Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and he Armsrong live from the studio.
Speaker 2: See see sor a.
Speaker 3: Dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and.
Speaker 1: Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 3: It's Thursday, Array and today we're under the tutelage of
Speaker 3: our general manager. Surprise general manager. Today it was going
Speaker 3: to be free Frank parts of Germany, but he was
Speaker 3: hedged out at the wire by woolly mammoths. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I've ever been as excited about anything as
Speaker 3: I am about this only mammoth story.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you they're gonna be I get it.
Speaker 3: You're gonna see herds of wool or pods or murders
Speaker 3: or whatever they call them, a wooly mammoths just greening
Speaker 3: across the landscape in a meadow near you any minute now.
Speaker 3: So somebody's claiming they're gonna have them back by twenty
Speaker 3: eight and they will release some bacteria or something into
Speaker 3: the world that we haven't had in ten thousand years,
Speaker 3: and will all be dead within a week most likely, Yes,
Speaker 3: But so scientists involved in the effort Jack again, as
Speaker 3: you said, making some really bold predictions of wooly mammoths
Speaker 3: being successfully cloned and produced by the year twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: The major breakthrough just this week they've managed to produce
Speaker 3: some really hairy mice.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's a step in the right direction. I
Speaker 1: guess it.
Speaker 3: Seems to me like the AI thing, where at least
Speaker 3: AI there's well, I guess in both cases there's upside.
Speaker 3: The upside for the wooly mammoth is just wouldn't it
Speaker 3: be cool to see a wooly mammoth?
Speaker 1: Right? That's the whole upside?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, Upliving the wooly mammoth would be amazing. Are
Speaker 3: they delicious or something? Is there something else we don't know?
Speaker 3: Or their their fur is the softest You wait till
Speaker 3: you have a jacket made from wly mammoth. You have
Speaker 3: no idea something like that, But I about to say
Speaker 3: it's are already plenty soft. It reminds me about the AI,
Speaker 3: where all kinds of people worn of the possible downsides.
Speaker 3: Yet do we keep pushing that direction no matter what.
Speaker 3: If there's no there's no We're gonna do it. We're
Speaker 3: gonna bring back species that have been dead forever. There's
Speaker 3: just no snopanists. So I know everybody, all ethicists and
Speaker 3: scientists are saying, could be a downside, but whatever, you
Speaker 3: gotta do it if you can. Two points number one,
Speaker 3: these folks who are you know, behind this effort maintained
Speaker 3: that because biodiversity is vanishing from the globe and beasts
Speaker 3: are going extinct because of you know, the explosion of
Speaker 3: mankind of the globe, that we need to have the
Speaker 3: means by which to bring back extinct species in case
Speaker 3: we accidentally snuff them out. Seems like a good argument.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, these people who I tell you
Speaker 3: what I give you ten to one, they're convicted of
Speaker 3: some sort of fraud at some point. There's you know,
Speaker 3: they're not going to I can't remember what my second
Speaker 3: point was, but and we'll bring you the report and
Speaker 3: have some more comment on it later, but it just
Speaker 3: doesn't ring true to me. Well, it's gonna be like
Speaker 3: you hear these stories around the world where they brought
Speaker 3: in a certain kind of mouse to eat the ants
Speaker 3: that were causing problems, and then you had to bring
Speaker 3: in a cat eat the mice.
Speaker 1: And then you had to bring it.
Speaker 3: So are we gonna have to bring in pterodactyls to
Speaker 3: thin out the wooly mammoths as they start to overrun cities?
Speaker 3: And then it just keeps going from there. And if
Speaker 3: we had wily mammoths back then, what as you say? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it might be a one time visit for every person
Speaker 3: in their whole lives.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 3: I saw wily mammoth anyway, it was something. It was
Speaker 3: like an elephant. But really, Harry, you don't say, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't say, I hope this isn't like when China
Speaker 3: dresses up an animal and says, hey, this is a
Speaker 3: new animal.
Speaker 1: It's just a dog with like you know, especially, I
Speaker 1: just think that'd be safer.
Speaker 3: Let's just shave a chow and put it next to
Speaker 3: a tiny car to give it weird perspective.
Speaker 1: And I call it a wooly mammoth. Good enough for me.
Speaker 1: Come on, you know, I was actually thinking.
Speaker 3: Looking over all the headlines of the day. There there
Speaker 3: are so many things going on that a lot of
Speaker 3: my favorite things I want I would like to have
Speaker 3: national discussions about are getting.
Speaker 1: Lost in the mix, like this school thing.
