Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Arms
Speaker 2: live from studio. CE say, it's priy, Well, I got
Speaker 2: what two fridays left before Christmas? As today is the
Speaker 2: fifth Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Deeper than
Speaker 2: the Bowels, et cetera, et cetera. And today we're under
Speaker 2: the tutelage of our general manager. Dump boy. Eh m,
Speaker 2: I don't know you got a nominee. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 2: get a tree. That's my general manager. I don't have
Speaker 2: a tree up yet. We don't have a tree up yet.
Speaker 2: How tree was that?
Speaker 3: It's terrible.
Speaker 2: It's the fifth of December and we don't have a
Speaker 2: tree up yet. That makes me a bad parent. You'd
Speaker 2: have showed up at the manger and and and then
Speaker 2: spit on the baby. Jesus, you know what. I'd have
Speaker 2: had a little Strong No Franklinson, no gold Mumura gift card.
Speaker 2: I showed up with a gift card for the baby,
Speaker 2: Gee's Starbucks gift card. Yeah, picked this up as a
Speaker 2: village station. An infant can't go to Starbucks. They had
Speaker 2: that at the convenience store. I got this gift card
Speaker 2: for you. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Three wise men would
Speaker 2: have whooped up on you. So I didn't plan ahead.
Speaker 2: Got to get a tree this weekend, had vacation, been sick,
Speaker 2: my son's been sick, so yeah, we gotta get a
Speaker 2: tree this weekend, get decorated. Here's my big mistake. Well
Speaker 2: it's not a mistake. I was donating to the high
Speaker 2: school band. But my son's band had their big Christmas
Speaker 2: winter concert last night, Loveless. I know you've attended many
Speaker 2: of those, and everybody's all dressed up everything like that
Speaker 2: and playing their music and it was very, very nice.
Speaker 2: But they also do a bake sale where they raise
Speaker 2: money for the band and parents bake stuff and then
Speaker 2: people bid win, win, People bid ridiculous amounts of money
Speaker 2: because it's not about the bag good. It's about donating
Speaker 2: to the band, right right. So I paid one hundred
Speaker 2: bucks for this toffee, homemade toffee. It's like a ten
Speaker 2: pound box of toffee, and I thought, I'll bet this
Speaker 2: is going to be pretty good. I had a piece
Speaker 2: on the way home. It's like, this is the best
Speaker 2: thing I've ever had in my life? What am I
Speaker 2: going to do with ten pounds of the best candy
Speaker 2: I've ever had in my life? It's soul. And as
Speaker 2: you're eating for two, Katie, you can probably I'm pretending
Speaker 2: I'm eating. They're really good job of putting in them
Speaker 2: in small enough pieces that you can think one, one
Speaker 2: little piece, one little more. You're back in the kitchen
Speaker 2: because you forgot something. I'll want one moral piece for
Speaker 2: I go to bed. I call those drive bytes. Drive bytes.
Speaker 2: That's good. You got to get that clever, you should
Speaker 2: get that patented. That is a good there is There
Speaker 2: is when food gets to a certain size. Because some
Speaker 2: sizes are too big. You're not gonna grab one of those, yeah,
Speaker 2: just on a whim at that size. But there's some
Speaker 2: size that mentally you think it doesn't really even count.
Speaker 2: At this size, that's not hurting anything. And then you
Speaker 2: take in five of them, which, of course, if you
Speaker 2: understand the community properties of something or other, they add
Speaker 2: it up to a bigger size. Yeah, there is some
Speaker 2: sort of principle here, an important one incrementalist something or other.
Speaker 2: I don't know, the insignificant incrementalist principle. Drive bites. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I meant to bring it into work, and I thought,
Speaker 2: I'll bring it into work and people will eat it
Speaker 2: really fast. And in this morning, when I was looking
Speaker 2: at it, I thought, this is too good to take
Speaker 2: to work people. Oh no, thanks a lot, Jack, Oh stop, Jack, Wow,
Speaker 2: mine mine, I'm exactly. I'm daffy doc by my mine
Speaker 2: standing on the pile of gold. I'm not good enough
Speaker 2: for you. I wasn't thinking of you a Michael, wouldn't
Speaker 2: think of our little crowd. I mean those people out there.
Speaker 2: I don't want them eat in disc food. It's too
Speaker 2: good for that. I guess you're right, the peasants exactly.
Speaker 2: So we have occasionally gone with the only in the
Speaker 2: control room. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know distribution center.
Speaker 2: That would work if I put it in out the
Speaker 2: word that the chosen few. Heypes on a piece of this.
