Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and he Armstrong and oh, this is Gronk. I'm here
Speaker 1: for the show. Open up the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1: Get out of here, Gronk. You don't need to be
Speaker 1: in every damn thing I ever look at in my life.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves Gronk. Oh my god, enough Gronk already live
Speaker 1: from Studio C, a d lit room deep within the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications combound. And hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: on a brand new week. We're under the tutelage of
Speaker 1: our general manager here, pil.
Speaker 2: Phenelfia el Gleckles.
Speaker 1: But super Bowl champions. I hate blowouts as my least favorite.
Speaker 1: I would rather have had a that was last on
Speaker 1: my list of there's only four outcomes for any game
Speaker 1: you watch, right, your team barely wins, your team barely loses,
Speaker 1: or the blowout either way, really and uh this is
Speaker 1: the worst. I would rather have a close Philadelphia win
Speaker 1: than a Kansas City blowout. I don't like blowouts. I
Speaker 1: find blogs aring and uh yeah, so I was cleaning
Speaker 1: my room the entire second half. I didn't see how
Speaker 1: they scored twenty two points somehow was as clearly matter
Speaker 1: wasn't as close as the score indicates, as they say,
Speaker 1: as they often say, yeah, but yeah, that's disappointing. Well,
Speaker 1: we had, you know, many years in a row of
Speaker 1: very close super Bowls like came down to the last play.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's more than you can really expect to
Speaker 1: have over and over again. Yeah, Cups was running over.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could this usher in a new era of super bores?
Speaker 1: Much like the nineties? Is that a thing? Did these
Speaker 1: things come in waves that you couldn't usher it in?
Speaker 1: This is footstock.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to make a damn look of sense.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Gronk?
Speaker 1: Seriously enough, Gronk, I'm amazed at how people get hot
Speaker 1: and then every company out there thinks we need to
Speaker 1: throw how how much money we need to throw at
Speaker 1: Gronk to get him an hour ad? Or do they
Speaker 1: not know that? Maybe I'd ask Gronk just before we
Speaker 1: signed the paper and we have you in the ad?
Speaker 1: Are you doing like fifty other commercials that are gonna
Speaker 1: make people roll their eyes? They won't even remember mine?
Speaker 1: He's the U two of the twenty twenties.
Speaker 2: Good Ronk's everywhere? Every show got to have Gronk or what.
Speaker 1: The I tweeted a lot yesterday. I was on a
Speaker 1: tweet and roll before the game. My favorite thing of
Speaker 1: the whole everything, if you saw it, was what the
Speaker 1: hell was that like five minute Brad pit thing. I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out, what are you asking me to do?
Speaker 1: What are you telling am I supposed to cry? Am
Speaker 1: I supposed to stand up in salute? Am I supposed
Speaker 1: to be excited about football or the country or kids.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what we're doing here? Are you
Speaker 1: selling me something? Do I need to go onto a
Speaker 1: website and donate money? I had no idea what's going
Speaker 1: on there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I missed the audio on that when I was at
Speaker 2: a party, so I was just looking at it mystified.
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Pitts one of the biggest stars in
Speaker 1: the world, and they gave it super prime placement right
Speaker 1: before the game starts, and it was mystifying as to
Speaker 1: what it was, like, what what is the message here?
Speaker 1: Did you see that? Michael? Yeah? And it brought back
Speaker 1: memories of my dad. He used to scream at the TV.
Speaker 3: Damn it, it's just a football game, and it just
Speaker 3: started getting mad.
Speaker 1: That is a good thing to say. That is a
Speaker 1: perfect thing to say. Quick trying to pull my like
Speaker 1: heartstrings around patriotism and hurt children and all these different
Speaker 1: equality in the world and all these different things. Damn it,
Speaker 1: it's just a football game.
Speaker 2: I would like to see it more seriously, at least
Speaker 2: slightly more seriously.
Speaker 1: Just a pole.
Speaker 2: I guess of Americans, how many people are like touched
Speaker 2: and moved that they trotted out or brought out the
Speaker 2: families of the victims of the would be jihadi who
Speaker 2: ran a bunch of people over because it's in the
Speaker 2: same set is there's some sort of sin being committed
Speaker 2: by going ahead with life, and there was a rather
Speaker 2: important football game schedule, so we're going to go ahead
Speaker 2: and have the football game. But you've got to, like Genufleck,
Speaker 2: to the idea of this is like weirdly inappropriate because
Speaker 2: there was just death here.
Speaker 1: I don't have to, by the way, I don't think
Speaker 1: you do. Entertainment executives make all, as we know, make
Speaker 1: all kinds of stupid, stupid decisions. Yeah, and whoever got
Speaker 1: together in a room and decided. They probably decided it
Speaker 1: right after the ISIS attack, when it was like super fresh,
Speaker 1: and now we hear we are month and a half
Speaker 1: later or whatever it is where it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that happened, as opposed to I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can watch the super Bowl in New Orleans
Speaker 1: after what happened the other day. Now, who was feeling
Speaker 1: that way? And lama is another one of my tweets.
Speaker 1: As Lady Gaga was singing her song and people were
Speaker 1: waving her hands. Okay, I guess we're all unified. We're
Speaker 1: anti ISIS.
Speaker 2: Let's get to kickoff, noted anti Ghatty activist Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: Ah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: There is clearly a certain sort of person for whom
Speaker 2: that sort of gesture is appreciated.
Speaker 1: I don't believe.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't believe I feel better now that Lady
Speaker 2: Gaga sang an emotional song.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I think if the entire Super
Speaker 1: Bowl had completely ignored the horrifying shooting or I guess
Speaker 1: car ramming there in New Orleans, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think I would have noticed. I don't think anybody would
Speaker 1: have minded.
Speaker 2: But it wouldn't have popped into my mind. No, absolutely,
Speaker 2: I was acutely aware of the event and who was
Speaker 2: involved in New Orleans' failures and putting up the ballards
Speaker 2: and the rest of it a chapter and verse. I
Speaker 2: followed the news, but no, I wouldn't have thought of it.
Speaker 1: I need football. I need Tom Brady in a T
Speaker 1: shirt walking between the firefighters and the cops talking about
Speaker 1: pulling together and something or other and how and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a stretch anyway, We're all getting together to get
Speaker 1: drunk and get fat and watch a football game to
Speaker 1: try to success. By the way, to try to turn
Speaker 1: it in. I think this was Brad Pitt's message, to
Speaker 1: try to turn it into some sort of this is
Speaker 1: who we are as Americans. I think it's a real stretch. Well,
Speaker 1: try to make more important than just it's a football game.
Speaker 1: It's way to kill an afternoon, and to further torture it.
Speaker 2: Because we were paying loving tribute to the death in
Speaker 2: New Orleans, it seemed insensitive not to pay a tribute
Speaker 2: to the death and destruction in California. So Tom Brady
Speaker 2: was it was was wearing an LA Fire Department.
Speaker 1: T shirt just as kind of a token representation of
Speaker 1: Oh in California too, because somebody in the meeting threw up.
Speaker 1: But what about California? That's right, we need to resonate
Speaker 1: with California. Also, Yeah, at least three people wearing T shirts. Now,
Speaker 1: three seems like a lot because the game's in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: How about one? Would one be good? Okay again, if
Speaker 1: you know what that Brad Pitt thing was, it seemed
Speaker 1: like the length of a motion picture. Please text four
Speaker 1: one KFTC. I still don't Oh crap, the Eagles just
Speaker 1: scored again. Jeez, it's to twenty four. Let's start the
Speaker 1: show officially. I'm Jack Armshaw. I hain't a lot of
Speaker 1: your cheese dip yesterday, Michael to come out. It was
Speaker 1: damn good, good, it was damn good. I wish I
Speaker 1: had to put more cheese on top because I like
Speaker 1: that part. But it was really really good. But after
Speaker 1: you get I don't know, a pound into it, yeah,
Speaker 1: you start to regret your decisions. Yep, that's what I noticed.
Speaker 2: I don't have any leftovers because when I set fire
Speaker 2: to my kitchen to celebrate the Eagles, when I accidentally
Speaker 2: torched it, so I might name it Michelangelo's Regretful Cheese Dip,
Speaker 2: because after you eat a whole bunch of it, you
Speaker 2: will regret that you had ever started.
Speaker 1: I went to the grocery store and spent money and
Speaker 1: time to do this. I feel awful. What was the
Speaker 1: point here? What was I trying to a couple hole?
Speaker 1: It's not a very good endorsement. Well, it might have
Speaker 1: to do with the quantity you have to eat as
Speaker 1: much as I. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, February tenth, year, twenty twenty five. We
Speaker 1: are armstrong in getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 2: All right, let's kick off the show for brand new
Speaker 2: week officially according to FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4: On the.
Speaker 1: And see.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: Let's go Bart, Here you go. Because it was New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I really liked the music. I thought the America the
Speaker 1: Beautiful with trombone Shorty was flipping awesome. I thought that
Speaker 1: was so good. Hey, at the end.
Speaker 2: There, though we were talking about this in the pregame show,
Speaker 2: he was just playing random notes that was not groovy
Speaker 2: piano riff.
Speaker 1: And that was a guy that's like, yeah, whatever, I
Speaker 1: didn't notice the piano I was singing about that. Did
Speaker 1: you have a clock on? And at how do they
Speaker 1: make sure the anthem singer doesn't do some insider trading
Speaker 1: or whatever it is if you're involved in betting, Because
Speaker 1: it was one hundred and twenty seconds. He over under
Speaker 1: on the beat and you can actually bet money on that.
Speaker 1: And he could have said the Home of the Brave.
Speaker 1: He could have had home with a brave, brave, but
Speaker 1: he went home with a brave, brave, brave right, And
Speaker 1: it got him to one hundred and twenty seconds. And
Speaker 1: I just wonder, how would you How would you not
Speaker 1: have an uncle who puts a thousand dollars on it someplace?
Speaker 2: It had the feel of a team going for two
Speaker 2: when they didn't need to, And.
Speaker 1: I was said, why would they do that? Well? The
Speaker 1: spread was what right? Did you know? My favorite headline
Speaker 1: of the day. What we woke up to today? The
Speaker 1: end of the penny? Donald Trump tweeting out last night,
Speaker 1: no more pennies. We spend two cents on a penny.
Speaker 1: It's stupid. We're gonna stop, he announced, He ordered the treasurer.
Speaker 1: Why did this not happen before? Why is he only
Speaker 1: a person that can say the capital is of Israel
Speaker 1: is Jerusalem. We all know it, right, let's just move
Speaker 1: it over there. USA.
Speaker 2: It is a fraud the department, it's a fraud factory.
Speaker 1: We got to get rid of it. But can he
Speaker 1: defeat the humble penny, the pennies? Just can he order
Speaker 1: the Treasury Department to do that? Well, we're well read
Speaker 1: at the nickel must go. And let's talk about the dime.
Speaker 1: A quarter is enough of a denomination, all right, we're
Speaker 1: a rich country. We're not.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't make four thousand dollars a year
Speaker 2: per capity here?
Speaker 1: Yes, wegel.
Speaker 2: Does this mean that pennies will become collectible items and
Speaker 2: that will be worth a lot?
Speaker 1: My son and I were actually talking about that last night.
Speaker 1: What does that mean for the penny? Does it wonder
Speaker 1: what happens to it? Because there are gazillions of pennies
Speaker 1: in circulation.
Speaker 2: Well, oddly enough, now that it's no longer currency and
Speaker 2: is merely the constituent parts, it's worth more. Although you know,
Speaker 2: none of us has the ability to smelt it down
Speaker 2: to whatever, so you know there's going to be a
Speaker 2: discount on it, but you'll probably get like one point
Speaker 2: two cents for every penny's.
Speaker 1: Most of us on the show aren't tweakers. We're not
Speaker 1: that fascinated by copper just in general. But all your
Speaker 1: tweaker friends would love to have your pennies probably, hey,
Speaker 1: tweak your friends, plenty of them. And what was the
Speaker 1: other thing? Oh, so he announced on Brett Bear's interview
Speaker 1: yesterday that he said, starting in twenty four hours, Elon's
Speaker 1: going to turn his Elon whose name I now hear
Speaker 1: more than Trump's, that Elon's going to turn elected dictator
Speaker 1: by the way, a world Church's man. Yeah, which obviously
Speaker 1: you don't allow dark. You don't need to explain why
Speaker 1: that's evil. It's just obviously evil. The fact that he's
Speaker 1: rich and trying to government clearly evil. He announced that
Speaker 1: Trump announced yesterday during Brettbear's interview and will play some
Speaker 1: of it later from the super Bowl. That within twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, so that'd be today, Elon's going to turn
Speaker 1: his attention toward the Department of Education. And I'm all
Speaker 1: about that. I want to hear all kinds of great
Speaker 1: stats coming out on that. How does mail bag look? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's good.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that a little later on in the hour,
Speaker 2: I think, right, we are we going to oh take
Speaker 2: come to schedule.
Speaker 1: That's right, We're going to do things differently. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see how this works. It could be a disaster.
Speaker 1: I mean it could be like the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: offensive line. Nothing could be that bad. Not really. No
Speaker 1: lots on the way, you stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 1: What's driving this?
Speaker 3: I will keep it simple, Margaret.
Speaker 4: He is doing, in the eyes of the public, what
Speaker 4: he said he would do in the campaign.
Speaker 3: There's political value in that.
Speaker 4: In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
Speaker 4: he promised.
Speaker 3: That's whether they approve of him or not.
Speaker 4: Now there's another part of this that continues over from
Speaker 4: the campaign.
Speaker 3: There were words that he was described as.
Speaker 4: Being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in
Speaker 4: big majority numbers. So as people take a look in
Speaker 4: these first few weeks, there's been a lot of activity,
Speaker 4: they're getting that general sense of governance and that's being
Speaker 4: reflected in these early numbers.
Speaker 1: So this is the most recent big poll to come
Speaker 1: out since Trump has been in office, and while it
Speaker 1: seems like he's been in office for a year and
Speaker 1: a half, it's been He's inaugurate on the twentieth. We're not.
Speaker 1: We're ten days away from the one month then mark.
Speaker 1: How is that even possible? I know we're ten world ways,
Speaker 1: we're a week and a half from the one month mark.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. I was remer it's well go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's a symptom of a lot
Speaker 2: of different things, including the incredible power and flexibility of
Speaker 2: the presidency. They have it within their grasp to just
Speaker 2: redesign two thirds of the policies of the United States.
Speaker 1: Government, which is not a great deal. But before before
Speaker 1: I get back to the polling, which is really good
Speaker 1: for Trump, I was reminded yesterday that FDR, when he
Speaker 1: took office, he had one day where he had one
Speaker 1: hundred executive orders in a day, seven hundred for his
Speaker 1: first year. So it's not like nobody's ever done this before,
Speaker 1: your hero lefties. FDR was really into the president gets
Speaker 1: to do whatever the hell he wants. So anyway, Trump's
Speaker 1: overall approval rating with CBS after all this stuff in
Speaker 1: the world went, it's a disaster, and oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I was in a group over the weekend
Speaker 1: because of the town I live in, they all lean,
Speaker 1: you know, Trump is hitler and just it is all
Speaker 1: kind of a how are you holding up? You know
Speaker 1: sort of mood, oh lord, which I find is hilarious.
Speaker 1: And somebody said that to me, and I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't talk about politics in my own personal life. It
Speaker 1: was like, I'm holding up. Fine, it's just whatever, Why
Speaker 1: would I not be Exactly According to CBS fifty three
Speaker 1: percent approval rating for Donald Trump, his overall approved rating
Speaker 1: is fifty three percent, the highest he's ever had in
Speaker 1: his presidency. So apparently it's not quite so how are
Speaker 1: you holding up? He as some of you might think,
Speaker 1: Good lord, Well.
Speaker 2: I love the the Just a subtle little Weasley hedge
Speaker 2: there from Anthony Salvanto on Face the Nation. There he is,
Speaker 2: according to voter perceptions, doing.
Speaker 1: What he promised to do. Wait a second.
Speaker 2: If I say I'm going to carry in a dozen eggs,
Speaker 2: and I carry in a dozen eggs, you don't have
Speaker 2: to say Joe just did. But according to voter perceptions,
Speaker 2: he said he dude, no, you freaking heard me say it.
Speaker 1: Just they as such weasels. We'll get into more of
Speaker 1: this later because there's a lot but on the biggest
Speaker 1: topic of the first three weeks, Trump administration's programmed to
Speaker 1: deport immigrants illegally in the United States fifty nine percent approval,
Speaker 1: call it six oh nine percent. And yet, as I
Speaker 1: keep saying, show me a report that's not on Fox
Speaker 1: where they even indicate it's neutral that he's doing that,
Speaker 1: as opposed to it's all negative. It's all bad. Clearly,
Speaker 1: this is awful. No wonder your ratings are so bad.
Speaker 1: Don't you people want to make a living, You newspapers,
Speaker 1: you TV channels. Sixty percent of America is okay with this,
Speaker 1: So maybe at the very least be neutral or even
Speaker 1: shade it somewhat positive.
Speaker 2: You nut jobs, right exactly as I said off the air,
Speaker 2: their punishment is they're dying, which is a pretty good punishment.
Speaker 1: How does mailbag look now that we've tried a new schedule?
Speaker 1: Very thought provoking. I'll bet it, oh, I bet it
Speaker 1: kicks ass. It's going to be moving and just appropriate.
Speaker 2: Like that weird introductory Brad Pitt wandering around saying, looking sad.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, that's on the way. We've got Katie's headlines
Speaker 1: and a lot more news to catch you up from
Speaker 1: the weekends. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, and because I'm a guy with
Speaker 1: a couple of school age kids, I'm excited that Elon
Speaker 1: and Dozer turning their attention toward the Department of Education
Speaker 1: this week. I'm already out a tweet from Elon. Every
Speaker 1: education and research grant made over the past four years
Speaker 1: required DEI in one form or another. The US Department
Speaker 1: of Education spent at least one billion dollars since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one on advancing DEI, hiring programming, mental health training,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. They're going to get into the
Speaker 1: details of it. Excellent Tim saying the whole DEI shot
Speaker 1: through our government is way worse than people even think
Speaker 1: it is. Oh yeah, well, I guarantee that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love this. Couldn't love it more. Here's your freedom
Speaker 2: loving quote of the day. This one goes out to
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes and Andy ridd the entire Chiefs Organization, Day,
Speaker 2: Tay and others.
Speaker 1: Hey Taylor, you're at your husband's workplace. How about not
Speaker 1: shorts and a tank top? Have some class. You look
Speaker 1: like a bar waitress. Oh wow, Wow, kicking her.
Speaker 2: Well, she's down, poor kid. What has she got to
Speaker 2: going for now? Very little?
Speaker 1: Oh this is from Edwin Markham.
Speaker 2: The quota's defeat may serve as well as victory, to
Speaker 2: shake the soul and let the glory out.
Speaker 1: Some nice phrase making right there.
Speaker 2: Huh you go, feet may serve as well as victory,
Speaker 2: to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Speaker 1: I found that to be truth. So well, it's one
Speaker 1: of the avengers of being a religious guy like Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: After all the winds, it's always well, it's all thanks
Speaker 1: to God. It's all his work. So I mean, you
Speaker 1: can do the same after a loss. Just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to learn something from this, so here we go. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a good kid, that Pat Malmes. Glad to see
Speaker 1: him doing well, mailbag, Glad to see him do well.
Speaker 1: Not so much yesterday, of course, not his fault. I don't.
Speaker 1: You could put any quarterback in the world there. Oh,
Speaker 1: you got half a second before the biggest of the
Speaker 1: line in history is going to jump on top of you.
Speaker 2: Right, You could have a committee a Joe Montana, y,
Speaker 2: a tittle, Tom Brady and whoever else you wanted back
Speaker 2: there trying to figure out what to do, and they'd
Speaker 2: all be run.
Speaker 1: For your life. That's what you need to do. Get
Speaker 1: more life insurance. That's what I suggest.
Speaker 2: Drop his note mail bag at Armstrong Andgeddy dot com.
Speaker 2: Faggotty Steve Wright's that's friend of Armstrong and Getty over
Speaker 2: ten years. I'm very dismayed by the lack of diversity
Speaker 2: in the halftime show yesterday, seventy five percent of America
Speaker 2: was not represented.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's a good point. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I saw that black chick dancing really cool, and I
Speaker 1: thought that's kind of cool. It was Strina Williams. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that was her. She didn't really dance. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but or for a halftime show that looks like America, Uh,
Speaker 2: Kurt from San Jose, California.
Speaker 1: Trump's gonna stop minting pennies. Good.
Speaker 2: Then I don't have to give my thoughts to anyone.
Speaker 2: I can stop always having to watch out for things
Speaker 2: falling from heaven. I don't have to defend the worthiness
Speaker 2: of something to smallest level of investment.
Speaker 1: Can quit being so stingy and having to pinch something. Yes,
Speaker 1: and can.
Speaker 2: Stop trying to give even a little credit to someone
Speaker 2: for being barely wise when they are just fooled.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: A clever reference to the many expressions in the English
Speaker 2: language that reference the penny.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is not saved or earned. It no longer exists. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And again, how about the nickel?
Speaker 2: Seriously seriously, that's you know, four oh eight plays four tens.
Speaker 1: Fine, you can have my dime. How recently was a
Speaker 1: nickel what a penny is was worth? It's got to
Speaker 1: be like eight years ago. Maybe it wouldn't be very
Speaker 1: long ago.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think quintupled in or cut by eighty percent.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It is interesting question though.
Speaker 2: Uh Brian and Walla Walla, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: guys are too young to remember that in the seventies,
Speaker 2: were not the global crisis was over population. I remember
Speaker 2: posters of a plant with people hanging off of it.
Speaker 2: That was the radical lefts global crisis of the day.
Speaker 2: And did it ever materialize.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Now we have the global warming crisis meant to spread
Speaker 2: fear and push an agenda. So why does no one
Speaker 2: ever bring up over population or ice ages as an
Speaker 2: argument about how wrong the experts get things, soil it grain,
Speaker 2: it's people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of ai ads yesterday during
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and I didn't understand a single one
Speaker 1: of them. But certainly a lot of this is going
Speaker 1: to change everything. Well we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's for investors as much as anybody.
Speaker 2: But there are a couple that I noticed immediately, Oh,
Speaker 2: I'll bet this is an ai AD, And I focused
Speaker 2: in carefully and I thought, oh, there it is open AI.
Speaker 1: Sure I was right, but I got nothing from that commercial. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what black thoughts on white backgrounds. Apparently
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 2: Let's see, let's see more praise for Michaelangelo's cheesy.
Speaker 1: What's not to like? Right? Exactly? Oh my god, my
Speaker 1: gift of humanity? Yeah, it's all. The Your recipe on
Speaker 1: our website is funny, though. The way you wrote it
Speaker 1: is very clever. I like that. I wish I had
Speaker 1: eaten about half as much. I still don't feel good
Speaker 1: from that. Oh, nothing wrong with it. It's not your dip.
Speaker 1: It's my volume. It's all. That's what I had for
Speaker 1: lunch and dinner. It was my lunch and dinner. It's
Speaker 1: your legacy.
Speaker 2: Michael, Really, it's your Stairway to Heaven, it's your great novel.
Speaker 1: It's gone, but the dip will live on. Exactly, That's
Speaker 1: what I was trying to say. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jt In Livermore, frequent correspondent, pointing out that the March
Speaker 2: of Dimes effect is clearly going on with the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: The March of Dimes was originally created a combat polio.
Speaker 2: Polio's defeated. They're like, well, we got all the staff.
Speaker 2: We're good at raising money and birth the facts.
Speaker 1: Which is fine.
Speaker 2: But often you've got an organization like the NAACP, for instance,
Speaker 2: or the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had legitimate civil
Speaker 2: rights goals but has evolved into a blackmailing, race baiting
Speaker 2: fund raising colossus that doesn't do any good to anybody anyway.
Speaker 2: But he points out how the Democratic Party has a
Speaker 2: long and checkered history with many awful policy positions from
Speaker 2: slavery to Jim Crow laws, but a number of successes,
Speaker 2: et cetera. But now it looks like they've hit a
Speaker 2: brick wall. They've tried and failed to stay relevant by
Speaker 2: enacting a foe constant revolution, that's true, Yeah, constant civil
Speaker 2: rights battles, even when all the battles are settled. But
Speaker 2: unlike the Pass, they're not on the side of history
Speaker 2: or righteousness, nor do they have the masses on their side. Instead,
Speaker 2: they've chosen the most caustic and abrasive posturing in an
Speaker 2: effort to force support for terrible topics and policies that
Speaker 2: are not supported big bloated, etc. They're for racism, against
Speaker 2: the rule of law, open borders, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Well, so like the Snoop Brady things, the PSAs that
Speaker 1: I guess the NFL was behind, or whatever, I hate
Speaker 1: you because you're different. I hate you because I think
Speaker 1: you hate me and the whole thing. And then Snoop
Speaker 1: saying I hate that we live in a time where
Speaker 1: we have to say this or something like that. Do
Speaker 1: you think we're in a particularly hateful racist time historically speaking?
Speaker 1: I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: Not until DEI came in, not until Black Lives Matter
Speaker 2: came in.
Speaker 1: All people of all races agree.
Speaker 2: Race relations have gotten worse since the recent round of
Speaker 2: what JT was just describing in his email, the never
Speaker 2: ending revolution, the never ending civil rights battle, when everybody's
Speaker 2: achieved more or less what we wanted to, and now
Speaker 2: we're working on the details that it's ridiculous, but it's
Speaker 2: about saving it's about raising money and having power and
Speaker 2: their pitches. We will change things and get rid of
Speaker 2: the evildoers. Finally, this had a similar topic Pallo writing about.
Speaker 2: I was trying to understand the position of people who
Speaker 2: oppose meritocracy, so I googled around. Oh, we've got a
Speaker 2: very strongly worded email said, dudes, groc it'll change your
Speaker 2: life so good, So I may try that anyway. That's
Speaker 2: that's that's what What is grock search engine? AI powered
Speaker 2: search engine? As I understand.
Speaker 1: It a lot. Is it his thing? I don't know anyway?
Speaker 1: So he uh, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5: Grock is attached to x And when you pay for
Speaker 5: premium you get it and it is awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, it's when you pay for premium Twitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what any of these terms mean.
Speaker 1: It's it's the premium.
Speaker 5: It's the little blue check mark you pay to be
Speaker 5: verified by the website.
Speaker 1: You get grock for well for free, but it's included
Speaker 1: with it. Okay, so we're premium then, so okay, I'll
Speaker 1: start using grock to something yep, yes, so right away
Speaker 1: or yes.
Speaker 2: Powell is trying to figure out how people oppose meritocracy,
Speaker 2: what the reasoning is, and he says I came up
Speaker 2: with three things. People in favor of it pnfortunately seemed
Speaker 2: to be those who benefited from it, and vice versa.
Speaker 2: Not shocking, a lot of people seem to believe that
Speaker 2: meritocracy was a form of gas lighting. It was intent
Speaker 2: is to perpetuate racism. It's absolutely not true. In fact,
Speaker 2: I would say, if you want to perpetuate bad outcomes
Speaker 2: for a people, get rid of meritocracy.
Speaker 1: Well you remember we did a big forum one time
Speaker 1: thingy in front of a progressive crowd, and we were
Speaker 1: having an argument with these other people and I said,
Speaker 1: and I was completely unaware of this. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I believe in meritocracy. I just want to And one
Speaker 1: of the guys that was on the other side said, ah,
Speaker 1: that's dog whistle for racism, and the crowd started cheering
Speaker 1: and everything like that. I was like, really, I had
Speaker 1: never even heard that before. I didn't know meritocracy was
Speaker 1: for progressive It's just you're just trying to slip in
Speaker 1: racism through the back door. Yeah, I had no idea.
Speaker 2: Utterly illogical and dead wrong and incredibly damaging that attitude.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're super concerned about education for little
Speaker 2: black kids, for instance, and you get rid of meritocracy
Speaker 2: and just have quotas, what incentive is.
Speaker 1: There to fix the education for the little black kids
Speaker 1: you've removed it.
Speaker 2: It is the worst sort of soft medium, hard bigotry,
Speaker 2: of low expectation. Then the final thing is the most
Speaker 2: popular rejection seems to be that meritocracy doesn't account for
Speaker 2: the fact that some people come from circumstances that are
Speaker 2: not conductive to success. I guess I agree that's true,
Speaker 2: and it goes a long way to explaining disparate outcomes.
Speaker 2: But my answer to that would be easy, Well, that's
Speaker 2: why a society works on making sure that people have
Speaker 2: Perhaps you've heard the phrase equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
Speaker 1: That's a band aid. It's evil rejected. So a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes into the halftime show yesterday with Kendrick Lamar,
Speaker 1: I assume singing some of his most well known songs
Speaker 1: because I don't know he's speaking.
Speaker 2: He speaks more of the things, doesn't he a rapper?
Speaker 1: My brother texted me, gonna be whistling these songs all
Speaker 1: night now, which I thought was hilarious. But you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm aware that the halftime show is not aimed
Speaker 1: at me, don't but I am always kind of interested.
Speaker 1: Who's their target?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, who do they have in mind when
Speaker 1: they're putting on the halftime show? Because I picked up
Speaker 1: my son. This is the first year my son went
Speaker 1: went to a Super Bowl party with other people, which
Speaker 1: was a little nice moment for him, a little hurtful
Speaker 1: for me, but you know, time March is on. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I went and picked up my high schooler from the
Speaker 1: super Bowl party you went to, and I said, what
Speaker 1: do you think of the halftime show? He said, eh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not for me. I said, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? He said, it's for like thirty year olds.
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar is kind of like for thirty year olds. Oh,
Speaker 1: which when you're fifteen is like old people, right. But
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, so it wasn't for you, wasn't for me.
Speaker 1: I had to be for somebody. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of money at stake in trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who your target audience is for this stuff, or is
Speaker 1: it the big dumb corporation that brought you the Brad
Speaker 1: pitt sad face in trow and other just questionable decisions.
Speaker 5: Lay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Lady Gaga eight minutes of resonating with the
Speaker 1: ISIS attack for some reason, like you felt like we
Speaker 1: needed that, right, Yeah, It's just it's probably just a
Speaker 1: bad decision. To me. It only felt like harsh in
Speaker 1: my mellow, that hole every time you brought up the
Speaker 1: ISIS attack. I don't think you needed to resonate with him, No,
Speaker 1: not at all.
Speaker 2: I thought it was attacked on and felt like, well,
Speaker 2: we feel like this is obligatory, so here it is.
Speaker 1: Sit there and listen to sit there and be reminded
Speaker 1: of death, like surprise death that could happen at any time.
Speaker 1: Now back to the game. Thanks for that. We've got
Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way. Next two headlines I've just
Speaker 1: seen before we get to Katie's headlines in New York Times.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's performance wasn't any better than the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I don't get the excitement over trying to beat up
Speaker 1: on Tom Brady as a color guy. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Maybe I just don't think about it that much. Seems
Speaker 1: perfectly fine to me. I know, and what was the
Speaker 1: other one? Oh? I like this headline. Another Doge thing
Speaker 1: for you. Doge cancels Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit in federal
Speaker 1: cutting spree. There's an Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit that we
Speaker 1: were all going to pay for. Fantastic. Wow, that's just sickening.
Speaker 1: It is get a donor to see. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of rich mask wearing getting their skulls getting their ninth
Speaker 1: booster today. People out there that'd be willing to support that. Oh,
Speaker 1: stand in line to get in. You have to stand
Speaker 1: six feet apart.
Speaker 2: That's right, Michael Goodwell, that's beautiful, good, resecure Michael fill
Speaker 2: the wind. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
Speaker 2: the lead story. It's Katie Green.
Speaker 1: Katie all right.
Speaker 5: Well this one coming from not only Elon Musk, but
Speaker 5: the New York Post. FEMA sent fifty nine million dollars
Speaker 5: last week to luxury New York City hotels.
Speaker 1: To house illegal immigrants. Last week housing illegals luxury hotel
Speaker 1: fifty nine million dollars.
Speaker 2: Hey, Pablo out to go sneaking in the United States. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm in a luxury hotel in New York City. They
Speaker 2: pay for everything, and if I commit crimes, they just
Speaker 2: let me go.
Speaker 1: That would be something to text back to somebody. Hey, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm at the Ritz Carlton in New York. No, I'm serious. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not paying anything for it, right, The government pays
Speaker 1: the US government. Yeah really, and it's your stone and
Speaker 1: to me if you don't even breathe toward me. The
Speaker 1: the real problem in our budget is the entitlements are
Speaker 1: out of control. And this million here and millionaire is
Speaker 1: not going to every penny which is about to be
Speaker 1: out lawned, every nickel that is spent. That is a waste.
Speaker 1: I want looked at well, and more broadly.
Speaker 2: A culture whereby waste is rooted out and loathed, and
Speaker 2: a culture that says, all right, let's just as mental exercise,
Speaker 2: let's strip this agency down to nothing. Then let's talk
Speaker 2: about what's really important that we ought to be funding.
Speaker 1: That is a seismic shift. It's not about the dollar amounts. Sure, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I want every agency department in America to be scared
Speaker 1: to do something that would be embarrassing if it got
Speaker 1: tweeted out by Elon, so that they'll be more careful
Speaker 1: with their money. That's what I would like, and entitlements eventually, And.
Speaker 5: Since this is one of your favorite stories, I'm bringing
Speaker 5: it back Washington Post. Trump has ordered the Treasury Department
Speaker 5: to stop producing new pennies.
Speaker 1: That's right, finally, so good. Why did it take this long.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I have kept a penny in a decade.
Speaker 1: I just I found one on my desk.
Speaker 5: But I'm going to keep it in case it becomes
Speaker 5: a collector's right. From study fines, majority of football fans
Speaker 5: want Super Bowl Monday declared a national holiday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm in favor of that. Or play the
Speaker 2: game on Saturday, but they're never going to do that.
Speaker 1: I feel half sick, Michael, and it's not your DIP's fault.
Speaker 1: I just ate so much of it, and only it.
Speaker 1: I didn't need anything else. Oh my word, make sense
Speaker 1: of vegetables. I did. I had to. I had a
Speaker 1: peanut butter sandwich earlier in the day. Then for lunch
Speaker 1: and dinner, I had your dip. Oh I feel like
Speaker 1: a refried bean. From NBC.
Speaker 5: Trump announces blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum and reciprocal
Speaker 5: tariffs on other countries.
Speaker 1: Oh, we'll have to get to the CBS polling of
Speaker 1: what people think of tariffs. That's pretty interesting too.
Speaker 2: And hey, in the interest of fairness, Elon's said, Hey,
Speaker 2: you know that, like the graphite from China and this
Speaker 2: other material, could we not have tariffs on that because
Speaker 2: it's super important for Tesla. Mmmm. Nope, not the way
Speaker 2: it works. Boys, they're gonna have to wrestle with some
Speaker 2: of that stuff.
Speaker 5: From the New York Times, Hamas makes gaunt Israel hostages
Speaker 5: thank their captors prior to release.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this really isn't getting enough attention during the whole
Speaker 1: ceasefire thing. The way Hamas is treating these hostage treated
Speaker 1: the hostages over the last year and a half, and
Speaker 1: it's treating them as they hand them over horrible.
Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, Ozembic slimming can make skin
Speaker 5: sag enter the twenty thousand dollars body lift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna talk about this later. Super popular
Speaker 2: plastic surgery. It's true, if you lose a lot of
Speaker 2: weight rapidly, you got some loose skin there.
Speaker 1: What do they do with the shaggy lamp shades? Snippers?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the two of you see.
Speaker 5: This isn't a meme, but it's a tweet that I saw.
Speaker 5: It's just a trolling page and it says I'm not
Speaker 5: a big fan of sports, so I don't know who
Speaker 5: Taylor Swift is, but he sounds fast, all right. Finally,
Speaker 5: the Babylon Bee country with record illiteracy worried. So what
Speaker 5: will happen if education system is reformed?
Speaker 1: Wow? I love that, No kidding?
Speaker 2: And who is leading the charge against reforming the Department
Speaker 2: of Education? You're blue states with the worst educational results.
Speaker 2: It's because it's a jobs program. Government schools have the
Speaker 2: education happens accidentally, it's a jobs program.
Speaker 1: I think it was jd Vance. It tweeted out yesterday.
Speaker 1: It started in seventy seven, Department of Education. Our scores
Speaker 1: have gone down since then. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty