WEBVTT - Happy Valentine's Day! You're Fired! 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:32.240 Jekie and no Hee arms wrong who from the studio 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.560 c definitely let room deeper than the fowls of the 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.360 Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today we are under 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:44.400 the tutelage of Valentine's Day. If this is not the 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.640 perfect val this is the important thing. If the person 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.320 you're in a relationship with does it go one hundred 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.440 percent all out on Valentine's Day, you should break up today. 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.960 Clearly stop. Isn't that the message we're being sent No 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.720 by Hallmark move and cards and whatnot. We need to 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.480 break that. Yeah, well we've been working on that. I 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.880 don't know how many years you been with us? Two years? Yeah, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.440 so Joe and been. Joe doesn't say this, he's nicer 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.120 than me. Joe's not here today, But I say this 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.399 every single year. And it's just my anecdotal evidence. I'm 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.920 sure there are exceptions, but I personally have never known 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.160 a long term, successful relationship that took Valentine's Day. Seriously. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.640 I've known hundreds and hundreds of people who took Valentine's 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.480 Day very seriously, and they had horrible relationships or they 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.920 fell apart. They were always in and out of relationships. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:42.920 But I've never known a single long term, successful relationship 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.000 that took Valentine's Day or any of these other things 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.920 very seriously. Yeah, I can see what you're saying. That's 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.560 just my personal experience. Yeah, so I need to have 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.320 a conversation with my husband because he too. See this 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.160 is the problem. Though. You can get into a relationship 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.640 and they pretend they don't care about Valentine, but they 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.440 secretly do, and then you don't do anything and then 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.600 they're all hurt. And but again that gets to what 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.840 I was saying a little bit earlier. He went all 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.760 out this year's and that's nice, maybe, you know, I 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.400 don't know, I don't know. No, it's very. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.320 Sweet, but it's like, dude, I got you. I got 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.000 you a card in a box of meat hearts. Meat hearts, Yeah, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.240 you know, like those candy hearts that have stuff written 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:20.480 on them. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.120 These are all the meat M E T no M 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:24.720 E A T. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:26.120 Yeah. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.200 Okay, so you know the candy hearts that have writing 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:28.680 on them, like the. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.440 Little chalco ones that are made of chalk. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.720 Yes, right, These are pieces of beef jerky that look 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.079 like those and they have little things written on them 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.280 and they're called meat hearts. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:45.040 Awesome, Oh fantastic. Yeah, wow, that's cool. So a lot 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.480 in the news today. We have some interesting people to 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.040 talk to. But I was going to make the sub 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:58.680 general manager happy Valentine's Day. You're fired, which is fortunately 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.720 or unfortunately fortunately if you believe we need to cut 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.480 government in size and scope, which we absolutely do, unfortunately 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.760 on some individual basises, because it sucks losing your job. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.720 And I'm sure there are people that work very hard 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.360 and tried very hard and everything like that that are 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.760 losing their jobs. But I personally know once again my 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:24.280 anecdotal evidence of federal agencies where they have laid people off, 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.639 and it's in the news today. The letters are going 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.600 out thousands and thousands and thousands of people across the 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.160 country getting the nod that they are being let go. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.440 Most of them at this point are in the there's 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.480 a one year or two year probationary period. I understand 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.520 it's different depending on your agency or whatever. At a 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.880 certain point you get all these civil service protections. Once 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.600 you're in government, and it's almost impossible to fire you. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.240 Why we offer those, Well, I know why the government voted. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.720 It's the government. They of course they voted for themselves 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.360 to have civil service protection. But why we offer those 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:00.920 I have no idea. None of the rest of us 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.720 have this in any world. Maybe college professors, but other 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.240 than that, none of the rest of us have this. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.000 Here's an example I've got for you, and I will 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.920 not say what agency this is or where it came from. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.400 Department downsizing. This is a person who was talking to 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.359 their boss yesterday who works in a federal agency that 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:25.039 I know a number of people in our area offices 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.280 are downsizing. This person said, my boss has never worked 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.200 in the private sector and is very upset. Said they 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.839 only had only were able to give them a couple 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.600 of days notice before they were fired. Really, that never 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:45.640 happens to anyone else. And this person said, my boss 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:50.000 apparently doesn't realize this happens every day outside of this 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.520 particular federal agency. Yeah, so, you know, welcome to the 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.480 real world to a certain extent. I mean, if you again, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.040 on an individual basis, it sucks losing your job. And 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.240 I guess this particular boss said some of these people 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.120 moved for this job, the only reason they moved here. Yeah, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.720 that happens all the time too. People moved to a 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.320 job and they're there for a week, a month, two years, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.279 five years, tenures, whatever, and then out of the blue, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.960 you get fired completely lader, no fault to your own. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.760 Sometimes you're working hard, you're doing a good job. They 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.360 just decide to go a different direction, or you know, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.680 the company's failing, or like in traditional media, everybody in 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.560 traditional media, legacy media has been downsizing for years, radio, television, newspapers. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.479 I can't tell you how many Black Monday's, Black Fridays 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.719 we've had around here, haven't we all? And we've all survived, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.000 thank god. But where emails go out and you start 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.680 getting the nod that all across the country people are 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.200 being let go, and you wonder who's next. It happens 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.800 all the time. Why would federal employees be immune to 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.400 that or don't don't or don't have to deal with 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.800 the reality of Jeez, I picked up my family and 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.080 I moved here for this job, and I thought it 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.000 was gonna be my career, and now it's gone. But 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.000 it's happening all across the country. Today, so again, Valentine's Day, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:08.760 You're fired. Life is like a box of chocolate. Yeah yeah, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.159 I one time in a relationship that did not work out. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.880 Actually making my point with someone who took Valentine's Day 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.240 very seriously, attempted to go out to eat. The one 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:21.640 time in my life I've tried to go out to 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.839 eat on Valentine's Day. It is a nightmare. I don't 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.440 know how y'all do it, and a lot of you 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.840 do it, because it took me, I don't know how 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.559 long to find a restaurant that had any I waited 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.919 until like three days before Valentine's Day. I didn't realize 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.400 it was impossible, and it was nearly impossible to find 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.279 one reservation an awkward time at a restaurant far away, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.520 but the you can't park in the parking lot, and 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.080 there's not enough room in the restaurant in the waiting area, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.520 and you're standing outside, perhaps in the rain, in the cold, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.960 and maybe you're dressed up, but it just it just 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.360 seems miserable, absolutely miserable. But hey, knock yourself out if 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.719 that's your plant, tonite, can't wait to go to dinner later, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.640 have a good time, but the restaurant stunts make a 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.720 lot of money, so I don't know. As Joe always 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:12.640 points out, for profit companies, installing expectations on us is 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.080 not the way it's supposed to work. And I wonder. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.480 And I'm going to tell an amazing Valentine's Day story 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:24.840 here in about twenty minutes. It's it's it's hilarious, it's heartbreaking. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.000 It reminds you of what Valentine's Day was like when 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.840 you were a little kid. I dreaded Valentine's Day all 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.760 through grade school and then high school, and like, why 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.080 do our schools put this pressure on all the children 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.520 and make it seem like, boy, this is a very 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.080 very important day. And if you don't have someone that's 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.360 going to give you something and care about you, oh man, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.280 you are a loser. That's the message I felt like 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.560 they were putting out in school. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.320 My negative feelings towards Valentine's Day started my freshman year 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:54.920 in high school. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.400 I had a crush on this guy, thank you Gladys. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.400 And the school had this program for where, for like 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.640 two bucks, you would fill out a piece of paper 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.400 and put your money in an envelope and then at 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.800 some point during the day somebody would show up in 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.679 that person's classroom with a rose. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.080 Right, they're doing that at my son's high school. I think, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.400 oh my god. Okay, so first of the flower Graham. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.480 They're calling it or Yandy Graham or something like that, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.320 the Flower Gram. I was the only girl out of 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.160 our girl group. I didn't get a rose at all. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.560 I was mortified, embarrassed, and it was. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.320 Just like, why why did that happen? Right? 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.839 You know, ah, just bringing up bad feelings guys. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.000 Yeah, yeah, I got quite a story about that. I'll 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.240 tell later later this hour. So we got clips of 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.959 the week coming up a little later. Let's start the 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.360 show officially because I got another newsy thing to jam in. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.000 I'm Jack Armstrong. Joe Getty's taking the day off because 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.320 he had his big birthday a couple of days ago, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.440 and all his kids are in town and he's celebrating 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.440 a birthday with a four day weekend. I am Jack Armstrong, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.640 and it is Friday, the Day of Love, February fourteenth, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.880 the year twenty twenty five. We are i'mstrong. You getting 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.640 we approve of this program. We'll start the show. When 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.440 should we start it? How about it? Mark Hey? Foo. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.359 This is mister T and I want to wish everybody 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:15.880 a happy Valentine Day. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:20.000 From one sweetheart to another, sweetheart, love you, love your bait. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.680 Wow, We've been using that clip for a very long time. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:29.920 That's mister T, star of the eighties. Some of the 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.160 news that happened overnight that I want to get to 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.439 all the layoffs, will get into some of the departments 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.920 and places around the country where they're laying people off, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.080 and maybe agree with that, maybe you don't. What's going 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.559 on with Eric Adams, the mayor of New York is 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.280 quite the story. They dropped the charges against him. I 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.160 think he's absolutely a crook, but he has decided man 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.240 getting the illegals out of New York's the most important 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.880 thing ever, so MAGA world is jumping on supporting him, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.120 even though he's a crook. The most interesting thing is 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.000 the senior person in the Justice department there in New 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.400 York resigned in protest yesterday. She said, I'm quitting. If 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.880 we're dropping charges against this criminal with a solid evidence 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.199 we have, I'm out. And she wrote a scathing letter 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.480 that we can get into a little bit later. And 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.120 she had four underlings that went with her. And so 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:19.920 you're probably thinking, well, this is some sort of New 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.959 York lefty or whatever. She is a Federal Society card 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.000 carrying member. She clerked for antonin Scalia. She is as 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.560 conservative as you can get, and conservative means the law 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.240 is the law, and you know, you buy the ticket, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.160 you take the ride on breaking the law. And she 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.440 does not like this. She believes, well, she didn't specifically 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:47.319 say this, but the belief among many is the Trump 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.000 White House, through the Justice Department, made it relatively clear. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.959 If not, you know, you don't have to state it 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.240 out loud for a quid pro quoil, made it clear 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.520 that hey, we'll find a way to drop these charges 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.600 against you, Eric Adams, if you get full on board 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.679 with the whole boot and the illegals out of New York, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.560 which I'm all for booting the illegals out of New York. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.560 You can't let him get away of being a criminal. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.640 So we got a lot more on that coming up. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.520 I mean, the fact that this very conservative attorney resigned 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.040 yesterday in protest, I think should mean something. We'll see, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.040 we'll see how it gets portrayed politically, because there's the 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.120 legal aspect and there's political aspect on all these stories. Obviously, 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.040 got a lot of good stuff to get to today. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:25.480 Clips of the week on the way in just a 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.040 few Uh, here's our text line four one, five, two 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:37.840 nine five k ftc oh wow, keep it going CNN 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.199 of yacht rock, Valentine's Day songs that would be perfect today. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:47.240 Lou rawls huh with love that's tender as that voice 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:52.760 is a panty dropper as they say. That's just people say, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.720 I'm like sitting here loving this song. Jacket at dropper, 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.800 of course, is that I've heard people use that term 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:08.400 and I did to appreciate it. Oh uh, you're back 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.920 on TikTok. I guess everybody, Huh, Apple Store and the 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.840 Google store. You can get the TikTok app again. I 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.200 haven't looked into why that happened or whatever. Yeah, you 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:17.199 can get TikTok again. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.840 So Pam Bondy told them that there won't be a 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.240 penalty if they put it back in the stores, so 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:24.240 they went with it. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.840 So the band's over or all right? Well, more on 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.960 that later, but first we need to do this. We 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.240 do it every Friday. It's we call it cow. It's 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.320 an acronym for a fond look back clips of the 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:39.199 week here. I don't want to be here every week. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:45.559 Let's sound crazy for a week. In just the last month, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.040 more than twenty million birds have been impacted by bird fluid. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.000 This is one of the most severe flu seasons. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.480 In the United States in the last fifteen years. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.480 Two suspects loading one hundreds of dollars worth of eggs 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.680 and other breakfast foods and white. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.600 Fan President Donald Trump's pledging to enforce the existing twenty 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.120 five percent tariff on all steel imported into the US. 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.480 Pennsylvania teacher Mark Foegel is all smiles. He says he 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.800 is thrilled to be back on US soil. I feel 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.760 like the luckiest man on earth right now. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.360 President Trump saying that if a moss doesn't release those 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.640 remaining hostages, then he thinks that ceasefire deal should be canceled. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.040 Let hell break out. I don't want to spend an 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.559 hour applying glitter on my face so that you will 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:34.599 hear and see me. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:41.000 For a best in show, I choose the giant chnellsy. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:47.680 Mark, who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:54.760 Big Balls. Here, which done? Are you? On the world's 0:13:54.840 --> 0:14:00.320 richest and unelected man. We do need to delete entire agency. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.280 It is an attempt to take the funding and take 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:10.120 the right away from each and every child. You're rider 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.920 with the Union or a scavvy musk plod hound. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.080 He doesn't need this, and you know he's abused by 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.880 you people every day. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:27.880 Donald Trump, and. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.080 We don't live in a democracy if we live in 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.840 a bureaucracy. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.840 He wants too bow to him, but we want him 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:37.680 in jail. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.080 The United States does not believe that NATO membership for 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.560 Ukraine is a realistic outcome. You Ukraine is an equal 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.080 member of this peace process. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:58.520 It's an interesting question. The you don't up on the 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:06.320 homes turnovers. Google's thought put six looks Cooper ka chuon 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.880 the latest Eagles team in modern history. Eagles fans safer 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:34.480 and choice, fantastic Cow Hanson. Hanson puts cow together at 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.160 h at great Laborers laborist paints Joe's going to join 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.320 the show just in a few minutes when we come back. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.040 But how about text line inst mail bag. We got 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.680 a bunch of texts on different topics that we brought 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.920 up already. My neighbor got laid off a year ago, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.240 along with ten thousand others from one software company. We 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.160 all remember last year when Intel Facebook they started laying 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.840 off people by the thousands. Yeah, I know government workers 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.520 are getting the letter today that they they're fired. But 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.920 it happens to people, It happens. It just happened to everybody. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.000 Happy Valentine's Day to Katie from another girl who didn't 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.800 get a rose carnation or kansa gramm at school. Thank you. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:16.000 We got the text that schools that do do it now. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.240 When my kids were younger in grade school, they did, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.200 but it was mandatory. You had to get one for everybody, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:22.800 and you weren't allowed to put your name on it 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.680 or something. So then we went so far the other 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.960 direction that they were meaningless. So it was just complete. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.800 It was a meaningless like task you had to do. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.440 It was basically just filling out a list of names, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.160 and nobody got any feeling out of it whatsoever. So 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.400 I'm not sure that's the right answer either. The right 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.640 answer is to just stop it and Valentine's stop it. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:51.400 Twenty five years in restaurants, writes this Texter. Mother's Day 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:56.800 in Valentine's Day are humongous moneymakers beyond belief customers will 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:01.440 put up with anything and pay superinflated prices ten twenty 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.760 dollars more pro ententree, endless weights, and people will just 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.320 put up with it. I won't, but enough people will 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.360 that on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day? Can the restaurants 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.520 just print money? So there you go, and I hope 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:13.760 you have a good time tonight. If you got the 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.119 eat Man Friday night and Valentine's Day. Whoo, my son's 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.440 got a Valentine's Day dance at the high school tonight 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.920 and I talk about that later. Joe joins the show. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.440 Other news of the day on the way. If you 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.600 missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.280 demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.000 And how about an amazing moment caught on camera when 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.919 a kayaker off the coast of Chile gets swallowed by 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.040 a humpback whale. Adrian Simancas admitted later that he thought 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.520 he was a dead man, quoting I thought it had 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.480 eaten me, that it had swallowed me. Moments after the 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.720 whales surfaced, it began to dive deeper, and that's when 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.520 Simancas and his fellow kayak or his yellow kayak somehow 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.440 got free from the clutches of the whales jaws and 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.720 resurfaced grateful as you might imagine to be a If. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:05.160 You haven't seen that video, it is amazing. This giant 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.879 whale like its CGI comes out on the ocean and 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.879 swallows this guy in his kayak and then somehow it 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.240 like I don't know, it's like a hair ball in 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:16.800 his throat and the whale kind of coughs it out 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.520 and he's out and the whale goes off. But it's 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.919 just holy crap. Yeah, you'd think you were dead anyway. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.640 Welcome to the Armstrong and Geddy Show. It's just me today. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.960 It's funny. We got a text yesterday with somebody saying, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.400 if you have trouble telling the difference between Jack and Joe, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:35.120 Jack's the dumb one. Oh geez. But joining the Armstrong 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:36.960 in Getty Show today is Joe Getty. You can be 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.639 heard nationwide on a radio station near you on a 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.000 very popular podcast called Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Here's 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.000 Joe Getty. Joe yo, yo. You know what I always say. 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:50.080 You hate to get swallowed by a whale, especially the 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.000 day before Valentine's Day. Uh yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:55.040 just got home. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.879 I was behind. I'm sure I was gonna be home 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.680 five minutes ago. Got behind guy who does twenty two 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.159 miles per hour in a thirty zone like all the 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:03.960 way through the hood. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.240 And also I ran. That's why. That's why I carry 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.479 a ball, a bag of ball bearings in my car 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.359 so I can throw those at the windshield. I've always 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.480 been a Q ball guy. You're gonna drive too slow, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:14.919 You're gonna have dents in your car. That's the way 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.760 I look at it. Joe is not here today because 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.199 he had dipped himself in red paint for Valentine's Day 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.160 and is having an allergic reaction. But yeah, it sealed up. 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.960 All my pores and went toxic. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.119 Some antibiotics will take care of that. Let me hit 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:28.720 you with the news story of the day, because I 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.639 haven't mentioned it yet and I can't believe it's not 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:35.200 getting more attention than it is. Interview with The Wall 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:41.000 Street Journal out today, JD. Vance says that the US 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.120 if Russia does not agree to a cease fire deal 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.720 with Ukraine, the US will hit Moscow with sanctions and 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:54.640 potential military action, and Vance specifically asked if the option 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.400 of sending US troops to Ukraine if Moscow failed to negotiate, 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.679 and good faith absolutely on the table. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.520 Right, yeah, he said, he refuses to take anything off 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.400 the table. Why would he seems like a big deal. Well, yeah, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.159 it's a big deal in and of itself, although I 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.440 doubt very seriously that that would happen. Why It also 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.159 suggests rather strongly that Secretary of Defense Hegseth went off 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:23.960 the reservation the other day making statements specifically saying Ukraine's 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.080 not getting their territory back. We're not going to back militarily. 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.320 It's up to the Euros if they want to, but 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.480 we're not in you know. That was I'm not sure 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.240 what happened there. This interview is just out today. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:35.960 I haven't really had a chance to go through social 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.639 media or whatever and see how MAGA is reacting to 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.239 the MAGA president, who is super non intervention get out 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:47.040 of all the wars guy saying no, no, no, no, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.840 war will continue and we'll support it and we might 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.040 even put troops on the ground. So I don't know 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.440 if everybody's just reacting with no, we won't or what. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.640 Right, Well, then heag Seth quote unquote clarified his comments yesterday. 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.360 Tell all reporters that quote what concessions will be made 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.280 or what concessions will not be made will be up 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.360 to the president. Okay, all right, but you just made 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.360 a few so interesting to see how that dynamic unfolds. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:15.479 If Biden had said that, or idiot Kamala Harris, people's 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:19.080 heads would be exploding. Oh yeah, but partially because you 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.200 might believe that they would actually do that. I like 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.480 I said, I don't know if anybody believes we would 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.560 put US troops on the ground in Ukraine. So I 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.080 don't know if it's a threat politically or a threat 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.560 to putin putin for I think it none. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:35.440 You won't, right, So actually it's funny. That's the one 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.000 thing I wanted to talk about jumping on briefly today. 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.760 And I will charge all of our corporate partners for 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:41.680 a full dayste work. 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.200 So that's what you're doing. You're like if a kid 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.520 goes to school for I think three hours, it's counted 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:50.320 as a day, so you get your federal funding. That's 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.080 what you're doing. You're coming on the show just long 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.640 enough to be counted as a day at work. Well, 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.080 I've prepared for five hours to make this brief appearance. 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.480 If he's on the air for fifteen minutes, it's like 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:02.080 lawyer too. You talk to a lawyer for a certain 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:03.480 amount of time, it's a full quarter hour. 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.120 That's right, that's right. You should have read the fine print. 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:11.040 But so several things that Vance said have made news. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.240 And then there's a preview out of his speech that 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.440