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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Live from Studio OC Please. Kicking off the final week of Armstrong and Getty new broadcasts in the year 2024.
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Jack Armstrong
Very excited.
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We started the year 2024.
Jack Armstrong
Feels like it, doesn't it Go. Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager, Drone mania.
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It was the drones last week. Now it's drone mania as we've completely lost the thread and it's just silly.
Jack Armstrong
Now, is it just.
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The coverage is silly.
Jack Armstrong
It is a slow news day. There is no doubt about it. It's a slow news day when every source you go to has a different lead story. And that has been the case since I got up this morning. And every single version of a lead story is just an update on an existing story. So it is a slow news day. The exciting thing about that is, means we can certainly talk about whatever we want and really stretch out and enjoy ourselves on a number of topics of our own making, which is.
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Well, and it means, you know, speaking metaphorically, nothing in particular is on fire at the moment, which is a rare pleasure.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, you know, it ignores a couple of things that are going on around the world that are major problems, but I guess there's nothing that jumps out as a reason to elevate it to the highest level.
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Yeah, it's the. What's the layer they call in forest fires that, like, can keep burning for weeks and. And you don't see it. I don't know, it's like smoldering and then in ker blowy, it fires up again. We've got a handful of those, no doubt.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. So why do you say drone mania is our lead story? I was. I was fascinated by it over the weekend. I showed it to both my kids who don't take in a lot of news coverage because every newscast, certainly on Friday night and I think Saturday night led with the drone story.
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Right, right. The reason I said that was one moment in particular because there are some significant stories about, like that Chinese national who was flying a drone over one of our space force bases on The west coast, then tried to escape to China. That's significant. The Vandenberg Air Force Base, the New Jersey there by the base I don't recall the name of, but that stuff's great. But then I was watching the news, I think it was. Could have been last night, and Aaron Katersky in his sonorous voice saying, and now drone sightings have been reported in a dozen northeastern states. And I'm like, yeah, it's not that people are flight. That there are things in the air. We know there are things in the air. It's do we have drones massing over critical. Never mind.
Jack Armstrong
Well, all the denials bother me and we'll get to that a little bit later as freaking waste of skin. DHS Secretary Mayorkas was on one of the shows yesterday, and that is, yes.
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He should be skinned for the use of others.
Jack Armstrong
As usual, I've got nothing to say, but I'd like to assure you there's nothing to worry about. Blah, blah, blah. Most of the drones are airplanes. Okay, I get that. Since the drone story got hot, now everybody's calling in every airplane they see as a drone. Yes, but what about the original drones that everybody seems to think were drones? How about we talk about those? Like grownups and such.
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Jack Armstrong
Most of the reports are planes. That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Right. Hey, hey, what about the ones that aren't? Huh? Yeah, most of them are planes. Yeah, but what about the ones that aren't?
Jack Armstrong
Right, right. Which is still, I think I. Well, I don't know that I know, but Josh Rogan put out an interesting retweet that I was reading in the middle of the night. Would you like to hear that now?
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Jack Armstrong
I won't read all the details. I'll do that later. Because it's a pretty long thread, but it's pretty interesting. It's a guy from some agency that. Or corporation that made these kind of drones. And he lays out, while he doesn't know that that's what this is, he's pretty sure that what it is, it's a drone sweep of areas to see if they can detect dirty bombs. And he suspects that it's a test of our capability around ports and any sort of populated area or government installation or whatever to detect a dirty bomb. He thinks it's both a psyops program, psychological operation to see how the public would react to all these drones showing up somewhere all of a sudden, which they need to do if there's a suspicion that, you know, they get some intel that Iran wants to get a dirty bomb into the port of San Diego or whatever. And so you send over all our drones that can pick this information up there. Will. That freaked people out. And so it's a combination psyops and testing out our dirty bomb sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct but that would explain it. That, that, that could be the thing. That sort of thing. Could be the thing.
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Yeah. That sort of thing. I would agree. I interacted with a number of folks over the weekend both during my Jay Gatsby like social life as we had holiday gatherings and on the golf course. And one thing that was agreed widely was that the answers. We don't know what it is, but everything's fine. Indicates something classified, Right?
