Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and dictating and he arms one.
Speaker 3: From studio scene. See we are in a dimly lit
Speaker 3: room to put them the bowels of the Armstrong and
Speaker 3: getting communications compound on little Friday. You can smell the
Speaker 3: weekend from here. And today we're under the tutelage of
Speaker 3: our general manager.
Speaker 2: Senor Nicholas Maduro, who dat Maduro.
Speaker 4: The unelected dictator of Venezuela. Okay, and thanks for getting
Speaker 4: spicier and spicier between the.
Speaker 2: US and the Venezuelans.
Speaker 4: Giving in mind those were Venezuelan drug runner boats allegedly
Speaker 4: that Trump and company blew out of the water, and
Speaker 4: things are about to get spicier, you think, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: certainly moving in that direction, Okay, and warranted in your opinion.
Speaker 2: In a way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would require a long answer. The drug boat
Speaker 4: thing I still consider a little iffy, honestly. But the
Speaker 4: idea that we would just sit by and permit a
Speaker 4: cross high communist mob dictatorship to run a big country
Speaker 4: right across the Caribbean from US and flood US with
Speaker 4: gang members and drugs and the rest of it. Why
Speaker 4: not project American power. I know that sort of thinking
Speaker 4: is a little out of favor these days, but I
Speaker 4: say do it.
Speaker 3: I don't suppose you can claim it's just for political reasons,
Speaker 3: because I don't feel like Venezuelan drug policy in their
Speaker 3: country is high in a lot of people's lists of
Speaker 3: topics every single day of their lives.
Speaker 4: Well, and if eight percent of Americans knew what was
Speaker 4: going on between us and Venezuela right now, I would
Speaker 4: be shocked.
Speaker 2: No way, it's a high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, and there's some major stuff going on.
Speaker 4: We've assembled the ships and groups of marines and a
Speaker 4: weaponry in the Caribbean ready to go. Go do what
Speaker 4: is not clear?
Speaker 2: Well, that's exciting. We'll have more. So it needs to
Speaker 2: be done. Nuts what.
Speaker 3: We'll have more on that story later, obviously. You know,
Speaker 3: my one of my favorite stories from yesterday is and
Speaker 3: I think this is being reported completely wrong. As a
Speaker 3: matter of fact. Play this is not our opening clip.
Speaker 3: Play this, Michael, it's the This.
Speaker 2: Is an unofficial early clip. I saw it just a
Speaker 2: minute ago. Where did I put it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Play twelve this. This was broadcast at airports across the country.
Speaker 3: You don't have twelve yet, Okay, it's on the list.
Speaker 3: So yesterday multiple airports a friendly, free free Palstine.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can cut it off. So that's what it
Speaker 2: sounded like.
Speaker 3: It was a f Netanyahu and Trump free free Palestine
Speaker 3: broadcast at multiple airports across the country. And every report
Speaker 3: I'm I'm hearing they get into the you know netnya
Speaker 3: who is actually trying to help the palaestin No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: The story here is that some numb nuts were able
Speaker 3: to hack into multiple airports at the same time, and
Speaker 3: they put on the screens in the airport the same message.
Speaker 2: That's the story to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, given what we were talking about the last several
Speaker 3: days and China being able to hack and everything China,
Speaker 3: what if you know, as part of the takedown, the
Speaker 3: water plants turn off the cell phone towers all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, all our airports across the country. You got
Speaker 3: who knows what message being broadcast over the loudspeaker, and
Speaker 3: all the TVs say something.
Speaker 4: Both the Russians and the Chinese one of their top
Speaker 4: goals is spread divisiveness, get Americans at each other's throats.
Speaker 4: It's their unity that is their strength. So they've got
Speaker 4: to threaten that. Isn't that the head fear our unity
Speaker 4: more than they feel fear our weapons.
Speaker 2: But isn't that the headline out of that story?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Somebody, Yes, I assume it's a low level, like
Speaker 3: mad college kids or something. We're able to hack into
Speaker 3: multiple airports and broadcast stuff through the loudspeakers of the
Speaker 3: airport man and put it on the screens.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. How are we that vulnerable? Why?
Speaker 4: I guess I'm not that I'm not as shocked as
Speaker 4: you are. Just because jackasses chanting idiot slogans in a
Speaker 4: handful of airports, that's all right.
Speaker 3: No, through the they got a hold the loudspeaker machine
Speaker 3: that was a recorded message so they could run. So
Speaker 3: China could have hacked in there and said off lights
Speaker 3: are canceled and put up on the screen.
Speaker 2: Off cats. Imagine the chaos would you would be? Would cause?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Run for your lives that sort
Speaker 4: of thing. God, how are we? I wonder how many
Speaker 4: of our systems are this hackable?
Speaker 2: All of them? All of them?
