Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Getti and he.
Speaker 1: Arms drawn from Studio C see Senior A dimly lit
Speaker 1: room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: the way I said bowels too.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but it was.
Speaker 1: Good, the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today we're
Speaker 1: under the tutelage of our general manager. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, you're talking space travel, obviously it is Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: You're talking cars is Elon Musk. Tech often Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: You're talking to European politics. Today it's Elon must the doge.
Speaker 1: That's all. I expect him to become the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs next call the plays in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So you're arguing that he is the unelected co president.
Speaker 1: I don't think I am oh Oh a tech billionaire
Speaker 1: who has an inordinate political influence.
Speaker 2: How terrifying I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought that when I heard that Biden gave George
Speaker 1: Soros whatever medal of freedom. That is because you're billionaire
Speaker 1: who's been influencing politics. By the way, he's the guy
Speaker 1: that got Alvin Bragg and uh, what's his name in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Gascone and all those people elected, and is
Speaker 1: like crime room rampant in these big cities that has
Speaker 1: been rejected by Democrats also, But anyway, your billionaire medal
Speaker 1: of freedom on the right, you have a billionaire.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's the end of democracy whatever.
Speaker 1: So many, virtually all of the arguments you hear that
Speaker 1: sound moral or sound like real concern, they're just a
Speaker 1: quest for power. The only proper response is, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: your policies suck. This headline from today backs your Elon
Speaker 1: Musk argument. This is the New York Times Meta. That's
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg's thing. I hate calling it meta. Can we go
Speaker 1: back to call it Facebook or whatever?
Speaker 2: Anyway? Meta?
Speaker 1: To end fact checking program and shift a head of
Speaker 1: Trump term. The sub paragraph is the social networking giant
Speaker 1: will stop using, will stop using third party fact checkers
Speaker 1: and instead rely solely on users to add notes to posts.
Speaker 1: It's likely to please President elect Trump and his conservative allies. Hmm,
Speaker 1: what does that sound like? What model does that sound like?
Speaker 1: He's emulating right there, It's exactly what Elon does on Twitter,
Speaker 1: having been absolutely humiliated for the overt bias that Facebook
Speaker 1: showed in their quote unquote fact checking through COVID and
Speaker 1: beyond good. Look, here's the headline for you. Elon Musk
Speaker 1: is royaling European politics. Trump ally is flooded x with
Speaker 1: posts criticizing European politicians, causing diplomatic conundrum for continence leaders.
Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like about that angle, and
Speaker 1: I just heard it on NPR is instead of Republicans pounce,
Speaker 1: it's an Elon Musk pounce. Elon Musk pounces instead of
Speaker 1: the story itself. I caught the tail end of the
Speaker 1: story when I turned on NPR and got in my
Speaker 1: car today, But it was Elon Musk's latest obsession is
Speaker 1: the story that happened over a decade ago of girls
Speaker 1: being raped by Muslim men in England and Elon Musk
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, Elon Musk, And it was all about
Speaker 1: how he's obsessed with this story, rather than that story
Speaker 1: is real and occurred, and many people believe it's still
Speaker 1: going on. Right, Yes, it's still occurring over a decade ago.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, don't get me started.
Speaker 1: You know, what's incredible is the depths of the amorality.
Speaker 1: If children are being raped to death, but it's being
Speaker 1: called to our attention by somebody of the center right
Speaker 1: or admittedly on the trumpion right now, at this point,
Speaker 1: whatever that means, NPR will poo poo it. Children being
Speaker 1: raped becomes a nothing. If there's somebody on the center
Speaker 1: right bringing your attention to it. The amorality is spectacular.
Speaker 1: It is satanic, it is evil, and one more Elon
Speaker 1: Musk thing, since we're being all in love with Elon
Speaker 1: Musk right now. I saw Tesla the other day in
Speaker 1: my town that had a Elon.
Speaker 2: Musk circle with a line through it on their Tesla.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I'm gonna keep it driving my Tesla,
Speaker 1: got but I gotta make it clear just because I'm
Speaker 1: driving Tesla doesn't mean I'm up with Elon Musk. I
Speaker 1: was listening to the End of the Year National Review
Speaker 1: podcast over the break, and somebody made the comment that
Speaker 1: it's a good possibility that the only name currently in
Speaker 1: circulation that will be remembered five hundred years from now
Speaker 1: is Elon Musk, based around his space exploration stuff. Particularly,
Speaker 1: they were talking about how the rocket thing, and you
Speaker 1: know how he caught that rocket when it came back
Speaker 1: down with the chopsticks, and that's such a leap forward
Speaker 1: for space exploration. It might be like Christopher Columbus is
Speaker 1: like the only name you know from fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk could be that way now and that's possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, certainly that was an amazing achievement, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I missed that podcast.
Speaker 2: I'll have to check that. We end up going to Mars.
Speaker 2: I was in something else.
Speaker 1: Who knows what other option might open up as the
Speaker 1: technology develops.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing about.
Speaker 1: And I've been harping on this for years, how often
Speaker 1: on the left, going back to the Apollo program, they're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't explore space, don't develop science, Just spend the money
Speaker 1: on America's streets and give people money. You don't know
Speaker 1: what the result is when you go boldly forth to explore,
Speaker 1: to develop, to learn. You think you're on this path,
Speaker 1: turns out you might be on another path that's ten
Speaker 1: times as great. That's why you always have to keep
Speaker 1: striving as a society. And that's why the United States
Speaker 1: continues to kick the world's ass economically and in innovation
Speaker 1: and all sorts of things. Because we have that spirit.
Speaker 1: We can't lose that spirit. Of course, we'll have full
Speaker 1: team coverage on our lead story today. Kim Jong un
Speaker 1: has banned hot dogs in North Korea. What they're too well,
Speaker 1: now I am outraged. There is just play they're too western.
Speaker 1: He said two things there. Either he wants all the
Speaker 1: hot dogs. I don't need to hear choice two. Or
Speaker 1: he caught a look at himself and he was looking
Speaker 1: at a family photo and thought, wow, I've let myself go.
Speaker 1: And the only way he thinks he can stop eating
Speaker 1: hot dogs is to ban them in the whole country.
Speaker 2: Is the power to do that? And be like, if
Speaker 2: I could ban donuts in the whole nation, I would,
Speaker 2: So that's a dictator. You can do that.
Speaker 1: So I'm not dumpty by them, right. So it's one
Speaker 1: of those two. Clearly, he either wants to eat them
Speaker 1: all he wants none around him. Some candid pixture of
Speaker 1: a fat boy at some New Year's Eve, Catherine, where
Speaker 1: he's just turning the look and he just looks like
Speaker 1: a moon on a stick his head, his big head.
Speaker 2: And he thought, oh my god, I've got to do something.
Speaker 2: The moon on a stick.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially, because we got a good one.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: January the seventh year, twenty twenty five, where Armstrong and
Speaker 1: getting and we approve of this program. Let's begin exploring
Speaker 1: the outer reaches of the events of our time, precisely
Speaker 1: according to FCC rules.
Speaker 2: Rags. Here we go at Mark Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump of the State of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve votes. Kamlade Harris, that's got a sting.
Speaker 2: She's like, I can hear you.
Speaker 1: God, it's like attending your own funeral, and even the
Speaker 1: mourners are like got I watched the opening fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: of the Daily Show on the drive in, and Jon
Speaker 1: Stewart is freaking brilliant. He's the best at that ever.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of you can't handle it.
Speaker 1: The jokes run against your politics, but he is so
Speaker 1: good at crafton jokes anyway. One of the points he made,
Speaker 1: and I thought this was really good, is about how
Speaker 1: we all act like we've always known. January sixth, Well,
Speaker 1: there's a big important day in the whole process of
Speaker 1: the elga Oh We're only this many hours away from
Speaker 1: the certification. Like we all ever talked about the certification
Speaker 1: ever in our lives. Let's not act like this is
Speaker 1: some brand new I've studied this stuff in university and
Speaker 1: on my own, and I had either forgotten or was
Speaker 1: unaware of it, or it was just a ceremonial thing
Speaker 1: of me jiggy that happens right.
Speaker 2: Right right until four years ago.
Speaker 1: Obviously, here is the flower I will throw on the
Speaker 1: political grave of Kamala Harris. She quite clearly made it
Speaker 1: unmistakable to all of you who have mispronounced her name
Speaker 1: that her name is pronounced Kamala.
Speaker 2: Here's all you need to know about her.
Speaker 1: When Obama was hot back in the day, she told
Speaker 1: the Sacramento, California the Capitol Press Corps, it's pronounced Kamala,
Speaker 1: so it would sound like Obama. She actually did that,
Speaker 1: and then later on went back to Kamala, that's all
Speaker 1: you need to know about that woman. Well, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: and I'm not supposed to say this. Apparently, based on
Speaker 1: the news I took in yesterday from the right, I
Speaker 1: thought it was really great the way she handled that
Speaker 1: and everything. And yeah, I thought that was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: She didn't have to do that. She didn't and well,
Speaker 1: constitutionally she has to do that, but she didn't have
Speaker 1: to have the tone that she had and everything. And
Speaker 1: I thought that was fantastic. I thought that was really
Speaker 1: good for the country. I need more of that, not
Speaker 1: less of that. Was that bashed from the right. I
Speaker 1: missed that, all kinds of different examples of how awful
Speaker 1: she was. So okay, anyway, how does the mailbag look?
Speaker 1: What's it?
Speaker 2: It's it's coming together.
Speaker 1: As you said last year, it's a work in progress. Oh,
Speaker 1: here's what I need from you the text. But I
Speaker 1: also vowed yesterday we're all We're gonna be honest. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest every single day this year. I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you exactly what I think. No sugarcoating, no pandering.
Speaker 1: Mail bag is coming together. Could go either way. So
Speaker 1: last year it was life will not be a bor
Speaker 1: in twenty four? Do you have any ideas for twenty five?
Speaker 2: Text me at the text?
Speaker 1: Did you see my tweet? I had some? I had
Speaker 1: some pretty good ones. No, I did not off to
Speaker 1: tell take a look at those later. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: look at our Twitter.
Speaker 2: And neither does anyone else. There was no settle down.
Speaker 2: Now there was. There was one in particular that was
Speaker 2: pretty popular.
Speaker 1: There were just a couple hundred people away from forty
Speaker 1: thousand followers on Twitter and just I really want to
Speaker 1: get there, so could you? Would you please? I don't
Speaker 1: know why that matters to me.
Speaker 2: You don't have to use it at all. Just go
Speaker 2: on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Yountimes called X. You don't have to put the strong
Speaker 1: e giddy. It's effortless to find. This is the text
Speaker 1: line for if you can come up with something clever
Speaker 1: that rhymes with five, The number is four one, five
Speaker 1: two nine five k FTC.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 1: I just saw an interesting argument from Van Jones about
Speaker 1: Canada be in our fifty first state. He said, hey, Republicans,
Speaker 1: it would be a very blue state and it's about
Speaker 1: the size of California.
Speaker 2: So that's a good point from me.
Speaker 1: They're so worn out by the woke agenda, woke Elvis.
Speaker 1: That's what Matt tayeebie Pierre Trudeau of Justin Trudeau. I
Speaker 1: saw a clip of Pierre Trudeau from years ago. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize he's been Prime minister for ten years. Justin Trudeau,
Speaker 1: the Yes guy. Yeah, Pierce's old dad, right, Justin Trudeau
Speaker 1: the prime minister. Ten years he's been prime minister anyway.
Speaker 1: I saw a clip of him where he's taken a
Speaker 1: question from somebody and the person used the term mankind
Speaker 1: in the question.
Speaker 2: He said, excuse me, excuse me. I prefer person kind like.
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta be kidding me. And he
Speaker 1: lasted ten years with that attitude. Yeah, that would be
Speaker 1: a very very lefty blue state with as many electoral
Speaker 1: votes as California. So no thanks, LGDP, LGT LBG, LGBTQ
Speaker 1: two plus what an annoying weasel. I swear, don't get
Speaker 1: me started. I have already started. Here's your thought provoking
Speaker 1: quote of the day. And I had a bunch of
Speaker 1: great choices looking at a series of quotes about beginnings.
Speaker 1: Francis Drake the explorer, there must speaking of this spirit
Speaker 1: of exploring and expanding your horizons and going into the unknown.
Speaker 2: There must poor Man's Magellan in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Wow, don't please, don't get he gets so militant about this.
Speaker 1: There must be a beginning of any great matter, but
Speaker 1: the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished.
Speaker 1: Yields the true glory. Yeah, yeah, thanks for your input.
Speaker 1: Francis mailbag, So true, so true. Oh the big splashy
Speaker 1: beginning the ribbon cutting. Yeah, that ain't the hard part, right.
Speaker 1: Let's see a number of people reacting to my getting
Speaker 1: a tick on Christmas Eve story. You can drop us
Speaker 1: a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 1: A good story, including it when you present it that
Speaker 1: way with that sort of title. Remember the time I
Speaker 1: got a tick on Christmas Eve? Kids gather around? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: well that was a good time. Let's see Charlotte with
Speaker 1: a cute note. She went to the emergency room. The
Speaker 1: doctor walks into the room and says, do you have
Speaker 1: a tick or any starts like convulsing or a tick?
