WEBVTT - I Am Ashamed! 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.080 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.280 Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:34.240 Armstrong and get Katy and he arms wrong yet live 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:41.080 from Studio C Senor eight, within the stinking bowels of 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.240 the Armstrong and Getty Information Complex. This is The Armstrong 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.600 and Giddy Show Live, the twenty first of Pemberuwerry, the 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.879 Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, the birthday of 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.160 one Jack Armstrong, who has the day off to go 0:00:54.240 --> 0:01:00.640 do something for Jack, spend little Jack time, which is lovely, 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.400 but he will be checking in later on this hour 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.600 because we can't help ourselves, just like I did on 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:10.040 my day off. Busy day today on the show, great 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.800 guests on all of the hot topics before us. You know, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.319 obviously it's going to be trumpy at times. Both the 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.600 increasingly troubling treatment of Ukraine or is that seven dimensional chess? 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:31.280 Some of the domestic stuff doge and beyond is what 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.080 Trump is doing. What Peggy Noonan called was it Peggy 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.600 noon no Is Kim Strassel called a constitutional cleanup. I'm 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.000 so happy and excited about this. It's just absolutely terrific. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.480 We're going to talk to Mike Lyons about NATO and 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.840 national security and Ukraine and all sorts of good stuff, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.320 and then can't wait to get into it with lanhe Chen, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.800 who if you don't know Lan he is absolutely brilliant 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:02.360 mind Stanford Professor policy advisor, to talk about domestic policy 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.880 and some of the things that Trump and dozerre doing 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.160 domestically to clean up the sprawling, idiotic mess that is 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.320 the federal government and bureaucracy. And then later that's our three, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.320 and then later in our three and we're still working 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.280 on the schedule, so don't assume me if this changes, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:23.080 but we're going to talk to our longtime tax authority 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:29.560 advisor and guest, Steven Moskowitz about everything that's relevant tax 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.640 wise from last year and looking ahead this year for 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.440 twenty twenty five as we start to get closer to 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.440 when everybody's frantically and miserably doing their paperwork. So a 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.160 good show today. I hope you can hang around. If not, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.080 as always, grabbed the podcast later via wherever you'd like 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.320 to get podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. You probably 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.239 ought to subscribe. Michael, I tell you what, why don't 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.240 we start the show officially? Because I want to get 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.919 right into something. So here we go, leaping into action 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.919 according to de FCC rules and regulations. Oh, I forgot 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:03.760 to say the general manager. Ah, I tell you what. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.320 Let's just begin at Mark. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.200 Donald Trump and yeah, listen, I think this is the 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.880 most serious cons crisis the country has faced. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.959 This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.760 This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy turns off. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.880 Let's try like, ladies and gentlemen. Our general manager today 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.800 is charge sall charity. I want to hear that a 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:38.880 thousand times today, Michael Churgeall. And here is why. Well, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:43.680 here's it. For instance, first from the Free Beacon, Doge 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.640 finds two billion dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for Stacey 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:54.560 Abrams linked group Stacy Abrams, the perennial Georgia candidate, woke 0:03:54.880 --> 0:04:00.400 activist gal two billion dollars or set aside for a 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:06.680 fledgling nonprofit linked to Stacy Abram. I mean it's it's 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.800 fledgling obviously. Well, I'll tell you more about it than 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:17.320 we'll analyze. The EPA under Biden awarded Power Forward Communities. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.880 What a great sounding arroganization that is Power Forward communities. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.960 It's got power, it's got forward, and it's got communities 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.560 in it. It must be good. But that was part 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:34.360 of the agency's greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.279 Communities received the green Energy grant despite the fact that 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.480 it was founded just months prior and never managed anywhere 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.480 near the grant's dollar figure, and it reported just one 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.880 hundred dollars in total revenue during its first three months 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.840 in operation, according to its latest tax filings. But the EPA, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:58.559 under their grotesque authority as outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.599 Oh oh, I vomited a little bit, sorry even trying 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:07.719 to call it that. Under that unholy Act, they doled 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:13.880 out incomprehensible amounts of money, as I always say to 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:19.880 their cronies, with the thinnest of cover, like naming your 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:25.240 organization power Forward Community and saying, this money, this enormous, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:34.800 incomprehensible pile of money, will go toward green, socially equitable 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:42.880 power community engagement. And then the money just goes out. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.839 Always remember somebody got that money when you hear about 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:54.640 these incredible expenditures. So I could talk about that all day. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.040 There's some more detail to the story, but it's absolutely obscene. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.720 But that brings us to this absolutely wonderful column. I 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.039 came a cross by Kim Strassel and The Wall Street 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:08.960 Journal that really explains what's happening here with not just 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.880 doge and their headlines about eliminating transgender puppet shows for 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.960 Ecuador or whatever the hell, but some of the regulatory 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.480 reform that they're doing, and Kim Wright's FDR fundamentally redefined 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.000 the purpose of the federal government, which set off an 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.359 era of ever expanding Washington's scope and reach. Nearly a 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.039 century later, Donald Trump's White House is taking it on 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.640 itself to challenge the legitimacies some of the foundations of 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.000 that expansion. The left calls this a constitutional crisis, how 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.520 about a constitutional cleanup? Then she says, the sheer volume 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.720 of what Trump's doing, it makes it hard to sort 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.200 out the merely aggressive and the truly striking. And she says, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.080 it's the truly striking stuff that deserves note because some 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.920 of the other stuff is gobbling up all the headlines. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.880 Like I said, and it's great, and it's fine, and 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.279 I'm happy it's happening, but this is the fundamental stuff 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.440 that's a little bit lower in the national consciousness. It's 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.919 the growing list of Trump actions deliberately designed to provoke 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:13.360 a judicial review of the legality of long standing Washington features. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.520 Congress spent a century creating dozens dozens of agencies that 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.680 blur the boundaries between executive, legislative, and judicial power, while 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.760 the administrative state produced thousands of rules that diverge from 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:31.920 Congressional intent. Constitutionalists have long disputed the legality of these actions, 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.400 but over time even most critics succumb to the status quo, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.160 and the White House is reviving that fight, audaciously questioning 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:46.440 the foundations of the DC architecture. And it's remarkable. And 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:51.840 Trump unveiled the latest zinger this week, debtning, detonating, rather 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.040 what the American Action Forums Daniel Goldbeck labeled quote a 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:00.680 thermonuk deregulatory warhead that nobody's talking about. This is the 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.720 important stuff. The President ordered agency heads to scour every 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.840 regulation and bit of guidance under their remit and make 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:13.440 lists of those that either violate the Constitution, exceed legislative power, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.960 or go beyond the clear words of a statute, or 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:22.440 harm the national interest. Hey, Michael, would it be easy 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.720 enough to just replay those two clips we started the 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.480 show with, and then I'm going to jump the gun 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.080 and go to our freedom loving quote of the day 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:33.880 and wrap up this thought for now Donald Trump, and. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.120 Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious crisis 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.079 the country has faced. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.160 This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:50.120 This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Churns off, Chames alls off. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.000 Which brings us to our freedom loving quote of the day, Michael, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.240 how to place. I'm sorry, you probably don't even have 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.520 a team music ready, Look at it. Grab this fife, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.440 picked up his drum, came thrue for us. So this 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.960 is from Abraham Lincoln. This country, with its institutions, belonged 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.920 to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.520 weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.400 right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.719 overthrow it. I'm not calling for, you know, blood in 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:28.600 the streets and revolution or anything like that. But compare 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:34.240 that sentiment, if you will, to what the Democrats were 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:39.959 bellowing in the preceding clip, which was every jot and 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.080 tittle as they say. I would never say that. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:48.440 Mixed Company but every law, every regulation, every bureaucrat, every office, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.000 every scrap of paper, every memo, every regulation, and every 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:58.920 subregulation and every sub subregulation must remain. Nothing could change. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:05.600 It's a constitutional crisis. What aim Lincoln was saying exactly 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.320 the opposite. He was saying, dudes. If he'd lived now, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:14.840 Lincoln absolutely would have said, dudes, dudes, keep an eye 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.880 on your government, and if it's wonky, get rid of it, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.040 or gets rid of the wonky parts. Not only is 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.640 that okay, that's what you're supposed to do, you lazy bastards. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:34.359 So far from shaking up the giant, bloated, lawless, accountable 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:39.559 to no one, regulatory, administrative state. Not a constitutional crisis. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.079 It's what we're supposed to do. And it's long overdue. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.280 Because Washington and or the government has become the most 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:51.760 important lobbyist of the government. It's incredibly self protective for 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.720 its own interests. We need to chuck that. So I 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.400 hate what Trump's saying about Ukraine. Couldn't hate it more, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.920 and it's getting worse. But on the dome stick side, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.160 oh nobody, wake me up, because if this is a dream, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.680 it's a beautiful, beautiful dream. Katie's headlines coming up in 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:17.200 moments to stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. They have 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.760 a busy hour. Katie's standing by with the lead story. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.360 But first let's take a fond look back at the 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.280 week that was. It's cow clips of the week. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:25.760 They need to tone it down. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.480 Maybe that's not lady. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:32.440 Wish for the week. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.160 You know, I wanted to find somebody smarter than him. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:37.280 We said a little this. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.559 Thanks having me. I'm here to provide the present with 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:42.760 technology support. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.720 We've got people that are taking faxes off fax machines. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.320 They had to leave the building and they were never 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.319 able to walk back in the building. 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:52.560 Again. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.040 It comes down to two things, competence and carry. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.280 You could be talking about saving over a true billion 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.360 dollars if we're. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.959 Doing solve the deficit, and I will go bankrupt. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.040 If this is not done, President drums sending shock waves 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.000 throughout Europe. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.680 You should have never started it. You could have made 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.920 a deal, doubling. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.400 Down and accusing the Ukrainian leader of being a dictator. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.640 A dictator without elections. So Lensky better move faster or 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.719 he's not going to have a country left. Got to move, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:24.720 got to move fast. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:31.000 Zelenski, who's pulling over fifty percent, colling Trump's accusation Russian disinformation. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:33.040 They need to tone it. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.520 Down and uh and take a hard look and sign 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:37.160 that Deal. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.400 Is a war criminal and should be in jail for 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.559 the rest of his life if not executed. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.640 I trust a Scott like I trust gas stations soution, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:48.000 and I. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.520 Think I have the power to end this war, and 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:57.200 I think it's going very well. Free speech needs boundaries, so. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.120 We said no, we have free speech as well, but 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.480 it is also has his limits. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.120 You wait, sue them, Susie. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.800 What no democracy, American, German or European will survive is 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.880 telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.800 aspirations they're pleased for relief are invalid. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.560 Why would our allies there, anybody be irritated by free 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.320 speech and by someone giving their opinion. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:24.760 We are, after all, democracies. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.160 It didn't reach that level to me to say something 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.160 terrible could happen and maybe. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.320 You shouldn't have gone on the trip. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:33.199 Why didn't it to me? 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:34.160 I don't know. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.960 I mean, I think that that's one of the things 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:36.760 we need to look at. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.280 The August and sorry and Kanye West of Cold it quits. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:48.319 I I just hope this doesn't make Kanye do something stupid. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.360 Oh great, We're in a brave new world. Not my 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:56.600 captain America. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:09.319 Okay, fifty of the best times of a right. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.120 Yeah, I'll be giving you the freedom of speech. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.600 You are free to say. What do we say? 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:18.560 Is okay to say? 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.080 You here's the list of officially Aspproved German sings, you 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.320 can say and send. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.640 You have free speech. Oh, thank you. No, let's figure 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.880 out who's repporting what. It's link story with Katie Green and. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.479 Katie alrighty, let's start with the Associated Press. Israel identifies 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.520 remains of child hostages, but says another body from Hamas 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.080 was not their mother. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.239 Yeah, horrifying. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.480 From the Washington Post, three empty buses explode in Israel 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:54.640 in suspected terrorist attack. NBC Senate adopts three hundred and 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.760 forty billion dollars budget blueprint for Trump's agenda after marathon vote. A. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.160 Yeah, I haven't dug into that whole legislative mess of 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.280 the big beautiful bill and all that. We'll let you 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.960 folks fight it out and let us know what you 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.920 come up with, you know, back to the bus explosions. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.240 That's just another example is Hamas and and allied Islamic 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.880 supremacists setting off those bombs to force Israel to come 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.760 to the table to work toward a two state solution. No, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.400 they just want to wipe them off the face of 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.760 the map. From ABC. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:30.119 Gunshots fired into windows of Oregon Tesla dealership. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.600 Oh boy, there have been protests. They did another. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.760 They did a big one in San Francisco as well. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.200 Of course, if somebody squeezed off a couple of shots 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.720 into a planned parenthood window, the world would come to 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.120 a stop. It would be the lead story of every 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.760 paper in America. But no, it's it's okay because it's 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.560 something somewhat Trump aligned. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:57.040 From Breitbart dot com. President Trump gives Governor Trudeau an 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.960 invite to join him to watch Four Nations five. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:06.120 No boy, oh, not helping. Trudeau clapped back last night 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.640 after the Knuckers won in overtime. I couldn't watch. I 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.320 had a thing, but then I heard the score. Ah, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.680 but I probably will watch this afternoon because I love 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:15.760 playoff in high level hockey. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:16.120 Anyway. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.920 Uh, Trudeau clapped back. He said, you can't have our 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.240 country and you can't have our game. All right, tough guy, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.160 go go change your panties. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.400 From the New York Post, woman with a rare phobia 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:37.000 of popular condiment suffers panic attacks on site. It's like 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.320 being held at gunpoint. Do tell his freakouts are caused 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.360 by a major phobia of ketchup. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:44.760 Wow. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.080 They put they did a video of it, and they 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:49.600 put it in front of her, and she freaks out, 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:50.360 very strange. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.440 I have ketchup, Phelia. I mean, I can't eat fries 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:54.520 without ketchup. I love it. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:01.400 And finally, the Babylon Bee Delta adds a little hanging 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.160 tennis ball to the end of the runway for female pilots. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.760 Oh no, oh, Katie, even worse coming out of your mouth. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.520 That's terrible. It's improper, And I don't approve. Jack's gonna 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.440 be calling in in a moment or two. Then we've 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.120 got great mail bag later on the hour. It's gonna 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.639 be a good show. Hang around Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:27.320 This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy, turns. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:32.919 Off, churnsall ladies and gentlemen. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:33.119 Here. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.280 He is more a belt sander than a chainsaw. The 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.600 co host calling in on his birthday, Jack Armstrong, Jack, what's. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.600 Up waiting for this million degree cup of coffee to 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:44.720 cool down enough to drink? 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.760 Is it this the Buck of Stars? 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.560 No, sir, comes with the room I'm staying at. I'm 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.960 in Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles, beautiful and a nice 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:06.639 hotel at Spago's last night. Oh well yeah, yeah. I 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.240 texted somebody and said, cool if it's nineteen eighty five. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.240 Yeah, we had dinner at was it the Brown Derby? 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.159 The legendary Brown Derby with Eric our agent once that 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.040 that also was like wow, time machine. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.879 Yeah yeah, I thought, man, if I was here, you know, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.520 waiting to see Cindy Lauper and the stars of Nott's 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.480 landing walk in, it would be really cool. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.920 But it's a beautiful dream. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.360 Here am I myself at an empty restaurant? 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.160 Oh well yeah, yeah, well that's nice. You're just gonna 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.680 you got specific plans, You're just gonna kick around or 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.320 what uh not that it's our business, you know, share 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:45.760 what you want. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.320 A couple museums I'm going to go to There's a 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.280 one of the best bookstores in America. There's a couple 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:53.480 of blocks from here. I'm going to go to a 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.520 couple of big giant churches. I'm going to check out. 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.360 I uh four childcare reasons. Can't be any where where 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.400 I can't get home really fast. So I could jet 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.760 home on like an hour's notice from where I am. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.280 I have a competent sitter at home, but I still 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.119 long time listeners know I have a unique child care situation, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.920 and so that's part of I can't get too far away. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.200 So I'm only going to be going for like thirty 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:17.800 six hours. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.960 But I'm a little surprised that there are churches in 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.960 Los Angeles at this point. Are they for worship of 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.040 Satan or illegals or what? 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:26.639 What? 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.959 Well, yeah, you're close. What would drive big giant Catholic 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.040 churches having a pretty good membership in Los Angeles? 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:43.040 Yeah, come come friende Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah yeah, so 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:48.880 very active church community in Los Angeles. Well that's great. Yeah, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.680 that's fine. It's fine, hardworking, god loving people. Just to 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.320 fill out the paperwork, please. 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.840 We have loss. So Spago is in Beverly Hills. It's 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.680 just like right off Rodale. I didn't know where it was. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.240 I was just like I was walking around doing some 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.399 shopping yesterday and I was hungry, and I just you know, 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.600 restaurants near me, and there was Spogo a couple of 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.040 blocks away, so it's where I went. But boy, the 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.399 people are hilarious in the Rodeo Drive area. It's just hilarious. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.920 I mean you see people that you think are like 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.119 Saturday Night Live creations that couldn't possibly be real human beings, 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:26.160 but they're real human beings. With that. I remember, we'd 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.600 clothes and there and they're they're they're you know, Dolly 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.840 part and Kenny Rogers faces and everything. It's just amazing. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.040 Yeah, yeah, it's funny. It reminds me in a weird 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.879 way of uh, my son, the Oregon hippie and and 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.280 some of his friends. If you're going to like stand 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.359 out in Oregon, Not that Deco is a freak or 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.320 anything like that. He's just a musician and an Oregonian, 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.880 but if you're going to go stand if you're gonna 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.760 stand out, say in the streets of Portland, you gotta 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.280 go full on freak. And then you know you'd go 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.400 to Lincoln, Nebraska and people think you've descended from a spaceship. 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.080 I mean, you don't. You don't have to try very 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.520 hard to be a little bit of a nonconformist in 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.800 certain parts of the country, but in the same way, 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.119 if you want to send the message I have lots 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.639 of money and I'm very stylish in Beverly Hills, you 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.400 gotta go freaking nuts, oh oh yeah. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:27.159 And you know, just crazy like tight leather pants and 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:32.000 furs and and just insane shoes. And then they you know, 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.320 they get in and out of a Lamborghini or whatever 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.240 and their faces are giant lips. 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.920 All the queen size pillows. Yeah. 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.760 Yeah, yeah, it's just it's so crazy you can't believe 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.400 they're actual human beings. It's I mean, it's as it's 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.880 it says everybody should stop and stare and and talk 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:51.600 about them as if you were in some you know, 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.440 uh far off tribe in Africa that has never seen 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:55.520 electricity or something. 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.400 I mean, it's just it's a it's very interesting. 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:03.720 It's an extra greamely rich freak show like a roadside 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.480 stand in nineteen thirty but everybody is a zillionaire. 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.680 Yeah, and yeah, it's something, and it's you know, you 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.479 can't you can't parody it enough. You can't go far 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.040 enough to be outside of. 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.520 What actually is true. Yeah, It's been ages since I've 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:23.760 done that walk, but I should. That's funny, well, you know, 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.399 and I will do me which is laughing at you. Yes, sorry, I. 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:30.359 Haven't paid any attention to the news today. What is 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:31.480 the story of the day. 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:36.320 Oh my gosh, you know, it's funny. It's it's kind 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.560 of the angel and devil of the Trump administration, some 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:42.760 of the domestic stuff. And I talked about this in 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:45.720 the opening segment, and Kim Strassel wrote a great column 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:49.879 in The Wall Street Journal about how Trump is has 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:56.159 declared thermonuclear war on the giant bloated administrative state in 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.480 a way that people aren't even paying attention to because 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.960 they're not aware of two things. He ordered agency heads 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.600 to scour every regulation and bit of guidance and make 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:08.000 lists of those that violate in the constitution, exceed legislative powers, 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:10.080 and go beyond the clear words of a statute, or 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.960 harm the national interest. And they're laying the groundwork for 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:15.080 going straight to the Supreme Court on a lot of 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.440 this stuff. But the other thing that nobody is talking 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:23.000 about is he issued an executive order taking aim at 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:28.399 agencies that Congress created to perform executive functions. But are 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:33.040 free of executive control. Instead, they report to Congress. It's 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:38.119 the quasi executive branch barely under the control of Congress, 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.680 and it's now more than one hundred congressionally mandated agencies, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:48.360 and he's trying to dismantle that and decide on its constitutionality, 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:53.520 which is just the people who've wanted administrative reform in 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.280 DC are wild with joy. 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.200 If he has much success, he is going to be 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.240 historic in the way that he wants and not in 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:05.639 the way that his detractors were expecting him to be. 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:09.159 A historic, Yeah, very. 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:13.119 Much an anti FDR. FDR who ushered in the age 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:16.880 of the gigantic in charge of everything federal government. Trump 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:20.240 could well be the hero that pairs it back, even 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.600 as he says and does things that are unconscionable in 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:25.640 my mind. On the international scene, Hey, let me squeeze 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:27.119 this in real quick, Jack, and then you can come 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:28.679 in as you like. A word from our friends, that's 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.320 simply safe home security who reminds us that every twenty 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:34.080