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Guaranteed Human I am Nina Khrushcheva, the great granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union in 1962. And I'm Max Kennedy, the nephew of US President John F. Kennedy. We explore what was a terrifying moment in history, the story of the Cuban Missile crisis, how close the world came to nuclear war and what they had to do to pull it back from the brink. The bomb. Kennedy and Khrushchev. Listen on BBC.com our rever you get.
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Your podcasts 10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th Watch the trailer on Trainer.
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Season two of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO. Max ever wish you could try the Washington Post and see what all the talk is about? Right now you can with a one week pass for just $7. No commitment, no strings attached. Just $7 for one week of unlimited access to the Post. It's the perfect way to explore our award winning journalism and experience what subscribers already know. There's nothing else quite like it, so why not give us a try? Go to washingtonpost.com week and start your $7 week pass today. That's washingtonpost.com week.
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Broadcasting live from the abraham lincoln radio studio at the george washington broadcast center, jack armstrong and joe getty.
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Armstrong and getty. Here's armstrong and yeti. Gonna get back into clips of the year in just a moment. I was reminded that in back in June, which we just got through when Trump bombed Iran, Ben Hamas, Rhodes was inconsolable and Tucker Carlson announced that it would provoke a world war not so much as it turns out. We will get into July in a moment or two, but if you'll indulge me, first I would like to say that it was In August of 1983, many, many, many years ago, I met a super cute girl doing summer theater and we hit it off like crazy. And not long after that we got married and we've been together almost 40 years. And it's Judy's birthday today, so happy birthday, sweetheart. My best friend, the mother of my children, she's off shopping with my daughter. Oh, I told her, buy stuff for me. She said, it's not your birthday. So anyway, we will celebrate with a nice Italian dinner tonight with our sweet youngest kid and then whatever comes next. I don't know, perhaps I was reminded of in June, of Operation Midnight Hammer. Yes, that's a good, that's a good name. That's funny, I thought the same thing. I'm ever in that situation again and who knows if that will happen. That's what I would like to call it. It's a little on the nose, but anyway, hey, let's say we plunge ahead with the eclipse of the year. Shofan, look back at the year that was. This is July, the clips of the year. We begin tonight with President Trump, his medical condition and the new diagnosis.
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The President remains in excellent health.
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The Iranians were very serious. How about wanting to take out the President? He calls me new scum, you know, come on, how do I explain that to my kid? We get a lot of bull thrown at us by Putin.
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Will these be Patriot missiles specifically or Patriot batteries that you're planning and when.
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You, when you think this is really significant. I am very disappointed with President Putin.
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Convicted killer Bryan Coburger forced to face the families of his victims and a survivor.
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He chose destruction.
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He chose evil. You may have received A's in high school and college, but you're going to be getting big Ds in prison.
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As I. And there's someone that's been so focused on trying to understand all of that.
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Can a man become a woman?
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Can a man become a woman? Not. No.
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Thank you. Well, again we hope it gets a little bit more competitive because like a girls trip to Cancun right now, there's no deed. I had to come back for the.
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Insurance because they informed me earlier this year, I'm on Cobra.
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I'll sit in your car for a fraction of the price of a parking ticket.
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Yeah, I exceeded OTE's by 25%, retaining customer growth. I believe in breeding. Look at you good athlete. Good athlete. I'm black, mom's white. Now you I don't stepped on it once. You can't keep stepping on it.
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I saw a girl in her use a sharpie like a lip stain and I must try it. Oh, wait. This is actually not bad at all.
