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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Geddy.
Do you have that Hitler thing handy.
Speaker 3I just came across Bill Mlusian laying out the two Portland people that got shot by DHS yesterday with their background.
Speaker 2Is the married couple, uh.
Speaker 3Yeah, portrayed in the news as a young married couple shot by DHS.
Speaker 2I'm like the Maryland father and little league coach.
Speaker 3Now, regardless of what you are, until you're proven guilty, you know, or even when you are proven guilty, they don't just get to shoot you.
Speaker 2But you know, he's still an idiot.
Speaker 3But but the media going out of their way to give everything many to sympathetic.
Speaker 2Sheen whenever starting goes wrong.
Speaker 4Here's how ABC News would have reported the end of World War Two.
The American forces surrounded the home of the vegetarian Austrian artist and his newlywed bride and so terrorized them that they were forced to commit suicide.
Speaker 2Wow, and they had just gotten married.
That is so sad.
Well, they men with guns.
Speaker 4They were running around the streets of Berlin, and this poor vegetarian Austrian artist who is described as very, very gentle, was terrorized into killing himself.
Speaker 2Loved dogs and children.
He did, he actually did.
Yeah.
Speaker 4So I try not to over sell things.
I undersell them.
But I was reading through the list of band names from last year that Mary and the Hoe has compiled, and I had tears in my eyes, could couldn't stop giggling.
So stay tuned for that a little later on in the hour, plus the lifelong farmer running as a Democrat for the Senate in Arkansas, what her life has really been?
Stay with us first, though it's the Friday tradition, let's take on look back at the week there was.
Speaker 2It's cowclipse of the week.
Speaker 5The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela.
Speaker 2Operation Absolute Resolve.
This was an audacious operation.
And you know he's a violent guy.
Speaker 4He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit.
Speaker 2Nicholas Muduro had his chance.
He left around and he found out.
Speaker 1Alone and protesters taking to the streets of their country.
Speaker 5And I have let them know that if they start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots.
Speaker 2They have lots of riots.
If they do it, we're going to hit them very hard.
Speaker 4Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenlands.
Speaker 2One last question, see you make you son?
It was an active domestic terrorism.
Speaker 4I want to tell everybody directly that is both.
Speaker 2So it looked like she was impeding ice vehicles.
Definitely, Yeah, that was her goal.
There are agents of law enforcement.
Speaker 6If you box them in with vehicles, it is reasonable for them to believe that they are being ambushed.
Note that law enforcement professionals, real ones, not the fate made of ice, probably trumps a new army to attack citizens of the United States.
Speaker 2Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 5And I have a message for Ice to Ice, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 7We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 3Families, especially white families, but some pot family two her homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.
Speaker 2I want you to give me one example of socialism.
You think working well somewhere.
I think of Cuba in particular.
Speaker 5What you get, what a great day it is going to be it's clips of the week, man, I hope we don't keep up this pace for fifty two weeks.
Speaker 4Yeah, that whole Philadelphia shareff lady saying that if Ice tries to conduct operations in Philadelphia, she'll arrest them.
Speaker 3How about her calling Ice Trump's personal fake army army?
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, that's nice.
That's nice.
Oh we got a minute here, so why don't I go ahead and pay this off?
Hallie Sheofner is running for Senate in Arkansas.
Speaker 2US Senate.
Yeah, US Senate.
Yeah.
Speaker 4She's a lifelong farmer who didn't have plan for run for office.
She my whole life, I've been a ris and soybean farmer, she says in her campaign video.
She's not a politician.
She's not much for political parties.
She never run for office in her life.
The only thing Hallie ever wanted to do was farm.
We campaign farm, that's right mit Her campaign site read well.
She did grow up in her family's farm in eastern Arkansas, but at the first possible minute, she headed off to grad school at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, where she was.
Speaker 2Drawn to activism.
Left wing activism.
Speaker 4She developed fundraising strategies for prom Sex, a Soros funded social justice nonprofit in Peru, and a since deleted blog posts she touted marching in front of Lima's ninth annual gay Pride Parade, which the nonprofit funded.
What's celebrating being gay, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, et cetera.
Speaker 2What's the prom sex thing?
Speaker 4That's probably Spanish has like yeah right.
She went on to serve as executive director of sace Point is, an Arkansas nonprofit that helps illegal immigrants navigate US government systems.
Speaker 2Get some lawyers at Center.
