Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 3: All right, simple way to get to the bottom of
Speaker 3: this whole drone thing, because that's.
Speaker 2: The most powerful man on earth.
Speaker 1: Oh, you weren't listening, all right, I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's disappointing. Where is it, forty? I think it's
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of drones authorized up there.
Speaker 4: We weren't started, and they all guys, everybody's wanting to
Speaker 4: get in the deal.
Speaker 3: First of all, he's standing next to a helicopter in
Speaker 3: a lumber matter.
Speaker 2: Or something like that.
Speaker 3: That's Joe Biden. He says, there's a lot of legal
Speaker 3: drones up there and copycats.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: That certainly helped the conversation about what they are and
Speaker 3: whether we should be wording.
Speaker 2: Apparently he wasn't briefed on anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're hearing from the former president.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the control room is talking to me. What's that?
Speaker 1: He's the current president. So there's a poll Lorses.
Speaker 3: There's a poll out Emerson poll pulling people on is
Speaker 3: it justifiable to murder healthcare CEOs in the street, And
Speaker 3: you wouldn't think you'd get very many people that say
Speaker 3: it's okay. But there's a big junk, especially young people
Speaker 3: think it is okay. We'll get to that later too,
Speaker 3: just shocking.
Speaker 1: So if you are just tuning in, first of all,
Speaker 1: welcome any joyous holiday season to you. Last year an
Speaker 1: hour we were beginning to go over the House Oversight
Speaker 1: Committee's big COVID report, touching on it briefly and fairly swiftly,
Speaker 1: but we as a people can't just let it go.
Speaker 1: It is really quite well. I'll have a link. I'll
Speaker 1: send the link to the folks and we'll have it
Speaker 1: up at Armstrong and geddy dot com. But last hour
Speaker 1: we went through the origin and the gain of function research,
Speaker 1: the utter just spewing of tax dollars to foreign mobsters
Speaker 1: and all the fraud and such, the who's absolute cowtowing
Speaker 1: to the Chinese communist line, how the social distancing and
Speaker 1: mask mandates were utterly unsupportable and did no good. House
Speaker 1: Committee continues lockdowns. Pro long lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to
Speaker 1: not only the American economy but also to the mental
Speaker 1: and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect
Speaker 1: on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the
Speaker 1: most vulnerable populations, federal and state governments forced millions of
Speaker 1: Americans to forego crucial elements of healthy and financially sound life.
Speaker 1: Greed get into some specifics in New York the travel
Speaker 1: restrictions COVID nineteen. Misinformation. Public health officials often spread misinformation
Speaker 1: through conflicting messaging, knee jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency.
Speaker 1: And the most egregious examples of pervasive misinformation campaigns off
Speaker 1: label drug use and the Lablik theory were unjustly demonized
Speaker 1: by the federal government. And there's a subcategory of how
Speaker 1: the federal government worked with private social media to censor
Speaker 1: private citizens expressing their points of view, many of whom
Speaker 1: ended up being one hundred percent correct. You know what.
Speaker 3: It will be lost to history though, in terms of
Speaker 3: analyzing all this is historians pointing out because Trump said
Speaker 3: it had a lot to do with many of these things. Yes,
Speaker 3: I mean for that, I'm against it. He's against that,
Speaker 3: I'm for it. Played such a huge.
Speaker 1: Role to the point of utter bizarre, cruel absurdity. You're right,
Speaker 1: it will be difficult to convince people. No. No, In Europe,
Speaker 1: the schools were open, the private schools were open, and
Speaker 1: everybody was fine. But they kept the government schools closed.
Speaker 1: Why because Trump said they should open. Well, no, they
Speaker 1: had to have other evidence or you know science. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Trump had a near magical power to compel people to
Speaker 1: do the opposite of what he said, just because he
Speaker 1: said it, and they'll think the old man's oversimplifying. Okay.
Speaker 1: They mentioned that the COVID nineteen vaccine was highly successful
Speaker 1: and helped save millions of lives, but was rushed into
Speaker 1: commission without properly appraising the risks. The mandates were not
Speaker 1: supported by science, caused more harm than good. The Biden
Speaker 1: administration coursed healthy Americans into compliance with the COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: vaccine mandates that trampled individual freedoms, harmed military readiness, and
Speaker 1: disregarded medical freedom to force a novel vaccine on millions
Speaker 1: of Americans without sufficient evidence to support their policy decisions.
Speaker 1: Then the utterly just again unforgivable ignoring of natural immunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was just that.
Speaker 3: Weird enthusiasm for the vaccine as opposed to an enthusiasm
Speaker 3: for immunity, whether it was from the vaccine or natural
Speaker 3: because you had already had COVID.
Speaker 1: And they go into the fact that while the vaccine
Speaker 1: lessened the seriousness of many cases and did save many lives,
Speaker 1: it did not halt the spread at all, even though
Speaker 1: we were told over and over again that it would.
Speaker 1: And then once you got the JAB you could go
Speaker 1: back to normal life. Let's see, they get into the
Speaker 1: economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and associated government response
Speaker 1: on individuals, communities, small businesses, healthcare provider, states, and local
Speaker 1: government entities, and as you might guess, the conclusion is
Speaker 1: it was utterly unnecessary, so much of it, and terribly
Speaker 1: terribly damaging. I'm reminded of Gavin Newsom, the utterly inept
Speaker 1: governor of California, who made it clear that his only
Speaker 1: priority is preventing the spread and preventing death.
Speaker 2: And as we.
Speaker 1: Observed at the time, others did too. That's the opposite
Speaker 1: of leadership. Leadership weighs the pluses and minuses, the competing interests,
Speaker 1: the different needs that human beings have, and don't pretend
Speaker 1: with a like a cultish ferocity that there's only one
Speaker 1: thing to pay attention to, utterly inexcusable. Then they get
Speaker 1: into the COVID nineteen school closures the science quote unquote,
Speaker 1: and I like how they used the quotes. There never
Speaker 1: justified prolonged school closures. Children will unlikely to contribute to
Speaker 1: the spread of COVID nineteen or suffer severe illness or mortality. Instead,
Speaker 1: as a result of school closures, children experienced historical learning loss,
Speaker 1: higher rates of psychological distress, and decreased physical well being.
Speaker 1: And then they mentioned that the CDC actually ran their
Speaker 1: guidances through the American Federation of Teachers to provide specific
Speaker 1: language for the guidance and nice and the CDC the
Speaker 1: Centers for Disease Control accepted numerous edits made by the
Speaker 1: Power Full Powerful Teachers Union, which couldn't give half a
Speaker 1: crap about your kid.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 1: That is the long and short of the Committee on
Speaker 1: Oversight and Accountability Report on COVID nineteen response, and we
Speaker 1: will post the link at Armstrong a getty dot com.
Speaker 1: The executive summary is a ten twelve minute read and
Speaker 1: really really informative.
Speaker 3: What a dark chapter. Thank you, Cardi B. Quick couple
Speaker 3: of Cardi b quit. Not as much a doctor as
Speaker 3: doctor Jill Biden. Quick couple of things before we go
Speaker 3: to break. I don't know if you're following this. I'm
Speaker 3: not unbelievable internal pressure on Justin Trudeau to resign as
Speaker 3: Prime Minister of Canada right now. Some of his closest
Speaker 3: aids who have been with him his entire political career
Speaker 3: have quit, and his approval rating is like four percent
Speaker 3: and he's done.
Speaker 1: We underappreciate how woke Justin Trudeau is in America. I
Speaker 1: happen to know a handful of Canadians that you can't
Speaker 1: shut him up because they hate him so much. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they went way down the woke road in Canada and
Speaker 1: he's been a miserable failure.
Speaker 2: NATO member.
Speaker 3: A couple of NATO members said yesterday no one in
Speaker 3: Europe believes that peace can be achieved between Ukraine and
Speaker 3: Russia without territorial losses for Ukraine. That's the first time
Speaker 3: NATO leaders have officially said that out loud, that the
Speaker 3: only way this is going to end is Ukraine given
Speaker 3: up land. So save that one one more here? Oh,
Speaker 3: did you see Prince Andrew like his closest aid who
Speaker 3: was Chinese turned out to be a Chinese spy like
Speaker 3: all the real serious, big time Chinese spy.
Speaker 5: Eh.
Speaker 2: Well, another blow for Prince Andrew this one.
Speaker 3: How much I want to spend on this? This is
Speaker 3: out of the school shooting the other day. How much
Speaker 3: more freak what murder is in the United States than
Speaker 3: other large, high income countries. If you're going to compare,
Speaker 3: you know, similar lifestyles homicides per one hundred thousand, you
Speaker 3: just look at the graph where.
Speaker 2: It's like, I mean, there's you could add up.
Speaker 3: Looks like you could add up Canada, Britain, France, Germany,
Speaker 3: Italy and Japan and not even come close to.
Speaker 2: Where we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're a very murdery country.
Speaker 2: Why is that? Do you think?
Speaker 1: There are handful of reasons? I mean, give me, give
Speaker 1: me too a length answer. Second Amendment. Guns are much
Speaker 1: more readily available than in other places.
Speaker 3: And because guns, it's easy to kill people with guns.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's incredibly effective.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to work to kill somebody with you know,
Speaker 1: other means of effective killing machine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm starchly pro First Amendment for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: The other thing is, we have a the vast majority
Speaker 1: of murders take place among subcultures America in which it's
Speaker 1: considered appropriate to use deadly force over minor disputes, including
Speaker 1: quote unquote turf in neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you have a break a complete breakdown of
Speaker 3: the American family in certain segments of society, and then
Speaker 3: the whole gang thing, why don't they have that though.
Speaker 2: In France, Great Britain, all these other places gan it
Speaker 2: is it just the guns?
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, it's it's pretty complicated, but it's worth pointing
Speaker 1: out that in say, Plaster County, California, where I raised
Speaker 1: my kids, it's bristling with conservative redneck fools like myself
Speaker 1: who have lots and lots of guns and have fun
Speaker 1: shooting them. And then the rest of that, and we
Speaker 1: would all consider an absolutely unthinkable, abhorrent, just unspeakable to
Speaker 1: use deadly violence to settle a minor dispute. It would
Speaker 1: just never ever happen. So it's it's cultural. Nobody likes
Speaker 1: to talk about that because it's uncomfortable because race factors
Speaker 1: into it indirectly. But that's one of the big reasons.
Speaker 3: Fact that we murder each other so much more than
Speaker 3: other countries should be talked about more like in a
Speaker 3: not quickly become worried somebody's gonna take your guns away,
Speaker 3: or quickly be worried on the other side, and something else,
Speaker 3: because it's just a fact we have way more murders
Speaker 3: than other countries with similar lifestyles.
Speaker 2: What the heck?
Speaker 1: Well, And there's so many layers of hypocrisy and weirdness
Speaker 1: here because in a lot of European countries you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to have personal use of firearms or I don't
Speaker 1: know the laws country by country, but really hard to
Speaker 1: get a gun, really hard to own a gun, and
Speaker 1: if you get caught with a gun, you're in serious,
Speaker 1: serious trouble. I mean, like say goodbye to your family
Speaker 1: for a long time trouble In the United States, where
Speaker 1: we have one side of the political spectrum constantly saying
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have guns, we shouldn't have the Second Amendment,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. They refuse to enforce gun laws because
Speaker 1: of their woke politics. So what the hell is going on?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: What are you to make of it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Speakon of murders, The CEO of United Healthcare is murdered
Speaker 3: in the street in New York, and a lot of
Speaker 3: people think that was good. According to a new pole.
Speaker 3: We'll get to that, among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way.
Speaker 1: Armstrong heyety.
Speaker 6: Of Americans said they support Robert F. Kennedy Junior's proposal
Speaker 6: to ban certain food additives, including food dies. So get
Speaker 6: psyched kids for the newest flavor of jolly ranchers.
Speaker 3: Plain the flavor will still be the same, but the color. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like Jolly ranchers. And what are the little crackers my
Speaker 3: kids eat? Eight is when they were little goldfish gold
Speaker 3: They're going to be like gray brown.
Speaker 1: No, they're not. Stop. It's Canada outlaws, all these horrendous
Speaker 1: food dies, and they're the food are plenty colorful, They're
Speaker 1: just not quite as lurid.
Speaker 3: You're an expert on how colorful Canadian food is.
Speaker 1: I have to have seen a photo feature on the topic.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have unimportant breaking news.
Speaker 3: The Ethics Committee has voted to release the Matt Gates Report.
Speaker 1: No, no, I hope he's not a chasing scumback.
Speaker 3: I'm looking it over underage goats. Oh lord, No, the
Speaker 3: details are not out yet. And but that don't matter anymore,
Speaker 3: right because he's no longer up for anything, and he's
Speaker 3: gonna go, He's gonna go be a host of a
Speaker 3: TV show somewhere.
Speaker 1: So remember, underage goats can't give consent, Jack, So that's
Speaker 1: that I kids be kids.
Speaker 3: Here's something I've been meaning to talk about, and I
Speaker 3: haven't heard anybody else bring it up, so it's possible
Speaker 3: it's unique to me, but I doubt it.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody agrees.
Speaker 3: I think that, like our attention spans have changed from
Speaker 3: star at smartphones, heck ya, And it's it's amazing that
Speaker 3: my brain was a certain way until I was forty seven,
Speaker 3: and then smartphones came along, and now reading a book
Speaker 3: is very, very difficult.
Speaker 2: I fully believe.
Speaker 3: That having a self driving car, which most people do
Speaker 3: not yet that I use regularly. I let you use
Speaker 3: it on the way to work today, I'll use it
Speaker 3: on the way home, trained your brain to not pay
Speaker 3: attention anymore. Oh, because my whole life driving a car,
Speaker 3: obviously you're paying attention.
Speaker 2: I mean, jeez, you could die if you're not paying attention.
Speaker 3: But even in the three years I've had a self
Speaker 3: driving car, using it practically daily, my brain's gotten used
Speaker 3: to driving. Doesn't mean you got to pay attention. And
Speaker 3: when I get into my truck that doesn't have self driving.
Speaker 3: I really regularly forget that I'm in charge of this thing,
Speaker 3: and I think that's why I had my motorcycle wreck.
Speaker 3: I think that's why I had my motorcycle wreck. I
Speaker 3: just my brain is used to just like I used
Speaker 3: to be able to read and pay attention, you know,
Speaker 3: now it's like do this instead. My brain driving means
Speaker 3: do something else, think about do you look around, read texts, whatever.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why I had my motorcycle wreck.
Speaker 1: I have not had that experience at all. But intuitively
Speaker 1: that makes perfect sense to me. Sometimes when you get
Speaker 1: in your car, you don't have to pay attention at all.
Speaker 1: I know you're supposed to, but and sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to every single second. And you know I live in
Speaker 1: the world where there's no exception to the every single
Speaker 1: second thing. Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 2: Yes, you are supposed to pay attention.
Speaker 3: There's no way they're going to be able to mandate
Speaker 3: people paying attention in the same way though, if you've
Speaker 3: got a self driving car, it's.
Speaker 2: Just not possible.
Speaker 1: I find it nearly effortless to keep the car between
Speaker 1: the painted lines. So why am I using a self
Speaker 1: driving car, if I have to pay attention as acutely
Speaker 1: as I do the rest.
Speaker 3: Right at that point, I've wondered that from the very thing,
Speaker 3: you're not tired from steering. I've wondered that from the
Speaker 3: very beginning. I don't mind driving now, So why would
Speaker 3: I go self driving If I'm going to pay the
Speaker 3: same amount of attention with my hands, I'm steering well
Speaker 3: in the same spot. So it just defies human nature.
Speaker 3: But anyway, that frightens that hell out of me that
Speaker 3: I've trained my brain to not see driving as like
Speaker 3: a life and death situation for me and everybody else
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 1: I'll bet between a year and two from now a
Speaker 1: big study comes out that confirms exactly what you just said.
Speaker 1: I think you nailed it, and I haven't heard anybody
Speaker 1: talking about that either. I get you visionary.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's happening for other people, but
Speaker 3: I know for a fact, does this happened to me
Speaker 3: that I have to remind myself, Oh, that's right, I'm
Speaker 3: in my truck.
Speaker 2: It doesn't drive itself. Geez, that's scary.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: There's really no need for self driving car other than
Speaker 3: when you're in bad big city traffic.
Speaker 2: It is the greatest. It is the greatest, and bad
Speaker 2: traffic just fantastic.
Speaker 3: You're just you're sitting on your couch with whoever else
Speaker 3: is in the car, you know, talk and listening to
Speaker 3: music as it takes you along in the miserable traffic.
Speaker 1: Wow. Cool. So coming up this hour and perhaps next hour,
Speaker 1: the year in review, a lot of the big news
Speaker 1: stories that everybody paid attention to. It's both kind of
Speaker 1: informed of and amusing to hear that list go by.
Speaker 1: Also the leading series on what's going on with the
Speaker 1: drones rated for which is the most likely?
Speaker 3: And that pole on gunning down CEOs in the street,
Speaker 3: which is disturbing.
Speaker 1: Yeiit Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: That's people shouting, free, chanting, free Luigi outside of his jail.
Speaker 3: He's the murderous scumbag who killed this CEO from United Healthcare.
Speaker 3: And they also have signs that more CEOs need to die.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: So there's a poll out today from Emerson College that's
Speaker 3: a real polling outfit. Forty one percent of young people
Speaker 3: that would be under thirty eighteen to twenty nine year olds,
Speaker 3: forty one percent of young people say it's at least
Speaker 3: somewhat acceptable to murder CEOs in the street. You have
Speaker 3: twenty four percent that's say it's somewhat seventeen percent say
Speaker 3: it's completely acceptable.