Speaker 2: It's a right next to the mic. Yeah, that that
Speaker 2: I would do. Don't tell anybody, Okay, So we're going
Speaker 2: to start to show officially a little earlier than we
Speaker 2: usually do because we got a couple of interesting clips
Speaker 2: that I think are worth talking about. It's a said
Speaker 2: that they played the video of the second strike yesterday
Speaker 2: in front of a bunch of people in Congress, and
Speaker 2: they came out with completely different partisan views of what
Speaker 2: they saw, which you're about to hear. So let's start
Speaker 2: to show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, December, fifth year, twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong,
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Speaker 4: Mark, what I saw in that room was one of
Speaker 4: the most troubling things I've seen in my time in
Speaker 4: public service.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't see anything disturbing about it. Which disturbing
Speaker 2: to me is that millions of Americans have died from
Speaker 2: drugs being run to America by these cartels. There you
Speaker 2: go consensus. So you got the chair, the Democratic chair
Speaker 2: of the committee, who says it's the most disturbing thing
Speaker 2: he's ever seen in public life. He said, you saw
Speaker 2: two people with no means of going anywhere, clinging to debris,
Speaker 2: no way to be part of Tom Cotton the longer
Speaker 2: versions of these clips, saying you saw exactly what was described.
Speaker 2: You saw two people that were still clearly combatants. This
Speaker 2: is absolutely righteous. I would have ordered the same thing
Speaker 2: myself in my military career. How do you possibly have
Speaker 2: two people see the same video and come away with
Speaker 2: such different views dishonesty? Well, okay, so which one of
Speaker 2: them is being dishonest? I haven't seen the video, nor
Speaker 2: have I although certainly from fairly neutral accounts I've read.
Speaker 2: It's not as was described by Hines. Two helpless men
Speaker 2: clinging only to one. There was a cork on the boat,
Speaker 2: and both men were clean to the same cork and
Speaker 2: praying for mercy. No, they're trying to flip the boat
Speaker 2: over and keep going. I would say that the New
Speaker 2: York Times coverage of it, let me look it over
Speaker 2: real quick. New York Times coverage does not quote Hines.
Speaker 2: It quotes Cotton and a couple other people. So they
Speaker 2: don't they Their big headline is not Tom Cotton lies about. No,
Speaker 2: they're they're they're they're getting into other angles of the story,
Speaker 2: but they're not they're not disputing what had leaked out
Speaker 2: previously that you got a couple of people on a
Speaker 2: boat that's still body and uh, you know, radioing for
Speaker 2: help and blah blah blah. I don't know hinz act.
Speaker 2: But many many people were briefed and saw the videos,
Speaker 2: and he's the only guy coming up with coming out
Speaker 2: with the sobsystract, right. And well, as you pointed out,
Speaker 2: you heard on one of our radio stations, they they
Speaker 2: played his clip as if that was just the sum
Speaker 2: total of the views of things. That's the news of
Speaker 2: the day. Here. Congress saw the video and this is
Speaker 2: what they thought. Well, this is what one guy thought,
Speaker 2: and maybe nobody else. I know. I was watching ms
Speaker 2: NOW last night formerly MSNBC soon to be called Twitter
Speaker 2: then x MSNBC last night went with their panel discussion
Speaker 2: as if what the Hindz guy said was one hundred
Speaker 2: percent true. Yeah, and the war crimes and what needs
Speaker 2: to be done and everything like that. I do think
Speaker 2: it's interesting that the New York Times is not taking
Speaker 2: that angle. They still have enough integrity that they're not
Speaker 2: going to cloud at that much. One point the New
Speaker 2: York Times makes today, Well, first of all, the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal editorial board is pretty big on the this
Speaker 2: isn't a real war, we shouldn't be doing this, this
Speaker 2: is this is not cool. They're they're fair enough backing
Speaker 2: up a step. But the New York Times says, and
Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting. The focus on the second
Speaker 2: strike and the nuances of the law of armed conflict
Speaker 2: could end up being a favor to the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: The idea that some was bad about that particular strike
Speaker 2: implicitly suggests that the first one on the boat and
Speaker 2: all the other attacks on the other boats were fine,
Speaker 2: and its premise reinforces at the idea that, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: at war with these people, and now we're arguing over
Speaker 2: whether or not that second strike in a war was okay,
Speaker 2: kind of jumping past the first conversation. What point I've
Speaker 2: made repeatedly right? For what it's worth. The News Nation
Speaker 2: headline video shows survivors killed and follow up strike alarming.
Speaker 2: Lawmakers come on News Nation and then they quote Hines.