Speaker 4After a stint as the deputy campaign manager of a Democratic state legislature's unsuccessful campaign from Ayrea Littl a Little Rock, she joined an advertising in public public relations agency in twenty thirteen and has been doing that for the past a dozen years.
Speaker 2But around that time.
Speaker 4She started working with a local marketing firm to build a new personal brand, farm her Halle and they're portraying her as a lifelong farmer.
There she is in her workshirt.
She never wanted to do anything but farm.
Her blogs, meanwhile, featured headlines like what to do about climate anxiety and I'm a big agg farmer and I advocate for climate action all right, okay, fine, that's the state of politics these days.
But you know that's what you're doing.
You're selling a TV character.
Speaker 3One of the best things you could do for climate we've been saying for some time is nuclear power.
Well, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta just made the biggest private purchase of nuclear power ever.
They think he signed these contracts to buy a whole bunch of nuclear power from a couple of different power companies in the country, nuclear plants, because he needs to be able to fuel his AI ambitions.
Yes, nukes, Yes, that's interesting.
How are you doing on Quitter's Day?
That's what they call January ninth.
That is the typical day that people have given up their.
Speaker 2New Year's resolution.
Speaker 3By January ninth, I have not had a dessert or a suite, and I've been in the gym every day.
So so far, so good.
Although it is every day, look at you, very early going model for mankind.
It helps that I can walk to the gym quite easily.
That makes a huge difference.
That hasn't helped me.
Quitter's Day, January ninth.
People don't make it very long then with their New Year's resolutions.
I mean a week and two days is not very long.
She didn't natch longer than that.
Speaker 4We committed to two weeks of a dry January, and anyway in sea elgoes after that, see what we think.
But I said to her yesterday, I said, you know, today's the first day.
It was kind of a long, crappy day.
I said, you know, today's first day.
I thought, you know, a nice scotch S would be good to unwined with.
She said, well, we made it a week we could.
And I'm like, wait about it.
Now, you're the disciplined one.
No, you're not allowed to say that.
I'm the winer.
Speaker 3I haven't heard as much about dry January this year as I normally do.
I wonder if it's because drinking's down among certain crowds, so that you don't need to do dry January if you're not drinking well.
And I remember that, you know, Dry January last year was joined by sober October after dry January, and I have no brewery and then dryerch then Lamebril.
How about no fun June or something like that name no drinking.
Yeah, so you're doing two weeks again.
I haven't heard as much about it this year.
I thought, a dry January has been really big for quite a few years.
Speaker 2Now, I would degree.
Speaker 4Yeah, A handful of my friends have mentioned that they too are.
Speaker 2Doing it, earliest part of it.
Speaker 4You know, as a guy who drinks, it's good to reset every so often for a number of reasons.
Speaker 2Number one, is good for your body.
Speaker 4Number two, I am bad at relaxing unless I have a drink.
I'm also aware that it is the greatest boredom reliever on earth.
And instead of maybe reaching for the sketch, maybe I do something worth doing.
Is the conversation I've had with myself, particularly in the evenings.
Speaker 2So it's good reset for me speaking for myself.
Speaker 3Well, and for average normal drinkers.
Though you go through that couple period there Thanksgiving through Christmas, there's just so many more opportunities to drink.
It's definitely easy to same with with calories or anything else.
Just get off your norm right right that those.
Speaker 4People, I don't know what their lives are like, people who like only drink it occasions and stuff.
Speaker 2But as supposed to home alone muttering to yourself angrily in the dark.
Speaker 3Yes.
According to The New York Times, the top stuff at the Consumer Electronics Show they're actually pretty interesting.
I've read it over already, and then we've got our end of the year list that we should have done on the last show of the year but did not.
Speaker 2We're going to do them today, so stay tuned.
Speaker 3I was looking over the stuff they like at the Consumer Electronics Show and they're just showing a couple of speakers they like, and reminded me yesterday my son and I were driving around in his truck, his old truck that he's got that the radio doesn't work in it, so he brings his little portable speaker and say that sit on the seat and plays it off his phone, and that thing sounds better than any car stereo I ever had in any car.
Speaker 2For like until I was like forty.
Speaker 3The technology of little speakers has gotten so good it's amazing, and they don't have to be expensive.
Speaker 2I got one at Target last year, this tiny little one.
It was like twenty eight bucks.
Sounds amazing.
Speaker 3I don't know how they've done this, but that's one of the great leap forwards in technology, no doubt.
Algorithms must must be.
The Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now.
We talked a little bit ago about the new York Times said twenty twenty six is a year of the bad robot at the ceeshich is all kinds of robots not quite doing what they claim they're going to be able to do, or doing things you can you know, why do you need them?
Like the one that plays table tennis with you?
But I'm sure they're going to get better, but we're not there yet.
One of the things they really really liked something called clicks Communicator.
It looks like a BlackBerry with a slightly bigger screen than blackberries used to have for people who miss the physical keyboard and would like to have a screen that isn't actively trying to waste your time.
Speaker 2I find that interesting.
So you feel.
Speaker 3Like, like the same reason I don't want to keep cookies in the house because I'll eat them.
You think if you got a smaller screen where it's not that enjoyable to look at it, you'll look at it less, right.
Speaker 4I get it all the communication function when you need to communicate without the hey hey, but a little entertainment, a little distraction, a little indoor for the little entertainment.
Speaker 2Come on, come on, come on, wonder what's going on over YouTube?
Anyway?
Speaker 3They really liked this phone.
I thought that was a good idea.
A stair climbing robot vacuum that is basically, you know, like a roomba sort of thing, but it can go up and downstairs and clean the stairs, which, as it points out, is one of the most annoying things you ever do in life, is vacuuming stairs.
Speaker 4I have two questions, how much and where do I buy one?
And I don't care about the first question.
Speaker 3Released and priced to be announced.
But it's the robot now robo back, no kidding.
When I used to do this, like for my mom, the vacuuming stairs.
Why is that so hard?
You gotta carry it up and down.
It's too wide to fit on the stair.
Speaker 2It's just weird.
You gotta go horizontal, and then you turn it vertical.
Speaker 4To do the edges, and then you've got the never mind the rise, the vertical thing between the stairs.
If you've got carpet on there, it gets nasty.
Yeah, you gotta.
Then you gotta twist the thing sideways and it's time consumed.
Speaker 3Anyway, this thing looks pretty cool.
It's got legs on it and it just fits on your stairs.
I like the sound of this LG has debuted their wallpaper TV.
They've had this for several years, but this is the first year.
Like it's actual usable, good quality.
It's a third of an inch thick, that's what they call it.
Why they call it wallpaper?
I mean that's hardly anything.
And it's four k old TV that sits flush against the wall and he looks fantastic.
Speaker 2So that's pretty cool, like the sound of that.
Again.
Speaker 3Price and release date to be announced.
A number of different lamps that are supposed to be good for you.
Is or the thing that kind of looks like a small version of the sun and changes the kind of light it has throughout the day.
It's got blue light in the morning to help wake you up, and then it switches to the kind of light that will help you get to sleep later in the day.
Sounds kind of cool, not super expensive.
A lot of people have talking about Legos for the first time ever.
Have made a major change and now they have little smart blocks that light up and stuff.
If your kids dig that, they dig that well.
Speaker 4I think that's probably every bit as much for your twenty somethings and the expensive adult Legos.
Speaker 3All right to you weirdos who are still doing Legos when you're doing eight years old.
Listen to Judging Je damn right, I'm Judge Jo Johnson.
Speaker 2I calm down activity nice hobby.
Speaker 3Yeah, hey, ladies, you walk into the house and he's got a giant eight hundred dollars Lego Starship Enterprise.
Speaker 2You ain't having kids with this, dude, Turn around, walk out.
Yeah, you're right.
Kind of like this sound less, I'm splintering.
It's funny.
Speaker 3There are several products on here that are basically trying to get you away from your smartphone.
So here's a sleep tracking podcast playing sunrise alarm clock that isn't your phone, so it does all the things your phone does for you in bed.
Why you keep it near you?
My iPhone's my alarm clock, My iPhone is my podcast.
My iPhone is a number of different things letting me know the weather.
This thing does all those things but doesn't have the screen.
So you can keep your iPhone, keep your phone plugged into the kitchen, have this thing in your bedroom.
You won't be tempted to look at the screen.
It's interesting that people are making devices that make it somewhat more difficult to use your favorite device.
You waste the most time on Yeah, because we all kind of want the discipline but can't do it ourselves.
Speaker 2I find that unique.
I wonder if that's ever happened before.
Speaker 4Well, and I think, and I'm heartened to hear the awareness of the downside of smartphones and social media are becoming more and more obvious to people.
Speaker 2That's good.
Speaker 3The best robot lawnmower that has ever been debuted was debuted.
We've talked about this a little bit, The robo Rock once again coming through as a company.
It uses lidar like some of your best self driving cars do, to go around your lawn and theory not run over your cat and shredded into tiny pieces, or take your feet up, hat.
Speaker 2On to get out of the way.
Exactly.
Speaker 3It's on the cat, just like that lady in Minneapolis, get out, you know, y, don't put yourself in that position, put yourself in a bad position.
And a couple more smart rings popular.
Smart rings still be popular, fitbits, that sort of thing thing wearables as have been popular for several years.
Speaker 8Yes, Katie, I just I just read an article about how those sleep tracker rings are causing people to stress out so much about their sleep that they're losing sleep.
Speaker 3I've heard about that too, Yeah.
Speaker 1Armstrong and Geddy, do you have any interest in the innermuro fighting between the Tucker Carlson's and Meghan Kelly's and Ben Shapiro's and all those different people and a lot of them whom we used to be friends and now saying bad things about Himsel Yeah, I.
Speaker 4Pay a little attention to it.
Tucker's very online, but it's interesting.
Yeah, Tucker put.
Speaker 3A big video out where he's playing clips of Shapiro and Mark Levin and Megan Kelly and then criticizing Bubba.
Speaker 2I might watch that today.
Speaker 4Yeah.
I saw Mark Levin take a shot at Meghan Kelly and Tucker at one point.
Speaker 3Oh, and then the best one if you want to get way out to the crazies, Candice And what's his name?
Who's for flum reason?
I can't ever remember his name?
The Jen Mevils Jones Alex Jones.
That isn't that weird that I've got a mental block with his name.
Speaker 2That's funny.
Speaker 3Alex Jones and Cannis Owns turned on each other and it's hilarious.
Speaker 2But more on that next week.
Speaker 4Need to get into this, so usually on the last show of the year.
While we're doing the clips of the year, we also do the various lists that Mary in San Jose affectionately known as Mary in the Hoe compiles, including the band names we came up with, et cetera.
And I forgot to look for it in our giant stack of email, and sure enough we forgot to do it.
So we're gonna do it now quick aside her ps to my apology that we didn't do it, says a friend of mine, who, unbeknownst to me, also listens to the show figure out that I am Mary in the Hoe.
So shout out to Sam for being quite the detective and putting all the pieces together.
Speaker 2Was pretty wild.
Speaker 4When someone irl as the kid say, ask me, does the name Mary in the Hoe mean anything to you?
Speaker 2That's fantastic.
Yeah.
It was like a spy movie or something like that.
Yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, anyway, So here are the band names we came up with in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2And by the bye, just.
Speaker 4Personal note, we more than occasionally get an email guys, you missed a good band name yesterday.
Speaker 2Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4Speaking for myself, I didn't miss it.
I just picked my spots Anyway, here are the band names we came up with in twenty twenty five.
Plague of the Killer Squirrels, Nuisance Beavers, that's a good one, glitter Beard.
They play YMCA a lot.
Oh, and the notes are things we said at the time that Erry dutifully Johnstown, the Beavers of Prague.
You smoke dope and follow them around, even if they go to Moscow to play Squealing corn Pigs, Masculinist, Orgy of war.
Katie saw them at the warfield.
I guess she said, Belgrade sound cannon t you want to runoff flaming puppies.
That's my punk band that never got a record deal.
Chinatown Paintbrush, Remote Control Dogs.
Speaker 2Chinatown paint Brush.
Speaker 3Always whenever I hear things, I think, I wonder what were we talking about?
Speaker 2What was in the news that caused this to happen?
Well, right, right right, And some of these actually are really good band names.
Speaker 4Remote Control Dogs, the Generous Teat, Meth Pipe Raccoons, Cameroon Puppies.
Speaker 2They're good, but so loud.
Speaker 4Bring your plugs, Screen Wieners, Cesspool of Debauchery.
Jack's going to see them Friday, Shabby Hags, Ambiguous Genitalia.
Docker Chubbies.
That's my yacht rock band that's booked through the end of the year because people love the.
Speaker 3Hot rock Docker Chubbies.
That doesn't seem like the right name for that kind of music.
Speaker 2I think it's perfect.
Speaker 4Robot Wolves Vultures of Exploitation, Fat Admirals.
Hansen designed a logo for the Fat Admiral Let's see the coughing Monkeys.
Jack's new band that plays at eight o'clock on Monday.
Japanese bear attack my band, and the logo is a samurai wielding his sword in defense.
Appit the spar Tech Pig Kidney Photo Dogs.
Oh, I'm sorry, Proto Dogs, which is a good name.
I would use that name for a band.
And Exploding Lung my heavy metal band.
Speaker 3Then then there's heavy music if your name is Exploding Lungs.
Speaker 2No kidding.
Speaker 4Book titles Valerian Root, that's my spy novel, Too Old for Toast, the sad final chapter of Jack's book, The Bulk of America, my book about the obesip obesity epidemic, Shooting for a Bee, the Jack Armstrong story, and focus try to focus the Joe Getty story, which of course would be ghost written, I can't and then uh, let's see, there's never been a moment in my life that I haven't wanted to lie down Katie's memoir, which is actually a quote from Eric Clapton, Right Jack, I Think so yeah from back in the Day.
And mediocrity Like a warm Bath.
Michaelangelow's autobiography album titles all about Tariffs, Joe's concept album that he's working on with Beyonce, Drag Queen Meteor, Katie's new album First One, Nuke the Moon, and Springboard to the Stars.
Song titles Dancing Close to a King, my since Sam single that Trump next Week, Okay.
Original air names we came up with included or acclaimed that were our original air names.
Deranged and problematic, checkered by failure of The Armstrong and Getty Show, imperious and condescending, Bruise, Denwsing, Bedlam and Squalor we got good ratings and driven by humiliation, The Armstrong Getta Show, Miscellaneous, Judge Jack in Medieval Justice, his Midday Judge Show, Funky Url, Jack's rap stage name acts, Murdering Perverts, my b movie from my film producing days, Oh Boy, oh Man, Weezy lungs, my jazz Weezy Lungs is my jazz solo stage name, Golden Muscles, my nickname, and color a world without Lettuce, Jack's one man play that never caught on.
I'll refer to myself, Joe and the third person because it's funnier.
Little Jiggles Joe's drag queen name when he reads to children libraries.
Jiggles Good Lord, Departure to Hell, Joe's screenplay about travel horrors, p Doom, Joe's rap name, and Chee Chee's Palace Joe's chimpsitcom for the Monkey, has a couple of drinks every day.
Speaker 2Oh my God.
Speaker 4And then ladies and gentlemen, brace yourself.
I'm gonna go quickly here.
Mary and San Jose compiled all of these things.
Jack says he has never done in the year twenty twenty five.
Never seen band of brothers.
Never heard the medical term tid.
Speaker 2I think it's tia, isn't it.
I don't know.
Speaker 4Never had a hot or cold pastrami sandwich true.
Never heard one person in his life growing up even mentioned but straw me sand witch.
Speaker 2I Never, that's true.
Speaker 4Never had strawberry ice cream, No call the police.
Never been in a room with two people like Elon and Vivek.
Never been to a Super Bowl, Never been to the Louver.
You have been to the Louver, haven't you.
Speaker 2No, I'm not.
Speaker 3That's one big museum in the world I haven't been to.
Never wanted to stand in line to see the mona Lisa.
Never saw shawshank Redemption, but.
Speaker 2He finally saw it.
I did That's correct?
That off the list.
Did you like it?
Speaker 4Uh, yeah, it's pretty powerful, obviously.
Never shoplifted.
Never heard of chilula hot sauce, and neither had Michael.
Never had burned his tongue on a lava cake.
Never had a chicken bacon garlic pizza.
Never understood texture as a concept in food.
Never had a file of fish, Never looked at the AG website.
Never seen a minute of Game of Thrones, never seen a second of Yellowstone, Never done a crunch, Never seen the inside of an iPhone.
Speaker 2Pretty obvious.
I've never done a crunch.
Speaker 4You've never been on a cruise, Never wanted to take off his shoes on an airplane.
Never read the Cane Mutiny, never had a strawberry milkshake, never been to France, never went to Paris, never seen an OnlyFans account, never seen a regular movie in Imax, never done paintball, never driven a Ferrari, never gotten down to one peg on the Wooden Triangle game at Cracker Barrel Still, never had taco bell, never flown Spirit Airlines, never paid for landscaping, never had a pap smear, never beling on Blue Sky, never craved a vegetable, never used peppermint as an illness remedy, never been to a protest, never had a Chando's Taco, Never used a coaster, never saw the West.
Speaker 3Wing, never saw a Game of Thrones.
I've never used a coaster.
No, I haven't done, and he's never had a pap smear.
Speaker 4Jack, I thought I was boring, but you're really boring, taking a chance with your health.
Speaker 3And finally or even heard anybody mention a Pastrawmi sandwich in my life, which is grown up?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 4Things that were revealed about Gladys last year.
Right, it's a fairly shortish list, but well worth sharing.
She renewed her contract when Jack and Joe did.
Her new deal requires her to show up for the podcast.
Also missed to day when she got eye surgery.
Her glasses got too thick, she couldn't hold her head up.
Went to school in a horse drawn carriage.
Had to make a list of five things.
Speaker 2Who was this?
Speaker 4Elon Musk insisted that everybody in the government make a list of the five things they'd done to that's by their job anyway.
So here's one of the things we learned about Gladys.
Our harpist had to make a list of five things she did last week, and all five were I played the harp while someone was reminiscing.
Speaker 2That's true.
So it's true.
Speaker 4Used to play the pipe organ in the polo grounds when Willie May's made the catch.
Let's see, she's been very shy ever since the kaiser dumped her.
And finally she played the snare drum when the troops came home in nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 2That's true.
Fantastic you Mary in the home.
Thank you, Gladys.
Never mind a T shirt, we should send her a car.
Yeah, that was very nice you to do that for us.
Oh my god, I got tears in my eyes.
That list is always surprising to me, and I'm me of things I've never done, but it's a.
Speaker 3I suppose I could come up with my own, but there aren't.
I don't think there's that many.
Speaker 2Man.
I'm certainly I'm more rigid than your average person.
Speaker 3Yeah yeah, we will finish strong.
Speaker 2We promised next farm strong.
Speaker 6And yet.
Speaker 9I don't have an aversion of chewing, but I have an aversion to the weird textures that come with food.
I do not see snorting my food as a problem.
I think it has a lot of benefits, no risk of choking.
Speaker 2I don't overeat.
Speaker 9I consume less calories.
I have had bloody noses about once or twice, and that was more at the beginning.
It has really no drawbacks except nobody accepts my habit.
Nobody accepts me for.
Speaker 4Who I am.
Speaker 3It's from the television show My Strange Addiction.
A woman who snorts her food rather than swallowing it.
I don't know how you don't suck it down in your lungs and die.
Speaker 2Ah.
Speaker 4Yeah, there's no risk of chok eggs, she says.
Put her in a roadside stand and charge her bucket at this.
Yeah yeah, I mean come yeah, next to a two headed calf.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what she should be doing.
Oh okay something.
By the way, we got this text from a longtime listener.
Oh my god.
Speaker 3Lol, the pastrami sandwich.
This is my favorite.
This is my favorite thing every year for twenty six years.
I don't know how long we've been doing it, but.
Speaker 2I'm so sad.
I'm sorry, so sorry we missed it.
Speaker 3That person has been listening for a long time.
Speaker 4I've never even heard anybody bringing up a pastrami sandwich when I was growing up, he said famously.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 3If you want to be freaked out, follow the Twitter feed and they probably just have a website OSI nt defender, that's Open Source Intelligence Defender.
It'll it'll break out because they keep track of all the open source intelligence that's floating around in the world, and there's lots of it out there.
But like scary updates from all over the place, Ukraine, Iran.
Speaker 2China, or wherever our own government.
Speaker 3Here's one of them, and one of them is they're expecting a pretty heavy crackdown tonight in Iran.
And one quote on here about many many people being shot in Tehran last night.
Lots of horrific claims being made by Iranian opposition channels this morning.
Speaker 2You know, you don't know whether they're true or not.
Speaker 3They have reasons, good reasons to exaggerate, sure.
Following last night's anti government protests with reports of heavy cracked down by security forces in Tehran, channels on telegram claim the security forces open fire on crowds with live ammunition, killing dozens, with one opposition correspondent claiming that a doctor said the death toll was higher than the civilian casualties during the twelve day war with Israel, So more people died during this than fighting Israel, which might very well be true.
Speaker 4And worth mentioning whether it's a foreign government or a terrorist group or whatever.
They study American media, they study American society and you know the five pm Friday news dump.
Speaker 2The Mullas know that's a thing.
Speaker 4They will go wild on their citizens on a Friday night in the US wow, knowing that most people won't pay attention to them.
Is Trump will, but they that's a thing.
They know it.
Speaker 3Listen to this though, senior officials, and this is a this is a legit website.
I mean a lot of people we really really really like follow ost.
Senior officials in the Trump administration have discussed sending lump some payments to Greenlanders as part of a way to get them to agree to the United States.
I don't know, being their baby daddy or whatever, we're going to be arranging from ten thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars per person.
Speaker 2Does any on how many what seals they have.
Speaker 3Has a bid to convince them to seceede their mucklooks are.
I don't think that it would vary from person to person.
I think it's like, how much would it take to give everybody to get them on to get enough of them to vote to secede from.
Speaker 2Denmark and join the United States?
Hey, baby, show me your mucklucks.
Speaker 3Four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that would be a pretty damn cheap way to do it.
And I mean, what the hell did it cost taxpayers to do what we did in Venezuela.
Not knocking the operation, but as just a cost.
If we could have gotten the same result by cutting everybody a fifty thousand dollars check.
Speaker 2Oh, but it would have been cheaper.
Speaker 3Not everybody in that country because it's thirty million people, but in Greenland, for they got forty thousand people.
Speaker 2It won't work.
It wouldn't work.
Speaker 3Why, But it's a step in the right direction, cutting everybody a fifty thousand dollars checker, one hundred thousand dollars check might do the trick.
Speaker 2No, no, no money, dang it.
Speaker 4No the Secretary of State of the Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 2And you're not.
Speaker 3I'm living Inland with my penguin companion, and I don't know, living off whale oil.
Speaker 2Assume that's what they do.
Speaker 3But no, no, Trump is threatening them our friends, and now you want to bribe them and buy them off.
These people have pride, They've got Greenland pride.
Speaker 2You approach him as a friend with some respect.
Speaker 3Not there, God danged street corner prostitute.
Speaker 4Goodness sakes, Hey kids, it's that time again.
Speaker 2With Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3Get over yourself, you live on a cold rock whatever.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2Oh my goodness, so many people.
Speaker 4Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up things for today.
There is our technical director, Michael Angelo will lead us off.
Speaker 2Yeah, Jack, this is an intervention.
Find yourself a good deli on the way home.
Maybe find a nice hot pastrami sandwich and enjoy it.
Speaker 5Got it?
Speaker 2If I ever do get one.
I do want and get a really good one.
It is beef.
Yeah, and I like meat on it is beef.
I didn't know that till just now.
Pastrami is beef.
There you go.
Speaker 4Brief the Education of jacka Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 2As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 8After this week, I am manifesting that next week will be just a little less chaotic.
Speaker 4Yeah, no kidding, manifest the best you got, sweetheart.
Speaker 2Good lord, what a world we live in?
Jack?
Final thought?
Speaker 3Yeah, my final thought was going to be similar in that if this is the start of twenty six, kind of reminds me within like everybody's waiting for twenty twenty to get over, and twenty twenty one started out crazier than twenty twenty.
Speaker 2Right, we might have that thing going on this year.
Ananas Horra Billis I agree.
Speaker 3My final thought is that Philly sheriff saying ice agents are fake cops in the Philly Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 2That's going to fight them more or less?
Speaker 4I hope not.
Somebody's got to get to her.
She's got to get to her lawyer.
You can't say stuff like that as a public official.
Speaker 3Yeah, that could get really ugly, really fast.
These are weird times.
Man, what a start to the year.
Week one Yike, Armstrong and Geeddy wrapping about other grueling for your four hour workday.
Speaker 4Seemed like it so many people who thanks so little time.
Good Armstrong and Giddy dot com for the hot links for Katie's corner.
Speaker 2Strop us a note.
If you hear something over the weekend we ought to be talking about her.
Speaker 4You see it, send it along mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
You ought to be subscribing to the podcast Armstrong Getdy on demand and give us glowing five star review.
Speaker 2It helps with the algorithms.
Speaker 3I'm hoping next week is boring and we're taking calls on tell us about your first car.
We'll see them Monday.
God bless America.
Armstrong and Getty are we.
Speaker 7As ended the first of the year and oh my god, it was like a punch and b us.
Speaker 2Remember did your dismay?
Speaker 7Cass, Jack and Joe will return on Monday.
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