Speaker 3: Just like the story ons in sixty minutes. It's from
Speaker 3: Sunday night. You know, your local water plant depending on
Speaker 3: the city you live in. It's just like any any
Speaker 3: numbnuts with the slightest skill apparently could hack into that
Speaker 3: and turn the water to poison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to see some sort of pie
Speaker 4: chart pie about you know what percentage of our systems
Speaker 4: are absolutely hardcore, state of the art, practically unhackable.
Speaker 2: How many are that second tier?
Speaker 4: Then how many of them are the really a child
Speaker 4: could hack into this? And then then there's probably a
Speaker 4: pretty decent chunk that are like completely unprotected. We don't
Speaker 4: even have a password here. John's County water Processing right.
Speaker 3: Well, apparently enough airports are that one category of even
Speaker 3: a child could do it, and our water plants and
Speaker 3: everything else.
Speaker 2: So people are gonna start sending birthday wishes, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh no, not sad pranks, because then everybody's gonna want
Speaker 3: it pranks. I'm fine with China, Russia and Iran doing
Speaker 3: whatever they want to do is part of another attack
Speaker 3: I'm not fine with anyway. I hope we pay attention
Speaker 3: to that, uh and do something about it. The New
Speaker 3: York City's having their mayoral debate tonight, their first general
Speaker 3: election mayoral debate where mam Dami the Kami will be
Speaker 3: up there against Cuomo the groper and uh, what's his
Speaker 3: name in the break? Really the least of his sins?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding, And I love you unwanted sexual advances,
Speaker 4: which gives you an idea of the guy's character. But
Speaker 4: my god, could there be a worse matchup? Hasn't there
Speaker 4: been a wor worse mash up in American political history for.
Speaker 2: A race at that level? Boy, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: An Islamist communist versus a groping old people killing lion mobster. Yeah,
Speaker 4: excel all.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's a heck of a choice.
Speaker 3: And normally I hate when national media talks about this
Speaker 3: sort of thing, because you know, we all don't all
Speaker 3: live in New.
Speaker 2: York like you do.
Speaker 3: But I definitely think the mum Dami thing is going
Speaker 3: to have a tail all across the country.
Speaker 4: Things that he's oh garin ted. Yeah, I can't wait
Speaker 4: to play the clips tomorrow. By the way, I figured
Speaker 4: out how to consistently pronounce his name correctly.
Speaker 2: Uh, which is Mumdanni And that is.
Speaker 4: Your brother Donnie is asking you or just told you
Speaker 4: we're having steak for dinner and you say, who told
Speaker 4: you that? And he says, and then I would say, Mom, Donnie,
Speaker 4: I got the characters wrong. But you get the point.
Speaker 4: Who Donnie would ask me who told you that?
Speaker 2: Mom? Donnie?
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. Now see now I
Speaker 3: don't forget. But I like Mundami because the rhymes with kami.
Speaker 2: So that's that's why I like that better. The judges
Speaker 2: will allow it. Mana Donnie was nice.
Speaker 3: Try Letitia you half with, Uh, that's funny. So yeah,
Speaker 3: so we got all those stories going on. We should
Speaker 3: start the show officially before we get in trouble with
Speaker 3: the FCC. Oh what the let's see that the Transportation
Speaker 3: secretary he's going to do to California.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting story I can tell you about after this.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe get on this. It
Speaker 3: is Thursday, October sixteenth, year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong
Speaker 3: in getting and.
Speaker 2: We approve of this program. And one more side note.
Speaker 4: There are actually a couple of other stories, including the
Speaker 4: IRS is going to take a serious look at leftist
Speaker 4: political groups and see whether they're living up to their
Speaker 4: tax exempt status.
Speaker 2: It is a huge story.
Speaker 4: But in the blizzard of activity coming out of the
Speaker 4: Trump administration. You just got to figure out which stuff
Speaker 4: you can get to and which you don't have time
Speaker 4: to get to it. It's really amazing the level of action. Okay,
Speaker 4: so let's begin chronicling it as only we can precisely
Speaker 4: according the FCC rules.
Speaker 2: Rags at mark.
Speaker 1: Regime change may or may not be on the table.
Speaker 1: But the president says, the US is at war with
Speaker 1: Venezuelan drug traffickers.
Speaker 3: We are certainly looking at land now because we've got
Speaker 3: to see very well under control.
Speaker 1: Just yesterday, the Pentagon launched another strike on an alleged
Speaker 1: drug boat off Venezuela's coast. This is the fifth such
Speaker 1: strike in recent weeks that have killed more than twenty
Speaker 1: suspected narco terrorists in international waters.
Speaker 3: On One of the headlines out of yesterday was Trump
Speaker 3: has authorized CIA activity in the country of Venezuela, including
Speaker 3: the wet work, as they say in the business wet work,
Speaker 3: potential lethal activities. It's not the first time the CIA
Speaker 3: is messed around south of our border and various things.
