 1: back giving up from a man Heracleitus.
Speaker 3: It was some sort of guessing Greek philosopher Colman leader.
Speaker 3: His name is Cletus.
Speaker 1: Uh, Heraclitis is probably Heraclitis.
Speaker 3: I'll have to look up who he was exactly.
Speaker 1: But this is believed to be the oldest incarnation of
Speaker 1: a very well known phrase slash concept.
Speaker 3: There is nothing permanent except to change.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, yeah, somebody who was probably saying that outside a
Speaker 4: cave a million years ago.
Speaker 3: So that thought has been around for a long time, right.
Speaker 3: One of your younger cavemen is ugan around saying, hey,
Speaker 3: there's no wild beasts this year. There were wilde beests
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 1: And the old grizzled caveman said, dude, the one thing
Speaker 1: you can count on is changed. Although did people know
Speaker 1: that pre the ability to have written history Because everything
Speaker 1: was new all the time and nobody's writing anything down,
Speaker 1: you didn't know what happened a generation before years unless
Speaker 1: people were telling stories. I guess oral history was the
Speaker 1: only thing you had. Plus, the life span was like seventeen,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how much life you experienced before
Speaker 1: you were dead, right, So maybe the grizzled old twenty
Speaker 1: three year old Caveman was saying, there have been cherries
Speaker 1: in those trees and there will always be cherries. Right,
Speaker 1: they didn't know, but apparently they did back in Old
Speaker 1: Heraclitis's time mailbag. Feel free to drop us a note
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Speaker 1: a lovely no. Hey guys, my darling husband's birthday. It
Speaker 1: was just a couple of days ago, Brian, You and
Speaker 1: Jack have been part of his daily routine for half.
Speaker 3: Of his life. Now just turned forty, and that's supposed
Speaker 3: to make me feel good?
Speaker 1: Or he mopes when you're off on vacations and holidays,
Speaker 1: loves laughing along with you every day during his daily driving,
Speaker 1: and is a third generation conservative Portlander.
Speaker 3: I think you keep him sane.
Speaker 1: Wow, he mopes when we're on vacation. Coincidence, we mope
Speaker 1: when we come back. Then she says some very very
Speaker 1: nice things and she's a daily listener to keep it
Speaker 1: up for all of us living in the.
Speaker 3: Progressive Portland public. You know, it's funny how often.
Speaker 1: When people find out what I do and where the
Speaker 1: show started and where it's big and the rest of it,
Speaker 1: they're like they're shocked that in some of the blue
Speaker 1: areas of the country a conservative radio show would do well,
Speaker 1: and I have to explain to them, and it's fine that. Look,
Speaker 1: if your population is fifty five forty five liberal and conservative,
Speaker 1: that is a gigantic landslide every single election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, surely.
Speaker 4: And that's seen those maps of what counties voted Trump.
Speaker 4: It's almost entirely red clear across the country, including New
Speaker 4: York and California. And yet people in blue cities, blue
Speaker 4: states are entirely unrepresented by their governments, and and they're
Speaker 4: they're constantly browbeaten by their woke coworkers and relatives and
Speaker 4: all that they're wrong or bad people or whatever. So yes,
Speaker 4: it's nice to come together with like minded people in
Speaker 4: a quote unquote blue area which is probably got a
Speaker 4: hell of a lot of red landing folks in it.
Speaker 2: Like it.
Speaker 1: I like that that.
Speaker 4: That's a nice story. I don't need to be reminded
Speaker 4: that I turned seventy six this next birthday.
Speaker 3: It's not hope checking the calendar. I don't believe that's correct.
Speaker 1: Let's see, this is from Drew the Millennial. Always nice
Speaker 1: to hear from Drew. Jack has a fundamental misunderstanding of
Speaker 1: what a dad joke at is. It's not that you're
Speaker 1: dumb or unfunny. It refers to a joke that's cheesy,
Speaker 1: er trite, typically delivered with the intention of mildly embarrassing
Speaker 1: and or annoying your children.
Speaker 3: Okay, does anybody ever do that with moms? I don't
Speaker 3: think so. You know what you were ranting about that
Speaker 3: I just got out of your way. I don't agree.
