1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: Jetty and arms Wrong. I went to ari I and 4 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of mountain climbing gear, and I'm 5 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: gonna wear into where it from now on to see 6 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: if that'll help me survive in this cold environment, the 7 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: everest like environment. Exactly. 8 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 2: I've got these big snow boots in a giant hood 9 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 2: with the furry thing around the face. 10 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: One must stay for three days at the Armstrong, a 11 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: Getty based camp to become accustomed to the elements in 12 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: the sin air, the gold. Certainly why I'm from Studio 13 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,959 Speaker 1: C say, a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels 14 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey y'all, midweek, 15 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: we're under the tulage. I forgot to put my trash out. 16 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 1: I forgot to put my trash out again. Wednesday's crisis. 17 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: Dang it. 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 2: Anyway, today we're under the tuelage of our general manager. 19 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: Elon Muskin. For vek Rama Swami wah. It's the Federal Provernment. 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: Oh wow, No, the Federal The pros are in charge. 21 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: Now it's a major pro vibe. We're not gonna listen 22 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: to your silly well federal workforce, the whole skillelea. We're 23 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: gonna cut to the bone. It's exciting. I didn't take 24 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: my trash out last week, so this should be two 25 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Boy, Well, right, I was mistaken 26 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: about the number one issue over time. Now it takes 27 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: you a while, that surge of oh no, oh, crap, oh, 28 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: and the can is full. It you'll have to get 29 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: over it. There's a period of adjustment. Well, I moved 30 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: fairly recently, so I always think on Monday night it's 31 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: trash night because that's my old house. 32 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: But that's not Yeah, I don't What do you can 33 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 2: to do? 34 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll get used to the smell. What's the 35 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: freaking recyclables? I live in a town where the law 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: is you have to put your plastics in everything in 37 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: the recycle bin, and it gets full really fast because 38 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: it's tiny and flipping ridiculously expensive per month, but you 39 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: have to use it or you get a fine. So 40 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: that's what I need to get emptied out, which by 41 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: the way, goes to the same place as the rest 42 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: of the garbage. Yes, it does like ninety percent of 43 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: the time, which is hilarious. God, where was I was 44 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: in Vegas over the weekend? Every place had all those 45 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: trash can setups with the nine different choices compost, recycling, regular, garbage, plastics. 46 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: I never have any idea what's supposed to go anywhere, 47 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: and plus it all goes to the same place. AnyWho. Yep, 48 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: why does that continue? How does that? How does the 49 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: momentum of that content? Given the fact that most people 50 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: have caught on too, and there's been plenty of reporting 51 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: about that, the whole recycling thing just isn't really happening 52 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: the term uh and this purchase signaling is not as 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: hot as it used to be. But man, it is 54 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: so big on the left you can't even talk to 55 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: those people about You need to make a return trip 56 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: to your city council meeting. It went great the last time. Yeah, 57 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: but this kind of fits in with your brovernmant, the 58 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: whole elon vi vague doge thing that they got going 59 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: Department of Government efficiency. This is not exactly that, but 60 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: similar vein of things just continuing that don't work anymore, 61 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: never did, but we still do it for some reason. 62 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: That's what I want Elon to root out. Yeah, yeah, agreed, 63 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: and listen. 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: While I chose the term federal brovernmant mostly to annoy people, 65 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: including my co host, and I appear to have succeeded. 66 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 2: A federal broverer meant you got to send that to somebody. 67 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: I've sent it out into the cosmos, as we do 68 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: every day. I was thinking about this. I was assuming, 69 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: I just assume nobody's actually listening, but every people are 70 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: man or a company squandering a lot of money anyway, 71 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: So I was actually thinking about it after I came 72 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: up with the incredibly annoying term. And you've led perfectly 73 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: to my point, which is, you have had kind of 74 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: the psychic energy of a particular subset of people have outsized, 75 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: I mean, like wildly, insanely, dangerously, oppressively outsized influence. And 76 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: that would be the over educated twenty nine year old 77 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: white woman with her her gender studies major and her 78 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: militant belief in radical gender theory and critical race theory. 