Speaker 2: Announcing it's about a bit of a twist.
Speaker 3: That's what I thought was interesting that so Trump often
Speaker 3: gets beat up because he says things out loud that
Speaker 3: we've done many, many times with different administrations. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like the targeting of political opponents. Lots of presidents
Speaker 3: have done that in different ways with their Justice Department.
Speaker 3: Trump just says it out loud, which obviously is another
Speaker 3: step down the road, and.
Speaker 4: Or it could be a loud and clear message to
Speaker 4: Maduro that look, if you haven't gotten the idea by now,
Speaker 4: we are not playing.
Speaker 2: We are serious. We're about to give you a phone call.
Speaker 4: You take the call, and you get ready to do
Speaker 4: some serious negotiating.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I was reading piece yesterday, was speculating on how
Speaker 3: Mexican cartels, which are big businesses. This isn't like you know,
Speaker 3: venezuela style drug running. These cartels are giant corporations bringing
Speaker 3: in billions of dollars, and how they're reacting to this
Speaker 3: or adjusting or wondering when when their time is coming.
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: So that's a good story. Oh, I wanted to mention
Speaker 3: the English thing briefly. We'll do more details on this,
Speaker 3: but Secretary Duffy of the Transportation Department, he is going
Speaker 3: to withhold a whole bunch of money from California, because
Speaker 3: he says California is the only state in the country
Speaker 3: that doesn't enforce the English only truck driver thing that
Speaker 3: is supposed to be the law. You can't give driver's
Speaker 3: licenses to truck drivers unless they can read and speak English,
Speaker 3: and we do it all the time in California. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you've noticed all of our road signs
Speaker 3: are in English, for instance.
Speaker 2: Yes, So that's that's an interesting one. We got lots
Speaker 2: to get to.
Speaker 3: I got mail bag on the way for a reason
Speaker 3: we can explain at some point, I suppose, and lots
Speaker 3: of news today, so hope you can stigre around. Here's
Speaker 3: our text line four one five nine five k FTC.
Speaker 3: A lot of things I'm looking at excited about talking
Speaker 3: about today, and usually I'm not. Usually just going through
Speaker 3: the motions, don't really want to be here, but today
Speaker 3: plenty of things actually excited to talk about.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So a quick explanation of the change of schedule.
Speaker 4: We're doing our freedom loving quote of the day and
Speaker 4: mailbag here and then Katie will do the headlines in
Speaker 4: the next half hour, so as I Joe need to
Speaker 4: jet off for a band in my show and it's
Speaker 4: time of need for more pleasure. Yeah, I wish it
Speaker 4: was a minor skin cancer procedure. It's not the scary kind,
Speaker 4: it's the get it in time and your fine kind.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I apologize for having skin cancer. I will
Speaker 4: be back in a couple of hours, God willing. So anyway,
Speaker 4: here's your freedom loving quote of the day. I have
Speaker 4: gone with a pair from So Sue, a great Chinese
Speaker 4: warrior and thinker, because we are at cyber war with
Speaker 4: China at this point. We're at psychological war with them,
Speaker 4: or they are with us anyway, and we're damn near
Speaker 4: at a trade war with them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about how legitimate it was to say that.
Speaker 4: And if you are in the processes of in the
Speaker 4: process of moving your forces positioning them to attack, aren't
Speaker 4: you already at war as one of the parties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. So I just looked up Sun
Speaker 2: Sue because.
Speaker 3: You hear from cyberwise there are one hundred percent doing that.
Speaker 3: You hear from Sun Zu regularly and quotes are often brilliant.
Speaker 3: And I just chat gpt'd what year did he write
Speaker 3: this stuff?
Speaker 2: Five hundred BC. Wow, it's amazing. Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right there with human nature never changes anyway.
Speaker 4: Here your freedom of the quotes of the day from
Speaker 4: Sun Su two of them. The supreme art of war
Speaker 4: is to have subdued the enemy without fighting, which is
Speaker 4: what they are trying to do cyber psychologically, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And then this one.
Speaker 4: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need
Speaker 4: not fear the result of one hundred battles. I'm afraid
Speaker 4: that one of our great faults here is that we
Speaker 4: don't know ourselves.
Speaker 2: You remember the way we used to be.
Speaker 3: And we have a decent enough idea of China, but
Speaker 3: not a good one like we were talking about yesterday.
Speaker 4: They're psychological warfare tactics. Nobody's talking about it. They're doing
Speaker 4: it as hard as they can, as fully as they
Speaker 4: can right now through social media and other means.
Speaker 2: That, ladies and gentlemen, is Joe Getty cold warrior.
Speaker 4: Thank you, we have that handy. That was some good
Speaker 4: Hanson did it the end anyway? A mailbagoo, drop us
Speaker 4: a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com
Speaker 4: on the topic of the idiotic six and craze among
Speaker 4: the youngsters. Steve and Eugene Oregon WTF. This is why
Speaker 4: I deleted all my social media accounts. Like you guys,
Speaker 4: I was born and lived a good portion of my
Speaker 4: life pre computer, pre cell phone, pre internet, pre social media.
Speaker 4: I figure I can manage up most without most of that.
Speaker 4: Just fine, that's a I'm going to go read a book,
Speaker 4: a paper book.
Speaker 2: That's fine. I understand doing that.
Speaker 3: But are you committed to just giving up on the
Speaker 3: next generations of people.
Speaker 2: Giving up on their crazes? I think you would say uh.
Speaker 2: And the truth is, unless you are a school teacher, you'd.
Speaker 3: Never bump up against this stuff, really unless you had
Speaker 3: kids in that age, right, your parent obviously right. Ricky writes,
Speaker 3: how long before the Democrats make some sort of cringey
Speaker 3: video with the six seventh thing?
Speaker 4: Ricky, The answer to that is three two one. It
Speaker 4: just got posted to the internet af As the kids
Speaker 4: might say, let's see, this is a drew the millennial guys.
Speaker 4: Elon's whole shtick that his life's mission is to save
Speaker 4: humanity is a bunch of crap. First, if you're concerned
Speaker 4: with declining population birth rates, then you wouldn't be focused
Speaker 4: on creating AI sex bots for people to have intimate
Speaker 4: relationships with I think it's just his cover for making
Speaker 4: dozens of kids that he doesn't have to raise.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure it's dozens plural. Elon's not committed to
Speaker 3: making AI sex bots, sexy companions yeah, sexy, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: the chat companions he's just started. That second is obsession
Speaker 3: with colonizing Mars. Mars, the peak of Mount Everest is
Speaker 3: infinitely more hospitable to humans than Mars is or could
Speaker 3: ever be. Also, what it isn't a two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty million miles space rocket ride away. We'll all be
Speaker 3: dead long before we made Earth half as inhospitable to
Speaker 3: humans as Mars is. So how the hell does it
Speaker 3: make any sense to try to start a new civilization
Speaker 3: on a planet that's all already way worse than the
Speaker 3: Earth would ever be. Why not just endeavor to improve
Speaker 3: the Earth? I just think he likes putting his name
Speaker 3: on giant phallic objects. Well, his argument is any species
Speaker 3: that wants to survive in the universe needs to be multiplanetary. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can't just live on one planet because you will
Speaker 3: either destroy yourself.
Speaker 2: Or it will get destroyed.
Speaker 4: I too, am highly skeptical of that philosophy. But let's
Speaker 4: see Steve Wrights. You know how the Democrat left media
Speaker 4: always phrases, always talks about voter fraud. They always qualify
Speaker 4: it is there is no widespread voter fraud. Technically, in
Speaker 4: that regard, they are correct. The problem is, you don't
Speaker 4: need widespread voter fraud to cause mischief. If you look
Speaker 4: across the country, you can identify specific counties in specific
Speaker 4: states where the vote will be very close. If it
Speaker 4: flips one way or the other, it makes a huge
Speaker 4: difference in the outcome in a congressional or presidential election.
Speaker 4: Target your vote fraud to a few votes in those counties.
Speaker 4: Flip the county by a few votes, flip the state,
Speaker 4: flip the election. There was no widespread voter fraud. Repeat
Speaker 4: as needed, based on this story out of Minnesota that
Speaker 4: they're now giving driver's licenses to illegals, just like California,
Speaker 4: who can show those driver's licenses and vote.
Speaker 3: Getting back to that Elon thing, it's funny with the
Speaker 3: AI stuff. I worry about the next couple generations. I
Speaker 3: don't worry about humanity five hundred years from now. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 2: The good luck, good luck.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: I didn't have time to fully make my thought makes
Speaker 3: sense before we went to break.
Speaker 2: So we were talking.
Speaker 3: About AI and then where we regularly talk about AI
Speaker 3: as everyone should, and Elon's idea on trying to get
Speaker 3: to Mars to have a multi planetary species because he
Speaker 3: thinks we're gonna destroy Earth or whatever. I don't worry
Speaker 3: about that one for so So I do worry about
Speaker 3: AI because I care about my kids' lives and their kids' lives.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to just, you know, say well,
Speaker 3: what are you going to do? Live the rest of
Speaker 3: my life about it? Because I want to have some
Speaker 3: influence over this maybe if I can in what way
Speaker 3: for the next generation or two. But in terms of
Speaker 3: the Earth mankind destroying itself from five.
