1 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and. 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: Getti and he. 4 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: Arms drawn from Studio C see Senior A dimly lit 5 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty 6 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: the way I said bowels too. 7 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but it was. 8 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: Good, the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today we're 9 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: under the tutelage of our general manager. Let's be honest. 10 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, you're talking space travel, obviously it is Elon Musk. 11 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: You're talking cars is Elon Musk. Tech often Elon Musk. 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: You're talking to European politics. Today it's Elon must the doge. 13 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: That's all. I expect him to become the offensive coordinator 14 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: for the Chiefs next call the plays in the Super Bowl. 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: So you're arguing that he is the unelected co president. 16 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: I don't think I am oh Oh a tech billionaire 17 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: who has an inordinate political influence. 18 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 2: How terrifying I thought. 19 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: I thought that when I heard that Biden gave George 20 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: Soros whatever medal of freedom. That is because you're billionaire 21 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: who's been influencing politics. By the way, he's the guy 22 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: that got Alvin Bragg and uh, what's his name in 23 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Gascone and all those people elected, and is 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: like crime room rampant in these big cities that has 25 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: been rejected by Democrats also, But anyway, your billionaire medal 26 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: of freedom on the right, you have a billionaire. 27 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's the end of democracy whatever. 28 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: So many, virtually all of the arguments you hear that 29 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: sound moral or sound like real concern, they're just a 30 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: quest for power. The only proper response is, yeah, whatever, 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: your policies suck. This headline from today backs your Elon 32 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: Musk argument. This is the New York Times Meta. That's 33 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: Zuckerberg's thing. I hate calling it meta. Can we go 34 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: back to call it Facebook or whatever? 35 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 2: Anyway? Meta? 36 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: To end fact checking program and shift a head of 37 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: Trump term. The sub paragraph is the social networking giant 38 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: will stop using, will stop using third party fact checkers 39 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: and instead rely solely on users to add notes to posts. 40 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: It's likely to please President elect Trump and his conservative allies. Hmm, 41 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: what does that sound like? What model does that sound like? 42 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: He's emulating right there, It's exactly what Elon does on Twitter, 43 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: having been absolutely humiliated for the overt bias that Facebook 44 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: showed in their quote unquote fact checking through COVID and 45 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: beyond good. Look, here's the headline for you. Elon Musk 46 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: is royaling European politics. Trump ally is flooded x with 47 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: posts criticizing European politicians, causing diplomatic conundrum for continence leaders. 48 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like about that angle, and 49 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: I just heard it on NPR is instead of Republicans pounce, 50 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: it's an Elon Musk pounce. Elon Musk pounces instead of 51 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 1: the story itself. I caught the tail end of the 52 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: story when I turned on NPR and got in my 53 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: car today, But it was Elon Musk's latest obsession is 54 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: the story that happened over a decade ago of girls 55 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: being raped by Muslim men in England and Elon Musk 56 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, Elon Musk, And it was all about 57 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: how he's obsessed with this story, rather than that story 58 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: is real and occurred, and many people believe it's still 59 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: going on. Right, Yes, it's still occurring over a decade ago. 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 2: Oh my god, don't get me started. 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: You know, what's incredible is the depths of the amorality. 62 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: If children are being raped to death, but it's being 63 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: called to our attention by somebody of the center right 64 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: or admittedly on the trumpion right now, at this point, 65 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: whatever that means, NPR will poo poo it. Children being 66 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: raped becomes a nothing. If there's somebody on the center 67 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: right bringing your attention to it. The amorality is spectacular. 68 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: It is satanic, it is evil, and one more Elon 69 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,559 Speaker 1: Musk thing, since we're being all in love with Elon 70 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: Musk right now. I saw Tesla the other day in 71 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: my town that had a Elon. 72 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 2: Musk circle with a line through it on their Tesla. 73 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: So it's like, I'm gonna keep it driving my Tesla, 74 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: got but I gotta make it clear just because I'm 75 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: driving Tesla doesn't mean I'm up with Elon Musk. I 76 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: was listening to the End of the Year National Review 77 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: podcast over the break, and somebody made the comment that 78 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: it's a good possibility that the only name currently in 79 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: circulation that will be remembered five hundred years from now 80 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: is Elon Musk, based around his space exploration stuff. Particularly, 81 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: they were talking about how the rocket thing, and you 82 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: know how he caught that rocket when it came back 83 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: down with the chopsticks, and that's such a leap forward 84 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: for space exploration. It might be like Christopher Columbus is 85 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: like the only name you know from fourteen ninety two. 86 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 2: Elon Musk could be that way now and that's possible. 