Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and Key.
Speaker 3: Arms from Studio C see Senior A dimly let room
Speaker 3: deeper them the Babbles, so the Armstrong in getting communications compound.
Speaker 2: And today we are under the tutelage of our general manager,
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump, his world. We're just living in it.
Speaker 1: Then, no doubt, no doubt. I got a philosophical question
Speaker 1: for you. Then you're perfect to answer. I hope so
Speaker 1: arguing about in my head as I was driving, but
Speaker 1: I can't do it over.
Speaker 2: This music's nice groove.
Speaker 1: This is a fine groove, Michael, thanks for playing it
Speaker 1: doing so. Two of our lead stories today we'll be
Speaker 1: talking about is Trump threatening, Uh all hell breaking loose
Speaker 1: in Gaza if they don't turn over the hostages. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. We'll talk about that today. The AI conference,
Speaker 1: it's going on in Europe and all that.
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, uh, plenty of doge stuff is still
Speaker 1: going on, Yeah, roiling the country.
Speaker 2: DC and everything like that.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about the power of status quo,
Speaker 1: how it's just just the momentum of status quo is
Speaker 1: just so amazing. And then I thought to myself, but
Speaker 1: wait a second, dude, I'm arguing with my like I'm
Speaker 1: really putting a finger in my chest. Say hey, wise guy,
Speaker 1: your anti status quo. I thought that's what conservatism was,
Speaker 1: you know, conserving things, hanging on to things. Then I
Speaker 1: shot back at my phone. You owned yourself, I owned
Speaker 1: I clapped back at my own brain. Yes, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out this. So the idea of conservatism is to
Speaker 1: hang on to things that are working. The status quo, though,
Speaker 1: that we're trying to disrupt are things that aren't working.
Speaker 1: So that's where status quo becomes a problem. Why would
Speaker 1: we hang on to things continue doing things that don't work?
Speaker 1: For instance, public schooling, we're spending multiples more money than
Speaker 1: we were spending ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty
Speaker 1: years ago for less results. Why wouldn't you want to
Speaker 1: disrupt that in a major way.
Speaker 2: I mean, like in a major way where people going,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what are we going to do now?
Speaker 1: I don't know, something different because this isn't working. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the fundamental problem is awareness. If people are
Speaker 1: aware of the miserable failure of our government schools. They
Speaker 1: are in enormous numbers in favor of some serious reforms,
Speaker 1: even if they're not quite sure what those should look like.
Speaker 1: But I think a huge percentage of population assumes that
Speaker 1: their school experience is.
Speaker 2: Continuing on today. That's roughly the same what's roughly the
Speaker 2: same effectiveness.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a word for that, though, the
Speaker 1: difference between status quo for things that aren't working versus conservatism,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, moving slowly in a Burkian way.
Speaker 1: Because we got a functioning society, you don't want me
Speaker 1: jerking it around too much because you're not exactly sure
Speaker 1: why it's functioning.
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1: That's a good distinction, really interesting topic. I just think
Speaker 1: it has to do with with realism and continually Uh,
Speaker 1: you know the Chesterston's fence is, you don't remove the
Speaker 1: fence unless you know one hundred percent why it was there. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's all about understanding effectiveness of always appraising
Speaker 1: whether things are working or not. That's that's kind of
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin. If something is clearly
Speaker 1: not working, it's fine to get rid of it. Here's
Speaker 1: here's here's another example of the power of status quo.
Speaker 1: Let me grab this. This is from ABC looking at
Speaker 1: their tweet and Emon musk Ally, hired to overhaul the
Speaker 1: Department of Treasury, has an under has an undertaking hard line,
Speaker 1: has a record of undertaking hardline reforms in the private
Speaker 1: sector that demoralized staff and made them fear for their jobs,
Speaker 1: according to interviews with several former employees, Well you might cute,
Speaker 1: you might be demoralized and fear for your job if you're.
Speaker 2: Not needing needed or you're doing a sucky job.
Speaker 1: Why I don't I don't even understand the conversation. It's
Speaker 1: hard to have an argument with people when I don't
Speaker 1: even understand your point of view. I guess my point
Speaker 1: of view is so freaking what so what right? I
Speaker 1: think we may be better positioned than some to understand
Speaker 1: and feel what you're talking about, because media has changed
Speaker 1: so vastly in the last thirty years.
Speaker 2: And and you know radio.
