Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and he.
Speaker 2: Arms Why the Trum Studio sne say, senor wear in
Speaker 2: a dimly lit room deeper than the bowls of the
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Speaker 1: And Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all today burned the on
Speaker 1: a Friday, head to the weekend can house burned to
Speaker 1: the tut lge of our general manager, the patriotic heroes
Speaker 1: of dog Wow, that's right, all aboard the doad train.
Speaker 1: Whoo woo. Joe go's full maga right off the bat.
Speaker 1: Yea hardly eight party.
Speaker 3: There's good, there's bad. Imagine that saying that about it administration.
Speaker 3: They do great stuff and make mistakes. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: it's so complicated. How could you listen to this show,
Speaker 3: the DoD stuff.
Speaker 4: I am so fully on board. Holy cow, Now I
Speaker 4: fully get it. We've got some great, great audio for
Speaker 4: you of not Elon's fine, Elon's great. Elon's a bit
Speaker 4: of a loose cannon.
Speaker 1: But the geniuses who are trying to reform are floundering,
Speaker 1: money squandering idiot of a federal government. Yeah, we do
Speaker 1: have some really good clips for you, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of a shame that the media hasn't done a better
Speaker 1: job of talking to these people. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: they wouldn't talk to anybody else but Fox, But I
Speaker 1: was thinking last night I wished sixty Minutes had done
Speaker 1: the same segment, because people that watch Fox tend to
Speaker 1: already be on board, you know.
Speaker 5: I hear you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would like to see the sort of outreach
Speaker 3: continue anyway, So it's the extent that anybody's interested in
Speaker 3: hearing it. Tell me about the old lady who starved
Speaker 3: to death in Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1: Right, what right? Exactly? How y'all doing? You excited about
Speaker 1: the weekend?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 1: My son's got a his first Boy Scout camping trip
Speaker 1: overnight this weekend. He's very exciting. Oh well, I have
Speaker 1: to buy some more stuff today, like plates and spoons
Speaker 1: for the eating around the campfire and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. And he's he's just he can't wait.
Speaker 3: So I'm guessing, because it's the Boy Scouts, it's not
Speaker 3: going to be like paper plates and plastic stuff you
Speaker 3: throw away.
Speaker 1: It's going to be more responsible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's really into the merit badges and wanting
Speaker 1: to learn all this different stuff last night, and this
Speaker 1: was something I encouraged. I thought it was interesting they
Speaker 1: there's no merit badge for this, but there's a there's
Speaker 1: a fair amount of paperwork to fill out, which I
Speaker 1: would have just filled out like I've done for all
Speaker 1: the school stuff. But the Boy Scouts recommended make this
Speaker 1: a life lesson for your kid about filling out forms
Speaker 1: and teach them to fill out forms, and also it
Speaker 1: will help you in future forms that they can fill.
Speaker 3: Them up themselves. And I thought, wow, wow, I've never
Speaker 3: done that before. So we're seeing his bureaucracy badge right exactly,
Speaker 3: which should be a merit badge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your life is a pain in the ass merit
Speaker 1: badge and filling out forms, which there is a certain
Speaker 1: skill talent too, you get used to after doing it
Speaker 1: your whole life.
Speaker 3: You just have to deaden your soul for the twenty
Speaker 3: minutes it takes to fill out the forms.
Speaker 1: That's part of it. Like, for instance, why am I
Speaker 1: writing my name and my birthday for the nineteenth time?
Speaker 1: Why does that need to happen? It's already on six
Speaker 1: other pages. But whatever, but all paperworkers like that. I'm
Speaker 1: not beating up on the boy Scouts at all. It's
Speaker 1: just I just always wonder that, you know, you go
Speaker 1: to the doctor and okay, you had me check in
Speaker 1: online and mark down all the medications I still take
Speaker 1: or don't take. Now, why am I doing it again
Speaker 1: now that I'm here.