87 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, certainly that was an amazing achievement, right, Yeah, 88 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: I missed that podcast. 89 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 2: I'll have to check that. We end up going to Mars. 90 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: I was in something else. 91 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: Who knows what other option might open up as the 92 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: technology develops. 93 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 2: And that's the thing about. 94 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: And I've been harping on this for years, how often 95 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: on the left, going back to the Apollo program, they're like, no, no, 96 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: don't explore space, don't develop science, Just spend the money 97 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: on America's streets and give people money. You don't know 98 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: what the result is when you go boldly forth to explore, 99 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: to develop, to learn. You think you're on this path, 100 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: turns out you might be on another path that's ten 101 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: times as great. That's why you always have to keep 102 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: striving as a society. And that's why the United States 103 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: continues to kick the world's ass economically and in innovation 104 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: and all sorts of things. Because we have that spirit. 105 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: We can't lose that spirit. Of course, we'll have full 106 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: team coverage on our lead story today. Kim Jong un 107 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: has banned hot dogs in North Korea. What they're too well, 108 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: now I am outraged. There is just play they're too western. 109 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: He said two things there. Either he wants all the 110 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: hot dogs. I don't need to hear choice two. Or 111 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: he caught a look at himself and he was looking 112 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: at a family photo and thought, wow, I've let myself go. 113 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: And the only way he thinks he can stop eating 114 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: hot dogs is to ban them in the whole country. 115 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 2: Is the power to do that? And be like, if 116 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 2: I could ban donuts in the whole nation, I would, 117 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: So that's a dictator. You can do that. 118 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: So I'm not dumpty by them, right. So it's one 119 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: of those two. Clearly, he either wants to eat them 120 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: all he wants none around him. Some candid pixture of 121 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: a fat boy at some New Year's Eve, Catherine, where 122 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: he's just turning the look and he just looks like 123 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,799 Speaker 1: a moon on a stick his head, his big head. 124 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: And he thought, oh my god, I've got to do something. 125 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: The moon on a stick. 126 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially, because we got a good one. 127 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday, 128 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: January the seventh year, twenty twenty five, where Armstrong and 129 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: getting and we approve of this program. Let's begin exploring 130 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: the outer reaches of the events of our time, precisely 131 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: according to FCC rules. 132 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 2: Rags. Here we go at Mark Donald J. 133 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: Trump of the State of Florida has received three hundred 134 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: and twelve votes. Kamlade Harris, that's got a sting. 135 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: She's like, I can hear you. 136 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: God, it's like attending your own funeral, and even the 137 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: mourners are like got I watched the opening fifteen minutes 138 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: of the Daily Show on the drive in, and Jon 139 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: Stewart is freaking brilliant. He's the best at that ever. 140 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: And I know a lot of you can't handle it. 141 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: The jokes run against your politics, but he is so 142 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: good at crafton jokes anyway. One of the points he made, 143 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: and I thought this was really good, is about how 144 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: we all act like we've always known. January sixth, Well, 145 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: there's a big important day in the whole process of 146 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: the elga Oh We're only this many hours away from 147 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: the certification. Like we all ever talked about the certification 148 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: ever in our lives. Let's not act like this is 149 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: some brand new I've studied this stuff in university and 150 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 1: on my own, and I had either forgotten or was 151 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: unaware of it, or it was just a ceremonial thing 152 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: of me jiggy that happens right. 153 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: Right right until four years ago. 154 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: Obviously, here is the flower I will throw on the 155 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: political grave of Kamala Harris. She quite clearly made it 156 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: unmistakable to all of you who have mispronounced her name 157 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 1: that her name is pronounced Kamala. 158 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 2: Here's all you need to know about her. 159 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: When Obama was hot back in the day, she told 160 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: the Sacramento, California the Capitol Press Corps, it's pronounced Kamala, 161 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: so it would sound like Obama. She actually did that, 162 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: and then later on went back to Kamala, that's all 163 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: you need to know about that woman. Well, I'll say this, 164 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: and I'm not supposed to say this. Apparently, based on 165 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: the news I took in yesterday from the right, I 166 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: thought it was really great the way she handled that 167 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: and everything. And yeah, I thought that was absolutely fantastic. 