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Speaker 4: get podcasts. No On with the infotainment And this week
Speaker 4: is always Fat Tuesday. In Marty Gras happening in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: And I just saw some Marty Grass rep worse down there.
Speaker 4: Cyber truck had pulled up on the street and there
Speaker 4: was a tremendous amount of booing going on, and I
Speaker 4: just thought that was interesting that that is like seen
Speaker 4: as an I was going to say a vehicle, but
Speaker 4: it's actually a vehicle, so using it as a here's
Speaker 4: the sound.
Speaker 2: Doing a cyber truck pulling trup. Oh the music play it.
Speaker 2: It's in the background. Women are showing their boobs for.
Speaker 4: Needs.
Speaker 3: Yet it's still time to do the leader of DOGE
Speaker 3: because you hate cutbacks and spending.
Speaker 4: I just don't get it. Wasteful spending, idiotic spending. That's
Speaker 4: just tribal signaling. Oga boga, don't care. Yeah, speaking of
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. Oh, Michael, are you giving up
Speaker 4: playing chest for lint? I am yes, no more shadless.
Speaker 4: So one of the themes that the President struck in
Speaker 4: his speech last night was getting rid of a bunch
Speaker 4: of woke crap and transgender this and that, which I
Speaker 4: thought was terrific. And we'll play some highlights in I
Speaker 4: don't know, twenty minutes, half an hour or something like that,
Speaker 4: but I thought a couple of things were very interesting,
Speaker 4: one more newsy and one more philosophical.
Speaker 2: But first of all, the newsy thing.
Speaker 4: For the last decade, the establishment media have touted advocates
Speaker 4: claims as fact that we have roughly fifteen thousand transgender
Speaker 4: people serving in the US military. If you're not familiar
Speaker 4: with the term, it means a person of one sex pretending.
Speaker 2: To be the other sex.
Speaker 4: Wow, and over and over again, I've heard the fifteen
Speaker 4: thousand numbers and thought.
Speaker 2: Damn, that's a lot.
Speaker 4: No I believe it, But yeah, I was. I didn't either,
Speaker 4: but I had no idea what to think. But this
Speaker 4: week President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is
Speaker 4: about forty two hundred service members, which is still a
Speaker 4: hell of a lot, but it's just over one quarter
Speaker 4: of what they were claiming. This adds up to one
Speaker 4: transgender person for every five hundred service members in a
Speaker 4: military of two point one million active in reserve members.
Speaker 4: I am surprised that it is that many, and I'd
Speaker 4: be curious as to what is going on psychosocially that would.
Speaker 3: That would cause that. I mean, you talk about ridiculous tribalism.
Speaker 3: I came across Bill Crystal's tweet last night.
Speaker 2: Most of you.
Speaker 3: Don't know who he is. He used to be one
Speaker 3: of my favorite pundits. He is a hardcore conservative, like
Speaker 3: in the classic style. His dad, Irving Crystal founded I
Speaker 3: think the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers of conservatism,
Speaker 3: and Bill Crystal carried that on and then Bill Crystal hated.
Speaker 2: It, called Berry Goldwater a moderate.
Speaker 3: Bill Crystal who used to be on you know, like
Speaker 3: meet the Press and face a nation and arguing for
Speaker 3: conservatives all these years. He hated Trump so much he
Speaker 3: went over with the people that formed the Bulwark, and
Speaker 3: they have become a grift machine. And they've just figured
Speaker 3: out that if they say bad things about Republicans that
Speaker 3: they can make a lot of money. And this is
Speaker 3: what Bill Crystal tweeted out last night. Stand with trans Americans.
Speaker 3: You don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience
Speaker 3: to know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are
Speaker 3: unjust and dangerous. You've lost your mind just because he
Speaker 3: hasn't lost his mind, he's become so cynical. He just thinks,
Speaker 3: you know what, it's all a game. Anyway, screw it.
Speaker 3: There are enough of these people out there if I
Speaker 3: take this angle, they'll continue to you know, donate money
Speaker 3: to us and read our stuff and give us clicks,
Speaker 3: and I'll make a look whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, give the converts. Everybody wants to celebrate the converts.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yeah. Wow. That is some cynical crack.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical
Speaker 4: have looked at the world around us, and and I
Speaker 4: think a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore
Speaker 4: activists in the Woke Thing are neo Marxists, and the
Speaker 4: Woke Thing is just an excuse to say, you're in
Speaker 4: charge of this institution, but you're a racist, and I
Speaker 4: can prove it with my anti racist theories, and obviously
Speaker 4: we can't have a racist in charge, so now I'm
Speaker 4: in charge.
Speaker 2: It's a method of conquest.
Speaker 4: It takes over institutions, be they you know, schools or
Speaker 4: government departments or whatever.
Speaker 2: We get the hardcore.
Speaker 4: Doing that, the people who want to be nice people
Speaker 4: and they go along with it. This is the useful idiots,
Speaker 4: and they are legion in their numbers, and often it's
Speaker 4: young people because young people are easy to indoctrinate.
Speaker 2: The problem with that term is that Lenin's term, I
Speaker 2: think it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, John Lennon, no v I Lenin. The problem with
Speaker 3: that term is that it's obviously quite insulting. It's not
Speaker 3: a good way to explain to someone that they maybe
Speaker 3: are being used for a purpose that they do not
Speaker 3: agree with.
Speaker 2: If you call them an idiot, you know, you make
Speaker 2: a good point.
Speaker 4: Let's go with useful morons instead useful halfwits. Now it's
Speaker 4: actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which is
Speaker 4: what I'm leading toward.
Speaker 2: It's long been known that all the.
Speaker 4: Intelligence agencies and governments of the world are interested in
Speaker 4: influencing people to believe certain things to support certain programs
Speaker 4: or certain governments. I mean that's obvious, right, Propaganda, the
Speaker 4: Hitler Youth to the malt Se tongue and his Red Guard,
Speaker 4: just all sorts of programs like that. And a guy
Speaker 4: who's been studying this his whole life. His name is
Speaker 4: a Jason Christoff, and he did a presentation recently that
Speaker 4: was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson, speaking of rock ribbed Conservatives.
Speaker 2: He explained how mind control.
Speaker 4: Is easy to execute because human beings are essentially walking psyops.
Speaker 4: He said he quote, he said, Mimetic programming, which is
Speaker 4: the process of having someone learn to imitate patterns and behaviors,
Speaker 4: is routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations
Speaker 4: and governments.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 4: Mind control works on the subconscious, and the subconscious is
Speaker 4: something that loves us and wants.
Speaker 2: To protect us.
Speaker 4: And it's in the realm of activity, similar to your
Speaker 4: heart beating. So there are things you understand as a
Speaker 4: human being that you're not in control of.
Speaker 2: They're instinctive.
Speaker 4: Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the
Speaker 4: bigger group of humans is doing, and so it is
Speaker 4: responsive to repetitive content. Simply put, people are always looking
Speaker 4: to learn what a larger group is doing and fit in,
Speaker 4: meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously we're just talking about conformity here. All sales organizations
Speaker 4: know this, sure, quoting again from mister Christoff. The reason
Speaker 4: the subconscious does this is because it knows that most
Speaker 4: humans like other humans who act, talk and think like
Speaker 4: they do, and all the subconscious nuh, and all your
Speaker 4: subconscious know that it's safer to bond with a bigger group.
Speaker 4: To break this mind control technique down further, your subconscious
Speaker 4: automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to adopt ideas
Speaker 4: as their own. Your reptile brain is telling you you
Speaker 4: decided this on your own, to go along with the crowd, because,
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, that works better with humans.
Speaker 2: It's more adaptive. As they say in anthropology, that's why,
Speaker 2: for example, do any of my beliefs come from my
Speaker 2: own thinking? Or is this all just because I was
Speaker 2: surrounded by it?
Speaker 4: I think sometimes the best you can do is be
Speaker 4: intellectually honest and examine your beliefs and test them now
Speaker 4: and again and try the other ideas. But anyway, that's
Speaker 4: a great other topic.
Speaker 2: What time is it? Yeah, we're good, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: This is why, for example, at a party where there's
Speaker 4: a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can
Speaker 4: feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if
Speaker 4: you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content,
Speaker 4: your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and
Speaker 4: full of anxiety, and it will also reward you for
Speaker 4: going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and calm.
Speaker 3: In the feeling of calmness, that's wow. So there's more
Speaker 3: to peer pressure than meets the eye.
Speaker 4: Right exactly, it's not weakness, it's it's anthropologically adaptive. The
Speaker 4: problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, you're gonna
Speaker 4: be fine having a drink, or unless somebody is trying
Speaker 4: to feed your roofy and rape you or something like that,
Speaker 4: you're fine Bill Cosby's house or oh right, exactly. In short,
Speaker 4: but if there is an insidious group bent on evil
Speaker 4: utilizing these truths intentionally and aggressively, you get an entire
Speaker 4: generation of young people walle looking around saying it's not
Speaker 4: wrong to have a man in a woman's sport, even
Speaker 4: though he whoops the hell out of the women and
Speaker 4: takes all the titles. It's not wrong to have a
Speaker 4: man in a women's prison because that man says he's
Speaker 4: a woman. They come up with an idea as ludicrous
Speaker 4: is that a man who says he's a woman is
Speaker 4: actually a woman.
Speaker 3: And then certainly things that are easier to go for.
Speaker 3: I won't say fall four like hearing about climate change
Speaker 3: every class you're ever in your whole life, right.
Speaker 4: Christoph actually touched on the COVID nineteen pandemic in the response, said,
Speaker 4: media let's push highly similar similar narratives to quote unquote
Speaker 4: control people, influencing them to stay at home. Mind control
Speaker 4: is the basis of all advertising, and the governments have
Speaker 4: been proven to be using the same group dynamic application
Speaker 4: against the public. He pointed to examples such as the
Speaker 4: UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known as the Nudge Unit.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of this?
Speaker 4: No, It's a former government organization run by a charity
Speaker 4: which uses behavioral insights to change people's behavior, for example,
Speaker 4: by changing messaging to make people more likely to pay.
Speaker 2: Their taxes on time. Wow.
Speaker 4: Christoff believes such tactics have been used to drive social
Speaker 4: changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on
Speaker 4: screen diminishing since the nineteen fifties in favor of less
Speaker 4: conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations
Speaker 4: use similar strategies.
Speaker 2: But we're running out of time. But you get the idea.
Speaker 4: And I've often said, you don't need to do what
Speaker 4: the culture is doing because a lot of that is
Speaker 4: designed by people who do not have your best interests
Speaker 4: in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this
Speaker 4: is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that
Speaker 4: that is your animal brain being used, often by evil
Speaker 4: people to try to get you to behave in a
Speaker 4: certain way.
Speaker 2: That's really interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 1: The arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his
Speaker 3: age is. Apparently wanted to open a checking account at
Speaker 3: the bank or an account at the bank because he's
Speaker 3: got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases,
Speaker 3: and he doesn't spend his money like his brother does.
Speaker 3: He saves it because he wants to be able to
Speaker 3: put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: So he's got a decent sized chunk.
Speaker 4: Of money added up over the years, and he'd been
Speaker 4: keeping it in a shoe box. And so he's going
Speaker 4: to open an account. And I remember when I opened
Speaker 4: an account when I was probably about his age. I
Speaker 4: started mowing lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating
Speaker 4: money and opening a bank account on the passage.
Speaker 2: I remember it myself. On the way to the.
Speaker 3: Bank, I did say to him, I said, you know,
Speaker 3: I haven't I haven't been around the idea of opening
Speaker 3: an account for a bank in forty years something like that.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if the rules have changed, but
Speaker 3: so in case something happens, but anyway, we should we
Speaker 3: get it there sure enough. And so we're trying to
Speaker 3: open this account and everything like that. And first of all,
Speaker 3: many banks everything is I don't know if it's because
Speaker 3: the government comes down on them so hard or something
Speaker 3: like that. They treat everybody like you're a want to
Speaker 3: be terrorist, Like everything you do, it's like, jeez, lighten up.
Speaker 3: But anyway, he needs to have two forms of ID
Speaker 3: is where we ran into the roadblock.
Speaker 2: I said, what is a form of ID for a
Speaker 2: thirteen year old?
Speaker 3: He said, and they said, well, your Social Security card
Speaker 3: is birth certificate? Okay, great, So I said, the fact
Speaker 3: that I'm his dad isn't good enough. I can't vouch
Speaker 3: for the fact that he's my son. And I have
Speaker 3: an account here and have had for twenty five years
Speaker 3: and open an account for him. I can't do that,
Speaker 3: and no, we need to. And I said, is that
Speaker 3: a bank policy or the state law or what is that?
Speaker 3: Because I was thinking if it's a bank policy, I'll
Speaker 3: go to a different bank.
Speaker 2: But it's a federal law.
Speaker 3: It's part of the patriotch I said, oh, of course,
Speaker 3: And he said, well, it's a federal I said, you
Speaker 3: don't need to explain the federal government to me.
Speaker 2: And I hate the federal government, I said.
Speaker 3: And then the guy looked at me like I was Oh.
Speaker 3: He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're one of those people.
Speaker 3: You're Timothy McVeigh, You're you're you're one of those people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
Speaker 3: I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a
Speaker 3: bank account for a thirteen year old, and as his parent,
Speaker 3: I got it. I gotta prove who he is because
Speaker 3: you can't take my word for the fact that he's
Speaker 3: my child, makes me child money laundering, little mule for
Speaker 3: your militia, whatever you want to call him. The Patriot
Speaker 3: Act was so much I was trying to explain it
Speaker 3: to her. He was so much crap that they jammed through.
Speaker 3: It's all because of nine to eleven. So you're gonna
Speaker 3: stop the next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen
Speaker 3: year olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever,
Speaker 3: even though their parent, who you know, is sitting right there.
Speaker 3: I hate stuff like that, and the and the but
Speaker 3: they were there. Their eyes got so wide when I
Speaker 3: hate the said I hate the federal government. And I
Speaker 3: was thinking, if I was doing this same thing in
Speaker 3: my in my where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas,
Speaker 3: and I said I hate the federal government, the teller
Speaker 3: would have said, yeah, me too, don't.
Speaker 2: You high five Joe.
Speaker 3: Came end of that brother, But that just being oh
Speaker 3: my god, you shouldn't she said, oh she even she
Speaker 3: gasped the woman gasped, and her boss just looked at
Speaker 3: me white.
Speaker 2: I'd like, oh, we about to have a fight. Oh man,
Speaker 2: you have to have two pieces of id. Even though
Speaker 2: he's my kid. I just found that amazing.
Speaker 4: All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes.
Speaker 4: Get ready to jot this one down and get it right?
Speaker 2: Would you?
Speaker 4: Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there are two emergencies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but actually exactly. And I actually told my son
Speaker 3: because he was oneonder. He was the like, is that
Speaker 3: something you can't say out loud? I said, I told him.
Speaker 3: The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century,
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English
Speaker 3: language are I'm here from the I'm from the government,
Speaker 3: and I'm here to help you.
Speaker 4: I mean, he ran on, I hate the government, or
Speaker 4: I just saw clip this morning. The government isn't the solution.
Speaker 4: Government is the problem.
Speaker 3: And the woman who was typing furiously after I said that,
Speaker 3: because she was so horrified that anybody would say that,
Speaker 3: I said, you know, all the money in my account
Speaker 3: I made that by going on the radio every day
Speaker 3: and saying I hate the government.
Speaker 2: And I make my living.
Speaker 4: By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or
Speaker 4: the FDIC, right, the CIA, the NSA, if I'm happy
Speaker 4: to testify against this monster, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list now, yes, Michael.
Speaker 5: So wonder they didn't hit the silent alarm on you
Speaker 5: and then you know, cops show up or something.
Speaker 2: I would have been.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to talk to people and explain
Speaker 3: why it's okay for me to say I hate the government.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, We've got to surveill him for a while
Speaker 4: and go through his mail and monitor his phone calls.
Speaker 4: We've got the NSA working on it already.
Speaker 3: What I hate is the manager guy acting like it
Speaker 3: makes sense that we have a law that I can't
Speaker 3: vouch for my kid being my kid. That seems perfectly
Speaker 3: reasonable to me. Two forms of ID for a child
Speaker 3: right when their parents is there.
Speaker 2: How thought he says his name, Then I say his name?
Speaker 2: Is that two forms of ID? And if not, what
Speaker 2: the hell has the world becalled?
Speaker 1: I know Armstrong, the Armstrong and Yetti Show.
Speaker 2: I thought this was so interesting. Steven sent this along.
Speaker 4: Did the god fearing Founders of America arrive at the
Speaker 4: three branches of government from the Bible. This is from
Speaker 4: Isaiah thirty third chapter twenty fourth verse for Jehovah is
Speaker 4: our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah is our king.
Speaker 4: He is the one who will save us. I see judicial, legislative,
Speaker 4: and executive right there in scripture. I think you know
Speaker 4: that reflects the ancient reality that when human beings associate,
Speaker 4: they need someone to make up the rules, then figure
Speaker 4: out how are we going to enforce these rules, and
Speaker 4: what if there's a disagreement. I think it's as simple
Speaker 4: as that. But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes
Speaker 4: way back to the Old Testament. That's right, sir, that's
Speaker 4: what we're talking about. Mail day. You can drop us
Speaker 4: a note at any time you like. Michael always a problem,
Speaker 4: drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy
Speaker 4: dot com. This first email references the fact that today
Speaker 4: is indeed my birthday, not only that it is my
Speaker 4: sixtieth birthday. I know you're thinking, Joe, you seem so
Speaker 4: youthful and clever, that can't be true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Have you checked the math on it?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: Jack and I first connected in our mid twenties.
Speaker 2: We're twenty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that seems only remember like three things between then
Speaker 4: and now.
Speaker 2: Two of them were brothes of children.
Speaker 3: That's sorry to that seems like and I know, if
Speaker 3: you're forty, this seems weird maybe, or certainly if you're
Speaker 3: twenty five, that seems like six years ago.
Speaker 2: Yah, roughly seems like about six years ago. Yeah, it's crazy,
Speaker 2: it's nuts.
Speaker 4: And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is
Speaker 4: lovely and very very much appreciated. And it's funny. It's Tuesday,
Speaker 4: it's a work day. I've got my kids arriving in
Speaker 4: town this week, which is that big fun. That is awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it is awesome, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in
Speaker 4: various ways. My son and I. I picked them up
Speaker 4: at the airport, came a big hug, and then we
Speaker 4: philosophized the entire way home from the airport, which is
Speaker 4: what we do. My eldest of my youngest daughter and
Speaker 4: I spar and joke and kid each other.
Speaker 2: And so it's it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great.
Speaker 5: But happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it. Play
Speaker 5: Hanson and Katie, you'll get you something. And as to
Speaker 5: the whole you know.
Speaker 2: I don't need anything.
Speaker 4: As to the old sixty thing, which seems like such
Speaker 4: a milestone, you know, It's funny. I was so miserable
Speaker 4: like a year ago because of my back problems, and
Speaker 4: I feel so much better now. I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: d aging or something. I'm not, Lord knows, but so
Speaker 4: I don't feel old. I feel younger than I used to.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I just let's let's just keep
Speaker 2: doing what we're doing.
Speaker 4: Let's just have fun, Let's do the shows, play some golf,
Speaker 4: let's enjoy.
Speaker 2: A nice glass of wide. Just as opposed to not
Speaker 2: big on milestone, as opposed to what lay down in
Speaker 2: front of a train, I mean, is that the other option?
Speaker 4: Or well, no, no, no, I'm just I've never been
Speaker 4: huge about milestones.
Speaker 2: It's like when I graduated from college, I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, what's next. I just didn't weep.
Speaker 4: And and maybe I lack the ability to reflect properly
Speaker 4: on things as they pass, but certainly when my kids
Speaker 4: moved out, that was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: thanks great, let's let's get on with life.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: So This is from David Reno, with whom I apparently
Speaker 4: share a birthday. In fact, here are some other famous
Speaker 4: people that we share a birthday with. I was aware
Speaker 4: of some of these people, not all of them. Jeb Bush,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, that's Jeb with an exclamation point. Sarah Palin,
Speaker 4: Oh lipstick? How old a shoe? You?
Speaker 2: Jones? You guys are probably about the same age, aren't you.
Speaker 2: You and Sarah Palin?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we could date. But just gonna remind you
Speaker 4: toy that now and again, Sarah Palin, we got a
Speaker 4: connection anyway. Alex Jones, Oh great, Thomas Edison, what order
Speaker 4: is this?
Speaker 2: This is a good list. You've got good in a way,
Speaker 2: Alex Jones. Well, sharing sharing.
Speaker 3: Day with a big with your birthday with other people.
Speaker 3: Thomas Edison, that's a big one.
Speaker 2: That is a big one.
Speaker 4: Although you know, my great, Well, I'll finish some of
Speaker 4: the lists your moms. It is, I know, just always
Speaker 4: in a hurry, and I'll explain that in a moment.
Speaker 4: But Leslie Nielson, the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 2: And other people who don't matter.
Speaker 4: But I've always been resentful that I was one day
Speaker 4: short of sharing birthday with my great hero Abraham Lincoln,
Speaker 4: which had been said, I get Burt Renolds traded the
Speaker 4: beard for the mustache.
Speaker 2: I guess what are you gonna do it?
Speaker 4: Moving along, moving along with mailbagging the question of the
Speaker 4: Democrats going crazy and j T read an interesting Victor
Speaker 4: Davis Hansen piece about that, But to put it bluntly,
Speaker 4: the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding
Speaker 4: middle ground working together. Ever since Trump came down that escalator,
Speaker 4: they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The result
Speaker 4: is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,
Speaker 4: anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,
Speaker 4: and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools
Speaker 4: based on the science, they were against it. When Trump
Speaker 4: wants to control the border, they want to leave it
Speaker 4: wide open. When Trump wants to apport it legal aliens
Speaker 4: guilty of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists,
Speaker 4: and gang members in the country. When Trump wants to
Speaker 4: save tax pairs, billions or trillions of wasteful government spending dollars,
Speaker 4: they want to fight for the wasteful government spending. There
Speaker 4: is no common ground to be found in a party
Speaker 4: that's held bent on opposing everything Trump wants to do.
Speaker 2: It's it's a bizarre sort of politics, dumb.
Speaker 3: I like your strategy of I would hang back and
Speaker 3: wait for something to go wrong, because inevitably will on
Speaker 3: the world stage, domestically something, and then take your shot
Speaker 3: to the trying to turn what's going in right now
Speaker 3: into something bad. You ain't gonna do it. There's too
Speaker 3: much public support. I felt like there was a different
Speaker 3: tone on the evening newscasts last night, and I blame
Speaker 3: Slash credit it to that CBS poll that came out
Speaker 3: Sunday with Trump having a fifty three percent approval rating.
Speaker 3: I felt like I could hear at fifty three percent
Speaker 3: approval rating in David Muir's voice as they were covering
Speaker 3: Trump yesterday at the beginning of the evening newscast, much
Speaker 3: more treating him like a regular president. I mean, maybe
Speaker 3: he has a point sort of tone. I mean, maybe
Speaker 3: I'm making that up, but I really feel like that,
Speaker 3: And oh no, I guess shouldn't be.
Speaker 2: They should be.
Speaker 3: There should have been somebody in that news director meeting
Speaker 3: and all of those newscasts saying, hey, look people, he's
Speaker 3: got a fifty three percent approval rating after all of
Speaker 3: this craziness has happened. So maybe other people don't think
Speaker 3: it's as crazy as we do. Maybe we ought to
Speaker 3: look at it slightly different. I mean, they'd be nuts
Speaker 3: up they weren't doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't have any great admiration for politicians brains
Speaker 4: and wisdom and the rest of them. I think most
Speaker 4: of them are hacks and green heads. But I would
Speaker 4: think they would at least perceive a what you just
Speaker 4: said and be that the frantic the sky is falling.
Speaker 4: He's a Russian agent. He's going to kill millions of
Speaker 4: people with COVID. I don't trust his vaccine. Now that
Speaker 4: it's our vaccine. Jab it into yourself, whether you like
Speaker 4: it or not. I mean the systematic. He wants the
Speaker 4: borders closed, to open up the borders led rapists, and
Speaker 4: having seen how miserably all that failed. I would think
Speaker 4: they would at least say, hey, let's talk about this
Speaker 4: for a couple of weeks and figure out what to do.
Speaker 4: But instead there I mean, full speed ahead, that moron
Speaker 4: Maxine Waters screeching as security guards at the Department of
Speaker 4: Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing, we will fight in the streets.
Speaker 2: What are you going to fight in the streets exactly? Anyway.
Speaker 4: Uh, we're kind of getting off on a tangent away
Speaker 4: from mailbag, which is fine. A number of people have
Speaker 4: sent the screenshot. House votes on the Protection of Women
Speaker 4: and Girls in Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen
Speaker 4: to nothing, yay, with two Democrat votes joining them. But
Speaker 4: Democrats were two six to two against protecting girls, and
Speaker 4: Screet didn't know that well in the caption, is imagine
Speaker 4: being the party that accuses the other party of hating women,
Speaker 4: then voting against women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so
Speaker 4: scared of the nutty left that they were that uniform
Speaker 4: and being against that. My wait a minute, bone is
Speaker 4: a hummin. I want to check those numbers to verify them.
Speaker 4: Don't take that to the bank, Okay, yeah, because that
Speaker 4: strikes me. I've received it from a bunch of people.
Speaker 4: It's says it appears to be a screen capture from
Speaker 4: Fox News, but it's easy to make things appear to
Speaker 4: be something they're not.
Speaker 2: Definitely, that'll do for now, sprinkling some more or later.
Speaker 3: Copper is already up two and a half percent. This
Speaker 3: was yesterday. I haven't looked today because of the announcement
Speaker 3: of ending the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so far
Speaker 3: this year, and it's early February. So the return on
Speaker 3: keeping pennies in a jar is beating interest earned by
Speaker 3: keeping cash in the bank currently, at least for pennies.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What
Speaker 4: you actually throw them away? Oh? Yeah, yeah, not just
Speaker 4: leave them? Well, no, no, no offense. And I would call
Speaker 4: the phel good lord, I know it's your birthleven. Next,
Speaker 4: I can't have you destroying currency. Yeah no, I just
Speaker 4: leave them places for people to find them.
Speaker 2: Well, that's nice.
Speaker 4: I'll leave them on counters or whatever. I can't tell
Speaker 4: if that's nice or just like super the opposite. Here's
Speaker 4: a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have a
Speaker 4: good day. I left them with plenty.
Speaker 2: I don't address them to their face like that.
Speaker 4: I just leave it and fellow oligarchs like me will
Speaker 4: pass it by, say I'm not picking up that filthy
Speaker 4: piece of coffee.
Speaker 2: What the poorm?
Speaker 3: I'd appreciate my all. I feel like that's the way.
Speaker 3: Then we'll take a break for Katie's headlines. I've said
Speaker 3: for years that's the way they should judge whether or
Speaker 3: not we should keep currency. Get one hundred random people.
Speaker 3: Maybe do it at an airport or bus station or
Speaker 3: something like that. You leave a penny on the ground
Speaker 3: and nickel the ground on the dime on the ground,
Speaker 3: what percentage of people bend over to pick it up.
Speaker 3: Almost nobody's gonna bend over to pick up a penny,
Speaker 3: which is proof that it is worthless.
Speaker 2: I don't know about the nickel.
Speaker 3: Almost everybody I think would pick up the dime, but nickel,
Speaker 3: I I'm not exactly sure. You your sour on the nickel.
Speaker 3: I still think a nickel is something. But practically nobody's
Speaker 3: gonna bend over to pick up a penny, which I
Speaker 3: think is I don't think I have spent twenty seven
Speaker 3: hours in the last year with any change in my pocket.
Speaker 2: Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,
Speaker 2: you don't.
Speaker 3: You haven't spent an hour with any money in your
Speaker 3: pocket at all in the last year. Younger people, I know,
Speaker 3: just the idea of having money in your pocket seems insane.
Speaker 3: Why would you do that? Hmm, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 6: Another big indicator are the numerous shops on Etsy of
Speaker 6: people drilling holes in pennies and tournament to the keychains.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, when any jewelry everywhere? Oh really yeah,
Speaker 3: when that's happening, your currency is no longer. How did
Speaker 3: it take till now for Trump to say, nobody, we
Speaker 3: don't need the penny?
Speaker 2: What's that? Weird? Clinging to what is saddest quote?
Speaker 4: Whether it's a government program, the schools or whatever. We
Speaker 4: just were terrified by the idea of re examining things
Speaker 4: and asking the only question that matters is this working?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: But then we adopt as a country or get scared
Speaker 3: into adopting all of a sudden, dudes can participate in girls'
Speaker 3: sports and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.
Speaker 2: I mean, so how does that sweep the nation?
Speaker 3: At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do
Speaker 3: away with the time change that we all hate, or
Speaker 3: the penny which is worthless.
Speaker 4: It's bullying, That's how bullying, I guess, and bi radicals, The.
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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Jack, I've discovered what I believe to be the
Speaker 4: We Shall Overcome of twenty twenty five, the we are
Speaker 4: the world of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you which signe are you on?
Speaker 1: Which side? Are you on?
Speaker 2: Which side?
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 1: All side?
Speaker 2: Are you on? Which side are you on?
Speaker 7: We're a fighter against Joe will fight me.
Speaker 2: Now wait, Lanscap, Then our walls will fight from don
Speaker 2: to dusk.
Speaker 7: Which side are you?
Speaker 2: Where shide are you?
Speaker 4: I'm on whichever side? I'm sure I never have to
Speaker 4: hear this song again. Play it, Michael, play it, damn it.
Speaker 2: Try somebody till you turn it off. For unions.
Speaker 7: He wants us to face, he wants to bow to him,
Speaker 7: but we want him in jail.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Wow.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't forget who wrote this or said this,
Speaker 3: and I thought it was really good. One of the
Speaker 3: problems we got going on in America is we we
Speaker 3: had this period in the sixties where there was a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of late fifties mid sixties particularly where we
Speaker 3: had all kinds of this sort of thing songs and
Speaker 3: protests and you know, the look at the Bob Dylan
Speaker 3: movie and the Civil Rights Act and all these different
Speaker 3: sorts of things where there was like a real major
Speaker 3: issue to be dealt with, and and people rallied around
Speaker 3: and there was a which side where you're on?
Speaker 2: And people it was righteous? It was righteous, and.
Speaker 3: People want to relive that all the time, even if
Speaker 3: that issue doesn't exist right now. And you can't like
Speaker 3: put that level of intensity on dog. He's trying to
Speaker 3: cut spending by a few percent and shrink the government.
Speaker 2: Which side are you on?
Speaker 1: Which side?
Speaker 2: Thanks for asking you.
Speaker 8: It's not the moral question of our times, as you
Speaker 8: exactly as you point out, it's just so nakedly a
Speaker 8: strategy of we've got to change the these incremental cuts
Speaker 8: that aren't nearly enough to have bloated federal workforce into
Speaker 8: the civil rights issue of our day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 4: I mean, you want to talk about trying to make
Speaker 4: a silk person out of a sow's ear, that's like
Speaker 4: a silk person out of the pig's crap.
Speaker 3: Never mind it's ear. This it's not gonna work. The
Speaker 3: singing the lyrics was that a Saturday night live bit.
Speaker 3: Good lord, don't.
Speaker 1: Take that government by translives workers having got a chance
Speaker 1: unless the organized.
Speaker 4: No pretending that the union is standing up for goodness
Speaker 4: and righteousness, when indeed they're just standing up for continuing
Speaker 4: to have way too many workers paying way too many
Speaker 4: dues to enrich themselves.
Speaker 2: Hi, we're onto you, friends.
Speaker 3: I sure hope I'm right about this, and I think,
Speaker 3: but the vast majority of America doesn't look at government
Speaker 3: jobs as sacro sagged protected by all that is good.
Speaker 3: They should never go away under any circumstances the way
Speaker 3: they think we do well. They have managed to jam
Speaker 3: through every bit of wasteful spending and redundant taxation and
Speaker 3: similar stuff for years and years.
Speaker 4: And we're most familiar with California. But by always it's
Speaker 4: the teachers and the firefighters. If there are any cuts,
Speaker 4: it's gonna you know, the firefighters are gonna have to
Speaker 4: fight fires with Dixie cups full of water. And the teachers, well,
Speaker 4: they're just going to be in prison, apparently, if we don't.
Speaker 2: Pass this tax increase, well, now it's extended.
Speaker 4: Like all government workers who are sacrosanct and sacred and
Speaker 4: so valuable to society, we dare not question them for
Speaker 4: a minute.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: The great civil rights issue of our day is making sure,
Speaker 3: mid level government employees who do something that you can't
Speaker 3: even tell what it.
Speaker 4: Is don't lose their jobs, all right, no matter how
Speaker 4: unnecessary their jobs are.
Speaker 3: Right, And there's also the issue in that I don't
Speaker 3: think Elon's been hammering this enough, although he has many
Speaker 3: times in his Twitter threats. There are important jobs and
Speaker 3: important agencies that are gonna have to go away if
Speaker 3: you don't have enough money. It's like, if you're broke,
Speaker 3: you really really want to do this or that, but
Speaker 3: you can't.
Speaker 4: You just flat don't have the money. Katie Green, What
Speaker 4: what should we know about what we're about to play?
Speaker 6: So I was scrolling through TikTok and this popped up
Speaker 6: on my for you page, and the visual of this,
Speaker 6: it's a woman filming it. Her husband is driving and
Speaker 6: he has headphones in and she's clearly talking at him,
Speaker 6: but he cannot hear her.
Speaker 9: And this is how it goes down.
Speaker 7: He thinks I talk too much. I can't get a
Speaker 7: word in edge wise when I'm talking to my girls.
Speaker 7: But we're on a road trip in a confined space,
Speaker 7: and he's got your buds in listening to arms. Try
Speaker 7: and go yeah.
Speaker 2: A good man, Yeah, he can't.
Speaker 6: He says, he can't get a word in edgewise, and
Speaker 6: he's sitting there. He doesn't hear a thing she's saying
Speaker 6: because he's listening to you guys.
Speaker 2: That's funny. We made TikTok.
Speaker 4: I hope Shehijin Ping doesn't purge that clip because it
Speaker 4: mentions the flaming anti communists Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: I so you have TikTok on your phone? Yeah? How
Speaker 2: much do you enjoy it?
Speaker 6: It's it's okay. I mean the algorithms definitely. It catches
Speaker 6: my attention, but I try to, you know, not use
Speaker 6: it as much because the China thing.
Speaker 3: I wish I could do it. I mean I would
Speaker 3: like to. I would like to, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of obnoxious crap on there.
Speaker 6: But somehow that algorithm put that video on my phone yesterday.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: Don't trust China. So it knows where you work it probably,
Speaker 2: or just knows what radio show has beloved Coast to coast.
Speaker 6: Yeah, or it hears it through my phone when I'm
Speaker 6: on with you guys every day.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure, but I thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 2: That is funny. Bring him back. He's not fat. That's
Speaker 2: a good chance.
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