WEBVTT - Pander To Me!! 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.599 Armstrong and Jettie and he. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.400 Arms drawn Dy. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:33.959 Here's a little insights for the listeners. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:34.720 You might not know. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.800 I have no idea who Joe is going to say 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.599 as the general manager every day, and I. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.080 Find myself intrigued today that's what it's going to be. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.599 Live from a dimly lit room, Armstrong and Getty show, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.879 et cetera, et cetera. Today we're under the tutelage of 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.879 our general manager. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.040 First of all, if you think the primary debates where 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.520 you got eleven ninnies standing on stage carping at each other, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.360 we're complicated and difficult. The interview process for this morning's 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:11.319 general manager was torturous, Jack Tortrius. But I'm gonna go 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.760 with the positive. I'm loving what I'm hearing from the 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.880 Doge boys, the Doge boys, our general manager. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:18.800 There you go. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:19.639 That's a good one. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:20.440 That's a good one. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.240 How about Alon's latest thing where he's gonna send everybody 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.480 five thousand dollars or the government's going to or he's 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.600 going to tell the government too, or however, that whole thing. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:33.080 Oh yeah, I'm in favor of it. I'm tired of 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.080 other people being pandered to pander to me. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.360 That might be if five thousand dollars goes out to 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.360 every adult in America, that might be the all time 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.720 populist move, just like blow everything out of the water. Wow, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.640 everybody gets a five thousand milk check. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:52.240 And well they shook it loose. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.080 It was being the wasted or frauded or abused, and 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.120 now we get it a little. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.280 I would save it a little closer to the midterm, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.960 maybe want to get into the full political benefit out 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:06.200 of it. But anyway, we have more of the long 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:11.320 lists of hilarious things money was being spent on. Not 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.720 actually hilarious if you think about your taxpayer money being wasted, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.760 but hilarious. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.560 None the less. Here's my headline on that topic. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:26.560 It was odd and oddly funny how Chuck Schumer among others, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.120 and you know quite a few Democratic leaders were screeching 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.959 on the steps of the Capitol or demonstrating with the 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.680 Union or whatever that this. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.560 Is outrageous, it is horrible. It I can't continue. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:42.239 Well, if I were a party to just the things 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.520 that have been uncovered so far, never mind that they've 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:52.880 just gotten started. When the horrific squandering of the hard 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.160 earned tax dollars of Americans. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.280 And I don't think sometimes that phrase trips off the 0:02:59.280 --> 0:02:59.840 tongue a little too. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.280 People bust their ass, they leave their family, they do 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.280 things they don't want to do to make a living. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.040 Then the government takes a chunk of it and they 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.520 wander it and bribe their fra Exactly, they squander it 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.480 and they bribe their friends with it and laugh about 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.519 it and laugh at you and me. If that were 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.160 what I've been doing for the last quite a few years, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.440 I might be against what Doge is doing. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.919 Two or maybe it would be a good idea, I say. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.639 I think if I'm a Democrat and I'm in any 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.360 of those meetings, I'd say, let's get on board with 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:37.720 this crazy stuff and say we agree. Why not? Why 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:42.080 wouldn't you acting like it's a horror that this is 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.440 going on when every day there's there are lists of 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:50.400 insane you know, expenditures. Just seems like bad politics to me. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.600 But again, like we've been saying, they overestimate how many 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.880 people love giant, bloated government. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.720 I oh, oh, Billy who knows. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:06.840 But anyway, so he's shaking his head sadly because he's like, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.040 this is this is ABC one two three, scoop of 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.960 an ill scoop chocolate. You join them and say, I 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.320 love all these savings that have been done. So when 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.159 the midterms come around and the Republicans run on the savings, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:19.360 you can say. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.960 Yeah, we're in favor of that too. But you know 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.920 what we're not in favor of obviously these things. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.360 You neutralism, you triangulate, you morons. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.680 Now show me that song. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.960 Tyar, shake it for me, baby, I still work. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:41.599 Yeah, oh wow, my eyes still work. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:42.960 That is something. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.640 It's stringed Katie, by the way, that was. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.640 That was five too early for that. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:05:00.160 My eyes still work. I wonder, I wonder if that's 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.040 the whole, if this was a strategy to go with, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.520 you know, trans operas in Ireland and some of the 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.159 most ridiculous stuff. First, then the Department of Education, which 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.640 is pretty you know, pretty easy to arguement, at least 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.800 for half the country, for why you got to cut 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.360 expenditures before they take on the Pentagon, which is supposed 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.240 to start happening in a couple of weeks, Because that's 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.200 that's going to be a little less comfortable for I 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.400 think a lot of the right, even though I'm sure 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.720 the Pentagon is tremendous amounts. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.880 Of bloat, right, well, yeah, absolutely, buying some goodwill by 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.239 picking the lowest hanging fruit is a good strategy, certainly, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.120 I think, and I'm very confident that they'll be able 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.200 to make this argument pretty successfully. I think that the 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.040 approach with the Pentagon is to say, hey, we need 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.479 to be efficient. We need to protect our fighting men 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.240 and make sure they have what they need. We can't 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.080 have bureaucrats wasting the money that's supposed to protect this country. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:59.600 It's a pretty easy argument to make. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.039 I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to spend 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.239 the money on M wraps, not DEI training or whatever 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.000 they find that they can they can do away with. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.520 Yeah, raps, not trans wrappers. Huh. Then you'd cut to 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.000 some sort of drag show, and then you know. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:18.960 You're seriously rolling today. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:20.080 I'm spitballing. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.640 We should start the show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.599 Joe Getty on this It is Wednesday. It's a short 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.160 week already, on February the nineteenth. For your twenty twenty 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.600 five or Armstrong you geey, and we approve of this program. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.080 All right, let's swing in action. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.440 Then officially, according to FCC rules and rags, here we 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.839 go at mark twenty million. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.679 On a Sessame street show in Iraq, fifty six million 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.640 to boost tourism in Tunisia and Egypt, forty million to 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.039 build schools in Jordan, eleven million to tell the Vietnamese 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.920 to stop burning trash, forty five million for Dei scholarships 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:58.200 in Burma, or transgender opera in Colombia or a trend. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.440 I was like, this sounds like it's like, how can 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:01.159 these things be real? 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:02.760 But this is actually what we've done. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.480 It sounds like a comedy schedule. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.640 I have pages, right, it's not. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.360 It's listen all long. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.760 Wow, uh pick your favorite there. I think I like 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.080 trying to convince the Vietnamese not to burn their trash. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.520 Yeah, yeah, okay. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.240 The only thing that concerns me is checking the bambino 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.680 out with the bathwater, because there is some foreign ad 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.480 that I think is useful, and there's some things that 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.000 have been guffawed at online that I think you just 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:42.679 don't understand the purpose of it. Yeah, yeah, well, go ahead, 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.000 it hit me with the ears and then I'll bounce back, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:45.960 and then you know. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.880 Well, I'm sure there's plenty of waste, and I'm sure 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.880 we found all kinds of really really stupid things. But 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.080 I did hear the explanation the other day that a 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.280 lot of times it's a it's a it's a way 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.680 for us to get into a country, and it's a 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:03.240 CIA operation. Okay, you want us to fund this ridiculous thing. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.960 We're gonna have a whole bunch of people there that 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.320 are going to be in your you know, in your 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.600 shorts and hanging around your communities and your buildings and 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.680 your government offices and that sort of stuff to try 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.920 to get the trans offer going, and we're gonna take 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.000 off get a whole bunch of intel. Sometimes that's the deal, 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.120 but I doubt that what's going on in Ireland. How 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.720 much intel do we need on Ireland? 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:22.840 Right? 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:28.640 And one thing that's really been assaulted online, I guess mostly, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.680 but is some of our funding of foreign media outfits, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.800 Like what are we doing funding at TV stations in Columbia. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:43.679 That's ridiculous, No, it's actually not, you see, influencing populations 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.480 and oh can you play the door opening there, Michael, 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:56.199 there is no Hey everybody, Hey, it's Jack. Everybody good 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.240 to see. What I was starting to say is spending 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.480 money is trying to influence populations because you know, depending 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.280 on the country you're talking about, you got a bunch 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.000 of yay who's running around with second great educations and 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.439 the local witch doctor has told them that the US 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.520 is evil and it's complicating our plans to have relations 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.480 with the government, do trade, blah blah blah, whatever national 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.840 priorities are there, and you've got to have a way 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.560 to influence the populations in these countries, not to hate 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.040 the US. It's actually, if it's done right, money well spent. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:26.800 Don't you think we. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.160 Can easily add this stuff back in the stuff? We 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.839 go too far on having said that, gotta do a reset, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.119 gotta strip it down to the studs and then rebuild 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.840 it according to modern needs and not just keep you know, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.680 flushing money down the toilet of foreign ad just because 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:46.960 it's happened before. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.160 I don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.920 On the other hand, hold a baby. Let's drain the 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.480 tub and fill it up again. Okay, I went from 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.800 construction to babies and baths to witch doctors, and that's. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.559 The FOREM stuff. But unlike the laying off government workers, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.720 there's a mainstream media is I'm making a big deal 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.400 laying off some of the workers that actually deal with 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.920 our nuclear arsenal. Okay, so you're telling me it's impossible 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.480 that we have more employees involved in our nuclear arsenal 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:21.080 than we need. Why would you think that that is guaranteed. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.000 We've got exactly the right number of people, and they're 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.240 all working very hard. Why why would you think that? 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.040 Right, it's ridiculous. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.800 And the idea that they went too far too fast 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:36.120 in some places and are re hiring people, you can't 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:42.120 be like wildly stupidly too far, too fast. But the 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.280 media acts as if any margin of error or any 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.199 margin of screw up and whoops, we really need those 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.320 two hundred people back. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:50.240 We got to rehire them. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.360 They act as if any any era whatsoever is just 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.959 some sort of you know, fatal indictment of the entire enterprise. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.960 Especially after that, especially after decades of going not far 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.840 enough and too slow, right, right, which is always the 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:10.480 other option. Unfortunately, anyway, we got mail bag in Katie's headlines. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.360 To get to this hour. Oh wow, there's an I 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.840 just learned this really interesting thing they're gonna try for 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.400 the baseball preseason. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.280 Have you have you heard about this? 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:19.880 Really? 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.320 See if Jose appearance skeptic? What's going on here? What 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:25.880 are you trying to all be on my back? 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.040 Now that we are the morning show at this station 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.320 that is the official home of the Oakland A's, we 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.080 are heavily involved in Major League Baseball. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.200 Of course, tell you. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.080 What, if you so much as utter the phrase golden 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.199 at bat, We're gonna drop gloves like US Canada hockey man. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:42.680 As I mix the sports. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.960 I finally watched the video tape of that game the 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.880 other night where there are four three fights in the 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:47.920 first nine seconds. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.280 Oh spectator, So do I understand we play them again? 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.040 Is it tonight or tomorrow night for the champions? 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.000 Fannal is tomorrow Night's Thursday night? Check your local listing, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.800 Sam Knnuckers are gonna get what they got coming. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.200 And there were three fights the first nine seconds the 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.040 last time they played each other two days ago, whatever. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.000 It was, Yeah, I think there were three fights and 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.080 two passes in the first nine seconds, more fights than passes. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.960 It glorious, awesome, so, man, that might be a big 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.360 national spectacle. You're gonna have the America's hat. Huh. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.400 Let's bring our long time enemy, the Canadians. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.520 So we need to have our team handout maps with 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.280 the fifty first state already attached. That'd be fantastic, and 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.320 the Gulf of America down below. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.920 That's right, Michael, So we got a lot all the 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:31.640 ways they here. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.160 Armstrong and Yetti. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.559 Scientists now saying the asteroid has a three point one 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.000 percent probability of impact thanks to new observations. That is 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.840 up about one percent from what we reported just a 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.400 few days ago. Now, the astroid, known as twenty twenty 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.760 four y R four, is roughly the size of the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.800 Statue of Liberty. Scientists will use the James Webb Space 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.880 Telescope to get a better look before the asteroid disappears 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.560 behind the Sun and out of view until twenty twenty eight. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.800 Now, if this asteroid did hit, it. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.200 Be large enough to wipe out a city, but still 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.800 a ninety six point nine percent chance the asteroid will 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.640 miss the Earth entirely, but scientists have over seven years 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.800 to prepare for that three point one percent chance. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.840 But so it's gone from one in fifty to more 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:17.400 like one in thirty three chances of the asteroid hitting 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.760 the Earth, which could wipe out you know, Tokyo or 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.240 New York or whatever. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:26.840 That's what it would sound like, scientists, so fair the 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.600 simulation of what it would sound like. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.680 And that's in seven years, I think, twenty thirty two. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.520 So I don't know what to do about that. We'll 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.760 keep our eye on that story for you. So we 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:43.120 are going to talk about what Trump said about the 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.839 war between Russia and Ukraine, and I guess it comes 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.320 up in mail Bag, which is next segment. A couple 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:54.960 of things that I thought were interesting kind of around that. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.240 First of all, Marco Rubio tweeting out yesterday is he's 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.280 dealing with Putin and his people. There many in the 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.199 West still don't understand that Putin is an expert liar. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:10.319 He doesn't care about humanitarian relief in fact, a ceasefire. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.960 If he agrees to a ceasefire, it's because he sees 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.200 some strategic or tactical benefit and beware of attacks on 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.160 refugees that Russia blames on Ukraine and NATO. So there's 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.520 the Secretary of State saying if there's a ceasefire, don't 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.240 be surprised if Russia's attacking Ukrainians trying to get back 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.560 into their country, right and blaming it on NATO. At 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.240 the same time, his boss is saying Ukraine started the war, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:36.960 which again we're going to get into later. I thought 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.280 that was interesting. I don't know how that's going to 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.080 play out their relationship there. And then these statistics that 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:50.200 came out yesterday around the war in Russia's military in 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.720 twenty twenty four, just last year suffered over a half 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:59.320 million casualties just last year. It's been going on for 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.680 three years. As of next week, Russia's casualty count total 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:08.440 is now eight hundred and thirty seven thousand killed and 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.120 wounded in three years. Eight hundred and thirty seven thousand. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:19.600 Unimaginable numbers. If you had eight thousand US soldiers killed somewhere, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.320 it would be the biggest political crisis we've had since 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.120 Vietnam for whatever party was involved. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.000 Yeah, we haven't endured anything like that in so long 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.000 I can't even remember. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.880 I mean, it's just it would be horrible, right. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.440 It's just absolutely astounding those numbers of what's going on 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:36.960 over there. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.400 Neil Ferguson wrote a great response to the JD Vance 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.080 flap that I'll share some of at some point during 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.400 the show. But one of the points he makes, and 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.080 it's worth repeating, is that this is Putin's greatest blunder. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.120 He talks big, and he's gained some territory and the 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.280 Ukrainians are definitely in a tough spot, and Trump said 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.920 something absolutely unforgivable about Ukraine that they started the war. Essentially, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.160 I don't know what he's at or thinking about. We'll 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.400 get to that a little bit later on, but it 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.240 absolutely is a horrible blunder that Putin is trying to 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.640 extricate himself from. And there's part of me that thinks 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:18.720 Trump understands that and is trying to play Putin's weakness 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.520 against him. On the other hand, Putin is a crocodile. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:26.520 I mean, he's a master tactician, utterly amoral, and will 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.080 gain any advantage he can do. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.400 You think Putin thinks it's a blunder. I mean, he 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.840 doesn't care about eight hundred and thirty seven thousand soldiers. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.720 That means nothing to him. He knows he's been weakened. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.440 But if he gets if he ends up with which 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:41.840 what seems to be on the table if he ends 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.040 up with twenty percent of Ukraine and a guarantee they're 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.600 not going to be a NATO, and then there's some 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.960 talk of us pulling troops out of various countries. If 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.040 he gets that, you think he's gonna feel like this 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:51.720 was a failure. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.480 Uh No, not exactly. But again he has been badly, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.680 badly weakened, which going forward is not a state he 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.760 wants to be in. He thought he had an easy 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.720 win and it is just beat the crap out of 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.880 his military and exposed them as being incredibly weak. No, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.680 it's a win, but it's a pyrrhic victory, as they say, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.880 I mean he got a twenty dollars bicycle for five 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.160 thousand dollars. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.320 We've got mail bag on the way, Katie's headlines, news 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.240 of the day, and a lot of controversial stuff. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.040 So stay done, Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.639 We're about to live in a pennyless world. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.760 are you prepared. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.520 For that to be pennyless? After all, this work. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.800 Got some great email to get to, some of it 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.760 during a mail bag in a moment, some of it 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:45.800 later on, including Rick's extremely thoughtful pointing out of some 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.640 downstream issues with ending the penny. Okay, that was really interesting, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.639 so please do stay tuned. First freedom loving quote of 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.280 the day, plunging on after a brief break yesterday with 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.760 our great quotes from Abraham Lincoln birthday just passed. This 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.600 has always been one of my favorites. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.480 Are there many quotes from Washington? Is his birthday? What 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:07.680 this Saturday? 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:08.400 Ah? 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.760 Yeah, that's correct? Sure, yeah, oh yes, some incredible quotes. Wonderful. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.080 Yeah, he wasn't the quote machine Lincoln was, though not 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:23.680 quite Lincoln. Lincoln loved to talk to people. Washington very 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.560 dignified and reserved man anyway, But yeah, we'll go with 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.440 Washington next. But this is one of my all time 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:34.320 favorite Abe Lincoln quotes. An apropos as apropos today as 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:35.960 it was then and will be in a thousand years. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.560 How many legs does a dog have if you call 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.679 his tail a leg? The answer is four. Saying that 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.080 a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.720 That's a good one, That is a great one. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.000 Yes, there are many examples in the contemporary world. One 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.720 might sight of saying something that is clearly not something 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.479 is indeed that's something. And if you don't say so, 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:07.000 you're a person. And then finally this, Oh, we could 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.560 certainly go with government of the people by the people, 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.960 for the people shall not perish from the earth unless 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.600 you screw it up so bad it does. I added 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.840 that last part on mail bag. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.639 Having an unelected billionaire takeover the pot crown. 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.640 Oh my god, somebody slapping drop us. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.280 A note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.480 anytimes like what's with all the cocaine? Writes Jay and 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.359 San Jose. What with the daily doge revelations? I'm seeing 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.800 a trend where we pay researchers to give cocaine and 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.440 other illicit drugs to animals for a variety of reasons. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:41.680 What's that all about? 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:44.440 Good question? 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.000 Cocaine monkeys, cocaine dogs, cocaine ducks. What's the story the 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:50.120 infamous cocaine bear. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.000 The other thing I like these government agencies doing are 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.920 the mainstream media pushing it? Is this idea that there 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.919 was a meeting on Tuesday with the cancer Board that 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.040 had to be canceled. Oh and act like Tuesday at 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.520 two o'clock they were gonna cure cancer, but now the 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.400 meeting had to be canceled. Damn it when back timing. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.119 Oh, because of the world's richest men, causing them to 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.159 cancel the meeting. Scott pelling Is introduction to the sixty Minutes. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.040 Piece Sunday was hilarious. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.320 It was like the voice over to a nineteen forties 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:25.040 Frankenstein movie. What a jack Assay, Morning Boys, writes Josiah 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.840 in Utah. I'm imagining what it'll be like when every 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.439 household receives a DOGE dividend. Check How then will the 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.800 media and the Dems cry to the American people about 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.359 their loss of funding because of the evil Elon Musk. 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.000 This idea from Elon is effing checkmate. It will increase 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.800 support for more DOGE cuts in the future. The overwhelming 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.120 majority will vote in favor of DOGE type audits. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:45.840 In the future. 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.440 We could be looking at the era of fiscal responsibility 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.359 that we've been dreaming of. Wow, Josiah, don't don't raise 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:53.560 my hopes that high, brob. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:54.600 Yeah. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.160 I tell you what though, And you know, I gotta 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.760 admit I'm kind of ashamed of this occurred to me. 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.720 The way you get it going in a people that's 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.800 realized that they can vote themselves money from the treasury 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.280 which of course is the doom of a democracy is say, hey, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.560 there's wall starts of this bloat and waste and redundancy 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:15.320 and fraud. 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.920