168 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: She didn't have to do that. She didn't and well, 169 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: constitutionally she has to do that, but she didn't have 170 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: to have the tone that she had and everything. And 171 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: I thought that was fantastic. I thought that was really 172 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: good for the country. I need more of that, not 173 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: less of that. Was that bashed from the right. I 174 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: missed that, all kinds of different examples of how awful 175 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: she was. So okay, anyway, how does the mailbag look? 176 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: What's it? 177 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 2: It's it's coming together. 178 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: As you said last year, it's a work in progress. Oh, 179 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: here's what I need from you the text. But I 180 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: also vowed yesterday we're all We're gonna be honest. I'm 181 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: gonna be honest every single day this year. I'm going 182 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: to tell you exactly what I think. No sugarcoating, no pandering. 183 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: Mail bag is coming together. Could go either way. So 184 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: last year it was life will not be a bor 185 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: in twenty four? Do you have any ideas for twenty five? 186 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 2: Text me at the text? 187 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: Did you see my tweet? I had some? I had 188 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: some pretty good ones. No, I did not off to 189 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: tell take a look at those later. Yeah, I don't 190 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: look at our Twitter. 191 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 2: And neither does anyone else. There was no settle down. 192 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 2: Now there was. There was one in particular that was 193 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 2: pretty popular. 194 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: There were just a couple hundred people away from forty 195 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: thousand followers on Twitter and just I really want to 196 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: get there, so could you? Would you please? I don't 197 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: know why that matters to me. 198 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 2: You don't have to use it at all. Just go 199 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: on Twitter. 200 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: Yountimes called X. You don't have to put the strong 201 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: e giddy. It's effortless to find. This is the text 202 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: line for if you can come up with something clever 203 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: that rhymes with five, The number is four one, five 204 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 1: two nine five k FTC. 205 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: Stay here. 206 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: I just saw an interesting argument from Van Jones about 207 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: Canada be in our fifty first state. He said, hey, Republicans, 208 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: it would be a very blue state and it's about 209 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: the size of California. 210 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 2: So that's a good point from me. 211 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: They're so worn out by the woke agenda, woke Elvis. 212 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: That's what Matt tayeebie Pierre Trudeau of Justin Trudeau. I 213 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: saw a clip of Pierre Trudeau from years ago. I 214 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: didn't realize he's been Prime minister for ten years. Justin Trudeau, 215 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: the Yes guy. Yeah, Pierce's old dad, right, Justin Trudeau 216 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: the prime minister. Ten years he's been prime minister anyway. 217 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: I saw a clip of him where he's taken a 218 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: question from somebody and the person used the term mankind 219 00:11:59,040 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: in the question. 220 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 2: He said, excuse me, excuse me. I prefer person kind like. 221 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: You got to you gotta be kidding me. And he 222 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: lasted ten years with that attitude. Yeah, that would be 223 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: a very very lefty blue state with as many electoral 224 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: votes as California. So no thanks, LGDP, LGT LBG, LGBTQ 225 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: two plus what an annoying weasel. I swear, don't get 226 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: me started. I have already started. Here's your thought provoking 227 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: quote of the day. And I had a bunch of 228 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: great choices looking at a series of quotes about beginnings. 229 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: Francis Drake the explorer, there must speaking of this spirit 230 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: of exploring and expanding your horizons and going into the unknown. 231 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,359 Speaker 2: There must poor Man's Magellan in my opinion. 232 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: Wow, don't please, don't get he gets so militant about this. 233 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: There must be a beginning of any great matter, but 234 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished. 235 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: Yields the true glory. Yeah, yeah, thanks for your input. 236 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: Francis mailbag, So true, so true. Oh the big splashy 237 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: beginning the ribbon cutting. Yeah, that ain't the hard part, right. 238 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: Let's see a number of people reacting to my getting 239 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: a tick on Christmas Eve story. You can drop us 240 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com. 241 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: A good story, including it when you present it that 242 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: way with that sort of title. Remember the time I 243 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 1: got a tick on Christmas Eve? Kids gather around? Oh yeah, 244 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: well that was a good time. Let's see Charlotte with 245 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: a cute note. She went to the emergency room. The 246 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: doctor walks into the room and says, do you have 247 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: a tick or any starts like convulsing or a tick? 248 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: I was like, that's not a prow that's that good humor. 249 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 2: A tick like a like a twitch, like a seizure. Wow, 250 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 2: that's not funny doctor. 251 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: Then this from Sean while shooting a tick will always 252 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: resolve the medical issue. 253 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 2: One must aim the. 254 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: Weapon so that the round strikes only the tick, not 255 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: the person the tick is feeding on. I recommend a 256 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: nine millimeter round, or if you don't trust your spouse's aim, 257 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: you can always dump two mags or three California sized 258 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: mags rack to slide back and press the heated barrel 259 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: against the tick. It's a rather militaristic approach there, Sean, 260 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: thanks for the advice. Oh and then he says, if 261 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: performing either of these medical techniques indoors, say in a bathroom, 262 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: be sure to wear ear protection. 263 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 2: Don't risk your hearing. Wow, what is the matter with you, Sean? 264 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: Uh? Let's see, this is a very serious indeed from 265 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: Tom about the British child rape story, the Muslim immigrants 266 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: and the child rape rings and the cover up by 267 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: the British authorities who were embarrassed at they're immigration policies 268 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: were so miserable, and also they wanted to keep the 269 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: Muslim votes in those beleaguered rust belt towns. He points out, 270 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: you get speculated as to why these rapists would not 271 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: have committed these atrocities in the countries they come from. 272 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: What's not being discussed enough about these crimes as a 273 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: central role that religion plays. Their home countries have almost 274 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: no unbelievers living in them. 275 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 2: That is true. That is true. 276 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: You want to talk about a bigoted apartheid society, look 277 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: at every Muslim country on earth virtually almost everyone according 278 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: to the tenets of their religion. It's forbidden even look 279 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: at a covered Muslim woman other than your wife, much 280 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: less touch or molest one. However, anything goes with an 281 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: Infidel woman or girl, it is perfectly acceptable to use 282 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: and abuse them sexually. In fact, it's seen as a 283 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: good thing to do. Infidels are considered less than human, 284 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: and when people who adhere to this belief system are important, 285 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: large numbers into a culture like the one in Great 286 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: Britain and has become, it is inevitable that poor, powerless 287 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: young girls will be victimized wholesale. Again, this would not 288 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: be happening in the absence of one particular religion. It 289 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: is time for people to get honest about fundamentalist Islam. 290 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: They're pretty wonderful Muslim people living in the country. I 291 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: have no quarrel with them whatsoever. But fundamentalist Islam is 292 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: an incredibly bigoted religion of conquest. 293 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: That just is. 294 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: It's undeniable. I saw a quote and I didn't verify 295 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: it or not. It claimed it was from Winston Churchill 296 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: saying Moslems, which was the term back in the day 297 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: when they are in the minority minority rights are very 298 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: important when they are in the majority. 299 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: There are no. 300 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: Minority rights, that's correct, which is interesting. Yeah, the history 301 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: of the world would back that up. And then a 302 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: note I want to talk maybe more later from our 303 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: old friend Camper, who says some very very nice things 304 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: about the way we were talking about a couple of topics. 305 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: But then he said, sixty years ago we'd not only 306 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: express outrage, but would also engage and make a collective 307 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: and individual effort to fix things and make righteous as happen. 308 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: And he's suggesting more we have we give you more. 309 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: Avenues for getting involved, recommend groups to join or where 310 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: a ballot initiative is going. 311 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 2: We can try to do that. 312 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: We have a very small crew and to get the 313 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: show ready every single day, and like give you your 314 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: marching orders would be a challenge, but it's a great thought. 315 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 2: We'll work on it. 316 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: We got some more of the news of the day, 317 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: and I hope you can join us, and I would 318 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: like your recommendations for things at rhyme with twenty. 319 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: Five are strong and getty. 320 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 1: Okay, I just was looking at our Twitter feed and 321 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 1: saw your tweet. It was right above my retweet of 322 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: somebody saying people are too casual about the fact that 323 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: parrots can talk. 324 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: Amen to that. 325 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: Since I was a kid, I thought that, Wait a minute, 326 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: we're just taking this in stride on anyway, your suggestions 327 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: for the theme when we open the show every single day, 328 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: stay alive in twenty five, just survive? 