1 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,080 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. 3 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty. 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: Armstrong and get Katy and he arms wrong yet live 5 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: from Studio C Senor eight, within the stinking bowels of 6 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Information Complex. This is The Armstrong 7 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: and Giddy Show Live, the twenty first of Pemberuwerry, the 8 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, the birthday of 9 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: one Jack Armstrong, who has the day off to go 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: do something for Jack, spend little Jack time, which is lovely, 11 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: but he will be checking in later on this hour 12 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: because we can't help ourselves, just like I did on 13 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: my day off. Busy day today on the show, great 14 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: guests on all of the hot topics before us. You know, 15 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: obviously it's going to be trumpy at times. Both the 16 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: increasingly troubling treatment of Ukraine or is that seven dimensional chess? 17 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: Some of the domestic stuff doge and beyond is what 18 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: Trump is doing. What Peggy Noonan called was it Peggy 19 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: noon no Is Kim Strassel called a constitutional cleanup. I'm 20 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: so happy and excited about this. It's just absolutely terrific. 21 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Mike Lyons about NATO and 22 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: national security and Ukraine and all sorts of good stuff, 23 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: and then can't wait to get into it with lanhe Chen, 24 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: who if you don't know Lan he is absolutely brilliant 25 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: mind Stanford Professor policy advisor, to talk about domestic policy 26 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: and some of the things that Trump and dozerre doing 27 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: domestically to clean up the sprawling, idiotic mess that is 28 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: the federal government and bureaucracy. And then later that's our three, 29 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: and then later in our three and we're still working 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: on the schedule, so don't assume me if this changes, 31 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: but we're going to talk to our longtime tax authority 32 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: advisor and guest, Steven Moskowitz about everything that's relevant tax 33 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: wise from last year and looking ahead this year for 34 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five as we start to get closer to 35 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: when everybody's frantically and miserably doing their paperwork. So a 36 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: good show today. I hope you can hang around. If not, 37 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: as always, grabbed the podcast later via wherever you'd like 38 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: to get podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. You probably 39 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 1: ought to subscribe. Michael, I tell you what, why don't 40 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: we start the show officially? Because I want to get 41 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: right into something. So here we go, leaping into action 42 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: according to de FCC rules and regulations. Oh, I forgot 43 00:02:59,919 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: to say the general manager. Ah, I tell you what. 44 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: Let's just begin at Mark. 45 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 3: Donald Trump and yeah, listen, I think this is the 46 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: most serious cons crisis the country has faced. 47 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 4: This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis. 48 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 5: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy turns off. 49 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: Let's try like, ladies and gentlemen. Our general manager today 50 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: is charge sall charity. I want to hear that a 51 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: thousand times today, Michael Churgeall. And here is why. Well, 52 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: here's it. For instance, first from the Free Beacon, Doge 53 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: finds two billion dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for Stacey 54 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: Abrams linked group Stacy Abrams, the perennial Georgia candidate, woke 55 00:03:54,880 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: activist gal two billion dollars or set aside for a 56 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: fledgling nonprofit linked to Stacy Abram. I mean it's it's 57 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: fledgling obviously. Well, I'll tell you more about it than 58 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: we'll analyze. The EPA under Biden awarded Power Forward Communities. 59 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: What a great sounding arroganization that is Power Forward communities. 60 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: It's got power, it's got forward, and it's got communities 61 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: in it. It must be good. But that was part 62 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: of the agency's greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward 63 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: Communities received the green Energy grant despite the fact that 64 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: it was founded just months prior and never managed anywhere 65 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: near the grant's dollar figure, and it reported just one 66 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: hundred dollars in total revenue during its first three months 67 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: in operation, according to its latest tax filings. But the EPA, 68 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:58,559 Speaker 1: under their grotesque authority as outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act. 69 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: Oh oh, I vomited a little bit, sorry even trying 70 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: to call it that. Under that unholy Act, they doled 71 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: out incomprehensible amounts of money, as I always say to 72 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: their cronies, with the thinnest of cover, like naming your 73 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: organization power Forward Community and saying, this money, this enormous, 74 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: incomprehensible pile of money, will go toward green, socially equitable 75 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: power community engagement. And then the money just goes out. 76 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: Always remember somebody got that money when you hear about 77 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: these incredible expenditures. So I could talk about that all day. 78 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: There's some more detail to the story, but it's absolutely obscene. 79 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: But that brings us to this absolutely wonderful column. I 80 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: came a cross by Kim Strassel and The Wall Street 81 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: Journal that really explains what's happening here with not just 82 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: doge and their headlines about eliminating transgender puppet shows for 83 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: Ecuador or whatever the hell, but some of the regulatory 84 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: reform that they're doing, and Kim Wright's FDR fundamentally redefined 85 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: the purpose of the federal government, which set off an 86 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: era of ever expanding Washington's scope and reach. Nearly a 87 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: century later, Donald Trump's White House is taking it on 88 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: itself to challenge the legitimacies some of the foundations of 89 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: that expansion. The left calls this a constitutional crisis, how 90 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: about a constitutional cleanup? Then she says, the sheer volume 91 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: of what Trump's doing, it makes it hard to sort 92 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: out the merely aggressive and the truly striking. And she says, 93 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: it's the truly striking stuff that deserves note because some 94 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: of the other stuff is gobbling up all the headlines. 95 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: Like I said, and it's great, and it's fine, and 96 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: I'm happy it's happening, but this is the fundamental stuff 97 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: that's a little bit lower in the national consciousness. It's 98 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: the growing list of Trump actions deliberately designed to provoke 99 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: a judicial review of the legality of long standing Washington features. 100 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: Congress spent a century creating dozens dozens of agencies that 101 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: blur the boundaries between executive, legislative, and judicial power, while 102 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: the administrative state produced thousands of rules that diverge from 103 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: Congressional intent. Constitutionalists have long disputed the legality of these actions, 104 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: but over time even most critics succumb to the status quo, 105 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: and the White House is reviving that fight, audaciously questioning 106 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: the foundations of the DC architecture. And it's remarkable. And 107 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: Trump unveiled the latest zinger this week, debtning, detonating, rather 108 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: what the American Action Forums Daniel Goldbeck labeled quote a 109 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: thermonuk deregulatory warhead that nobody's talking about. This is the 110 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: important stuff. The President ordered agency heads to scour every 111 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: regulation and bit of guidance under their remit and make 112 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: lists of those that either violate the Constitution, exceed legislative power, 113 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: or go beyond the clear words of a statute, or 114 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: harm the national interest. Hey, Michael, would it be easy 115 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: enough to just replay those two clips we started the 116 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: show with, and then I'm going to jump the gun 117 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: and go to our freedom loving quote of the day 118 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: and wrap up this thought for now Donald Trump, and. 119 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious crisis 120 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 3: the country has faced. 121 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 4: This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis. 122 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 5: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Churns off, Chames alls off. 123 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: Which brings us to our freedom loving quote of the day, Michael, 124 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: how to place. I'm sorry, you probably don't even have 125 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: a team music ready, Look at it. Grab this fife, 126 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: picked up his drum, came thrue for us. So this 127 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: is from Abraham Lincoln. This country, with its institutions, belonged 128 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow 129 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional 130 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to 131 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,719 Speaker 1: overthrow it. I'm not calling for, you know, blood in 132 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: the streets and revolution or anything like that. But compare 133 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: that sentiment, if you will, to what the Democrats were 134 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: bellowing in the preceding clip, which was every jot and 135 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: tittle as they say. I would never say that. 136 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 6: Mixed Company but every law, every regulation, every bureaucrat, every office, 137 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 6: every scrap of paper, every memo, every regulation, and every 138 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 6: subregulation and every sub subregulation must remain. Nothing could change. 139 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: It's a constitutional crisis. What aim Lincoln was saying exactly 140 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: the opposite. He was saying, dudes. If he'd lived now, 141 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: Lincoln absolutely would have said, dudes, dudes, keep an eye 142 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: on your government, and if it's wonky, get rid of it, 143 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: or gets rid of the wonky parts. Not only is 144 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: that okay, that's what you're supposed to do, you lazy bastards. 