I Always Accept My Bodily Sensations

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand — "I Always Accept My Bodily Sensations"

Date: December 17, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty, with Katie Green
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode blends the Armstrong & Getty brand of irreverent news commentary with a few heartfelt moments, a dash of current events, and their ongoing fundraising campaign for scouting. The main themes include political travel bans, the concept of “mindfulness” (as sparked by Bhutan’s new project), “alcoholic personalities,” regime change rhetoric around Venezuela, the Rob Reiner family tragedy, and the value of scouting—a recurring subject this week. Throughout, the hosts deliver their signature mix of satire, skepticism, and sincere asides.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Travel Bans & Foreign Affairs (03:24–08:00)

• New US Travel Ban:
  Joe and Jack discuss the latest travel ban announced by Trump, affecting predominantly African and Middle Eastern countries (e.g., Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria).

  • Jack: “At least half of that list, you give me a comfortable pair of shoes and a compass and I can't find them. I don't know where they are.” (04:16)
  • Tone: Sardonic skepticism and borderline absurdist humor highlight the clumsy nature of U.S. foreign policy.

• Jack’s Geography Confession:
  The hosts mock their lack of world geography knowledge while listing banned countries, lampooning American ignorance.

2. Bhutan’s ‘Mindfulness City’ and Defining Mindfulness (05:00–09:05)

• Mindfulness City Concept:
  Jack introduces the Bhutanese plan to construct a “mindfulness city” built around their "Gross National Happiness" principles.

  • Joe: “They're just trying to measure the whole country's happiness.” (06:38)
  • Amusing confusion over whether “Gross National Happiness” is a translation error or wordplay.

• Mindfulness Defined:
  Katie provides a definition:

  • Katie: “A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations…” (08:41)
  • Jack (joking): “Oh, I'll accept my bodily sensations all day long.” (08:55)
  • Memorable Episode Title Comes From This Exchange.

• Alcoholics and Mindfulness:
  Jack connects mindfulness (or lack thereof) to “alcoholic personality,” referencing media confusion over Trump being called “an alcoholic personality” despite being a non-drinker.

  • Jack: “One of the main traits... is alcoholics' inability to live in today... just like a processing disorder, practically almost impossible to think about today.” (10:09)
  • Joe: “I've never heard in my whole life anybody express any awareness of that.” (11:00)

3. Gary Busey’s Goose Imitation — Surreal and Offbeat (12:47–14:18)

• Gary Busey Clip:
  The show plays a wild audio of Gary Busey imitating goose sounds as a “Christmas present.”
  • Jack: “My Christmas present is an old crazy man doing goose sounds. That's my Christmas present to you.” (14:01)
  • Banter about Busey’s “let your freak flag fly” social media.
• Notable Moment: Show self-reflects on how bizarre radio transitions can get.

4. Rob Reiner Family Tragedy / Nepo Babies / Celebrity Children (18:12–20:01)

• News Coverage:
  Katie summarises headlines involving the arrest of Rob Reiner’s son and the media coverage around it.
  • Joe: “So many people of fame and wealth... end up miserable, miserably unhappy. Not all of them—but you think being born the son of some big star is a launching pad toward happiness... you're wrong.” (19:53)
• Celebrity Parenting:
  Jack reflects on Michael Keaton moving to Montana to raise his son away from Hollywood.

5. Economic, International and Local Oddities (20:01–21:54)

• Economic News:
  • CBS: Employment news — moderate job growth, rising unemployment.
• China & Academia:
  • Free Beacon: Chinese investments in U.S. tech via Ivy League connections; fears of a “fifth column.”
  • Joe: “We have a fifth column right now... Nobody seems to care. It's insane.” (20:40)
• Last Pennies Sold:
  • Wall Street Journal: The final US pennies fetched $16.7 million at auction.
  • Jack and Joe mock the idea:
  • Jack: “If you said you paid 10,000 bucks, I’d think you’re an idiot.” (21:51)
• Babylon Bee Satire:
  • California family waits for permit to build a gingerbread house—commentary on red tape.

6. Scouting Fundraiser and Personal Testimonies (25:31–29:10, 41:23–43:15)

• Why Fund Scouting?
  Jack passionately pitches donations so less advantaged kids can participate, citing the good it does, especially teaching old-fashioned values and patriotism.
  • Jack: “Just for me, just seeing a whole bunch of... young men saying the pledge of allegiance and salute in the flag—Jesus. It fills me with a warmth I can't imagine...” (26:39)
  • Both discuss how scouting builds character, self-reliance, and citizenship.
• Touching Listener Letter:
  Joe reads from a former Scout about a boy overcoming self-doubt on a wilderness trek:
  • Listener: “Mr. Anonymous, I'm never gonna say I can't do something ever again.” (42:30)
• Donation Status:
  Current total: $62,543 of their $100,000 goal. (28:29)

