Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Joe Kaddy Armstrong and.
Speaker 3: Jetty and he.
Speaker 4: Armsdrong who live from studios scene see signor Hey, dimple
Speaker 4: that room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong.
Speaker 5: You get a communications compound.
Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 5: Naive book. Dad, I'm pronouncing that. Sorry if I mispronounced
Speaker 5: your name name.
Speaker 1: He's the president of Al Salvador, who is in the
Speaker 1: office with the President the other Day's an interesting figure.
Speaker 1: I think will be hearing more from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was happening while we were on the air yesterday,
Speaker 3: and we got some of the clips today where he
Speaker 3: says he's he doesn't have the power to go get
Speaker 3: that guy we accidentally sent to that horrifying prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bring him back. Yeah, where this ends? Nobody knows
Speaker 1: that we don't need a constitutional crisis, but yeah, he's
Speaker 1: saying I can't. I don't have the authority to shove
Speaker 1: him into the United States. And Trump's saying, we don't
Speaker 1: have the authority to go into that prison.
Speaker 3: And was that guy just trying to cozy up to Trump.
Speaker 3: Was he just trying to Oh? Yeah, he knows that
Speaker 3: Trump wants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has a a burgeoning, great relationship with the
Speaker 1: most powerful leader on earth, most powerful and richest country,
Speaker 1: you know, for all intents and purposes on Earth.
Speaker 5: So yeah, he's playing his cards right.
Speaker 1: And he and Trump are of the same cut from
Speaker 1: similar cloth in their ideas about defeating leftism in their
Speaker 1: countries and the damage it's done.
Speaker 5: How do I is it listenable?
Speaker 1: Uh? It's it's improved since your first sentence. Okay, that's good,
Speaker 1: I says as of now. Yeah, you're obviously a man
Speaker 1: who's ailing a bit.
Speaker 5: But fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, sometimes you sound bad, but you feel okay,
Speaker 3: that's not the case here.
Speaker 5: Oh sound bad? Finna die? Wow?
Speaker 1: Is that urban hipster talk for feeling like you're gonna die?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I speak English.
Speaker 3: Uh, you don't have anyone around you, says Finna. A Ma,
Speaker 3: Finna go downtown. I'm finna eat this sandwich. It's going
Speaker 3: to Katie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I'm fitting to insert here, and they just
Speaker 6: changed it to Finna.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But because everybody's so busy in the twenty first century, actually,
Speaker 1: enunciating words, is inconvenient?
Speaker 3: Yes, my son says, Finna hang out with my friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I had annoying hipster slang back
Speaker 1: in the day as well.
Speaker 5: In fact, I know I did, so I don't judge.
Speaker 5: I'm just amused.
Speaker 3: So Finna die is mine. I we went to the doctor.
Speaker 3: I don't have strep throat, so that's good whatever strep
Speaker 3: throat is.
Speaker 5: But have wheezy lungs. The doctor said, that's not good.
Speaker 1: A man of your years should not have wheezy lungs,
Speaker 1: a man.
Speaker 3: Of my years. You know what was the most interesting
Speaker 3: thing about my doctor's appointment? Speaking of getting older, I've
Speaker 3: had my I met my doctor at a backyard party
Speaker 3: for med students many many, many years ago. Then he
Speaker 3: finished medical school and he became my doctor, like right away,
Speaker 3: as soon as he started his doctoring, as like a
Speaker 3: whatever you are when you become a doctor, what are
Speaker 3: you at twenty six or something like that.
Speaker 5: I don't know that sounds right.
Speaker 3: Yesterday his daughter treated me, how is that for a
Speaker 3: slap in the face with how you're aging here?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: I knew him when he was a young man starting
Speaker 3: out as a doctor.
Speaker 5: He's an older man with children.
Speaker 3: Who have grown up gone to school and medical school
Speaker 3: and become doctors.
Speaker 1: This is how it is. It feels apparently. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't like it. By the way, Michael, when I'm an
Speaker 1: old fat bluesman touring the country.
Speaker 5: You know what my stage name is going to be.
Speaker 5: What's it going to be? Wheezy lungs? Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 5: give it up for wheezy lungs. Oh? How how I
Speaker 5: lost by woman? Manish woman I ever saw? Did you
Speaker 5: ask about pneumonia? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's a doctor. I would imagine that, you know,
Speaker 1: popped into her head. Was she a doctor like doctor
Speaker 1: Jill or like finished school in Virginia at the University
Speaker 1: of Virginia.
Speaker 5: That's the kind you want.
Speaker 6: So yes, both of my parents were very sick, sounded
Speaker 6: exactly like you, with the same symptoms, and they went
Speaker 6: to the doctor multiple times, thought pneumonia, bronkitus, and it
Speaker 6: ended up being like this upper respiratory infection, which is
Speaker 6: no good. So I would go back and maybe say, hey.
