WEBVTT - A Dimly Lit Room Blah Blah Blah 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.800 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:53.880 Arm Strong and and He Armstrong and. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.800 Everybody who works on the show, Michael, Katie Hansen, Joe 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.360 and I. By the end of the segment needless five 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.000 things we've done in the last week to justify our jobs. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.080 The five things that we've accomplished in the last week 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:14.319 that can justified. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.040 Our continuing bullets. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.039 I picked up a watt in favorite tell in the 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.600 bathroom that I didn't need to, and I just thought 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:21.920 it'd look nicer without it. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.959 I watched a lot of television that seems like a 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.720 good idea live from studio. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.959 See other than that, nothing springs to mind season your 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.760 dimly lit room, blah blah blah blah. Today we're under 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.520 the tutelage of our general manager, Elon Musk, apparently for 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.640 better or worse. I was talking to some people who 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.800 actually work in the federal government who got that email 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.600 where you got to come up with five things to 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.880 justify your job, And some of them said it was 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.880 quite easy. And some of those who said it was 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.040 quite easy said they know those who it's a bit 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.120 of a struggle to come up with five things. They 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.920 have to get a little creative to come up with 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.600 five things that they actually do. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:03.880 So it depends on who you are and what your 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:04.280 job is. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.840 I guess this might be the absolute emblematic Trumpian move 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.120 or Muskian move. Who knows if Trump even knew Elon 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.520 was gonna send it out. Maybe not a good question, 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.440 but it's exactly It's the perfect symbol of the Trump 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.240 reality we're living in right now. In principle, I love 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.639 it as an idea, Hey, what do you actually accomplish? 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.799 What are you doing for your pay that's paid by 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.160 the American taxpayer. That is a one hundred percent legitimate inquiry. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.240 It ought to be happening all the time, as it 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.200 does in the private sector all the damn time. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.440 And you know what, in about six months, we're gonna 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:44.919 ask you. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.079 Again and or just watch you and figure it out 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:48.760 for ourselves. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.360 In principle, beautiful. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.880 In reality, you got a bunch of Trump's own departments 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.840 saying what, no, don't do that, you don't have to 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:03.600 do that. What's good, it's it's flailing, it's print. Okay, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.840 it's good in principle, but just too fast, too much, 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.160 too nutty. Why do you think those the departments reacted 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.360 that way, some of them, the FBI and others saying no, no, no, no, no, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.600 you don't need to fill out that list. Why do 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.880 you think what was the going on there? Including some 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.280 of Trump's direct The point is it's uh well that 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.120 that mechanism doesn't exist, that you report to Elon Musk 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.360 on the internet or you get hired from your federal job. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.840 I mean, I think federal employees in their unions have 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.800 weigh too many protections. Well they just I mean, if 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.720 Jeff Bezo says no, no, forget that, I want to 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.320 know how much you can lift, I'm. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.080 Much waiting till you lift overread. I mean what then? 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.000 And then Bill Gates says, I need to know what 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.720 kind of car you drive by the end of the day, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.560 right exactly, and what you're Well, they's just compiling information, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.480 isn't he? And I don't so I responded to some 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.080 Democratic senator I'd never even heard of. It's funny how 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.560 there are only one hundred senators, but like most of well, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.560 most people can't name one senator. And then people who 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.600 follow politics a lot can name like six, because it's 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.000 always the same six. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.440 And then but then there's a whole bunch of. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.240 Other senators like the pop up now, and then you 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.280 think you're a US senator I've never heard of again, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.279 I don't recall it name anyway, some Democratic US senators. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.840 She tweeted out, Elon Musk is not our boss and 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.040 we are not gonna blah blah blah blah. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:30.800 I read I. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.279 Retweeted that with the response to her. Yet, no, no, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.680 Elon Musk is not. But US taxpayers are. And I 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.800 think a lot of US taxpayers are pretty interested in 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.080 what do all you people do? What did you do 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:45.160 last week? As a taxpayer, I'm interested, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:50.080 I agree completely portraying, it is portraying. It is answering 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.840 to Elon Musk as opposed to answering to taxpayers. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.320 I don't think it's accurate. Although no, it is accurate. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.520 It's one hundred percent accurate, and the other one's a 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:00.800 hundred for accurate too. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.039 That's the problem there is this is not a thing. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.640 Is the kids say this is not He has no 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:14.440 power to compel anybody to do anything like that. Well, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.160 I mean he can ask them to and that's fine, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.039 there's no legal power. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.880 Like all the lawyers in. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.480 All the departments, including Trump appointees, are going to judges 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.680 and saying, we don't know what's going on. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.960 We don't. The judge says, what's what? What law are 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:30.640 you resting on? 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.440 And the lawyers are saying and this is literally literally, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.360 and this is from a person who loathes progressives. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.719 Keep in mind, I want Trump to succeed. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.920 This is why I criticize, not because I want him 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.640 to fail, because I want him to succeed his. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.560 Own lawyers are going to the court and the judges. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.840 Are saying, what laws are you guys, restaurant? And the 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.800 lawyers say, we don't really know, And then all right, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.640 what sort of facts are you bringing to bear that 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.640 we don't know that either, I don't know. They just 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.280 sent us here to argue it. Well, it's flailing, is there? 0:05:59.560 --> 0:05:59.760 Well? 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.880 Is there a way to do it that's not FLAILINGK 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.200 I mean, there's so many protections for everybody. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.279 Is the is the only alternative to this to just 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.720 let it continue the way it is? 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.240 Oh, you have the head some you have the heads 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.040 of departments who you appointed and are now managing within 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.279 the next few months or so, say hey, we could 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.880 absolutely afford a ten percent reduction in our workforce. Absolutely 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.560 there will be a hiring freeze. Anybody who resigns or retires, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.400 we're not going to replace him. I was talking to 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.919 a federal armor You can everybody write an essay and 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.559 send it to deer Elon Musk. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:33.440 My name is Jim. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.120 I work in the Department of Agriculture, specifically in the 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.920 Sorghum division. What I do is I go to Sorgham 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.400 Farms and tell the farmer, Oh, come on, bye, chalk 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 this one out. Label this segment. Joe's for big government. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:50.400 Apparently Joe's for a federal workers just wasting our tax 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:56.560 money him the way I'm taking it, I was talking 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.359 to a federal employee who their particular department. I have 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.520 lost a bunch of people last week. They were people 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.680 that were within that first couple of years where you 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.400 can still fire them, and they're gone, and everybody's horrified 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.320 at how they're going to get their jobs done with 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.120 less employees and being doing two people's jobs and all 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.520 that sort of stuff. And again I say, I mean, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.640 it sucks for you, but again, welcome to everybody. Else's life. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.120 My answer would be, how are you gonna get all 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.200 that work done? Let's find out exactly. Well, that's why 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.400 it's worked. I only know one industry, the radio industry, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.200 for the past forty years of my life. But that 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.760 has happened around here over the last couple of decades. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.240 We're just you know, Jim's gone. You have Jim's job. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.360 Now. I was busy before. How am I going to 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.200 do my job and Jim's done? I don't know. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.680 Figure it out. Has been the answer for people the 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.320 private sector for a long time, right right, Jack has 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.040 exclusively been in the radio business. I run a website, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.280 an online shopping center for marital aids, and I can 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.080 tell you that that market is you've got to be very, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.600 very efficient because you know, anybody can sell those things 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.760 and they're all more or less the same. So it's 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.640 all about, you know, keeping the costs low. Well, you've 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.920 got your only fans page. But you're self employed. You 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.760 work whatever hours you want to work. And that's one 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.520 of the exacts exactly. And who wouldn't like to lay 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.280 around pleasuring themselves all day for a living? 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.640 Oh my god, Oh my god, I was you. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.320 Know, it's funny, I got sucked into a little clickbait 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.320 if an only fans woman explaining her day, and she 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.160 was making a lot of money. She was making like 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.600 low mid six figures, three hundred and fifty grand something 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:34.839 like that. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.080 Oh is that possible. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.960 I just don't understand how there's the demand for the supply. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:40.800 But anyway, go on. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.800 But to to get that, you've constantly got to post 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:50.760 new content. And whether you're actually m doing the on 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.240 camera work or the editing and marketing and social media 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.520 and stuff like that, it's it's it's a pretty good 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.160 work day. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.160 But to spend one to four hours a day. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:07.880 Just probing yourself, et cetera, I just seems like an 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.880 odd way to live. Well, not specifically only fans, but 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.719 just any of those websites, anything online in general. That's 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.160 one of mister Beasts things he tells all the young people. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.240 Don't think that this is something you can just do 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.000 kind of as a hobby. It I mean, it has 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.600 to dominate your life. You work constantly to be able. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.160 The actual content is seriously the tip of an iceberg. Yeah, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.000 and you want to provide it, and you have to 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.960 provide it constantly and as p Diddy would tell you 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.800 it's just tremendous amount of lubrication. So if you so, yes, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.120 it's only fans women, justify your job. What are five 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.040 things you've accomplished in the last week? You'd say, Well, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:46.800 I'm masturbated a thousand times. I bought some high heels. Uh, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.440 let's see, I put this in my that and also 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.760 that over here. I went to a tanning bed, and 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.480 so let's easily easily justified. Way this is the worst 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.360 digression perhaps and they of the show history. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.640 I blame myself. Well, you came out pro government. We 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.959 need to do. We have into the switching topic. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.040 I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Monday, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.640 February twenty fourth of the year twenty twenty five, or 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.600 Armstrong in getting we approve of this program right new week. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.240 Let's start it here we go according to the FCC rules 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.960 and regulations. I want to see those FCC commissioners and 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.720 justify any paycheck they get. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.600 Please, what do you people do? Anyway? Here we go 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:25.440 at Mark. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.400 My message to young men is, don't allow this broken 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.320 culture to send you a message that you're a bad 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.439 person because you're a man. Because you like to tell 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.160 a joke, because you like to have a beer with 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.920 your friends, or because you're competitive. O. Our message, the 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.880 cultural message, and I think the presidents in mine is 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.280 the exact opposite. But our cultural message is I think 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.040 that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.600 into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:57.360 and act the same. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:58.679 We actually think. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.360 God made male and female for a purpose, and we 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.760 want you guys to thrive as. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.800 Young men and as young women. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.280 And we're gonna help with our public policy to make 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.240 it possible. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:09.160 To do that. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:12.800 Love it. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:19.280 Jd Evans justifying toxic masculinity details to come in comparison 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.040 with the horrors that would have been visited upon our 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.559 fair country had the moron from California one the presidency. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.800 I am so so happy with most what's happening. Like 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:37.040 I said before, I am criticizing some of the methodology 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.679 because I wanted to succeed, not because I wanted to fail. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.000 Oh that reminds me, speaking of Kamala, we need to 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.360 introduce the elephant round into American politics like they do 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.360 in Germany. We need the elephant round the what now 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.480 that'd be awesome. We'll talk about that later. I just 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.920 learned about this yesterday with the German election. Maybe i'll 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.680 tell you about that next. The Elephant Round we should 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.679 we should start doing that, let's all vote for it. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:58.680 Among other things. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.320 It's the three year anniversary the start of that horrifying 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:01.760 war in. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.560 Ukraine, which we'll be talking about that. Plus we've got. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:11.120 Katie's headlines coming up in moments stay here. So that's 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.319 a three year anniversary of the war and Ukraine beginning 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:20.280 with Vladimir Putin launching the most vile and evil war 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.280 from a major country since World War Two. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.920 He started it there, let there be no question. And 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:27.760 it fits in with. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.240 The German presidential elections I had over the weekend, certainly 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.280 played a role. And then we'll talk about what the 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.160 Elephant round is, which I just learned yesterday that they 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.040 have in their politics that we should have more. It 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.920 sounds like it's ready to start the next segment. One 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.200 more note on jd Vance's quote that we opened the 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.240 show with, and we'll get to a little more of 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.960 that down the line. But I was coming to my 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.120 wife last night and a misogynist is the last thing 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.559 I am. I'm the proud dad of two wonderful, brave 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.319 daughters and you know, super proud of them and want 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:00.920 them to have great life. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.760 Blah blah blah blah blah. End of the disclaimer. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.320 There's a new show on NBC, I can't remember one 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.200 of the big networks, the Pit or something. It's about 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.520 some super secret classified prison with the worst of the worst, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:19.760 psychopathic terrorists to multiple murdering lunatics, and there's some big 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.120 prison break and who do they send to really bring 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.880 them in, these violent, horrifying individuals, And it's gonna be 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.600 a bloodbath to get them. One hundred and ten pound 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:34.319 hotty woman, which is about as likely as a three 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.520 hundred and seventy pound white guy being an Olympic sprinter. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.800 You might as well have a drama show about a 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.559 three hundred and seventy five pound white guy winning the 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.600 one hundred meter dash in the Olympics. It's utterly ridiculous, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:53.800 but it's part of that whole bizarre, idiotic, unrealistic women 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:54.920 kick ass thing. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:00.760 Sure they do, but not at that. Okay, we gotta 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:01.720 get to Katie's headlines. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.920 Dewey Dewey, like Elon Musk handed out edicts right and laugh. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.559 All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:08.000 lead story. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.200 It's Katie Green, starting with the Associated Press. Federal workers 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:17.760 face mass confusion as Musk's deadline to list accomplishment's looms. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:23.560 I really, you know, I want government workers who aren't 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:24.360 needed to go. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.240 I really do. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.560 But a little tip from old Jack, who's been shooting 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.960 for a bee his whole life and found workarounds for 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.200 a lot of things. I have a feeling that if 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.640 you put down practically anything on a piece of paper, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.240 he'll be okay. I just don't think there's gonna be 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.640 room or time or money for scrutiny to like really 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.560 nail down. Are you sure you had an appointment at 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.920 three o'clock last Thursday. It reminds me of what I 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.280 was told about, Like the steroid tests in baseball. It's 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.720 not a steroid test, it's an intelligence test. If you're 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.080 not smart enough to get around it, you don't deserve 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.440 to play well. I think that was part of it. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.280 Elon said. But if you don't want to do that, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.240 then feel free to resign. I think it might be 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.800 a if you're not even willing to try to justify 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.840 your job get I think that might be part of it. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.080 And in the same vein from the Washington Post, several 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.120 administration officials tell their workers not to reply to Elon 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:17.920 Musk's email. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.040 Yeah, could this be the beginning of the Trump Musk 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.120 feud that everybody anticipates at some point, I don't know. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.520 From the Wall Street Journal, HESBLA once dominant and Lebanon 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.479 shows new signs of weakness. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:33.680 They're broke. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.200 The hohothis fired it on one of our fighter jets 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.120 over the weekend. First time they've done that. So that 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.920 was that was exciting. 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So what's the elephant round in 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.240 politics in Germany? We need to start having out in 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:15.560 the United States, among other things. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.240 There's lots to. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.639 Talk about today. We got to catch up from the 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.560 whole weekend. Have you missed a segment? Get the podcast 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:20.879 Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:27.160 Armstrong and Getty. Russian launching its biggest ever drone strike 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.280 on Ukraine. The capital city of Kiev under attack. 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.520 Ukraine has weathered assaults like these every single day for 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:38.000 almost three years. Yeah, it's a three year anniversary of 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.000 the bombs beginning to fall and Russia invading Ukraine completely 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:49.119 unjustifiedly in every way possible and killing hundreds and hundreds 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.520 of thousands of people, if you include their own soldiers, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.400 and it's just absolutely awful. And so we'll be talking 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.560 more about that later and play some sound from what 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.760 it sounded like three years ago today, when the whole 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.160 thing's started. This is from the Wall Street Journal today, 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.479 which is interesting. President McCrone is at the White House 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.800 meeting with Trump today. The Macrone the leader of France, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.680 and the Wall Street Journal writing Britain and France are 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.639 developing a plan to deploy up to thirty thousand European 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.840 peace coup keepers call them troops. They're troops in Ukraine 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.399 if Moscow and Kiev reach a cease fire deal. But 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.840 the European proposal hinges on persuading President Trump to agree 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.080 to a limited US military role, which he and Hegzad 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.320 have said is off the table, dubbing that a backstop 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.600 by British officials to protect the European troops in Ukraine 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.840 if they were put in danger and deter Russia violating 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.720 an e c's fire, I think more than the or 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.600 along with the idea that our troops would be very 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.359 helpful if Russia who were attacked to the European troops, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.399 it would be okay, it's on now. The United States 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.440 is now, you know, in a war with Russian, right, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.040 we'll be okay. I don't I don't see Trump and 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.760 hexetha green. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:01.920 Do you about. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:08.400 Establishing the air defense system with our technology and consultants, 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.840 training personnel, and that's it, something like that, some half measure, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.560 no fly zone enforcement, blah blah blah. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.960 Yeah, we'll see where these negotiations go. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.439 I thought it was interesting Zelensky saying over the weekend 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.879 that he'd be he'd be happy to step down if 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.280 if that somehow gets us closer to a peace deal. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.120 Very bad at being a dictator, terrible. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.000 Yeah, I guess that's the reason you say that, to 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.320 make it clear for anybody who wasn't sure that he's 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.040 not a dictator. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.320 The dictator is Vladimir Putin. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.159 Anyway, Again, like I said, what, we'll have more on 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.879 the whole Russia Ukraine thing later. So I'm this is 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.680 a complicated thing that's going on, and some of it 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:50.480 is important. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.800 About the tone, I guess, or however far it goes. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.359 So all this Jdvans goes to Europe and gives that 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.080 speech about you know, some of our European friends and 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.320 they got problems within and their free speech stuff and 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:03.840 this and that, and they need to step up and 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.800 support themselves and everything like that. So Germany has their 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.960 election over the weekend and the Conservatives win and this 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.240 new guy, Fred Mertz, if you're old enough to remember 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.399 the Honeymooners, Fred Mertz is now going to be the 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:16.200 leader of Germany. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.880 By the way, I'll just step in right here. I'm 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:21.679 gonna step. 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.040 In right here so we don't get eight hundred more 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.840 emails because I said the same thing. Fred Mertz was 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.399 the neighbor on I love Lucy, not the Honeymooners. 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.200 I don't care. I just don't want to get any 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.359 more email. You know, it's funny. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.440 I was thinking, Okay, cool, is Joe's going to jump 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.359 in with something important that I need to know about 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.640 the whole European, NATO, us UK. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:50.560