Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie
Speaker 1: and Key Armstrong and Jeddy live even from Studio C.
Speaker 1: So let's say signor it is a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2: We're deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getting
Speaker 2: Communications compound, last full week before Christmas, Holy Cow, and
Speaker 2: today we're under the tutelage of our general manager, honorary
Speaker 2: honorary general manager Rob Reiner.
Speaker 1: What the hell yeah, our.
Speaker 2: Actual general manager today the Boy Scouts. Jack will explain, Well,
Speaker 2: we're gonna raise money for this for Scouting USA this week.
Speaker 2: It's our last week of being on there, so last
Speaker 2: week of shows for twenty twenty five. I'm gonna make
Speaker 2: it a rarely really big push to raise money for
Speaker 2: Scouting USA. And we'll explain why we think that's a
Speaker 2: good idea a little bit later. We're hoping that as
Speaker 2: you're running around spending money on everything in the world,
Speaker 2: including yourself, you can throw a couple of dollars the
Speaker 2: direction of Scouting USA and let's see how much money
Speaker 2: we can raise, if nothing else, to allow more kids
Speaker 2: to join that maybe don't have the funds to be
Speaker 2: able to do so, but we'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and why it's impossible.
Speaker 2: You've got the war on boys, you've got the left
Speaker 2: demonizing boys, and you got a great organization that to
Speaker 2: advocate traditional values and training kids up to be great
Speaker 2: young men. I love it, Ron, if you haven't heard
Speaker 2: me talk about it, the the what I've seen since
Speaker 2: my son joined Boy Scouts last March is just stunning.
Speaker 2: Stunning is an organization. So I can't wait to talk
Speaker 2: about that later. I am as always shocked by what
Speaker 2: the news decides to cover. There are three big stories
Speaker 2: going right now, and it seems like they put the
Speaker 2: only one of world significance last. Rob Reiner and his
Speaker 2: wife being stabbed to death is a very interesting story,
Speaker 2: and we will talk about it, no doubt, but it
Speaker 2: is of no greater significance to anyone outside the Reiner family,
Speaker 2: really friends and family. Then he got the shooting at
Speaker 2: Brown University, which I suppose it's got a little significance.
Speaker 2: But we have one of these a week, and it's
Speaker 2: always some angry nut job and we never come to
Speaker 2: any conclusion. Happens too often. But maybe you want to
Speaker 2: talk about this or that. But but the one that
Speaker 2: they put in third place if they mention it at all,
Speaker 2: the slaying of all those people in Australia, clearly by
Speaker 2: by by people that tore allegiance to ISIS who wanted
Speaker 2: to kill Jews.
Speaker 1: That is of huge global significance and.
Speaker 2: A problem the world needs to deal with, and it's
Speaker 2: being put in third place at best as a news story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's covered at all, it's.
Speaker 2: Well, the shocking rise in anti semitism in the United States, Wow,
Speaker 2: the shocking rise anti semitism in Australia dot dot dot,
Speaker 2: Germany dot dot dot, Britain, France, wherever, And nobody ever says,
Speaker 2: where's all this anti semitism coming from? Exactly? Okay, part
Speaker 2: of its young woke types, young leftists.
Speaker 1: Who's pushing them in that direction? Anybody ever asked that.
Speaker 2: No, it's acted as if it's a you know, dots
Speaker 2: that are utterly unconnectable. What a strange coincidence. Well, let's
Speaker 2: just move on because I'm uncomfortable with this discussion. Well,
Speaker 2: the way I just heard it's portrayed on NPR was
Speaker 2: it's a gun issue. It's clearly a gun issue. Australia's
Speaker 2: going to take a long look at their gun laws
Speaker 2: see if they can tighten them, and how did these
Speaker 2: guys get their guns? And they're going hard at that.
Speaker 2: The problem is not the gun thing. The problem is
Speaker 2: you got a whole bunch of fundamentalist Muslims pouring into
Speaker 2: various countries who one eight Jews or two don't believe
Speaker 2: in your structure of society and everything else and have
Speaker 2: no interest in assimilating. And what is the world going.
Speaker 1: To do with that?