Speaker 3: So Trump announces yesterday he wants to do away with
Speaker 3: the Department of Education, and today he's gonna sign an
Speaker 3: executive order something like that, and it's gonna be very
Speaker 3: complicated and difficult, But it's just it's just like eleventh
Speaker 3: on the list of big things things going on, and
Speaker 3: I just I don't think it's getting the full because
Speaker 3: I would love it if we had a big national
Speaker 3: battle over how much do we need public schools in
Speaker 3: their current form?
Speaker 1: Who's happy with things that's writing?
Speaker 3: Certainly the current what do you call it the flow
Speaker 3: chart of management? Who you know is in charge of
Speaker 3: what policy and to what extent should the federal government
Speaker 3: be involved at all. It's an interesting discussion. I'm reminded
Speaker 3: of something my sainted mother taught.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it was my mom who first introduced
Speaker 3: to me that the idea of constantly responding to the
Speaker 3: urgent at the cost of the important. And I think
Speaker 3: that's what we do often in the national conversation.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: But I mean, you know, for instance, Trump announced yesterday
Speaker 3: we'll read his post a little bit later, but he
Speaker 3: threatened a mass Now release them all now, or hell
Speaker 3: is gonna come. Okay, Well, that's a pretty big story,
Speaker 3: and that's urgent and important, but it certainly obliterates any
Speaker 3: conversation about that. And you know that whole tariff thing.
Speaker 3: He backed off that. Soone, okay, I'll give you till
Speaker 3: whenever it is April now on the whole cars thing.
Speaker 3: Because the major carmakers in the United States, GM, Ford
Speaker 3: and what's the other one, Stilantis THATTT represents who Chrysler, Dodge,
Speaker 3: Gee in a half a dozen other brands. It's a
Speaker 3: giant global conglomerate that owns a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't like that name. Anyway. The leaders for.
Speaker 3: I'll drop of a note and ask them to change it.
Speaker 3: What can I change it back to something I've heard of.
Speaker 3: The leaders of the big carmakers went to Trump said
Speaker 3: he can't do this. I mean, this is gonna kill us.
Speaker 3: And he basically said, well, then move your plants to
Speaker 3: the United States. You know, I'll give you a till.
Speaker 3: I think it's April first, isn't it, uh April Seltom's right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: But you know, I need to see some evidence that
Speaker 3: you're really really working at trying to bring your plants
Speaker 3: back to the United States or the tariffs happened.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's a pretty big thing economically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the whole president having carte blanche to because
Speaker 3: a tariff is a tax, it's an import tax, and
Speaker 3: for the president to have the unilateral power to tax
Speaker 3: as he sees fit based on criteria he sets. I'm
Speaker 3: not comfortable with that because you know, maybe Trump's your guy,
Speaker 3: maybe is not, but your guys in office one day,
Speaker 3: they're guys in office the next day, or presume it
Speaker 3: could be a woman, I'm told, and then you know,
Speaker 3: God knows what sort of you know, I could see
Speaker 3: Senile Biden, who really didn't do anything. His advisors pulled
Speaker 3: the strings of his decreasingly decrepit puppet form. But they
Speaker 3: could insist that, all right, we're going to put a
Speaker 3: twenty percent duty on anybody. I said, duty on anybody
Speaker 3: who does not completely conform with the green energy hope.
Speaker 1: Oh right, woke garbage absolutely could have done that. We
Speaker 1: have an emergency in our transgender community.
Speaker 3: Therefore, if you don't say a man is a woman
Speaker 3: just because he says he's a woman, twenty five percent
Speaker 3: tariff on your goods, and I just I'm uncomfortable with
Speaker 3: the whole thing. Yeah, it is interesting for the president
Speaker 3: to have that level of instantaneous solo power nower of taxation,
Speaker 3: which if I recall from the Constitution as well, I
Speaker 3: think we all know the end of that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why you have to go with the whole
Speaker 1: emergency thing.
Speaker 3: It's about the fentanyl, oh kay, which I was going
Speaker 3: to say, proving your point. Just to go back to
Speaker 3: your original point, I could give you thirty seconds. I
Speaker 3: could make a hell of a good case that our
Speaker 3: current education system is so corrupt and so evil, so
Speaker 3: anti American ideology, soaked, that it must be torn down.
Speaker 3: Because speaking of the important, over the urgent, over the
Speaker 3: long term, that will bring about what Lincoln said was
Speaker 3: the only way we fall apart as the republic.
Speaker 1: And that's from within.
Speaker 3: That is the one disease that can kill us as
Speaker 3: a nation. So that must be our highest priority, sorting
Speaker 3: out the horror the rot in our education system. But
Speaker 3: I got distracted by the tariff talk right, proving your point? Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: And then Joe mentioned the word fentanyl, or I mentioned
Speaker 3: the word fentanyl. We might have a resolution in that
Speaker 3: whole Kansas City Chiefs fans freezing to death and that
Speaker 3: dude's backyard story that we talked so much about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, okay, So let's start the show. Officially. I'm
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it.
Speaker 3: Is Thursday, March the sixth, the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Where I'm strong in getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 3: Let's beak then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations,
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Speaker 1: You're gonna like this clip at Mark.
Speaker 4: You don't care about this country, and that is unacceptable
Speaker 4: if you claim to be the president of the United States.
Speaker 4: So we are here. We are not going anywhere. We
Speaker 4: are going to continue to fight back, and we are
Speaker 4: going to continue to speak lies to his truth, to
Speaker 4: his stealing and to his cheating.
Speaker 1: We are going to continue to speak lies to his truths.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm meant to say. Oh darn it.
Speaker 1: Can I get take two.
Speaker 3: On that danga? That was my applause line. Shoot, that's disappointing.
Speaker 3: That's just perfect.
Speaker 1: We got Katie's headlines on the way, we got mail
Speaker 1: bag later.
Speaker 3: How about that statement China put out yesterday speaking of
Speaker 3: there's too much news going on?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, could you be more belligerent? Good lord?
Speaker 3: Tell you what, Wennie the Pooh is a good deal
Speaker 3: meaner than his namesake, bearer of childhood literature. We need
Speaker 3: some sort of law where we deal with one thing
Speaker 3: at a time. Let's handle the education thing. Then we'll
Speaker 3: handle Israel Hamas, then we'll deal with China, then we'll
Speaker 3: deal with whatever's next. Thing one thing at a ten
Speaker 3: exactly one thing at a time. So all that's on
Speaker 3: the way. Uh, Katie's headlines looking forward to that text
Speaker 3: line four one, five two nine KFTC. Too many important
Speaker 3: things going on at once. That is the theme of
Speaker 3: the day. And then you add wooly mammoths to that,
Speaker 3: it's crazy time. Sure, sure, just another layer of uncertainty,
Speaker 3: right the markets react to the emergence of wooly mammoths. Now,
Speaker 3: the wooly mammoth is close to the top of the
Speaker 3: list of beasts I would revive from yesteryear dinosaurs, obviously,
Speaker 3: but let's let's stay within like the last two hundred
Speaker 3: thousand years, Katie nominee uh, any extinct beasts you'd like
Speaker 3: to see. There used to be a gigantic rhinoceros that
Speaker 3: roamed the plains of the United States, but that seems
Speaker 3: unwise to me. Yeah, I should get my uh, I
Speaker 3: should get my seventh grader on for this. He's just
Speaker 3: fascinated by That's probably what he's gonna end up doing
Speaker 3: in his life, is studying something like this. So he's
Speaker 3: so into evolution and various periods of animal and human
Speaker 3: development and stuff like that. But there was a period
Speaker 3: of where everything was giant, and yeah, a lot of
Speaker 3: those beasts would be cool just for the novelty, you know,
Speaker 3: the giant thing.
Speaker 5: Sure, so I have a tie between the dodo and
Speaker 5: the sea cow.
Speaker 3: The dodo so, but like the Dodo, I think the
Speaker 3: dodo disappeared in the eighteen hundreds. Wooly mammoth is tens
Speaker 3: of thousands of years. You start getting into dinosaurs. Now
Speaker 3: you're looking at it hundreds of millions of years, and
Speaker 3: that just seems crazy. The Dodo oft mentioned because it
Speaker 3: was a recent extinction at the hands of mankind.
Speaker 1: But why the sea cow? And what does the sea
Speaker 1: cow offer us, Katie? It's fun to say, Okay, it
Speaker 1: seems like a good insult in the right situation.
Speaker 3: Too, do you sea cow? I think all that's unkind.
Speaker 3: People of all body shapes should be able to enjoy
Speaker 3: the beach. I'm violating my own rules, but it strikes
Speaker 3: me that to bring back my people, the Neanderthal people,
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, so I to hang out with us.
Speaker 3: That's tough, obviously, because then you got the whole human rights.
Speaker 1: Do you get to vote? Do you get to vote?
Speaker 3: Many people believe the Neanderthals were more intelligent than you
Speaker 3: will see Homo sapiens.
Speaker 1: We just caught some disease.
Speaker 3: It wiped us out, and so you're not going to
Speaker 3: give us the right to my God, I'm going to
Speaker 3: march on you and placards done. Hey, let's figure out
Speaker 3: who's reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5: Katie starting with NBC. Trump warns that death awaits Hamas
Speaker 5: leaders and gossins if hostages aren't immediately released.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have to read that whole post Joe mentioned
Speaker 3: the other day. So I guess foreign policy comes out
Speaker 3: of tweets, now, Yeah, it does. Apparently, waits more statements,
Speaker 3: whether it's Marco Rubio or the SEC death or the
Speaker 3: President of the United States. So you get a lot
Speaker 3: of your major announcements from a tweet. But yeah, he
Speaker 3: is fairly unequivocal in his threat.
Speaker 5: ABC Russian strike kills four in Ukraine amid USAID and
Speaker 5: intelligence freeze.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't I don't like it. Where's the hard
Speaker 3: asked stuff against Putin? Maybe it's going on, Maybe it's
Speaker 3: about to go on. I'd like to hear about it.
Speaker 1: From the free beacon.
Speaker 5: Biden awarded twenty eight million dollars to mysterious quote vaccine
Speaker 5: company run by his COVID advisor and based out of
Speaker 5: a Maryland po box.
Speaker 3: There are more and more stories surfacing like that twenty
Speaker 3: million dollars to a you know, green Justice for Communities
Speaker 3: organization to get rid of lead pipes and reclaim wetlands.
Speaker 3: These people have zero experience in either of those things. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we got like asking me to build a football stadium.
Speaker 3: The Justice Department is investigat a whole bunch of green
Speaker 3: new deal craft that we can tell you about.
Speaker 1: Coming up from CNN.
Speaker 5: Three friends were found dead last year after watching a
Speaker 5: Chiefs game. Now two men face charges in the case.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what I said it was.
Speaker 3: I'm the modern Sherlock Holmes, the American Sherlock Holmes. If
Speaker 3: you will, I've figured this one out I figured out
Speaker 3: o Gene Hackman as well.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 3: But so well, we'll talk about this more later. But
Speaker 3: so if you have a party at your house and
Speaker 3: you're supplying drugs, just like your friends supplied drugs. When
Speaker 3: you go to their house, they have a plate of cocaine.
Speaker 3: He had a plate of cocaine at his house and
Speaker 3: people die from it. You're on the hook? Is that
Speaker 3: the way it works, as is the drug dealer?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: From the Washington Post, DC will paint over b l
Speaker 5: M Plaza after GOP threatens funding.
Speaker 1: Hooray, they're Marxists.
Speaker 3: Why do we have a testament to AMR organization in
Speaker 3: our nation's capital.
Speaker 1: It's insane.
Speaker 3: And even without that, the people who started it and
Speaker 3: ran it stole the money and bought houses.
Speaker 1: It just seems weird.
Speaker 5: From the Hollywood Reporter, Fire Festival too quote does not exist,
Speaker 5: Island Tourism Board claims we gotta talk about that later.
Speaker 1: That is something.
Speaker 3: Wow, one of the all time great scams and ongoing
Speaker 3: conversation behind the scenes, that's the show, but let's bring
Speaker 3: it in front of the scenes.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It is so good.
Speaker 5: And finally, the Babylon Bee husband holds up quote false
Speaker 5: paddle during.
Speaker 3: An argument with his wife, like the not the state
Speaker 3: of the Union the other night. Hilarious, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: wife steals.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's not normal.
Speaker 3: That would have gotten such huge laughs at the dinner
Speaker 3: table last night if you're in the right sort of situation.
Speaker 3: So they start talking to let me hold up a
Speaker 3: ping pong paddle, it says false on it. You know,
Speaker 3: I've got a really, really elderly neighbor to I ought
Speaker 3: to ask him next time Judy and I are arguing
Speaker 3: to come over and shake his cane at her.
Speaker 1: You have no mandate to tell Joe he can't play golf.
Speaker 3: We got such a great example that will make you
Speaker 3: so angry about your taxpayer money being stolen you'll ruin
Speaker 3: your day.
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't you stick around for that? It's coming
Speaker 1: up next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Mister Musk, what was your message in there to House Republicans?
Speaker 1: What was your message in there? You know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of.
Speaker 6: An of off trinity to improve experiences in the governor.
Speaker 1: What did he say there?
Speaker 3: Tan, there's a lot of room to what I gotta
Speaker 3: understand him, mister Musk.
Speaker 4: What was your message in there to House Republicans.
Speaker 1: What was your message in there?
Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot of room an of off
Speaker 6: trinity to improve experishs in the govern experiences and expenditures.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyways, I just wanted something Doge related
Speaker 3: to get into this story. And we continue to be
Speaker 3: amazed by the fact that at least half the country
Speaker 3: is pushing back against government efficiency as a as a theme,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 1: An elected bureaucrat.
Speaker 3: Yes, and with all the caveats of yes, I realize
Speaker 3: they're nibbling around the edges of the really big stuff
Speaker 3: and everything like that. I don't want a dollar of
Speaker 3: the money I'm earning today at work to be wasted
Speaker 3: on crap or go into somebody's pocket just because they
Speaker 3: know how.
Speaker 1: To work the system.
Speaker 3: To that, well, and it's worth of pointing out that
Speaker 3: you and your neighborhood, whatever you consider that to be,
Speaker 3: maybe it's like a four block area, six block area
Speaker 3: with a school on one end of the park or whatever,
Speaker 3: you and everybody in that neighborhood, every single time of
Speaker 3: taxes you've ever paid and ever will pay, squandered and
Speaker 3: given away by cronies.
Speaker 1: Picture like that. Well, to that on this story.
Speaker 3: It might be everybody in many small states whoever pay taxes,
Speaker 3: it's all wasted with some of these ideas. So Barry
Speaker 3: Weiss tweeted this out over the weekend. The Trump Department
Speaker 3: of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that
Speaker 3: was part of Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction.
Speaker 1: Act, which we all know.
Speaker 3: We knew before it was even passed that it wasn't
Speaker 3: actually about reducing inflation. It was one of the dumbest
Speaker 3: poise of all time. Everybody knew what was going on,
Speaker 3: but they continued calling it the Inflation Reduction Act. It
Speaker 3: was seven hundred and forty billion dollars three quarters of
Speaker 3: a trillion dollars, and it was basically the green New
Speaker 3: Deal and just a slush fund for all kinds of crap,
Speaker 3: as you're about to find out anyway, in particularly they're
Speaker 3: in particularly in particularly, they're looking at this twenty seven
Speaker 3: billion dollars that was in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,
Speaker 3: which man check and see if you sigot your watch
Speaker 3: in your wallet, if somebody tells you that I got
Speaker 3: that going, what a name. It was created in the
Speaker 3: spring of twenty twenty three and managed by the Environmental
Speaker 3: Protection Agency. The fund was supposed to be a first
Speaker 3: of its kind program to address the climate crisis while
Speaker 3: revitalizing communities that it considered historically left behind.
Speaker 1: I don't win win.
Speaker 3: I don't remember who it was I heard say this,
Speaker 3: but it is absolutely true. If anybody ever hits you
Speaker 3: with you know, it can save money and make the
Speaker 3: world a better place. Hold onto your wallet. And that
Speaker 3: has turned out to be true over and over again.
Speaker 3: So this is gonna, you know, make the climate better
Speaker 3: and revitalized communities historically left behind. Wow, it's amazing. It's
Speaker 3: a you know, it's a dessert topping and a floor wax.
Speaker 3: But it appears little of the twenty seven billion dollars
Speaker 3: revitalized anything except the coffers of a range of environmental
Speaker 3: nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.
Speaker 1: I'm cold. Twenty seven billion, Oh that's a lot of money.
Speaker 3: The Biden administration used so called climate equity. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: you talk about a phrase, hold onto your wallet climate
Speaker 3: equity to justify handouts of billions of dollars to their
Speaker 3: far left friends. The Trump administration's new EPA administrator, Lee Zelden,
Speaker 3: told the financial press.
Speaker 1: It is my utmost priority. I'm sorry, the free press.
Speaker 3: It is my utmost priority to get a handle on
Speaker 3: every dollar that went out the door in this scheme
Speaker 3: and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds.
Speaker 3: This rush job operation is riddled with conflicts of interest
Speaker 3: and corruption. Hard to imagine that that's true. A Free
Speaker 3: Press investigation reveals that of the twenty seven billion, twenty
Speaker 3: billion was rushed out the door to just eight nonprofit
Speaker 3: groups after Biden lost to the election, but.
Speaker 1: Before Trump took office.
Speaker 3: As one former EPA official put it in a secretly
Speaker 3: recorded video, it was akin to tossing gold bars off
Speaker 3: the Titanic. The eight groups that were or put together
Speaker 3: right after biden loss, we're allocated sums ranging from four
Speaker 3: hundred million to six point nine billion. Several of them
Speaker 3: were formed in August of twenty twenty three, just a
Speaker 3: month after the grant applications went live in July of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, when it became clear that the large
Speaker 3: nine to ten figure grants would be up for grabs.
Speaker 3: The boards and staff of these eights groups include Democratic donors,
Speaker 3: people with connections to Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent
Speaker 3: Democrats like Stacy Abrams. These are some of the biggest
Speaker 3: grants to individual organizations.
Speaker 1: In American history.
Speaker 3: So basically, when you found out that Biden lost and
Speaker 3: you got all that money sitting out there in the
Speaker 3: New Green Deal, the Inflation Reduction Act, you and like
Speaker 3: it'd be like Joe and Michael and I and I
Speaker 3: get my kid and I don't know, some other friend
Speaker 3: of mine together and we call ourselves the you know,
Speaker 3: make the wetlands dryer or make the dry lands wetter
Speaker 3: or whatever we're gonna go call Social Justice and Equity ammization. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 3: to help the Native people's and black kids who can't read.
Speaker 3: And we have no expertise in any of this sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. We just put the group together. We don't
Speaker 3: have any we don't have a building, we don't a charter,
Speaker 3: we don't have anything. We just say, give us some
Speaker 3: money because it's our friends. They say, okay, twenty billion
Speaker 3: dollars for you, And really that's the end of the deal.
Speaker 3: And then how you allocate it or spend it. Nobody's
Speaker 3: paying attention to that, of course, Oh of course not.
Speaker 3: You hand it out to enough cronies that you can
Speaker 3: cover your tracks, you pay yourselves enormous salaries, you buy
Speaker 3: all sorts of travel, in houses, and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's horrific. And it's worth.
Speaker 3: Pointing out that some of these smaller grants we're talking
Speaker 3: about this this is you know, it's it's much discussed,
Speaker 3: but it's worth repeating. I think that when you're talking
Speaker 3: about such enormous amounts of money, when you get down
Speaker 3: to like twenty million dollars, that surrounding error in this story,
Speaker 3: and that is more money than most people will ever
Speaker 3: see in their lives, their children's lives and their children
Speaker 3: after that. Well, how about if you have an amount
Speaker 3: like eighty thousand dollars, how easy would it be to
Speaker 3: just send eighty thousand dollars to somebody you're friends with.
Speaker 1: It'd be simple, oh, no, effortless. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you've got this organization getting twenty billions of dollars, right, yeah, billions.
Speaker 1: With a B.
Speaker 3: So who's going to pay attention to you know, two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty grand here, two hundred and fifty grand there,
Speaker 3: it's you know, it's it's well, it is graft.
Speaker 1: It is theft.
Speaker 3: It absolutely is absolutely theft of taxpayer funds on a
Speaker 3: grand scale, and virtually nobody's paying attention to it, you know,
Speaker 3: the Lester Holts of the world, who, granted don't have
Speaker 3: any viewers anyway. The mainstream media is mostly dying, but
Speaker 3: they're reporting like crazy on the latest snowstorm and whether
Speaker 3: we're gonna have wooly mammoths as we were joking about before,
Speaker 3: and who's mad at Trump and yelled something nasty at him?
Speaker 1: And ignoring this.
Speaker 3: So twenty billion dollars went out the door to just
Speaker 3: eight nonprofit groups nonprofit which is one of the most
Speaker 3: hilarious well please you femisms in the world.
Speaker 7: And particularly after Biden lost, before Trump took office, and
Speaker 7: some of these groups were put together right after the
Speaker 7: grand applications went live, just well let's form a group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're we're up with this and down with that. Right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They existed to receive the money, and so that's the
Speaker 3: only reason they existed, right And of the eight groups,
Speaker 3: it ranged from four hundred million to six point nine
Speaker 3: billion to.
Speaker 1: Add up to twenty billion dollars. I mean, it's just theft. Now.
Speaker 3: What disturbs me the most is I think if you
Speaker 3: could get these people to be completely honest, you know,
Speaker 3: sodium pentathol or catch them on video or whatever. They'd say, Hey,
Speaker 3: you child, this is the way it works. This is
Speaker 3: the way it works in every administration for lots and
Speaker 3: lots of people. It's been going on forever, It'll always
Speaker 3: go on forever. Grow up, I think, is what they
Speaker 3: might say. Yeah, well, I'd like to think the Republicans
Speaker 3: are slightly less enthusiastic about making up fancify threats to
Speaker 3: the world and all that. You know, there are some
Speaker 3: who would say, you know, the military industrial complex, that's
Speaker 3: what it is. You know, we get plenty of emails
Speaker 3: how convenient Afghanistan ends and Ukraine starts, like Joe Biden
Speaker 3: and Vladimir Putin and you know a dozen other world
Speaker 3: leaders are in on it.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well f you and FU to those people
Speaker 3: who would claim that I want so desperately somebody, even
Speaker 3: if it's got almighty after we're gone, to hold you
Speaker 3: to account for stealing hardworking people's money, you know, speaking
Speaker 3: of being angry at the end of this, which you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry for.
Speaker 1: But people work really hard and long and.