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
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Something. Yeah. That they can't talk about. But no, it's not killer drones come for your. Your, your children. It's fine. It's our stuff.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. That's why that dirty bomb thing that Josh Rogan, who we really like from the Washington Post, he retweeted that because he obviously thinks it's significant. That's why that would fit that people at certain levels know it's nothing to worry about.
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But.
Jack Armstrong
And it's a good thing. It's a good thing that we have this technology. But we just.
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One other suggestion I've heard that seemed very reasonable was some sort of test of drone vulnerability. Drone tracking equipment, that sort of thing. There's only one way to do it. Team A flies drones, Team B keeps an eye on them. Then you see if Team A can elude Team B. It's a classic military training exercise.
Jack Armstrong
So it's interesting you mentioned your Jay Gatsby like social life. I remember before I had children. Gladys, could you play the harp last week? Last week, Gladys, we don't know if we're bringing you back in 25 contract.
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Jack Armstrong
Contracting can be left unset, huh?
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I don't know if God's bringing her back in 25. Oh, wow.
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Jack Armstrong
I remember when I had a Jake Gatsby like social life before I had children. And you get close to Christmas, it'd just be all kinds of different gatherings and parties and stuff like that. It was just running around. I'd be so exhausted from the fun and oh man, this is almost work. I had one of the most annoying weekends of my life just running kids around, running errands in the traffic of this time of year. I mean it's first word world problems. Annoying. It's not Ukraine or Syria, but just everything was a Hassle. Nothing was enjoyable. And I thought, there's got to be a better way to do the Christmas season than this. There's just got to be. It was miserable. Everything is difficult this time of year. The slightest errand is difficult because you can't park there. There's a long line. It's just everything's insane.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. I thought, what am I doing wrong? How do I get my head straight on this? Because I'd hear Christmas being it's the most wonderful time and I'm in line and just found a way to go home.
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Jack Armstrong
God. We were at ikea. Ikea. I wanted to just. I wanted to do the TikTok prank and climb behind some of the furniture and sleep there.
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I was just.
Jack Armstrong
We couldn't get. Find our way out. The lines were so long, it was so crowded. The parking, the traffic, and just, ah, kill me. Ah, yes, Michael, you could live on the Swedish meatballs. Exactly. I was just so annoying. And I thought, I've got to find some joy in this, or at least neutral in this because I'm so angry. Kids were angry, the other customers were angry. It was just lots of anger.
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Wow, how angry. Setting fire to Santa's beard angry or.
Jack Armstrong
The only enjoyment I got out of IKEA that drove my kids crazy was using some sort of fake Swedish word for everything. We were looking, we would come around the corner, oh, look, the lamp and Ferguson. And there's the couch and coconut.
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Well, as long as you annoyed the boys, it was worth it.
Jack Armstrong
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
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I'll be darned. That doesn't surprise me, actually. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Jo Getty on this. It is Monday, December 16th, the year 2024. We are Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program.
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Some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. Some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. It is our job to be vigilant in the federal government with our state and local partners, on behalf of the American public, and we can assure their safety by reason of that vigilance.
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Did Biden find that lame o by the roadside and take pity on him? Or something. How did he ascend to the any level, much less the level he's at?
Jack Armstrong
That was Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, sounding the same way about drones as he sounded about the border. He is the ultimate bureaucrat. He could rise to the top of any sort of bureaucracy, giant health care or state government or anything. It's just we are. We are on top of this. We are. We have all the functions in place. We have the matrixes lined up and all the results are going to. He says nothing. He kills a couple of minutes. Oh, I hate so much. Donate your organs before you die and then we'll start taking them now. And then you just need to recede.
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly.
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A waste of skin. Burn victims, those who've been lacerated can better use his skin. Can you imagine? You're running some sort of enterprise and you got 10 people in a room and he's the best of them to interview. I would fire my recruiting firm.
