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 Jattie and he Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 3: My new study has revealed that by quieting down certain
Speaker 3: neuronal networks, bees sleep like humans, so they lie awake
Speaker 3: until two am. Wondering if they said hi in a
Speaker 3: weird way to Brenda from Accounting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that study. The headline was intriguing, and
Speaker 1: I haven't looked into it. Perhaps I will look into it.
Speaker 1: That sounds like something we could talk about. The whole
Speaker 1: bees sleep like humans thing. I'm blown away, and I
Speaker 1: myself wondered if they wake up at two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, thinking, I just don't think I rank as
Speaker 1: high in the high as I should.
Speaker 4: Right right, Oh my god, the hive is leaking, and
Speaker 4: I know I need to deal with it because it'll
Speaker 4: just get worse, right or.
Speaker 2: All this buzzing, where is it getting me?
Speaker 4: I've got to admit I've invested far too little time
Speaker 4: considering the sleep habits of bees.
Speaker 1: Not to go back to the academic stuff, but I
Speaker 1: was for some reason this popped into my mind.
Speaker 2: In this bee thing.
Speaker 1: I have known a number of people, like academics, PhD
Speaker 1: type people who had such narrow areas of study, and
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that you can focus on such a narrow
Speaker 1: thing for your whole career and not go crazy or
Speaker 1: lose interest. It's bees, yeah, or just bees in general,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, AnyWho More importantly, Wow, this could be huge.
Speaker 1: Just report here from Fox.
Speaker 5: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are ready in subpoenas
Speaker 5: in case former President Biden's White House physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor,
Speaker 5: and four Keystone offers don't agree to a request for
Speaker 5: congressional interviews by the Thursday deadline. The committee is investigating
Speaker 5: the Biden administration's use of the auto pen to sign
Speaker 5: pardons and executive orders, some.
Speaker 2: Still being challenged in court.
Speaker 5: Chairman James Comer tells Fox the committee could even call
Speaker 5: in former First Lady Jill Biden, the president's son Hunter,
Speaker 5: and former White House Press Secretary Kareem Jehan Pierre.
Speaker 6: If the trail leads us to the next step, which
Speaker 6: many believe would be perhaps Joe Biden and Hunter Biden,
Speaker 6: then we will go there.
Speaker 1: So James Comber's got a bit of Adam Schiff in
Speaker 1: him in that he promises a number of things or
Speaker 1: suggests a number of things that don't happen. I mean
Speaker 1: he's done that in number quite a few times. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got there before I did.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 1: But if for whatever reason, God, I gotta believe, Well,
Speaker 1: it's the Trump White House. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: I got to believe that there would be a certain
Speaker 1: amount of.
Speaker 2: Norm breaking.
Speaker 1: That quite a few people don't want to do in
Speaker 1: terms of bringing up the former first Lady and growing
Speaker 1: here about what happened in the White House, and then
Speaker 1: that becoming a regular thing. After every president leaves, you
Speaker 1: bring in their spouse and try to embarrass them. Did
Speaker 1: he ever confide in you that he planned to bomb
Speaker 1: that the weapons site?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't love it.
Speaker 1: But if they did, this is obviously in unique case,
Speaker 1: there's a decent chance that well, let's listen to James Comer.
Speaker 2: He kind of explains it here.
Speaker 6: Someone got documents and manually placed them in the machine
Speaker 6: and pressed the power button to sign Joe Biden's signature.
Speaker 6: That was not Joe Biden. That was done by Staffords.
Speaker 6: That would be done by any staffords. So we want
Speaker 6: to ask them who gave you the authority to use
Speaker 6: Joe Biden's signature, and we'll go from there. Obviously, we
Speaker 6: believe that some of the names, the chief of staff
Speaker 6: and perhaps the First Lady, were involved in a lot
Speaker 6: of the decision making. If that's where the trail leads,
Speaker 6: then we'll bring them in as well.
Speaker 1: As I said, this is mancuffs. This is a unique
Speaker 1: situation here. We'll bring the first Lady in in manacles
Speaker 1: if necessary. Did you see the hood over did you
Speaker 1: see Hannibal elector? Yes, she'll have the hand of elector masks.
Speaker 1: She'll be on a dolly from home Depot will rull
Speaker 1: her a strap to a dolly, yes, if necessary, if
Speaker 1: that's where the trail lead. But as I said, it's
Speaker 1: a unique situation because of this, and I'll read from
Speaker 1: the Jake Tapper book. We've mentioned this several times, but
Speaker 1: I'm reading from it now. Five people were running the country.
Speaker 1: Now this is quoting one of their high level democratic
Speaker 1: sources in the Tapper Thompson book. Five people were running
Speaker 1: the country and Joe Biden was at best a senior
Speaker 1: member of the board. Said one person familiar with the
Speaker 1: internal dynamic. A cabinet secretary. A cabinet secretary told them
Speaker 1: that expressed a similar sentiment about that group. I've never
Speaker 1: seen a situation like this before, with so few people
Speaker 1: having so much power, they would make huge economic decisions
Speaker 1: without calling the Treasury Secretary Yellen. That's worth investigating, isn't it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 4: And the question of the autopen as well, I think
Speaker 4: is legitimate. I'd like to know more about the conventional
Speaker 4: use of the autopen. But yeah, who was in charge?
Speaker 4: To what extent were we not following the constitution?
Speaker 1: You know. The more I think about it and where Yet,
Speaker 1: Tim the lawyer on later he would probably point this out.
Speaker 1: Constitutionally speaking, those cabinet secretaries give advice to the president.
Speaker 1: He still gets to do what he wants. So if
Speaker 1: he decides to take his advice from that group of
Speaker 1: five people instead of Secretary Yellen on an economic matter,
Speaker 1: he gets to that's not unconstitutional.
Speaker 2: It's not the way things are.
Speaker 1: We have a cabinet secretary, we don't know which one
Speaker 1: saying I'd never seen anything like this before, major economic
Speaker 1: decisions being made without even talking to.
Speaker 2: The Secretary of the Treasury, right, But you read my mind.
Speaker 4: Other than a couple of narrow questions that they might
Speaker 4: be able to answer about either the autopen or something
Speaker 4: like that. You're never going to get any satisfaction because
Speaker 4: you can just go with no. Joe Biden preferred to
Speaker 4: give his cabinet secretaries a more free hand, and.
Speaker 1: That's where the discussion ends. Well, no, he wasn't really
Speaker 1: calling the shots.
Speaker 2: They were.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: He that's his management style. You'll never get any satisfaction.
Speaker 4: You know, he's an oligator. He delegates. That makes him
Speaker 4: a good leader. Yeah, knowing more is always better than
Speaker 4: knowing less. But yeah, this trail, other than a couple
Speaker 4: of fairly narrow questions, is not going to be satisfying.
Speaker 1: But you got to admit if they had doctor Jill.
Speaker 1: First of all, doctor it hurts when to do this
Speaker 1: fake doctors. They had doctor John, a doctor, and you
Speaker 1: know the way these hearings go, where the whole point
Speaker 1: is to you know, grandstand and make a moment that's
Speaker 1: gonna get on the news or you can retweet. Uh,
Speaker 1: it would be pretty it'd be pretty juicy, almost guaranteed.
Speaker 4: Oh to have doctor Jill in there, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: I would cancel everything.
Speaker 2: I would cancel, like major heart surgery to watch that.
Speaker 1: He is known to have not recognized George Clooney, who
Speaker 1: he knows very well, when he saw him at a fundraiser.
Speaker 1: He did not recognize or remember the name of his
Speaker 1: secretary of State, so ms Biden. Did he ever forget
Speaker 1: who you are? Did he ever look at you and
Speaker 1: seem to not recognize who you are? Hey?
Speaker 2: Those would be? My name is not Esther. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's Fuddy Michael.
Speaker 1: She's a congenital liar in a in a nutshet. You
Speaker 1: gotta admit that'd be. That'd be pretty good? Oh pretty
Speaker 1: good again? Please birth of I'll see in a couple hours. Honey,
Speaker 1: doctor Jill's getting grilled on TV. James Komer is really
Speaker 1: sticking it to doctor Joe.
Speaker 4: So I keep promising that I'm done with discussing the
Speaker 4: Tapper book.
Speaker 2: The Tapper Alex what's his name?
Speaker 4: Thompson? Who's the real reporter in this story? I really
Speaker 4: ought to try to remember his name. I keep promising
Speaker 4: I'm not going to talk about it anymore, But then
Speaker 4: my favorite writers take their shot at it. For instance,
Speaker 4: The Brilliant, the Hilarious Matt tyebe Fantastic headline Jake Tapper's
Speaker 4: Biden book is hilarious and insane.
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Speaker 1: first word I used after I got the book. I
Speaker 1: stayed up late that last Tuesday night, and the first
Speaker 1: thing I said about it was it's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Next segment.
Speaker 1: I want you to have plenty of time to read
Speaker 1: Matt Tybe because I find he's writing really really good man.
Speaker 2: He is, he is. He is a talented dude.
Speaker 4: Even when I disagree with him, his writing is so
Speaker 4: good it's entertaining.
Speaker 2: Plus some bonus mailbag.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about Elon leaving Doge in
Speaker 1: the way that's being treated in how We're doomed because
Speaker 1: of the way people look at that whole project.
Speaker 2: Things are getting weird, and they getting weird fast.
Speaker 1: We have him been to that. We have listener favorite
Speaker 1: Tim M. Lawyer on this hour. It's gonna be good
Speaker 1: at gour stay here.
Speaker 2: Armstrong.
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris recently told a crowd in Orange County that
Speaker 4: I'm not going anywhere that's because she was too drunk
Speaker 4: to drive.
Speaker 1: That ongoing theme, continue to read the Jake Tapper Alex
Speaker 1: Thompson book at night. I haven't gotten any stuff about
Speaker 1: Kamala yet.
Speaker 2: I'm not that far into the book.
Speaker 1: That has to be one of the driving forces is
Speaker 1: that they didn't trust Kamala being president.
Speaker 2: Right, has to be. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've seen quotes to that effect from the book, so
Speaker 4: I believe them to be there. So, as I said earlier,
Speaker 4: I keep saying, Okay, that's the end of this discussion
Speaker 4: about the book and Biden being seen island the rest
Speaker 4: of it. But the continued attempt to spin it by
Speaker 4: the authors is just too delicious to pass up. And
Speaker 4: the particularly Jake Tapper Alex Thompson, I think is a
Speaker 4: pretty straight shooter. But my favorite writers keep engaging and
Speaker 4: I can't pass it up. Like the brilliant Matt Tayebe,
Speaker 4: Jake Tapper's Biden book is hilarious and insane is his headline.
Speaker 4: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps
Speaker 4: and bounds more demented than.
Speaker 2: The book subject Joe Biden. And then he talked about
Speaker 2: how he wasn't gonna do it.
Speaker 4: He wasn't gonna do it, but in the moment of
Speaker 4: late night weakness, he was reading from chapter one and
Speaker 4: talking about how is all Joe Biden's fault. He screwed
Speaker 4: Kamala Harrison, the Democratic Party and David Pluff is all
Speaker 4: mad and the rest of them He.
Speaker 2: Totally afked us. Holy catfish Tye, he writes.
Speaker 4: I thought from online buzz that original Sin was a
Speaker 4: Mia Koppa. It would own the press's failures to cover
Speaker 4: Joe Biden's infirmity in a super belated blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But original Sin isn't that as you indicate, Jack. It's
Speaker 4: much crazier. Instead of a dreary and predictable book length
Speaker 4: excuse for thousands of media professionals simultaneously whiffing on the
Speaker 4: most obvious story in history. It's an ambitious book length
Speaker 4: effort to absolve all concerned pin and industry's coverage mistake
Speaker 4: on its president drool cup subject, all while additionally swirling
Speaker 4: a new storm system of bull less storylines key part
Speaker 4: to lay more serious questions about things like who was
Speaker 4: president for four years?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the excellent point.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of a mea culpa, and the literary
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty is awesome, equivalent to a blind unicyclist
Speaker 1: trying to juggle six chains.
Speaker 2: To Jake and Alex pull it off.
Speaker 4: They don't, but they sure leave a hell of a
Speaker 4: lot of blood on stage.
Speaker 1: It's probably that it struck him the same way from
Speaker 1: page one. It's like, it's it's it's dizzying that what
Speaker 1: is happening here?
Speaker 2: What is this book right right right? Trying to thread
Speaker 2: that needle?
Speaker 4: The book's opening lines tell us we're supposed to be
Speaker 4: shocked by Biden's delusional state, and then he gets into
Speaker 4: some quotes from the book. Reading this, you may experience
Speaker 4: a memory double take. Wasn't the public told repeatedly after
Speaker 4: that after last year's infamous debate that very little had
Speaker 4: changed And these are all quotes from the mainstream media.
Speaker 4: There was less polling damage than expected, and few of
Speaker 4: the results reflected or radically altered race.
Speaker 2: As NBC put it.
Speaker 4: Didn't we see high profile polls telling us that it's
Speaker 4: a dead heat Biden than the lead. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: There are less optimistic takes, but the idea that Joe
Speaker 4: Biden may have thought he had a chance is not
Speaker 4: that insane right after the debate, because the polls had
Speaker 4: not really changed. Let's see, in the introduction, Tapper and
Speaker 4: Thompson explained, there's is a literary porridge not too old
Speaker 4: and hot, not too cold, but just right. Those who
Speaker 4: were convinced that Joe Biden was little more than a
Speaker 4: husk from the beginning, barely capable of stringing two sentences together,
Speaker 4: will not find support for that view here, they write.
Speaker 4: Those who assist he was unaddled to the end are
Speaker 4: also just as wrong. And then he goes into his
Speaker 4: own history, writing for Rolling Stone, among others before the election,
Speaker 4: that Biden quote, on multiple occasions look close to grabbing
Speaker 4: prospective voters by their ears and speed eating their faces off.
Speaker 4: And often he looks around like he expects this a
Speaker 4: thumb up for giving into his rage response just just
Speaker 4: his terrible and we we described this at the time.
Speaker 4: He would go off on angry, red faced rants at voters,
Speaker 4: or hold women's arms and pull them close for way
Speaker 4: too long. Just a mess anyway, Let's see. Uh, anyone
Speaker 4: who recalls this will find it very hard to take
Speaker 4: the Tap for Thompson line that Biden was fine at
Speaker 4: the start, but not at the end. And at some
Speaker 4: point in between his incapacity became obvious enough to be
Speaker 4: melting before our eyes, not only so obvious that anyone
Speaker 4: but Biden could be blamed for lying about it. It
Speaker 4: hurts my brain to think about the math of that one.
Speaker 4: And anyway, he goes into some detail on that. There
Speaker 4: was one more.
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, the page before chapter one, whatever
Speaker 1: you call that page, had some long Latin quote and
Speaker 1: then a big quote from Shakespeare like this was some
Speaker 1: sort of deep, interesting psychological who saw this coming part
Speaker 1: of history and human nature? It's like, get over yourself important,
Speaker 1: Explain to me why you didn't report on what everybody
Speaker 1: knew but they don't yew that no, no, and then
Speaker 1: you know final note, And this is in Matt's style,
Speaker 1: quite long, but he talks about in the Dean Phillips
Speaker 1: chapter they blame Biden entirely for running again and they're
Speaker 1: not being a primary. But Taivi writes, Thompson and Tapper
Speaker 1: know well that the entire party vetoed the idea of
Speaker 1: an open primary. There's a long chapter titled Dean Phillips.
Speaker 1: The Chronicles Weirdly and incompetently the abject process by which
Speaker 1: challenge were excluded from any kind of primary process, though
Speaker 1: a lot of the worst shenanigans are left out. The
Speaker 1: two authors less note it was quote it was machine
Speaker 1: style politics to ensure that Biden would be the nominee
Speaker 1: if the entire Democratic Party apparatus went along with spiking
Speaker 1: a robust primary. How can it be all Biden who
Speaker 1: fed us by refusing to acknowledge his decay and quit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it is a fake job of accounting. It is
Speaker 1: going an inch toward accounting to avoid having to go
Speaker 1: the next eleven inches.
Speaker 2: That would would really, you know, show the deal.
Speaker 1: Uh coming up on a talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Elon and the coverage and how angering it is. You
Speaker 1: said it a week ago, Michael, Nobody is going to
Speaker 1: beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. Nobody They moved on to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. They're just awaiting their opponent with a
Speaker 1: win by thirty points last night, and they are unstoppable.
Speaker 1: They might be the first NBA champion that practically nobody
Speaker 1: could name a player on in NBA history at the
Speaker 1: end of this although there was an article the other
Speaker 1: day that the ratings are up quite a bit with
Speaker 1: the smaller markets.
Speaker 2: That defies logic. I don't know if that will last
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Elon Musk roll as a special government employee coming to
Speaker 7: an end, posting on AX, I would like to thank
Speaker 7: President Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. In
Speaker 7: his last hours working for the Trump administration, Musk breaking
Speaker 7: with the President on his massive spending bill, arguing it
Speaker 7: would undo their own efforts to shrink the federal government.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The reporting around Elon Musk stepping away from government and
Speaker 1: going back to his old wife, which is incredible. His
Speaker 1: old life was incredible. It's amazing that he took on
Speaker 1: this giant task for a while. But the reporting on
Speaker 1: this has been driving me crazy. The combination of a
Speaker 1: gloating over how little he accomplished, like that's something to
Speaker 1: be happy about, right, But you're happy about it because
Speaker 1: it was somebody in Trump's orbit failing, even though it's
Speaker 1: going to ruin your kids' lives.
Speaker 2: Correct. That combination of that and UH and the.
Speaker 1: Dismissing, the dismissing the effort or what was accomplished, just
Speaker 1: it makes me insane.
Speaker 2: And still to be accomplished.
Speaker 1: Yeah, First of all, here's Elon talking about the big
Speaker 1: beautiful bill.
Speaker 8: You know, I was like disappointed to see the massive
Speaker 8: spending bill, frankly, which increases the bunch deps that not
Speaker 8: does decrease it, and that reminds the work that the
Speaker 8: Noche team is doing.
Speaker 4: I actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along.
Speaker 4: I mean, like everything he's done on Dose gets wiped
Speaker 4: out in the first year.
Speaker 8: I think, I think a bill can be can be
Speaker 8: can be big, or it can be beautiful, but I
Speaker 8: don't know if it could be both.
Speaker 1: So that clip struck me as while he you know,
Speaker 1: he was disappointed in the bill, not nearly the way
Speaker 1: it was portrayed all day long yesterday before I finally
Speaker 1: heard it his.
Speaker 4: Last Trump or Musk breaks with Trump right criticize it.
Speaker 2: Finally the bromance is over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't exactly sound like it to me, especially
Speaker 1: considering the fact that Elon tweeted out I really will.
Speaker 2: I can read the tweet to you if you want.
Speaker 1: As my scheduled time as special government employee comes to
Speaker 1: an end, I would like to thank President Trump for
Speaker 1: the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will
Speaker 1: only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of
Speaker 1: life throughout the government, which is true to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: as they've put a number of things in place. For instance,
Speaker 1: he mentions in that same interview from Sunday morning, there
Speaker 1: were all kinds of places in the government where spending
Speaker 1: automatically got signed off without any review whatsoever. You just
Speaker 1: submitted a bill and said, yeah, I need five million
Speaker 1: dollars for this, and somebody just signed whatever I had
Speaker 1: to be signed, and he got it without any thinking
Speaker 1: about it whatsoever. And that's why there's a long list
Speaker 1: of crazy crap. I almost dropped it as bumb crazy
Speaker 1: grap that money gets spent on and that is now
Speaker 1: in place and will continue. Is it well short of
Speaker 1: the two trillion dollars he was hoping to cut? Hell, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is very disappointing to me, should be disappointing to everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it.
Speaker 4: And what especially annoys me about the media and which
Speaker 4: is ninety percent half wits and liars anyway, and we
Speaker 4: all know it. But they criticize DOGE bitterly, the activities
Speaker 4: of DOGE, which is ongoing again bitterly for oh, this
Speaker 4: single mom is gonna lose her job, or these cuts
Speaker 4: could hurt people, blah blah blah. But then when Elon
Speaker 4: Musk breaks with Trump and criticizes the bill as not
Speaker 4: cutting enough spending. Now, Elon Musk the great truth teller.
Speaker 4: We should listen to him. I mean, my god, he's
Speaker 4: on the same side of the issue. But now you
Speaker 4: like him because he's quote unquote broken with Trump, and
Speaker 4: I don't think we have Trump's sound. We should, but
Speaker 4: it's not here. He was asked about that Elon Musk
Speaker 4: criticized the bill. He said, look, there's some stuff in
Speaker 4: the bill I love. There's some stuff I don't like
Speaker 4: so much. That's what happens with bills.
Speaker 1: So Jonathan Turley tweeted out, now that Elon Musk has
Speaker 1: returned to his businesses, that it's time to acknowledge his
Speaker 1: legacy in advancing space exploration, electric vehicles, free speech, and
Speaker 1: other public service. Trump should award him the Presidential Medal
Speaker 1: of Freedom. That's funny, I thought that driving to work today.
Speaker 1: He should absolutely give Elon the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 1: If Obama gave it to Biden for being a vice president,
Speaker 1: then yeah, Elon, can we wait for.
Speaker 4: A couple of days after the pardoning of various scumbags
Speaker 4: that Trump did just to give it a little more luster.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Jonathan Turley goes on to say Elon has been
Speaker 1: targeted and threatened for his work in the executive branch.
Speaker 2: That service cost him a fortune.
Speaker 1: It is time for the American people to express our
Speaker 1: gratitude for his contributions to our country and economy. He
Speaker 1: put a lot on the line and literally cost him
Speaker 1: a lot to try to take this on because he
Speaker 1: thought it was the right thing to do, because he
Speaker 1: thinks debt is such a threat. And they didn't carve
Speaker 1: out several hundred billion dollars. Again, it's a tiny amount
Speaker 1: compared to what we need to do, but that's not.
Speaker 2: Worth the effort.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't even understand the reasoning behind
Speaker 1: the attack.
Speaker 2: Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 4: There is no reasoning, except in as much as the
Speaker 4: emotional reasoning that most lefty journalists engage in is there.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, so you got a thousand unnecessary jobs.
Speaker 4: Cutting those jobs made people sad. Therefore it is bad
Speaker 4: because I don't have the capacity for logic. I think
Speaker 4: emotionally all the time.
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin points out that the New York Times assigned
Speaker 1: five reporters to write about Elon's departure yesterday, and as
Speaker 1: he as Halprin says, to try to drive a wedge
Speaker 1: between Trump and Elon because they love that for some reason.
Speaker 1: How many reporters do they have on the absolutely brilliant
Speaker 1: guys who are continuing the doge work, the guys who
Speaker 1: Brett Bear famously interviewed, We ran a bunch of audio
Speaker 1: from it, who are doing God's work in your children
Speaker 1: and grandchildren's work too, trying to reign in, profligate government spending.
Speaker 1: New York Times no interest in that course, They're terrible.
Speaker 1: Five reporters on that, as Halpin writes, it reads more
Speaker 1: like a daily mail piece than something serious. For one thing,
Speaker 1: but also points out there's not an insignificant number of
Speaker 1: size of relief from colleagues in the White House about
Speaker 1: Elon's departure, which I don't doubt a bit from a
Speaker 1: combination of he was getting more attention than me, just
Speaker 1: that sort of jealousy or making my department more difficult,
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 2: Turns all change all.
Speaker 4: He also has a very forceful, energetic way of going
Speaker 4: about his business, which is probably tough to take sometimes
Speaker 4: and also pretty incompatible with some of the realities of government.
Speaker 4: All right, So I understand it was an uncomfortable fit,
Speaker 4: that's true, But I don't understand the glee about that.
Speaker 4: So I'm watching MSNBC this morning.
Speaker 1: I flip it on, and they're just once again, a
Speaker 1: businessman thinks he can come into Washington, d C. And
Speaker 1: treat it like a business and Washington always wins, and
Speaker 1: Elon learned a lesson.
Speaker 2: Are you you're so you're happy about that?
Speaker 1: You're joyful about the fact that businessmen can't make a
Speaker 1: dent in the fact that we spend so much more
Speaker 1: money than we take in and we're gonna become insolvent.
Speaker 2: That makes you happy?
Speaker 6: Somehow?
Speaker 4: I don't get it, cause they're stupid, idiots and liars.
Speaker 4: What's not to get? Seriously, what's that you don't get it?
Speaker 4: What's not to get? No, I understand, it's just a
Speaker 4: rhetorical way of pointing that out. Yeah, they're they're Yeah,
Speaker 4: My contempt for them grows every day. It's you know what,
Speaker 4: It's like a redwood tree. Just when I think it's
Speaker 4: as big as it could possibly get, I look out
Speaker 4: and it's five feet high.
Speaker 1: I I hope, I really hope that I do this
Speaker 1: most of the time, in that I have some things
Speaker 1: I care about and believe and like when those causes
Speaker 1: get advanced, and hate when they get set back, regardless
Speaker 1: of who's involved. I hope because watching other people take
Speaker 1: glee in the destruction of the country, if it's the
Speaker 1: other team or or helps my team, I don't understand
Speaker 1: that way of looking at the world.
Speaker 2: Yay, we're gonna go and solvent.
Speaker 4: They're stupid liars, he says again, They're unwise, they're fools,
Speaker 4: They're dumb bastards. They're beneath your contempt. That's why they
Speaker 4: think that way.
Speaker 1: Maybe to uh and I hate them Bolsters's not already, Clark.
Speaker 2: I just want to.
Speaker 1: Make surelier you said you want to pound on their
Speaker 1: stupid heads that's correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, I remain desirous of that.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to pound on the stupid heads, just
Speaker 1: to show that I'm not a Trump honk and supporting
Speaker 1: everything that is in the Trump orbit. I think it's
Speaker 1: great that a court says the president can't stretch some
Speaker 1: emergency power and change the tariff structure of the entire
Speaker 1: world on his own right.
Speaker 4: Of course, he didn't hear this the Court of International Trade,
Speaker 4: which is a fairly obscure three judge court in America.
Speaker 1: Here's how obscure. This is the reason I brought it
Speaker 1: back up. Yeah, byron Yorke of the Examiner Rights. Prior
Speaker 1: to today, the Court of International Trade's greatest tariff ruling
Speaker 1: was that the Snuggie is a blanket.
Speaker 2: Yes, remember when they ruled on that the Snuggie is
Speaker 2: a blanket? Right?
Speaker 4: The debate was is it a blanket or merely a
Speaker 4: backward robe anyway, So this court has said, no, you
Speaker 4: don't have emergency powers to just unilaterally declare all these tariffs.
Speaker 4: Now it goes to the Circuit Court of Appeals, then
Speaker 4: to the Supreme Court. So we'll have to see how
Speaker 4: it shakes out. But it's it's a major development.
Speaker 1: Oh god, I remember this Snuggy phenomenon because my brother
Speaker 1: got one.
Speaker 2: He ordered one for someone, And do you remember the
Speaker 2: ads for the Snuggy.
Speaker 1: What was funny about it is it's a blanket with
Speaker 1: a hole in it so you can put your head
Speaker 1: through it. So is it a blanket or a pon
Speaker 1: show or whatever? I don't know why that became a
Speaker 1: point of contention for.
Speaker 2: The armholes too, right. I remember that the line was
Speaker 2: it was a backward robe, right anyway.
Speaker 1: So their ad was, you know, satisfaction guaranteed, money back
Speaker 1: guaranteed if you're not satisfied. But we learned this when
Speaker 1: my brother got for someone for Christmas. It shows up
Speaker 1: to your house in a box with nothing but the
Speaker 1: snuggy in a box.
Speaker 2: There's no like return address, no information, no phone, no
Speaker 2: no nothing. So hell are you going to return?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Right? Exactly?
Speaker 4: You'd have to spend hours and hours figuring out how
Speaker 4: to return your fifty eight dollars. I don't remember what
Speaker 4: that costs the snuggie. I'll tell you what it was
Speaker 4: worth it for our family Christmas that year. Everybody put
Speaker 4: it on and took a picture, and you know, great
Speaker 4: social media moment.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, the snuggy and all the people sitting on
Speaker 1: the couch looking so happy in it. In the commercials
Speaker 1: still to come here clever emails including we asked for
Speaker 1: are we wrong about backing Ukraine?
Speaker 4: Are we wrong about Russia? Should not be our buddy,
Speaker 4: I'm not We got some intriguing replies to that plus
Speaker 4: a Tim Sanderfer from the Goldwater Foundation. Indeed, next hour
Speaker 4: to discuss various cases and causes for liberty.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is quite an episode. Some episodes are, but
Speaker 1: this one very very good.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of good stuff coming up an
Speaker 1: hour three, including fan favorite to Tim the Lawyer, So
Speaker 1: stay tuned looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Here's a little mail bag.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Normally you do this in our one of the show,
Speaker 4: but we didn't have time, so we thought we would
Speaker 4: do it now.
Speaker 2: You can drop us a line.
Speaker 4: If you'd like, you'd like to register your opinion there's
Speaker 4: something we ought to be talking about. Send us an
Speaker 4: email mail bag at Armstrong egidi dot com.
Speaker 2: Likewise, if you'd.
Speaker 4: Like immediate brief input, you can text us four one
Speaker 4: five two nine five kftc. That's four one five two
Speaker 4: ninety five kftc. But to the email we go. First
Speaker 4: of all, I predicted cannibalism is right around the corner.
Speaker 4: AI and other factors. Oh oh, it was, because when.
Speaker 1: China feels free or feels it necessary, they will turn
Speaker 1: off the power and the cell phone system and water
Speaker 1: and god knows what else because they have implanted their
Speaker 1: evil software and so many of our systems and then
Speaker 1: inevitably cannibalism. My poor OCD thirteen year old can't sleep
Speaker 1: at night sometimes because he's worried about it.
Speaker 2: So I have to keep this talk to a minimum
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, plus AI anyway, So budding funniest emailer Sean Rights
Speaker 4: on the topic of cannibalism, guys, I had twenty middle
Speaker 4: schoolers on a hiking field trip. He's a teacher, obviously,
Speaker 4: and I told him, quote, if I get the inkling,
Speaker 4: were lost, just a very hint, We're lost. I start
Speaker 4: eating you, guys, like right away. I can't afford to
Speaker 4: wait to eat anyone because I'm only going to get
Speaker 4: weaker from that point on. Trew.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, that's fair warning. And the union is
Speaker 2: like super strong. That's pretty fun. That's brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, based on the things we've talked about in the past,
Speaker 1: I think you could eat a child and not lose
Speaker 1: your job as a teacher.
Speaker 2: Certainly in blue state school districts. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you can rape a child in New York, for instance,
Speaker 4: or molest them or what have you, and you're merely
Speaker 4: put in this weird limbo room. Anyway, on the top
Speaker 4: of your world wore three decay rights. Guys, what will
Speaker 4: happen if we initiate the military? How many men will
Speaker 4: declare that they are trans females and therefore not eligible
Speaker 4: to be drafted? Is it kind of like having bone
Speaker 4: spurs or asthma. It can get you out of this
Speaker 4: commitment now, but you may not have to suffer the
Speaker 4: consequences of your illness for your entire life because poof,
Speaker 4: it's gone.
Speaker 1: Change my mind, zero chance of a draft. So that
Speaker 1: helps eliminate the concern.
Speaker 4: I should mention that we got a bunch of really interesting,
Speaker 4: serious emails on the topic of Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Gonna hit those hour three, hour four of the show.
Speaker 1: Love that topic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so stay tuned for that. This is a lighter
Speaker 4: far indeed, But nitpicking, writes John, How ironic that I
Speaker 4: choose you. I chastise you for saying nutpicking instead of nitpicking.
Speaker 4: I guess he had in a previous email which I
Speaker 4: couldn't find, since quibbling over such minute in the English
Speaker 4: language practically defines what nitpicking is. But you, sir, an
Speaker 4: authority in future, AI will pick up your mistakes and
Speaker 4: magnify them. Be therefore justly diligent unless you intended that
Speaker 4: malapropism ironically, in which case never mind. Well, no, you're misunderstanding.
Speaker 4: Nutpicking is a very different concept from nitpicking. Nitpicking is
Speaker 4: worrying about tiny little details that are not significant. Jack,
Speaker 4: would you like to explain what nutpicking is?
Speaker 1: Nutpicking is taking somebody, usually from social media, but not always,
Speaker 1: but you take an extreme example of the other side
Speaker 1: that you don't like and hold them up as this
Speaker 1: is what everybody on the other side is like, and
Speaker 1: it's not completely fair. You take the craziest transactivist twenty
Speaker 1: three year old video on Twitter and say, see, these
Speaker 1: people are nuts, that most people are nuts. That's picking
Speaker 1: a nut right and using it to a blanket coverage
Speaker 1: of everyone with.
Speaker 2: It right exactly. That's nut picking. Anyway. Pam Wright's woke
Speaker 2: is not over. Don't be fooled. I grew up in the.
Speaker 4: East Bay, that's the San Francisco Barrier, went to Chico State,
Speaker 4: currently live in Vacaville, California. Have many liberal friends all
Speaker 4: over the Bay Area and Sacramento, the capital, who are
Speaker 4: absolutely still woke. In particular some friends of mine who
Speaker 4: live in She mentions another suburb whose daughter decided to
Speaker 4: go by they them when she is about ten years old.
Speaker 1: Oh whenever, I, of course they did. Nobody nobody told them.
Speaker 1: They completely came to that conclusion on their own. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: And whenever I refer to her, my friends correct me
Speaker 1: to refer to her as they. All My liberal friends
Speaker 1: still sign off their emails with she her hers, or
Speaker 1: he him his or they them. I wish Woke was
Speaker 1: over tired of walking on hl's around my friends who
Speaker 1: explode if I miss gender someone God, when I run
Speaker 1: into pronouns, I just shake my head while you're still
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't decide whether I admire your loyalty to
Speaker 4: your friends still being friends with him, Pam, or as
Speaker 4: a bit of a misanthrope. I think you need better friends,
Speaker 4: but that's up to you, certainly. Uh And then how
Speaker 4: much time do we have?
Speaker 2: Got A minute thirty? A minute thirty?
Speaker 4: Yeah, We've gotten a handful of peace people who love
Speaker 4: a lot of what Trump's doing. Pissed off and disappointed
Speaker 4: by the various pardons lately, like these Krisly reality TV
Speaker 4: fraud merchant tax cheats.
Speaker 2: Why did he pardon them?
Speaker 4: Because their daughter is super maga and she and others
Speaker 4: donate a ton of money to Trump's packs and campaigns.
Speaker 2: So an incredibly hot blonde who spoken to.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of the Trump or thing right, you
Speaker 1: know that she's got the look should be in the
Speaker 1: cabinet someday.
Speaker 4: So Anita writes, why on earth is Trump? Pardon the krizlies?
Speaker 4: They're stupid so called reality stars who an intelligent jury
Speaker 4: found guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion. The husband
Speaker 4: should be the poster child for avoiding botox and plastic surgery.
Speaker 4: They've never expressed any remorse, maintained that they did not
Speaker 4: do it, but an intelligent jury did not believe them.
Speaker 1: I agree with your being upset with this one. The
Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer napping plot not as clear cut. There was
Speaker 1: a fair amount of leading drunken idiots along by the FBI.
Speaker 1: A little entrappy for your taste. Yeah, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's it's more interesting than the one
Speaker 1: you just mentioned. Certainly pros and cons for continuing to
Speaker 1: support Ukraine. Plus Tim Sanderfer from the Goldwater Foundation Next Hour.
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