Speaker 1: I was like, that's not a prow that's that good humor.
Speaker 2: A tick like a like a twitch, like a seizure. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's not funny doctor.
Speaker 1: Then this from Sean while shooting a tick will always
Speaker 1: resolve the medical issue.
Speaker 2: One must aim the.
Speaker 1: Weapon so that the round strikes only the tick, not
Speaker 1: the person the tick is feeding on. I recommend a
Speaker 1: nine millimeter round, or if you don't trust your spouse's aim,
Speaker 1: you can always dump two mags or three California sized
Speaker 1: mags rack to slide back and press the heated barrel
Speaker 1: against the tick. It's a rather militaristic approach there, Sean,
Speaker 1: thanks for the advice. Oh and then he says, if
Speaker 1: performing either of these medical techniques indoors, say in a bathroom,
Speaker 1: be sure to wear ear protection.
Speaker 2: Don't risk your hearing. Wow, what is the matter with you, Sean?
Speaker 1: Uh? Let's see, this is a very serious indeed from
Speaker 1: Tom about the British child rape story, the Muslim immigrants
Speaker 1: and the child rape rings and the cover up by
Speaker 1: the British authorities who were embarrassed at they're immigration policies
Speaker 1: were so miserable, and also they wanted to keep the
Speaker 1: Muslim votes in those beleaguered rust belt towns. He points out,
Speaker 1: you get speculated as to why these rapists would not
Speaker 1: have committed these atrocities in the countries they come from.
Speaker 1: What's not being discussed enough about these crimes as a
Speaker 1: central role that religion plays. Their home countries have almost
Speaker 1: no unbelievers living in them.
Speaker 2: That is true. That is true.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a bigoted apartheid society, look
Speaker 1: at every Muslim country on earth virtually almost everyone according
Speaker 1: to the tenets of their religion. It's forbidden even look
Speaker 1: at a covered Muslim woman other than your wife, much
Speaker 1: less touch or molest one. However, anything goes with an
Speaker 1: Infidel woman or girl, it is perfectly acceptable to use
Speaker 1: and abuse them sexually. In fact, it's seen as a
Speaker 1: good thing to do. Infidels are considered less than human,
Speaker 1: and when people who adhere to this belief system are important,
Speaker 1: large numbers into a culture like the one in Great
Speaker 1: Britain and has become, it is inevitable that poor, powerless
Speaker 1: young girls will be victimized wholesale. Again, this would not
Speaker 1: be happening in the absence of one particular religion. It
Speaker 1: is time for people to get honest about fundamentalist Islam.
Speaker 1: They're pretty wonderful Muslim people living in the country. I
Speaker 1: have no quarrel with them whatsoever. But fundamentalist Islam is
Speaker 1: an incredibly bigoted religion of conquest.
Speaker 2: That just is.
Speaker 1: It's undeniable. I saw a quote and I didn't verify
Speaker 1: it or not. It claimed it was from Winston Churchill
Speaker 1: saying Moslems, which was the term back in the day
Speaker 1: when they are in the minority minority rights are very
Speaker 1: important when they are in the majority.
Speaker 2: There are no.
Speaker 1: Minority rights, that's correct, which is interesting. Yeah, the history
Speaker 1: of the world would back that up. And then a
Speaker 1: note I want to talk maybe more later from our
Speaker 1: old friend Camper, who says some very very nice things
Speaker 1: about the way we were talking about a couple of topics.
Speaker 1: But then he said, sixty years ago we'd not only
Speaker 1: express outrage, but would also engage and make a collective
Speaker 1: and individual effort to fix things and make righteous as happen.
Speaker 2: And he's suggesting more we have we give you more.
Speaker 1: Avenues for getting involved, recommend groups to join or where
Speaker 1: a ballot initiative is going.
Speaker 2: We can try to do that.
Speaker 1: We have a very small crew and to get the
Speaker 1: show ready every single day, and like give you your
Speaker 1: marching orders would be a challenge, but it's a great thought.
Speaker 2: We'll work on it.
Speaker 1: We got some more of the news of the day,
Speaker 1: and I hope you can join us, and I would
Speaker 1: like your recommendations for things at rhyme with twenty.
Speaker 2: Five are strong and getty.
Speaker 1: Okay, I just was looking at our Twitter feed and
Speaker 1: saw your tweet. It was right above my retweet of
Speaker 1: somebody saying people are too casual about the fact that
Speaker 1: parrots can talk.
Speaker 2: Amen to that.
Speaker 1: Since I was a kid, I thought that, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we're just taking this in stride on anyway, your suggestions
Speaker 1: for the theme when we open the show every single day,
Speaker 1: stay alive in twenty five, just survive?
Speaker 2: Cut the jibe? Will we arrive picking the hive? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I will tell you that.
Speaker 1: Judging by the comments, and there were hundreds of them,
Speaker 1: cut the jive number one, Cut the jive in twenty five?
Speaker 2: Wow jive? Has anybody under fifty heard that term?
Speaker 1: And kicking the hive was pretty popular too. It's draining
Speaker 1: the swamp the ESK news of the day. As we mentioned,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Mark Zuckerberg a little bit later. He's
Speaker 1: doing some interviews. He's changing Facebook from fact checkers to
Speaker 1: community notes, and he says specifically he modeled it after
Speaker 1: Elon Musk's deal on Twitter. So interesting, and I think
Speaker 1: is there step forward? Has there been in recent American
Speaker 1: history a phrase more contemptible than fact checker? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: welcome to the party, Mark Zuckerberg. That fact checker to
Speaker 1: me means okay, here, I'm about to be spun one
Speaker 1: way or the other. One more thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: mention before we get to this news clip.
Speaker 2: We need to.
Speaker 1: Discuss A friend of mine who works for the federal
Speaker 1: government said, texted me this yesterday. President Biden just gave
Speaker 1: all federal employees Thursday off to honor and remember President
Speaker 1: Carter paid holiday.
Speaker 2: Thank you, dear taxpayers.
Speaker 1: Wow, what the hell? Please get Biden out of office?
Speaker 1: How soon can we do that?
Speaker 2: A week? That's pretty soon? Please someone a week?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, someone explained to me, how you justify that
Speaker 1: so that segment of society gets a day off? No
Speaker 1: big deal. It's all paid for by all the other people,
Speaker 1: which is a vast majority of us, like almost all
Speaker 1: of us, who are paying for it, and we have
Speaker 1: to go to work, of course we do. Someday I
Speaker 1: will be recognized. Let's make this about me, and the
Speaker 1: Getty principle will be spoken of far and wide, and
Speaker 1: that is that the government, and more specifically, particularly in
Speaker 1: blue states, unionized government workers have become the most important
Speaker 1: lobbyist of government. They now run the government for themselves
Speaker 1: to a large extent, and that is perverted our politics
Speaker 1: in this country. I gotta believe so. I spend else
Speaker 1: with Biden do that? Why name a single damn reason.
Speaker 1: Come on, I spent a lot of time thinking about
Speaker 1: the overall structure of our country. Over the break, I
Speaker 1: listened to a long podcast with some law professors about
Speaker 1: the Constitution and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Then ended up going to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: And seeing the Founding documents in person and reading various
Speaker 1: quotes from the Founding fathers, I gotta believe that universally,
Speaker 1: as much as they fought with each other, and they
Speaker 1: solidly disagreed with each other on so many issues, like
Speaker 1: you're going to destroy the country we've already been started.
Speaker 1: I mean, they really believe the other side was wrong.
Speaker 1: But I got to believe that they would all be
Speaker 1: an agreement that it's completely too big and into too
Speaker 1: much of our lives.
Speaker 2: At this point, I gotta believe every one of them.
Speaker 2: I think you're a hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Because and there are I don't know two three
Speaker 1: four central principles that informed everything that went into the Constitution, and.
Speaker 2: One of those was power always.
Speaker 1: Wants to centralize, and the Constitution was built to resist
Speaker 1: that impulse. It's been true since the days of the cavemen.
Speaker 1: It was truth through the Middle Ages. It's true now.
Speaker 1: Power wants to accumulate, it wants to centralize, and we
Speaker 1: the people have been seduced into letting that happen because
Speaker 1: we've been promised that a powerful central government will give
Speaker 1: us everything we dream and paraphrase Jefferson, it is therefore
Speaker 1: powerful enough to take away everything we have.
Speaker 2: But we've been seduced.
Speaker 1: I got into the argument, and I won't get into
Speaker 1: it here. Maybe later that Madison was strongly against the
Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, just thought it was a terrible idea,
Speaker 1: argued so strongly to try to convince all of his
Speaker 1: fellow voters there at the Constitutional Convention that the Bill
Speaker 1: of Rights was a terrible idea, but he lost the argument.
Speaker 1: And then say, okay, I lost the argument. Here's how
Speaker 1: we ought to do it, if we're going to do it,
Speaker 1: which I just thought I could, if we could do that,
Speaker 1: now where you just.
Speaker 2: You lost the argument.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, now I'm going to get on board with
Speaker 1: Let's try to make this the best it can be.
Speaker 1: Since this is what the majority of you have decided.
Speaker 1: We're so far from that now. Anyway, another day, this
Speaker 1: could be the story that dominates the year.
Speaker 2: I hope it's not here.
Speaker 3: We go health officials reporting the first death from bird
Speaker 3: flu in the US. The patient, who was over sixty
Speaker 3: five with underlying health conditions, had been hospitalized in Louisiana
Speaker 3: since mid December after being exposed to the virus through
Speaker 3: a flock of birds in a backyard. The CDC analyzed
Speaker 3: the virus in that Louisiana patient and found concerning new
Speaker 3: mutations which could help the virus infect people more easily,
Speaker 3: but so far, there has been no evidence of human
Speaker 3: to human spread. Health officials urging the public to avoid
Speaker 3: consuming unpasteurized dairy products. Public health officials are also warning
Speaker 3: not to feed your pets raw food after at least
Speaker 3: one cat in Oregon died from the virus.
Speaker 1: So is this an attempt by me to scare you
Speaker 1: bubbling is no? I just think you need to know
Speaker 1: that story is out there and the media is on it,
Speaker 1: and once again, having learned nothing, apparently from the coverage
Speaker 1: of the whole COVID thing, this person with horrible health,
Speaker 1: who is also quite old and already in the hospital
Speaker 1: for a long time, died with bird flu. Not of
Speaker 1: bird flu, but with bird flu. There's a big difference.
Speaker 1: It's Scott Anthony Faucis issued a statement to ordering everyone
Speaker 1: to wear mittens and begin all sentences with verbs, because
Speaker 1: that's the science. Go get some mittens, for instance, said
Speaker 1: the great doctor who represents science. Al Right, bird first,
Speaker 1: bird flu death. Somebody with really bad health who had
Speaker 1: gotten bird flu died, God rested their souls couldn't have
Speaker 1: withstood home mine.
Speaker 2: Okay, bird size, well, it's illustrative.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, some oldster who God bless their souls couldn't
Speaker 1: have survived any infection.
Speaker 2: Fair enough. You know, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Worried about the damn bird flu. I'm worried about the
Speaker 1: damn man eaten worm in Texas.
Speaker 2: Did you see this?
Speaker 1: The New World screw worm, which is a pretty good name.
Speaker 1: It's it's Latin name Haman novorax means man eater, and
Speaker 1: it's it's spreading up from Mexico. We eradicated it in
Speaker 1: the US years and years ago, nineteen sixty six. It's horrific.
Speaker 1: It screws its way. It's a slow down. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm a little excited about this. I am just becoming
Speaker 1: aware of this. I need to take it in a
Speaker 1: way that I can digest it. So there is a
Speaker 1: worm that can kill larva. Yeah, yes, and it's in
Speaker 1: Texas and it's spreading, yes northward, all right, yes it's
Speaker 1: and again we eradicated it in nineteen sixty six after
Speaker 1: an extensive federal and states sterilization product.
Speaker 2: It's the larva of a fly. The what's the name
Speaker 2: of the fly? You fly? Don't bother me, I can't
Speaker 2: remember some damn fly. Anyway, it is.
Speaker 1: It is evidence that God has forsaken us. It is
Speaker 1: the worst thing I've ever heard of. It is the
Speaker 1: worst insect on Earth's bar.
Speaker 2: None.
Speaker 1: Uh. Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine said, hey, it's
Speaker 1: gonna it could have devastating effects on the health of
Speaker 1: our livestock. But the screwworm begins its rain of terror
Speaker 1: when the female lays her eggs into the into an
Speaker 1: open wound or orifice. The female flies are drawn to
Speaker 1: the open wounds and orifices by the odors they emit.
Speaker 1: They can be as small as a tick bite, oh,
Speaker 1: a nasal or eye opening, a navel of a newborn,
Speaker 1: or genitalia. I tend to keep my genitalia covered, so
Speaker 1: I think I'm okay, there, and we appreciate it.
Speaker 2: These eggs then hatch into dangerous larvae that burrow into
Speaker 2: the wound like screws.
Speaker 1: Females can lay two hundred to three hundred eggs at once.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm gonna faint.
Speaker 2: But the country is on edge.
Speaker 1: So did you say somebody has died of it? No, no,
Speaker 1: it's but it's it's creeping its way north. It primarily
Speaker 1: affects live stock, but it can infect humans.
Speaker 2: Okay, good god, run for your lives.
Speaker 1: The fact that the bird flew death was one of
Speaker 1: the lead teases on all the evening national newscasts concerned me,
Speaker 1: Like they get so excited about that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, people don't tune out of being frightened.
Speaker 1: It's a ratings ploy to constantly keep you frightened. It
Speaker 1: works politically too, As Menkin said, you know, politics is
Speaker 1: trotting out an endless series hob goblins to terrify you
Speaker 1: into voting one way or another. We won't do it here,
Speaker 1: except for the screwworm. It is terrifying. Tell your children
Speaker 1: just before they try to go to sleep tonight about
Speaker 1: this worm that burrows its way into your orifices. Well,
Speaker 1: the country is on edge on the exactly the country
Speaker 1: is on the country is on.
Speaker 2: Edge on the bird flu thing. Now. I know some
Speaker 2: people on the right.
Speaker 1: Believe this is an effort the government wants to get
Speaker 1: the bird flu thing going as a scare to try
Speaker 1: to really limit a lot of livestock stuff or take
Speaker 1: control of that because the government wants to have more
Speaker 1: control over the food.
Speaker 2: Thank you. There you go, the.
Speaker 1: Food source that we have in America, particularly people that
Speaker 1: provide their own food. So right, right, an excuse to
Speaker 1: take more control. Yeah, isn't that that that needs to
Speaker 1: be the same. I think cut the Jive in twenty
Speaker 1: five might be the right theme. And Michael, the fabulous
Speaker 1: clip you keep playing.
Speaker 2: Go ahead. The country is on edge the.
Speaker 1: Never ending drum beat of trying to motivates politically or
Speaker 1: sociologically or whatever by these fake harum scareum things.
Speaker 2: That's all right, I'm on the I'm on the beat.
Speaker 2: I'm on the hunt.
Speaker 1: You can only do that so many times, though, can't
Speaker 1: you have? Before people start saying, ah, whatever, bring it on. Well,
Speaker 1: we're at like four billion I think and counting in
Speaker 1: this country. Okay, so uh, we got no, we don't
Speaker 1: have k Katie's ill. She's got the I heard her
Speaker 1: sneeze it you call. I think it might be the
Speaker 1: BF the bird, certainly, hope not. But we've got more
Speaker 1: news of the day on the way. I really want
Speaker 1: to get into some of the stuff that went on
Speaker 1: yesterday around the big certification really constitutional box checking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 1: It was. It was all the drama of like, you know,
Speaker 1: filling out your car rental agreement and other stuff on
Speaker 1: the way, so stay here.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, during an event at the White House, President Biden
Speaker 4: brought a young man up on stage just say him
Speaker 4: happy birthday, and well just watch.
Speaker 1: This, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 2: At birthday all right? Well he still got it. That's good,
Speaker 2: he said. I ended up in a situation like that
Speaker 2: over the break. Who was it?
Speaker 1: Obviously wasn't my son his birthday. I was at some
Speaker 1: birthday thing and people started singing. In about two lines
Speaker 1: into the song, I realized, I do not remember this
Speaker 1: person's name, Happy birthdayed Bell. You know. When he sang
Speaker 1: happy birthday my son who turned thirteen. I ended with
Speaker 1: here comes puberty and uh and I got bad looks.
Speaker 1: Oh no, wonder why I thought there was again. No,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, too big a thing. No, puberty is
Speaker 1: too big a thing. Yeah, you don't throw in a
Speaker 1: witty line at the end of a song. My son's
Speaker 1: excited about puberty. He's constantly asking. He says, do you
Speaker 1: see any here on my lip?
Speaker 2: And he hear my lip? This is my voice? Sound
Speaker 2: any deeper? Today? He's all right.
Speaker 1: He wants because he saw go through it, and his
Speaker 1: brother seems like a grown man, and girls seemed.
Speaker 2: To get and all that sort of thing, so he wants.
Speaker 2: He's looking forward to it. Excellent.
Speaker 1: Actually, yesterday, my thirteen year old he said, do you
Speaker 1: think I'm taller? And I said you might be. He said,
Speaker 1: I was looking at my feet in the shower today
Speaker 1: and they just seem further away.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: A couple of things from my notes before I get
Speaker 1: to something somewhat serious and thoughtful. First quote from Albert
Speaker 1: Einstein that I thought was really good. Two things are infinite,
Speaker 1: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: the universe, yeah, which is pretty good. And I came
Speaker 1: across this, which is finding out stripper poles spin in
Speaker 1: place instead of strippers around the poles. Is the grown
Speaker 1: ups finding out Santa isn't real.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I
Speaker 2: didn't know that either.
Speaker 1: But now that I think about it, the few times
Speaker 1: I've seen strippers on stripper poles, which is not very
Speaker 1: many times, that's how you do it. The poll spins.
Speaker 1: You're not spinning around the pole. The poll spins which holes,
Speaker 1: which is much easier to do.
Speaker 2: Hanging on the pole.
Speaker 1: That's spinning much easier than I'm spinning around it with
Speaker 1: Like my I always wondered how you get your legs
Speaker 1: to not squeak against the metal bowl or your hands
Speaker 1: or whatever. So that explains it, you know, I hadn't
Speaker 1: given it a moment's thought. Kind of ashamed of that
Speaker 1: because now that you pointed out, yeah, it's practically a
Speaker 1: physical impossibility to what they seem to be doing growing
Speaker 1: up their exotic dancers.
Speaker 2: By the way, growing up Aquillan finding out sand isn't real.
Speaker 2: That's so there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be more big picture in the year
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five as opposed to some of the daily
Speaker 1: nonsense that gets so much attention in some media, and
Speaker 1: it's meaningless big picture and this is a big picture thing.
Speaker 1: I remember how much time I got Michael, I want
Speaker 1: to lunch into a big picture thing, and I got
Speaker 1: no time.
Speaker 2: I'd be ironic, wouldn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1: It a half, no problem perfect. So I remember, Oh,
Speaker 1: Gladys Gladys working in twenty five? Did we because Joe
Speaker 1: and I renewed our contract. We're going to be around
Speaker 1: for several more years?
Speaker 2: What what?
Speaker 1: But I didn't know if Gladys signed on too. Gladys
Speaker 1: signed on too, cool, So Gladys is going to be
Speaker 1: with us for the next several years.
Speaker 2: God Willing.
Speaker 1: I remember when Barack Obama was elected in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight and George Will saying on the TV, it's
Speaker 1: interesting that this sticks in my mind, saying the treat.
Speaker 2: Gotta get the line right.
Speaker 1: He said, the retreat of the state is over, and
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that is fascinating. So he was looking
Speaker 1: at when Ronald Reagan came into office, through two terms
Speaker 1: of Reagan, Bush and even two terms of Clinton. When
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton ran on, the era of big government is over.
Speaker 1: The state was in retreat and it ended with Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: And it has been that way now for a couple
Speaker 1: of decades with just the growth of the government through
Speaker 1: des and rs, bigger and more expensive everything. And then
Speaker 1: this article in the Wall Street Journal that I came
Speaker 1: across over the weekend, the progressive moment in global politics
Speaker 1: is over, at least for now. This past year showed
Speaker 1: that the progressive politics that have dominated most industrialized countries
Speaker 1: over the past two decades, so the period of time
Speaker 1: since Barack Obama, after you know, several decades of a
Speaker 1: retreat of the state, the state has been growing, and
Speaker 1: in our face that dominated over the past two decades
Speaker 1: is more is shifting to the right because of working
Speaker 1: class anxieties, economy, immigration, fatigue with issues from climate change
Speaker 1: to identity politics, all that sort of stuff. So it
Speaker 1: looks like we're it is flipped back to the other
Speaker 1: side again, at least for now and hopefully for a
Speaker 1: couple of decades at least.
Speaker 2: At the risk of.
Speaker 1: Being a sounding smug, the Wall Street Journal could have
Speaker 1: saved some ink by just saying the backlash was because
Speaker 1: progressive policies yield miserable results. The problem is that a
Speaker 1: lot of that spending and growth is locked in. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is a huge problem, A lot, I mean nothing
Speaker 1: is permanent, at least in a republic democracy like we've got,
Speaker 1: but a lot of it would be really really hard
Speaker 1: to undo. And of course money spent is money spent.
Speaker 1: There's nothing you do about that. You got to pay
Speaker 1: it back, right right. Yeah. The great danger of democracy
Speaker 1: is that a benefit that wasn't imagined for the past
Speaker 1: five hundred years given on Tuesday, if you try to
Speaker 1: take it back the next day, realize you've made a mistake,
Speaker 1: people will howl like you're skinning them. So, to paraphrase
Speaker 1: George Will, it looks like the retreat of the working
Speaker 1: man is over, which is good news.
Speaker 2: We've got more to come. Stay with us, Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty