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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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My half drunk coffee from two weeks ago is still sitting here.
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Oh no.
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Should I drink that or probably go for it? Probably not.
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I don't know. Are you a live.
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We're back from studio C. This stuff still work?
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Si.
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Savior a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
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Hey, y'.
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All. Today, starting the brand new year, getting back to real life. We are under the tutelage of our general manager.
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Usually it's Armstrong and Getty, tanned, rested and ready. But I gotta go with Nicholas Maduro.
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Who dad, you know and I, you know, if you follow the news at all, you know who that is. But how many of the 80 million people that voted for Donald Trump could have told you who either the President of Nicaragua was or who Nicolas Maduro was when they went and cast a vote for Donald Trump? Wow.
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1% throwing in Nicaragua.
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That or Venezuela.
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Venezuela. So many countries. Oh, a small, small percentage.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'd be surprised if it was 1%. But here we are, ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, we will, we will be talking about that. I am so excited about getting back to regular life. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or what, but I am happy to get back to the regular routine. Going to the same place and the kids are going to school and not eating at restaurants and just the regular life returning today. I am very excited about it.
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How? Yeah, interesting. I had a routine. I had a very low key vacation and so I don't feel that relief but I remember what it feels. Feels like the travel and the eating out and the kind of inventing your day, every day thing.
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Yeah, yeah. And you know, kid activities which are so glorious and wonderful. I'll miss them when they're gone. But incredibly tiring Incredibly tiring. I didn't.
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You know, I've said. I remember when my kids were of the launching age, that I. I realized that while I love these people more than I can possibly describe, I'm about at the point where I've had enough of them. So this is God's plan and it is a wise one.
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Yeah, I want to talk about that later. We did what we call Cousin Christmas, where everybody gets together in Kansas and extended family and my brothers and their kids and stuff like that. And he had a different groups. You had finished college out in the world dealing with real life and actual bosses and that sort of stuff. You got people still in college trying to figure out what to do with their life. And then you got my kids, who are teenagers, frightened to death of what they keep hearing about the changing world and everything like that.
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Oh, boy, I'm sorry to hear that.
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It is got to be. There's no way you could make the claim that it's the same now as it always has been for kids going out into the world and trying to make a living and whatever. It's just if you.
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If you went back, you wouldn't have.
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To go back that many years. And a lot of kids were going to go out and do the same thing their dad did, probably.
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Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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It's.
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It's funny, I think it's a bit of a complex thought, but we're starting to get used to this just unbelievably quick pace of change. Everything changes and changes again and changes again, and so we forget how crazy that is. I mean, like you said, when was it that kids who often would grow up and do what their dad did, what, 40 years ago? 40 years ago is nothing.
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Right, Right. Anywho, looking forward to getting back to it in my regular life. And how did you do scale wise over the two weeks off?
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Well, that depends on what the goal was. If the goal was to get a blue ribbon hung around my neck at the state fair. I did great.
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Michael, how did you do?
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I think I did okay. I stayed about the same.
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Oh, you don't get on the scale. Okay.
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Well, you got the diabetes. That's time for that. That's true.
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Yeah.
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I did have a bad meal or two though, or. Yeah, I'm just trying to get diabetes. Good Lord. Five solid pounds, by the way, is the answer. Five solid pounds since the day before Thanksgiving.
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Yeah. Wow. Up five since Thanksgiving and it was six yesterday. Nice work.
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Had a good day yesterday. Got after it.
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I. All I know is this so we were all sitting around in this big room going through New Year's resolutions everybody's making. And I think I went last anyway. And I said, my New Year's resolution is to no desserts in 26. And everybody threw back their heads in laughter. Immediately.
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Say.
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I'd say, if everybody reacts to your New Year's resolution with, oh, my God, that was funny. Okay, now tell us what your real New Year's resolution is.
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That you've got a problem. That's like, if I stood up and said, no more yelling about communists, everybody would think, why. Yeah, why, idiot.
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I just think, what. What situation would you ever have where people laugh at your New Year's resolution?