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You know, I'd rather stop swim in a pool filled with the boiling hot sulfurous urine of Satan. He goes deep to center. When Caitlin Clark retires from the wnba, she's going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women. Home run call was Cal Raleigh, the big dumper. Went in the home run derby at the all star weekend. Fell just short in the world. Serious as I recall. Hanson, I think on the nominations for clip of the year, the, the hearing there for the scumbag murderer and how in hell you're going to be getting lots of business or whatever. They have gotten A's in school. Yeah, that was, it was indelicate. It was well written. Well crafted though. It really was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh boy. What she means by that is, oh, I think we're good. I think we are just fine. So I know you have more predictions you want to worm out of us. Do you want to plunge ahead though with more clips of the year? Yeah, about eclipse a year. And then next segment we'll get into a prediction for 26. All right, let's finish up. July. It's a fond look back at the year that was its coy eclipse of the year. Tonight we have breaking news as we come on the air. Ozzy Osbourne has died in the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
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It's sitting on my desk right now. Meaning the file. That's what meant by that.
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But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Trump that his name appears multiple times in the Jeffrey Epstein file. The President going on to say, let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work.
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Where are my fellow weaklings at?
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How many of you are not satisfied with the results of the investigation? They're stupid people. There were many, many, many dozens of rounds fired from by the suspect towards the building. Right now they're popping off tear gas canisters and folks are just running like crazy and it's just chaos out here. Come on, man. I told you, man, leave him alone.
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You wanna know, dude?
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Hey, Maddie, leave them alone. Hey, you wanna go? Hey, leave him alone, man. Bang. Come on, man. Bang. We're Gonna have a UFC fight. We're gonna have a UFC fight. Think of this on. On the grounds of the White House. The letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee. It's nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved.
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Elon Musk vowed to retrain his AI system, known as Grok. Those changes appear to have prompted Grok to use some anti Semitic tropes. The chatbot going so far as praising Adolf Hitler.
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Oh, look at these two. All right, come on, Rocky. Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the late show in May. And I love getting out to live out my dreams, but at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point, you know, because how do you get cracked? And it's everywhere. Mainly for that reason, I learned how to make my own. I know exactly what happened in that debate. She's tired as. Give him Ambien to be able to sleep.
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You.
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How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you got food on your table?
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Your crack is whack.
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Hulk Hogan. He dropped a big leg on him. He's down for the COVID of the leg. One, two. He got on. Clips of the Year. We've had several clips from several different months mentioning Epstein, and we probably have more to come. Was there a single thing that came out that was new news on Epstein in the year 2025? I don't think so. I don't think there was a single new thing of any real significance. I don't think so. Even minor significance. I'm not sure there was anything. I'd have to scan my memory banks. Wow. There wasn't much talk about it and nothing in a whole year. And probably I just read some really, really interesting stuff about how he got so rich. But nobody cares about that, really, except the people who think it's because he was a Mossad agent. He wasn't, by the way. But anyway, so back into the madness. I knew I had a follow up. Oh, the couple busted at the Coldplay concert? Yeah, that was in July. She's in the news today for some reason. Really? Yeah, I'll have to dig that up. Wow. Crazy. And then Hunter Biden making the circuit, the podcast circuit. That was entertaining. Thanks, Hunter. Anyway, let's talk about web root total security. It's an amazing array of tools for you and the whole family to protect yourselves online. So easy to open up your email in the morning this time of year. And See a what looks like a FedEx or UPS or eBay or whatever email. Your package is delayed and you think, oh crap, it's not going to get here in time. And you click on it without thinking. And then holy crap, somebody is into your computer. The way to avoid that is Webroot. Cybercrime does spike this time of year, but Webroot gives you real time antivirus, a built in password manager, identity protection with credit and dark web monitoring. And if identity theft does hit, you get rapid alerts and up to a million dollars in expense reimbursement. But wait, there's more. There's VPN for privacy, cloud backup for easy restore. It's all in one protection for individuals or whole families. And right now you can save 60% for limited time. So do not wait. Protect your devices, your privacy, your identity. This holiday season into next year for less than 75 bucks, go to webroot.comarmstrong that's webroot.com armstrong this will not last, so act now. Live a better digital Life with Webroot. Webroot.com Armstrong does anything of significance come out in the Epstein files in 26? No. No. I agree. No. Without even a thought. Does Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026? No, I don't think so because I think the momentum will have. It's more about what he accomplished will have been too far in the past. Well, although if he brings peace, significant peace to Ukraine, the problem with Trump is that he's got to deserve it. Like +35. Oh yeah, absolutely. To get the votes of those progressives. No doubt. We got more clips of the year and another like serious real prediction I'd like to get into. Among other things on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Gettysburg. I am Nina Khrushcheva, the great granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union in 1962. And I'm Max Kennedy, the nephew of US President John F. Kennedy. We explore what was a terrifying moment in history. The story of the Cuban Missile crisis, how close the world came to nuclear war and what they had to do to pull it back from the brink. The bomb. Kennedy and KHRUSHCHEV. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcast.
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10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season Season.
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2 of Unrivaled Basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO. Max a new year is on the Horizon and your 2026 savings start here. Right now. You can access the Washington post for just $2 every four weeks. Head into the new year with six months of savings at the special intro rate. After that, it'll cost $12 every four weeks. Cancel anytime. You'll get unlimited access to trusted journalism that helps you understand the year ahead and the world around you. Now's the perfect time to subscribe because great habits and great savings start together. Go to washingtonpost.com iheart that's washingtonpost.com iheart and start your year informed with the Post. It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Valpak is here to make it even better. This month, as you sift through holiday mail, don't miss the blue Valpak envelope. From dining to holiday shopping, there's a slate full of savings in your mailbox, plus a chance to instantly win $100. That's right, you could find $100 Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No purchase necessary for instant Win voip where prohibited prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Valpak envelopes for details.
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In terms of a prediction for 2026, I've got the question that is really what everybody wants to know. Coming up in a little bit. Okay. And then I've got one for you, wise guy. All right. All right. Exactly. Asking all the questions, huh? And we only have one clips of the year segment we need to squeeze into this segment, so I thought I'd bring you a charming listener tale. It was inspired by your retelling of the the story of your son licking the drain in a Walmart. I'm sorry, in a Target bathroom. Yeah, if it was a Walmart bathroom, he wouldn't be with us. Well, Julie and her her husband and six month old son. Six months old. Yeah. We're riding the metro in Paris. They lived in France and she and her husband were deep in conversation. They looked down at her infant son who was sucking on the armrest. The fact that this is Paris is not a humble brag, but a crucial element of the story was because this is an old metro train, the kind with fancy stitched fabric armrests, quite possibly more than 100 years worth of Parisians and tourists from around the world leaning, sweating and otherwise germing all over the swath of fabric. We pulled him off it, exchanged a wide eyed glance. I choked back the urge to wretch. Then we sheepishly joked that he was either doomed to certain death, probably diphtheria, we muse. Not really known knowing how one might actually contact diphtheria. Or he had just gained super immunity. Yeah. Here we are 15 years later, in touch with the kid has never been sick, not even a cold. That's pretty funny. That's beautiful, Julie. Thank you so much for the note. I like to tell my husband that's why I don't clean the house too often. So I didn't. Was it Sam or Henry did that? I don't even remember. But then one time Sam, Joe and I were doing an event at the state capitol of California, which has a great big capitol building. Looks like. It looks like the US Capitol. It's pretty impressive. Anyway, we were doing event there on the steps, turned around and Sam was chewing gum. He'd picked up some gum off the sidewalk and there's so many bums around, so I always call it bum gum. Remember when you ate the bum gum? Oh, right. He picked up some gum off the sidewalk in the state capitol and started chewing it. And if you've ever been around the state capitol of California, it's gross around there. It's disgusting. So bad. Wow. Bum gum. All right, much more to come. We've got our predictions rolling on. But first let's plunge into August. It's clips of the year. Wake up, America. This is a serious moment.
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They understand that we have a Timu Hitler in the White House right now.
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There's too much going on in this country as people's due process rights and freedom of the speech rights and secret police are running around this country. I should be working right now. Said I'm pumping iron at the gym.
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Recently I made the decision that. But I just. For now, I don't want to go back in the system.
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I think it's broken footage showing people attacking a man who is shoved to the ground and kicked several times.
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The man who attacked me and might have permanently damaged me forever should never have been on the streets ever. Yeah, and no one's picked the object up yet, you guys.
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay.
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Oh no, oh no, oh no.
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She gonna go head to the back.
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I thought was a flippant. Flippant fliver. Wow. What now? Stole people that work for me. I said don't ever do that again. He did it again and I threw him out of the place.
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A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble for getting uncomfortably close, seeming to sniff her.
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What are you doing?
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Trans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color.
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Sydney Sweeney has great genes.
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You don't get to drop lines about inherited traits, blue eyes and great genes while zooming in on somebody that could have walked straight off of a Nazi propaganda poster.
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No, the olive oil and rosemary Triscuit for the sophisticated non child palate. It.
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It is crap.
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If you have to dress it up that much. Well, go eat an Oreo, sister. It will shred the root of your mouth. When Tardy said that he was smoking seven gram rocks. He was. He was smoking seven gram rocks. Winning. I'm going for you. I'm an ag.
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I'm an AG buddy. You're gonna regret this.
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What he has is a calculating she devil. And he should run from you succubus. Run son. Run away.
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Clips of the year.
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So that has to rank as the stupidest got attention lasted multiple days. Controversy of the year, doesn't it? The Cindy Sweeney jeans thing. Yeah, I was going to say the Sydney Sweeney jeans commercial. You know, maybe re edited a little bit. But that could be the clip of the year. It's probably not going to win but because that was a moment where progressive America hit the same script they've hit now for five years or so and said, you must be outraged over this. And a lot of America said yeah, no, shut up. I'm wearing rest and breaking of the progressive post George Floyd wave. I'm wearing American Eagle jeans right now. Do my hand salute. Oh, look at you. My God. That was. I've seen it before. How about the. The personal pleasurement device on the WNBA court? Right? That's what they're talking about. Okay, I didn't understand. Okay, I remember that. So here's your. Here's your prediction. Green as I recall. Yes, here's your prediction. A serious prediction. I want. And obviously if you knew the answer to that, if anyone knew the answer, you'd be insanely wealthy a year from now. Will we be feeling better or worse about the economy a year from now? I know I'll jump in with mine. Since I've had time to think about it. I knew I was gonna ask the question. I think we got a crash coming of some sort this next year. I just, I can't believe we're not due. I think we got a big correction. A big correction. How could the stock market be this high for this long, setting this many records? Then you got the whole AI it all being driven by like a handful of companies, personal debt, national debt. You've got multiple states that are in serious debt problems including Cal. Unicornia. Yeah, it's. I, I really don't wanna but I, I would not be like buying that really, really expensive indulgence. I've got a concerned feeling about the economy. I think a crash, a correction of big correction like we had in 2008 coming next year. But we'll see. We got more clips of the year on the way. You got any predictions or thoughts on any of these? Text line 415295K FTC Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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World of Secrets uncovers a network of scammers deceiving desperate parents searching for help for their children with cancer. I trusted him a lot and this is what he did to me. Who say they never received the money raised in their children's names. They promised him toys and whatever he wanted if he agreed to film the video.
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Please help me. Please.
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World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Center Service. Listen on the BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.
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Of Unrivaled Basketball is here and the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Becker, Snafeeza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more. Take the court and redefine the game. This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled, where the pace is faster, the energy is higher and every athlete shines. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5 on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max. A new year is on the Horizon and your 2026 savings start here. Right now you can access the Washington post for just $2 every four weeks. Head into the new year with six months of savings at this special intro race. After that, it'll cost $12 every four weeks. Cancel anytime. You'll get unlimited access to trusted journalism that helps you understand the year ahead and the world around you. Now's the perfect time to subscribe because great habits and great savings start together. Go to washingtonpost.com iheart that's washingtonpost.com iheart and start your year informed with the Post. It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Valpak is here to make it even better. This month, as you sip through holiday mail, don't miss the blue Valpak envelope. From dining to holiday shopping, there's a slate full of savings in your mailbox, plus a chance to instantly win $100. That's right, you could find $100 Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No purchase necessary for instant win. Voip were prohibited. Prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Valpak envelopes for details.
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Christmas in about 90 minutes. We'll be on vacation for two weeks. And then when we come back January 5th, we will no longer have an office. They're demolishing a whole bunch of the, the radio set up here, making a smaller footprint. A lot of people are losing offices and stuff like that, and they're demolishing ours and taking it. And, you know, in, in reality, I've been in our office, I think four times in the last decade, so there is that. Hanson and I have spent a lot more time. I've taken some fabulous naps in there. I have been in there, literally. I'm not even exaggerating, maybe in the last 10 years. So I don't know that I'll miss it, but I will miss saying I've got an office. So I feel like if the boss could, like, claim something's our office, even if I don't need to go in there since I don't use it. I just want to say that we've got one and have a plaque in front of something. Well, and all of our memorabilia and yeah, weird stuff and all. We'll have to deal with that. So I just sent this to the crew. Our contractor at my house just sent a picture of one of those giant Christmas inflatables, this one being a rooster dressed as Santa Claus. Hey, kids, look. It's the, the Christmas rooster, right? The, the random inflatables. I see those all over neighborhoods. It's just like, yeah, it's like a dinosaur with a Santa hat on it. Oh, hell. Hey, the Christmas dinosaur. Sure. Yeah. Dinosaurs are, you know, mythical creatures, right? Like, what's that joke? There was a great joke from the Simpsons I can't even remember, but you know, I could see. Okay, that's extra novel. This is just a damn chicken. This. Was that like a Chinese company that didn't understand our culture produced that or what? Or I don't know. I don't know. Why do you have a Santa dinosaur? That joke is. It's like, it's like leprechauns or Eskimos. That's it. Mythical creature. Right. Okay, so we need to plunge on with the clips of the year show and then I've got a prediction question for Jackson and everybody. Really? We're about halfway through August. Oh, this one's good. It's a blockbuster. Continuing on clips of the year.
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This is my brand new album, the Life of a showgirl.
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TS12 the boo boos and the Chinese company behind the plush just reported a net profit of nearly 400% in the first half of this year. A landmark moment for Major League Baseball. For the first time in league history, there will be a woman umpire for a regular season game. But we don't want these gargoyles in a dress, you know, some chick with a dick coming in there and trying to pee or poop next to my girlfriend because that's disgusting. We have the opportunity to defecto end the Trump presidency. This is really a feel out meeting. It is important to see how serious Putin is and the only one who can do that is President Trump. This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal. President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years? Thank you for your questions. President Trump saying Vladimir Putin wants peace. I believe he wants to make a deal stand out. As crazy as it sounds, the White.
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House not reacting after the Kremlin poured cold water on claims of progress.
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So far, the Russians have not confirmed whether or not Vladimir Putin is even up for a meeting. Newly released drone video shows Pakistan Palestinian militants pretending to be workers from the world's central kitchen. You're wiping your hiney with lies. FBI agents have raided former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton's Washington D.C. area home. Early this morning, a truck driver allegedly making a reckless U turn that caused a crash killing three people.
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Law enforcement in Colorado announcing a massive undercover operation targeting trend several of the.
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Defendants agreed to kill two people for $15,000 and return their severed heads as proof of the murders. I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? Washington, D.C. very dangerous there.
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But I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here.
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If people are afraid to come to D.C. go to Disney World, get fat, eat french fries. Fries, I don't care. I've lived here 37 years. So we're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old. How you doing there? Giving away a taco when you hear this sound. Later, next hour. What's up? The year. Have no idea what that was. I can't imagine. Boy, I hate to turn this serious, but that whole middle part with the Putin wants peace thing, you know, I hate to wrench my shoulder, pat myself on the back, but I said at the time, this is ridiculous. Putin shows no inclination toward wanting peace. What are we doing? This was the joke that I made yesterday about me and Cindy Sweeney getting married. It's like, like the whole peace negotiation thing that got going on. I'm making all these plans. There's all these discussions. Nobody's bothered to ask the other party whether they have any interest. Right, Right. Putin has no interest. The New York Times said in their article yesterday the only stumbling block on it is Putin has shown no interest in any of this whatsoever. Now that's a stumbling block. I like the Stephen Miller taking a shot at all these old hippies need to go home. That was actually pretty good. There was the controversy over whether crime was up or down in D.C. you heard part of that. The D.C. police chief just retired, by the way, under fire for cooking the books on crime statistics. All right, before we get in the second part of September, Jack, or I'm sorry, the first part of September, here's your multiple choice prediction. If, and this is the most likely thing, the Republicans lose the midterms, will Donald Trump, A, earnestly continue trying to find bipartisan consensus to make America great again? B, with a joke question, first option sounds like a joke. B, withdraw like Schwarzenegger did after his setbacks as governor of California where he just enjoyed the perks of the office and didn't do anything anymore, or C, goes on a scorched earth trail of vengeance and retribution for the rest of his term? I don't think he'd have the power to do it. C, I think he'd like to do C. But I just. What, what would he use for leverage really? I guess he's got all these executive orders and this and that. I think he's going to be bogged down in impeachments like you said the other day. I keep saying impeachment. You said. Why do you think they'll just be one. He's going to be bogged down in impeachments the last, last two years of his presidency and then that'll be it. And this is not, this is not uncommon, by the way. Most presidencies, everything that happens of note, that makes history happens in the first couple of years, then you lose the house, then you're done kind of. I mean you gotta, you gotta come out hot because you don't get. You don't really get another chance. Okay, well, we'll be on top of it, whatever happens. Yeah, I think you're probably right. A word from our friends at Omaha Steaks. Holy cow, what a perfect gift. I mean a perfect gift for the person who doesn't need stuff to put in the back of their closet. They need deliciousness all year long. And there's so many different packages to choose from depending on your budget and the tastes of the person involved. But I'm telling you, it all starts with the steak. Yeah, you need something to put in your belly mouth watering gourmet burgers, chicken, pork, seafood, great desserts like the apple tartlets always mention. But steaks are really their bread and butter, if you'll pardon the expression. And right now you get an extra $35 off with the code ARMSTRONG at check out Grain Gr. I'm sorry. Grass fed grain finished beef has more marbling for exceptional flavor and is the choice of steakhouses and professional chefs around the world. If somebody offers you grain fed grass finished beef, slap them in the face with it. I wouldn't eat it. Yeah, I wouldn't eat it with your. Get out of here. Anyway, say big on gourmet gifts and more holiday favorites with Omaha Steaks. Visit Omaha Steaks.com and for an extra 35 bucks off, use the promo code Armstrong at checkout terms ply site for details. That's Omaha Steaks.com use that promo code Armstrong at checkout. Yeah, I was going to ask as a prediction for next year, do the Republicans keep the House? It's kind of a silly question. I think to me it's just no. Not even they would have to seriously turn Uncle Mo around to their side. Not not only would they have to change the reality right now politics. They would have to defy history. So between those two things. No. No, they're not going to. Right? Okay. Am I correct? We have another segment to squeeze in. Are we taking a break and then doing it? Michael, tell us. Be careful, Captain. You're the captain now. We're gonna take a break and then we'll. We'll get to more clips of the year. Stay tuned.
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Armstrong and Getty. World of Secrets uncovers a network of scammers deceiving desperate parents searching for help for their children with cancer. I trusted him a lot and this is what he did to me. Who say they never received the money raised in their children's names. They promised him toys and whatever he wanted if he agreed to film the video.
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World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.
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Of Unrivaled Basketball is here and the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Briana Stewart and more take the court and redefine the game. This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled where the pace is faster, the energy is higher and every athlete shines unrivaled. Basketball Season 2, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max. Ever wish you could try the Washington Post and see what all the talk is about out right now? You can with a one week pass for just $7. No commitment, no strings attached. Just $7 for one week of unlimited access to the Post. It's the perfect way to explore our award winning journalism and experience what subscribers already know. There's nothing else quite like it. So why not give us a try? Go to washingtonpost.com week and start your $7 one week pass today. That's washingtonpost.com week week. It's the most wonderful time of the year and Valpak is here to make it even better this month as you sip through holiday mail. Don't miss the blue Valpak envelope. From dining to holiday shopping, there's a slate full of savings in your mailbox, plus a chance to instantly win $100. That's right, you could find $100 Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No particular purchase necessary for instant win. Void. We're prohibited. Prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Val Pack envelopes for details.
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Clips of the Year Show Final Armstrong and Getty Show Live show of the Year We've got great leftovers crafted for the next few weeks if you want to dip into those and listen while we're gone. But next live show will be January 5, 2026 and you're enjoying the clips of the year, we hope. But you can't stick around for the rest of it. Now's the perfect time to plug subscribing or following our podcast. Armstrong, you Getty on demand wherever you like to get Podcast. Think of it. Give us a glowing five star review. It helps with the algorithms and stuff to recommend the show. Let's jump into September. September. Do you remember Bada Bottom, but vaguely yes. September. It's the Clips of the Year. Chicago is a hellhole right now.
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The White House sticking to its plans after a violent Labor Day weekend in Chicago where eight people were killed.
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I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again. No federal troops in the city of Chicago.
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Aryna Zarutska getting on the train. Brown rises from his seat and unprovoked. The video shows him stab her.
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A new world order is forming. The leaders of China, India and Russia tonight, hand in hand, a defiant show of force.
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China flexing its military might.
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Night with its largest ever parade and four legged robot wolves designed to locate.
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Mines and hunt down soldiers. Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become and can even achieve immortality.
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Israeli airstrikes targeting Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar. Did you get the targets you were seeking? If we didn't get to this time, we'll get to the next time. President Trump saying that Ukraine, with NATO's help, might be able to win back land taken by Russia. Are you surprised to hear that? A little bit. A little bit. The Finnish answer is to be cool, calm and collected. Take a sauna, take a nice bath and then take the right action. Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID Senator, you've sat in that chair for how long? 20, 25 years? While the chronic Disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing. A window is open to the residents upstairs and somebody is throwing a big bag out the window. Have you seen this? If something happens that's really bad, maybe I'll have to just blame AI. We all know that it was his administration throwing a bag full of the Epstein files out of the window at the orders of the Pope and the Jews. The message apparently bears the signature of President Trump and comes with an outline of what appears to be a naked woman.
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We will confidentially compile the names we all know who are regularly in the Epstein world.
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Tonight, speculation mounting over whether Taylor Swift will perform at the Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying maybe his.
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Name is Zoran Mandani.
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Sounds like you're trying to be difficult, so enough chattering. This is not chatterbox GPT. Count to 1 million.
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I hear you loud and clear. I know you just won that counting, but the truth is, counting all the way to a million would literally take days.
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Oh, my God. It's amusing, but exhausting. All the Epstein stuff. I mean, when you hear it come back at you month by month throughout the year and nothing came out of. Of it, there was not one single revelation that. That I remember that I've heard yet. Not one. The victims will compile the list of names. Still waiting. All right, let's get to it. Let's go ahead. Let's finish September. More clips of the year. So, do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years? Too many.
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Right now. Shots fire during a speech by right wing activist Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk has been shot.
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To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. This is a dark day for our state. It's a tragic day for our nation. People just. You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. That's the unfortunate environment we're in. We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. If you thought that you were going to shut a movement down, you're going to get a rude awakening. You woke us the up. A minister brought him to a U.S. marshal, and the father convinced the son, this is it.
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He wanted to save Young men. Just like the one who took his life. That man.
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That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erica. You understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. Shut up. If you could be associated with one thing, how would you want to be remembered? I want to be remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith in my life. Don't take Tylenol. There's no downside side. Don't take it. I fear that we will not have an election in 2028. I really mean that, you know, and.
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Maybe I was being too cautious with a great deal of sadness about also the fact that it might have been a risk.
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A woman started berating Feltwell, claiming the ball was hers. You took it from me. What was she screaming at you? I can't even repeat that on air. She's very vulgar. Did you mention this? Curious about the mystery of who actually impregnated the boy's mother? Because surely it wasn't that limp wrist. I can only say that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble. I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. Trump was right about everything. And I don't say that in a braggadocious way, but it's true. I've been right about everything. So that was the ball goes into the stands in a Major League baseball game. Kid gets it and when is his birthday, even? Anyway, lady comes over and yells at dad, and dad gives the ball back to little lady says, oh, you're scaring me. Here's the ball didn't stand up for what was right or what was by rights, his son. Oh, wow. Disgusting. That was rough. Yeah, that was a rough one. Speaking of disgusting, obviously the assassination of poor Charlie Kirk, his quote there. How would you like to be remembered for the courage, for my faith. That's Eclipse of the Year nominee, definitely of the Year nominee. Jimmy Kimmel. I just find. Just go away. He's not going away. He got re upped for several more years. They. They re upped him. You know, I don't think Kimmel is a bad human being. And I go off of a couple of fairly conservative people who are still friends with him, like Adam Carolla. He is a guy so governed by his emotions, he can't get through them to think critically. He wanted so badly for the assassination of Charlie Kirk to be a MAGA guy. He could not even be bothered to look for evidence that it was the contrary to his beliefs. He can't even let that into his head. That makes him weak and a fool. I don't know if it makes makes him bad because I don't think it's a conscious effort. Anywho, that was September. Bada bada bada. Which is a fine month. There's a lot of Gavin in there. Mark Halperin has been compiling his list at the end of the year of major political events that will look back on as being major. Probably he's got one around Gavin. We'll be talking about an hour four because we're going to I'm sure one of the clips of the year is going to be feature it. Yeah so hour four is going to be action packed as we need to squeeze in October, November and December and then select the clip of the year a prestigious honor. Then issue our sure to be tear jerking farewell for the holiday season. It's all on the way and if you miss it because you can't listen the whole four hours, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on Demand Armstrong and.
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Gettysburg World of Secrets uncovers a network of scammers deceiving desperate parents searching for help for their children with cancer. I trusted him a lot and this is what he did to me. Who say they never received the money raised in their children's names. They promised him toys and whatever he wanted if he agreed to film the video.
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Please. World of Secrets the Child Cancer scam from the BBC World Service. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000. This is where my new that comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.
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Of Unrivaled Basketball is here and the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more. Take the court and redefine the game. This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled where the pace is faster, the energy is higher and every athlete shines. Unrivaled basketball season two sponsored by Samsung Galaxy tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max. Ever wish you could try the Washington Post and see what all the talk is about? Right now you can, with a one week pass for just $7. No commitment, no strings attached. Just $7 for one week of unlimited access to the the Post. It's the perfect way to explore our award winning journalism and experience what subscribers already know. There's nothing else quite like it, so why not give us a try? Go to washingtonpost.com week and start your $7 one week pass today. That's Washington Post.com week.
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