Speaker 2: That is a huge story, like world changing makes history
Speaker 2: books two hundred years from now. Story.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just reading more about the crackdown on free
Speaker 2: speech in Europe and particularly Britain, which is perhaps the worst,
Speaker 2: which is sad because that's our old Grandpappy Britain. And
Speaker 2: the point that I should say, the motivation behind a
Speaker 2: lot of the crackdown on you know, social media posts
Speaker 2: that could bring discomfort or strife for whatever the idiotic
Speaker 2: wording of these laws is is the authorities are desperate
Speaker 2: to just like, let's just not have any conflict. Let's
Speaker 2: just pretend there's no conflict here at all, and maybe
Speaker 2: everything will calm down and everybody'll be fine. It's the classic,
Speaker 2: you know, ignoring a problem until it becomes so terrible
Speaker 2: there's no ignoring it, and you'll let it go too far.
Speaker 2: I was actually thinking, I'm glad this is our raising
Speaker 2: money for a good cause. It comes at a good
Speaker 2: time because there's some horrible things going on. Number what
Speaker 2: you're going to be solved in a this week, and
Speaker 2: maybe we can focus on good for a little bit
Speaker 2: this week, as opposed to have to talk about that
Speaker 2: all the time, because that is a frustrating topic the
Speaker 2: whole I assume you heard if you follow the news
Speaker 2: at all. But somebody went on to the campus of
Speaker 2: Brown University, which is in Providence, Rhode Island, and started
Speaker 2: firing off their gun and killed people. One of those
Speaker 2: kind of shootings. The interesting one on this one is
Speaker 2: they ain't got the shooter. Usually the shooter is dead
Speaker 2: or arrested. Usually dead, sometimes arrested on the loose, not
Speaker 2: very often.
Speaker 1: That's a new one.
Speaker 2: Shadowy figure caught on video dressed all in black dot
Speaker 2: DT no idea who he is or where he went.
Speaker 2: Then to the story that is of no greedier significance,
Speaker 2: but certainly damned interesting. How does a giant Hollywood icon
Speaker 2: and his wife end up stabbed to death in a really,
Speaker 2: really fancy neighborhood with all kinds of protection.
Speaker 1: And here's right, I jump in and and disagree with you.
Speaker 2: There's a good chance it has no greater significance a
Speaker 2: decent chance. It also absolutely could be yet another tale
Speaker 2: of a multiple arrest see perhaps convict turned loose by
Speaker 2: California's justice system over and over again, or a junkie
Speaker 2: that's been allowed to just continue being a lawless junkie
Speaker 2: for years and years on the streets of California. You're
Speaker 2: not leaning toward the kid, like the New York Post is.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know they got they got a kid who's
Speaker 2: been homeless, in a drug addict a lot of his
Speaker 2: adult life. Seems like it was somebody who was able
Speaker 2: to get into the house easily.
Speaker 1: Right right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's interesting how the respectable media and maybe this is
Speaker 2: a good thing is not going there.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think it is a good thing.
Speaker 2: Well, the first story I've written in the New York Post,
Speaker 2: I mean, like shortly after the news broke was then
Speaker 2: they just went to a paragraph about the kid who's
Speaker 2: had all kinds of drug problems a bit on the street,
Speaker 2: and I thought, was there a sentence that transitioned to
Speaker 2: this or you just throw that in there? I mean,
Speaker 2: what what what are you trying to imply here? I mean,
Speaker 2: do you have any knowledge that we don't have? I mean,
Speaker 2: they just threw in a paragraph out of nowhere about
Speaker 2: their kid and his problems, and I thought what. But
Speaker 2: then later then the reporting started to be be that
Speaker 2: the police were actually looking at the kid. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the daughter, I guess, told the cops, hey, look to
Speaker 2: the sun.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, certainly New York Post is like the talk
Speaker 2: radio of newspapers.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it might be true, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and say it.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, well, you know, which is its own value,
Speaker 2: especially with Twitter out there, which is going to do
Speaker 2: it anyway.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But that would that wouldn't you know? And this is
Speaker 2: awful obviously if it isn't the kid and he's like
Speaker 2: got his act together and he's like, hey, I'm I
Speaker 2: was playing tennis. I'm sad as hell, my parents just
Speaker 2: got killed. Leave me alone. But yeah, the idea that
Speaker 2: somebody that could get into the house would be welcomed.
Speaker 1: Into the house.
Speaker 2: I was surprised when I heard they're now treating it
Speaker 2: as a homicide. You don't see a lot of murder
Speaker 2: suicides with stabbings. No, Yeah, good lord, that's quite either way,
Speaker 2: it's horrific.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Anyway, obviously, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I saw somebody label him as one of the
Speaker 2: biggest figures in the history of television, and I'd say
Speaker 2: that has to be true television and movies, he definitely
Speaker 2: would be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'd be one of the big giant, absolute giant. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And we'll go through his credits, but they are many.