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Oh, my gosh. That is.
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I've never heard of that. I know, I know. If anybody says, I'm gonna try to quit smoking or, you know, I'm gonna work to do my mahjaba, I'm sure you are.
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All right. Yeah.
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What is that? I'm gonna try to, you know, quit drugs. Finally.
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I'm gonna be a better husband to my wife.
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Right, Right. I was mocked roundly for my New Year's resolution.
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That's not right.
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Which I think has only given me strength.
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Oh, it strengthened your resolve, I think.
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Yes.
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First they laughed at you, then they kicked you or something. I don't remember the rest.
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I don't remember the rest of the saying either, but. Right. Well, I'm. Okay. I'm five days in, and I've done it. Yes, Mike, this is what we need.
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More laughter and shaming.
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Yes, and shaming.
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Oh, and it. Laughter and shaming.
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We became so ugly. We went out to eat at Cracker Barrel. We loved the Cracker Barrel, had a delicious meal, but I had the. The apples, the spiced apples. And then people were jumping on me. That's apple pie filling. That's clearly a dessert. I said, it's a fruit cup. And it just. It got ugly very quickly.
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Wow. Wow. Now we're splitting hairs. Or apples. I. I am often. Often in years past, I should say I've said, yeah, I'm not really that into New Year's resolutions. I'm kind of the mind that when you decide it's time, it's time, no matter what time. I actually. Maybe it was because having two weeks off and a lot of quiet time, I just did. I reappraised, you know, a lot of things and was thinking, all right, let's start the new year. And I actually have New Year's resolution, but. Hey, Katie, are you available?
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You didn't Decide you feel like a woman, do you?
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Some days I do a little bit, yeah. But not, not enough to make the change. Katie, did you decide on a New Year's resolution this year?
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No, I decided that I've got so much change headed my way that I.
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Having a baby.
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Yeah, baby and raise it. Yeah.
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Holy cow. Now that's a resolution.
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If you all throw back your heads in laughter, we have a problem.
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My, my brother's big on the New Year's. Same me. That's what he says every new year. But what is it?
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So that's, that's like a two decade resolution Katie's made.
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Yeah. No kidding.
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Yeah. How about you, Michael? Do you make a resolution? Specifically?
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Yes.
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Better time management and organization.
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Oh, good one.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Executive function. I was good. I was thinking that's one of mine to try to do better with my executive function, which is kind of baked in a little bit with human beings, but I'm going to work on it.
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How do you define that? I've heard the term, that's the hot.
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New term for just floundering. People who flounder.
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Give it a fancy name.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You feel better about it, but it.
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Tends to go with personality types. It's not, it's. And I think knowing that helps. In fact, a doctor was talking about that recently with one of my children. It's. If you know that it's, it's actually a thing. Some people are better at this, some people are that, Some people are better at executive function. Once you know you're not good at it, then you have to come up with workarounds. And my doctor talks about his daughter who just graduated from medical school. But all, all the workarounds she had to come up with her executive function because she just was not good at, you know, getting the form signed or remembering this or whatever.
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Yeah. Two thoughts. Number one, quit effing up was the old way to put it, but now it has a fancy name, so that's nice. But secondly, I've been saying that for years. You probably remember this if you realize you're an idiot. The key is not to like, wish you're not an idiot. The key is to come up with ways to compensate for it. I'm a big believer in that. I can leave everything important to me in the most bizarre places. You know, car keys, wallet, glasses, whatever. And so I've just, I've tried to always, always, always leave everything in exactly the same place. That's what I must do before workaround.
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Before we get to our opening Clip. Are you going to share any of.
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Your major change thoughts or my My New Year's resolution is read and write. I am going to read books and I am going to get back to writing both the the prose and music.
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That's a great one.
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And Jack, I know this will resonate with you. I dug into the AI various AI bots to do a little counseling work and I told it and I probably ought to read it at some point. Maybe for a podcast one of these days. Perfect. I said. I'm not writing music. For the first time in my life, I've got this feeling of why bother? And blah, blah, blah. What do you think? And it unleashed the most amazing and apropos thoughts. Oh, I also said what is good psychologically and neurologically about writing and recording music?
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Oh, wow. To give you a reason to do it.
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Oh, but you know, the like, emotional stuff was every bit as powerful psychological stuff.
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Well, that's interesting. I didn't know that.
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Oh, it was like you sat down with the wisest human that's ever walked the earth and they put their arm around you and gave you an hour of their time. It was amazing. And it'll take everybody's jobs and ruin the world. But for now, it's a pretty good tool.
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We will have to talk about that later. That's a good one. If your New Year's resolution was don't have, you know, paratroopers drop into your bedroom and snatch you up the bad news. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. On this. It is Monday. Back to life, January 5th, the year 2026. We are Armstrong and Getty, and we approve this proof.
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Okay, let's leap into action for 2026, precisely according to FCC rules and regs at mark.
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We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So we don't want to be involved with having somebody else get in. And we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.
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I know. That's what I'm all Mr. Judicious, they call me.
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That is one of the heavier sentences in a long time if you're old enough to remember a whole bunch of other situations. We are going to run the country. Holy crap. What does that mean? What does that entail?
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How long and what have these subsequent statements? How have they colored that statement in a very odd and interesting way?
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And is there a I just saw up on Fox just now it said what countries may be next. What Marco Rubio on the talk shows yesterday saying, if I was the president of Cuba, I'd be nervous. Why are we going to take over a whole bunch of countries? Run them all. Washington Post is referring to Marco Rubio as the Viceroy of Venezuela. Anyway, we're going to talk to Mike Lines about this from a military standpoint. A little bit later we got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of good stuff. I hope you can stay here. Armstrong and Getty this episode is brought to you by Prize Picks. Whether you're starting a new routine or making player picks for the first time, trying something new can be hard. But in life and on Price Picks, it always feels good to be right.
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Oh, I've heard that. Yeah, yeah. You know our very brief discussion of the Maduro thing in the last segment. One the one thing we left out was the absolutely hilarious, hilarious protestations on the left. So can't wait to talk about that but first, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie?
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Alrighty. Starting with the Alphabet news stations, cnn, protests erupt worldwide against US Operation in Venezuela. ABC Trump says, quote, we're in charge of Venezuela and claims VP Rodriguez is cooperating. And NBC, US Allies and foes fear Maduro's capture sets precedent for more American intervention.
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Now, the latest polling I saw yesterday afternoon, I think on CNN, about 2/3 of Americans support the operation. Now, we all, you know, a lot of those people are barely paying attention. But just in general, about two thirds are fine with it.
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When I heard, I think it was 68% of independents say, yeah, it's fine, he's a drug lord. Great.
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From the New York Times, Tim Walls to drop bid for third term. And Amy Klobuchar may run instead.
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Yeah. This is breaking news. And we'll talk about this more probably later in the week because we got all this other big international news going on. But that Minnesota thing has turned out to be way bigger.
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Oh, yeah.
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Than we knew. I remember we had that breaking news on the Friday before we left that it wasn't just a billion dollars, it was many, many, many, many billions of dollars. And now Walls is not going to run again.
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And the significance of it, I think the greater significance is that it's, it's not unique really. It's just an especially easy to understand and huge, egregious, sharp focus example of what's wrong with all these systems. I think it could actually end up being a good thing.
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From the Washington Post, man in custody after windows broken at J.D. vance's home. And boy from the Wall Street Journal. Hospitals are a proving ground for what I can do and what it can't.
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I'd like part of a multifaceted AI update I have ready for later. Cool.
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From CBS, subway and bus fares rise to $3 in New York City.
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Yeah. A lot of things kicked in at the first of the year around the country. Maybe we'll hit a list of those later.
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And those of us who are rooting for Mamdani to be an unmitigated disaster, a lot of positive signs.
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Yeah. Stay with us.
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From the New York Post, loose monkey caught in Tennessee after rampaging through music shop and destroying guitars.
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Wow.
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Wow. Bad monkey. Bad, bad monkey. So many wild. So many monkeys loose in the South.
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Yeah.
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What is going on? Live team coverage.
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Looks like.
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Stay with us.
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Looks like our national monkey problem is gonna continue into 26.
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Right.
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Study finds phone calls even hands free can slow Driving reactions.
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Well, okay then. Does that mean conversations in the car? Slow driver reactions also?
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I think really anything that detracts from your attention does.
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It's like I turn the music down when I'm parking. I still don't know why I do that, but I do.
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No, I think that's.
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Everybody does. I remember my dad as a kid. We pull into a big city, he'd have to turn the music down. You gotta pay attention.
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Yeah, yeah, I think that's. That's indicative of something.
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And finally, the Babylon be Democrats confused. Why Venezuelans cheering Downfall of nice warm collectivism.
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Yeah, that's the quote from Mandami. Mandami Moon the commie Mandami. If you haven't heard his inauguration speech, we got to talk about that. That got a lot of attention over the.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, as well it should.
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Yeah, no kidding.
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Oh, my God. Orwell is going to rise from the grave like something out of a Halloween movie and start swinging his ax. Does Orwell have an axe? I don't know.
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He ought to get one. Why would he have an axe? He's not known for his axe. I don't know what you're talking about.
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Got to get one.
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Armstrong and Getty. Tyler Luke. He now has a chance to win the division for the Ravens, the final play of the regular season for the final spot in the playoffs. Tyler Luke from 44 Step Holding. The kick is now good. It is bright and the Steelers are the champions of the North. That was something, man. The NFL has it going on. I don't know how it works this way because it doesn't seem like it should with a sport like that. But the number of times it comes down to the final player, the final.
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Drive is just stunning after wild action.
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You know, for the.
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The previous hour of clock time. Yeah, it's great.
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Yeah, it's incredible.
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Of course, I'm not a football fan. Really. I don't watch the sport anymore because I'm. I'm done with it.
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What happened?
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Well, I'd rather not talk about it, but since you've asked. Since the mighty, mighty Seahawks of Seattle. By the way, there's no such thing as a Seahawk. They're clearly ospreys anyway. Since the mighty Seahawks of Seattle absolutely pasted the 49ers the other day.
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Yeah, 49ers are in the playoffs, though. So you get a restart and you.
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Know all that sort of stuff.
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But you got one and done. The last game of the entire season comes down to when you're in lose, you're out and the final play of the game. I mean, that's scripted. Yeah, it's amazing. Anyway, it's going to be a fun playoffs with a lot of different teams this year. I mean, I don't know if the NFL is excited about a Houston, Seattle, super bowl, if that would draw the eyeballs that they wanted, but we'll see.
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Here's my transition. I wonder what team Nicholas Maduro's rooting for.
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Speaking of Nicholas Maduro, the guy who ran Venezuela, did I just see a picture of him with his head and mustache shaved? Is that what is it Was floating around on Fox. He made his first appearance in court. I think that was him.
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You might hide a knife in that thing that Hansen says that was Mickey Rourke.
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Well, the thing is, he did what all dictators do as they get old. They dye their hair black to look younger. And he had a big, thick mustache and a head of hair that was dyed black. And they shaved it all off because when you're. When you're in jail, you don't get to sport whatever look you want. And he just. Now he looks like a really old man with gray stubble on his head and on his face. Yeah, another embarrassment.
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You don't get to support whatever look you want unless you can claim as part of some religion. Right. You know, hey, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Catholics, you got to come up with a signature hairstyle because then you get to keep it in prison like the, you know, the Rastafarians and the Sikhs and whoever else.
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So I was thinking about this over the weekend after this all happened. We talked about this quite a bit. I don't know that I heard it anywhere else. Mark Halperin was writing in his newsletter that we read every single day. Geez, practically a year ago, that all the Buzz in Washington, D.C. the only thing all the heavyweight think tanks could talk about was the dividing up of the spheres in the world between China and the United States, that it's just become accepted that China's gonna get their big chunk of the world, including Taiwan. It's just gonna happen. There's no stopping it. And we're gonna get our big chunk of the world. And that's just the way things are gonna be for the next century or however long. And I thought it was interesting that it was all the buzz in the think tanks, because I never heard another word about it other really than what Mark Halperin wrote in his newsletter. I think that's what we saw over the weekend. I think. I think that's what's going on I think Trump feels like China's gonna take Taiwan at some point and the world ain't gonna be able to stop him. We're, we're gonna take control of our.
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Part of the world.
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And a quote from Marco Rubio yesterday on one of the shows, and he went on all the shows, this is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. We're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States. It's simple as that.
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Absolutely great policy, in my opinion. Venezuela was a warm, welcoming port to the Chinese, the Iranians, the Russians, who were sowing their influence there and building a base of anti American activism. Right. I mean, take a look at the map right there across the newly renamed Gulf of America. There it is. It's a giant, potentially rich country that is a base of operations for Iran and China. That's a nightmare.
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Yeah. And I don't know how I didn't know this or I probably heard it and forgot it, but everyone should know that Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And by quite a bit. It's, it's amazing. How did we not take Venezuela back in the 70s and 80s when oil was really the most important thing in the world?
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I don't know. Right. So they're number one at that. Here's something they're number two at. Did you know this? The number or the percentage of their population that has fled, they're number two behind Syria. It's like a third of their population has fled the communist s hole that that country has become. It's a nightmare. Now, I want to say this very quickly. You almost have to compartmentalize this discussion because whatever your gripe is, and there are some legitimate gripes about the whole thing, everybody wants to go right there real quick. Like, for instance, a person might say by we're going to run the country. What exactly do you mean by that? And that's a perfectly legitimate discussion, which we will have. Also, the left's hilarious, hypocritical protest of removing Maduro coming up. But yeah, it is a horrific human rights nightmare, Like a warm port for our adversaries right off our coast there. It's a hundred things. It should not have been allowed to exist, and now it doesn't. In New York, maybe I was texting.
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With a buddy of mine and you know, a little bit of the difficulties of the we're going to run the thing and are we allowed to just go countries and various things like that, but how can you not be excited for a million people in the streets with tears in their eyes? They're so freaking happy that the guy is gone. And it's funny, I had the experience of there is such a thing as Trump derangement syndrome. If you. Your immediate reaction is, is it? This is a terrible thing when you see all those people crying, hugging each other and a perfect example of. So I did a little doordash to our family gathering and the name of the doordash driver I didn't recognize as like, where is this name from? Weird. So I chat GPT it and the name of the doordash driver was Venezuelan. I said, oh, cool. And I said, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give a. Give him a 20 as a tip and say thanks. Keep the regime change. That was going to be my line.
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Very droll.
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Anyway, some of the younger, you know, the politics of young college type people said, oh, you mentioned that he's going to spit in your food. I said, no, he's not. They're thrilled that this happened. They're not angry that this happened. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, have you heard her talking?
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She's over the moon about this, right?
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You lefties love the Nobel Peace Prize. You raise all these people up to the highest level. She thinks this is freaking awesome. How do you not get this?
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Yeah, I know, it's amazing. It shows that. Well, I want to get into this in depth in a little bit about how every topic, every claim, every fake principle that they espouse is really just a way to get power. They will state the opposite of what they stated today, tomorrow, if it gets the more power. But the free press with some great coverage, including Venezuelans dance in the streets and ask Trump to finish the job. And then this one Venezuelan New Yorkers to Mamdan, you're crazy. And they talk about the. Well, this one gal said of mum Donnie, he's crazy, needs to live in Venezuela for one year. He wouldn't be saying that anymore. Protesting against getting rid of Maduro. But then they described. Since Saturday, split screen reaction has played out in New York City, where Venezuelans have made up the largest number of migrants immigrants since 2022. On Saturday, dueling rallies took over Times Square with celebratory Venezuelans dancing through the streets. Just demonstrators showed up chanting, hands off Venezuela. How perfect is that?
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It's incredible. The people who actually lived there are.
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Having a demonstration about how happy they are.
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College kids who were born here, angry.
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On their behalf, are having Their own protest. How perfect is this? It is exactly like white over educated suburbanites telling Hispanic people that they need to start using the term Latinx even though the actual Hispanic people are like, that's a stupid term term and we're not going to use it. Yes, you should. We, because we're against white supremacy. As activist white people will tell you how to live. Good lord, these people are insane.
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Well, there's a lot of this bouncing around. The stuff where people would talk about Trump's love of Maduro because he likes all strong men. The tweet from Joe Biden roughly a year ago or so. Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro as president. I will stand with the Venezuelan people.
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Well, that I had a Kev care.
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Yeah. So I'm happy that those people don't have that guy as their dictator anymore. But if you're of a certain age, you have seen these people with tears in their eyes celebrating in the street in lots of countries all over the world when somebody gets their leader overthrown, the entire Arab Spring, Iraq, Afghanistan, obviously. And yeah. So it doesn't always work out.
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There you go. Almost immediately, as news of Maduro's capture began to spread online, the Democratic Socialists of America started to organize against the Trump administration. Of course, that's what Mandami has belonged to him for now, going on 10 years. On Saturday, they released a statement demanding the return of Maduro and the first lady to power, an end of the failed war on drugs, and a US foreign policy centered on pace multilateralism and respect for national sovereignty and self determination. They're calling for the return of Maduro as his victims dance in the streets.
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We're gonna talk to Mike Lyons, whose Twitter feed has been really interesting with all this going on. I ended up being up in the middle of the night because it broke central news time right when I went to bed the other night and I couldn't get off my phone watching the updates. I mean it had. Twitter's amazing for this sort of stuff. It had videos. Videos of the freaking Apache helicopters flying low over cities. Yeah. You know, as it was going on. Quite amazing. But. And we'll talk about the military stuff with Mike. Mike lines. But interesting to grab the guy's wife. That's kind of a new thing. Not. Not just because she was there, because she was an active participant in the whole thing. Interesting.
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Yeah. Part of the family business.
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I didn't know that. That she's an evil person too. I'll be darned we got Mailbag on the way. Just got an extra special Freedom Living quote of the day and all that sort of stuff that we should definitely discuss at length at some point and everything else. So I hope you can stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty, New York Times reporting.
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The Ayatollah and his friends are ready to flee Iran, first sign of their security forces turning on them. So that might easily surpass Venezuela's, the biggest story in the world.
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Wow, that is intriguing, huh? And there are a lot of really significant protests going on in Iran right now, too. Very. It's very significant. Yes, it's been in play before, but it feels like it's in play. Very briefly, I want to say I gave short shrift to the story of Tim Waltz announcing he would not run for reelection. I don't even know what shrift is. I don't. I wouldn't know it if I got poked in the eye with a handful of it. I don't know. But anyway, that's because he's an ass clown and a joke. He is of no significance other than on the receiving end of mockery on the American scene. He has no significance. And I'm a knucklehead at times.
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The first declaring someone an AC of the year.
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That's correct. Now, there are others. Mumdani, for instance, is a clown, but he's a different sort of clown. He's a dangerous clown, an insidious clown, like a killer clown lurking at the edge of the woods. But Waltz is a joke. Here is your. And this is our theme, at least for the week, maybe for a couple weeks. It's your freedom hating quote of the day. We're gonna draw a little contrast with those of us who love liberty, those who are pitching philosophies that hate liberty. And certainly, if you'd like to contribute one, you can drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongengetty.com your favorite quote from the dictators and communists and socialists of history. Mailbag@armstrongandgiddy.com Anyway, this is a special audio version of the freedom hating quote of the day. Michael, I'm sorry, It's clip number 17. This is the newly elected. Oh, he's got a winning smile. Mayor of New York. Zoron Mom.
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Don, Nate. We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
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Collectivism.
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If our.
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Whoa, that's the end. That got so much attention in all the circles I read in, and I.
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Can'T wait to talk about that more later. Yeah.
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Did he choose collectivism on purpose? Out of ignorance?
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Oh, no, no. He is one of those hyper educated. You know what, what did Matt Taibi say? I actually kept it around. I liked it so much. We're now in the upper class twits promoting revolution space. Wow. He knows exactly what he's talking about, Mailbag.
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And if you don't know why that's a big deal, we'll talk about it later. Collectivism is a dirty word. I mean, it's a dirty word and you, you choose that carefully.
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It's the real C bomb in my mind anyway. Just because it killed Hunter. Hundreds of millions is why. Let's see.
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Drop us a note.
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Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com got a lot of notes like this one from John. Gentlemen, I'm an eighth grade teacher in Vegas and after two weeks off, I'm not exactly jazzed about the reality of Monday morning. However, at least I can start the day with an hour of Angie. Thank you for the note, John. We got a lot of really, really nice notes like that. Very kind of y' all to. To pass on your. Your good wishes. Uh, and then this from Molly in San Diego, who passed on the official list of the full moons we'll be seeing in 2026. Your flower moon, your beaver moon, your Hunter's moon, your Buck moon, your sturgeon moon, etc. We got a flower moon and a.
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Beaver moon in the same year. Very exciting.
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What a year.
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What a year.
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But haven't we all gotten hip to the fact that all these moon names are just what a pre scientific society? The Native American people called like the, like the March 3rd is the worm moon. Why do you think that's the worm? They didn't.
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Because they didn't have Netflix. They had nothing else to do but name their we wacky moons.
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Well, and they had no damn science. And so they say, oh, the soil's starting to melt. Look, there's a full moon. And look, the worms are starting to move. Why don't we call it the warm moon then? The pink moon is because the pink blossom started and the flower moon a month later. Why do you think that might be again? It's. It's a scam. It's all a scam.
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It's a scam.
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The moon scam. Socialists are trying to drag the critical theory crowd because they're. They want to return to a pre enlightenment point of view. Right? You're trying to sell us. It's all. It's like the critical race theory crap.
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You definitely are leading the charge on the angry about maimed moons.
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It's a fraud. Let's see. Speaking of fraud, why is government fraud so easy? Writes Ryan from Houston. I don't believe Democrats believe in fraud. They just send out the money and it doesn't solve the problem. So that's even better. They'll send out more money next time. In other words, the point is spending the money. Republicans go to D.C. to do good and end up doing well. As the old saying goes, fighting fraud just slows down their personal grift as well. Ryan from Houston, who welcomes us back to work. Thanks, Ryan. And then this, this. I need to squeeze in JT and Livermore, one of many people who pointed this out. First, he wants to know, how did Return of the Sausages not make clips of the year? Wasn't that the previous year?
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That was the previous year's clip of the year.
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But then he points out. Oh, he suggests we have two categories for clips of the year. A Zeitgeist clip of the year and then a news clip of the year, a changing history clip of the year. I think that's a pretty good idea.
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We'll talk about it.
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But then he said, what happened to band names, original air names, and things Jack has never done? I forgot. That's what. Oh, I take partial. No, wait, full responsibility for that oversight. I have that list from the wonderful, invaluable Mary in the Hoe. Maybe we can squeeze it in later.
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Belatedly, we got to get that in later. Maybe fourth hour, when we're like going through the motions. By the fourth hour, we're just, we're really phoning it in.
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Already tired one day.
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And if you don't get all the hours of the segments, you can get through our podcast. If you're, if you're new to this whole technology. Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's where you find it. To kick off our two, we're going to talk to Mike Lyons, who's been following the military aspect of the whole Venezuela thing, and it's danged interesting. So I hope you can join us.
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Armstrong and Gettysburg. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.