WEBVTT - It Looked Like The Squirrel Had Just Been Hit 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:33.640 Jettie and he arms wrong. I'm a tram a studio 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.559 see see senior, A dimly let room deeper than the 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:43.680 bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Today we 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.680 are under the tutelage of our general manager, not the tariffs, 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:53.920 not the terrors, our first ever negative general manager. They everbind. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.600 So I'm slightly distracted. Then I'm going to get my 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.840 act together. I know I can. I know I'm going 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.280 to get my egg together. Okay, I was out spitting 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.360 in the bushes before I walked in here. I really 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:09.720 thought I was going to throw up in my car 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.840 on the way to work. Oh. I thought I was 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.440 gonna throw it before I got into the building. And 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.600 I haven't yet, but I'm really close. Oh golly, So 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.039 if I duck off real fast, that's what I'm doing. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.440 I don't know why I stop and snack on roadkill 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.560 on the way in again, did you it looked like 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.399 the squirrel had just been hit to me? Oh really recently? Wow? 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.920 I was afraid I'd gone too far I don't know 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.520 why I feel like this. I have no idea, but 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.160 I really it is subsided a little from when I 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.679 was just downstairs kneeled wishes, which you know is not unusual. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.640 In front of this building, I thought I'll join the 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:48.000 other people who are pop passed out in either vomiting 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.520 or other or worse, any of them employees. Yes, just 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.160 see Hans in the the RV. There's an RV parked 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.920 out where that the car is gone that everybody was 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.200 working on for a couple of days. But there's a 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.360 big RV there. They even have the slides out today 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.200 like they're camping. I mean, they've got the full slide. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.400 Nice climate, pleasant setting. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.600 Yeah, so my kid is going to law school far 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:13.639 enough from the radio ranch. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:19.360 It's irrelevant. But man, the neurovirus is everywhere, is it really? Oh? Yeah, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:24.040 pupkin and poop, and it's just it's rough. I haven't 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.440 come in contact with anybody sick. But I hope I 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.560 don't have that, you know of if I brought that 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.919 into the radio station, that would be awful. You remember 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.880 the stories about those cruise ships. I don't want to 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.040 repeat any of it, but it's rough. Yeah, and that's 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.880 what management would do here. They would lock the doors 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.280 and make us all live in here like a cruise 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.120 ship until we were over it. Right. You know, I 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.560 would love to throw in some good graphic detail, but 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.480 I just it's not appropriate. People wouldn't enjoy it. I'll 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.200 restrain myself for once. Oh man, all right, So explain 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:53.320 the whole tariff situation. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.040 They look well, Donald J came hard at the Mexicans 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.839 and Canadians and Chinese Chinese, completely separate case. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.560 We got to put that aside. Their dirty comedies. They're 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.760 trying to take over the globe. They commit genocides, that 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.760 they're they're they're a horrible regime. But our neighbors are 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.440 our friendly neighbors to the north and the south. He 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.880 came at them hard with the big giant tariffs if 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.480 they didn't help us with the border and a couple 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.840 other things, and and and honestly, and I kind of 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:22.519 predicted this. They came with some small to medium concessions 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.440 and he said, I I'll put it off for a while. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.880 We'll hold back on those big giant tariffs. So they're 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.240 going to help out on the border. Some it's really 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.080 minor stuff in the case of Canada Mexico a little 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.840 more significant. So America's hat and America's pants got a 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.200 stall for a month. That's not over yet. Yeah, he's 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.080 going to keep the sword of Damocles hanging over there 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.320 their heads. I like, I kept saying yesterday, this is 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.200 not my area of expertise or interest. Really, uh this 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.920 economic stuff like this. But Wall Street Journal has an 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.760 editorial piece saying Trump blinked. You have people on the 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.240 Trump side saying, you know, it was the art of 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.960 the deal. He's squead them and they backed down and 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.880 gave his stuff that they wouldn't have otherwise given us. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.480 So don't I don't know which is accurate. Yeah, I 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.680 think there's plenty of truth to both points of view. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.800 I think Trump became more aware that more people were saying, hey, 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.640 this could really hurt the economy, which would dirt you know. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.400 At the same time, it was always a threat opposed 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.920 to get some concessions on the border. I like it 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.279 so the like the MSNBC world is portraying it as 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.040 Trump backed down and laughing. Sure, So which is it. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.919 You hate him because he was gonna go through with 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.920 this and he's a mad man, or you hate him 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.919 because he he's not a mad man and realized this 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.440 was going to do more harm than good and so 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.600 adjusted his sales. I mean, which is it. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.280 I'm reminded of the whole cold Open a Saturday Night 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.280 Live a couple of weeks ago, or they were trying 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.520 on the fake MSNBC trying to convince each other, Look, 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.400 we can't go nuts over everything he says, and then 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.880 they would literally go nuts over everything he says, and 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.200 you know, you just it. It takes a while, folks, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.760 It's just a early February. We've got to get used 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.000 to the unique Trump style of chaotic leadership and not 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.320 getting nuts every time he threatens a twenty five percent 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.560 there on our largest trading partners over nothing we can 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.279 figure out. Speaking of MSNBC, I was watching Stephanie Rule's 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.480 show last night, and I like to watch these various 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:27.479 things to see what their big story is. And a 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.200 lot of the media's really got their panties in a 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.560 bind over Trump trying to shrink government in a variety 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.919 of ways, whether it's you know, sending the email to 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.760 all the workers saying, hey, you all can quit if 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.880 you want, We'll pay it. Till September just quit or 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.400 trying to do away at the Department of Education or 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.080 Elon Musk has gotten access to a bunch of information 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.720 that is supposed to be scary, and it's trying to 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.839 run the government like a business. You saw what he 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.359 did at Tesla and Twitter. Yeah, he got rid of 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.440 the waist at Twitter. I mean, I don't understand how 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.240 that's a threat, but the it's it's interesting to me 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.680 how for because I don't have this mindset. So's it's 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.680 almost shocking to me that exists the crowd that is 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.400 horrified by the idea of a government employee losing their 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.080 job or a government program going away. We're the other 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.440 half of the country. I think we're thrilled whenever we 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.400 hear that, we think that's awesome. So I just I 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.720 don't even need to hear the details exactly exactly exactly. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.600 I don't even need the details. And the other side 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.240 is the same way. I don't even need to hear 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.640 the details. It's a horror that any government agency or 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.960 department would be shut down, and a horror that any 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.120 government workers would lose their jobs. It's just awful. I 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.080 think you're onto something really important there. I would love 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.920 to see a set of interviews with you know, four 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.040 or five people on each side and examine their their 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.599 attitudes about the government and stroll and their own lives 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.360 and how they're I just I think that would be 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:50.719 incredibly revealing. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.400 I mean, for here's a for instance, let's look at 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.080 the other side of the coin. Well, I was gonna say, uh, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.480 now you know what I'm under reminded me. I was 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.000 gonna say, you never hear anybody saying the federal government 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.040 is just too small. But they wouldn't put it like that. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.120 They would put it like the federal government should be 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.680 solving this problem, that problem, doing this for me, and 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.360 doing that for me. So I guess they do, in 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.640 a essence think it's too small, which is a hell 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.920 of an attitude. And I don't know, I think they're 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.480 fifteen minutes of Civics education would go so far in 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.520 this country. But I'd love to grab those people by 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.960 their shirtfront and say, you live in a state. It's 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.840 a big, powerful government, it collects taxes, you live in 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.640 a county of town, you have your own you run 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.440 your own home. Why are you looking to them to 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.760 fix your problems? In that distant city where nobody gives 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.880 a crap about your life. But I don't get it. Well, yeah, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.520 a bunch of people running around making a good salary 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.320 can't get fired, get much better uh oh benefits than 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:51.800 the rest of us in the private sector and call 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.840 themselves public servants. Well, if you're a public servant as 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.320 in your you know you're taking a hit to yourself 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.960 to serve the public. Okay, we're saying you don't have 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.480 to do that anymore. Go out in the private sector 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.880 and make the bigger money with better benefits that you 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.480 seem to think you could do. You're just doing public 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:08.640 service to help us all out. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.800 Good wishes it exactly. I got a great example of 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:14.400 that coming up. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.760 So I was just listening to a report on NPR 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.560 about how the Trump administration's trying to wind down the 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.680 Department of Education and the stuff that they can do 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.320 and the stuff that they can do. There are big 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.400 chunks in the Department of Education that were created by 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.880 the executive branch by executive orders, so they can be 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.679 unwound by executive orders, and then there's a lot of 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.319 stuff that can't be But the other pushback that drives 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.760 me crazy is in the government is not Twitter. You 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.960 can't just walk in and fire people. Okay, well let's 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.840 have a conversation about that. Why not Why can't you 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.199 just walk in and fire people? Maybe you should be 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.840 able to walk in and fire people. How about we 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.280 do something about How about you figure out if anybody's 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.439 doing anything. If you got a room full of fifteen people, 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.559 do you need all fifteen? Do you need fifteen at all? 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.840 Do you need any of them to start with? And 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.040 then could you get by with half as many? I'm 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.760 thinking in a lot of cases you could. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.560 I would argue if there is one entity on earth 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.440 where you should be able to quote, walk in and 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.199 fire people, it. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.120 Would be the government. Why not? It is responsible to 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.080 the taxpayers, and only the taxpayers, to be as efficient 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.600 with their money as humanly possible. They have no profit motive, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.079 They have no board of directors, they have no shareholders. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.000 All they have is responsibility to taxpayers. The why not 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.640 is the government is the only industry that can make 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.679 rules where they can't get fired. If we could make 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.120 rules around here where nobody could get fired, we'll probably 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.400 all ban together and vote for them. But you can't 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.000 do that, and the government has the opportunity to do that. Now, 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.760 it's so maddening. Now, it's frustrating to me because I 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.440 don't think Trump and Elon are going to get very far. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.480 And the fact that they are taking the biggest swing 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.720 at it in my lifetime and probably won't get very 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:58.640 far as depressing. Yeah, let's see. I hope they're drawing 0:09:58.640 --> 0:09:59.679 attention to it at least. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.640 Let's see, and let's see if Trump in this one 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.720 term can lay the groundwork for perhaps another four to 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.120 eight years of progress. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.880 Who knows, chip away, chip away, Let's start the show efficiently. Oh, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:16.600 what's on the table of options here for me? Eight? 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.480 Something bad? I don't think that's on the table. Yeah, illness. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.520 I suppose that's a possibility. I don't know where I 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.480 would have gotten it. That's pretty much on it, right 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.640 condition Oh some sort of like, yeah, there's something really 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:28.120 wrong with me? 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.360 I doubt Well no, no, no, I don't mean like 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.440 life's threatening. I mean like you know, it was your 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.040 gall bladder saying digestive issues. Maybe you just a little 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.400 too much of something last night. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:40.840 Yeah, I don't know. You know what I should do 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.600 is I should just google fatigue nausea? What could that 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.080 be hopefully stage four bank grant cancer. It's the only thing. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.440 Let's start to show you slept poorly last night, one 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.960 of the other. Exactly, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.000 on this. It is Tuesday, February four, the year twenty 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.960 twenty five, where I'm strong and getting. We approve of 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.040 this program. Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.040 and regulations, here we go, leaving you new action at 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.360 mark at the Mexican Cartel plans on using drones as 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.560 well as firing upon our agents m military. If this 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.240 were to happen, what would be the response of something 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:22.600 like this. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.000 Or obviously I could stand for that lawrence, the most 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.560 powerful military in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.160 let alone cartels. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.960 Speaking of the cartels, just what is their association with 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.560 the Mexican government. The nice lady president said it was 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.000 horrifying and slanderous to suggest they had any relationship with 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.040 the cartels. Oh yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah, that 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.080 little story there is from a memo that's circulating that 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.360 came out somehow from Mexico. But the cartels are talking 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.880 about putting drones and armed people at the border to 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.280 take on the terror. You start shooting at them with 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.280 the idea that they'll go away or something. I don't know. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.520 And you heard Secretary of Defense Pete hegsas theory. They're 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.240 saying no, they're not, No, you're not. We ain't going away. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:16.680 So that could turn pretty crazy. Wow. Absolutely, yeah, quickly, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.760 how's mailbag look outstanding? Blockbuster cool? Here's our tannic. That 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.480 word was blockbuster. The text nine four one five nine 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:33.439 five k FTC by way overnight. Maybe you missed it. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:40.200 China has launched a fifteen percent tariff on US colon 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.559 gas and retaliation for Trump's tariffs, So we can talk 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.480 more about that later. This will be fun, all righty. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:51.920 Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Jim Rown. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.800 You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.480 The seasons are the wind. But you can change yourself. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.160 That is some thing you have charge of. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:02.480 There you go. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:07.240 They're in that theme. You are not a victim of 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.960 your life. You are the captain of that ship. In short, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:13.960 be that mailbag. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.040 Some days it's easier than others. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.040 We sometimes the captain of the ship needs only to 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.200 keep it off the rocks and avoid all lives being lost. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.000 And that's being a good captain. Doesn't mean you can 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.120 just go to the Bahamas. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.760 It's a thing about captaining ships. Jack, just ask me 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.880 my seafar and days are beyond me. But that one 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.080 went on a whale watch once. Anyway, here's mail bag. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.000 You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.960 and Giddy dot com. Definitely not Scott in Danville, California. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:45.360 Rights. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.800 I keep asking my wife to try no wine February 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.079 with me. She says I'm bothering her. I inform her 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.239 she can't say that during no wine February. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.000 This is not going well. Wine with an h. The 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.360 idea is to not whin the whole month. See if 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.760 you can do it, that's right. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.800 Don't whine if you see no wales on your whale watch. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.560 Correct the pro illegals. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.920 Demonstration la very in Thailand, Rights guys, letting you know 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.160 that a big part of me enjoyed what I saw 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.559 on TV. A far left democratic state with sanctuary cities 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.360 up and down deserves It just looks the mayor's governor, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.720 senators and congress people. When will they ever learn there's 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.320 a big up with up with illegals. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.400 I don't know what the message is. Demonstration going on 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.440 in a town near me yesterday we turned a corner 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.240 and there was a whole bunch of Mexican flags and 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.800 people beating on drums and stuff like that. I would 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.600 like to have asked him, so, what's your position that 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.400 criminal criminals who are here illegally should get to stay? 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.000 Is that your position? No human is illegal? No, no, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.440 no no. Specifically, they're rounding up dangerous criminals. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.280 So built bridges, not walls. They have no arguments. They're 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.160 like children, idiot children. As long as we're talking about that, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.200 we'll skip to this one from Drew the Millennial regarding 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.600 the rioters blocking the UH one oh one in La 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.960 waving Mexican South American flags. I was just in Mexico 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.560 with my bride for our honeymoon. Anyway, very common protest 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.640 tactic there is to block the highway from these resort 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.120 towns to the major airports. Typically it's taxi drivers protesting 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.000 the introduction ride share services like Uber. The cabbyies will 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.720 set up a long blockade in the road where they 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.840 will essentially live in barbecue and party for days or weeks. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.320 Subsequently causing tourists to miss flights and pressuring the local 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.080 government to capitulate this. Where they learned the tactic, wouldn't 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:35.640 be surprised. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:36.680 That's a good point. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.440 We're asking about Beyonce when in a country the best 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.800 country album or and best overall album for an album 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.840 that doesn't seem to be country other than the Cowboy 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:46.240 had and. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:46.840 A couple of years. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.240 Jeff points out John Rich, the Great country Star once said, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.240 folks asking me, how do music awards shows work? Labels 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.840 and publishers all have blocks of votes. They make deals 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.120 with each other for you vote for mine, will vote 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.360 for yours type thing. It has zero to do with 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.720 who made the best music. Thus, Beyonce with Country Album 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.640 of the Year, nice right, same is true with the CMAS, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.160 ACM's Billboard, et cetera. All work exactly the same. Last night, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.160 the Grammys out of themselves in a big way. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.920 That's interesting. I would love to know what the what 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.360 the trades were. We'll vote for fonce for best Country 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.120 Album if you'll what what did they give away? I wonder? 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.720 And do they like give draft choices for two years 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.560 from now and stuff like that? How complicated it is? 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.680 It get Yeah, I wonder do you owe me one 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.960 next year when I get you know? Somebody over the line? Interesting? 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.400 Rolling Stones won for best Rock Album. I'd missed that. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.080 I love the Stones, but are you serious? I didn't 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.520 know they had an album, but it was the best 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.760 rock album of the entire year. Yeah, that's impressive. Only 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.800 I don't know what they're doing at this point. They're 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.520 in their eighties. Seriously, we got a bunch more great emails. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.600 Maybe we'll sprinkle them in throughout the day. I love 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.480 the idea that we got some more news of the day. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.920 On the way, what does it mean that China has 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.680 launched some tariffs at us? What's that gonna do anything? 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:08.320 I need to know? And the groundbreaking history making transgender 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:13.439 actress is being canceled by the left. Oh boy, I 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.160 hadn't heard that that's taking their own That's an interesting development. Also, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.920 all on the Way sounds like a big news day 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:23.159 stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.480 Good news for anyone hoping to score a last minute 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.400 Super Bowl ticket. Tickets for the could be historic game 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.600 are fifty percent cheaper than last year's. The cheapest ticket 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.400 price is under four thousand dollars. On resale websites, which, 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.760 while still expensive, has falling in recent days. Resale experts 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.800 say the lower prices could be due to less fan 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.119 interest in New Orleans, especially after the recent terrorist attack, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.520 or that fans are just less excited about seeing those 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.080 annoying Chiefs in the big game for three years in 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:51.400 a row. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.960 I don't think that has anything to do with it. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.520 I don't think who play. I don't know you have 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.240 any explanation why Super Bowl tickets would be half what 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.399 they were no when it was Chief. Yeah, I'm I 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.199 am too. I don't know think about it, but no 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.080 clue I did. I did the thing I mocked. It's 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.879 you should Nobody should ever do this. I did a 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:19.119 quick google of my symptoms, and it's just such a 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.160 terrible idea, Like before you finish typing, it will say 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.520 sign of cancer and for whatever symptoms you put in there. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:30.120 Just it's really kind of hilarious in a macabre way. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.159 Nobody should ever just google their symptoms hoping for a 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.040 good information. I've got my medical websites I like, and 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.919 even them, you have to stay fairly disciplined because just 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.600 to be thorough, they'll say, and you know, it could 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.639 be you know, Mongolian brain aids could be the worst 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.840 kind of cancer that exists, but we're just you know, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:56.480 could be right. Thanks for that. We got this text 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:02.520 which leads into what we're going to talk about. Sorry, 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.800 my iPad I got up type in the code? What 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.800 is the code? Zero zero? Code zero six? The code? 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.280 Huh what does zero six zero zero? Now? But Chinese 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.159 will be able to hack into your iPad? Know what 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.600 we're going to talk about? Day to day? Oh no, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.320 you guys are starting to be a couple of negative nannies. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.200 Yesterday you were whining about Trump's tariffs. Thirty minutes later, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.199 Mexico caved in a little while later, candidate gave in. 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.359 Now you're whining and saying you won't be able to 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.240 shrink the government. Just hide and watch Trump is getting 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.399 it done. Yeah, shut up. You had rhinos, which may 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.080 be true. That may that may be true. And then 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.800 in any day by day, hour by hour, Trump is 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.920 being successful or not successful. Is obviously silly. I'm looking 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.359 at this morning console pole that's out today, yet another pole. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.159 Trump is at fifty two approved thirty eight disapproved, the 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.160 highest net approval rating for Trump ever recorded by that 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.600 well respected pulling organization. He's at the highest he's ever 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.200 been in his life. That will that will not last, 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.399 as I keep hearing pundit's point out, but of course 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.520 it never does for anybody. It's just part of the 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.840 whole governing thing. In fact, if you have high approval 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.800 ratings and they don't go down, I would say, you're 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.399 not trying to do anything. You're supposed to spend that 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.879 capital on some of the things you want to accomplish. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.080 Barack Obama did it with healthcare. Lots of people do it, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:26.600 but then he got like this headline in the New 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.800 York Times today, empowered by President Trump, Elon Musk is 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.800 waging a largely unchecked war against government, one that already 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.760 has far reaching consequences. That's the other scary thing that's 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.480 out there a lot is the whole Elon Musk. Nobody 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.200 elected him? What is he as if we don't have 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:51.720 hundreds or thousands of unelected bureaucrats making giant decisions every 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:56.439 single day about billions of dollars? Why are you kidding me? 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.400 Are you familiar with the way the whole agency thing? 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.399