Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: It has been stated by many that the first month
Speaker 3: of our presidency, it's our presidency is the most successful
Speaker 3: in the history.
Speaker 2: Of our nation by Manada.
Speaker 3: And what makes it even more impressive is that do
Speaker 3: you know who number two is?
Speaker 2: George Washington? How about that?
Speaker 3: I don't know about that list, but we'll take it.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: It was very much like a campaign rally. It was entertaining.
Speaker 4: This fake not so too and so toos aren't so
Speaker 4: toos anymore. I refer to it as the so tack
Speaker 4: the state of the ass kicking speech, as it was
Speaker 4: a well. One of our charming correspondents described it as
Speaker 4: a curb stomping of Democrats. I never used that term
Speaker 4: because I find it disgusting and I don't like violence.
Speaker 4: But as a snapshot of the current political landscape, it
Speaker 4: was so revealing in ways that we will discuss.
Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't. I saw some MSNBC coverage afterwards. One
Speaker 1: of the hosts, I think it was Rachel Maddow called
Speaker 1: Trump's recognition of that cancer survivor kid disgusting, not only
Speaker 1: something you don't stand and cheer for or have tears
Speaker 1: streaming down your face because it was so damn cute.
Speaker 2: Disgusting is what MSNBC called it.
Speaker 4: Right, And he was trying to use the goodwill toward
Speaker 4: the poor cancer stricken boy to justify his hilarian dictator
Speaker 4: urges or something blah blah blah. So when their side
Speaker 4: does it, it's brilliant, and when the other side does it,
Speaker 4: it's a horror.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's where we are.
Speaker 1: Oh one other thing, I just I saw this on
Speaker 1: Morning Joe Today on MSNBC. Somebody, I'm guessing somebody who
Speaker 1: hates Trump had a live mic on JD and Johnson
Speaker 1: behind Trump before Trump walked in, and so they had
Speaker 1: some of the audio of when they're just standing there
Speaker 1: talking while everybody's milling around before the thing started, and
Speaker 1: they played it on Morning Joe's dressing. Yeah, how did
Speaker 1: that leak out? Somebody's in charge of the sound. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are mics there, and if there are mics there,
Speaker 1: I mean we're in this business. If there are mics
Speaker 1: around you, they can be turned on or they can
Speaker 1: be listened to in Q and you can record them
Speaker 1: in Q and whatever. And somebody recorded it and got
Speaker 1: it to Morning Joe and they played it luckily for
Speaker 1: JD and uh and uh. Speaker Johnson, that was nothing
Speaker 1: horrifying JD wise enough, he started to say something and
Speaker 1: then he pulled Johnson in close and whispered it in
Speaker 1: his ear, so he knew there were live mics around.
Speaker 2: Possibly, But how uncool is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's somebody on the House technical staff, No
Speaker 4: doubt it's got to be again.
Speaker 2: When when will the norm breaking end? When will the
Speaker 2: norm breaking?
Speaker 1: In the fact that a Democrat, an old man Democrat,
Speaker 1: stood up and just wouldn't start stop yelling, and Speaker
Speaker 1: Johnson had to say, Okay, you got to stop yelling
Speaker 1: or we're gonna kick you out of here, basically, and
Speaker 1: the old man kept yelling, and so they brought the
Speaker 1: cops over, you know, the the house cops, and I'll
Speaker 1: sshered him on out of there. But the fact that
Speaker 1: that's barely even news today shows you where we are.
Speaker 2: If that had happened twenty years ago, it would have
Speaker 2: just been.
Speaker 4: Crazy right right honestly though it was so clearly performative.
Speaker 2: Oh ye'll play you some some clips In a second.
Speaker 4: Crazy old woke cane shaking old fart, but decides to
Speaker 4: make himself a hero by getting kicked out.
Speaker 2: All right, so you're not gonna sit down. Now you
Speaker 2: got to kick you out.
Speaker 4: Let's go through. We'll waste thirty seconds of our lives there.
Speaker 4: Now you're happy, Now you're out there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: My first thought is I'd like to go to his
Speaker 1: Twitter page and see how many people he just gained
Speaker 1: and how much fundraising he gets to do off of that,
Speaker 1: because that's the era we live in.
Speaker 2: Sure, But what I had another point on that, well
Speaker 2: was my other point.
Speaker 4: Oh but not that many years ago. Your own party
Speaker 4: would have disowned you for acting like that. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: wouldn't have thought it was cool. You'd have been disowned
Speaker 4: by your party. You'd been you'd have been kicked off
Speaker 4: any committee. No, that's not the way we act. That's
Speaker 4: just you know, we live in a different are And
Speaker 4: I just like I said earlier, how far will it go?
Speaker 4: How when has the pendulum swung clear to the end
Speaker 4: of breaking norms and you know, not following any unwritten
Speaker 4: rules anymore.
Speaker 2: I just wonder how far. We have to go TBD.
Speaker 2: My friend, I let you know when it happens. Here's
Speaker 2: how it opened, Michael hit it.
Speaker 4: Come on, mister speaker, the President of the United States.
Speaker 2: What clip was that number? Forty? Michael, Here's how it began.
Speaker 2: That was forty? All right? This again? Good lord? All right,
Speaker 2: play the next one.
Speaker 3: Then, Members of the United States Congress, thank you very much,
Speaker 3: and to my fellow citizens, America is back.
Speaker 2: That's a good opening. It is next clip.
Speaker 3: Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this
Speaker 3: Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
Speaker 3: From that moment, there's been nothing but swift and unrelenting
Speaker 3: action to usher in the greatest and most successful era
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 2: History of our country.
Speaker 3: We have accomplished more in forty three days, and most
Speaker 3: administrations accomplished in four years or eight years.
Speaker 2: And we are just getting started.
Speaker 4: So I was fine, and the Republicans were very pleased
Speaker 4: with it, and it is your typical gung ho opening
Speaker 4: ninety seconds or so. But here's where it turned ugly
Speaker 4: and controversial.
Speaker 3: The presidential election of November fifth was a mandate like
Speaker 3: has not been seen in many decades. We won all
Speaker 3: seven swing states, giving us an electoral College.
Speaker 2: Victory of three hundred and twelve volts.
Speaker 3: We won the popular vote by big numbers and one
Speaker 3: counties in our country.
Speaker 2: Kill him, start.
Speaker 4: Him, pet him with his whole cane. So that was
Speaker 4: Al Green, not the legendary soul singer, but a different
Speaker 4: ancient guy. Would you have Rich Lowry's Joe candy? That
Speaker 4: was so good. He's this crazed old guy who even
Speaker 4: the Democrats are like, oh God, here he goes again.
Speaker 2: He's one of those characters.
Speaker 4: But he was standing there bellowing angrily as if Trump
Speaker 4: had traversed his lawn.
Speaker 2: And literally shaking his cane. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Rich Lowry tweeted, Democrats are the party of the future,
Speaker 1: and if you don't believe him, they have a seventy
Speaker 1: seven year old man shaking his cane to prove it.
Speaker 2: It was We're the party of the hip in the young.
Speaker 2: I'm eighty years old shaking my cane. It was so silly.
Speaker 2: It was truly entertaining.
Speaker 4: And I guess what you're saying about norm breaking and
Speaker 4: decency and mutual respect and that sort of thing, and
Speaker 4: I value that. I am not cynical about that at all.
Speaker 4: But in terms of your entertainment, I was just delighted.
Speaker 2: Anyway where we're.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, let me release a lion in there. I mean,
Speaker 4: if the goal should just be entertained, that's Michael.
Speaker 2: Lawmakers doing TikTok challenges. Oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, jumping buckets, ice water over their heads,
Speaker 4: or trying to eat cinnamon or got those what else? Yeah? Yeah, right, hey,
Speaker 4: I say try the lion thing once. Let's not be
Speaker 4: can't do guys, maybe who knows. But as a as
Speaker 4: I said last hour, as a snapshot of the current
Speaker 4: political scene, I thought it was. It was really revealing
Speaker 4: and incredibly discouraging for Democrats. And again here's your your
Speaker 4: note of caution. These things change, they move in cycles.
Speaker 4: I tell you what, you want to talk about one
Speaker 4: organization on Earth that can screw up a good thing,
Speaker 4: it's the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: But so the.
Speaker 4: President was just brimming with confidence all throughout the whole speech,
Speaker 4: although he lost me.
Speaker 2: It was interminable.
Speaker 4: It was the longest ever, right, longest ever yep, and
Speaker 4: the second, third, fourth, and fifth longest ever were like
Speaker 4: twice as long as they needed to be.
Speaker 2: So it was like designed, I wouldn't do that. Tell Kaida,
Speaker 2: make them listen.
Speaker 4: To them old But anyway, so the president was quite confident,
Speaker 4: and the Republicans in the chamber were a bully hint and.
Speaker 1: Did he not mostly read off a teleprompter, which means
Speaker 1: somebody wrote a ninety minute speech.
Speaker 4: Mostly, although in Trumpetan fashion, he departed from it to
Speaker 4: riff a little bit a number of times. I couldn't
Speaker 4: tell you how much. I wasn't really paying attention to that,
Speaker 4: but some But anyway, and then they had a number
Speaker 4: of guests, including the beautiful little lad who's been fighting
Speaker 4: cancer and his thing is he's always wanted to be
Speaker 4: a cop, so he gets honorary deputy badges from various
Speaker 4: departments and Trump, we can play the tape. I think
Speaker 4: we have it around here somewhere, although if our lists
Speaker 4: are off, Michael I can ask for them and it's
Speaker 4: not going to do us any good. Oh, okay, do
Speaker 4: we have the little lad. There's so many clips. Somebody's
Speaker 4: shouting to Michael's here if you can figure it out.
Speaker 4: But anyway, just back to the snapshot thing. So you
Speaker 4: had all of that going on, and it was all
Speaker 4: coming off very well, just in terms of political theater,
Speaker 4: and the Democrats response was a a crazy old lunatic
Speaker 4: shaking his cane at Trump.
Speaker 2: As we've discussed b.
Speaker 4: There like dressed in colors that nobody knew and there
Speaker 4: were several different colors and nobody can and then holding
Speaker 4: up these dopey little signs that looked exactly like Wiley
Speaker 4: coyote in the road Runner cartoons, with various elon steeles
Speaker 4: or no doge or you know, not lies, not true, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 4: and it just it came off as so pathetic and aimless.
Speaker 4: Oh and then the other aspect of it was and
Speaker 4: Trump riffed about this in forty seven. Go ahead, and
Speaker 4: I'll play forty seven. I thought it was a key
Speaker 4: home politically.
Speaker 3: This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and once
Speaker 3: again I look at the Democrats in front of me,
Speaker 3: and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
Speaker 3: to make them happy, or to make them stand or
Speaker 3: smile or applaud Nothing I can do.
Speaker 2: I could find a cure.
Speaker 3: To the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe
Speaker 3: out entire nations, or announce the answers to the greatest
Speaker 3: economy and history, or the stoppage of crime to the
Speaker 3: lowest levels ever recorded. And these people sitting right here
Speaker 3: will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not
Speaker 3: cheer for these astronomical achievements.
Speaker 2: They won't do it no matter what.
Speaker 3: Five five times I've been up here. It's very sad
Speaker 3: and it just shouldn't be this.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, and that's plenty of that. He missed
Speaker 4: a great opportunity. Not long after that he was talking,
Speaker 4: he went through a list of the insane things Doges
Speaker 4: found that were all, you know, pretty acquainted with at
Speaker 4: this point. And he could have said, we just found
Speaker 4: hundreds of millions of dollars of waste of taxpayer money.
Speaker 2: Why are you not.
Speaker 4: Applauding stopping the waste of taxpayer money? Are you in
Speaker 4: favor of wasting taxpayer money? Help me understand, you know something.
Speaker 4: They could have just killed him, like for the next
Speaker 4: five election cycles.
Speaker 2: But he did not. Yeah, that's a good one. So
Speaker 2: he had a long list of like.
Speaker 1: Transcoloring books for penguins and an arctica or various things they.
Speaker 2: Were finding me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty nine million dollars for hotel rooms for a
Speaker 4: lead immigrants in New York all sorts of stuff like that.
Speaker 4: There are some other highlights culture stuff that is so
Speaker 4: incredibly important.
Speaker 2: I get to it in a little bit.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that they're they're going to continue to
Speaker 1: uh cheerlead dudes participating in girls' sports based on all
Speaker 1: It's just that's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's just crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got more in the way any thoughts text
Speaker 4: line four one five KFTC.
Speaker 3: We're getting wokeness out of our schools and out of
Speaker 3: our military, and it's already out, and it's out of
Speaker 3: our society.
Speaker 2: We don't want it. Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad.
Speaker 2: It's gone.
Speaker 3: It's gone, and we feel so much better for it,
Speaker 3: don't we do?
Speaker 2: We feel better?
Speaker 4: That was getting towards the end during the just riffing,
Speaker 4: just it's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to talk till I get tired of talking.
Speaker 2: Section of the speech. You know what woke means. It
Speaker 2: means you're a loser.
Speaker 4: So he did get into the social stuff, Jackie, were
Speaker 4: you going to jump in there before I plunge ahead
Speaker 4: with the clips.
Speaker 1: I was ninety minutes of the longest one anybody's ever given,
Speaker 1: even longer than Bill Clinton's which has been mocked for
Speaker 1: years of being a Dronathan Trump's was longer. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I speculated earlier that he might understand that people don't
Speaker 1: watch these anymore and they're just going to live on
Speaker 1: in clips. And why not put as many clips out
Speaker 1: there as possible. I don't know, But Charles C. W.
Speaker 1: Cook made the point that Thomas Jefferson set the precedent
Speaker 1: of sending a written message to Congress, believing that a
Speaker 1: personal delivery resembled a speech from a throne too much.
Speaker 1: So we didn't want that look of a monarchy, so
Speaker 1: deliver it in writing. Woodrow Wilson is the one that
Speaker 1: started it with showing up in person and ending that tradition,
Speaker 1: and that's how we end up with what we had
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 4: So we're going to skip ahead a little bit, as
Speaker 4: I the clock. He's talking about ending DEI and will
Speaker 4: be woke no longer. Let's hear fifty to Michael.
Speaker 3: We have removed the poison of critical race theory from
Speaker 3: our public schools, and I signed an order making it
Speaker 3: the official policy of the United States government that there
Speaker 3: are only two genders, male and female.
Speaker 4: And then let's jump right into fifty three because it's
Speaker 4: on the same theme.
Speaker 3: I also signed an executive order to ben men from
Speaker 3: playing in women's sports.
Speaker 2: Three years ago.
Speaker 3: Peyton McNabb was an all star high school athlete, one
Speaker 3: of the best, preparing for a future in college sports.
Speaker 3: But when her girl's volleyball match was invaded by a male,
Speaker 3: he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing
Speaker 3: traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side, and ending
Speaker 3: her athletic career. It was a shot like she's never
Speaker 3: seen before. She's never seen anything like it. Peyton is
Speaker 3: here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton from now on,
Speaker 3: schools will kick the men off the girls team or
Speaker 3: they will lose all federal funding.
Speaker 4: I liked what Bill mcgern said in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4: He talks about the President saying, no matter what I do,
Speaker 4: these people sitting right here, the Democrats will not clap,
Speaker 4: They will not recognize it. What the American people saw
Speaker 4: on their TV screens only confirmed what the President said.
Speaker 4: This was underscored by the absurd site of Democratic women
Speaker 4: wearing pink to protest the negative effect they say mister
Speaker 4: Trump's policies have had on women, and this one day
Speaker 4: after not a single Democratic senator voted to protect female
Speaker 4: athletes by keeping males out of women's in girls' sports.
Speaker 4: All Democrats did Tuesday night was to confirm why they
Speaker 4: lost in November. I believe they're going to die on
Speaker 4: that hill all things. It's like eighty five to six, right,
Speaker 4: it ain't going to get us an issue among things
Speaker 4: coming up.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start going to Katie for my medical advice.
Speaker 1: She diagnosed me correctly in my sickness last week, and
Speaker 1: I should have listened to her and much more.
Speaker 4: On the way, stay with us, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 5: The Los Angeles grocery store chain Arewan is facing criticism
Speaker 5: for offering a single strawberry for nineteen dollars or for
Speaker 5: the same price they let you look at an egg.
Speaker 2: By the way, I mentioned that the other day.
Speaker 1: If you've never been to one of those grocery stores,
Speaker 1: if you're ever in the Los Angeles area, go to
Speaker 1: one of those grocery stores.
Speaker 2: It's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And airwon that which is nowhere spelled backwards or close
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 2: That's where the name comes from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, name likely you gotta be a rich hippie because
Speaker 4: it's everything in there is super expensive, but the choices
Speaker 4: are just amazing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, who knows what things are going to cost here
Speaker 1: in the near future. With the whole hariff battle going on,
Speaker 1: how long will that last? Well, here's old Lutnik, one
Speaker 1: of our new favorite guys in the in the cabinet.
Speaker 1: He's the Secretary of Commerce. He was on TV just
Speaker 1: a little bit ago.
Speaker 6: The President is listening to the offers from Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 6: He's thinking about trying to do something in the middle.
Speaker 6: He's thinking about it. We're talking about it. We're gonna
Speaker 6: when I leave here, I'm gonna go talk about it
Speaker 6: with him. And I think early this afternoon or this afternoon,
Speaker 6: we expect to make an announcement. And my my thinking
Speaker 6: is it's going to be somewhere in the middle, So
Speaker 6: not one hundred percent of all products and not none,
Speaker 6: somewhere in the middle, because I think Mexico and Canada
Speaker 6: are trying the best and let's see where we end up.
Speaker 6: So I do think somewhere in the middle is a
Speaker 6: likely outcome.
Speaker 1: So similar to the last couple of times we've had
Speaker 1: big tear iff things happen, maybe like within a day,
Speaker 1: they're gonna announce it's off, we got what we wanted,
Speaker 1: or a lot of it's off, or part of it's
Speaker 1: off or whatever. I guess we'll see, right, And not surprisingly,
Speaker 1: the markets have at least tweaked upward a little bit
Speaker 1: to feeling more optimistic. We'll see it'll be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I won't, and we'll let you know at the time.
Speaker 1: Just you know, it's it's funny.
Speaker 2: What am I going to do? I'll I'll react to
Speaker 2: you know, I'll adjust my life accordingly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the age of hyperbole, in the age of
Speaker 4: desperation for clicks. And so, whether it's weather reports, which
Speaker 4: is one of the worst, I mean, it's like the
Speaker 4: rarest thing in broadcast media is for somebody to underestimate
Speaker 4: how bad a storm might be.
Speaker 2: Because every storm.
Speaker 4: That sweeps across the nation, ABC News is the worst,
Speaker 4: is the killer storm that's paralyzing the Midwest or the
Speaker 4: East or whatever. Every storm is coming for you and
Speaker 4: your children, and it almost never pans out.
Speaker 2: And if it does, you know what to do? Is there?
Speaker 4: Well, nobody ever leads with it's winter and it's gonna snow, surprise, surprise,
Speaker 4: And so we're probably stupid not to engage in that much.
Speaker 4: But the tariff thing, yeah, I could have some effect,
Speaker 4: but we'll have to see how long it lasts. And
Speaker 4: you know, economics tends to counter alence itself and blah
Speaker 4: blah blah, so we'll have.
Speaker 2: To find out.
Speaker 4: Sorry, if you came here to be terrified or whatever,
Speaker 4: you're not.
Speaker 2: Gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Other developing stories. So, Trump, during his whatever that speech
Speaker 1: was last night, mentions that Zelensky.
Speaker 4: That's the so tac jack, the state of the ass kicking,
Speaker 4: that's what I'm calling it.
Speaker 1: Zelensky put out a statement to Trump that hey, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to sign the deal or whatever. I'll show up
Speaker 1: in a suit and apologize or something along those lines.
Speaker 2: Essentially. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, CIA director John Ratcliffe was on Mario Baromo's show
Speaker 4: today and said, the US has paused weapons, shipments and
Speaker 4: intelligence to Ukraine. We've cut off their intelligence, which was
Speaker 4: really a big part of what.
Speaker 2: Our aid was.
Speaker 1: After the meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, Ratcliffe
Speaker 1: says he looks forward to lifting the pause and working
Speaker 1: with Ukraine towards peace.
Speaker 4: Following the letter to the BOTUS. But man, that's some
Speaker 4: serious hardball and they're fighting literally for their survival, and
Speaker 4: I wonder, like many people, wonder, where's the hardball toward Putin?
Speaker 2: Could be? The answer is it's just secret. It's not public.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of the media class assumes that
Speaker 4: it doesn't exist at all.
Speaker 2: I doubt that.
Speaker 4: I certainly hope that's not true, because Putin is an
Speaker 4: evil child, murdering, abducting, genocidal.
Speaker 1: Lunatic, anti Christian, anti everything, anti everything but his wealth. Katie,
Speaker 1: congratulations on diagnosing me correctly last week.
Speaker 2: I diagnosed you with so many things last week. What
Speaker 2: was it you said? I had the flu?
Speaker 1: I had the flu. I went to the doctor yesterday
Speaker 1: and they told me, so you were you are? You
Speaker 1: had a dead on call me doctor Green exactly. I
Speaker 1: didn't know this particular flu. I guess I got the
Speaker 1: current version. They have a terrible, terrible stomach that comes
Speaker 1: with your whole cold symptoms.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 7: Wow, I've had the flu maybe a handful of times
Speaker 7: in my life, and it's always come with stomach problems.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if I've ever had the flu before,
Speaker 4: so I don't have anyh Yeah, there are a lot
Speaker 4: of things people call the flu that isn't the flu,
Speaker 4: so it kind of muddies the waters.
Speaker 2: But you know, if you're feeling the you know all
Speaker 2: you're feeling ill. Oh, it's horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. You know.
Speaker 4: I'm reminded of COVID engineered in the Wuhan Institute courtesy
Speaker 4: of doctor Fauci and what's his name, Peter Dazak, that
Speaker 4: it causes a dozen different problems.
Speaker 2: Weird, bizarre.
Speaker 4: How can one virus affect you neurologically and to give
Speaker 4: you the gallup of trots, it's terrible.
Speaker 1: First of all, do you think I would have not
Speaker 1: gotten the flu if I'd have gotten a flu shot?
Speaker 1: Could have I avoided that week of being sick and
Speaker 1: the way I feel right now if I'd gotten the
Speaker 1: flu shot.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows.
Speaker 4: It depends how the formulation was this year and whether
Speaker 4: it matched the particular strain you got.
Speaker 2: I'm not an anti vaxxer.
Speaker 1: I'm an anti tasker in the getting myself there and
Speaker 1: actually getting the shot. Just it's beyond my reach. So
Speaker 1: that's main the main reason I don't get a flu
Speaker 1: shot every year. It's not any philosophy of any kind.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The other interesting thing is I so I did the
Speaker 1: day walk in care thing and went in because it'd
Speaker 1: been more than ten days that I've been sick and
Speaker 1: it is starting to get worse. That's in the past
Speaker 1: in my life. If you start to get better and
Speaker 1: then you start to get worse, it's something that needs antibiotics.
Speaker 1: And they gave me antibotics, and so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But the doctor commented on how much he liked the
Speaker 1: way I was dressed, and hello, and just briefly, very briefly.
Speaker 1: It means it's not like he dwelled on it or
Speaker 1: raised his eyebrows like that. It was just a very
Speaker 1: casual conversation. But I've never had that happen before. I
Speaker 1: have no memory. This was yesterday, yesterday. I have no
Speaker 1: memory of how you were addressed yesterday. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: a poor co host.
Speaker 4: Jeans, T shirt, jean jacket, Wow, cowboy book pretty much?
Speaker 2: Did you give him your number?
Speaker 4: Because that's a that's a bit of a I don't know,
Speaker 4: Freddy Mercury, look there. Maybe he was sending you a
Speaker 4: little subtle message.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There was somebody on Twitter. I think
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: I mention this on Twitter the other day that said
Speaker 1: I saw jacket the air. He is dressed very gay.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a nice comment.
Speaker 1: But then I but so the reason I bring this
Speaker 1: up is then I went to the pharmacy and the
Speaker 1: twenty year old working there at the pharmacy said, I
Speaker 1: really like your style.
Speaker 2: I love the way you're dressed all the time.
Speaker 1: When you're here, TWITTER do it at this was a girl,
Speaker 1: But I just saw it. I must be I gotta
Speaker 1: be trying too hard or something, or or or I've
Speaker 1: got a bit of a look at that sick, sad
Speaker 1: old man. Bless his heart, let's say something.
Speaker 4: I think it might be that, you know what, if
Speaker 4: pities all there is available, I'll take pity. Let's just
Speaker 4: brighten his day somehow today because he looks like he's
Speaker 4: really up against it.
Speaker 2: Wow. I don't know. I just thought it was odd
Speaker 2: that had happened like twice in the span of an hour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sure is going on there? Well, how do maybe go
Speaker 2: with that? Lucky?
Speaker 1: The people are spoken so so you don't have an
Speaker 1: opinion on the flu shot though?
Speaker 2: Do you get the flu shot over here? Katie? Do
Speaker 2: you get the flu shot of you? I have never
Speaker 2: had a flu shot.
Speaker 4: I've had one young, it doesn't matter. I've had one
Speaker 4: in my life and I probably will never get another
Speaker 4: one again. The one I got was we mentioned it
Speaker 4: on the air and somebody stopped by the station and
Speaker 4: gave it to me. And I'm not sure it was
Speaker 4: a nurse or if it was actually the flu vaccine,
Speaker 4: because we didn't check their credentials. She just came into
Speaker 4: the studio and gave me a shot. Well you're blind
Speaker 4: for a week, so that made me wonder if you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe that's the only flu shot I've
Speaker 4: ever had.
Speaker 2: You do get it every year, Joe, almost every year? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got a great doctor and he's in favor
Speaker 4: of it, and he sees a straight shooter, so that's fine.
Speaker 4: All doctors are in favorite of it, and I don't
Speaker 4: know if I've ever heard anybody who's not in favorite.
Speaker 4: It's it's just it's a bit of a guessing ging
Speaker 4: because they formulate it before they understand precisely what strains
Speaker 4: are going to be ware, do you have any idea
Speaker 4: what maybe you could look this up gidting what percentage
Speaker 4: of people get the flu shot?
Speaker 1: Do most people do it? Or to the vast majority
Speaker 1: of people not. I don't actually even know.
Speaker 2: Again, it varies a great deal by age. Okay.
Speaker 7: According to the Google, forty five percent adults age eighteen and.
Speaker 4: Older get the flu shot. Okay, so nearly half of
Speaker 4: all adults get the flu shot.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 4: ID seventy five percent sixty plus. I did not know that, Michael,
Speaker 4: Do you get it? No?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm speaking of which yah arek junior fans areund.
Speaker 2: I had a.
Speaker 7: Doctor's appointment last week and they asked me. They said, oh,
Speaker 7: you're due for your COVID shot. I'm like, oh what,
Speaker 7: I'm no fakes, I'm good my COVID shot. Yeah, you're
Speaker 7: due for your COVID vaccine. I'm like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 4: You're due for a slap and please click eighteen Michael, eighteen.
Speaker 8: It's been a rolic host following the Pope's health crisis,
Speaker 8: because a couple of days ago we were told that
Speaker 8: the Pope was stable, that we'd had of improvement, and
Speaker 8: now we hear of these crises. The Pope, according to
Speaker 8: the Vatican, had an accumulation of mucus that caused these
Speaker 8: problems that had to be aspirated. Now Francis has been
Speaker 8: in hospital for eighteen days battling pneumonia in both lungs.
Speaker 4: On this story, Similarly, if I had died, Joulda had
Speaker 4: to get a new co host, and you'd just seen
Speaker 4: white pups of smoke when he finally chose one, right,
Speaker 4: I feared it was an aom an accumulation of mucus,
Speaker 4: and sure enough it is. Man, Well, I hope he's okay,
Speaker 4: even though I hate his politics, the pope.
Speaker 2: But I don't want him to die.
Speaker 1: But I do too, But simly so, then we'd go
Speaker 1: through that whole choosing a pulp thing.
Speaker 4: And right up there with the Academy awards. To me,
Speaker 4: I just well, I was That's kind of what I
Speaker 4: was going to bring up. Has it lost some of
Speaker 4: the reverence that it once had the pope choosing Here's
Speaker 4: the way I would answer it. It has lost the
Speaker 4: automatic reference reverence that it once had. It could be
Speaker 4: the Catholic Church finds itself a really good, smart wise pope,
Speaker 4: and given the enormity of the Catholic Church and its
Speaker 4: importance in many societies, that could that could be a
Speaker 4: force for good, I think, or maybe.
Speaker 2: At least cleaning up some of the bad.
Speaker 4: If they go with another communist uh South American communist
Speaker 4: culture warrior exactly, then not so good, not so much.
Speaker 1: A little more Pope John Paul, the second little less
Speaker 1: whatever this guy's name is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with a little more aggression toward the uh, the
Speaker 4: child getting rid of the child molesters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: no kidding, yeah, go ahead, Well nothing uh came across
Speaker 4: one of those great government waste stories yesterday. And this
Speaker 4: is not some Elon exaggeration, as a lot of things
Speaker 4: Elon has mentioned have turned out.
Speaker 1: He's taken down the tweets. This for real, and it's
Speaker 1: so damn maddening. Maybe we'll get to that in hour three,
Speaker 1: but it's one of those it's just like, no, how
Speaker 1: would you not be for doge if they overshoot? Fine,
Speaker 1: we'll add it back in later when you hear some
Speaker 1: of these stories. And we got one of those for you.
Speaker 4: And coming up in a story that is less shocking
Speaker 4: than anything I've ever heard, Americans trust in mainstream media
Speaker 4: is at its lowest point.
Speaker 2: In over fifty years.
Speaker 1: I gasped and clutched my pearls. That is coming up next.
Speaker 9: So there you go, another two hours we'll never get back.
Speaker 9: I would like to apologize to our audience for making
Speaker 9: them watch it. That's time you all could have spent
Speaker 9: with your family, not eating eggs. And Trump's first address
Speaker 9: to Congress was much like his first six weeks, filled
Speaker 9: with useful eyes and applauded by useless idiots.
Speaker 4: Wow, Stephen Colbert, fine, Stevie Boy, make no attempt though, to.
Speaker 2: You know, court at least the.
Speaker 4: Country who doesn't feel that least at least at least
Speaker 4: half yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's entertainment. Obviously, allegedly, it's
Speaker 4: an attempt at entertainment. Okay, that's not the news media
Speaker 4: per se, but some of that cultural juice is absolutely
Speaker 4: all over the news media too, and not shockingly, recent
Speaker 4: Gallop survey on Americans trusted news media revealed we don't.
Speaker 4: Although some of the numbers behind the numbers, and I'm
Speaker 4: not kidding, are really really interesting.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 2: They go through a little historical perspective.
Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy two, sixty eight percent trusted the media
Speaker 4: either a great deal or a fair amount.
Speaker 2: Sixty eight percent in.
Speaker 4: What year nineteen seventy two seven an all time high
Speaker 4: of seventy two percent in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: Wow, post Watergate.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, in the wake of Watergate, and honestly, you know,
Speaker 4: the pretty good investigative journalism that was done through that
Speaker 4: and then the the Ford v. Carter election, But that
Speaker 4: was the high water mark, seventy two percent in nineteen
Speaker 4: seventy six. Fast forward to the year two thousand, we're
Speaker 4: down to fifty one percent. Four years later, forty four percent.
Speaker 4: Then it waffled a little bit, but last listen to
Speaker 4: the last several years and twenty eighteen it was forty
Speaker 4: five percent. Trusted the mainstream media a lot or some Okay,
Speaker 4: that's because you're a liberal and you like hearing what
Speaker 4: you want to hear because it thinks it's ridiculous. Forty
Speaker 4: percent in twenty twenty, thirty six percent in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 4: thirty four percent a year later, thirty two percent a
Speaker 4: year later, and thirty one percent last year Joe Biden's
Speaker 4: last year in office, which was.
Speaker 2: The best version of Joe Biden ever. And if you
Speaker 2: don't believe it, f you.
Speaker 1: Or whatever, the numbers are below that, you know, the
Speaker 1: the chunk that's going to vote for a Democratic president.
Speaker 1: So they don't even like what they're getting fed like
Speaker 1: at least ten percent of people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, roughly, although don't forget that we have independence as well.
Speaker 4: But anyway, it is ticking down, down, down, and to
Speaker 4: just rubbish level, whereas a third oh yeah, my goodness, yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't even need to explain why. Although the Mummy
Speaker 4: being perfectly fit for office, then the minute he's out
Speaker 4: of office, the Jake Tappers of the world rushing to say,
Speaker 4: do you guys want to know the truth? He was
Speaker 4: old and senile all along. Oh thanks Jake. Anyway, Whereas
Speaker 4: about a third of US adults say they have no
Speaker 4: trust at all in the mass media, sixty percent of
Speaker 4: Republicans hold that view of you that so I particular,
Speaker 4: literally sharp increase between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen. Funny,
Speaker 4: I can't think of a single thing that happened during
Speaker 4: that period that would erode trust in media other than
Speaker 4: the Russian collusion hoax. Lack of trust is also up
Speaker 4: sharply among Independence it's now forty two percent, while it
Speaker 4: continues to be low six percent this year among Democrats.
Speaker 2: Wow, so it's.
Speaker 4: Sixty percent of Republicans, forty two percent of Independence, and
Speaker 4: six percent among Democrats. If I were to characterize those numbers,
Speaker 4: I would say that Democrats are seven times more gullible
Speaker 4: or ideological than even independence. Gallup also found that younger
Speaker 4: generations are less trusting in the mass media as well.
Speaker 2: That's good, I don't roch to new good job, oh Son,
Speaker 2: good decision.
Speaker 4: People younger than fifty are much less trusting in the
Speaker 4: news media than people aged fifty and older, particularly the
Speaker 4: oldest Americans.
Speaker 1: That's tough though, I mean, these numbers are tough to
Speaker 1: I mean, on one hand, I'm very happy that more
Speaker 1: people have realized that mainstream media is often spinning things
Speaker 1: at best and flat out lying to you worse. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, the fact that people are then going
Speaker 1: to even more distorted news sources and leaving mainstream media
Speaker 1: is not helpful.
Speaker 4: No. No, that's a really interesting point. And where people
Speaker 4: have gone or what they've done with their mistrust is
Speaker 4: a great, great question.
Speaker 2: It's not entirely true what I just said.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of people going to the
Speaker 1: Dispatch or various sub stack writers and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: They're doing really good job of trying to call balls
Speaker 1: and strikes, regardless of their ideology.
Speaker 2: Are they come here, duh. But but they're not. It's not,
Speaker 2: you know, as big as I mean.
Speaker 1: I could name a lot of different things, whether it's
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson on the right side of things or whoever
Speaker 1: on the left side of things.
Speaker 2: Get a lot of earballs.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, for better and worse, Armstrong and Getty