Speaker 1: Ranches that none specific come to mind, but that had
Speaker 1: employed ninety eight people fifteen years ago now employ fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty maybe three. Well, it depends, Yeah, it depends where
Speaker 1: you're talking about. So the idea of well, the world
Speaker 1: has changed and now they want to make changes at
Speaker 1: the company, and that's unfair. It's just I don't know
Speaker 1: what ways you live in that's immune to change. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: if ABC's point is losing your job sucks, or industries
Speaker 1: changing and becoming more efficient in a way that they
Speaker 1: don't need you sucks for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. But acting like that's just.
Speaker 1: A horror in general, or that something unfair has been done, right, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's something unfair has been done. No, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, we're gonna do things differently now because
Speaker 1: this wasn't work. We found a more efficient way to
Speaker 1: do it now. Of course, this all hinges on the
Speaker 1: fact that it actually is going to accomplish something and
Speaker 1: be more efficient. But in the case of the public schools,
Speaker 1: for instance, I don't I don't know how it could
Speaker 1: get worse. Really, Yeah, yeah, it might be as simple
Speaker 1: as and this seems just so dopey it can't be true,
Speaker 1: but I think it is. And there are a bunch
Speaker 1: of different examples of this, a bunch of different contexts.
Speaker 1: We've had very similar conversation. If it makes someone feel bad,
Speaker 1: it must be wrong.
Speaker 2: There you go. That is a lot of the coverage of.
Speaker 1: This, and it extends to all sorts of things, from
Speaker 1: parenting to government reform, to ending programs that don't work,
Speaker 1: to reforming schools to you know, the teacher's union head
Speaker 1: who would have made just a great Nazi. It seems upset.
Speaker 1: Therefore this must be wrong. Someone is upset, This must
Speaker 1: be wrong. I guess that gets to that difference in
Speaker 1: philosophy of looking at individuals as opposed to the whole group.
Speaker 1: I'm sad for all the kids in school across the
Speaker 1: country who have so many layers of middle management that
Speaker 1: aren't needed that they can't get the sort of education
Speaker 1: that happened decades earlier.
Speaker 2: That makes me sad.
Speaker 1: Do you get sad for the individual middle management person
Speaker 1: that didn't used to exist and everything was just fine
Speaker 1: if they're going to lose their job, but not for
Speaker 1: the kids. Is that just the practical versus the emotional?
Speaker 1: I mean anything somebody of our mindset is involved with
Speaker 1: you ask what are we doing here? Why are we
Speaker 1: here to educate children? How are we doing very poorly?
Speaker 1: What is standing in the way of educating those children?
Speaker 1: And then addressing it? And absolutely people are going to
Speaker 1: be upset by those answers and by the solutions you
Speaker 1: decide upon. But that's not only is that fine, it's
Speaker 1: absolutely necessary, But there's a significant chunk of the population
Speaker 1: that can't get past. Oh, somebody's upset. It must be
Speaker 1: mean I don't know, Republicans or whatever, just being jerks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if this education week where Doge is really loicing at education,
Speaker 1: I wish Elon could get somebody at a high position,
Speaker 1: teachers union or something like that to answer that question
Speaker 1: of why if the student population has gone up, you know,
Speaker 1: single digits present, the number of middle management people in
Speaker 1: schools has gone up one hundred and eighty percent.
Speaker 2: Why and this is just.
Speaker 1: In the two thousands, not even going back to like
Speaker 1: the eighties or something like that. Why Why Why do
Speaker 1: you need that many more people in a school where
Speaker 1: all the money is going than you used to do?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What would their answer be on the left? Yeah, there
Speaker 1: are there a political answer or the truthful answer. I
Speaker 1: think answer it's a jobs program. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 2: But well right, yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: The political answer would be we need experts to solve
Speaker 1: these problems. So we have added more funding, We've got
Speaker 1: more folks involved we're going.
Speaker 2: To get to the bottom of this, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But no, the the honest answer is no, we're just
Speaker 1: we know we can count on their votes. We are
Speaker 1: buying our power through government. School has to push back
Speaker 1: on the political answer seems pretty easy though, but we're
Speaker 1: getting less lower results, we're getting worse results, so it
Speaker 1: has we're getting really philosophical. Here. Here's the headbutting that
Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable. Every civilization, every society, every culture has
Speaker 1: its myths, and myths doesn't necessarily mean inaccurate or fictional.
Speaker 1: They are stories we all tell that help us understand
Speaker 1: the way our culture works. And in the United States,
Speaker 1: one of the most critical ones is that we have
Speaker 1: a system of self governance. We the people, for the people,
Speaker 1: by the people, et cetera, and that we all participate.
Speaker 2: And it's a beautiful thing. And it is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most incredible things that's ever been
Speaker 1: done on the face of the earth by humankind.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, the honest truth is there's only a.
Speaker 1: Little truth to that, and there there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of self serving greed and lust for power, and that
Speaker 1: we the people, you know, it's funny that that's not
Speaker 1: it's not contradictory. I think we the people just need
Speaker 1: to be smart enough to know, like the founding fathers
Speaker 1: did that Evildoers will exploit that system as much as
Speaker 1: they can all the time. But we've lost our cynicism
Speaker 1: about politicians because the government does everything all the time now,
Speaker 1: and so we're dependent. It's practically as Stockholm syndrome. We
Speaker 1: dare not displease our captors. Well, we got the latest
Speaker 1: list of recommended or actual DOGE cuts from a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of different places.
Speaker 2: There was a lot yesterday. Some of you agree with,
Speaker 2: some of you might not. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this it is how did it already
Speaker 1: get to be? Tuesday February eleventh, Here twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: we are Armstrong and Getty and that you know.
Speaker 2: Jive and we approval.
Speaker 1: All right, let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules
Speaker 1: and regulations, here we go at mark elon Musk. Where
Speaker 1: are you bring.
Speaker 2: Your ass of a hair? How you can? Says hair?
Speaker 1: Kid with an IQ between seventy five and eighty five
Speaker 1: deserve a congresswoman too.
Speaker 2: Bring your ass over here.
Speaker 1: Maxine Waters, Elon Mike walk over, he's that kind of guy,
Speaker 1: and say, okay, let's have a conversation here on the
Speaker 1: microphones in front of everybody.
Speaker 2: What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the penny as Maxine and Chuck and Jakim
Speaker 1: bravely stand up for bureaucrats and against the American people.
Speaker 2: Good strategy. Elon Musk, Bring your ass over here, Wed
Speaker 2: and they getting weird fast. You're right?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: You unelected dictator? How does the mailbag look? Oh, that's right,
Speaker 1: we've moved mailbag. I The listeners must be adjustinguse I.
Speaker 2: Know who I am? Yes, moved mail bag too. Different segments.
Speaker 2: So this Jack considers this Chesterton's teas.
Speaker 1: We don't want to remove this teas until we fully
Speaker 1: understand why mailbag was In the second segment, Man jd
Speaker 1: Vance gave quite a statement about AI in Europe yesterday
Speaker 1: in front of the world leaders of AI controversial, among
Speaker 1: other things, stay with us.
Speaker 4: The Eagles scored twenty four points in just the first half.
Speaker 2: Twenty four twenty.
Speaker 4: Four, or in football terms, one full Bill Belichick girlfriend.
Speaker 4: You could tell the game was over when the Eagles
Speaker 4: dumb gator d on their coach halfway through the second quarter.
Speaker 2: We've still got a lot of game left.
Speaker 1: That's interesting that whole Bill Belichick. He's a famous coach
Speaker 1: if you don't know who he is. But the key
Speaker 1: to the story is his super hot girlfriend was a
Speaker 1: cheerleader while he was a coach.
Speaker 2: And he's fifty years older than her.
Speaker 1: Fifty forty eight actually, but I mean close enough, fifty
Speaker 1: freaking years, and the way he flaunts it is just
Speaker 1: so interesting in like a no, I'm not like a
Speaker 1: little uncomfortable with this.
Speaker 2: I'm a I know you're I know you're jealous of me.
Speaker 2: I'm making it. I don't make her.
Speaker 1: But she dresses as skippy as possible to accentuate the
Speaker 1: fact that she's fifty years younger than me.
Speaker 2: Wow, you're on her.
Speaker 1: I've got to stand up for the defense here. Mister
Speaker 1: Belichick isn't flaunting anything. It's his girlfriend. He goes places
Speaker 1: with her, and she's a lovely.
Speaker 2: Young gal who dresses like lovely young gals.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing a lot of prejudicial talk out of the
Speaker 1: prosecutor here.
Speaker 2: Fifty years sure, that's a long time. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I would think.
Speaker 1: You'd been literally nothing to talk about in terms of
Speaker 1: really into you know, the blitz and defensive backs.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, their play. Oh it's simple. They love each other.
Speaker 2: Thank you exactly. Joe Biden's long lost daughter. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I prize the right for people to make their own
Speaker 1: choices in life and follow their own paths, and I
Speaker 1: totally get the lifestyle must be fantastic. But I just
Speaker 1: I don't know, Darling, and maybe she thinks, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny.
Speaker 2: I had a.
Speaker 1: Conversation with a youngish person the other day and it
Speaker 1: was so well reflected with your discussion of Henry, your son,
Speaker 1: who is talking about serving in the military and having
Speaker 1: a good, long career and then saying, Hey, when I
Speaker 1: get out, I'll only be x years old. I'll have
Speaker 1: plenty of life in front of me, which is incredibly
Speaker 1: insightful for a lad of his years. I think maybe
Speaker 1: the young galon Bill's arm is thinking, you know what,
Speaker 1: when he croaks, I'll be like thirty three.
Speaker 2: It's still hot, so still lot.
Speaker 1: And I've got a verbal contract that he'll quote unquote
Speaker 1: support me. We're working on firming that up. Everything's going beautifully, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're both Milton Borough fans. Oh boy, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I'll make a controversial statement. I don't know where the
Speaker 1: cut iff cut off is because I don't think this
Speaker 1: for you know, all age gaps. But I think at
Speaker 1: fifty years, if she's in love with him, she's got
Speaker 1: some psychological problem.
Speaker 2: I believe that would be correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I have a handful of relationships with much
Speaker 1: younger people than me, and they are entirely friend mentor
Speaker 1: sounding board, which is a beautiful thing. But if it
Speaker 1: turned romantic, I'd be like, what the hell? And I'm
Speaker 1: many years younger than him, well several a few. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to this.
Speaker 2: It's simple. They love each other exactly.
Speaker 1: They just like Joe Biden's dad fancifully told him in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty or something about gay men kissing on the
Speaker 1: sidewalk another and how that was perfectly fine.
Speaker 2: It's simple, they love each other. Good lord, is the
Speaker 2: mummy still kicking? Is he still around his first? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I wanted to get this. Gosh, you don't really
Speaker 2: have time. How much time do we have, Michael, barely
Speaker 2: a minute? Nah?
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can get We're talking about
Speaker 1: teachers unions and schools and how bloated they are and
Speaker 1: how they're not educating anybody. And they recently reported in
Speaker 1: the Free Press the miserable test scores. You've probably heard them,
Speaker 1: but they're highlighting a teachers union contract from Michigan that
Speaker 1: reveals that to be fired, you have to be caught
Speaker 1: drunk at school five times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that five times.
Speaker 1: Caught drunk, which means you have an unlimited pass if
Speaker 1: you can keep it on the QT.
Speaker 2: So who knew there was such attractive jobs I know?
Speaker 1: To me, that's just a giant billboard for we're all
Speaker 1: about protecting teachers, not about making sure your kids are
Speaker 1: educated in the best way.
Speaker 2: That is our At number one.
Speaker 1: If you, as a teacher get caught literally selling drugs,
Speaker 1: your punishment is three days without pay. You have to
Speaker 1: get caught selling drugs a second time to get fired.
Speaker 1: Then they mentioned that the entire flowchart of the Fairfax
Speaker 1: County Schools flows through their DEI office. Everybody reports to
Speaker 1: DEI more or less alongside the head of the school district.
Speaker 1: It's insane. Has nothing to do with educating the kids.
Speaker 1: That's an afterthought. Mail bags on the way and a
Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff. If you miss the secment, get
Speaker 1: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2: Demand Armstrong and Getty O. The Great.
Speaker 1: Rich Lowry writes in The New York Post today that
Speaker 1: we the right have had our best three weeks in
Speaker 1: the culture war in half a century at least, and
Speaker 1: goes through the examples, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Think he's right then, that something though, that is something.
Speaker 1: Here's my favorite doge cut from me that was announced
Speaker 1: to yesterday, nine million dollars cut from Central American Gender
Speaker 1: Assessment Services.
Speaker 2: Gender assessment so.
Speaker 1: Down in Central America, I was paying with my tax
Speaker 1: payer money to assess what gender you are to me
Speaker 1: next and if there's any doubt, we'll drop your pants.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a little intrusive, but yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just crazy and just strategically speaking, I read a couple
Speaker 1: of stages talking about how the Democrats and we'll get
Speaker 1: into this in detail in a little bit, but they
Speaker 1: seem to be going with hair on fire all the
Speaker 1: time as the strategy directed in various you know, directions
Speaker 1: and kind of varying messages just about theft and constitutional
Speaker 1: crises and unelected this, but that it's a horror and
Speaker 1: everything's terrible and got to help us all. And I
Speaker 1: find myself wondering, what if you're just lay low for
Speaker 1: a little bit, just wait for Trump to do something wrong,
Speaker 1: maybe the tariffs. I'm concerned that the tariffs are really
Speaker 1: going to screw up the economy, for instance.
Speaker 2: Just wait for that. But I guess you don't raise
Speaker 2: money that way. Maybe that's it. Anyway, here's your freedom
Speaker 2: loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Well, I know that Mark Alpern rights and quoting a
Speaker 1: lot of Democratic strategists. They're at a complete loss how
Speaker 1: to do this. It's like a whirlwind has hit them
Speaker 1: hard and fast, with what looks to be a lot
Speaker 1: of public support, and they just have no idea what
Speaker 1: they should do at this point to fight back, and
Speaker 1: they're flighting. They seem to be divided fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: between those who are screaming, we need to.
Speaker 2: Move further to the left and oppose everything Trump.
Speaker 1: Does, and then the same branch of the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: that's saying, no, why don't we work with them when
Speaker 1: we can and shove our lunatic left wing aside because
Speaker 1: they're killing us here, right, But I mean, there is
Speaker 1: no accord there anyway. I thought this was so interesting.
Speaker 1: Steven sent this along did the god fearing founders of
Speaker 1: America arrive at the three branches of government? From the Bible,
Speaker 1: this is from Isaiah thirty third chapter, twenty fourth verse.
Speaker 1: For Jehovah is our judge. Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah
Speaker 1: is our case. He is the one who will save us.
Speaker 1: I see judicial, legislative, and executive right there in scripture.
Speaker 1: I think you know that reflects the ancient reality that
Speaker 1: when human beings associate, they need someone to make up
Speaker 1: the rules, then figure out how are we going to
Speaker 1: enforce these rules, and what if there's a disagreement.
Speaker 2: I think it's as simple as that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes way back
Speaker 1: to the Old Testament. That's right, sir, that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Mail day. You can drop us a note
Speaker 1: at any time you like. Michael always appropriate, drop us
Speaker 1: a note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 1: This first email references the fact that today is indeed
Speaker 1: my birthday, not only that it is my sixtieth birthday.
Speaker 1: I know you're thinking, Joe, you seem so youthful and clever.
Speaker 1: That can't be true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Have you checked the math on that?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: Jack and I first.
Speaker 2: Connected in our mid twenties. We're twenty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems only remember like three things between then
Speaker 1: and now.
Speaker 2: Two of them were brothers of children. That's sorry. That
Speaker 2: seems like And I know, if you're forty, this seems weird.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're certainly if you're twenty five, that seems like
Speaker 1: six years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, roughly seems like about six years ago. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's nuts.
Speaker 1: And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is
Speaker 1: lovely and very very much appreciated. And it's funny. It's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: it's a work day. I've got my kids arriving in
Speaker 1: town this week, which is that big fun. That is awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is awesome, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in
Speaker 1: various ways. My son and I. I picked them up
Speaker 1: at the airport. I'm a big hug, and then we
Speaker 1: philosophized the entire way home from the airport, which.
Speaker 2: Is what we do.
Speaker 1: My eldest of my youngest daughter and I spar and
Speaker 1: joke and kid each other.
Speaker 2: And so it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. But
Speaker 2: happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it. Flate Hanson
Speaker 2: and Katie will get you something. And as to the whole,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't need anything.
Speaker 1: As to the old sixty thing, which seems like such
Speaker 1: a milestone, you know, it's funny. I was so miserable
Speaker 1: like a year ago because of my back problems, and
Speaker 1: I feel so much better now. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: de aging or something. I'm not, lord knows, but so
Speaker 1: I don't feel old. I feel younger than I used to.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just let's let's just keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Let's let's have fun, let's do the shows, play some golf,
Speaker 1: let's enjoy a nice glass of wide.
Speaker 2: And I just as opposed to what big on.
Speaker 1: Milestone, as opposed to what lay down in front of
Speaker 1: a train. I mean, is that the other option? Or well, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just I've never been huge about milestones. It's like
Speaker 1: when I graduated from college, I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: what's next. I just I didn't weep. And and maybe
Speaker 1: I lack the ability to reflect properly on things as
Speaker 1: they pass, but certainly when my kids moved out, that
Speaker 1: was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, thanks great,
Speaker 1: let's let's get on with life anyway. So this is
Speaker 1: from David Reno, with whom I apparently share a birthday.
Speaker 1: In fact, here are some other famous people that we
Speaker 1: share a birthday with. I was aware of some of
Speaker 1: these people.
Speaker 2: Not all of them. Jeb Bush, I'm sorry, that's Jeb
Speaker 2: with an exclamation point. Sarah Palin, Oh, lipstick? How old
Speaker 2: is shoe?
Speaker 1: You get your joan? You guys are probably about the
Speaker 1: same age, aren't you. You and Sarah Palin, Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: we could date. But I'm just gonna remind you to
Speaker 1: you that now and again. Sarah Palin and I we
Speaker 1: got a connection anyway. Alex Jones, Oh great, Thomas Edison,
Speaker 1: what order is this?
Speaker 2: That's a good list. You've got good in a way, Alex.
Speaker 1: Jones, Well, sharing sharing day with a big with your
Speaker 1: birthday with other people.
Speaker 2: Thomas Edison, that's a big one.
Speaker 1: That is a big one. Although you know, my great, Well,
Speaker 1: I'll finish some of the list. It is, I know,
Speaker 1: just always in a hurry, and I'll explain that in
Speaker 1: a moment. But Leslie Nielson, the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer
Speaker 1: Aniston and other.
Speaker 2: People who don't matter.
Speaker 1: But I've always been resentful that I was one day
Speaker 1: short of sharing birthday with my great hero Abraham Lincoln,
Speaker 1: which had been said. I get Burt Reynolds traded the
Speaker 1: beard for the mustache.
Speaker 2: I guess what you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1: Moving along, moving along with mailbaging the question of the
Speaker 1: Democrats going crazy and j T read an interesting Victor
Speaker 1: Davis Hansen piece about that. But to put it bluntly,
Speaker 1: the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding
Speaker 1: middle ground working together.
Speaker 2: Ever since Trump came down that.
Speaker 1: Escalator, they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The
Speaker 1: result is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,
Speaker 1: anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,
Speaker 1: and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools
Speaker 1: based on the science, they were against it. When Trump
Speaker 1: went to control the border, they want to leave it
Speaker 1: wide open. When Trump wants to apport it legal aliens
Speaker 1: guilty of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists.
Speaker 2: And gang members in the country.
Speaker 1: When Trump plus to save taxpairs, billions or trillions of
Speaker 1: wasteful government spending dollars. They want to fight for the
Speaker 1: wasteful government spending. There is no common ground to be
Speaker 1: found in a party that's held vent on opposing everything
Speaker 1: Trump wants to do. It's it's a bizarre sort of politics,
Speaker 1: just dumb. I like your strategy of I would hang
Speaker 1: back and wait for something to go wrong, because inevitably
Speaker 1: will on the world stage, domestically something, and then take
Speaker 1: your shot to the the trying to turn what's going
Speaker 1: in right now into something bad.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna do it. There's too much public support.
Speaker 1: I felt like there was a different tone on the
Speaker 1: evening newscasts last night, and I blame Slash credit it
Speaker 1: to that CBS poll that came out Sunday with Trump
Speaker 1: having a fifty three percent approval rating. I felt like
Speaker 1: I could hear that fifty three percent approval rating in
Speaker 1: David Muir's VOI as they were covering Trump yesterday at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the evening newscast, much more treating him
Speaker 1: like a regular president. I mean, maybe he has a
Speaker 1: point sort of tone. I you know, maybe I'm making
Speaker 1: that up, but I really feel like that. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I guess should agree.
Speaker 2: They should be.
Speaker 1: There should have been somebody in that news director meeting
Speaker 1: and all of those newscasts saying, hey, look, people, he's
Speaker 1: got a fifty three percent approval rating after all of
Speaker 1: this craziness has happened. So maybe other people don't think
Speaker 1: it's as crazy as we do. Maybe we ought to
Speaker 1: look at it slightly different. I mean, they'd be nuts
Speaker 1: if they.
Speaker 2: Weren't doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't have any great admiration for politicians brains
Speaker 1: and wisdom and the rest of it. I think most
Speaker 1: of them are hacks and greed heads. But I would
Speaker 1: think they would at least perceive a what you just
Speaker 1: said and be that the frantic the sky is falling.
Speaker 1: He's a Russian agent. He's going to kill millions of
Speaker 1: people with COVID. I don't trust his vaccine now that
Speaker 1: it's our vaccine. Jabbt into yourself, whether you like it
Speaker 1: or not. I mean, just the systematic kid he wants
Speaker 1: the borders closed, to open up the.
Speaker 2: Borders led rapists in.
Speaker 1: Having seen how miserably all that failed, I would think
Speaker 1: they would at least say, hey, let's talk.
Speaker 2: About this for a couple of weeks and figure out
Speaker 2: what to do.
Speaker 1: But instead they're I mean, full speed ahead, moron, Maxine
Speaker 1: Waters screeching as security guards at the the Department of
Speaker 1: Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing, we will fight in the streets.
Speaker 2: What are you going to fight in the streets? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Anyway, Uh, we're kind of getting off on a tangent
Speaker 1: away from mailbag, which is fine.
Speaker 2: A number of people have sent the screenshot.
Speaker 1: House votes on the Protection of Women and Girls in
Speaker 1: Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen to nothing yay,
Speaker 1: with two Democrat votes joining them. But Democrats were two
Speaker 1: zero six to two against protect protecting.
Speaker 2: Girls, and spot didn't know that well.
Speaker 1: In the caption is imagine being the party that accuses
Speaker 1: the other party of hating women and then voting against
Speaker 1: women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so scared of the
Speaker 1: nutty left that they were that uniform and being against that.
Speaker 1: My wait a minute, bone is a hummin. I want
Speaker 1: to check those numbers to verify them. Don't take that
Speaker 1: to the bank, Okay, yeah, because that strikes me. I've
Speaker 1: received it from a bunch of people. It says it
Speaker 1: appears to be a screen capture from Fox News, but
Speaker 1: it's easy to make things appear to be something they're not. Definitely,
Speaker 1: that'll do for now, sprinkling some more later. Copper is
Speaker 1: already up two and a half percent. This was yesterday.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked today because of the announcement of ending
Speaker 1: the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so far this year
Speaker 1: and it's early February. So the return on keeping pennies
Speaker 1: in a jar is beating interest earned by keeping cash
Speaker 1: in the bank currently, at least for pennies.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What
Speaker 2: you actually throw them away?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not leave them?
Speaker 1: Well no, no, no offense, and I would call thefense. Good lord,
Speaker 1: I know what you worth next. I can't have you
Speaker 1: destroying currency. Yeah, uh no. I just leave them places
Speaker 1: for people to find them.
Speaker 2: Well, that's nice. I'll leave them on counters or whatever.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if that's nice or just like super
Speaker 1: the opposite.
Speaker 2: Here's a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have
Speaker 2: a good day. I left them a penny. I don't
Speaker 2: address them to their face like that.
Speaker 1: I just leave it and fellow oligarchs like me will
Speaker 1: pass it by and say I'm not picking up that
Speaker 1: filthy piece of copy.
Speaker 2: But the poor m I'd appreciate my all.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the way. Then we'll take a
Speaker 1: break for Katie's headlines. I've said for years that's the
Speaker 1: way they should judge whether or not we should keep currency.
Speaker 1: Get one hundred random people. Maybe do it at an
Speaker 1: airport or bus station or something like that. You leave
Speaker 1: a penny on the ground and nicol the ground on
Speaker 1: the dime on the ground. What percentage of people bend
Speaker 1: over to pick it up. Almost nobody's gonna bend over
Speaker 1: to pick up a penny, which is proof that it
Speaker 1: is worthless. I don't know about the nickel. Almost everybody
Speaker 1: I think would pick up the dime, but nickel, I
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure. You're You're sour on the neck.
Speaker 1: I still think a nickel is something. But practically nobody's
Speaker 1: going to bend over to pick up a penny, which
Speaker 1: I think is I don't think I have spent twenty
Speaker 1: seven hours in the last year with any change in
Speaker 1: my pocket. Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,
Speaker 1: you don't. You haven't spent an hour with any money
Speaker 1: in your pocket at all in the last year.
Speaker 2: Younger people.
Speaker 1: I know, just the idea of having money in your
Speaker 1: pocket seems insane.
Speaker 2: Why would you do that? Hmm, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5: Another big indicator the numerous shops on Etsy of people
Speaker 5: drilling holes in pennies and turning them into keychains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, any jewelry everywhere. Oh really yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's happening. Your currency is no longer. How did
Speaker 1: it take till now for Trump to say, nobody, we
Speaker 1: don't need the penny. It's that weird clinging to what
Speaker 1: is saddest quote, whether it's a government, programmers, the schools,
Speaker 1: or whatever. We just were terrified by the idea of
Speaker 1: re examining things and asking the only question that matters
Speaker 1: is this working?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: But then we adopt as a country or get scared
Speaker 1: into adopting. All of a sudden, dudes can participate in girls'
Speaker 1: sports and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.
Speaker 2: I mean, so how does that sweep the nation?
Speaker 1: At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do
Speaker 1: away with the time change that we all hate, or
Speaker 1: the penny, which is worthless.
Speaker 2: It's bullying. That's how bullying, I guess. Biradicals.
Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way stay here? Have we had
Speaker 1: the best three weeks in the culture war and a
Speaker 1: half a century? As Rich Lowery writes of The National Review,
Speaker 1: maybe the uh there's some new polling out about people's
Speaker 1: attitudes towards the whole trans thing. Kind of interesting, man.
Speaker 1: It's moved a lot m the correct direction in my opinion,
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot. So we'll get to that next hour.
Speaker 2: Among other things. The next great.
Speaker 1: Challenge schools, American government schools. We can arouse the awareness
Speaker 1: of the population and help them understand how miserable the
Speaker 1: current state of things is. I think we could really
Speaker 1: change the society for the better. Anyway, More on that
Speaker 1: to come, but right now, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 5: It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, thank you guys, NBC.
Speaker 5: Trump threatens quote all hell is going to break out
Speaker 5: if Hamas delays the hostage release.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get into a couple of statements he made yesterday,
Speaker 1: one on the plane and one from the Oval office.
Speaker 2: He ain't kidding either, I don't think.
Speaker 1: Kind of alone, neither we, nor Hamas nor Israel really
Speaker 1: knows what the shape of that might be.
Speaker 5: To bring it on brdbart dot com. Nearly one third
Speaker 5: of Gossen's wanted to leave.
Speaker 2: Before the war. I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1: If you lived in a society governed by AMAS, how
Speaker 1: much would you enjoy it?
Speaker 5: From The Business Standard, FBI uncovers twenty four hundred secret
Speaker 5: records on John F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy's assassination.
Speaker 1: Not you know what's the significance? Oh yeah, I'm making
Speaker 1: my skeptical face. Then mister Jones interviewed mister Smith, who
Speaker 1: had nothing of interest to say. Is that one of
Speaker 1: the records?
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, China g is building an
Speaker 5: economic fortress against US pressure as Trump turns.
Speaker 2: Up the heat on Beijing. Yeah, we got to get
Speaker 2: into JD.
Speaker 1: Vance's statement at the Big Ai summit in Paris from yesterday,
Speaker 1: and it was all directed at China as the world
Speaker 1: is attempting to hamstring us around Ai, when China is
Speaker 1: going to ignore those rules similar to the climate change stuff.
Speaker 1: And xiz in Ping while evil as smart as hell,
Speaker 1: and he's understood that, all right. So the US tries
Speaker 1: to pressure us in this way, that way, and that way,
Speaker 1: we need to build an economy in a society that
Speaker 1: can't be pressured in any of those three ways.
Speaker 2: So they're working at it like crazy. He's incredibly strategic
Speaker 2: and evil.
Speaker 5: For The Washington Post, Elon Musk and group of investors
Speaker 5: launches ninety seven billion dollar bid for chat gpte maker
Speaker 5: open Ai.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to which Sam Altman immediately replied, how about I
Speaker 1: buy Twitter for nine billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to figure out that whole rift
Speaker 1: between those two guys. It's like Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm aware they hate each other, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Elon is concerned about the fact that open ai
Speaker 1: is about to go private, when the whole the reason
Speaker 1: it's called open ai is originally was you know, this
Speaker 1: is going to be open and people can see it
Speaker 1: and it's not going to be evil, and Elon's braid
Speaker 1: it's gonna take everything evil and he wants to buy
Speaker 1: it and stop that from happening.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: And finally, the Babylon Bee doubles in value after being egged.
Speaker 1: There you go, being egged is a good thing. Now
Speaker 1: try to scrap it off. You and catch it in
Speaker 1: a cup. If you could egg lick it off like Rocky,
Speaker 1: you get it raw egg heist. So you're also the country.
Speaker 1: We have more on more on that. There's quite a
Speaker 1: bit of news to talk about today. So our two
Speaker 1: could be juicy. I don't appreciate that choice of words,
Speaker 1: but I agree it will be action packed
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty