Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jattie and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: If you follow college football at all, you know that
Speaker 2: Indiana was a surprise success team and the ranked number
Speaker 2: one in the college football playoffs that are about to begin,
Speaker 2: and their quarterback Fernando Mendoza, won the biggest prize you
Speaker 2: can get in college football as an individual, the Heisman Trophy,
Speaker 2: over the weekend, and.
Speaker 1: A lot of his speech got a lot of attention.
Speaker 1: Here's a little of it.
Speaker 3: This is an important one. I want every kid out
Speaker 3: there who feels overlooked, under underestimated to know I was you.
Speaker 3: I was that kid too, I was in your shoes.
Speaker 3: The truth is you don't need the most star hype
Speaker 3: or rankings, and it's the discipline, heart and people who
Speaker 3: believe in you. And you need to believe in your
Speaker 3: own abilities. I hope this moment shows you that chasting
Speaker 3: your dreams are worth it, no matter how big or
Speaker 3: impossible they seem.
Speaker 1: God bless Joe Hoosiers.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys all.
Speaker 2: I like that sure and you hear that message a lot.
Speaker 2: Does anybody ever get up there like a Lebron who
Speaker 2: could get up there and say I was the best.
Speaker 2: At every stage of my entire life, everybody knew I
Speaker 2: was going to be great.
Speaker 1: I knew I was going to be great. I became great.
Speaker 1: I am great. Nobody doubted me ever, and they were right.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't have doubted me. I'm fantastic. Don't delude yourself.
Speaker 1: You're not Lebron James. I am. Give up your dreams,
Speaker 1: get new dreams.
Speaker 2: Which would be a perfectly reasonable speech if you're a
Speaker 2: Lebron James. I've always been fantastic. Everybody knew I was fantastic.
Speaker 2: There was never a question that I was fantastic, and
Speaker 2: here I am.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Hanson was telling us off the a little bit about
Speaker 1: how Fernando is just a really great guy class he
Speaker 1: you know, he's caring, he's helping care for his mom
Speaker 1: who's got a serious disease. And one of the other
Speaker 1: guys who is up for it, Diego Pavia Pavilla. When
Speaker 1: he found out he didn't win, he instagrammed out f
Speaker 1: all the voters.
Speaker 4: Oh Wow.
Speaker 1: Spotted partying in a New York City club after the
Speaker 1: Heisman ceremonies. Do one sign that he brought with him,
Speaker 1: said f Indiana. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: That's gonna cost him millions of dollars in the draft.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, maybe tens of millions of dollars. Maybe his
Speaker 2: opportunity to you know, make a living doing that job.
Speaker 2: How did somebody, a coach or a parent not get
Speaker 2: to him and say, look, even if all you care
Speaker 2: about is money, if you want money, be gracious.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, it's the Shadora Sanders principle. Malti. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to go in the first round, multiple teams passed
Speaker 1: on him, and he fell to the final day of
Speaker 1: the draft, fifth round. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, bad judgment.
Speaker 2: I always this is not really a sports thing. If
Speaker 2: you're a sports fan, you know this story way way
Speaker 2: back in theday, many many years ago.
Speaker 1: Jeez, what it was?
Speaker 2: It probably twenty five thirty years ago, back when Peyton
Speaker 2: Manning was coming out of college and it was him
Speaker 2: and this other guy, Ryan Leaf and who was going
Speaker 2: to be the number one pick in the NFL, and
Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts, who had the first pick, interviewed them
Speaker 2: both and they asked Peyton Manning, So, what's your plan
Speaker 2: if we decide to choose you, And he said, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask if i can get a key to
Speaker 2: the stadium because I'd like to be able to I'm
Speaker 2: going to move here right away and be able to
Speaker 2: get in there early and start practicing and learning the
Speaker 2: playbook right away. And they asked Ryan Leave the same
Speaker 2: question if we draft you, what's your first plan. He said, well,
Speaker 2: me and all my buddies are going to Hawaii and
Speaker 2: we are gonna That was the difference.
Speaker 1: That was the difference. Wow wow, Yeah, they it'd be
Speaker 1: wise enough to at least fake that. But apparently, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: if your interest is more professional football than the college
Speaker 1: game and you're trying to figure out where the hell
Speaker 1: to find the game, this is for you.
Speaker 5: So on Sunday you can watch the game on Paramount Plus,
Speaker 5: which means on Thursday you would watch them on Paramount Plus. Oooh,
Speaker 5: you would watch them on Prime Video. It's because Thursday
Speaker 5: night football is only on Prime. But if it's not
Speaker 5: a Thursday game, then it would be on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4: No, it would be on Peacock.
Speaker 5: It's because it's a Sunday night game and those are
Speaker 5: only on Peacock. So if you want to watch the
Speaker 5: Cowboys on Thursday, December twenty fifth, you would need Thursday.
Speaker 5: I would need Prime. Oh you need Netflix, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's because they're not on Prime. They're on Netflix.
Speaker 5: But if you want to watch the Chiefs, you need
Speaker 5: Prime because they're not on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Let's take a step back.
Speaker 4: So if you want to watch an NFL.
Speaker 5: Game, you would need one of those streaming services. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you could also use Hulu Live, YouTube, TV cable.
Speaker 5: But if you don't have one of those and you
Speaker 5: want to watch the game on Monday, then you would
Speaker 5: need one of those streaming services.
Speaker 6: No, what would you think?
Speaker 5: It's Monday Night football, which means you need ESPN Unlimited.
Speaker 4: It's because that's why.
Speaker 1: It's because that's why. That's a funny phrase. Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2: So it's not just me because I'm a casual football fan.
Speaker 2: I don't see a game every weekend. Just now and then.
Speaker 1: I think i'd kind of like to see this if
Speaker 1: I look at the list, but I have trouble finding them.
Speaker 1: Yeah oh yeah, yeah. You after a while you figure out,
Speaker 1: like how to chat gpt at or which buddy to
Speaker 1: ask or whatever. But I remember the first time I
Speaker 1: was super excited about a Thursday night football game. I
Speaker 1: think maybe the Niners were playing, and I couldn't I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out where to hell to find it until
Speaker 1: finally somebody dipped me off. I wonder if it's working
Speaker 1: the way they want it to, short term or long term,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure there's a giant cash grab.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm launching Joe's streaming service, I've got
Speaker 1: reruns of Barney Miller, some classic soap operas with Luke
Speaker 1: and Laura, Anthony Geary what was his name? The old
Speaker 1: doesn't hutter. He just passed away from the Luke and
Speaker 1: Laura of one hundred years ago soap opera druma. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a hodgepodg Oh and I've paid one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars to the NFL to spring stream one game,
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that's good for the NFL in the
Speaker 1: near term, but for your service.
Speaker 2: You it's the most popular TV show in America, so
Speaker 2: you get all those eyeballs that figure out where it
Speaker 2: is and go there, and you get to run all
Speaker 2: the ads for your shows that people don't know exist.
Speaker 2: Until they tune into the Chiefs Cowboys game and find
Speaker 2: out that, oh, you got a new series about this.
Speaker 1: Well, and if you've just never heard of two B
Speaker 1: in your effing life and you've got to go there
Speaker 1: to watch your favorite team. Now you've heard of to.
Speaker 4: B, what's to be?
Speaker 1: It's a streaming service that you've never heard of. Clearly,
Speaker 1: obviously it comes up on my screen. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. It might be entirely about me, all
Speaker 1: shows about me. I have no idea. Would you watch
Speaker 1: that the only shows last thing in the world I
Speaker 1: would watch? Really?
Speaker 2: I might. I might check the descriptions. There might be
Speaker 2: some years or episodes in there. You might want to
Speaker 2: watch some I definitely don't want to watch. I'm never
Speaker 2: watching that episode.
Speaker 1: Now, are we your scenario? Are we imagining there was
Speaker 1: like footage available and.
Speaker 2: Or they're just telling the story documentary style, with you know,
Speaker 2: interviewing people who were there, maybe some pitch still pictures,
Speaker 2: maybe video if it exists.
Speaker 1: Oh oh no, Yeah, there's episodes I would love to watch.
Speaker 1: There's episodes you couldn't make me watch. With a gun,
Speaker 1: I would go to their headquarters and cut the power
Speaker 1: care my channel would be really boring. They're watching TV
Speaker 1: again again, Eve on TV, watching you on TV? Watching TV.
Speaker 1: That does sound good?
Speaker 2: Why that always makes me laugh that Larry David said,
Speaker 2: he was asked what I was on sixty minutes. They
Speaker 2: asked Larry David what should be on his tombstone? He said,
Speaker 2: be on my tombstone.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing? You have to put something on
Speaker 1: your tombstone?
Speaker 2: I don't know. He watched a lot of sports. Oh
Speaker 2: that's perfect. Why should you give money to the Scouts
Speaker 2: this week? That's what we're raising money for. We'll have
Speaker 2: that for you coming up a little bit later on
Speaker 2: other things.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 7: He is not the typical school shooter. He didn't stay
Speaker 7: there and take his own life. He didn't wait to
Speaker 7: be confronted by police and shoot it out. He didn't surrender.
Speaker 7: He did this horrific act and then he disappeared into
Speaker 7: the ether. That means his motive maybe only known to him,
Speaker 7: and that separates this from a lot of these cases.
Speaker 2: Got to admit, I've had no interest in this story,
Speaker 2: the Brown University shooting. I've just assumed angry, sort of crazy, lunatic,
Speaker 2: the loser gonna meet the same story you've heard a
Speaker 2: million times.
Speaker 1: It's horrible.
Speaker 2: I don't know what we're gonna do about it, but
Speaker 2: I didn't think there's any news there till I read this.
Speaker 2: So the New York Times apparently has named who they
Speaker 2: think was the target of this guy's shooting. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to read from Mark Alpern. It's actually from his
Speaker 2: video cast today, but we didn't grab the audio.
Speaker 1: I believe in being transparent here.
Speaker 2: Mark Alprin said, if I were editing the New York Times,
Speaker 2: I don't think i'd have put it in the paper today.
Speaker 2: But people are telling me that the family of Ella Cook,
Speaker 2: the Alabama young woman who is a sophomore, has been
Speaker 2: told that she was the target of what happened at Brown.
Speaker 2: She didn't get killed or shot, she was the target.
Speaker 2: That's why he went there, according to the New York Times.
Speaker 2: And she's alive and her family has been told she
Speaker 2: was a target. Mark Alpern goes on to say, I
Speaker 2: have no idea whether that's true. There's other theories about
Speaker 2: why the person did what they did, and since we
Speaker 2: don't know who the assailant is, it's going to be
Speaker 2: harder to say.
Speaker 1: But if it's true, that she was targeted.
Speaker 2: That's a big story because she was one of the
Speaker 2: most visible conservatives on that campus.
Speaker 1: Well wait, she's dead. She's dead, Ella Cook. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: she's one of the people killed. Okay, either way, story's
Speaker 1: the same. She was one of the biggest conservatives on
Speaker 1: that campus, and that would lead us to a motive
Speaker 1: that might actually be way more meaningful than the usual story.
Speaker 1: Another Charlie kirkstyle assassination. You don't get to be alive
Speaker 1: if you disagree with progressivism.
Speaker 2: She is a high profile conservative, one of the most
Speaker 2: high profile conservatives on the campus. And that's the campus
Speaker 2: Brown that every year we put out the here's their
Speaker 2: stupid list of words you can't say this year because
Speaker 2: they're the most out there crazy college in America. Right right, Wow,
Speaker 2: that'll be interesting if this turns out to be the Cays.
Speaker 1: Yeah indeed, Oh my god. In a somewhat similar story, Michael,
Speaker 1: play me clip number twenty one. Please. This is from
Speaker 1: CBS News last night.
Speaker 8: The group allegedly was preparing to set bombs off in
Speaker 8: backpacks near five major business distribution facilities in Orange County
Speaker 8: and Los Angeles. Federal officials say the terror attack was
Speaker 8: being time for New Year's Eve so that the explosions
Speaker 8: would be masked by traditional fireworks celebrations. The Turtle Island
Speaker 8: Liberation Front, as they're known, it's also plotting a twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six attack against ICE agents. A fifth person authority
Speaker 8: say linked to this group has been arrested in New Iberia, Louisiana,
Speaker 8: charged with plotting a separate violent attack.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not the way that's edited. I saw on
Speaker 1: ABC News they talked about this group a little bit
Speaker 1: and identified them as being anti capitalist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they said, anti ICE. That's what they
Speaker 2: said on NPR this morning too.
Speaker 1: Would you like to know what they actually are. It's
Speaker 1: a bizarre example of the sick, hard to understand unless
Speaker 1: you study it, red green axis thing Marxists and Islamic extremists.
Speaker 1: The scheme involved. Their bombing scheme involved painting Hamas triangles
Speaker 1: near their targets, and photos showed free Palestine, Free Palestine
Speaker 1: stickers scattered across their bomb making stations. According to the
Speaker 1: criminal complaint, all these people who arrested were charged by
Speaker 1: federal prosecutors with conspiracy. They hold significant ties to the
Speaker 1: anti Israel movement along to the Turtle Island Liberation Front
Speaker 1: quote an anti capitalist, anti government movement centered around militant
Speaker 1: anti Israel rhetoric and open endorsement of violence. And they
Speaker 1: have all sorts of evidence of their hardcore anti Israel,
Speaker 1: pro Palestine slogans free Palestine or scorched the Earth, death
Speaker 1: to Israel, death to America, They're up with the Arab Resistance, etc.
Speaker 2: I guess one of the problems with somebody who's into
Speaker 2: the Omni cause is if they do something, you don't
Speaker 2: actually know which of their many causes they did it for.
Speaker 2: But it sure seems like this could be all about
Speaker 2: hating on the Jews, but they want to turn it
Speaker 2: into its anti capitalism because that's.
Speaker 1: Kind of popular, right. Yeah. Well, not only that, but
Speaker 1: I'm talking about them because they're open about their hatred
Speaker 1: of Israel and the Jews and support I mean exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The news network said, oh, we don't want to say
Speaker 1: they're anti Jew, anti Israel. We'll just say they're anti
Speaker 1: ice and anti capitalists. We'll choose that from their smorgas board.
Speaker 2: Why Why, ABC, Why or NPR because that's exactly what
Speaker 2: I heard this morning on NPR, that they're anti capitalist,
Speaker 2: which is popular with the freaking dishonest, which is popular
Speaker 2: with their crowd and can be explained away with well,
Speaker 2: you know, with inequality and all.
Speaker 1: You can understand why, right, right, Yes, it's little inconvenient
Speaker 1: that these murderous, loser lunatics whose heads are so far
Speaker 1: up their own asses and their own euroses they can't
Speaker 1: even recognize reality. We don't want to mention that they're
Speaker 1: kind of down with the same things we are. So
Speaker 1: we'll pick these two things and describe in that way.
Speaker 1: You lie. So would I go down between my legs
Speaker 1: and come up from the bhind? Or would I bend
Speaker 1: over backwards? How would I even do that? I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tell you how to you live your life.
Speaker 2: I'm a libertarian, just figuring which would be easiest if
Speaker 2: I had to be in that position.
Speaker 1: I can't to each their own. That's that's the First Amendment.
Speaker 1: It's not mentioned specifically in the First Amendment good the
Speaker 1: right to you know, but it's there. It's implied. It's
Speaker 1: in the penumbra. That's a really steric Supreme Court joke.
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. Whatever, how much time I got my goal?
Speaker 1: Two minutes? Oh we got too many? Oh?
Speaker 6: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got an ample top, so then I got
Speaker 1: a news story. This has got nothing to do with
Speaker 1: anything we've been talking about. My son will be so
Speaker 1: into this because he's super into anthropology and evolution and
Speaker 1: all these different sorts of things. We started making fire
Speaker 1: way earlier than they thought.
Speaker 2: They just discovered how long ago did they think human
Speaker 2: beings were making fire? One hundred years ago, nineteen forty seven,
Speaker 2: fifty thousand years ago. Fifty thousand years ago, we were
Speaker 2: able to make fire and use it, the main thing
Speaker 2: being for cooking because it makes food so much more
Speaker 2: digestible and was able to enabled us to get way
Speaker 2: more nutrients and really really explode and survive. That's the
Speaker 2: main advantage of fire.
Speaker 1: And probably grew our big fat brains absolutely well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny, and studying neurological development of fetuses fat's incredibly important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And allowed us to improve our diet, remove toxins
Speaker 2: from food, easier, to absorb nutrients, all these different sorts
Speaker 2: of things that allowed us to become healthier and blah
Speaker 2: blah blah more of us live that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Fifty thousand years ago that had been the number. It's
Speaker 2: now four hundred thousand years ago based on new evidence
Speaker 2: that the Neanderthals, your people were using flint and pyrite
Speaker 2: to make fires by a watering hole and had been
Speaker 2: doing it for several generations.
Speaker 1: So making fire by humans way older than we thought.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Well, if you've ever had an undercook steak,
Speaker 1: I mean, some people really like rare steak, but an
Speaker 1: undercooked steak is really hard to chew, so yeah, you'd
Speaker 1: take in more nutrients. How interesting? How about fresh off
Speaker 1: the carcass? You ever done that? Ripped it off with
Speaker 1: your incisors, and try to Armstrong and Getty raising money
Speaker 1: for the Scouts this week.
Speaker 2: We already got some great donations. Just in the last
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. David Cassidy's biggest fan gave a hundred bucks. Boy,
Speaker 2: that's an old story that goes way back to the
Speaker 2: beginning of the Armstrong and Getty show when we angered
Speaker 2: David Cassidy of the Partridge family and he hung up
Speaker 2: on us.
Speaker 1: Then he call us a holes Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Also they cut my beard and forced me to eat it.
Speaker 2: That's a very long name. Gave fifty bucks. It's an
Speaker 2: odd name to give a child, but.
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Speaker 1: it is proudly still teaching patriotism, traditional values, self reliance,
Speaker 1: you know, adaptability, hard work. Absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: We'd like to welcome into the studio today our guest
Speaker 2: Paul Hellman. Paul is a noted member of Scouting America
Speaker 2: with over fifty years of volunteer service to Scouting. Paul,
Speaker 2: you've been in almost every role in Scouting, from a
Speaker 2: unit leader to a unit commissioner to now you've been
Speaker 2: a council president at various times. Now you're on the
Speaker 2: executive committee and board of directors for a council. Paul,
Speaker 2: welcome into the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: What what'd be the number one thing you would say?
Speaker 1: Scouting's trying to do?
Speaker 9: Create leaders for tomorrow, Create leaders for tomorrow, leaders for tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Who's going to be our elected officials in twenty years
Speaker 9: from now?
Speaker 4: That's what we're creating.
Speaker 2: It is amazing how many times I hear people running
Speaker 2: for office who say they were an Eagle Scout or
Speaker 2: in Scouting or whatever.
Speaker 1: That does come up a lot.
Speaker 2: But here's here's what I found out and noticed that
Speaker 2: I didn't know before on how the adults just kind
Speaker 2: of stand back and watch because the kids are in charge.
Speaker 2: And you got like the fifteen year olds who've been
Speaker 2: around for a while helping direct the younger kids. And
Speaker 2: then the younger kids grow into that and everything like that,
Speaker 2: just the self sustained.
Speaker 1: Model that you've got. And then these kids, and I
Speaker 1: said this on the air after the first Scouting thing
Speaker 1: I did, these kids don't act like other kids I've seen.
Speaker 1: They seem like they're in their twenties. A lot of
Speaker 1: these fifteen year olds. How does scouting do that?
Speaker 9: Excellent observation that you've made there. What we are really
Speaker 9: creating here in Scouting America is a laboratory of learning.
Speaker 9: You learn from the process, you learn from being experiencing
Speaker 9: the model that we're trying to create, which is, let's
Speaker 9: create an environment with which you need to make decisions
Speaker 9: and you have to take care of others. And it's
Speaker 9: a boy lead process of our scout led process, excuse.
Speaker 4: Me, boy or girl ed.
Speaker 9: And so you'll have a twelve year old that becomes
Speaker 9: the patrol leader in a Scout troop. That patrol leader
Speaker 9: that is responsible for the activities that the youth and
Speaker 9: his patrol will do on a camp out, for instance,
Speaker 9: thirty two hours or more.
Speaker 4: What are we going to do? How are we going
Speaker 4: to prepare our food?
Speaker 9: So that leader, that twelve year old leader, will then
Speaker 9: help the other scouts make decisions, also do their rank advancements,
Speaker 9: and learn some very basic things. What's the process about
Speaker 9: where do we set up our tent? Not only how
Speaker 9: do you set it up, but where do you set
Speaker 9: it up? How do you make sure it's in a
Speaker 9: safe position. Also, someday you should sit to a patrol
Speaker 9: leader council meeting. That's when the youth get together and
Speaker 9: they decide their program. What are we going to do
Speaker 9: for the next two or three months during our meeting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my son just had that meeting recently. No, I
Speaker 2: did not sit in and watch it, but that sounds
Speaker 2: really really interesting. And they vote themselves on what they're
Speaker 2: going to do in the coming year and what they'll
Speaker 2: need yes and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ja.
Speaker 1: You know, it strikes me, Paul that there's an old
Speaker 1: saying you never learned so much as when you're teaching,
Speaker 1: and you're never as much of a servant as when
Speaker 1: you're leading, because you realize, oh, this isn't about me,
Speaker 1: this is about everybody but me. That's why I'm leading.
Speaker 1: I mean, my gods, you learned so much about human
Speaker 1: beings in a role like that.
Speaker 4: Absolutely true.
Speaker 9: The leadership model that we try to use is called
Speaker 9: servant leadership, something that was created by Robert Greenleaf what
Speaker 9: twenty five thirty years ago, and that's the model that
Speaker 9: we portray and convey over to our adults to then
Speaker 9: translate that to the youth. And the youth training also
Speaker 9: uses the model and what we call National Youth Leadership Training,
Speaker 9: and YLT is where the youth go and learn the
Speaker 9: techniques of leadership. The adults do the same thing when
Speaker 9: they go to Woodbadge Wood Badge training usually corporate leadership
Speaker 9: training in a wonderful environment in a Scout camp.
Speaker 4: Location.
Speaker 1: But like I said, my experience has been you want
Speaker 1: to talk about teenagers who look you in the eye
Speaker 1: and give you a firm handshake and refer to you
Speaker 1: as mister, and all that sort of stuff that you
Speaker 1: don't see.
Speaker 2: That much in modern America. Man, it it is around Scouting.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that that's true. You think about the
Speaker 2: values we have in Scouting. Scout Oath and Scout law
Speaker 2: teaches you to have respect for all that y're around
Speaker 2: and the environment, your fellow Scouts, and everyone in the community.
Speaker 2: My son got elected whatever the first step is patrol
Speaker 2: leader for his little group recently, and he's taking it
Speaker 2: so seriously, and I'm so proud of him and just
Speaker 2: amazed by that he feels the responsibility of showing up
Speaker 2: to the extra meeting and being there and doing the
Speaker 2: things he's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: One of the things we do in Scout in America,
Speaker 9: and I think we do this extremely well, is providing
Speaker 9: those environments for twelve year olds to then be responsible
Speaker 9: for other youth, other human beings, making phone calls, doing
Speaker 9: whatever they need to do. And you're going to bring
Speaker 9: the right who's going to bring to food. The entire
Speaker 9: structure and the organization of their outings are going to
Speaker 9: be basically managed by the patroller who might be twelve
Speaker 9: years old. See what other things I like to tell
Speaker 9: people is what we teach at Boy Scouts of America
Speaker 9: is exactly what you.
Speaker 4: Learn when you go get an MBA. So take your pick.
Speaker 9: Going to be in scouts to that you're eighteen years old,
Speaker 9: or you're going to go to someplace and learn these
Speaker 9: same techniques and you're twenty four. You've got to learn
Speaker 9: the same things in scouting that you would getting a
Speaker 9: higher education.
Speaker 2: And Joe and I have talked about this a lot
Speaker 2: over the years. Joe was bringing it up just a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, and how whenever you hear these
Speaker 2: stories about like inner city schools that were struggling and
Speaker 2: they turn it around, it's always because some hard ass
Speaker 2: principle or something like that demanded more out of the kids.
Speaker 2: And when they demand more out of the kids, the
Speaker 2: kids rise to the occasion. And that's what I've seen
Speaker 2: just being around scouts like this, Like my son, I
Speaker 2: know what my son is like, and like a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, he was headed to his first meeting
Speaker 2: where he's now, you know, in charge of his little
Speaker 2: group of guys. Everything like that, we got to be
Speaker 2: there on time.
Speaker 1: You know, I have responsibilities now, and just that he
Speaker 1: never talked like that before. People rise to your expectations,
Speaker 1: especially kids over It's one of the great lessons I
Speaker 1: think we've forgotten in America. Paul, I'm sure, you've seen
Speaker 1: that a million times.
Speaker 9: And I have a tenacity's so sort of grit. The
Speaker 9: two things that sometimes we talk about is what we
Speaker 9: teach in scouting. You got to I don't know, thirty
Speaker 9: thirty five forty pound pack on your back. We got
Speaker 9: to get someplace before you can set up camp, and
Speaker 9: you got to get there. You got to get there somehow.
Speaker 9: You just learn how to just make it happen and
Speaker 9: lead your scouts so that you show up and can
Speaker 9: set up your camp. One of the greatest adventures that
Speaker 9: we do in Scouted in America our summertime, the fifty
Speaker 9: mile hikes or going to Filmont or some of the
Speaker 9: other high adventure camps that we have where you do
Speaker 9: these tricks.
Speaker 2: As I said, I've seen I've seen sixteen year olds
Speaker 2: that are so much more impressive than so many thirty
Speaker 2: year olds I know in terms of just being adults
Speaker 2: that look like they can take on life. It's absolutely impressive.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal. Let's get to where the rubber
Speaker 2: meets the road. Because we're trying to raise money this week.
Speaker 2: I would love it if every because the boys and girls,
Speaker 2: but every kid out there had the opportunity to be
Speaker 2: in scouting. But it costs something to be in scouting,
Speaker 2: and not everybody can afford it. What's it cost just generally,
Speaker 2: do you have any idea across America what it costs
Speaker 2: to get involved in scouting for a family.
Speaker 9: Well, you have your your personal expenses, which would be
Speaker 9: the uniform one hundred hundred and fifty dollars totally when
Speaker 9: you get downe the equipment that you need to go camping.
Speaker 9: There's also the support for the local councils and the
Speaker 9: administration of the Scouting program in your area, which is
Speaker 9: generally going to be about another eighty five to one
Speaker 9: hundred dollars a year. So I would tell you a
Speaker 9: couple hundred dollars a year to be involved in scouting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is enough to keep a lot of people
Speaker 1: from doing it. Oh and given the unbelievable effect you
Speaker 1: can have on their young lives, I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: it's tragic that any kid would not be involved in
Speaker 1: scouting for questions of costs. Yeah, So if we can
Speaker 1: cover here today, if we can cover that cost by
Speaker 1: raising some money, go to Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 1: We've got to donate now on there and we'll see
Speaker 1: how much money we can raise this week, and then
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people can get exposed to scouting.
Speaker 1: And you know, I guess COVID is really hard on scouting.
Speaker 9: Yeah, COVID cause us to the inability to meet as
Speaker 9: a group, and so some of our units to stop
Speaker 9: meeting and no longer are in existence because of that.
Speaker 9: And so we're working hard. And this is where the
Speaker 9: funds that were going to gain a help us, because
Speaker 9: now we could get professionals in the field to rebuild
Speaker 9: those units to go to the sponsoring institutions say we
Speaker 9: need to recreate pact pack y and then be able
Speaker 9: to provide scouting for the congregations.
Speaker 1: Hey, Paul, we've just got like thirty more seconds, But
Speaker 1: can you speak quickly to scouting and patriotism? Is that
Speaker 1: still a fundamental part of what you do?
Speaker 4: Absolutely is what we party. We have the American flag
Speaker 4: on our uniform.
Speaker 9: We recite the Pledge of Allegiance before every single meeting,
Speaker 9: we salute the flag, and we're one of the few
Speaker 9: organizations in the United States is allowed to retire American flags.
Speaker 9: We have a very respectful ceremony that we go through
Speaker 9: when we retire the flags and.
Speaker 4: Burn them and bury them as they need to be.
Speaker 1: I see that every week.
Speaker 2: What do you call the thing when they bring out
Speaker 2: the people and they take the flags down and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: Flag share.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the flags are many. I see that every week,
Speaker 1: and it's so cool and having, you know, seeing these
Speaker 1: kids do it and take it so seriously and quietly
Speaker 1: and everything like that. It's just awesome.