Speaker 2: Goodness sakes, they quote anybody. They quote Tom Cotton down
Speaker 2: saying the mission was lawful and the strikes are justified
Speaker 2: and righteous. But come on, I don't know. I'm pretty
Speaker 2: comfortable that we didn't commit a war crime there, So
Speaker 2: that's good. That would be good for anybody. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: much more interested in the bigger question that the editorial
Speaker 2: board was bringing up there from the journal, are we
Speaker 2: at war with Venezuz? Wela or Venezuela cartels are narco
Speaker 2: terrorists or whatever we're gonna call them. The idea that
Speaker 2: war has morphed into armed conflict with terrorist groups, which
Speaker 2: has morphed into terrorist groups, can include admittedly armed drug cartels,
Speaker 2: and therefore we can be at war with them no
Speaker 2: matter what they're doing. And that's one interesting aspect of this.
Speaker 2: It's indisputable that if you're in a war, you can
Speaker 2: take out their you know, the rail lines, your your
Speaker 2: enemy's rail lines or manufacturing centers or whatever to weaken
Speaker 2: their war effort. Are we all comfortable with the idea that, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to take out these drug boats because that's
Speaker 2: how they finance their nefarious operations. And by the way,
Speaker 2: they're poisoning Americans and killing us by the tens of thousands,
Speaker 2: you know, with our own you know, assent in a
Speaker 2: lot of cases. But is that all appropriate for the military.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is I just laid it out there.
Speaker 2: I was starting to think, yeah, that makes sense. Well,
Speaker 2: as a National Review wrote the other day, if this
Speaker 2: is how the war on drugs is morphed, bad news.
Speaker 2: If you're on the wrong end of the war, on
Speaker 2: poverty when we go there. Yeah, that's kind of a
Speaker 2: funny thing to say, start striking hungry people. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: that is a funny thing to say. That's one way
Speaker 2: to end hunger. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: know either. You finished your Christmas shopping? How long ago?
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago. Actually, I just finished wrapping
Speaker 2: my presence yesterday. They're all under the tree. God, I
Speaker 2: don't even have a tree up yet. I'm a bad person. Well,
Speaker 2: no doubt, but yeah, we're we're tardy on that ourselves.
Speaker 2: But that's because we got a remodel going on and
Speaker 2: it's case. Oh you got an excuse for not honoring
Speaker 2: Jesus birth. Okay, fine, Oh, speaking of sniping, this is
Speaker 2: one of my favorite things I've come across. And getting
Speaker 2: ready for the show. So The Atlantic was doing this
Speaker 2: interview with Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, frequently mentioned presidential
Speaker 2: hopeful and he interviewed for the VEEP slot with Kamala Harris. Well,
Speaker 2: they were interviewing him like the day or the week
Speaker 2: the book came out and he hadn't seen it yet,
Speaker 2: and this reporter was hitting him with some of the
Speaker 2: quotes from the book, and Shapiro, who is famously very measured,
Speaker 2: very even keeled, very strategic, kind of lost his ass
Speaker 2: and then immediately felt bad about it. We'll hit you
Speaker 2: with some of those delightful excerpts coming up. It's a
Speaker 2: good Kamala kicking, so you know that'll be enjoying that.
Speaker 2: So it always feels good on a Friday. Come on, now,
Speaker 2: it's Friday. Let's enjoy ourselves. I haven't bought a prison yet, Michael,
Speaker 2: not a single one. So everybody's can get gift cards
Speaker 2: this year? Huh No, I can't do that. Can't do
Speaker 2: that with kids. That'd be horrible the look on their
Speaker 2: face when they get a gift card. I can't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the whole buying gifts thing is in my rearview mirror mostly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when I look at my to do list for the weekend.
Speaker 2: So can I just stay at work? How about I
Speaker 2: do a show on Saturday and Sunday and tell everybody
Speaker 2: I gotta work. Oh, we got Katie's headlines on the way,
Speaker 2: clips of the week pretty soon and more news of
Speaker 2: the day. I hope you can stay here. Somebody just
Speaker 2: hit me with a list of things you can get
Speaker 2: at the seven eleven for Christmas if you want to.
Speaker 2: They're like stocked up for like people who really fumble
Speaker 2: the ball and aren't ready to go in terms of
Speaker 2: like you know, quickie gifts or ornaments or that sort
Speaker 2: of thing, like kind of the shop of shame. Wow,
Speaker 2: what does that mean about society that the seven eleven
Speaker 2: knows there's a big enough crowd of people like that
Speaker 2: just to screwed up. So here we got we got
Speaker 2: your back with some really cheap crap and something scratchers,
Speaker 2: some small and teddy bear holding the heart. Here's something
Speaker 2: that looks like an ornament. If you're supposed to show
Speaker 2: up to your party with an ornament, you know that
Speaker 2: sort of thing.