Speaker 2: Hundred years whatever, I don't care. I just who cares.
Speaker 2: That's so far away. I just I can't imagine wrapping
Speaker 2: my head around that whatever.
Speaker 3: All right, So we're doing this new feature with the
Speaker 3: Katie headline thing where I do a joke. Yes, this
Speaker 3: one's slightly different structure than the riddles of the last
Speaker 3: several days, all right, And that I had one of
Speaker 3: those deals the other day where somebody's waving at you
Speaker 3: and you can't tell if they're waving at you or
Speaker 3: the person behind you. And other news, I lost my
Speaker 3: lifeguard job. Very good, come on, very good. Okay, let's
Speaker 3: ig know what the headlines are with Katie Green.
Speaker 2: The news lady. I don't know a big time wise ass.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's dramatic, Katie, Katie the news lady, big time
Speaker 3: Why that ass?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What are people you see in other news? I lost
Speaker 2: my lifeguard job. You see you're a terrible lifeguard?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: That was good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2: Someone drowned right? Wow? That that hurts the humor. Okay,
Speaker 2: so what are the headlines?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Starting with NBC News, Hamas says it needs more time
Speaker 5: to recover the hostages remains.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the announcement this morning was they said they've
Speaker 3: returned everybody they can, so there are nineteen still left.
Speaker 2: Right. It kind of ruins the whole return all the bodies.
Speaker 3: If there were twenty two to return and nineteen of them,
Speaker 3: you say we got we got nothing. So I don't
Speaker 3: know what happens now.
Speaker 5: You would think that that would have been brought up
Speaker 5: in the meeting too, like do you know where they
Speaker 5: are for starters?
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, or they misled the people they are negotiating
Speaker 3: with or something.
Speaker 2: But man, that so this is gonna be a huge
Speaker 2: sticking point. Right from the Washington Post.
Speaker 5: Judge orders Trump administration to pause all shut down layoffs.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the one judge makes a ruling for everybody thing,
Speaker 3: and then a different judge will to say a different thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, fine.
Speaker 5: ABC man suspected of starting Palisades fire indicted on federal
Speaker 5: charges and faces forty five years in prison.
Speaker 2: That should be longer than that. That'll light that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be some trial to follow as the details
Speaker 3: come out on that crazy person from.
Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5: AI data centers desperate for electricity are.
Speaker 2: Building their own power plants. Yeah.
Speaker 3: As we've talked about before, one of the underappreciated things
Speaker 3: about AIS how much energy it takes for some reason,
Speaker 3: and I haven't got the slightest idea why, but it
Speaker 3: takes gazillions of a watts of energy that no town
Speaker 3: or state is prepared for. And so the smart people
Speaker 3: like Zuckerberg or Elon or Sam Altman or whoever to
Speaker 3: start these big AI planes are having to come up
Speaker 3: with their own power sources too.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Zuckerberg. From the Associated.
Speaker 5: Press, Meta removes ice tracking Facebook page in Chicago at
Speaker 5: request of.
Speaker 3: The Justice Department. Okay, yeah, so Apple. Last week, remember
Speaker 3: we reported that they took the app out of their
Speaker 3: app store for tracking ice agents, and now Facebook is
Speaker 3: playing along too.
Speaker 5: From the New York Times, the Pentagon is blocking out
Speaker 5: news organizations.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: We didn't talk about this yesterday. I was just reading
Speaker 3: in Mark Calprin's newsletter. He thinks this is the first
Speaker 3: war on the media that Trump is going to lose
Speaker 3: because there are a lot of people on the right
Speaker 3: who are not happy about this development, with the Pentagon
Speaker 3: not being as transparent as it ought to be.
Speaker 2: So we can talk more about that later. This one
Speaker 2: from the New York Post.
Speaker 5: Florida team arrested for staging his abduction and shooting himself
Speaker 5: as a hoax ignites a frantic search.
Speaker 2: Wow, he actually shot himself. He shot himself. How wounded
Speaker 2: did he get?
Speaker 5: It was, you know, a surface wound. But still, my god,
Speaker 5: desperate for attention.
Speaker 2: That's rough. Oh my god? Raising teenagers? Good lord? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 5: From TMZ porn site offering fans crude and uncommon sexual
Speaker 5: device giveaway in honor of Big Dumper.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the catcher for the Mariners, the Big Dumper.
Speaker 3: But you're gonna hear a lot more about because I
Speaker 3: think they're headed to the World Series.
Speaker 5: All right, But we have this porn site offering fans
Speaker 5: a crude and uncommon sexual device in a giveaway in
Speaker 5: honor of the Big Dump.
Speaker 2: If I want to go further down that road of
Speaker 2: what that is, some call it a Chuck Schumer if
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh yeah, we got we gotta what's your next headline?
Speaker 5: Prep study finds we did one similar to this with
Speaker 5: your mental ability, but this one saying people hit their
Speaker 5: functional peak at sixty according to research.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, it's all downhill from here, Jack.
Speaker 3: Exactly, I'm what not eight months past by prime? Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: sim to give me that story. I want to talk
Speaker 3: about that later. I love those kind of stories of like,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, how many push ups you should be
Speaker 3: able to do, whatever age, or what puzzles you should
Speaker 3: be able to solve, or whatever like that, so everybody
Speaker 3: can kind of check and see how they're doing with
Speaker 3: their aging.
Speaker 5: And finally, this one from the Babylon Bee Exhausted government
Speaker 5: employees hoping to go back to work soon so they
Speaker 5: can get some rest.
Speaker 3: I have a friend who works for the government, and
Speaker 3: she has really been enjoying her vacation doing all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of different stuff like she's on a vacation.
Speaker 3: Although people are going to start missing paychecks any day now.
Speaker 3: Depends on who you work for and what your situation is,
Speaker 3: but the paychecks are gonna actually be missed. You get
Speaker 3: caught up. Usually you get caught up once the shutdown ends.
Speaker 3: But if you're living in a situation where you need
Speaker 3: each paycheck to make your house payment, car payment, whatever,
Speaker 3: that could be quite a strain. And that's gonna start
Speaker 3: hitting really next week, so there'll be a lot more
Speaker 3: pressure on both sides. I supposed to end this ridiculous shutdown,
Speaker 3: And that is the entirety of what I'm going to
Speaker 3: say about the shutdown, because it is not a topic
Speaker 3: that I care to talk about much. There's a possibility
Speaker 3: we can talk to your dad later, do I understand, Katie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to give him a call if you'd like.
Speaker 3: So. Katie's dad was a judge for many, many years,
Speaker 3: but we found out the other day that he also
Speaker 3: had a job previous in his life as an Embalmer
Speaker 3: An Embalmer, Yeah he was.
Speaker 5: He was a paramedic for a funeral home, so he
Speaker 5: would go pick up the bodies, bring him back, embalm them,
Speaker 5: spend the night there and dress.
Speaker 2: Them and dress them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I want to ask about. How do
Speaker 3: you put the socks on a corpse? He has the
Speaker 3: answer for that, fantastic, So maybe we'll get to that
Speaker 3: later in the show. Thank you, Katie. It is Cybersecurity's
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Speaker 3: year round. I was thinking about that today when I
Speaker 3: got up this morning. I don't know about all y'all,
Speaker 3: but you know, I checked my email and there's I
Speaker 3: don't know a third of the emails I get are
Speaker 3: some sort of attempts to rip me off. They're a
Speaker 3: fake PayPal thing or some you know, your accounts is
Speaker 3: overdue for something I don't have an account, or whatever
Speaker 3: it is. It's amazing. And then phone calls that get
Speaker 3: through the day, texts I get through the day, it's
Speaker 3: a many amazing how many times somebody is trying to
Speaker 3: rip you off or hack you, and you really have
Speaker 3: to be aware of that. In the modern world, it's annoying.
Speaker 5: I commonly get one from a geek squad telling me
Speaker 5: that I got that yesterday. Yeah, I get that one
Speaker 5: all and it looks legit, but I'm sure I haven't
Speaker 5: used that.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and I actually have geek Squad, but so yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: For instance, yesterday I got hit with the we charged
Speaker 3: your card, we renewed your your renewal was up four
Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine dollars for your Geek Squad renewal.
Speaker 2: And then you're supposed to say, oh.
Speaker 3: My god, I didn't sign up for that, and then
Speaker 3: you click on it, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the bad guys, some Russian hackers into your account and
Speaker 3: has stolen all your money and maybe your kidneys, and
Speaker 3: you're in a bathtub full ice.
Speaker 2: The whole thing falls apart very quickly. Yes, Michael, I
Speaker 2: get the fake Amazon where they want your personal information
Speaker 2: to confirm your account. Yep.
Speaker 3: I fell for the EBA one many years ago. This
Speaker 3: is like twenty some years ago when people weren't as
Speaker 3: hip to this. But I was doing a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff on eBay and I had an email from eBay
Speaker 3: saying something and I thought, oh crap, and I clicked
Speaker 3: on it, and I don't know whatever eventually happened to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think anything happened.
Speaker 3: But we've all had our information stolen so many times.