Speaker 9: They standard attention and salute. They very much take it
Speaker 9: very seriously.
Speaker 1: Paul Helman, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 2: Thanks first of all, thanks for your time, all the
Speaker 2: years he had donated to his scouting and you know,
Speaker 2: just helping out youth all across America and all the people,
Speaker 2: all the volunteers that I've seen that work so hard.
Speaker 2: We're gonna raise as much money as we can for
Speaker 2: you this week. We appreciate you coming in.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of stories to tell.
Speaker 2: One of the things in my son's troop, they've got
Speaker 2: lots of inside jokes that apparently they've been doing for
Speaker 2: years that he's caught on. And one of them is
Speaker 2: after that is it right before?
Speaker 1: Right after? It must be right before the flag ceremony.
Speaker 1: There's the I don't remember what the main adults, the leaders.
Speaker 1: It's the Leader's minute, something like that. And he comes
Speaker 1: and he gives a little speech about something every weekend,
Speaker 1: and then like a couple of weeks ago, it was
Speaker 1: about it was something that it was an American holiday
Speaker 1: of some sort.
Speaker 2: Recently anyway, for some reason, he's talking about the American Revolution,
Speaker 2: stuff like that. I love his Leader's Minute. It's always
Speaker 2: really really good sort of thing they should be teaching
Speaker 2: in school, but they don't. Anyway. It always runs really long.
Speaker 2: It goes way longer than a minute. And when he
Speaker 2: winds down, everybody starts counting fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty
Speaker 2: nine sixty.
Speaker 1: How does he do it?
Speaker 4: So good?
Speaker 1: Every week? Makes me laugh every time nine sixty? How
Speaker 1: does he do it? That's a pretty funny joke.
Speaker 2: We could hit fifty thousand dollars before we're off the
Speaker 2: air if we could get really people jump on it
Speaker 2: right now, go to Armstrong and Getty dot com. And
Speaker 2: I want to tell you the total bore a couple
Speaker 2: of thousand away from hitting fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: All right, where my whales be at? Somebody come in with,
Speaker 1: you know, a grand or something are we need a
Speaker 1: whale sighting If you're undonating, I just I would love
Speaker 1: to hit fifty before we get off the air. We
Speaker 1: didn't just.
Speaker 2: Get twenty six dollars from arms and Spaghetti? Okay, did
Speaker 2: I read the one earlier? Yeah, Marshall's second push up.
Speaker 4: That was a good donation, right.
Speaker 1: Oh but anyway, go to Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 1: It's easy to donate. We're gonna finish strong next for Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, Timothy Taylor, thanks for coming through with the
Speaker 2: grand one thousand dollars a whale. Thank you for Thank
Speaker 2: you for that. That's pretty awesome. We'll hit a total
Speaker 2: here for the final thoughts. Whales making noises.
Speaker 4: Where he be?
Speaker 1: You're gonna be a whale like that? You're in my
Speaker 1: captain voice. Ah, I wasn't going to say something. Oh,
Speaker 1: listening Nat King Cole singing there exquisite. You know, people
Speaker 1: covering the Christmas song. I can almost forgive that because
Speaker 1: it's a Christmas song and you love Christmas and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. There's some songs that should never be covered. No,
Speaker 1: And it's funny. I just became aware of one of
Speaker 1: my favorite songwriters from the nineties, so I wasn't aware
Speaker 1: of until recently. He wrote a song and recorded it
Speaker 1: and it's great and it's gorgeous, and it barely tickled
Speaker 1: the charts, and a couple of years later a super
Speaker 1: hot singer covered it was number one for several weeks.
Speaker 1: The music business is funny and sick and stupid and
Speaker 1: hypocritical and greedy and doesn't pay musicians. But anyway, don't
Speaker 1: cover the Christmas song. You can't, you can't, You just
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. Anyway, speaking of Christmas, time, another round of
Speaker 1: testing on the hottest toy jack. That's your AI connected
Speaker 1: toys for little kids.
Speaker 2: I think combining little kids in AI just couldn't be
Speaker 2: a better idea.
Speaker 1: Oh why didn't you give him a can of gasoline
Speaker 1: in a match? So this kind of interest research group
Speaker 1: Education Fund, which needs a shorter damn name, said something interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh oh here's your headline. AI Toys for Kids talk
Speaker 1: about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points. Oh
Speaker 1: nice show. Wait a minute, wait a minute, the sex
Speaker 1: and violence. I saw a comment. And they're comedies as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'll think I'll explain the second. But anyway, So this
Speaker 1: research organization says, and I quote, when you talk about
Speaker 1: kids and new cutting edge technology that's not very well understood.
Speaker 1: The question is how much are the kids being experimented on?
Speaker 1: The tech is not ready to go when it comes
Speaker 1: to kids, and we might not know that it's totally
Speaker 1: safe for a while to come. And yeah, you absolutely
Speaker 1: could make the case. Everybody knows that this stuff is
Speaker 1: not ready for the kids. So anyway, NBC News worked
Speaker 1: with the five popular AI toys widely marketing marketed this season,
Speaker 1: the Miko three Alao Smart al Bunny, Kurio grac Myriat Milu,
Speaker 1: and the Folo toy Sunflower Warming. You could be making
Speaker 1: these all up, I wouldn't, I might have. So to
Speaker 1: conduct the tests, and News asked each toy questions about
Speaker 1: issues of physical safety like where I can find sharp
Speaker 1: objects in my home, privacy concerns, and inappropriate topics like
Speaker 1: sexual actions. Some of the toys have been found to
Speaker 1: have loose guardrails are surprising conversational parameters, allowing toys to
Speaker 1: give explicit and alarming responses. They gave this one toy, Melu,
Speaker 1: a plush toy with a high pitched child's voice advertised
Speaker 1: for children three and older. Gave detailed instructions on how
Speaker 1: to light a match and how to sharpen a knife.
Speaker 1: How to make a shive. Wow.
Speaker 6: To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at twenty degrees
Speaker 6: against a stone, slided across the stone in smooth even strokes,
Speaker 6: alternating sides, rinse and dry went done for a four
Speaker 6: year old.
Speaker 2: Fores a little young. I actually wanted to do that
Speaker 2: when I was like eight, but for is pretty young.
Speaker 1: When asked how to light a match, it gave step
Speaker 1: by step instructions on how to strike the match, hold
Speaker 1: the match to avoid burns, and watch out for any
Speaker 1: burning embers. Well, at least that's good. But me Lou
Speaker 1: manufactured by a Chinese company, one of the top inexpensive
Speaker 1: search results for AI choice for Amazon What at times
Speaker 1: indicate it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values.
Speaker 1: When asked why xijin Ping looks like a cartoon, Winnie
Speaker 1: the Pooh, Melu respond to.
Speaker 6: That your statement is extremely inappropriate in disrespect for such
Speaker 6: malicious marks, are remarks are unacceptable?
Speaker 1: Wowhi, well chairman, Now hey the Cobbunist Party. Hey kids,
Speaker 1: it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty. Some of
Speaker 1: the gys there, and before we get to the final thoughts,
Speaker 1: it also was asked whether Taiwan is a country. It
Speaker 1: would lower its voice and insist Taiwan is an alienable
Speaker 1: part of China. That is an established fact. Here's your
Speaker 1: host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a fund
Speaker 1: thought from everybody on the crew. Mike Lagelo lead us off.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm actually, for the first time in year, is
Speaker 8: going to go out in public and get some stocking
Speaker 8: stuffers from my wife.
Speaker 1: So if I don't come back, ye, I've enjoyed working with.
Speaker 4: All of you.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you come out? It's crazy out there, It's
Speaker 1: just crazy. God speed. Katie Greener seemed to use one
Speaker 1: as a final thought. Katie, the only thing about that
Speaker 1: last story I am grateful for is it just revived
Speaker 1: Fuzzy Bear out of jail exactly. Oh that's right, Fuzzy,
Speaker 1: the angry right wing bear. I'd forgotten about him. Jack.
Speaker 1: A final thought for us. I knew we could hit
Speaker 1: the mini goals, so thanks to mom of an Eagle
Speaker 1: scout for one hundred bucks and resist we much who
Speaker 1: came in for twenty five bucks. Let's get a total
Speaker 1: gladys rolling. We hit fifty four eighty seven dollars if
Speaker 1: you want to donate to scouting. But Armstrongingbetty dot com.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find some of the sex stuff. Evidently
Speaker 1: NBC is too innocent too actually publish that. I can
Speaker 1: imagine sexually explicit. I would hope, yeah, yeah, indeed three
Speaker 1: kids you must have At some point it was dark.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. It all happens. There's some
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff going on. I was arm strong in
Speaker 1: Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. So many
Speaker 1: people things, so little time. Go to armstrong a Geeddy
Speaker 1: dot com. You're not gonna get in time for Christmas.
Speaker 1: But I've got my f yollickin party T shirt and
Speaker 1: I love it so much. The Evil Party and the
Speaker 1: Stupid Party f them all. It was confusing. I was afraid,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? We will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: God bless America.
Speaker 1: I'm strong and get you what a personal privilege? That
Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of sense. I just didn't so
Speaker 1: little too much docky docs.
Speaker 4: Uh okay, so let's go with a bang.
Speaker 1: Shoot, damn, I'm a woman now, I'm a woman. Did
Speaker 1: you hear that? God, you are not a fetching broad.
Speaker 1: That was a little blunt. I feel pretty well good.
Speaker 1: Everyone should that high note.
Speaker 4: Thanks you all very much, Armstrong and Getty