Speaker 1: I think it refers to the sort of family friendly
Speaker 1: joke that a dad tends to tell that seems less
Speaker 1: sophisticated as you get older.
Speaker 4: Well, I read dad is dumb. Dad joke means dumb joke,
Speaker 4: but at least then the way that my kids seem
Speaker 4: to present it.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll talk about persecution complexes. Well, no, if
Speaker 1: your kids present it that way, then that's your reality.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 1: Oh, we don't have time for a really interesting food
Speaker 1: dye email about a family the limited eliminated food die
Speaker 1: from their kids' diets and saw great results.
Speaker 3: They think the.
Speaker 1: Persecution complex You're gonna tell me the prevailing culture is
Speaker 1: not the dads are dumb and boons.
Speaker 3: I mean it is.
Speaker 1: I and several emailers have never seen dad jokes as
Speaker 1: part of that, right, we got more news of the
Speaker 1: day on the way. There's always plenty and more hearings today,
Speaker 1: which is exciting, isn't it?
Speaker 3: Stick around Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: CBS announced yesterday it's launched a pilot program at three
Speaker 6: New York City locations that allows customers to use the
Speaker 6: pharmacy chain's app to unlock storrege security cabinets. It was
Speaker 6: either that or hire a single employee.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty funny joke. I know the CVS near
Speaker 1: my house. It is as if no one works there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the only store I've ever been to where like
Speaker 1: you get your stuff and you head up toward the
Speaker 1: front and like are you open or those are a fire?
Speaker 3: I mean, where is everybody? There's no there.
Speaker 1: I realized this has been a joke so long it's
Speaker 1: half a cliche. But holy cow, your big box hardware stores.
Speaker 1: I mean, back when those jokes came to be, they
Speaker 1: had twice the workforce that they do now. It's unbelievable
Speaker 1: about a wander for ten minutes to find.
Speaker 3: Somebody on CBS.
Speaker 1: I meant to get to this a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago when it came out and I think it's CBS.
Speaker 1: It could be Walgreens. It's the same diff either way.
Speaker 4: You know, don't buy or sell stock based on what
Speaker 4: I'm about to say because I have the wrong company.
Speaker 3: But it might be CVS anyway.
Speaker 4: Both of them have closed a bunch of stores clear
Speaker 4: across the country for lots of reasons, lots of them obvious,
Speaker 4: and the CEO announced we were starting to realize that
Speaker 4: locking everything up is actually hurting business, that people are
Speaker 4: deciding not to shop here because it's too cumbersome. Yes,
Speaker 4: that is absolutely true, or they don't buy certain things.
Speaker 4: I'll go into CVS and I'll get you know, I'll
Speaker 4: bar soap, kids need shampoo. I don't have a hairvariety
Speaker 4: of other things I need. It's to CVS. And then
Speaker 4: I'd like, I'm gonna get some razor blades. Oh, now
Speaker 4: they're locked up. I'm not willing to go through whatever
Speaker 4: hassle that is, so I'll get them somewhere else some
Speaker 4: other time, or order them on Amazon or something. And yeah,
Speaker 4: of course there's tons of stuff that I pass up,
Speaker 4: like almost every time I'm in the store because it's
Speaker 4: locked up and it's just too big a pain.
Speaker 3: Well, and if you don't dry shave with a steak
Speaker 3: knife like I do, why don't you wear a bra?
Speaker 3: Come on? Of course, not like a man does. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the right metaphor is.
Speaker 4: There's an old time he's saying for this sort of
Speaker 4: thing where we're picking on the caboose and we should
Speaker 4: have the engine or something. The problem is not really
Speaker 4: that people are buying less because stuff is locked up.
Speaker 1: The problem is I have to lock stuff up because
Speaker 1: there's so much crime. When all of our entire existences
Speaker 1: things weren't locked up and it seemed to work just fine.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem to be a deal. Well, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I find I'm trying to do the math, but I've
Speaker 1: run in my own you know, disagreement.