Speaker 5: And what say listen here, doc.
Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe they can give you something for it.
Speaker 1: Second opinion, Yeah, third doc, I've.
Speaker 3: Never actually gotten a second opinion. It's something people throw
Speaker 3: around all the time, but it's a lot easier said
Speaker 3: than done. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of time and
Speaker 3: paperwork and follow and.
Speaker 5: The pay for it.
Speaker 3: Your insurance company says, uh, what are you doing exactly here?
Speaker 5: Oh? Interesting? Yeah? What was I gonna say?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are so many different diseases going around the
Speaker 3: country right now, and a lot of classrooms are struggling
Speaker 3: to keep the kids in school and everything. I have
Speaker 3: something important this weekend, so I'm pretending I'm not sick.
Speaker 3: I'm pretending it's going to go away. I got something
Speaker 3: important this weekend, so can't can be sick. Yeah exactly,
Speaker 3: you go as my Yeah, as my dad says. If
Speaker 3: you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Wall Street Journal aides
Speaker 3: push Trump to adopt tougher approach with Moscow. I'm really
Speaker 3: into this article. Rubio and one of his other negotiating dudes, Kellogg,
Speaker 3: are really pushing Trump. Hey, Putin is not interested in
Speaker 3: this whole ceasefire thing that you're talking about. It's showing
Speaker 3: no interest whatsoever. So we got to come up with
Speaker 3: something right. So far, their boss is not biting.
Speaker 1: It's interesting We've been discussing, as have you know, quite
Speaker 1: a few people, how Trump is doing so many things
Speaker 1: so quickly and impactfully.
Speaker 5: Many of them great, Some of them.
Speaker 1: Seem a little haphazardy to me, but we can talk
Speaker 1: about that more later. But we've been talking about it
Speaker 1: from the perspective of the Democrats.
Speaker 5: They don't know what to yell about.
Speaker 1: They don't know what to like be their rallying cry,
Speaker 1: because it's something new every day, and the courts are
Speaker 1: busy and the media is nowhere focused. Well, it just
Speaker 1: occurred to me as you were talking. Somebody probably had
Speaker 1: to say, mister president, mister president, you remember the whole
Speaker 1: Russia Ukraine thing.
Speaker 5: We're going for a peace deal there.
Speaker 1: Putin's been ignoring it, and Trump having been dealing with
Speaker 1: tariffs and trade and and the courts and whatever. Probably, oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, the Russia thing, the Russian thing, right, right right,
Speaker 1: and has to be brought back up to speed because
Speaker 1: it's as crazy and busy for.
Speaker 5: Him as it is for all the other folks you mentioned.
Speaker 5: It's got to be true.
Speaker 3: And I feel like I've read this sort of thing
Speaker 3: about presidencies. I mean, there are things you're into, things
Speaker 3: you have to deal with that you're not into And
Speaker 3: I don't think he's super into fixing the hole Ukraine
Speaker 3: Russia thing.
Speaker 5: It's not top of mind.
Speaker 3: He is really into, obviously the toll tariff thing and
Speaker 3: maybe yelling at Rosy O'Donnell.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so that makes sense. I'll bet that is
Speaker 5: absolutely true.
Speaker 1: Rosie O'Donnell. Who is in love with Lyle Menendez?
Speaker 5: By the way, what one of the Menettaz brothers.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, more on that live team coverage coming up,
Speaker 1: stay with us?
Speaker 5: Wow? Yeah, okay, freaking out as that.
Speaker 1: First of all, she doesn't play for the team Hetero,
Speaker 1: but she, she says, Lyle is the first straight man
Speaker 1: she feels like she could love and trust.
Speaker 5: No, yes, what does that mean? Love and trust?
Speaker 3: In a he murdered his parents in cold bloods and
Speaker 3: then lied about it sort of.
Speaker 1: Way they were mean to him or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You'd have to ask her. Oh my god, I know,
Speaker 1: I am. I actually have more details on that. We
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday during the podcast when you were
Speaker 1: at the doctor. But yeah, it's it's these are strange times, friends.
Speaker 1: Where were we we were talking about something significant?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: What Trump is? Into and what he's not into.
Speaker 1: Here, here's where I piss everybody off, great Trump and
Speaker 1: non Trump, you know, anti trumpists and and pro trumpers.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely correct about all of the conflicts and crap
Speaker 1: that started under Joe Biden because Joe Biden was weak
Speaker 1: and senile and his foreign policy was show lots and
Speaker 1: lots of weakness, then people will be nice. Mostly. He's
Speaker 1: absolutely right about that, and he needs to stop referencing it.
Speaker 1: When he talking about the Russia Ukraine thing yesterday, was it?
Speaker 1: He came out with another, Well, I'll tell you this
Speaker 1: never would have happened under me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we all get that. Get that you got elected?
Speaker 5: Now what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's the he's blamed Zelenski. Now he's blaming Biden.
Speaker 3: He is so hesitant to blame Putin, as everybody knows.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if that turn is gonna come
Speaker 3: or if in his mind it's like, okay, once.
Speaker 5: We get there, we're there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be you know, b to the w
Speaker 3: if you will in terms of going after.
Speaker 1: Putin, right, right, And I completely understand the desire for
Speaker 1: a better relationship with Russia. I mean, if you can
Speaker 1: have like a semi frenemy relationship. That's better than constant
Speaker 1: conflict and angst and blood letting.
Speaker 5: Its absolutely true.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's just a getting back to the span
Speaker 1: of years and having a little perspective. I'm just getting
Speaker 1: so tired of American presidents and or their secretaries of
Speaker 1: state going hat in hand to the.
Speaker 5: Kremlin and saying can we be friends?
Speaker 1: From George W. Bush saying he looked into Putin's eyes
Speaker 1: and he can see hez a good man, and just
Speaker 1: Barack Obama and the reset button and just oh, can
Speaker 1: we stop with that?
Speaker 5: It's embarrassing. It is embarrassing. That's my point. So we've
Speaker 5: got it. Hey, we're the greatest superpower on earth.
Speaker 3: Come on more on that later. From the Wall Street
Speaker 3: Journal reporting, which I found interesting. But we got a
Speaker 3: very long opening clip. Do you think this needs any setup?
Speaker 5: No? No, I do not think it does.
Speaker 1: I think it may be the perfect clip to describe
Speaker 1: our times. This clip is our times. Jack, Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: start the show officially.
Speaker 8: Then.
Speaker 3: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getti on the This is Tuesday.
Speaker 3: It is April fifteenth, Tax Day. We'll be talking about
Speaker 3: taxes a little bit later. The year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: We are I'm strong in getting we approve of this
Speaker 3: program all.
Speaker 1: Right, presuming Trump hasn't dismantled the FCC, which would be fine.
Speaker 1: Heap into action according to f C see rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go at Mark, what.
Speaker 5: Mashed potatoes on the side of my car? Here? Did you?
Speaker 5: Or didn't you?
Speaker 3: Because I've got cameras up there facing you.
Speaker 2: Get off? Yes, in the driveway now I'm not only
Speaker 2: this is the middle.
Speaker 6: You are get off my parking area.
Speaker 5: Listen, did you throw trans food on the side of
Speaker 5: my test? Now? Why did you throw fast food on
Speaker 5: the side of my test? You threw mashed potatoes on
Speaker 5: my car? What is wrong with you?
Speaker 6: You sit here, you drive in, you drive out.
Speaker 2: You have jump cars. You drive in and you drive out.
Speaker 5: That's why people do then their driveways.
Speaker 1: You more.
Speaker 5: Love got it? I've heard that ten times. It's still funny.
Speaker 5: You can't enjoy it the more every time I hear it.
Speaker 3: When she says you drive in and out of the driveway,
Speaker 3: that's when he loses it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's what a driveway is. Drive moron.
Speaker 5: He goes full live Larry David on it yes.
Speaker 1: Oh, and meanwhile, you have the dynamic of a perfectly
Speaker 1: reasonable guy saying.
Speaker 5: Did you throw mashed potatoes on the side of my tesla?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're prodressmatic.
Speaker 3: Get off by side of the driveway.
Speaker 1: The irrational, lunatic lefty wielding well mashed potatoes in this case,
Speaker 1: committing an active political well waste of food, if not violence,
Speaker 1: utterly unhinged, interrrational, unable to articulate even the simplest defense
Speaker 1: of her actions, but instead screeches like a lunatic, and
Speaker 1: then he goes full Larry David on it.
Speaker 5: It's just you have jet cars drive out.
Speaker 3: That's why people go in their driveways.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm telling you, it just gets better. Okay.
Speaker 3: I got something I came across the other day that
Speaker 3: I thought was sedang good from one of the best
Speaker 3: I think reasonable people about taxes in America. Top ten
Speaker 3: tax myths on tax Day. What we can get to
Speaker 3: it's really really good. We've got Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 3: Our text line is four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 5: It was the back of a day yesterday. We got
Speaker 5: two clips.
Speaker 3: They're almost certainly going to be in the top ten
Speaker 3: four clips of the Year yesterday, the one you just
Speaker 3: heard about.
Speaker 5: You drive in, you drive outs, you moron. That's what
Speaker 5: a driveway is. It might be the clip of all time.
Speaker 5: I don't know. You drive in, you drive out. You
Speaker 5: have jump cars all You drive in.
Speaker 2: And you drive out.
Speaker 5: That's what people do in their driveways.
Speaker 7: You moron.
Speaker 3: So what are you calling the female astronauts, Katie?
Speaker 6: I still from Joe from yesterday, but chickstronauts, the chickstronauts.
Speaker 3: If you haven't heard Gail King talking about Katy Perry
Speaker 3: and all that, we'll play that for you.
Speaker 5: Coming up next segment.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
Speaker 1: with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 5: Starting with Fox News. Judge blocks Trump from.
Speaker 6: Revoking legal status for five hundred and thirty thousand migrants
Speaker 6: who flew into US via Biden program.
Speaker 5: All right, can we sort this out? Please?
Speaker 6: From CNN, Trump calls G's tour of Southeast Asia a
Speaker 6: chance to.
Speaker 5: Quote screw with the United States.
Speaker 3: Oh, every single thing President she and China does is
Speaker 3: to screw with the United States.
Speaker 1: That's like their national job right, And to elevate themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think to some extent, Trump's given them an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that.
Speaker 5: But you know, more on that to.
Speaker 2: Come from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 6: Bank of America's profit climbs with consumer spending resilient. They
Speaker 6: reported a higher profit for the first quarter, reflecting a
Speaker 6: resilient United States economy.
Speaker 5: I hope that's true. From NBC.
Speaker 6: Biden to give first major public speech as a former president.
Speaker 5: That's right. Biden's speaking today.
Speaker 3: Man, They're gonna pump him full of whatever drugs to
Speaker 3: try to make him Nolan.
Speaker 5: I'm guaranteed it'll be midday, right. Yeah. Back to that
Speaker 5: economic thing. The only time is functional. I don't know
Speaker 5: if any.
Speaker 3: Economic statistics mean anything that we're taken.
Speaker 5: Prior to the holtair for.
Speaker 6: From the New York Times, Vance drops Ohio States Championship
Speaker 6: trophy during White House celebration.
Speaker 1: Major misstep by the vice president could harm his chances
Speaker 1: in twenty eight.
Speaker 5: Back to you, Katie.
Speaker 6: Jeez from the New York Post. I love my dog
Speaker 6: more than my spouse. I spoiled my pup with parties
Speaker 6: and trips to Paris, and my husband is just lucky
Speaker 6: to be there.
Speaker 3: I know number of people who feel like their wives
Speaker 3: like their dog better than them.
Speaker 1: Here dog could not give a sack of what you
Speaker 1: just cleaned up about being in Paris, Unianity.
Speaker 6: From the Daily Mail, World's first sperm race to take
Speaker 6: place before a live audience of more than one thousand
Speaker 6: spectators next.
Speaker 1: Week, having gone to the Masters, I'm probably good for
Speaker 1: major sporting events for a while, but that sounds exciting.
Speaker 6: They're off happening in la And finally from the Babylon
Speaker 6: b terrified Luigi Mangione files restraining order against Taylor Lorenz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we talked about that late in the show yesterday,
Speaker 1: the sick twisted Taylor Lorenz and this hack idiot journalist
Speaker 1: pitching the idea that yeah, really the only political violence
Speaker 1: is from the right these days. And it's day and
Speaker 1: we're all very afraid, just just so stupid is see.
Speaker 5: An instill on it's tax Day.
Speaker 3: I have the top ten tax smiths to get to
Speaker 3: start it on, going to sprinkle him out throughout the show.
Speaker 3: Really good stuff stuff, we should all know it. It's
Speaker 3: very helpful and a hilarious clip from one of the
Speaker 3: Chickstronauts yesterday.
Speaker 5: Stay tuned Armstrong and Geddy the Star stood.
Speaker 7: An all female Blue Origin flight grew, including Katie Perry
Speaker 7: and Gail King, lasting off headed to the edge of
Speaker 7: space over crying at liftoff, what we are not.
Speaker 5: A serious country? We are not?
Speaker 3: Why are you using your serious voice like this just
Speaker 3: wants some sort of pr stunt to grab attention, like
Speaker 3: is something major happened?
Speaker 1: The only reason to really pay attention to David Muir
Speaker 1: is that he's such a terrific parody of himself.
Speaker 3: Hard to imagine why the ratings have gone down so
Speaker 3: much for Network News when they're bringing is stuff like
Speaker 3: that in serious tones.
Speaker 5: Oprah cries it lift off. Okay, see, you probably.
Speaker 3: Don't even know who gayl King is, friend of Oprah's
Speaker 3: Forever Old Lady. She's on CBS's morning show, and she
Speaker 3: was on the Spaceship with Katy Perry and interviewed after
Speaker 3: they landed, and it sounded like this.
Speaker 5: How would you describe it?
Speaker 2: It's very difficult because you're floating. But the best part
Speaker 2: was when we got back in our seats after zero
Speaker 2: g's Katie sang, what a wonderful world? She did that nice?
Speaker 2: She said, what a wonderful I see drees.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, yes, yes, Oh, because we've been asking her.
Speaker 2: To sing all the time and she wouldn't and she wouldn't,
Speaker 2: And then because everybody said sing, roars, sing fire, and
Speaker 2: she said, it's not about me. I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about the world. Wow, you know?
Speaker 1: Is that nice?
Speaker 2: You got to ask her about that?
Speaker 1: Other than perhaps the choice of specific words, how did
Speaker 1: how would that have differed if from if they were
Speaker 1: high school girls? No kick, conversation was sixteen year old
Speaker 1: girls at most.
Speaker 3: I was thinking that interviewer, Oh, they.
Speaker 2: Did say, wow, did you cry?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 6: It was really difficult because we were floating what everybody cried?
Speaker 5: What's the whole?
Speaker 3: And she we kept asking her to sing and she wouldn't.
Speaker 3: We asked her to sing raw or do you do this?
Speaker 3: I mean you you hang around with celebrities, when when
Speaker 3: famous people come into your house, you say, sing for me,
Speaker 3: act for me? I mean, what what the hell?
Speaker 1: I mean some record breaking deep sea device with Mick
Speaker 1: Jagger and I just keep saying, hey to sing Sympathy
Speaker 1: for the Devil, would you?
Speaker 5: He's like, no, we're under the ocean.
Speaker 1: But this is not about me, all right? How about satisfaction?
Speaker 1: Just satisfaction that would make me a lunatic.
Speaker 5: Sympathy. That old fang was hard to take. Oh really, Oh,
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: We have a couple of montages of the women where
Speaker 6: it's also pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, can we take it as a country? I'd
Speaker 1: play one. Michael, give me twenty two.
Speaker 2: You are officially an astronaut. How do you feel? I
Speaker 2: still can't accept that word.
Speaker 3: I just feel a renew connection to everything in life
Speaker 3: and where we are, and I can't wait to go
Speaker 3: back out there.
Speaker 8: It is the highest high and it is surrender to
Speaker 8: the unknown.
Speaker 3: Trust you know, you know what we've gotten off the
Speaker 3: rails obviously, so the whole space thing. Joe and I
Speaker 3: are old enough to have grown up with it when
Speaker 3: it was absolutely amazing and the almost amazing thing human
Speaker 3: beings have ever done, and all of those emotional reactions
Speaker 3: you just heard would have made sense and literally death defying,
Speaker 3: and that's been portrayed so much throughout history that everybody
Speaker 3: feels like you gotta say that now, even if you
Speaker 3: go up a little bit higher than you go on
Speaker 3: a plane and then come back down like thirty minutes
Speaker 3: later like they did, somebody has got to come back
Speaker 3: from one of these, whether it's Jeff Bezos or Katie Perrier, whoever,
Speaker 3: one of these celebrity near space things, and come back
Speaker 3: and say, you know, it kind of felt like a
Speaker 3: ride at an amusement park.
Speaker 5: And I'm not changed in any way whatsoever.
Speaker 1: One small step for a Gail King, one giant leap
Speaker 1: for second tier celebrities.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you're not obligated to come back
Speaker 3: and say you have a completely different perspective of life
Speaker 3: and it's changed everything you've ever.
Speaker 5: Thought and all these it's surrender to the unknown. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you could come.
Speaker 3: It felt pretty cool, but I'm exactly the same as
Speaker 3: I was before I went up.
Speaker 5: I mean nothing.
Speaker 1: The view of the Earth is stunning, it's crazy, oh
Speaker 1: so beautiful, My goodness, I just go ahead.
Speaker 5: You don't need to be.
Speaker 1: You know what was the other quote, you're officially an astronaut.
Speaker 5: Don't get me started. It was the highest high. It
Speaker 5: was surrendered to the unknown. We got another great montage.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, complete and utter joy and gratefulness.
Speaker 2: You can hear. No dream is too wild.
Speaker 3: The moon was so beautiful, and that was like, I
Speaker 3: felt like that was a special gift just for me.
Speaker 2: You can't go through what we went to to look
Speaker 2: out for each other, to help each other, and not
Speaker 2: be changed by that. I will never be the same.
Speaker 8: This experience is right a second to being a mom.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to take those we got.
Speaker 3: We gotta do a podcast, a three hour podcast, and
Speaker 3: take that bite by bite. There was just one of
Speaker 3: those needs commentary.
Speaker 5: I hadn't caught on. I apologize.
Speaker 1: This is all a parody done by the guys who
Speaker 1: did Spinal Tap and Best in Show and those movies.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry I hadn't caught on. I'm forever changed. Then
Speaker 5: you are a simpleton. The moon was a gift just
Speaker 5: for me. What wait a minute, what.
Speaker 3: And how we all helped each other, We each her,
Speaker 3: it helped each other through this whole thing.
Speaker 5: You're gone for like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: And then they bagged Katie Perry to sing Moon Dance,
Speaker 1: but she wouldn't, so we cried again.
Speaker 5: Wow that was spectacular. These women have inspired me. I'm
Speaker 5: going back to the school. Today's word is vacuous.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're trying too hard to act like
Speaker 3: you had a life changing event when you did not, Well.
Speaker 1: It was all the publicity stunt in there, playing along
Speaker 1: so all right, great, that is hilarious.
Speaker 5: Let's cap this.
Speaker 1: Off with David Muhre one more time, Michael twenty, then
Speaker 1: we'll move on.
Speaker 7: The Star stood an all female Blue Origin flight crew,
Speaker 7: including Katie Perry and Gail King, lasting off headed to
Speaker 7: the edge of space.
Speaker 5: Oprah crying a lift off, Oprah crying it lift off.
Speaker 3: Oprah's quote was yesterday, She's never been more proud of
Speaker 3: Gail than yesterday because what she sat there and didn't
Speaker 3: you know, loser, mud, that's what you're proud of.
Speaker 5: I guess, well it's a start. So tax myths you have?
Speaker 5: Is that? Do I understand that correctly?
Speaker 3: So today is April fifteenth, traditionally tax day in America.
Speaker 5: And this I was.
Speaker 3: About to say this dude from the Manhattan Institute. I
Speaker 3: don't want to get sidelined on this. But I've been
Speaker 3: reading Brian Ridel Redel, remember how you pronounce his name.
Speaker 3: I've been reading his tax stuff for years.
Speaker 5: He's now Jessica Reedel. He oh, he heard felt.
Speaker 3: He was a woman his whole life and he has changed.
Speaker 3: He's done all the stuff and he's now Jessica Reedl.
Speaker 3: But anyway, his writing about taxes is her writing about
Speaker 3: taxes is still.
Speaker 5: The same as it's ever been, all right, then.
Speaker 3: And with the Manhattan Institute, and I listened to a
Speaker 3: long podcast about this estate was it was so good.
Speaker 5: And he's one of those guys. There are a few
Speaker 5: public intellectuals like this. Larry Summers is one of them.
Speaker 3: That man, when when they say stuff that your side likes,
Speaker 3: everybody quotes them. And when they say stuff that your
Speaker 3: side hates, you know they're a villain and a partisan
Speaker 3: and whatever. Like when Larry Summers was saying to the
Speaker 3: Joe Biden crowd, hey, these bills are gonna cause inflation.
Speaker 3: Conservatives loved him. He's on Fox all the time. Liberals
Speaker 3: hated him. Now that he's saying this tear war is
Speaker 3: terrible and stupid and gonna cause inflation, conservatives hate him
Speaker 3: and liberals love it. Well, this this Brian, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: Jessica Rdel is the same sort of person. And the
Speaker 3: top ten tax myths, and I'll just mention a couple
Speaker 3: of them, because but they they they you know, something.
Speaker 5: Here to anger everybody.
Speaker 3: Then I'm gonna focus on one briefly before we take
Speaker 3: a break, so we can get the mailbag number one myth,
Speaker 3: tax cuts pay for themselves, and he goes through all
Speaker 3: kinds of math on how that's that's how conservatives. We
Speaker 3: conservatives often push these They do, you know, cause economic
Speaker 3: economic growth and everything like that, but they never there's
Speaker 3: there's never been a case where the economic growth equaled
Speaker 3: the amount of revenue.
Speaker 5: Drop from the tax cut. That's just never happy.
Speaker 3: Now, I more than she am big on the whole.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to it's my money. I should get
Speaker 3: to keep as much as my money as possible. She
Speaker 3: leans more to woe. We have to run the government
Speaker 3: and we're going broke, so it's going to destroy the
Speaker 3: nation and we need to do something.
Speaker 5: About it, which is a reasonable stance.
Speaker 1: But if you're going broke, what's the first thing you do?
Speaker 1: You cut your spending.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: That's everybody in every circumstance, corporate, individual.
Speaker 5: Another myth.
Speaker 3: Briefly, because I don't want to focus on some of these,
Speaker 3: the tax cuts will starve the beast. I was very
Speaker 3: unhappy to hear this, but she said, going through all
Speaker 3: kinds of examples throughout history, if you because oftentimes the
Speaker 3: conservative view is and I've said this, I don't know
Speaker 3: how many times, the only thing you can do with
Speaker 3: government is give them less money, and to me, it's
Speaker 3: your only hope to get him to waste less money.
Speaker 3: Has give them less money, but at least in the
Speaker 3: modern era, that has never happened. We spend more even
Speaker 3: after tax cuts.
Speaker 5: Will print it or borrow it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the government is so comfortable borrowing money, they
Speaker 3: will just continue to spend wildly even when you have
Speaker 3: tax cuts and starve the beast.
Speaker 5: So that's disappointing to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine if you despised your children. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's very difficult for most of us. But imagine your
Speaker 1: your children were like, uh, ax murdering perverts and just
Speaker 1: just the most rotten human beings.
Speaker 5: You'd ever run into. You're life perverts. That's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: That's that's the B movie I attempted to get produced
Speaker 1: back in my film production days. But anyway, so it
Speaker 1: was kind of a Texas Chainsaw Murder, but with more
Speaker 1: sacks in it. The sex sexy, what ax wielding perverts whatever.
Speaker 1: That would be the only conceivable circumstance I could think
Speaker 1: of where, for instance, I would think, you know what,
Speaker 1: I want a new car. I'm just gonna take out
Speaker 1: a loan that my axe murdering, pervert son has to
Speaker 1: pay for.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Then, I think, you know what, I could use a
Speaker 1: bigger house too. I'm gonna take a mortgage out, and
Speaker 1: my hated son will have to pay it off. I
Speaker 1: don't have to. That is what we and our government
Speaker 1: are doing right now. Except we love our children, but
Speaker 1: we're still treating them as if they're horrific human beings
Speaker 1: who deserve derision and punishment. It is the most astonishing,
Speaker 1: amoral thing I have ever witnessed in my life. And
Speaker 1: we do it every single day as a country and
Speaker 1: a rant, because if you get me started, I won't stop.
Speaker 3: Starting with and run by the worst generation, the Boomers.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, No, why would you alienate people?
Speaker 3: Because it is the worst generation in American history. The
Speaker 3: Baby Boomers are absolutely documentably, you can prove it with
Speaker 3: charts and stats, the worst generation in American history, the
Speaker 3: most fish generation in American history.
Speaker 5: Profligate spending, yes.
Speaker 3: And you know, and it might just be human nature,
Speaker 3: the arc of an empire and everything like that, and
Speaker 3: they happen to be born during that time, which probably
Speaker 3: makes more sense. But You're absolutely right. It's just so
Speaker 3: we don't even think about it that much. It's just
Speaker 3: we think it's not We think it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I've known people like this. They
Speaker 3: just I look at them and think, how do you
Speaker 3: think this is gonna end? It just keeps spending with
Speaker 3: clearly no means to support their spending, and just feel
Speaker 3: like it's never gonna come crashing down, and then eventually
Speaker 3: it does. Like our neighbors when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: my dad used to talk about them buying new cars
Speaker 3: all the time and everything like that. He was embezzling
Speaker 3: from the hospital he worked at and eventually was driven out.
Speaker 5: Of town and had everything taken away from him. I mean,
Speaker 5: at some point the rubber meets the road.
Speaker 3: It just happens.
Speaker 1: And then people or countries like that to act like
Speaker 1: something was done to them when the reckoning finally comes.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: But so an hour two, I want to get to
Speaker 3: my favorite, and this is the one I think that
Speaker 3: does the most damage because those first two kind of
Speaker 3: were swipes at conservatives and a lot of their you know,
Speaker 3: some of the things we hold on to the tax argument.
Speaker 3: This one goes after the lefties the middle class pays
Speaker 3: higher tax rates than the rich.
Speaker 5: That couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 3: The Warren Buffett I pay lower taxes than my secretary.
Speaker 3: How a guy as smart as him could start that
Speaker 3: ball rolling with that stupid, stupid statement that lefties have
Speaker 3: been hanging on to now for decades.
Speaker 5: It's just so not true.
Speaker 1: Right, and we will blow it out of the water
Speaker 1: next hour. Let's very frustrating mail bag on the way.
Speaker 3: I hope you can stay here. Actually, we're gonna talk
Speaker 3: to one of our favorite tax experts, guy named Stephen
Speaker 3: Moskowitz a little later in the show our three about where.
Speaker 5: Things are with UH.
Speaker 1: Taxes in America on tax Day yep, and where they're
Speaker 1: likely to go next, which I think we're all concerned
Speaker 1: about or interested in at the very least.
Speaker 3: I'm going through puberty. That's why I sound like this.
Speaker 3: Becoming a man, Well, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day today from
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom is never voluntarily given by
Speaker 1: the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed. It's true,
Speaker 1: absolutely true. I can't wait for tomorrow our freedom loving
Speaker 1: quotes of the day. I have a couple that are great,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to jump the gun. Instead, we'll
Speaker 1: move on the mail bag.
Speaker 5: Drop us a note.
Speaker 1: The email address is mail bag at Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: dot com.
Speaker 5: Angry baby boomers.
Speaker 1: Of course, we understand that it profligates spending in irresponsibility
Speaker 1: is not universal among young people.
Speaker 5: Please don't write angry emails. I know that already still
Speaker 5: the worst generation in America.
Speaker 1: Oh, why, I'm trying to heal the wounds without a doubt,
Speaker 1: Garrick writes, I thought I was just moved and entertained
Speaker 1: by my my favorite movies and shows, Casablanca. We were
Speaker 1: talking yesterday about science, says. The reason we like to
Speaker 1: watch shows and movies we've already seen is because it
Speaker 1: gives us an emotional reset, kind of a break, freedom
Speaker 1: from stress. We know it's going to happen, so, Garrick writes.
Speaker 1: He mentions Casablanca, Seinfeldt, Lord of the Rings, Aladdin, Gladiator, Happy,
Speaker 1: Gilmour of the Dark, Knight, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Hey, evidently I'm just a needy bitch. Never felt that.
Speaker 1: Way, just thought I loved these movies and TV shows
Speaker 1: and the characters in them.
Speaker 5: But what do I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just a doctor. Wow, you're a defensive doctor, Garrick. No,
Speaker 1: it's not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of
Speaker 1: your animal brain is telling you take a minute.
Speaker 5: Take him in los.
Speaker 3: I didn't say it right. If it came off as
Speaker 3: a sign of weakness, that's not all at at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned that your dad never wants to rewatch stuff,
Speaker 1: and he's the most even killed person you've ever known.
Speaker 1: But there's not a right way or a wrong way. No, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like people. That's these freaking idiots who I'd like
Speaker 1: to batter with with my fists. But I'm not a
Speaker 1: violent man who thinks that there's something defective about the
Speaker 1: way little boys act, for instance, versus little girls, or
Speaker 1: one's better than the other or whatever. No, just people,
Speaker 1: just do what you need to do, right. It's not
Speaker 1: a better or worse thing. Let's see Alnonymous in Washington
Speaker 1: Rights on the topic of the Chickstronauts. Wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: nice if Jeff Bezos gave them a replica rocket ship
Speaker 1: like the one they flew in. Easily held with one hand,
Speaker 1: the boosters light up and even vibrates just like the
Speaker 1: ship did on takeoff. Oh geez blussy, he can stick
Speaker 1: his pretty boy face on the dome of the rocket
Speaker 1: just because he could. Also, it has lifelike rocket sounds
Speaker 1: if you put the boosters on full blast. Coming to
Speaker 1: the Amazon Store with the replica Blue Origin rocket, counting
Speaker 1: down to blast off is just three triple a's away
Speaker 1: battery not included.
Speaker 5: Wow, I feel like there's a crash.
Speaker 3: In Jeff Bezos's future. Harrison pictures of him he was young,
Speaker 3: He's a very geeky guy. Now he's this big some
Speaker 3: sort of supplemented buff tan guy, ten hot, new young.
Speaker 5: Hands, the world's biggest yacht, et cetera. I think there's
Speaker 5: a crash someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on that same topic, so many people wrote his
Speaker 1: emails about this. Sean writes Katy Perry, singing, if I
Speaker 1: met you guys on a space launch, I'd of course
Speaker 1: keep nagging you to recap the news in a clever way,
Speaker 1: over and over again. Just imagine you refuse to recap
Speaker 1: the news, but the end of the space launch you
Speaker 1: read an email from JT and Sacramento. Dude, I'm bawling.
Speaker 1: Zero g tiars filling the capsule I'm telling you, Sewan,
Speaker 1: that has some beautiful sarcasm. Brother astronaut, my ass writes
Speaker 1: Curtis got home from work tonight watched the playback of
Speaker 1: the Girl's Rocket Ride. You said you were looking forward
Speaker 1: to hating it, and so was I. I was not disappointed.
Speaker 1: Note at the time I got to the interview part,
Speaker 1: I was already all over it. What's that, Michael Oh?
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds? Okay? Uh?
Speaker 5: It was pathetic.
Speaker 1: The audio from the shall we call it cockpit that
Speaker 1: was coming in under flight controllers was ridiculous. They're screaming
Speaker 1: like that. They were on the Tower of Terrors at Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Was really just like a theme park ride, nothing more.
Speaker 1: He gets into the perfect hair and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Katie Perry is no more an astronaut than Hamm the
Speaker 1: Chimp we launched and brought back alive in nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: More on the Way an hour two if you miss
Speaker 3: it in the podcast
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geddy