Speaker 3: Pretty much every adult in America has had their information
Speaker 3: stolen two to three times. I was reading about this
Speaker 3: the other day, whether it's the Experience hack or Chinese
Speaker 3: hack or whoever it is. You know, data leaks from
Speaker 3: the government, so our information's floating around out there. Not
Speaker 3: continuing the commercial for Webroote, but one of the things
Speaker 3: Webroot does and somebody needs to do is be out
Speaker 3: there on the dark web, which I don't know how
Speaker 3: to get onto the dark web, because to figure out
Speaker 3: if your information's floating around out there and people will
Speaker 3: sell it, so somebodys maybe somebody has got your name, address,
Speaker 3: phone number, email, and social security number and they have
Speaker 3: a site where they sell that stuff. And it's nice
Speaker 3: to know if it's out there. Very frustrating. I hope
Speaker 3: the modern world figures out a way to fix this. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we got a lot of on the way. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk to one of our military analysts later. Since
Speaker 3: Trump is talking about sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, what
Speaker 3: is a Tomahawk missile? How much more advantage would Ukraine
Speaker 3: have if they got them? Should we be in favor
Speaker 3: of this or not, and a bunch of other stuff
Speaker 3: on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 6: It's never been more expensive to buy a new car.
Speaker 6: According to a report from Kelly Blue Book, the average
Speaker 6: price for a new vehicle has cracked the fifty thousand
Speaker 6: dollars mark for the first time ever.
Speaker 2: And that's just what people paid. The average asking.
Speaker 6: Price, the MSRP for twenty twenty six models is even high,
Speaker 6: more than fifty two thousand dollars, and experts say consumers
Speaker 6: looking to used cars to save money are also out
Speaker 6: of luck.
Speaker 3: For when I looked up the cost of a twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one a Nissan CenTra versus a brand new one,
Speaker 3: the cost difference is roughly one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, used cars continue to be expensive.
Speaker 3: The pandemic man through the whole car thing out of whack,
Speaker 3: and it hasn't come back yet, just like the housing market.
Speaker 3: And what did we hear the other day The average
Speaker 3: loan rate for a new car is nine percent, So
Speaker 3: the average new car is fifty grand and the average
Speaker 3: person's paying nine percent on that loan. No wonder people
Speaker 3: are maxing out the credit cards trying to keep up.
Speaker 3: And again we had the stat the other day that
Speaker 3: the highest number people ever are sixty to ninety days
Speaker 3: behind on their car payments. So how this plays out
Speaker 3: over time, I do not know. Wanted to hit this
Speaker 3: story real quick before we get to something like Hamasa's
Speaker 3: military wing.
Speaker 2: This is from the New York Times. The Cassam Brigades.
Speaker 3: Said ye last night that it had handed over all
Speaker 3: the remains of Israeli hostages that had it been able
Speaker 3: to recover without additional equipment, potentially putting a ceasefire with
Speaker 3: Israel on the Gaza Strip at risk. In a statement,
Speaker 3: the Palestinian Militant Group said that it has committed to
Speaker 3: what was agreed upon and handed over everyone had had
Speaker 3: in terms of living captives and what it had in
Speaker 3: terms of bodies that it could recover, which apparently was
Speaker 3: a total of three. But it said that it needed
Speaker 3: special equipment in quotes to find and extract the remains
Speaker 3: of the rest of the deceased captives, adding that it
Speaker 3: was making great efforts. Egypt has said that they're willing
Speaker 3: to send over some bulldozers and cranes or whatever else
Speaker 3: and a team to try to help find the remains.
Speaker 3: I just can't even imagine what that process is going
Speaker 3: to be. Like, I mean, if you had a tunnel
Speaker 3: destroyed with a building on top of it, how would
Speaker 3: you dig through that rubble to try to find, you know,
Speaker 3: the body that takes up this much space in all
Speaker 3: of that chunks of cement and dirt and everything else.
Speaker 2: Well on how long they've been down there.
Speaker 3: Right, I can't even imagine that that's going to happen.
Speaker 3: But we will see, and more importantly and more urgently,
Speaker 3: I suppose we'll see what that does to the ceasefire.
Speaker 3: Does that completely break it or I don't know. Also
Speaker 3: from the Washington Post on that topic, Hamas may have
Speaker 3: stopped fighting Israel, but it has launched a new violent
Speaker 3: campaign to reassert control over local families and militias that
Speaker 3: had been challenging its power during the last two years
Speaker 3: of war. We've been talking about this. AMAS is trying
Speaker 3: to send a clear message that after hiding from Israel
Speaker 3: for all these months, they are back and in charge.
Speaker 3: And the way that they're doing that is they're going
Speaker 3: around and dragging people out of homes and executing him
Speaker 3: in the streets after so called trials to make it
Speaker 3: clear that hey, we're still the big dogs. We're still
Speaker 3: the biggest gang in towns. So don't think you can
Speaker 3: shosh that video.
Speaker 5: It was obviously edited and rolling around all the major
Speaker 5: news networks last night.
Speaker 2: But just this public execution with this big group of
Speaker 2: people around, I mean, it's it's like barbaric to be
Speaker 2: honest with and cheering.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, what does that says?