329 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 2: Cut the jibe? Will we arrive picking the hive? Yeah? Yeah, 330 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:03,439 Speaker 2: I will tell you that. 331 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: Judging by the comments, and there were hundreds of them, 332 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: cut the jive number one, Cut the jive in twenty five? 333 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 2: Wow jive? Has anybody under fifty heard that term? 334 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: And kicking the hive was pretty popular too. It's draining 335 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: the swamp the ESK news of the day. As we mentioned, 336 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 1: we'll hear from Mark Zuckerberg a little bit later. He's 337 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: doing some interviews. He's changing Facebook from fact checkers to 338 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: community notes, and he says specifically he modeled it after 339 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's deal on Twitter. So interesting, and I think 340 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: is there step forward? Has there been in recent American 341 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: history a phrase more contemptible than fact checker? Yeah, and 342 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: welcome to the party, Mark Zuckerberg. That fact checker to 343 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 1: me means okay, here, I'm about to be spun one 344 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: way or the other. One more thing I wanted to 345 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: mention before we get to this news clip. 346 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 2: We need to. 347 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 1: Discuss A friend of mine who works for the federal 348 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: government said, texted me this yesterday. President Biden just gave 349 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: all federal employees Thursday off to honor and remember President 350 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: Carter paid holiday. 351 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 2: Thank you, dear taxpayers. 352 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: Wow, what the hell? Please get Biden out of office? 353 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: How soon can we do that? 354 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: A week? That's pretty soon? Please someone a week? 355 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, someone explained to me, how you justify that 356 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: so that segment of society gets a day off? No 357 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: big deal. It's all paid for by all the other people, 358 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: which is a vast majority of us, like almost all 359 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: of us, who are paying for it, and we have 360 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: to go to work, of course we do. Someday I 361 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: will be recognized. Let's make this about me, and the 362 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: Getty principle will be spoken of far and wide, and 363 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: that is that the government, and more specifically, particularly in 364 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: blue states, unionized government workers have become the most important 365 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: lobbyist of government. They now run the government for themselves 366 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: to a large extent, and that is perverted our politics 367 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: in this country. I gotta believe so. I spend else 368 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: with Biden do that? Why name a single damn reason. 369 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: Come on, I spent a lot of time thinking about 370 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: the overall structure of our country. Over the break, I 371 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: listened to a long podcast with some law professors about 372 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: the Constitution and all that sort of stuff. 373 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 2: Then ended up going to Washington, d C. 374 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: And seeing the Founding documents in person and reading various 375 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: quotes from the Founding fathers, I gotta believe that universally, 376 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: as much as they fought with each other, and they 377 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: solidly disagreed with each other on so many issues, like 378 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: you're going to destroy the country we've already been started. 379 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: I mean, they really believe the other side was wrong. 380 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: But I got to believe that they would all be 381 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: an agreement that it's completely too big and into too 382 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: much of our lives. 383 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: At this point, I gotta believe every one of them. 384 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 2: I think you're a hundred percent right. 385 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, Because and there are I don't know two three 386 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: four central principles that informed everything that went into the Constitution, and. 387 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 2: One of those was power always. 388 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: Wants to centralize, and the Constitution was built to resist 389 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: that impulse. It's been true since the days of the cavemen. 390 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: It was truth through the Middle Ages. It's true now. 391 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: Power wants to accumulate, it wants to centralize, and we 392 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: the people have been seduced into letting that happen because 393 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: we've been promised that a powerful central government will give 394 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: us everything we dream and paraphrase Jefferson, it is therefore 395 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: powerful enough to take away everything we have. 396 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: But we've been seduced. 397 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: I got into the argument, and I won't get into 398 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: it here. Maybe later that Madison was strongly against the 399 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, just thought it was a terrible idea, 400 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: argued so strongly to try to convince all of his 401 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 1: fellow voters there at the Constitutional Convention that the Bill 402 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: of Rights was a terrible idea, but he lost the argument. 403 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: And then say, okay, I lost the argument. Here's how 404 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: we ought to do it, if we're going to do it, 405 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: which I just thought I could, if we could do that, 406 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: now where you just. 407 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 2: You lost the argument. 408 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: Okay, fine, now I'm going to get on board with 409 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: Let's try to make this the best it can be. 410 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: Since this is what the majority of you have decided. 411 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 1: We're so far from that now. Anyway, another day, this 412 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: could be the story that dominates the year. 413 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: I hope it's not here. 414 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 3: We go health officials reporting the first death from bird 415 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 3: flu in the US. The patient, who was over sixty 416 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 3: five with underlying health conditions, had been hospitalized in Louisiana 417 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 3: since mid December after being exposed to the virus through 418 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 3: a flock of birds in a backyard. The CDC analyzed 419 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 3: the virus in that Louisiana patient and found concerning new 420 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 3: mutations which could help the virus infect people more easily, 421 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 3: but so far, there has been no evidence of human 422 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 3: to human spread. Health officials urging the public to avoid 423 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 3: consuming unpasteurized dairy products. Public health officials are also warning 424 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 3: not to feed your pets raw food after at least 425 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 3: one cat in Oregon died from the virus. 426 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: So is this an attempt by me to scare you 427 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: bubbling is no? I just think you need to know 428 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: that story is out there and the media is on it, 429 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: and once again, having learned nothing, apparently from the coverage 430 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: of the whole COVID thing, this person with horrible health, 431 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: who is also quite old and already in the hospital 432 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 1: for a long time, died with bird flu. Not of 433 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: bird flu, but with bird flu. There's a big difference. 434 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: It's Scott Anthony Faucis issued a statement to ordering everyone 435 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: to wear mittens and begin all sentences with verbs, because 436 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: that's the science. Go get some mittens, for instance, said 437 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: the great doctor who represents science. Al Right, bird first, 438 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: bird flu death. Somebody with really bad health who had 439 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: gotten bird flu died, God rested their souls couldn't have 440 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: withstood home mine. 441 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 2: Okay, bird size, well, it's illustrative. 442 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, some oldster who God bless their souls couldn't 443 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: have survived any infection. 444 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 2: Fair enough. You know, I'm not. 445 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: Worried about the damn bird flu. I'm worried about the 446 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 1: damn man eaten worm in Texas. 447 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 2: Did you see this? 448 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: The New World screw worm, which is a pretty good name. 449 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: It's it's Latin name Haman novorax means man eater, and 450 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: it's it's spreading up from Mexico. We eradicated it in 451 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: the US years and years ago, nineteen sixty six. It's horrific. 452 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: It screws its way. It's a slow down. I'm sorry, 453 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: I'm a little excited about this. I am just becoming 454 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: aware of this. I need to take it in a 455 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: way that I can digest it. So there is a 456 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: worm that can kill larva. Yeah, yes, and it's in 457 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: Texas and it's spreading, yes northward, all right, yes it's 458 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: and again we eradicated it in nineteen sixty six after 459 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: an extensive federal and states sterilization product. 460 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 2: It's the larva of a fly. The what's the name 461 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 2: of the fly? You fly? Don't bother me, I can't 462 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 2: remember some damn fly. Anyway, it is. 463 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: It is evidence that God has forsaken us. It is 464 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: the worst thing I've ever heard of. It is the 465 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: worst insect on Earth's bar. 466 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 2: None. 467 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: Uh. Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine said, hey, it's 468 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: gonna it could have devastating effects on the health of 469 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: our livestock. But the screwworm begins its rain of terror 470 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: when the female lays her eggs into the into an 471 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: open wound or orifice. The female flies are drawn to 472 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: the open wounds and orifices by the odors they emit. 473 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: They can be as small as a tick bite, oh, 474 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: a nasal or eye opening, a navel of a newborn, 475 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: or genitalia. I tend to keep my genitalia covered, so 476 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: I think I'm okay, there, and we appreciate it. 477 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 2: These eggs then hatch into dangerous larvae that burrow into 478 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 2: the wound like screws. 479 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: Females can lay two hundred to three hundred eggs at once. 480 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm gonna faint. 481 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 2: But the country is on edge. 482 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: So did you say somebody has died of it? No, no, 483 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: it's but it's it's creeping its way north. It primarily 484 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: affects live stock, but it can infect humans. 485 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 2: Okay, good god, run for your lives. 486 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,199 Speaker 1: The fact that the bird flew death was one of 487 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 1: the lead teases on all the evening national newscasts concerned me, 488 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: Like they get so excited about that sort of thing. 489 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, people don't tune out of being frightened. 490 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: It's a ratings ploy to constantly keep you frightened. It 491 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: works politically too, As Menkin said, you know, politics is 492 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 1: trotting out an endless series hob goblins to terrify you 493 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: into voting one way or another. We won't do it here, 494 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: except for the screwworm. It is terrifying. Tell your children 495 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: just before they try to go to sleep tonight about 496 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: this worm that burrows its way into your orifices. Well, 497 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 1: the country is on edge on the exactly the country 498 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: is on the country is on. 499 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 2: Edge on the bird flu thing. Now. I know some 500 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 2: people on the right. 501 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: Believe this is an effort the government wants to get 502 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: the bird flu thing going as a scare to try 503 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: to really limit a lot of livestock stuff or take 504 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: control of that because the government wants to have more 505 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: control over the food. 506 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 2: Thank you. There you go, the. 507 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: Food source that we have in America, particularly people that 508 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: provide their own food. So right, right, an excuse to 509 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: take more control. Yeah, isn't that that that needs to 510 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: be the same. I think cut the Jive in twenty 511 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: five might be the right theme. And Michael, the fabulous 512 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: clip you keep playing. 513 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 2: Go ahead. The country is on edge the. 514 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: Never ending drum beat of trying to motivates politically or 515 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: sociologically or whatever by these fake harum scareum things. 516 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 2: That's all right, I'm on the I'm on the beat. 517 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 2: I'm on the hunt. 518 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: You can only do that so many times, though, can't 519 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: you have? Before people start saying, ah, whatever, bring it on. Well, 520 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: we're at like four billion I think and counting in 521 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: this country. Okay, so uh, we got no, we don't 522 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: have k Katie's ill. She's got the I heard her 523 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: sneeze it you call. I think it might be the 524 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: BF the bird, certainly, hope not. But we've got more 525 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: news of the day on the way. I really want 526 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: to get into some of the stuff that went on 527 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: yesterday around the big certification really constitutional box checking. 528 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kidding, no kidding. 529 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: It was. It was all the drama of like, you know, 530 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: filling out your car rental agreement and other stuff on 531 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: the way, so stay here. 532 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 4: Yesterday, during an event at the White House, President Biden 533 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,239 Speaker 4: brought a young man up on stage just say him 534 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 4: happy birthday, and well just watch. 535 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: This, Happy birthday, Happy birthday. 536 00:29:51,600 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 2: At birthday all right? Well he still got it. That's good, 537 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 2: he said. I ended up in a situation like that 538 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 2: over the break. Who was it? 539 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: Obviously wasn't my son his birthday. I was at some 540 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: birthday thing and people started singing. In about two lines 541 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: into the song, I realized, I do not remember this 542 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: person's name, Happy birthdayed Bell. You know. When he sang 543 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: happy birthday my son who turned thirteen. I ended with 544 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: here comes puberty and uh and I got bad looks. 545 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, wonder why I thought there was again. No, 546 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: oh no, no, too big a thing. No, puberty is 547 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: too big a thing. Yeah, you don't throw in a 548 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: witty line at the end of a song. My son's 549 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: excited about puberty. He's constantly asking. He says, do you 550 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: see any here on my lip? 551 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: And he hear my lip? This is my voice? Sound 552 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 2: any deeper? Today? He's all right. 553 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: He wants because he saw go through it, and his 554 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: brother seems like a grown man, and girls seemed. 555 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 2: To get and all that sort of thing, so he wants. 556 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: He's looking forward to it. Excellent. 557 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: Actually, yesterday, my thirteen year old he said, do you 558 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: think I'm taller? And I said you might be. He said, 559 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: I was looking at my feet in the shower today 560 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: and they just seem further away. 561 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: That's beautiful. 562 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: A couple of things from my notes before I get 563 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: to something somewhat serious and thoughtful. First quote from Albert 564 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: Einstein that I thought was really good. Two things are infinite, 565 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about 566 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: the universe, yeah, which is pretty good. And I came 567 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: across this, which is finding out stripper poles spin in 568 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: place instead of strippers around the poles. Is the grown 569 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: ups finding out Santa isn't real. 570 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I 571 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 2: didn't know that either. 