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Jack Armstrong
Yo, yo, welcome. Last live week of the Armstrong and Getty show. Before we take obviously a much deserved break as it is so taxing to do this job, I'm near the snapping.
Joe Getty
Point, speaking for myself.
Jack Armstrong
So a couple of news stories we're gonna update you on soon. They do have Rob Reiner's kid in custody. Yeah. So that's what a lot of people are suspecting. We'll get to that a little bit later. They have strict gun rules in Australia, but somebody with terrorist ties who the police were aware of is able to get, what, six firearms legally. What is going on there? Talk about that story.
Joe Getty
I don't think the story is primarily about guns or gun control, but if you've got that system, well. And it doesn't get them.
Jack Armstrong
A terror plot in Los Angeles that was planned for New Year's Eve has been broken up. Four people have been arrested. Definitely have to talk about that and can't wait to see who was behind it. But so what, what was. I remember we came up with this quite a few years ago. Joe and I did one. We thought we had the sort of audience that was giving so we could raise money for good causes. And I think it was just sort of a. Like this time of year, you know, you're throwing money around on all kinds of different things. How about just from my own personal standpoint, how about I throw a little money towards something good this time of year? I think, you know, lots of people do that.
Joe Getty
Oh, right. And we wanted to advocate for the things we hold most dear. And it turns out it's coincided quite beautifully with y'. Alls.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And a number of organizations through the years where we've raised a lot of money. This year we're going to try to raise a lot of money for the Scouts. And the reason for that is. You've heard me talk about this a lot. My youngest joined the Boy Scouts, I think, last March, and it's been the best thing that's ever happened to him. And then just being around Scouting, I have become aware of things that I didn't know. I was a Boy Scout for a couple of years, Many, many, many, many years ago because I'm quite old. But watching Scouts and realizing how much more there is to it than learning about knots and putting up a tent and all that sort of stuff and hiking and all that they do all that stuff and it's really, really cool. But learning about values and leadership and teamwork and all these different things and seeing it up close, I've been so amazed and finding out that it costs a little bit to get into Scouting and do a lot of things you want to do. And maybe we could raise some money so more people could get involved in Scouting. And we'd like to welcome into the studio today our guest, Paul Hellman. Palm is a noted member of Scouting America with over 50 years of volunteer service to Scouting. Paul, you've been in almost every role in Scouting from a unit leader to a unit commissioner to now. You've been a council president at various times. Now you're on the executive committee and board of directors for a council. Paul, welcome into the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Paul Hellman
Thank you.
Jack Armstrong
What, what, what be the number one thing you would say Scouting's trying to do?
Paul Hellman
Create leaders for tomorrow.
Jack Armstrong
Leaders for tomorrow.
Paul Hellman
Leaders for tomorrow. Who's, who's going to be our elected officials in 20 years from now. That's what we're creating.
Jack Armstrong
It is amazing how many times I hear people running for office who say they were an Eagle Scout or in Scouting or whatever. That does come up a lot. But here's, here's what I found out and noticed that I didn't know before. On how the adults just kind of stand back and watch because the kids are in charge. And you got like the 15 year olds who've been around for a while helping direct the, you know, the younger kids and then the younger kids grow into that and everything like that. Just the, the self sustained model that you've got. And then these kids. And I said this on the air after the first Scouting thing I did. These kids don't act like other kids I've seen. They seem like they're in their 20s. A lot of these 15 year olds.
Joe Getty
How does Scouting do that?
Paul Hellman
Excellent observation that you've made there. What we are really creating here in Scouting America is a laboratory of learning. You learn from the process, you learn from being, experiencing the model that we're trying to create, which is let's create a environment with which you need to make decisions and you have to take care of others. And it's a boy led process or a scout led process. Excuse me, boy or girl led. And so you'll have a 12 year old that becomes the patrol leader in a Scout troop. That patrol leader then is responsible for the activities that the youth and his patrol will do on a camp out, for instance, 32 hours or more what are we going to do? How are we going to prepare our food so that leader, that 12 year old leader will then help the other Scouts make decisions, also do their rank advancements and learn some very basic things. What's the process about? Where do we set up our tent? Not only how do you set it up, but where do you set it up? How do you make sure it's in a safe position? Also, someday you should sit through a patrol leader council meeting. That's when the youth get together and they decide their program. What are we going to do for the next two or three months during our meeting?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, my son just had that meeting recently. No, I did not sit in and watch it. But that sounds really, really interesting. And they vote themselves on what they're going to do in the coming year and what they'll need and. Yes. And all that sort of stuff. Yeah, Joe.
Joe Getty
You know, it strikes me, Paul, that there's an old saying, you never learn so much as when you're teaching, and you're never as much of a servant as when you're leading because you realize, oh, this isn't about me. This is about everybody but me. That's why I'm leading. I mean, my God, you learn so much about human beings in a role like that.
Paul Hellman
Absolutely true. The leadership model that we try to use is called servant leadership, something that was created by Robert Greenleaf, what, 25, 30 years ago. And that's the model that we portray and convey over to our adults, who then translate that to the youth. And the youth training also uses the model and what we call National Youth Leadership Training. NYLT is where the youth go and learn the techniques of leadership. The adults do the same thing when they go to Wood Badge. Wood Badge training is really corporate leadership training in a wonderful environment in a Scout camp location.
Jack Armstrong
But like I said, my experience has been, you want to talk about teenagers who look you in the eye and give you a firm handshake and refer to you as Mr. And all that sort of stuff that you don't see that much in modern America.
Joe Getty
Man.
Jack Armstrong
It is a. It is, it is around Scouting. I'll tell you that.
Paul Hellman
That's true. You think about the values we have in Scouting. Scout oath and Scout law teaches you to have respect for all that you're around and the environment, your fellow Scouts and everyone in the community.
Jack Armstrong
My son got elected, whatever the first step is, patrol leader for his little group recently. And he's taking it so seriously, and I'm so proud of him and just amazed by that he feels the responsibility of showing up to the extra meeting and being there and doing the things he's supposed to do. It's absolutely incredible.
Paul Hellman
Yeah, there's one of the things we do in Scouting America, and I think we do this extremely well, is providing those environments for 12 year olds to then be responsible for other youth, other human beings making phone calls, doing whatever they need to do. You're going to bring the right, who's going to bring the food. The entire structure in the organization of their outings are going to be basically managed by the patroller who might be 12 years old. See, one of the things I like to tell people is what we teach at Boy Scouts of America is exactly what you learn when you go get an mba. So take your pick. You're going to be in Scouts to the year 18 years old or you're going to go to someplace and learn these same techniques and you're 24. You're going to learn the same things in scouting that you would getting a higher education.
Jack Armstrong
And Joe and I have talked about this a lot over the years. Joe was bringing it up just a couple of weeks ago and how whenever you hear these stories about like inner city schools that were struggling and they turn it around, it's always because some hard ass principal or something like that demanded more out of the kids. And when they demand more out of the kids, the kids rise to the occasion. And that's what I've seen just being around scouts like this. Like my son, I know what my son is like and like a couple of weeks ago he was headed to his first meeting where he's now, you know, in charge of his little group of guys, everything like, so we got to be there on time. You know, I have a, I have responsibilities now. And just that he never talked like that before.
Joe Getty
People rise to your expectations, especially kids over. And it's one of the great lessons I think we've forgotten in America. Paul, I'm sure you've seen that a million times and I have a tenacity.
Paul Hellman
That's the sort of grit. The two things that sometimes we, we talk about is what we teach in scouting. You got a, I don't know, 30, 35, 40 pound pack on your back. We got to get someplace before you can set up camp. And you got to get there, you got to get there somehow. You just learn how to just make it happen and lead your scouts so that you show up and can set up your camp. One of the greatest adventures that we do in Scouting America are our summertime, the 50 mile hikes are going to Philmont or some of the other high adventure camps that we have where you, you do these treks.
Jack Armstrong
As I said, I've seen, I've seen 16 year olds that are so much more impressive than so many 30 year olds I know in terms of just being adults that look like they can take on life. It's absolutely impressive. So here's the deal. Let's, let's get to where the rubber meets the road because we're trying to raise money this, this week. I would love it if every, because the boys and girls, but every kid out there had the opportunity to be in Scouting. But it costs something to be in Scouting and not everybody can afford it. What's it cost? Just generally, do you have any idea across America what it costs to get involved in Scouting for a family?
Paul Hellman
Well, you have your personal expenses which would be the uniform, $150 total when you get done, the equipment that you need to go camping. There's also the support for the local councils and the administration of the Scouting program in your area, which is generally going to be about another $85 to $100 a year. So I would tell you it's a couple hundred dollars a year to be involved in Scouting.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Which is enough to keep a lot of people from doing it.
Paul Hellman
Oh.
Joe Getty
And given the unbelievable effect it can have on their young lives, I mean it's just, it's tragic that any kid would not be involved in Scouting for, for questions of cost.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
So if we can cover here today.
Jack Armstrong
If we can cover that cost by raising some money. Go to armstrongandgetty.com we got the donate now on there and we'll see how much money we can raise this week and then a whole bunch of people can get exposed to Scouting. And you know, I guess Covid was really hard on Scouting.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Paul Hellman
Covid caused us the inability to meet as a group. And so some of our units to stop meeting and no longer are in existence because of that. And so we're working hard and this is where the funds that we're going to gain help us. Because now we could get professionals in the field to rebuild those units. Go to the sponsoring institutions, say we need to recreate PAC X, Pac Y and then be able to provide Scouting for the congregations.
Joe Getty
Hey Paul, we've just got like 30 more seconds, but can you speak quickly to Scouting and patriotism? Is that still a fundamental part of what you do?
Paul Hellman
Absolutely. Is what we part of we have the American flag on our uniform. We Recite the pledge of Allegiance before every single meeting. We salute the flag. And we're one of the few organizations in the United States that's allowed to retire American flags. We have a very respectful ceremony that we go through when we retire the flags and, and burn them and bury them as they need to be.
Jack Armstrong
I see that every week. What do you call the thing when they bring out the people and they take the flags down and stuff like that?
Paul Hellman
Flag ceremony.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, the flagship. I see that every week. And it's so cool. And having, you know, seeing these kids do it and take it so seriously and quietly and everything like that, it's just awesome.
Paul Hellman
They stand at attention and salute. They. They very much take it very seriously.
Jack Armstrong
Paul Hellman, thanks for coming in. Thank, first of all, thanks for your time. All the years he had donated to scouting and, you know, just helping out youth all across America and all the people, all the volunteers that I've seen that work so hard. We're going to raise as much money as we can for you this week. We appreciate you coming in.
Paul Hellman
Thank you very much.
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So we made it soup or fast and easy to donate. You go to armstrongandgetty.com and you click on the donate button and it's not going to take you very long. We're going to see how much money we can raise. We're at $555. We just started. I realize we got to get that number up so please do that. We're going to catch up on some of the news stories we mentioned coming up right after this. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
So we gotta put a minimum on donating money to the scouts for you getting mentioned for your funny name because that, we've had that happen in the past. We love it when people with funny names donate. But for instance, a donation from a succulent Chinese meal, it was only five bucks. So you just wanted the joke. Right, Right, right.
Joe Getty
And appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Jack Armstrong
Five bucks ain't nothing. Right.
Joe Getty
But it's close to nothing.
Jack Armstrong
Since inflation, it is pretty damn close to nothing.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. I, I lose a five dollar bill, I'll never think of it again. Anyway. So. Yeah. What would 25 minimum to have your funny name mentioned?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, exactly. Because if everybody gave 25, we'd reach our goal today. So. Yeah, yeah.
Joe Getty
You know, I absolutely love talking to Paul about an organization that is so great supporting traditional American values in the way we're discussing.
Jack Armstrong
Then you have pledge of allegiance, for crying out loud.
Joe Getty
And then you have this young woman who goes by the name of gluten free girlfriend on social media.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy.
Joe Getty
Who is sharing tips to her TikTok and Substack subscribers on the ways she is decolonizing Christmas.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I bet you're a long day.
Joe Getty
Oh, I'd like to take my Yule log and just.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
I'm not a man.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Holy.
Joe Getty
Not a man of violence. And light a nice warm fire and explain to her how she's been misguided.
Jack Armstrong
More unique threats in show history, she.