7. Venezuela Crisis and Regime Change Talk (29:17–36:57)

• US Blockade on Venezuela:
  Trump has ordered a naval blockade targeting oil tankers—a big saber-rattling move against Nicolas Maduro.
  • Jack: “He threatened the US military presence would, quote, only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before...” (30:13)
• “Our Oil, Our Land?”
  Confusion and jokes about how Venezuela could “give back our oil and land.”
  • Jack: “How did Venezuela end up with some of our land?” (30:43)
• Regime Change Skepticism:
  Hosts discuss the perils and messy outcomes of forcible regime change, referencing Russia’s history, the Monroe Doctrine, and U.S. global ambitions.
  • Joe: “Frequently power vacuums reward the most vicious, not the most auspicious.” (32:53)
  • Jack: “We haven't had a lot of that [transparency],” regarding motives for intervention (35:43)

8. Cat Theft and Amazon Delivery Oddities (24:48–25:23, 43:23–44:25)

• Amazon Driver Steals Cat:
  Brief and comic discussion about a news story involving an Amazon delivery driver stealing a customer’s cat.
  • Jack: “I think if you can fog a mirror, you probably qualify to drive for Amazon.” (25:30)
• Amazon Drivers with Mexican Plates:
  Listener anecdote about apparent non-citizens making Amazon deliveries in San Diego.

9. Upcoming Trump Speech (35:40–37:12)

• Primetime Presidential Address:
  Discussion about which networks will carry Trump's speech, cynically suggesting they do so for ratings or hoping Trump will say something inflammatory:
  • Joe: “Trump always unspools plenty of rope to hang himself with.” (37:04)

10. Misc. Humor & Recurring Themes

• Mailbag Segment:
  Includes letter from an Eagle Scout, political jokes left unspoken, and listener reaction to Trump’s comments on Rob Reiner’s family.
• Gentle Parenting (Teased, Not Explored):
  Briefly referenced, to be discussed further in the future.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Joe: “People, not just kids ... kids rise to the challenge you give them. If you make everything soft and easy ... then nobody accomplishes anything.” (42:45)
• Jack (ironic): “My Christmas present is an old crazy man doing goose sounds.” (14:01)
• Katie (mindfulness definition): “A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations...” (08:41)
• Jack: “Just for me, just seeing a whole bunch of ... young men saying the pledge of allegiance and salute in the flag—Jesus. It fills me with a warmth I can't imagine because it's just so not what you see in the year 2025.” (26:39)
• Joe: “We have a fifth column right now in the US and it's ... super well established and connected. Nobody seems to care. It's insane.” (20:40)
• Listener (Scout story): “I'm never gonna say I can't do something ever again.” (42:30)
• Joe (regime change): “Frequently power vacuums reward the most vicious, not the most auspicious.” (32:53)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• New Travel Ban/Foreigners: 03:24–08:00
• Mindfulness/Bhutan: 05:00–09:05
• Mindfulness Definition/Bodily Sensations: 08:41–09:05
• Alcoholic Personalities Discussion: 09:05–12:13
• Gary Busey Goose Clip: 12:47–14:18
• Rob Reiner & Nepo Babies/Miserable Celebrity Children: 18:12–20:01
• Economic/Media Headlines Roundtable: 20:01–21:54
• Scouting Fundraiser Appeal: 25:31–29:10, 41:23–43:15
• Venezuela Blockade & Regime Change: 29:17–36:57
• Trump Speech Coverage: 35:40–37:12
• Listener Mail (Eagle Scout story): 41:23–43:15

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Summary

This episode covers a wide swath of topics in the Armstrong & Getty style: news satire, earnest appeals for good causes, and offbeat moments (like Gary Busey’s honking). Recurring motifs include playful self-deprecation, skepticism towards political narratives, and heartfelt advocacy for youth development. The discussion of mindfulness, “alcoholic personalities,” and regime change in Venezuela showcase the show’s ability to juxtapose mental health and global politics through their distinctive, sometimes irreverent lens.

If you want news and laughs mixed with a dose of old-fashioned civic boosterism, this is a strong episode to catch. And as always, they urge you to support their scouting fundraiser at armstrongandgetty.com.

Transcript

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[Katie Green]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Get ready.

[Joe Getty]

Live from Studio C. Senor.

[Jack Armstrong]

We have a camel in the studio today because it's Wednesday. It's hump day. We're almost done. We signed a one year deal with having a camel in here as a promotion on Wednesdays. Thank you. And this is the last week of it. Thank God. In 26 we won't have the camel in the studio, which I don't like.

[Joe Getty]

It seemed like a good idea. It's one of.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a classic example of seemed like a good idea at the time. Right. How y' all doing? It is the last live week of the Armstrong and Getty show, and we today are under the tutelage of our general manager. Foreigners. Foreigners. Foreigners. Dang. Foreigners are foreign ways.

[Joe Getty]

Ah.

[Jack Armstrong]

What are they up to now?

[Joe Getty]

There's a big new travel ban. Trump just announced. A bunch of countries just don't even bother applying. You can't come in.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that to keep out? Let's keep out what?