Speaker 3: But here's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: If I'm running Joe's drug Stores nationwide chain, we're known
Speaker 1: for our surly pharmacists.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it hurts when I do this. What aisle should
Speaker 3: I get that in? Yeah? Quit doing that? And then
Speaker 3: you say walk this way? And then isay right? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Ah? If if Joe's Nationwide drug Stores we invested in
Speaker 1: two burly dudes, well trained, carefully hired.
Speaker 3: Anybody tries to steal from us.
Speaker 1: We're putting you down right, They're gonna grab you by
Speaker 1: the head and another guy by the head and crack
Speaker 1: your heads together like it's the Three Stooges or something.
Speaker 1: I gotta believe that would cost a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot less than they're rampant shoplifting.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem you run into.
Speaker 1: We live in a society where said scumbag stealing further
Speaker 1: living and they're not looting it back. And it's not
Speaker 1: because the deck was stacked against them or the patriarchy
Speaker 1: or white supremacies, because they're friggin' thieves who have existed
Speaker 1: since the dawn of man. Anyway, when aforementioned friggin' thief
Speaker 1: sentence assues because they may or may not have a
Speaker 1: slightly sore elbow from the ass whooping Joe's guards gabing, well,
Speaker 1: then it's gonna cost me too much to defend in
Speaker 1: the rest of it because of our six sick uh
Speaker 1: you know, tort reform need in society.
Speaker 3: Sorry about the ass whooping, Do I not the least bit? Sorry? Quit?
Speaker 1: Hey, stealing equals ass whoopings. That'll be the big sign
Speaker 1: right there. Not shoplifters will be prosecuted under code four
Speaker 1: oh three C. No, it's gonna say steal an equals
Speaker 1: ass whooping. So your slogan isn't gonna be your health
Speaker 1: today or something like that. It's gonna be stealing equals
Speaker 1: ass whooping. Our slogan's gonna be our stuff is on
Speaker 1: shelves like normal stores, right, like it has been for
Speaker 1: all of history. Will it ever go back? And I
Speaker 1: was thinking it wouldn't. I thought this is gonna be
Speaker 1: this way the rest of our lives. Even if crime
Speaker 1: goes down, they've already they're just gonna blocking stuff up.
Speaker 1: But then when I saw the CEO say he thinks
Speaker 1: it's really hurt their business by a lot, then I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: as soon as crime goes down, which it will with
Speaker 1: the change in law California and Trump being president, in
Speaker 1: a variety of other things, hopefully they'll stop blocking stuff
Speaker 1: up because it is annoying the target. I go to
Speaker 1: in a nice town, all the legos are locked up
Speaker 1: now my kids are out of the lego age, But
Speaker 1: that lego aisle used to be full of kids looking
Speaker 1: at the boxes because you get to look at all
Speaker 1: the pictures and read about it and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Can't do that now they're all locked behind glass, which
Speaker 3: is just horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the lego age, my daughter took me
Speaker 1: to the Barnes and Noble not long ago and showed
Speaker 1: me the adult legos, not pornography, adult like a bouquet
Speaker 1: of flowers and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, really intricated as wild. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that I should specify with legos because
Speaker 4: for a lot of people, the age of legos is
Speaker 4: you're twenty eight years old, a man without a girlfriend,
Speaker 4: living in your parents' basement.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: That's a little judgmental.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, damn right it is. So here is the problem,
Speaker 1: and it's a big problem. Although it's easy to understand.
Speaker 1: The umbrella problem is that we have a society that,
Speaker 1: in half a dozen important ways tolerates crime out of
Speaker 1: bizarre and misguided beliefs that I'm hoping have maybe crested.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it occurs to me the reason
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia chops off the hand of thieves just because
Speaker 1: they like hand chopping, or that they're you know, living
Speaker 1: in the year eight hundred and stuff, which all of
Speaker 1: which is more or less true. But it's the same
Speaker 1: reason they hanged horse thieves in the American West, because
Speaker 1: if we allow this on any level, everything breaks down
Speaker 1: and it's too easy. We'll just make the punishment so
Speaker 1: draconian nobody dares do it, and for the most part,
Speaker 1: nobody does it.
