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And now, here's Armstrong and Getty live from Studio C C Senior, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications. We've got it. Stockings hung, we've got red and green bunting. We're all wearing little curled elf shoes, Santa hats. Technically, I'm dressed as a nutcracker, but anyway. And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager, Johnald J. Trump, doing press conferences, conferencing with the press, speaking to the American people. Imagine how weird is that, A president and or president elect communicating with the people of the United States. What's he thinking? So here's Gerald Baker writing in the Wall Street Journal about the Trump moment. This may be the first time since the 1980s in Reagan that we have a GOP president with the standing, the authority and the legislative and executive resources to reshape politics in the US and abroad. He goes through a list of all the business leaders and powerful Democrats and everybody that have either spoken to him or went to visit, gone to visit him, et cetera, et cetera. Only a few presidents changed the political weather by their very election. John F. Kennedy presaged the social and political transformations of the 60s. Ronald Reagan and 80 announced the arrival of a new political economy for the West. Five weeks before his inauguration, Mr. Trump's new order is well underway. I don't know if that's overstating it or not, making it a Kennedy type Reagan type moment, but man, it certainly could be. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's early days. It's a, it's a really good start. But these aren't normal early days. That's the point. They're not like any early days. I've seen maybe Obama that first time where everybody was so in love with him. But it's this, this, this is amazing, especially for a guy who, you know, the only thing we've heard for 10 years is his high negatives and most unpopular this and that of ever. This is astounding. This is just astounding. I think in two of the three examples we gave of transitional periods presaging, you know, real change in America's politics that was aided along by the incumbent being incredibly weak, Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden specifically. So I think there's just that. Do you remember? Do you remember? Unless you've got a serious neurological condition, yes. You remember the just euphoria on the Democratic side of the aisle when Joe Biden bought a how to have cared his way out of the race and they got a new chance. The great Kamala Harris, who everybody knew was a moron, but just the newness finally out with the old. I think part of it is that honestly, Maggie Haberman, who hates Trump, writes he has enjoyed a steady stream of vanquished opponents and critics and business leaders who once spurned him arriving to pay respects, seek jobs, or simply watch him press play on the iPad that he uses to control the music from the patio during the dinner hours. That is so funny that Trump runs the music during. He's the dj, the DJ Mar a Lago. He has the iPad with him. I've seen the videos of it. And they're all eating and the song's about Dan and he's scrolling through and picks another song. I'm guessing a lot of yacht Rod, right? Lottery, Yacht rock. And then he'll fire up YMCA right before dessert. Everybody does it. Oh, yes. Dinner table events. I don't know, I, I, maybe I'm gonna feel like a SAP later, but I'm optimistic that something could actually happen, like with this Doge thing. The committee's having their first big get together today and with Elon Musk's high profile and maybe, just maybe, enough important people realizing it's practically now or never that something can happen. I don't know. I hope I don't look back on this in two years and think I am nothing. Nothing. Nothing happened. Not only little, but nothing. Yeah, I think, I don't think it'll be little or nothing. I think it'll be significant. I know a lot of our hopes will be dashed. I'm already highly troubled by Trump's seeming willingness to sell the actual working man and woman in favor of union support for the very, very few, from the longshoremen, for instance. His support of that union and what they're doing and against, you know, automation is awful. That's picking, you know, what, 500 workers prospects against the prospects of 50 million workers since more efficient docs and trade would be better for everybody. And preventing that is only good for a tiny group of people. Another thing about the Trump moment is his amazing for him, self control he's had thus far and had throughout the press Conference yesterday, he had an opportunity to go Trump and go dark and go vengeance or go insult on a whole bunch of different answers. And he took a pass. How long can he keep that up? Is Susie Wiles got some sort of special talent? Is she like customato was for Mike Tyson and nobody else could do it? Can she whisper in his ear before Trump goes out there? Remember the goal. Keep your eye on the prize. Eye on the prize. It's not about the one person you hate. Keep your eye on the prize. Cuz he, he took a pass on all kinds of normal Trump targets yesterday. Right, right. You know, I was going to speculate that maybe it's that he's still trying to earn the admiration of guys like Elon Musk, who he's close to, and he wants to be the statesman. Although Elon Musk is one of the great insult comics in the history of the Internet, so maybe not. Yeah, I don't know. You're right, though. I mean, that observation's 100% right. He's very statesmanlike these days. Can he keep that up? No. Oh, is that rhetorical? Sorry. He's older. He, he might have decided, you know, I'd kind of like to be remembered as a good president. Sure. Yeah. And honestly, I don't think giving it up entirely is a good idea anyway. That the, the, the quick political wit, the well placed insult. Where it's appropriate. Yeah, the. Where it's appropriate. That's part of the national conversation. Yeah, but where it's appropriate is the key. You got to stay away from the. You know, I prefer people who don't get captured about John McCain or whatever. You know, some of those things that were just so over the top. That was ages ago. Yeah, but you're right. Yeah, don't, don't punch down. He did tweet out that picture of a fat Chris Christie McDonald's over the weekend. So maybe that's his outlet. Maybe Susie Wild says, go ahead. Truth Social, you're fat jokes and all that sort of stuff. Doesn't really have my matter just at the podium on Mike. You could keep it under control. Maybe that's his outlet. She's got a list of four people he's allowed to insult. All right. You're feeling like it. Go after Christy Christie's fine. Kamala, that'd be fine, too. Oh, speaking of Kamala, I have some Kamala news that. Please. People are going to spit coffee all over the windshields. It's. It's unbelievable. Wow, that's cool. That's very Very exciting. I just, it has to do with her future plans. I have to. What is this found stuff around my desk? I have to resist the temptation to. Because I listen to NPR on the way to work and I really need to fight the temptation to just be a, you know, a response to npr, although NPR is pretty powerful, has really good ratings all across the country a lot because they have a different business model than every other radio station and that they don't have to worry about advert ads or profit. They get government support. But. So I feel like somebody needs to respond to some of the news that they put out there. Cuz I have friends who believe all that NPR crap. But they did a story about homelessness today in particular to Montana. And they presented it as since the Supreme Court ruled that you don't have to supply shelter for homeless people, cities across America, including these in Montana, are shutting down their homeless shelters right before winter. And they presented it as if the Trump right wing Supreme Court swooped in and took away a right that has always existed from our unhoused as opposed to there was one wacky ruling that threw homelessness into a crisis and finally we got it straightened back out again. Right. And gonna look into that story a little bit more later in the show. I think it's important for the national conversation about homelessness. And I don't know where all y'all come down on it, but a whole bunch of towns that had put up shelters because that was the law at the time and they wanted to be able to boot the homeless people out of their town, but you couldn't legally unless you had a shelter provided for them. And so they put up enough shelters to provide for them. Now that that's not the law anymore, they're saying, okay, enough of the shelters. Well, right, right. In fact, those laws were so loopy you could safely describe them as, you're not allowed to enforce your laws unless you have a bed for each vagrant. Right. What the ultimate camping, panhandling, sleeping on the sidewalk, what have you, public defecation. The fastest growing homeless population in America right now is in Montana. NPR of course, portrayed it as because of high housing costs, rent and mortgages, because that's what we all do. If rent gets too high, we go live on the street and do drugs. But more on that later. The main question, of course being is housing a right? Is housing a right? That's what we got to figure out as a country. My answer would be no. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, December 17, the year 2024. Life was not a bore in 24. We're Armstrong and Getting. We approve of this program. Let's begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. The show starts at Mark. I got a comment on the Putin question, but I will comment on on Bibi. We had a very good talk. As you know, I gave warning that if these hostages aren't back home by that date, all hell is going to break out. Trump threatening Hamas as opposed to threatening Israel is a breath of fresh air. You think you've had a bad year? Hamas. Brace yourself. Right. How does mailbag look? Very good. Quite nice. Any chance next year is going to be like the most normal year we've had in quite some time? No, no. How could it? Well, we just came out of this wacky presidential election. I feel like we could return to some sort of normalcy. You don't think so? It's a long shot. I tell you what, you. You bet that you will win handsomely if you win. Because with all the geopolitical instability going on right now, the Middle east is about to go nuts by the standards of the Middle east, right? For instance, Russia, Ukraine and China. You're right. Here's our text line 415295 KFTC. Armstrong and Getty. 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We host a daily news podcast called Post Reports. Every weekday afternoon, Post Reports takes you inside an important and interesting story with the kind of reporting that you only get from the Washington Post. You can listen to Post Reports wherever you get your podcasts. Go find it now and hit follow. Santa's coming around and all. Anyway, anyway, I was tempted to jump into a different discussion, but I don't want to. You got a tree up? You don't got. You don't got kids in your house anymore. You have a tree up. Oh yeah. Yep. Festive Judy's got all of her nutcrackers out and. And yeah, the house is nice. We're gonna decorate it when little D, our youngest gets here with her man for a visit. Gotcha. Looking forward to it. Yeah, why not? Wish the big kids could be here but work and travel and all is tough this time of year. Anyway, here's a freedom loving quote of the day I absolutely love said along by Matt, the Idaho farmhand. It's Kevin Roberts who's the president of the Heritage Foundation. I'm saving this one Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire. The preservation of fire strikes me as a good metaphor for conservatism. It's not rose tinted nostalgia of an idealized past. It preserves the best of the past and applies its lessons lessons to the present. Maintaining a controlled burn is a way to a better future. Interesting. Tending the fire of democracy. I like that. No, you don't like that. You're not impressed by that? No reaction at all. Well, the populace has to want that. I think that's what happens. So what I think I'm starting to learn as I get older. No, if they don't, you jab them with one of the burning embers. Continue the metaphor. I'm kidding. Yeah. More on that to come obviously the ongoing conversation first mailbag. If you would like to communicate there are a couple ways to do it. You can text us 415295 kftc or drop us a note via email. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com Paolo one of a couple people, one of several people to weigh in on the Fermi paradox. If there are so many planets, there ought to be a lot of life. Why haven't we found it? And Paolo goes into some of the numbers which I think are are so interesting as we know it requires a lot of very special circumstances to evolve. So the occurrences of it may be relatively slow, sparse, but the universe is vast so it's likely to happen in places other than the earth. And some of the numbers are mind blowing. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone. There are an estimated 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the universe. The estimates just keep growing as telescopes see further. So you know, as he points out, but everything's very very very far away and we can't get there really detect much. But then I like this from Burbank Luke what the main question being but then where are they? Or as Burbank Luke points out and you know I almost jumped into this yesterday but we were pressed for time. When are they? The Fermi paradox makes sense for the same reason. SETI is futile time that's the. Our listening giant listening telescope. Or what would you call listening dish rage. What's the term? Doesn't matter. Station. Listening station. Surely there is was other intelligent life in the universe. They could trundle along for eons in the primordial. Primordial soup. Then the lungs, the legs, the opposable thumbs. Then they're using rocks as tools and so on. Eventually they figure out broadcast tv, which is what SETI listens for. Basically sitcoms of the hexapus family, holiday specials. And the next thing you know, they all blow each other up in the pentane wars. The last part only takes 200 years. It's a synchronization problem. There are no blips of sound out there from previous civilizations that became advanced. None floating through the universe. Not a blip. Yeah, I don't know. I don't. The numbers are too vast for me to comprehend. I've decided. Decided? A long time ago, the great. The great questions of physics and science were so beyond me. I would stick with the more mundane, you know, things that we are dealing with here in the primordial soup. Like how do I get the lid off this thing? A little more like, how should civilizations be organized? Okay. Sideshow Bob writes on the topic of drones. Isn't it funny that we have more verified photos of Hunter's junk than these drones? I'm starting. Come on. I did not see Hunter Biden's junk entering into the conversation. That's a funny comparison. There it is. I'm starting to think this is. This is nothing more than our generation's war of the worlds. Thanks, Bob. Well, Trump was asked about this at the press conference yesterday. I thought his answer was damned interesting. We'll play that for you coming up. Then Sean weighs in. I mean, it could be the dod, but why did the drones force Wright Patterson Air Base to close on Friday? I'm not saying it's the enemy, but I'm thinking you're giving these morons too much credit. Like, what about the Biden administration has led you to think they're on this? Hell, we're probably about a week away from Harris being appointed. Drones are? Yeah. They didn't close an Air Force base briefly. You'd think if the government was behind the drones, the government would be able to tell the Air Force base, you don't need to close, it's us. Yeah, yeah, you would. Unless it was just so top secret that, hey, look, the Air Force is going to be inconvenienced for a couple of days, but we've got to do this expert look again. Trump was asked about it. I thought his answer was interesting among other things. On the way. Stay tuned Armstrong and Getty. You wake up, put on your Ray Ban Meta glasses classic style, innovative tech. You're living all in. 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Tick tock had a impact and so we're taking a look at it. But you know, we won youth. Republicans are always 30 points down in youth. Trump is such a negotiator and that's what he has been his whole life. I mean, the whole. We'll take a look at that is just, it's just, it's just a. What do you got for me? That's what that is. Yes. And the fact that his reaction when asked about TikTok was not about the national security of the United States, but how it benefited him is. Well, it's Trump. Well, yeah, also, but, you know, he's, he's, he's wanting somebody to come forward with enough money or giveaways or something to get him to change his mind. He's just, he's, he's, he's the negotiator and he's always open, always open. Make an offer. Everything is, everything is up for a negotiation. Make an offer. Well, and some big money guy out there heard, in effect, you know, Trump is pro TikTok. We could probably get some pretty good policy. Maybe we do try to buy it from the Chinese. I guess my point was he just never closes the door on anything like, like we've, you know, we have agents that have shown that sort of thing. And TikTok set to go away, what, middle of January? I mean, it's going to not be a thing in the United States in the middle of January unless something big happens. And maybe the biggest opponent of TikTok in the entire US Government is Marco Rubio, who's been on every talk show he could get on for years now, talking about how it's insane that we allow Tikt in this country, and that's Trump's Secretary of state. So. Right. It'd be interesting to see how that plays out. As I pointed out on Fox and Friends this morning, quoting Marco Rubio, you download the TikTok TikTok app, they immediately. The Chinese Communist Party has access to everything in your phone immediately when you download that app. I think it's weird. Such a dope as a country. We really are. It is nuts. Of course it's nuts. And in addition to that, and then I'll move on from TikTok because I wasn't planning to talk tick tock. But in addition to the fact that they have access to all your info. So basically, you know, get into everything, build a profile on you, steal information, all that sort of stuff. They're putting out all this news that is pro China's agenda and anti the US agenda. And whatever smart person I was listening to on cable News today said TikTok is going to be full of news. And since our young people get half their news from TikTok about why the tariffs against China are horrible and shouldn't happen, how they're hurting them. Right. And yeah. So we let our young people be educated on all the issues by the Chinese Communist Party. Don't trust China. Well, they're being stupefied or stupid. O fied half the time and the other half of the time they're being misinformed for the purposes of Xi Jinping. But there are funny videos. Oh, come on. Is there any country that's got any sense left? I'll move there. I, I'm sure there's lots of these, but I saw the one yesterday where it's popular now to have T shirts that have the, what do you call that symbol thing on where you put your phone over it with the picture like the menus at restaurants now. Oh, a QR code. Yeah, QR code on T shirts. And you do the QR because you're curious. You do the QR code on the guy's T shirt and it's the Trump doing the Trump dance. Yes. Yeah. So funny. Speaking of Trump press conference yesterday that I saw almost universal, if not praise grudging. He's much better now than he was before. Ish. From the MSNBC crowd on the way he handled his press conference. But here's him being asked about the drone situation. Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey ports? It seems like the American people have a big disk. The govern, the government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can Go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went. And for some reason they don't want to comment. And I think they'd be better off saying what it is. Our military knows and our president knows. And for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the enemy that blasted out. Even if they were late, they'd blast it. Something strange is going on. For some reason they don't want to tell the people and they should because the people are really. I mean they happen to be over Bedminster. They're very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster. I've decided to cancel my trip now. We don't have the follow up that's important. The follow up being have you been briefed on this? And he said I'm, I'm not going to comment on that. It sure sounds like he has been and he almost certainly has been as the incoming president. They start doing the, the full on daily briefing with the incoming president right there. So he's been briefed on it. He knows what's going on. I thought he obviously, by Trump style took a pass there to take a shot at Biden. Our president knows. He didn't say Sleepy Joe or Stupid Joe or Joe's wandering around in the backyard or any of the normal things that he wouldn't refer to him as the mummy as some radio shows perhaps have. Yeah. And because he was President of the United States for four years, he also absolutely knows the capabilities of our military. And he's saying that the military knows where they're coming from and what they are. So hey, when he was saying, look, the military knows what's going on. They know where they took off. If they came from a garage, they could go to that garage. Am I the only one who is sitting here thinking, is this classified? Are we supposed to know the military can do that? But it is interesting. Technology is. Now most people seem to think that he did. Has had a briefing on the whole thing. And so, yeah. So him saying the military's on top of it but they won't tell you. For some reason the President knows, but for some reason they're not telling you that. That's interesting. I don't, I still, I'm still mystified as to what's going on. Me too. I. There are at least five different scenarios that I consider equally likely. I'm completely at sea on this one. Yeah. One other Trump related thing That I wanted to throw out before we take a break is RFK Jr. Was on the Hill yesterday trying to woo senators to his side. And this is another example of if you take your information through mainstream media, RFK Jr is a complete nut job and everything he proposes is evil, awful, and only a crazy person would think it. Polling out today, 8 in 10American adults support requiring nutrition education in federally funded medical schools. That's one of RFK junior sayings. 74% support banning certain additives, including dyes from the nation's food supply. Another RFK Jr thing. A 74%. Now that doesn't mean the population's right or well informed on this stuff, but I'm just saying it's not. A lot of these things aren't as. Aren't being received. Like, oh my God, how could he do that? That like is being portrayed. Portrayed on the evening news. Even on 2/3 of Americans, including 71% of Democrats want the federal government to increase restrictions on the use of pesticides and agricultural products, banning processed foods in public school lunches. Supported by 2/3 of both Democrats and Republicans. I don't know if I agree with all this stuff, but the public is not going. How could you possibly even on the one that gets less than 50% on fluoride. Fluoride in the nation's drinking water. Kennedy said he wants to get rid of drinking water. Fluoride removal is backed by 56% of Republicans, only a third of Democrats. But that's not nutjob territory for discussing it. I don't know what I think of that issue, by the way. If it leads toward a reassessment of the policy using 21st century science, there's nothing wrong with that. On some other public issues raised by Kennedy, Republicans, Democrats are more split, like whether the drug Ozempic ought to be restricted for weight loss. 43% of Democrats support restricting the drug, 52% of Republicans. So as opposed to what? I don't know. I know it can help with like alcoholism and stuff like that, but I can't imagine anybody be against that. I don't know. The issue on the. People are saying use the. It was epic. For other things, I have to look it up. Yeah, I didn't know that was a hot topic that they even asked about it. The one. Oh, I wanted to. On the whole food coloring thing, it's probably not good to put extra stuff in our food that's completely unnecessary. Even if you. Even if there's no science saying that making this look a little more brown or red or green or whatever doesn't do any damage. What's the upside of putting, you know, chemicals in food? But I think you take away that food dye and a lot of us are going to look at our food and think, ah, could you bring back the food dye? I don't like the way this looks. Well, that doesn't make it good though. I mean, we've gotten used to the utterly unnatural rainbow hues of processed food. I think we need to ease into it though. Everything's going to be kind of a gray brown, right? Lots of gray brown food. Hey, it's nothing more delicious looking than that. Kind of weird. Is that green or is that gray anyway? Well, I, I don't know. It's. You don't have to have food that's colored like a tropical fish to, to find it delicious. I mean, again, it's utterly unnatural. We weren't eating food that looked like that 75 years ago. We'll, we'll go back. It'll be fine. Decent point. Oh yeah, that's the one thing. The one thing. But I'll, I'll bring up the one thing RFK Jr said that is clearly true after this. 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I don't know if that's because of food dye or vaccinations or whatever, but as we were talking about yesterday, chronic depression and anxiety and all these different things really worth taking a look at. Why? You know, that reminds me, I came across this. I haven't independently verified it, but it's from a Twitter account that I've followed and looked at many times and never found it to be wrong. This is from Business Insider, which is a liberal publication, but, you know, not completely Looney Tunes Daily. Calories consumed by Americans. Oh, boy. Is this talking about me specifically? Yes, yes. In fact, your picture with big fat cheeks is right at the illustration, actually. It's like a big gigantic hamburger and fries. That looks really. I wish I have a donut in the other hand. Wish I was eating it right now. Anyway, in 1961, I'm going to round a little bit here. Ironically, the American. The Average American consumed 2,900 calories. 2,900. It's now 3,700. Whoa. Why have Americans gotten fatter? I mean, there. There are a handful of things that have contributed, but if that is true, if that's verifiable. Come on. The average American takes in 3,700 calories a day. Yes, sir. Wow. That's a lot. That's from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Statistics Division, National Geographic. I don't know. I don't know how you'd nail that down, but, man, if that's true, that's a high number. Although doesn't that strike you as accurate, though? If you eat out much, man, you sit down at an Applebee's and you look at the menu. If you. If you live somewhere where they have the calories next to the. I mean, you get a big cheeseburger and fries and everything. It's gonna be like 2400 calories. Then we ought to get a dessert. You're gonna be there for that meal, let alone the day. Yeah. Wow, that is something. 2900 was the average in 1961. Now 3, 700. 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