Speaker 2: He was on Bill Maher's Basement Show just a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. I watched it. It's very, very funny.
Speaker 2: I loved the stuff when they weren't being political because
Speaker 2: I don't agree with Meathead's politics, but it's funny that
Speaker 2: is his character on TV that made him famous was
Speaker 2: the same like as who he was. That may be
Speaker 2: one of the reasons he was able to portray Meatheads
Speaker 2: so authentic and maybe it's straight out of his heart.
Speaker 2: But anyway, on the Bill Marshaw, when they weren't talking politics,
Speaker 2: he was a very very entertaining guy with Hollywood stories
Speaker 2: and just just a funny, funny dude.
Speaker 1: Oh, hilariously funny. Yeah, incredibly talented.
Speaker 2: That's why I wish artists would just maybe not be
Speaker 2: quite so obnoxious. I mean, if you want to express
Speaker 2: your point of view, fine, but you don't have to
Speaker 2: be like obnoxious and mean about it.
Speaker 1: And he was frequently. But anyway, he.
Speaker 2: Didn't deserve to be killed, probably by his wayward son.
Speaker 2: And then another shocking headline we'll talk about later, Jimmy
Speaker 2: Lai was found guilty in his trial in Hong Kong.
Speaker 2: That's a shock since the Chinese Communist Party had taken
Speaker 2: over the justice system there and hate him, and he's
Speaker 2: probably going to die in jail. He should be a
Speaker 2: hero for the world. He should get the Nobel Peace
Speaker 2: Prize or something someday. You know, I'm going to make
Speaker 2: it an interesting point here, or I'm going to make
Speaker 2: a point. I'll let you be the judge of it's interesting.
Speaker 2: I was going through emails preparing mail bag for later
Speaker 2: in the hour, and one of our beloved listeners expressed
Speaker 2: to us what a horrible weekend it was with the
Speaker 2: murder of the Jewish people in Australia, shooting at Brown University,
Speaker 2: the killing of the rhiners, et cetera, et cetera. And
Speaker 2: it struck me that, you know, none of those really
Speaker 2: impacted that person or me personally, and I certainly would
Speaker 2: have come across the accounts of them, read about them,
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. But I just thought it was
Speaker 2: an interesting notion because horrible, ugly things happened.
Speaker 1: It was a somewhere in the world.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible weekend, and if you direct your
Speaker 2: gaze in the right directions, you're gonna have a horrible weekend,
Speaker 2: in a horrible day every single day of your life.
Speaker 2: I mean, just look at Africa for instance. I won't
Speaker 2: go into detail, but.
Speaker 3: There's carnage and genocide going on there you don't even
Speaker 3: want to hear about. So it's just yet another example
Speaker 3: of the omnipresence of the worst things on earth in
Speaker 3: our news feeds and the rest of.
Speaker 1: It all the time. It's not healthy. No, human beings
Speaker 1: are not designed for that.
Speaker 2: We're designed to experience life personally, not by proxy from
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand miles away the worst.
Speaker 1: Stuff they can find.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that person meant, you know, for the
Speaker 2: news cycle, it was a bad weekend, not for my life.
Speaker 2: If taking in the news means you had a bad weekend.
Speaker 2: That's not good. Well, yeah, I wouldn't fault them, though.
Speaker 2: I think they're making a very common Uh well, they're
Speaker 2: having a very common experience. You get all of this horror,
Speaker 2: horror washing over you, and it starts to affect you.
Speaker 1: I know it does me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We made Christmas cookies, watch some Christmas shows, worked
Speaker 2: at the Christmas tree lot for the Boy Scouts, variety
Speaker 2: of things. My son volunteered with the food bank on
Speaker 2: Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: It was all good stuff. Very few rapes or murders
Speaker 1: in my life over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Favorite cookie round the horn, don't think about it. Favorite cookie, Jack,
Speaker 2: you want to lead. It's got to be these sugar
Speaker 2: cookies for Christmas? Why are they Why do we only
Speaker 2: make them once a year. They're the best cookie in
Speaker 2: the world because we'd all weigh eight hundred times if
Speaker 2: they didn't. It's got to be carefully limited.
Speaker 1: Michael.
Speaker 2: Favorite cookie snickerdoodle. Oh, the snickerdoodle is a fun shoot.
Speaker 2: Fancy oh fancy Katie Green. Favorite cookie the classic chocolate chip. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's pretty hard to be homemade chocolate chip. I got
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: I'm with Katie on that one. Yeah, dang it.