145 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:34,359 Speaker 1: So far from shaking up the giant, bloated, lawless, accountable 146 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: to no one, regulatory, administrative state. Not a constitutional crisis. 147 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 1: It's what we're supposed to do. And it's long overdue. 148 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: Because Washington and or the government has become the most 149 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: important lobbyist of the government. It's incredibly self protective for 150 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: its own interests. We need to chuck that. So I 151 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: hate what Trump's saying about Ukraine. Couldn't hate it more, 152 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: and it's getting worse. But on the dome stick side, 153 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: oh nobody, wake me up, because if this is a dream, 154 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: it's a beautiful, beautiful dream. Katie's headlines coming up in 155 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: moments to stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. They have 156 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: a busy hour. Katie's standing by with the lead story. 157 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: But first let's take a fond look back at the 158 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: week that was. It's cow clips of the week. 159 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 2: They need to tone it down. 160 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: Maybe that's not lady. 161 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 2: Wish for the week. 162 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to find somebody smarter than him. 163 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: We said a little this. 164 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 7: Thanks having me. I'm here to provide the present with 165 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 7: technology support. 166 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: We've got people that are taking faxes off fax machines. 167 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 1: They had to leave the building and they were never 168 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 1: able to walk back in the building. 169 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 2: Again. 170 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 7: It comes down to two things, competence and carry. 171 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 8: You could be talking about saving over a true billion 172 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 8: dollars if we're. 173 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 7: Doing solve the deficit, and I will go bankrupt. 174 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 4: If this is not done, President drums sending shock waves 175 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 4: throughout Europe. 176 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: You should have never started it. You could have made 177 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: a deal, doubling. 178 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 6: Down and accusing the Ukrainian leader of being a dictator. 179 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: A dictator without elections. So Lensky better move faster or 180 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,719 Speaker 1: he's not going to have a country left. Got to move, 181 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: got to move fast. 182 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 6: Zelenski, who's pulling over fifty percent, colling Trump's accusation Russian disinformation. 183 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 7: They need to tone it. 184 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: Down and uh and take a hard look and sign 185 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: that Deal. 186 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 3: Is a war criminal and should be in jail for 187 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 3: the rest of his life if not executed. 188 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 2: I trust a Scott like I trust gas stations soution, 189 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: and I. 190 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: Think I have the power to end this war, and 191 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: I think it's going very well. Free speech needs boundaries, so. 192 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 2: We said no, we have free speech as well, but 193 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 2: it is also has his limits. 194 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: You wait, sue them, Susie. 195 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 8: What no democracy, American, German or European will survive is 196 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 8: telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their 197 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 8: aspirations they're pleased for relief are invalid. 198 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 9: Why would our allies there, anybody be irritated by free 199 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 9: speech and by someone giving their opinion. 200 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: We are, after all, democracies. 201 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 10: It didn't reach that level to me to say something 202 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 10: terrible could happen and maybe. 203 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 2: You shouldn't have gone on the trip. 204 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: Why didn't it to me? 205 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 7: I don't know. 206 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that's one of the things 207 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 2: we need to look at. 208 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 9: The August and sorry and Kanye West of Cold it quits. 209 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 9: I I just hope this doesn't make Kanye do something stupid. 210 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: Oh great, We're in a brave new world. Not my 211 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: captain America. 212 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 7: Okay, fifty of the best times of a right. 213 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be giving you the freedom of speech. 214 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 2: You are free to say. What do we say? 215 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: Is okay to say? 216 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 6: You here's the list of officially Aspproved German sings, you 217 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 6: can say and send. 218 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: You have free speech. Oh, thank you. No, let's figure 219 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: out who's repporting what. It's link story with Katie Green and. 220 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,479 Speaker 10: Katie alrighty, let's start with the Associated Press. Israel identifies 221 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 10: remains of child hostages, but says another body from Hamas 222 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 10: was not their mother. 