Joe Getty
Shared different recipes to her social media accounts that were Gluten free. Because wheat, barley and rye are not native to the Americas.
Jack Armstrong
All right. A decolonized Christmas.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
What's this chick look like? I'm curious.
Joe Getty
Exactly like you think she does.
Jack Armstrong
Katie. Can you describe her for me? Oh, yeah. You can say yeah, exactly.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Decolonize your Christmas. And 20 something. Yeah.
Joe Getty
White girl, hottie, of course. All right.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And is she serious? Is she just trying to get clicks? Because I know people that are pretty close to serious about that sort of thing.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, yeah, she is. She's said a colonized Christmas takes shape in many ways, including the gifts which she is purchasing from native owned businesses. The shop list includes indigenous Hispanic and woman owned tea businesses. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Hispanic, which literally means from the Spanish. So the Spanish conquistadors are not colonizers in your mind, you dip ass. Even though they quite literally colonized millions of hundreds of thousands of square miles.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you can't look for consistency out of these people.
Joe Getty
Do you think the native Peruvians just decided Spanish was a pretty language? The Mexicans, Guatemalans. And they thought they would. Or were they forced at spear point, you ninny.
Jack Armstrong
What's she. What'd she look like? Katie?
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She's.
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Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
I'm not gonna decolonize my Christmas. I'm gonna keep it exactly the same as has been since. I don't even know what that means.
Joe Getty
Well, and go back 300 years and explain to the. The native peoples that you're going to decolonize Christmas. And they'll say you're going to decolonize what now? So you're returning Christmas to its native American roots? Sweetheart, you are America's greatest comedian.
Jack Armstrong
Now, I believe we set a standard. You have to know dane at least $25 to get your funny name mentioned. Although we did just get $10 from the guy who sneezed in Joe's backswing. Wow. But that's.
Joe Getty
You violated our rules right there. It's got to be 25 of the law.
Jack Armstrong
From now on, nobody gets mentioned unless you donate. Unless you donate at least $25 to the scouts to help more people get involved in scouting that might not otherwise be able to afford it. They got a suspect in the stabbing.
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Joe Getty
The initial call came in yesterday afternoon. LAFD and the LAPD responding found those two people dead. But police so far remaining very tight lipped about their investigation and saying nothing.
Jack Armstrong
About a potential suspect. Yeah, well, that was yesterday. They do have their suspect and probably the person who did it. Nick Reiner, 32 year old son of Rob Reiner, taken into custody, held on $4 million bail. So as was immediately suspected by people who knew the family situation, they're often homeless. Drug addict, struggled his whole life. Son looks like, came into the house and slit the throats of his mom and dad. That's pretty rough.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. The particulars of it almost don't matter.
Jack Armstrong
No, they don't. No, no, they don't.
Joe Getty
Yeah. That's just awful.
Jack Armstrong
So this is kind of interesting. I, I'd heard reference to this, but I hadn't seen it. So after the news broke that movie star, director, actor Rob Reiner and his wife had been stabbed to death. And then I saw headlines where it is being looked at as a homicide. Yeah. You know, usually have murder, suicide with stabbings and then the term passed away or have died. Okay, well, that's accurate, but kind of leaves out a lot if you say that.
Joe Getty
I would say, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, Donald J. Trump, he's the President of the United States. Troops this out as soon as the news broke yesterday. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. I guess he saw it this morning or it was after midnight. Rob Reiner, a tortured. Listen to this. This is after a guy is stabbed to death in his own home. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star. I don't know that he was tortured and struggling. I don't think he would have described himself that way.
Joe Getty
Recent interviews, publishing or pushing the new Spinal Tap movie. He seemed untortured.
Jack Armstrong
No, I hated Rob Reiner's polit and I wish he just shut up about it. But to say he was not successful or that he was struggling or whatever. Anyway, Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away together with his wife. Passed away, got stabbed to death. Uh, reportedly this is what he actually truthed out as the President, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as tds.
Joe Getty
So that hinted that somebody took him out because of his being anti Trump knit in.
Jack Armstrong
Hint. He stated it reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his Trump Derangement syndrome. So that's why he died. He got stabbed to death because he, you know, because he hated me so much. Had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
Joe Getty
Sorry folks, that's unhinged.
Jack Armstrong
That's an odd thing to do. That's an odd thing to do. Then he ends. May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.
Joe Getty
That's an odd thing to do.
Jack Armstrong
Even though. Rest in peace. Even though I just blamed you for your own death because you criticized me, you caused somebody to stab you to death. What an amazing thing to do.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. As, as I opened the show with, that's among the more interesting stories today. The whole Rob Reiner and his wife stabbed to death. It's not as interesting now that we know it's the sun. I mean, we got it solved and it's just a horrible, horrible story. There but for the grace of God go any of us and their kids going off the rails. But it's not of any significance to anybody, you know. And then you got the Brown University thing. It's interesting that the shooter is on the loose after a mass shooting there at the university campus over the weekend. But it's not going to end up being of any significance probably to anybody.
Joe Getty
No, just one more of the tiring, exhausting, horrible, angry loser decides other people should hurt too. A variety of attacks, which is certainly.
Jack Armstrong
Its own major social problem, no doubt. Oh, yeah, but the one in Australia where you got a couple of guys who it appears pledged their allegiance to ISIS before they. For 10 minutes. How did they do this for 10 minutes? For 10 minutes they were up on a rooftop shooting Jews at a big gathering in Australia and killed a whole bunch of people and wounded a whole bunch of people.
Paul Hellman
Just horrific.
Joe Getty
Horrific.
Jack Armstrong
Father, son, father, son. Dad's dad, kids in custody.
Joe Getty
Kid had come to the attention of the authorities a couple of years back for his associations, but they decided that there was no real risk of him committing an act of violence. They were wrong. The intifada was globalized to Sydney that day, my friend.
Jack Armstrong
Do you understand that? Globalize the intifada. That's what it is. It's those two guys shooting Jews clear of there in Australia, a long way away from Gaza. That's globalize. The intifada that kids are chanting on campuses and in parades and everybody's acting like that's okay.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. And people are quite rightfully looking at Australia, and Australia's just so European. Although we're doing it some too. In this country. It would cause even more conflict by calling out what this actually is. So they've danced around antisemitism. It marginal. It's an important pathology. These incidents are unrelated, but Jewish Australians have reported a sharp rise in harassment, intimidation, vandalism, threats at schools, universities, workplaces and public spaces. Anti Semitic graffiti had already appeared in this part of Sydney in the weeks before the attack. The violence did not emerge from nowhere. It was the most extreme expression of a wound to the body politic that has been allowed to fester, writes Peter Curti.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, so like I said, this story has huge global significance. This might be what we're dealing with as a planet for quite some time. Yeah.
Joe Getty
Speaking of which, so Columbia University just came out with the fourth section, or whatever it is of their. Their report on anti Semitism at Columbia in the wake of a couple of horrifying incidents which we reported on at the time. Violence against students, takeovers of classrooms, takeovers of the library. You had an infamous incident where staff members were at a meeting and were texting each other, making fun of Jews, the rest of it. So the fourth, and you know, kudos, whoever was involved in this at Columbia, this is pretty strong stuff that they went ahead and included in the report. Brace yourselves. It paints a disturbing picture of life as a Jewish student at the Ivy League institution. Here are some examples. The report recounts a number of disturbing incidents in the classroom. Some of the incidents, like the January storming of Israeli history classes by keffiyeh clad students who distributed pro Hamas leaflets and harassed Jews, were publicized when they happened. Other were unknown until the report's release. This section entitled Scapegoating Jewish and Israeli Students for Their Ties to Israel details scores of incidents. A score is 20 friends. So it's dozens and dozens and dozens of incidents in which, and I'm quoting Columbia instructors singled out Jewish and Israeli students for personal scapegoating because of their real or perceived ties to Israel, which, by the way, violates federal law. One Israeli student was told, you must know a lot about settler colonialism. How do you feel about that? This is by an instructor. Another was called an occupier. A third was told that because she served in Israel's army of murderers, she should be considered as one of those murderers. That's by her teacher. One Jewish student was told by an instructor, quote, it's a shame that your people survived in order to commit mass genocide.
Jack Armstrong
It's impossible to imagine that this actually happened.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Oh, and again, there are scores of examples just from Colombia just in the last year or so, year or two.
Jack Armstrong
So that, you know, we could probably talk about that all day long, but. So that leads to this headline, Sorry, one more note.
Joe Getty
Every class, every section of the university was infected by this. As the teachers, the woke teachers with their intersectional training, their neo Marxist training, tried to incorporate it into everything. And they had a unit in an introductory astronomy class, including Astronomy in Palestine, writing on the class's syllabus as we watched the genocide unfold in Gaza.
Jack Armstrong
Da, da, da. Well, speaking of that, the FBI announced in the last hour that they stopped a planned New Year's Eve Los Angeles terror attack by a pro Palestinian cell. Quite the theme we've got going all weekend long here.
Joe Getty
Pro Palestinian, which is a euphemism for radical Islamic FBI.
Jack Armstrong
Arresting, arresting. So, I mean, they, you know, this isn't just suspicion. They were actually arrested. Five members of a pro Palestinian extremist group accused of planning attacks in Los Angeles. Their plan was to unleash a massive and horrific terror plot in LA that would include bombings and multiple targets beginning New Year's Eve. So that's fantastic. And I'm sure we'll get more details throughout the day on that. They'll have a press conference at some point and tell us what they found out. So between that report out of Columbia, what happened in Australia over the weekend. This terror plot. Yeah, that's a much more significant story than Rob Reiner being stabbed right to the.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Troubling God, I would say so.
Jack Armstrong
That's one of the reasons I actually said to Joe earlier off the air, I said, I'm glad this is a week we're raising money for something good because this just a lot of bad news and I'm kind of tired of it. So we, we put a limit, a minimum. If you're going to donate money to scouting and we'll hit you with the total here in just a second. And you want to have a funny name, you got to donate at least 25 bucks. For instance, 25 bucks came from Gavin's hand game. That's people who have been talking about Gavin Newsoman is the way he uses his hands too.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Gavin's hand.
Joe Getty
Constant gesturing. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
$25 from Jack's next wife.
Joe Getty
Ooh. Wow. Thank you, dear.
Jack Armstrong
50 bucks from prune runs. I like that one.
Joe Getty
Surely that that refers to going to the store quickly to get some prunes. Prune Runs.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, sure. That's exactly right. I'm not sure that's right. You know, when we come back because we're getting close to a very good round number. When we come back, maybe we'll hit our first total of the week as we try to raise money for scouting and, and we're already off to a good start.
Joe Getty
Specifically, it's, it's scholarships to make sure kids who want to get into scouting can because it has such amazing effects on their lives.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And I'll be talking more throughout the week about things I've seen from my kid being in scout scouting and how impressed I am. We have more news of the day to get to. I hope you can stick around.
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Jack Armstrong
Are there any Christmas movies that you guys watch?
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We used to always watch Home Alone.
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Plane, destroys the house and ruins the vacation. And somehow this movie doesn't end in a historic ass beating. In the first scene, the mom is.
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Jack Armstrong
That was me, that's where the movie ends. Roll the credits in memory of Marcelo Hernandez. Marcelo Hernandez. That is a decent point. Marcelo Hernandez, by the way, one of the more hilarious people they've ever had on Saturday Night Live, in my opinion. But it's pretty funny. He destroyed the house. You did all these different things. You told mom to shut up. And it just doesn't end with a historic gas beating. That's pretty funny.
Joe Getty
We lost as a parenting of today, 20, 30 years ago.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly that.
Joe Getty
When did that movie come out?
Jack Armstrong
1991, I think. I think it's 33 years old. I think I read last night. Anywho, I watched, we watched a show that was 60 years old. It was made the same year I was born. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Last night, kind of just accidentally, like I was just Henry was Henry. Henry took charge of the Christmas cookies. And he did. He did everything, absolutely the whole thing. Making the cookies, mix them all up, made them from scratch, including the frosting. And they were good. But when we were finishing them all off, he said, let's put on a Christmas movie. I was on put on something short on a school night. And so I just went to Apple TV and right there was a Charlie Brown Christmas. I thought, okay, that's kind of cool. Watched it, watched it for the. I don't know. It's been on 60 years of my life. I've probably seen it 57 times. Probably. It is really quite the amazing art if you haven't seen it in a while. I read a lot about it last night. It almost didn't get on the air in 1965 because they thought it was too religious.
Joe Getty
Yeah, little CBS executives hated it.
Jack Armstrong
It's also weird at that time period of time, all sitcoms had laugh tracks, as we all remember, laugh tracks were ubiquitous. Up until, what, early 2000s. And. And something that's a comedy without a laugh track stood out then as now. I mean, there are like various kind of jokes, and then it's just dead silent for like five seconds. And they all just look at each other as cartoon characters, you know, and the animation is so. Everything that is Charlie Brown and. And the voiceover by the kids who were not trained actors, and they look like they're just going through. Sound like they're just going through the motions kind of adds to the art somehow. It's. It's a very unique piece of work.
Joe Getty
What you mean?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. What do you think we should do now? I mean, there's no acting involved whatsoever, but it kind of adds to it since the theme of it is the ennui. Charlie Brown's feeling around Christmas. And he's kind of sad and doesn't understand what the point is, and he hates the commercialization of it all. And. And. But the main thing that sticks out to me is my kids, who I have trouble getting to watch anything that's more than 10 years old just because the pacing is too slow for them. They both willingly. Because I was observing them without, you know, me making them, sat there and watched the whole dang thing. There was something about the layout of that story and the art of it that is compelling. Still today, 60 years later, I found. I don't know, that's. That's quite an accomplishment.
Joe Getty
You know, your observation about the lack of acting and how that actually improves it in a way is super intriguing. I. You know, thinking back to watching it many, many times, it's. It's as if it strips away the artifice and just gives you the ideas.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And interesting. Yeah. And I also think it's interesting that in 1965, 60 years ago, they felt like Christmas had gotten too commercial. And then there's the part about Charlie Brown. I know in 1965 they thought Christmas was too commercial. And then Charlie Brown going to get a tree, and he's surrounded by all these metal trees because I guess artificial trees had just become a thing, Right? I know. My parents have a picture of their first tree.
Joe Getty
It was artificial because it was the 60s. Everything was groovy. Groovy colors and groovy metallic finish and everything.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And it was so wild that Charlie Brown picked out a real tree even though it was this pathetic tree 60 years ago. That is a pretty religious show. I mean, he's reading from. I forget which of the gospels he's reading. From Linus is there at the end. But I mean, it's some serious mark.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Nice job. It's a serious Bible sort of thing and still airs.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, Yeah. I think it's fantastic. I haven't watched it in years. I should. By contrast, Judy suggested. Katie, you'll be pleased with this over the weekend that we watch your favorite holiday movie, Bad Santa.
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Joe Getty
Which is arguably a holiday movie, but inarguably, unbelievably dark and mean and nasty. It's, you know, you got a horrifying character who you know is going to get redeemed at some point. Scrooge, like. Right. And so you sit through about 40 minutes of horror. Here comes the redemption.
Jack Armstrong
No.
Joe Getty
10 more minutes of horror. Here it comes. Surely he will be. No, let's pile on a little more misery. And it's just. And finally at the end, he kind of sort of comes around somewhat, but man, is that irreverent.
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Oh, it is. It is frequently very, very funny.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. That reminds me, we. We paired the very earnest Charlie Brown Christmas with one of the Family Guy Christmas episodes that we really, really love, where Stewie plays the baby Jesus and Peter gets drunk and gives away all the presents. That's a damn funny episode.
Joe Getty
Another great recommendation for the family.
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Date: December 15, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Guest: Paul Hellman (Scouting America)
This episode features Armstrong & Getty's final live week before the holidays with a strong focus on charitable giving and Scouting America. The hosts discuss news stories including terror plots, anti-Semitism, and the tragic stabbing of Rob Reiner and his wife, but the core of the episode is a heartfelt interview with Paul Hellman, a volunteer leader in Scouting. The show blends serious news with trademark wit, holiday reflections, and appeals to help make Scouting accessible for kids.
Charity Drive Launch: The hosts kick off a fundraiser to help cover costs for underprivileged kids to join Scouting.
Personal Reflections: Jack shares how his youngest son’s involvement in Scouts has profoundly impacted him, emphasizing the program’s focus on values, leadership, and real-life responsibility.
Interview with Paul Hellman:
"Create leaders for tomorrow. Who's going to be our elected officials in 20 years from now. That's what we're creating." — Paul Hellman (06:05)
“You have a 12 year old that becomes the patrol leader... responsible for the activities that the youth and his patrol will do on a camp out.” — Paul Hellman (06:58)
“You're never as much of a servant as when you're leading because you realize, oh, this isn't about me. This is about everybody but me.” — Joe Getty (08:19) “The leadership model that we try to use is called servant leadership... created by Robert Greenleaf.” — Paul Hellman (08:40)
“People rise to your expectations, especially kids over.” — Joe Getty (11:21)
“It's a couple hundred dollars a year to be involved in Scouting.” — Paul Hellman (12:38)
Covid’s Impact & Patriotism:
“Covid caused us the inability to meet as a group... we're working hard... the funds... help us.” — Paul Hellman (13:30)
“We have the American flag on our uniform. We Recite the pledge of Allegiance before every single meeting.” — Paul Hellman (14:06)
“Five bucks ain’t nothing right... But it’s close to nothing.” — Jack Armstrong (20:29)
“Since inflation, it is pretty damn close to nothing.” — Joe Getty (20:34)
“Oh, I'd like to take my Yule log and just... I'm not a man of violence. And light a nice warm fire and explain to her how she's been misguided.” — Joe Getty (21:21)
“That’s an odd thing to do. Then he ends: ‘May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.’ Even though I just blamed you for your own death because you criticized me, you caused somebody to stab you to death.” — Jack Armstrong (31:45)
“Columbia instructors singled out Jewish and Israeli students for personal scapegoating because of their real or perceived ties to Israel...” — Joe Getty (36:31)
“This story has huge global significance. This might be what we’re dealing with as a planet for quite some time.” — Jack Armstrong (34:52)
“I’m glad this is a week we’re raising money for something good because there’s just a lot of bad news and I’m kind of tired of it.” — Jack Armstrong (38:55)
“It is really quite the amazing art if you haven't seen it in a while... There's something about the layout of that story and the art of it that is compelling.” — Jack Armstrong (47:48)
“It is frequently very, very funny.” — Joe Getty (49:55, re: Bad Santa)
| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------|---------| | 06:05 | “Create leaders for tomorrow. Who's going to be our elected officials in 20 years from now. That's what we're creating.” | Paul Hellman | | 08:19 | “You're never as much of a servant as when you're leading because you realize, oh, this isn't about me. This is about everybody but me.” | Joe Getty | | 12:38 | “It's a couple hundred dollars a year to be involved in Scouting.” | Paul Hellman | | 14:06 | “We have the American flag on our uniform. We Recite the pledge of Allegiance before every single meeting.” | Paul Hellman | | 20:34 | “Since inflation, it is pretty damn close to nothing.” | Joe Getty | | 21:21 | “Oh, I'd like to take my Yule log and just... I'm not a man of violence. And light a nice warm fire and explain to her how she's been misguided.” | Joe Getty | | 31:45 | “That’s an odd thing to do. Then he ends: ‘May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.’ Even though I just blamed you for your own death because you criticized me, you caused somebody to stab you to death.” | Jack Armstrong | | 34:52 | “This story has huge global significance. This might be what we're dealing with as a planet for quite some time.” | Jack Armstrong | | 36:31 | “Columbia instructors singled out Jewish and Israeli students for personal scapegoating because of their real or perceived ties to Israel...” | Joe Getty | | 38:55 | “I’m glad this is a week we’re raising money for something good because there’s just a lot of bad news and I’m kind of tired of it.” | Jack Armstrong | | 47:48 | “It is really quite the amazing art if you haven't seen it in a while... There's something about the layout of that story and the art of it that is compelling.” | Jack Armstrong |
The episode blends heartfelt advocacy (for Scouting), exasperation and dark humor (on tragic news), sharp satire (on social fads and politics), and warm nostalgia. Jack and Joe’s conversational, irreverent style is preserved, with moments of sincerity especially in their push for charitable action.