Speaker 2: Christmas cookie is good though with the frosting on it,
Speaker 2: the butter cream frosting. Holy crap. Okay, we got to
Speaker 2: start the show officially. We're running out of time.
Speaker 1: I ate like five of them last night, only five.
Speaker 1: My son did all the work. That means ten.
Speaker 2: It's like cops say they have to double drinks when
Speaker 2: they ask you how many drinks you had when they
Speaker 2: pull you over, you have to double it. So you
Speaker 2: like doctors say, ask him how much they exercise, then
Speaker 2: cut it in half, ask him how much they drink,
Speaker 2: then double it.
Speaker 1: That's the truth.
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Speaker 4: And of course I'm going to say a few words
Speaker 4: about the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, So when first,
Speaker 4: of course is I always say, no matter what, go bills,
Speaker 4: they beat the Patriots today.
Speaker 1: It's a big deal. Wow.
Speaker 2: As a Jewish guy, I'm gonna say something about the
Speaker 2: slaughter of Jews in Australia, but first go bills. Yeah wow, wow, Okay,
Speaker 2: we got Katie's headlines on the way, stay here arm Strong,
Speaker 2: he Geeddy.
Speaker 1: We've done a couple.
Speaker 2: Of great texts from people whose kids went through Boy
Speaker 2: Scouts and want to talk about how great it was
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Speaker 1: Katie Green has who's reporting?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: It's the lead story, Katie, what's happening?
Speaker 5: So much awful news, the big stories of Brown University shooting.
Speaker 5: So we'll start with the three headlines from there from NBC.
Speaker 5: Person of Interest in Brown University shooting to be released
Speaker 5: as Manhunt for killer is on the way.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that thought it was you anyway, Have a nice.
Speaker 5: Day, yeah, CNN Manhunt for Brown University shooter enters third day,
Speaker 5: and ABC mayor says anxiety level has risen a mid
Speaker 5: mad hunt.
Speaker 1: All right, Fox News.
Speaker 5: Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner and wife Michelle found
Speaker 5: dead as rumors swirl.
Speaker 2: Every sounds like a family thing. Yeah, everybody on the
Speaker 2: text line, it was the son. It was the son.
Speaker 2: It was the son though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, terrible.
Speaker 5: Washington Post Australian officials alleged Bondai beach shooting was carried
Speaker 5: out by father and son.
Speaker 1: Radical Muslims hated the Jews.
Speaker 2: You see, their religions superior to everyone's, and they want
Speaker 2: to kill anybody who denies it, especially the Jews. And
Speaker 2: I like to people that are making this point, this
Speaker 2: is what globalize the intofauda is that what that phrase
Speaker 2: that your college kid was chained h means this?
Speaker 5: CBS, Open Ai and Microsoft sued over chat GPT's alleged
Speaker 5: role in fueling man's paranoid delusions before murder suicide in Connecticut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I read about that one. It's crazy. It's the usual.
Speaker 2: They just agreed with everything he said, no matter how
Speaker 2: paranoid and bizarre it was.
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about more about that definitely.
Speaker 5: USA Today, Pelosi says, quote without a doubt, Obamacare is
Speaker 5: her greatest accomplishment.
Speaker 1: Good lord, wow, that's a claim.
Speaker 5: What New York Post door dash driver caught Pepper spraying
Speaker 5: food bizarrely claims she was aiming at a spider.
Speaker 2: Huh was the spider rioting?
Speaker 1: Right? That's interesting.
Speaker 2: That's interesting how stupid lies people make up when they're
Speaker 2: in trouble.
Speaker 5: Nicholas Study fines once firm donor fathered two hundred children
Speaker 5: and passed on a deadly mutation and it could happen again.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, dikes.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And finally, the Babylon Bee Jesus kind of bummed.
Speaker 5: He was born on December twenty fifth, and now his
Speaker 5: birthday will forever be overshadowed by Christmas, which is kind
Speaker 5: of the theme of a Charlie Brown Christmas as we
Speaker 5: watched it last night.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that too.
Speaker 2: That's a multi layer joke there by the folks. That
Speaker 2: is the Babylon b Very nice. That's a deep one,
Speaker 2: that's deeper than usual. We have so much to get
Speaker 2: to today. We're going to talk to a representative of
Speaker 2: Scouting America to explain to you all the good that
Speaker 2: they do, and why you're going to want to donate money,
Speaker 2: among other things.
Speaker 1: Later today, Armstrong and Getdy.
Speaker 6: Some potential progress in talks to try and end the
Speaker 6: war in Ukraine. Top us negotiator Steve Wikoff meeting with
Speaker 6: the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski for more than five hours.
Speaker 6: In Germany, Zelenski says he's prepared to drop his country's
Speaker 6: demand to join NATO. That's been a major sticking point
Speaker 6: for Russia.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The next sentence is if the United States it puts
Speaker 2: in guarantees of defense. Okay, Well, yeah, I'd dropped the
Speaker 2: NATO demand too, if I had the biggest military in
Speaker 2: the world saying we'll come to your aid if you
Speaker 2: get attacked. What do you need NATO for? So that's
Speaker 2: kind of interesting to me. The number one story around
Speaker 2: that whole thing was the first story in sixty minutes
Speaker 2: last night. Did you see that about how Germany's rearming
Speaker 2: and how serious they are about it all because of
Speaker 2: the whole Ukraine Russia thing, And I loved I want
Speaker 2: to get the clip the Defense minister of Germany. The
Speaker 2: last thing said on that story last night was, Hey,
Speaker 2: if you like being able to demonstrate in the street
Speaker 2: and worship whoever God you want, or love whoever you want,
Speaker 2: and like this sort of freedom, you have to fight
Speaker 2: for it. That's Germany saying that the pacifist My whole life.
Speaker 2: Pacifist Germany saying, if you want freedom, you need to
Speaker 2: be able willing to fight for it.
Speaker 1: And they are.
Speaker 2: They are, as he pointed out, the number three economy
Speaker 2: in the world, and they're pouring tons of money into this,
Speaker 2: and they they've got lots of recruits, and it was
Speaker 2: really really interesting. But also did you see the part
Speaker 2: with the cockroaches. They they it's kind of a funny
Speaker 2: aside because the other stuff was very serious and very real.
Speaker 2: But then they also there they figured out a way
Speaker 2: to steer cockroaches. They put a little like backpack on
Speaker 2: cockroaches and then you have a little steering wheel and
Speaker 2: you can steer them around. And you found that funny.
Speaker 2: There's nothing funny about armed cockroaches. I just thought, so
Speaker 2: you did, Lord, do you find them in your kitchen,
Speaker 2: you decide to kill them.
Speaker 1: They decided to kill you back.
Speaker 2: It's like driving a remote control car, except for driving
Speaker 2: these cockroaches around. And they showed they demonstrated cockroach walking
Speaker 2: across the floor and you.
Speaker 1: Can make it turn left or right or do whatever.
Speaker 2: But you saw that promotional video from the company doing
Speaker 2: those experiments. How you know you could outfit those cockroaches
Speaker 2: with cameras and all and just have them swarm into
Speaker 2: some enemy.
Speaker 1: You know the area the layer hide down.
Speaker 2: Famously hard to kill, can squeeze through any crack, practically
Speaker 2: nothing kills.
Speaker 1: Them, right right, Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 2: The one more comment on the Germany thing that I
Speaker 2: want to get to a really interesting story about the
Speaker 2: American military, but the German thing. Look, I realize not
Speaker 2: everybody is a history freak, okay.
Speaker 1: But you're talking.
Speaker 2: Anytime anybody brings up the German military, everybody's got to say,
Speaker 2: but his people are uncomfortable about this because of the Nazis. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was in Germany's unfortunate history, and there was some
Speaker 2: concern given that that was eighty years ago. Eighty well,
Speaker 2: and really the rise of that ideology was one hundred
Speaker 2: freaking years ago. I mean, come on, right, right, it's fine, Hey,
Speaker 2: don't go Nazi, all right, so we evon't. Okay, there
Speaker 2: we go, We're fine, Let's defend ourselves not. I know,
Speaker 2: I was surprised by that too, the amount of time.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's clearly a thing there in Germany. They
Speaker 2: worry about it all the time, and it's a serious
Speaker 2: scar on their national identity, definitely, But at some point,
Speaker 2: like I mean, like Norm MacDonald's bit. Actually it was
Speaker 2: on the last episode of Letterman when Norm McDonald is
Speaker 2: thing about Germany started a war with the world twice
Speaker 2: and as he said, you know, the more I learned
Speaker 2: about Adolf Hitler, the more I don't care for him.
Speaker 2: If you are a sixty year old German leader of
Speaker 2: you know, whatever, politics, the military, whatever. Right now, you
Speaker 2: were born twenty years after the war ends, I'm not
Speaker 2: blaming you for it.
Speaker 1: You weren't there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is interesting. The law appearance were infants the
Speaker 2: long shadow of that. Yeah, well it was pretty horrible.
Speaker 2: But it's fine. Let's get over it. Look, don't be Nazis. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: we won't again. It's solved. There, we go. Well, especially
Speaker 2: since they're spending all this money there in Germany and
Speaker 2: rearming and retraining and all this sort of stuff with
Speaker 2: you know, with the statements of if you like freedom,
Speaker 2: this is why we need to be strong. If you
Speaker 2: hate the Jews, here's why we need to be strong.
Speaker 2: Or if you hate France, this is why we need
Speaker 2: to be strong.
Speaker 1: If you would enjoy a forthrike with some Laban's realm,
Speaker 1: yeah everything we deserve. Yeah No, they're not saying that anyway.
Speaker 2: So we have many times asked the question is the
Speaker 2: US military adapting quickly enough to the modern battlefield, whether
Speaker 2: it's the cyber stuff or more specifically and more relevant
Speaker 2: to today's news, all the drone warfare and counter drone
Speaker 2: warfare in Ukraine, the fast moving, light, cheap battlefield of
Speaker 2: today versus gigantic tanks and artillery systems there are you know,
Speaker 2: the guns of Navrone might still matter in the next
Speaker 2: big conflict, but a lot of it's going to be
Speaker 2: fought quickly and lightly. Are they doing enough? Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal with a great feature over the weekend talking about
Speaker 2: these massive maneuvers taking place, well massive, massively important in
Speaker 2: Hawaii as our guys the Army specifically are trying out
Speaker 2: all sorts of different drone technologies in the hot, humid
Speaker 2: jungles because there's a certain giant country that's hostile that
Speaker 2: if we have to get into shooting more with them.
Speaker 2: A lot of it's going to be in hot, humid
Speaker 2: jungles on islands specifically. Do we have remote control cockroaches.
Speaker 1: Not yet, but we're working with the Gentlemans.
Speaker 2: Are those going to be available for Christmas? I mean
Speaker 2: Christmas is next Thursday. If I could get those for
Speaker 2: the kids and they could steer the cockroaches around the
Speaker 2: living room and have battles or whatever, trust me, wait
Speaker 2: for the next generation. They're just beta testing the Revoca cockroaches.
Speaker 2: They'll be crashing into your lamps and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: or it doesn't work in All you've done is bring
Speaker 2: a bunch of cockroaches in your house, right, They shake
Speaker 2: off their little packs and then go hide in the shadows.
Speaker 2: So you got these guys running around with really realistic
Speaker 2: drone encounter drone exercises, trying all sorts of different systems.
Speaker 2: And it also goes into how the military is really
Speaker 2: changing its procurement protocols, which is something everybody says they
Speaker 2: need to do so that you know, you're not signing
Speaker 2: five year deals with one big, you know, defense company
Speaker 2: and by two months from now their drones are out
Speaker 2: of date. They've been counter you know whatever countered by
Speaker 2: the enemy, and I came away from reading this with
Speaker 2: a couple of impressions, and it's funny. I don't think
Speaker 2: they mentioned him specifically. I have not heard a single
Speaker 2: person say anything negative about Pete Hegzath and his leadership
Speaker 2: of the Pentagon, purely in terms of readiness to fight.
Speaker 2: I've never heard anybody even question his seriousness on innovation
Speaker 2: and protecting our troops and being smart in warfare.
