Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack arm Strong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong and Jetty
Speaker 2: and Geez arm get it.
Speaker 1: Wrong studio see see s in your It's Frank.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 1: Look, you got a bigger weekend plan than I. Jeez,
Speaker 1: if I listed my weekend it would be hilarious. Then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop him off at this thing, and then
Speaker 1: I'll stop by the grocery store. Love her boys said
Speaker 1: it best. Everybody is working for the weekend. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have three teenage boys Saturday night. Sam's doing a sleepover,
Speaker 1: so that'll be it'll be fun. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. It's loud. Loud, is what I'm just
Speaker 1: it's gonna be challenging, would be my guess. It's going
Speaker 1: to be challenging. I wouldn't be worried about that at all.
Speaker 1: But his brother has got this horrible OCD situation where
Speaker 1: he is horrified by this event of other people being
Speaker 1: in our home, and it's just gonna be I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't exactly figured out how I'm gonna make it work.
Speaker 1: I met if you had a hotel room and run
Speaker 1: back and forth or something. But anyway, how y'all do
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. And today we are under the
Speaker 1: tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2: Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump, who will be president Monday again. So that amazing,
Speaker 1: It's crazy, it's insane. Why is he the general manager
Speaker 1: today Monday? Obviously he will be well when we return
Speaker 1: to work on Monday. He will be the president of
Speaker 1: the United States, not untill noon.
Speaker 2: But to what, We're all going to bed with visions
Speaker 2: of millennious sugar plums dancing in our heads.
Speaker 1: I was just a good Oh, she's famous for her
Speaker 1: sugar plums. Monday at noon, the feels like is eight degrees.
Speaker 1: So at noon when Trump becomes president, all those people
Speaker 1: standing outside. I was at the inauguration for Trump last
Speaker 1: time around, and I'm glad I'm not this time because
Speaker 1: I don't want to stand there in eight eight is cold.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, that's brutal.
Speaker 1: That'll suppress the size of the crowd, and Sean Spice
Speaker 1: will have to come up and make clear that it
Speaker 1: was actually fifty million people. I'll bet it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really big crowd. I'm expecting it to be enormous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's anybody who's going to show up
Speaker 1: in feels like eight and stomp their feet and try
Speaker 1: to stay warm, it's the good, honest folks of the
Speaker 1: the heartland of the country.
Speaker 2: People do it for freaking football games.
Speaker 1: If you do it for a football game, you do
Speaker 1: it for your you know, your your guy becoming president.
Speaker 2: I assume I got a project for you.
Speaker 1: I want you to start thinking on it now because
Speaker 1: then you won't have to do it till later. I'm
Speaker 1: I want you to do this. I want you to
Speaker 1: use your brain and rhetorical skills. Okay, I want you
Speaker 1: to make the argument. I know you don't agree with this,
Speaker 1: so you got to think about how the other people
Speaker 1: think about this.
Speaker 2: But it's driving me nuts.
Speaker 1: The coverage of the billionaires being there, the three mech
Speaker 1: richest men in the world will be sitting together at
Speaker 1: the inauguration. Joe Biden the other night talking about an oligarchy.
Speaker 1: Are we already make the argument for me? Because I
Speaker 1: don't understand it at all. I want to hear you,
Speaker 1: with your skills, make the argument for why I should
Speaker 1: be even the slightest worried about billionaires and their wealth
Speaker 1: and their power or anything like that. Okay, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is I don't understand the arguments at all.
Speaker 2: I have zero fear of this.
Speaker 1: I mean zero of my things I'm concerned about with
Speaker 1: this country. How rich Elon is or Bezos is not
Speaker 1: on my list. Yeah, I'm going to have to labor
Speaker 1: long and hard, but I will. I will squeeze myself
Speaker 1: inside of AOC's tight white dress and you know, metaphorically
Speaker 1: speak mentally speaking, and try to craft that argument for you. Well,
Speaker 1: if it'd be more comfortable, you can get into the
Speaker 1: sensible fitting pants and probably very comfortable shoes of Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders and do it that way and.
Speaker 2: His delightful homemade the mittens. Here's the other thing. So
Speaker 2: we came up with this plan the other day.
Speaker 1: The current confirmation hearing going on right now, Christyome of
Speaker 1: South Dakota to be DHS secretary. We think all the
Speaker 1: Democrats should sit there with a dog in their lap,
Speaker 1: a puppy petting a puppy's head. You're gonna shoot this dog,
Speaker 1: Madame Governor. Yeah, well what if it barked, Oh, then
Speaker 1: you'd better shoot it or something.
Speaker 2: Huh. And And I've seen her sity, don't trust me.
Speaker 2: Please sit she's in the room. I've seen her sitting there.
Speaker 1: They made a mistake also, they should have had somebody
Speaker 1: in a dog costume sitting right behind her, right over
Speaker 1: her left shoulder, the full dog mascot costume.
Speaker 2: I hate it, but I love it.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: How far is why you go? Can it? Can it
Speaker 2: be a dog custome with like fake blood on it?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Is that too far?
Speaker 4: I'm just picturing a congressman saying, oh, my dog just
Speaker 4: wet the floor?
Speaker 2: How should I handle this? Christie right?
Speaker 1: Any suggests as I shoot it? Is that what we do?
Speaker 1: That's how we jick boom? Oh, here you go.
Speaker 2: Just have the dog have excess for eyes sitting in
Speaker 2: the front of.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 2: Think it's gonna come up in the hearing? Will somebody
Speaker 2: bring it up? The dog? Shoot? Yes, you guaranteed? Yes,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really have any idea of her level of
Speaker 1: confidence or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Zero.
Speaker 1: I've never looked into her background or anything. She's governor
Speaker 1: of a very very tiny steak. That doesn't mean she's
Speaker 1: not qualified, But don't know anything about man that is
Speaker 1: a big job. I was just listening to a run through.
Speaker 1: That's the obviously the border, which is a huge thing.
Speaker 1: And Trump's prop promising this deportation that everybody wants and
Speaker 1: that will be a major thing to deal with the
Speaker 1: secret services under the Department of Homeland Security. And they
Speaker 1: had a rough, rough year, and so she got to
Speaker 1: get a handle. It be torn down and rebuilt practically,
Speaker 1: and in fact, insiders have said that very thing. It's
Speaker 1: just so rotten it read it needs a rebuild, which
Speaker 1: is a hell of a you know, fixing the airplane
Speaker 1: while you're flying at a situation. Yeah, And then also
Speaker 1: all kinds of different things with you know, the terrorist
Speaker 1: attack and you had in New Orleans or the person
Speaker 1: blowing up the tesla or whatever. It's going on, various
Speaker 1: terrorist concerns, and that's all falls under that umbrella.
Speaker 2: Plus disobedient dogs coast to.
Speaker 1: Coast, right, And wonder if that's what she finds relaxing,
Speaker 1: like if she's stressed.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, that's too much. Somebody brings me amedient.
Speaker 1: Dog, but that's too much. No, you cross the line there.
Speaker 1: You're all having fun, and then you had to turn
Speaker 1: it sick.
Speaker 2: Did she shoot a dog or just a goat?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Shot a goat. What was the cricket the dog?
Speaker 1: Yeah, which again if you don't remember, briefly, for rural people,
Speaker 1: it's as common as anything could be for that situation
Speaker 1: to occur. Yeah, if you have a completely out of
Speaker 1: control farm dog, you don't take it to the pet
Speaker 1: smart for you know, fifteen weeks of obedience training and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And maybe you should drop us
Speaker 1: a node email mail strung email Joe at I ain't
Speaker 1: reading it. We should start the show officially before we
Speaker 1: get into trouble. TikTok the band happens on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court ruling is supposed to come out any minute,
Speaker 1: and we'll jump on that when it happens and see
Speaker 1: what they think about that. The most interesting thing I've
Speaker 1: come across in that discussion later in the show, cool
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party officials in their own words about talk
Speaker 1: and what a great.
Speaker 2: Tool it is for them. Wow, I want to hear that.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, January the seventeenth year, twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: or Armstrong and getting re approve of this program. Let's
Speaker 1: begin then officially. According the FCC rules regulations. Here we
Speaker 1: go leaping into action at mark. A nationwide ban of
Speaker 1: the social media platform TikTok is set to take effect
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Well, well, look who has.
Speaker 2: To come crawling back to network television for the entertainment?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do you like dances? Right?
Speaker 2: I held sixty minutes. It's auld too long for your attentions.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Yeah sixteen. Look who's coming back
Speaker 2: to CBS on a Friday night.
Speaker 1: Huh wow, I'm crawling back and speaking of entertainment. Uh.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite sports pundits said this will could
Speaker 1: be one of the best games of the decade. Two
Speaker 1: time d Lamar Jackson and get on the Baltimore Raidings
Speaker 1: taken on Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills this weekend
Speaker 1: on Sunday.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a game. I can't wait for
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: Linebackers on both teams crying themselves to so right, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that can run over linebackers, that's awesome. I'm so oh
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to cover the halfback coming out of the
Speaker 1: backfield for.
Speaker 2: Past and deal with Lamar Jackson. Click. How does the
Speaker 2: mailbag look? Uh? It's it's good. Plus we have clips
Speaker 2: of the week coming up.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is a lot of information that we have
Speaker 1: coming here with here's our text line four one, five,
Speaker 1: two nine five KFTC committee that had to allow the
Speaker 1: peace deal to go through in Israel has voted and
Speaker 1: said yes, now it goes to the full vote, whatever
Speaker 1: that is, but they expect it to get through. Hostages
Speaker 1: may be returned starting on Sunday, including some Americans, which
Speaker 1: will be a good look for Trump coming into office.
Speaker 1: Will America, because of the discomfort of our media, continue
Speaker 1: to ignore the fact that our countrymen have been abused, tortured, beaten, raped, starved.
Speaker 1: I yeah, yeah, sorry to turn it dark, but I
Speaker 1: just I'm continually amazed at how the ideology of certain
Speaker 1: newsrooms colors their coverage and interpretation of what should be
Speaker 1: fairly straightforward.
Speaker 2: That's the wacky thing about ideology.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we have a great freedom loving quote of the
Speaker 1: day coming up, plus mailbag, But right now it's time
Speaker 1: to take fond look back at the week that was.
Speaker 2: It's cow Clips of.
Speaker 1: The week and.
Speaker 2: Working together, give me a joke. Whips of the week.
Speaker 1: A ceasefire deal between Israel and Thomas.
Speaker 3: Cooks credit for this mister President, you or is that
Speaker 3: a joke, a security achievement carried out by al Ca Sombria?
Speaker 1: Or remain a source of pride for our people and
Speaker 1: our resistance, though will be passed down from generation to
Speaker 1: generation after it struck a fatal blow to the.
Speaker 4: Former Fox News anchor Pete Hagsas in the Hot Seaton.
Speaker 2: I don't want women. I don't want moms. What's wrong
Speaker 2: with a mom? By the way, you know what that
Speaker 2: SuDS to me?
Speaker 3: That you will apply with such an order you will
Speaker 3: shoot protesters in the in the leg.
Speaker 2: Senator, I was falsely charged.
Speaker 4: I'm fully investigated and completely cleared. How many Senators have
Speaker 4: showed up drunk to vote at night?
Speaker 2: Have any of you guys asked him to step down
Speaker 2: and resign for their job? That it's time to give
Speaker 2: someone with dust on his boots the helm? Awesome? I
Speaker 2: get bilingual protesters.
Speaker 3: I think it's an injury.
Speaker 1: Cool? What will be worried about?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: You're right now? Are the child?
Speaker 2: Listen? I watch I have Do not call me a child.
Speaker 2: I have no child. It's like a hurricane.
Speaker 1: Just was shooting like a blow towards like a blow
Speaker 1: towards mother nature.
Speaker 2: Owned us.
Speaker 4: We are screaming to be properly funded to make sure
Speaker 4: that our firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 2: Did they fail you? Yes? Looking back, would you have
Speaker 2: taken our trapwass you know? I am going to focus today,
Speaker 2: but on what we know. Does the buck stop with you?
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, your governor of California, everybody that will
Speaker 1: be the mayor of California.
Speaker 2: We're all better off. We're all better off.
Speaker 3: We're all better off, and we're working together.
Speaker 2: This is what you're voted for. And if that surprises
Speaker 2: you, you weren't paying any attention.
Speaker 3: An oligarch is taking shape in America of extreme wealth,
Speaker 3: power and influence that literally threads our entire democracy.
Speaker 1: They push us super hard to take down things that
Speaker 1: we're honestly, we're true. Now, I don't fully understand Chinese
Speaker 1: culture at all.
Speaker 2: Free the waiting.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: No, I dak white because it's West Philly and it
Speaker 2: tastes great good see sir, shape buddy, clients, I would feel.
Speaker 1: By the way, outside of here, did you hear any
Speaker 1: coverage of Mark Zuckerberg, third richest man in the world,
Speaker 1: saying the Biden administration pressured us to take down true things.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear it anywhere. Oh wow, I'm taking a
Speaker 1: lot of news. I didn't hear anybody talking about it.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I came across it. The Free press
Speaker 1: was talking about it, I think on the conservative side
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 2: Free Beacon talked about it.
Speaker 1: But no, no, And you know, it's incredible not to
Speaker 1: interrupt your rant with my rant, but the fact that
Speaker 1: members working members of the media would be like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the first Amendment. I've heard of that. Anyway, I got
Speaker 1: stuff to do and not have any interest in defending it. Seriously,
Speaker 1: getting back to the theme of ideology makes you do
Speaker 1: the equivalent of putting your hand on a hot stove burner.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's crazy how.
Speaker 1: That influences people to do things that are indefensible, insane.
Speaker 1: So when Trump stands up and says there are the
Speaker 1: enemies of the people, the press back there in the
Speaker 1: back of the room.
Speaker 2: I hate when he does that.
Speaker 1: I don't think he should do that, but that's an
Speaker 1: outrage and the democracy is nearly over when he does that.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration calling up one of the biggest media
Speaker 1: mouthpieces in the world and screaming at them and threatening
Speaker 1: their very livelihoods if they don't telling them what they
Speaker 1: can and cannot print. And that's just not he doesn't
Speaker 1: he make the news. I didn't hear about that. Unfrigginunbelievable.
Speaker 1: That's why we come in everything and do what we do.
Speaker 2: I guess here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2: I love this sit along by alert listener Joe. Thanks Joe.
Speaker 1: He's quoting the Federalists number seventy. There was a concept
Speaker 1: of multiple executives, not a president a president, but two
Speaker 1: or three I guess, kind of co presidents of council,
Speaker 1: if you will. And in Federalist seventy they wrote, one
Speaker 1: of the weightiest objections to the plurality in the executive
Speaker 1: is that it tends to conceal, false and destroy responsibility.
Speaker 1: And Joe writes, in the modern age of bureaucracy, exemplified
Speaker 1: by the ongoing California fire crisis, the ability to identify
Speaker 1: who is responsible is made incredibly vague. KJP gets to
Speaker 1: direct questions to another suboffice of the executive to avoid answering.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom says, the buck will not say. The buck
Speaker 1: stops with them. We have built an absurd bureaucracy that
Speaker 1: has so many officers doing multiple jobs. Who is responsible
Speaker 1: for managing disasters in this country? It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: the president, governor's mayors, but they will never admit to it.
Speaker 1: That's an excellent point, Joe, and well said, mail Bag.
Speaker 2: Wood Wood.
Speaker 1: You may drop us a line anytime, mail Bag at
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty dot com. Let's see Michael missus Katie's
Speaker 1: meme of the day in sand along his own Michael
Speaker 1: in Washington. It is a brightly colored, beautaflate painted rainbow
Speaker 1: fire hydrant, and the caption is there's no water, but
Speaker 1: look how pretty it is. Beautiful, beautiful, devastating. Dave writes, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: speaking of the hot cabinet picks, could Pam or Christi
Speaker 1: be the new Ginger or Mary Anne? Oh see, that's
Speaker 1: the sort of sexist tribe we don't need on this show. Dave,
Speaker 1: do better, be better. That's a tough Marianne. Clearly, by
Speaker 1: the way, all night long, Let's see where were we?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 1: Zabo Rights, semi frequent correspondent, Zabo Jack, you've never tasted
Speaker 1: strawberry ice cream? No, you don't know how to barbecue.
Speaker 1: You take off your coat like a girl.
Speaker 2: Katie and Joe are right.
Speaker 1: You're from an isolated tribe that throws spears at airplanes
Speaker 1: when they fly over it. And it's like a Polarid
Speaker 1: camera is stolen your soul throw the spears at airplane.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: And we don't have time for uh Augie who actually
Speaker 1: saw you in the parking lot of the radio ranch.
Speaker 1: He was at the ranch to do some technical work
Speaker 1: and was going to ask you to see your pie
Speaker 1: eating fork.
Speaker 2: She always have it threat happily showed it to you.
Speaker 1: Biden just did a bunch of more pardons and commutations
Speaker 1: we should tell you about on the way out.
Speaker 2: The door Artrong and getty.
Speaker 1: Childish joke on the One More Thing podcast the other
Speaker 1: day featuring a common expression. Somebody texted me. Friend of
Speaker 1: mine texted me, actually this morning, if I owned a
Speaker 1: doggy daycare, I'd call it these Months. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good name.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's funny. I would never forget it.
Speaker 1: No, that's fantastic, right, yeah, And we got this text
Speaker 1: here at the radio station. I got awarded a ticket
Speaker 1: for the inauguration. I know you went four years ago,
Speaker 1: actually eight years ago for Trump's first term. I was
Speaker 1: wondering if you could talk about the sequit, what it
Speaker 1: was like to be there. I'm very excited to experience this.
Speaker 1: I got my ticket from Adam Shipp of all people interesting.
Speaker 1: I'll also be attending Trump's victory parade at the Capitol
Speaker 1: one Center. It's gonna be real cold, but you know,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Eight degrees That feels like
Speaker 1: at noon And you got to get there pretty dang
Speaker 1: early to deal with the lines and the security and
Speaker 1: everything like that.
Speaker 2: And imagine this. What do you mean by that, like
Speaker 2: an hour early, three hours early?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know where they're going to be sitting,
Speaker 1: so it depends on that. I was up close with
Speaker 1: like a lot of the you know, congress people's families
Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: All right, I got there several hours.
Speaker 1: Before the things started, and the thing is very long,
Speaker 1: but man, you got you gotta you got it. It's
Speaker 1: an all day sucker, no doubt. But I really cool experience.
Speaker 1: From my standpoint, I just thought it was freaking amazing.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to do it every year. I remember
Speaker 1: when I was walking in, I ran into David Drucker,
Speaker 1: who we used to have on the air all the time.
Speaker 1: He's now at the Dispatch, was writing for the Washington
Speaker 1: Examiner at the time. I ran into him coming out.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, why are you going that way? He said,
Speaker 1: I leave on inauguration Day. It's my least favorite day
Speaker 1: of any four years in DC. But he lived there
Speaker 1: because it's just such a crush of people. But I
Speaker 1: assume you're there for the festivity of Hey, Trump's president now,
Speaker 1: and you're excited about that.
Speaker 2: The inauguration will be fun, and then.
Speaker 1: Afterwards there will be hundreds of thousands of people that
Speaker 1: almost all of them agreeing with you politically, packing the bars,
Speaker 1: restaurants and coffee shops, and that'll be a festive time.
Speaker 1: It's like being at a ballgame and all you know
Speaker 1: in your home and your a home game, and everybody's
Speaker 1: rooting for your team.
Speaker 2: That's what it's That's what it'll feel like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like in a giant college town or yeah, one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten thousand fans and everybody else wishes they
Speaker 1: had a ticket. Yeah, yeah, did they have porta pottis there?
Speaker 1: As an older man asking for a friend, I remember
Speaker 1: lots and lots of porta potties yes. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: it's whatever, what's what's the actual temperature going to be?
Speaker 2: Do you remember it's obviously.
Speaker 1: Very cold twenty one with someone case, it's twenty one
Speaker 1: degrees and you're a gal and you really need to
Speaker 1: relieve yourself. Can you imagine sitting down on a twenty
Speaker 1: one degree porta potty toilet seat, a karamba? Many you can't.
Speaker 1: I know, people who live and work there get jaded
Speaker 1: to the whole thing. But if you're a regular person,
Speaker 1: you're freaking watching a next president of the United States.
Speaker 1: We've only had forty seven, and you're looking around and
Speaker 1: you can see the you know, the Lincoln Monument down there,
Speaker 1: and the Lincoln Memorial in the Washington Monument and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. I mean, it's historic, and the
Speaker 1: capital behind the person. It's it's you feel like you're
Speaker 1: part of history.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think even if people don't intellectualize it, I
Speaker 1: think they feel in their bones the fact that this
Speaker 1: mighty a nation engages in a peaceful transfer of power
Speaker 1: every four years is a miracle. It's if you were
Speaker 1: to tell the rulers or the common people of old,
Speaker 1: they would be astonished. Katie before we move on. You
Speaker 1: wanted to rule in on sitting on a porta potti
Speaker 1: seat when it's twenty degrees outside.
Speaker 2: Sounds like hell?
Speaker 1: What you would be You would be concerned for the
Speaker 1: health of your cheeks. Absolutely, frostfit and cheeks is no joke.
Speaker 1: Oh you could be thinking, I'll never I'll never be
Speaker 1: able to have children. Now, good lifelong damager. Yes, exactly, Well,
Speaker 1: you certainly wouldn't want to wear a song on the
Speaker 1: beach if you had like toilet seat shapes cars on
Speaker 1: your cheeks from the frost fight.
Speaker 2: Man, so different topic.
Speaker 1: Uh, I have God, says the entire audience in unison.
Speaker 1: I wanted Joe to make an argument for why I
Speaker 1: should be worried about the billionaires and being at the
Speaker 1: inauguration and being too close to Trump and whatever. This
Speaker 1: oligarchy that Biden warned us about the other night. Bernie
Speaker 1: talked about this lesson yesterday with the Treasury Secretary or
Speaker 1: some one of your confirmation hearings.
Speaker 2: There's Bernie Sanders. We don't talk about this enough.
Speaker 3: And that is when you got three people on top
Speaker 3: wealth than the bottom half of American society one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy million people, you know what, that's oligocky. When
Speaker 3: you have massive concentration of ownership in our economy, fewer
Speaker 3: and fewer corporations owning and controlling the economy, that's oligocky.
Speaker 3: When you have more and more billion ares, whether it's
Speaker 3: Musk owning Twitter or Murdoch owning Fox, or other billion
Speaker 3: ass owning newspapers, that's oligocky as I standards.
Speaker 1: She didn't want to say bezos in the Washington Post
Speaker 1: because they're on your.
Speaker 2: Side, right Ryan, Yeah, the who's another conservative Murdoch? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it? So well in what way?
Speaker 1: Well, what's the argument for there shouldn't be billionaires? They've
Speaker 1: got too much money? This is an oligarchy. I will
Speaker 1: tell you this a couple of things. Number One, if
Speaker 1: you are, if you hope to be a serious person,
Speaker 1: a person who of you it is said, I don't
Speaker 1: always agree with him or her, but their point of
Speaker 1: view is always worth taking in. You need to be
Speaker 1: able to steal man the other side's argument, the opposite
Speaker 1: of a straw man, where you construct a ridiculous parody
Speaker 1: of their argument that knock it down and feel all manly.
Speaker 2: You see it all the time, and it works. You've
Speaker 2: got to he dismissed it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, after a rough day, nothing I
Speaker 1: like better than beating the hell out of a straw man.
Speaker 1: But you know, you've got to construct a very strong argument,
Speaker 1: as they would make it. I've got to admit, I'm
Speaker 1: finding this argument, this assignment, very, very difficult, because I
Speaker 1: find the argument's weak. What I would say is similar
Speaker 1: to Bernie. You have that much concentrated wealth and power
Speaker 1: in a few people with a direct connection line to
Speaker 1: the presidency and the entire executive branch, they will become
Speaker 1: a star chamber of the ultra wealthy, directing US policy
Speaker 1: to their whims.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I did a good job. Evidently you
Speaker 2: know my argument. How would you stop?
Speaker 1: How would you first of all, how would you stop
Speaker 1: the possibility of that? How would you limit the possibility
Speaker 1: of that anyway within the Bill of Rights? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: it can't be done. There are a couple of like,
Speaker 1: really good counter arguments against that.
Speaker 2: Even if you.
Speaker 1: Admit that it's true. One, what are you gonna do
Speaker 1: about it? If your net worth is more than fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars? You don't get to petition the government for
Speaker 1: a redress of grievances.
Speaker 2: Right, or you're not allowed to talk to your senator
Speaker 2: or the president.
Speaker 1: And speaking of visiting Washington, DC, if you ever strode
Speaker 1: along K Street and seen all the beautiful, shiny buildings
Speaker 1: that are full of lobbyists, that sort of thing is
Speaker 1: already happening in spades every single day. Obviously because of
Speaker 1: our bent, it's just so much easier to take the
Speaker 1: other side of this. They're statistically first of all, just
Speaker 1: start here. There are more billionaires that donate to Democrats
Speaker 1: than there are donate to Republicans. That's just an unknown fact.
Speaker 1: So and Bernie's against that. In his defense, he is
Speaker 1: utterly misguided. But Bernie Sanders is sincere true. Bernie is
Speaker 1: a socialist. He doesn't think billionaires should exist. That is
Speaker 1: a nut job attitude. But Biden is fine with the
Speaker 1: Democrat billionaires. He isn't like conservative billionaires. Oh yeah, complete
Speaker 1: four one billionaires switch teams, because a lot of times
Speaker 1: billionaires are just going with whichever direction see Zuckerberg, maybe
Speaker 1: whichever direction. Okay, they're in power, let's make them happy,
Speaker 1: which you know is not a bad business model. But
Speaker 1: first of all, it's a lot like we mock if
Speaker 1: it's going to be one hundred degrees, everybody gets all
Speaker 1: excited as.
Speaker 2: Opposed to ninety eight. It's just a round number.
Speaker 1: I don't know why somebody whose net worth is nine
Speaker 1: hundred million is to do what you want to do.
Speaker 1: But once you hit a billion, you're all of a
Speaker 1: sudden suspect I got a kill you. You've got a
Speaker 1: billion dollars.
Speaker 2: I mean that just seems like so if you got five.
Speaker 1: Guys in the front row that each have three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars, don't need to think about them.
Speaker 2: It's two billionaires over there. Just that's just silly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I think this is this is.
Speaker 1: My final word on this, and it's a very handy
Speaker 1: thing to keep in your intellectual back pocket to bust
Speaker 1: out in case of emergency. And that is Jefferson's famous declaration,
Speaker 1: not of independence, but that he would rather attend to
Speaker 1: the problems of too much liberty than too little. And
Speaker 1: there are so many things like the billionaire argument, because
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's reasonable to say, look, you got
Speaker 1: people with incredible wealth and power. They can direct the
Speaker 1: government in ways not foreseen by the constitution. It's absolutely true.
Speaker 1: But the cure would be worse than the disease. It's
Speaker 1: it's a you know, to unfortunately bring up Christinome again.
Speaker 1: My dog Baxter, God bless him, still hanging on. He's
Speaker 1: He's a fabulous dog. He's very bright, he's very willful.
Speaker 1: He is like a disobedient child. He will get away
Speaker 1: with what he can. And you know, when I'm in
Speaker 1: the room, he's good. But at the minute I walk
Speaker 1: out of the room, he's like eight, the bus is gone. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I could certainly eliminate a lot of those problems by
Speaker 1: shooting my dog like I'm Christino. It would absolutely, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent cure those problems.
Speaker 2: Billionaires, I'm follow you.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, what am I Luigi the psychopathic lunatic?
Speaker 1: No I am not.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, gosh, it would be nice to
Speaker 1: not have those problems. But if the cure violates your
Speaker 1: fundamental beliefs, then you got to find another way. You've
Speaker 1: either got to live with it or be more clever
Speaker 1: about curing it. And one of the great sick tendencies
Speaker 1: of the left, especially but not exclusively the left, especially
Speaker 1: if you want to look at history, but one of
Speaker 1: their sick tendencies is to say this is a problem,
Speaker 1: and this is a solution to that problem. Therefore we
Speaker 1: must do it. And the idea that we don't get
Speaker 1: to do that, we need to just put up with
Speaker 1: it or help a little bit. We don't to give
Speaker 1: ourselves the power to cure that quote unquote problem would
Speaker 1: make us monsters. I'm not sure a lot of the
Speaker 1: media even has an argument. They just think that because
Speaker 1: I've seen a fair amount of news coverage where it's
Speaker 1: just Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, will all three
Speaker 1: be attending the inauguration on Monday. There are the three
Speaker 1: richest men in the world, and they plan to sit
Speaker 1: together and they kind of look at you like, huh,
Speaker 1: isn't that scary? But with no follow up is why
Speaker 1: it would be in any way? I don't right, it's
Speaker 1: just appealing to like not spelled out prejudices. It's like
Speaker 1: if you're in a group of racists and somebody brings
Speaker 1: up a black man, for instance, and somebody says something
Speaker 1: disparaging about them. Nobody says, all right, now, let's have
Speaker 1: a discussion of the positive and negative aspects of that
Speaker 1: person's character.
Speaker 2: And whether that was deserved or not.
Speaker 1: No, they'll just snicker because they're racists, and that's the
Speaker 1: way it is. It's just a tribal signaling thing. I
Speaker 1: think they're way wrong on this. I think most people
Speaker 1: admire billionaires, wish they could be a billionaire.
Speaker 2: Think it's cool. Imagine what it'd be like to be
Speaker 2: a billionaire.
Speaker 1: I know there is a crowd college students or whatever
Speaker 1: college professors who are just the term billionaire. The idea
Speaker 1: of a billionaire makes them sick. But I think that's
Speaker 1: like a tiny percentage of the country, don't you.
Speaker 2: I would agree, I do. I think most people are
Speaker 2: bothered by it.
Speaker 1: The politics of envy is incredibly powerful too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, and this is crazy. Maybe you want to
Speaker 1: jot this down. If a billionaire does something good, why
Speaker 1: don't you say that's good? And if they do something bad,
Speaker 1: say that's bad. And I don't like it.
Speaker 2: We'll go from there, all right.
Speaker 1: They're elon trying to rein in the shocking, sprawling, idiotic
Speaker 1: growth of the federal bureaucracies.
Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah, and care what his net worth is?
Speaker 1: I think it should be pointed out more that the one, two,
Speaker 1: and three richest people in the world are all Americans
Speaker 1: who made their goal of it from scratch in the
Speaker 1: United States of America. Because you can wow, great point.
Speaker 1: We have got Katie's headlines on the way stay here now.
Speaker 2: A lot of days we.
Speaker 1: Come in hot, really good stuff first hour, then fizzle
Speaker 1: out the next three hours, just fairly hanging on.
Speaker 2: But today we have good stuff coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh, I am so excited to get to the Chinese
Speaker 1: Communist Party in their own words talking about how important
Speaker 1: TikTok is.
Speaker 2: This is by a thousand miles.
Speaker 1: The most significant relevant thing you will hear about the
Speaker 1: TikTok discussion, which has mostly been useless in the era
Speaker 1: of to end or inaccurate plus ripped out of I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like too good to be real.
Speaker 2: It's like from a suspense movie.
Speaker 1: A woman making a nine to one one call and
Speaker 1: the clever operator how do I don't want to give
Speaker 1: away too much, enabled her to describe what was going
Speaker 1: on in front of the bad guy without the bad
Speaker 1: guy knowing. They conducted a two way ruse, this clever
Speaker 1: nine to one one operator and the victim compelling stuff
Speaker 1: next hour. The Supreme Court is supposed to rule on
Speaker 1: the TikTok thing today, So maybe that'll happen while we're
Speaker 1: on the air and we can misinterpret it and rail certainly.
Speaker 2: Also, Trump just got off the phone with She.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was one of your headlines,
Speaker 1: but Trump talked to She this morning, I guess, and
Speaker 1: I imagine we'll get details on what their conversation was about.
Speaker 2: That's what she said.
Speaker 1: Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the league story
Speaker 1: with Katie Green.
Speaker 4: Katie, I'm starting with CNN as rarely security Cabinet approves
Speaker 4: ceasefire and hostage deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, belatedly puts and now let's hope a few
Speaker 1: belieguered souls are released before it all falls apart, because
Speaker 1: it will.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post.
Speaker 4: Trump selections for top jobs advanced despite initial controversy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's always it's always like this. It's mostly
Speaker 1: made up. Mostly, it's mostly made up. The controversy an
Speaker 1: attempt to get clicks, or they overvalue how interesting these.
Speaker 2: Things are there in DC. Whatever. From ABC News.
Speaker 4: Biden pardons nearly twenty five hundred non violent drug offenders,
Speaker 4: is now the president with the highest number of.
Speaker 1: Pardons in history and commutations of horrific multiple child murderous sentences.
Speaker 2: We have a justice system, we have laws, we have judges,
Speaker 2: we have juries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish he'd make some statement on particular her
Speaker 1: laws that he thinks are just wrong and the Congress
Speaker 1: needs to go back in and rewrite these laws because
Speaker 1: these people violated the laws, probably many many times to
Speaker 1: actually end up with the long prison term.
Speaker 2: So why are you communing him.
Speaker 1: He's just doing the bidding of his far left at
Speaker 1: activist Cavali's the federal Gavin Newsom just turning criminals loose
Speaker 1: because he believes in it.
Speaker 4: From Fox News, two million dollar California homes spared from
Speaker 4: the wildfires is destroyed by a landslide.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, there's been a lot of talk of when
Speaker 1: the rains come, all that ash and dirt and everything
Speaker 1: like that, and yards disappeared, vegetation gone.
Speaker 2: Who knows what the landslide situation is going to be.
Speaker 2: From NBC.
Speaker 4: SpaceX loses its Starship rocket and test flight, but catches
Speaker 4: its booster.
Speaker 2: After the launch. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4: Cool when they did it last time, when that game
Speaker 4: came back, it.
Speaker 1: Means what means they would the would they law the
Speaker 1: spaceship like this, the actual starship is anybody starship?
Speaker 2: Does anybody know what it is? No, nobody knows where
Speaker 2: it is? Or just see it.
Speaker 4: Last from Business Insider Zuckerbird lawyer skewers his quote toxic
Speaker 4: masculinity and neo Nazi madness as he drops Meta as
Speaker 4: a client go ahead.
Speaker 2: Zuckerberg has toxics masculinity.
Speaker 1: Well, you have a low bar for masculinity.
Speaker 2: He's a jiu.
Speaker 1: Jitsu fighter Jack. He's actually hard ass in real life.
Speaker 1: He was telling Joe Rogan that the other day. He's
Speaker 1: the real mark.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post, Burger King employee fired after
Speaker 4: kid's meal comes with a surprise side of cannabis. She
Speaker 4: dropped her weed in the kid's meal. All right, I'm
Speaker 4: bringing back the meme of the day. It is a
Speaker 4: clearly a liberal woman up top, and the captain under
Speaker 4: the photo says, as a dedicated feminist, I'm using my
Speaker 4: mother's last name instead of my father's. And underneath it
Speaker 4: it's that picture of Leonardo DiCaprio. Like he's cheersing, and
Speaker 4: he goes, so you mean you used your grandfather's last name.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: Finally, the Babylon Bee firefighters hang crying Jimmy Kimmel from
Speaker 4: helicopter to drop tears on the wildfire.
Speaker 1: Oh I liked it. Jack doesn't have the spine to
Speaker 1: enjoy that sort of harsh.
Speaker 2: We've got more to come.
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