Speaker 3: Now do you have to try not to? You know?
Speaker 1: He even when a horse thief is getting hanged or
Speaker 1: a thief's getting his arm chopped off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's really gross. But there's a balance. I
Speaker 3: don't know if we've absolutely let our society get out
Speaker 3: of balance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how long this will be around culturally,
Speaker 4: although if the punishment's strong enough, you'll get your act together,
Speaker 4: I suppose.
Speaker 2: But my.
Speaker 1: Youngest talks about because he goes to the dollar store
Speaker 1: a lot. For some reason, he likes the dollar store.
Speaker 4: There's a group of kids that come in there and
Speaker 4: steal all the time, and he sees them and nobody
Speaker 4: does anything about that, and they just think it's hilarious
Speaker 4: and they go in there and they steal stuff, and
Speaker 4: you know, that's been okay for most of their lives.
Speaker 4: So I don't know that will ever change, Although, like
Speaker 4: you said, if the penalties get high enough, you'll you'll
Speaker 4: correct be your behavior or go to jail.
Speaker 3: Oh Joe's dying.
Speaker 1: It's a guy who just poured hot coffee directly down
Speaker 1: his windpipe.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 4: Comply, We'll let Joe recover because I need to ask
Speaker 4: Katie before we take a So you're gonna be able
Speaker 4: to do your headlines today. You were sick yesterday because
Speaker 4: food poisoning, food poisoning, and do you know what you ate?
Speaker 2: I do? It was a pre cooked chicken breast because
Speaker 2: I was being lazy and didn't want to make the
Speaker 2: chicken for my salad, so I bought it and paid
Speaker 2: for it in ways I don't.
Speaker 3: Care to talk about.
Speaker 4: And it had gone funky, you think at the store,
Speaker 4: like when I bought the grocery store sushi.
Speaker 2: Well, it must have because the date on it was
Speaker 2: still fine. So I actually called the store and said, hey,
Speaker 2: just a heads up, you might want to take these
Speaker 2: off the shelves because the date was for today.
Speaker 3: So they were still on the shelves yesterday.
Speaker 2: This eighty four day month can end now, Okay, we
Speaker 2: have two days left.
Speaker 3: You haven't haven't enjoyed January? No, No, I'm convinced it's
Speaker 3: out to kill me.
Speaker 1: So funky funky chicken. Yes, we know Katie sounds hot.
Speaker 1: You don't have to let us know. She's in another
Speaker 1: studio owner having some funky funk a problem. Wow, she's
Speaker 1: gonna vomit all over the place, and I don't want
Speaker 1: her in the same room as right.
Speaker 3: Disgusting.
Speaker 1: Another news story we're gonna get to a little bit later.
Speaker 1: The national school proficiency scores are out. You can go
Speaker 1: state by state, I think county by county if you
Speaker 1: want to to see how proficient your school is, and
Speaker 1: not a surprising headline all across the country. One, kids
Speaker 1: are not catching up from COVID. I think we had
Speaker 1: that headline the other day.
Speaker 4: And two as before COVID, we're not really doing that
Speaker 4: well hardly anywhere in terms of reading and math proficiency.
Speaker 4: Why this isn't a bigger crisis, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You would think if, like wherever you live, only a
Speaker 1: third of the kids can read and do math at
Speaker 1: the very low level we've decided to be proficient, you'd
Speaker 1: think that'd.
Speaker 3: Be a big deal. But it's not for some reason.
Speaker 1: I think part of that reason is a significant chunk
Speaker 1: of the electorate on the left is convinced that everything
Speaker 1: else that's happening at schools is a wonderful thing, and
Speaker 1: those of us who think focus on core instruction for
Speaker 1: the kids reading, writing, arithmetic, and history period have been
Speaker 1: shouted down in recent years, and there are giant, powerful
Speaker 1: unions that the disagree with.
Speaker 3: That point of view.
Speaker 4: I just expressed, fewer Pride assemblies, more math assemblies or
Speaker 4: reading assemblies, seems like it would be a good idea.
Speaker 4: But we got We'll get into those proficiency scores and
Speaker 4: other things a little bit later.
Speaker 3: We've got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here, so
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: We got day two of the RFK junior hearings. Is
Speaker 1: it the same senators they got to finish offer. Are
Speaker 1: they going to the House now or a different committee here?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just think it's more drillings by
Speaker 3: the same committee. I could google it, but it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter enough to me.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna have some of the highlights from yesterday
Speaker 1: in our two if you haven't heard them, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty interesting conversation starters, no doubt, including the bombshell revelation
Speaker 1: that's take in his nomination.
Speaker 3: Listen to me, I'm rapping and it wasn't the thing
Speaker 3: with the dead bear. Stay with us.
Speaker 4: Mark Awprin does a good job of counting because he
Speaker 4: did in contact with these people. There are not currently
Speaker 4: fifty yeses to confirm him, but there are not fifty
Speaker 4: no's to keep him out, so he still could get confirmed.
Speaker 3: Plus the outrageous statements that cause the abatements. Stay with us. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 3: At the top of my head, Hey, let's figure out
Speaker 3: who's reporting what.
Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green, Katie, thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Starting with NBC. All passengers confirmed dead after American Eagle
Speaker 2: jet and Army helicopter collide and crash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no longer a rescue operation of any kind.
Speaker 1: We received a note from an airline pilot who had
Speaker 1: a very similar incident many many years ago, and he
Speaker 1: said what happened was the helicopter pilot, in a fairly
Speaker 1: tightly controlled space inexplicably went east instead of northway he
Speaker 1: was supposed to go, and there was a very near collision.
Speaker 3: And it can happen very quickly.
Speaker 2: From the New York Times, three contentious Trump nominees will
Speaker 2: appear before the Senate today, and it's Kennedy, Patel, and.
Speaker 3: Gabbard all today. M hmm.
Speaker 1: Here are my predictions. Kennedy barely gets through. Tulsey no way, third,
Speaker 1: and I'll break that down later. Cash Patel will get through.
Speaker 1: He made a statement that he will appoint as his
Speaker 1: deputies highly experienced FBI agents who know the workings of
Speaker 1: the agency and can make up for any unfamiliarity he
Speaker 1: has with it.
Speaker 3: I think he well, that goes through solidly.
Speaker 4: That takes care of the inexperienced problem. What about the
Speaker 4: I'm going to be there for Trump for retribution? Is
Speaker 4: he going to walk that stuff back?
Speaker 3: Yeah? He will.
Speaker 1: In fact, I expect him, based on other things he said,
Speaker 1: I expect him to say. Look, I engaged in a
Speaker 1: hyperbole as part of the political discussion. It's kind of
Speaker 1: the way of the world these days, especially online.
Speaker 3: Here's what I actually think. From the Washington Post.
Speaker 2: The Moss releases eight hostages from Gaza.
Speaker 1: Strip in cease fire deals progress.
Speaker 2: From ABC quote Trump is right, former Senator Menendez speaks
Speaker 2: after eleven year sentence is handed down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he tried to turn it. The Trump is right.
Speaker 1: The deep state is out to get good people like
Speaker 1: me and Trump trying to get a little magelove. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it's working.
Speaker 3: Surprised he didn't show up in court with a maga hat.
Speaker 2: Right from USA today, post pandemic nosedive student test scores
Speaker 2: are raising alarms among parents and teachers.
Speaker 3: I hope, I would hope.
Speaker 1: Good Lord, is it possible that America will will finally
Speaker 1: figure out a lot of us have?
Speaker 3: I know, but what an utter outrage it was to
Speaker 3: keep the schools closed as long as we did.
Speaker 1: I mean, to keep them close more than a couple
Speaker 1: of months in twenty twenty was an outrage as the
Speaker 1: science was becoming clear even then. And it's about the teachers'
Speaker 1: unions and Randy Wingarten and the rest of it. That
Speaker 1: reckoning must take place so we don't do it again.
Speaker 1: It might be the worst thing our government's ever done.
Speaker 1: It's certainly in that top group. I would agree one
Speaker 1: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: From NPR, Meta agrees to pay Trump twenty five million
Speaker 2: dollars to settle lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram suspension.
Speaker 4: How about that Zuckerberg's gonna pay twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 4: I guess we probably shouldn't have kicked you off Facebook
Speaker 4: because we didn't like what you said, so sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's an interesting dime emic after Marky Boy just wrote
Speaker 4: a huge check for the inauguration and now their buddy
Speaker 4: buddy and he's going on Rogan. But you got to
Speaker 4: keep in mind that twenty five million dollars is like
Speaker 4: couch change at Meta Dah curly Hair don't care.
Speaker 2: From Bloomberg Microsoft if deep Seek linked group improperly obtained
Speaker 2: open AI data, Yeah, I heard.
Speaker 1: Maybe my favorite writing about the new Chinese artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: app was they stole everything. It's not the same story
Speaker 1: that they caught up to us by stealing everything. It's
Speaker 1: still troubling that they've got it, but it's not the
Speaker 1: same thing as they organically passed us.
Speaker 3: They stole everything.
Speaker 1: China is the greatest thief in the history of mankind.
Speaker 1: So if they inexplicably end up with something we didn't
Speaker 1: think they had, how do you think they got it? Right?
Speaker 2: From the Hollywood Reporter, AI commercials are going.
Speaker 6: To take over the Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3: Ah, lasting it will be interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what that means promoting as already
Speaker 1: put out a big AI commercial.
Speaker 3: You've probably seen it It's.
Speaker 1: Like a weirdly perfect town with a weirdly perfect coke
Speaker 1: truck driving in front of the weirdly perfect children with
Speaker 1: their weirdly perfect smiles and the weirdly perfects.
Speaker 3: I know they need to fix that.
Speaker 1: I now feel like I can absolutely identify AI created people.
Speaker 3: They're too something. Well, they're all perfect.
Speaker 2: The only thing they have it perfected are the hands.
Speaker 2: Still they all have like eight.
Speaker 3: Fingers on one hand.
Speaker 2: From the New York Post, Americans are saying no to
Speaker 2: sex like never before, with young men leading the depressing trend.
Speaker 3: That's from what the New York Post. Okay, I'll have
Speaker 3: to look at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we've been discussing, now, could there be any
Speaker 1: greater sign of the ill health of a society? God,
Speaker 1: I'd say, when young men no longer have interest in sex?
Speaker 1: How's that even possible? I got to shoot my way
Speaker 1: out of a concrete bunker when I was twenty five.
Speaker 1: Now twenty five year olds are like, eh, I'd rather
Speaker 1: just stay home and watch Netflix. There's too much trouble. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wait, your meme of the day, it's a picture of Trump.
Speaker 2: He's dressed like a mobster. He just looks like a
Speaker 2: total badass, and he's standing in front of the border
Speaker 2: wall and behind him there's a sign that just says
Speaker 2: fa f o y.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My favorite part about my favorite part about this is that.
Speaker 3: Trump posted it.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, wow, President of the United States posted f
Speaker 1: around and find out Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love this on a couple of levels.
Speaker 1: And it's born out by the fact that and I've
Speaker 1: seen read a couple of different accounts of this. Culturally speaking,
Speaker 1: the word on the street south of the border is
Speaker 1: don't go in the doors are closed, don't even bother trying,
Speaker 1: which is what he's going for sure, that's good.
Speaker 2: And finally, the Babylon b single men began dressing as
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants, hoping Christy.
Speaker 3: Nom will detain them because she's hot. You see it,
Speaker 3: I do see that.
Speaker 4: Yes, an attractive gal kind of flies to the face
Speaker 4: of the previous story though, where they're not interested in sex,
Speaker 4: so why would they bother?
Speaker 3: Well, the few that are, apparently, we should talk about that.
Speaker 4: All the federal employees in America getting a letter saying,
Speaker 4: you know, you quit, We'll pay you through September.
Speaker 3: Just quit. We'd like you to quit.
Speaker 4: I know people who've gotten that letter, and some of
Speaker 4: the highlights from the RFK Junior hearing, which are good.
Speaker 3: We'll have that now or too.
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