223 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, horrifying. 224 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 10: From the Washington Post, three empty buses explode in Israel 225 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 10: in suspected terrorist attack. NBC Senate adopts three hundred and 226 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 10: forty billion dollars budget blueprint for Trump's agenda after marathon vote. A. 227 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't dug into that whole legislative mess of 228 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill and all that. We'll let you 229 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: folks fight it out and let us know what you 230 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: come up with, you know, back to the bus explosions. 231 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: That's just another example is Hamas and and allied Islamic 232 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: supremacists setting off those bombs to force Israel to come 233 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: to the table to work toward a two state solution. No, 234 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: they just want to wipe them off the face of 235 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: the map. From ABC. 236 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:30,119 Speaker 10: Gunshots fired into windows of Oregon Tesla dealership. 237 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: Oh boy, there have been protests. They did another. 238 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 10: They did a big one in San Francisco as well. 239 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: Of course, if somebody squeezed off a couple of shots 240 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: into a planned parenthood window, the world would come to 241 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: a stop. It would be the lead story of every 242 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: paper in America. But no, it's it's okay because it's 243 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: something somewhat Trump aligned. 244 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 10: From Breitbart dot com. President Trump gives Governor Trudeau an 245 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 10: invite to join him to watch Four Nations five. 246 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: No boy, oh, not helping. Trudeau clapped back last night 247 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: after the Knuckers won in overtime. I couldn't watch. I 248 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: had a thing, but then I heard the score. Ah, 249 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: but I probably will watch this afternoon because I love 250 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: playoff in high level hockey. 251 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 7: Anyway. 252 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: Uh, Trudeau clapped back. He said, you can't have our 253 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: country and you can't have our game. All right, tough guy, 254 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: go go change your panties. 255 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 10: From the New York Post, woman with a rare phobia 256 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 10: of popular condiment suffers panic attacks on site. It's like 257 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 10: being held at gunpoint. Do tell his freakouts are caused 258 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 10: by a major phobia of ketchup. 259 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 2: Wow. 260 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 10: They put they did a video of it, and they 261 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 10: put it in front of her, and she freaks out, 262 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 10: very strange. 263 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: I have ketchup, Phelia. I mean, I can't eat fries 264 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: without ketchup. I love it. 265 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 10: And finally, the Babylon Bee Delta adds a little hanging 266 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 10: tennis ball to the end of the runway for female pilots. 267 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, Katie, even worse coming out of your mouth. 268 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: That's terrible. It's improper, And I don't approve. Jack's gonna 269 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: be calling in in a moment or two. Then we've 270 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: got great mail bag later on the hour. It's gonna 271 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: be a good show. Hang around Armstrong and Geeddy. 272 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 5: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy, turns. 273 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 1: Off, churnsall ladies and gentlemen. 274 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 8: Here. 275 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: He is more a belt sander than a chainsaw. The 276 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: co host calling in on his birthday, Jack Armstrong, Jack, what's. 277 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 2: Up waiting for this million degree cup of coffee to 278 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 2: cool down enough to drink? 279 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: Is it this the Buck of Stars? 280 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 2: No, sir, comes with the room I'm staying at. I'm 281 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles, beautiful and a nice 282 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: hotel at Spago's last night. Oh well yeah, yeah. I 283 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: texted somebody and said, cool if it's nineteen eighty five. 284 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, we had dinner at was it the Brown Derby? 285 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: The legendary Brown Derby with Eric our agent once that 286 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: that also was like wow, time machine. 287 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I thought, man, if I was here, you know, 288 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: waiting to see Cindy Lauper and the stars of Nott's 289 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 2: landing walk in, it would be really cool. 290 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful dream. 291 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 2: Here am I myself at an empty restaurant? 292 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: Oh well yeah, yeah, well that's nice. You're just gonna 293 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: you got specific plans, You're just gonna kick around or 294 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: what uh not that it's our business, you know, share 295 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: what you want. 296 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: A couple museums I'm going to go to There's a 297 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 2: one of the best bookstores in America. There's a couple 298 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 2: of blocks from here. I'm going to go to a 299 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: couple of big giant churches. I'm going to check out. 300 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 2: I uh four childcare reasons. Can't be any where where 301 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 2: I can't get home really fast. So I could jet 302 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 2: home on like an hour's notice from where I am. 303 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: I have a competent sitter at home, but I still 304 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 2: long time listeners know I have a unique child care situation, 305 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 2: and so that's part of I can't get too far away. 306 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 2: So I'm only going to be going for like thirty 307 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 2: six hours. 308 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: But I'm a little surprised that there are churches in 309 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: Los Angeles at this point. Are they for worship of 310 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: Satan or illegals or what? 311 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 11: What? 312 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're close. What would drive big giant Catholic 313 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 2: churches having a pretty good membership in Los Angeles? 314 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, come come friende Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah yeah, so 315 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 1: very active church community in Los Angeles. Well that's great. Yeah, 316 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: that's fine. It's fine, hardworking, god loving people. Just to 317 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: fill out the paperwork, please. 318 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 2: We have loss. So Spago is in Beverly Hills. It's 319 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: just like right off Rodale. I didn't know where it was. 320 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 2: I was just like I was walking around doing some 321 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 2: shopping yesterday and I was hungry, and I just you know, 322 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 2: restaurants near me, and there was Spogo a couple of 323 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 2: blocks away, so it's where I went. But boy, the 324 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 2: people are hilarious in the Rodeo Drive area. It's just hilarious. 325 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 2: I mean you see people that you think are like 326 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live creations that couldn't possibly be real human beings, 327 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 2: but they're real human beings. With that. I remember, we'd 328 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: clothes and there and they're they're they're you know, Dolly 329 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 2: part and Kenny Rogers faces and everything. It's just amazing. 330 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's funny. It reminds me in a weird 331 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: way of uh, my son, the Oregon hippie and and 332 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: some of his friends. If you're going to like stand 333 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: out in Oregon, Not that Deco is a freak or 334 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: anything like that. He's just a musician and an Oregonian, 335 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: but if you're going to go stand if you're gonna 336 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: stand out, say in the streets of Portland, you gotta 337 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: go full on freak. And then you know you'd go 338 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: to Lincoln, Nebraska and people think you've descended from a spaceship. 339 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you don't. You don't have to try very 340 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: hard to be a little bit of a nonconformist in 341 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: certain parts of the country, but in the same way, 342 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: if you want to send the message I have lots 343 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: of money and I'm very stylish in Beverly Hills, you 344 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: gotta go freaking nuts, oh oh yeah. 345 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 2: And you know, just crazy like tight leather pants and 346 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 2: furs and and just insane shoes. And then they you know, 347 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 2: they get in and out of a Lamborghini or whatever 348 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: and their faces are giant lips. 349 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: All the queen size pillows. Yeah. 350 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it's just it's so crazy you can't believe 351 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 11: they're actual human beings. It's I mean, it's as it's 352 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 11: it says everybody should stop and stare and and talk 353 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 11: about them as if you were in some you know, 354 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 11: uh far off tribe in Africa that has never seen 355 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 11: electricity or something. 356 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's a it's very interesting. 357 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: It's an extra greamely rich freak show like a roadside 358 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: stand in nineteen thirty but everybody is a zillionaire. 359 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, it's something, and it's you know, you 360 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,479 Speaker 2: can't you can't parody it enough. You can't go far 361 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 2: enough to be outside of. 362 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: What actually is true. Yeah, It's been ages since I've 363 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: done that walk, but I should. That's funny, well, you know, 364 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: and I will do me which is laughing at you. Yes, sorry, I. 365 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 2: Haven't paid any attention to the news today. What is 366 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 2: the story of the day. 367 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know, it's funny. It's it's kind 368 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: of the angel and devil of the Trump administration, some 369 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: of the domestic stuff. And I talked about this in 370 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: the opening segment, and Kim Strassel wrote a great column 371 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: in The Wall Street Journal about how Trump is has 372 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 1: declared thermonuclear war on the giant bloated administrative state in 373 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: a way that people aren't even paying attention to because 374 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: they're not aware of two things. He ordered agency heads 375 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: to scour every regulation and bit of guidance and make 376 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: lists of those that violate in the constitution, exceed legislative powers, 377 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: and go beyond the clear words of a statute, or 378 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: harm the national interest. And they're laying the groundwork for 379 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: going straight to the Supreme Court on a lot of 380 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: this stuff. But the other thing that nobody is talking 381 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: about is he issued an executive order taking aim at 382 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: agencies that Congress created to perform executive functions. But are 383 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: free of executive control. Instead, they report to Congress. It's 384 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: the quasi executive branch barely under the control of Congress, 385 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: and it's now more than one hundred congressionally mandated agencies, 386 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 1: and he's trying to dismantle that and decide on its constitutionality, 387 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: which is just the people who've wanted administrative reform in 388 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: DC are wild with joy. 389 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 2: If he has much success, he is going to be 390 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 2: historic in the way that he wants and not in 391 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 2: the way that his detractors were expecting him to be. 392 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 2: A historic, Yeah, very. 393 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: Much an anti FDR. FDR who ushered in the age 394 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 1: of the gigantic in charge of everything federal government. Trump 395 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: could well be the hero that pairs it back, even 396 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: as he says and does things that are unconscionable in 397 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: my mind. On the international scene, Hey, let me squeeze 398 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: this in real quick, Jack, and then you can come 399 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: in as you like. A word from our friends, that's 400 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: simply safe home security who reminds us that every twenty 401 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: six seconds a burglary takes place in the US. So 402 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: many scumbags and junkies run around. They want to take 403 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 1: your stuff. 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And the plane was full of 423 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 2: I don't know. They were involved in front somehow, but 424 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 2: it was just full of like the plane was. It 425 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 2: was full in the middle of the day count on Thursday, 426 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 2: all guys in suits and women in business suits, and 427 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 2: a lot of them know each other, and a lot 428 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: of them were like introducing themselves each other networking and 429 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 2: stuff like that. They're all involved in government somehow, and 430 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 2: I was listening to their conversations. They weren't politicians, and 431 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 2: I just thought that was interesting. There were just so 432 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 2: many people and I just wondered, what do you all do? 433 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 2: And it's and you know what, it's all involved in 434 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: trying to get chunks of money for whatever their thing is, 435 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 2: whether you know necessary or not. They're just trying to 436 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 2: get their chunk of the giant pie. Like you've been 437 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 2: talking about all week long. That's what the whole thing is. 438 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 2: It's just it's a ton of money flowing through and 439 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 2: then people trying to get their hands on it for 440 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 2: various things, some of them worth worthwhile many of them not. Yeah. 441 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: We kicked off the discussion of the Kim Strassel piece 442 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: by citing the Free Beacon, who were reporting that DOGE 443 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: found two billion dollars b with a B two billion 444 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for this flimsy, hastily constructed 445 00:26:54,160 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams linked Empowering Energy through Community Energy Group. I mean, 446 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: not clear at all what they do, and they got 447 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: siphoned ginormous amounts of money, just unthinkable amounts of money 448 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: during the unholy so called Inflation Reduction Act. 449 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 2: Right, I'll bet if you're good at it, it is 450 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 2: so much easier than you would like it to be 451 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 2: to come up with some sort of program or idea 452 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: or something that gets many millions of dollars shoveled to 453 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 2: it on an annual basis. But it's just shocking how 454 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 2: easy that is to do. 455 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm reminded. Your description of your flight reminds me 456 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: of a couple of the flights to and fro the 457 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: political conventions last summer, especially flying to Chicago for the DNC, 458 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: when I was surrounded by Democratic activists of various ethnic 459 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: groups and that sort of thing. But they all either 460 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: knew each other or were anxious to know each other. 461 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: They all had a look in a sound in a 462 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: manner of behavior. Yes, it was very subculture. 463 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. The way they looked. I mean 464 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 2: you could have you could have looked across the whole 465 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 2: plane and said, Okay, you're one of them, You're one 466 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 2: of them, You're one of them. They just had a 467 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 2: look and in a way of talking, in a facial 468 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 2: expression almost it was just they're they're they're a kind 469 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 2: of people. 470 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was very striking how distinct that subculture was. 471 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: I mean, you didn't have to look for it. It 472 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 1: was just so in your face. And that that experience 473 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: more people should have it, because when we're ranting and 474 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: raving about how the Beltway culture is so unique and 475 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: exists for the Beltway culture, they throw us bones now 476 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: and again because they know they have to, that's the 477 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: business they're in. But in terms of their day to 478 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: day consciousness, no, they. 479 00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 2: Are for them, and they would they would be amused. 480 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 2: They're probably aware of it, but they would be amused 481 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: by how naive we are about that, about how you 482 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 2: just you don't understand how this all works. 483 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to get you read my mind. 484 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: Their air of superiority was unmistakable too. Yes, ye yeah, 485 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: we're the movers, were the shakers, We're the people who 486 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: get things done. We're the people who control what you need, 487 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: So be polite, little boy. 488 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually tried to engage a guy sitting in 489 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 2: my row in conversation and he was like, yeah, he 490 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: kind of come up with a way to like turn 491 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 2: the other direction and get back to his conversation with 492 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 2: the other masters of the universe. Yeah. 493 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it in mind, friends, keep it in mind. Well, 494 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: have a lovely day wandering about la I will excellent. 495 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: And to keep you know, keep those observations handy, and 496 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: we'll talk to you monday. 497 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 2: I'll be there, all right. 498 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: Mail bag is a blockbuster. It's moments away. Stay with this. 499 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: Thanks tuning in. Happy Friday. Let's freseet the freedom loving 500 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: quote of the day. We did it earlier this hour, 501 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: but I love it so much and it's so apropos 502 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: from A B. Lincoln Donald Trump and. 503 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious crisis 504 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 3: the country has faced. 505 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 4: This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis. 506 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: This is the. 507 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 5: Chainsaw a bureaucracy turns off. 508 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: Chames All, here's your freedom loving quote of the day 509 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: from Lincoln. This is a continuation the conversation with Jack 510 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: in the last segment. This country with its institutions, belongs 511 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow 512 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional 513 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to 514 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: overthrow it. Now, I have no intention of bloody revolution, 515 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,959 Speaker 1: as I said earlier, but the idea that to threaten 516 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: any of the giant, bloated bureaucracy is a constitutional crisis. 517 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: That is the cry of the people we're describing in 518 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: the last segment, people whose entire you know, ego and 519 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: existence and professional life and fortune is tied up in 520 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: the gigantic federal government. They act as if any threat 521 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: to that is a horrifyingly unpatriotic thing to do, whereas 522 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: Lincoln would say exactly the opposite. Exactly, we're tasked with 523 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: constantly reigning the government in. 524 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 2: If we can. 525 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: More on that to come, mailbag drop us now at 526 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: anytime you like. Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot 527 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: com Again, mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Boy, 528 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: the volume has been unbelievable lately. Trying not to or 529 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: it's easy to get bogged down in it, honestly, but 530 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: you know, we appreciate you staying in touch and offering 531 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: your thoughts and their agreements and disagreements anyway, Ryan from 532 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: Houston Rights just want to say thank you Jack, Joe, Michaelangelow, 533 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: Katie Hansen. You're my reason to see the morning. 534 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 8: Thank you. 535 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: You're welcome. 536 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 2: Ryan. 537 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: Nice you to write Joe, you dirty bastard. Oh that's 538 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: a bit of a contrast there, Joshawn writes, why don't 539 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: you just admit why you've been moving the first hour 540 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: segments around you, filthy bastard. You're doing it so you 541 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: don't forget cow and get buzzed on Fridays. You're trying 542 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: to kill the only joy. Michael has so sad. You 543 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: should be ashamed. Eh, I am ashamed. I do enjoy 544 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: it than this from Tim from Pewallup, Washington. I'm reading 545 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: this email for a couple of reasons. Number one, it's quirky, 546 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: and secondly, to show off that I know how to 547 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: pronounce Pewallup, as my Tacoma area daughter has coached me. 548 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: It looks like pooh yallop, but it's not, you see anyway, 549 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 1: writes Hey, just wondering what you think of the tracking 550 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: Wilberry's just recently listen to their end of the line, 551 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: and I love it. I didn't appreciate it when I 552 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: was little, but now that I'm forty five, I really 553 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: love it. It's maybe the ideal sound for a band 554 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: of that type anyway. Love the show. Yes, Tim from Pewallup, 555 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: I do like the Traveling Willberries and that is a 556 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: fine song. Thank you for asking for some reason. I'm 557 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: happy to geek out on music all day. But that's 558 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: just funny speaking music. 559 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 2: Oh my lord. 560 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: As mailbag takes a dark turn. Uh, Kathy said, please 561 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: find a clip, and I didn't ask the guys to 562 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: find it. It's enough to describe it of When the 563 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: Israeli baby hostages bodies are being transferred by Hamas. In 564 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: the background, they're playing dance music and passing out candy 565 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: as the coffins of the babies are moving through the terrorists. 566 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: No commentary he needed. I would agree. I would agree. 567 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: And it turns out the body that they turned over 568 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: is not of the mom of those little kids, all 569 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 1: of whom were perfectly healthy when Hamas snatched them. They 570 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,399 Speaker 1: claim they died in Israeli airstrikes. Even if that were true, 571 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: and according to these Israelis, there's no evidence from the 572 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 1: autopsies that that is true. Even if that were true, 573 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: that would still be one hundred percent the responsibility of 574 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 1: the abductors according to every law, rule, any basic human sentiment. Anyway, 575 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: moving along, I thought this was interesting analysis from Jeff, 576 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: and I think he's absolutely right. I believe the four 577 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: years Jeff Wrights Trump had to build a coalition and 578 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: process the things he would do, and seeing how Nepte 579 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: Biden regime was all played a humongous reason. What's being 580 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 1: done now, Well, not many of us will agree with 581 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,479 Speaker 1: one hundred percent or even ninety percent of what Trump 582 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 1: does these next four years, it is unimaginably better than 583 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,760 Speaker 1: four years under Harris. Yeah, true Trump. I am worried 584 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: about the foreign policy stuff, but we'll talk about that 585 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: more later. Trump losing in twenty twenty supplied him time 586 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: to properly proceed or process rather how screwed up government 587 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: is and how he should plot a plan to fix 588 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: or work situationally for his ideal outcome. The left forcing 589 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: Trump out in twenty twenty, in hindsight, may be a 590 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 1: blessing in disguise for all conservative and center right leaning voters. Yeah, 591 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: I would agree with that. To a large extent. Also, 592 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,240 Speaker 1: the never ending law fair was such a mistake. Let's 593 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: see side Joe Bob writes, doesn't anyone remember, oh on 594 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: the concept of doge checks. Doesn't anyone remember that sending 595 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: checks out to everyone was how he got started down 596 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: this inflationary path in the first place. Seems like I'm 597 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: the only one in my memory. Sucks. Just ask my 598 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: wife what's her name? That's a funny, funny joke. Yeah, 599 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: I would. I would differentiate the Tubob though, in that 600 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,320 Speaker 1: the ridiculous spreading of trillions of dollars around the country 601 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: was in addition to current spending, which is already in 602 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: the deficit zone, whereas this is sharing part of a 603 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: cut in spending with taxpayers now not sharing, it would 604 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: be less inflationary. You're right, But I just think it's 605 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: a brilliant political ploy to continue and to grow the 606 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: support for the program. Drop us a note anytime you like, 607 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: mailbag at Armstrong and Geddy dot com. Looking forward to 608 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 1: talking to Mike Lyons next hour. Stay with us if 609 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,720 Speaker 1: you can. Armstrong and Getty