WEBVTT - It's A Major Bro Vibe 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:20.000 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:32.320 Jetty and arms Wrong. I went to ari I and 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.400 I bought a bunch of mountain climbing gear, and I'm 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.120 gonna wear into where it from now on to see 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.920 if that'll help me survive in this cold environment, the 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.680 everest like environment. Exactly. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.400 I've got these big snow boots in a giant hood 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:46.920 with the furry thing around the face. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.280 One must stay for three days at the Armstrong, a 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.479 Getty based camp to become accustomed to the elements in 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:58.680 the sin air, the gold. Certainly why I'm from Studio 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.959 C say, a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.160 of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey y'all, midweek, 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.880 we're under the tulage. I forgot to put my trash out. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:16.759 I forgot to put my trash out again. Wednesday's crisis. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:17.680 Dang it. 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.120 Anyway, today we're under the tuelage of our general manager. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:26.759 Elon Muskin. For vek Rama Swami wah. It's the Federal Provernment. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:35.000 Oh wow, No, the Federal The pros are in charge. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.240 Now it's a major pro vibe. We're not gonna listen 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:44.240 to your silly well federal workforce, the whole skillelea. We're 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:50.200 gonna cut to the bone. It's exciting. I didn't take 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.920 my trash out last week, so this should be two 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.480 weeks in a row. Boy, Well, right, I was mistaken 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.240 about the number one issue over time. Now it takes 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.440 you a while, that surge of oh no, oh, crap, oh, 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.560 and the can is full. It you'll have to get 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.559 over it. There's a period of adjustment. Well, I moved 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.320 fairly recently, so I always think on Monday night it's 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.000 trash night because that's my old house. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.680 But that's not Yeah, I don't What do you can 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:13.840 to do? 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.560 I'm sure you'll get used to the smell. What's the 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.880 freaking recyclables? I live in a town where the law 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.280 is you have to put your plastics in everything in 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.640 the recycle bin, and it gets full really fast because 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.400 it's tiny and flipping ridiculously expensive per month, but you 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.840 have to use it or you get a fine. So 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.080 that's what I need to get emptied out, which by 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.679 the way, goes to the same place as the rest 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.079 of the garbage. Yes, it does like ninety percent of 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.799 the time, which is hilarious. God, where was I was 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.720 in Vegas over the weekend? Every place had all those 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:48.880 trash can setups with the nine different choices compost, recycling, regular, garbage, plastics. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.920 I never have any idea what's supposed to go anywhere, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.720 and plus it all goes to the same place. AnyWho. Yep, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.639 why does that continue? How does that? How does the 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.160 momentum of that content? Given the fact that most people 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.359 have caught on too, and there's been plenty of reporting 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.480 about that, the whole recycling thing just isn't really happening 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.000 the term uh and this purchase signaling is not as 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.799 hot as it used to be. But man, it is 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.040 so big on the left you can't even talk to 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.160 those people about You need to make a return trip 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.000 to your city council meeting. It went great the last time. Yeah, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.160 but this kind of fits in with your brovernmant, the 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.440 whole elon vi vague doge thing that they got going 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:36.680 Department of Government efficiency. This is not exactly that, but 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.720 similar vein of things just continuing that don't work anymore, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.800 never did, but we still do it for some reason. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:48.160 That's what I want Elon to root out. Yeah, yeah, agreed, 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:48.960 and listen. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.680 While I chose the term federal brovernmant mostly to annoy people, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.360 including my co host, and I appear to have succeeded. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.280 A federal broverer meant you got to send that to somebody. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.880 I've sent it out into the cosmos, as we do 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.040 every day. I was thinking about this. I was assuming, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.560 I just assume nobody's actually listening, but every people are 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.280 man or a company squandering a lot of money anyway, 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.160 So I was actually thinking about it after I came 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.920 up with the incredibly annoying term. And you've led perfectly 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.000 to my point, which is, you have had kind of 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:33.080 the psychic energy of a particular subset of people have outsized, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:38.280 I mean, like wildly, insanely, dangerously, oppressively outsized influence. And 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.400 that would be the over educated twenty nine year old 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:49.000 white woman with her her gender studies major and her 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.920 militant belief in radical gender theory and critical race theory. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.640 In her we believe lawn sign and the rest of it. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.480 That is, I mean, that has had influen. It's far, far, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.400 far in excess of the actual numbers involved. As the 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.640 recent election illustrated fairly clearly, it is time for the 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.480 opposite energy. I'm hearing a lot of whining. But the 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.400 government has bloated and we need to cut it. So 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.000 we're gonna cut it. We need that. Yeah. The Washington 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.840 Post article that Elon Musk will bring his slash and 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.960 burn private policies to the government. Good was that a threat? 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:28.000 Good? 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.920 Fantastic? Remember when he took over Twitter and he said, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.640 I look around and I see thousands of people I 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.200 don't even know what they do. Yeah. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.400 Wait, do you get to the federal government? 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.840 Yeah? Yeah, indeed, slash and burn. How about seeking efficiency? 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.839 Oh man, no, wonder the legacy media is dying. How 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.720 do you look at something as wasteful, bloated and spending 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.440 our grandchildren's money. Well, yeah, as a federal government, and 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.320 when somebody wants to trim it, look at him. It's 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.360 gonna slash and burn. In all of media, radio, television, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.760 and newspaper, all of traditional media. There have been such 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.280 huge cutbacks in the last couple of years because of 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.520 the changing revenue environment, and you got less money, so 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.880 you got to do things differently. The federal government is 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.760 the opposite I'll dig back up the numbers of how 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.000 many more thousands of federal employees we have now than 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.880 we had in two thoy nineteen before the pandemic. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.359 Thousands and thousands and thousands of. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:29.120 More federal employees while we're broke, I mean we're broke, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.720 wet broke her every single day. It's insane to add 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:37.240 employees while you're broke instead of pairing down the size. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.520 So that is as upside down as anything could get. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.880 It's almost as if the public employee unions who profit 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.760 mightily from what Jack just said, have a direct line 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.200 to the people who make those decisions, and that they 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.640 scratch each other back and write each other's checks. It 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.360 almost makes you think that's the case. Huh. The way 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.080 we feel like the laws of gravity or economics, if 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:02.560 you will, don't apply to government money. Is weird? A 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:07.400 periodic if you're lies self destructive, suicidal, Yes, if you're 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.440 spending more than you take in, you got to change 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.160 those dynamics at some point. Of course, the government has 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.200 the advantage that a like, for instance, a restaurant doesn't have, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.600 where you could just start charging people more they're forced 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.120 to eat there, and charging people more to eat to 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.559 bring in more money. You can send men with guns 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.680 to their homes and tell them, yes, you're going to 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.480 go out for burgers tonight. You're going to pay this, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:29.360 or you're going to go. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.600 To jail exactly. So that is a slightly different situation. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.720 Never mind, if you're like harboring squirrels as those poor 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:37.800 people in New York were. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.320 Peanut, never forget. There's an update on Peanut. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:41.760 I saw. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.160 We'll have to get to. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.520 It. Seems uh the officials were lying to us about 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:54.520 some of their intentions around Peanut who met ale untimely? End? Correct? 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.800 I swell? Can I have a second take on that punchline? 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:06.600 Michael Ahead, I smell not a squirrel but a rat. Wow, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.840 you just edit that end of the show when it airs. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.760 There's something working in my head. But with a peanut 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.200 allergy and allergy to government overreachers, I don't know. It's 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.080 a promising vein. Just keep exploring it, keep working on it. Well, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:25.640 we got to start to show officially, don't we. I'm 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.880 Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Wednesday, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.920 November thirteenth, or twenty twenty four or Armstrong in getting 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.760 and we approve of this program. All right, I can't 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.319 wait to get to work. Here we go according to 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.199 the FCC rules and regulations, which I'm sure will be 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.280 paired down when Elon and Vive get their way. Here 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.000 we go at Mark. You guys see this. Following the election, bookings. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.640 Have spiked for rage rooms, where people pay to. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.719 Go break stuff. And if you think the people in 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.959 rage rooms are mad, imagine that people who couldn't get 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:53.559 a booking. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:54.160 Out of rage rooms, Like. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:02.040 You gotta be kidding if you've never heard of a 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.199 rage room. It's a place where people go to smash plates, cuffs, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.679 and bottle It's waffle house. It's uh, that's a good 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.880 old style humor that Johnny Carson could have made those 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:12.720 jokes exactly. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.640 The rage rooms. I didn't see one of those. Was 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:15.240 it in Vegas? 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:15.640 Some place? 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:16.760 I saw a sign for one of those? 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.280 Hmm, that's my daughter's man got her that for her birthday? Oh? 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.920 Really a rage room session? Yeah? And she what was 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.760 she smashing? Mostly? Oh? Let's see, he paid the uh, 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.840 the electronics upgrade, so I think there was a car involved, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.880 and like because they'd paid the upgrade, there was a 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.120 TV all I can't remember. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.120 From what I know of her, she's not a person 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.240 with a lot of rage. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:47.640 So we're all more complex than we see the surface, right, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.560 like to like to humble doc, you mean we all 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.720 humans paddling furiously below the surface that sort of thing. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.319 Did you mean we all Getty's or we all people? 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:58.160 We all humans? 0:09:58.520 --> 0:09:59.040 All humans? 0:09:59.320 --> 0:09:59.800 Humans are more. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.240 Oh, and I do not hold my family apart from that. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.400 More we are clearly a human perhaps more rage under 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.760 the surface than we some So I like to keep 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.760 mine up top so everybody knows it's there. But so 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.360 you like you're doing a fine job. Why height it? 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:15.839 It seems like it's misleading people. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.400 Oh hey, this is apropos now and it would require 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.160 a long reset later. But a certain anonymous a friend 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.920 of the Armstrong and Getty show, says of the the 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.679 painstaking multi bin recycling programs, at least in some parts 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.640 of the country, that was the result of union teamsters. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.920 They can send three or more garbage trucks on the 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.440 same route instead of one. Yeah, I have two gudl 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.199 two garbage trucks come to my house with all the 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:48.079 garbage going to the same place. Ah, hello, there you go. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:54.160 Government union that makes sense and their allied unions. Sure right, 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:59.280 Wow all Scranton, Joe's out of the job now, Wow, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:00.520 welcome change. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:06.959 Wow that is so, that is so emblematic of the 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:07.840 big picture. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.600 Yeah. Well well, and it's the worst of cliches to say, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.400 follow the money. But if you're talking about government bloat 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.559 and spending, you must always remember a lot of the 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:23.760 stated intentions and principles. The grand high falutint principles that 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.560 people shout about in politics are just a smoke screen 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.559 for handing out money from the treasury. That's what the 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.720 game is, and that's what the new Secretary of Defense 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.679 is going to run into at the Pentagon. We'll have 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.280 to talk about that more later because that's the biggest 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.120 of that maybe in the world. How does mailbag look 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.679 very fine? Yes, indeed cool. It's on the way and 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.720 here's our text line four one, five, two nine five KFTC. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.000 Joe Rogan out with more information on why the Kamala 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.079 Harris interview never came together, which. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.440 Was on the road to dooming her in the last 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.160 week of her flailing. Also, Trump meeting with Biden in 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.400 the White House today, I feel like something entertaining is 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.800 going to come out of that one way or another. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:16.439 Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about the various miscalculations of the Harris campaign, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:23.520 it might be shorter, more concise to list the non miscalculations. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.040 What's that calculations? I guess right. What were the good 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:31.520 moves anyway? Uh? Yeah, Oh, it was just absolutely hapless. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.959 Although I have never managed a campaign, especially one for 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.000 the highest office in the world, that featured a moron, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.360 that can't be easy, right, Imagine, here's your freedom loving 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.240 quote of the day. Jeff and Hoggs Nipple, Tennessee sent 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.880 this along. It's an unincorporated area. It's not on the mask. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.560 From the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. The purpose of life 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.320 is not to be happy. It is to be useful, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.400 to be on, to be compassionate, to have it make 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.240 some difference that you have lived and lived well well. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.319 The Dalai Lama would point out in his book The 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.240 Art of the The Art of Joy. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.360 Is that is how you do end up happy. So 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.719 that's the that's the that's the funny part. That is 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:20.839 unquestionably Yeah. The next thought, yeah, Lama, long hitter, flowing robes, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:29.239 mailbag never gets old. Wow, they've degenerated into clips from Caddyshack, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.319 Patty Shack quotes, that's right, yeah, yeah, and you're not 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.400 even a golfer. It never ends. It's like the movie 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.199 came out last month in the world of golf. Really well, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.600 it's well not maybe not that bad, but close. Tramas 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.960 mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Like Thomas did, boys, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.600 your show has gotten so stale. What the hell happened? Thomas? 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.839 We've been trying to drive you away. We're tired of you. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.400 We find you stale. Wow, somebody assessed whether Thomas is 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.079 still listening. If he is, we're gonna have to be 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:06.080 stale again today, folks. Sorry, business from Ross from Beautiful Portland, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.240 Creating Jensen, Katie f you China, that's all God bless America. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.760 There you go, yea in China. Good If that's your feeling. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:21.000 Marco Rubio is your guy for Secretary of State. Apparently 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.320 the Chinese are somewhat relieved that Pompeo wasn't the choice 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:29.880 because he's I mean, he's beyond you know, anti China 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:34.920 or a hardliner. Poor Pompeo, he lost all that weight. Yeah, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.320 looks good to make it on the big stage. Maybe 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.360 run for president maybe be man. No, he's done, but 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.920 I'll bet next time you see him big as a house. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.720 He that is entirely possible. He leveled a few gentle 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.840 criticisms at the most easily butt hurt leader in the 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.240 history of mankind, Donald J. Trump, and it's cost him. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.680 Maybe we'll see what the future brings. Let's see history 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:02.000 repeats itself? Yes, but does it rinse first? Loyal listener 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.200 Robert writes, guys really confused. I know that you two 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.880 can help me through this. So well, Trump invade Austria 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.720 before Poland. I honestly can't remember which comes worst. And well, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.000 since Trump is literally hitler, I'd like to know what 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.640 to expect. I believe the old saying is Austria before 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:22.600 Poland and your invasion is golden. Wow. That's a stretch, Robert, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:28.880 but it made me chuckle. Let's see John Wrights still 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:34.200 waiting for my frequent correspondence status. The PaperWorks in progress there, John, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.920 you graciuently read my email a week or so ago. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.760 We need to produce oil in an epic way right now. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.600 The country needs to build up our oil reserves yesterday. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.360 Why are we waiting? Drill now? The only way my 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.560 beautiful country can win in the crazy nut job world 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.080 is to have the energy. We win if we have 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.520 the energy, drill Biatcha's and if big war should start, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:16:02.440 that'd be very important. Well, and it's practically unopposed that 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.960 we need the notion that we need to develop green 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.920 energy sources and efficient ways to power the planet that 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.040 don't involve burning oils and stuff like that. Everybody agrees 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.640 with that. But when the automobile was making its great 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.800 growth during the whatever it was, the nineteen tens nineteen twenties, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 they didn't go around and shoot all the horses preemptively. No, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.880 they let the technology grow until it was mature enough 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.360 to do the replacing. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:27.520 That's a good analogy. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.800 Thank you. They're all weak. Oh, we don't have much time, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.400 do we, None of us do. No ow boy. A 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.720 note from a high school student in California here about 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:46.400 he didn't believe in the existence of these insanely progressive students, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.840 hadn't run into one, But then he tells the tale 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.000 of running into one, and it is quite striking. We 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.440 just have thirty seconds left. Here are a couple of 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:01.480 the highlights. Terrified about the election, fearful for all women. Yeah, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.879 Trump's going to ban all abortions, implement Project twenty twenty five, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.960 and sent gave people to concentration camps. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.359 You've got to be kidding, now, come on. Nobody believes that. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.840 All the mainstream media are grossly biased to conservatives. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.560 Hi, yeah, I know I've heard that. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.400 Yeah, which is hilarious. Yeah, fantasyland. Trump named a guy 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.680 to be Secretary of Defense. We can go through a 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:23.560 little his background. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:29.400 It's controversial Armstrong and Getty overnight, Trump announcing that Pete Hegsett, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.320 the best selling author, the combat veteran, and co host 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.480 at Fox and Friends Weekend, will lead the Department of Defense, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.600 Trump writing, nobody fights harder for the troops, and Pete 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.520 will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our peace 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:42.880 through strength policy. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.960 All of mainstream media wanting to emphasize the fact that 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.640 he's a Fox and Friends host, like that's his main credential, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.480 which might be how he ended up on Trump's radar. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.600 In fact, it probably is. But there's more of a. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.880 Guy than that. Whether or not he has the tools 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.960 to be the Secretary of Defense. I don't have the 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.160 slightest idea. It's the most difficult bureaucracy in the world 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.800 to run, and he doesn't have experience in running giant, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.440 giant bureaucracies, which is probably not probably is more important 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.160 than the military part, which he could get other people 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.320 to know that who work underneath you. So I don't know. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:25.600 If I'm hiring a CEO for a giant cookie company, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.320 I'm not hiring a baker. I'm hiring an administrator. I 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.400 don't know Pete though, other than that he's extremely bright 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.240 and dedicated. That the troops sounds more like a va 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.639 head to me than a Secretary of Defense. He was 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.480 said to be on the shortlist for that. Yes, he 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.200 is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.480 He's got a number of honors and medals from that duty. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.040 He is also highly educated. I mean, he's an Ivy 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.040 League guy, which I would think the left would like. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.080 He went to Princeton and then he got his whatever 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.560 international policy degree at the Harvard John F. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.080 Kennedy School of Government. I mean, so he's won before. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:02.960 That was a negative. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.399 So he's one of those people. He's no dummy by 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:06.960 any means. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:14.080 Yeah, but man running that giant bureaucracy like McNamara, one 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.359 of the most famous sect deafs in history, kind of 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.680 became a villain for running the Pentagon during the Vietnam War, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.680 but he ran Ford. He was the CEO of Ford 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.399 Motor Company when Kennedy tabbed him for running the Pentagon. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.720 That's the sort of thing you might need, is yeah, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.720 being running giant, giant bureaucracies. But I don't know. He's 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:39.159 very outspoken about MSNBC, for instance, was hammering last night 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.200 and today, a number of interviews he's done over the 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:44.840 years where he doesn't like the idea of women in 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.159 combat and making that the focal point of his appointment, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.840 that he would like to try to end women in 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.159 combat for a variety of reasons. I don't know if 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.720 that's going to become the fight or not. And let's 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.800 face it, part of Trump's appeal is that he does 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.440 the non traditional and sometimes it doesn't go great, but 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.200 sometimes it works brilliantly. I'm skeptical of this, and that's 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.920 not a knockout, mister hegseeth in any way whatsoever. But 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.359 we'll wait and say, and I don't claim to know. 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.159 Maybe you do it the other way around, Maybe you 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:16.159 hire a guy who's got all that combat experience and 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.760 has views you agree with on the military. And then 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.560 you get the bureaucracy guys that work one level beneath 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:27.280 you and they report to you. Right, I remember so vividly. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.960 For some reason, it was such an interesting conversation with 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:34.800 the guy who wrote Dutch the Great Biography of Ronald 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.199 Reagan that was semi fictional, kind of controversial, but very 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.960 well received. I don't remember the gens name. Maybe somebody 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.359 can look it up for us, but he made that 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:50.560 very point about Reagan, that he was the absolutely decisive 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.919 beacon of this is what we believe, and these are 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:59.360 our priorities. And then the nuts and bolts guys went 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.879 with those principles and got it done. But if they 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.560 ever ran a foul of him and the principles, well 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.159 then that was no good. Reagan wasn't necessarily a technocrat. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.920 There have been some sect deaths, like Mad Dog Mattis 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.040 for instance, who came in, and some of the knock was, well, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.919 the Pentagon doesn't run like it did when you were 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:20.840 commanding troops. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.520 You don't just order people around and they have to 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:24.560 do what you say. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.560 It's a giant, giant bureaucracy where people can't be fired, 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.920 and that's a different thing, so you know, it's not 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:36.080 the first time. Yeah, I would suggest that the Pentagon 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.919 is not only not immune from the criticisms of government 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.600 bloat and inefficiency, it might lead the way in a 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.600 way because it's so important. I don't know if this 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.080 women in combat thing is going to burble up being 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.720 the story. You know, it could be the focal point 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.359 of a confirmation battle or maybe not. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:56.760 I don't know, but. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.399 That's the sort of thing the left wood focus on 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.360 a billion when they're much bigger issues at stake. Yeah. 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.280 I just was thinking one of these is going to 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.440 turn into a battle. One of these confirmation hearings is 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:11.200 going to turn into a battle because the Democrats have 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.240 to make some sort of show a pushing back. 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.200 They can't just go along with all of these and say, yeah, 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:18.160 it's a pretty good choice. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.119 Actually, I'm kind of happy he's gone with that, like 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.399 they have with Marco Rubio or some of these other choices, 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:27.119 and that won't please their voters to just kind of 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.440 roll over and say, oh cool, Yeah, I kind of 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.119 like these picks. They'll have to pick somebody to make 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.680 a confirmation battle over. I think they're holding their fire 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.640 for the a G pick the Attorney general, because there's 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:41.879 that narrative out there that Trump's going to try to 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.320