Speaker 1: So far, it seems like he gets very high marks
Speaker 1: in that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I could be wrong, but again, nobody's
Speaker 2: even questioned it. Interesting. Yeah, they criticize him in general sense,
Speaker 2: or he's too mouthy or whatever, he fires people too fast,
Speaker 2: I don't know. But anyway, but the last aspect of
Speaker 2: this own we're talking about is having the technology is
Speaker 2: one thing. Being able to build it really, really fast
Speaker 2: is the other thing. Because Ukraine and Russia are making
Speaker 2: millions of drones a year, China can outproduce them both,
Speaker 2: and so the Army is hoping to spur domestic drone
Speaker 2: production over the next few years. I you know, hook
Speaker 2: it up with the best most innovative companies and saying, look,
Speaker 2: we're gonna need you to change with the technology. We'll
Speaker 2: change with the technology. Let's let's get into bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I read the other day how many drones China
Speaker 2: is creating compared to us, it was very troubling, very
Speaker 2: well yeah, yeah, And then the clip we started with
Speaker 2: is Zelenski saying, sure, we'll give up the getting in
Speaker 2: NATO if we get guarantees from the United States. Do
Speaker 2: you think we're going to give them the sort of
Speaker 2: guarantees he's wanting. Where we would come to I mean,
Speaker 2: we'll go to war with Russia if he reinvades. I
Speaker 2: had to be a hell of a thing. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: highly skeptical. Well, I would think it would. I'm not
Speaker 2: exactly sure what I think about as a policy. I
Speaker 2: mean that basically be the policy if Ukraine joined NATO
Speaker 2: or if or today, if Russia invades to NATO country,
Speaker 2: that's the business into NATO. So in what sense are
Speaker 2: they not in NATO. They don't get to come to
Speaker 2: the cocktail parties. We'll have mutual defense treatings, but they're
Speaker 2: not in NATO. What does that even mean? I know
Speaker 2: some of you feel like surrounding Russia with NATO is
Speaker 2: what caused this, and we pushed Putin into feeling like
Speaker 2: he had no choice but to evade U crate that
Speaker 2: whole thing. But it would be an interesting move given
Speaker 2: Trump's history. It would be the opposite of what he's
Speaker 2: been saying running on for all these years.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the flaws in the United States as an ally,
Speaker 2: especially when you make a promise like that that everybody's
Speaker 2: looking at and saying, really, they're really going to do that,
Speaker 2: is the next administration might not feel the same and
Speaker 2: might not be ready to put their guns with their
Speaker 2: mouths up. Oh, Biden, endlessly, We're with you to the end,
Speaker 2: to the end. The crowd cheers endlessly, okay or argently
Speaker 2: kind of sort of or depends on public polling and
Speaker 2: the next administration. Yeah, all that's where it stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: Ukraine gave up their nukes because we said we would
Speaker 2: protect their sovereignty and then we didn't. I mean, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess.
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Speaker 2: It's good to me, right, Former Charger star Philip Rivers,
Speaker 2: because the Indianapolis Colts needed a quarterback, they tapped him
Speaker 2: at age forty four, hadn't played in years.
Speaker 1: It just shows you how few people can do that job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to to some extent, also, Rivers was good friends
Speaker 2: with the head coach and he knew the offense. He
Speaker 2: even installed it. He was coaching high school football. He
Speaker 2: even installed that offense in his at his high school.
Speaker 2: Simplified obviously. But and I'm sure the coach said, hey, Phil,
Speaker 2: are you doing like physically and stuff. You haven't gained
Speaker 2: seventy five pounds, have you? Because he knew. You know,
Speaker 2: he's got it up in his head. And you know,
Speaker 2: the bottom line of the story is forty four year
Speaker 2: old Philip Rivers hadn't played in five years. He came
Speaker 2: back and he achieved the average quarterback ranking for all
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: Good for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really an amazing story. He's a hell of
Speaker 2: a nice fella too, so he's easy to root for.
Speaker 2: Didn't get his legs broken or anything like that.
Speaker 1: No. No.
Speaker 2: Also, one of my favorite sports writers, Jason Gay the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, said, especially early in the game, he
Speaker 2: looked like he was stumbling around like your uncle trying
Speaker 2: to make a sandwich in the dark kind of phrases.
Speaker 1: That's unfair. It's an unfair phrase. That's what it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got mail bag.
Speaker 2: And let's say one thing too, as I think I
Speaker 2: may have a better body than him right now, I
Speaker 2: don't get out there and prove it. He didn't play
Speaker 2: for the Raiders. They need somebody.
Speaker 1: That's a funny comment, Michael. So when a shirts off competition,
Speaker 1: you liked your chances?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's old old, Okay, mailbag on the waist there.
Speaker 1: Well, things we'll talk about later.
Speaker 2: Reiner's son is in custody. In custody, so that's new news.
Speaker 2: And also breaking, the FBI foiled the big New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve terror plot that would have targeted LA. Four have
Speaker 2: been arrested. Be interested to see.
Speaker 1: Who those were and what their goals were, So we'll
Speaker 1: get to that later. Yeah. Indeed.
Speaker 2: Uh, here's your freedom loving quote of the day, which
Speaker 2: I've misplaced in a completely different context. Ryan sent along
Speaker 2: some quotes from his favorite True West magazine. These are
Speaker 2: old vocaro sayings, old cowboy sayings. You can't change the past,
Speaker 2: but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
Speaker 2: No doubt men will travel the world to right wrongs
Speaker 2: and punish evildoers instead of going to therapy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to
Speaker 2: forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
Speaker 2: Now that is good. Bring that up again later. We
Speaker 2: got to discussion when that's one of the best things
Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Beautiful.
Speaker 2: I gotta memorize that. Oh please, that's one of the
Speaker 2: I got chills.
Speaker 1: Mail bag.
Speaker 2: Drop his note mail bag Armstrong in getty dot com
Speaker 2: is the email address. Let's see Marina from San Diego,
Speaker 2: thanks this for our kind words. I can't remember what
Speaker 2: they were, but you're welcome. She disagrees, though, on my
Speaker 2: lawn dart comment, which was we're a better country when
Speaker 2: you could hurl lawn darts in your backyard for fun,
Speaker 2: she says. Let's say you're at a picnick and some
Speaker 2: bozos nearby don't know how to throw a lawn dart,
Speaker 2: or naive teens decided this looks fun. That's just you
Speaker 2: gotta keep your head on a swivel.
Speaker 1: That's it being prepared.
Speaker 2: As the boy Scouts might put it, the world is
Speaker 2: a dangerous place, and when you're a kid, if you
Speaker 2: got weighted spikes flying around in the.
Speaker 1: Backyard, it keeps you on your toes.
Speaker 2: I was around so much drunken law darting in my life,
Speaker 2: and nobody ever got hurt.
Speaker 1: Not like that.
Speaker 2: Every time you broke out the lawn darts, somebody went
Speaker 2: to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Somebody got a puncture wound.
Speaker 2: Right moving along Burbank, Luke cried, Joe, I wish I'd
Speaker 2: known about your enthusiasm for beavers years ago, would have
Speaker 2: invited you to skate in the Beaver Cup. Mit and
Speaker 2: Caltech hockey players played each other in the early eighties,
Speaker 2: mainly because both schools' mascots are beavers. It morphed into
Speaker 2: an annual alumni game with loose rules for ringers, and
Speaker 2: went till about twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: There may have been some drinking in party. That's funny.
Speaker 1: The beaver cup. Oh that's so American. I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that about this country. Let's see JT and livermore.
Speaker 2: Frequent correspondent Peggy Newton's article from Friday Show seemed to
Speaker 2: be saying that MTG's breakaway from Trump was a signal
Speaker 2: event that led the way showing others you can fight
Speaker 2: Trump and win. Except MTG didn't win. She didn't even
Speaker 2: make it to the end of her elected term. How
Speaker 2: can she say with straight face that she's faithful representing
Speaker 2: her constituents back home when she quits one year into
Speaker 2: her two year term. I was quitting representing her people.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I don't think there was enough attention to
Speaker 2: she did what was best for her as opposed to
Speaker 2: the people who elected her.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: MTG has shown the path to getting drummed out of
Speaker 2: the party where I disagree as anybody will follow MTG's lead.
Speaker 2: You know, I think maybe people were gilding the lily
Speaker 2: or overegging the pudding. The point is there's much much
Speaker 2: more disagreement open disagreement with Trump among Republicans on a
Speaker 2: variety of issues. That prohibition that taboo is gone. Let's see, Paolo.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about this more later. Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal had a big article about the creation of Tillie Norwood,
Speaker 2: the AI actress. Freaking out Hollywood. This company, this producer
Speaker 2: went to a tremendous amount of time and effort and
Speaker 2: expense to work with AI chat GPT specifically over and
Speaker 2: over over again to produce the perfect female movie star,
Speaker 2: which now they're going to use in AI generated movies.
Speaker 2: And I may have changed my mind at least a
Speaker 2: little bit on AI and creativity. I hate that AI
Speaker 2: can make songs.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or art, but just a very short version. Is
Speaker 2: the idea of making a film, a motion picture of
Speaker 2: a movie, if you will, is so overwhelming. That is
Speaker 2: such a huge endeavor that a lot of people have
Speaker 2: script ideas or scripts, but they just they can't get
Speaker 2: the ginormous enterprise that is a film up and off
Speaker 2: the ground. And reading is dead. I was going to
Speaker 2: talk about that a little bit later. The only way
Speaker 2: you're going to be able to reach anybody with a
Speaker 2: story is going to be some sort of movie film something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And how much time do we have Michael, Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: time to cram this in. It's a little more philosophize.
Speaker 2: We'll do that later. We're gonna kick off hour two
Speaker 2: explaining to you why you should donate money to the
Speaker 2: Boy Scouts, or Scouting USA as it is called. Now,
Speaker 2: we're gonna try to raise money this week. So far,
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