Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and arms Wrong. I went to ari I and
Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of mountain climbing gear, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wear into where it from now on to see
Speaker 1: if that'll help me survive in this cold environment, the
Speaker 1: everest like environment. Exactly.
Speaker 2: I've got these big snow boots in a giant hood
Speaker 2: with the furry thing around the face.
Speaker 1: One must stay for three days at the Armstrong, a
Speaker 1: Getty based camp to become accustomed to the elements in
Speaker 1: the sin air, the gold. Certainly why I'm from Studio
Speaker 1: C say, a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels
Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey y'all, midweek,
Speaker 1: we're under the tulage. I forgot to put my trash out.
Speaker 1: I forgot to put my trash out again. Wednesday's crisis.
Speaker 1: Dang it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, today we're under the tuelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: Elon Muskin. For vek Rama Swami wah. It's the Federal Provernment.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, No, the Federal The pros are in charge.
Speaker 1: Now it's a major pro vibe. We're not gonna listen
Speaker 1: to your silly well federal workforce, the whole skillelea. We're
Speaker 1: gonna cut to the bone. It's exciting. I didn't take
Speaker 1: my trash out last week, so this should be two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Boy, Well, right, I was mistaken
Speaker 1: about the number one issue over time. Now it takes
Speaker 1: you a while, that surge of oh no, oh, crap, oh,
Speaker 1: and the can is full. It you'll have to get
Speaker 1: over it. There's a period of adjustment. Well, I moved
Speaker 1: fairly recently, so I always think on Monday night it's
Speaker 1: trash night because that's my old house.
Speaker 2: But that's not Yeah, I don't What do you can
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll get used to the smell. What's the
Speaker 1: freaking recyclables? I live in a town where the law
Speaker 1: is you have to put your plastics in everything in
Speaker 1: the recycle bin, and it gets full really fast because
Speaker 1: it's tiny and flipping ridiculously expensive per month, but you
Speaker 1: have to use it or you get a fine. So
Speaker 1: that's what I need to get emptied out, which by
Speaker 1: the way, goes to the same place as the rest
Speaker 1: of the garbage. Yes, it does like ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the time, which is hilarious. God, where was I was
Speaker 1: in Vegas over the weekend? Every place had all those
Speaker 1: trash can setups with the nine different choices compost, recycling, regular, garbage, plastics.
Speaker 1: I never have any idea what's supposed to go anywhere,
Speaker 1: and plus it all goes to the same place. AnyWho. Yep,
Speaker 1: why does that continue? How does that? How does the
Speaker 1: momentum of that content? Given the fact that most people
Speaker 1: have caught on too, and there's been plenty of reporting
Speaker 1: about that, the whole recycling thing just isn't really happening
Speaker 1: the term uh and this purchase signaling is not as
Speaker 1: hot as it used to be. But man, it is
Speaker 1: so big on the left you can't even talk to
Speaker 1: those people about You need to make a return trip
Speaker 1: to your city council meeting. It went great the last time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this kind of fits in with your brovernmant, the
Speaker 1: whole elon vi vague doge thing that they got going
Speaker 1: Department of Government efficiency. This is not exactly that, but
Speaker 1: similar vein of things just continuing that don't work anymore,
Speaker 1: never did, but we still do it for some reason.
Speaker 2: That's what I want Elon to root out. Yeah, yeah, agreed,
Speaker 2: and listen.
Speaker 1: While I chose the term federal brovernmant mostly to annoy people,
Speaker 1: including my co host, and I appear to have succeeded.
Speaker 2: A federal broverer meant you got to send that to somebody.
Speaker 1: I've sent it out into the cosmos, as we do
Speaker 1: every day. I was thinking about this. I was assuming,
Speaker 1: I just assume nobody's actually listening, but every people are
Speaker 1: man or a company squandering a lot of money anyway,
Speaker 1: So I was actually thinking about it after I came
Speaker 1: up with the incredibly annoying term. And you've led perfectly
Speaker 1: to my point, which is, you have had kind of
Speaker 1: the psychic energy of a particular subset of people have outsized,
Speaker 1: I mean, like wildly, insanely, dangerously, oppressively outsized influence. And
Speaker 1: that would be the over educated twenty nine year old
Speaker 1: white woman with her her gender studies major and her
Speaker 1: militant belief in radical gender theory and critical race theory.
