WEBVTT - I Thought Big Balls Would Be Our General Manager 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:14.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty arms Strong 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:33.760 and Jetty and Pee Armstrong get it. We're from Studio 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.760 C seezor dimly lit room, giveing them the bowels of 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.200 the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. On Fridays, he headed 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.960 into the weekend and today we're under the Tutelagebaur general Manager, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:51.360 You Ara Kankansas City Chiefs, Racist and your Philadelphia Eagles. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:57.600 The Super Bowl awesome thaking forward to it's gonna be 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.279 a whale of a game. I hope some prediction, so 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.720 I hope so ought to be. Yeah, we have had 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.520 a lot of great Super Bowls over the last several decades. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.080 If you're old enough, you remember there was like a 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.240 fifteen year period where they all sucked. Oh, it was amazing. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.160 Pretty single time it was fifty five to ten or 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.600 forty two to three or whatever the hell, and there's 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.880 just no point in even watching. But then we've gotten 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.839 a whole bunch of comes down to the last play games. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.480 It's fantastic. Yeah. Well, I've been fortunate that my favorite team, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.600 the forty nine Ers of San Francisco have been what's 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.440 the term bad this year and we're not involved in 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.560 the playoffs. I've been watching all the other teams and yeah, 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.759 I'm telling you, if it's not a great super Bowl, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.280 I will be shocked. It's because something crazy happened. It's 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:49.200 hard to imagine a Patrick Mahomes team ever being like 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.720 just out of it. It's hard to imagine that happening. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.680 So the only difference between this and previous contests, Jack, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.360 though the Philadelphiagles are incredibly good at chewing up clock 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.040 time with the running attack. Oh boy, you've got to 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.880 kid the ball out of a homes hands. It seems 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.240 like a good podcast for you to do that that 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:13.000 topic as long as you want, so I don't. A 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.240 boss told us years ago, and he is absolutely right, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.799 and we should always remember this boss told us the 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.240 other day, not the other day years ago. When we 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.840 started is you know what's the big story today? We 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.120 get to decide what the big story is. And you know, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.000 if you listen to us to get up in the 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.000 morning or whenever you flip out on or listen to 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.600 the podcast, you know, we decide what the story is 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.680 and talk about it. And I mean in the same 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.280 way that every other radio station, newspaper or television show 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.800 is doing. And somebody didn't tell them what story they 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.440 had to cover. So on, I couldn't hate the media 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.400 heard more right. And then in the old days, there 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.919 were only a couple of things you could look at 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.840 to figure out what the big story of the day was. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.679 The newspaper that landed on your driveway and a couple 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.880 of channels on TV. That was it. So I mean, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.200 it wasn't wasn't a lot of choices. But now there 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.760 are all kinds of different people that can decide what 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.200 the big story of the day is. I don't actually 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.160 know what the big story of the day is. You know, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.600 this is not the big story in my life, But 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.800 looking up at the cable news channels and bounce around 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:20.520 social media, it is the attempt by Elon Musk to 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.480 reduce the size and scope of government. I mean, it's 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.360 just the story. The fact DOJ doje everywhere, DOJJJ everywhere, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.639 In the fact that I'm surprised our general manager isn't 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.239 Big Balls today. I thought Big Balls would be our 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:38.000 general manager. That's one of the guys that's working for 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.760 Elon Musk goes by that charming and not in the 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:47.280 least immature moniker. And is he the one that they 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.960 found some old tweets or something in hand to resigned yesterday? 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.280 Is he that gout or is he a different guy? 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.520 I had not heard the two of those people merged 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.800 as one. As far as I know, that's two different people. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:05.320 The racist guy in the large balls fellow is somebody 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.640 actually racist. I haven't heard what the bad tweets were. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.839 It's definitely the sort of thing you can't get away 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.680 with these days. The guy has a huge amount of 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:18.520 resentment toward Indian engineers, and it was too far. I 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.200 think calling it racist maybe too much. If you're in 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.400 an industry that imports lots and lots of foreign workers 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.920 because they'll work more cheaply than you, or allegedly harder 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.040 than you or whatever, and you resent that and you 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.120 use their ethnicity, I don't think that necessarily makes you 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:40.360 a racist. So I didn't realize Elon had you know 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.160 a handful of nineteen year olds on his staff that 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.560 are really crunching the numbers and doing lots of work, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.520 but are certainly those who are still emotionally nineteen. He 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:53.120 has gotten, yeah, which the tech crowd tends to be 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.280 pretty immature, doesn't it. Elon leading the pack with you know, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.120 making his rocket shaped like a penis just because or 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.800 you know, setting his stock price at four twenty or 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.600 whatever the hell. I mean, it's a very bro culture. Yeah, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.800 if you're in eighth grade. I mean, it's a lot 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.880 of the jokes and humor pretty surprising to me. Well, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.600 I think that's what that means. That was what it 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:23.840 refers to. The still definitely little boys in men's bodies. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.360 Ah so picture brokeach always picture kind of like college 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.480 aged dudes, but a lot of the humor seems to 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.440 be more like fourteen year old having a fourteen year 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.400 old at home. But anyway, Yeah, the whole Doge, Doge 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.360 everywhere thing is really something, I mean, to shake up 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.640 media and DC this way and get the most attention 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.560 is something. Peggy Noonan's got a heck of a column 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.240 about that today in the Wall Street Journal. Will have 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.760 to read from a little bit later. Yeah, I loved it, 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.359 loved it. The thing that is really striking to me 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.160 about a lot of the things that are going on 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.960 both Doge and like the transgender sports announcement and the 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.880 the immigration moves, the deportations and roundups and the rest 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.560 of it. And there are a couple of other examples. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.120 Is that the Democratic Party in the media elite are 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.440 playing the same cards that they've always played of instant 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:21.479 outrage and hastily assembled charges of racism and whatever else 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:28.640 and there and those those ploys, those aspersions have been 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.359 very successful for them in years past, and people have 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.240 kind of coward and said, oh, I don't want to 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.520 be called a racist or whatever, and they kind of 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.800 win the day. These days, there's been a huge cultural 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.719 shift and you hear all that shouting, like some of 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.320 the idiots bellowing into microphones who were playing yesterday in 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.119 front of Capitol Hill. And and I'm getting a sense 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.680 that America is reacting with a big yawn or a 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.160 big now, we're not listening to you anymore. He lied 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.560 way too much. Yeah, I'm really guessing on this one. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.880 Like on the should dudes play in girls' sports? I 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.920 think we were all pretty solid that that's like a 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.920 ninety ten issue or something like that. But I don't 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.560 know or this whole reducing, you know, fire and government 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.280 employees getting rid of them than lands. I assume it's 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.480 overwhelmingly popular. You can't wait to see some polling on that, 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.400 or maybe we'll have to wait to another election. But 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.560 like watching MSNBC as I do always to just gauge 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.640 the temperature of that kind of politics. I was watching 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.720 what's her name last night on her what's her called 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.520 show late at night, and that's a good one. Everybody 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.640 loves it. And she she led with, I know a 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.800 lot of you out there scared and worried, but here's 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.680 some good news for you, and then got into the 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.680 pushback legal pushback against like scared and worried. I mean, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.320 unless you're a government employee who's going to lose their job, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.480 and then, no matter what, I can understand why that 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.800 would be worrisome because losing your job sucks, you know, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.320 or looking for new what I've done that and you 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.840 got to move and all kinds of things. It's but 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.240 outside of that, why would you freaking care if the 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.880 government shrinks? It seems like a great idea. And I'm 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.960 not even sure how many people actually care about the 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.960 government layoffs and are worried about it other than the 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.240 people directly involved. The media would have you believe that 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.520 most people think it's a terrible, terrible, tragic thing. But 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.120 the beautiful deal. The beautiful deal to me is that 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.160 not unlike the delicious Recei's peanut butter cup with its 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:27.280 peanut butter and chocolate, the laying off lots of federal 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:33.040 employees is joined with the deliciousness of cutting ridiculous expenditures. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.640 And so every time we can come up with a 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.280 list of trans musicals in Argentina or whatever. Now, whoever's 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.600 doing the work of getting that stuff out into the media, 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.720 nice job, because I hear about that from someone every 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:49.120 day or something list today it was fabulous cool. Yeah. So, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.080 but anyway, as long as those two things are joined together, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.840 even if somebody, for whatever misplaced reason, would be like, oh, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.040 I hate the idea people losing their jobs. I don't 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.120 care who they are. I'm a soft head. I don't 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.400 think these things through. I don't even know that my 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.760 tax money is what the government spends. I mean, if 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.440 those people might lean against cutting the government workforce, you 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.920 can get them with the other stuff. Yeah. So the 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.080 numbers I heard Todace. If I didn't hear this, one 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.480 of the headlines around this is they extended the deadline. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.400 So you know, Trump sent out that memo, perhaps illegally 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:29.360 not to government employees that if they announced by midnight 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.280 last night if they took the deal, they'd get paid 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.600 through September and you can quit and go live your life. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.040 Enjoy it, you know, thanks for your public service. You've 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.040 always been saying you could make more in the private sector. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.959 Go do it, not yourself exactly. God. I was talking 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.200 to a dude yesterday, very successful. Dude was so fired 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.840 up about a couple of people he knows in public 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.680 service that have multiple houses and so much money and 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.240 just try to nuts dedicated their lives to public service. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.880 My ass. But anyway, I wish I could say his name, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.240 because they would, for at least for our local listeners, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.280 they would be very very funny. What was my point, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.679 I had a point. Oh, so they extended the deadline 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.120 past midnight last night because not enough people have bit 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.960 I guess so they want to give more, give you 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.880 more chance to think that over. But so far it's 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.120 sixty thousand people have taken the deal, which is one percent, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.240 and they were shooting for more like three to five percent, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.160 hoping for ten of percent of people taking the deal. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.040 But whatever, not every good idea works the way you 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.000 think it's going to. That's fine. Well that was a 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.920 good way to start it, to make it the least 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:38.960 messy possible. You know, if I worked in a department 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.560 where it's a little difficult to look around and figure 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.600 out what we exactly accomplish, I might take that deal, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.120 because Doge might be coming for you unless you can 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:53.760 justify your existence. Yeah, and again, this is a titanic effort. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.440 If one little initial, you know, a strategy doesn't pay 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.640 off quite the way you hoped it, and it's it's 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.640 so completely overcovered because the media is so centered in Washington, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.840 d C. As if it's some sort of big setback 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.480 like second play the Super Bowl, Pat Malmes was an incompletion, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.600 they start talking about Malmes really struggling out there. Jim, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.840 it's just ridiculous. Start to show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.320 He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, February seventh, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.679 the year twenty twenty five, were Armstrong and getting we 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.080 approved this program. Let's begin then, officially, according to FCC 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.160 rail rules and rights, here we go at mark. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.080 Meanwhile, so that Americans are expected to legally bet on 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.559 well over a billion dollars on Super Bowl weekend. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.920 Oh yeah, I don't. I don't like to bet. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.920 But let's just say, if Taylor Swift and down to 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.880 Kelsey's side hug more than six times, you might not 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:42.840 see me on Monday. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:49.160 Hello, side hug, side hug. Why is there still so 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.439 much illegal betting? I know back in the day is 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.640 because there wasn't. There weren't that many options for legal betting. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.320 But there's so many ways to bet legally. And let's 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.640 it's just between friends like that. You don't need to 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.920 know a guy you've always used him. He's you know, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.599 he's a good bucky. I don't know if you know 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.520 why people still illegally bet text us how's mailbag? Look? 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.800 That's fine? Plus we have clips of the week in 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.480 moments cool. Here's that text line four one five two 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:23.839 nine five KFTC. How had Googo Dolls? Today? I was 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.760 listening to music on the way to work on Fridays 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.880 instead of news. Today, I on Googoo Dolls. I was 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.400 having kind of can's the name? It's gotten kind of 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.839 a nineties vibe. I didn't realize I was reading about it. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:38.040 They were like a hardcore, punkish out there band. Then 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.720 they had one kind of small sy song that caught on, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.640 and then they just became a full schmaltzan and became 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.520 very successful. I do appreciate this six eight time though, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.400 Michael Mark Bumper music in six eight times, thank you. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.679 We have a great freedom loving quote of the day 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.600 coming up, mailbag is very strong. But first let's take 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.280 a fond look back of the week. That was it's 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.600 cow clip so the week, the prices, it's tires kings, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:11.760 that plane which was the weak Compsutani Phil saw his shadow. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.719 Then atosphere of river still pounding the West coast, a 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.439 seismic shift in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks treating Luka 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.560 Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. They made the decision. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:29.560 I don't know why. The best country album Cowboy Carter Beyonce, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:40.679 My god, he's nine in country big. This is about 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.079 nanoparticles of decades old plastic now being found in the 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:48.520 human body. When they see the birds actually going up 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.199 in flame, they created a name for that. They call 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.880 them screamers. In Pennsylvania, police say one hundred thousand eggs 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.640 were stolen. Two men are under arrest charge with brokering 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.920 the sale of watches, jewelry, and handbags that prosecutors say 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.120 were stolen by South American gangs. The most powerful military 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.880 in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, let 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:16.520 alone cartels. The war on women's sports is over, President 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.680 Trump signing an executive order. Man, I just feel vindicated. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:27.320 Aerobust foreign policy is good for trade and national security. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.000 The tariffs on Mexico and Canada are just paused. It's 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.200 going to affect beer. It's going to affect your glock. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:43.080 Oh god. US AID run by radical lunatics. Fifty thousand 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.440 dollars to do let's see a transgender opera in Colombia. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.239 Seventy thousand for a production of a Dei musical in Ireland. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.160 Twenty thousand dollars a pop to do drag shows in Ecuadors. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.880 I don't want my dollars going towards this crap. But 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.320 we have actually just a bull of ones. When your 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:10.040 government is doing you row, you fired all El Musk 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.000 makes unsafe cars and now he wants to create an 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:21.080 unsafe world war. We have to fight this in the streets. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.120 How far are we from a kleptocracy? And I think 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.320 we are there. The US will take over the Gaza 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.960 strip and we will do a job with it to 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.240 full own it. It's a remarkable idea. Look, the Gaza 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.720 thing has not worked. President Trump is taking it to 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:45.960 a much higher level. Whoa you fired all? Yeah? I 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.800 feel like we're living in a TikTok world. It's pretty 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.000 fast paced. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was just we're 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:58.840 using crazy disturbing stuff happens every thirty four seconds. Right, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.120 That isn't good? From from Nettan Yahoo, It's remarkable, which 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.600 is a good thing to say. Uh, you know, because 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.040 technically that word means that is something that should be 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.520 remarked upon. Yes, And as it turns out, it has been. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.480 Here's your freedom moving quote of the day. I absolutely 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.120 love this from the Great C. S. Lewis. It may 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.360 be hard for an egg to turn into a bird. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.000 It would be a jolly sight harder for it to 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.920 learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.400 eggs at present, and you cannot go on indefinitely being 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.640 just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:41.320 go bad. Hm. Wow wow. That is a challenge set 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.880 before us, isn't it? To become fully formed? Right? Exactly? 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.600 To be who we're meant to be, or who we 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.880 can be, God's eyes or whatever. Clive Staples Lewis for 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.520 the win. Are we going to get the mail bag 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.800 when we come back? I certainly hope. So, yeah, it's good. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:02.400 It covers some really good ground, a bit of a 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.720 note or two of dissent which we're happy to take on. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:10.600 Maybe my all time disgusting cynical shows you how dumb 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:16.440 politics can get. From Hillary Clinton yesterday, Oh yes, honest, believable, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.679 among other things on the way, I hope you can 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:26.160 stay here armstrong and getty. Hillary Clinton lowered the bar 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.360 on what you can be cynical about with government, So 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.080 stay tuned for that. It's just it's amazing these people, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.360 all of them. I mean, I just I have very 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.200 little respect for politicians in general. They're willing to say 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.600 and do anything. So more on that coming up. But 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.720 the whole US AID program that we've been hearing about 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.080 since Trump took office and Elon taking a part and 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.280 everything again, they have about eleven thousand employees. By the 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:51.840 end of the day or end of Monday, they're going 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.040 to be down to a couple hundred from eleven thousand 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.840 to a couple hundred. They're going to be in charge 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:02.640 of cleaning the place out. That's quite the reduction. Yeah, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.040 i'd say Hillary to call Hillary Clinton shamelesses to like 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.960 call Usain bolt Fast. I mean, it's just everybody knows that, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.119 but she continues to amaze. Anyway, Stay tuned a little 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.679 mail bag for you. Hate to squeeze it out just 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:23.359 because we got busy. Let's see. Brian from Kansas City says, guys, first, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:28.000 go chiefs. Secondly, I'm a current federal worker and the 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.560 meltdown is real. I'm loving it, even if with my 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.040 job possibly at risk. You can't imagine the level of 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.520 freak out from decades long employment that most of these 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.119 people are experiencing for the first time. I've made my 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.399 own cuts of waste in my short time here, but 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.840 excited about someone making a much larger difference. That's one 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.920 of the good guys right there. Good to hear from you, Brian, Yeah, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:54.439 I was. I saw a clip floating around Haley Jackson 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.399 on NBC interviewing some workers who are talking about how 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.280 they're gonna have to move now, and the response of 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.720 one of my favorite punnits was welcome to the real 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.600 world where the rest of us have had to live 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:10.440 our whole lives. Yes, yes, you'll learn it's okay, it's challenging, 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.439 but it sucks. But that's the way it is for 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.440 those of us who aren't working for the taxpayer right. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.879 Pisces me off so much that you work in government 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.960 and feel like you should never lose your job under 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:31.240 any circumstances. It is a fantasy land. It is you 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.560 vacation at Disney World Disneyland, and you think that's the 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.479 real world because it has been your world. Brian from 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.320 Kansas City, I would just suggest you and Jack and 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.840 others like you find a non racist team to root for. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.119 Got to change the name of the Chiefs to the 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.920 Guardians or I don't know the plainsmen. No, that would 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.040 be sexist, even though they're clearly all men. I don't 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.000 know something. This is a lately innocuous and with no tradition. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.320 This is an incredibly minor point, but as a can 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:05.560 and drives me nuts. Kansas City is in Missouri, the 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.879 bulk of it, and the Chiefs and the Royals in 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.480 the airport, and most of the stuff you know about 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.760 Kensity is in Missouri, like Fox is broadcasting from some 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.960 town in Kansas today. Okay, fine, but the chiefs are 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:22.600 in Missouri, just saying, but the name is Kansas. Well, 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.880 I understand, I understand where that would be confusing. There 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.520 actually is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's not the 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.400 Kansas city everybody talks about it. Correct. Yeah, yeah, Moving 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.760 along Arizona, Matt Rights. Guys. Don't know if you've addressed this, 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.199 but I don't quite get the Democrats strategy regarding cutting 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.560 government waste unless they are the immoral party. He's talking 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.520 about the people screeching into microphones. We're gonna fight this. 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.840 And as straight to Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat, 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.480 how dare hey blah blah blah. Why aren't they targeting 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.919 Republican areas to cut at least in addition to screaming 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.400 about their own pet projects being hit. Wouldn't that give 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.320 them a more some political currency? That's what I keep thinking. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.560 I do judo where you use you know, your opponent's 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.760 momentum or whatever against them to bring them down. I 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:11.720 don't know why you wouldn't say, yes, we need to cut, 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:13.480 and here's what we need to cut. You go after 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.320 Republican stuff. Yeah, that would make sense, although this is 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.359 the rhetorical question. That is not a rhetorical question. I 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:25.919 believe it's because government unions, which are tied at the 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.600 or joined at the hip with private sector unions of 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.360 all sorts of organized labor. In short, is like one 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:38.040 of the few remaining really dependable constituencies that the Democrats have. 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:40.920 And I think they're in half a panic right now, 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.119 and they seem like they've decided the one thing they 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:48.439 must do, and they're doing it frantically, hilariously, frantically. Is 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.680 screeched that they're with the unions, the public employee unions. 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:56.600 Where are your guardians? Well, to point out what a 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.920 panic it is, Hillary Clinton yesterday said that the two 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.960 plane crashes, we haven't had any plane crashes in decades, 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.199 and now Donald Trump comes in and starts slashing the 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.879 federal government and we have two plane crashes. That's not 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:16.159 a coincidence. She blamed the plane crashes on Trump cutting government. Right. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:22.240 That is unbelievable by Hillary Clinton's standards. It would be 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:26.160 hilarious were it not so incredibly crass. All those poor 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.880 people mourning their lost loved ones, what an amazing thing 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:33.040 to say, I mean, their tears are still flowing, and 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.800 she pulls that crap anyway, moving along. This is brilliant 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.280 from alnonymous guys. Now that the new trans movie has 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.560 made it clear that being nominated or canceled with the 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.240 Oscars is much more a function of the ideology of 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.879 the film and the act and the actors, oscar parties 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:48.960 need to change. Think about a bunch of middle aged 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.120 women gathering for an OSCAR party. Used to be they'd 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.240 watch every movie and make their own predictions. Now analyzing 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:56.719 the politics of the film and the actors is the 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.960 better predictor of winning than the art itself. Quote unquote, 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.640 You truly would make better predictions not watching the films 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:07.639 but researching politics. That's funny. That is funny. I picture 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:10.080 those women saying, yeah, I really like his strong support 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.359 for abortion rights and the artful use of pronouns, but 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.720 he's pretty soft on student loan forgiveness, so he might 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:20.200 not be the best actor. Good times, well said Al, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:22.160 I don't know why you want to be anonymous. That's 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:28.280 clever as hell. And then an anonymous who says I'm 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.760 not let me start by saying I'm not down with 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.640 the whole trans craze. In fact, one of the most 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.359 confounding things about it is how it's diametrically opposed to 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:39.720