WEBVTT - I Want To Be A Unicorn 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.680 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.360 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:24.960 Strong and Greg and Key Arms Wrong. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.720 I had to say hello to my unhoused street person 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.440 friend who hangs out behind the trash can right where. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.880 I walk in the door of the building every day. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:43.880 You know, kind of watch him out of the corner 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:44.480 of my eye, make. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.159 Sure he's not gonna attack me or anything like that. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.040 We're just sneak in the building. Jamake's ball talk. How's 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.120 the meth these days? The good good crank. What I 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.600 like is how. What I like is how I how 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.400 fearing for my life? First thing? 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.640 Walking in gets my heart rate up and gets me 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.240 prepared for the show in case I'm feeling kind. 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.240 Of logie or whatever. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.600 The whole this equivalent of ten pushups, the whole. This 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.120 guy might kill me. Yeah, it gets me ready for 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.440 the show. So it really has a benefit. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.119 Why don't we call them alertness ambassadors instead of junkies. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:24.240 Oh, I'm Gavin Newsome. Let's call them alertness ambassadors. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.600 Thank you once again, sir, for alerning to be my 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:37.520 core human feelings of terror and excitement. Uh, live from 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.399 Studio c C signor blah blah blah. Today we're under 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.399 the tutelage of our general manager. Pete Hagseth, Secretary of 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.760 Defense MPR said it looks like he's going to go through. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.720 So if they are even saying that looks like it, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.360 they also just said as an NPR that Pam Boondi 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.600 is probably going to go through as attorney General. So 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.720 so much for the controversy around those nominees. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:01:59.960 I guess I have. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.800 Dialed up the NPR lately. I've been a little stressed, 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.040 and I know that might drive me right over the edge. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.480 I can do sixty. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.959 Minutes because you know it's short, it's only an hour. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.560 But so you know, as often happens in Washington, d C. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.160 A whole bunch of this could happen. That could happen, and. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.560 Then whatever, I actually love our lives. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.320 Indeed, Yeah, I have a couple of examples of the 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.760 incredible divide between the progressive left and the seine in 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.799 terms of, for instance, men in women's prison where they're 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.040 raping and sexually assaulting and impregnating women. And if you 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.160 bring it up to a progressive person who believes that 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.600 you can just wish yourself to be the other sex 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.240 and therefore have become the other sex. I want to 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.160 be a unit card anyway that that excuses all of 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.320 that sexual assault. I don't even know where to begin 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:53.600 forming an argument with them. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.079 Oh I heard I was watching Fox this morning and 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.960 who's the hot blonde chick? We shared a stage one 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.480 at one time for something on Fox. That's a hard 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.120 thing to nail down, Tommy Lara, Yes, it was her. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.000 She said something that I thought was good was all 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.120 these senators who are so worried about women being mistreated 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.360 in the military or not getting their fair shot. I 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.040 wish they would stand up for women in sports and 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.080 having not having to compete against dudes. You wish they'd 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.720 be quite as interested in that as they are, whether 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.000 or not they're combat soldiers who are women, or at 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:32.360 least not let a person with schwantz which a person 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.960 with shunshtuka, which I believe is the preferred term into 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.560 the locker room. Use that into women and protecting women. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.640 Keep dudes out of the locker rooms, your pervs, your sickos, 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.360 your dreamers. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.880 Your nuts jobs. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.560 Probably probably we have the saying in charge that doesn't 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.320 why is that not in the constitution? 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.000 Tack it on the ENDPS. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:04.680 Anybody who's completely freaking nuts should not be in charge. Uh, 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.560 I'm gonna say something. Oh, probably the headline out of 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.400 the like if you're just kind of doing a barely 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.119 paying attention to whether or not this guy Trump picked 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.960 to be Secretary Defense is going to get through or not. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.920 Jony earnstuff Iowa female combat veteran who's really worried about 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.240 some of his stances, grilled him on some of that stuff. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.880 We'll play it later, and came away thinking I'm fine 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:23.880 with it on a yes vote. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.960 So that's pretty much the end of the deal. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.159 Then here's the behind the scenes information that you really need. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.080 And some might quibble with this, but it's close enough 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.400 to being true you might as well accept it. The 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:42.440 Republicans feel like they can boot out one of Trump's 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.040 cabinet nominees, maybe two. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.960 The Democrats are the Republicans. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.680 The Republicans okay, without really whipping up magnation, Oh, I see, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.320 they can pick out one and say, hey, look, mister President, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:58.919 we're putting in all your folks. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.599 We just get to one guy or gal. Maybe you 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.440 could pick somebody else. And everybody went, big hugs, it'll 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.080 be great. But two is pushing it. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.560 Two is standing up against Trump, inviting primaries, the rest 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:12.760 of it. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.400 So and Matt Gates was the one. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.080 Um, No, I think one now, because Matt Gates was 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.640 practically I mean, he was injured in the pregame warmups. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.520 I don't think he counts twisted his ankle before the 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.080 national anthem. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.960 Exactly twisted his ankle putting his uniform on. So yeah, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.120 I think there could be one more, uh, you know, deer. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.640 Head on the wall as it were. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.920 But I was thinking about an only one. I was 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.719 thinking about old Matt Gates today when they're talking about 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.520 Pam Bondi's going to get through, you know, all of 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.159 the chatter in DC and people who like to talk 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.760 about this sort of stuff even hardly even remember Matt 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.400 Gates's Attorney General thing. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.000 I mean that was like two weeks ago. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.000 Nobody will remember it at all, and you know, a 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.840 year from now, it's just it's right, Yeah. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.200 Who's in, who's out, who's got power, who's got the 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:01.680 big desk? 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:02.280 In Washington? 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.560 D C is an obsession. You can't even picture it, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.960 you can't relate to it. Unless you've you been close 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.120 to it and felt it that it is. It's feverish it. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.640 I mean, it's like sexual desired times three. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.160 I must say, though I was kind of neutral on 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.400 Pete Hagsath, I just wasn't right super fired up either direction. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.839 If that's Trump's choice, fine put him in. Until I 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.600 heard a montage on I Think Fox Today that we'll 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.159 play for you later of some of his answers and 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:32.960 some of the q and as. That got me a 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:38.240 little fired up, thinking he could be a a breath 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:39.760 of fresh air for the whole thing, So we'll play 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:40.160 that later. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.320 Have the same effect on me. Absolutely. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.280 I don't know if he will be like the greatest 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.279 Secretary of Defense for the next twelve years under multiple presidents, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:52.279 but he absolutely brings something that needs to be brought 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.080 to the Pentagon, and that is an acute sense of 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.440 the fighting men and what they need. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:06:59.080 Well. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.359 And there's a chance, and I hope this doesn't happen, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.320 but there's a chance that Peaked Hegzeth as sect Deaf 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.920 and Mark Rubio as Secretary of State are in history 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:14.720 books for dealing with some major freaking world event. The 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.040 way we talk about second deaths and Secretary's of State 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.040 from you know, major conflicts in the past. I hope not, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.720 but man, there's a decent chance of it. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.720 I would say, combine that with my possibility, and you've 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.640 got an excellent chance and my possibilities between the two 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.680 of them and some of the other foreign policy team 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.640 players Mike Waltz, who I absolutely loves national security or 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:43.200 as what is he the National Security Director? It's a 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.440 Jake Sullivan's position, and there's too many jobs. Yeah, council, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:53.080 that's it. Are Between the three of them, they change 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:58.960 America's war readiness and posture significantly enough that it prevents 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.920 the sort of terrible conflict you're talking about. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.320 Right, which is a harder thing to write in the 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.160 history books. It's hard to write things that didn't happen. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.920 But you could argue it's a better thing if you 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.840 can pull it off absolutely, frecolutely. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.600 If China thinks, oh, we got some real real kick ass, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 hard ass grown ups in charge over there now, maybe 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.320 now is not the time to take time. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.840 W Let's give it a few years and see what happens. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:27.640 Maybe we can get another dementia riddled old man who's 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.600 unwilling to do anything. Wait, for him to come back. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.280 Let's start the show officially. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.360 I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.920 how did it already get to be Wednesday, January the fifteenth, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.760 the year twenty twenty five or Armstrong and getting what 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:41.800 we approve of this program? 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.079 All right, let's begin officially according to sc rules of regulations. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.599 Here we go at Mark. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:52.040 How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.600 Have any of you guys asked him to step down 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.200 and resign for their job? And then how many senators 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.599 do you know have got a divorce before cheating on 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.720 their Why wives? Did you ask them to step down? 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.520 Fax? Was pretty good? 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.960 Bring it Mark Wayne, the fabulous Mark Wayne Mullet of Oklahoma. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.320 That was pretty good. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.840 And is the camera panned across some of the Democrats 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.120 there blasting exits for drinking and cheating on his wife. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.600 You can see on the faces. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.720 Oh he's got a decent point there. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.720 Many many collars were simultate. How dare you. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.240 Drink on the job? And I have you ever showed 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.000 up at night to after a couple of drinks to yeah? 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.600 All of you often? 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:39.600 Oh, okay, that's different because we're senators on the whole 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.600 cheating on your wife thing. Come on, remember when we 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.400 found out a couple of years ago that giant slush 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.319 fund that exists in DC that is tax payer money 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.800 or yeah, tax payer money to help. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.679 Was at the time anyway pay off. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.520 NDAs and things like that for people in government who 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.480 get accused of things. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.599 Right, Yes, giant slush fund for gropins and harassments and 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.520 the rest of it to keep it out of. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.960 The news, and then you taxpayers, you pay for it. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.679 Isn't that lovely? Nice? Wow? So how does mailbag look today? Oh, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.439 it's very strong, full of insight. Cool. I got a 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:16.440 lot of news to catch you beyond. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.880 The fires continue, the wind continues, the politics of the 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:21.880 whole thing continues. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.080 So we'll have the latest on that. Our text line 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.320 is four one five two nine five KFTC. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.600 I was just reading my favorite political newsletter from Mark Halpern, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.240 and he thought Heads's performance was baffo yesterday. But in 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.080 his newsletter he points out all the stuff that goes 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.560 into these things besides just the lead guy, the prep 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.640 team and the nuts of bolts and the details that 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.559 he said that Trump people really killed it with yesterday 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.840 things I hadn't thought of. Maybe I can explain that 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.640 to you a little bit later. It was news to me. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.360 It's interesting, yeah, yeah, indeed, And we have a number 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.839 of really interesting clips from that hearing to sprinkle in 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.640 throughout the day today commentary on it. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:04.920 Pete's looking pretty good. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:10.560 Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.439 Let me, I usually look up if I don't recognize 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.079 the name of the person who said it, I look 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.760 it up to make sure they weren't like, you know, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.920 the best known torture of the Paul pot regime or 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:24.520 something like that. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:25.960 Okay, this guy definitely was not. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:33.240 Eckhardfeiffer was the CEO of Compac in the nineties when 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.720 that company was growing like crazy. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.160 The computer company. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.240 Today is either the beginning of the end or the 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:43.040 end of the beginning. Today we are making history. It's 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.199 kind of a carpe DM sees the day idea that 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:48.199 you know. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.800 Whatever you want to do, today's part of that. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.680 What was the one you had last week that I 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.040 was going to remember the rest of my life, but 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.560 I've already forgot it was so. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.200 Forget a great saying because you'll use it later. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.920 I believe that was It was something along those lines of, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.439 you know, it would have been great if you got 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.520 your act together years ago, but how about you since 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:06.760 you didn't start today. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.680 It was one of those kind of things. Yeah, I don't. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.240 I'll bet I could find it. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:16.600 Yeah, and then less seriously, two more Galileo the Great Scientist. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.960 He says, if ire, this is the end of our 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.360 series of quotes on beginnings, because it's January fifteenth. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.040 It were in the meat of the year now. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.200 Anyway, he says, if I were again beginning my studies, 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.920 I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.000 I thought that was mildly interesting. Is a guy who's 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:33.400 bad math? 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.640 And finally this Douglas Adams, who of course wrote The 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.679 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the beginning the universe 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.120 was created. This has made a lot of people very 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.480 angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. I 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:50.599 love Douglas Adams. Mail bag WHOA WHOA. You can communicate 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.280 with us through a variety of means, the text line, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.920 or drop us an email mail bag at Armstrong Getti 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:02.280 dot com. Matt and Honolulu writes Mazie Herono is an 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.520 effing idiot. Oh Matt, that's Matt, Senator. Do you have 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.160 a clip of the esteemed woman from Hawaii? 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:09.520 Michael? 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.960 Would you carry out an order protest sy in the legs? 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.200 I saw service agents to get injured, bias riders trying 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.400 to jump over the fence, send church on fire, and descry. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.920 That sounds to me that you will comply with such 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.679 an order, you will shoot protesters in the leg. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.359 And later she said, would you invade Greenland? 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.040 If the president or it? Would you invade Greenland? 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.640 It sounds like you would invade Greenland. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:42.520 Anyway, Matt writes, embarrassed from my state and my fellow Hawaiians, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.920 I apologize on behalf of my state. Tucker once said 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.079 she's the stupidest member of Congress, and he's right. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:50.040 This isn't partisan. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.400 Our other Senator, Brian Schatz, far left progressive, is very bright. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.920 I'm interested in his ideas, though I often disagree with 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:01.040 him strenuously. Uh, Mazie is a full fledged moron. I 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.160 don't know why we keep all thatting here. And then 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.000 he says, I know you can't say this on the radio, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.680 then says something we cannot say on the radio. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.560 Thank you Matt moving along, I. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.760 Wonder how many people if you if you divorced the 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.080 the you know politics from it your your you agree 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.960 with their views or not. If you divorce that if 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.760 you sat down with them, you'd come around thinking, man, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.920 that person's really sharp, or you'd come across sick and 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.760 that person is definitely not sharper than me. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:29.600 All right, what would you guess? 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:30.720 Oh? 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.240 My, more just. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:39.080 In general of Congress? Yeah, you think it'd be more 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.160 of the former or the latter. You think most of 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.840 the time you think, wow, they are really sharp, or 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.000 you'd think anybody could be in that job. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.960 Apparently, I'm thinking it would be one third impressive, two thirds. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.480 Mah, maybe that's best you can do, wild guess. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.720 Yeah, yeah, uh, of course it depends on with all 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.280 due modesty, I mean if I had IQ of seventy seven, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:06.160 my number would be different. It varies by person, obviously, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.840 but in general, yeah, I think probably two thirds math 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:09.400 one third. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:09.880 Wow. You know. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.000 One of my favorite things to remember is it's so 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.760 obvious and so simple. But I was as dealing with 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.120 customer service problems over the Christmas break the old saying 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:24.640 that half of people are of below average intelligence class 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.120 are is very helpful sometimes to think about right right, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.080 and it's also helpful to remember nobody chooses that as 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.520 long as somebody is reasonably pleasant. I have a great 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.120 deal of patience for those not not terribly blessed anyway, 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.440 JT and Livermore for frequent correspondent. Rights people on the 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.480 left are trying to blame the LA fire disaster on 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.120 climate change, but that only proves what idiots they are. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.880 Let me ask it this way, which is worse. A 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:50.880 to be skeptical. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.560 Skeptical about climate change is an excuse for why you 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.800 don't prepare for hotter, dryer fire seasons. Or B to 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.000 be certain that climate change is real and be certain 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.680 that it will result in hotter and try your fire seasons, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.400 but doing nothing to prepare for said climate change related fires, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.120 a point that's been made over and over again. Gavin Newsom, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.840 Karen Bass and their ilk are obsessive. They blame everything 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:15.760 on climate change. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.000 They give out billions of dollars to their cronies in 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.600 the name of green energy and climate change, and yet well, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.360 we couldn't do anything about it climate change well, and also, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.440 as I said last week, I think even with their 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.120 projections if we did the things they wanted to do, 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:39.360 it would be tiny adjustments over decades. So oh, that 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.320 ain't gonna make any difference for like a long time. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.720 So how about we only talk about you know, the 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:45.720 reality of now. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.560 And preparedness would be your ninety seven percent emphasis if 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:51.720 you were serious. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.640 But they're not. It's a scam. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.560 JT also writes, you guys were wondering whether the fire 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.760 disaster lack of preparedness is enough to convince California voters 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.240 to vote Republican going forward? No is the answer? 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:09.200 Well, or a reasonable Democrat? Sure? 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.879 Yeah, yes, a good point. A lot more good emails. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.520 Maybe we'll sprinkle them in throughout the show. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.200 Yeah, I think Republican takeover is a fantasy, but maybe 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.280 normal Democrats taking back over could happen in California. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.920 We got a lot to talk about. I hope you 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:23.440 can stay. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.320 Here, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.840 The thing that excites me about his background is the 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.639 overwhelming support I've heard from veterans groups across the board 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.160 that our soldiers, sailors, airman, marine, the veterans, especially from 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.160 our generation's war, the War on Terror, not only support him, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.600 they're excited for him. They're excited to have him there, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.320 and they identify with him. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.920 That's Congressman Mike Walls, friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.800 and friend of patriots everywhere. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:52.760 I think that's interesting. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.440 We're going to talk a little bit about the hearing 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.040 yesterday for Trump's nominee for Secretary Defense. Pretty big job, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.840 this guy, Pete hegg Zeff, who's known by people who 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.919 watch Fox as a morning guy and Fox and Friends. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.440 Other people know him more as the military guy that 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.400 he is, and was a couple of things that Mark 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.919 Alprin pointed out in his newsletter, Anti woke is a 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:19.119 far greater source of adhesive for any Trump project that 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.120 requires center right support than the dominant media and Democrats 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.640 understand slash realize. I think that's true. I think as 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.720 long as you're anti woke, which exeit went to a lot, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.320 I think that really brings a lot of people into 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:31.880 your tent. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:34.040 Right well. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.360 And it's no surprise to hear me say I think 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.520 that's appropriate in large measure, because again, the woke thing 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.200 is not just a harmless, we want more diversity thing. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.400 It's an effort to overthrow Western civilization in the name 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.560 of neo Marxism. So if you're on that page, we 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:51.879 can talk about our differences. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:52.960 I think we'll get along. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.239 Mark Alprin also wrote in his newsletter, and he knows 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:57.840 about this sort of stuff in a way that I don't. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.760 The squad of sherpas and deputy Shirt is around hexif 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.200 did a first rate job doing all the things such 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.600 crews need to do to have him completely prepared for 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.720 this thing, the way they handled the interviews with the 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.960 various senators before the confirmation hearing, for the confirmation hearing yesterday, 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.000 and his point being that during the election shortly after 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.639 the election, there was a lot of question whether or 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:27.000 not the second Trump term could draw high level talent 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.679 and helping rights for at least for now, the answer 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.080 is yes. Apparently you can get top talent to be 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.280 involved with your various people. And then he got to this, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.360 which is something I'd never thought of. Team Trump knows 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.200 how to win battles that are fought in the world 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:48.040 of pr politics, press and policy, technology, the media landscape, 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.840 the level of nature of partisanship are all things that 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.000 the Trump team knows how to handle, and they get 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.240 to details right packing the hearing with supporters who laughed 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.560 at Hegz's jokes, cheered him on, and basically he created 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.639 the soundtrack for his gladiatorial moments. Something the grasping and 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:09.399 stuttering Democrat senators lacked was a brilliant move by the 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:10.240 Trump team. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:10.880 Yeah. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.399 I'm like, I wouldn't even have known that that was 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.679 a thing to be able to get enough people in 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.040 there that you know, people laugh at your jokes and 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.440 applaud and gas but your brilliant comments. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.880 Sure, yeah, how interesting behind the scenes there. I want 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.400 to hear one more from Congressman Mike Waltz here. 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.080 Sixty Michael, I think Pete sech Hegseth is going to 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:35.560