Speaker 3: I'm just One of the things I found most compelling
Speaker 3: and interesting about the Doge guy interviews in audio that
Speaker 3: we're going to play for you is they made the
Speaker 3: point that, Okay, you have Agency A who has all
Speaker 3: this information. Agency B that's right across the street. Federal
Speaker 3: government might even be an allied agency under the same
Speaker 3: umbrella spends fifty million dollars trying to get the information
Speaker 3: they have right next door, right exactly that, Yeah, these
Speaker 3: two things actually tie together in that way. The one
Speaker 3: billionaire dude that works for Doge, you know, had been
Speaker 3: portrayed in the media's a bunch of nineteen year old losers,
Speaker 3: a bunch of bros snapping towels and not business experts,
Speaker 3: rocket scientists and billionaires who are sacrificing their cush lives
Speaker 3: to take on this project. Anyway, one guy said we'd
Speaker 3: like the government to be like the Apple Store experience. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't think we'll ever get there, but that's that's
Speaker 3: a fantastic goal.
Speaker 1: Hell, let's make it.
Speaker 3: Like the Target experience as a preliminary goal and go
Speaker 3: for Apple store, you know down the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how many you ever buy stuff
Speaker 1: the Apples store, but man, you walk in there and
Speaker 1: they ask you what you want and the next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you're walking out with the bag and you
Speaker 1: never saw a cash register or anything like that, and
Speaker 1: it just it's amazing. And uh, it's all it's all
Speaker 1: about streamlining things.
Speaker 3: And I don't know why incorporating the technology of the
Speaker 3: late eighties into the federal government, I mean, that would
Speaker 3: be a huge step.
Speaker 1: Forward, right, How do you explain that? Why Why does
Speaker 1: the government end up running on ancient computer stuff like
Speaker 1: floppy disks and whatnot if they're not just using paper
Speaker 1: like it's because.
Speaker 3: Fifties there's such a lack of, uh, you know, positive
Speaker 3: reinforcement for innovation.
Speaker 1: But they like spending money, So I'm just surprised that
Speaker 1: they don't like jump on the opportunity to spend money
Speaker 1: on the latest, coolest computer. Every time it comes out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get your point that just that doesn't benefit
Speaker 3: the bureaucrats directly. They're much better off spending their money
Speaker 3: on something that grows their turf.
Speaker 1: For I wonder if every advancement would mean you'd need
Speaker 1: one to one thousand fewer people, so you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. That's part of it too, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: One of the other interesting themes among the Dotch geniuses
Speaker 3: was the mind boggling redundancy that exists in the federal government.
Speaker 3: You can have more people in the Department of turning
Speaker 3: a screw to the right than there are screws to
Speaker 3: turn to.
Speaker 1: The right, but they just never get sacked.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Really interesting stuff, man. I hope they make a dent
Speaker 1: or successful or able to change the culture. I'm I
Speaker 1: don't want to see I'm pessimistic, but I think you're realistic.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I hate to even say it out loud
Speaker 1: because it just seems so can't do as an attitude.
Speaker 1: But you know, the next administration comes along, quite possibly
Speaker 1: a democratic administration, you know, we'll go full Roddell the
Speaker 1: other direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which is the basis of my frustration with
Speaker 3: for instance, the car tariffs that are about to start
Speaker 3: that I think are gonna be seen as a huge misstep.
Speaker 3: I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's a mistake.
Speaker 3: It's gonna drive up prices. Trump's trying to browbeat the
Speaker 3: carmakers into not raising their prices, and they're like, all
Speaker 3: of our inputs are gonna increase in price, all of our.
Speaker 1: Parts in twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think this is going to be a
Speaker 3: huge misstep, which decreases the chance that the vance or
Speaker 3: descentis administration or whatever next in twenty twenty eight even exists.
Speaker 1: I want that to exist very much.
Speaker 3: I want another four years of momentum for the really,
Speaker 3: really good stuff, and I think some of the not
Speaker 3: so good stuff is going to well could derail it again.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm not rooting for you know, I hope the terifts
Speaker 3: end up punishing consumers. Are they are so angry they
Speaker 3: throw it out on his ear. No, that's the opposite
Speaker 3: if I want of what I want, But Trump's.
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Speaker 7: The simple survey that was literally ten questions survey that
Speaker 7: you could do with survey Monkey. Question about ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: Was the government was being charged almost a billion dollars
Speaker 7: for that for.
Speaker 1: Just a survey.
Speaker 7: A billion dollars for a simple online survey do you
Speaker 7: like the National Park? And then there're phits me no
Speaker 7: feedback loop for what would be done with that survey,
Speaker 7: So the say we're just going to nothing.
Speaker 1: As I can say, that's one of my favorite stories.
Speaker 1: So they got to do a survey and then which
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the government needs to do to figure
Speaker 1: out what people like and don't like and everything like
Speaker 1: that with a variety of things. But if you're a
Speaker 1: private company, you'd spend ten grand to get the survey done.
Speaker 1: The government goes to the survey and somebody say, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that'll be a billion dollars. And because it's the government
Speaker 1: and somebody else's money, somebody apparently it's somewhere along lines
Speaker 1: and sounds good to me, Where do I sign? And
Speaker 1: then they don't do anything with it? He did the
Speaker 1: information that goes into a black hole anyway, How often
Speaker 1: does that happen? But what about the old lady who's
Speaker 1: starving in Poughkeepsie thanks to the Elon must cuts.
Speaker 3: The world's richest man slap the food out of the
Speaker 3: old lady's mouth.
Speaker 1: She'd be alive today, but he kidled her. And that's
Speaker 1: why I set three cyber trucks on fire just on
Speaker 1: the way to work, Oh boy, fighting back against Nazis.
Speaker 3: Exactly want to make the government efficient four taxpayers, and
Speaker 3: so is Elon and his cohort put it so many times. No,
Speaker 3: we want people to get more from social Security, more smoothly,
Speaker 3: more easily, not less.
Speaker 1: So Katie's headlines on the way in a variety of
Speaker 1: topics and a mail bag. We got more news of
Speaker 1: the day. We'll play some of the Doge interview that
Speaker 1: aired on Foxes Day. It was really damned interesting. Everybody
Speaker 1: I know what watched it really loved it. So we
Speaker 1: got all that hope you can figure around.
Speaker 6: Maybe I'm stealing a headline again Katie right here, but
Speaker 6: you know, the whole text chain scandal with Pete Hegseeth,
Speaker 6: the Secretary of Defense, getting so much attention to the
Speaker 6: fact that he's in the Philippines talking tough and China
Speaker 6: is really upset about it is a much bigger story.
Speaker 1: Long term for the planet and that's where he is
Speaker 1: right now in this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it certainly makes you wonder about the narrative
Speaker 3: that Trump is dividing up the world into fifetom's the
Speaker 3: great Powers. Russia gets the Eastern Europe, China gets the
Speaker 3: you know, South China, see whatever, and we get the
Speaker 3: rest of it or whatever. No, he's talking crazy tough,
Speaker 3: they're in their region. Wonder what it means. We'll dive
Speaker 3: into it. Clips of the week coming up, have got mailbag,
Speaker 3: all sorts of interesting stuff and those clips from the
Speaker 3: Doge guys just tremendous all of that to come, But
Speaker 3: first let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: starting with Reuters.
Speaker 8: Ukraine's Zelenski says he wants America to be strong and
Speaker 8: vows to counter Russian narratives.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Trump and company just redrew the whole mineral rights
Speaker 3: thing that they want Ukraine to pay, but they've added
Speaker 3: in oil and other energy stuff and making more demands
Speaker 3: on we get a cut of Ukraine's revenue going forward
Speaker 3: in recompense for what was not alone. I can't stand
Speaker 3: the policy.
Speaker 8: Back to you from ABC Vice president Vance and wife
Speaker 8: Usha head to Greenland amid us takeover controversy.
Speaker 3: Oh the second lady. That's a powerful gesture, is it?
Speaker 8: Why wherever CNBC US Health Department plans to slash ten
Speaker 8: thousand jobs as RFK Junior up ends the agency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that. So I saw a couple of
Speaker 1: interviews with RFK Junior yesterday. So they're going from eighty
Speaker 1: some thousand employees to sixty eight or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know, over ten thousand jobs they are going to eliminate,
Speaker 1: and he says they can do more with less. I
Speaker 1: hope that's true. I don't doubt it. I mean, how
Speaker 1: can you look at an organization of eighty thousand people
Speaker 1: in the federal government that grew little by little over
Speaker 1: time and think you couldn't eliminate a lot of jobs. Well,
Speaker 1: and if somebody said to you, oh, no, we're all
Speaker 1: eighty thousand of us are working at maximum efficiency given
Speaker 1: the no overla, lack of incentives and disincentives and government work,
Speaker 1: you'd laugh at them.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 8: From Breitbart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says three hundred
Speaker 8: foreign students have had visas revoked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to get to we got to play
Speaker 1: some clips on Marco's He didn't like the idea of
Speaker 1: college kids that in this country at our you know,
Speaker 1: allowance bad mouth in the United States, even though when
Speaker 1: we got this whole free speech thing you gotta deal with.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about that later. From Fox News.
Speaker 8: Man arrested in molotov cocktail attack at Tesla's shop in
Speaker 8: Las Vegas will also face federal charges.
Speaker 1: Good get them because it's domestic terrorism. Do we know
Speaker 1: anything about this guy?
Speaker 3: Standard issue progressive nutjob weenie? Is he yet another There
Speaker 3: was a trend of transgender people setting fire to to
Speaker 3: Tesla's at one point, but.
Speaker 1: He does not appear to be transgender. But of all
Speaker 1: the things, he's just really good at it. Of all
Speaker 1: the things you could be, even if you're going to
Speaker 1: be an out there nut job on the edge of legality,
Speaker 1: Doge is the thing that gets you fired up really well.
Speaker 3: As Elon put it in the interviews that we're going
Speaker 3: to feature, he doesn't blame the nut job so much
Speaker 3: as those in positions of power who are disseminating this
Speaker 3: incredibly fiery rhetoric about how Doge is slapping the food
Speaker 3: out of ninety year old women's mouths when they're trying
Speaker 3: to bring some sort of efficiency so that ninety year
Speaker 3: old woman has an easier time getting what's coming to her.
Speaker 8: From the Washington Post, North Korea claims to have made
Speaker 8: suicide attack drones that use ai Great.
Speaker 1: I saw that North Korea has pledged more troops to
Speaker 1: the battle in Ukraine, quite alongside Russians. I wonder what
Speaker 1: they've got.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, China is developing their unmanned aerial vehicle drone programs,
Speaker 3: specifically in reference to taking over Taiwan as fast as
Speaker 3: they can. That is so obviously the wave of the
Speaker 3: future of how people kill each other, which drives a
Speaker 3: lot of technology, is that important?
Speaker 8: Maybe Bill Gates says that within ten years, AI will
Speaker 8: replace many doctors and teachers, and humans won't be needed
Speaker 8: for most things human.
Speaker 1: Now that's a statement, that's a phrase. There's a sentence.
Speaker 1: Humans won't be needed for most things in ten years.
Speaker 1: What sense is that a good thing? The timeline was
Speaker 1: in ten years. Yep. So my kids are twenty five
Speaker 1: and twenty three and humans aren't needed. Yeah. Again, like
Speaker 1: Joe just said, don't you have to follow up sentence?
Speaker 1: So I think perhaps we should look into.
Speaker 5: How the hell we're going to structure society, right, just
Speaker 5: like if I came on in a cherry bus and
Speaker 5: said he technology exists that talk show hosts will soon
Speaker 5: not be needed in other news, now, wait on.
Speaker 1: Fing minutes, I'm one of those what was it humans
Speaker 1: that you mentioned? Billy Boy won't be needed.
Speaker 8: For most things from the This is an opinion piece
Speaker 8: from the New York I'm useless.
Speaker 3: For most things, but I'm good at some things. It's
Speaker 3: those things I want to know more about. Anyway, back
Speaker 3: to you, Katie, opinion piece from the New York Post.
Speaker 8: I just like the headline free speech lessons from Jackass,
Speaker 8: Jasmine Crockett and anti Israel foreign students.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she is a check ass. Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Democrats news strategy for
Speaker 3: regaining power, which is to swear a lot, and the
Speaker 3: problems with that.
Speaker 1: It's very funny, They're unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 8: And finally, the babylon Bee political neutrality of PBS questioned
Speaker 8: after new footage of Elmo kying a cyber truck is released.
Speaker 1: Air day. I could say this air day, but I
Speaker 1: was listening to NPR on the drive in today and
Speaker 1: they had a lawyer on there to give tips to
Speaker 1: college kids on how to handle it if ice approaches you. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where most of America is on that topic. Are
Speaker 1: you getting hers?
Speaker 3: Is out there giving advice to pro Hamas folks about
Speaker 3: having a burner phone and deleting any picture there synparathetic
Speaker 3: word terrorist.
Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me. That's their job, that's their organization, NPR.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't be their job as the supposed news for
Speaker 1: all Americans.
Speaker 3: They are Marxist. I want to tear down the America.
Speaker 3: Got clips of the week coming up in a bunch
Speaker 3: of other stuff.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: So on Friday's always driving to work listening to music
Speaker 6: instead of news and now went hardcore Counting Crows today,
Speaker 6: and I watched a.
Speaker 1: Long interview with Adam Burritz, the guy that writes the
Speaker 1: songs and lead singer from Counting Crows. Some things I
Speaker 1: was going to talk about later in that that I
Speaker 1: thought were really interesting. I didn't realize how mentally ill
Speaker 1: he is, like really mentally ill, like disassociates from reality
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, incapable of like functioning. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just watched the first half of that interview.
Speaker 3: I didn't get there yet. Huh, that'd be wrong. Explained
Speaker 3: some of the lyrics in the songs.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you dissociate from reality and you're kind
Speaker 1: of floating around in some other dream world, yeah, you
Speaker 1: might come up with some wacky lyrics.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, which is why I have a high tolerance
Speaker 3: for nuttiness in my creative artists.
Speaker 1: I just it often goes along.
Speaker 3: So if they have wacky doodle political views, I just
Speaker 3: I don't worry about it much.
Speaker 1: I just need them to not preach to me. I
Speaker 1: just want a good beat that gets my fingers snapping.
Speaker 1: That's all I want. Do you do love to dance? Hey,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of great stuff to get to,
Speaker 1: so let's get to it first. A fond look back
Speaker 1: at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 7: This is how utterly ridiculous is just inexplicable to me.
Speaker 1: It's a huge disaster. Whips of the week. What shape
Speaker 1: is the US Pentagon Building? Isn't it just a square?
Speaker 8: An NFHS Network livestream shows Northfield Girls head coach Jim
Speaker 8: Zulo yanking the ponytail of one of his players, Honey Luplice.
Speaker 1: A forty six year old Gerhard Koenik was hiking the
Speaker 1: polytrail on O Wahoo with his wife when he struck
Speaker 1: her in the head with the ronk and tried to
Speaker 1: push her off the ledge. Don't goes, Crazia.
Speaker 5: Don't goes Crazia's wig and he's whistling is way into
Speaker 5: your heart.
Speaker 1: I would like to be called Joseph, Joseph of Villinois.
Speaker 1: Can I go with Jack the Great? Just call me
Speaker 1: Jack the Great? And all I want to see happen
Speaker 1: on my birthday is for Eli to be taken down. Yes,
Speaker 1: and so she needs to tread very carefully. And if
Speaker 1: you can't take the credits of it, get the hell
Speaker 1: out of politics. Yeah, we're not provocation.
Speaker 7: This is a friendliness and provocation a.
Speaker 1: Group chat for the history books. It appears a journalist
Speaker 1: was accidentally added to a text change, and so of
Speaker 1: course I didn't see this loser in the group. Nobody
Speaker 1: was texting war plans. No, that's a lie. He was
Speaker 1: texting war plans. There was no classified material that was shared.
Speaker 1: I take responsibility. I built the I built the group embarrassing. Yes,
Speaker 1: if this was the case of a military officer, they
Speaker 1: would be fired.
Speaker 6: We're having a lot of problems with the courts because
Speaker 6: the courts want to pretend that president.
Speaker 1: What happens if one of the migrants you're working with
Speaker 1: doesn't pay, took their held hostage until they pay up,
Speaker 1: They eat, they bathe, they use the bathroom in front
Speaker 1: of each other. Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme
Speaker 1: of all time? Yes or no? Do you think it's
Speaker 1: a ponzi scheme? That's a promise to pay. As I've
Speaker 1: said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved.
Speaker 1: Do you think the white people should pay reparations? I
Speaker 1: have never said that, sir, Yes you did. I think
Speaker 1: there's just a reference to the idea that we all
Speaker 1: owe much to the people who before us. That's a
Speaker 1: bizarre way to frame what you tweeted, no kidding.
