Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jekie and no Hee arms wrong who from the studio
Speaker 1: c definitely let room deeper than the fowls of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today we are under
Speaker 1: the tutelage of Valentine's Day. If this is not the
Speaker 1: perfect val this is the important thing. If the person
Speaker 1: you're in a relationship with does it go one hundred
Speaker 1: percent all out on Valentine's Day, you should break up today.
Speaker 1: Clearly stop. Isn't that the message we're being sent No
Speaker 1: by Hallmark move and cards and whatnot. We need to
Speaker 1: break that. Yeah, well we've been working on that. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many years you been with us? Two years? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Joe and been. Joe doesn't say this, he's nicer
Speaker 1: than me. Joe's not here today, But I say this
Speaker 1: every single year. And it's just my anecdotal evidence. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are exceptions, but I personally have never known
Speaker 1: a long term, successful relationship that took Valentine's Day. Seriously.
Speaker 1: I've known hundreds and hundreds of people who took Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day very seriously, and they had horrible relationships or they
Speaker 1: fell apart. They were always in and out of relationships.
Speaker 1: But I've never known a single long term, successful relationship
Speaker 1: that took Valentine's Day or any of these other things
Speaker 1: very seriously. Yeah, I can see what you're saying. That's
Speaker 1: just my personal experience. Yeah, so I need to have
Speaker 1: a conversation with my husband because he too. See this
Speaker 1: is the problem. Though. You can get into a relationship
Speaker 1: and they pretend they don't care about Valentine, but they
Speaker 1: secretly do, and then you don't do anything and then
Speaker 1: they're all hurt. And but again that gets to what
Speaker 1: I was saying a little bit earlier. He went all
Speaker 1: out this year's and that's nice, maybe, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. No, it's very.
Speaker 2: Sweet, but it's like, dude, I got you. I got
Speaker 2: you a card in a box of meat hearts. Meat hearts, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, like those candy hearts that have stuff written
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 1: These are all the meat M E T no M
Speaker 1: E A T.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know the candy hearts that have writing
Speaker 2: on them, like the.
Speaker 1: Little chalco ones that are made of chalk.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, These are pieces of beef jerky that look
Speaker 2: like those and they have little things written on them
Speaker 2: and they're called meat hearts.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Oh fantastic. Yeah, wow, that's cool. So a lot
Speaker 1: in the news today. We have some interesting people to
Speaker 1: talk to. But I was going to make the sub
Speaker 1: general manager happy Valentine's Day. You're fired, which is fortunately
Speaker 1: or unfortunately fortunately if you believe we need to cut
Speaker 1: government in size and scope, which we absolutely do, unfortunately
Speaker 1: on some individual basises, because it sucks losing your job.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there are people that work very hard
Speaker 1: and tried very hard and everything like that that are
Speaker 1: losing their jobs. But I personally know once again my
Speaker 1: anecdotal evidence of federal agencies where they have laid people off,
Speaker 1: and it's in the news today. The letters are going
Speaker 1: out thousands and thousands and thousands of people across the
Speaker 1: country getting the nod that they are being let go.
Speaker 1: Most of them at this point are in the there's
Speaker 1: a one year or two year probationary period. I understand
Speaker 1: it's different depending on your agency or whatever. At a
Speaker 1: certain point you get all these civil service protections. Once
Speaker 1: you're in government, and it's almost impossible to fire you.
Speaker 1: Why we offer those, Well, I know why the government voted.
Speaker 1: It's the government. They of course they voted for themselves
Speaker 1: to have civil service protection. But why we offer those
Speaker 1: I have no idea. None of the rest of us
Speaker 1: have this in any world. Maybe college professors, but other
Speaker 1: than that, none of the rest of us have this.
Speaker 1: Here's an example I've got for you, and I will
Speaker 1: not say what agency this is or where it came from.