Speaker 3: Don't have the time to do the things they want
Speaker 3: to do or be with the people they love because
Speaker 3: they've got to earn enough money to get by. And
Speaker 3: then the government steps in and says, yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 3: taking some of that for national defense and roads and
Speaker 3: schools and that sort of thing, and we're taking a
Speaker 3: substantial chunk of what you've just made. And then they
Speaker 3: do that with the money. There ought to be revolution
Speaker 3: in the streets.
Speaker 1: That's the status quote, Joe, there really should be. I
Speaker 1: mean the level of cynicism you have if you can
Speaker 1: be involved in that and not like run.
Speaker 3: To your local newspaper and say, hey, you wouldn't believe
Speaker 3: what they're doing over here. I mean, you're so cynical
Speaker 3: about the entire American project. And I don't know, I
Speaker 3: don't know how you become a thief like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: how do you not look around to the country and think,
Speaker 3: you know, this is really wrong.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of things. Because the other side of
Speaker 1: I should.
Speaker 3: Get to keep my money, you know you're wasting my
Speaker 3: money is you're faced every single day, but there's not
Speaker 3: enough money for this at your school or your hospital
Speaker 3: or you know, whatever it is that you care about.
Speaker 3: How about some of this money right right well in
Speaker 3: their defense that money doesn't exist. They made it up
Speaker 3: and borrowed it from our our grandchildren, our children and grandchildren,
Speaker 3: and just increase the debt of the United States to
Speaker 3: give it out to their cronies. So it's worse than
Speaker 3: spending waste and giving away twenty billion dollars. It's twenty
Speaker 3: billion dollars plus interest.
Speaker 1: You're right. And how about this.
Speaker 3: I have heard this on this show because I write
Speaker 3: it over the weekend, I take in a ton of media.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard it anywhere else because there's just so
Speaker 1: much going on.
Speaker 3: And like you said, you know, there's snowstorms, and there's tariffs,
Speaker 3: and there's wars, and there should be revolution in the streets.
Speaker 3: It's not even most people that will never will ever
Speaker 3: know that this even occurred, that this investigation is even
Speaker 3: going on. That's the problem with the government being so big.
Speaker 3: You can't keep track of it all. And only possible
Speaker 3: power you have over this is to limit the amount
Speaker 3: of money you give them.
Speaker 1: It's the only power you have.
Speaker 3: Yep, here's twenty million dollars for a group called Democracy
Speaker 3: Green to replace lead pipes and revitalize wetlands. The two
Speaker 3: people running it, Soandja and Lameshia Whittington. They've they've never
Speaker 3: done anything in that realm before, but they got twenty
Speaker 3: million dollars from the federal government.
Speaker 1: Like I've said many times, audit to that never I.
Speaker 3: Almost want to try to get in on this, just
Speaker 3: like as a challenge to see if I could come
Speaker 3: up with some fanciful sounding name, give myself a fanciful
Speaker 3: sounding title about how we're gonna help you know, downtrodden
Speaker 3: kids read and lower the temperatures and the greenhouse gases,
Speaker 3: and maybe throw in another one fight Trump and you know,
Speaker 3: now give me some money.
Speaker 1: We got eight people on our board.
Speaker 3: We work very hard, and we're where our board looks
Speaker 3: like America. We got a Translatino and we got a.
Speaker 1: One leg at yeah exactly. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Some of this stuff first of a kind program to
Speaker 3: address climate crisis while write vitalizing communities that are considered
Speaker 3: historically well, you can say that because you ain't gonna
Speaker 3: do nothing. You've never even sat down and thought about
Speaker 3: doing anything. Oh no, please please, we claim to do what.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: One final note, and again, California was the leader in
Speaker 3: this and it's spread across it well to the federal government.
Speaker 1: You narrow the.
Speaker 3: Tax base as much as possible by claiming the rich
Speaker 3: need to pay their fair share. And if you can
Speaker 3: narrow the real tax base enough, they never they the
Speaker 3: people who actually pay the bills never have enough votes
Speaker 3: to overcome this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: It's part of the strategy. Good point. If half of
Speaker 1: people don't pay federal taxes, well then I don't care.
Speaker 1: We got mail bag on the way.
Speaker 5: Stay here an hour two.
Speaker 3: We have to get to Trump's statement to Hamas and
Speaker 3: China's statement to us, both pretty provocative.
Speaker 1: Here's a statement for you. It's our freedom loving quote
Speaker 1: of the day.
Speaker 3: Continuing with our series from Theodore Roosevelt, sent along by
Speaker 3: Michael and Haste tax Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Thanks Michael. There can be no divided allegiance here.
Speaker 3: Any man who says he is an American but something
Speaker 3: else also isn't an American at all. We have room
Speaker 3: for but one flag, the American flag. We have room
Speaker 3: for but one language here, and that is the English language.
Speaker 3: And we have room for but one soul, loyalty, and
Speaker 3: that is loyalty to the American people.
Speaker 1: Hmm. That ain't popular or that that's Trumpian. I love it.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's popular.
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Speaker 3: bag at Armstrong Yetty dot com is our email address.
Speaker 3: Indiana Lloyd writes on the topic silence. He worked with
Speaker 3: couples for years as a licensed family therapist. He said,
Speaker 3: I always communicated to my clients the importance of noticing
Speaker 3: thoughts and feelings.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how often people are unaware.
Speaker 3: Without experiencing daily times of silence, We're unable to acknowledge
Speaker 3: those feelings and thoughts that mean so much to our
Speaker 3: mental health. We're talking yesterday about silence and a great
Speaker 3: quote from somebody or other who was it. I'm so
Speaker 3: bad at remembering that sort of thing. The silence is
Speaker 3: the gateway to the inner self.
Speaker 1: How much the cs listen? How much less goes down time?
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: How much less downtime does your brain get now than
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago pre smartphone?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, huge difference and unhealthy in my mind for what
Speaker 3: it's worth. You know, I'm no guru, but I'm just
Speaker 3: one man. I intentionally spend significant amounts of time every
Speaker 3: day alone with my own thoughts. As I put it,
Speaker 3: walking my dog, you know, taking a walk doing whatever,
Speaker 3: just your community service picking up trash exactly. Yeah, well
Speaker 3: the judge she said it would anyway. Let's see moving along.
Speaker 3: Bong hits for Jesus frequent correspondent. I can't help the
Speaker 3: guys sign off, folks, he writes. Guys, those DEI groups
Speaker 3: are calling for a forty day boycott of Target for
Speaker 3: their pulling back on DEI practices.
Speaker 1: Target executives have to.
Speaker 3: Be absolutely giddy over the upcoming reduction and shoplifting. Ah
Speaker 3: ouch that punch landed speing of witch. Loyal listener writes, guys,
Speaker 3: Joe was highly amused by an elderly gentleman yelling at
Speaker 3: non existent clouds. Jack made barbaric allusions to releasing lions
Speaker 3: into the halls of Congress during.
Speaker 1: The State of the Union.
Speaker 3: Addressing Barbie, Mike Langelow offered only millennial antics, TikTok challenges
Speaker 3: and such to appease the amasses. Silliness, pure silliness, I say,
Speaker 3: of course, I would not be averse to AOC and
Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Green in a Foxy boxing bout. If it
Speaker 3: is refereed by Kirsten Cinema.
Speaker 1: I'd watch it. Wow.
Speaker 3: Kirsten cinema who was you know, goes both ways, both
Speaker 3: romantically and politically speaking.
Speaker 1: The moderate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for that note, loyal. How about this from
Speaker 3: Eric in Beautiful Astoria, Oregon. Guys, listen to your One
Speaker 3: Last Thing podcast and the Corus Skating conversation regarding cannibalism.
Speaker 3: Anybody got the slightest idea what course skating means?
Speaker 1: No, Katie? Do you have time to look that up? Anyway?
Speaker 3: And yes, I know you can do that. In the
Speaker 3: text of an email, I didn't have time, he goes.
Speaker 3: Our One More Thing podcast touched heavily on cannibalism yesterday.
Speaker 3: I will just tell you that not for the fate
Speaker 3: of art one of our more shocking and horrifying One
Speaker 3: More Thing podcasts either. In fact, you probably can't handle it.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't click on it anyway, Katie, you got that.
Speaker 1: For us yet?
Speaker 5: Corus skating Coorus Skating is an adjective adjective that means
Speaker 5: to shine brightly or to be brilliant, exciting, or humorous.
Speaker 3: Oh, Eric, well, don's what we are of our show?
Speaker 3: Certainly what we're you know. Yeah, I recall the famed
Speaker 3: and original celebrity chef James Beard once said that I
Speaker 3: believe that if I ever had to practice cannibalism manage it,
Speaker 3: if there were enough Terragon around.
Speaker 1: And then Dave in.
Speaker 3: Swinsteat Nevada, that must be an unincorporated area. I don't
Speaker 3: recall seeing it, says March thirteenth is my five year
Speaker 3: anniversary anniversary.
Speaker 1: Listening to A and G.
Speaker 3: I believe I'm not at oven Mit status yet, but
Speaker 3: I think I can get some ang scratch and sniff stickers.
Speaker 3: I assume they smell like bourbon and regret. Oh more
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