572 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: But now that I think about it, the few times 573 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: I've seen strippers on stripper poles, which is not very 574 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: many times, that's how you do it. The poll spins. 575 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: You're not spinning around the pole. The poll spins which holes, 576 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: which is much easier to do. 577 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 2: Hanging on the pole. 578 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: That's spinning much easier than I'm spinning around it with 579 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: Like my I always wondered how you get your legs 580 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: to not squeak against the metal bowl or your hands 581 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: or whatever. So that explains it, you know, I hadn't 582 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: given it a moment's thought. Kind of ashamed of that 583 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 1: because now that you pointed out, yeah, it's practically a 584 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: physical impossibility to what they seem to be doing growing 585 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: up their exotic dancers. 586 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 2: By the way, growing up Aquillan finding out sand isn't real. 587 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 2: That's so there you go. 588 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be more big picture in the year 589 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five as opposed to some of the daily 590 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: nonsense that gets so much attention in some media, and 591 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: it's meaningless big picture and this is a big picture thing. 592 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: I remember how much time I got Michael, I want 593 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: to lunch into a big picture thing, and I got 594 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: no time. 595 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 2: I'd be ironic, wouldn't it. Yeah? 596 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: It a half, no problem perfect. So I remember, Oh, 597 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: Gladys Gladys working in twenty five? Did we because Joe 598 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: and I renewed our contract. We're going to be around 599 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: for several more years? 600 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 2: What what? 601 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: But I didn't know if Gladys signed on too. Gladys 602 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: signed on too, cool, So Gladys is going to be 603 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: with us for the next several years. 604 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 2: God Willing. 605 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: I remember when Barack Obama was elected in two thousand 606 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: and eight and George Will saying on the TV, it's 607 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: interesting that this sticks in my mind, saying the treat. 608 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 2: Gotta get the line right. 609 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: He said, the retreat of the state is over, and 610 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that is fascinating. So he was looking 611 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: at when Ronald Reagan came into office, through two terms 612 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: of Reagan, Bush and even two terms of Clinton. When 613 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton ran on, the era of big government is over. 614 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: The state was in retreat and it ended with Barack Obama. 615 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: And it has been that way now for a couple 616 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: of decades with just the growth of the government through 617 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: des and rs, bigger and more expensive everything. And then 618 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: this article in the Wall Street Journal that I came 619 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: across over the weekend, the progressive moment in global politics 620 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: is over, at least for now. This past year showed 621 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 1: that the progressive politics that have dominated most industrialized countries 622 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: over the past two decades, so the period of time 623 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: since Barack Obama, after you know, several decades of a 624 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: retreat of the state, the state has been growing, and 625 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: in our face that dominated over the past two decades 626 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: is more is shifting to the right because of working 627 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: class anxieties, economy, immigration, fatigue with issues from climate change 628 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: to identity politics, all that sort of stuff. So it 629 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 1: looks like we're it is flipped back to the other 630 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: side again, at least for now and hopefully for a 631 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: couple of decades at least. 632 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 2: At the risk of. 633 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: Being a sounding smug, the Wall Street Journal could have 634 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: saved some ink by just saying the backlash was because 635 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: progressive policies yield miserable results. The problem is that a 636 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: lot of that spending and growth is locked in. Yes, 637 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: that is a huge problem, A lot, I mean nothing 638 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 1: is permanent, at least in a republic democracy like we've got, 639 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: but a lot of it would be really really hard 640 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: to undo. And of course money spent is money spent. 641 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: There's nothing you do about that. You got to pay 642 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: it back, right right. Yeah. The great danger of democracy 643 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,919 Speaker 1: is that a benefit that wasn't imagined for the past 644 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 1: five hundred years given on Tuesday, if you try to 645 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: take it back the next day, realize you've made a mistake, 646 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: people will howl like you're skinning them. So, to paraphrase 647 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: George Will, it looks like the retreat of the working 648 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,439 Speaker 1: man is over, which is good news. 649 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 2: We've got more to come. Stay with us, Armstrong and 650 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 2: Getty