Speaker 2: So that's a little troubling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say so, but not shocking given the
Speaker 1: indoctrination that they've been under in their their schools and
Speaker 1: high schools and colleges for the last several couple generations.
Speaker 3: Twice as many Democrats as Republicans. By the way, probably
Speaker 3: fits in with your whole college theory since probably more
Speaker 3: went to But anyway, so the pro murder party, maybe
Speaker 3: the drones will fix all this.
Speaker 2: That's what we're hoping.
Speaker 3: Somehow, the drone invasion will our drone overlords. Here's something
Speaker 3: that amazes me that we're now, I don't know how
Speaker 3: many weeks into this as actually listened to a podcast yesterday.
Speaker 3: A New Jersey native said, Hey, we've been talking about
Speaker 3: this in New Jersey for a lot longer than the
Speaker 3: rest of you have. So in New Jersey they've been
Speaker 3: talking about it for like a month. The country's been
Speaker 3: talking about it for like two weeks. All the drones
Speaker 3: being spotted over New Jersey. Here's the sitting US Senator
Speaker 3: one of them from New Jersey Senator Kristen Gillibrand.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's safe or not safe because
Speaker 5: we don't have full domain awareness.
Speaker 1: We don't know whose the drones are. We don't know
Speaker 1: whether they're adversarial or run by a foreign entity. We
Speaker 1: don't know what their purpose is. We don't know if
Speaker 1: they're spying.
Speaker 3: So as of today, a US senator from the state
Speaker 3: in question doesn't know if they're foreign, domestic, or a threat.
Speaker 3: Despite all the things that we're hearing from various people,
Speaker 3: I find that amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was being critical of the idea of sharing
Speaker 1: sensitive intelligence with senators because some of them are lunkheads earlier.
Speaker 1: But the fact that she couldn't rule out any of
Speaker 1: those things, I mean, you'd think the military could have said, hey, superclassified,
Speaker 1: what's happening. I'll tell you what's not happening is Chinese
Speaker 1: spies don't worry about that. They couldn't check any of
Speaker 1: those bombs, right. It seems very strange, right what.
Speaker 2: Is going on with the communication? I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what my working theory is right now.
Speaker 1: I don't either, And the amount of uh nutty stuff
Speaker 1: going on online. I refuse to use the term's misinformation
Speaker 1: and it's cruel cousin disinformation. I just I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Probably because it's like using the term fact check. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's become so tainted with the dishonesty of the people
Speaker 1: who use those terms.
Speaker 3: I just it makes me feel oogy to go there,
Speaker 3: dishonesty or mishonesty. Right, beautiful.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see. I want to hear. I need to
Speaker 1: hear one more thing, how about Yeah, this good example
Speaker 1: is Mayor Mike Mellam of some little town in New
Speaker 1: Jersey forty two. Please, Michael, there was and there is
Speaker 1: an alert that's out right now that radioactive material in
Speaker 1: New Jersey has gone missing.
Speaker 2: See that's crazy that a month into this.
Speaker 3: People are saying, yeah, there's nuclear material missing, don't know
Speaker 3: anything about that, or senator says, I don't know if
Speaker 3: they're f or domestic, or if there're a threat.
Speaker 2: That's just not possible that this can be happening.
Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly not acceptable. Yeah. So and then somebody
Speaker 1: in authority came out and said no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's no radioactive material missing from some medical lab. That's
Speaker 1: just not true.
Speaker 3: Well, let me say what I'm not worried that. I'm
Speaker 3: not worried that it's Ran or China. I don't think
Speaker 3: it is. I agree with Trump. I think the Pentagon
Speaker 3: would know and do something about it. Of course, you
Speaker 3: would have thought they'd have done something about the spy
Speaker 3: balloon from China that went clear across the country, and
Speaker 3: they didn't do anything about it until some farmers said, hey,
Speaker 3: what the hell has had and it made the news.
Speaker 2: But I'm mostly.
Speaker 3: Worried about bureacratic breakdown and that sort of stuff in
Speaker 3: our government and what that means for the future than
Speaker 3: the drones themselves.
Speaker 1: Well, let me lead ahead a little bit in response
Speaker 1: to the whole medical waste or not and what you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's a note from mikey Luke. Mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 1: E Geddy dot com is the email address if you
Speaker 1: ever want to get in touch, gentleman, and I have
Speaker 1: an easy answer to all the government related mysteries quote
Speaker 1: unquote works with any government related kerfuffle. It's almost like
Speaker 1: a Rosetta Stone thing question. Mysterious drones flying over New
Speaker 1: Jersey Hunter Biden laptop COVID released from the lab in Wuhan,
Speaker 1: the assassination of JFK, the Russia hoax. Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: mentally fit and capable of winning the presidency. Answer to
Speaker 1: all of them, The government is to blame. They are
Speaker 1: covering it up, and they lied to you. It's not complicated.
Speaker 1: I wonder.
Speaker 2: So the lie to me for my own good, that's
Speaker 2: my concern.
Speaker 3: That's my concern that when the s hits the fan
Speaker 3: and China does attack or something like that, that will
Speaker 3: get the I don't think they can handle this treatment
Speaker 3: that Fauci did with a lot of information, and I
Speaker 3: don't like that.
Speaker 1: I hate that a lot. The whole team. And if
Speaker 1: you didn't hear our going over of the House Oversight
Speaker 1: Committee report on the COVID thing, grab the podcast it
Speaker 1: was ours one and two, Armstrong and giddy on demand anyway.
Speaker 1: Having said that, yes, I agree completely the condescension from
Speaker 1: particularly the left, but a lot of the people in
Speaker 1: power is just you can't take it. So Madeline Kerns,
Speaker 1: who now writes for the Free Press and is Scottish
Speaker 1: and super smart and so cute with the leading theories
Speaker 1: on the drone thing, and it's long issue and she
Speaker 1: doesn't come in any firm conclusions, obviously, but the leading
Speaker 1: theories are the sightings are part of a mass hysteria,
Speaker 1: and as Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic magazine, told The
Speaker 1: Free Press, these things happen as kind of a self
Speaker 1: generating social phenomenon where most people don't look up into
Speaker 1: the sky. They don't really think much about it untill
Speaker 1: they hear stories, start looking up and they start noticing things.
Speaker 1: And now we all have cell phones. The vast majority
Speaker 1: of these are obviously airplanes. You can see them when
Speaker 1: you blow them up. Big wings, small wings, blinking lights. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's my answer to that. I think what's going on
Speaker 1: with the drones is several things. And at the tail
Speaker 1: end of this, yes, it's that. It's exactly what Shechrmer
Speaker 1: was describing at the beginning of it, though, with drones
Speaker 1: flying in what appeared to be an organized way near
Speaker 1: our military installations, that absolutely could be Chinese nationals in
Speaker 1: the United States doing the bidding of their Communist overlords.
Speaker 1: There's a guy busted surveilling Vanderburgh Space Base with drones
Speaker 1: busted on a flight back to is Communist fathers. Recently,
Speaker 1: they're doing it now on the West coast, but it's
Speaker 1: unthinkable they do it on the East coast. What are
Speaker 1: we even talking about here? It's happening.
Speaker 3: Well, it almost has to be something like that, because
Speaker 3: the fact that the DHS Secretary of Mayorcis or the
Speaker 3: President or whoever hasn't come out and said it's all planes.
Speaker 3: We haven't come across one thing that we can confirm
Speaker 3: as a drone we don't know about.
Speaker 2: Nobody has said.
Speaker 1: That, right, And actually Matty Kerns does point out that
Speaker 1: the lack of information and the weird, vague stuff is
Speaker 1: just creating a vacuum into which nutty stuff flows. How
Speaker 1: perfect is this. There's an assembly woman in New York
Speaker 1: or New Jersey rather named Dawn Fantasia. Is she dancing
Speaker 1: tonight at the Bata Bang?
Speaker 2: Oh We're only fans page.
Speaker 1: Last Thursday, Fantasia told the Free Press that the foreign
Speaker 1: adversary theory was plausible, but like other lawmakers, she since
Speaker 1: shifted toward another explanation. Most people do believe these drones
Speaker 1: do belong to the US military. However, beyond that point
Speaker 1: is very difficult. She says. You literally need a magic
Speaker 1: eight ball to shake it to figure out what the
Speaker 1: actual purposes. They quote a state senator, I believe some
Speaker 1: of them are drones controlled by the United States government
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah. But nobody's talking, so
Speaker 1: nobody's sure the sightings are drones belonging to a foreign adversary.
Speaker 1: And she gets into maybe maybe not very quotes, but
Speaker 1: it varies across time. Again, which ones you're talking about,
Speaker 1: which sightings you're talking about, and what bothers me is
Speaker 1: everybody is picturing not what I was discussing about Vandenburg
Speaker 1: Air Force Base. But they're discussing like the Iranian mothership thing,
Speaker 1: or that the Chinese navies leveled up a sub and
Speaker 1: then are for surfaced to sub and then sent drones
Speaker 1: forth into the sky.