Jack Armstrong
So that was Mayorkas on ABC this week right after him, Stephanopoulos, who just got sued by Trump and Trump won. More on that later. Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey who's seeing drones all over the place, said Mayorkas is full of crap. So I thought that was really good. We'll get to that later. How does mailbag look?
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Tell us if you see a drone. You were to text us. 415295kftc. I've got a busy day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.
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Jack Armstrong
Glad it's a slow Newsday because it allows us to do a number of things that it might not made the cut otherwise. From my list, including over the weekend I came across this site that has compiled. It's bad news, but it's funny. All the fraudsters that were able to get PP money PPP money during the COVID giveaway where we just shoveled trillions of dollars out the door and the way different people applied and actually got tens of thousands of dollars in chunks all across America to the tune of billions of dollars. It's actually pretty funny how little effort they put into it. It almost makes me wish I'd done it.
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And given the way all that crap fed inflation, this is definitely laughing to keep from crying. Yeah, but yeah, I get that. And we have a list of some of the folks that Joe Biden granted clemency to. That list of 1500 people have finally gotten a chance to take a look at and assess and it's revealing and strange and utterly inappropriate. But what are you going to do? He's the president. For now, here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Excuse me. I love this. Michael in Haystack, Nebraska sent this along. Is that real? Is that really a place in Nebraska?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
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Is that like Jeff and Hogs Nipple, Tennessee? Might be, yeah. But it's from Churchill and I absolutely love it. On the idea of presentism straight out of Orwell as well as Churchill. If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future. Oh, presentism is pathetic. Adolescent egomania.
Jack Armstrong
It's easy.
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Oh my gosh, it's so transparently self serving. I'm like a way better person than Lincoln was because I believe this. Okay, Good lord. Since it's insulting to everyone's intelligence. Mailbag. Woo. Brian from Houston. What if the drone drones are being controlled by clowns at the edge of the woods? Right, Getcha. Oh, this is out of order, guys. The. Oh, this is Anna Luis in La Mesa, California writes. Hey guys, the drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like the Salem witch trials. Maybe everyone needs to read or watch Arthur Miller's the Crucible and calm the hell down.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, funny you said that. That's what I said on Thursday or Friday, that mass hysteria thing. But the difference is there were no actual witches. There are actual drones. I think that started this whole thing, right?
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It reminds me of the murder investigation where, you know, somebody killed somebody and the guy's out there and then the public, for whatever reason, floods the authorities with 15,000 tips. It's not helping. Barry from Thailand writes, wishing you and your staff and all the listeners a very Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Never gets old here. Listening to American Christmas music in the shopping centers malls. Oh boy, then I can't do that joke. Bear the funny joke about Adam and Eve and apparently his state of sexual readiness.
Jack Armstrong
But again, but I'm telling you, I'm walking around the ikea, the Best buy Christmas music is playing about it's a jing jing jing. And I'm looking around and there's not a smile on anybody's face anywhere. I thought, are we all doing this wrong or what is going on?
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Well, at some point you'd think people will begin to associate that music with being grim and angry. Just an endless list of unpleasant tasks, right? Yeah, but thank you for the note, Barry. Moving along, here's something from John. I'm watching Sunday Night Football commercial comes on. It's well meaning. I'm only human after all. Jesus. It takes all of us, et cetera. Many clips of people arguing and fighting over whatever. I assume you've seen it. I actually have, yeah. I'm tired. I think the biggest problem in our society is that everyone thinks what they think is important. Get over yourself. You're not the most important person in the world. You're important to yourself, your family and friends. The rest of the world doesn't give two poops what you think. A little more humility would help all of us. Yeah, there's truth to that. The ability to have your words seen by the world online, no matter how inane, is an interesting development in mankind. It's never existed before. How about this? Ryan from Houston. Jack. Joe, I know you have personal jihad's. Mine is to get the world to treat the Time magazine Person of the Year the same as the MTV Movie Award winner for best fight scene aka not at all. Nobody thinks about time 364 days a year. So why give the hind end of a rat when they tweet out a picture of a magazine cover?
Jack Armstrong
I don't think most people do. It's immediate creation.
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Now if Armstrong, you get here, declared the Time magazine Person of the Year long overdue, then my comments are null and void. And then he makes some Christmas song suggestions. Oh, you know, I don't think we have time for this and it's a shame, but it's a note from Julie I want to get back to about the disappearance of the Coexist Coexistence 5th bumper sticker that we used to mock and why that might be significant. Really thought provoking.
Jack Armstrong
Interesting. Yeah. Speaking of coexisting, check in on Syria, which has a lot of interesting stories going on and I hope those people can keep their smiles on their faces. They're smiling more this weekend than I was. A lot of other news to get to, so stay with us.
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Jack Armstrong
After police arrested suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, they found a note on him expressing anger at corporate Americ. Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then was caught at McDonald's. So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy. Yeah, that numb nuts view of the world is just, well, not as smart as he thought he was. Maybe more on that later.
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Yeah, I'm surprised we don't have a name for that sort of person, although it is. I'm smarter and better than everyone, therefore my judgment is ironclad. Therefore I may do anything to execute my plan for society, including murdering someone in cold blood. And I will be justified.
Jack Armstrong
Biggest football news of yesterday, Patrick Mahomes leaving the game at the end hurt and saying he might not play next week and complaining about the NFL making him play three games in 11 days over the Christmas break because of the scheduling, working out, wanting to play the Black Friday game and, and fitting and thanks all the different stuff.
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Oh, that's a hell of a lot of footage.
Jack Armstrong
What he's saying. Your body can't take that and now he's hurt. So anywho, here's your end of the year stat of the hour because we'll have a lot of end of the year stats for you this week. How big of an industry is the video game industry? Total worldwide revenues for video games seven times that of recorded music. That is amazing. Now part of that might be you can get recorded music for $14 a subscription and you can't do that with video games.
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But yeah, I was going to say you can. Well, you can get obviously you know this, but it's a subscription model for video games. I still picture you go down to GameStop, you buy a thing, you plug it into your computer, you're done. But now it's all subscriptions. I was just going to ask, does that include the revenue to music streaming services?
Jack Armstrong
I actually don't know that.
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Spotify, Apple, etc. Yeah, I'd be curious to know, probably.
Jack Armstrong
A lot of kids are going to be getting video games for Christmas this year. And one other economic note as President Xi in China, because they're facing some serious economic problems, gave a speech the other day where he said people are going to have to learn to eat bitterness.
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Wow. You pair that with the what was that? What's our famous tape, Michael of the drone there during COVID Suspend your soul's.
Jack Armstrong
Desire for freedom or whatever.
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Tell your soul to shut the hell up. Yeah, so now I gotta learn to eat bitterness on top of it. I'm starting to wonder about this system of yours. Winnie. Winnie the Pooh.
Jack Armstrong
So our economy's better than China's? Definitely.
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Oh, they. I'm serious. I've been banging the strum for a long time. I remember, I'm old enough to remember the great. The journalists. For whatever reason they get in a herd and they charge like panicking wildebeests. But during the 80s, whenever it was in 90s, how Japan and the Japanese system and they were going to rule the world and they were far superior to the United States. And then Japan collapsed and entered a thug 30 year period of economic malaise. Well, it's very similar. The whole Tom Friedman falling in love with the communist Chinese and their spectacular efficiency and their bullet trains and look how quickly they can build the development. They have horrific problems. They have built this giant hollow economy of overproduction and over capacity in manufacturing and it's all about to go kerbluey. Trust me, you don't want to be your communist.
Jack Armstrong
Control your soul's desire for freedom.
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Jack Armstrong
And now eat bitterness.
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Yum yum. Hey kids, it's bitterness for dinner tonight. On the other hand, we have something like a democracy here, Jack. And we have elections from time to time. And sometimes the way they come out has some interesting aftereffects. For instance, scientists are quite confident that when your side wins the election, you feel more positive in general, more positive about the economy specifically. And the winning side spends more aggressively.
Jack Armstrong
That is obvious. Never thought about it before, but of course you would. Obviously you would feel better about things. Your vision of the way the country ought to be run is going to happen as opposed to one that you think is bad news.
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Yeah, yeah. I wish I'd learned this earlier because I was crazy competitive as a young person. But when you win, you get a surge of testosterone and you feel like you're on top of the world. It makes you bold, it makes you confident, it makes you happy, it makes you want to have friends and shake hands. And when you lose, you have a drop in testosterone and it makes you feel very, you know, kind of weird and closed off and pissed off and the rest of it. And it's not just the pride of it or whatever. It causes serious hormonal changes in your body and it makes sense that if you win a big election, you're charged up and yahoo.
Jack Armstrong
This is.
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Jack Armstrong
This is somewhat different because when the Kansas City Chiefs win, while I have those physiological responses that you just described, I don't have the addition of. And because the Chiefs won, I'm more optimistic about my stocks like I am when the Republicans are in charge.
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Yeah, indeed. So I thought this was funny. Republicans views on the future of their finances in the economy jumped about 45 points to 105.9. As if anybody knows what this scale is. The eagle in an interview.
Jack Armstrong
105.9. The Eagle playing six in a row as you drive to work.
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All right, stop it. From the University of Michigan surveys of consumers compared with October. So up 45 points to 105. So that would be roughly 50% before the presidential election, Democrats outlook fell by the amount about 49% based on data released earlier this month. The survey's first to exclusively measure post election sentiment.
Jack Armstrong
So you're not spending as much for Christmas because the country elected Hitler. That makes sense.
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You know, you know what's odd about that is from a purely objective point of view, which I am able to achieve, that's bonkers. If you are on the government dole, it's not going to change because Republicans can't cut benefits apparently anymore. It's not a big enough priority. You lose too many votes and then huge numbers of Democrats actually, well, at least a significant majority of Americans believe Trump would handle the economy better. So why in the world, as a Democrat, would you be much more negative about your economic prospects? Doesn't make any sense.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. But I know, I personally know people who are beside themselves with grief still. So.
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Yeah, well, get over it. Grow up. You know what? It could be the percentage of people who believe the utter horse crap that the Trump tax cuts, which are probably going to be made permanent next year, perhaps with a tweak or two, but not many. They believe that garbage, that, that was just for millionaires and billionaires when it was mostly for the middle class. Percentage wise, really rich people gained well because they pay way, way, way more taxes than the middle class. But it was mostly a middle class tax cut. I wonder if they just, they believed the worst rhetoric of their, their ideological brethren.
Jack Armstrong
Did you see the guest essay in the New York Times over the weekend about China? It was from some think tank guy. I don't remember his name. I didn't know his name. But he's one of your think tank economic geniuses. Who really thinks Trump is on the right track with the tariff thing and taking on China and that China's just, just needs a little shove over the edge to like really be destroyed and. But it's going to be painful for us for a while. But he thinks that it's pain. Trump is willing to take a hit to his political capital and that it'll ultimately benefit the United States. I hope he's right.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Yeah, I missed that. I would love to read that. Take a look. Yeah, yeah. Judging by everything I've been reading about it, there's a lot of truth to are fragile.
Jack Armstrong
And that was in the New York Times.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. More stabbings and runnings over hundreds of them that are little reported and we don't hear about in the United States, but lots of signs of anger and discontent. Anyway, one more thing on the whole election dealio, I thought this was interesting. Nearly a quarter of people looking to buy their first house were asked last September about their, you know, their, their plans and priorities and nearly a quarter of them said we're going to wait until after the votes are in.
Jack Armstrong
Interesting.
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I would never think that.
Jack Armstrong
I wouldn't either. I was looking at a house and it never crossed my mind that maybe I should wait until after the election. Huh?
T-Mobile Advertiser
Yeah, that's funny. I bought and sold more houses than any three normal people combined. And, and I'm really, really into politics. But I wouldn't even think about that unless, unless somebody proposed some sort of specific policy. But I don't recall that happening. Anyway, it's true. Country to country. Just an interesting effect. Politics.
Jack Armstrong
Well, since we are beating up on China and the trouble that they're in, how about some positive news for China? That's just true. China's car production share in the world for the global car production. I wish this chart went back to like the 50s and 60s. I got to believe the United States was like practically all of them was like 85% of cars on earth were made in Detroit. The United States, this is going back to 2000. The United States has gone from about 13% of the population of the all the cars in the world to 3%. So we've dropped from about 13 to 3. Japan has gone down, Europe has gone down a lot. China has gone from 1% at the start of this century to 40%.
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Jack Armstrong
Of the worldwide car production or car sold. Isn't that amazing?
T-Mobile Advertiser
Oh, it's stunning.
Jack Armstrong
That is something a lot of it.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Is, you know, from a capitalist point of view, artificial propping up of their industry and subsidizing it by the government and just crazy manufacturing for foreign markets, exports. Consumer spending is really lagging in China. But yeah, that's. It's amazing.
Jack Armstrong
So we can get into the details a bit later. But George Stephanopoulos, he didn't pay it himself. ABC paid it, but got hit for. Was it $15 million for continually saying. And I remember that episode of ABC this week where he kept referring to Trump as a convicted rapist after that trial. And Trump was not convicted of rape. But Stephanopoulos said it multiple times and Trump sued and now ABC is paying $15 million and Stephanopoulos had to offer up an ABC a Weasley apology. But that's kind of interesting.
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Speaking of the after effects of elections and ratings and money. Holy crap. Some of the recent numbers from MSNBC and cnn. How are they keeping the lights on? How are they paying their half wits? More on that to come?
Jack Armstrong
And will they ever recover? Probably not.
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Not if there is a God. God probably doesn't concern himself with cable news. He probably hates it.
Jack Armstrong
My son's birthday is a week from today. Then Christmas is a week in two days from today. I have many things I haven't finished yet. I'm feeling tremendous pressure.
T-Mobile Advertiser
My wife's birthday is in three days. I'd like to have a word with her parents, God rest their souls. Stop having children in December. It's inconvenient for the rest of us.
Jack Armstrong
You got to think ahead. We should have thought ahead. I don't know what happened. It's just. Yeah, it is incredibly inconvenient.
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You start feeling randy in March. You put it off. All right.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly.
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You take a cold shower, as they used to say.
Jack Armstrong
Does that work? Has anybody ever actually done that? You're really wanting sex and you take a cold shower. It would do the trick, I think.
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Maybe being in anguish in general. Punch yourself in the face. That works, too.
Jack Armstrong
We've got Katie's headlines on the way.
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The captivating Toyota Crown family Toyota let's go places. Frosty was an idiot.
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Jack Armstrong
Frosty. He was a moron. Seemed nice enough.
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Jack Armstrong
I keep seeing headlines from the left on how the Trump sues Stephanopoulos and wins is going to have a chilling effect on news media coverage for the presidency. Well, or you can't call somebody who's a rapist who's not a rapist or that it's that's the sum total of.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Oh, well, right, yeah. Get your facts straight, Jack.
Jack Armstrong
Well, about like it's serious. That's not like a minor fact either. Am I a convicted rapist or not? Oh, I'm not. Well, then stop saying I am. Yikes.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The, there's more to that story and it's, it's pretty interesting. We've got a bunch of media stories today, among other things, but first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie?
J
Well, speaking of abc, let's start there. Feds are urged to deploy high tech drone hunters to solve mystery behind sightings.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, so I mean, you got Trump calling for him to be shot down. Chris Christie said yesterday we need to bring one of these down and figure out what they are. Former governor of Maryland over the weekend said the same thing. At some point, if it's a government operation that they're kind of keeping secret, don't have to say, hey, before you start shooting these things down and somebody gets hurt or we lose millions of dollars, maybe we should let you know this is on purpose and nothing to be afraid of.
T-Mobile Advertiser
I'm going to quote a great American who said this after a couple of eggnogs Friday night. Every red blooded American patriot must train their guns on the sky and be ready to do what must be done all across the country.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. The problem with that is you're going to be shooting down planes.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Yeah, please don't do that.
J
From Newsweek, Luigi Mangione pictures met with Cheers at Boston concert.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Wow.
J
Yeah, they were playing some Miley Cyrus song and apparently the DJ put a bunch of pictures up on the screen behind him and everybody just went nuts.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
The decision to put the pics up is weird. And then the crowd cheering. Wow.
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It's just a dopey Internet age. I can say anything. Everybody's anonymous us and you've got to go way over the top to convey how you feel. Well, it's all those things coming together.
Jack Armstrong
And how much of it is like Chris Rock said on Saturday Night Live because he's hot. Chris Rock said if this guy looked like Jonah Hill, we'd already executed him.
J
From the New York Post, Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually a notorious Assad regime torturer.
Jack Armstrong
I saw this. This, he is one of the best known like legend around the country. Torturers that work for Assad and somehow when they are escaping from the prison, they threw him in a cell and locked him in there and got out. But he's the guy that was freed by Clarissa Ward the other day.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Wow. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
J
That took a.
T-Mobile Advertiser
She's a terrific reporter.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Not her fault.
T-Mobile Advertiser
No. But nice job, cnn.
J
It's actually perfect if you think about it. From Fox News, cleanup underway after rare tornado hit Scotts Valley, California.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, in my real life, I heard a lot about this. There's a lot of people saying, no way a tornado hit.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
It actually hit the ground and flipping cars and all kinds of stuff.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Yeah. Thank God nobody was hurt any more than they were.
J
From the Free Beacon, New York Times puts menstrual products in men's bathrooms to, quote, support transgender and non binary colleagues.
Jack Armstrong
You gotta be kidding. At the New York Times.
J
At the New York Times.
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I'm telling you, while in the same parts of the country, all of this stuff, the dei, the gender bending madness, is on the back foot in your progressive organizations. It's growing.
J
From NBC meme coins, like fart coins are riding Trump's victory to huge valuations. And experts say it's only just begun.
T-Mobile Advertiser
We're both just shaking our heads. People are making real money. Of course they are. Yeah. I get the idea of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and stuff like that is a form of payment outside the government system. I get that completely. But right now, it's just wild speculation. You launch these coins, fart coin, for instance, and it goes up as people are thinking, all right, when does the bubble burst? When are the suckers going to get out? I'm going to get out now. And they make their money. Then those poor suckers who get in at the end, they lose their shirts.
J
And finally, the Babylon Bee, Joe Biden pardons wife Jill for impersonating a doctor.
T-Mobile Advertiser
Right.
Jack Armstrong
God dang it. He had another cryptocurrency that I got.
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Yeah, I gotta get in now. Slow and steady chance the race, Jack. Slow and steady. Stick with your IBM stock, your GM stock. Right. And American Steel, how's that doing? I haven't checked lately. U.S. steel.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. We'll catch you up on the news. That's what we'll do. An hour, two, three and four. I got like an amazing culture war story I can't wait to get to later and see all your responses on that. If you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand - "He Should Be Skinned For The Use Of Others"
Episode Details:
Timestamp: [04:07]
The episode kicks off with a deep dive into the recent surge in drone sightings across various states. Jack Armstrong expresses skepticism about the government's explanations, questioning the prevalence of drones and the adequacy of official responses.
Jack Armstrong: "Most of the reports are planes. That seems like on purpose obscuring the topic."
[04:07]
Joe Getty adds to the conversation, referencing recent incidents involving drones near military bases and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) handling of the situation.
Joe Getty: "It's a combination psyops and testing out our dirty bomb sweeping drones that I don't know if that's correct but that would explain it."
[07:06]
The hosts discuss theories ranging from psychological operations to actual tests of drone capabilities for detecting threats, emphasizing the public's growing unease and the lack of transparent communication from authorities.
Timestamp: [09:36]
Transitioning from national concerns, Jack shares a personal story about the chaos of the holiday season, specifically recounting a frustrating trip to IKEA during the Christmas rush. He humorously laments the stress and lack of joy in what is typically portrayed as a festive time.
Jack Armstrong: "There are no smiles on anybody's face anywhere. I thought, are we all doing this wrong or what is going on?"
[20:36]
Joe Getty empathizes with Jack's experience, humorously suggesting ways to cope with holiday stress, including taking cold showers and other tongue-in-cheek remedies.
Joe Getty: "Maybe being in anguish in general. Punch yourself in the face. That works, too."
[38:08]
Timestamp: [18:18]
In the mailbag segment, Jack and Joe read and respond to listener letters addressing various social and cultural issues. Topics range from the absurdity of presentism in modern society to comparisons of current drone hysteria to historical events like the Salem witch trials.
Listener Anna Luis: "The drone sightings are beginning to feel a lot like the Salem witch trials."
[19:31]
The hosts critique the overreactions and misinformation spreading through social platforms, highlighting the need for critical thinking and calm discourse.
Timestamp: [41:31]
Jack and Joe critique recent media coverage, particularly focusing on high-profile defamation cases. They discuss the lawsuit between Trump and Stephanopoulos, emphasizing the problematic nature of incorrect reporting and its impact on public trust.
Jack Armstrong: "You gotta be kidding. At the New York Times."
[44:41]
The conversation extends to broader media practices, including the sensationalism around drone sightings and the implications of false reporting on public perception.
Timestamp: [27:07]
Shifting to economic discussions, the hosts highlight the staggering revenue of the video game industry, noting it surpasses that of recorded music by seven times.
Jack Armstrong: "Total worldwide revenues for video games seven times that of recorded music. That is amazing."
[27:07]
They delve into the factors contributing to this growth, such as subscription models and the immersive nature of modern gaming.
Further, they examine China's ascendance in global car production, contrasting it with the decline of American and Japanese manufacturing shares.
Joe Getty: "China has gone from 1% at the start of this century to 40% of the worldwide car production or cars sold."
[36:10]
The hosts express concern over China's economic policies and overproduction issues, drawing parallels to past economic downturns in other nations.
Timestamp: [34:46]
The discussion moves to the psychological impact of election results on consumer behavior. Citing University of Michigan surveys, Jack and Joe analyze how victory or defeat affects economic optimism and spending habits among different political groups.
Joe Getty: "Republicans views on the future of their finances in the economy jumped about 45 points to 105.9."
[31:35]
They explore the hormonal and psychological changes that accompany election outcomes, linking these shifts to broader economic implications and personal financial decisions, such as home buying.
Timestamp: [45:12]
Addressing the volatile world of cryptocurrency, Jack and Joe discuss the rise of meme coins like "fart coins," attributing their surge to political events and speculative trading.
Joe Getty: "They make their money. Then those poor suckers who get in at the end, they lose their shirts."
[45:45]
The hosts caution listeners about the speculative nature of these investments, emphasizing the risks involved in such volatile markets.
Throughout the episode, Jack and Joe intersperse serious discussions with humor and personal anecdotes, maintaining an engaging and relatable atmosphere for listeners. From mocking Frosty the Snowman to playful jabs at corporate mishaps, their chemistry adds a dynamic layer to the podcast.
Jack Armstrong: "Frosty was a moron. Seemed nice enough."
[40:59]
Jack Armstrong: "It's a slow news day. There is no doubt about it."
[04:05]
Joe Getty: "It's like smoldering and then in ker blowy, it fires up again."
[05:03]
Jack Armstrong: "We have all the functions in place. We have the matrixes lined up."
[12:33]
Joe Getty: "Have a word with her parents, God rest their souls. Stop having children in December."
[37:45]
Jack Armstrong: "The New York Times puts menstrual products in men's bathrooms to support transgender and non-binary colleagues."
[44:19]
In "He Should Be Skinned For The Use Of Others," Armstrong and Getty tackle a blend of pressing societal issues, personal anecdotes, and media critiques, all woven together with their signature humor and insightful commentary. From the enigmatic surge in drone activities to the intricate dynamics of consumer behavior post-election, the hosts offer listeners a comprehensive and engaging exploration of contemporary topics.
Note: This summary omits all advertisement segments and focuses solely on the substantive content discussed by Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.