WEBVTT - Bring Him Back! He's Not Fat! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong and 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:17.800 Jetty and no He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:24.520 Jailing. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.800 He scored three touchdowns on Sunday. You did, but the 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:35.120 first one was doing what people are calling the toush push. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.760 Yeah, is that what you call it? 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.440 It's not what I call it. It's not what you 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.680 call it's not what I call it. What do you 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:42.080 call it? 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.440 And I'm not gonna say what I called it? 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.040 But it's okay. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.360 I'll take off too, because when I got there, I'm 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.360 known as the toush push. But I didn't know if 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.400 that's what we called But I thought it was called that, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.400 and it's not called the touchbush. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.200 Actually, no, what. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.120 Is your role in the in the. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:00:59.760 Quote unquote touch push. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.840 I think I have the easiest job, to be honest. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:08.440 I think I'm the one who pushes the tush. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.800 That's partly the running back. I pushed the tush and 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.920 the quarterback for the Eagles. I wonder what they do 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.120 call it. Obviously it's not a good one. It's got 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.720 to be some sort of jam it up there, you know, whatever, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.280 Some sort of name like that I want. Oh I 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.640 hope not. Yes, Michael, I was told to brotherly shove. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.680 The brotherly shove. That's the other nickname for it, because 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.440 it's Philadelphia. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.280 Yeah, yeah, I don't think he'd be afraid to say that. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.440 Oh no, no, no, that's not what they call Yeah, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:34.880 they call it something unerable. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.840 They call it, let's say, let's jam it, you know 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.080 up there. I'll bet it something like that. And I 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.640 don't appreciate the course language. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.080 Speaking of which, the next thing we're about to play, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.880 I think it's worth noting, first of all, this is 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.960 not the most important part of it. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:48.960 We'll get to that. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.080 But the first part of it is Maxine Dexter, who's 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.240 a Democrat congresswoman from Oregon. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.440 All the people you're about to hear are Congress people. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:58.520 And she's a. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.200 Nice like school teacher, sure mom, who decided to run 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:04.160 for Congress. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:05.200 Nice person. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.320 I disagree with her politics, but and you can hear 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.120 the discomfort in her voice as she's joining in the 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.359 new slogan that's gonna turn America around. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.400 I am gonna tell you that we do have to. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.000 I don't swear in public very well, but we have 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:23.960 to Trump. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.320 Please don't tell my children that I just said that. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.639 And I'll tell you I'm from Jersey, so it look 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:34.880 get a little different. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:43.079 Problem Donald Trump and Elon So you can chart this 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.840 over my lifetime quite easily, of the coarseness of our 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.639 politics and this let us go around. There was the 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.880 F Joe Biden, but politicians weren't saying it. Football crowds 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.640 were chanting it or whatever, but you didn't have a 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.880 rally on the steps. Now it's gone from the football 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.840 crowd to the politicians saying F the President. And I 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.640 don't really I think we might be at the end 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.400 of the road unless, like you said earlier, well, right, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.840 we're at the lowest common denominator, unless we just moved 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.040 that final step to taking a crap on the stage 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.919 and pointing at it, no words necessary. Right, our discourse 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.440 has got as low as it can possibly get. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.080 I think they've got to start showing Idiocracy the Great 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.160 movie in the Civics class in eighth grade, in the 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.280 few school districts that have civics classes. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.080 Yeah, it's you know what it is. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.960 If I were to put on my serious political analyst hat, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:47.360 it's a nakedly transparent and frantic effort to gather the 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:53.000 troops around some message, any message of defiance and resistance 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.240 to the Trump administration. But try as they might, they're 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.960 just not finding anything. Howling about Elon Musk being any 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.160 dollar gark and unelected. In the rest of it. I mean, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.400 it's it's okay. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:04.840 For the base. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.720 The base is digging it, they're loving it the base, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.480 but the base is way too small. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.640 Yeah, I got I got a point on that to make. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.760 But I want to read this text because a last 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.320 hour we're talking about Elon and Trump in the Oval 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.760 office yesterday, and Elon was talking about uh, Trump was 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.760 talking about various government programs or where people get paid 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.080 long after their contract has ended and nobody pays any 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.200 attention and blah blah blah. So we got this text. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.839 I was receiving dozens and dozens of COVID payments in 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.640 other people's names at my rural mailbox, and I returned 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.919 all of them, indicating that the fraudulent nature, and not 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.480 one person from the government asked me a single question. 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.480 They just send them month after month after month. Wow. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.279 I'm thinking if I ever got something like that I'm 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.360 put in the bank, I might not spend it under 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.200 the fear that at some point somebody catches on and 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.000 comes and says, hey, where's our two hundred and twenty 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.080 five thousand dollars we've over the last ten years, And 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:00.839 then I wouldn't have it, but I might put it 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.760 in the bank. I don't know. I pay a lot 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.000 of tax, that's that's sure. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.640 Yeah, yeah, as long as you knew you could write 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.679 them that check when they finally came a calling. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.040 If they finally came a calling. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.800 Uh yeah, I don't think there's any issue with that whatsoever. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.599 And in fact, it could be argued you kept it 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.440 safe to the political rhetoric. And I will mention for 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.680 the one millionth time of book nobody has read but me, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.359 Paris on Fire. It's about the they had a civil 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.960 war in France, particularly in Paris in eighteen seventy in 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.719 eighteen seventy one, that I had never read about or 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.960 heard about. And it's amazing it got as ugly as 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:43.040 what Hamas did to the Jews on that day, between 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.120 people that grew up in France, their whole lives lived 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.080 in Paris, or whole lives to each other. I mean 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:53.960 that brutal in Paris in eighteen seventy wow, because of 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.719 the politics ramping up and ramping up and ramping up 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.440 in what people were saying about each other and claiming 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.760 that they're side could do. And one thing the author said, 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.880 as once it finally calmed down and they're trying to 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:11.360 put things back together, and everybody's just gobsmacked by what 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.440 the hell just happened. Buildings are rubble all around Paris, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.400 the stench of dead bodies everywhere. Everybody knows somebody that 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.360 was raped or mutilated or tortured or whatever in Paris, France, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.359 which at the time was the most sophisticated city in 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.760 the world, and the whole world was looking at it 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:34.720 like what the hell that can happen? And one thing 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.480 the author said that I thought was so interesting and 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:41.920 we might see this in our lifetimes. After that political speeches, 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.719 nobody was paying any attention, like we've heard this before, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.919 we've heard this, we know where this goes. You getting 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.039 us all riled up and claiming the other side is 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.240 evil in our side's always right. And it took a 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.799 long time before anybody believed politicians again after that happened. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.839 How interesting, That's what I thought. Yeah, the aftermath of it. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:03.040 I hadn't even considered that. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.800 Oh, okay, this isn't a game. But I'm sure you 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.640 finally at some point think, oh, oh, this isn't a game. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.400 I understand, and this is where it can go if 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.640 we demonize the other side so much for so long, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.040 and oh oh, your claims of all my dreams will 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:24.640 come true? Not so much. Yeah, yeah, this has always 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.760 been true of politics. I'm gonna keep this very vague. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.360 I ran into some folks recently who are very very 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:36.840 modest circumstances in life, and from a place like many 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:42.560 of us live, that is very very blue, and in 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:48.080 spite of their complete lack of political sophistication, they held 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:55.200 completely confident contempt for anybody who thought differently than the 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.560 people that surround them. And I, you know, since I've 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.400 been studying this stuff since I was a little kid, 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:00.760 it doesn't threaten me. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.120 I don't get angry. I'm just interested in it mostly. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:04.920 You know. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.880 Obviously, on an electoral level, when elections are when and 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:09.920 lost in decisions get made, then I care a lot. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.600 But just when I'm interacting with individuals, I'm more curious 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.680 than anything. And it was absolutely clear to me in 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.640 that moment that it was the classic I have to 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:23.760 feel better than someone to feel good about myself phenomenon. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:30.280 And the problem with that feeling because we it's I mean, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.400 that's like a constant and humankind. It explains a lot 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.520 of racism and xenophobia or whatever. But the problem is 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:44.840 now that politics is omnipresent in our lives. And if 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.880 that feeling is Jack was just describing about, you know, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.080 Paris in the eighteen seventies, if that feeling extends to 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:57.200 politics and then political violence, it ends in horrific bloodshed. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.720 Yeah, it can all come apart. And and that's why 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.520 for a couple hundred years anyway, we had people speaking 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.880 politicians about each other. I disagree with the good gentleman 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.400 from Missouri, I think the fact friend from Kansas. Yeah, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:19.520 the reason they went so far that direction was it 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.800 can go It can really come apart, and I just 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.520 you know, wow, I'm you know, if you've listened to 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.319 this show for years, you know, I'm more than capable 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.720 of laughing at you know, F this and F that 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:36.719 and all that sort of low level discourse. But you 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.760 don't want it to all just disintegrate. Yeah, it's a 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.360 step away from I hate you. I hate you, and 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.000 that's the only discourse that crosses the austs. We're discussing earlier, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.920 the stuff Elon Musk said, and we'll play some more 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.800 of the audio from his impromptu I guess a press 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.280 conference in the Oval Office yesterday, in which he was 0:09:55.400 --> 0:10:02.000 explaining in extremely calm and measured ways, perfectly sensible descriptions 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.960 of the fiscal crisis that we're nearing as a country 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.160 and how we have to rein in spending on the 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.800 not so great, not so important stuff, or we'll have 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.560 no money for the very very great, extremely important stuff 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.360 and soon. And by the way, just as an aside, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.960 the idea among some people, particularly on particularly on the left, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.600 that we can just grow our way out of our 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.040 debt problems. It's a very Wolf of Wall Street esque 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.040 view of life. We'll just make more and more and 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:28.640 more money. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.040 It's okay, how much we're spending on cocaine, hookers and 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.560 giant houses and cars, Well, just keep making more money. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.439 It's just, oh my god, it's an idiotic notion. But anyway, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.920 the fact that he would say what he said in 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.920 such reasonable tones and have some of the heavyweights of 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.680 media and society and academia. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:52.199 He's a monster in reply to what he said, that's troubling. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.800 Yeah, I mean it's as if he said, puppies are cute, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.600 and good nutrition helps keep you healthy, and gosh, there's 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.000 nothing better than a spring day. And he was screeched 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.320 at as a monster for saying those things, as if 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:07.840 he were. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:12.240 Saying I hate poor people and they should suffer, or 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.200 I hate this race or that race. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:20.880 That's the way it's being treated, right, Yeah, is there 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.520 getting past this without horrific bloodshed? And it's worth noting 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.520 we had our own civil war, perhaps you've heard of it, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.160 which probably gave birth to a lot of that civility 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.760 in our government for a very long time. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.280 Yeah, you're exactly right. You're exactly right. That is probably 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.840 what led to the let's keep this really really cool 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:48.640 from here on out right, so that doesn't happen again. Yeah, Well, 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.000 so there you go. I don't expect it to get 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.559 turned around anytime soon. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:12:01.240 No, I don't know what would overwhelming success of the 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.559 Trump administration would help. Although, man, I'm gonna be a 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.800 little pessimistic here. If you could not get the average 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.360 voter to be aware of our mounting debt crisis and 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.640 vote in ways that would be good to get rid 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.079 of it. How are you going to get their praise 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:18.400 for solving it. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.400 We've got a lot more to talk about. There's a 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.960 rush around the country to buy chickens amid the eggs shortage. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.200 People trying to figure out what equipment do I need 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.280 to have chickens in my backyard or my garage. I 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:34.920 don't know how many eggs you all eat. I'm not 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.640 going to become a chicken farmer all of a sudden 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.000 because eggs are more expensive. I'll just eat fewer eggs, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.320 I guess. And now credit where it's due. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.400 Some notable liberal media let's saying, Hey, the whole keeping 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.680 the kids out of school thing during COVID was a disaster, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.360 and it's way worse than Blue States. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.200 Oh boy, I love hearing that. I hate to love 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.160 I love that. I h I'll work on that. Stay tuned. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:03.120 So news of the day inflation about three percent in January, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.360 higher than economists expected. Market drops, blah blah blah. You 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.280 know the story. It's left over from the Biden administration. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.160 But the next inflation numbers people will blame on Trump 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.800 rightly or wrongly, and I think wrongly that early, but 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.960 you know that's how it will work. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.920 January is huge too, because it's when many, many, many 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.960 businesses look at how last year went and say, hey, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.720 look we got to reprint the menus with higher prices. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.880 During inflation, there was a lot of talk about, well, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.760 everything was more expensive when we talked about it all 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.120 the time, but eggs and bacon regularly got mentioned. Eggs 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.720 are particularly expensive. Now you combine inflation with the bird 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.400 flu and destroying so many chickens and all this sort 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.400 of stuff that's going on around the country, and eggs 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.640 are the most expensive they've ever been. I continue to 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.880 wonder how many eggs do you all eat? How vital 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.120 is it to your diet. I don't eat that many eggs, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.520 and even if I did, if they got more expensive 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.280 than I wanted to pay, I'd switched to something else. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:00.960 But you know, I don't know. It must be very 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.080 important to many of you, because I saw this on 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.000 TV and then I googled it and I came across 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.439 a news story, afternoon story all across the country buying 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.480 chickens to save money on eggs. Fox thirteen Seattle Rising 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.840 egg prices have Sacramento County residents flocking to feed stores 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:21.480 to buy laying heads, and Orlando hig egg prices lead 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.440 people to start buying chickens, and it's all over the country. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.200 People are buying, setting up becoming chicken farmers so they 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:34.160 can provide their own eggs. And it reminds me of 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.000 when gas prices get high and some people will trade 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.920 in a car at a cost of tens of thousands 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.720 of dollars to save an extra ten dollars a week 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.680 briefly while gas is high. And it happens all the time. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.000 I remember when we were endorsing a car lot once 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.640 he said, oh yeah, gas prices get high, and we 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.240 get people coming in, you know, changing their least costing 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.440 them tons of money to because gases. People don't do 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.920 the math. I'm the same with the chickens. I mean, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.520 living on the farm, we had chickens laying lots of eggs. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.080 First of all, you don't need that many chickens because 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.680 you will have more eggs than you know what to 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.280 do with. Before you know. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.880 It, what's the average output per chicken. I'm a city guy. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:17.360 I don't know this. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.720 I wasn't counting it. Per chicken heine. But I know 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.280 we had a few hens, and we had I mean 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.960 just was constantly eating eggs, not wanting them to go 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:33.200 to waste, and just eggs. You know, eggs everywhere, and 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:33.800 of course. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.520 In California, you couldn't give them to your neighbors except 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.760 under the dark of night to risk being accused of 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.280 unlicensed chicken good distribution. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.360 Well, the other problem you're going to have is unless 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:47.280 maybe you don't have a dog. But if you have 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.160 your dog, your dog is going to eat your chickens. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.880 And if it doesn't eat your chickens, it's gonna eat 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.840 your eggs. So you have to keep the dog out 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.040 of the henhouse. Somehow it will eat your chickens, it 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.680 will eat your eggs, and you'll have your eggs sucking dog. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.440 We have a very fat blue healer dog that eats 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:02.160 so many eggs. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.680 Well, longtime listeners the show, remember when my two Labrador 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.400 Retrievers murdered several neighborhood chickens, causing a great deal of 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:11.320 angst in the hood. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.040 I don't know what it is about chickens and dogs, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.640 but some dogs don't care. They're fine, They'll just walk 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.440 Buy a chicken other dogs. It's like their life's gold 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.840 to kill that chicken. And you can't train them out 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.400 of it or nothing. No, and they don't eat it. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.600 They just kill it. Yeah. Yeah, they just are really 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.440 bothered by the existence of a chicken for some reason. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.640 Although if your dog eats endless eggs, it will have 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.240 a very shiny coat. I have learned that. But I 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.520 gotta believe that building a coop, especially in an urban area, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:37.760 because you're gonna have to build a coop. You can't 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.160 just let them run around the farm like we do. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.520 You build a coop and you get the feet and 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.320 you buy the chickens. I don't know how ahead you're 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:44.400 gonna come out on this deal. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.800 Oh, somebody's got to watch them when you go on 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.360 vacation or whatever too, which is a pain in the butt. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.160 Although just the very primal nature of the kind of 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.760 the unplugged, not twenty first century nature of tending to 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.560 beasts and raising plants and stuff that really appeals to me. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.680 Oh, it's awesome. It is a great feeling. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.920 Even lefty media is saying, yeah, keeping the schools closed 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.320 during COVID was a disaster. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.639 More on that to come Armstrong and getty right, but 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.159 show where some of the details that have come out, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.439 like the you know, fifty nine million dollars spent on 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.960 luxury hotels, it's actually not. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.680 About the femal money that was a used for migrants. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.960 That was, yeah, FEMA money for migrants. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:23.480 That's okay. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.600 Now no I'm not saying it. So I'm not saying 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.600 it's okay. Don't put word So would you stop that? 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.080 Would you stop that process? 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:30.000 Don't be a dick? 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.480 That's a little Andy Cooper there on CNN telling his 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.200 guests Johnson UNU not to. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.280 Be in and I quote Dick uh. Breaking news Fox 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.359 anyway is reporting that Tulsia Gabbard because they're about to 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.960 vote Tulsia Gabbard is on track to be confirmed as 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:55.160 Director of Intelligence. They've talked to senators and counted and 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:56.920 say it's going to happen. It wouldn't be hard to 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.359 do because you know who the the whole out last 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:00.960 knows were And if you got enough of those to 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.440 say now I'm gonna go ahead and vote yes, you'd know, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:11.120 which reminds me. Came across this from the Dispatch, who 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:16.600 is really against Tulsa Gabbard being confirmed a lot of 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.959 my favorite thinkers are and I don't think there are 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:23.920 deep state hacks either. Snowden's leak and this was controversial. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.000 Remember in our hearing the other day, she refused to 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:31.000 call Snowden a trader. And Snowden's leak cost US critical 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.200 access to a network we'd penetrated, depriving US policy makers 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.159 of potential high value insights into thinking and directives of 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:44.119 senior Chinese officials. How Snowden's leaks benefited China. We would 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.560 be in, or would have been in until we got caught, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.800 So the inner thinking of China for quite a while 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.919 if Snowden hadn't revealed that. Yeah. See, I got an 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.320 argument at the bank yesterday about the Patriot Act. I 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.880 talked about it earlier, Grab Hour one, Armstrong, Getty on Demand. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.400 There's a lot of bad stuff in the Patriot Act 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.000 that I'm glad Snowden alerted to about. You didn't need 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.639 to tell the world that we are spying on China, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:10.920 you dick. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.440 Yeah, it was classic case of throwing the baby out 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.800 with the bathwater, which is what the expression is all about. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.600 He just went way, way, way too far, god, I'd say, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:19.720 And he didn't have to. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.480 And it was inexcusable and yes, traitorous. And if you'd 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.560 gone to France or someplace instead of Russia, we might 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.600 have more respect for you. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.000 There are any number of countries around the world that 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.680 don't have extradition treaties with the US. But anyway, Yeah, 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.239 so I'm very uneasy with Telsea Gabbert. But we'll have 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.720 to see the Senate Advisors and Consents, and they're about 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:40.360 to apparently. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:45.080 Yeah. I lean toward to the idea of the president 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.919 gets to pick who he wants unless they're just like 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.800 a flat out criminal. Well, I'll let him pick who 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:52.120 he wants and Gore. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.800 One of my complaints about Trump is that he is 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.239 too transactional, that if you are loyal to him and 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.399 go to bat for him, he will you to a 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:04.160 position that you're unqualified for, whether by morals or ability 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:04.679 or whatever. 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:05.359 Or you know. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.920 Partnering Steve Bannon I think is absolutely absurd, especially because 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.000 Bannon ripped off a bunch of Trump supporters. This fake 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:18.399 private wall building fund scheme ridiculous. Everybody else involved in 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.239 it is in prison and should be. So, you know, 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:28.280 having said that, except for that sort of thing, Yeah, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.640 it's his department, it's his cabinet and famously recently, Oh 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.719 and it struck me listening to Elon Musk why that 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.359 was so novel. It was listening to a guy who 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:43.959 actually has some pretty significant discretionary power in the government, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.040 in the executive branch. Because for the last you know, 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:50.720 a couple of decades, especially, cabinet heads are just ceremonial figureheads. Practically, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.640 they're implementers of what the president tells them to do. 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.120 They do not have the awesome. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.960