79 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: In her we believe lawn sign and the rest of it. 80 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: That is, I mean, that has had influen. It's far, far, 81 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: far in excess of the actual numbers involved. As the 82 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: recent election illustrated fairly clearly, it is time for the 83 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: opposite energy. I'm hearing a lot of whining. But the 84 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: government has bloated and we need to cut it. So 85 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna cut it. We need that. Yeah. The Washington 86 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: Post article that Elon Musk will bring his slash and 87 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: burn private policies to the government. Good was that a threat? 88 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: Good? 89 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: Fantastic? Remember when he took over Twitter and he said, 90 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: I look around and I see thousands of people I 91 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: don't even know what they do. Yeah. 92 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 2: Wait, do you get to the federal government? 93 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, indeed, slash and burn. How about seeking efficiency? 94 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: Oh man, no, wonder the legacy media is dying. How 95 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: do you look at something as wasteful, bloated and spending 96 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: our grandchildren's money. Well, yeah, as a federal government, and 97 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: when somebody wants to trim it, look at him. It's 98 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: gonna slash and burn. In all of media, radio, television, 99 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: and newspaper, all of traditional media. There have been such 100 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: huge cutbacks in the last couple of years because of 101 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: the changing revenue environment, and you got less money, so 102 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: you got to do things differently. The federal government is 103 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: the opposite I'll dig back up the numbers of how 104 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: many more thousands of federal employees we have now than 105 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: we had in two thoy nineteen before the pandemic. 106 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 2: Thousands and thousands and thousands of. 107 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: More federal employees while we're broke, I mean we're broke, 108 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: wet broke her every single day. It's insane to add 109 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: employees while you're broke instead of pairing down the size. 110 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: So that is as upside down as anything could get. 111 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: It's almost as if the public employee unions who profit 112 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: mightily from what Jack just said, have a direct line 113 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: to the people who make those decisions, and that they 114 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: scratch each other back and write each other's checks. It 115 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: almost makes you think that's the case. Huh. The way 116 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: we feel like the laws of gravity or economics, if 117 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: you will, don't apply to government money. Is weird? A 118 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: periodic if you're lies self destructive, suicidal, Yes, if you're 119 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: spending more than you take in, you got to change 120 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: those dynamics at some point. Of course, the government has 121 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: the advantage that a like, for instance, a restaurant doesn't have, 122 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: where you could just start charging people more they're forced 123 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: to eat there, and charging people more to eat to 124 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,559 Speaker 1: bring in more money. You can send men with guns 125 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: to their homes and tell them, yes, you're going to 126 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: go out for burgers tonight. You're going to pay this, 127 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: or you're going to go. 128 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 2: To jail exactly. So that is a slightly different situation. 129 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: Never mind, if you're like harboring squirrels as those poor 130 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: people in New York were. 131 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: Peanut, never forget. There's an update on Peanut. 132 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: I saw. 133 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 2: We'll have to get to. 134 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: It. Seems uh the officials were lying to us about 135 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: some of their intentions around Peanut who met ale untimely? End? Correct? 136 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: I swell? Can I have a second take on that punchline? 137 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: Michael Ahead, I smell not a squirrel but a rat. Wow, 138 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: you just edit that end of the show when it airs. 139 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: There's something working in my head. But with a peanut 140 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: allergy and allergy to government overreachers, I don't know. It's 141 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: a promising vein. Just keep exploring it, keep working on it. Well, 142 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: we got to start to show officially, don't we. I'm 143 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Wednesday, 144 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: November thirteenth, or twenty twenty four or Armstrong in getting 145 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: and we approve of this program. All right, I can't 146 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 1: wait to get to work. Here we go according to 147 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: the FCC rules and regulations, which I'm sure will be 148 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: paired down when Elon and Vive get their way. Here 149 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: we go at Mark. You guys see this. Following the election, bookings. 150 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: Have spiked for rage rooms, where people pay to. 151 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 1: Go break stuff. And if you think the people in 152 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 1: rage rooms are mad, imagine that people who couldn't get 153 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: a booking. 154 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 2: Out of rage rooms, Like. 155 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding if you've never heard of a 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: rage room. It's a place where people go to smash plates, cuffs, 157 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: and bottle It's waffle house. It's uh, that's a good 158 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: old style humor that Johnny Carson could have made those 159 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: jokes exactly. 160 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: The rage rooms. I didn't see one of those. Was 161 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 2: it in Vegas? 162 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: Some place? 163 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 2: I saw a sign for one of those? 164 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: Hmm, that's my daughter's man got her that for her birthday? Oh? 165 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: Really a rage room session? Yeah? And she what was 166 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: she smashing? Mostly? Oh? Let's see, he paid the uh, 167 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: the electronics upgrade, so I think there was a car involved, 168 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: and like because they'd paid the upgrade, there was a 169 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: TV all I can't remember. 170 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: From what I know of her, she's not a person 171 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: with a lot of rage. 172 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: So we're all more complex than we see the surface, right, 173 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: like to like to humble doc, you mean we all 174 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: humans paddling furiously below the surface that sort of thing. 175 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 2: Did you mean we all Getty's or we all people? 176 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: We all humans? 177 00:09:58,520 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: All humans? 178 00:09:59,320 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: Humans are more. 179 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: Oh, and I do not hold my family apart from that. 180 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: More we are clearly a human perhaps more rage under 181 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: the surface than we some So I like to keep 182 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: mine up top so everybody knows it's there. But so 183 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: you like you're doing a fine job. Why height it? 184 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:15,839 Speaker 2: It seems like it's misleading people. 185 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: Oh hey, this is apropos now and it would require 186 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: a long reset later. But a certain anonymous a friend 187 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty show, says of the the 188 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: painstaking multi bin recycling programs, at least in some parts 189 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: of the country, that was the result of union teamsters. 190 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: They can send three or more garbage trucks on the 191 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: same route instead of one. Yeah, I have two gudl 192 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: two garbage trucks come to my house with all the 193 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 1: garbage going to the same place. Ah, hello, there you go. 194 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: Government union that makes sense and their allied unions. Sure right, 195 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: Wow all Scranton, Joe's out of the job now, Wow, 196 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: welcome change. 197 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 2: Wow that is so, that is so emblematic of the 198 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: big picture. 199 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well well, and it's the worst of cliches to say, 200 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: follow the money. But if you're talking about government bloat 201 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: and spending, you must always remember a lot of the 202 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: stated intentions and principles. The grand high falutint principles that 203 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: people shout about in politics are just a smoke screen 204 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 1: for handing out money from the treasury. That's what the 205 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: game is, and that's what the new Secretary of Defense 206 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: is going to run into at the Pentagon. We'll have 207 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: to talk about that more later because that's the biggest 208 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: of that maybe in the world. How does mailbag look 209 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: very fine? Yes, indeed cool. It's on the way and 210 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: here's our text line four one, five, two nine five KFTC. 211 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan out with more information on why the Kamala 212 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 1: Harris interview never came together, which. 213 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: Was on the road to dooming her in the last 214 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 2: week of her flailing. Also, Trump meeting with Biden in 215 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 2: the White House today, I feel like something entertaining is 216 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 2: going to come out of that one way or another. 217 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about the various miscalculations of the Harris campaign, 218 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: it might be shorter, more concise to list the non miscalculations. 219 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: What's that calculations? I guess right. What were the good 220 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: moves anyway? Uh? Yeah, Oh, it was just absolutely hapless. 221 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: Although I have never managed a campaign, especially one for 222 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: the highest office in the world, that featured a moron, 223 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: that can't be easy, right, Imagine, here's your freedom loving 224 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: quote of the day. Jeff and Hoggs Nipple, Tennessee sent 225 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: this along. It's an unincorporated area. It's not on the mask. 226 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: From the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. The purpose of life 227 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: is not to be happy. It is to be useful, 228 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: to be on, to be compassionate, to have it make 229 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: some difference that you have lived and lived well well. 230 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 2: The Dalai Lama would point out in his book The 231 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 2: Art of the The Art of Joy. 232 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: Is that is how you do end up happy. So 233 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,719 Speaker 1: that's the that's the that's the funny part. That is 234 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 1: unquestionably Yeah. The next thought, yeah, Lama, long hitter, flowing robes, 235 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:29,239 Speaker 1: mailbag never gets old. Wow, they've degenerated into clips from Caddyshack, 236 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: Patty Shack quotes, that's right, yeah, yeah, and you're not 237 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: even a golfer. It never ends. It's like the movie 238 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: came out last month in the world of golf. Really well, 239 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: it's well not maybe not that bad, but close. Tramas 240 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Like Thomas did, boys, 241 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: your show has gotten so stale. What the hell happened? Thomas? 242 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 1: We've been trying to drive you away. We're tired of you. 243 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: We find you stale. Wow, somebody assessed whether Thomas is 244 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: still listening. If he is, we're gonna have to be 245 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: stale again today, folks. Sorry, business from Ross from Beautiful Portland, 246 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: Creating Jensen, Katie f you China, that's all God bless America. 247 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: There you go, yea in China. Good If that's your feeling. 248 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio is your guy for Secretary of State. Apparently 249 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: the Chinese are somewhat relieved that Pompeo wasn't the choice 250 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: because he's I mean, he's beyond you know, anti China 251 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: or a hardliner. Poor Pompeo, he lost all that weight. Yeah, 252 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: looks good to make it on the big stage. Maybe 253 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: run for president maybe be man. No, he's done, but 254 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: I'll bet next time you see him big as a house. 255 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: He that is entirely possible. He leveled a few gentle 256 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: criticisms at the most easily butt hurt leader in the 257 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: history of mankind, Donald J. Trump, and it's cost him. 258 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see what the future brings. Let's see history 259 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: repeats itself? Yes, but does it rinse first? Loyal listener 260 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: Robert writes, guys really confused. I know that you two 261 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: can help me through this. So well, Trump invade Austria 262 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: before Poland. I honestly can't remember which comes worst. And well, 263 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: since Trump is literally hitler, I'd like to know what 264 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: to expect. I believe the old saying is Austria before 265 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: Poland and your invasion is golden. Wow. That's a stretch, Robert, 266 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: but it made me chuckle. Let's see John Wrights still 267 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: waiting for my frequent correspondence status. The PaperWorks in progress there, John, 268 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: you graciuently read my email a week or so ago. 269 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: We need to produce oil in an epic way right now. 270 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: The country needs to build up our oil reserves yesterday. 271 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: Why are we waiting? Drill now? The only way my 272 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: beautiful country can win in the crazy nut job world 273 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: is to have the energy. We win if we have 274 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: the energy, drill Biatcha's and if big war should start, 275 00:15:54,600 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: that'd be very important. Well, and it's practically unopposed that 276 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: we need the notion that we need to develop green 277 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: energy sources and efficient ways to power the planet that 278 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: don't involve burning oils and stuff like that. Everybody agrees 279 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: with that. But when the automobile was making its great 280 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: growth during the whatever it was, the nineteen tens nineteen twenties, 281 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: they didn't go around and shoot all the horses preemptively. No, 282 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: they let the technology grow until it was mature enough 283 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: to do the replacing. 284 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: That's a good analogy. 285 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: Thank you. They're all weak. Oh, we don't have much time, 286 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: do we, None of us do. No ow boy. A 287 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: note from a high school student in California here about 288 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: he didn't believe in the existence of these insanely progressive students, 289 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: hadn't run into one, But then he tells the tale 290 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: of running into one, and it is quite striking. We 291 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: just have thirty seconds left. Here are a couple of 292 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: the highlights. Terrified about the election, fearful for all women. Yeah, 293 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: Trump's going to ban all abortions, implement Project twenty twenty five, 294 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: and sent gave people to concentration camps. 295 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding, now, come on. Nobody believes that. 296 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: All the mainstream media are grossly biased to conservatives. 297 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 2: Hi, yeah, I know I've heard that. 298 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, which is hilarious. Yeah, fantasyland. Trump named a guy 299 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: to be Secretary of Defense. We can go through a 300 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: little his background. 301 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 3: It's controversial Armstrong and Getty overnight, Trump announcing that Pete Hegsett, 302 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 3: the best selling author, the combat veteran, and co host 303 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 3: at Fox and Friends Weekend, will lead the Department of Defense, 304 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 3: Trump writing, nobody fights harder for the troops, and Pete 305 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 3: will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our peace 306 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 3: through strength policy. 307 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: All of mainstream media wanting to emphasize the fact that 308 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: he's a Fox and Friends host, like that's his main credential, 309 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: which might be how he ended up on Trump's radar. 310 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 2: In fact, it probably is. But there's more of a. 311 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: Guy than that. Whether or not he has the tools 312 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: to be the Secretary of Defense. I don't have the 313 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: slightest idea. It's the most difficult bureaucracy in the world 314 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: to run, and he doesn't have experience in running giant, 315 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: giant bureaucracies, which is probably not probably is more important 316 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 1: than the military part, which he could get other people 317 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: to know that who work underneath you. So I don't know. 318 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: If I'm hiring a CEO for a giant cookie company, 319 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: I'm not hiring a baker. I'm hiring an administrator. I 320 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: don't know Pete though, other than that he's extremely bright 321 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: and dedicated. That the troops sounds more like a va 322 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: head to me than a Secretary of Defense. He was 323 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: said to be on the shortlist for that. Yes, he 324 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 325 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: He's got a number of honors and medals from that duty. 326 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: He is also highly educated. I mean, he's an Ivy 327 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: League guy, which I would think the left would like. 328 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: He went to Princeton and then he got his whatever 329 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: international policy degree at the Harvard John F. 330 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 2: Kennedy School of Government. I mean, so he's won before. 331 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: That was a negative. 332 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 2: So he's one of those people. He's no dummy by 333 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: any means. 334 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, but man running that giant bureaucracy like McNamara, one 335 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: of the most famous sect deafs in history, kind of 336 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: became a villain for running the Pentagon during the Vietnam War, 337 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: but he ran Ford. He was the CEO of Ford 338 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: Motor Company when Kennedy tabbed him for running the Pentagon. 339 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: That's the sort of thing you might need, is yeah, 340 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: being running giant, giant bureaucracies. But I don't know. He's 341 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: very outspoken about MSNBC, for instance, was hammering last night 342 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: and today, a number of interviews he's done over the 343 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: years where he doesn't like the idea of women in 344 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: combat and making that the focal point of his appointment, 345 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: that he would like to try to end women in 346 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: combat for a variety of reasons. I don't know if 347 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: that's going to become the fight or not. And let's 348 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: face it, part of Trump's appeal is that he does 349 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: the non traditional and sometimes it doesn't go great, but 350 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: sometimes it works brilliantly. I'm skeptical of this, and that's 351 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: not a knockout, mister hegseeth in any way whatsoever. But 352 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: we'll wait and say, and I don't claim to know. 353 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: Maybe you do it the other way around, Maybe you 354 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: hire a guy who's got all that combat experience and 355 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: has views you agree with on the military. And then 356 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: you get the bureaucracy guys that work one level beneath 357 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: you and they report to you. Right, I remember so vividly. 358 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: For some reason, it was such an interesting conversation with 359 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: the guy who wrote Dutch the Great Biography of Ronald 360 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 1: Reagan that was semi fictional, kind of controversial, but very 361 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: well received. I don't remember the gens name. Maybe somebody 362 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: can look it up for us, but he made that 363 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: very point about Reagan, that he was the absolutely decisive 364 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:54,919 Speaker 1: beacon of this is what we believe, and these are 365 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: our priorities. And then the nuts and bolts guys went 366 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: with those principles and got it done. But if they 367 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: ever ran a foul of him and the principles, well 368 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: then that was no good. Reagan wasn't necessarily a technocrat. 369 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: There have been some sect deaths, like Mad Dog Mattis 370 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: for instance, who came in, and some of the knock was, well, 371 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: the Pentagon doesn't run like it did when you were 372 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: commanding troops. 373 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 2: You don't just order people around and they have to 374 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 2: do what you say. 375 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: It's a giant, giant bureaucracy where people can't be fired, 376 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: and that's a different thing, so you know, it's not 377 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah, I would suggest that the Pentagon 378 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: is not only not immune from the criticisms of government 379 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: bloat and inefficiency, it might lead the way in a 380 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: way because it's so important. I don't know if this 381 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: women in combat thing is going to burble up being 382 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: the story. You know, it could be the focal point 383 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: of a confirmation battle or maybe not. 384 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: I don't know, but. 385 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: That's the sort of thing the left wood focus on 386 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 1: a billion when they're much bigger issues at stake. Yeah. 387 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: I just was thinking one of these is going to 388 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: turn into a battle. One of these confirmation hearings is 389 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: going to turn into a battle because the Democrats have 390 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: to make some sort of show a pushing back. 391 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: They can't just go along with all of these and say, yeah, 392 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 2: it's a pretty good choice. 393 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: Actually, I'm kind of happy he's gone with that, like 394 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: they have with Marco Rubio or some of these other choices, 395 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: and that won't please their voters to just kind of 396 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: roll over and say, oh cool, Yeah, I kind of 397 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: like these picks. They'll have to pick somebody to make 398 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 1: a confirmation battle over. I think they're holding their fire 399 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: for the a G pick the Attorney general, because there's 400 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: that narrative out there that Trump's going to try to 401 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: go after everybody who wronged him and used the power 402 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: of the Justice Department to bring them down. So who 403 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 1: knows who he's going to pick for that one. That 404 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: one could be controversial. I was going to get too 405 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: with my long winded sentence. I hope Trump doesn't spend 406 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of his political capital and current surprising 407 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: good will on a crazy pick that he has to 408 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: back and then there's a big, this big fight, and 409 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: it's in the news for like a couple of weeks 410 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: because right now he is getting he's getting a honeymoon 411 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: like I didn't think Trump could ever get from the 412 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: mainstream media. I mean, the way they're talking about him 413 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: like the legitimate president and like he's making legitimately good 414 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: choices is something shocking to me. Yeah, I know the 415 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: political class is really chastened. They don't know quite what 416 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: to say on what issue because they got such a 417 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: thorough spanking the media. I don't know, that's an interesting point. 418 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: I've noticed the same thing. I'm just I'm thinking the 419 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: epa choice and an education because as the education person 420 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: been named yet I don't think so. But yeah, because 421 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: the left is going to flog for the empteenth time, 422 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: what about their kids. They're trying to take money away 423 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: from education as if education ought to be a federal issue, 424 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: you know, so that could be a grand standing moment. 425 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: But I just they have no momentum. They have no 426 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: juice now in this first jeez, what is it eighteen 427 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: hours of Trump naming this guy who is well known 428 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: on Fox as the possible secretary of Defense. The left 429 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: crowd is trying to make a noise, like I said, 430 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: about women in combat or these kind of issues. I'm 431 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: hearing a lot of talk about he's going to come 432 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: in and politicize the Department of Defense, which reminds me 433 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: of reminds me of how the left put you know, 434 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: porn in our schools and then when you go to 435 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: take it out, you're accused of banning books. 436 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 2: This is the same exact thing with the Department of Defense. 437 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: You put in all this transcrap or a variety of 438 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,719 Speaker 1: other social programs, identity politics, and then if you come 439 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: along and say, now, we ain't doing that you're politicizing 440 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: the Department Defense. Okay, yeah, so that's pretty clever. My 441 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: stance on it has always been have people craft the 442 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: best fighting force, period and if more gay people or women, 443 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: or short people or blue eyed bed or whatever would 444 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: make it better, do that, right, do that. I tell 445 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: you what, if you want the entire department of the 446 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: Interior section that deals with national parks to be nothing 447 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: but gay and transgender people, go ahead. It's millions of jobs, 448 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: I think. I mean, it's an enormous department. Go ahead. 449 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: I mean that's unconstitutional and illegal. But you see my point. 450 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: The one place we can't afford some sort of social 451 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: experiment catering to like the leftist twenty percent of America 452 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: is our armed forces. That I'm hoping, as you're you know, 453 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: suggesting that that idiot, indefensible peer of American political history 454 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: is drawing to a close. How did it ever get 455 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: Neil momentum? Well, it's certainly going to come up with 456 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: the confirmation hearing. So heg Zeth again is pretty hardcore. 457 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: No women in combat, and that's a decision we made 458 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: quite a while back in this country. And I saw 459 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,919 Speaker 1: the pushback from a couple of different circles about how 460 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: women have to perform the same duties as men together. 461 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 2: I know for a fact that ain't true. 462 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: I know dudes who have told me they fudge those 463 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: rules all the time because if they don't have a 464 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: certain number of women pass, their boss gets in trouble, 465 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: and his boss gets in bigger trouble, and his next 466 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: boss doesn't get to another star on his shoulder. So 467 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure a 468 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: certain number of women get through. I have it on 469 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: excellent authority that yes. And during those discussions where that 470 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: has pointed out, the people in Congress who exert that 471 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: sort of pressure say, we don't care. You're going to 472 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: do the social experiment that will hurt readiness. I mean, seriously, 473 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: we don't care. And again, it's not If women, for 474 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: whatever reason ended up better at combat, then let's have 475 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: an all women combat for us. Whatever is the best, 476 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: let's do that, because China isn't worried about it. 477 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 2: They're just putting together the best military they can. 478 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: If it turns out that winning award depends on being 479 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: mad at your enemies for a really long time and 480 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: not telling them why, well then I say, more women 481 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: in combat. But it's all about effectiveness. It's all about victory. 482 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh boy. 483 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 2: That got laughs and groans, oh no, oh stations all 484 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 2: across America. 485 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 1: I am somewhat troubled though, by Trump's tendency to gravitate 486 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: toward people he sees on television. Je it's quirky. Oh 487 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: you know who's gotta be uh ah, Judge Janine, a 488 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: TV judge. All know she was an actual John, that's true, 489 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: but you know we know her name because she's a 490 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: TV judge. Judge Judy is probably a little long and 491 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: too for Attorney General. Couldn't handle a pay cut, that's 492 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: for certain. Judge Joe, Now have you seen Judge Joe. 493 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: He's the blackfellow that would really help encourage the right 494 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: word migration of African Americans who, God bless you are 495 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: thinking and acting and voting for yourselves instead of what 496 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: old Scranton Joe told you to do. Sure, we need 497 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: a cabinet that looks like America's. So we get former 498 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: TV hosts of all different colors and genders. We've got 499 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way, stay here. I know Katie's 500 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: got headlines coming up. But a a couple of quick 501 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: post election headlines that I've just come across. First of all, 502 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: Sonny Houston, is that her name on the view. I 503 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: don't watch the view. I'm not gonna know the view. 504 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: Me knowing how to pronounce her names would make me 505 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: feel less about myself. So hosting or hostin or something 506 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: it ought to be sunny hostile. She is sharp tongued 507 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: witch if there ever was one. 508 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 2: Sonny Hoston says. 509 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: She was surprised when Kamala Harris flubbed her layup question 510 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: about differing from Joe Biden, because Kamala had missed it 511 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: like a day before, and so she was trying to 512 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: help her clean it up the next day, and she 513 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: still had annoyance, which is hilarious, and she was surprised 514 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: by that. And also Joe rogan out saying Kamala Harris 515 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: wanted to make a condition for the interview that there 516 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: was no marijuana legalization talk, which fits in with her 517 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: whole not talking about anything or being honest about anything. 518 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: Trump went into venues where I guarantee you there were 519 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: no guidelines whatsoever about what you could or couldn't talk 520 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: about right all the time. Yeah, Well, as we criticized 521 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: her many missteps and inexplicable you know maneuverson and her 522 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: utter cowardice. Turns out the American people saw it the 523 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: same way. M hm. And how let's figure out who's 524 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green. 525 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 2: Katie, thank you, guys. 526 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: Starting with ABC. 527 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 4: Trump returns to the White House for the first time 528 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 4: in all of branch meeting with Biden. 529 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: Malanie has said no thanks to doctor Jill, not aur 530 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: Ill doctor. 531 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 2: Is it actually because of the raid on their home? 532 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. I keep it because Malanie is just 533 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: I don't want to be the kind I don't want. 534 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 2: To be a celebrity like that. 535 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: I just in I didn't sign on to be a 536 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: political wife, and doctor Jill strikes me as a crack pot, 537 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: So no, thank you. 538 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 2: He could have her look at your elbow and say 539 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: it hurts when I do this? 540 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: Oh useless. 541 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 4: From The New York Times, Jack Smith plans to step 542 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 4: down as special counsel before. 543 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 2: Trump takes office. 544 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: Yep, that's over. 545 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 4: Fox Santase State volleyball team quote distraught over coaches firing 546 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 4: following lawsuit to protect women's sports. 547 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure they are. I've been reading about how miserable 548 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: the poor young women are on that team. They got 549 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: their dream of a college scholarship. Now they're expected to 550 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: swallow the utterly unacceptable, threatened and badgered that if they 551 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: dare speak out about what is obviously a terrible situation, 552 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: they will lose their scholarships. The fun has gone out 553 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: of it. They're still working like crazy, but they live 554 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: to compete, and now the fun is just gone. I 555 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: want to talk about that more later. I've had a 556 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: number of Division I college athlete women as sitters over 557 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: the years, so I want to talk about that later. 558 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: From the Washington Post. 559 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 4: Right before the election, inflation rose to two point six 560 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 4: percent annual rate prices went up by two percent in 561 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 4: September and October inflation is down. 562 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: Why to con Over still say the economy is bad? 563 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: What was oh, yesterday? So I go into the convenience 564 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: store and I get my son wanted an energy drink 565 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: because he had a term paper he had been putting 566 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: off and he had to stay up late anyway. So yeah, 567 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,239 Speaker 1: an energy drink and one other, oh, a packet gum. 568 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: And it was nine dollars a tiny energy drink in 569 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: a package that was nine dollars, So inflation is still 570 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: like what And the person who worked there, I said, 571 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: I know, she said. Every customer says that, I'd say it, 572 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: so no, no, she needs to explain to them that 573 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: inflation is down, right, Scott Pelley on sixty minutes. The 574 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: rate of inflation is down, but people seem to not 575 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: be feeling that. No, because the prices didn't go down, 576 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: You numb nut USA. 577 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 4: Today, Dutch police arrested three people after a police vehicle 578 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 4: in Amsterdam was set on fire and a city bus 579 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 4: was vandalized. 580 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: I want to talk about that story more too. We 581 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: are so ignoring one of the most important dynamics on 582 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: planet Earth, and it's born out there in Amsterdam right now. 583 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: And that is I'll give away the punchline Islam versus 584 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: the West. That ain't over From NBC News. 585 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 4: More women seek testosterone therapy prompted by internet influencers. 586 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I read that yesterday. So there are so many 587 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: men like myself doing testosterone therapy and I love it. 588 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: But a bunch of women are doing it now based 589 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: on things they're here on the internet. There may or 590 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: not be true, mayor may or may not be true. 591 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: And I don't know anything about it. I was looking 592 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: into the trends in nose jobs and found that very 593 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: very troubling among women again influencers and Instagram and looking 594 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: for the Whoville knows, which is like a tiny little 595 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: upturned nose very popular. Now the Barbie nose was very 596 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: hot for a while. Hey, get a job or have 597 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: some kids or something. Quit carbon on face. But looking 598 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: at the Internet and trying to figure out if you're 599 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: beautiful enough you are, go find a dude. Dudes, put 600 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: down the porn, go find a woman. Good lord, this 601 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: is easy. It's simple. 602 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:17,760 Speaker 4: From Breitbart dot com Yale University to offer Beyonce course 603 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five. 604 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: I know, I would think that these colleges realize that 605 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: they have become a punchline and are now seen as 606 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: a negative, that they would stop going with that crap 607 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: and thinking that makes them sort of cool and edgy. Yeah, 608 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: you got to picture the most delusional person you've ever known, 609 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: and then think about how long it takes for the 610 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: truth to seep into their consciousness, if it gets there 611 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: at all. And then you picture the Ivy League with 612 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: their incredible self regard and pride. Please, it'll be the 613 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: end of time before they realize they're a laughing stock. 614 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon b White House chef excited. 615 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,839 Speaker 2: To work with solid foods again. 616 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: Knock on oh, because Biden's so old, he is just 617 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: mashing up his meat and serving. That's right, Put the 618 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: steak in the blender, Jim. The President's ready for his dinner. 619 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: I can't wait for the big photo op Trump Biden 620 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: in the Oval Office today. Something good's gonna happen. I 621 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: just feel it. 622 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 2: I wonder Trump putting his hand in front of Biden's face. 623 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: Hello, you there possible? I suppose anybody in there if 624 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: you miss an hour. Get the podcast Armstrong and Getty 625 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: on demand Armstrong and Getty