Speaker 1: In her we believe lawn sign and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: That is, I mean, that has had influen. It's far, far,
Speaker 1: far in excess of the actual numbers involved. As the
Speaker 1: recent election illustrated fairly clearly, it is time for the
Speaker 1: opposite energy. I'm hearing a lot of whining. But the
Speaker 1: government has bloated and we need to cut it. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna cut it. We need that. Yeah. The Washington
Speaker 1: Post article that Elon Musk will bring his slash and
Speaker 1: burn private policies to the government. Good was that a threat?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: Fantastic? Remember when he took over Twitter and he said,
Speaker 1: I look around and I see thousands of people I
Speaker 1: don't even know what they do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wait, do you get to the federal government?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, indeed, slash and burn. How about seeking efficiency?
Speaker 1: Oh man, no, wonder the legacy media is dying. How
Speaker 1: do you look at something as wasteful, bloated and spending
Speaker 1: our grandchildren's money. Well, yeah, as a federal government, and
Speaker 1: when somebody wants to trim it, look at him. It's
Speaker 1: gonna slash and burn. In all of media, radio, television,
Speaker 1: and newspaper, all of traditional media. There have been such
Speaker 1: huge cutbacks in the last couple of years because of
Speaker 1: the changing revenue environment, and you got less money, so
Speaker 1: you got to do things differently. The federal government is
Speaker 1: the opposite I'll dig back up the numbers of how
Speaker 1: many more thousands of federal employees we have now than
Speaker 1: we had in two thoy nineteen before the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Thousands and thousands and thousands of.
Speaker 1: More federal employees while we're broke, I mean we're broke,
Speaker 1: wet broke her every single day. It's insane to add
Speaker 1: employees while you're broke instead of pairing down the size.
Speaker 2: So that is as upside down as anything could get.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if the public employee unions who profit
Speaker 1: mightily from what Jack just said, have a direct line
Speaker 1: to the people who make those decisions, and that they
Speaker 1: scratch each other back and write each other's checks. It
Speaker 1: almost makes you think that's the case. Huh. The way
Speaker 1: we feel like the laws of gravity or economics, if
Speaker 1: you will, don't apply to government money. Is weird? A
Speaker 1: periodic if you're lies self destructive, suicidal, Yes, if you're
Speaker 1: spending more than you take in, you got to change
Speaker 1: those dynamics at some point. Of course, the government has
Speaker 1: the advantage that a like, for instance, a restaurant doesn't have,
Speaker 1: where you could just start charging people more they're forced
Speaker 1: to eat there, and charging people more to eat to
Speaker 1: bring in more money. You can send men with guns
Speaker 1: to their homes and tell them, yes, you're going to
Speaker 1: go out for burgers tonight. You're going to pay this,
Speaker 1: or you're going to go.
Speaker 2: To jail exactly. So that is a slightly different situation.
Speaker 1: Never mind, if you're like harboring squirrels as those poor
Speaker 1: people in New York were.
Speaker 2: Peanut, never forget. There's an update on Peanut.
Speaker 1: I saw.
Speaker 2: We'll have to get to.
Speaker 1: It. Seems uh the officials were lying to us about
Speaker 1: some of their intentions around Peanut who met ale untimely? End? Correct?
Speaker 1: I swell? Can I have a second take on that punchline?
Speaker 1: Michael Ahead, I smell not a squirrel but a rat. Wow,
Speaker 1: you just edit that end of the show when it airs.
Speaker 1: There's something working in my head. But with a peanut
Speaker 1: allergy and allergy to government overreachers, I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: a promising vein. Just keep exploring it, keep working on it. Well,
Speaker 1: we got to start to show officially, don't we. I'm
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November thirteenth, or twenty twenty four or Armstrong in getting
Speaker 1: and we approve of this program. All right, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get to work. Here we go according to
Speaker 1: the FCC rules and regulations, which I'm sure will be
Speaker 1: paired down when Elon and Vive get their way. Here
Speaker 1: we go at Mark. You guys see this. Following the election, bookings.
Speaker 2: Have spiked for rage rooms, where people pay to.
Speaker 1: Go break stuff. And if you think the people in
Speaker 1: rage rooms are mad, imagine that people who couldn't get
Speaker 1: a booking.
Speaker 2: Out of rage rooms, Like.
Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding if you've never heard of a
Speaker 1: rage room. It's a place where people go to smash plates, cuffs,
Speaker 1: and bottle It's waffle house. It's uh, that's a good
Speaker 1: old style humor that Johnny Carson could have made those
Speaker 1: jokes exactly.
Speaker 2: The rage rooms. I didn't see one of those. Was
Speaker 2: it in Vegas?
Speaker 1: Some place?
Speaker 2: I saw a sign for one of those?
Speaker 1: Hmm, that's my daughter's man got her that for her birthday? Oh?
Speaker 1: Really a rage room session? Yeah? And she what was
Speaker 1: she smashing? Mostly? Oh? Let's see, he paid the uh,
Speaker 1: the electronics upgrade, so I think there was a car involved,
Speaker 1: and like because they'd paid the upgrade, there was a
Speaker 1: TV all I can't remember.
Speaker 2: From what I know of her, she's not a person
Speaker 2: with a lot of rage.
Speaker 1: So we're all more complex than we see the surface, right,
Speaker 1: like to like to humble doc, you mean we all
Speaker 1: humans paddling furiously below the surface that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Did you mean we all Getty's or we all people?
Speaker 2: We all humans?
Speaker 1: All humans?
Speaker 2: Humans are more.
Speaker 1: Oh, and I do not hold my family apart from that.
Speaker 1: More we are clearly a human perhaps more rage under
Speaker 1: the surface than we some So I like to keep
Speaker 1: mine up top so everybody knows it's there. But so
Speaker 1: you like you're doing a fine job. Why height it?
Speaker 2: It seems like it's misleading people.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, this is apropos now and it would require
Speaker 1: a long reset later. But a certain anonymous a friend
Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty show, says of the the
Speaker 1: painstaking multi bin recycling programs, at least in some parts
Speaker 1: of the country, that was the result of union teamsters.
Speaker 1: They can send three or more garbage trucks on the
Speaker 1: same route instead of one. Yeah, I have two gudl
Speaker 1: two garbage trucks come to my house with all the
Speaker 1: garbage going to the same place. Ah, hello, there you go.
Speaker 1: Government union that makes sense and their allied unions. Sure right,
Speaker 1: Wow all Scranton, Joe's out of the job now, Wow,
Speaker 1: welcome change.
Speaker 2: Wow that is so, that is so emblematic of the
Speaker 2: big picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well well, and it's the worst of cliches to say,
Speaker 1: follow the money. But if you're talking about government bloat
Speaker 1: and spending, you must always remember a lot of the
Speaker 1: stated intentions and principles. The grand high falutint principles that
Speaker 1: people shout about in politics are just a smoke screen
Speaker 1: for handing out money from the treasury. That's what the
Speaker 1: game is, and that's what the new Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: is going to run into at the Pentagon. We'll have
Speaker 1: to talk about that more later because that's the biggest
Speaker 1: of that maybe in the world. How does mailbag look
Speaker 1: very fine? Yes, indeed cool. It's on the way and
Speaker 1: here's our text line four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan out with more information on why the Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris interview never came together, which.
Speaker 2: Was on the road to dooming her in the last
Speaker 2: week of her flailing. Also, Trump meeting with Biden in
Speaker 2: the White House today, I feel like something entertaining is
Speaker 2: going to come out of that one way or another.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about the various miscalculations of the Harris campaign,
Speaker 1: it might be shorter, more concise to list the non miscalculations.
Speaker 1: What's that calculations? I guess right. What were the good
Speaker 1: moves anyway? Uh? Yeah, Oh, it was just absolutely hapless.
Speaker 1: Although I have never managed a campaign, especially one for
Speaker 1: the highest office in the world, that featured a moron,
Speaker 1: that can't be easy, right, Imagine, here's your freedom loving
Speaker 1: quote of the day. Jeff and Hoggs Nipple, Tennessee sent
Speaker 1: this along. It's an unincorporated area. It's not on the mask.
Speaker 1: From the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. The purpose of life
Speaker 1: is not to be happy. It is to be useful,
Speaker 1: to be on, to be compassionate, to have it make
Speaker 1: some difference that you have lived and lived well well.
Speaker 2: The Dalai Lama would point out in his book The
Speaker 2: Art of the The Art of Joy.
Speaker 1: Is that is how you do end up happy. So
Speaker 1: that's the that's the that's the funny part. That is
Speaker 1: unquestionably Yeah. The next thought, yeah, Lama, long hitter, flowing robes,
Speaker 1: mailbag never gets old. Wow, they've degenerated into clips from Caddyshack,
Speaker 1: Patty Shack quotes, that's right, yeah, yeah, and you're not
Speaker 1: even a golfer. It never ends. It's like the movie
Speaker 1: came out last month in the world of golf. Really well,
Speaker 1: it's well not maybe not that bad, but close. Tramas
Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Like Thomas did, boys,
Speaker 1: your show has gotten so stale. What the hell happened? Thomas?
Speaker 1: We've been trying to drive you away. We're tired of you.
Speaker 1: We find you stale. Wow, somebody assessed whether Thomas is
Speaker 1: still listening. If he is, we're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: stale again today, folks. Sorry, business from Ross from Beautiful Portland,
Speaker 1: Creating Jensen, Katie f you China, that's all God bless America.
Speaker 1: There you go, yea in China. Good If that's your feeling.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio is your guy for Secretary of State. Apparently
Speaker 1: the Chinese are somewhat relieved that Pompeo wasn't the choice
Speaker 1: because he's I mean, he's beyond you know, anti China
Speaker 1: or a hardliner. Poor Pompeo, he lost all that weight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: looks good to make it on the big stage. Maybe
Speaker 1: run for president maybe be man. No, he's done, but
Speaker 1: I'll bet next time you see him big as a house.
Speaker 1: He that is entirely possible. He leveled a few gentle
Speaker 1: criticisms at the most easily butt hurt leader in the
Speaker 1: history of mankind, Donald J. Trump, and it's cost him.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see what the future brings. Let's see history
Speaker 1: repeats itself? Yes, but does it rinse first? Loyal listener
Speaker 1: Robert writes, guys really confused. I know that you two
Speaker 1: can help me through this. So well, Trump invade Austria
Speaker 1: before Poland. I honestly can't remember which comes worst. And well,
Speaker 1: since Trump is literally hitler, I'd like to know what
Speaker 1: to expect. I believe the old saying is Austria before
Speaker 1: Poland and your invasion is golden. Wow. That's a stretch, Robert,
Speaker 1: but it made me chuckle. Let's see John Wrights still
Speaker 1: waiting for my frequent correspondence status. The PaperWorks in progress there, John,
Speaker 1: you graciuently read my email a week or so ago.
Speaker 1: We need to produce oil in an epic way right now.
Speaker 1: The country needs to build up our oil reserves yesterday.
Speaker 1: Why are we waiting? Drill now? The only way my
Speaker 1: beautiful country can win in the crazy nut job world
Speaker 1: is to have the energy. We win if we have
Speaker 1: the energy, drill Biatcha's and if big war should start,
Speaker 1: that'd be very important. Well, and it's practically unopposed that
Speaker 1: we need the notion that we need to develop green
Speaker 1: energy sources and efficient ways to power the planet that
Speaker 1: don't involve burning oils and stuff like that. Everybody agrees
Speaker 1: with that. But when the automobile was making its great
Speaker 1: growth during the whatever it was, the nineteen tens nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: they didn't go around and shoot all the horses preemptively. No,
Speaker 1: they let the technology grow until it was mature enough
Speaker 1: to do the replacing.
Speaker 2: That's a good analogy.
Speaker 1: Thank you. They're all weak. Oh, we don't have much time,
Speaker 1: do we, None of us do. No ow boy. A
Speaker 1: note from a high school student in California here about
Speaker 1: he didn't believe in the existence of these insanely progressive students,
Speaker 1: hadn't run into one, But then he tells the tale
Speaker 1: of running into one, and it is quite striking. We
Speaker 1: just have thirty seconds left. Here are a couple of
Speaker 1: the highlights. Terrified about the election, fearful for all women. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump's going to ban all abortions, implement Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and sent gave people to concentration camps.
Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding, now, come on. Nobody believes that.
Speaker 1: All the mainstream media are grossly biased to conservatives.
Speaker 2: Hi, yeah, I know I've heard that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is hilarious. Yeah, fantasyland. Trump named a guy
Speaker 1: to be Secretary of Defense. We can go through a
Speaker 1: little his background.
Speaker 3: It's controversial Armstrong and Getty overnight, Trump announcing that Pete Hegsett,
Speaker 3: the best selling author, the combat veteran, and co host
Speaker 3: at Fox and Friends Weekend, will lead the Department of Defense,
Speaker 3: Trump writing, nobody fights harder for the troops, and Pete
Speaker 3: will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our peace
Speaker 3: through strength policy.
Speaker 1: All of mainstream media wanting to emphasize the fact that
Speaker 1: he's a Fox and Friends host, like that's his main credential,
Speaker 1: which might be how he ended up on Trump's radar.
Speaker 2: In fact, it probably is. But there's more of a.
Speaker 1: Guy than that. Whether or not he has the tools
Speaker 1: to be the Secretary of Defense. I don't have the
Speaker 1: slightest idea. It's the most difficult bureaucracy in the world
Speaker 1: to run, and he doesn't have experience in running giant,
Speaker 1: giant bureaucracies, which is probably not probably is more important
Speaker 1: than the military part, which he could get other people
Speaker 1: to know that who work underneath you. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I'm hiring a CEO for a giant cookie company,
Speaker 1: I'm not hiring a baker. I'm hiring an administrator. I
Speaker 1: don't know Pete though, other than that he's extremely bright
Speaker 1: and dedicated. That the troops sounds more like a va
Speaker 1: head to me than a Secretary of Defense. He was
Speaker 1: said to be on the shortlist for that. Yes, he
Speaker 1: is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: He's got a number of honors and medals from that duty.
Speaker 1: He is also highly educated. I mean, he's an Ivy
Speaker 1: League guy, which I would think the left would like.
Speaker 1: He went to Princeton and then he got his whatever
Speaker 1: international policy degree at the Harvard John F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy School of Government. I mean, so he's won before.
Speaker 1: That was a negative.
Speaker 2: So he's one of those people. He's no dummy by
Speaker 2: any means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but man running that giant bureaucracy like McNamara, one
Speaker 1: of the most famous sect deafs in history, kind of
Speaker 1: became a villain for running the Pentagon during the Vietnam War,
Speaker 1: but he ran Ford. He was the CEO of Ford
Speaker 1: Motor Company when Kennedy tabbed him for running the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: That's the sort of thing you might need, is yeah,
Speaker 1: being running giant, giant bureaucracies. But I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: very outspoken about MSNBC, for instance, was hammering last night
Speaker 1: and today, a number of interviews he's done over the
Speaker 1: years where he doesn't like the idea of women in
Speaker 1: combat and making that the focal point of his appointment,
Speaker 1: that he would like to try to end women in
Speaker 1: combat for a variety of reasons. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's going to become the fight or not. And let's
Speaker 1: face it, part of Trump's appeal is that he does
Speaker 1: the non traditional and sometimes it doesn't go great, but
Speaker 1: sometimes it works brilliantly. I'm skeptical of this, and that's
Speaker 1: not a knockout, mister hegseeth in any way whatsoever. But
Speaker 1: we'll wait and say, and I don't claim to know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you do it the other way around, Maybe you
Speaker 1: hire a guy who's got all that combat experience and
Speaker 1: has views you agree with on the military. And then
Speaker 1: you get the bureaucracy guys that work one level beneath
Speaker 1: you and they report to you. Right, I remember so vividly.
Speaker 1: For some reason, it was such an interesting conversation with
Speaker 1: the guy who wrote Dutch the Great Biography of Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan that was semi fictional, kind of controversial, but very
Speaker 1: well received. I don't remember the gens name. Maybe somebody
Speaker 1: can look it up for us, but he made that
Speaker 1: very point about Reagan, that he was the absolutely decisive
Speaker 1: beacon of this is what we believe, and these are
Speaker 1: our priorities. And then the nuts and bolts guys went
Speaker 1: with those principles and got it done. But if they
Speaker 1: ever ran a foul of him and the principles, well
Speaker 1: then that was no good. Reagan wasn't necessarily a technocrat.
Speaker 1: There have been some sect deaths, like Mad Dog Mattis
Speaker 1: for instance, who came in, and some of the knock was, well,
Speaker 1: the Pentagon doesn't run like it did when you were
Speaker 1: commanding troops.
Speaker 2: You don't just order people around and they have to
Speaker 2: do what you say.
Speaker 1: It's a giant, giant bureaucracy where people can't be fired,
Speaker 1: and that's a different thing, so you know, it's not
Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah, I would suggest that the Pentagon
Speaker 1: is not only not immune from the criticisms of government
Speaker 1: bloat and inefficiency, it might lead the way in a
Speaker 1: way because it's so important. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: women in combat thing is going to burble up being
Speaker 1: the story. You know, it could be the focal point
Speaker 1: of a confirmation battle or maybe not.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: That's the sort of thing the left wood focus on
Speaker 1: a billion when they're much bigger issues at stake. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just was thinking one of these is going to
Speaker 1: turn into a battle. One of these confirmation hearings is
Speaker 1: going to turn into a battle because the Democrats have
Speaker 1: to make some sort of show a pushing back.
Speaker 2: They can't just go along with all of these and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a pretty good choice.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm kind of happy he's gone with that, like
Speaker 1: they have with Marco Rubio or some of these other choices,
Speaker 1: and that won't please their voters to just kind of
Speaker 1: roll over and say, oh cool, Yeah, I kind of
Speaker 1: like these picks. They'll have to pick somebody to make
Speaker 1: a confirmation battle over. I think they're holding their fire
Speaker 1: for the a G pick the Attorney general, because there's
Speaker 1: that narrative out there that Trump's going to try to
Speaker 1: go after everybody who wronged him and used the power
Speaker 1: of the Justice Department to bring them down. So who
Speaker 1: knows who he's going to pick for that one. That
Speaker 1: one could be controversial. I was going to get too
Speaker 1: with my long winded sentence. I hope Trump doesn't spend
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of his political capital and current surprising
Speaker 1: good will on a crazy pick that he has to
Speaker 1: back and then there's a big, this big fight, and
Speaker 1: it's in the news for like a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: because right now he is getting he's getting a honeymoon
Speaker 1: like I didn't think Trump could ever get from the
Speaker 1: mainstream media. I mean, the way they're talking about him
Speaker 1: like the legitimate president and like he's making legitimately good
Speaker 1: choices is something shocking to me. Yeah, I know the
Speaker 1: political class is really chastened. They don't know quite what
Speaker 1: to say on what issue because they got such a
Speaker 1: thorough spanking the media. I don't know, that's an interesting point.
Speaker 1: I've noticed the same thing. I'm just I'm thinking the
Speaker 1: epa choice and an education because as the education person
Speaker 1: been named yet I don't think so. But yeah, because
Speaker 1: the left is going to flog for the empteenth time,
Speaker 1: what about their kids. They're trying to take money away
Speaker 1: from education as if education ought to be a federal issue,
Speaker 1: you know, so that could be a grand standing moment.
Speaker 1: But I just they have no momentum. They have no
Speaker 1: juice now in this first jeez, what is it eighteen
Speaker 1: hours of Trump naming this guy who is well known
Speaker 1: on Fox as the possible secretary of Defense. The left
Speaker 1: crowd is trying to make a noise, like I said,
Speaker 1: about women in combat or these kind of issues. I'm
Speaker 1: hearing a lot of talk about he's going to come
Speaker 1: in and politicize the Department of Defense, which reminds me
Speaker 1: of reminds me of how the left put you know,
Speaker 1: porn in our schools and then when you go to
Speaker 1: take it out, you're accused of banning books.
Speaker 2: This is the same exact thing with the Department of Defense.
Speaker 1: You put in all this transcrap or a variety of
Speaker 1: other social programs, identity politics, and then if you come
Speaker 1: along and say, now, we ain't doing that you're politicizing
Speaker 1: the Department Defense. Okay, yeah, so that's pretty clever. My
Speaker 1: stance on it has always been have people craft the
Speaker 1: best fighting force, period and if more gay people or women,
Speaker 1: or short people or blue eyed bed or whatever would
Speaker 1: make it better, do that, right, do that. I tell
Speaker 1: you what, if you want the entire department of the
Speaker 1: Interior section that deals with national parks to be nothing
Speaker 1: but gay and transgender people, go ahead. It's millions of jobs,
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, it's an enormous department. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I mean that's unconstitutional and illegal. But you see my point.
Speaker 1: The one place we can't afford some sort of social
Speaker 1: experiment catering to like the leftist twenty percent of America
Speaker 1: is our armed forces. That I'm hoping, as you're you know,
Speaker 1: suggesting that that idiot, indefensible peer of American political history
Speaker 1: is drawing to a close. How did it ever get
Speaker 1: Neil momentum? Well, it's certainly going to come up with
Speaker 1: the confirmation hearing. So heg Zeth again is pretty hardcore.
Speaker 1: No women in combat, and that's a decision we made
Speaker 1: quite a while back in this country. And I saw
Speaker 1: the pushback from a couple of different circles about how
Speaker 1: women have to perform the same duties as men together.
Speaker 2: I know for a fact that ain't true.
Speaker 1: I know dudes who have told me they fudge those
Speaker 1: rules all the time because if they don't have a
Speaker 1: certain number of women pass, their boss gets in trouble,
Speaker 1: and his boss gets in bigger trouble, and his next
Speaker 1: boss doesn't get to another star on his shoulder. So
Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure a
Speaker 1: certain number of women get through. I have it on
Speaker 1: excellent authority that yes. And during those discussions where that
Speaker 1: has pointed out, the people in Congress who exert that
Speaker 1: sort of pressure say, we don't care. You're going to
Speaker 1: do the social experiment that will hurt readiness. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: we don't care. And again, it's not If women, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason ended up better at combat, then let's have
Speaker 1: an all women combat for us. Whatever is the best,
Speaker 1: let's do that, because China isn't worried about it.
Speaker 2: They're just putting together the best military they can.
Speaker 1: If it turns out that winning award depends on being
Speaker 1: mad at your enemies for a really long time and
Speaker 1: not telling them why, well then I say, more women
Speaker 1: in combat. But it's all about effectiveness. It's all about victory.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 2: That got laughs and groans, oh no, oh stations all
Speaker 2: across America.
Speaker 1: I am somewhat troubled though, by Trump's tendency to gravitate
Speaker 1: toward people he sees on television. Je it's quirky. Oh
Speaker 1: you know who's gotta be uh ah, Judge Janine, a
Speaker 1: TV judge. All know she was an actual John, that's true,
Speaker 1: but you know we know her name because she's a
Speaker 1: TV judge. Judge Judy is probably a little long and
Speaker 1: too for Attorney General. Couldn't handle a pay cut, that's
Speaker 1: for certain. Judge Joe, Now have you seen Judge Joe.
Speaker 1: He's the blackfellow that would really help encourage the right
Speaker 1: word migration of African Americans who, God bless you are
Speaker 1: thinking and acting and voting for yourselves instead of what
Speaker 1: old Scranton Joe told you to do. Sure, we need
Speaker 1: a cabinet that looks like America's. So we get former
Speaker 1: TV hosts of all different colors and genders. We've got
Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way, stay here. I know Katie's
Speaker 1: got headlines coming up. But a a couple of quick
Speaker 1: post election headlines that I've just come across. First of all,
Speaker 1: Sonny Houston, is that her name on the view. I
Speaker 1: don't watch the view. I'm not gonna know the view.
Speaker 1: Me knowing how to pronounce her names would make me
Speaker 1: feel less about myself. So hosting or hostin or something
Speaker 1: it ought to be sunny hostile. She is sharp tongued
Speaker 1: witch if there ever was one.
Speaker 2: Sonny Hoston says.
Speaker 1: She was surprised when Kamala Harris flubbed her layup question
Speaker 1: about differing from Joe Biden, because Kamala had missed it
Speaker 1: like a day before, and so she was trying to
Speaker 1: help her clean it up the next day, and she
Speaker 1: still had annoyance, which is hilarious, and she was surprised
Speaker 1: by that. And also Joe rogan out saying Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: wanted to make a condition for the interview that there
Speaker 1: was no marijuana legalization talk, which fits in with her
Speaker 1: whole not talking about anything or being honest about anything.
Speaker 1: Trump went into venues where I guarantee you there were
Speaker 1: no guidelines whatsoever about what you could or couldn't talk
Speaker 1: about right all the time. Yeah, Well, as we criticized
Speaker 1: her many missteps and inexplicable you know maneuverson and her
Speaker 1: utter cowardice. Turns out the American people saw it the
Speaker 1: same way. M hm. And how let's figure out who's
Speaker 1: reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2: Katie, thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: Starting with ABC.
Speaker 4: Trump returns to the White House for the first time
Speaker 4: in all of branch meeting with Biden.
Speaker 1: Malanie has said no thanks to doctor Jill, not aur
Speaker 1: Ill doctor.
Speaker 2: Is it actually because of the raid on their home?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I keep it because Malanie is just
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the kind I don't want.
Speaker 2: To be a celebrity like that.
Speaker 1: I just in I didn't sign on to be a
Speaker 1: political wife, and doctor Jill strikes me as a crack pot,
Speaker 1: So no, thank you.
Speaker 2: He could have her look at your elbow and say
Speaker 2: it hurts when I do this?
Speaker 1: Oh useless.
Speaker 4: From The New York Times, Jack Smith plans to step
Speaker 4: down as special counsel before.
Speaker 2: Trump takes office.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's over.
Speaker 4: Fox Santase State volleyball team quote distraught over coaches firing
Speaker 4: following lawsuit to protect women's sports.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they are. I've been reading about how miserable
Speaker 1: the poor young women are on that team. They got
Speaker 1: their dream of a college scholarship. Now they're expected to
Speaker 1: swallow the utterly unacceptable, threatened and badgered that if they
Speaker 1: dare speak out about what is obviously a terrible situation,
Speaker 1: they will lose their scholarships. The fun has gone out
Speaker 1: of it. They're still working like crazy, but they live
Speaker 1: to compete, and now the fun is just gone. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about that more later. I've had a
Speaker 1: number of Division I college athlete women as sitters over
Speaker 1: the years, so I want to talk about that later.
Speaker 1: From the Washington Post.
Speaker 4: Right before the election, inflation rose to two point six
Speaker 4: percent annual rate prices went up by two percent in
Speaker 4: September and October inflation is down.
Speaker 1: Why to con Over still say the economy is bad?
Speaker 1: What was oh, yesterday? So I go into the convenience
Speaker 1: store and I get my son wanted an energy drink
Speaker 1: because he had a term paper he had been putting
Speaker 1: off and he had to stay up late anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 1: an energy drink and one other, oh, a packet gum.
Speaker 1: And it was nine dollars a tiny energy drink in
Speaker 1: a package that was nine dollars, So inflation is still
Speaker 1: like what And the person who worked there, I said,
Speaker 1: I know, she said. Every customer says that, I'd say it,
Speaker 1: so no, no, she needs to explain to them that
Speaker 1: inflation is down, right, Scott Pelley on sixty minutes. The
Speaker 1: rate of inflation is down, but people seem to not
Speaker 1: be feeling that. No, because the prices didn't go down,
Speaker 1: You numb nut USA.
Speaker 4: Today, Dutch police arrested three people after a police vehicle
Speaker 4: in Amsterdam was set on fire and a city bus
Speaker 4: was vandalized.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that story more too. We
Speaker 1: are so ignoring one of the most important dynamics on
Speaker 1: planet Earth, and it's born out there in Amsterdam right now.
Speaker 1: And that is I'll give away the punchline Islam versus
Speaker 1: the West. That ain't over From NBC News.
Speaker 4: More women seek testosterone therapy prompted by internet influencers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I read that yesterday. So there are so many
Speaker 1: men like myself doing testosterone therapy and I love it.
Speaker 1: But a bunch of women are doing it now based
Speaker 1: on things they're here on the internet. There may or
Speaker 1: not be true, mayor may or may not be true.
Speaker 1: And I don't know anything about it. I was looking
Speaker 1: into the trends in nose jobs and found that very
Speaker 1: very troubling among women again influencers and Instagram and looking
Speaker 1: for the Whoville knows, which is like a tiny little
Speaker 1: upturned nose very popular. Now the Barbie nose was very
Speaker 1: hot for a while. Hey, get a job or have
Speaker 1: some kids or something. Quit carbon on face. But looking
Speaker 1: at the Internet and trying to figure out if you're
Speaker 1: beautiful enough you are, go find a dude. Dudes, put
Speaker 1: down the porn, go find a woman. Good lord, this
Speaker 1: is easy. It's simple.
Speaker 4: From Breitbart dot com Yale University to offer Beyonce course
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I know, I would think that these colleges realize that
Speaker 1: they have become a punchline and are now seen as
Speaker 1: a negative, that they would stop going with that crap
Speaker 1: and thinking that makes them sort of cool and edgy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to picture the most delusional person you've ever known,
Speaker 1: and then think about how long it takes for the
Speaker 1: truth to seep into their consciousness, if it gets there
Speaker 1: at all. And then you picture the Ivy League with
Speaker 1: their incredible self regard and pride. Please, it'll be the
Speaker 1: end of time before they realize they're a laughing stock.
Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon b White House chef excited.
Speaker 2: To work with solid foods again.
Speaker 1: Knock on oh, because Biden's so old, he is just
Speaker 1: mashing up his meat and serving. That's right, Put the
Speaker 1: steak in the blender, Jim. The President's ready for his dinner.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the big photo op Trump Biden
Speaker 1: in the Oval Office today. Something good's gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: just feel it.
Speaker 2: I wonder Trump putting his hand in front of Biden's face.
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