1 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty arms Strong 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: and Jetty and Pee Armstrong get it. We're from Studio 4 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: C seezor dimly lit room, giveing them the bowels of 5 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. On Fridays, he headed 6 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: into the weekend and today we're under the Tutelagebaur general Manager, 7 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: You Ara Kankansas City Chiefs, Racist and your Philadelphia Eagles. 8 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: The Super Bowl awesome thaking forward to it's gonna be 9 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 1: a whale of a game. I hope some prediction, so 10 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: I hope so ought to be. Yeah, we have had 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: a lot of great Super Bowls over the last several decades. 12 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: If you're old enough, you remember there was like a 13 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: fifteen year period where they all sucked. Oh, it was amazing. 14 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: Pretty single time it was fifty five to ten or 15 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: forty two to three or whatever the hell, and there's 16 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: just no point in even watching. But then we've gotten 17 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,839 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of comes down to the last play games. 18 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Yeah. Well, I've been fortunate that my favorite team, 19 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers of San Francisco have been what's 20 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: the term bad this year and we're not involved in 21 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: the playoffs. I've been watching all the other teams and yeah, 22 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if it's not a great super Bowl, 23 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: I will be shocked. It's because something crazy happened. It's 24 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: hard to imagine a Patrick Mahomes team ever being like 25 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: just out of it. It's hard to imagine that happening. 26 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: So the only difference between this and previous contests, Jack, 27 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: though the Philadelphiagles are incredibly good at chewing up clock 28 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: time with the running attack. Oh boy, you've got to 29 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: kid the ball out of a homes hands. It seems 30 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: like a good podcast for you to do that that 31 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: topic as long as you want, so I don't. A 32 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: boss told us years ago, and he is absolutely right, 33 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: and we should always remember this boss told us the 34 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: other day, not the other day years ago. When we 35 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: started is you know what's the big story today? We 36 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: get to decide what the big story is. And you know, 37 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: if you listen to us to get up in the 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: morning or whenever you flip out on or listen to 39 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: the podcast, you know, we decide what the story is 40 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: and talk about it. And I mean in the same 41 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: way that every other radio station, newspaper or television show 42 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: is doing. And somebody didn't tell them what story they 43 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: had to cover. So on, I couldn't hate the media 44 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: heard more right. And then in the old days, there 45 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 1: were only a couple of things you could look at 46 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: to figure out what the big story of the day was. 47 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 1: The newspaper that landed on your driveway and a couple 48 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: of channels on TV. That was it. So I mean, 49 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: it wasn't wasn't a lot of choices. But now there 50 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: are all kinds of different people that can decide what 51 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: the big story of the day is. I don't actually 52 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: know what the big story of the day is. You know, 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: this is not the big story in my life, But 54 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: looking up at the cable news channels and bounce around 55 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: social media, it is the attempt by Elon Musk to 56 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: reduce the size and scope of government. I mean, it's 57 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: just the story. The fact DOJ doje everywhere, DOJJJ everywhere, 58 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: In the fact that I'm surprised our general manager isn't 59 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: Big Balls today. I thought Big Balls would be our 60 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: general manager. That's one of the guys that's working for 61 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: Elon Musk goes by that charming and not in the 62 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: least immature moniker. And is he the one that they 63 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: found some old tweets or something in hand to resigned yesterday? 64 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: Is he that gout or is he a different guy? 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: I had not heard the two of those people merged 66 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: as one. As far as I know, that's two different people. 67 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: The racist guy in the large balls fellow is somebody 68 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: actually racist. I haven't heard what the bad tweets were. 69 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,839 Speaker 1: It's definitely the sort of thing you can't get away 70 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: with these days. The guy has a huge amount of 71 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: resentment toward Indian engineers, and it was too far. I 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: think calling it racist maybe too much. If you're in 73 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: an industry that imports lots and lots of foreign workers 74 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: because they'll work more cheaply than you, or allegedly harder 75 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: than you or whatever, and you resent that and you 76 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: use their ethnicity, I don't think that necessarily makes you 77 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: a racist. So I didn't realize Elon had you know 78 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: a handful of nineteen year olds on his staff that 79 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: are really crunching the numbers and doing lots of work, 80 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: but are certainly those who are still emotionally nineteen. He 81 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: has gotten, yeah, which the tech crowd tends to be 82 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: pretty immature, doesn't it. Elon leading the pack with you know, 83 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: making his rocket shaped like a penis just because or 84 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: you know, setting his stock price at four twenty or 85 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: whatever the hell. I mean, it's a very bro culture. Yeah, 86 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: if you're in eighth grade. I mean, it's a lot 87 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: of the jokes and humor pretty surprising to me. Well, 88 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: I think that's what that means. That was what it 89 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: refers to. The still definitely little boys in men's bodies. 90 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: Ah so picture brokeach always picture kind of like college 91 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: aged dudes, but a lot of the humor seems to 92 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: be more like fourteen year old having a fourteen year 93 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: old at home. But anyway, Yeah, the whole Doge, Doge 94 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: everywhere thing is really something, I mean, to shake up 95 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: media and DC this way and get the most attention 96 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: is something. Peggy Noonan's got a heck of a column 97 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: about that today in the Wall Street Journal. Will have 98 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: to read from a little bit later. Yeah, I loved it, 99 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: loved it. The thing that is really striking to me 100 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: about a lot of the things that are going on 101 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: both Doge and like the transgender sports announcement and the 102 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: the immigration moves, the deportations and roundups and the rest 103 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: of it. And there are a couple of other examples. 104 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: Is that the Democratic Party in the media elite are 105 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: playing the same cards that they've always played of instant 106 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: outrage and hastily assembled charges of racism and whatever else 107 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: and there and those those ploys, those aspersions have been 108 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: very successful for them in years past, and people have 109 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: kind of coward and said, oh, I don't want to 110 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: be called a racist or whatever, and they kind of 111 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: win the day. These days, there's been a huge cultural 112 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: shift and you hear all that shouting, like some of 113 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: the idiots bellowing into microphones who were playing yesterday in 114 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,119 Speaker 1: front of Capitol Hill. And and I'm getting a sense 115 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: that America is reacting with a big yawn or a 116 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: big now, we're not listening to you anymore. He lied 117 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: way too much. Yeah, I'm really guessing on this one. 118 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: Like on the should dudes play in girls' sports? I 119 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: think we were all pretty solid that that's like a 120 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: ninety ten issue or something like that. But I don't 121 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: know or this whole reducing, you know, fire and government 122 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: employees getting rid of them than lands. I assume it's 123 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly popular. You can't wait to see some polling on that, 124 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: or maybe we'll have to wait to another election. But 125 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: like watching MSNBC as I do always to just gauge 126 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: the temperature of that kind of politics. I was watching 127 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: what's her name last night on her what's her called 128 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: show late at night, and that's a good one. Everybody 129 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: loves it. And she she led with, I know a 130 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: lot of you out there scared and worried, but here's 131 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: some good news for you, and then got into the 132 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: pushback legal pushback against like scared and worried. I mean, 133 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: unless you're a government employee who's going to lose their job, 134 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: and then, no matter what, I can understand why that 135 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: would be worrisome because losing your job sucks, you know, 136 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: or looking for new what I've done that and you 137 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: got to move and all kinds of things. It's but 138 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: outside of that, why would you freaking care if the 139 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: government shrinks? It seems like a great idea. And I'm 140 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: not even sure how many people actually care about the 141 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: government layoffs and are worried about it other than the 142 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: people directly involved. The media would have you believe that 143 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: most people think it's a terrible, terrible, tragic thing. But 144 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: the beautiful deal. The beautiful deal to me is that 145 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: not unlike the delicious Recei's peanut butter cup with its 146 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: peanut butter and chocolate, the laying off lots of federal 147 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: employees is joined with the deliciousness of cutting ridiculous expenditures. 148 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: And so every time we can come up with a 149 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: list of trans musicals in Argentina or whatever. Now, whoever's 150 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: doing the work of getting that stuff out into the media, 151 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: nice job, because I hear about that from someone every 152 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: day or something list today it was fabulous cool. Yeah. So, 153 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: but anyway, as long as those two things are joined together, 154 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: even if somebody, for whatever misplaced reason, would be like, oh, 155 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: I hate the idea people losing their jobs. I don't 156 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: care who they are. I'm a soft head. I don't 157 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: think these things through. I don't even know that my 158 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: tax money is what the government spends. I mean, if 159 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: those people might lean against cutting the government workforce, you 160 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: can get them with the other stuff. Yeah. So the 161 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: numbers I heard Todace. If I didn't hear this, one 162 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: of the headlines around this is they extended the deadline. 163 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: So you know, Trump sent out that memo, perhaps illegally 164 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: not to government employees that if they announced by midnight 165 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: last night if they took the deal, they'd get paid 166 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: through September and you can quit and go live your life. 167 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: Enjoy it, you know, thanks for your public service. You've 168 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: always been saying you could make more in the private sector. 169 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: Go do it, not yourself exactly. God. I was talking 170 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: to a dude yesterday, very successful. Dude was so fired 171 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: up about a couple of people he knows in public 172 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: service that have multiple houses and so much money and 173 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: just try to nuts dedicated their lives to public service. 174 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: My ass. But anyway, I wish I could say his name, 175 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: because they would, for at least for our local listeners, 176 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: they would be very very funny. What was my point, 177 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: I had a point. Oh, so they extended the deadline 178 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: past midnight last night because not enough people have bit 179 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: I guess so they want to give more, give you 180 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: more chance to think that over. But so far it's 181 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: sixty thousand people have taken the deal, which is one percent, 182 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: and they were shooting for more like three to five percent, 183 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: hoping for ten of percent of people taking the deal. 184 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: But whatever, not every good idea works the way you 185 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: think it's going to. That's fine. Well that was a 186 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: good way to start it, to make it the least 187 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: messy possible. You know, if I worked in a department 188 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: where it's a little difficult to look around and figure 189 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: out what we exactly accomplish, I might take that deal, 190 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: because Doge might be coming for you unless you can 191 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: justify your existence. Yeah, and again, this is a titanic effort. 192 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: If one little initial, you know, a strategy doesn't pay 193 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: off quite the way you hoped it, and it's it's 194 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: so completely overcovered because the media is so centered in Washington, 195 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: d C. As if it's some sort of big setback 196 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: like second play the Super Bowl, Pat Malmes was an incompletion, 197 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: they start talking about Malmes really struggling out there. Jim, 198 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: it's just ridiculous. Start to show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, 199 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, February seventh, 200 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five, were Armstrong and getting we 201 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: approved this program. Let's begin then, officially, according to FCC 202 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: rail rules and rights, here we go at mark. 203 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 2: Meanwhile, so that Americans are expected to legally bet on 204 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 2: well over a billion dollars on Super Bowl weekend. 205 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't. I don't like to bet. 206 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 2: But let's just say, if Taylor Swift and down to 207 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: Kelsey's side hug more than six times, you might not 208 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 2: see me on Monday. 209 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: Hello, side hug, side hug. Why is there still so 210 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: much illegal betting? I know back in the day is 211 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: because there wasn't. There weren't that many options for legal betting. 212 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: But there's so many ways to bet legally. And let's 213 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: it's just between friends like that. You don't need to 214 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: know a guy you've always used him. He's you know, 215 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,599 Speaker 1: he's a good bucky. I don't know if you know 216 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: why people still illegally bet text us how's mailbag? Look? 217 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: That's fine? Plus we have clips of the week in 218 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: moments cool. Here's that text line four one five two 219 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: nine five KFTC. How had Googo Dolls? Today? I was 220 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: listening to music on the way to work on Fridays 221 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: instead of news. Today, I on Googoo Dolls. I was 222 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: having kind of can's the name? It's gotten kind of 223 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 1: a nineties vibe. I didn't realize I was reading about it. 224 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: They were like a hardcore, punkish out there band. Then 225 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: they had one kind of small sy song that caught on, 226 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: and then they just became a full schmaltzan and became 227 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: very successful. I do appreciate this six eight time though, 228 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: Michael Mark Bumper music in six eight times, thank you. 229 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: We have a great freedom loving quote of the day 230 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: coming up, mailbag is very strong. But first let's take 231 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: a fond look back of the week. That was it's 232 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: cow clip so the week, the prices, it's tires kings, 233 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: that plane which was the weak Compsutani Phil saw his shadow. 234 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,719 Speaker 1: Then atosphere of river still pounding the West coast, a 235 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: seismic shift in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks treating Luka 236 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. They made the decision. 237 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't know why. The best country album Cowboy Carter Beyonce, 238 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: My god, he's nine in country big. This is about 239 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,079 Speaker 1: nanoparticles of decades old plastic now being found in the 240 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: human body. When they see the birds actually going up 241 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 1: in flame, they created a name for that. They call 242 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: them screamers. In Pennsylvania, police say one hundred thousand eggs 243 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: were stolen. Two men are under arrest charge with brokering 244 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: the sale of watches, jewelry, and handbags that prosecutors say 245 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: were stolen by South American gangs. The most powerful military 246 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, let 247 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: alone cartels. The war on women's sports is over, President 248 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: Trump signing an executive order. Man, I just feel vindicated. 249 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: Aerobust foreign policy is good for trade and national security. 250 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: The tariffs on Mexico and Canada are just paused. It's 251 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: going to affect beer. It's going to affect your glock. 252 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: Oh god. US AID run by radical lunatics. Fifty thousand 253 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: dollars to do let's see a transgender opera in Colombia. 254 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,239 Speaker 1: Seventy thousand for a production of a Dei musical in Ireland. 255 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: Twenty thousand dollars a pop to do drag shows in Ecuadors. 256 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: I don't want my dollars going towards this crap. But 257 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: we have actually just a bull of ones. When your 258 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: government is doing you row, you fired all El Musk 259 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: makes unsafe cars and now he wants to create an 260 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: unsafe world war. We have to fight this in the streets. 261 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: How far are we from a kleptocracy? And I think 262 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: we are there. The US will take over the Gaza 263 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: strip and we will do a job with it to 264 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: full own it. It's a remarkable idea. Look, the Gaza 265 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: thing has not worked. President Trump is taking it to 266 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: a much higher level. Whoa you fired all? Yeah? I 267 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: feel like we're living in a TikTok world. It's pretty 268 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: fast paced. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was just we're 269 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: using crazy disturbing stuff happens every thirty four seconds. Right, 270 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: That isn't good? From from Nettan Yahoo, It's remarkable, which 271 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: is a good thing to say. Uh, you know, because 272 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: technically that word means that is something that should be 273 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: remarked upon. Yes, And as it turns out, it has been. 274 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: Here's your freedom moving quote of the day. I absolutely 275 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: love this from the Great C. S. Lewis. It may 276 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: be hard for an egg to turn into a bird. 277 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: It would be a jolly sight harder for it to 278 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like 279 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: eggs at present, and you cannot go on indefinitely being 280 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or 281 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: go bad. Hm. Wow wow. That is a challenge set 282 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: before us, isn't it? To become fully formed? Right? Exactly? 283 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: To be who we're meant to be, or who we 284 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: can be, God's eyes or whatever. Clive Staples Lewis for 285 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: the win. Are we going to get the mail bag 286 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: when we come back? I certainly hope. So, yeah, it's good. 287 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: It covers some really good ground, a bit of a 288 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: note or two of dissent which we're happy to take on. 289 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: Maybe my all time disgusting cynical shows you how dumb 290 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: politics can get. From Hillary Clinton yesterday, Oh yes, honest, believable, 291 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 1: among other things on the way, I hope you can 292 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: stay here armstrong and getty. Hillary Clinton lowered the bar 293 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 1: on what you can be cynical about with government, So 294 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. It's just it's amazing these people, 295 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 1: all of them. I mean, I just I have very 296 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: little respect for politicians in general. They're willing to say 297 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: and do anything. So more on that coming up. But 298 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: the whole US AID program that we've been hearing about 299 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: since Trump took office and Elon taking a part and 300 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: everything again, they have about eleven thousand employees. By the 301 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: end of the day or end of Monday, they're going 302 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: to be down to a couple hundred from eleven thousand 303 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: to a couple hundred. They're going to be in charge 304 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 1: of cleaning the place out. That's quite the reduction. Yeah, 305 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: i'd say Hillary to call Hillary Clinton shamelesses to like 306 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: call Usain bolt Fast. I mean, it's just everybody knows that, 307 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: but she continues to amaze. Anyway, Stay tuned a little 308 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: mail bag for you. Hate to squeeze it out just 309 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: because we got busy. Let's see. Brian from Kansas City says, guys, first, 310 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: go chiefs. Secondly, I'm a current federal worker and the 311 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: meltdown is real. I'm loving it, even if with my 312 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: job possibly at risk. You can't imagine the level of 313 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: freak out from decades long employment that most of these 314 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: people are experiencing for the first time. I've made my 315 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: own cuts of waste in my short time here, but 316 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: excited about someone making a much larger difference. That's one 317 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: of the good guys right there. Good to hear from you, Brian, Yeah, 318 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 1: I was. I saw a clip floating around Haley Jackson 319 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: on NBC interviewing some workers who are talking about how 320 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to move now, and the response of 321 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: one of my favorite punnits was welcome to the real 322 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: world where the rest of us have had to live 323 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: our whole lives. Yes, yes, you'll learn it's okay, it's challenging, 324 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 1: but it sucks. But that's the way it is for 325 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: those of us who aren't working for the taxpayer right. 326 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: Pisces me off so much that you work in government 327 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: and feel like you should never lose your job under 328 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: any circumstances. It is a fantasy land. It is you 329 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: vacation at Disney World Disneyland, and you think that's the 330 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,479 Speaker 1: real world because it has been your world. Brian from 331 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: Kansas City, I would just suggest you and Jack and 332 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: others like you find a non racist team to root for. 333 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: Got to change the name of the Chiefs to the 334 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: Guardians or I don't know the plainsmen. No, that would 335 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: be sexist, even though they're clearly all men. I don't 336 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: know something. This is a lately innocuous and with no tradition. 337 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: This is an incredibly minor point, but as a can 338 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: and drives me nuts. Kansas City is in Missouri, the 339 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: bulk of it, and the Chiefs and the Royals in 340 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: the airport, and most of the stuff you know about 341 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: Kensity is in Missouri, like Fox is broadcasting from some 342 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: town in Kansas today. Okay, fine, but the chiefs are 343 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: in Missouri, just saying, but the name is Kansas. Well, 344 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 1: I understand, I understand where that would be confusing. There 345 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: actually is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's not the 346 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 1: Kansas city everybody talks about it. Correct. Yeah, yeah, Moving 347 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: along Arizona, Matt Rights. Guys. Don't know if you've addressed this, 348 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,199 Speaker 1: but I don't quite get the Democrats strategy regarding cutting 349 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: government waste unless they are the immoral party. He's talking 350 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: about the people screeching into microphones. We're gonna fight this. 351 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: And as straight to Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat, 352 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: how dare hey blah blah blah. Why aren't they targeting 353 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: Republican areas to cut at least in addition to screaming 354 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: about their own pet projects being hit. Wouldn't that give 355 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: them a more some political currency? That's what I keep thinking. 356 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: I do judo where you use you know, your opponent's 357 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: momentum or whatever against them to bring them down. I 358 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: don't know why you wouldn't say, yes, we need to cut, 359 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: and here's what we need to cut. You go after 360 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: Republican stuff. Yeah, that would make sense, although this is 361 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: the rhetorical question. That is not a rhetorical question. I 362 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: believe it's because government unions, which are tied at the 363 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: or joined at the hip with private sector unions of 364 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: all sorts of organized labor. In short, is like one 365 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: of the few remaining really dependable constituencies that the Democrats have. 366 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: And I think they're in half a panic right now, 367 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: and they seem like they've decided the one thing they 368 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: must do, and they're doing it frantically, hilariously, frantically. Is 369 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: screeched that they're with the unions, the public employee unions. 370 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: Where are your guardians? Well, to point out what a 371 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: panic it is, Hillary Clinton yesterday said that the two 372 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: plane crashes, we haven't had any plane crashes in decades, 373 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: and now Donald Trump comes in and starts slashing the 374 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: federal government and we have two plane crashes. That's not 375 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 1: a coincidence. She blamed the plane crashes on Trump cutting government. Right. 376 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: That is unbelievable by Hillary Clinton's standards. It would be 377 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: hilarious were it not so incredibly crass. All those poor 378 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: people mourning their lost loved ones, what an amazing thing 379 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: to say, I mean, their tears are still flowing, and 380 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: she pulls that crap anyway, moving along. This is brilliant 381 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: from alnonymous guys. Now that the new trans movie has 382 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: made it clear that being nominated or canceled with the 383 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: Oscars is much more a function of the ideology of 384 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: the film and the act and the actors, oscar parties 385 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: need to change. Think about a bunch of middle aged 386 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: women gathering for an OSCAR party. Used to be they'd 387 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: watch every movie and make their own predictions. Now analyzing 388 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,719 Speaker 1: the politics of the film and the actors is the 389 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: better predictor of winning than the art itself. Quote unquote, 390 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: You truly would make better predictions not watching the films 391 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: but researching politics. That's funny. That is funny. I picture 392 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: those women saying, yeah, I really like his strong support 393 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: for abortion rights and the artful use of pronouns, but 394 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: he's pretty soft on student loan forgiveness, so he might 395 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: not be the best actor. Good times, well said Al, 396 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: I don't know why you want to be anonymous. That's 397 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: clever as hell. And then an anonymous who says I'm 398 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: not let me start by saying I'm not down with 399 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: the whole trans craze. In fact, one of the most 400 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: confounding things about it is how it's diametrically opposed to 401 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: the very existence of gay people. Meaning, no, we don't 402 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: accept that you're a femme gay boy. You should be 403 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: a hetero girl. But then she says, having said that 404 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: sex change operations are a thing, they've been a thing 405 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: for many, many years. And there is a difference between 406 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: a confused an enormous difference between a confused adolescent girl, 407 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: for instance, and an adult who's gotten multiple surgeries, changed 408 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: their name, got a new idea, social Security number, birth certificate, 409 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: and mended blah blah blah, blah blah, and you shouldn't 410 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:12,239 Speaker 1: conflate the two. Yeah, that's true in a way. And 411 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: although the notion that someone can quote unquote change their 412 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: sex is scientifically clearly almost hilariously wrong. But if they 413 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: want to present as a woman as an adult, and 414 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, I will I will be polite. Certainly, 415 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: it's an interesting question and would take more time to 416 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: tease out than we have here. And then finally, this 417 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:45,479 Speaker 1: oh Scott in Hillsburg, California, beautiful, beautiful place, guys reminder 418 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, the Tubs fire, starting in the middle 419 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: of the night, burned over five thousand homes in Santa Rosa, 420 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: Sonoma County, California. City manager did not activate the emergency 421 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: alert system. He was concerned about panicking people. This left 422 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: thousands to find out there was a fire by waking 423 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: up to their neighbor's house burning. Entire neighborhoods burned as 424 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: the inhabitants made a run for it on foot with 425 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: nothing but the clothes on their backs. The city took 426 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: the time to create an emergency alert system, then didn't 427 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: have the balls to use it. Two years later, when 428 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: the next fire hit Sonoma County, the authority sent out 429 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: av evacuation alerts from the Napa County line to the 430 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean, which, if you can't picture that is an 431 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: enormous territory, putting one hundred thousand people on the road 432 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: at one time. The EVA evacuation area was ridiculously big 433 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: compared to the size of the fire. As you always say, 434 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: the government does two things, well, nothing and overreacting. Kdotg 435 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: keep depending on the government. Scott yep Well said, I 436 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: got plenty of stuff I want to talk about. That's 437 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: got nothing to do without rage. I don't want to 438 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: spend my Friday outraged about things. But here's what Hillary 439 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: Clinton actually said. Then Mago, then I wish I could 440 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: do a good Hillary Clinton vice. It's got to be 441 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: like a grading. It a pitch that makes you angry 442 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: before you even know the content of the Yes, yes, yes, 443 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: some say that's misogyny. But then MAGA fired the faah, 444 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: and shit, it's accurate. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, 445 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: gotted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic 446 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes. 447 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: Hope you're unvetted. Twenty two year olds fixed things fast. 448 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: That is an unconscionable thing to say two weeks into 449 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: a new administration, having fired nobody from air traffic control, 450 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: hundreds of people dead, and you're pretending that Trump, specifically 451 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: in the Mega movement, are to blame. So that just 452 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: shows you pay nuns nothing, no attention to what these 453 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: people say. Right, Oh, she's evil, unquestionably evil hashtag. So 454 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: did you see the new Secretary of Transportation's response? No, 455 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: I did not priceless and I will say I will 456 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: go ahead and admit I have called for more gentlemanliness 457 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: and decency from the MAGA movement. Sometimes it's rude for 458 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: the sake of being rude, and it doesn't accomplish anything. 459 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: Owning the libs and drinking their delicious tears. While it 460 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: can be fun, sometimes isn't the best strategy for getting 461 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: the most done. Having said that, I love this. Secretary 462 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: Transportation Sean Duffy responded to Hillary, I know you're lashing 463 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: out because Doge is uncovering your family's obscene grifting via USAID. WHOA, 464 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: I want to know more about that Clinton Foundation? Right? 465 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: That was the bank for the Clinton Foundation, A giant 466 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: money laundering operation, a giant scam. Anyway, I know you're 467 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: lashing out because Doge is uncovering your family's obscene grifting 468 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: via USAID, But I won't let you lie in distort facts. 469 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 1: The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before 470 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always 471 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: exempt from Trump's civil service buyouts. The previous administration shamelessly 472 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: used US Department of Transportation as a slush fund for 473 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: the Green New scam, throwing away money and resources on 474 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our 475 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: nation's antiquated air control systems and other critical infrastructure. I'm 476 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: returning this department to its mission of safety by using 477 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 1: innovative technology and transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its 478 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: chance and failed. We're moving on without you because the 479 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: American people want us to make America's transportation systems great again. 480 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: And yes, we're bringing the twenty two year olds with us. 481 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: What woo yah Sean Duffy folks, Sean Stuffy further in again. 482 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: Before we take a break and get to Katie's headlines, 483 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this out as a question today and 484 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: I want people to answer it. I was gonna tweet 485 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: this out last night while I was doing it, but 486 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: I was probably too angry to make my thumbs work. 487 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: Is there anything wow, thumb paralyzingly angry? That's another level, man. 488 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: Is there anything more annoying than putting a fitted sheet 489 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: on a mattress? Oh? God, I hate that. I hate 490 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: doing that so much. I really should like treat myself 491 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: and make that the one thing I somehow find a 492 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: way to hire someone to do for the rest of 493 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: my life and never again in my life. Put a 494 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: fitted sheet on a mattress. Perhaps I can talk sleeve 495 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: boy into doubling moonlighting aside. Hustle is sheet boy, sheet boy, 496 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: sheep boy, unfitted mattress sheet please? Yeah? Can I get it? 497 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: Can I get a house cleaner? 498 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 2: No? 499 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: I clean my own house. I just I need you, 500 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: like every week to come put the fitted sheets on 501 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: the mattress. I'll pay you for the hour or whatever. 502 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, But I can't do it. It 503 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: makes me thumb paralyzingly angry. And it's impossible. I've got 504 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,479 Speaker 1: the short end on the long side. Okay, So did 505 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: I turn it a quarter turn and it's still the 506 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: short end of the long side, which is physically impossible, 507 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: but it happens. I'm good at geometry. I know this 508 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: can't be. No. I put sheet my beliefs on the 509 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: bear mattress like he's a junkie. That's funny, you say that, Michael. 510 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: If it had been my bed, i'd have said effort 511 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: and slept on the bear mattress, which I've done many times. 512 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: But it is my son's bed with the sensory problem, 513 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: so it's not an option. God dang it. All right, 514 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: here's here's what I do. I turn problems into solutions. 515 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: To me, it varies very much sheet by sheet. Some 516 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: fitted sheets are much easier to put on class action 517 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: lawsuit against ill fitting fitted sheet companies for the emotional anguish, 518 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: yes exactly, and the occasional physical injury like when you're 519 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: pulling on it and you lose your grip and you 520 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: skin your knuckle on the bed frame. That sort of 521 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: thing that's going in the suit too, and you're gonna 522 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: pay right, We're not putting up with this anymore, big sheet. 523 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: We got Katie's headlines on the way. So that's the 524 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: question of the day for me. What's more annoying than 525 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: putting on a fitted sheet? Text line four one five 526 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: to nine KFTC. It's a that's tough to be we 527 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: did you get this text? I'll be your sheet boy, 528 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: signed former government employee whole boy. I used to gloat. 529 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: I used to craft trans musicals for the Irish, but 530 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: I'm out of work now, so I guess I'll put 531 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: sheets on your bed. Oh boy, Uh, what's that? Michael? 532 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: We've got a microphone problem with Katie? What is that? 533 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: What is that all about? That's too bad? I was 534 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: really looking forward to the lead story, who's reporting what, 535 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: et cetera. So is that happening today or over a 536 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: period of time, the whole us AID, which has eleven 537 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: thousand employees, is going to go down to like two ninety, 538 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: which is a very elon sort of thing to do. 539 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: That's what he did at Twitter, more or less, as 540 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: he said when he took over Twitter, he walked the 541 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: buildings and he thought, at least half these people don't 542 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: need to be here. Yeah, and this this reminds me. 543 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: I mean, it's different in some obvious ways, but it 544 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: has the same feel of a lot of the like 545 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 1: woke insanity that you couldn't escape and you could not fight, 546 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: particularly if you lived in a blue area of the 547 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: country and you were dragged into humiliating meetings and told 548 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: you were racist and people around you were like, like cult, 549 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: it's robot drones agreeing with it all, and you just 550 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,719 Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. And then now that it's ended, it's like, 551 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: how did that ever happen? Well, this is similar to 552 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: me in that we have somebody saying, all right, I 553 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: tell you what, let's just cut it back to nothing 554 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: then decide what we really want. Zero based budgeting. They 555 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: call it an unnecessarily fancy term for Hey, this has 556 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: been going on a long time. We don't have a 557 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: handle on it at all. Let's let's let's figure out. 558 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: You know, it's like cutting all your subscriptions that I decided, 559 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: do I ever watch Hulu? You know, for all the 560 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: streaming stuff. I cut it all a month or so ago, 561 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: and we've added a couple of back, but I haven't 562 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: added them all back. But we all do that in 563 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: real life. We're all perfectly comfortable with it. In real life. 564 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: It's just a part of life. But then when it 565 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: is extended to government, it's people treat that. People react 566 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: as if that's somehow horrific. How dare you? What do 567 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: you mean? How dare I? That's the way life is. 568 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: I don't know how we break out of this mindset 569 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: of government employees being like something sent down by Moses 570 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: to service all and they can't ever be dealt. We 571 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: couldn't do without them. I don't know where that come. 572 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: Can only grow. Yeah, yeah, and just the spending stuff too. 573 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: But I think, how do we come out of this? 574 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: You're asking? I think we are, or at least we've 575 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: made the first couple of steps toward coming out with 576 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: or coming out of just habitual grow grow, grow, grow 577 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: Grow in spending in taxation, keeping in mind that the 578 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: true rate of taxation is the rate of spending. You're 579 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: just deferring when those taxes are levied when when you 580 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: engage in deficit spending. Well, you are a very odd 581 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: person if you don't know that the super Bowl is 582 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: so I've never really known people like that that wouldn't 583 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: be aware of that. I suppose our friend Tim Sander, 584 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: for might not know that it's Super Bowl Sunday this Sunday, 585 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: but he probably knows it, but he's annoyed by it. 586 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: Most of you do know. I know, Katie, you came 587 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,479 Speaker 1: across a list of what would be the perfect stuff 588 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: for a super Bowl party, So maybe we'll get to 589 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: that a little bit later in the show. And also 590 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: too oh yeah, well yeah, we're far too cool and 591 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: cynical to gush about super Bowl commercials. But there are 592 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,439 Speaker 1: some absolutely important trends in what's in and what's out 593 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 1: in super Bowl advertising that, can you hear me, are 594 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: all about the culture. Yeah, well, we only got a 595 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: minute left, Katie. Is there any point in jumping into 596 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: headlines with one minute thuff. I think we'll have to 597 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,439 Speaker 1: do it next hour, an hour or two. No, I'll 598 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: be a special treat. Yeah, it will be a special treat. 599 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: You had your microphone fixed, you got your soldering iron 600 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: out and soldered the wires back together, and yeah, don't, don't. 601 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: It's a sore point, is the technical issues? Don't? Why 602 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: just frustrated. Oh, she's got to learn to read a woman. Jack. 603 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:04,959 Speaker 1: I wasn't looking at her face. Now her up here? Yeah, right, okay. 604 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: I can't read different emotions when i'm wow, wow, I'm 605 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: going to hr K. Do you want to go together? 606 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: Then we can lunch. I do want to get to 607 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 1: the Peggy Noonan column in the Wall Street Journal about 608 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: elon fairly tempered view of where we are, not hysterical 609 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,800 Speaker 1: either direction. But maybe an hour or two. If you 610 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: miss an hour, gets a podcast Armstrong and Getty on 611 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,240 Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Getty