Speaker 3: One of those rolling hot dogs, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Rotissery dog. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 2: It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3: Katie all right, the lead headline.
Speaker 2: Leave this. This joke is similarly. This joke is similarly
Speaker 2: yesterday's my Grandpa had the heart of a lion and
Speaker 2: a lifetime ban from the zoo. That is, yeah, cut
Speaker 2: from the same cloth as yesterday's disturbing dolphin DNA joke. Okay,
Speaker 2: back to Katie, All right.
Speaker 3: Of course, the boat story is the top headline. So
Speaker 3: here's a few sources from CNN. Survivors clinging to capsized
Speaker 3: boat didn't radio for backup. CBS lawmakers see video of
Speaker 3: second strike on boat. Survivors say Admiral testified that there
Speaker 3: was no kill order. And the Guardian video shows US
Speaker 3: air strike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour
Speaker 3: before second deadly attack.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting. As the testimony said it was minutes. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: that's what Tom Tom Cotton came out saying, yeah, it
Speaker 2: was just minutes between the first strike and the second strike.
Speaker 2: Having watched the video, now that does go against Pete
Speaker 2: heggsath what he said, like earlier in the week, he said, look,
Speaker 2: I'm a very busy man. I don't have hours to
Speaker 2: sit there and watch how this plays out. And Tom
Speaker 2: Cotton said it happened. All happened within a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: But all right, goodness sakes, can we get the facts.
Speaker 2: Please show everybody the video so we can watch. Then
Speaker 2: we'll mo from bright.
Speaker 3: Bart, Tom Bondy says evidence leading to j six pipe
Speaker 3: bomber bomber arrest was collecting dust at Biden's FBI.
Speaker 2: For four years. I do want to talk about this
Speaker 2: more later. Fascinating and I wonder if AI can play
Speaker 2: a role in this in the future where you just
Speaker 2: plug in everything at AAI and they can connect it
Speaker 2: can connect the dots. Well. I think that the the
Speaker 2: what's being claimed is that the FI FBI, the Biden
Speaker 2: Justice Department neglected this intentionally, and I haven't heard any
Speaker 2: serious pushback on that yet. That is interesting that they
Speaker 2: cracked it this, you know, early in their term. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's coincidence, maybe not.
Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, Supreme Court hands Trump victory and
Speaker 3: fight over Texas congressional map.
Speaker 2: Some I missed this story. So that court that came
Speaker 2: out the other day and said now Texas can't do that.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court six y three said you're wrong. Correct. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it happened yesterday evening last Stephen. Wow, that's a big deal.
Speaker 3: From New York Times, Putin basks in praise from Modi
Speaker 3: on India visit. Yeah, apparently, Putin also saying he's going
Speaker 3: to share some of their military tech with India.
Speaker 2: Not quite the pariah we were hoping he'd be, well,
Speaker 2: you were hoping, but not Trump the Trump administration, and
Speaker 2: I'll give you the very short version of this is
Speaker 2: out with their official old foreign policy statement, and it is, uh,
Speaker 2: we're making nice with Russia and will negotiate between Russia
Speaker 2: and Europe. NATO's already too big, it's not going to
Speaker 2: get any bigger. It's a mark difference than his first term.
Speaker 3: From NBC, parents say school issued iPads are causing chaos
Speaker 3: with their kids. How come behavioral problems because they want
Speaker 3: to use one at home?
Speaker 2: Hm?
Speaker 3: All right, study fines week long social media detox actually
Speaker 3: leads young adults to spending even more time on their phones.
Speaker 2: So you get away from social media, but you spend
Speaker 2: more time looking at other.
Speaker 3: Stuff, all right, And then you spend a lot of
Speaker 3: time on social media when you come back to it,
Speaker 3: trying to catch up.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 3: And finally the Babylon b Minnesota added to Trump's third
Speaker 3: World travel them, Uh.
Speaker 2: We got to catch you up on a bunch of
Speaker 2: different news stories. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what.
Speaker 2: Why don't they release the video that second strike? Then
Speaker 2: we'll all just know we can all watch it and
Speaker 2: make our own determination. Right, are there two people clinging
Speaker 2: to barely alive or they look like they're active participants.
Speaker 2: We'd all know right away Armstrong and Getty. Oh good
Speaker 2: news for me. I just saw our friend Tim Sanderver's
Speaker 2: review of the Revolutionary War documentary from Ken Burns, in
Speaker 2: which Tim says finished watching the Ken Burns Revolutionary Documentary,
Speaker 2: I liked it exclamation point. A few of my friends
Speaker 2: on here were complaining about it, but I thought it
Speaker 2: was great. Yeah. There were a few howlers we played one,
Speaker 2: but there always is in a Burns documentary, and they
Speaker 2: were outweighed by the good stuff. Well, that'll get me
Speaker 2: back into it, because in the first three minutes there
Speaker 2: were a couple of things where I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god. But if and Tim is as anti woke
Speaker 2: around the revolutionary crowds anybody in America, if he overall
Speaker 2: liked it, I'm gonna give it a watch. Then Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the question, especially if it leads with that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. Is this going to be a drum beat
Speaker 2: of woke crap or is it just the occasional oh boy,
Speaker 2: eyes and stuff, right right right, So so much to
Speaker 2: talk about today. Oh my gosh, the giant climate scam
Speaker 2: is really on the rocks really really struggling, and they're
Speaker 2: floundering to try to keep the magic going as economies
Speaker 2: ruined themselves, et cetera. Among other things to talk about.
Speaker 2: But first, it's the Friday tradition. Time to take fond
Speaker 2: look back at the week that was. It's cow clips
Speaker 2: of the week. Now, what is an example of rage bait?
Speaker 5: It might be I'll offer this sentence for you.
Speaker 2: I hate Santa. Everybody talks about this place. Man, a
Speaker 2: dad gum swamp on a swamp. This is a sewer.
Speaker 2: This is created by man. You burnt my house down.
Speaker 2: Don't say anything crazy man. As I have said before,
Speaker 2: if the judge picks through all of that hair and
Speaker 2: finds only one eye, he's got the wrong end of
Speaker 2: the dark.
Speaker 3: An animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday,
Speaker 3: passed out next to the store's toilet.
Speaker 5: Because the man slides down, the lioness begins to claw,
Speaker 5: and when the man is close enough, the animal pounces,
Speaker 5: dragging him to the ground.
Speaker 2: Most T shirts worn for half marathon previous wrecked one
Speaker 2: twenty seven. I've got one hundred thirty seven shirts on
Speaker 2: forty seven yards ry now by Young Way courity stumbled
Speaker 2: two years. I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, what is that way thout doing? Because they're
Speaker 2: in a constant state of dopamine. With Jerald School, they
Speaker 2: behave like addicts.
Speaker 1: They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them off.
Speaker 4: Last night, President Trump posted over one hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: times on Truth's social averaging more than one post a minute.
Speaker 4: Who well, I think we know where Venezuela's cocaine is
Speaker 4: been going.
Speaker 1: Peg sat saying the military acted in compliance with the
Speaker 1: law of armed conflict, and Pete.
Speaker 2: Said he did not want them. He didn't even know
Speaker 2: what people were talking about.
Speaker 5: And by the way, had mulready made the correct decision
Speaker 5: to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
Speaker 1: The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
Speaker 1: initial strike.
Speaker 2: When people want to surrender, you don't kill off.
Speaker 3: As I've said, I'll say again, we've only just begun
Speaker 3: striking darko votes.
Speaker 1: How Republicans launch an investigation into widespread COVID era fraud
Speaker 1: involving some members of Minnesota's large Somali community.
Speaker 4: These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
Speaker 2: The President's obsession with me is really unhealthy. It's creepy.
Speaker 2: Your omar is garbage, Jesus garbage once again got erect arrested,
Speaker 2: not the first time. You almost said a woman got erected,
Speaker 2: which in these cases can happen. No, I said a teacher,
Speaker 2: which you assumed was a woman, because you're sexist. Moving along,
Speaker 2: it's clips of the week. Here is the question before us.
Speaker 2: Since the double tap story is about over over over over,
Speaker 2: except for a few individuals attempts to flog it further.
Speaker 2: When the Democrats stopped pretending to care about this, will
Speaker 2: they go back to pretending to care about Epstein? Good question.
Speaker 2: The list using my finger quotes is supposed to come
Speaker 2: out within two weeks a week ago, so we got
Speaker 2: a week to go for all the Epstein stuff to
Speaker 2: come out. So that'll be the story next week. I
Speaker 2: believe what a Christmas present?
Speaker 4: That is.
Speaker 2: Two things from clips of the week. One reminded me
Speaker 2: of so Martha Raddits had information what two days ago
Speaker 2: that was the lead on the EBC evening news, people
Speaker 2: who had seen the video now reporting there were two
Speaker 2: men clinging on the boats blah, blah blah. So where
Speaker 2: did that information come from? Is that the same video
Speaker 2: that they were watching yesterday? I still don't understand people
Speaker 2: are selectively leaking obviously as always happens. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: only thing that's left to the story to me is
Speaker 2: just who's lying and so egregiously lying about what they
Speaker 2: just saw? AnyWho, I would agree. The other thing that
Speaker 2: is more interesting to me at this moment is the
Speaker 2: teacher on there talking about how hard it is to
Speaker 2: teach kids today with their dopamine addiction that we all
Speaker 2: have from our smartphones and the pace of life, and
Speaker 2: how you just can't hold a kid's attention. That should
Speaker 2: get way more attention as a that's a very poorly
Speaker 2: structured sentence that should get more discussion. Not only is
Speaker 2: our curriculum a mess at the schools, but even if
Speaker 2: you had the curriculum that I liked, How in the
Speaker 2: world is any teacher going to stand up in front
Speaker 2: of a twelve year old in the modern world and
Speaker 2: talk to them about, you know, the Declaration of Independence
Speaker 2: and hold their attention when their brains have been crafted
Speaker 2: to take in information in a completely different way. It's
Speaker 2: a horrific problem. It is, and this sounds like her hyperbole.
Speaker 2: I don't think it is. I remember, you know, in
Speaker 2: our teenage years, our parents were worried about us, you know,
Speaker 2: smoking pot and having sex or whatever. I would far
Speaker 2: rather have my kid smoke a little pot, have sex,
Speaker 2: and not be addicted to the endorphin thing with the smartphone,
Speaker 2: I think it's far more damaging. I wouldn't want them
Speaker 2: to become like a raving, everyday pothead. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that you can do terrible damage, especially to adolescents, but
Speaker 2: I think it's a bigger threat to their health and
Speaker 2: happiness than the hazards of old.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: You could be if you want to be like a
Speaker 2: real boomer, you can just well, they need to learn
Speaker 2: to sit there and pay attention. But that ain't gonna work.
Speaker 2: It just is not going to work. I think we're
Speaker 2: going to have to restructure all teaching in like video
Speaker 2: form and little snippets. I think if you taught like
Speaker 2: both of my kids, if you were teaching them in
Speaker 2: the style that TikTok videos are, where the information comes
Speaker 2: fast and in little snippets, much more likely to hold
Speaker 2: their attention and have them walk away after an hour
Speaker 2: of that having learned something than a teacher standing in
Speaker 2: that they're drowning on not even close. And then when
Speaker 2: I I was talking a couple of weeks ago about
Speaker 2: how we may have ended the era of literacy, literacy
Speaker 2: didn't really start in the world until around seventeen hundred,
Speaker 2: when the printing press had been around long enough and
Speaker 2: enough people had learned to read, and people got into
Speaker 2: books and reading. It may be over now. In fact,
Speaker 2: all indications are it is over. Book sales, long form
Speaker 2: reading is down so much that it's over. It was
Speaker 2: about three hundred years of people reading and it's just over. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it ain't coming back too and it ain't really
Speaker 2: coming back. So you can either claim that you can
Speaker 2: yell at the world and they'll get back on board
Speaker 2: with reading or something, or to adjust to it. I
Speaker 2: think those are your two choices. I think it's possible, unlikely,
Speaker 2: but possible, that we as a society could decide in
Speaker 2: the same way we did with drunk driving and cigarette smoking,
Speaker 2: that kids addicted to the endorphin just shot after shot
Speaker 2: after shot after shot of the smartphone is a terrible
Speaker 2: thing to do to a child. Again, it's possible we
Speaker 2: could do that it's unlikely. I really hate to admit
Speaker 2: that you're probably right with your zingbang poo educational model,
Speaker 2: but that may be the only choice. Well. One of
Speaker 2: the problems with your plan, and this is one of
Speaker 2: my biggest beliefs in the world. The generation that remembers
Speaker 2: any other way is going to be dead before you
Speaker 2: know it, and there won't be anybody left who remembers
Speaker 2: what a brain felt like before smartphones came along. There
Speaker 2: won't be many people. Pretty soon, there won't be anybody left.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: I barely remember myself when I could just sit there
Speaker 2: in quiet with a book for long periods of time,
Speaker 2: and there was my brain screaming for more entertainment. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's more profound than that. Just because they
Speaker 2: don't have real friends. Some of a lot of kids,
Speaker 2: and they never get together with anybody of the opposite sex,
Speaker 2: and they have no interest in family or children or
Speaker 2: anything like that will die out and it'll be a
Speaker 2: planet of the ants. Oh. I just fatalists on some
Speaker 2: of these things. But for today, to try to fix today,
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, definitely, the education is gonna have to
Speaker 2: go the direction of bingpoo zoom TikTok style. That's the
Speaker 2: way you spread information. I think that's your only hope,
Speaker 2: which would be a lot of work of the teacher. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to have you know, I don't know,
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to have to hire TikTok to design
Speaker 2: you your curriculum. Then the Chinese just have a direct
Speaker 2: pipeline into our elementary schools. That's just great. Well, happy
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Speaker 2: is armstrong. Am I wrong? I take in quite a
Speaker 2: bit of media. I don't hear this conversation come up
Speaker 2: really anywhere else. This whole nobody reads anymore. They need
Speaker 2: a different way of teaching, et cetera, et cetera. I
Speaker 2: don't really hear the conversation anywhere. No, I think the
Speaker 2: American educational system and this is a great failing of
Speaker 2: boomers and Gen X in particular. Whatever to millennials, whatever,
Speaker 2: you people are a little younger than me. Actually, that'd
Speaker 2: be most gen x. Our great failing is that we
Speaker 2: saw education as a set it and forget it part
Speaker 2: of society, because that's what it was when we were
Speaker 2: growing up. There were some issues and tweaks that were needed,
Speaker 2: you know, we could go into those, but it was
Speaker 2: mostly a really solid institution that functioned at a high level.
Speaker 2: Witnessed the fact that the American university system, and hilariously
Speaker 2: in particular the University of California system, were the envies
Speaker 2: of the world, and rightfully so. Now they're crap. Wow,
Speaker 2: Joe dropped a sea bomb on our university. Damn right,
Speaker 2: wake up and smell it. Smell the iguano just disappointing.
Speaker 2: In our two, we're going to talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about that pipe bomber that they caught and what the
Speaker 2: deal is with him. There's not that much known. Surprisingly
Speaker 2: little about the guys known to twenty four hours after
Speaker 2: this story broke, but we do know something about the investigation.
Speaker 2: Kind of interesting. We've got mail bag on the way.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here. Totally crap. How have
Speaker 2: I missed the attempted drone attack on Zelensky's plane in
Speaker 2: Dublin the other day? There's so much going on in
Speaker 2: the world that nobody can keep track of everything too much.
Speaker 2: Stop it, stop creating news. Here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 2: of the day. This is so good from Hilaire Belleck,
Speaker 2: paraphrasing Great George Orwell. A people that has forgotten its traditions,
Speaker 2: its ancestors, and the sacrifices that brought its freedom is
Speaker 2: a people already conquered. For the man without memory is
Speaker 2: easily ruled, and the man without roots is easily led.
Speaker 2: That's why they're trying to completely obliterate the history of
Speaker 2: the country in schools. The postmodernists, the neo Marxists, they
Speaker 2: know this. I know it's true. Well send then two
Speaker 2: thumbs up to Ken Burns for reaching a lot of
Speaker 2: America with pretty much the traditional story of our founding them.
Speaker 2: Happy to hear that, Yeah, I would agree. Mailbag taught
Speaker 2: us a note. Mailbag and Armstrong and Geddy dot Com. Joe,
Speaker 2: you're not doing James Garfield quote today. You're saying to yourselves,
Speaker 2: let's write because we've got a fascinating James Garfield fact
Speaker 2: to kick off Mailbag. Garfield was ambidextrous and had the
Speaker 2: rare ability to write in two languages simultaneously. What to
Speaker 2: impress his guests at White House dinners, Garfield would often
Speaker 2: write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other,
Speaker 2: all while holding a casual conversation. That is some crazyss.
Speaker 2: Most people can't write in their native language at all. Now, wow,
Speaker 2: So he and Da Vinci are the only people I've
Speaker 2: ever heard of that could do that. That's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, it's it's absolute madness. Moving along, Kellen from
Speaker 2: Rohnert Park, CA. Hey, A G and crew. Had a
Speaker 2: conversation with my boys in the car the other day,
Speaker 2: my eldest sophomore in high school, talking about interesting professions
Speaker 2: like how actors are professional pretenders, politicians, professional talkers? Had
Speaker 2: you guys playing on the podcast at the time. My
Speaker 2: six creator added, yeah, and these guys are professional complainers.
Speaker 2: I had laugh. You get a yuke too? Yeah, thanks
Speaker 2: for your thoughtful and educational complaining for helping us all
Speaker 2: age a little faster. I believe that to be sarcasm, Kellen.
Speaker 2: If I complained for a living, I was born to
Speaker 2: this job, no doubt about it. Well. Being a critic
Speaker 2: of you know, the overreach and abuse and just threats
Speaker 2: to the country I'm happy to accept that critic of
Speaker 2: modern society sounds much better than professional coplain. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 2: let's say this is from PJ. I hadn't heard this.
Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings have changed their name. Here's the new
Speaker 2: new logo. Can you see that? To the Somali pirates.
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard that. That's funny. Uh, let's see oh
Speaker 2: in our sarcastic email of the day from a forest. Hey, guys,
Speaker 2: to follow the back and forth around the strikes on
Speaker 2: the Venezuelan drug votes, what's who's allowed to do what?
Speaker 2: And why is it what law or law enforcement or
Speaker 2: war and the rest of it. I was getting confused,
Speaker 2: But then I had an idea. I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: But since Joe almost went to law school, I'd like
Speaker 2: your take. What if there was some way the president
Speaker 2: could request some sort of authorization for the use of
Speaker 2: military force. This we'll call it an AUMF, could outline
Speaker 2: which assets are involved, what the objectives are. Now, we
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to just hand these out willy nilly, So
Speaker 2: maybe you ought to have a group of like five
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five people who have to vote yes
Speaker 2: or no, approving it or maybe do it in two votes,
Speaker 2: one with a group of four hundred and thirty five
Speaker 2: and the other with one hundred. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: haven't worked out all the details yet, but I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm onto something here anyway, ohing too to be
Speaker 2: fair to Trump several presidents in a row, including Barack Obama,
Speaker 2: I have done all kinds of things without going out
Speaker 2: and getting what you just described, But in general I
Speaker 2: agree on a completely different topic. Brian from Santa Rose rights,
Speaker 2: I drive six hundred to one thousand miles a week.
Speaker 2: The number of idiots on their phones is staggering. And
Speaker 2: then he introduces this brilliant idea, required self driving vehicles
Speaker 2: for people who proved themselves to be jackasses behind the wheel.
Speaker 2: If you need to text and use social media, blah blah,
Speaker 2: you're in a cell driving vehicle. Same with slow drivers
Speaker 2: in the fast lane, people that cannot get up to
Speaker 2: freeway speed when entering said freeway when I'm sure you
Speaker 2: have plenty to add yourself. H muttering in the dark.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for the note. Ony has a great,
Speaker 2: great Dwight Eisenhower quote. Will use that next week. Yes,
Speaker 2: we were riding with an uber driver the other day
Speaker 2: on vacation and he is getting onto the Interstate and
Speaker 2: he's coming down the ramp and I'm thinking, are you
Speaker 2: gonna go any faster than this before you get on
Speaker 2: the Interstate? And we were going forty eight miles an
Speaker 2: hour when he joined the eighty mile an hour traffic
Speaker 2: on the Interstate. He's being safe, I know, And I
Speaker 2: wanted to say him, you think you're being safe? Don't
Speaker 2: you think you're the safest person out here? And then
Speaker 2: back to the question of the double tap, excuse me,
Speaker 2: JT And Livermore writes to me, there's a bigger scandal.
Speaker 2: That's the scandal of the same old dem playbook, in
Speaker 2: which a lefty paper starts terrible and probably false accusations
Speaker 2: by another, single anonymous source. How many times can the
Speaker 2: Dems hurt our country based on the lives of a
Speaker 2: single unnamed source. How many times can a WAPPO or
Speaker 2: other paper fail to get corroboration before running their garbage story.
Speaker 2: Who are the Democrats serving if not themselves? As certainly
Speaker 2: isn't the country they've sworn to protect and defend. I
Speaker 2: think they had two sources for this allegedly, And you know,
Speaker 2: you're right in your greater statement. I agree with But
Speaker 2: as we've seen, people will watch the video this Heinz character,
Speaker 2: for instance, the Senator and come out and say, it's
Speaker 2: the most troubling thing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: It's just terrible, terrible, And so it's you know, you
Speaker 2: can it's either honestly difference in the eye of the beholder,
Speaker 2: or it's so easy to pose as being disturbed and
Speaker 2: horrified that well, Admiral Dude testified yesterday no, there was
Speaker 2: never any kill them all order. So he just flat
Speaker 2: out denies under oath that that ever happened, which was
Speaker 2: part of the reporting from the Washington Post on Monday
Speaker 2: that had everybody all stirred up. Right, it's over. You
Speaker 2: think the controversy is over, I'm declaring it over. I
Speaker 2: hope you're right. We got a lot more an hour two,
Speaker 2: like the pipe bomber and other stuff. If you miss
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