Speaker 3: So that big group that cheering Hamas executing people who
Speaker 3: supposedly spied for Israel or tried to challenge Hamas's authority,
Speaker 3: that's troubling.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: So Mark Alvin writes in his newsletter today, Uh, this
Speaker 3: whole thing is about if Witkoff and Jared actually have
Speaker 3: a real plan to stand up a peacekeeping force that
Speaker 3: is well funded, well organized, and possessed of a clear
Speaker 3: mission and workable rules of engagement.
Speaker 2: Until that happens, no idea, what's going to happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's going to go in and calm that thing down,
Speaker 3: stop the executions and put somebody else in charge and
Speaker 3: in theory, disarmed Hamas. Remember Trump said yesterday Jimas must
Speaker 3: disarm or we will disarm them. So more to come on.
Speaker 3: I'm sure wanted to get to this because Katie brought
Speaker 3: it up. This is an interesting headline from a new study.
Speaker 3: People hit their functional peak around sixty. Research suggests this
Speaker 3: is either good news or bad news depending on your age.
Speaker 3: New research shows that people reach their all around mental
Speaker 3: and emotional peak around sixty, not in their twenties. According
Speaker 3: to this, it had long been believed that you have
Speaker 3: your mental peak in your twenties, which depends on what
Speaker 3: do you mean by mental I mean I think my
Speaker 3: brain worked faster. I was able to remember things better.
Speaker 3: I didn't forget people's names all the time when I
Speaker 3: was in my twenties. But certainly not wiser.
Speaker 2: Definitely not wiser.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're talking about mental peak, definitely not wiser
Speaker 3: and emotional peak.
Speaker 2: Who thinks their emotional peak was in their twenties? That
Speaker 2: was my emotional low points? Oh my god, it says here.
Speaker 3: While quick thinking slows with age, experience, judgment and emotional
Speaker 3: balance keep improving through midlife. So if you're gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: judge it based on you know, Katie's word wisdom, clearly
Speaker 3: it gets better. The fact that it drops off after
Speaker 3: around sixty is troubling. Between about forty and sixty five,
Speaker 3: most adults show the best mix of intelligence, stability, and
Speaker 3: decision making. Okay, I definitely have been better since age forty.
Speaker 3: I'm not looking forward to dropping off. Am I going
Speaker 3: to become more emotional again like my twenties and dumber?
Speaker 5: I can't wait to be at that age where I
Speaker 5: just have the biggest case of the efforts, right, you
Speaker 5: know when.
Speaker 2: You're older and you just don't care. I'm getting close.
Speaker 2: I love that stage. I can't wait. Yeah, my dad's
Speaker 2: definitely My dad is definitely there.
Speaker 3: Same with my parents after the mid sixties, averages on
Speaker 3: their scores dip on both emotional and that's so wisdom
Speaker 3: and judgment starts to drop after age sixty. I never
Speaker 3: thought that would be true, varying from person to person.
Speaker 3: And then if that is true, and I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know that I believe it.
Speaker 2: But if that is.
Speaker 3: True, why is everybody in government over sixty? In fact,
Speaker 3: most of the people who we got in charge.
Speaker 2: Are over seventy point? Great point. If your emotional and
Speaker 2: mental peak is.
Speaker 3: South of sixty, why is everybody in charge over sixty
Speaker 3: ft I don't know if that I buy this study anyway,
Speaker 3: It's hard for me to picture my judgment getting worse
Speaker 3: at this point in my life.
Speaker 2: God, I hope not. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe, like you're I'm stuck on the efforts, like I'm
Speaker 5: thinking about judgment of like should I or shouldn't I
Speaker 5: say that?
Speaker 3: Like, you know, yeah, I don't really do that, but
Speaker 3: I talk to everybody now. Drives my kids crazy, and
Speaker 3: I like my dad used to do that and when
Speaker 3: I was younger, and it thought not just his personality.
Speaker 3: Something happened in the last couple of years where I
Speaker 3: just talk to everybody now all the time, Like you know,
Speaker 3: walking down the side, I talked to somebody about their
Speaker 3: their dog or their lawn, or the person at the
Speaker 3: check out stand at the grocery store or whatever. I
Speaker 3: talk to everybody and ask them questions like that. So
Speaker 3: that's a certain level of the efforts. It's just like
Speaker 3: I no longer care what people think of me, so
Speaker 3: I just engage them in conversation. It's really awesome. It's
Speaker 3: very freeing. I wish I could have taken that on
Speaker 3: when I was younger, instead of waiting to be old
Speaker 3: and in the winter of my life before I could
Speaker 3: enjoy it. We're going to talk to Tim sand Stand
Speaker 3: for a legal expert about the Supreme Court and other
Speaker 3: things an hour two. I hope you can be around
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty