Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty arms Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and Pee Armstrong get it. We're from Studio
Speaker 1: C seezor dimly lit room, giveing them the bowels of
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Speaker 1: You Ara Kankansas City Chiefs, Racist and your Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl awesome thaking forward to it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a whale of a game. I hope some prediction, so
Speaker 1: I hope so ought to be. Yeah, we have had
Speaker 1: a lot of great Super Bowls over the last several decades.
Speaker 1: If you're old enough, you remember there was like a
Speaker 1: fifteen year period where they all sucked. Oh, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: Pretty single time it was fifty five to ten or
Speaker 1: forty two to three or whatever the hell, and there's
Speaker 1: just no point in even watching. But then we've gotten
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of comes down to the last play games.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Yeah. Well, I've been fortunate that my favorite team,
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers of San Francisco have been what's
Speaker 1: the term bad this year and we're not involved in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I've been watching all the other teams and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if it's not a great super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I will be shocked. It's because something crazy happened. It's
Speaker 1: hard to imagine a Patrick Mahomes team ever being like
Speaker 1: just out of it. It's hard to imagine that happening.
Speaker 1: So the only difference between this and previous contests, Jack,
Speaker 1: though the Philadelphiagles are incredibly good at chewing up clock
Speaker 1: time with the running attack. Oh boy, you've got to
Speaker 1: kid the ball out of a homes hands. It seems
Speaker 1: like a good podcast for you to do that that
Speaker 1: topic as long as you want, so I don't. A
Speaker 1: boss told us years ago, and he is absolutely right,
Speaker 1: and we should always remember this boss told us the
Speaker 1: other day, not the other day years ago. When we
Speaker 1: started is you know what's the big story today? We
Speaker 1: get to decide what the big story is. And you know,
Speaker 1: if you listen to us to get up in the
Speaker 1: morning or whenever you flip out on or listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast, you know, we decide what the story is
Speaker 1: and talk about it. And I mean in the same
Speaker 1: way that every other radio station, newspaper or television show
Speaker 1: is doing. And somebody didn't tell them what story they
Speaker 1: had to cover. So on, I couldn't hate the media
Speaker 1: heard more right. And then in the old days, there
Speaker 1: were only a couple of things you could look at
Speaker 1: to figure out what the big story of the day was.
Speaker 1: The newspaper that landed on your driveway and a couple
Speaker 1: of channels on TV. That was it. So I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't wasn't a lot of choices. But now there
Speaker 1: are all kinds of different people that can decide what
Speaker 1: the big story of the day is. I don't actually
Speaker 1: know what the big story of the day is. You know,
Speaker 1: this is not the big story in my life, But
Speaker 1: looking up at the cable news channels and bounce around
Speaker 1: social media, it is the attempt by Elon Musk to
Speaker 1: reduce the size and scope of government. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just the story. The fact DOJ doje everywhere, DOJJJ everywhere,
Speaker 1: In the fact that I'm surprised our general manager isn't
Speaker 1: Big Balls today. I thought Big Balls would be our
Speaker 1: general manager. That's one of the guys that's working for
Speaker 1: Elon Musk goes by that charming and not in the
Speaker 1: least immature moniker. And is he the one that they
Speaker 1: found some old tweets or something in hand to resigned yesterday?
Speaker 1: Is he that gout or is he a different guy?
Speaker 1: I had not heard the two of those people merged
Speaker 1: as one. As far as I know, that's two different people.
Speaker 1: The racist guy in the large balls fellow is somebody
Speaker 1: actually racist. I haven't heard what the bad tweets were.
Speaker 1: It's definitely the sort of thing you can't get away
Speaker 1: with these days. The guy has a huge amount of
Speaker 1: resentment toward Indian engineers, and it was too far. I
Speaker 1: think calling it racist maybe too much. If you're in
Speaker 1: an industry that imports lots and lots of foreign workers
Speaker 1: because they'll work more cheaply than you, or allegedly harder
Speaker 1: than you or whatever, and you resent that and you
Speaker 1: use their ethnicity, I don't think that necessarily makes you
Speaker 1: a racist. So I didn't realize Elon had you know
Speaker 1: a handful of nineteen year olds on his staff that
Speaker 1: are really crunching the numbers and doing lots of work,
Speaker 1: but are certainly those who are still emotionally nineteen. He
Speaker 1: has gotten, yeah, which the tech crowd tends to be
Speaker 1: pretty immature, doesn't it. Elon leading the pack with you know,
Speaker 1: making his rocket shaped like a penis just because or
Speaker 1: you know, setting his stock price at four twenty or
Speaker 1: whatever the hell. I mean, it's a very bro culture. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're in eighth grade. I mean, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the jokes and humor pretty surprising to me. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's what that means. That was what it
Speaker 1: refers to. The still definitely little boys in men's bodies.
Speaker 1: Ah so picture brokeach always picture kind of like college
Speaker 1: aged dudes, but a lot of the humor seems to
Speaker 1: be more like fourteen year old having a fourteen year
Speaker 1: old at home. But anyway, Yeah, the whole Doge, Doge
Speaker 1: everywhere thing is really something, I mean, to shake up
Speaker 1: media and DC this way and get the most attention
Speaker 1: is something. Peggy Noonan's got a heck of a column
Speaker 1: about that today in the Wall Street Journal. Will have
Speaker 1: to read from a little bit later. Yeah, I loved it,
Speaker 1: loved it. The thing that is really striking to me
Speaker 1: about a lot of the things that are going on
Speaker 1: both Doge and like the transgender sports announcement and the
Speaker 1: the immigration moves, the deportations and roundups and the rest
Speaker 1: of it. And there are a couple of other examples.
Speaker 1: Is that the Democratic Party in the media elite are
Speaker 1: playing the same cards that they've always played of instant
Speaker 1: outrage and hastily assembled charges of racism and whatever else
Speaker 1: and there and those those ploys, those aspersions have been
Speaker 1: very successful for them in years past, and people have
Speaker 1: kind of coward and said, oh, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be called a racist or whatever, and they kind of
Speaker 1: win the day. These days, there's been a huge cultural
Speaker 1: shift and you hear all that shouting, like some of
Speaker 1: the idiots bellowing into microphones who were playing yesterday in
Speaker 1: front of Capitol Hill. And and I'm getting a sense
Speaker 1: that America is reacting with a big yawn or a
Speaker 1: big now, we're not listening to you anymore. He lied
Speaker 1: way too much. Yeah, I'm really guessing on this one.
Speaker 1: Like on the should dudes play in girls' sports? I
Speaker 1: think we were all pretty solid that that's like a
Speaker 1: ninety ten issue or something like that. But I don't
Speaker 1: know or this whole reducing, you know, fire and government
Speaker 1: employees getting rid of them than lands. I assume it's
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly popular. You can't wait to see some polling on that,
Speaker 1: or maybe we'll have to wait to another election. But
Speaker 1: like watching MSNBC as I do always to just gauge
Speaker 1: the temperature of that kind of politics. I was watching
Speaker 1: what's her name last night on her what's her called
Speaker 1: show late at night, and that's a good one. Everybody
Speaker 1: loves it. And she she led with, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of you out there scared and worried, but here's
Speaker 1: some good news for you, and then got into the
Speaker 1: pushback legal pushback against like scared and worried. I mean,
Speaker 1: unless you're a government employee who's going to lose their job,
Speaker 1: and then, no matter what, I can understand why that
Speaker 1: would be worrisome because losing your job sucks, you know,
Speaker 1: or looking for new what I've done that and you
Speaker 1: got to move and all kinds of things. It's but
Speaker 1: outside of that, why would you freaking care if the
Speaker 1: government shrinks? It seems like a great idea. And I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure how many people actually care about the
Speaker 1: government layoffs and are worried about it other than the
Speaker 1: people directly involved. The media would have you believe that
Speaker 1: most people think it's a terrible, terrible, tragic thing. But
Speaker 1: the beautiful deal. The beautiful deal to me is that
Speaker 1: not unlike the delicious Recei's peanut butter cup with its
Speaker 1: peanut butter and chocolate, the laying off lots of federal
Speaker 1: employees is joined with the deliciousness of cutting ridiculous expenditures.
Speaker 1: And so every time we can come up with a
Speaker 1: list of trans musicals in Argentina or whatever. Now, whoever's
Speaker 1: doing the work of getting that stuff out into the media,
Speaker 1: nice job, because I hear about that from someone every
Speaker 1: day or something list today it was fabulous cool. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: but anyway, as long as those two things are joined together,
Speaker 1: even if somebody, for whatever misplaced reason, would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I hate the idea people losing their jobs. I don't
Speaker 1: care who they are. I'm a soft head. I don't
Speaker 1: think these things through. I don't even know that my
Speaker 1: tax money is what the government spends. I mean, if
Speaker 1: those people might lean against cutting the government workforce, you
Speaker 1: can get them with the other stuff. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: numbers I heard Todace. If I didn't hear this, one
Speaker 1: of the headlines around this is they extended the deadline.
Speaker 1: So you know, Trump sent out that memo, perhaps illegally
Speaker 1: not to government employees that if they announced by midnight
Speaker 1: last night if they took the deal, they'd get paid
Speaker 1: through September and you can quit and go live your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it, you know, thanks for your public service. You've
Speaker 1: always been saying you could make more in the private sector.
Speaker 1: Go do it, not yourself exactly. God. I was talking
Speaker 1: to a dude yesterday, very successful. Dude was so fired
Speaker 1: up about a couple of people he knows in public
Speaker 1: service that have multiple houses and so much money and
Speaker 1: just try to nuts dedicated their lives to public service.
Speaker 1: My ass. But anyway, I wish I could say his name,
Speaker 1: because they would, for at least for our local listeners,
Speaker 1: they would be very very funny. What was my point,
Speaker 1: I had a point. Oh, so they extended the deadline
Speaker 1: past midnight last night because not enough people have bit
Speaker 1: I guess so they want to give more, give you
Speaker 1: more chance to think that over. But so far it's
Speaker 1: sixty thousand people have taken the deal, which is one percent,
Speaker 1: and they were shooting for more like three to five percent,
Speaker 1: hoping for ten of percent of people taking the deal.
Speaker 1: But whatever, not every good idea works the way you
Speaker 1: think it's going to. That's fine. Well that was a
Speaker 1: good way to start it, to make it the least
Speaker 1: messy possible. You know, if I worked in a department
Speaker 1: where it's a little difficult to look around and figure
Speaker 1: out what we exactly accomplish, I might take that deal,
Speaker 1: because Doge might be coming for you unless you can
Speaker 1: justify your existence. Yeah, and again, this is a titanic effort.
Speaker 1: If one little initial, you know, a strategy doesn't pay
Speaker 1: off quite the way you hoped it, and it's it's
Speaker 1: so completely overcovered because the media is so centered in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. As if it's some sort of big setback
Speaker 1: like second play the Super Bowl, Pat Malmes was an incompletion,
Speaker 1: they start talking about Malmes really struggling out there. Jim,
Speaker 1: it's just ridiculous. Start to show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, February seventh,
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five, were Armstrong and getting we
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, so that Americans are expected to legally bet on
Speaker 2: well over a billion dollars on Super Bowl weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't. I don't like to bet.
Speaker 2: But let's just say, if Taylor Swift and down to
Speaker 2: Kelsey's side hug more than six times, you might not
Speaker 2: see me on Monday.
Speaker 1: Hello, side hug, side hug. Why is there still so
Speaker 1: much illegal betting? I know back in the day is
Speaker 1: because there wasn't. There weren't that many options for legal betting.
Speaker 1: But there's so many ways to bet legally. And let's
Speaker 1: it's just between friends like that. You don't need to
Speaker 1: know a guy you've always used him. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's a good bucky. I don't know if you know
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Speaker 1: listening to music on the way to work on Fridays
Speaker 1: instead of news. Today, I on Googoo Dolls. I was
Speaker 1: having kind of can's the name? It's gotten kind of
Speaker 1: a nineties vibe. I didn't realize I was reading about it.
Speaker 1: They were like a hardcore, punkish out there band. Then
Speaker 1: they had one kind of small sy song that caught on,
Speaker 1: and then they just became a full schmaltzan and became
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Speaker 1: We have a great freedom loving quote of the day
Speaker 1: coming up, mailbag is very strong. But first let's take
Speaker 1: a fond look back of the week. That was it's
Speaker 1: cow clip so the week, the prices, it's tires kings,
Speaker 1: that plane which was the weak Compsutani Phil saw his shadow.
Speaker 1: Then atosphere of river still pounding the West coast, a
Speaker 1: seismic shift in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks treating Luka
Speaker 1: Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. They made the decision.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. The best country album Cowboy Carter Beyonce,
Speaker 1: My god, he's nine in country big. This is about
Speaker 1: nanoparticles of decades old plastic now being found in the
Speaker 1: human body. When they see the birds actually going up
Speaker 1: in flame, they created a name for that. They call
Speaker 1: them screamers. In Pennsylvania, police say one hundred thousand eggs
Speaker 1: were stolen. Two men are under arrest charge with brokering
Speaker 1: the sale of watches, jewelry, and handbags that prosecutors say
Speaker 1: were stolen by South American gangs. The most powerful military
Speaker 1: in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, let
Speaker 1: alone cartels. The war on women's sports is over, President
Speaker 1: Trump signing an executive order. Man, I just feel vindicated.
Speaker 1: Aerobust foreign policy is good for trade and national security.
Speaker 1: The tariffs on Mexico and Canada are just paused. It's
Speaker 1: going to affect beer. It's going to affect your glock.
Speaker 1: Oh god. US AID run by radical lunatics. Fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to do let's see a transgender opera in Colombia.
Speaker 1: Seventy thousand for a production of a Dei musical in Ireland.
Speaker 1: Twenty thousand dollars a pop to do drag shows in Ecuadors.
Speaker 1: I don't want my dollars going towards this crap. But
Speaker 1: we have actually just a bull of ones. When your
Speaker 1: government is doing you row, you fired all El Musk
Speaker 1: makes unsafe cars and now he wants to create an
Speaker 1: unsafe world war. We have to fight this in the streets.
Speaker 1: How far are we from a kleptocracy? And I think
Speaker 1: we are there. The US will take over the Gaza
Speaker 1: strip and we will do a job with it to
Speaker 1: full own it. It's a remarkable idea. Look, the Gaza
Speaker 1: thing has not worked. President Trump is taking it to
Speaker 1: a much higher level. Whoa you fired all? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: feel like we're living in a TikTok world. It's pretty
Speaker 1: fast paced. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was just we're
Speaker 1: using crazy disturbing stuff happens every thirty four seconds. Right,
Speaker 1: That isn't good? From from Nettan Yahoo, It's remarkable, which
Speaker 1: is a good thing to say. Uh, you know, because
Speaker 1: technically that word means that is something that should be
Speaker 1: remarked upon. Yes, And as it turns out, it has been.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom moving quote of the day. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love this from the Great C. S. Lewis. It may
Speaker 1: be hard for an egg to turn into a bird.
Speaker 1: It would be a jolly sight harder for it to
Speaker 1: learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like
Speaker 1: eggs at present, and you cannot go on indefinitely being
Speaker 1: just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or
Speaker 1: go bad. Hm. Wow wow. That is a challenge set
Speaker 1: before us, isn't it? To become fully formed? Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1: To be who we're meant to be, or who we
Speaker 1: can be, God's eyes or whatever. Clive Staples Lewis for
Speaker 1: the win. Are we going to get the mail bag
Speaker 1: when we come back? I certainly hope. So, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: It covers some really good ground, a bit of a
Speaker 1: note or two of dissent which we're happy to take on.
Speaker 1: Maybe my all time disgusting cynical shows you how dumb
Speaker 1: politics can get. From Hillary Clinton yesterday, Oh yes, honest, believable,
Speaker 1: among other things on the way, I hope you can
Speaker 1: stay here armstrong and getty. Hillary Clinton lowered the bar
Speaker 1: on what you can be cynical about with government, So
Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. It's just it's amazing these people,
Speaker 1: all of them. I mean, I just I have very
Speaker 1: little respect for politicians in general. They're willing to say
Speaker 1: and do anything. So more on that coming up. But
Speaker 1: the whole US AID program that we've been hearing about
Speaker 1: since Trump took office and Elon taking a part and
Speaker 1: everything again, they have about eleven thousand employees. By the
Speaker 1: end of the day or end of Monday, they're going
Speaker 1: to be down to a couple hundred from eleven thousand
Speaker 1: to a couple hundred. They're going to be in charge
Speaker 1: of cleaning the place out. That's quite the reduction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd say Hillary to call Hillary Clinton shamelesses to like
Speaker 1: call Usain bolt Fast. I mean, it's just everybody knows that,
Speaker 1: but she continues to amaze. Anyway, Stay tuned a little
Speaker 1: mail bag for you. Hate to squeeze it out just
Speaker 1: because we got busy. Let's see. Brian from Kansas City says, guys, first,
Speaker 1: go chiefs. Secondly, I'm a current federal worker and the
Speaker 1: meltdown is real. I'm loving it, even if with my
Speaker 1: job possibly at risk. You can't imagine the level of
Speaker 1: freak out from decades long employment that most of these
Speaker 1: people are experiencing for the first time. I've made my
Speaker 1: own cuts of waste in my short time here, but
Speaker 1: excited about someone making a much larger difference. That's one
Speaker 1: of the good guys right there. Good to hear from you, Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I saw a clip floating around Haley Jackson
Speaker 1: on NBC interviewing some workers who are talking about how
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to move now, and the response of
Speaker 1: one of my favorite punnits was welcome to the real
Speaker 1: world where the rest of us have had to live
Speaker 1: our whole lives. Yes, yes, you'll learn it's okay, it's challenging,
Speaker 1: but it sucks. But that's the way it is for
Speaker 1: those of us who aren't working for the taxpayer right.
Speaker 1: Pisces me off so much that you work in government
Speaker 1: and feel like you should never lose your job under
Speaker 1: any circumstances. It is a fantasy land. It is you
Speaker 1: vacation at Disney World Disneyland, and you think that's the
Speaker 1: real world because it has been your world. Brian from
Speaker 1: Kansas City, I would just suggest you and Jack and
Speaker 1: others like you find a non racist team to root for.
Speaker 1: Got to change the name of the Chiefs to the
Speaker 1: Guardians or I don't know the plainsmen. No, that would
Speaker 1: be sexist, even though they're clearly all men. I don't
Speaker 1: know something. This is a lately innocuous and with no tradition.
Speaker 1: This is an incredibly minor point, but as a can
Speaker 1: and drives me nuts. Kansas City is in Missouri, the
Speaker 1: bulk of it, and the Chiefs and the Royals in
Speaker 1: the airport, and most of the stuff you know about
Speaker 1: Kensity is in Missouri, like Fox is broadcasting from some
Speaker 1: town in Kansas today. Okay, fine, but the chiefs are
Speaker 1: in Missouri, just saying, but the name is Kansas. Well,
Speaker 1: I understand, I understand where that would be confusing. There
Speaker 1: actually is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's not the
Speaker 1: Kansas city everybody talks about it. Correct. Yeah, yeah, Moving
Speaker 1: along Arizona, Matt Rights. Guys. Don't know if you've addressed this,
Speaker 1: but I don't quite get the Democrats strategy regarding cutting
Speaker 1: government waste unless they are the immoral party. He's talking
Speaker 1: about the people screeching into microphones. We're gonna fight this.
Speaker 1: And as straight to Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat,
Speaker 1: how dare hey blah blah blah. Why aren't they targeting
Speaker 1: Republican areas to cut at least in addition to screaming
Speaker 1: about their own pet projects being hit. Wouldn't that give
Speaker 1: them a more some political currency? That's what I keep thinking.
Speaker 1: I do judo where you use you know, your opponent's
Speaker 1: momentum or whatever against them to bring them down. I
Speaker 1: don't know why you wouldn't say, yes, we need to cut,
Speaker 1: and here's what we need to cut. You go after
Speaker 1: Republican stuff. Yeah, that would make sense, although this is
Speaker 1: the rhetorical question. That is not a rhetorical question. I
Speaker 1: believe it's because government unions, which are tied at the
Speaker 1: or joined at the hip with private sector unions of
Speaker 1: all sorts of organized labor. In short, is like one
Speaker 1: of the few remaining really dependable constituencies that the Democrats have.
Speaker 1: And I think they're in half a panic right now,
Speaker 1: and they seem like they've decided the one thing they
Speaker 1: must do, and they're doing it frantically, hilariously, frantically. Is
Speaker 1: screeched that they're with the unions, the public employee unions.
Speaker 1: Where are your guardians? Well, to point out what a
Speaker 1: panic it is, Hillary Clinton yesterday said that the two
Speaker 1: plane crashes, we haven't had any plane crashes in decades,
Speaker 1: and now Donald Trump comes in and starts slashing the
Speaker 1: federal government and we have two plane crashes. That's not
Speaker 1: a coincidence. She blamed the plane crashes on Trump cutting government. Right.
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable by Hillary Clinton's standards. It would be
Speaker 1: hilarious were it not so incredibly crass. All those poor
Speaker 1: people mourning their lost loved ones, what an amazing thing
Speaker 1: to say, I mean, their tears are still flowing, and
Speaker 1: she pulls that crap anyway, moving along. This is brilliant
Speaker 1: from alnonymous guys. Now that the new trans movie has
Speaker 1: made it clear that being nominated or canceled with the
Speaker 1: Oscars is much more a function of the ideology of
Speaker 1: the film and the act and the actors, oscar parties
Speaker 1: need to change. Think about a bunch of middle aged
Speaker 1: women gathering for an OSCAR party. Used to be they'd
Speaker 1: watch every movie and make their own predictions. Now analyzing
Speaker 1: the politics of the film and the actors is the
Speaker 1: better predictor of winning than the art itself. Quote unquote,
Speaker 1: You truly would make better predictions not watching the films
Speaker 1: but researching politics. That's funny. That is funny. I picture
Speaker 1: those women saying, yeah, I really like his strong support
Speaker 1: for abortion rights and the artful use of pronouns, but
Speaker 1: he's pretty soft on student loan forgiveness, so he might
Speaker 1: not be the best actor. Good times, well said Al,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you want to be anonymous. That's
Speaker 1: clever as hell. And then an anonymous who says I'm
Speaker 1: not let me start by saying I'm not down with
Speaker 1: the whole trans craze. In fact, one of the most
Speaker 1: confounding things about it is how it's diametrically opposed to
Speaker 1: the very existence of gay people. Meaning, no, we don't
Speaker 1: accept that you're a femme gay boy. You should be
Speaker 1: a hetero girl. But then she says, having said that
Speaker 1: sex change operations are a thing, they've been a thing
Speaker 1: for many, many years. And there is a difference between
Speaker 1: a confused an enormous difference between a confused adolescent girl,
Speaker 1: for instance, and an adult who's gotten multiple surgeries, changed
Speaker 1: their name, got a new idea, social Security number, birth certificate,
Speaker 1: and mended blah blah blah, blah blah, and you shouldn't
Speaker 1: conflate the two. Yeah, that's true in a way. And
Speaker 1: although the notion that someone can quote unquote change their
Speaker 1: sex is scientifically clearly almost hilariously wrong. But if they
Speaker 1: want to present as a woman as an adult, and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, I will I will be polite. Certainly,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting question and would take more time to
Speaker 1: tease out than we have here. And then finally, this
Speaker 1: oh Scott in Hillsburg, California, beautiful, beautiful place, guys reminder
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, the Tubs fire, starting in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, burned over five thousand homes in Santa Rosa,
Speaker 1: Sonoma County, California. City manager did not activate the emergency
Speaker 1: alert system. He was concerned about panicking people. This left
Speaker 1: thousands to find out there was a fire by waking
Speaker 1: up to their neighbor's house burning. Entire neighborhoods burned as
Speaker 1: the inhabitants made a run for it on foot with
Speaker 1: nothing but the clothes on their backs. The city took
Speaker 1: the time to create an emergency alert system, then didn't
Speaker 1: have the balls to use it. Two years later, when
Speaker 1: the next fire hit Sonoma County, the authority sent out
Speaker 1: av evacuation alerts from the Napa County line to the
Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean, which, if you can't picture that is an
Speaker 1: enormous territory, putting one hundred thousand people on the road
Speaker 1: at one time. The EVA evacuation area was ridiculously big
Speaker 1: compared to the size of the fire. As you always say,
Speaker 1: the government does two things, well, nothing and overreacting. Kdotg
Speaker 1: keep depending on the government. Scott yep Well said, I
Speaker 1: got plenty of stuff I want to talk about. That's
Speaker 1: got nothing to do without rage. I don't want to
Speaker 1: spend my Friday outraged about things. But here's what Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton actually said. Then Mago, then I wish I could
Speaker 1: do a good Hillary Clinton vice. It's got to be
Speaker 1: like a grading. It a pitch that makes you angry
Speaker 1: before you even know the content of the Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: some say that's misogyny. But then MAGA fired the faah,
Speaker 1: and shit, it's accurate. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief,
Speaker 1: gotted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic
Speaker 1: controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes.
Speaker 1: Hope you're unvetted. Twenty two year olds fixed things fast.
Speaker 1: That is an unconscionable thing to say two weeks into
Speaker 1: a new administration, having fired nobody from air traffic control,
Speaker 1: hundreds of people dead, and you're pretending that Trump, specifically
Speaker 1: in the Mega movement, are to blame. So that just
Speaker 1: shows you pay nuns nothing, no attention to what these
Speaker 1: people say. Right, Oh, she's evil, unquestionably evil hashtag. So
Speaker 1: did you see the new Secretary of Transportation's response? No,
Speaker 1: I did not priceless and I will say I will
Speaker 1: go ahead and admit I have called for more gentlemanliness
Speaker 1: and decency from the MAGA movement. Sometimes it's rude for
Speaker 1: the sake of being rude, and it doesn't accomplish anything.
Speaker 1: Owning the libs and drinking their delicious tears. While it
Speaker 1: can be fun, sometimes isn't the best strategy for getting
Speaker 1: the most done. Having said that, I love this. Secretary
Speaker 1: Transportation Sean Duffy responded to Hillary, I know you're lashing
Speaker 1: out because Doge is uncovering your family's obscene grifting via USAID. WHOA,
Speaker 1: I want to know more about that Clinton Foundation? Right?
Speaker 1: That was the bank for the Clinton Foundation, A giant
Speaker 1: money laundering operation, a giant scam. Anyway, I know you're
Speaker 1: lashing out because Doge is uncovering your family's obscene grifting
Speaker 1: via USAID, But I won't let you lie in distort facts.
Speaker 1: The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before
Speaker 1: Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always
Speaker 1: exempt from Trump's civil service buyouts. The previous administration shamelessly
Speaker 1: used US Department of Transportation as a slush fund for
Speaker 1: the Green New scam, throwing away money and resources on
Speaker 1: wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our
Speaker 1: nation's antiquated air control systems and other critical infrastructure. I'm
Speaker 1: returning this department to its mission of safety by using
Speaker 1: innovative technology and transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its
Speaker 1: chance and failed. We're moving on without you because the
Speaker 1: American people want us to make America's transportation systems great again.
Speaker 1: And yes, we're bringing the twenty two year olds with us.
Speaker 1: What woo yah Sean Duffy folks, Sean Stuffy further in again.
Speaker 1: Before we take a break and get to Katie's headlines,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this out as a question today and
Speaker 1: I want people to answer it. I was gonna tweet
Speaker 1: this out last night while I was doing it, but
Speaker 1: I was probably too angry to make my thumbs work.
Speaker 1: Is there anything wow, thumb paralyzingly angry? That's another level, man.
Speaker 1: Is there anything more annoying than putting a fitted sheet
Speaker 1: on a mattress? Oh? God, I hate that. I hate
Speaker 1: doing that so much. I really should like treat myself
Speaker 1: and make that the one thing I somehow find a
Speaker 1: way to hire someone to do for the rest of
Speaker 1: my life and never again in my life. Put a
Speaker 1: fitted sheet on a mattress. Perhaps I can talk sleeve
Speaker 1: boy into doubling moonlighting aside. Hustle is sheet boy, sheet boy,
Speaker 1: sheep boy, unfitted mattress sheet please? Yeah? Can I get it?
Speaker 1: Can I get a house cleaner?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I clean my own house. I just I need you,
Speaker 1: like every week to come put the fitted sheets on
Speaker 1: the mattress. I'll pay you for the hour or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, But I can't do it. It
Speaker 1: makes me thumb paralyzingly angry. And it's impossible. I've got
Speaker 1: the short end on the long side. Okay, So did
Speaker 1: I turn it a quarter turn and it's still the
Speaker 1: short end of the long side, which is physically impossible,
Speaker 1: but it happens. I'm good at geometry. I know this
Speaker 1: can't be. No. I put sheet my beliefs on the
Speaker 1: bear mattress like he's a junkie. That's funny, you say that, Michael.
Speaker 1: If it had been my bed, i'd have said effort
Speaker 1: and slept on the bear mattress, which I've done many times.
Speaker 1: But it is my son's bed with the sensory problem,
Speaker 1: so it's not an option. God dang it. All right,
Speaker 1: here's here's what I do. I turn problems into solutions.
Speaker 1: To me, it varies very much sheet by sheet. Some
Speaker 1: fitted sheets are much easier to put on class action
Speaker 1: lawsuit against ill fitting fitted sheet companies for the emotional anguish,
Speaker 1: yes exactly, and the occasional physical injury like when you're
Speaker 1: pulling on it and you lose your grip and you
Speaker 1: skin your knuckle on the bed frame. That sort of
Speaker 1: thing that's going in the suit too, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay right, We're not putting up with this anymore, big sheet.
Speaker 1: We got Katie's headlines on the way. So that's the
Speaker 1: question of the day for me. What's more annoying than
Speaker 1: putting on a fitted sheet? Text line four one five
Speaker 1: to nine KFTC. It's a that's tough to be we
Speaker 1: did you get this text? I'll be your sheet boy,
Speaker 1: signed former government employee whole boy. I used to gloat.
Speaker 1: I used to craft trans musicals for the Irish, but
Speaker 1: I'm out of work now, so I guess I'll put
Speaker 1: sheets on your bed. Oh boy, Uh, what's that? Michael?
Speaker 1: We've got a microphone problem with Katie? What is that?
Speaker 1: What is that all about? That's too bad? I was
Speaker 1: really looking forward to the lead story, who's reporting what,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So is that happening today or over a
Speaker 1: period of time, the whole us AID, which has eleven
Speaker 1: thousand employees, is going to go down to like two ninety,
Speaker 1: which is a very elon sort of thing to do.
Speaker 1: That's what he did at Twitter, more or less, as
Speaker 1: he said when he took over Twitter, he walked the
Speaker 1: buildings and he thought, at least half these people don't
Speaker 1: need to be here. Yeah, and this this reminds me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's different in some obvious ways, but it
Speaker 1: has the same feel of a lot of the like
Speaker 1: woke insanity that you couldn't escape and you could not fight,
Speaker 1: particularly if you lived in a blue area of the
Speaker 1: country and you were dragged into humiliating meetings and told
Speaker 1: you were racist and people around you were like, like cult,
Speaker 1: it's robot drones agreeing with it all, and you just
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. And then now that it's ended, it's like,
Speaker 1: how did that ever happen? Well, this is similar to
Speaker 1: me in that we have somebody saying, all right, I
Speaker 1: tell you what, let's just cut it back to nothing
Speaker 1: then decide what we really want. Zero based budgeting. They
Speaker 1: call it an unnecessarily fancy term for Hey, this has
Speaker 1: been going on a long time. We don't have a
Speaker 1: handle on it at all. Let's let's let's figure out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like cutting all your subscriptions that I decided,
Speaker 1: do I ever watch Hulu? You know, for all the
Speaker 1: streaming stuff. I cut it all a month or so ago,
Speaker 1: and we've added a couple of back, but I haven't
Speaker 1: added them all back. But we all do that in
Speaker 1: real life. We're all perfectly comfortable with it. In real life.
Speaker 1: It's just a part of life. But then when it
Speaker 1: is extended to government, it's people treat that. People react
Speaker 1: as if that's somehow horrific. How dare you? What do
Speaker 1: you mean? How dare I? That's the way life is.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we break out of this mindset
Speaker 1: of government employees being like something sent down by Moses
Speaker 1: to service all and they can't ever be dealt. We
Speaker 1: couldn't do without them. I don't know where that come.
Speaker 1: Can only grow. Yeah, yeah, and just the spending stuff too.
Speaker 1: But I think, how do we come out of this?
Speaker 1: You're asking? I think we are, or at least we've
Speaker 1: made the first couple of steps toward coming out with
Speaker 1: or coming out of just habitual grow grow, grow, grow
Speaker 1: Grow in spending in taxation, keeping in mind that the
Speaker 1: true rate of taxation is the rate of spending. You're
Speaker 1: just deferring when those taxes are levied when when you
Speaker 1: engage in deficit spending. Well, you are a very odd
Speaker 1: person if you don't know that the super Bowl is
Speaker 1: so I've never really known people like that that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be aware of that. I suppose our friend Tim Sander,
Speaker 1: for might not know that it's Super Bowl Sunday this Sunday,
Speaker 1: but he probably knows it, but he's annoyed by it.
Speaker 1: Most of you do know. I know, Katie, you came
Speaker 1: across a list of what would be the perfect stuff
Speaker 1: for a super Bowl party, So maybe we'll get to
Speaker 1: that a little bit later in the show. And also
Speaker 1: too oh yeah, well yeah, we're far too cool and
Speaker 1: cynical to gush about super Bowl commercials. But there are
Speaker 1: some absolutely important trends in what's in and what's out
Speaker 1: in super Bowl advertising that, can you hear me, are
Speaker 1: all about the culture. Yeah, well, we only got a
Speaker 1: minute left, Katie. Is there any point in jumping into
Speaker 1: headlines with one minute thuff. I think we'll have to
Speaker 1: do it next hour, an hour or two. No, I'll
Speaker 1: be a special treat. Yeah, it will be a special treat.
Speaker 1: You had your microphone fixed, you got your soldering iron
Speaker 1: out and soldered the wires back together, and yeah, don't, don't.
Speaker 1: It's a sore point, is the technical issues? Don't? Why
Speaker 1: just frustrated. Oh, she's got to learn to read a woman. Jack.
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking at her face. Now her up here? Yeah, right, okay.
Speaker 1: I can't read different emotions when i'm wow, wow, I'm
Speaker 1: going to hr K. Do you want to go together?
Speaker 1: Then we can lunch. I do want to get to
Speaker 1: the Peggy Noonan column in the Wall Street Journal about
Speaker 1: elon fairly tempered view of where we are, not hysterical
Speaker 1: either direction. But maybe an hour or two. If you
Speaker 1: miss an hour, gets a podcast Armstrong and Getty on
Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Getty