Speaker 1: Department downsizing. This is a person who was talking to
Speaker 1: their boss yesterday who works in a federal agency that
Speaker 1: I know a number of people in our area offices
Speaker 1: are downsizing. This person said, my boss has never worked
Speaker 1: in the private sector and is very upset. Said they
Speaker 1: only had only were able to give them a couple
Speaker 1: of days notice before they were fired. Really, that never
Speaker 1: happens to anyone else. And this person said, my boss
Speaker 1: apparently doesn't realize this happens every day outside of this
Speaker 1: particular federal agency. Yeah, so, you know, welcome to the
Speaker 1: real world to a certain extent. I mean, if you again,
Speaker 1: on an individual basis, it sucks losing your job. And
Speaker 1: I guess this particular boss said some of these people
Speaker 1: moved for this job, the only reason they moved here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that happens all the time too. People moved to a
Speaker 1: job and they're there for a week, a month, two years,
Speaker 1: five years, tenures, whatever, and then out of the blue,
Speaker 1: you get fired completely lader, no fault to your own.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're working hard, you're doing a good job. They
Speaker 1: just decide to go a different direction, or you know,
Speaker 1: the company's failing, or like in traditional media, everybody in
Speaker 1: traditional media, legacy media has been downsizing for years, radio, television, newspapers.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many Black Monday's, Black Fridays
Speaker 1: we've had around here, haven't we all? And we've all survived,
Speaker 1: thank god. But where emails go out and you start
Speaker 1: getting the nod that all across the country people are
Speaker 1: being let go, and you wonder who's next. It happens
Speaker 1: all the time. Why would federal employees be immune to
Speaker 1: that or don't don't or don't have to deal with
Speaker 1: the reality of Jeez, I picked up my family and
Speaker 1: I moved here for this job, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be my career, and now it's gone. But
Speaker 1: it's happening all across the country. Today, so again, Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: You're fired. Life is like a box of chocolate. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I one time in a relationship that did not work out.
Speaker 1: Actually making my point with someone who took Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: very seriously, attempted to go out to eat. The one
Speaker 1: time in my life I've tried to go out to
Speaker 1: eat on Valentine's Day. It is a nightmare. I don't
Speaker 1: know how y'all do it, and a lot of you
Speaker 1: do it, because it took me, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long to find a restaurant that had any I waited
Speaker 1: until like three days before Valentine's Day. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: it was impossible, and it was nearly impossible to find
Speaker 1: one reservation an awkward time at a restaurant far away,
Speaker 1: but the you can't park in the parking lot, and
Speaker 1: there's not enough room in the restaurant in the waiting area,
Speaker 1: and you're standing outside, perhaps in the rain, in the cold,
Speaker 1: and maybe you're dressed up, but it just it just
Speaker 1: seems miserable, absolutely miserable. But hey, knock yourself out if
Speaker 1: that's your plant, tonite, can't wait to go to dinner later,
Speaker 1: have a good time, but the restaurant stunts make a
Speaker 1: lot of money, so I don't know. As Joe always
Speaker 1: points out, for profit companies, installing expectations on us is
Speaker 1: not the way it's supposed to work. And I wonder.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell an amazing Valentine's Day story
Speaker 1: here in about twenty minutes. It's it's it's hilarious, it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: It reminds you of what Valentine's Day was like when
Speaker 1: you were a little kid. I dreaded Valentine's Day all
Speaker 1: through grade school and then high school, and like, why
Speaker 1: do our schools put this pressure on all the children
Speaker 1: and make it seem like, boy, this is a very
Speaker 1: very important day. And if you don't have someone that's
Speaker 1: going to give you something and care about you, oh man,
Speaker 1: you are a loser. That's the message I felt like
Speaker 1: they were putting out in school.
Speaker 2: My negative feelings towards Valentine's Day started my freshman year
Speaker 2: in high school.
Speaker 1: I had a crush on this guy, thank you Gladys.
Speaker 2: And the school had this program for where, for like
Speaker 2: two bucks, you would fill out a piece of paper
Speaker 2: and put your money in an envelope and then at
Speaker 2: some point during the day somebody would show up in
Speaker 2: that person's classroom with a rose.
Speaker 1: Right, they're doing that at my son's high school. I think,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Okay, so first of the flower Graham.
Speaker 1: They're calling it or Yandy Graham or something like that,
Speaker 1: the Flower Gram. I was the only girl out of
Speaker 1: our girl group. I didn't get a rose at all.
Speaker 2: I was mortified, embarrassed, and it was.
Speaker 1: Just like, why why did that happen? Right?
Speaker 2: You know, ah, just bringing up bad feelings guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got quite a story about that. I'll
Speaker 1: tell later later this hour. So we got clips of
Speaker 1: the week coming up a little later. Let's start the
Speaker 1: show officially because I got another newsy thing to jam in.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong. Joe Getty's taking the day off because
Speaker 1: he had his big birthday a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and all his kids are in town and he's celebrating
Speaker 1: a birthday with a four day weekend. I am Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 1: and it is Friday, the Day of Love, February fourteenth,
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five. We are i'mstrong. You getting
Speaker 1: we approve of this program. We'll start the show. When
Speaker 1: should we start it? How about it? Mark Hey? Foo.
Speaker 1: This is mister T and I want to wish everybody
Speaker 1: a happy Valentine Day.
Speaker 2: From one sweetheart to another, sweetheart, love you, love your bait.
Speaker 1: Wow, We've been using that clip for a very long time.
Speaker 1: That's mister T, star of the eighties. Some of the
Speaker 1: news that happened overnight that I want to get to
Speaker 1: all the layoffs, will get into some of the departments
Speaker 1: and places around the country where they're laying people off,
Speaker 1: and maybe agree with that, maybe you don't. What's going
Speaker 1: on with Eric Adams, the mayor of New York is
Speaker 1: quite the story. They dropped the charges against him. I
Speaker 1: think he's absolutely a crook, but he has decided man
Speaker 1: getting the illegals out of New York's the most important
Speaker 1: thing ever, so MAGA world is jumping on supporting him,
Speaker 1: even though he's a crook. The most interesting thing is
Speaker 1: the senior person in the Justice department there in New
Speaker 1: York resigned in protest yesterday. She said, I'm quitting. If
Speaker 1: we're dropping charges against this criminal with a solid evidence
Speaker 1: we have, I'm out. And she wrote a scathing letter
Speaker 1: that we can get into a little bit later. And
Speaker 1: she had four underlings that went with her. And so
Speaker 1: you're probably thinking, well, this is some sort of New
Speaker 1: York lefty or whatever. She is a Federal Society card
Speaker 1: carrying member. She clerked for antonin Scalia. She is as
Speaker 1: conservative as you can get, and conservative means the law
Speaker 1: is the law, and you know, you buy the ticket,
Speaker 1: you take the ride on breaking the law. And she
Speaker 1: does not like this. She believes, well, she didn't specifically
Speaker 1: say this, but the belief among many is the Trump
Speaker 1: White House, through the Justice Department, made it relatively clear.
Speaker 1: If not, you know, you don't have to state it
Speaker 1: out loud for a quid pro quoil, made it clear
Speaker 1: that hey, we'll find a way to drop these charges
Speaker 1: against you, Eric Adams, if you get full on board
Speaker 1: with the whole boot and the illegals out of New York,
Speaker 1: which I'm all for booting the illegals out of New York.
Speaker 1: You can't let him get away of being a criminal.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot more on that coming up.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that this very conservative attorney resigned
Speaker 1: yesterday in protest, I think should mean something. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it gets portrayed politically, because there's the
Speaker 1: legal aspect and there's political aspect on all these stories. Obviously,
Speaker 1: got a lot of good stuff to get to today.
Speaker 1: Clips of the week on the way in just a
Speaker 1: few Uh, here's our text line four one, five, two
Speaker 1: nine five k ftc oh wow, keep it going CNN
Speaker 1: of yacht rock, Valentine's Day songs that would be perfect today.
Speaker 1: Lou rawls huh with love that's tender as that voice
Speaker 1: is a panty dropper as they say. That's just people say,
Speaker 1: I'm like sitting here loving this song. Jacket at dropper,
Speaker 1: of course, is that I've heard people use that term
Speaker 1: and I did to appreciate it. Oh uh, you're back
Speaker 1: on TikTok. I guess everybody, Huh, Apple Store and the
Speaker 1: Google store. You can get the TikTok app again. I
Speaker 1: haven't looked into why that happened or whatever. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can get TikTok again.
Speaker 2: So Pam Bondy told them that there won't be a
Speaker 2: penalty if they put it back in the stores, so
Speaker 2: they went with it.
Speaker 1: So the band's over or all right? Well, more on
Speaker 1: that later, but first we need to do this. We
Speaker 1: do it every Friday. It's we call it cow. It's
Speaker 1: an acronym for a fond look back clips of the
Speaker 1: week here. I don't want to be here every week.
Speaker 1: Let's sound crazy for a week. In just the last month,
Speaker 1: more than twenty million birds have been impacted by bird fluid.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most severe flu seasons.
Speaker 4: In the United States in the last fifteen years.
Speaker 3: Two suspects loading one hundreds of dollars worth of eggs
Speaker 3: and other breakfast foods and white.
Speaker 5: Fan President Donald Trump's pledging to enforce the existing twenty
Speaker 5: five percent tariff on all steel imported into the US.
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania teacher Mark Foegel is all smiles. He says he
Speaker 1: is thrilled to be back on US soil. I feel
Speaker 1: like the luckiest man on earth right now.
Speaker 5: President Trump saying that if a moss doesn't release those
Speaker 5: remaining hostages, then he thinks that ceasefire deal should be canceled.
Speaker 1: Let hell break out. I don't want to spend an
Speaker 1: hour applying glitter on my face so that you will
Speaker 1: hear and see me.
Speaker 3: For a best in show, I choose the giant chnellsy.
Speaker 5: Mark, who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls.
Speaker 1: Big Balls. Here, which done? Are you? On the world's
Speaker 1: richest and unelected man. We do need to delete entire agency.
Speaker 1: It is an attempt to take the funding and take
Speaker 1: the right away from each and every child. You're rider
Speaker 1: with the Union or a scavvy musk plod hound.
Speaker 3: He doesn't need this, and you know he's abused by
Speaker 3: you people every day.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and.
Speaker 5: We don't live in a democracy if we live in
Speaker 5: a bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: He wants too bow to him, but we want him
Speaker 1: in jail.
Speaker 2: The United States does not believe that NATO membership for
Speaker 2: Ukraine is a realistic outcome. You Ukraine is an equal
Speaker 2: member of this peace process.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting question. The you don't up on the
Speaker 1: homes turnovers. Google's thought put six looks Cooper ka chuon
Speaker 1: the latest Eagles team in modern history. Eagles fans safer
Speaker 1: and choice, fantastic Cow Hanson. Hanson puts cow together at
Speaker 1: h at great Laborers laborist paints Joe's going to join
Speaker 1: the show just in a few minutes when we come back.
Speaker 1: But how about text line inst mail bag. We got
Speaker 1: a bunch of texts on different topics that we brought
Speaker 1: up already. My neighbor got laid off a year ago,
Speaker 1: along with ten thousand others from one software company. We
Speaker 1: all remember last year when Intel Facebook they started laying
Speaker 1: off people by the thousands. Yeah, I know government workers
Speaker 1: are getting the letter today that they they're fired. But
Speaker 1: it happens to people, It happens. It just happened to everybody.
Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day to Katie from another girl who didn't
Speaker 1: get a rose carnation or kansa gramm at school. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We got the text that schools that do do it now.
Speaker 1: When my kids were younger in grade school, they did,
Speaker 1: but it was mandatory. You had to get one for everybody,
Speaker 1: and you weren't allowed to put your name on it
Speaker 1: or something. So then we went so far the other
Speaker 1: direction that they were meaningless. So it was just complete.
Speaker 1: It was a meaningless like task you had to do.
Speaker 1: It was basically just filling out a list of names,
Speaker 1: and nobody got any feeling out of it whatsoever. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's the right answer either. The right
Speaker 1: answer is to just stop it and Valentine's stop it.
Speaker 1: Twenty five years in restaurants, writes this Texter. Mother's Day
Speaker 1: in Valentine's Day are humongous moneymakers beyond belief customers will
Speaker 1: put up with anything and pay superinflated prices ten twenty
Speaker 1: dollars more pro ententree, endless weights, and people will just
Speaker 1: put up with it. I won't, but enough people will
Speaker 1: that on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day? Can the restaurants
Speaker 1: just print money? So there you go, and I hope
Speaker 1: you have a good time tonight. If you got the
Speaker 1: eat Man Friday night and Valentine's Day. Whoo, my son's
Speaker 1: got a Valentine's Day dance at the high school tonight
Speaker 1: and I talk about that later. Joe joins the show.
Speaker 1: Other news of the day on the way. If you
Speaker 1: missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: And how about an amazing moment caught on camera when
Speaker 3: a kayaker off the coast of Chile gets swallowed by
Speaker 3: a humpback whale. Adrian Simancas admitted later that he thought
Speaker 3: he was a dead man, quoting I thought it had
Speaker 3: eaten me, that it had swallowed me. Moments after the
Speaker 3: whales surfaced, it began to dive deeper, and that's when
Speaker 3: Simancas and his fellow kayak or his yellow kayak somehow
Speaker 3: got free from the clutches of the whales jaws and
Speaker 3: resurfaced grateful as you might imagine to be a If.
Speaker 1: You haven't seen that video, it is amazing. This giant
Speaker 1: whale like its CGI comes out on the ocean and
Speaker 1: swallows this guy in his kayak and then somehow it
Speaker 1: like I don't know, it's like a hair ball in
Speaker 1: his throat and the whale kind of coughs it out
Speaker 1: and he's out and the whale goes off. But it's
Speaker 1: just holy crap. Yeah, you'd think you were dead anyway.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Armstrong and Geddy Show. It's just me today.
Speaker 1: It's funny. We got a text yesterday with somebody saying,
Speaker 1: if you have trouble telling the difference between Jack and Joe,
Speaker 1: Jack's the dumb one. Oh geez. But joining the Armstrong
Speaker 1: in Getty Show today is Joe Getty. You can be
Speaker 1: heard nationwide on a radio station near you on a
Speaker 1: very popular podcast called Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Here's
Speaker 1: Joe Getty. Joe yo, yo. You know what I always say.
Speaker 1: You hate to get swallowed by a whale, especially the
Speaker 1: day before Valentine's Day. Uh yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I
Speaker 1: just got home.
Speaker 4: I was behind. I'm sure I was gonna be home
Speaker 4: five minutes ago. Got behind guy who does twenty two
Speaker 4: miles per hour in a thirty zone like all the
Speaker 4: way through the hood.
Speaker 1: And also I ran. That's why. That's why I carry
Speaker 1: a ball, a bag of ball bearings in my car
Speaker 1: so I can throw those at the windshield. I've always
Speaker 1: been a Q ball guy. You're gonna drive too slow,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have dents in your car. That's the way
Speaker 1: I look at it. Joe is not here today because
Speaker 1: he had dipped himself in red paint for Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: and is having an allergic reaction. But yeah, it sealed up.
Speaker 4: All my pores and went toxic.
Speaker 1: Some antibiotics will take care of that. Let me hit
Speaker 1: you with the news story of the day, because I
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned it yet and I can't believe it's not
Speaker 1: getting more attention than it is. Interview with The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal out today, JD. Vance says that the US
Speaker 1: if Russia does not agree to a cease fire deal
Speaker 1: with Ukraine, the US will hit Moscow with sanctions and
Speaker 1: potential military action, and Vance specifically asked if the option
Speaker 1: of sending US troops to Ukraine if Moscow failed to negotiate,
Speaker 1: and good faith absolutely on the table.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, he said, he refuses to take anything off
Speaker 4: the table. Why would he seems like a big deal. Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a big deal in and of itself, although I
Speaker 4: doubt very seriously that that would happen. Why It also
Speaker 4: suggests rather strongly that Secretary of Defense Hegseth went off
Speaker 4: the reservation the other day making statements specifically saying Ukraine's
Speaker 4: not getting their territory back. We're not going to back militarily.
Speaker 4: It's up to the Euros if they want to, but
Speaker 4: we're not in you know. That was I'm not sure
Speaker 4: what happened there. This interview is just out today.
Speaker 1: I haven't really had a chance to go through social
Speaker 1: media or whatever and see how MAGA is reacting to
Speaker 1: the MAGA president, who is super non intervention get out
Speaker 1: of all the wars guy saying no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: war will continue and we'll support it and we might
Speaker 1: even put troops on the ground. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if everybody's just reacting with no, we won't or what.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, then heag Seth quote unquote clarified his comments yesterday.
Speaker 4: Tell all reporters that quote what concessions will be made
Speaker 4: or what concessions will not be made will be up
Speaker 4: to the president. Okay, all right, but you just made
Speaker 4: a few so interesting to see how that dynamic unfolds.
Speaker 1: If Biden had said that, or idiot Kamala Harris, people's
Speaker 1: heads would be exploding. Oh yeah, but partially because you
Speaker 1: might believe that they would actually do that. I like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if anybody believes we would
Speaker 1: put US troops on the ground in Ukraine. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a threat politically or a threat
Speaker 1: to putin putin for I think it none.
Speaker 4: You won't, right, So actually it's funny. That's the one
Speaker 4: thing I wanted to talk about jumping on briefly today.
Speaker 4: And I will charge all of our corporate partners for
Speaker 4: a full dayste work.
Speaker 1: So that's what you're doing. You're like if a kid
Speaker 1: goes to school for I think three hours, it's counted
Speaker 1: as a day, so you get your federal funding. That's
Speaker 1: what you're doing. You're coming on the show just long
Speaker 1: enough to be counted as a day at work. Well,
Speaker 1: I've prepared for five hours to make this brief appearance.
Speaker 1: If he's on the air for fifteen minutes, it's like
Speaker 1: lawyer too. You talk to a lawyer for a certain
Speaker 1: amount of time, it's a full quarter hour.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right. You should have read the fine print.
Speaker 4: But so several things that Vance said have made news.
Speaker 4: And then there's a preview out of his speech that
Speaker 4: he's going to give in front of the big European
Speaker 4: Leadership Group or whatever they call it, and some of
Speaker 4: the particulars are super interesting. But I found myself thinking,
Speaker 4: when was the last time we got a preview of
Speaker 4: the remarks Vice President Harris was going to make. I mean,
Speaker 4: what would they say, She's going to prattle on like
Speaker 4: a psychosis patient, you know, on a tequila binge. Nobody
Speaker 4: cared what she said ever, But anyway, I loved what
Speaker 4: he said about Europe because I've been kind of hot
Speaker 4: on this lately. Europe, how they're really cutting down on
Speaker 4: free speech. They're hardcore. We're going to get rid of
Speaker 4: misinformation and disinformation and any speech that would offend any
Speaker 4: ethnic or religious group. And the Russians are interfering with
Speaker 4: our elections too much, and Advance said a couple of
Speaker 4: things that I thought were great. He said, if your
Speaker 4: democratic society can be taken down by two hundred grand
Speaker 4: worth of social media ads, then you should seriously think
Speaker 4: about how strong your grip is, or how strong your
Speaker 4: understanding of the will of the people actually is a
Speaker 4: great point, and then he went hardcore about the rampant
Speaker 4: immigration in Europe and how here's a quote keeping far
Speaker 4: right party. This is not a quote keeping far right
Speaker 4: parties that campaign against migration out of government coalitions is
Speaker 4: curtailing the will of the people who've repeatedly.
Speaker 1: Been asking for more border control.
Speaker 4: He said, quote, I think, unfortunately, the will of voters
Speaker 4: is being ignored by a lot of our European friends,
Speaker 4: which is exactly what I've been going on about. If
Speaker 4: you ignore the masses of the people, you as like
Speaker 4: a mainstream political party and say that's impolite.
Speaker 1: We don't want to say that.
Speaker 4: The people who say that it be they far right,
Speaker 4: the AfD party in Germany or whatever, they are going
Speaker 4: to get power and juice. And if you don't want that,
Speaker 4: be honest. And then it clicked in my head as
Speaker 4: I was eating my delicious biscuits.
Speaker 1: And gravy that biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Oh hell yeah,
Speaker 1: fried chicken, Oh wow, decided to have a light breakfast
Speaker 1: before you start the day. Oh yeah, just little morsel.
Speaker 1: Does you know, take the pangs away anyway? Uh, It
Speaker 1: occurred to me this is just like the story of
Speaker 1: Trump and the magat crowd resting the control of the
Speaker 1: Republican Party away from the old mainstreamers, you know, for
Speaker 1: better or worse, because they ignored what so much of America,
Speaker 1: particularly working class in Middle America, was bellowing. Hey, globalism
Speaker 1: isn't working for us. It's hurting us.
Speaker 4: All we're getting is false promises from you and judgment
Speaker 4: and ugliness from the left. So so we're not buying
Speaker 4: what you're selling anymore. And Trump came along and he said, no,
Speaker 4: I hear you loud and clear. You're right, and goodbye
Speaker 4: control of the Republican Party. It's going to be just
Speaker 4: like that in Europe if they don't quickly start listening
Speaker 4: to their people about immigration.
Speaker 1: Well, what's what's the German guy's name, Schultz? Well, Merits,
Speaker 1: it's actually the way I darn it is. The damn
Speaker 1: bird floop I sneezed and I felt like I heard
Speaker 1: a bird like sound come out. That's weird. Schul Meritz.
Speaker 1: Fred A listener pointed this out.
Speaker 4: It's Friedrich Mertz, which is for fans of classic TV,
Speaker 4: Fred Mertz from The Honeymooners.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the guy that runs Germany yesterday, so somebody
Speaker 1: in Germany, if you didn't hear the story, rammed a
Speaker 1: car into a bunch of people and hurt a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of people. And he's from Afghanistan and seeking asylum,
Speaker 1: and everybody's seeing it as a you know, a ge
Speaker 1: haughty terrorist attack sort of thing. At least an initial reports.
Speaker 1: A guy still alive. He used a Mini Cooper. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad it was a little car. Probably be dead
Speaker 1: people if it had been a big truck like happened
Speaker 1: down in New Orleans. Yeah, that struck me for sure.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna ram a giant crowd trying to hurt people,
Speaker 1: the mini Coopers the odd choice Europe, you can't find big,
Speaker 1: no good and trunks. Good point, But the quotes out
Speaker 1: of various politicians about it was way different than at
Speaker 1: least we've done the last twenty years, where we say things, well,
Speaker 1: the one thing with the biggest fear I have is
Speaker 1: a backlash against Muslims. Remember that after one of our
Speaker 1: horrifying terrorist attacks. Why, I believe that was out of
Speaker 1: our Secretary of Defense at the time, but there was
Speaker 1: no that kind of talk out of high level public
Speaker 1: officials in Germany. Yesterday was we have a serious problem
Speaker 1: with Muslim Jihattis and we will root them out and
Speaker 1: they pay the highest price. And I thought, wow, they
Speaker 1: they are way further toward dealing with this than than
Speaker 1: we have them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for all of Germany's false there kind of into
Speaker 4: being German, and you know, it's Britain is ashamed of
Speaker 4: its history, and there Brits. Many Brits are ashamed of
Speaker 4: being Brits and are gladly giving their way, their country,
Speaker 4: and their culture way to foreign invaders out of some
Speaker 4: weird misplaced guilt.
Speaker 1: But I don't think the Germans are going to put
Speaker 1: up with that.
Speaker 4: And they're famously very very polite people until they're you know,
Speaker 4: invading Poland, and so I think it took a lot
Speaker 4: to get them to say, hey, we don't like this,
Speaker 4: In fact, we hate it, and we're going to do
Speaker 4: something about it. But that that worm has one hundred
Speaker 4: percent turned and the next you know, three, four, five, ten,
Speaker 4: twenty years are going to be crazy interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: So I had teas Day Funny at tragic Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: story that I'm going to tell I will get to
Speaker 1: an hour or two. At some point I can give
Speaker 1: you a preview while you're here, just a bit of it.
Speaker 1: It's it's grade school, it's fourth grade, and it's old
Speaker 1: school fourth grade Valentine's Day, like we were talking about
Speaker 1: with Katie earlier, which had its positives and negatives. They've
Speaker 1: they've they've so watered it down in the modern schools.
Speaker 1: You don't have the really hurt feelings of the little
Speaker 1: boy or little girl gets left out. But you also
Speaker 1: don't have any of the good feeling of anybody expressing
Speaker 1: any you know, feelings of a crush or something like
Speaker 1: that that could be pretty powerful too, like emotional socialism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just watered it down. Every bringing a Valentine for everybody, nobody,
Speaker 1: no names, just hand them all up, so everybody gets
Speaker 1: exactly the same thing from everybody, and it's got no
Speaker 1: personality whatsoever. So it's just it's just a homework assignment.
Speaker 1: It's like a busy work, homework assignment, so checking a box.
Speaker 1: It's very sophiet. But but Valentine's Day, at least the
Speaker 1: schools I went to as a kid was very emotional.
Speaker 1: Lord of the Flies, I mean, Maki, that was rough.
Speaker 1: You got an example, tell the story or two, like
Speaker 1: I said, because I know this person and they are
Speaker 1: horrified to this day. They say, if there's one thing
Speaker 1: in their life that they could go back and change,
Speaker 1: it would be this. The way they treated the overtures
Speaker 1: from this little fourth grade boy that they believe and
Speaker 1: the kid cried all day in class. Oh lord, can
Speaker 1: you imagine. I mean, if you're you wouldn't cry in
Speaker 1: fourth grade as a boy in front of everybody unless
Speaker 1: you were really upset, because it'd be horribly embarrassing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went on to a life of crime and prison,
Speaker 1: and she believes it's all because of this, and it's
Speaker 1: always believed. Probably so almost certainly. Yes, that is so awful.
Speaker 1: That is so awful.
Speaker 4: Oh if she won't have me, then society can't have me.
Speaker 4: I'm turning to the dark side. I get age nine
Speaker 4: or whatever you are in fourth grade ten.
Speaker 1: I've got whatever word weird personality, type where I get like,
Speaker 1: I'm bothered if other people are upset, Like if I
Speaker 1: go to a party, which I haven't done in many,
Speaker 1: many years, But if I'm at a party and there's
Speaker 1: somebody alone in the corner, I have to go talk
Speaker 1: to them. I can't. It's even if it's not my party.
Speaker 1: I can't stand the idea of somebody being over there
Speaker 1: like not having fun. I feel like it's my responsibility,
Speaker 1: which is weird. But I never had any tragic Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day stories, but I saw them for other people, and
Speaker 1: I'm bothered by those. I remember the girls that for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, were not popular, that wouldn't get any Valentines.
Speaker 1: And we would make these like male boxes for our
Speaker 1: desk and everybody to go around and put the Valentine's in,
Speaker 1: and the super popular girl hers would be overflowing out
Speaker 1: of the box ondoor desk, and then some of the quiet,
Speaker 1: shy or whatever, not popular girls would get nothing. And
Speaker 1: I would look at them and just think, this is
Speaker 1: the worst thing I've ever seen. This is so heartbreaking, horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god, why why did we do it?
Speaker 2: Was?
Speaker 1: You know, it was funny.
Speaker 4: I was talking to my son last night about a
Speaker 4: couple of different cultural norms and how growing up being
Speaker 4: raised by and among to some extent, depression survivors and
Speaker 4: people who had lived through World War Two and seen
Speaker 4: half a million million, half a million men not come
Speaker 4: back and the wounded and blah blah blah. It's a
Speaker 4: It was a very different culture because it had to be.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just being a holes or bigots or whatever.
Speaker 4: When you're under threat, you behave in ways that are
Speaker 4: different than when you're perfectly comfortable, and every generation is
Speaker 4: kind of a softened echo of what came before it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure we should have let candy and
Speaker 1: card companies force our schools into the emotional lord of
Speaker 1: the flies that we did for quite a few decades.
Speaker 1: Amen to that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well you were
Speaker 1: here long enough you don't have to count today as
Speaker 1: a vacation day. Excellent, So that is good news for you. Excellent.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start drinking on the job. Technically, we got
Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way stay here, digging the yacht Rock,
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day music Today, Michael good Stuff and the Beauty.
Speaker 4: Tink Electric piano means only one thing, Love, Love, and
Speaker 4: or sex or both.
Speaker 1: Yes, lovely sex, sexy love. Joe's sticking around and then
Speaker 1: he's taking off because he always takes Valentine's Day off
Speaker 1: because it's the most important day of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not so much. I suppose we ought to jump right in.
Speaker 1: Who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll start with this one. It's at the top of
Speaker 1: all the websites today. From NBC.
Speaker 2: Trump administration tells federal agencies to fire probationary employees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe, you weren't here earlier, But I was talking
Speaker 1: about a somebody I know who was a meeting last night.
Speaker 1: Their boss very upset that they had to lay off
Speaker 1: six people, and he was just horrified that saying, these
Speaker 1: people that moved here for this job, and now I'm
Speaker 1: laying them off. It's rough. It sucks for them. It
Speaker 1: does suck, but it happens all the freaking times.
Speaker 2: From Breybart dot com, HHS squandered more than twenty two
Speaker 2: billion dollars on migrants for vehicles, home loans, and startups.
Speaker 1: Good lord. With the budget as big as it is,
Speaker 1: HHS's budget is bigger than the Pentagon's budget. They're not
Speaker 1: surprising that that much gets wasted. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Speaker 1: Who voted for that? Who would vote for that? When
Speaker 1: did Congress say that was a good idea? Holy crap?
Speaker 1: From the New York Post.
Speaker 2: New York City Mayor Adams vows to reopen ice office
Speaker 2: at Rikers Island following meeting with Trump and borders.
Speaker 1: Are Tom Homan boy interesting side by side today? So
Speaker 1: on CNN and MSNBC, they're talking about a serious constitutional
Speaker 1: crisis that the president had his Justice Department dropped the charges,
Speaker 1: find a way to lean on and drop the charges
Speaker 1: against Eric Adams if he would play ball on immigration.
Speaker 1: On Fox, they got Eric Adams sitting on the couch
Speaker 1: and they're all yucking it up and laughing about what
Speaker 1: about what you got planned for Valentine's Day? Wow?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've heard this, because I
Speaker 1: know you're busy with your birthday week and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But that woman, that lead attorney who resigned yesterday in protest,
Speaker 1: she's a Federal Society member, she clerked frant and Scalia.
Speaker 1: She's as conservative as you can get. She is not
Speaker 1: a progressive liberal person. There are aspects of this story
Speaker 1: that are very, very troubling. Yeah, that's true. From Forbes.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk's X paying ten million dollars to settle Twitter
Speaker 2: era Trump lawsuit alleging citizen censorship.
Speaker 1: When you said X, I thought you meant like ex
Speaker 1: wife you met Twitter?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ok, okay, I know That's why I call Twitter
Speaker 2: h right. From Newsweek. Woman who was missing for six
Speaker 2: months found giving birth on New York subway.
Speaker 1: I saw the video of that. Yeah, you family couldn't
Speaker 1: find her, saw her on TikTok.
Speaker 2: And finally, the Babylon b RFK Junior sworn in on
Speaker 2: a raw thirty two ounce rabbielike.
Speaker 1: He is so tan? Does he does he use a
Speaker 1: tanning bed? Or does he do the spray? It looks
Speaker 1: like the spray? Do you think it's a spray? I
Speaker 1: think so. He's so dark. He must have thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'm about to be sworn in as a secretary. I
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