Speaker 3: Well, that crazy house rep actually said with certainty, I
Speaker 3: have talked to people at very high levels it is
Speaker 3: an Iranian mothership. I mean like he was a fact
Speaker 3: he knew. Yeah, that didn't help anything.
Speaker 1: But again, it's so much more likely that A it's
Speaker 1: the Chinese and B they're using some of the tens
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals who live in the
Speaker 1: United States, many of whom are official or unofficial intelligence
Speaker 1: can you.
Speaker 3: Justify the government keeping it a secret from us. The
Speaker 3: two China have drones in the sky.
Speaker 1: Only if they it's like the great lengths we went
Speaker 1: to most recently when we had human intel out of
Speaker 1: the Kremlin, and we are extremely careful to couch everything
Speaker 1: in ways that would not make that clear. They're legendary
Speaker 1: examples from World War Two. Yeah, so it's possible we
Speaker 1: have a capability or an intelligence source or something that
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how that would factor into the complete
Speaker 1: lack of information now vague everybody is, but it.
Speaker 3: Could because you've made the argument, and other people have
Speaker 3: two about the Pentagon, DARPA whoever has different stuff that
Speaker 3: we don't know about, and they tested all the time
Speaker 3: and they can't tell us about it. But there's got
Speaker 3: to be a limit to that, right What if you
Speaker 3: had giant robot monsters that are forty feet tall walking
Speaker 3: across the country.
Speaker 2: You couldn't just they couldn't just.
Speaker 1: Can they kill you with laser beams they shoot out
Speaker 1: of their eyes.
Speaker 3: I don't know where things are because that would reveal
Speaker 3: we have that program.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's got to be a limit on that,
Speaker 2: right on terraff.
Speaker 1: Giant Frankenstinian robot terrors roaming the landscape eating school children. Yes,
Speaker 1: that would be too much. No, you're right, And even
Speaker 1: with drones and the sort of thing I've suggested as possible,
Speaker 1: to do it over a population center is a hell
Speaker 1: of a thing. And I again, we have it from
Speaker 1: a very very good source, better than the New Jersey
Speaker 1: congressman with the mothership. Have it from a very good
Speaker 1: source that if there is something like that happening, the
Speaker 1: Pentagon or the CIA, whomever, we'll get in touch with
Speaker 1: local law enforcement and say, hey, guys, we can't go
Speaker 1: into the details, but if you get calls about mysterious
Speaker 1: aircraft in the area Thursday night, it's us. Don't freak out.
Speaker 1: We're happy to be of help. For obvious reasons. You
Speaker 1: don't want information, vacuums, bizarro stories, and I don't see
Speaker 1: anybody panicking, but there's a fair amount of concern.
Speaker 3: We remember that clip from the governor of the current
Speaker 3: governor of New Jersey the other day saying this is
Speaker 3: our highest priority. Yeah, this is our highest priority as
Speaker 3: the governor of a state to figure out what these are.
Speaker 1: How's he doing on that? I haven't earn anything.
Speaker 3: But how does the federal government not somehow give a
Speaker 3: Lincoln a nod to the governor of the state and
Speaker 3: say trust us, it's okay. So he's not going around
Speaker 3: saying that.
Speaker 1: You know, Let's listen to a reporter talking to a
Speaker 1: major general who did a Tuesday briefing Major General Rider.
Speaker 1: He said, they're unequivocally not the Department of Defense as
Speaker 1: far as he knows. Throws that in at the end.
Speaker 1: How about what about the drones flying over the military
Speaker 1: basis thirty five? Michael, what about the.
Speaker 5: Ones that are flying over military bases? At this point,
Speaker 5: have there been any possibilities of collecting what sort of
Speaker 5: information these drones are doing or anything of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, just to kind of put this into context,
Speaker 4: and I know that our colleagues at the White House, FAA, DHS,
Speaker 4: FBI have all.
Speaker 1: Made this point.
Speaker 4: So we're a million drones registered in the United States,
Speaker 4: and on any given day, approximately eighty five hundred drones
Speaker 4: are in flight. And so the vast majority of these
Speaker 4: drones are going to probably be recreational or hobbyist. They're
Speaker 4: going to be commercial drones, you know, used in things
Speaker 4: like architecture, engineering, farming, or they could be used for
Speaker 4: law enforcement. Is it possible that some of those drones
Speaker 4: could be up to malign activity? It's entirely possible, but
Speaker 4: the vast majority that is not the case.
Speaker 1: All Right, My talents are very modest. I played guitar
Speaker 1: like I have hooves, sing like an angry mule, gay
Speaker 1: dances athlow. Please, I can't begin to dance my athletics.
Speaker 1: Tartam is thirty five years in the rearview mirror. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, I am a world class bser, and
Speaker 1: you should never bs a bs er. That was a
Speaker 1: non answer. What about the drones near the military basis? Well,
Speaker 1: that's the first of all. I'm going to list six
Speaker 1: federal agencies. Next, I'm going to throw out a bunch
Speaker 1: of statistics about drones in the United States. There are
Speaker 1: over one million registered drones in the United States of
Speaker 1: America at any given moment, eighty five hundred of them
Speaker 1: are why.
Speaker 2: That's fascinating.
Speaker 1: I've forgotten completely about the question. I just asked, you,
Speaker 1: come on, answer that question.
Speaker 3: That something weird is going on. I just don't know
Speaker 3: which brand of weird it is.
Speaker 1: But he got to the end and said, is it
Speaker 1: possible some of them are up to my line purposes? Yes,
Speaker 1: how about the ones I just asked you about there?
Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 6: Some more business news, Walmart announced that some of their
Speaker 6: employees are.
Speaker 2: Now wearing body cameras. That's the fun way to remind.
Speaker 1: Customers, Hey, a lot of crazy shiz goes.
Speaker 2: On down here.
Speaker 4: Of course, the Walmart greeters are so oh the cameras
Speaker 4: will be shooting up their nose all the time.
Speaker 2: How do I how do I?
Speaker 6: How do I turn it back on the baby?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't worry about that, though, the fact that Walmart
Speaker 3: has existed for how many decades without locking up all
Speaker 3: the products, and then now has to lock them up
Speaker 3: and didn't have cameras on their greeters and now has
Speaker 3: to have cameras, I wouldn't worry that civilization is falling
Speaker 3: up arder aning just normal course of events speaking normal
Speaker 3: courses events. Oh, first, this a couple of NBA notes,
Speaker 3: one cultural one about the game. The NBA All Star
Speaker 3: Game is ridiculous and has been for a very long time,
Speaker 3: and they've been trying to come up with a way
Speaker 3: to make it not ridiculous. Here's their new idea for
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. The NBA All Star Game will now
Speaker 3: be a four team, three game tournament, the league announces,
Speaker 3: with different All Stars playing each other.
Speaker 2: To Trice, he was the best team.
Speaker 3: So we'll see so quadruple as many games where they
Speaker 3: don't try.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Friend of the Armstrong Engetty Show, who was at Works
Speaker 3: in Sports, sent me a video and this text last
Speaker 3: night working the NBA Cup in Vegas. Here's a snapshot
Speaker 3: of young American culture. Only one player showing respect during
Speaker 3: the anthem, my coach.
Speaker 2: He was a college basketball player.
Speaker 3: This guy, my coach would have had us had the
Speaker 3: entire team running suicides the following practice, had the only
Speaker 3: one of us not stood up straight for the sixty
Speaker 3: second anthem. That's the Houston Rockets in this video. Same
Speaker 3: level of respect with Atlanta, Oklahoma's, and Milwaukee. Another cultural
Speaker 3: decay thing that nobody seems to care about. Nice, I
Speaker 3: like your question.
Speaker 1: Has there ever been a society before that tried this
Speaker 1: experiment of teaching self loathing to their children systematically? I mean,
Speaker 1: a successful society is a society that's pioneered human rights
Speaker 1: around the globe. I mean, that's good. That holds sacred
Speaker 1: the right to free speech and trial by jury and
Speaker 1: all the rest of it teaches its kids. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's actually a force for evil. I don't know, it's sickening.
Speaker 1: Speaking of basketball, got some great emails on the ridiculous,
Speaker 1: laughable Caitlin Clark controversy in the WNBA. We can touch
Speaker 1: on those next hour. I mean, really good insights. And
Speaker 1: also the year in review of the big news stories
Speaker 1: of the year. We'll glance back and think, how the
Speaker 1: hell was anybody worried about that?
Speaker 3: Well, the election and everything that went on, it was
Speaker 3: obviously one of the biggest stories of the century.
Speaker 2: Oh, my god, mister.
Speaker 1: Biden, he's fine to run again.
Speaker 3: On an assassination A couple of assassination attempts on my god,
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty