Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Joy and he.
Speaker 2: Arms wrong. You get it. You're playing didn't flip upside down?
Speaker 1: Over the week get live from a studio scene. I
Speaker 1: like my planes right side up, no doubt. See saying
Speaker 1: you're a dimly lit room deeput them the bowels of
Speaker 1: the Armstrong again communications compound.
Speaker 3: Today you kick off a brand new week. We're under
Speaker 3: the tutelage of our general manager. Sensors. They're doing it
Speaker 3: for our old good with a seer in it a
Speaker 3: c okay, that's his suppose he could be sensors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, intruder alert, intruder alert, that sort of thing. But
Speaker 1: it's not. It's people who would limit our speech again
Speaker 1: for our own good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fantastic, look forward to talking about that. A lot
Speaker 4: of movement on that over the weekend and then live
Speaker 4: as we're on the air right now, Marco Rubio, I'm
Speaker 4: looking at him on the TV. He's in Saudi Arabia
Speaker 4: with a bunch of other big wigs and for the
Speaker 4: first time in four years since the war in Ukraine started,
Speaker 4: Remember the United States meeting with a member of Russia
Speaker 4: face to face, the Secretary of States meeting with Lavrov
Speaker 4: the equivalent of Russia.
Speaker 1: And they're going to try to hash out some sort
Speaker 1: of deal without Zelenski there, which is interesting. But we'll
Speaker 1: see how I along with the Trump administration, deny you're
Speaker 1: very premised they're not going to try to hash out
Speaker 1: a deal.
Speaker 2: They have said it's going to.
Speaker 1: Try to understand each other's intentions, open the channels of communication.
Speaker 4: There will be no deal struck. Well, that's the ultimate goal.
Speaker 4: That's the point of meeting, right sure, sure.
Speaker 1: Sis, they will include Zelensky at the moment any serious
Speaker 1: negotiations take place, or so.
Speaker 4: They tell him. Zelensky is in Turkey, so he's like
Speaker 4: right by if they get we all agree on this, Okay,
Speaker 4: let's bring him in and act like we'll have this
Speaker 4: conversation again and act like he's a part of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, el Zelenski can fly in from Turkey.
Speaker 4: Make it sound like a question even if it's a state, right,
Speaker 4: which might be how it actually works out.
Speaker 2: Man, there's some that's some high level stuff right there.
Speaker 1: Uh and and horrible, horrible steakes obviously, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's taking a light and slightly humorous approach to the question,
Speaker 1: but of course a gruesome, gruesome.
Speaker 2: Chapter and is horrible.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it's even hardly even happening that you're
Speaker 4: you're sitting down with somebody that high level from Russia,
Speaker 4: you know, and having to talk. I mean, they're killers,
Speaker 4: they're murderers, they're they're they're the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1: Sure, But one.
Speaker 4: Interesting thing I learned from this as an aside, and
Speaker 4: then we'll get back to, you know, reality. But one
Speaker 4: of the things I learned from one of those books
Speaker 4: that I read.
Speaker 1: Lavrov, the guy that's, you know, the top negotiator out
Speaker 1: there for Putin, he didn't even.
Speaker 4: Know that Putin was gonna go into Ukraine until it happened.
Speaker 4: He was left in the dark. So how much authority
Speaker 4: he has to wrap this thing up?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I guess we'll find out.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this, Marco Rubio's face is very serious
Speaker 4: in these meetings. I'm sure they're gonna go oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you're gonna kick the cameras out soon. And
Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham, I just saw this on the TV Lindsay
Speaker 4: Graham said a bad deal in Ukraine would be the
Speaker 4: biggest mistake the United States has made since the end
Speaker 4: of World War II, which is quite a statement. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's a pretty big statement. I mean, if you
Speaker 4: heard about Vietnam and Iraq and a bunch of other
Speaker 4: different things that went on since World War Two ended,
Speaker 4: that's that's quite a thing to say.
Speaker 1: And certainly Marco Rubio is there to execute the president's
Speaker 1: foreign policy. But as I made no secret of when
Speaker 1: he was appointed or nominated in confirmed, Marco's a hawk
Speaker 1: and he's a hard ass, and I love him on
Speaker 1: foreign policy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Thinking we're in decent hands there right Again, the administration
Speaker 1: has made some noises that I appreciate the making about
Speaker 1: not rushing into anything.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna sit down and talk a little bit.
Speaker 4: So back to your general manager, censors with a C.
Speaker 4: Some really disturbing stuff happened on Sunday. If you weren't
Speaker 4: paying attention, and you know, you were enjoying your President's
Speaker 4: Day festivities with the parades and the gifts and the
Speaker 4: songs and the love making, I mean, you got the
Speaker 4: romantic twoffer that is Valentine's Day, then President's Day. I mean,
Speaker 4: just back bookends of a very romantic weekend dressed.
Speaker 1: Like Lincoln again, Honey, you know I love that so disturbing.
Speaker 1: Sunday was rough, so I guess to preview Sunday's night
Speaker 1: horrific sixty Minutes on Face the Nation earlier that day,
Speaker 1: on Margaret Brennan actually said the phrase, you know, in
Speaker 1: Germany in the thirties, free speech was weaponized for a genocide. Yes,
Speaker 1: she came out anti free speech, and apparently CBS is
Speaker 1: anti free speech as Later that nine, on sixty Minutes,
Speaker 1: they aired an entire episode about how Germany's cracking down
Speaker 1: on free speech from a isn't this cool standpoint? You
Speaker 1: know this isn't aside, but I almost wish it hadn't
Speaker 1: been two CBS products that both unmasked themselves in the
Speaker 1: same way, because it's the mask coming off, I think
Speaker 1: is the main message to take from the weekend. There
Speaker 1: are in Europe and in the United States prominent forces
Speaker 1: that are every bit as enthusiastic about eliminating misinformation and
Speaker 1: disinformation as they were during COVID, and guess who they
Speaker 1: think ought to decide what's misinformation that you probably shouldn't hear.
Speaker 1: They'd be delighted to take that job themselves. And it
Speaker 1: is now. It's funny. Another design heard a great interview
Speaker 1: with an author who's got a book out about how
Speaker 1: everybody's tribal and political all the time now and it's
Speaker 1: not healthy. You ought not be thinking about politics twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day. It's just weird. It's never been
Speaker 1: the way it is in this country except in times
Speaker 1: of great crisis. And I thought, you know, that's a
Speaker 1: really good point there. But when you have again major
Speaker 1: societal forces saying, you know, free speech, let's reconsider that.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm at my battle station.
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, I'm staying here. I thought those of you
Speaker 4: who are sounding the alarm on free speech head over egged.
Speaker 4: You're pudding. I thought you're overstating him. But man, after Sunday,
Speaker 4: I thought, holy crap, this might be the battle of
Speaker 4: my lifetime.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. Smart people of high position have decided
Speaker 1: free speech is a bad idea. What Oh my god, wow, wow, Well, welcome.
Speaker 2: To the party.
Speaker 3: I've been yelling this for you years and finally it
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 1: No way to treat your guests when they get to
Speaker 1: a party. I am so sorry, really not a good host.
Speaker 1: You brought deviled eggs. Nobody likes deviled eggs. Why are
Speaker 1: you so late?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe we'll just go.
Speaker 4: No, get it here so that highly disturbing, and we'll
Speaker 4: play a bunch of clips from that. Yeah, in Germany,
Speaker 4: you could be laying in bed and the police could
Speaker 4: bust down your door and run in with guns drawn
Speaker 4: because you had a tweet that they thought was insensitive.
Speaker 2: Honest to freaking.
Speaker 1: God, tweet about Muslim immigration was really insensitive and hurt
Speaker 1: people's feelings.
Speaker 2: So you're coming to jail?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: And CBS treated that like something to admire and pretty cool,
Speaker 4: with no pushback really whatsoever?
Speaker 1: As I said, a freaking delighted bias. Yeah, they thought
Speaker 1: it was hilarious. Some of the things that they've done
Speaker 1: to some of these people, spreading missing from and one
Speaker 1: of my favorite free speech people I don't remember which one,
Speaker 1: maybe Rufo or somebody on Twitter said, would have been
Speaker 1: nice for sixty minutes to have a free speech advocate
Speaker 1: on there to go back and forth on some of
Speaker 1: these things they're claiming, even for fifteen second right, somebody
Speaker 1: to represent that point of view CBS.
Speaker 2: Good lord.
Speaker 4: And then if you think this is not important, I
Speaker 4: think it's a really big deal that sixty minutes, probably
Speaker 4: the most important news product we have in America treated
Speaker 4: free speech like it's on the it's on the table
Speaker 4: for discussion, right wow. And Germany's already gone down the road.
Speaker 4: Like I just said, it's against the law to make
Speaker 4: fun of someone in public.
Speaker 1: They actually said that out loud. It's a good salon
Speaker 1: to big fun of someone, are you, Wow?
Speaker 2: We would really like dissent to be permissible.
Speaker 1: Signed all the little kids who are kept out of
Speaker 1: schools and kept away from from their friends and are
Speaker 1: damaged for the rest of their lives during COVID, we
Speaker 1: think it's important sign those little kids.
Speaker 4: So we've left out of this the fact that jad
Speaker 4: Vance was in Europe over the weekend and gave a
Speaker 4: speech and really blasted Europe for this sort of thing
Speaker 4: and saying, your biggest problem isn't Russia or China, your
Speaker 4: biggest problem is internal in this whole anti free speech.
Speaker 4: And if you're not gonna do something about it, we
Speaker 4: can't help you, and you can't help yourselves, And so
Speaker 4: big uproar over that they're having an emergency meeting.
Speaker 1: There in Europe. Some German high level official cride during
Speaker 1: the speech. They were so upset, And it turns out
Speaker 1: Jade Vance is absolutely right. Yeah, oh oh, but that's
Speaker 1: what Margaret Brennan was mentioning on facination when she said
Speaker 1: jd Vance said free speeches blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Free speech was weaponized in Germany in the thirties for
Speaker 1: a genocide. God, what are you talking about.
Speaker 4: Oh so that's something we're going to talk about several
Speaker 4: times today. That's a really big deal, really big deal.
Speaker 4: We should start the show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 4: Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, February eighteenth, the
Speaker 4: year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Or Armstrong in getting we approve of this program. Let's
Speaker 1: begin uncensored according to de FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2: Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 1: Germany is cracking down.
Speaker 5: It's all the online, it's who's new theory. We were
Speaker 5: with the German police as they conducted early morning raids
Speaker 5: on citizens who had been accused of hate speech, threats
Speaker 5: and inciting violence online. In the United States, A lot
Speaker 5: of people look at this and say this is restricting
Speaker 5: free speech.
Speaker 1: It's a threat to democracy. Free speech needs boundaries, and
Speaker 1: they'll helpfully impose those boundaries where they think it's appropriate.
Speaker 4: Right, and then the obvious question is, Okay, who's going
Speaker 4: to draw the boundaries? Oh you are? Oh okay, Well,
Speaker 4: you realize you're not always going to be in charge.
Speaker 4: You're going to be comfortable with where Trump draws the boundaries,
Speaker 4: or whoever it is you don't like when they're in charge.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, and again, I hate to even go to that
Speaker 1: argument because the argument and principle is good enough. But
Speaker 1: I think Vance's point. We'll play you some excerpts from it.
Speaker 1: His speech is, his point on a practical level, was
Speaker 1: really good and if those dopey Euros would listen to it,
Speaker 1: they'd be better off for it. He's saying to them, listen,
Speaker 1: you are stifling a significant and growing portion of your
Speaker 1: population from telling you what they need and what they want.
Speaker 1: This will blow up in your face, and it will.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely right, it's already happening.
Speaker 4: Damned interesting stuff anyway, got a bunch of clips from
Speaker 4: Saturday Night Lives Big fifty year anniversary which I watched
Speaker 4: all of them, thought was absolutely fantastic. I've got a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff on the way mail bag this hour
Speaker 4: stick around.
Speaker 2: I mean I used to be adored by the left.
Speaker 2: I mean I really did it.
Speaker 1: I mean this whole sort of like it is.
Speaker 6: They call it like Trump duration syndrome, And you don't
Speaker 6: realize how real this is until like it's you can't
Speaker 6: reason with people. So like I was at a friend's
Speaker 6: birthday party in Alle, just a birthday dinner, and it
Speaker 6: was like a nice quiet dinner and everything was everyone
Speaker 6: was behaving normally. This is before the election, like a
Speaker 6: month or two before. After you mention the president's name,
Speaker 6: and it was like they got shot with a dart
Speaker 6: in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies, Okay, And.
Speaker 2: I'm like wow, and I'm like what is Guys, Like
Speaker 2: you can't.
Speaker 6: Have like a normal conversation and it's like it's like
Speaker 6: that to become completely irrational.
Speaker 2: Wow, meths and rabies.
Speaker 1: By the way, on the Elon front found out over
Speaker 1: the weekend, Baby number thirteen, Congratulations, Dad, here's a cigar.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get so much done changing
Speaker 1: diapers and early morning feedings and then you got the
Speaker 1: other dozen kids to get off to school, and I'll
Speaker 1: put their homework and teach them how to ride a
Speaker 1: bike and all those things. Luckily employees five hundred nannies.
Speaker 1: He's an odd duck. Yeah, virtually every way, there's absolutely
Speaker 1: no doubt. But if he's doing good things, he's doing
Speaker 1: good things.
Speaker 4: Like he gets a real pass on his personal life
Speaker 4: for some reason, you know, in a way that other
Speaker 4: people don't.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why, but yeah, he's just so
Speaker 1: over the top crazy in that way. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any point in bringing it up. It's not like
Speaker 1: he can be shamed. He's obviously made that decision. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm much more concerned with what he does in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, his official capacities. But anybody just you know,
Speaker 1: just Fred down the hall, anybody who has thirteen kids
Speaker 1: by as many different women as it took Yeseri.
Speaker 4: Wake, I saw the chart yesterday. I had the chart.
Speaker 4: I'll get into it later. So we shouldn't need a chart.
Speaker 4: It's only like four women. But it's complicated, but you.
Speaker 2: Don't need it chart.
Speaker 1: My kids happen to be visiting all at once for
Speaker 1: the first time in a couple of years. It was
Speaker 1: absolutely wonderful. We don't need a chart. It's those are
Speaker 1: my kids, right? But Fred down the Hall had thirteen kids,
Speaker 1: four different women. He's not married any of them. You'd
Speaker 1: think it's crazy. He's crazy. I would agree completely. So
Speaker 1: a couple of notes on what's happening doge wise. I
Speaker 1: love this writing.
Speaker 2: Who wrote this?
Speaker 1: I like to give credit. Oh, Jerry Baker's absolutely terrific
Speaker 1: with Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: But he's talking about how the left.
Speaker 1: Came out and were bellowing into microphones and screeching about
Speaker 1: how unfair it was that any federal employees should lose
Speaker 1: their jobs, and he writes it was a tableau for
Speaker 1: the ages one an example of the many strange battle
Speaker 1: lines the Democratic Party has chosen.
Speaker 2: To defend these past few years.
Speaker 1: Illegal migrants over citizens, teachers' unions over parents and children,
Speaker 1: criminals over victims, men turned women. That doesn't, that can't happen,
Speaker 1: Transgender people over girls. Good luck with that, Democrats. You
Speaker 1: might want to fire your polsters. It's like that, so
Speaker 1: I wanted to share it. Elon Musk responding to a
Speaker 1: different section of the absolutely idiotically dishonest sixty minutes yesterday,
Speaker 1: and that was the first story about the absolute tragedy
Speaker 1: of canceling funding for USA, even for a few minutes
Speaker 1: as it gets reformed, and one of the more prominent
Speaker 1: quotes was a woman crying that twelve days ago people
Speaker 1: knew where their next paycheck was coming from, they knew
Speaker 1: how they were gonna pay for their kids' daycare, their
Speaker 1: medical bills. Then all gone overnight, said Christine Dry, who
Speaker 1: was fired, says Elon Musk sixty minutes. There're such liars,
Speaker 1: as the community notes states all employees were offered eight
Speaker 1: months of paying benefits. Even without that. You know who
Speaker 1: else finds out with no notice that they're fired and
Speaker 1: the walked out to their car and wonder what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do. Everybody else all the time, I don't understand this,
Speaker 1: and I thought this was so interesting from the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Wall Street Journal. It was not intentionally this way,
Speaker 1: but the headline is Trump layoffs push federal workers into
Speaker 1: tough job hunt, and they mentioned that federal workers skew
Speaker 1: older than those in the private sector, and their long
Speaker 1: bureaucratic experience often makes them less competitive applicants for corporate roles.
Speaker 1: According to career coaches and recruiters.
Speaker 4: In other words, they are without skills the world needs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's funny. There are other sentences in here. Uh,
Speaker 1: instability is a jarring change from any in the federal government,
Speaker 1: which has been a bastion of long term employment. Long
Speaker 1: government resumes can make it harder for workers to stand out.
Speaker 1: Such workers often lack experience that companies seek, such as
Speaker 1: a track record of exceeding sales or other performance targets
Speaker 1: in the government, said one expert. These are jobs that
Speaker 1: aren't always tied to tangible results.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, how revealing is all that we noticed?
Speaker 1: Well, they have no standards to reach or or goals
Speaker 1: to exceed, or really leadership or I mean there are
Speaker 1: exceptions to this obviously, but for the masses of workers, No,
Speaker 1: they're box checkers and paper shufflers, and they'll be employed
Speaker 1: for life, no matter how terrible they are at their jobs,
Speaker 1: protected by their powerful, powerful, politically connected unions. So we've
Speaker 1: got mail bag Katie's headlines.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get into that whole censorship Germany thing, free
Speaker 4: speech thing that is so damned interesting and maybe the
Speaker 4: most important thing going on all on the way.
Speaker 1: I hope you can stick around, Armstrong and getdy. Some
Speaker 1: days a whale swallows you. Some days your plane flips
Speaker 1: upside down. Life is like a box of chocolates. Welcome
Speaker 1: to a brand new week.
Speaker 2: Why thick with odd metaphors?
Speaker 4: There, folks, metaphors, there are stories from real life.
Speaker 2: It's not a metaphor.
Speaker 1: If you get swallowed by a whale, you got swallowed
Speaker 1: by a whale.
Speaker 4: Sounded like a mataphor. I think that guy got spit out.
Speaker 4: I wish he spoke english Man. That interview is something.
Speaker 4: It was all to see it. Oh, you haven't seen
Speaker 4: the interview? No, or have you seen the guy get
Speaker 4: swallowed by the whale? Just heard somebody mentioned, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He gets swallowed by a whale and then spit out
Speaker 1: the whale like like tickles it, toup a glottis or something.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, and the guy comes shooting back out.
Speaker 4: And then they interview the guy who speaks whatever he speaks,
Speaker 4: and he says, I thought I was dead everythiwing thing
Speaker 4: with black Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's a reasonable assumption.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then uh, then he gets spit out and
Speaker 1: everything's fine. Whale swims off. Holy crap, geez, I do
Speaker 1: of old. How does that make you change religions?
Speaker 4: Or I don't know, buy a lottery ticket or something,
Speaker 4: But good lord, stay out of the water.
Speaker 1: Canada got a preview of what it's going to be
Speaker 1: like if they don't become our fifty first state. And
Speaker 1: on the ice the other day, the war with Canada
Speaker 1: began with our fists. It was a solid US victory
Speaker 1: from what I understand. The US Canada hockey game. There
Speaker 1: are three fights in the first nine seconds of the game. Really,
Speaker 1: and I'm told we went three and all and all?
Speaker 1: My hockey fan friends, why did you not tell me
Speaker 1: this game was so crazy.
Speaker 2: It was going on?
Speaker 1: I missed it anyway. I thought that was tense between
Speaker 1: the US and Canada and are soon to be fifty
Speaker 1: first state. Eh. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Love this and along by Marina and San Diego. It's
Speaker 1: a classic classic from Frederic Bastiat, a French dude. She
Speaker 1: points out helpfully, when plunder becomes a way of life
Speaker 1: for a group of men in a society, over the
Speaker 1: course of time, they create for themselves a legal system
Speaker 1: that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Speaker 4: Right, and then you want those people in charge of
Speaker 4: the boundaries for free speech.
Speaker 1: A free speech needs rules, said the Germans. Yes, the boundaries.
Speaker 1: This is for your own good. We will protect you
Speaker 1: from your own bad speeches. Yeah, okay, thanks, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm good over here. We're just fine. Mailbag more on
Speaker 1: that to come drop us no mailbag at Armstrong and
Speaker 1: getty dot com.
Speaker 2: This is from Eric who sent us a handful of things.
Speaker 1: He is going deep into the I have a whole
Speaker 1: of what is Doge putting out.
Speaker 2: And here's one of his favorites.
Speaker 1: Seventy five million dollars for DEI in the Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 1: And this is how it works friends, twenty five million
Speaker 1: dollars to AMA Consulting LLC, twenty five.
Speaker 2: Million dollars to Ivy Planning Group LLC.
Speaker 1: Twenty five million dollars to Timothy Londighan LLC.
Speaker 2: These are these DEI.
Speaker 1: White Gilt, Eibram Kendy, Robin DiAngelo scammers and the people
Speaker 1: were making tens of millions in the Department of Agriculture. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, right, So we're not harvesting racist soybeans or
Speaker 1: denying black farmers the right to grow corn or something.
Speaker 1: Except the DEI stuff again is fake. It's Marxism. It
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with actual racism anyway. That's just crazy.
Speaker 1: Good lord. The size of the theft is just practically
Speaker 1: beyond comprehension, which is part of what they're counting on.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Doge shies, show, Bob, all right, I can't
Speaker 1: wait until Doge gets around to the three hundred plus
Speaker 1: million dollars in free federal money that Tesla took, not
Speaker 1: to mention the subsidies for buying one. Oh wait, never mind.
Speaker 1: I really do hate hypocrisy, Bob. You're normally you find
Speaker 1: and humorous correspondent. I think you're one hundred percent wrong
Speaker 1: on that. And it's not just because I like what
Speaker 1: Doge is doing. If the federal government is doling out
Speaker 1: billions of dollars in subsidies for electric cars, and I'm
Speaker 1: an electric car maker, I say, okay, write me the check. Well,
Speaker 1: is he supposed to turn it down because someday Doge
Speaker 1: would try to eliminate waste.
Speaker 4: And then try to compete against other electric cars. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know how that was gonna work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that's hypocrisy in the least.
Speaker 1: I think that if bad policy affects your company in
Speaker 1: a positive way, you take it and then, you know,
Speaker 1: try to institute reforms when you have the reins moving along.
Speaker 1: This is a little out of date, but I loved it.
Speaker 1: It's a clever Valentine's Day hack from Tony in Portlandia.
Speaker 1: He says, I'm a man in my mid sixties, not married,
Speaker 1: not interested at this stage of life. One of my
Speaker 1: boys is the executive theft nice beastraw in town. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. He got me reservations for two for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: I invited a friend, but at the last minute she
Speaker 1: couldn't make it, so I still went. What I did
Speaker 1: not see coming was all the sympathy drinks people brought me,
Speaker 1: bought me because they thought I'd been stood up. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that is a good thing.
Speaker 4: Remember this, guys, remember this single alcoholics Valentine's Day night,
Speaker 4: Sit at a restaurant by yourself.
Speaker 2: I prefer the term alcohol enthusiast.
Speaker 1: And wait a second, if this is one night that
Speaker 1: would prove nothing really, But he says, last year I
Speaker 1: did the same thing, went by myself, the same thing happened.
Speaker 1: The drinks just kept coming.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: A couple invited me to sit with them this year.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of bringing a dozen red roses, put them
Speaker 1: on the table and sit there with a sad face.
Speaker 1: Life is good if you have a sense of humor. KFTC.
Speaker 1: That's Tony in Portland.
Speaker 4: Were you surrounded by the kind of people that go
Speaker 4: out to dinner on Valentine's Day night, which is a
Speaker 4: certain crowd.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then you got that's quite the combination. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me and most of mine are like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you went out on Valentine's Day night and you fought
Speaker 1: your way through. Wow, you're nuts. Let's see this from Michael,
Speaker 1: who took a break from talk radio and political stuff
Speaker 1: because of the turbulent times and anger and Trump and
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff. It's fascinating how far apart the
Speaker 1: interpretations of each party's actions can be. It's like we
Speaker 1: all watched the same movie and one side came away
Speaker 1: thinking it was a western and the other thought it
Speaker 1: was sci fi. There's no common ground to be had.
Speaker 4: That's not really an exaggeration. Well, what a great romantic comedy.
Speaker 4: It was a war movie. It was a romantic comedy.
Speaker 4: It was a war movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm gonna not be specific about this sort of
Speaker 1: stuff for obvious reasons, but two of my kids live
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northway, and they and the people who
Speaker 1: they hang out with, they don't get a lot of
Speaker 1: differing political inputs in that part of the country, and
Speaker 1: so once in a while they would say something and
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, I don't actually see it
Speaker 1: that way, And that was a first for them and
Speaker 1: their friends in certain ways, what do you mean? And
Speaker 1: some of the information and again we didn't talk about
Speaker 1: politics much at all intentionally, but some of the information
Speaker 1: was completely new to them. They'd watched a western, I'd
Speaker 1: watched a sci fi movie. Actually I watched both for
Speaker 1: a living. But anyway, and then Michael says, I suppose
Speaker 1: you guys have become conditioned like first responders, where you're
Speaker 1: able to leave the horrors you see every day at
Speaker 1: work and go on with your lives. Maybe they should
Speaker 1: start teaching that skill in school too, because I certainly
Speaker 1: don't have it. Glad to be back. Glad to have
Speaker 1: you back. Michael Grade email.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: I was telling my son I'd love to teach a
Speaker 1: how to take in media class in college, which or
Speaker 1: high school, which I think ought to be a class
Speaker 1: in the modern world. Yes, i'd be a very valuable skill.
Speaker 1: First of all, just introducing the idea to people of
Speaker 1: you need to take in news from multiple sources with
Speaker 1: multiple points of view to have the slightest idea what's
Speaker 1: going on right?
Speaker 2: Right? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I mean it's so easy to draw out a scenario
Speaker 1: where it's the facts presented would lead you quite confidently
Speaker 1: to one conclusion. I've merely by leaving out the countervailing facts,
Speaker 1: you come to a wildly incorrect conclusion, highly questionable. I've
Speaker 1: got friends in both different bubbles that have completely different
Speaker 1: worldviews because of that, and in my opinion, they both
Speaker 1: benefit from a little sprinkling of the other side, just
Speaker 1: for perspective. Plus, as I've said many times to me,
Speaker 1: it's like not coming up against ideas you disagree with his,
Speaker 1: like not exercising, not lifting weights, your intellectual muscles atrophy.
Speaker 1: You just become you know, playing on your intellectual couch,
Speaker 1: you don't feel weak, but the minute you come up
Speaker 1: against something, you realize how weak you are. It.
Speaker 4: I just don't think it's healthy laying on my intellectual couch.
Speaker 1: It's a metaphor again, So this.
Speaker 4: One is a metaphor, unlike the guy who got swallowed
Speaker 4: by the whale, who actually got swallowed by a whale.
Speaker 1: I swear to God you presented it as a metaphor. Anyway,
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Speaker 4: I got to check with my son later to see
Speaker 4: how this went. He had volleyball practice at six am
Speaker 4: before school started, and he was really not wanting to
Speaker 4: do that, and I told him he's got to. He said,
Speaker 4: I'm not doing it. I said, yes, you are. He
Speaker 4: said I'm not. I said you are, and then he
Speaker 4: eventually just gave it, realizing I was not budging on this.
Speaker 4: But you signed up for the team. This is these
Speaker 4: are the expectations.
Speaker 1: As we got to. He got two matches this week.
Speaker 1: But anyway, six am practice before school. That's something I
Speaker 1: ain't never remember that man for hockey, for basketball. Luckily
Speaker 1: in baseball you gotta have some sunlight, so they waited
Speaker 1: till the afternoon.
Speaker 4: I remember, I don't specifically met and remember many maybe
Speaker 4: one wrestling practice one time early, but I had a
Speaker 4: lot of band practices before school.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, yeah, jazz band I remember
Speaker 1: in high school was insanely early. Yeah, and uh, so
Speaker 1: you know it's preparing you for life.
Speaker 4: Huh, doing a variety of things you don't want to do,
Speaker 4: Having long days, which he's starting to have in high
Speaker 4: school where it's you know, you're busy from when you
Speaker 4: get up until you.
Speaker 1: Go to bed at night. Yeah, that's the way life
Speaker 1: often is. It prepared me for a career long career
Speaker 1: in morning radio, which wrecked my health and my life.
Speaker 1: So your life, Oh, you're not a coal miner. You
Speaker 1: talk on the radio.
Speaker 2: I'm barely hanging on.
Speaker 1: You got black lung from talking on the radio. I
Speaker 1: need to go lie down on my intellectual couch.
Speaker 4: How we got Katie's headlines on the way see what's
Speaker 4: going on in the world, stick around. I just tweeted
Speaker 4: out the chart if you want to see it. Elon chart.
Speaker 4: So you got Elon at the top.
Speaker 1: You got four women and then the thirteen kids now
Speaker 1: they're thirteenth revealed over the weekend.
Speaker 4: He's got six kids with his first I don't know
Speaker 4: if they're actually married or not. Justine Wilson. And there's
Speaker 4: pictures of everybody here too, a lot of the kids too,
Speaker 4: which I don't think I'm cool with but anyway, six
Speaker 4: with Justine Wilson, three with Grimes, three with chevon Zillis,
Speaker 4: and now one with this Ashley Saint Claire woman, twenty
Speaker 4: four year old Hotty that was revealed over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Chevon Zillis sounds like a made up name. Just saying
Speaker 1: it does.
Speaker 4: Now a few people have commented that they all have
Speaker 4: crazy eyes, the four women.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I think these could be just
Speaker 2: the pictures.
Speaker 1: I don't know all four of them, but the ones
Speaker 1: I can picture, Yes, indeed, let me got them real
Speaker 1: toor eyes? They got them?
Speaker 4: You got Griffin Musk, Vivian Musk, Damon, Damien Musk, Saxon, Musk,
Speaker 4: Kai Musk Nevadam, then x A EA X two Musk
Speaker 4: e x A Dark Ciderell Musk, Techno Mechanics, Techno Mechanicus,
Speaker 4: MUCKs Musk, an unnamed child strider a Zuer.
Speaker 2: And then that's now one that hasn't been named.
Speaker 1: Yet can confirm the crazy eyes. They all got crazy eyes.
Speaker 7: Get yetnam real tries, Oh yeah, oh yeah, she got him.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we need to get big into the Absolute Nightmare,
Speaker 1: which was sixty minutes last night. A decreasingly relevant old
Speaker 1: media hack shop if there ever was one. But boy,
Speaker 1: there's sympathy for censorship was on display.
Speaker 2: So that to come next hour.
Speaker 1: But first let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead
Speaker 1: story with Katie Green, Katie, thank you, guys.
Speaker 7: Starting with NBC, US and Russia agree to restore embassy
Speaker 7: staffing in high level talks on Ukraine war without Zelenski.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one place I heard an interview with Marco
Speaker 1: Rude Rubio where he started with, they got to do
Speaker 1: something about our embassy, which is a nightmare than Moscow
Speaker 1: and has been horrible forever. Let's start there.
Speaker 7: From the New York Post, Trump congratulates US forces after
Speaker 7: airstrike kills quote terrorist leader in.
Speaker 4: Syria didn't even hear that. That's why we listen to you, Katie.
Speaker 1: You know from Fox News.
Speaker 7: Acting head of Social Security quits after clash with Doge
Speaker 7: over data.
Speaker 2: Boy, is that overblown?
Speaker 1: That whole down Big granted access to the computer systems,
Speaker 1: they could they could do anything. Now it's a number one,
Speaker 1: it's read only access. And how are they going to
Speaker 1: figure out where the money's going unless they look at
Speaker 1: the money. I saw a senator point out over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk has one of the highest security clearances you
Speaker 1: can get. He's involved in rockets and works with NASA.
Speaker 1: He had to have a high security He's not just
Speaker 1: a guy up the street from Daily Mail.
Speaker 7: Elon Musk's doge finds four ero point seven trillion dollars
Speaker 7: in treasury payments on untraceable budget line and no one
Speaker 7: knows where the money went.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh see, that's exactly what they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be looking for. If they overstep, they do something they're
Speaker 1: not supposed to, if they're rude to somebody, we have
Speaker 1: ways to deal with that. But when you're taking on
Speaker 1: the gigantic, horrific, wasteful, complex, abusive federal government and the
Speaker 1: minute of toe gets stepped on, Chuck Schumer goes to
Speaker 1: the steps of the Capitol and weeps the bitter bitter
Speaker 1: tears that can on queue anytime. Please, that's not a
Speaker 1: reason to not do it.
Speaker 7: MSNBC. Investors haven't been this pessimistic about stocks since twenty
Speaker 7: twenty three.
Speaker 1: That's actually a Wall Street Journal headline.
Speaker 4: Investors have not been this spessimistic about stocks in two years.
Speaker 1: It's not a long time, but I don't like to hear.
Speaker 7: That from ABC quote hanging like that Toronto plane crash
Speaker 7: survivor speaks out after aircraft flips on the runway.
Speaker 1: As I was hanging upside down in my plane flames about.
Speaker 4: I would think this might be it. Even if you're
Speaker 4: on the ground. I think the thing good.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah. And the fact that a plane ended up
Speaker 1: upside down and it would appear nobody's going to die
Speaker 1: from it is really amazing.
Speaker 7: From the Washington Post, soldiers are arriving at our southern border,
Speaker 7: but hardly any migrants are crossing right.
Speaker 4: Well, word got out there are no point in trying
Speaker 4: to come now. If you can get across, and you
Speaker 4: probably can't, you're gonna get deported soon.
Speaker 2: So that's a big message. Lloyd.
Speaker 1: Does this have the feel of society weaving from guardrail
Speaker 1: to guardrail? As I've talked about many times through the years.
Speaker 1: At some point you can already hear it being said,
Speaker 1: why do we have such a presence on the border.
Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of illegal immigration. Both it
Speaker 1: and then I'll flood across the border and we will
Speaker 1: veer to the other guardrail.
Speaker 2: Don't come, don't come. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: From brightbart dot com.
Speaker 7: Vacationer loses both hands and turks and kekos trying to
Speaker 7: take a photo with a shark.
Speaker 1: He had both hands bitten off, both hands gone. Tried
Speaker 1: to take a photo with a shark. Not of a shark,
Speaker 1: but with a shark. What is the sound of no
Speaker 1: hands clapping? That is? That's not a good vacation. How's
Speaker 1: your vacation? Well, I lost both hands. That's Darwin rubbing
Speaker 1: his beard and thinking, I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: to kill him, but we gotta send a message here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, And finally, the Babylon Bee Democrats demand transparency
Speaker 7: from the man who literally posts everything he does on
Speaker 7: the internet.
Speaker 4: Right, right, And how about that they worked in getting
Speaker 4: back to sixty minutes from Sunday Night in their whole
Speaker 4: up with Censorship episode? How about that they worked Elon
Speaker 4: Muskin there somewhere like he benefited or something, and it's whatever,
Speaker 4: this is just it's out of hand, this whole focusing
Speaker 4: on and always have to mention they mentioned in this
Speaker 4: story the world's richest man, like that's some extra level
Speaker 4: of something.
Speaker 1: Like here's the third richest man. It wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: big deal, but he's the world's richest man. Well, and
Speaker 1: they made a line about kicking people out of work
Speaker 1: who are struggling to feed their families. I mean like
Speaker 1: he was some sort of Dickensian character. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: an Easter scrooge for closing on some you know, starving englishman. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's a giant, wasteful government that we're trying to rein in.
Speaker 1: Oh I remember the line.
Speaker 4: It was something like the world's richest man shutting down
Speaker 4: food to hungry people.
Speaker 2: But that's it the USA stas story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 4: All right, we got a lot more of this coming up.
Speaker 4: We are going to get into the censorship thing heavy.
Speaker 4: Jd Vance gave what a lot of people are calling
Speaker 4: a historic speech in Europe over the weekend, like Reagan
Speaker 4: level mister Gorbachev tear down this wall.
Speaker 1: Stuff, and the Europeans response to it proved he was
Speaker 1: absolutely right.
Speaker 2: We'll have that as well. They got their weird European
Speaker 2: underwear and of bind.
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