[Joe Getty]

Bad people. In general. Furners.

[Jack Armstrong]

People that aren't white.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, Lord. That's right. It's a Muslim travel ban. Let's see. Citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria are joining the list of countries whose citizens are already nearly banned from immigrating.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll tell you what, at least half of that list, you give me a comfortable pair of shoes and a compass and I can't find them. I don't know where they are.

[Joe Getty]

Palestinians are banned. Laos, Sierra Leone. In addition, 15 countries will face new partial bans. Angola, Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua, okay, but Barbuda? Come on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tell you who doesn't like a Barbudan.

[Joe Getty]

You got an Antiguan at dinner. Count your silverware, Ben. And Ivory Coast, Dominica, Gabon, the Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania. Near as I could Keep going. It's a bunch of African countries mostly.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know where these places are.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Africa.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's funny, I was just reading out about a place that I've never heard of. That's what I've been doing the last five minutes or so because I just heard this story. Came across it. Bhutan. It's actually a landlocked, tiny little country in the Himalayas, which I'd never.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, that's. That's been a big story because of the tariffs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really? Anyway, they're building a mindfulness city. The world's first mindfulness city. Built all around that concept, which I don't think I fully understand. Well, how would you define mindfulness based.

[Joe Getty]

On you're not mindful of mindfulness? Clearly, I'm not being aware of what you're doing.

[Jack Armstrong]

I had a book about it, but I had an Antiguan over for dinner and I Think he stole it as they will.

[Joe Getty]

Bastards. I think it's being aware of what you are doing and doing it intentionally as opposed to just being a creature of patterns and habits and, you know, just reacting. I don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I know it's something that alcoholics are not good at, which could get us back into one of the headlines yesterday. Trump's alcoholic personality and what the hell that means and doesn't it? The mainstream media has no knowledge of that whatsoever, clearly. But yeah, I'm not good at mindfulness neither many people in my tribe. Maybe I should move to this town. Bhutan.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I want to hear a good definition of mindfulness, if somebody can dig that up.

[Jack Armstrong]

So they're trying to design this mindfulness city where architects are going to blend innovation with Bhutan's gnh. That's their Gross National Happiness principles. Now that's gotta be a translation problem, right?

[Joe Getty]

The word gross here or a bad play on words. Gross National Product.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, maybe that's it. Okay, that makes more sense. Gross National Happiness. Okay. They're just trying to measure the whole country's happiness. There you go. Okay.

[Joe Getty]

If you're more mindful, you'd have gotten that joke. It's not a good one, but I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Have an alcoholic personality. I'm not sure how that relates, but the. So I'll have to read more about their Gross National Happiness principles. What they are. They're probably things like turn that frown upside down, why don't you smile more? Stuff like that. Turn lemonades into lemon. Or the other. I guess it's the other way around.

[Joe Getty]

You can turn lemonade into lemons. You got a trick going.

[Jack Armstrong]

You do. You could form a religion. They. They're building inhabitable bridges, spiritual centers, economic friendly infrastructure. I don't know, but that makes me happier.

[Joe Getty]

An inhabitable bridge.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. No idea. I know, I know.

[Joe Getty]

California's got those generally under the bridge.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what I first thought. I thought like. So bridge is designed that people can live under them if they need to. I wonder if that's what they actually mean. Anyway, I like the idea of a mindfulness city. How's your mindfulness coming today, Jim? Pretty good. How about you, Jack?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, off the charts. Yeah, they were. They were a controversial story early in the tariff discussion. And it's probably worth reminding everybody. Remember, the Supreme Court might just flush the whole thing, the tariff thing, at.

[Jack Armstrong]

Any moment at some point.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so Bhutan is this landlocked, mountainous little kingdom, republic, whatever it is, and they have like no economy except for exporting. I Can't remember what it is. Rugs or blankets or something to the United States. And we slapped them with these punitive tariffs. Even though, you know, we've got a trade imbalance, because they've been taking advantage of us because they've got like a hundred bucks between them, the entire country. So how are you not gonna have a trade imbalance? It was ridiculous.

[Jack Armstrong]

What'd you come up with? Mindfulness there, Katie. This is a perfect thing. Heading into the, you know, the holiday season, the Christmas season, like that, maybe a lot of people going to have some free time, be off work. I need to know about mindfulness, Katie.

[Katie Green]

All right. A mindfulness, a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations being used as a therapeutic technique.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I'll accept my bodily sensations all day long.

[Katie Green]

I knew that was going to bring that.

[Joe Getty]

I know. He never fails to disappoint, Katie. I know.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's kind of interesting. So I don't know how far I want to go down this road or not, as I'm an alcoholic. I know lots of alcoholics. And so the story that broke yesterday of Trump's chief of staff saying he's got an alcoholic personality misinterpreted by absolutely everyone, that doesn't make sense. He doesn't drink. And that's because people just don't understand what most alcoholics feel like alcoholism is all about. And she, Susie Wilde's the person who said that to whatever author she was talking to. She's aware of that sort of language because her dad was a sober alcoholic. Pat Summerall, the famous football announcer who worked with John Madden all those years, he'd been sober for like 30 years when he died. So I'm sure she was aware of the. The language of sober alcoholics. And that's, you know, understanding that there are traits that go along with being an alcoholic that have nothing to do with drinking whatsoever. So it's, you know, it, it didn't. The number of news conversations I heard yesterday, it doesn't make sense because he doesn't drink. Is he drinking? Is she suggesting that he drinks at night or just. No, it's got nothing to do. But anyway, the reason I bring that in, talking about mindfulness, I'd say one of the main traits, and I think this is fascinating, it'd be interesting if they could ever, like, figure this out with brain waves or something like that, is alcoholics inability to live in today, which is, you know, the opposite of mindfulness. You're either thinking about yesterday, usually a grievance, or tomorrow, dreaming about tomorrow, never today. It's just like. It's a processing disorder, practically almost impossible to think about today. I can dwell on yesterday, I can fantasize about tomorrow, but I can't think about today. It's just almost, you know, whatever it is. And I could see that that's why Trump fires off stuff in the middle of the night, because he's dwelling on the past all the time.

[Joe Getty]

I. Two thoughts. Number one, I'm reminded of the words of the philosopher and teenage girl toucher, Stephen Perry. Steven. Steven Tyler of Arrows.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, easy. You can't say that and then just get the names wrong.

[Joe Getty]

I just. Well, I corrected it. I combined the singer and guitar player. They're old. They don't care. Sing with me. Sing for today. Never tomorrow, the good lord will take it away. Anyway, and the second thought is what you were saying about the alcoholic personality and not being about alcohol is, I think, totally unknown outside of the alcoholic and counseling communities. I've never heard in my whole life anybody express any awareness of that. And I was only dimly, dimly aware of it myself, having worked with you for these many years. And I still don't quite understand it. So I think I wish that what Susie Wiles said instead of just being the usual Washington pissing match might lead to a discussion. It's an expression. It's not an actual contest.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is there a league?

[Joe Getty]

No, no. Let it go unsaid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which channel has that? I don't want that channel.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy. ESPN 11, maybe. It could be a discussion of that. I find it so interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is it volume or distance?

[Joe Getty]

Depends on the event. You got your sprint, you got your distance. You got your steeple chase. Now that's one to watch.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, we got to start the show officially. We have gone far afield. Maybe we can get back into that field later because it's an interesting field. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, December 17, year 2025. We're Armstrong and Gideon. We approve this program.

[Joe Getty]

Sorry, Gabon, no visiting. All right, let's begin the show officially. Now, according to FCC rules and regs. Here we go at mark.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, it's Gary Busey and I have got a great Christmas present for you. Listen to this. That's what a goose sounds like when they're flying. They let you know they're up there. You get a bunch of geese together. All right, this is hawking in the air. This is our all time wtf Opening.

[Joe Getty]

Clip in the acid in my coffee.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that was actually the actor Gary Busey.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oscar nominee to actor.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. Brilliant, Brilliant artist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Yeah. And last time he was in the news, he was sitting on a park bench working. His man, wasn't he? Was his pants around his ankles.

[Joe Getty]

I don't.

[Announcer]

Was.

[Joe Getty]

Is that right?

[Jack Armstrong]

I think so.

[Joe Getty]

Or it was Stephen Perry. It was something untoward, but that was. It was a lovely rendition of what geese sounded like.

[Jack Armstrong]

But here's a Christmas present for you. That's the odd transition. Wow.

[Katie Green]

His entire social media is quite entertaining.

[Jack Armstrong]

My Christmas present is an old crazy man doing goose sounds. That's my Christmas present to you.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Wow. And I didn't get you anything. You can take that gift back.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Can I return that for something else? Pair of socks or something?

[Joe Getty]

That was weirdly disorienting, wasn't it?

[Jack Armstrong]

So his Twitter feed is full of stuff like that, Katie.

[Katie Green]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He's always shooting videos that just.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, okay. Now I kind of admire. It's like you're into the I don't care about anything portion of your life. You know, you've done your thing. Now I'm just gonna let my freak flag fly.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, he's like the dolly of social media. So he's into surrealistic art now. Or he's just a fruit loop.

[Jack Armstrong]

Could be just a nut job. Ok, we got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of stuff to talk about today. And also we'll get an update on where we are in raising money for scouting this week. Hoping to raise $100,000 and see where we are. Lots coming up. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Listen to this. Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shh.

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Let go.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Fit.

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Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.

[Joe Getty]

This is where mindset comes in.

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Someone will be eliminated.

[Jack Armstrong]

Pressure is coming down.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Michael opposite of you. I have done literally zero Christmas shopping with the caveat of I did get something big for my son whose birthday's two days before Christmas. That counts as both. I did buy that, but I've really done no Christmas shopping and I need to get on that.

[Katie Green]

You keep saying that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Keep saying what?

[Katie Green]

That you haven't started.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know.

[Katie Green]

It's like, it's not like you've forgotten.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I don't. I ain't got a lot of free time.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe you have to get online stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because maybe this weekend. Yeah, I know. Then you do get into that bind, the whole trying to pay extra for expedited shipping thing.

[Joe Getty]

Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green.

[Katie Green]

Katie well, the lead is the Rob Reiner story. First ABC video shows moments leading up to Nick Reiner's arrest after parents deaths. NBC Nick Reiner charged with murder in death of parents Death penalty is possible and TMZ Rob Reiner's daughter found his body but didn't initially realize her mom had also been murdered.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the death penalty thing would be interesting if it was a state where we actually kill People, the death penalty in California means you're going to die of old age. But it'd be much more expensive for the taxpayer. That's one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty in California. But that'd be something if they executed Rob Reiner's son. But ain't gonna happen in California. He is so. At the Conan o' Brien Christmas party he was walking around asking people crazy questions and everybody was like really weirded out because he was clearly nutso angry. God, that'd be an uncomfortable situation to be in. Right. One of your guests, kids who you know is troubled is walking around the party being super weird.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, There's a picture of them recently, the whole family in Las Vegas and everybody smiling, having a great time. And he is just glowering at the camera. He usually is in recent patient and I, I read a. Maybe I'll share some of it with you later. But a surprisingly sympathetic piece about so called Nepo babies and how so many people of like fame and wealth in entertainment in particular end up miserable, miserably unhappy. Not all of them, but do you think that's being born the son of some big star is like a launching pad toward happiness and you're wrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I also think it'd be really, really hard to raise a normal kid if you were a big star.

[Joe Getty]

That'd be tough. Yeah. Yep.

[Katie Green]

CBS Employers added 64,000 jobs in November, but unemployment rate jumps to the highest in four years.

[Jack Armstrong]

Michael Keaton, at the height of his fame, guy who played Batman and everything like that, moved to Montana or Wyoming to raise his kid. It just like got out of everything because of this. Just the idea of trying to raise in Hollywood with the paparazzi around and the fancy restaurants and all the things that aren't normal.

[Joe Getty]

What a beautiful thing to do.

[Katie Green]

From the Free Beacon Chinese investment firm funded by Yale and Princeton buys slice of Shanghai tech company that works with China's military.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Between all of the Chinese communist spies on our campuses and the unholy alliances between those colleges and universities and the Chinese, we have a fifth column right now in the US and it's, it's big and it's super well established and connected. Nobody seems to care. It's insane.

[Katie Green]

For the New York Post, last US pennies ever minted fetch whopping $16.7 million at auction.

[Washington Post Advertiser]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. From the Wall Street Journal, somebody who is that? Somebody who think that's a good investment or somebody just thinks it'd be really cool to have the last penny. I almost think it's got to be. You think it's going to be worth something someday? Because it's not that cool to have the last penny.

[Joe Getty]

I'm just thinking about other currencies that have been discontinued, and I don't remember hearing about a big auction at the last penny, Buffalo nickel or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm over at your house and you say, hey, I've got the last penny every minute. You want to see it? I'd say, no. Listen, which would it be impolite to say? No, I don't care.

[Joe Getty]

Well, if you said you paid, you know, 10,000 bucks, I'd think, wow, okay, cool. But millions and millions of dollars seems insane.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you said you paid 10,000 bucks, I think you're an idiot.

[Katie Green]

And finally, from the Babylon Bee, California family still waiting for permit to build gingerbread house.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey. Commentary on red tape and around the fires. And then. Well, it's a long story.

[Joe Getty]

Rampant corruption. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are we gonna go to war with Venezuela over Christmas break?

[Joe Getty]

Ah, there could be some shooting, certainly. We're blockading them.

[Jack Armstrong]

An actual blockade. Wow. Got a lot of stories to update you on. If you miss it, get the podcast. Armstrong and Gettysburg.

[Joe Getty]

Shh.

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I thought he was just petting her for a second. I had to rewatch it a couple of times because it is hard to see. It's dark. Annie doesn't carry her very nicely. I see her little tail and I'm.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like, oh my God.

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[Jack Armstrong]

So that's the story of an Amazon driver who took somebody's cat. That what happened?

[Joe Getty]

Cat rustlers.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you deliver a package, you think, well, that's a particularly good looking cat. All cats are more or less the same.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know, you gotta, you gotta hang cat rustlers.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a lot of cats around. You don't need to steal that person's cat. You're a nut. Wow. I think Amazon throws a pretty wide net when it comes to drivers this time of year.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, Michael, that's a charitable way to put it. They've identified the driver, but for some.

[Jack Armstrong]

Reason they can't find him.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I think if you can fog a mirror, you probably qualify to drive for Amazon. That would be my guess, yes. Oh, boy. So I've talked a lot about how great being a Boy Scout has been for my son. It's maybe literally the best thing that has happened in his life. And it is for a lot of kids. And I've witnessed to myself and then at the very beginning of scouting, and it's what got me started on thinking of raising money for the Scouts so we could get involved, is talking to one of the dads there and one of the dads saying, yeah, a lot of it's too bad a lot of families just can't afford to get their kid into scouting because it is going to be several hundred dollars to join, variety of fees and stuff like that. So what we're trying to do is raise money so that you can bypass that fee. You got a kid that wants to be in scouting, boy or girl, but it's mostly boys. I mean, just in my experience that we can pick up the tab on the join in the scouts so that you can do that. And like last night I was observing some of the last of the meeting. They meet weekly and they were celebrating Henry's birthday because his birthday is next week. And he brought some treats and treats and they all sang happy birthday and they did flag ceremony and blah blah blah. Just all the stuff. It's so freaking awesome. And just for me, just seeing a whole bunch of. In this case it's all young men saying the pledge of allegiance and salute in the flag. Jesus. It fills me with a warmth I can't imagine because it's just so not what you see in the year 2025.

[Joe Getty]

Learning self reliance, taking the initiative, becoming men to help them learn how to become men. Which is like taboo in a lot of our perverse society. So yeah, I love it. I love the influence.

[Jack Armstrong]

I went to a really big like award ceremony they had for top level people that are involved in the organization. Anyway, I was at this big ballroom, like one of those sorts of things. People dressed up, drinks, meal, that whole thing. But I went and they had all kinds of scouts manning the doors and these little kids in some cases. Hello sir. Welcome. Is there anything I can get you with the drinks are over there. And just to look you in the eye, shake your hand. I'm not used to that sort of thing out of modern kids. And seeing it coming out of scouting I just think is awesome. And I don't want anybody to not be able to have their kid join scouts because what it costs to join. And that's why we're trying to raise money and go to armstrongandgetti.com we made it super easy to donate. We're shooting for a hundred thousand dollars. I don't want to go negative here. Trying to. I'm trying to say this as a, as a, a reason to motivate people. We had a pretty slow 24 hours. Let's do a total. Gladys, roll the, roll the drums here.

[Joe Getty]

I'll point out while she's getting her drumsticks that it's often the kids who can't afford scouting that the effects would be immeas putting them on the right path.

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely. I'm sure that is true that the trend lines on that match up pretty good.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we got off the air yesterday at about 50 grand. That was our goal yesterday. And we are currently at $62,543 now. That is a ton of money. That's great. That is, it's lovely. S ton of Money, as a lot of people say. How did that phrase get.

[Joe Getty]

They don't say that sort of thing in scouting, by the way, you wouldn't be welcome with your potty mouth.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know who started that phrase. It's a. Is that metric or. Anyway, that's a lot of money. But we're, we're shooting for a hundred thousand dollars and we're almost done with the week. So please go to armstrongandgetti.com and donate if it's 10 bucks, 20 bucks if every. We're on all over the country. If Everybody kicked in $10, obviously we'd get there easily.

[Joe Getty]

So help a lot of young kids.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you could jump on that. Would appreciate it. Armstrongandgetty.com so here's some interesting news.

[Joe Getty]

The President of the United States. Who's the guy from the Apprentice. Anyway, he on Tuesday ordered a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela in what is described as a major escalation of his pressure campaign against the country's leader, kleptomaniac Nicolas Maduro.

[Jack Armstrong]

So it's just the oil tankers. It's not a full on blockade. Like nothing can come or go, correct?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, just the sanctioned oil tankers, said Trump on Truth Social. Which is again, a bit of an odd way to make presidential proclamations. Venezuela was an asshat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that what he said?

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy, that was. Yikes. Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America. Trump said, helpfully using a Spanish term for the giant assemblage of ships.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ah, I didn't, I didn't pick up on that. That's pretty good.

[Joe Getty]

To help Maduro understand what's going on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, exactly.

[Joe Getty]

He threatened the US military presence would, quote, only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before. Unless Maduro's regime, regime returned, quote oil, land and other assets that they previously stole from us. An apparent reference to Venezuela's nationalization of U. S. Linked holdings in the country.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, that was. Yeah, I had to ask that question. When he said they got to give back our oil in our land, I thought in what sense is it our oil? And I really wondered, and what, how did, how did Venezuela end up with some of our land? I didn't understand that at all.

[Joe Getty]

Half of Phoenix. Yeah, it's a scandal. It's amazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Venezuela took half of Phoenix. How did I miss that?

[Joe Getty]

It says they're occupying it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Seems like it'd be a big news story.

[Joe Getty]

No celebrities involved so no. So, yeah, it has to do with nationalizing oil. Interestingly, Chevron, which has been a presence in Venezuela for I think over 100 years, is excluded from any sort of blockading or sanctioning or anything like that. And they're sailing in and out of Venezuelan points ports with oil, as they have for many moons. They have an agreement with the US and it's kind of a carve out, which is interesting because it's obviously revenue for the Venezuelans. It's a complicated relationship. I started to read about it and thought there's no way I can accurately communicate this to the good people. But just suffice it to say, it's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Complicated and we'll see. He keeps hinting that there will be land strikes. I don't know why that hits people as an escalation because blasting a boat in the water is not much different than hitting somebody walking down a dirt road.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. There's something about, on our land, our country, our dirt, that's especially offensive to human beings. For some reason. If we're out there on the water, we don't like it, but just don't blow up our dirt.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I haven't got even a slightly educated guess as to where this is going, so I guess we'll sit back and watch.

[Joe Getty]

Is there anything Maduro can promise, concede to Trump without leaving power that will ratchet this down?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, who was I watching the other day? As somebody I really like saying, this is obviously a regime change. Regime change, policy.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

For whatever reason, they don't want to say it out loud. Or maybe just because it's got such a nasty hangover from a couple of regime changes that haven't exactly gone our way. And lots of them don't. Because once you change regimes, you have no idea what's going to replace it. And it's often not something better. Sometimes it's something worse or just as bad.

[Joe Getty]

In fact, frequently power vacuums reward the most vicious, not the most auspicious. I'm rapping a little bit.

[Jack Armstrong]

Part of it is.

[Joe Getty]

You get rid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Of whoever's in charge and you have a lot of disorder. And when you have a lot of disorder, thank God I've never lived through US in Americans. We haven't had to. But you have a lot of disorder. People welcome anybody, I don't care. Isis, fine, come in. If you can stop the crime in the streets and get somebody to pick up the garbage, fine. And that's how Hamas or ISIS or whoever, the Ba'ath party in Iraq, they, they get over because people want order and at some point you're willing to put up with pretty much anything for order.

[Joe Getty]

One of the most interesting things I've heard read in the last couple of years has been the British commentators comedian. I guess I just think of him as a thinker, honestly. Konstantin Kissen, who is talking about the history of Russia and how it differs so starkly from the history of the United States. And I talked about this when I first read it, but that in the last few hundred years of Russian history there have been strong leaders, then periods of unrest, and during those periods of unrest, the slaughter has been unimaginable. And then a strong leader will come in and bring order and stop the killing. Now that strong leader might do a fair amount of killing too. But so the Russian people, their whole history yearns for a strong leader to just quash the conflict. And anyway, I'm sorry, how did we get into that conversation? I remember we were talking about Venezuela.

[Jack Armstrong]

How regime change can often lead to something worse.

[Joe Getty]

So yeah, yeah, a lack of stability is one of the worst things you can have. And you know who doesn't appreciate that or never thinks about it? A country that's been extremely stable for a very long time and you have your college kids in the streets screaming for revolution because they're friggin morons.

[Jack Armstrong]

But what do you think's our main reason for wanting a regime change in Venezuela? I mean, that is not an issue that President Trump ran on or anybody talked about ever. We were at the Republican convention. Don't remember it coming up a lot.

[Joe Getty]

No, I suspect it has something to do with the, the quasi. Well, the, the whole. We want to control our neighborhood.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

The quasi. Monroe Doctrine.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's big picture like okay, China, you're going to run that part of the world. We're going to run this part of the world. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And a feeling like, all right, we've got this incredibly beautiful, ought to be incredibly rich country right across the Gulf of America and they'd be a great ally and all, but they got this tin horn jackass dictator running the place, doing nobody any good. And why are we putting up with that? What's the point of power if we permit that right in our backyard? I think that's the thinking.

[Jack Armstrong]

Trump's given a primetime Live speech tonight. I have no idea how many networks are planning to take it. I. Fox is taking. But I don't know if like abc, cbs, NBC are. Can you look into that, Katie, see if the big networks are taking Trump's speech tonight?

[Joe Getty]

Because we have a theme.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the theme is supposed to be, we're back, baby. The economy is roaring. It's the same theme he's taken on the road to his rallies across the country, and I'm not sure if I'm a network president. I consider that news. It seems like more of a campaign speech, but we'll see if they take it. And I just wondered if he would touch on Venezuela, that that'd be a good way to get the networks to take your speech, is if you promised some information to the American people on what the hell we're doing in Venezuela and why, because we haven't had a lot of that.

[Joe Getty]

But the other thing, we do have a hell of a force. I'm sorry, I was just reading about it.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's. It's impressive and lethal.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is absolutely incredible. You know anything about this, Katie?

[Katie Green]

Yeah, it looks like all the major networks are yet.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, so they see it as newsworthy. I'm kind of surprised. I thought. I thought some of your networks would say we're not going to let him do a campaign speech on our channel, but there. So cool.

[Joe Getty]

You want to hear what they're thinking? It's not charitable.

[Jack Armstrong]

Better ratings.

[Joe Getty]

They're. They're thinking, A, it'll get a lot of attention, and B, Trump always unspools plenty of rope to hang himself with.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, they think it'll do more harm.

[Joe Getty]

Than for our commentators to criticize the crap out of them for the next three days.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know if I think you're right about that, because they often don't take Trump stuff. And. And I've. And I've thought for years that I think if I'm running msnbc, I put Trump on all the time for my audience. Anyway, speaking of Venezuela, remember we. We hit that boat and there are a couple of scumbags left in the water ready to attack the United States again. And so we blasted them real good. Make sure they were dead. That video is not going to be released. The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced there's too much national security at stake, so we will not see the second video. Which to me means that he feels like this particular little scandal has died down enough that he could make that announcement and isn't even. Nobody's really even talking about it. And on we go with our lives, and nobody will ever think about it again.

[Joe Getty]

Or my cynical, cynical friend, he might be thinking, no, this would threaten our national security.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't believe that. Just don't believe it.

[Joe Getty]

Changed my mind about it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really? Did somebody smart explain that to you?

[Joe Getty]

I know. I figured it out for myself, okay? I don't know. I read all day long. Something may have penetrated my conscience.

[Jack Armstrong]

What could be our national secrets and seeing yet? I mean, because how many videos have we seen of boats being blasted? What would be different about this one?

[Joe Getty]

I will open your eyes. I will bring eyesight to the blind. Next hour when we talk about this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay? Fantastic. All right, we got mailbag on the way. Lots of other stuff to talk about. Hey, Donate to the scouting Go to armstrongandgetty.com Armstrong and Getty. Shh.

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[Jack Armstrong]

We got a $25 donation from Thistle Be Awesome. Appreciate that. That's the name of my Someday Thistle Museum. As I pay tribute to the humble Thistle. I feel like it deserves a museum. And the name of it is going to be Thistle Be Awesome.

[Joe Getty]

Fantastic. You know what? I don't have a freedom loving quote of the day. You know, hang on. Watch this. Watch what I do here. Our freedom loving quote of the day is going to be an email.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Mailbag.

[Jack Armstrong]

Devastating.

[Joe Getty]

Combining the two. It's like when the stars of Happy Days would be on Vernon Shirley. Just like that. Promotion.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is just like that. All right.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your freedom loving email of the day. Sleepless in Danville. Call him Al Anonymous. Rights Jack Joe. I am an Eagle Scout. Went back as a volunteer for years to repay the many gifts scouting gave me. I wanted to share a bit of inspiration with you that still drives me. Today on a trip to Northern Tier a Scout camp canoeing in the Boundary Water Wilderness between Minnesota and Canada, we had a scout with us who was, let's say, used to living comfortably. Day two. Some of the other boys wanted to go 10 miles that day.

[Jack Armstrong]

No way.

[Joe Getty]

No way we can go that far, the boy said. And we didn't. Day 8 We were out there, pretty deep into Canada. We had two days to get back to camp. Well, what if we pushed it to this lake out here? The boy said. It was the same boy. It was 26 miles. We'll be able to see more before we get back. When I asked him what changed, he said, Mr. Anonymous, I'm never gonna say I can't do something ever again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whoo. I have heard a dozen stories exactly like that since my kid has been around Scouting.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Wow, wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrongygetti.com donate now. Help more kids experience that and become Americans.

[Jack Armstrong]

The number one lesson, though, and it's something we know we just, we don't value it enough, is people, not just kids. But since we're talking about kids, kids rise to, you know, the challenge you give them. If you make everything soft and easy and you don't have to do that if you don't want to or if it's triggering or it's too hard or whatever, then nobody accomplishes anything. But if you. If you really challenge them, for whatever reason the human spirit is, I'm going to see if I can do it.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

That reminds me. Let's talk about gentle parenting later. But Armstrong and getty.com give whatever you can, even if it's a little thank you so much for that note, Al. Mailbag, drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongetty.com Excellent reminder from M. Who just wrote following up on our discussion just a couple of minutes ago, Venezuela, guys, is about China and preventing China from establishing a stronghold in the Western hemisphere. Other than that, inside US Campuses. Yeah, excellent point, my lad. Or dear. Or the neither, perhaps you're asexual. Anyway, it's a great point. Yeah, yeah. The Maduro regime is playing footsie with China. Following up on our discussion of Amazon drivers, John writes, guys had a far from nice car full of packages.

[Jack Armstrong]

In.

[Joe Getty]

The backseat with an Amazon vested driver pull up in San Diego's north country sporting Mexican plates.

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[Joe Getty]

So, like, suspect Mexican nationals are now delivering Amazon packages in San Diego, California.

[Jack Armstrong]

Johnny.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, all right, let's see. How about this? Oh, that's a really politically incorrect joke. I may have to run this one by Jack and decide if we can even. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a good tease for hour two.

[Joe Getty]

Boy and Marianne from Eagle, Idaho, longtime listener blasting Trump's Rob Reiner truth. Out of line, disrespectful, unkind for a grieving family. He only needed to give his condolences, period. He brags about being a Christian, but hate speech proves otherwise. There is no support for what he said about Rob Reiner. None.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you like that scouting story and want to donate, go to armstrongandgetty.com More to come Armstrong and Getty. Shh.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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