Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and show Kaddy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and he arm wrong, you get it.
Speaker 2: Friday, dimple that room people, then the bowels of the
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getting communications compound music Clouder.
Speaker 1: Pop it up. There were going to show putting on
Speaker 1: a show people.
Speaker 3: What's that quote from that that song you like to
Speaker 3: throw around?
Speaker 1: If you don't want to party something, don't darken my door?
Speaker 2: Oh from Prince if you didn't come to party, don't
Speaker 2: bother knocking on my door? Hell yeah, from nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: nine exactly. That's what we got going on today. If
Speaker 2: you didn't come to the party, don't bother knocking on our door?
Speaker 1: Right the hell? It's the matter with you.
Speaker 2: And today today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3: The Dolge Brothers turned loose on DC to shape it up.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, I hell of it. We'll see. It's worth a shot, Eh,
Speaker 1: couldn't hurt, couldn't hurt?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that. How if you're.
Speaker 2: Our age or so, you grew up in an age
Speaker 2: where Ronald Reagan said, what was his thing. The scariest
Speaker 2: nine words in the English language are I'm from the government,
Speaker 2: I'm here to help I mean, I'm here to help you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let me say that again so people can hear what
Speaker 2: we said. I'm from the government and I'm here to
Speaker 2: help you. Ronald Reagan once said, we're the scariest words
Speaker 2: in the English language. And then Bill Clinton ran on
Speaker 2: the area of the era of big government is over.
Speaker 2: And then that went away for many, many decades, and
Speaker 2: it was all about who can we give how much
Speaker 2: and how many more programs can we build, and let's
Speaker 2: throw money at everything exactly.
Speaker 3: There's an enormous attitudinal shift that became the government is
Speaker 3: here to give me my material comforts and to solve
Speaker 3: my problems, all of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and anyway, so that may have reverted. Maybe the
Speaker 2: state is on the retreat again. That would be nice
Speaker 2: if that's the case. I don't know if it is, but.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of several of the topics that we
Speaker 3: discuss a fair amount. It's going to be a long,
Speaker 3: hard fight, a couple of victories, a couple of headlines,
Speaker 3: it's going to feel great, But often the evildoers, whoever
Speaker 3: you perceive them to be. One of their strategies is
Speaker 3: to like The University of Michigan, for instance, just announced
Speaker 3: that it blessedly will no longer require testaments of ideological
Speaker 3: faithfulness to the cult, also known as DEI statements. They said,
Speaker 3: I can't require those in any department in the university,
Speaker 3: and that's great. That's a good set because they're obscene.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, the administration made it clear
Speaker 3: that diversity, equity, and inclusion are among our most cherished
Speaker 3: principles here at Michigan. So you know, it's a small victory,
Speaker 3: but just small, right, do you know?
Speaker 2: Do you understand this breaking news from the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal that happened this morning. Boeing's plea deal and two
Speaker 2: deadly seven thirty seven Max crashes has been rejected. The
Speaker 2: judge cited what he called an inappropriate DEI requirement in
Speaker 2: the agreement. Oh really, yeah, I haven't read the story yet.
Speaker 2: I just saw the headline.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just saw the judge plea deal thing and
Speaker 3: thought we probably won't talk about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize there was a DEI component.
Speaker 2: But again, you know, whether spending or that sort of stuff,
Speaker 2: I just maybe it's on the retreat.
Speaker 1: Finally, after a good solid run of a couple of
Speaker 1: decades for crying out loud.
Speaker 3: Wellan, what do you do when the other team is
Speaker 3: when you got the other team down?
Speaker 1: Jack?
Speaker 3: What do you do into a big NFL weekend? You
Speaker 3: don't know this, You're you got no chance the other
Speaker 3: teams down.
Speaker 1: You step on of their throat. O wow. You don't
Speaker 1: let them back in the game, don't let them hang around.
Speaker 1: You crush them. Somewhat graphic.
Speaker 3: If you're din't golf your match play, you're up five,
Speaker 3: you go up seven.
Speaker 1: You put your foot out their throat.
Speaker 2: I wish I could figure out a way as a
Speaker 2: parent to not get stressed out about buying gifts for
Speaker 2: kids for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't, but I do.
Speaker 2: I have, and I am again this year as Christmas
Speaker 2: is approaching and trying to figure out what I'm going
Speaker 2: to get the kids or how much is too much
Speaker 2: or too little, or or what or getting them what
Speaker 2: they want or not getting what they want or all
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. I just I'm not good at
Speaker 2: doing that and making it fun.
Speaker 1: For some reason. It's it's it's it's a task, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a burden for me as a person, you're
Speaker 1: alone in that instead of something that should be enjoyable.
Speaker 1: A lot of people stress about that.
Speaker 2: It just it seems like they're doing it. Seems like
Speaker 2: I'm doing something wrong. If it's a burden and and
Speaker 2: and and unpleasant as opposed to something joyous, it doesn't
Speaker 2: even have to be joyous. I'd settle for breaking even.
Speaker 2: I'd settle for neutral, like when you go to the
Speaker 2: grocery store pick up milk. I'd settle for neutral as
Speaker 2: opposed to you know, stressful burden.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: And while there is a great deal of love and
Speaker 3: fun in raising teenagers, at times, it can be like
Speaker 3: the US's relationship with Turkey.
Speaker 1: It's an uneasy alliance. Yeah, I will have two teenagers
Speaker 1: in two weeks, although only one of them has made
Speaker 1: the teenager turn into he'd just assume I wasn't around, So.
Speaker 2: That makes it somewhat easier. I guess I realized that's
Speaker 2: part of the li But they both are to the
Speaker 2: age where they mostly want clothes for Christmas, and uh, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: And I don't know how much fun that's going to
Speaker 2: be to play with your new pants on Christmas afternoon.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know whatever.
Speaker 3: I know, well, I would suggest, and I'm sure Michael
Speaker 3: agrees with me. Gifts they'll always treasure, like a nice
Speaker 3: writing tablet and some gel pens to practice their penmanship
Speaker 3: in an abacus helps them better understand mathematics.
Speaker 1: My excellent idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, learning tools exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's an abacus. Son.
Speaker 2: My son last night had a biology thing and usually
Speaker 2: I can help with homework, but he brought me down something.
Speaker 1: He said, do you understand any of this?
Speaker 2: And I looked at it and I read like for
Speaker 2: thirty seconds and thought, I don't have the slightest idea
Speaker 2: what any of this is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know where to start.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure if I googled it and started
Speaker 2: from the beginning, I could learn it, but it might
Speaker 2: take me an hour. There certainly wasn't Oh sure I
Speaker 2: help you with that?
Speaker 1: Wow? What was the topic? Briefly? Did you get that far?
Speaker 2: Was it like?
Speaker 1: Was photosynthesis or cell division?
Speaker 2: Different kinds of plants breeding together, and what traits would
Speaker 2: take over there? Unnatural putting it and different? What traits
Speaker 2: would take over? And you had to form a grid
Speaker 2: of what kind of plant you're probably, but anyway, it's
Speaker 2: very specific, and I had genetics.
Speaker 1: You do it using terms I don't know if I
Speaker 1: ever learned. So I often think, is this something I
Speaker 1: did I never learn this because he's going to a
Speaker 1: private school that might be teaching him. Suff I didn't
Speaker 1: learn in a public school? Or did I learn this?
Speaker 1: And like I have zero recognition, in which case, in
Speaker 1: my son's ways saying why am I gonna lose use this? See,
Speaker 1: you don't remember and you're fine, And I was thinking,
Speaker 1: just because you're right, son, doesn't mean you shouldn't shut
Speaker 1: up and learn something you'll never need.
Speaker 2: I thought, I wonder if I did learn this, and
Speaker 2: like I have zero recognition of it, not just oh
Speaker 2: yeah kind of a has a mazing memory.
Speaker 1: Zero, in which case you have to ask the question,
Speaker 1: don't you what is the point?
Speaker 3: Well, it was a tool you didn't use. I just
Speaker 3: got rid of a saw minor saw. I'm never gonna
Speaker 3: use it again, And I saw but I had the tool.
Speaker 3: I used it a little bit, and I decided I
Speaker 3: didn't need it anymore. Your day to day life does
Speaker 3: not require a knowledge of alleles and other you know,
Speaker 3: genetic mumbo jumbo, which again I kind of remember some
Speaker 3: of the words, but sure's heck not.
Speaker 1: What they mean. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I found all that stuff fascinating. I did too basic genetics.
Speaker 3: I never got beyond that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, we should start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this is how
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Speaker 3: See?
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Speaker 2: whoever's buying stuff for people.
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Speaker 4: As Biden took part in the annual lighting of the
Speaker 4: White House Christmas tree. Not only did he light the
Speaker 4: tree this year, he gave it a preemptive pardon just in.
Speaker 1: Case it yeah, calls over on someone.
Speaker 4: Or gets all coked up and throws its gun in
Speaker 4: the dumpster hood. They kept referring to it as Biden's
Speaker 4: final tree lighting ceremony, which, when you're his age and
Speaker 4: probably not what you want to hear. Everything you could,
Speaker 4: you do, could be your final time doing it is
Speaker 4: could also be his last time wearing shoes outside.
Speaker 1: Wow from the liberal.
Speaker 2: Kimmel The age shots are one thing, But man, that
Speaker 2: was a pointed joke about Hunter Biden's pardon. Get coked
Speaker 2: up and throw a gun and dumpster.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: The more I think about and read about the preemptive
Speaker 3: blanket pardon and the fact that, God help us, they're
Speaker 3: considering bestowing that on other people, the more I think
Speaker 3: it's one of the more dangerous and notable moments in
Speaker 3: presidential history.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I think this is going to emerge
Speaker 2: as the worst thing Joe Biden ever did or already has.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's a that's a hell of a list.
Speaker 3: But I don't think you're wrong.
Speaker 2: I was listening to the Dispatch, which were fans of
Speaker 2: They have their lawyers on their advisory opinions taking a
Speaker 2: look at things, and Sarahsger and David French, both Harvard
Speaker 2: lawyer people, looking at the pardon and like really getting
Speaker 2: into the nitty gritty of the legal but they're both
Speaker 2: super anti Trump, angry as hell over this, horrified, mostly
Speaker 2: because of the attacking the Justice Department, that's where the
Speaker 2: rubber meets the road on this. Everybody agrees. You pardon
Speaker 2: your kid, We get it. You attack the Justice Department
Speaker 2: and act like this was a phony political witch hunt. Okay,
Speaker 2: now you're into crazyville and just destroying major institutions and
Speaker 2: all kinds of bad stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh and as they pointed out, so no whiff.
Speaker 5: You didn't.
Speaker 2: Nobody's ever mentioned anything in the Biden White House about
Speaker 2: political prosecutions around Trump. All of those court cases, all
Speaker 2: of them that happened to come up during a presidential election,
Speaker 2: completely legit and the timing and everything, but the one
Speaker 2: against your son absolutely so political.
Speaker 1: I had to pardon him. Yeah, give me a break.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: And maybe it's because Joe Biden's senile or his nut
Speaker 3: job wife, if fake doctor is calling the shots. But
Speaker 3: his rationale, that conspiracy theory against his own Justice Department,
Speaker 3: again ignoring all the obvious lawfair that's been going on
Speaker 3: in the other direction, has been bought by exactly nobody.
Speaker 3: There are a couple of minor waste of time talking
Speaker 3: heads on cable news that are making noises like.
Speaker 1: Well, the president has a case. It makes a good point,
Speaker 1: but nobody actually believes.
Speaker 3: It, So why would you pooh all over what tread
Speaker 3: of credibility you have left in your quote unquote legacy
Speaker 3: when when you have the card. Look, I love the boy,
Speaker 3: I have this power. I've got a magic wand I'm
Speaker 3: gonna use it. I know you hate me for it.
Speaker 3: I apologize, but my son's a screw up, and I'm
Speaker 3: an old man. I can't stand to see him go
Speaker 3: to prison.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Well, I got some theories, but we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: more later. How does mailbag look pretty good? But we
Speaker 2: have to give way to cow of course. Clips of
Speaker 2: the week awesome, that's on the way, And here's our
Speaker 2: text line four one five two nine five k ftc.
Speaker 1: Armstrong And in a sign that Pete Hegseth is definitely
Speaker 1: not bowing out. He is agreed to the FBI background checking.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna begin. So there was some speculation yesterday
Speaker 1: that when he didn't go to mar A Lago that
Speaker 1: the deal was up or jig was up or whatever,
Speaker 1: but apparently not coming up.
Speaker 3: Mail Bag freedom loving Quote of the day. All sorts
Speaker 3: of unpacking of more of the oral arguments before the
Speaker 3: Spring Court, the more I and other people dig into it,
Speaker 3: the more insane, the whole gender bending madness becomes all
Speaker 3: sorts of good stuff to get to. But first, let's
Speaker 3: take a fond look back at the week that was.
Speaker 3: It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 1: I'm in the final weeks of my presidency. You don't
Speaker 1: have to clap through that. Wow, I got nothing for
Speaker 1: you on that. The whips of the week, Pete Hegseeth
Speaker 1: is digging his heels in. I'm not gonna have a
Speaker 1: dream that all believe that he is not that man
Speaker 1: he was seven years ago.
Speaker 3: Cash Patel, he is the most unfairly maligned person that
Speaker 3: I work with.
Speaker 1: Trump's enemies quote should be very afraid. Yes, we're going
Speaker 1: to come after the people in the media.
Speaker 6: The court has to treat it like all other forms
Speaker 6: of sex discrimination.
Speaker 2: Countries that have been at the forefront of this are
Speaker 2: pumping the breaks.
Speaker 5: Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking astrid.
Speaker 1: These are young people who may have known since they
Speaker 1: were two years old exactly who they are. And have
Speaker 1: you ruled out a pardon for your son?
Speaker 2: Yes, no reasonable person who looks at the facts of
Speaker 2: Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was
Speaker 2: singled out.
Speaker 5: He changed this decision this weekend because he believes in the.
Speaker 1: Justice of sul Why don't you go ahead and pardon
Speaker 1: with Donald Trumpy.
Speaker 2: They are the goats of this favorite form of corruption.
Speaker 2: That if the hostages are not released prior to January twentieth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, there will be all hell to pay
Speaker 2: in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Trump joked to him, Then maybe.
Speaker 3: Canada should become the fifty first state and Trudeau could
Speaker 3: become its governor.
Speaker 1: We do have too much regulation in this country. This
Speaker 1: country is so set up to grow.
Speaker 3: But when it came to trimming the fat out of Twitter,
Speaker 3: what he basically did is just open the door for
Speaker 3: Nazis and Hamas.
Speaker 6: The Syrian military is rushing and reinforcements, as rebels expand,
Speaker 6: they're deadly offensive.
Speaker 1: A lot of the impulsion backers of Syria who have
Speaker 1: supported it and kept the rebels from the duel are
Speaker 1: no longer as powerful as they would.
Speaker 2: The possible message, which appears to include the words deny, depose, and.
Speaker 1: Defend, but I can't tell you it. Nobody enjoys flying
Speaker 1: in your airlines. It's a disaster. Now go poop in
Speaker 1: a bucket, you beasts.
Speaker 5: This is behind, who brought it in, pitched its tail touchdown.
Speaker 2: Really feels like the Bills year. Sometimes sports teams just
Speaker 2: have that the magic happens. I think the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 2: are that team this year.
Speaker 3: Oh you just made Bills Nation shudder and terror as
Speaker 3: they felt that way before, or anybody longer old enough
Speaker 3: to know knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom.
Speaker 3: Lovely quote of the day, wrapping up our series on
Speaker 3: the law. This one from one Martin Luther King, Junior.
Speaker 3: And this one could spawn a long, long discas well,
Speaker 3: hell a book, multiple books. I submit that an individual
Speaker 3: who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust,
Speaker 3: and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order
Speaker 3: to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
Speaker 3: is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, One notable aspect of that quote that's often left
Speaker 3: out or glossed over, and our little college revolutionaries would
Speaker 3: do well to remember this is King makes clear you've
Speaker 3: got to suffer the consequences. That's part of the whole
Speaker 3: standing up against injustice thing. If you stand up against
Speaker 3: what you perceive to be injustice and then cry and whine.
Speaker 1: You're hurting me, you're squeezing me too much.
Speaker 3: Let me go back to class. I have a test tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You're nothing, You're a coward. I wish we had time
Speaker 3: for mailbag. Perhaps we'll sprinkle it in a little bit
Speaker 3: later on, because we've got some great comments about all
Speaker 3: sorts of stuff from the good folks. But we're up
Speaker 3: against a hard break.
Speaker 2: As we say in the Business Rock on Mark Alprin's
Speaker 2: reporting today and is newsletter that I read every morning,
Speaker 2: is the tide is turned on.
Speaker 1: Hegzaff.
Speaker 2: It's still, you know, like a coin flip, whether or
Speaker 2: not he'll get through to be sec deaf, but the
Speaker 2: tide has turned all the.
Speaker 1: Not a chance. Vibes that were happening earlier in the
Speaker 1: week are gone away.
Speaker 3: So it goes with high school gossip, and that's a
Speaker 3: lot of belt Way, you know.
Speaker 1: Jabbering is absolutely armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2: Usually because at the end of the year, our last show,
Speaker 2: we do our Clips of the year and then we
Speaker 2: name a clip of the year, and then we usually
Speaker 2: have a top five or top ten or whatever clips
Speaker 2: of the year, and then we vote what's the clip
Speaker 2: of the year, and it's usually something funny or at
Speaker 2: standing or whatever. I think things are getting weird and
Speaker 2: getting weird fast from Elon was last year's clip of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: Things are getting weird and they getting weird fast. Which
Speaker 1: is a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I this is like the most boring of
Speaker 2: all time. But I think this should at least make
Speaker 2: the finals.
Speaker 1: This is a speaker of the freaking house Mike Johnson yesterday.
Speaker 2: Government is too big, it does too many things, and
Speaker 2: it does almost nothing well, and the taxpayers deserve better.
Speaker 1: There you go. When's the last time somebody at that
Speaker 1: level said that.
Speaker 3: I'd like to hoist them up on my shoulders and
Speaker 3: carry them off the field for just saying that, thanks
Speaker 3: a start.
Speaker 2: Is too big, it does too many things, and it
Speaker 2: does almost nothing well, and.
Speaker 1: The taxpayers deserve better. Show a hands who doesn't believe that? Right?
Speaker 1: Where am I? Where do I march? Who do I shoot? What?
Speaker 1: Can we start this revolution? Now? Who do I shoot? Wow?
Speaker 1: You you started there?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: That was that was That was the metaphorical, of course,
Speaker 3: but the idea being, hey, let's have another revolution, a
Speaker 3: revolution of and this is getting into the whole Doge mission.
Speaker 3: Kim Stressel with a brilliant piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3: She's one of my favorite thinkers. I just I'll hit
Speaker 3: you with part of it. But this is this is
Speaker 3: like thirty thousand feet But that's important.
Speaker 1: Be well.
Speaker 3: I'll just shease far more eloquent than I am, so
Speaker 3: I'll let her speak. In the wake of the Obama
Speaker 3: IRS scandal, you remember that when all the conservative groups
Speaker 3: were getting targeted and couldn't get their four to oh
Speaker 3: one C three XYZ status. Remember tea party groups were
Speaker 3: being discriminated against. A well meaning GOP congressman posed this question,
Speaker 3: what rules might Congress enact to ensure that the tax
Speaker 3: bureaucrats couldn't again harass civic minded Americans. It was the
Speaker 3: classic political answer to a problem, more rules, and therefore
Speaker 3: the entirely wrong one. When it comes to controlling the
Speaker 3: ranks of bureaucrats, the biggest priority isn't reorganizing or even
Speaker 3: cutting numbers. It's about destroying their mission, their power.
Speaker 1: Here's what she's talking about.
Speaker 3: The IRS was able to target conservatives because its mission
Speaker 3: is to police an insanely complex tax code, counting regulations
Speaker 3: and guidelines that runs to an inconceivable sixteen million words,
Speaker 3: it is. This provides some ninety thousand functionaries stunning discretion
Speaker 3: to snoop, question, dispute, reinterpret, and penalize, while to end targeting,
Speaker 3: create a flat income tax, eliminate the corporate tax, abolish
Speaker 3: tax credits, simplify nonprofit rules, take away the mission, and
Speaker 3: you take away both the power and the need for
Speaker 3: most of that workforce. That's great, and I'd love to
Speaker 3: dig more into this, but we've got to re envision
Speaker 3: the relationship between government and the people.
Speaker 2: Well, as you said yesterday, we're either going to do
Speaker 2: this and this might be our last best chance, or
Speaker 2: we're looking at France, Yeah, which whatever, they did dissolve
Speaker 2: their government yesterday and they're trying to start over and
Speaker 2: they can't call new elections because their constitution won't allowed,
Speaker 2: and they're in a mess. And it's all about the
Speaker 2: fact that they're broke, right, and anybody who proposed anything
Speaker 2: to get them unbroke is immediately shouted down as balancing
Speaker 2: the budget on the backs of I don't know, guys
Speaker 2: in berets or whatever. It's the classic how dare you
Speaker 2: ask me for more taxes or fewer services after you
Speaker 2: have over provided or undertaxed for decades now, so France
Speaker 2: is absolutely at that cliff now anyway, But then Kim
Speaker 2: also gets into the reality of the thing.
Speaker 1: What's she talking about?
Speaker 3: Happy talk of mass firings is thrilling until one remembers
Speaker 3: that most bureaucrats are there because of complex programs mandated
Speaker 3: by Congress. Programs that don't simply disappear with pink slips.
Speaker 3: Might shave dollars to fire half the employees at program X,
Speaker 3: but it still leaves the other half to double down
Speaker 3: on program ex mischief. For a sense of that threat,
Speaker 3: consider a recent New York Times lament for the exhaustion
Speaker 3: felt by bureaucrats. Quote it the prospect of a second
Speaker 3: go around with Trump. They express anxieties about Trump priorities
Speaker 3: that will clash with their own expert opinion. They dislike
Speaker 3: any administration impeding the work on climate change, civil rights reforms,
Speaker 3: and regulatory protections. The peace ends with the smug hope
Speaker 3: that the bureaucracy is now so vast as to provide
Speaker 3: it imperviousness. This is the arrogance and resistance the reformers
Speaker 3: are up against.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Having said that, because I just love the vision of it.
Speaker 3: Can we please stop thinking and it helps to be
Speaker 3: a little older, I think, to come to the conclusion
Speaker 3: that this is just clear obvious wisdom.
Speaker 1: Can we please.
Speaker 3: Stop thinking that something that has existed for twenty years
Speaker 3: or twenty five or thirty or whatever.
Speaker 1: Has always been and must always be.
Speaker 3: It didn't exist before somebody decided it should exist. Should
Speaker 3: it continue to exist? We get to make that decision.
Speaker 1: Not everything created should be permanent. It's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to watch because the guy that's driving the truck on
Speaker 1: this has a hell of a messaging platform. That's Elon Musk. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Doge brother says, I'm calling them when I
Speaker 3: spit it out correctly. The Doge brothers, Elon and Viveiq
Speaker 3: have actually unleashed their six point top pursuits that they're
Speaker 3: gonna go after.
Speaker 1: Here's what they're saying. We'll just touch on these briefly.
Speaker 1: Slash government spending. Okay, we've all been talking about that,
Speaker 1: and you know.
Speaker 3: Some of the particulars, you know, doing it through Congress,
Speaker 3: abolishing the Education Department, maybe reining it in. So slashing
Speaker 3: government spending two cut regulations, great idea, great, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to play the stuff from Jeff Bezos,
Speaker 2: who's huge on board with Trump and all excited about
Speaker 2: how overregulated this country is and the Trump administration can
Speaker 2: do something about it. He's got a lot of people
Speaker 2: on his side that he didn't have before.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: And then the bureaucratic world, which makes their living and
Speaker 3: gets their power and their status from them their regulations
Speaker 3: and enforcing them and loving fines and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: They always come back with, Oh, so.
Speaker 3: You want mercury in your water, You want no regulations whatsoever.
Speaker 1: No, much like the IRS Code.
Speaker 3: You've got millions and millions and millions and millions of
Speaker 3: words of vast just layers of regulation that nobody can comprehend,
Speaker 3: much less follow correctly.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's clear out the woods. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to redo your landscaping once in a while.
Speaker 3: If you got a nice house, you got to clear
Speaker 3: it all out and replant it because it's become overgrown
Speaker 3: and woody and ugly and stupid and nobody likes it anyway.
Speaker 3: Reduce the federal workforce. Doge wants to shrink a workforce
Speaker 3: more than two million federal employees, many of them civilians
Speaker 3: working for the Defense Department. Let's give it a try
Speaker 3: and remote work. They've suggested their effort will order the
Speaker 3: federal workforce to return to the office five days a week,
Speaker 3: which could lead to voluntary resignations across the workforce. It
Speaker 3: certainly could. Let's talk about it, Let's try it. Here's
Speaker 3: where it gets a little surprising. Eliminate daylight saving time changes.
Speaker 1: That's part of DOGE.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of the six things they've identified.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, is that to save money or they just
Speaker 2: don't like it?
Speaker 3: Well, they call it inefficient and annoying for many Americans.
Speaker 1: I love that the Senate actually passed.
Speaker 3: A bill a couple of years ago that would make
Speaker 3: daylight saving time permanent.
Speaker 1: But which see, that's the problem.
Speaker 3: That approach would mean later sunsets and darker mornings in
Speaker 3: the winter months, and there are a lot of scientists
Speaker 3: that think that'd be really bad for you.
Speaker 1: How about we try it once and that's what drives minutes.
Speaker 1: Let's try it a long.
Speaker 3: Time, Let's try it when and see what we winch
Speaker 3: which one weave it one? Let's try it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the problem. It's a fifty to fifty country.
Speaker 1: Who are you yelling at? Pick one?
Speaker 2: Because it's always a well what happens.
Speaker 1: If just try one?
Speaker 2: Let's leave it alone one time and see what we
Speaker 2: all think. Right, give it a couple of years. We
Speaker 2: all might think, oh, yeah, now I get it. That sucks,
Speaker 2: or we might love it.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Jesus, nobody's gonna die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree with you, even as I was disagreeing,
Speaker 3: just to point out that there's a split.
Speaker 1: But yeah, how about we try something.
Speaker 3: This this terror at trying something different again. This crap
Speaker 3: has not existed since Moses came down with the tablets.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's just a.
Speaker 3: Dopey government program that some jackass who got voted out
Speaker 3: the next term game up with.
Speaker 1: Let's just give it a.
Speaker 2: Try, that's the answer. I should send this to Elon.
Speaker 2: I'll tweet it at him. I'm sure he'll see it.
Speaker 2: He's only got two hundred million followers, is present everything
Speaker 2: as We'll try it once and see how we like it.
Speaker 2: Like completely redo the tax code, go with flat tax
Speaker 2: or whatever you know, whatever you call the fair tax,
Speaker 2: any of those. Let's try it and have it written
Speaker 2: in the law. We're gonna do it once and then
Speaker 2: we'll have a vote see if people liked it or not,
Speaker 2: and we'll and we'll go immediately back to the old
Speaker 2: way if we decide we don't like it.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: And of course, when it came time to go back
Speaker 3: to the old way, as we've pointed out many times,
Speaker 3: the old way or the current way is so blatantly
Speaker 3: petnantly insane, nobody would ever choose it if it wasn't
Speaker 3: the status quo.
Speaker 1: If you proposed it, people would put you in a
Speaker 1: lunatic asylum.
Speaker 3: And yet when anybody proposes something different, everybody's like, oh, heven,
Speaker 3: should we probably shouldn't change.
Speaker 1: We better not change. Something might happen.
Speaker 3: Final of the half dozen or so priorities, scrutinize spending
Speaker 3: on Biden's priorities. In particular, they're focused on the Biden
Speaker 3: administration's moves to distribute money from a four hundred billion
Speaker 3: dollars clean energy lending program inside the Energy Department, and
Speaker 3: also the manufacturing grants to chip companies and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. They want to look at them, scrutinize them,
Speaker 3: and make sure they make sense.
Speaker 1: By the way, according to.
Speaker 2: The government agency that keeps an eye on this sort
Speaker 2: of stuff, Elon spent over a quarter of a billion
Speaker 2: dollars backing Trump in his election. Court of a billion, wow,
Speaker 2: which is of course nothing for him. But I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's.
Speaker 3: All in Well, the the Democrats had a sock puppet
Speaker 3: run and she and her minions raised you know, one
Speaker 3: and a quarter billion or something like that. So there's
Speaker 3: a hell of a lot of money sloshing around, obviously,
Speaker 3: but from one individual that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, and there's there's reason to pause and
Speaker 2: take a look at that, I suppose. But of course
Speaker 2: because Trump won and Elond the devil because he backed him,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously the media acts like it's a huge
Speaker 2: scary deal. If it were Soro spending that kind of
Speaker 2: money or somebody else all of Hollywood or whatever, and Kamala.
Speaker 1: Had won, they wouldn't be as interested.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, one thing I left out of
Speaker 3: this Strassel piece and then I'll get off. It is
Speaker 3: some She mentions that Vivek is really focusing on the
Speaker 3: recent Supreme Court decision that tossed this side the Chevron deference,
Speaker 3: which means the courts really they got to trust the bureaucrats.
Speaker 3: The bureaucrats know how to interpret Congress, and Congress is
Speaker 3: very vague law for their creation. So let's just get
Speaker 3: out of the bureaucrat's way and let them run America.
Speaker 3: And Vivek says, hey, that's an opening to look at
Speaker 3: thousands and thousands of existing regulations and decide in the
Speaker 3: executive branch. Hey, the Supreme Court, you've told us a
Speaker 3: lot of this is scrutinizable. Let's scrutinize it. So He's right,
Speaker 3: the door is open, let's make use of it. The
Speaker 3: problem is, and then I said i'd shut up, Then
Speaker 3: I'll actually shut up. The problem is, and this is
Speaker 3: the real problem. The government meaning government employees. This is true, state, local,
Speaker 3: and federal level. Is there are now in the exist
Speaker 3: in such enormous numbers. They're an incredibly powerful lobbying group
Speaker 3: of the government itself. The government is the most powerful
Speaker 3: lobbyist of the government. Yeay, cripes, Madison is spinning in
Speaker 3: his grave.
Speaker 1: So one thing I want to talk about later.
Speaker 2: I was up early late last night and I can't
Speaker 2: believe that this has happened, and I'm saying it out loud.
Speaker 1: I was up late last night watching Getting Philosophy on
Speaker 1: Life from actor Jim Carrey. That is surprising on several levels.
Speaker 2: I'm not even a fan of his work and a
Speaker 2: voice find him highly annoy him. Do you know anything
Speaker 2: about his like real persona and his view of life
Speaker 2: and everything like that freaking fascinating And I want to
Speaker 2: talk about that later. Okay, Yeah, he's a real believer
Speaker 2: in God. I think he's a Christian. But really interesting stuff.
Speaker 2: It might be a good topic on a Friday, we
Speaker 2: get too later.
Speaker 1: Among other things.
Speaker 2: We got Katie's headlines coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here. Well, it wasn't this song,
Speaker 2: But on Fridays, I don't listen to news on the
Speaker 2: way to work.
Speaker 1: I give myself a pass. And on the way to work,
Speaker 1: I listen to music the way to work.
Speaker 2: And I was listening to Genesis on the way to
Speaker 2: work and thinking what has happened to me? But I
Speaker 2: had the song throwing It All Away in my head,
Speaker 2: which I really liked.
Speaker 1: See only the Genesis song I actually like.
Speaker 2: And I was jamming at my car and I thought, God,
Speaker 2: I hope nobody hears me. I hope none of my friends.
Speaker 2: I hope no woman hears me. Listening to Genesis really loud.
Speaker 3: Some earlier work I find quite quite fine. You know,
Speaker 3: the writing songs for Disney movies Phase was less compelling
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: But teach their own I say, there you go. Let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green, Katie, what's up? Well?
Speaker 6: ABC News reporting United Healthcare ceo shooting. Latest gunman allegedly
Speaker 6: flashed smile while flirting with hostile worker.
Speaker 3: This was absolutely about denial of coverage for a loved one.
Speaker 3: Write something very close to that and.
Speaker 1: Round the bend somewhat.
Speaker 2: Probably the whole smiling flirting at the hostel old days
Speaker 2: before you murder somebody in cold blood is pretty whacky.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, shooting somebody down in cold blood on the
Speaker 3: street is a proof of crazy enough for me.
Speaker 1: I don't need anything else. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: if we're if it were like more of a sudden
Speaker 1: angry passionate, you know, it just happened, and you're so
Speaker 1: full of rage. While it was a different sort Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a different sort of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 6: From the Daily Mail, trans military intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning
Speaker 6: and others arrested for storming the Women's restroom on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2: Speaking of pardons, I didn't like Obama commuted the sentence
Speaker 2: of Chelsea Manning on the way out the door years ago.
Speaker 2: But yeah, whatever, So that's that's your big cause. The
Speaker 2: bathrooms at the Capitol building, all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, A bunch of frans, activists and dudes and gender
Speaker 3: vendors shot a dance party music video in the women's
Speaker 3: room at the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Hey, keep it up, keep it up.
Speaker 3: You are so winning the day for us the side
Speaker 3: of sanity.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent points. See how this plays in America.
Speaker 6: From the Washington Post, Employers added two hundred and twenty
Speaker 6: seven thousand jobs in November of recovery from the previous month.
Speaker 2: That's good news, which is bad news because they'll have
Speaker 2: to keep interest straight.
Speaker 1: I don't know well said from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 6: Trump plans to appoint Musk confident David Sachs's AI cryptos
Speaker 6: are they're.
Speaker 2: Saying that this is what caused.
Speaker 1: Bitcoin to go over one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: He is from the old pay Pal mafia two friend
Speaker 2: of Elon's and was a giant Trump critics. So it's
Speaker 2: yet another person who not a Trump fan but willing
Speaker 2: to get on board with trying to help out. So
Speaker 2: that's interesting what he's putting together.
Speaker 1: As a team.
Speaker 6: From the New York Post, Guys, this texting habit means
Speaker 6: you have higher emotional intelligence. According to science, to use
Speaker 6: a lot of emojis have higher emotional intelligence.
Speaker 3: Yes, we will get into this important and carefully conducted,
Speaker 3: peer reviewed study later on in the show.
Speaker 2: Study clearly paid for by big Emoji. From MSNBC sums up.
Speaker 6: Trace is a fentanyl and other drugs found in bottleneck.
Speaker 1: Dolphins in the golf of Mexico. So now our dolphins
Speaker 1: are doing drugs. Yeah, dolphin mules because they don't have
Speaker 1: job prospects. Dolphin mules. That's a horrifying beast. Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Your meme of the day.
Speaker 6: It's a mom and her son and they're playing Monopoly
Speaker 6: and the son says, Mom, I'll buy a hotel, and.
Speaker 1: She looks at him and says, you can't. They're all
Speaker 1: full of illegal immigrants. Kay, there you go.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, a cutting commentary of America's immigration crisis, adding
Speaker 3: over to the World's most boring game. Finally good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's terrible. It's like a punishment. I think we glossed
Speaker 3: over the drugged up dolphins too much. So there are
Speaker 3: so many drugs going into the ocean now that the
Speaker 3: dolphins are high.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, they got drum in the dumpsters and we got
Speaker 2: to get to Babylon.
Speaker 1: Be here, all right.
Speaker 6: The Babylon Bee cruel doge to force government employees to
Speaker 6: use single ply toilet paper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we do in the private sector. We have to.
Speaker 2: They buy the wispiest toilet paper on Earth and force
Speaker 2: us to use it.
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