Speaker 3: I actually went back to the original Yuri Berliner piece
Speaker 3: about when he left NPR and was reminded of its
Speaker 3: eloquence and power. Jim Jordan during that hearing yesterday, we
Speaker 3: didn't play the whole clip, but I loved it. He
Speaker 3: was talking about the eighty seven to nothing Democrats to
Speaker 3: Republicans that the DC editorial officer or whatever it was,
Speaker 3: and I love the way he illustrated it. He said,
Speaker 3: it's not forty four to forty three, it's not fifty
Speaker 3: to thirty.
Speaker 1: It's eighty seven nothing. And you're not biased. I'm not
Speaker 1: aware of any political minds. Deny, deny. It's a well
Speaker 1: known road in Washington, DC. So Katie had this headline.
Speaker 1: They arrested a dude in Vegas who had been sett
Speaker 1: in Tesla's on fire Paul Yan Kim Korean Dude thirty six,
Speaker 1: booked into the Clark County Detention Center, Korean national on
Speaker 1: fifteen counts of Korean heritage. I don't know that he's national,
Speaker 1: including felony charges of arson, destroying property and another blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, and domestic terrorism, which probably should
Speaker 1: be floating around on your social media to young idiots.
Speaker 1: That isn't like your normal getting in trouble sort of thing.
Speaker 1: This is like you go to prison for a really
Speaker 1: long time trouble. So maybe think this over right, new
Speaker 1: sheriff in town.
Speaker 3: And given the reality of the last several years, where
Speaker 3: you could say torture, target or loose as many stores
Speaker 3: as you wanted, as long as you're waiving a BLM batner,
Speaker 3: the law would not touch you.
Speaker 1: Or perhaps you're a college student.
Speaker 3: You could occupy a building, you could beat down a janitor,
Speaker 3: you could do whatever you wanted and nothing would ever
Speaker 3: happen to you. And now you're getting charged with terrorism.
Speaker 3: For terrorism, it's got to be shocking to them.
Speaker 1: The high end of the charge would be twenty years,
Speaker 1: and no nobody ever gets the high end. But even
Speaker 1: if you got hat that, it's a long time to
Speaker 1: be in prison. Well, and that's a hell of a
Speaker 1: hammer to hold over somebody.
Speaker 3: Probably a poor metaphor if there's a plea park in
Speaker 3: a foot authorities said. The footage shows Kim shooting a
Speaker 3: gun at security cameras, so he had thought this through,
Speaker 3: and multiple teslas and setting three vehicles on fire using
Speaker 3: molotov cocktails. Also spray painting resist across the facility, resist
Speaker 3: cost cutting, antfort to.
Speaker 1: Make the government more efficient. Yes, Kim had very loose
Speaker 1: ties to social media groups such as the Communist Party USA,
Speaker 1: Revolutionary Communist International, Hidden Palestine and Palestine Action, etc. So
Speaker 1: he's a communist, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Deo Marxists everywhere they you know, it's it's the old strategy.
Speaker 3: Take every tension point in the US and radicalize the
Speaker 3: people who are annoyed, whether it's you know, transgender or
Speaker 3: up with big governments or anything, or up with electric
Speaker 3: cars and five minutes later, down with these electric cars.
Speaker 1: Right, there's something weird going on with this. I just
Speaker 1: can't quite put my finger on it. Like what you
Speaker 1: get super upset about the United States prosecuting a war
Speaker 1: you don't believe in. I can see getting pretty angry
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, I can't imagine. Or the abortion issue
Speaker 1: if you believe it the way it's portrayed. I suppose
Speaker 1: you could feel, you know, women, that your rights are
Speaker 1: being taken away. This one, I just can't feel how
Speaker 1: you could ever get.
Speaker 3: Murderously angry over trying to cut costs in giant bureaucracies. Well,
Speaker 3: that's this is the danger of doing what we do
Speaker 3: the way we do it, being too hip for the
Speaker 3: room in a way in that when your Chucks Schumer
Speaker 3: or your a'soc Bernie, you're Bernie's Sanders exactly when they're
Speaker 3: pitching the idea that the point of DOGE is to
Speaker 3: take away old handicap people's last dollar. What you need
Speaker 3: to remind yourself, because we spend all day reading and
Speaker 3: researching and that sort of thing, but which you have
Speaker 3: to remember is that people believe that there is a
Speaker 3: significant number of people who hears that crazy ass rhetoric
Speaker 3: and says, oh, that must be true, because they're telling
Speaker 3: me it's true, and they actually believe it. And if
Speaker 3: that they're being mobilized for the good of the government itself,
Speaker 3: being the most important lobbyist of the government.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're Elon Musk, if that old handicapped person
Speaker 1: has a disabled kid, and better to take the money
Speaker 1: out of their mouth. It feels even sweeter.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, wow, a starving old person and a
Speaker 3: handicapped kid. Let me add him, says Elon Musk. According
Speaker 3: to the rhetoric of you know AOC, which is a
Speaker 3: perfect setup for something we're gonna do. Twenty minutes from
Speaker 3: now an hour two, we'll play some of the interview
Speaker 3: with the Doge team that aired on Special Report on
Speaker 3: Fox last night, talking to Elon and the people that
Speaker 3: are working with him and why they're doing it and
Speaker 3: what they've found and everything like that. And it's just
Speaker 3: it's not that scary, like I said, I wish is
Speaker 3: what aired on sixty minutes for the rest of the
Speaker 3: country who isn't already on board.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: It just occurred to me the irony of what is
Speaker 3: so energizing and exciting about that interview, those interviews. It's
Speaker 3: a bunch of people, Brett Paart talks to. What's incredibly
Speaker 3: energizing is how calm, even handed and reasonable it is.
Speaker 3: It's not a bunch of half cock tech bros running
Speaker 3: around and you know, their shorts scort and scort guns
Speaker 3: at each other and smoking pot No, it's some of
Speaker 3: the best, smartest, most serious people in America, seriously dead,
Speaker 3: seriously trying to figure out how to make the federal
Speaker 3: government more efficient and effective for its citizens.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. Imagine.
Speaker 3: And now you can quibble about methods and some of
Speaker 3: the details of what they're doing and how they're doing it,
Speaker 3: and that's absolutely reasonable. We should quibble about everything in
Speaker 3: this country. That's why our system of government.
Speaker 1: Is what it is.
Speaker 3: But can you imagine given that And I swear that
Speaker 3: is true, and you will believe it if you can
Speaker 3: stay tuned for next hour or perhaps grab it via
Speaker 3: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand later. But if you
Speaker 3: accept it, it is true that these very very smart,
Speaker 3: very very serious people are trying to make the federal
Speaker 3: government more efficient, affordable, and defective for the citizens.
Speaker 1: Picture the level of hypocrisy it takes to be agets that.
Speaker 3: To be so in bed with the federal bureaucracy, because
Speaker 3: that's how you get your power and influence. That you
Speaker 3: are fighting against an effort to make the government more
Speaker 3: efficient and responsive, that's evil.
Speaker 1: That is selfishness on a level.
Speaker 3: That's I mean, it's it's awesome it's it's awe inspiring,
Speaker 3: how incredibly dishonest and deceitful these people.
Speaker 1: Are kind of a side note to how they caught
Speaker 1: this guy, which worries me this sort of thing, because
Speaker 1: this is going to be used against you and I
Speaker 1: at some point. So how they caught this guy vehicle
Speaker 1: navigation records because so many cars have some sort of
Speaker 1: GPS thing in there that feeds back to somewhere in
Speaker 1: his store. And then also license plate readers, which I
Speaker 1: don't remember ever voting for. So everywhere you park a car,
Speaker 1: somebody of some organization by somebody for some reason drives
Speaker 1: through and reads all the license plates in the parking lot,
Speaker 1: keep track of where everybody is all the time. When
Speaker 1: did we have a national discussion about this, I don't
Speaker 1: remember anybody running on. This just kind of happened. So
Speaker 1: between that and they're keeping track of where you're going
Speaker 1: through the vehicle records that I don't know Toyota or
Speaker 1: GM turns over or feeds the government or I don't
Speaker 1: know how that works either. But anyway, between those two things,
Speaker 1: they could finally got subpoena. Yeah, pretty easily. We're all
Speaker 1: tracked constantly with information that the government has easy access to, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why this isn't more of a thing.
Speaker 3: And if this were a story about China, we'd be saying,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I imagine right, I'm glad they caught
Speaker 3: this scumpany too. Yeah, we need to take a serious
Speaker 3: look at this as a people. And you know, what's
Speaker 3: really as a conservative, really really frustrating angering to me
Speaker 3: is that you tolerate this incredibly high level of lawlessness,
Speaker 3: especially in your blue states. Then you say valing systems
Speaker 3: are necessary because of you know, all the lawlessness right
Speaker 3: how ntually forced the damn law, including like no shoplifting.
Speaker 1: But then you won't need this. It wasn't that very
Speaker 1: many years ago, though. I could have driven around all
Speaker 1: weekend to work, back shopping, mall wherever. Nobody would have
Speaker 1: had any data on that at all. Zero, Not a
Speaker 1: human being would have known where I was. Now, it's
Speaker 1: all keep track. I was having you followed, but technically
Speaker 1: I see your point. We got mail bag on the
Speaker 1: way stay here. I didn't see this. Hanson was just
Speaker 1: telling me about ITCHI ro Suzuki coming out to throw
Speaker 1: out a first pitch in full uniform as an old man,
Speaker 1: older man now yesterday, take some mound full wind up,
Speaker 1: full pitch eighty five mile hour fastball at the catcher,
Speaker 1: how as opposed to the old jog out there and
Speaker 1: your khakis and lob it in crowded wild That's so
Speaker 1: awesome each rowe bringing it. What a great hitter.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving code of the day with great
Speaker 3: Eric Hoffer, sent along by alert listener. I threw it away,
Speaker 3: Sorry about that, but thank you for sending it, Eric Affer.
Speaker 3: The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of
Speaker 3: all human manifestations.
Speaker 1: Oh that's rough if you think about that, and how
Speaker 1: how often that's been denied throughout human history. How many
Speaker 1: people time, how many people have lived with any bit
Speaker 1: of freedom throughout human history? Very few?
Speaker 3: What the Chinese COVID drone say, Michael, silence your soul's
Speaker 3: desire for freedom.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's correct, Yes, yes, Oh that hurts. Oh hey,
Speaker 1: good advice.
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Speaker 3: I Joe Getty have frequently said that the time of
Speaker 3: the humans is coming to an end, and we should
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Speaker 1: Which I assume is in Ourgon. The beavers have already begun.
Speaker 1: All right, That's what I'm gonna say at your funeral.
Speaker 1: I assume i'll outlive you, as your ten days older
Speaker 1: than me. They put you in the ground. I'll look
Speaker 1: down at your casket and I'll say, anyway, owing to
Speaker 1: why anyway? Ohing two?
Speaker 3: That would if there is life after death, I will
Speaker 3: crack up in well heaven or more.
Speaker 1: Likely anyway, Yes, Michael, I got to like drop something
Speaker 1: in the casket and then say that not a flowers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, exactly. I just want a day in there.
Speaker 1: And then anyway, let's.
Speaker 3: See how much time do we have, Michael, practically none too.
Speaker 3: Let's see David writes to herd Jack, asking why the
Speaker 3: government uses old computer systems. Can't speak for the government
Speaker 3: in particular, in particularly, but I can relay this tale mcogg.
Speaker 3: In one of the big railroads, we use dozens of
Speaker 3: systems that all refer to a system with a copyright
Speaker 3: date of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: They tried to upgrade it all went completely sideways.
Speaker 3: I've got to summarize here, full twenty four hours shutdown
Speaker 3: of everything took place so the switchover could occur. Just
Speaker 3: terrible was so we switched back to the old system
Speaker 3: before the end of the twenty four hours. If we
Speaker 3: had those kinds of problems and all we do is
Speaker 3: move trains with thousands of employees, I can't imagine how
Speaker 3: impossible the FED systems are.
Speaker 1: I'll bet yeah, well, I'll bet Elon's got a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea of how that's working right now, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to make it better. Speaking of Elon, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Elon and the Doge Boys from an
Speaker 1: interview that they did on Fox. It's really interesting. That'll
Speaker 1: be an hour two. I hope you can stick around
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